@@mcshreddies Well, it's not unreasonable to say that this age we're living in is a social dystopia- meaning it's designed very poorly for community, family and friendship, all of which are necessary for human-wellbeing.
yeah I'm in that state right now, high school was great, but I just don't understand the social life of college, parties aren't for me, I just go in and out of class, and I hardly know anyone, and while I'm not afraid of talking to girls like many guys in this situation are, as an introvert, I'm just not good at starting conversations with anyone, but hey he's found great people in his life through his work so the same might happen to the rest of us, personally I've always found it easier getting to know people when I was doing part time work than through courses
This one went kinda deep. Really suprised by the lack of reaction. The boys waded into loneliness, kinks, cults, sexism and all that schizz. Opinions were wholesome all around and I can't help but be proud of them. They've all stared into the abyss and got away as better people and most important, they willingly talk about it. Love it guys!
Social sciences are nebulous so take it with a grain of salt. But I've read that due to falling purchase power, many members of the younger generation feels locked out of many things their parents took for granted, such a starting a family and purchasing real estate. With no improvement in sight, we become increasingly traumatised and become easy prey to services that monetise our porn addiction.
@@ausreir yeah this is the core issue. In 1960, a high school graduate with no skills could get a manufacturing job that paid the equivalent of ~$65k yearly. Meanwhile, an average family home cost about $75k, you could pay for a top-tier college education with a part-time job, competition for jobs and college was practically nonexistent, etc. There was trust in institutions, taxes actually paid for comprehensive services, and there was no social media systematically amplifying the most insipid, toxic, and corrosive aspects of human society. Climate change is becoming impossible to ignore, AI is threatening to upend society in the forseeable future, and stable western governments are falling into the authoritarian trap left and right. I'm fully aware of the "kids these days" fallacy and the tendency for people to always consider their time to be unique, but things are objectively on the brink right now.
This episode is called “trash taste” and they said many times before, you shouldn’t take their words seriously. Conner said something like Japan is weird not allowing gay marriage but allowing a guy married to his DS in the middle part of this episode. However, I think it’s a BRUH moment for me. His point says a lot about himself. He think minorities like gay should be supported and gay marriage should be allowed in Japan, but minorities like fictosexuals are weirdos, their marriages are not allowed and they shouldn’t existed. Later he said “I felt torn because this guys looks genuinely happy, and I think people are entitled to their happiness”. So this is another example shows Conner is monke and always spitting out some random illogical self-contradictory nonsense bullshit without a logically consistent understanding in his own mind. He is kind of boomer is this sense and 5 steps of grief/facepalm/disbelief is kind of gold he finally said “it can’t be real, it gotta be publicity stunt, I don’t believe this is true” and Joey on the side just started to laugh🤣 Even though he explained what is asexual, I think he don’t a thing called “fictosexual”. And he don’t know in English speaking circle, fictosexual is considered as a member of asexual spectrum. (Reference: r/Asexual. “A visualization of the Asexuality Spectrum. 2022-02-03.)
@@ryana5435do not source Wikipedia friend lmao. wild comment. some people haven’t heard of that identity before so obviously it’s going to be weirder and harder to wrap your head around but I don’t think he said anything bad.
Honestly, Garnt's right about loneliness. I just recently learned to be comfortable in my own shoes and accept being alone. I used to feel very lonely and left out during my 11th and 12th grades, and I didn't really score well either, I was barely passing Physics and Chemistry lol. I just never wanted to study, and I went on a weird Henti and pron addiction, even tolerating and being exposed to weird kinks I never had in my wildest dreams. It just went on a downward spiral where I'd watch the most f-ed up stuff and feel nothing about it. I was an addict looking for a new fix. Add that to betrayals, I was basically a recluse. But getting into university, I just buried myself with work and projects and stuff like that so that no stray thought goes to my weird addiction. The thing is, it worked for a while, until I got my next horrible breakdown where I was just a mess for 4 months. I just couldn't stop crying lol. I'd get out and I'd just burst out crying for no reason. Like ugly sobbing and stuff, and I really didn't know how to deal with that at all. Therapy is basically non-existent in India, and I was just told to "not be sad" which didn't help. It was so goddamn hard to move out of that mindset and if I hadn't done some radical changes, I'd still be miserable. Then, I started watching Trash Taste, and I found out that I wasn't alone, and everyone goes through that at some point in their lives. If I had money to burn, and there was a premium option in Tinder, I'd have 100% taken up on that offer, even if I knew that it didn't work. It's weird, but seeing you guys talk, I just copied some of your mannerisms, and I slowly built my confidence. I also kind of gave up trying to find happiness while being lonely (not like extreme Hikikomori, more like I stopped thinking too much about it.) That worked for me, and 2023 was basically the year I was rebuilding my life after 3 of my friends stabbed me in the back. It's a daily struggle to not get into the same mindset I was. I've traded in bad habits for other bad habits. I'm noticeably fatter and have some binge eating problems, but out of all the 21 years of my life, this is the best version I've been in. I'm able to earn decent money and not depend on my parents, which not many people have the privilege to. TL:DR; Loneliness if a slow poison and it's hard but anyone can pull themselves out if you make a conscious effort. And boys, your weekly episodes have genuinely changed me for the better. You taught me to value my life as a human being even more and not waste my time trying to salvage broken relationships. I know this won't be seen, but thanks a lot boys!
