Trash Taste Podcast - THE RETURN OF LUDWIG (ft. @Ludwig) | Trash Taste #214
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All right, welcome back to another episode of Trash Taste.
Joining with us again is Ludwig.
Dude, you're a bad host.
I was trying to think, like, I was not ready to do an intro.
But obviously, we've taken over the yard set.
You took over the trash taste one.
Yes.
Yep.
I'm actually present this time.
U.S.
Yes, you are.
Yes.
Where were you last time?
What was the, what did you go?
I was sending my girlfriend to the hospital.
Oh, right.
Right.
Okay, that's what it was.
I was going to be mad.
That's a good reason, though.
It's probably the most legitimate reason.
That's the best, it's number one.
And we kind of don't care about where we film
in foreign countries.
I think in Japan we like doing anything at our set.
Yeah, yeah.
You're saying it like you've come to the slums.
We don't even get.
It can look ugly.
It looks horrific.
No, this is an upgrade from the one that I was on.
Because I haven't been on this set ever.
Oh, yeah, you were in my attic.
Yeah, which was also cool, though.
Yeah.
It was like this but like third the size,
somehow looked, like on camera, it looks,
it doesn't look that much different.
God, only in America do you get enough size,
like, size in your attic to have an entire set.
Yeah, right?
I mean, yeah, this room is like two floors worth
out of the Japan.
A lot of people think it's actually outside, it's not.
So you guys can confirm.
Yeah. Yeah.
No, don't say that.
Oh, no, it is, it is.
Don't rate the illusion.
Everything about this set is just cool.
Yeah, it's very cool.
I went down the slide.
Oh yeah, you went down the slide.
I mean, I wouldn't say you went down the slide.
You struggled down the slide.
I was just trying to think for a second.
I was like, what should we talk about?
But obviously, the last time you came on
was I think when we'd all just gotten
to know each other kind of, right?
Because that was when I just started.
Yeah, I just started being.
I think I just met you.
That was the first time I met you.
We just hung out.
Yeah, we hung out a fair amount.
And now we've turned friends to lovers.
Oh, you're allowed to you so you don't say it in front of the camera.
It's true.
It's true.
You're my American husband.
You know, I'm your boyfriend.
My secret Japanese lover.
your roommate.
What are you, I don't know.
So I was trying to think like, what do we talk about?
So there's a lot that we could.
I don't like, I don't know what.
It's just the boys.
We're just chilling out.
Why do we need an itinerary just hang out?
You're right, we just run it.
Yeah, yeah.
You all just landed.
Yeah, we just landed.
Like actually today, today.
I landed this morning.
Are you not fucked right now?
I am fucked right.
Why don't we?
We've done this before and you do this all the time.
So you should not be surprised.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Every time I see you, you're like, I've just landed. I've got like three hours
asleep and then you just run it. I feel that's most people though who come to Japan. They're like
land right in the morning and then they immediately take someone at like 9 a.m and they're like,
I'm ready to go. When we did my RV trip with when he joined, I was trying to convince him to come
the day before because I thought, oh, he's going to be jet lag. And he just, you just didn't want him.
You just wanted to come the day off, which is fine. I know that like you can do that.
But I wasn't sure because not everyone is built for jet lag. Right.
Some people was absolutely crumbled. Well, it's my, it's my biggest expense every year.
without fails flights.
Yeah, I think for me too.
Same for us as well.
I will spend,
because I also,
I push for business.
Yeah.
I had no idea.
We all,
we all did that.
It's shameful.
It's shameful.
I know.
I feel bad about it.
I was buying tickets.
This is the one time I,
I didn't do it.
But I was buying tickets to Paris.
Because I'm going right before the Olympics.
Okay.
Okay.
The price is like astronomical.
Dude,
a round trip is,
$13,000 for business class.
That's insane.
For business class.
I think from Japan, it's normally you're looking at like five USD, if not a little bit
more, but like that's max.
Also paying that much to go to Paris as well.
Oh my God.
That's the, that's the, to get bed bugs.
You land in Paris.
You're like, why did I go here?
Paying 13 grand to land in Charles de Gaul is like a war crime.
That is actually a punishment for most Americans.
L-A-X to Charles to gold.
That's back-to-back.
It's awful.
I didn't buy it.
I'm buying like multiple stop flights.
I'm going to Boston because I'm going with my mom and my sister.
Okay.
So that's how you're kind of like making a little cheaper.
Yeah.
Okay.
Would you would not have done,
you wouldn't have broken up one stopping to go with your sister.
If like if I wasn't going with my family,
I wouldn't have done a stop.
You're saying?
Yeah.
No, I would have because it's so much cheaper.
You care about the, you don't care about miles.
13, K. Oh, yeah, I don't, I don't do miles.
Did you guys do that stuff?
Yeah.
Yeah. I don't do it.
Yeah.
He spends so much money on flights and you also buy like nice flights and I, but I was
confused why you weren't doing mileage.
I think it's a scam.
Why do you think it's a scam?
I just don't trust it.
What do you mean?
I think it's a scam.
I don't trust it, folks.
What kind of scam?
With the amount you're flying and I mean, if you should.
Wait, do you have any, do you have any points cards?
I just signed up for the United one.
But the thing is they're all different, right?
So you have to fly with the same airline.
But I feel like I fly with so many different airlines.
But you're probably flying with max like three or four.
And if you're flying a good amount, you can still get like some benefit.
And a lot of them save your card.
So you don't need to do anything.
I mean like any points card in general, not just like flights.
But like credit cards.
Yeah, credit cards or.
It's usually for like upgrades though, right?
I mean, it can be used for a lot of things, you know.
What have you gotten?
What's the best?
best thing you got from churning points um so i was i try this is going to be an absolute
slight against it by the yes let me start with this i try to book a flight to the uk and i use my
miles to book the business price flight it would cost me like it's like 200 000 miles no no sorry
100 000 sorry um and i was put on the waiting list and i and they said congratulations you've got it
and then i was like oh awesome so i looked at it and i'd only got in one way and if i don't get the
other way you don't get either you don't get anything so i was kind of stressed
out, I was like, oh shit, well, I might not get the other one. And I didn't. So in the end,
two weeks out before I wanted to go, I was bound. I had no flight. They wouldn't even
give me any scammed. So I got scammed. So I got scammed. I've been saying. So,
weren't you supposed to defend it? However, let me just say like there is, it is like kind of scoffed.
But I mean, if you want to up like, so we fly a lot with this A&A, right? And the one thing
they got going for them is that you have miles, but then you have upgrade points separate.
Yes. So you just get like a separate package just for
upgrading and you can, I think if you fly like, I don't know,
pretty as much as we do, you can probably upgrade to like from economy to business
quite easily like five, six times a year.
Well, okay, to be fair, I used to be a point churner.
Okay.
Which is like there's subreddits dedicated to this.
Yeah, yeah, but then they'll be like, they'll be like, go on the flight.
That's 900 hours to max the points.
I was doing, I was like opening up chase cards and then maxing it out with like Amazon streams
and merch and then like opening up new cards to do it.
That's fine.
One time though, I had forgotten about like a card and it didn't have like auto pay.
Yeah.
And then it dinged my credit score.
I went from like, I have a really bad credit score.
I don't think you guys have credit scores over there.
Yeah, we have credit scores.
Yes, we have credit.
Yes, we do, Connor.
We do you use a credit card?
Then you have a credit score.
Oh, I guess I do.
Yeah.
I got that shit on auto.
Like take it out in my account.
Right.
So, well, I, but I was churning so much that I missed a card and my credit score hit
500s.
Yeah.
which is like really bad okay like for reference so for reference like 600 is like you know
that's like okay it's good you're starting out okay and credit scores based off like it's kind of fuck
it's kind of like you need to have it for a long time you need to have a balance like you can't be
all paid off that hurts your credit yeah and then you need like a lot of different like credit
sources so anyway well you can't pay it all off no that you need credit to build credit so if
you have zero credit then you're not going to get a higher credit score wait so if i paid off at
the end of every month.
That's fine.
Oh, that's what I'm doing.
Yeah, but as long as you're like
actively spending money.
Yeah, actively in debt, basically.
Yeah, like you wanna hit like a certain percentage
of like how much credit you're using.
Okay, okay, okay.
But anyway, I, uh, I, I hit like in my peak,
like high six hundreds and seven hundred is like when you're great.
Like that's what you want to like get a house, a car or whatever.
I did this, I plummeted to five, bro,
I dropped a hundred and three months.
And I haven't bounced back still.
Because what I did is I got really mad.
So I closed out all my credit cards.
Oh, that hurts your credit score.
Yeah, it does.
Because then your credit history just gets white.
Yes.
Yeah.
And so now I'm sitting, I've like, it's embarrassing.
I have like 6.05.
I tell people they make fun of me.
I watch some of those YouTube channels where they like review the financial history of like the viewer.
Because I mean, it's just, but I did not know that existed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I'm not surprised.
Yeah.
How does I explain it?
It's kind of like, I swear the content exists to make people feel better.
about themselves. Yeah, this is a very popular thing. Used to be big on radio like Dave Ramsey.
It's basically like how to take your current income and then balance your finances to be able
to achieve your long-term goals. So they'll like bring a guy on who and it varies. There's some
people who are like pretty normal but most of the time these people are just like beyond saving.
Oh, I know Dave Ramsey stuff. Yeah. But this guy's like the modern version of YouTuber and he's like,
you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, he's like he's like the titles aren't this crazy but they'll be like,
woke liberal spends 50,000 on just her hair color.
I like the videos,
but I've watched a couple now
and they're very, very repetitive.
Yeah.
I discover this because one of my viewers was on it.
No.
It's this guy.
No, I didn't see this one.
It's this guy.
And he pulls up in a Ludwig like mogul moogh
and he was like,
mogul moves, I'm broke.
And dude, he like, he was like,
this really bright kid.
He's like,
he's like an assistant manager
and he's going to college.
He makes like a shit ton of money
for his age.
He's making like 70K.
Yeah.
And he's paying something like
$3,000 a month in car insurance.
Yes.
Because he wanted to buy a Mustang.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is what the entire show
essentially is like people who have,
I want to say like 70% of the issues
that people bought a car.
And then I didn't realize
how expensive cars are now in America.
Apparently like getting a car is like,
even like a piece of dog shit one.
It's like a couple of grand.
I think the final.
I think the financing is the bigger issue.
Yeah.
If you buy the car cash, it's ultimately not that bad.
But when you get a loan.
People are getting like 20% APRs on loan.
So the car will be like a seven grand loan,
but they'll be paying like an extra $300 a month for the loan.
Yeah.
And then they're not paying it off.
So then anyway.
So but the point was that on a lot of these shows,
all of these people seem to would literally tank their life for the credit score.
Like they would do really bad financial decisions,
like take out more loans to pay off their credit cards.
in a certain way.
And I was like, what,
I never heard of the credit card score
being this impactful that it was like
worth ruining your life over.
Or so these people thought to.
Yeah, I mean, it's what determines
if you get a house or not.
Yeah, that's crazy.
I don't think it's the same in the UK,
that was it.
The credit score doesn't matter that much with it, does it?
Yes, it does.
I thought it was taxable.
Man's never got a loan before.
Well, are you serious?
Because when I, when I was looking
for mortgages in the UK,
you just pay cash.
You just buy the house.
Everyone just has it.
Everyone has cash.
No, no one point was I ever, like I was trying to see what like mortgage I could have gotten in the UK.
Yeah.
And no point were they ever asking about credit score.
It's always like about tax.
Like how much they pay on tax?
No, that's because you've never applied for a loan.
What, how they, they get you with like, you can get this amount of loan.
Assuming you have a good credit score because you're going to need to go to the bank and they're going to check your credit score.
Shit.
Same thing applies in Japan.
Yeah.
Is it really?
Yeah.
We don't get shit in Japan.
I bet if we had like the world's best credit score.
One billion dollars in my account,
they were sold the Niles in Japan.
I've always been really scared of credit cards.
So my current credit card,
like the only credit card I have in my wallet
has a $1,000 spending limit.
Oh, okay.
And then it caps out, which I can't buy like.
Anything.
Yeah.
You can buy Uber eats.
Yes, that's exactly right.
I can get like an Uber, I can get food delivered.
Yeah.
My mom worked at a bank and she never told me
to get her credit card.
So I assumed it wasn't like that big of a deal.
But then I-
Your mom fucked you over.
Yeah, yeah.
I think she was worried that she pretty
saw how addicted
did I watch the games,
you were probably like,
don't give this kid a credit card.
Don't put it in his hands.
I can smell the micro transactions.
That wasn't a thing.
That wasn't a thing when I was younger.
So luckily not.
I don't know.
If I was around when my transactions were a thing
and I was like 12,
I think it would bankrupt my family.
Dude, that happens.
No, I know.
Yeah, I know.
I would have been that kid.
I think I would have been that kid.
Would you give you a credit card?
Fuck no.
Yeah, you have to do.
You're not building the credit score.
No, no, no.
You got to get a joint account
with them at 16.
I got to teach him
you either got it in cash
or you don't got it
All right
All right
All right
When you have a kid
The cash is basically dead
You can be like
It's a cash aside
Cash's a kid still kid
All right
Here's the big question
Right
You have a kid
They're addicted to
Whatever game is out at the time
And they want to buy
A skin
Or something
Do you let them have it?
Do you let them have it?
No
Christmas present
No because Faker
Doesn't use skins
So he could hear
Faker uses
The base skin
And that's fine
Oh my God
Did you see that clip of like, you know,
when Faker picked Ari after his whole skin like debacle?
Yeah, and he didn't even pick his like $400 skit.
Did you, you must have heard about this, right?
Yeah, I've heard about this.
Yeah.
Joey, how much you know about this?
Okay, so TLDR, they released,
they released a, like, Hall of Famers of League of Legend.
Yeah.
The only Hall of Famers was like, which I thought was like,
when they announced it, I was like,
oh, this is a pretty cool idea.
We get to like, we get to, you know,
we get to celebrate the best plays in the game.
And then about two months later,
or a month later, I was like, oh,
it makes sense why this is.
happening. So they release a skin set. And if you buy the entire skin sets for Faker's skin,
I think it came up to about 50. 250? No, it was way, it was way. It was 500. It was 500. Yeah,
I think it's, I think it was like either way. It's too much. Yeah, yeah, it was it was far too much.
Yeah. Uh, 400. Four hundred and thirty dollars for a skin. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then Faker doesn't use skins and everyone started
at roasting riot games.
Yeah.
And rightly so he doesn't use skins.
Yeah.
In a recent game, Faker picked that exact champion.
Didn't fit the skin.
He loaded up the skin and then it was like,
it was like the skin was loaded by default
and he selected the default skin after they had like spent
all this money advertising his like specific skin set.
That like how cool of his legacy is.
Cause it's like, man, he's a man of the people.
Okay, wait, can I?
Can I give a conspiracy theory?
Okay, go on.
I think he knew.
about the prices.
Like,
oh, 100%.
Absolutely.
He was in several
conversations.
He knew his cut.
Oh, yeah,
yeah, yeah.
And then the moment,
like, Riot was getting a bunch
of shit, he was like,
fuck those kids.
I mean,
there's like,
obviously it's like being like,
an influencer or whatever it is.
You're in,
you're definitely in the position
of being able to control the narrative.
He would have had the leverage
to be like,
sell it for 20 bucks.
100%.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
I mean,
they probably would have pushed for all.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But he definitely could have
put his foot down and said,
no.
But it's funny because everyone's just mad at riot.
And everyone's like, faker the goat.
He can't miss.
I wonder, though, I mean, obviously, I know, I imagine T-1
pretty had a really big say in what's going on.
I imagine they were pushing.
Right.
So there's probably a lot of factors to play.
But he definitely, yeah, you're right.
He could have been like, I just think it should be 15.
Right.
Also, in terms of, like, poster boys for league,
they could not have asked for, like, a better person to be the goat
because he's the least toxic player, you know,
Oh yeah.
In like the entirety of League of Legends.
Which is saying something.
Yeah, which is saying something.
He got a lot.
You got a lot.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
So you're going to Paris.
You can speak French, right?
Yeah, I can speak French.
Do you do you get the Paris pass?
Do they treat you well?
Do they treat you like a Parisian?
Yeah, yeah.
Last time I went, they treated me like a Canadian, which is way better,
which is way better than being treated like an American.
Because that is the ultimate sin is being American in Paris.
Right.
But then what if it was like British?
Oh, well, that's sorry
Those aren't real people
Not in Paris
A British lower than Americans
I feel like America
Of course, of course
No
In Paris they are
In Paris they definitely are
You guys had a war
Listen, listen all right
Historically speaking, I'm going
I'm getting into
Historically speaking
We could have stumped you guys out
We had you guys were on the ropes
And we were like you know what
Germany's becoming a problem
We need a bit
Oh you're trying
I'm sorry
You're trying to say you could have won the Revolutionary War
No, no, no, no, sorry, so not Americans.
With French.
Oh, okay, okay.
They were on, they were, no, after Napoleon, it was done.
Like, French was over.
But we were like, you know what?
Maybe we should let France exist.
Literally.
Literally.
Literally.
No, I mean, God damn.
Every other European country was like, Napoleon.
Fuck this guy.
He fucked it all up.
France had nothing left and they, I mean, I'm very oversimplifying this.
I can't wait for the moon on track.
Bro, he fucked them.
They were broke.
They had nothing.
All I know is that France,
historically's, their KDA is the best.
Like, they have the highest one percentage in wars.
Yeah, I watched the QI episode where the meme is that France surrenders a lot.
But yeah, they actually, they, because of Napoleon, they won them up.
But he made the one big blunder.
Don't China have the biggest KDA?
Oh, surely.
Against themselves.
Actual KD.
Why are we referring to it as KD?
Oh my God, God.
I thought you meant battles won.
Yeah.
I was like, battles one here.
Okay.
It's like, yo.
I'm just saying.
in terms of like history.
Okay, okay.
Like the entire history of China is just like, okay.
Yeah, well, they, the birds,
the birds didn't suffer well.
The birds, well, so I think you are you men
based on how many battles.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But obviously, they lost the one big battle
that fucked everything out.
That's all that matters though.
I love how hostile, you know,
sometimes you gotta perform when the pressure is on,
you know, it doesn't matter how many times
you perform on the group stages.
It only takes one L for you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's all about the knockout stages, baby.
Everyone forgets about the legacy.
It was the baddest thing.
I mean, the past like 300 year of European battles are like,
and they fought Russia and then it went badly.
Or they went too far into Russia.
And they invaded Russia in the winter.
Yeah, basically.
And then this new guy thought he could do better this time.
Yeah, and then he didn't.
Yeah, welcome to modern war.
I'm actually going to Paris for chess boxing.
Oh.
Oh, they're, uh, I'm not.
It's not my event.
Oh, okay.
It started in Paris.
It was a French comic artist who just thought of the idea and then made a comic about it.
And then some French, like, stunt dude was like, oh, I'll just do that.
That'd be funny.
So he did it himself.
Right.
And then it became like a sport in France and in some places in Europe.
And so anyway, for the Olympics, the IOC puts on an event for the Olympians.
So the week before the Olympics, they all go to whatever the event is of that Olympics.
And this time it's just boxing.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
So they have like a bunch of chess boxing goats showing up fighting.
I think the guy who made it's eBay.
Is your friend telling him?
Matt.
Yeah, yeah, me and Matt are commentating it.
So that's why I'm going.
You commentating the event?
Yeah, yeah, I'm commenting the event.
For the Olympics?
Yeah, for the Olympians.
It's not like, it's not like NBC Olympics.
Yeah.
This is like a more chill.
It's still like a bigger.
It's like a 10,000 person.
Who's paying for it?
Like, who's it like run by?
The IOC, the Olympic, uh, that's crazy.
What are we call?
International Olympic Committee.
Yeah.
That's pretty sick.
Yeah, it should be fun.
But I,
I leave literally the day the Olympics start.
Like I'm not actually there for any of the Olympics.
Right.
Which I think would be miserable anyway.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
The Paris heat, bro.
Smell like shit in that city.
Like you've seen family and stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got some family from France.
You'll be visiting.
Then that's great.
What a flex.
Hey, guys.
Come to my Olympic event.
Yeah.
If you're an Olympian, uh, see me there.
What do you think the easiest Olympic sport is?
Like, what could you have the best chance if you dedicated the rest of your life to actually getting a medal in?
Easy as an.
easy to win or easy to do?
I guess easy to do like from now,
like to the rest of your days,
what do you have the best chance of winning it?
So you're asking what sport are we good at the bit?
Yeah, something not too physical, I guess.
Do you know what a sport is?
Well, no, no, no, no.
They don't have like accounting.
Amicus time.
Look, look, actually I do.
All I'm saying is some sports
are more physically demanding than other sports.
Some you lose off birth.
Yes.
That just guaranteed you are not going to win.
Yeah. Okay. I guess I'll ask a counter question and then we'll circle back. What do you think is the sport that requires you to be like most like genetically like born into it? It's got to be like the very, very long distance running. Yeah. Or the very, very short distance.
Wasn't it like, I don't know if I'm talking about my ass. Isn't like swimming require there's like a body type that is perfect for swimming? And how so like aerodynamically? So yeah, there was something there was like an interesting.
I think John talked about it one time.
He mentioned that a lot of people try to become
to get swimmers bodies by swimming,
but a lot of swimmers have that body.
For example, professional swimmers have that body type
because they are, yeah, they were, yeah.
People think swimmer's bodies is from doing the story,
but it's more like people who had that body
become good swimmers.
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Yeah, sorry, I'm dumb.
This is why it's like selection bias.
This is why he's on the IOC thing.
And I don't comment.
Yeah, it's like a, you,
everyone thinks that you can get that body,
but generally it's body.
But again, I'm sure that's a lot of sports.
Okay, now we circle back to the other question.
Easiest sport.
Shit, I mean, shot put?
Archery?
That pause.
There's not a shot in hell.
You think you can do shot putt?
Just gain a bunch of weight,
just get muscular, and just,
all I gotta do is just throw a ball.
Can we look, can you?
Oh yeah, so easy.
Listen, no, no, no, I'm saying like,
of the guy who does the world record.
Listen, no, no, he is not my body type,
but what I'm saying is,
If that was my whole purpose to lock in,
I mean, like, I just got to throw a whole.
No amount of locking in.
Let's say age six, age six, I lock in.
I immediately start eating
and aiming, striving for that body type
to throw.
Lutz said from now, though.
It's from now.
Oh, okay.
You don't get to fuck in.
Because you're right, if you go back,
you can pretty much do anything.
Yeah, but I feel like,
just because the task is so straightforward.
Yeah.
Just throw the ball.
That's just the most monkey one.
Now I'm being very mean to shock.
I know there is an awful lot of technique.
There is a lot of technique.
What I'm saying is that if I'm not going to be just running,
just go forward.
I'm sorry, professional shot putters.
I'm like,
no, back in Wales, this is like what we did in the place.
We did this for fun.
You're a big stone far.
Yeah, I would say something like archery or something.
Is archery a sport?
Yeah, yeah, that's like, that's like more technique, right?
I'm sure there's.
And also like, there's a chance you just get it.
Yeah, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like that.
You've hit balls out before?
Okay, so you're getting 300 pounds
becoming super fat and big
in throwing a big ball.
Darts.
I was going to say dots.
Is Darts of sport now?
That's not an Olympic sport.
It should be though.
If it wasn't,
if England couldn't get it to pass,
then it's like no shot.
It's dominated by like chubby English man.
It's impressive.
It's so funny if they jump from like
the long jump with the fiercest athletes
in the world have been training for years
and then they just cut to a pub.
A bunch of overweight,
You can't tell me it is insanely impressive how good they are.
It's cool.
I spent 40 minutes at a like a pub here trying to get triple 20.
It's so hard to hit.
And they just,
Yeah,
just 1 20 is hard enough.
I hit triple 20.
We got it once.
Stop.
No, I literally,
you could hit triple 20 once.
Yeah, but it like,
it was the,
like it's not,
it's just, it will happen after enough time.
Right, right, right.
But I'm not like,
you're not consciously aiming for.
The fact that they hit one and then they have still have enough room
to sync.
Yeah.
And it's just one fluid motion as well.
It's like no stopping.
Yeah.
I gotta ask is like beer like a performance enhancing drug in Darts?
Well they say apparently one
makes you better, only one,
that's you better at Darts.
Because I feel like it's the same thing
with like the pool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's the same thing we're driving.
That's actually the Italian way.
Yeah.
What are you on kick now?
Oh, what's that?
That was like that in Italy when I went
Italy and I rented the Vespa. He told me I could have three to four glasses of wine.
That was all he told me. Really? Was the max? Three to four. He's he he didn't tell me
anything else about the Vespa. I turned up. I booked the Vespa and he didn't tell me anything. He was
like, do you know how to write a Vesper? I lied and said yes. I figured how hard could it be. Yeah.
This is for a wine tour. It wasn't for a wine tour. It was in a wine area. Okay.
So he knew I was like a tourist. So he knew I was probably going to drink wine. My plan was
to not drink any wine while driving.
Maybe like half a glass with like lunch or something
because you know it's fine.
Well, you shouldn't drink, but you know.
But then he's out of the gate,
unprompted, goes, three to four glasses.
And I was like, what?
Without you even awesome?
Yeah, I was like, that seems like a lot.
And also a wild thing to say.
I think maybe he thought I was going to drink.
So he was trying to tell me the limit.
Or he was like, I need three to four glasses.
Maybe, yeah.
Side quest.
He also didn't ask for my license.
He didn't check anything.
I asked what time, do I got to bring it back?
He said whenever,
which I found weird.
But that's what it was like when we rented the Vespa's in Hawaii.
Yeah,
they're too chill.
Yeah.
They didn't even check out.
No ID license or anything.
We literally just showed up and we're like,
I don't know what?
Four Vesvus plays and they're like,
that's right.
Well,
see, you know I drive the Vespa now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You can see it out front?
Yeah, I saw it.
I was like,
I knew immediately out of,
we're at the right place.
There are not a lot.
It's very nice, though.
First day I called it.
A guy called me gay on it.
Wait,
Wait, who called you yet?
So I was driving it and I was just,
I was just driving it around and I was going from the dealership
to like this warehouse.
It's a very short drive.
But I like didn't know how to open the thing.
So I wasn't wearing my helmet,
which you always should.
Yeah.
And I always do usually.
But anyway,
I'm driving it and this guy in a Ford fucking F350 pulls up next to me.
Rolls on his window and he goes,
where's your helmet?
And I goes,
oh, I just picked up.
Like I'm,
it was maybe five minutes since I left.
I was like, I just picked it up.
I wear helmets.
And he goes,
you should be riding a real bike.
I was like,
damn,
I was like,
I do,
I have a real motorcycle actually.
And he goes,
you're driving a girl's bike,
that's your girlfriend's bike,
huh?
And I'm like,
I have a real bike.
I have a tried and triumph.
And like the lights turning green.
He's like,
hey,
it's a gay bike and he just drives away.
And I'm so mad.
I'm trying to catch up.
I'm like,
I have a real motorcycle.
I have one.
This is literally the kid in primary school
being bullied.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
He's got a bully by a guy on a four
and he just drives off.
But the same thing happened to me in Italy too
Were they told you to
What to drink or you get
Yeah
Okay
Honestly could be boss
Honestly like I thought
We were doing
I don't know if I told you before
We were doing a wine tour
And it's supposed to be like a Jeep wine tour
Yeah
And and okay
I
Okay
Me and my friend Aiden
Yeah
Decided to take a little bit of psilocybin
What is that?
It is the active chemical in mushrooms.
Oh.
But it's not as like when you take it in that form.
Whatever.
But I had never done it before.
I'd never done it before outside of the actually one time we did it on a podcast.
But anyway, I was like, oh, this would be fun on the wine tour, you know, when this Jeep wine tour.
We get to the spot.
We have this crazy Eastern European tour guide.
And he's like, guys, way more fun than Jeep, VESPA.
Okay.
And I'm like, ooh.
Don't love that and he's like and nobody there like knows how to drive a vespah. He's like trust me. It's great and so he has like this fleet of Vespas. He's prepared for this and he's like everyone
D drives in a line comes back if you do it good if not bad and you have to be like on the back
Okay of someone else. Everyone goes through this like 20 of us doing this I go. I just I fucking bank it. I just I nail it whatever. I come back only 10 people did it right
which meant every single person who did it right
had to not only ride a Vespa
but have somebody on their back.
Oh my gosh.
And I'm there with Cudy and she failed.
She failed the test.
She couldn't ride it.
So it was basically like skip the tour
or lock the fuck in.
Wait, but you've taken the mushroom?
Yes.
Oh my old.
But I never sobered up quicker in my life.
I'm in the hills of Florence
and I'm like I didn't blink for 45 minutes straight.
And it went great.
It went fine.
To be fair, it is very fun
driving the Vespa through the wine area.
I thought you were going to say
I was still aside
but I wouldn't recommend that.
No.
But the driving the vest was awesome.
It's probably like the most fun part
of when I was in Italy.
Yeah, you need, you should get scooters.
I don't know why you don't have them in Japan.
I feel like they'd be life changers.
Well, I have one in Thailand.
Yeah.
You said this to me
and the thing is as well is that
you're very fast and loose with a lot of things.
Japan is not.
You cannot just,
rip it and park it anyway. They will like,
really, yeah, you, yeah, you have to register a parking spot
in your like apartment or wherever you live.
You can't always just like leave it on the side of a like sidewalk.
It takes a bit of the fun out of it because it makes it a way less convenient.
And I'm assuming you can't lane split.
You can you can you just go between lanes.
Do you have, do you see bikes do it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can go between lanes.
It's only legal in California in the US.
As far as I know, I've seen people do it.
Yeah, I've seen people do it.
I don't know if it's legal, but I've seen people do it.
Right.
The problem with Japanese, Japanese driving laws are so strict.
And also, like, the speed limit on the highway is,
it's like 80 kilometers, which is like 50 miles an hour on the highways.
Really?
So no one follows it, which is very confusing because Japan, they always follow the rules.
But with the traffic rules, it feels like there's kind of like a weird kind of,
yeah, you don't really go the speed limit.
But I heard as well that only the person in the front who speaks,
speeding gets fined.
Yes.
Yeah.
Because everyone else is following the flow of traffic.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, Japan is very collectivist.
Yeah.
Even for bad things.
Yeah, it's pretty weird.
The guy in the front, just tanking it,
everyone else, just so.
Thank you, sir.
So what happens is, right?
You'll have the three lanes and people will go into the third lane and the moment, like,
three cars will come out.
And then that guy in the front will go in and then everyone else will go back in,
because no one wants to be the guy in the front.
Yeah.
And then you'll have some like guy in like a BMW that will just run it.
Zoom by.
Yeah.
But.
The convenience of the Vespa and the scooters
are kind of lost a little bit.
You can definitely get like there are some,
I think there's the lowest CC ones,
maybe you can get around it,
but you still have to park it on like bicycle places
or car spots, which is still kind of annoying.
Yeah, and you need a motorcycle license
for Vesper at least.
Yeah, because the CCs are just too high
without a motorcycle license.
What does the C50 is the limit?
50s is limit.
Vesper's normally 1 or 5.
That's tiny.
Well, because it's a motorcycle license
is anything above 50 CC,
which you need to go to like,
driving you here it's 50 right and then you could just get a motorcycle license like you said just by
fucking you just said yeah you had it well it didn't worry i tried that i try i was renewing my license
and i wanted to drive a motorcycle yeah uh specifically a vespica because i got back from italy
and they were like do you have a motorcycle license or like are you renewing for a car or motorcycle or
both and i was like both fuck it i did that and then they're like okay uh it looks like you put in both
you have to take the test now and i was like oh
and I try to wear my way out of it,
but I couldn't get,
I couldn't like change it.
So I took the tests.
It was like a written test.
Okay.
And I'm bombing every question.
It's like,
it's like if you want to turn right,
do you push right,
lean right or push left lean right
or push left, lean left?
I'm like, I don't fucking know.
So I fail and they,
but they tell you when you fail what the right answer is.
Oh,
so they're like,
do you want to redo it?
And then after you fail the quiz,
they're like,
do you want to try again?
And I'm like, sure.
and then I failed the second time
and then they're like
do you want to try again
and apparently you're allowed
to take it up to three times
so I just learned all the answers
from getting them wrong and them telling me
and then just did it like
like a seven year old wood
Isn't this crazy?
That is crazy.