Happy to hear it's getting better. Even if there are still issues you're dealing with, steadily working on fixing them can be a snowball effect. The further you improve parts of your life, become more confident, knowledgeable, connected, the easier it is to grow and eventually fix other things like your appearance or a better living situation. I admittedly say this not speaking from personal experience, having barely passed high school (though socially i progressed quite a bit. Going from a quiet kid to a quiet kid that isn't a total social wreck.) I'm neglecting doing things that would better my future, soon to be 21. I live in a pretty toxic household with not a lot of opportunities I know of, solely hinging on the dream of sooner or later leaving and living on my own for some time, expecting that while it may be really hard, it'd still let me leave the stagnant part of my life.
Really happy you're doing better and could gain lots out of the times with Trash Taste. "Anyone can pull themselves out if you make a conscious effort" is a hard gut punch to me though. I feel so useless and have no more energy or motivation to try in the first place. I don't even know what to try.
@@sodecdash9336 Hey, baby steps man, just chill and don't overthink it. The less brain space you give it, the better it gets, man. Hope you get through tough times!
ayo you call it “family friendly” even though this podcast have done some episodes about Hentai? (Edit: after watching this episode for around 30 minutes, I can confirm this podcast is very family friendly 31:17 )
34:34 its not Parallel Paradise, thats a manga about a world of girls that yearns to mate with the extinct male race. Garnt was talking about a Manhwa called Sweet Guy and it is an amazing read
I love the boys but I cannot believe it took 184 episodes for someone to finally say 'I just said that' after garnt says something that the other boys have already said LMAO EDIT: timestamp 2:15-3:30
They've said it before. I remember one was from connor and garnt was like..no I meant this.. lol back pedaled. Garnt has a hard time with some stuff on things he doesn't pre write and read. Almost every episode he repeats the same thing as one of the others or their wording. I think most of the time the boys let it go
1:36:09 Honestly was interesting how Mudan incorporated Connor's texts with his old roommate in, and just generally nice seeing that Connor had that good host/co-host energy even when he was just a roommate too. (Also now listening to Joey's part in that segment, yh deffo know the folks he's talking about lol. I remember when he posted up his proper move to Japan in vlogs on the Joey channel, was deffo different times. I can only assume he prolly wasn't enjoying that experience for "other" reasons too, but hey, maybe it wasn't as bad as one would think. Though I'm sure Kat would've been a chill roommate prolly.)
That wasn't actually their message to each other though? I thought it was just a meme, cause I doubt they would actually reveal what she said. It was funny though
@@Verchiel_it seemed quite fake to me, just overall. I would actually be surprised if that was real. Edit: even Connor's messages seemed fake with the uwu and the boys filming trash taste at 2 am. Overall doesn't really matter either way, just didn't seem real to me
You got to remember that they live in Japan so it's 2 am where ever the roommates lives rn not that the boys are recording at 2 am in Japan the uwu is definitely something mudan added as a joke@@zerenityzerene4410
Garnt sharing about his loneliness was so open & raw. I remember watching a video about dating apps on Memeable Data & reading about the male experience with dating apps in the comment section was truly eye opening. We should normalize men talking about insecurities & genuine feelings more.
I fucking love Trash Taste. Even while struggling financially after a car accident on Christmas Day, Trash Taste never fails to make me laugh and give me an escape from stressful life events. Please never stop bringing joy to those that need it.