And then I could
drive on the highway
like this is why there are so many car crashes
yeah
yeah
well me and Michael
where you have a theory
because he got me into motorcycles
is they do this
to harvest your organs
Because then they ask you if you want to be an organ donor
And the highest percentage of organ donors are motorcycle drivers
Okay, well
Okay
It's the state
Big state is trying to harvest your organ
I would imagine that there is less efficient economically to have people die
You'd be surprised
Well I guess
Maybe
It's such weird
It's like if you have a dangerous hobby anyway
Might as well make the most out of it
True.
Like they,
say if you go bungee jumping or skydiving,
they should just give you an organ donor for it.
No,
you,
you ain't getting your organs back if you...
Oh, true.
Yeah.
Those things eruptured.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
They're not useful.
God.
Oh my God.
Yeah, because I saw every motorcyclist
that I've, like, met who was like older,
they always have had like one fucking awful crash.
Yeah.
Or know someone.
Yeah, or know someone.
They're very somber.
It's, it's good to talk to people like that
because they make sure that if you talk people like that,
you'll never dress poorly for the ride.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thinking about bikes and cars in Japan,
I feel like cars are still pretty damn convenient in Japan
because you can just park anywhere if you're doing like...
Because cars are way smaller in Japan.
Yeah.
You press the hazard button.
You can stop anywhere in Japan.
Yeah, that's that...
I drove a bunch for the RV trip.
You did, yeah, and you can just stop anywhere.
Yeah.
And I saw a lot of that.
It's kind of fun to drive.
I liked driving in Japan.
It's relaxing because there's a lot of people saying like.
Not much traffic.
Skinny roads, though.
Yeah.
Well, you nearly fucking sent the RV flying that one time.
Okay, that's dramatic.
You did.
I was in the back of the...
It took a bit of air.
The car took air.
Bit of excitement.
Have you ever been in the car that took air?
No.
Yes.
Have you ever been in an RV that took air?
No.
Now, have you been in the back of an RV when it takes air?
No.
So he's fucking running it.
I don't know why you were in like some mountain road in EZU.
And he's going so fast.
No, no.
It wasn't a speed thing.
Oh, you hit a curve.
Yeah, it was basically like the roads were so skinny.
And then the side of the road was like,
kind of like, what do you call them?
Like, just like flat.
And it's just a line and it was like, this is extra road.
And then it became a sidewalk.
And so it ramped up.
And I didn't realize I was on the ramp.
And then I just centered myself a bit to the road.
And then I just took off the rail.
I went like, I was in the back.
We were trying to get ready for the stream.
Yeah.
And I remember I went like,
full on.
And I was like, holy shit.
shit and I was freaking out
I was like what the fuck Ludwig and you were like
nah baby it's good I'm like I just went
four meters in the air it's not
good and I was like do we fuck
the RV but I was like although I had like
every insurance known amount on that thing I think nothing
came of it no nothing did luckily
but yeah it worked out it was terrified I just
you drove a bunch I know on the first
RV trip because you were the only one that could drive
it was very helpful that you were on the drive yeah
and so I felt bad that you were driving all the time
no that helped yeah I appreciate uh but
also it's nice being in the front because you can chill out for a bit
The streams normally in the back.
Right.
Yeah, you don't have to be on the stream the whole time.
Yeah.
That's why Chris would hog the front.
Yeah.
I didn't tell him off.
I was like,
bro,
he's a diva.
He is a diva.
You just realize it.
I yes.
He can be a dee.
I did tell him off after he's like,
Chris,
you can't,
you can't hog the front seat.
We all need a break.
We got to rotate the front.
Like,
because he didn't want to drive.
Yeah.
And he wasn't willing to give up.
You would never,
you would refuse to drive,
but then he'd see,
like the car would be locked.
He'd sit in front of it.
fucking this.
I am waiting for my throne.
He does,
he does,
he does like a little Diva.
And then he gets on stream for a bit.
He does his little crisp it.
And he's like,
all right,
that's good.
He's a treasure.
He gets away with it.
He gets away with it.
He gets away with it.
He got the emperor.
Yeah,
he did.
How did that happen?
I suppose we'll have Chris on
to tell the story.
But basically TLDR,
apparently the aid to the king.
Huge fan of Chris.
he said that apparently loves the cyclathons.
Wow.
Apparently big,
big fan of Japan.
So why wouldn't you invite to them?
That's what I said.
I was like,
oh,
I was a big fan of the cyclone.
Yeah.
Maybe it's a Welsh thing.
They just don't want me there.
Oh,
yeah.
They can't have a Welshman
enter Buckingham Palace.
Hasn't happen in 300 years.
I just think that he knows
that I would ask about
the whole Prince of Wales stuff.
When am we going to drop that?
We're going to give it back.
Come on now.
Wait, what is it?
Well, okay.
Okay.
So the Prince of Wales.
Understand this will make sure
you'll never be invited.
if you say the story.
Well, no, no, it's fine.
I mean, so the whole title of Prince of Wales
was that back in like 16 something,
eventually when Wales was like,
all right, we'll stop, we'll stop killing people.
If you promise to let the, at the time,
the prince, the,
because Prince is a,
was a Roman term that was higher than king.
Oh.
So if someone was the prince,
Prince was the more, the higher title.
So the guy had called himself the Prince of Wales,
at the time, whatever.
He was like, all right, fine.
We'll agree to join England.
We'll stop fighting.
If you let my son be the next king of the UK.
And he was like, sure.
So then he'll be the Prince of Wales.
So then this was the title that kept going.
And then as it was his turn, they were like, nah.
And they didn't let him be king.
Oh.
They like yoinked, like Rug pulled.
They didn't let him be king.
And they just kept calling it Prince of Wales since.
And I think that's super B.M.
Yeah, no, they kind of scammed him.
Yeah, right?
So I feel like that's an unfair thing.
And a lot of like Welsh nationals hate it.
Like when,
did you watch the crown?
First few seasons.
You're a crown, right?
Yeah.
You know when King Charles,
or Prince Charles at the time
did his like speech in the castle of Wales?
Yeah.
What they did show was that like at the time
the Welsh people were kept trying to like
calling like bomb threats
and were like threatened to like blow it up.
They were like, we do not want this guy here.
Jesus.
They were like hardcore.
I don't know if there was hardcore now.
I mean back,
that was back in like the 80s,
but it was very hardcore.
And even when I was growing up,
Because it came from a super wild region,
they're always like, yeah, we hate the king.
I hate the royal family.
We don't recognize them.
We don't like this.
Well, I feel like the hatred is like ingrained.
It is, yeah.
Even if it's like died down to more just like banter and like friendly rivalry.
But, uh.
But like I, you know, I can recognize there's some benefit to having the world family,
but I understand where they're coming from.
Yeah.
It's like a pride thing.
You're like, ah, we got fucked by England and now we're still getting fucked.
Are you happy to call yourself British?
Yeah, I think being British is good.
Okay.
I, when people call me English, I don't like that.
Right.
Because I'm just not English.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's cool.
You know, like I, I, Scotland's cool.
Northern Ireland's cool.
Island's cool.
You cut out there.
Literally every single.
I think the Celtic boys should stick to.
Yeah.
Basically, everyone hates England.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which is kind of, we're just kind of, we're just kind of, you know.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
It's fine.
It's fine.
I'm Thai, actually.
I know the benefits
I can switch when it's convenient
when England are doing well in like the World Cup
or yours I'm like, all right, I'm English actually
English is fucking years.
Well, I mean, you must do that with French, right?
Oh, all the time.
You must play the, I'm French.
Oh, 100%.
When is that beneficial?
What, being Welsh?
No, being French.
Oh!
No, during the World Cup, during the World Cup,
I'm hardcore, during the Olympics,
I'll be a hardcore French fan
until like, you know.
America starts just winning everything.
Yeah, then I'm like, back to America.
I'll tell you when it came in handy is during the debates here in America, presidential debates,
I'm French that day.
I mean, French, Europe is also having their own.
Yeah.
Also not going.
No, they are having some political turmoil there.
Yeah.
Whenever I see the tweets about being like, wow, I'm moving to Europe, fuck this of America
bullshit.
I'm like, you clearly don't know what's going on.
You got a little bit of that.
I'm like, you know who's coming to power and all these.
countries?
Yeah, it's like France
protesting, are they rioting this time?
Are they going through another revolution?
Well, they protest all the time.
Yeah.
It's like, yeah.
I swear they've been protesting about the age of retirement
for like 19 years.
Yeah, it works though.
I know it works because I mean,
people are going to vote, right?
Yeah.
They got that shit down.
They have a seven hour work day.
That is,
the thing about retirement there is like,
it's such a hard one, right?
Because how do you deal with just
the population getting older?
Like if people just live longer
It is tough
Let the next generation
Figure it out
That's the car
And it's worked for a generation
But they're like
In like one one generation
Like
Like sorry
Because I mean that's why it's like a fucking huge issue
They're like
Why are you living till 95 consistently
This is genuinely like too much
Yeah the combo of people
Having way better medicine
To have their kids live
and then also live way longer
for a population boom
is it's gonna be devastating for
I mean kind of us
yeah but more so our children
well yeah but I mean
we're gonna see the tear end of it
yeah yeah peace out from the well baby
I don't think the solution is like make 80 year olds work
I don't think that's beneficial but I like I don't know what you
I don't know what to do no one seems to know what to do
there's only so many taxi drivers in Japan
I'm gonna make a podcast talking about yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
literally we don't have any more jobs well there's only so many jobs where we can have a guy
outside of a parking lot go like this yeah dude yeah there's only how many of these jobs do we
have how hard is it the fall of the curve dude i know right we get that finance
youtube to sit down with like japan they'll be like right so you get $200 a month and oh wow
you only spend 150 actually i think you're good you're a great friend of school yeah i think
the pentures in japan don't spend a whole lot i don't i think they don't they don't they just
They don't know how to.
Yeah, I don't.
You know?
I think if you, yeah, I think if you gave an elderly Japanese man, like 100 bands,
I don't think he would do much with it.
I think he would just kind of be like, I'd be like, oh, groceries for a while, I guess.
I think the lifestyle wouldn't change much.
They have a really good Japanese TV show, which I love watching.
I've no idea when it's on, though.
Which one?
Where I don't know what the show's called.
They will literally just go to a station and ask a Japanese person,
hey, can I just like come home and see what you do for the day?
Oh, yes, yes.
And they'll just like go to his house, see what he does in his free time.
Just day in the life of a random.
It's really fun.
Day in a life of a random dude.
Because most of the old dudes when they do it, they're like, I'm going to the bathhouse.
And they'll go to the bathhouse.
Take the camera in.
This must be pre-fil, like pre-planned.
I don't think so.
I think a lot of these TV, it's kind of crazy because when you're, when you're ours,
and we're trying to film stuff, the amount of pressures we have to go through is insane.
But when you're a well-established Japanese TV network,
it seems like you can just rock up to places and people will just let you film.
Yeah.
It's all the trust system.
It's like, oh, you know, most of the people you need the mission from are all the older
generation that watch these kinds of shows.
Like they were just pulled up to a bathhouse and just started filming.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
Which actually, like everyone get the fuck out.
But I know for a fact, because I've seen that like when we go to restaurants,
we have to go through a whole thing, a whole permission thing to do it.
If they have like DeGawa, who's like a really big personality, like one of the big comedians,
he rocks up to places with the crew and they're all just like, come on in.
Yeah.
like do it like I think this became a problem because uh I don't remember which
Japanese network I think it might have been an HK yeah but they did that in America
with Shohay they filmed his house oh it was Fuji TV yeah Fuji TV yeah they filmed his
house with like a drone and they like posted it on like yeah like television
and that's right you don't do that in America right yeah yeah yeah yeah because
doxing someone in America is way different than doxing someone in Japan yeah yeah
in Japan you're like cool house here it's like SWAT teams coming
And so they got banned from using any of Shohay's footage, which is crazy.
Which is devastating because I want to say like at least every day, there's like an hour or two of Shohayotani news.
Really?
Dude, I go to the gym and they always play the news.
It's just Shohaiotani.
He's treated like a god.
Dude, they'll literally just do, they'll have someone standing outside of their practice every day, just watching him.
I mean, he's the best player in baseball.
And if he has a long career, we'll retire the go.
Yeah, what do you make of the whole
Well, first, okay, a couple of questions about that.
Are you talking about how Ipe screwed him over
and has tarnished his legacy in some way?
Yeah, what do you think about that?
It's a scam and a fraud against my king choha.
Okay.
I've talked to actually many of my friends
who are like semi-to-sports or baseball or whatever.
They all think Ipe's taking the fall.
Yeah, so that was one thing that I found really interesting
is that in Japan.
So, do you want to explain to me the controversy?
Sorry, sorry.
Because I, it's, I assumed,
because living in Japan,
living in Japan,
it was fucking impossible
to not see anything about it.
Yeah, no, no, no, I know some things about it,
but I don't, I haven't had the entire breakdown of it.
You can correct me if I'm wrong here.
Yeah.
So what ended up happening is that,
some weird thing came out where they were like,
wow, it looks like Shohaiotani was gambling,
like millions of dollars on his own day.
Who has like the transfer record
for like the most expensive player, correct?
Yeah, so Shoha Tani had a contract.
He's the goat, dude.
Okay, so he's one of the only people
in baseball who can pitch
and hit home run dingers.
Like Babe Ruth.
And nobody's done it since Babe Ruth.
And he had a contract that was worth like $700 million.
Yeah.
Over the course of...
10 years.
Yeah, so quite a long time.
Which is insane.
It's like the highest contract in baseball history.
Incredible.
And he basically...
I don't know how it all broke,
but essentially, initially it all kept...
It was weird because the thing that was so strange
about the story was that initially it broke from...
his
interpreter's story,
which was that
apparently there was some
accused of fraud
that he was gambling his money.
And then Shohei said,
no, no,
that's not what happened at all.
And then it went back to,
oh,
no,
no, he did,
he did spend his money.
So he took,
the interpreter took
Shohei Otani's money
and gambled it on his games.
Right.
Yeah,
it was found that
his translator,
his name's Ipe,
was gambling.
Yeah.
And then they looked into that,
and
like you can't gamble.
And then it was found that that was not only gambling,
but gambling with Show Hay's money.
Yeah.
And then people were like, okay,
is he gambling with Show Hey's money with Show Hey's knowledge?
Yeah.
Because that is a lot different.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And to be clear,
he was gambling,
I think in total across several years,
he had taken like $19 million dollars.
Yeah, it was something I'm saying.
From Showhay's account.
Yeah.
What?
I don't know if his,
I think it was dollars not yet.
I'm pretty sure it was $19 million dollars.
It was a lot.
It was in like the,
which is crazy.
And so then.
Everyone thinks like, okay, there's not a single universe that a human would not realize $19 million has left their account.
Shohay must have known about this and been involved in some way.
That's the anti-Shohay thought.
The other one is that, hey, he's just really rich, loves baseball and his wife.
Can you blame a man for not looking at the finances?
I can simplify those a little bit, you know, because we have like a Japanese count.
and I don't look at it that much
because it's all in Japanese
and I just look at it occasionally.
So, I mean, if fraud happened,
I probably wouldn't notice for like a day or two.
I'd be like, as long as it's not zero.
Yeah, I mean, I think I would notice
if 19 million went, but I don't have 700 million,
so I can't like that.
Yeah, yeah.
It's way more.
Okay, so from an article?
142 million.
Wow.
Oh, so he lost 40 mil.
Yeah, I mean, I think that there's no way he would ever,
I mean, obviously, he's actually,
access that money because he was interpreting for him.
But I, again, I think the situation was very,
there was a lot of questions that were left unanswered,
but it was really interesting from the Japanese perspective,
seeing it all play out because.
I'm assuming they're all on Shohei's side and they're all apologists.
Because they just want to show him to be the goat.
Yeah.
Well, because they, I mean, I think it's, he is,
for lack of better terms,
probably like the most famous person in Japan.
I think so.
And I think it, which is crazy.
Yeah.
And what's also insane is that everywhere around Japan,
every brand is ambasseted by Shohei.
Like banks have Shohei banks.
And then like every product you'll see will have showay on it.
And you're like, how much these pay?
Dude, he must be closing in on a billion.
So when it all came out, it was really interesting seeing everyone,
at least the Japanese side, immediately jump on the,
it's all he pays fault.
It's all he pays fault.
And not really questioning, whereas there was a lot of more,
I feel like nuance into the situation on the American side
where they were trying to figure out like something's not right here.
Like this doesn't have enough.
Like this is too.
This is not easy cut and dry, but I think in terms of in Japan,
it's case out of the cut and drive.
I'm sure a lot of people want to be on Shohe's side
because obviously with him making this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's this, there's got to be a lot of national pride.
Absolutely.
Any huge, you know, local star that gets like international fame.
Also, it doesn't fit the character that he's demonstrated
that people know him for.
Yeah.
Because like he gives to a lot of like local schools where he's from.
Yeah.
And like, I think even the fact-
Didn't like spend a lot of money.
And also like hid the,
fact that he had like a girlfriend and wife.
Yeah.
Which I think is like, it creates a,
basically a character of a person that you would not think is secretly trying to gamble
millions of dollars.
Also, when he has, he got married, he announced in his statement, he was like,
I'm married to a natural Japanese woman or something.
What does that mean?
He was trying to basically say that like, I think, because if it'd come out, he'd married
and he hadn't married a non-Japanese person, I think a lot of the Japanese people would be
pissed off.
Don't worry, I'm not poisoning the well.
I'll keep in a pure, guys.
Please don't love them.
And then also there was like
Japan loved that as well
because his wife was seen
wearing a lot of Uniclo stuff
which they were like,
wow, she's so inspirational.
She's wearing like $70.
She's so humble.
She's so humble.
Still shops at Uniclo.
You know, to be fair,
that's a lot of the Japanese
mentality is to like...
Dude, that'd be...
Imagine the American version of that.
It's like, I'm dating a Western European
immigrant.
Natural Western European...
Never even left the state.
You're like, this is kind of crazy
that you have to practice.
Yeah, yeah.
But obviously, like, that is something
that is cared about.
I mean, it's just, it's really interesting being,
like, there in Japan, watching all of this
and seeing both sides.
I go on Twitter or whatever,
I see the American side
and just live in Japan, you just see.
But dude, it's endless,
the amount of news coverage.
It's non-stop.
Do you have someone in Wales
that you're like,
fuck yeah, I'm proud of this guy's Welsh?
Isn't Christian Bail Welsh?
Well, he's.
I mean.
He's born in Wales,
but he's basically English.
Yeah.
He's gone on record saying,
like,
I don't really identify as well.
Right.
Yeah.
Anthony Hopkins pretty cool.
Wait,
that's really cool.
Yeah.
You threw that out like it was a stinker.
That's sir Anthony Hopkins.
I was trying to think.
I should have,
like,
rip off the top of my head,
like famous Welsh people.
Tom Jones,
I guess,
kind of fell off.
Tom Jones,
Welsh?
He's Welsh.
I didn't know.
I had no idea about that.
Don't worry about it.
Garrette Bell was the big one for a while.
Yeah, Garth Bell was, you know,
but you don't care about football, so.
I can't have football.
He's like, he was like, yeah,
probably the best Welsh football player
played for Real Madrid for a while as well.
Yeah, it was very good.
It was very, very successful.
Anthony Hopkins kind of got, you got a big one.
I love for when Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar recently,
and he just didn't want to go to LA,
and he just filmed his speech in like a field in Wales.
That's beautiful.
Thanks, man, love Wales though.
Fuck.
Yeah, man.
I don't know.
Yeah, because Thailand's pretty much,
we've only got like Tony Jarr, I think,
who's only like,
I can't think of anyone else Thai
who has gained international acclaim.
It's definitely more famous washie people.
Tony Jarre did Ombach and a lot of other,
like martial arts films.
Okay, okay.
An actor.
Yeah, an actor, like a martial artist.
Any famous French?
No, I'm Jerry.
The most famous person from New Hampshire.
My state is Franklin Pierce.
Who's that?
Who?
I think he was the...
The guy who killed.
Lincoln?
He was infamous.
He was a president.
He was a president of these United States.
And he is famous for causing genocide against the Native Americans.
That was Franklin Pierce.
It's a blight on New Hampshire history.
But the only guy to serve from New Hampshire.
We're going to take a W.
Most presidents from East Coast?
Are they most from like Virginia?
West Virginia is the most politicians, I think.
I think it's, they're mostly state governors,
often from Texas, California, Massachusetts, or Virginia, yeah.
Okay, I just thought, yeah, I don't know, I thought that.
I think because the older ones,
because we only had East Coasts.
Right, right.
What about you, Joey, Ozzy pride?
There's a lot of, Ozzy's got down, yeah, yeah.
Bill Gibson, just joke.
I'm joking.
Wait, is he Australian?
Yeah, he's born in Australia.
Oh, shit.
We got Russell Crowe.
He's coming.
He's kind of.
Hemsworth's.
Hemsworth's.
We got fucking,
oh my God,
what's his name?
The guy who played
the Joker in Dark Night.
Heath Ledger?
He's Ledger?
He's a legend.
He's Australian.
What?
I would not be able to tell.
I could not tell.
He's super Australian.
Yeah, we've got quite a few cool people.
Nah, yeah, Australia.
You got a lot of swats.
The most famous person from my school
who went to the same high school as me
is Baz Luhrmann, the director.
Oh.
Yeah, the guy who did Romeo and Juliet.
Oh, okay.
You watch a house of dragon?
Yeah.
You know the Otto Hightower?
He went to my school.
Like eight billion years ago?
Yeah, yeah.
Literally when I was growing up,
he ever watched the film, Nottingham Hill?
Yeah, of course.
Hugh Grant?
Hugh Grant.
Yeah, the Hugh Grant one.
You know, he had the Ginger roommate.
That's him.
And so when we were growing up, they were like,
well, we don't have much, you know,
but we have a Rise Evans.
Yeah.
He was a Nottingham Hill, you know.
And now they get to say House of Dragons.
Now they can say House of Dragons.
That's an upgrade.
Damn.
which is a big upgrade.
He's firing that.
He's so good.
He's so good.
That show's good, dude.
It's so good.
You got to catch up.
I do.
I do got to watch it.
Have you,
you watched Game of Thrones,
right?
Yeah,
I've watched Game of Thrones.
I think so far,
like season one.
Are you gonna be that guy who's like,
yes,
it's better than the game of Thrones.
Whoa,
whoa,
the beginning of Game of Thrones.
You're wrong.
What?
You're so.
Oh,
Matt Smith is captivating in that.
Season one, you're right.
Season two's worse.
So it's only just,
we're going to have two episodes.
Three.
Have you watched all three?
No.
Season one of episode,
sorry, episode one of episode
season two was so good.
Yeah, the second one's one that pissed me off.
We'll talk about it after.
We'll spoil after.
What's your split of live action shows
versus anime?
I mean,
live action shows is what I watch for fun.
Anime is what I watch for my job.
That's so funny.
Yeah, yeah.
I've been watching Ted Lasso recently.
Oh, yeah.
It's so fucking good.
It is.
I got to watch that.
Sorry.
I gotta watch that.
Yeah, you gotta watch it.
I mean, I watched it because it's the Euros right now, and I was like, oh, I feel like
in, I'm in a football mood.
I did not know that Ted Lassow started from a parody YouTube video that got posted like 10 years ago,
and I kept all of the actors in that original YouTube video as well.
Yeah, it was a promo.
Yeah, it was like a promo for an American channel getting the Premier League.
And so the premise of Ted Lassow is that they hire an American football coach to coach a Premier League team.
league team.
He doesn't know what he's doing.
And what surprised me is that it's probably the best way I can describe this.
And I guess I use like anime terms for this.
It's like, Oni Zuka, it's like, Oni Zuka becomes the coach of a Premier League team.
Because he knows nothing about football.
And to be fair, throughout like the first season and a bit, he still knows nothing about football.
Is Ted Lasson Issaquay?
No, it's not an Issaqai.
Unless you count going to the UK
American man reborn as a British coach.
But no, it's incredible how,
I think the best thing about that show
is that it's incredible how endearing
they were able to make Ted Lassow
because he's basically like, yeah,
it's basically like watching Pete,
like coach a football team, you know,
whereas like he knows nothing about football,
but I kind of want to,
I kind of want him to get a W man.
But goddamn he gives the best advice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
They give him like the full house treatment with like Danny Tanner.
And it's like that classic American father.
Yeah.
And then it's like, oh, wow, they transformed Bob Sagitt, one of the most like horrible in terms of cursing comedians into this family.
Awesome.
Have you heard old Bob Sagitt standup material?
No.
Dude, he's the most crass vile standup.
Like he'll just talk graphically about like sex and sexual positions.
And then he became like America's father.
I think weirdly.
Obviously, we get a lot of American media.
Stand-up comedy was the stuff that we just didn't get.
Yeah.
Because we had our own stand-up that was like, I'm pretty in Australia.
And it's so different.
Yeah, like the stuff that they would make jokes about were so incredibly British.
Like when I watch British stand-up, I don't think it would work for Americans.
I think of Ricky Jervais.
You can't say that.
Oh, okay.
I hate Ricky Jervais.
This stand-up is so bad.
He just says, he says things you can't say, Connor.
Okay.
I like Ricky Jervase.
hosting the awards.
Yeah, yeah.
Although I felt like the last one,
everyone was like, wow, he's so brave.
I was like, this was kind of like just watching
a man have a mental breakdown.
I felt like, I don't know.
I mean, he's one of the better exports we've had
because I swear, some was like, who was that guy who hosts the-
Gordon is a failure.
Gordon, fucking hell, man.
He's like not even welcome back in the UK and yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah.
We're like, no, no, no.
What a fucking dickhead.
There is there is like a betrayal if, as a,
if you do leave, is it the same Australia?
If they go to like America
and they do American things, we're like, you don't.
Yeah.
You fucked.
It's like I think of Gordon, Russell Brand as well was a big.
Which we don't care if British actors do American films.
But for some reason, doing like a late night show is like, how day?
Well, I think it's like selling your soul because I don't think anyone believes that James
Gordon is specifically passionate about doing carpal karaoke.
He just does it because it's successful.
Like, yeah, America's turning him so fast.
It seemed like he was doing all right.
And then it just kind of overnight, everyone was like, fuck James Cort.
Yeah, and I was like the most hated person.
Well, he didn't help himself too fast.
You also had some bad stories about like, and this is like the ultimate one.
Yeah.
Just being bad in front of no, like service workers.
Oh, I heard that.
Like treating service workers poorly.
And that's like.
Big no-no.
Yeah, obviously.
Because it's like, oh, you got rich and famous and then you turned on how you treat
regular people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think, I think it's especially like exacerbated by the fact that he is a late-night
host because I think the whole point of being a late-night host is that you have to be likable.
Yeah.
You have to be personable, right?
Whereas if you're like an actor or something.
You can kind of, there's a little bit more leeway to be a dickhead,
depending, depending.
I think so, right?
Because you're a bit more like mythical.
Yeah.
Right?
Because you, you know, you play these characters and you don't really, you know,
you're not really yourself often.
Same like, musical artists, I feel like,
because you're often kind of playing up this person.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, Christian Bail famously, right?
Yeah.
He had like the blow up on set.
People like almost like respected him because they're like, wow.
He cares so much about the art form.
Yeah, because it's like, it's his craft.
It's his art.
Yeah.
He's allowed to be a total dickhead.
But like that was like a funny one
because it was like listening to the context.
I can just imagine I'm trying to act
and a guy was walking across the set cause of something.
You're like God fucking damn.
I kind of see it but I was like
yeah you don't need to be that much of a con about it right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Then I think we I don't know people people kind of like a blow up
sometimes.
Yeah I mean people just love drama.
True.
We know that way with the dark things.
You all talk about that?
We have not.
The doctor disrespect.
You got the big tweet out of it.
The two time.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
That was so.
Like a tweet that like 200k likes.
Well,
something like that is some tweet that on earth.
Well,
everyone knows about the doctor disrespecting.
I imagine we don't have to give so much context.
Yeah.
But basically admitted to messaging a minor in Twitch whispers,
which is insane.
Why did he admit to that?
Was there any benefit to admitting to it?
Uh,
I,
I think because.
it was known.
He was just trying to get over it.
Well, I think, like, it was factually known by the people at Twitch.
Like, they knew it as fact.
Yeah.
And so he can't, like, he can lie.
Like, as we've learned anything from the online climate now, even if there's, like,
photo proof of you standing there with like a minor or something.
Yeah, true.
You could be like, I don't know who that is.
People do the deny, deny, deny thing.
And it works.
I think in his mind, he wrote that long-ass tweet that included the phrase, yes, I did
talk to an individual minor and then edited it up.
But I think he sent that tweet and he's like, I'll send this, I'll come back and everyone will forget.
Not what happened.
No one's forgetting that.
That tweet had like over like 200 million impressions.
Yeah.
200 million?
200 million impressed.
There's no recovering.
I mean, the most normie of normie people in my life were like, oh, I heard about this.
Yeah.
It's Mr. disrespect.
Yeah.
Dude, watching that clip when he's playing out.
Or watching someone's career disappear.
I was watching and I was like,
damn, if I was acting,
like if I was an actor and I was studying,
this is crazy.
It's sunglasses on and I can feel every ounce of emotion.
It was going through.
It's basically playing Eldon Ring and then 30 minutes after that portion of stream,
a tweet comes from his AAA publishing studio about how they're dropping him.
Yeah.
And it's what people think,
I mean, it's not confirmed to be like the text that's like, hey, we're dropping you.
Right.
Yeah.
Just seen his face, man.
The micro expressions, man.
Bro, if I found acting, I got to study that.
Like, it's so raw.
So raw.
With the Eldon Ring music in the background as well.
It was literally perfect time.
He just like, the ominous music.
It just starts right.
Sir Anthony Hopkins in Wales, like, fuck.
That's good.
That's good.
I was thinking about it.
I was like, what text would I have to receive
to make me like immediately
a third tower space?
hit.
Wales is like sinking.
Wales is gone.
Like,
because I'd like to think
if I had something bad that happened,
I would try and play it off
for like 10 minutes
where I'd find a point
that naturally feels like I'm gonna end it.
It would be a global catastrophe.
It'd be like nuclear war.
Yeah.
If nuclear war broke out,
then you're like, oh.
That's bad.
But like, if to make me like fully end
the stream on the spot,
it'd have to be like devastating.
I'm sorry.
You're staying live after the nuclear war one.
I think I would
keep going.
Cause like what else am I gonna do?
Like may as well fucking running.
No, no, no.
Like I, I thought my viewers went to zero.
Everyone else is panicking.
I'd be like, well, fuck it, I may as well land.
No, no, because I asked the boys these questions before,
but like, you know, because like,
remember the Hawaii missile thing?
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, I would go live.
You had an alert where you think missiles are about to hit
where you live right now.
You can't, you don't have enough time to like get up
on a plane or escape.
What'd you do?
You have half an hour.
Stay alive.
Yeah, what'd you do?
And it's 100% death.
Yeah, you assume.
You assume. You're assuming a nuclear warhead is on the way.
You're like, fuck, there's nothing I can do.
I have half an hour or however long it takes for the missile to hit.
What do you do?
I think, okay, well, for one, I don't think I would ever give up the hope.
So I hop on my Vesta, Vespa instantly.
Yeah.
I throw cutie on the back.
I stuff the pets into the carrier.
And then I start riding.
But like, I guess in your universe, it's,
probably just calling people.
Yeah.
That's what a lot of people did do.
But actually that wouldn't work.
Everyone would try to call.
Yeah, everyone would try to call.
Yeah, and you're on Hawaii, by the way,
which is an island, so there's only.
Oh, you're in Hawaii?
Yeah, yeah, because that's, you're talking about the-
That's where the scare happened.
Yeah, that's where the scare happened.
So you can't exactly just drive.
So if you were there all that day,
I don't even remember what we said.
Connor would go live, basically.
I think I said something like, I just furiously
J.O. for the next thing.
That's the only joy.
That's the only joy you have.
Or it's like, or it's like break every law.
Like, I'm gonna die anyway.
I might as well try it.
Everyone looks over as Joey J-Walk and you're like, what?
Yeah.
What are you gonna do about it?
Yeah, I feel like,
I feel like human survival and sticks kick in.
I start digging holes.
I'm like shy of a buff out there.
Oh, you know,
give it up.
Presumably if you did just have a hole,
it would probably kind of work.
I'm certain, like, we,
well, like, look, I mean, like,
think about it, right?
Like, what, if you were somehow,
a hole, right? And you, you manage to somehow dig a deep enough hole in like 30 minutes.
It depends where you're on the blast radius for sure. But yeah, like it would help a ton.
Yeah. If you're outside of like the initial fire blast area, I think for sure. Yeah, I'm not
talking like in the block. I mean, yeah. But like yeah. Right. Because it would you do and even if you
had fallout. I mean, it's not like a hundred percent. Like there's some people I feel like,
I mean, I don't know, but like it in a nuke. Oh, people have to survive nuk. Yeah. Yeah. People have
survive jokes.