@@seasyrenn yeah, semi lost control and was stopped on the interstate blocking all the lanes. There was snow and wind, I couldn’t stop in enough time when I noticed
I think Connor right about the van / RV life. It seems to be a last option for a lot of people that can't afford housing. Unaffordable housing always seems to be part of that conversation.
1:36:13 was a pleasant surprise to see some extra gfx magic this ep! ty to mudan and co. for letting us know the context of xina's texts while the convo continued (also just v funny to hear firsthand what connor was like as a flatmate XD). bless up for all the patient housemates out there in the world 🙏 as well as to another year of trash taste!! thanks for 3 years of being my friday wind-down laugh session best of luck on all the TT-on-the-move mini specials for 2024!
how are bald jokes still the only acceptable jokes about genetics one can't change lol make one joke about fat people who could just lose weight and everybody hates you
1:36:15 "Weakness:... screaming at night" LMAO here I thought the Connor screaming thing was just meme. Also the strong points she listed are wholesome out of nowhere bro was a great roommate.
@@Freya_Blue yeah if you're on the borderline, it's however you identify. The exact cutoffs are ultimately arbitrary, and the definitions are hazy in the first place. It's all about average experience - as soon as you look at individuals and edge cases it loses meaning. However, there is a gigantic difference between the Millennials who remember a pre-internet world and didn't have social media until uni, and everyone born afterward. This throws a wrench into the whole thing because it's a different criteria that's out of phase with the formal generational cutoffs.
As someone just a year younger it's always been a situation to me where I'm too old to be fully gen z and too young to be fully millennial. I can relate with both sides.
I can speak for everyone when I say we are super excited for more specials! I think it is a core part of the TT fandom and has given us most of the memes.
I'm excited but also have zero expectations for them. They also said there would be more specials for 2023 but so far we only got 2, and one of them was just a vod of one of their tour
@@hajarmdn4883 That’s… no? I mean yes, that’s true, but that’s missing the idea. Asexual people can have sex yeah, they aren’t allergic, but they don’t have a desire for sex.
As someone who's been watching Trash Taste weekly since near the very beginning, I will say that I am very excited to see the new forms of videos in the new year, though I always will appreciate and look forward to the regular episodes of the boys just sitting down and chatting for two hours. This podcast has consistently brought me joy every week since that first time I clicked on the channel. Trash Taste gave me a place of belonging and just gave me something consistent in a time where so much was going on and changing, and still, so much is going on and changing. And yet, no matter what I had going on in my life, I knew I had a Trash Taste episode at the end of the week I could sit back and enjoy, and escape everything for two hours. And in the same way that you guys were here for me, I will be here at the end of every week, no matter the circumstances, to sit back, watch Trash Taste, and support you boys. I wish y'all the best in the new year!!
Interested in changes. I've tuned out of Trash Taste for much of this second half of the year. Maybe I've gotten older. Maybe the production got stale. I can't quite put my finger on why I've fallen out but I welcome a change and maybe it'll get me excited about the podcast again. Let's see what 2024 has in store for us all.
it because we have less time to watch, this year a lot of people got back to work. so the guys were doing so much stuff for there own youtube stuff that podcast fell to the side for them and watching enough of trash tastes you slowly get the feeling that they want to cut back on the podcast just to get throught it.
i got a ticket to the live show but never went, found out too late it was at an awkward location but then realised i wasnt watching since a few of the guests didnt click for me, then i saw the show a bit differently since i think. Also, yeah sameness between episodes, i saw i was kinda just getting through episodes rather than watching and enjoying them
@@jackleface2903completely disagree i truly just believe its a natural phenomena for most podcasts that don’t have guests on every week or talk about actual news that they will all simply run out of things to talk about that interest people and again over time will die out. Additionally for non NA viewers the constant tours would produce several shit filler episodes with nothing in them just due to trash taste wanting to stick to never missing an upload. The only rhing though i wish they didnt do is kill afterdark because those streams truly were great and it felt like it was going to surpass the main channel in enjoyment.
@@savio953 After Dark solved the problem with "running out of things to talk about" because they could literally play a different game every week or eat different foods every week and always have something to talk about. It's such a shame it got shelved for so long.