So I just,
I would take that shit?
Well, I mean, dirt is like a very good
way of blocking out like a blast.
It's better than a fridge, you know?
But I mean, the end of the problem
is that how would you breathe
if you dug yourself in a hole?
It's just a straw.
I think after like 30 minutes,
you'd be so scared.
I think you would panic.
I don't think anyone could stay at.
Oh, I'd not be locked in.
You would not lock it.
You would not lock it.
I'd like it on that one.
You're not lock in a hole.
You would,
you're gonna shoveling the dirt in on yourselves?
You'd like pull in, how would, like, I don't know.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
But I think you'd be able to protect yourself
a little bit.
I guess.
You know, let's test it.
Listen, there's a reason why bunkers work.
Yeah, I mean, yeah,
bunkers aren't just, I put dirt on myself.
You know, bunkers are meant to be like comfortable.
I think the dirt is basically the big factor.
I do a ton of dirt.
A bunker is just a nicer dirt hole.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like a livable dirt hole.
Yeah, but could you just,
There's only so long you'd want to live in a dirt hole, right?
Yeah, but like you look at like the blast crater of like a big bomb, right?
It's pretty sizable.
But like outside of that, if you were underground, you'd be fine.
I think we've all gone to that website and then just clicked the bomb.
Like you ever go to that website where you can like pick what bomb you want and then put it somewhere on the map?
I've not done that.
What website is this?
American pastime?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, it's like a fifth grade thing.
There's like a website.
You can pick a bomb and it'll show you the radius of like,
like the initial blast
and then if it's like a nuclear weapon
the radiation blasts
and then you can put it over like
different areas on the map
and it'll tell you like
the casualty expectations of it.
Oh, that's pretty big.
Oh shit.
Yeah.
What did you gain from?
Nothing, but if Sarrbomba hits
that shit can hurt.
I don't think my little dirt hole
will help that.
No, that one, that one gets eaten.
The dirt hole gets eaten.
in this hypothetical Hawaii situation
you have 30 minutes
you're not gonna you're not like
this ain't loony juice
you know when they had that
I also realized like we're fucking
fucking dumb as shit as humans
yeah because watching the
when you watch the Lebanon
with the warehouse that blew up
from the ammonia
that was like a pretty sizable blast
huge but people were so far away
they just assumed they were safe
from the shock waves so they started filming it
yeah they're all right next to the windows
as well yeah yeah
I'm like and I'd like to think that I'm smart I wouldn't do that but there's a solid chance I would I would be on my balcony film yeah yeah because I'd be like down pretty far away you'd be like chat look at James sounds crazy I'll be like this is a bang a tweet right here I think when you see an explosion far away your brain is like I'm safe so I think I would look I think I'd watch yeah I don't think I'd be like under a table or something there's a picture that went viral like this week it was a UPS driver and it like delivery man and he's like delivering a package looks focused and he's like delivering a package looks focused and
behind him, 9-11.
Just like actually happening.
It's a real picture.
It was the burning building,
but he was just doing his job
like 12 blocks away of delivering a package.
And it's like,
it's crazy that that happened
and you're like,
yeah,
just got to get it done though.
I guess if the building was on fire
and you didn't know what was happening,
you probably would be like,
I guess I'll continue.
Brother, it looked like 9-11 back there.
It was not like the building
was like slightly fiery.
I feel like that's just New York.
New Yorkers, though. New Yorkers are just built different sometimes.
Until the tower fell, there was probably a good attorney
people that didn't take it seriously.
No, I think so too.
I think it's similar to the blast, right?
Yeah, I don't understand the scope of it.
Yeah, no.
Oh, is that the picture there?
Yeah, that's crazy.
Yeah, but like, yeah, I think if I was in New Yorker,
I think I would just continue.
I think I wouldn't, I would, until it was actually,
like, horrific, I would continue.
Yeah, I don't know what, like, it.
Yeah.
Honestly, I think I would.
It's crazy
That's huge
Like I think if I saw that in like Japan
I think I would just kind of trust
That they had it under control
See this is a guy thing I think
Because you ever see that
It's a movie clip
But some people mistake it as a real clip
It's this family
And they're at the ski resort
And an avalanche comes
And then the dad's like
Oh wow look at that
And the mom's like
Yeah the mom's like we should we should go
And the dad's like we're fine
And then it fucking comes
And it hits them
And then the dad bolts
And leaves the family
and the mom gets kind of owned and crushed by it.
That's what you called killed?
She doesn't die.
She doesn't die.
She doesn't die.
But the movie is about the relationship.
I thought it was a real clip for a long time.
It turns out it's from a movie and it's about the relationship after the avalanche.
Because she's mad at him for not like listening to her and ignoring her and then leaving her.
Yeah, it's pretty serious.
Yeah.
I mean, it makes you wonder how, you know, I think it comes down to like the survivor part of your brain.
where sometimes maybe
how adept are you to like
how dangerous something is
you know
I'd like to think I am
but then I guess I'm not
I think men are worse at this
I think we are not meant for surviving
I also think that my brain
has that thing of if far away I'm fine
which is just totally not how that works
no like I think if I saw like a
tsunami approaching I don't think I'd clock it
I don't think I'd like you can't say you're good at surviving
and then also have gone bungee jumping
and let me drive a car for you
Yeah, I went not to either.
I got on the back of his Vespa this morning,
and I felt like that was...
When I asked you, I was shocked.
You're a brave man.
I drove good.
I can't, yeah, you did.
I'm sure you do,
but I'm not sitting on the back of the half.
You got a steady hand.
Well, you know, I feel like I got to chill out a little bit,
and I think you helped me learn how to chill out more.
Bye, baby.
Because you're so extremely chill,
way too much, I think.
And I'm normally not.
So I feel that I'm trying to get better at it.
And I think hanging out with you helps.
So you find yourself,
to be high strung normally.
Like I would say I was a solid three hour person at the airport and now I'm two.
Oh, I've put you now.
You were a three hour person at the airport?
I was a three hour before, no exceptions.
I'm a two hour.
I'm definitely two hours, but mostly it's one and a half hours.
Well, now domestic.
That's a long time.
Domestic now, even domestic I would have done two hours.
You're talking about before they board like before the time on the ticket.
For leaving or boarding, though.
No, so if your flight is at nine, you're at the airport by six.
Right.
Yeah, okay, okay.
Oh, yeah, I used to be six.
Like, if it was an international, I used to get six.
What are you?
I'm like two and a half, two hours.
Now I do two.
Now I do two.
I'm 45 minutes.
That's fucking.
Dude, we, one time we did a domestic flight and I don't know if we,
we definitely had told us on the pod, but we were going to,
I don't know where the fuck we were going.
NorCal.
We're going to San Francisco, right?
Is it, is that one?
And you wanted to leave 40 minutes before.
for the flight or 50 minutes before the flight.
Yeah.
Leave his house.
It was a 20 minute drive.
It's close.
I was like, holy shit.
And then of course, on the way over,
he gets pulled over.
I forgot about that.
And now I was now,
not only was,
I think it was that I didn't even stress
because I didn't care
because it wasn't my thing.
Right.
So I had no reason to be stressed.
But now I started stressing.
But now I was like,
okay, now we're not gonna make it.
Yeah.
And this guy pulls over
and he's just being Ludwig,
you know,
He's been way too chill with his police officer.
And he's like, ah, what do you got?
And you had some kind of, you would, I don't know,
you were just chirping him.
He was buying it.
Whatever you were serving, it was working.
It's because I had one of my lights don't work, I think.
And so he's mad about the light.
Yeah, he was mad about that and your insurance hadn't been renewed.
Yeah, I found out.
I feel that's a little bigger one.
Well, I found out when he pulled me over that I didn't have insurance.
Yeah, because he was, because I didn't, I guess I didn't know this,
but cops scan cars.
Yeah, yeah.
I didn't know they could do this.
They could just scan a ton of.
cars.
Look up your license.
Oh.
So they're scanning cars while driving on the highway.
So obviously he did.
And I'm like, fuck me.
Like we're now wasting 50 minutes.
We get to the airport 20 minutes before the flight boards and we make it.
And I'm like, this is bad.
Like you shouldn't do this.
I, okay.
Can I tell you?
This is reinforcing your bad habits.
I love the adrenaline rush of getting there right before it closes.
But I live for that moment.
Yeah, but I think flights are so inconvenient in the States that missing a flight is so
detrimental.
That's why you lock in?
I don't know to tell you.
But in Japan, I'm not worried because if I, if I miss my flight to Sapporo, I'll be on another flight now.
I'll be on it.
You ever missed the flight?
Yeah, I've missed a couple of my day.
I've never missed a flight in my life.
But one of the ones that I missed, I got to the airport early.
I fell asleep in the, bro, at the terminal.
I fell asleep and I woke up and I and I was like, oh, where is everyone?
And I walked to the desk and they're like whispering to each other.
They're like, oh, no.
And then I was like, hey, where's the plane?
And the lady went, oh, so you were on this flight.
And they'd taken off.
They'd taken off from the, oh, no, no.
Because I got there like an hour and a half early.
I just slept.
Oh, no.
Oh, my God.
And then that one time, last time I went to San Fran?
Because after the stream rewards, we did the sushi shoot.
Oh, yeah.
Which was also stressful because I was hung over because I stood out a bit too late.
You went home early.
You were smart.
but we got there and the flight had been delayed
like two hours right
and there was a whole film crew
in San Francisco waiting for him and me to show up
and I was stressing for him
and what was the solution at the end of the day
because he had customers coming in at four
we pushed the shoot basically we
you offered like pay for all the customers
yeah well because we we did the video together
it's it's alive now but it was
I haven't said I can't say some of that stuff
but we did a sushi video together
and we're supposed to do that four
and then at nine, the actual chef had another group of customers come in.
So I asked him if he could just push those customers through another day
and I would pay the equivalent of what they would have paid him for the inconvenience.
And he was cool with that because Jackson's chill.
But that shoot was a good shoot.
I was, man, I suck it.
Connor might be the worst chef I've ever seen in my life ever without a shadow of a doubt.
He is.
He is.
I just had to lie.
Also, I was so sad that most of my gold was caught from that.
Yeah.
I was so sad.
We were doing this sushi video.
It was at a Michelin Star restaurant,
a former Michelin Star.
Yeah.
And yeah,
we pretend to be the chefs.
And Connor goes into this detailed story
about how he's from Japan.
Move there because he liked anime.
And then worked at an Izakaya.
And then.
I just started.
You trying to get sympathy points?
No,
I was trying to like set up the Mac stories.
Oh,
and I was like,
yeah,
I was a rag tag.
It's called character development.
Yeah.
Well, and then he goes into his wife,
his ex-wife,
who he's bitch ex-wife,
specifically is what he said.
who took everything in the divorce.
So,
so,
because after about,
because we did,
you know what's crazy?
Is that I,
when I look back,
I'm like,
we would,
bullshitting for like two hours straight,
back to back.
Yeah,
we're just riffing for two and a half hours.
And I feel like after 30 minutes,
we got really good at it.
Yeah.
Because we were drinking,
I think.
Yeah,
because we got a bit drunk,
we were able to get more in character.
Which they were definitely concerned by.
The customers were concerned.
I got very drunk that day.
I was,
I was like 12,
so,
so,
my explanation,
for this was I was like, no, so you see
in the restaurant in Japan on a new menu
it's complimentary that the, uh, it's got, sorry,
customary that the chef drinks with the customers.
And they bought it.
Well, because like every, everything that I lied about,
they bought, because half the stuff I did tell them was true.
As soon as you say the words Japan and customary,
they'll buy it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so easy to
bullshit about Japan because people believe it and like
revere it. Yeah. But a lot of the stuff I did tell them was true.
Like when, uh, we were talking about like the, like, you know,
they were like, the rice is from Nygoto, which is a
rice region, which is, which is true.
Yeah.
And there's some other stuff. It's customary for the shift.
I fart into the rice.
Bro, I love Jackson.
His sake price is crazy.
Oh yeah, jack that shit up.
Dude, he charges primo on that.
There's like $300 a bottle.
But there's, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, he has a bottle.
It's so good.
It's the best soccer ever had of my life.
I find out hard to believe.
Sakey and Juran is generally like one of the cheaper ones.
Very cheap.
I mean, there is some.
What's the, what's the one that we really like?
The one that we had in hook.
Kaido that was really good. Dasai.
Dasai? Yeah, dasai. How much that?
For the cheap bottle in Japan, maybe like 40 bucks, 50 bucks?
Yeah, three.
But they got like 200 bucks. Yeah.
But like it's kind of unusual to have really, really expensive sake.
You can get you're getting that San Francisco up charge for sure. Oh,
absolutely. Yeah.
Dude. And the one time when I nearly fucking folded, which is such a dumb question,
which I should have been able to. So this entire video, bullshit and immaculately.
It was going amazingly. And then they asked me one question. They're like,
where do you live in San Fran? And it nearly all.
And I just for the life of me, I don't know why I just couldn't come up with some good bullshit.
And I was like, I was like, um, I was like, where do I live again?
Yeah.
Because my reasoning was that I just got here.
Yeah.
But they were, they were not buying it.
They were, I think they were definitely.
Yeah, because you were like, you, they were like, what do you eat normally?
And you're like, oh, you know, can't eat sushi because that's what I eat at work all day.
So I eat like other Japanese foods.
And it's like, oh, you got a spot around here.
You're like, ah, so many.
Yeah.
They said.
And then you thought of a great idea.
You were like,
you would like,
what was the name of the server
who was helping us?
You were like,
oh yeah,
a blanket on her name.
Yeah,
you were like,
yeah, yeah,
where do we eat again?
And then she was like,
um,
I don't know.
I was like,
you know,
the spot where we always eat.
We just do it on the server.
She was so much good stuff.
Unfortunately,
I ended up for reasons,
but,
uh,
it was really fun.
And then Connor ends it all by going,
all right.
I'm so glad that gone.
I'm so glad I'm sorry.
Come pie to,
to Chin Chin.
and the whole restaurant's like
all right to chin chin
he's like he's the owner of this restaurant
I thought it was great
it was funny
I thought it was great
it was good it was good
that turned out well
considering how scuffed it was
I didn't know anything about that
you kind of like ran it
you were like yeah we'll just do this thing
feels like just the way to go
feels like the way you do most things
I would not have a let's just do this thing
and then when we turn up
there's 15 cameramen
like that's just like not
how I associate those like vibes
Yeah, you playing your shit out, meticulous.
If there's that much money.
You want to do in Japan, at least.
No, I know.
That's what it seems like.
It changes how you have to do content in general, you know.
I think it makes it, I think that's why you're able to pump out as much as you do.
Because you're just like, guys, just show up with cameras and we're going to rip something.
And I feel like in Japan, there's a lot more consideration for.
It's like, all right, we'll plan it out.
We are, we're doing.
We are, yeah.
I was just to say sometimes you get planning paralysis, though, you know?
Absolutely.
That's what I always get nervous.
We don't have a choice though, unfortunately.
Yeah, that, yeah.
But I agree there.
Like, there's a lot of times where I won't do a video
because they thought of it's stressing me out,
whereas if I've just locked in a date and showed up,
it probably would have been fine.
Yeah, you've been on like, Mr. B shoots before.
How much planning do you think goes into one of his videos?
Well, so it depends.
I did the most recent, or it'll come out soon for us,
but it's hard to come out.
It's the Mr. Beast, uh, 50 YouTubers trapped in a glass box,
like winner wins a million dollars.
Okay, so that was what everyone post was posting about.
That's the one that all the YouTubers were at.
And that one was planned in, I think, six weeks or a month.
Because, uh, because Mr. B's, he called me and he was like, can you watch this video I have coming out?
Like, sure.
He's like, the last two videos I posted are 10 out of 10.
I'm going to kill myself if I get a third.
And I go to look at the video.
It has 95 million views.
I'm like, I'm like, yeah, I would off myself too.
Yeah.
95 mil.
That's so funny.
But basically he plans videos pretty far in advance.
It's like, yeah.
Of course you have to.
So he plans them six months in advance,
but the series that he used to do
was like the defend this.
I don't know if you haven't seen him.
It's like defend this yacht.
Yeah.
A lot of people aren't.
So he had planned a bunch of these out
and they were all performing bad.
Yeah.