@crushinnihilism I really like this comment! I think there are a lot of problems with constantly having your mind occupied with internet bs. But also y'know, I think their point was that having a place to live and food to eat is getting ridiculously expensive for the average person compared to previous generations. My mom bought her first home at 22 with a baby, now I'm 22 and I can't imagine being able to afford a down payment OR a child as a single parent, let alone both. The TT bois are rich TH-camrs, but they are still aware of and empathetic to the way most people struggle right now and I appreciate that.
@@luvuberrymuch49 firstly, thank you. I think not being in the matrix sometimes is important. Secondly, I get suspect about these claims about living. The same people complaining about money are eating out every night and frequent starbucks. Im worknat walmart, and Its always people living outside their means who complain about how expensive life is. That said, epmires rise and fade. As does the value of currency. All currency eventually trades at 0. We were just born at an unfortunate time of a grand cycle.
The way universities get around you not using old textbooks is they have all the homework online behind a key that you can only get by buying the brand new book that is exactly the same as last year's book woth the chapters rearranged. I failed like 3 classes because i refused to buy brand new books and my parents refused to buy the new ones also even when i told them.
I for one, don't find loneliness painful. It's quite peaceful actually. I try to live by a few things. 1. If you can't take it 24 hours at a time, it ain't going to get better with a partner. Learn to tolerate solitude. 2. Prioritise long-term wellbeing over short-term happiness. Work at something, no matter how small, and dedicate time to it. 3. Don't take yourself too seriously. The world will not notice if I disappeared tomorrow and I'm perfectly okay with that.
Yeah this only works when you’re doing things that aren’t too important but if you want to take a vacation, or go to a concert, festivals, or any kind of medical emergency you definitely will want someone there. And theirs nothing wrong with wanting that. If anything wanting to live a solitary life is selfish.
@@kairos_fluent Well, personally for me, I just randomly go up to someone and talk for a while (I'm in university) and I can talk to strangers pretty easily (most of the time, they also don't mind), so I do that. It's the feeling of closeness and stuff that I can't gel with nor am I able to do stuff like that. In that aspect I sometimes feel lonely. Hope that answered your question.
Connors point about being pessimistic towards the future resonated with me. I graduate high school this year (Grade 12) and I seriously don't know what to look forward to. Especially considering housing and such is so bad and only getting worse. The only thing I and my friends can do is to try to look through a positive lens, and enjoy the small things in life. :)
Dude, even like say 2 decades ago, you were not going to buy a house immediately after graduation. You were still going to struggle with college debt, and likely not own a home until you got married and got like a family in your late 20's early 30's.
Housing is going to be the least of our worries. This cope that "every generation says the next generation is doomed" doesn't hold water. We've never lived in a world more susceptible to pandemics (due to Gain of Function research and increased global travel), previous generations weren't facing a near future when much of the earth can no longer support crops and billions die from starvation and wars of migration, mental health has never been so fucked because humanity is not built for the internet, AI is a much bigger threat than people realize, and another thing people don't realize is that the threat of nuclear war is as high as it's ever been. The world IS fucked in ways it never has been before
@@OhGeeGanksta To be fair, he didn't say "buying a house"; he said "housing". Many US universities have hit a point of not having enough on campus housing to meet the needs of the incoming freshmen they require to live on campus, and upperclassmen in many universities are fighting to find off-campus housing they can afford, even with six to eight people paying for it, that's close enough to campus.
Connor pointing out and debunking the stereotype of asexuality = being aromantic warms my heart. He's not a part of the ace community but he's still being kind towards them and that's pretty rare online.
Tbh I relate more to the DS guy than most asexuals. It's too much of an integral part of me and its absence would be a complete game changer. Maybe connor feels different.
Episode 184 and I'm still waiting for Sharla as a guest. She's lived in Japan for like 20 years, she's had a couple of interesting jobs, she runs an inn, etc. Surely there's lots to talk about. Plus they could all roast Chris.
@@mopslikvonsteinWhy do you sound offended? He is just confused on how could she be living in Japan for 20 years when she is Canadian and asks a question so that you can clear it.
The manhwa they're talking about at 34:28 - It's "He does a body good" (or "Sweet guy", in other translations). Not the one shown on screen. You're all welcome.
what a great way to end of 2023. You guys are awesome, I don't mind the less activity on podcasts. I feel the specials or TT outside is a great way of entertainment but i do understand they are much harder to produce, overall I feel this new direction for TT is gonna be incredible
I can't stop starring (respectfully) at Connor's hair. I mean, that volume! Jokes aside, thank you so much for another year! Looking forward to whatever you choose to do!