So he scrapped like two that he had planned,
one that had already been filmed.
Oh wow.
And he was like,
I need a video that's going to crush.
So he went all money out and then did this YouTuber video in the fastest turnaround he's done, I think, in recent times, which is like, again, six weeks for this. It was crazy. Yeah. And in that video, that video is nuts. I mean, it's crazy. You can just call up everyone. Yeah. And you'll show up. Yeah. I mean, you'll miss the beast. Everyone will show up. You will, you will turn up. Yeah. It's not. He had Mark Roberber, Bella Porch, Moist Critical, like KSI, Logan Paul. It was crazy the names that he had.
Did you win?
No.
It'll be out.
So I got top five.
Jaden animations won.
Oh shit.
Yeah.
It was actually super.
I was pumped.
She won because she was very cool.
But the final game was basically like, it was kind of like mafia in a way.
Right.
Like there was five people.
Everyone picks a briefcase.
One has the million dollars in it.
And you have to vote somebody to leave.
And so if you have the million, you want to pretend you have nothing to be voted out to leave with a million.
Yeah.
But I was playing way too much of.
town so I was like I got zero dollars I think they have zero dollars and then they're like
well I think he's got zero dollars so they just voted me out instantly and I was like Nixon I
was like all right see you later everyone it's been fun you try to dominate too much you try yeah yeah
yeah yeah but it was it was all right because we uh we I think we can mention this now but we'd
made a pact because like we were in there for 40 hours like eat sleep shit share meals in there
So we'd gotten pretty like,
close. Yeah, close.
And so the final five
before our challenge, we sat there for like two hours
and everyone's like kind of nervous.
And I was like,
guys,
I have an idea.
If I win,
I will give each of you 100K
because everyone had like something,
you can't keep the money.
Yeah.
The money has to be given to a viewer.
And everyone had like something else.
Like one guy wanted to build schools in Morocco.
One guy I wanted to,
Jade wanted to give it to people to get art degrees.
Oh,
and I'm like,
these are all cool things.
I don't know how I would spend a million dollars.
I don't know.
Yeah.
That is such an overwhelming, it's a responsibility.
Yeah.
I'm like, I'll give each of you 100K to do what you want to do.
And then I'll still be left with 600K, which is enough.
So are you down for a pact?
You get one flight to France with you.
So anyway, we all agreed to that pact.
So I think I was not as sad because I still have 100K to play with.
Right.
All right.
That I can give to someone.
Yeah, I'd be so sad about 100K.
Yeah.
What a cool idea, though.
I mean, yeah, that level of planning.
is just so off the charts.
But I mean, his team is hundreds.
Yeah.
So, I mean, you know, I think planning comes a lot easier.
I mean, he's doing the big shoot now.
Now is the way big shoot the Beast games.
Oh.
Amazon Prime?
Yeah, Amazon Prime video.
That's crazy.
I don't know how much money because I have a friend who actually got accepted to be a
contestant in it.
Oh, wow.
And they're like, block off your calendar from now until September.
Yeah, I saw that.
I saw that when he tweeted that out.
Yeah.
It was like three months.
Three months.
Yeah, that is a,
It's insane for a contestant.
I imagine the way he's probably structured his business is really smart.
I imagine that normally there's so many different layers of production and who operates it.
Having it all in under one is probably a lot more efficient.
I should probably make a lot more stuff.
Yeah, like owning the...
Yeah, in terms of like when you're at that scale.
Yeah.
You know, because you basically make a TV.
Yeah, 100%.
So I imagine it, you know, he can pretty make some cool stuff.
I mean, it's exciting.
Yeah.
You go to the town where he lives.
He's like the fucking mayor, governor and president.
Well, of course.
I've heard there's not much else going on in that town.
No.
No.
You drive through and every building is like Mr. Beast.
Anyone who lives there is like,
oh yeah,
I got a friend who's been on one of his.
I imagine if you live there,
your odds of being on something Mr. Beast is like infinitely higher
than the not, right?
I'm sure a career path in that town is just like,
so I try to be on Mr. Beast videos.
Yeah.
It's worked.
Yeah,
it has.
It's worked.
Yeah.
All of his like college videos are at the same college.
I think it's just the closest one.
Yeah, right?
Mr. B's funded, huh?
Half the people there.
Yeah.
He's funding half the people there.
You should be an alumni.
I need to piss quickly.
Oh, yeah, run it.
How long will we be going for?
Oh, God.
Dude, okay.
I have something I'm curious if you saw.
Okay.
Well, obviously, Akira Toriyama passed away.
Rest and peace, goat.
Yep.
I don't know if you saw what my co-host
slime said about this.
No, I'm worried now.
He got incredibly
in trouble online
because right
when he passed, like the same day,
he said,
who else, I forget the exact tweet,
but it was something to the language of like...
And did he know Akira Tora had passed at this point?
He had heard about the news
and he knew about like Dragon Ball.
But he didn't know
Akira Toraima's name until the day that he passed.
And that's what his tweet was.
It was like who else learned a Kiratoryama's name today, which is like, that's the worst day to have said that.
Yeah, I feel like it's just a little incensive.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He loves fighting on Twitter.
Dude.
Do he does?
Oh, my.
The most he's ever gotten ever, which for reference, like slime, very sweet guy if you meet him in person, but online is just like he's an online troll.
That's what he enjoys doing.
He does.
And there's never been more backlash ever.
than that, which I think about sometimes, the power.
What kind of level?
Just like, you know, people sliding in the DMs,
wishing upon his downfall.
Oh, wow.
I think he insulted all of, like, Latin America with that.
Right.
Dude, I didn't realize how big Dragon Ball was in Latin America.
I didn't either until, like, now, like, I literally hung out, you know,
I hang out with someone who grew up in Mexico.
Right.
He was saying, yeah, they just play it at like bars and shit like that.
It's just like, it's like an actual like fight.
Like Goku is like the most famous thing.
Yeah.
I didn't know because I saw a video of that.
It was a bar and they were just playing.
It's just a song and it had Goku on the screen.
And that's it.
It's just a static image of Goku and they're all staring at it.
Who wouldn't?
Yeah.
Like who's going to win?
Oh, it's Goku.
So what did you want?
You want a take on it?
What do you?
I have a take.
Okay.
Okay.
I think Dragon Ball is better than Dragon Ball.
Z. Okay. That's my take. That is...
Joey, do you agree with that take, Joey?
No. Really? Isn't the common consensus? It's hard, right? Because
Dragon Ball was still when, you know, Tori Amor was getting off the doctor slump
thing where he was doing more comedic bits and like, like, yeah, there's a lot of jokes.
And then it was Dragon Ball Z where he fully committed to the whole thing that makes
Dragon Ball Z. A lot of... Oh, wow. I think it's worth while. It's a kid Goku.
Yeah. Yeah, it's like Kid Goku. And it's a lot more, it starts off like a lot more like a
gag, at least the manga. It starts off a lot more like a gag manga. Yeah. And then it's not until
probably around like the first Budokai arc where it's he's starting to show hints like, oh,
and I can also do fight scenes. But then because the Buddha Kai arc got so popular in Japan,
everyone was like, just make it about that. Yeah, yeah. Just make it about them fighting.
And he's like, okay. I just thought the characters are way more fun because I feel like they
become so one dimensional when it goes to Dragon Ball Z. And everyone's just fighting all the time.
I mean, yeah, I feel like they needed more character, though, to make the gag parts make more sense.
Right.
You think so?
You think Vichita's one-dimensional?
Uh, no, he's actually deep, twisted, dark angel.
He's actually one of the greatest characters.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he is.
A lot are, you know, like a lot of, like, like, Yomtra has to be a one-note character.
I mean, Yomcha got dirty in Dragon Bowl.
But he was in Dragon Bowl.
No, he was the goat, bro.
The wolf is.
Yomcha just got power crap.
like yeah that's what that's what happens when you're like the first
then they just become useless side characters yeah it's so sad what happens to them
well because either you win it you don't yeah you're the powerful one or not yeah but then
they end up all being like the other dudes on dude perfect
we'll know who the main character is yeah do you know the secret goat of dragon
balls he is okay fucking krilling man he was like he started off the
as the sidekick.
I mean, he got power crept,
and then he got like the hottest chick
and then just got married and had kids.
He bad-
That is beast.
The fact that he bagged the hottest chick
Yeah, right?
While being a bald short-king.
Yeah.
Wasn't the criticism of Dragon Ball?
Was it like the power system's kind of like,
one-dimensional and like not very-
They get rid of it after a while
because they start doing like, you know, power scanner
and all this and then it's like,
oh, the numbers are stupid now.
Yeah.
It's kind of like, I guess they've actually done
good job in One Piece because like the the bounty system's the same thing right that's kind of how
they reference it yeah and like there's a certain point where it's like okay the numbers are just
dumb now yeah this is absurd it's like Venezuelan currency what I like about the one piece
bounty system is that it's not like a direct correlation to power yeah yeah it's more of a direct
correlation to like oh how but how big of a threat are you yeah I never really felt like
the bounty was a negative of power but it I guess it scales in terms of
of notoriety.
And that eventually will have a cap in the same way a power scaling does.
Also,
it happens at a good time during the story where you can clearly see that the characters
have gotten stronger.
And like the bounty is like a proof of that.
Yeah.
It's like, oh, okay, Luffy's actually leveled up.
Now he's got that $3 million on him.
It's validity for it.
That tweet is terrible.
Yeah, that is a shit tweet.
I feel like it's just insensitive.
Like, there's no humor there, right?
There's nothing funny about that.
No, I don't think.
And even if it was the case,
Like, just shut up.
You know, just don't say it.
Yeah, he deleted.
He's a good boy now.
Oh, that's good.
That's good.
Have you caught up on one piece?
No.
I have.
Yeah.
How far, like manga or anime?
And I switched to the anime, uh, third act of Wano.
Wow.
Jesus, you switched to the anime?
Well, yeah, because it got good.
Uh, he got better.
It got passable to watch.
Okay.
But I'm still at like chapter 500.
I thought you're supposed to finish by it.
It's been years.
Yeah.
I kind of got demoralized because I somehow lost the footage of me reading one through 17, like, chat, a volume.
Y'all.
Oh, which is like 150 chap.
But like, what is that footage anyway?
Yeah, exactly.
That's why I'm also, I'm also about that.
But then I'm like, okay, I have to like rethink the entire video.
Just go to a cafe and just flip through.
Yeah, which is honestly what it would have been.
Yeah, just pretend.
But, but I feel like the seeing me like, I don't know, just I thought there was kind of some charm in seeing the different locations.
Right.
Yeah.
You lost it, just lost the footage.
You can't find it.
No, I just couldn't find it.
You're getting bald?
Bolding.
Check.
Me?
Yeah.
Why?
Do you don't know I'm balding?
It doesn't look that bad.
Let's come taking a, what is this?
Finasteride.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Same here.
You still get a boner?
Yeah.
Yes.
Well, look, even you take it, right?
It's not like you could just, you could just stop taking it.
Yeah, yeah.
No.
If you have side effects, you totally can.
I think it's fine to take.
I'm just curious if you've had any side effects.
No, I haven't.
That's why when people talked about it,
like,
they would tell me like,
dude,
what if you,
like your dick doesn't work?
I was like,
there's such a low chance and you can just stop.
It's like a 1% chance.
Yeah,
I was like,
you don't need to keep taking,
like,
no one's making you like cast straight yourself.
Yeah,
doesn't like,
off your dick for the rest of it.
It's like,
you just not take it.
No,
it filled off.
I took it.
It filled off.
You know,
it helped a lot.
And it was just frustrating because it was mainly like a thing of like, look, I don't want, when you're, when I'm trying to do some content and then like if it for some reason you can see the top of my head for like two seconds, it'll be all they'll talk about. Oh, are you balding here in the crown? Yeah, well, so like I'm like this right now. Oh, I see. Which is like this is way better than it was. Yeah. Wait, it gets better. It gets like healthier. Okay. It's like it. It doesn't get worse. Like your follicles get thicker. Yeah. So my hair got a lot thicker. Which just makes it look better because now it's a bit more thicker. Yeah. Would you take it?
I am taking it.
Oh, you're taking it too?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh my God.
I got, I'm the one I got, him on it.
Oh my God.
Yeah, because I was like, every man in my family went bold.
Yeah.
And so I had this shit on like lockdown since like early 20s.
I wish I started sooner.
Right.
Because I could have prevented even having a bald spot
in the first place.
You don't look like you take it.
No.
Look at that head of head.
Look at that, man.
You're gonna take it, right?
I don't take it.
You're so fucking lucky because your head looks fucking immaculate.
And I do have thick ass hair.
Fucking, so lucky.
I think I would take it though.
Listen, if I wasn't on camera, I would not have given a fuck.
I would have just been done with it.
But I think that being on camera,
aging is a vulnerable thing to have to do.
And to have every daily, like, age vlog of you
where people could see you age is such a like hard thing
to kind of deal with when you realize it.
Yeah.
It makes it harder to age in peace.
Yeah, right?
Yeah.
Normally you would just kind of be like, yeah,
I guess I'm getting older and no one would give you trouble about it.
Yeah.
But now you have to like slowly age.
But I guess there's some grace and aging, but it's not always that.
No.
Zero grace and aging online.
People call me unk now.
That's fucked out.
You're literally the same age.
I know.
I know.
I'm 28.
But like today, for example, I'm going to play basketball with this guy, Jason.
He's like one of the upcoming streamers.
Uh-huh.
And he's 19 or 20 or something.
And so, yeah, when I'm in his, when I'm going to stream, I was like, oh, like,
I hit him with like the classic, what's the shape of Italy?
Yeah.
And then I said, boot.
And then I ended the call.
And then I was like, oh, I'm classic.
And then they go, unc joke.
W.
Unc joke.
Brought that one out from the 1900s.
Dusted off that one.
I'm like, damn, I'm 28.
But it's how it goes.
Well, I just, yeah.
We're getting phased out.
Yeah.
Yeah, but I'm okay with that.
You're, you're okay with.
Didn't you want to do this for like five years tops anyway?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
But also, I've just realized that, obviously, that is that generation,
watches that generation.
But it's not like people who get to,
like 25 stop watching YouTube now.
No.
I prefer having an older audience anyway.
It's more chill.
Yeah, there's a lot less.
There's a lot less pressure.
Yeah, there's a lot of.
Everyone's so much more chill.
You guys are cool.
You guys are cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
And also less of a need for like insane content
and like fucking off the wall shit.
Yeah, like screaming shit.
Yeah, I mean like I can do a fucking stream where I just chill with Pete
and that'll be great content because it's just like
people just love seeing like just hide.
hanging out,
vibing.
I don't need to do a crime.
How long are you guys doing trash taste?
Where he just hit four years.
Yeah.
Just hit four years.
Are you doing four more?
Yeah.
If it's still,
you made a noise.
He said yeah within seconds.
Same one.
Same thing like,
yeah.
Like,
what may it work?
I mean,
it was more,
I know the noise he made.
It's like,
if we get to four years.
Yeah.
It's like,
it's like,
it's like, you know what?
Is it up to us?
Yeah.
I mean, like,
okay,
this is a great,
a quiet question.
Is it,
is an owner of a podcast,
yourself or co-owner, when is the time to stop during the podcast? Because what if we're all happy,
but let's say the podcast has one-fifteenth of the viewers? Like, is it better to pack it in before
you have a decline or is it better the, you know, what does the end of a podcast look like?
Right. Well, does it peter off? Do you do a big bang being like, guys, we're ending it?
Like, or do you let it? Like next week's the last episode? Because, you know, as you've also learned,
podcasts are very stable generally
and they make generally pretty good money
for what it is.
Yeah.
And for the ask.
So I think that, you know,
it also allows us to,
it's very creatively fulfilling, I think,
because then we then also have this podcast,
which is very stable and it gives us a stability
to a job that is not stable.
So you wouldn't do it if it didn't get that stability though.
Like if this podcast dropped and we got 50 views.
I think we would do it.
We would probably not be as intense about the day,
like the weekly.
Yeah.
Like I think if we were getting like 50 views, we'd be like, you know what?
We're all traveling.
Maybe we don't have to harass you to use your studio.
Right.
Skip a couple of weeks.
Yeah.
I think we'd be like, you know what?
We'll be back.
Right.
But I think, but I also, I think I like that we have something that keeps us accountable.
Yeah.
I don't know about you guys, but I like that we have to do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm very like proud of ourselves that we've managed to do 210 episodes.
Four years is impressive.