Connor really has an Uber eats addiction. Bro has a whole ass kitchen with an oven and he choses to order food instead of cooking for himself. Bro can make a salad at home easily😭
He said in an old ep that ordering uber eats is cheaper than cooking. He rounded it up, time and expenses iirc. But yeah, cooking for yourself is a good thing to do every once in a while.
Unless you’re really passionate about cooking or you’re cooking for guests like it’s more than two people, it’s actually way more expensive unless you buy in bulk… during a TimeSale which is like 3pm on a Thursday Afternoon for Leeks at a specific Grocery Store in Suginami-ku and you have to freeze it and Japanese freezers are TINY.
Fun fact about the generation thing Socrates was talking back in ancient Greece how new generations were losing their memory due to writing... It truly never changes...
The funny thing is that he is not wrong; evolutionarily, having good memories is because information is not permanent. Once you not only get it down but also standardize it such that you do not have to remember, over time remembrance becomes less necessary and people forget stuff more easily.
@@aartasian8852I’m assuming they mean they could’ve waited a few days to make this come out on the Eve/New Year; if I’m correct, the problem with that mentality is that they’re assuming everyone watches these videos the day it comes out when it could easily also be a podcast treat saved for a few days. It’s also probably them trying to make a little joke and so let’s just let them have it.
1:23:48 that’s wild to me, when i was in uni my professors sometimes explicitly told us to NOT buy the book-to buy second hand older editions, to scan pages from library versions, or to straight-up pirate the pdfs
18:20 no, Connor. Other cities on Earth does do that. When I was in the Philippines, I used to frequent this small fried chicken stall in the corner near my apartment. After a while, the vendor would call out to me calling me "sukke" or something (sorry filipinos I don't know how it is spelled). I then asked a friend of mine what that means and he told me it's what vendors call frequent customers. They literally have a word of endearment for repeat customers.
I only knew a few words in Japanese but I was able to have a few conversations in Japan all being at bars. The bars there are SUPER friendly but stick to smaller places that are not tourist traps
1:40:27 For me as an introvert, that's a no to being roommates with friends or co-workers unless they are also introverted. Being neighbors with them would be fine. You already see and are with them most of the day, then I would crave some alone time by the end of the day. There's no such thing as being alone together because that is just uncomfortable awkward silence.
As a traveling barista having to taste a lot of coffee all the time id love decaf varieties of beans while keeping unique and delicious flavours, would make my work life so much easier 😂
The talk about drinking cultures really hit me. I'm in Australia and I've been sober for 3 and a half years now and it is not easy. You feel so isolated and judged. It took time but now I have a great network of friends who never judge or pressure me to drink, but anyone outside of it is scary.
Non-alcoholic Guinness also tastes the same... Just as watery and meh as the regular stuff. (I've only had Guinness in Finland and Germany, people keep telling me that it's different in the UK, but I don't believe it until I get a chance to taste it myself)
Actually a banger episode, talking about the struggles of loneliness and the life of being a Uni student. Was funny how relatable the ticks about living with flatmates was.
I just got engaged to my boyfriend who was my first and only date from tinder! Before that I had only ever dated girls I met irl. But one day I had been single for a few months so I decide to try online dating just to find a summer flirt, and because I thought it might be easier to find out gay people that way since we’re a rare breed here haha. I made an account and within five minutes he super liked me and sent me a message, a few days later we had an amazing first date, half a year later I moved in with him, and three years after that he proposed. I’m fully aware that my experience isn’t the norm tho, because my fiancé has a ton of tinder horror stories. He entertains me with the tales of his suffering sometimes, and I tease him with how he had to do all the work and kiss all the frogs while I just made an account for about five minutes😂❤️
My Uni never forced me to buy books. They literally suggested books written by them or other colleagues and never pushed further. In fact the provided some books for free. I bought 1 that I never opened and never bought one again. The one thing uni was supposed to teach me "social life" was ruined by covid i barely even know most of my colleagues still. I did semi-recently and im much more social. But uni wasnt really a contributor.