Yeah.
Don't miss a single week.
We have not, we've done like,
intentional skips, I guess.
Like we did like a end-a-year recaps.
Right, right.
And you also,
I also, one thing that I know so you guys do,
which I think that we don't do at all is that if you're not on it,
they still film it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We've done it without everyone there.
Yeah.
For sure.
But I think it's easier with four to two.
Yeah, yeah.
With three to two, it's a lot more noticeable.
Yeah.
Because it's a different show at that point.
Yeah, yeah.
It's a different show.
Conversation.
Yeah, yeah.
So you guys are all actually going to do it as long as it works.
I can see myself doing it for another four.
Yeah, I could.
Do you not see yourself doing the yard for another four?
Nah, man.
Bro, what are we going to be talking about in four years?
Well, listen, okay, because how many years are the yard we going on for now?
Three.
So you're like a year behind us, right?
Yeah.
Do you really feel like you're running out of stuff to talk about weekly?
Or like, do you feel like you're repeating yourself in terms of like...
Oh, I do do that already.
I've been doing it for years now.
Because I just forget what I've said.
So we have this problem now where I have this problem.
Well, I think Garn has told his story on the podcast, but he hasn't and I'll stop him from
telling the story.
God, he's already told the story.
Like two levels deep.
And then the comments get so pissed off of me because Gantz told me it in private, but not on the park.
But I've got to sworn it was on the podcast.
We don't know what's real and what's fiction.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a blending of like life.
We've done this thing where we've gone down like a rabbit hole and then like it's the same
conclusion that we got to like it didn't know.
but no I don't think I could do it because I don't think anyone likes to do something until it
like fails yeah yeah because I think there's a level of grace to exiting on your own accord
as opposed to being told like hey you're past your prime or something and I think I think that's
very universal but but I also think man it's just like it's a it's a lot it's a lot of like it's a lot of
Like, because you ever feel like, because a podcast you're sharing your life and stuff.
Yeah.
But when you do it all the time, you don't live enough life to share.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's also true.
That's also true.
But I think we, we're streaming as well, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I definitely feel that with streaming.
I definitely feel like I meet streamers who I feel like haven't done anything.
No.
And they're in their, especially if they start young.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then, and then their life becomes very derivative of like regurgitating stuff that they've,
done hurt on stream.
Yeah, because I feel like the biggest disservice you can do to yourself is not being
interesting, but like not having anything to talk about.
Right.
Yeah.
I feel like you repeating the same things is, you know, you can do some, I feel like it's
like whenever you do anything, you, you take a, you do a bad decision because you know
you're going to get a funny story out of it.
Or you maybe do something that's less optimal.
Right.
I don't think I'll have a fun experience out of this or something to look back on and talk
about fun or like type two fun or you do something you know is not fun, but in hindsight
The story.
Yeah, yeah.
I do that now, I feel like I don't know about you guys,
but I definitely do this now.
I do that all the time.
I will do things that are detrimental.
We're to have a fun story.
We're to see.
We're to see.
But I think doing this has made me learn
that I still probably do it
if there wasn't a podcast to, uh, I mean, okay,
let's say you give up from being a YouTuber.
Would you still like calm,
would you calm down and not do all of these like things
that you say yes to now?
Or would you start?
not, you know, just say no to things.
I think I'd still say yes.
Yeah.
I think I say yes to more because I'd have more time to do it more.
Yeah.
Because I mean, I think, I think you're right.
Like I think I made it might have initially started to do stuff because it's like,
oh, this could be fun to talk about or like a good experience to share.
Yeah.
But then it's like, oh, it's actually a good experience to live.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
And like maybe even share, but like not in a public format like privately to like people who
you talk to in your life.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I think also podcasts are great at helping you kind of.
at least if you're doing entertainment like we are,
is that you learn to, I suppose,
have conversations better over time.
You learn to be a more confident speaker.
I mean, ours are the opposite.
I've lost the ability to...
Actually, I have watched your share.
Four white dudes talking about piss and come and shit.
Yeah, you guys do talk about a lot of piss and coming.
It's bad.
I mean, we talk about the occasional shitting,
but you guys take it to a whole other.
You guys are a lot more...
It's very rare for I'll get to the piss and come to our tour.
That's how we start.
If you kick off with those ones,
once.
We're going to be really deep to get into that.
All right.
If you were ever to quit,
then what is,
what do you think is like the,
the point that you realize,
all right,
what's the line where you're like?
We should consider,
we should consider stopping.
I think,
I think it would coincide.
I don't think it'd be like,
uh,
like I couldn't stop the pod and then continue to stream at my cadence.
Because then everyone would just be like,
why did you stop in live playing Valerant?
That doesn't.
So it would have to be.
a combined thing,
which I don't know when it'll be
because I got to work for quite a bit longer,
I think now.
I thought I'd be able to get out of this,
but not anymore.
I've been sucked into the black hole.
Well, I mean, shit's expensive.
Yeah.
You gotta keep the lights on you're right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, the big change is that with off-brand,
I just got a lot of employees.
And I think if I quit,
they all lose their job.
And I think that's bad.
Yeah, that's a responsible.
So it's, yeah, it is actually purely working out of responsibility.
But I also think that's just the journey of man.
Yeah, I also think there's nothing wrong with that.
Like I think that, you know, we're put on this earth to coexist.
And sometimes you have to be a part of something.
You know, and there's no shame.
There's, you know, I don't think you have to always do what you exactly want to do in life.
No, I think it's like, it's a mixture of maybe some desire, but also like what you're good at.
It's Ike guy.
You know about Ike guy?
it's an ancient Japanese phrase
The reason to live
I'm very Joseph
I could explain it
No it's okay
Wakarimasen
How many books you've been reading man
I've been doing Japanese lessons
My Japanese teacher's crazy
Oh shit
He's a he's a
Where is your Japanese level at right now
I would say
I'm like at about
Like a one year old level
Like I can't speak
I was about to be like,
let's have a conversation to find out.
No, I can't speak or understand yet,
but I hear the words.
Okay, that's good.
That's the thought.
I can read the letters.
I just don't know what I'm reading.
Well,
I mean,
to be fair,
and I know 38 kanji characters.
Okay,
that's pretty cool.
Out of how many?
Thousands?
Well, it depends.
Yeah.
On paper,
there's like 20,000.
20K?
I give more than that.
Yeah,
Yeah, but the standard that every Japanese kid learns at the end of high school is 2000.
It's 38 out of 2000.
It's like English, right?
2%.
Not even, not even.
It's like English.
Like we have how many got them words in English, but we use the same like 200 in day.
Right, yeah, yeah.
Like there are some words that you probably heard of it.
You're like, what the fuck is that word?
No idea what that word means.
Yeah.
Right?
I think it's the same with kanji.
And also kanji, because you can add the radicals.
There are some really fucking obscure ones.
that like really,
oh, that like change it or something.
Yeah.
Oh.
And town names, some crazy town names.
Yeah, town names are fuck.
Not even Japanese people can read them.
Yeah.
Because you literally, some town names,
you literally can't read unless you're from town.
They just have like a custom.
Yeah, because, yeah, it's like.
Well, I mean, up in Hokkaido,
they're all not even based on the Japanese language.
Yeah, right.
It's based on the Ainu language.
Oh, so it's like another layer.
So they've literally taken an Ainu word,
converted it like brute forced it into Kanji form.
And they're like, this is how you read it,
but only in this instance.
Yeah.
It's like how the fuck was supposed to know that?
It's like,
I don't know.
Yeah, it's like, that's too many causes.
Yeah, geez.
I got some time though.
I'm trying to do a motorcycle trip
across Japan with Michael Reeves.
I know.
You keep telling me about it.
That's why I'm trying to learn.
Did you get a license for that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I've had the license.
I had the license.
I did like a Moto GP training too.
Right.
Which is like a bit overkill,
but I think it like helps.
You won't let me do MotoGP.
It'll help like take curves at,
He's at 79 miles an hour.
You will not be going fast.
Yeah, you'll not be going fast at all.
But it builds like confidence on the bike.
Of course, of course, of course.
And then, I mean, that's going to be a long,
are you trying to do all of Japan?
Yeah, yeah.
South to North?
I think north to south.
That's like, that's, I think ending in Kishu would be more pretty.
We did it nine days and that was way too fast.
Yeah.
Not get to see anything.
I think it'd be two weeks.
Two weeks is.
Two weeks is.
Two to three weeks.
Two to three weeks.
It'll be about six hours a day, I think.
It's quite a lot.
Yeah.
No, it will be a lot.
But I mean, look, we got to go across the whole damn country.
Are you streaming it or all filming it?
No, I'm streaming a second.
I think streaming on a bike is just a recipe for disaster.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I just, we're just going to record it.
But it's mostly just for.
You just want to do it.
Yeah, it's like an experiential thing.
Because me and Michael take like road trips a lot.
Like we'll do like, you know, two, three hours across California or something.
Yeah.
So we want to do this
Cool
I mean that sounds awesome
Are you being out like a whole crew for it
Or are you just doing it like
I'm like a follow car
Oh cool cool that'll be fun
Yeah like some crew
That'll be fun
But that's why I want to learn Japanese
But anyway I got this Japanese teacher
That that
Was suggested to me because Tens is using it
Okay
Right
Tens uses Japanese because Tens' his fiancee
Kai De is Japanese
And so he's trying to learn
Yeah
Can Kade speak Japanese?
Yeah she's yeah
She can speak Japanese
I think she
I don't know
I don't know if she's born there or Canada,
but she can speak Japanese fluently.
So anyway, that was like the suggestion.
I was like, cool.
So I get this Japanese teacher.
And he's a character.
Okay.
I feel like if he's Japanese and he left Japan.
Yeah.
So he left Japan.
He lives in Ukraine.
And I'm already.
This is an interesting guy.
I'm like, you live in Ukraine.
He's like, yeah.
I'm like, ain't there a war?
And he's like, yeah, that's over.
Kyiv though I'm like down here and so like the natural question like why did you
move to Ukraine yeah of course of course and he's like Slavic bitches are the hottest
did he say the word bitches oh yeah this is like the most un-Japanese person I've
heard about yeah there's a portion of Japanese people that are but he says it all in like a
very Japanese cadence which makes it like a level funnier because it'll be like
Slavic women are very hot bitches
And it's like, okay, yeah
And then
And then he's like, yeah, so I moved here
And then I think
He's dating someone who I think is Japanese
Which is funny
He's like, I love her very much
But it's not what I thought I would do when I moved here
He found the one other Japanese
Yeah, right?
But then I
Sometimes I can't make my classes
So you're having like Zoom calls with him?
Yeah, it's basically like a Zoom call
but the way it works with his site is like he's in the Zoom call and then I join his call.
Right, right.
But sometimes like I'll just miss the whole class because like I'm stuck in a glass box
with Mr. Beast or whatever.
And it went longer than I thought.
I didn't get to like cancel and tell him.
But one time I was just like running 15 minutes late because I had another call.
And I hop in and I enter the Zoom call and the screen's blank.
But I hear like.
And I hear like.
little like shuffling and I'm like, uh, yo. And then he pop, he pops over in the cam.
And I just see him shirtless. And he's like a little sweaty. He's like, oh, a chortemante.
And then he goes back out. And then his girl walks by, he was having sex.
He was having sex while his cam and Mike was on while the cam and Mike was on. That's crazy.
He was getting hot and heavy. And then he comes back in frame. He's still shirtless. And he's like,
uh, how are you doing? I'm like, I'm good.
I'm like, how are you doing?
He's like, I'm pretty good as you could guess.
It's just not normal Japanese behavior.
No.
But, you know, I'm learning about Tate form, so he's doing something.
I think the reason why a lot of Japanese people end up being like that when they move overseas is because they finally learn like, oh, you can just be a rebel.
Yeah, like get by completely fine because they don't do that in Japan, you know?
Yeah.
I think, I mean, I think he's lived in eccentric life because he had like, he was in the service of some yakuza group because he has like a tattoo that's like that they used to mark people or something he's told me about.
He's got a pinky.
It was something on his hand.
Yeah.
I don't exactly what.
So he, he's had some life that he's lived that I don't know a lot about.
But that's my teacher.
And he's now teaching Japanese from Ukraine.
Yes, sir.
You couldn't get a Japanese teacher in post.
person here? Maybe, but it's more convenient. Is it? I guess so. Yeah. Just to be able to hop in the call.
It's supposed to drive somewhere. That makes sense. I mean, is it helping? Do you feel like? Oh,
yeah, for sure. I mean, like, what I've realized is language learning is, I mean, it's like learning
anything. It's you get as much as you put into it. Yeah. And so if all you do is show up to the
lesson, like you're not going to get there. Like the same with piano, same with anything. Like,
you have to somewhat be passionate about it. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so, you know, I think, you know, I think,
I have to put in outside hours
which is like I got like a little
fucking kanji app
Oh the Wanda County
Oh yeah yeah yeah
I got like a little
I do the little duolingo bird sometimes
Did you have a like a weird hobby
Or something when you were a kid
Because I feel like everyone did this weird thing
Or did this thing as a kid
That they don't have time for anymore
Like I don't know what do you define as weird
No no no weird
Not weird
But more like your parents like signed you up
Some classes to do this thing
What did you do then?
Um, because you must have something if you're ripping that.
I mean, yeah, like I said, I did like,
ballroom and Latin America dancing for a while.
That was like my, that's not weird gone.
That's all.
No, no, okay, weird maybe might have been the wrong word.
It was just like something that's,
oh yeah,
expect you to do.
I was in math club.
You're in math club.
There's not weird about being a math club.
No, it was weird for me.
Oh, okay.
I have no one seems like the math type.
No, you know, you don't seem like the math club.
Yeah, it was like the scholastic math club.
And it was all the kids who ended up being like valedictorian or salutatorian, like the smartest
kids. And me who graduated at the 2.9, which for reference is like, you know, B minus B.
Were you good at math?
No.
No.
One time I asked my mom because they had like honors programs, which you had to like place into
and I didn't get into it, but my friend didn't.
And so you can get around it if you get a signed permission slip from your parent to basically
complain to the school and be like, put my son in.
And so I beg my mom.
Like put me in.
Put me in.
I'll do great.
And she's like,
she's like,
understand if you do,
it's like on your shoulders
to like do the extra work.
I'm like,
easy.
I got a D plus in that class.
I almost failed.
It was really bad.
But the Scholastic Math Club,
a couple of my other friends did it.
I think it was basically a way to do daycare for older kids.
I think that's why my mom did it.
Okay.
But we weren't good at math.
So what we did.
Okay.
What we would do is we play.
We play, we play, you ever play Marco Polo?
Yes.
Yeah.
We'd go to the bathroom at the school and we'd all be in the boys room and we play
Marco Polo, which basically means the person has their eyes closed and then everybody else
is climbing on the bathroom stalls and until you get tagged, you're safe.
And so it ends up in a position one time where it's like, I am sitting on the sink like
this and my friend is planking on the bathroom stall yeah and then somebody else is hiding under
the sink and he's like Marco and then a teacher walks in while we're doing it must have thought
we're doing the freakyest shit ever and then you just everywhere uh and then yeah then I got like
my first attention wow playing Marco Polo in the bathroom it's fun we should play some time
okay it's a good time Marco Polo I haven't played this since I was a kid
Let me tell you, it's fun.
Did you have a weird hobby in school?
I was in my school's debate team.
Were you good?
No.
I don't think my parents understood.
I had like a crippling fear of public speaking.
Maybe they did understand.
So maybe they were like, okay, we want you to get over that.
So we put you in this debate team.
But this might have worked, by the way.
Yeah.
Because you are now in orator.
You're a modern day.
Like, that's what you do.
You speak in front of camera and people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Your parents hooked you up.
I guess so, yeah.
Either that or they were just like,
we need to give this kid a hobby.
A debate team, that'll do.
What do you make your kid do?
No, that's the thing,
because I kind of realized thinking about it,
why I guess so many parents do this year,
is because when you're a kid, you just have free reign
to be like, all right, you can try the weirdest.
You need to try something.
Let's just like throw something at the wall
and see what sticks.
I'm definitely getting my kid to play a musical instrument.
It does feel like, I don't know if I'm crazy.
Is it like, people just have like less clubs
and hobbies now?
Is it like,
I think a lot of things are held online.
Like this in person gathering
is becoming rarer in rarer.
But it doesn't mean it's not happening.
It's just not happening in the...
That's much, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My mom,
just made me do a lot of sports.
There's a lot of sports.
And all I wanted to do is play Runecape.
Yeah, mom,
give me RuneScape Club.
Where we hanging out
at the Grand Excheon.
I wish.
Hey,
that was the spot.
I'm not part of a club.
I'm part of a guilt.
Yeah,
played a lot of card.
I'm not a giver because I have no life.
Yeah,
I just play.
I just spoke to Americans.
That was like my hobby when I was like 15.
Well, what do you make your kid do?
My kid?
With all your wisdom to make the coolest kid possible.
The harp.
Yeah, I, yeah, I, yeah.
The harp.
I don't know, I feel like, okay, music instrument is cool.
Classic Celtic instrument.
I was gonna say, yeah, yeah.
No, I was gonna say, get them to learn an instrument,
but not like a one that everyone does.
Yeah, I don't want to learn piano.
I'll just be like another like Asian parent or something.
Yeah, yeah.
Like just something like, whoa, you can play that?
Just walking around the French horn.
I don't even know what they look like.
How many harpists do you know?
I only know.
How many harp players?
I'm not a harpist.
I went to a Welsh school.
Half the kids played harp.
Are you serious?
Yeah, it's a fucking Celtic instrument.
I didn't see a harp till I was like 21.
Yeah.
What the fuck?
There's like, there was a harp club in my school.
I only know one.
That's weird.
That's well, people are weird.
I know because it is, I think, like Irish, Welsh and maybe Scottish schools.
No, yeah.
We all grow out our hair and then cut it and use it to make
harps at the end of every year.
Whales.
You don't do that.
It's customary.
What the fuck?
What the fuck?
Listen, hops are bad ass.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's like the psychotic.
Why does it be an instrument?
Why gotta be something else?
It can be.
It can be.
I'm saying the hargami.
Arragami.
Why are you saying like it's
because your kid's going to be lame, bro.
What the fuck?
origami's cool.
It's not in school.
It's definitely not in school.
It's definitely not in school.
It has to be a school club that exists.
No, no, no, no, just, that's a cool thing
to be really good at as an adult.
Yeah, but when you're a kid, people are gonna be like,
yeah, so wait, are you falling,
are you gonna ask me?
You want the kid to live a good life, no, yeah, yeah.
Okay, well, harp, I don't think is indicative
of what is a good life.
No, no, it's just, it's just,
it's just, well, whoa, whoa, whoa,
what, what?
I'm not trying to talk shit about the harp.
I think the harp is bad ass,
I just don't think you get a good life.
Too furry down again.
I don't think you just get a good life.
You play fucking up.
I know a famous harp YouTuber.
Shout out Emily in my chat all the time.
Listen,
I love the hop,
all right.
I'm a hop,
enjoy it.
I hop on about the hop.
I feel like the kid
wouldn't get bullied for doing the hop.
I think,
I think origami is a good,
it's cool.
It's cool.
Ultimately,
I feel like if the kids
showing up with 40 paper trains.
Listen,
if they were like fucking Pokemon,
Pokemon cranes,
shit.
Okay,
you know that,
you did like a squirrel.
Yeah.
If they're,
if you figure,
to get them into origami.
They really need to become like,
you could do Pokemon or a origami.
You're he,
you know,
you're like,
you're like,
you're like,
hey, what one piece character do you like?
You make fucking like,
white beard out of origami.
I feel like, shit.
Okay.
Look, my little brother,
he played,
he played the double bass growing up.
And I just felt like that was an excessive
instrument.
Yeah.
It was so big.
That is.
And he's so small.
And I was like,
yeah, but that's what makes it
hilarious.
But it also,
tiny little person.
Del base also sounds
badass though when you're playing.
Yeah.
It's a sick instrument.
the, it's the, like, key to a lot of different types of music.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, so you say some musical.
Yeah, I'd get them to learn like an instrument.
Uh, what about, like, fencing?
I just trying to raise a rich kid.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would like to raise a nepo baby.
That's like, you know, you know, Chris, because I was talking about Chris,
because did you know anyone that did fencing?
No.
Chris was like, yeah, we all did fencing.
I was like, what the fuck you want that?
That doesn't surprise me that Chris.
I was like, what the fuck you did?
Chris is such a.
Southern boy man.
Yeah, I was like, not only did I,
nobody do fencing in my school,
I didn't know a single school near me
that did fencing.
I didn't know a single person that did fencing.
There's, it's like a private academy
that they groom people to become presidents
is what they do with that for.
Chris went to like a, I think a public school.
Really? And they had fencing?
Yeah.
Which I was like-
Are you talking public school America term
or public school English term?
English term.
Isn't public school private school?
No, public.
What?
In England, right?
Oh, you're saying it's like reverse
in English.
There is something about, wait.
In US, public school is the one
that you just go to because you pay taxes.
Isn't that an old English term, public school
to mean that, but nowadays I think public school
means what it means in the US.
When I was in England, whenever someone said
they went to public school, it was always, you know,
they went to private school.
I'm getting confused.
I don't know why that is.
I do think that you are right,
because I think in old English public school
meant private school.
Yeah, because-
So Chris went to a private school.
No, I don't think so.
Or the posh.
Or the posh.
Or the, all.
Because like when I was going up,
all the posh twats went to fucking public school, man.
Can you Google this?
What's the school you went to called?
Just school.
There was school and then public school.
Basically, did you pay for your school?
No.
No.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So Chris went to a school that he didn't pay for,
but still the fencing.
Which is crazy because I thought fencing and shit like that
was only for like rich kids.
Yeah.
But I thought it was cool because I just thought
I saw it's cool.
I thought of it.
Right.
I'm raising a polyglot.
Polyglot.
Every day.
He's hanging out with someone from a different country.
I'm getting like a group of them.
And he's going to appreciate the clue.
It doesn't matter.
How do you get them to care about language though?
Because when he grows up, white guy orders in perfect Italian.
God, I hate that as idiot.
Show all of you.
What I want is the opposite.
I want an Asian to do Asian orders in perfect English.
Those videos are funny.
They do that.
It's like, yeah.
And it's just an Asian American just being like,
yeah, can I have the McDonald's?
I love what you sent me the video of him going to Wales
and doing the Wales one.
And he went to the one part of Wales
where they don't speak Welsh.
Oh my God, yeah.
He was trying to like talk Welsh to the staff.
And to be fair,
he managed to find someone who spoke a bitter Welsh,
but it was like, it was like,
it was like days for,
it was like babies first duolingo.
Yeah, he was like, he was like,
shocks, you know, Welsh people and perfect acts or whatever.
That's not what these videos.
Everyone he runs into who didn't speak.
It was fucking insane.
Like every person's like yeah.
Oh no, I know what you're saying
But like I don't speak that
That's like English.
Yeah
Well the people like he went to like Cardiff
They don't speak fucking Welsh
Yeah
Yeah how foolish to go to Cardiff
Yeah don't go to Cardiff
Shit go to North Wales
Where all the Welsh people are
Have you guys done a special in Wales?
No
We did a show in Wales
We want to
I have a list of things that we can do
Yeah
I've actually I spoke
Do they involve sheep?
Yeah and yes
I really wanted
I've read because there's a few things I really wanted to do
I want us to at least do something sheep related
because they have
I don't like that
I didn't know what you wanted that
I know a little thing about
Listen we can do a few things
Alright stop with the eyes
We can do a few things
Well listen because I thought
It would be great to shear sheep but it really depends
On what time of year we've to go in August for that
But also if we can't do that
I'd love to get us doing
What is it?
Whether the sheep dogs where you
you can hurt them.
Yeah, you can hurt sheep.
It's so fucking sick.
They do like competitive sheep herding.
Yeah.
They're like,
whistle.
The most Welsh thing.
Dude,
it's so sick.
If the Olympics was in Wales,
that's like,
well,
that's the world.
That's the biggest sport.
Yeah.
They have the rural Welsh.
It's one of the,
the royal Welsh show.
And it's one of the,
oh,
this is where they get all the people hurting.
Dude,
it's crazy.
You'll watch it.
And they'd be like,
this is,
this is Timothy Jones from,
uh,
Poiss.
This is what you should make your kid do.
Yeah.
And then he gets,
So then he'll, he'll, like, whistle three times
and the dog will fucking rock it.
And then it'll, all the sheep will like,
like it's like a, like, pickman.
They'll all do it really fast.
It's insane.
That is basically controlling pickman.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I thought we could do that.
Or there was something else we could do.
No.
Well, concerning sheep.
Are you trying to fuck the sheep?
I was this thing.
Listen, we could do it.
No, there's a bunch of other stuff we could do as well.
But it sucks.
What about that, like, festival thing?
that they have.
They have,
yeah,
they have like a very Welsh festival thing
where they do a bunch of
Welsh activities.
Dude,
I hate how ominously
you talk about it.
What is Welsh activities?
You know.
And so they have a thing
called Flavari,
which is kind of like
stand-up poetry.
Where you do,
you try and do like a,
I don't know,
like the most bomb poetry.
Like slam poetry?
Kind of.
Like the roasting people?
No,
no,
it's about doing like a,
delivering a longer poet,
uh,
poem,
but it meant to be like,
poignant and you went a chair if you do it what kind of chair it's called a
cadire which means just a chair you get like the chair it's like the most prestigious
you show someone's house they just have no chairs I've never won I've never won
and uh they do like down show wedding which is like folk dancing and they'll see you can do like
the most bomb folk dancing that sounds which is actually kind of cool because they kind of go really hard
of it. And it looks like something out of a movie.
They just do a lot of like very Welsh things, which in terms of Welsh culture is just
dancing, singing or poetry in some form. And it's all just a lot of it. A lot of singing.
A lot of singing competitions. I think that's cool. I think singing is like a, like, I like
when that's part of a culture. Because I hate when people are like shy about it. Maybe I just
love karaoke. Yeah. I like when people are like in a room and there's like drinks and stuff.
Listen, everything is improved with drinks.
A machine of sorts.
Yeah, you guess, I feel like you should do a trash chase special
in each of your respective country.
Yeah, I've already got mine plans.
Yeah.
Oh, you're already, so this is already an idea.
Yeah, because we've done, we've just filmed the Australia one.
Ah, okay.
Which I don't have that.
It involves a lot of drinking.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think all of yours will.
Yes.
Do they drink a lot, Thailand?
No, they don't drink too much.
I mean, I'm going to get these boys to do Muay Thai.
So, that's,
do you know about the moit Thai kid?
Which Moitai kid?
There's this like 12 year old kid who was trying to get Instagram famous.
Oh, yes.
You heard about this?
No, I haven't heard about this.
He's basically like this little kid and he says, all right, guys, if this gets 10K likes,
I'll do whatever the top comment says.
And the top comment is this paragraph.
And it's like, you will fly to Thailand and you will start training Muay Thai for the rest of your days.
You will enter a Muay Thai contest.
And after you defeat your opponent, you will.
say, I learned to beat you because of this comment. And then that got like 500,000
upvotes or likes, I guess, his Instagram. And then that was it. That was like the one he had to do.
And so then he was like, all right, guys, uh, I guess I'm going to train for Muay Thai.
It's like a 12 chubby kid from like, wish concert. Yeah. But every video he's made sense because
that was like a year ago is people in the comments roasting him. Like, why aren't you in Thailand
yet. You should be entirely learning
moitai. It's his 12 year old who's in like public
school. What do you want?
Like he can't fly to Thailand.
Like a bunch of like
Moitai like pros. Yeah.
Like reached out to him to like help train him.
Oh, cool. Right. I think he's going
in like maybe for summer break or something
but it was like it's brutal because it's like
obviously he's not going to leave his family.
He's a child. Yeah. But like he's basically
getting harassing every day nonstop
because of it. He could just not post.
Yeah. He is 12.
You just kept that in the draw.
He didn't need to post.
Not to be a hater, but he does do posting a moitai kick every day.
They all pretty bad.
He's on day 100 and it looks like day three.
His heart's not in it.
His heart's not in it.
But I guess it isn't because he's forced to do it because of a comment.
I mean, he's getting bullied into it.
Yeah.
It's sad.
He could just not.
But if he becomes one of the best, imagine.
It'd be beautiful.
Talking about genetically made for an Olympic sport.
I think that's like he, not quite.
Oh, dude, you know what video I watched?
I was crazy.
Okay.
You know that guy, the shit, what's his name?
He lives in Japan.
He does the food thing.
He's friends with Chris.
He came for the chess boxing.
Oh, oh, Nick.
Nick.
Nick.
Yeah, Nick Pettis.
Yeah, Nick Pettis.
Nick, uh, Japan or all the other stuff he's done.
Yeah, he went to Japan to do, I think, kickboxing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Have you seen the fight of his?
Yeah, yeah, against the seven foot guy.
It looks like a joke.
Dude, have you seen this?
I haven't seen it.
It's him, it's Nick who's like, in my height, just absolutely kicking the shit out of a seven foot.
And it looks like David versus Goliath because they have like well over a foot in height difference.
And he's just kicking at his one leg like a like a like you would axe a tree.
And eventually it works in the giant falls and he wins.
Like this impossible size difference fight.
Jesus.
He's a, I mean, he's a, he's a very, very physically intense guy.
He's a beast of a man.
He still is.
He's a fearsome man.
He's like 50 now.
Yeah, he's got two,
both his hips replaced too,
but he's still does sports like crazy.
What does that mean?
What does it hip replace?
You know,
like,
because you're hip,
right?
It's like a bowl in a like soccer joint.
Yeah,
it's a ball,
right?
So I think after a while,
if you do too much
certain exercises,
it grinds down.
Oh, so they replace the ball?
Yeah,
so you replace the ball.
Oh, okay.
So I'm like,
how do you remove this whole thing?
It's like,
it's like a hot story.
How do they get rid of the heart?
Aren't you dad?
I don't know.
We're not dog this.
We're the real heroes.
We're the YouTube videos.
True.
And simiculate.
We were the real heroes.
I was looking up surgery videos the other night.
They scare me.
Oh, God.
No.
Why would you do that?
Well, because I have a Pectus Excavatum.
What the fuck is that?
What is that?
I got a chest hole.
Like I have a hole in my chest.
This thing right here.
I don't know.
I stripped down every one of these pods.
Yeah, you do.
Oh, we've got the matching one.
Oh.
Because I've got the out.
You got the out.
The picture chest.
We fit in perfectly.
Yeah.
We fit into each other.
Wait.
So wait, wait.
To mine, there's no adverse side effects.
Is there an adverse side effects having the end?
Yeah, to mine, it can be called sunken chest.
It's basically your ribs are inverted and caved in.
And depending on the severity, it can impact breathing or sometimes even your heart.
Even as you get older, it gets worse.
So like some people need to get it surgically resolved.
There's two ways to fix it.
The first one's really funny.
It just looks funny.
It's called a vacuum bell
and they basically shove
a giant vacuum to your chest
and then they get all the air out
to like suck it up.
So it's basically like one big hicky.
Oh my God.
And they suck the hole out.
Oh my God.
And you have to do it like an hour a day
for years.
Oh, they're just like plunging your chest.
Yes.
Basically a giant fucking.
That sounds horrific.
Well, that one's not bad
because it's non-surgical.
It's just more like a lot of, you know,
it's like wearing a retainer braces.
It's no different.
It sounds painful.
I mean like it it says people like braces yeah no no for the for this one no because it's like it's not like they're going is it like permanently hickeyed uh no just for like it's like a red mark for the day like for but for but like it's literally like braces like braces aren't overnight right right it's more like slowly throughout time but if you stop doing it it stops working right and then the other one is the surgery I looked up it's called the nuss procedure some motherfucker named nuss came up with it my they literally just put a giant metal rod that that.
like bends like this under your ribs and then they flip it to just push your ribs forward.
And I looked at the video, dude, it horrified me.
I think about it sometimes.
You shouldn't have done that.
Do you have to get surgery?
Yeah.
I don't think mine's bad enough.
I think it's just cosmetic.
And I don't mind having the chest hole.
Yeah.
Chosy brothers stand proud.
We are strong.
So I don't, but I might get worse.
So I might eventually have to do it.
And it puts you on your ass.
Like you can't do physical exercise for six months after.
I don't, I don't think mine does anything.
I think mine's just called pigeon chest
Yeah no because you would
You just have more room
You can get more air in there
I suck big luck
Fit a third lung
I might
Yeah I guess I got lucky
Huh
Uh
People always think I'm in better shape than I am
Because it always looks like I have like a
Oh yeah
Yeah mine is the opposite
Because it makes me
Yeah
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