I heard about Universities forcing students to buy textbooks a while ago and it blew my mind, I could've never imagined it. In my country teachers would never force you to buy a certain book, and especially in University, teachers only suggest which one they prefer, but no one is forced to use one in particular. And on top of that, a lot of my teachers also told us not to buy them because they are expensive and instead suggested to use the ones of the library, which is free. I think some teachers even shared with us their pdf versions of the book so that we didn't need to buy them.
Influenza that Connor was talking about was Spanish Flu and it was brought to Europe by American soldiers. (Literally from Kansas) So hos point kinds scuff.
I'm not going to defend New York bread, but I will say I have noticed a marked decrease in quality of the common pizza when you get away from the New York/CT area, and its commonly (note that does not mean correctly) attributed to the water.
Hearing their talk about uni and socializing being the most useful thing there made me very sad. Started uni during first year of pandemic, the first 2 years of lectures were online and by that point no one was interested in getting to know eachother and were dreading the study course. Really it was a horrible experience, dont think i got any value from it
Goals for 2024: Pack 30 boxes for Operation Christmas Child. Rearrange & Update my bedroom with much needed improvements. Shop more locally. Travel somewhere for vacation.
Part of the reason Door-To-Door Salesman are soo pushy and mean sometimes, is cause the end goal is there hoping you get mad enough to call the company and complain, and then they will offer you a discount or some other deal to apologize, when in reality there told to be rude and pushy on purpose from the start.
14:57 the actual reason for it being forbidden is that it takes the mind away so you don't have the ability to make sound decisions. As usual great episode.
I feel like Sydney would be the type to get jealous at the elderly woman at the konbini where Garnt frequents, and he's all like "don't worry about it" while getting spoonfed and told "いい子いい子" by the nice old lady
@@Che1seabluesdrogba11 I want mouse but it won't be possible unless they do an episode wherever she lives due to her condition, but meilyne would be a good third member as well.
The start of 2023 was just aweful for me! This whole year was nothing but filled with a severe case of "Lumbar Vertebral Osteomyelitis" And Im just 32 years old and I got two jobs that I walk too. Yourself can do the simple match and figure out how litteral painful it was for my case.
People who say college or uni is where you become a person and learn to socialize are odd to me because i didnt go to college until i was 25 and i certainly knew how to exist
So fun fact about Kinks: there’s been studies that show that kinks are almost entirely hereditary or based in previous trauma. Meaning that you either gained the kink as a way to cope with a traumatic experience or because someone else in your family had it.
Wow, the last episode of the year. Coincidentally, I also had a few beers today, so cheers everyone. Be happy you made completed another year and do your best for the next one.
This feels like the first actual episode of Trash Taste in a long while. The previous episodes honestly all felt like After Dark episodes which weren't bad but they definitely felt like something else. With that being said, I'm actually pretty excited about the idea of the boys getting out of the studio and filming more things specifically for Trash Taste since "specials" are few and far between.
1:24:06 After my first semester in uni I just waited a week or two to see if we actually need the "required" textboks 75% of the time you didn't need the textbook at all. The profs either didn't use them, reference them, or even give recommended or required readings. I started this after my first year because of one of my profs. Our university had a required and recommended list of reading for every course. This class had around 15 - 20 books on the required reading list so every got them thinking okay we will be going over each of these. Nope we read and did one novel the rest were just books the professor thought we should have in general. We are talking like over a grand in books we didn't touch. I noticed most of my classes that did use their books didn't start using until after the first and sometimes second week. Well, I ended up waiting until then to see what books the prof would use and I end up saving thousands of dollars by doing this. I did however have a clas that we read 3 to 8 books a week for an entire semester. Even worse is the books were only available at the library in section that only allowed you to take those books out for an hour or two. Otherwise you couldn't buy them the uni so you would have to order them online or figure something out. well, to no ones surprise the class went from 45 people to 12 (it wasn't an intro class). The only silver lining was that the whole class was marked on discussion stuff. So we were split into two groups which alternated between making discussion questions or answering them for each reading(s) for that day. We had to roughly transcribe what was said and give our questions to the prof. The prof guided the discussions and we were marked on how well our questions were crafted, how the disucssion went, and most importantly how indepth we went into the reading(s). After the first two weeks it was actually kind of fun because you kind of just fell into a habit of reading. We probably read 50 books just for that class during the semester and some of the readings were relevant to some of my other classes so it helped me that way. I'm just glad I didn't have to buy the books becuase it would probably have completely made me broke.
Looking forward to 2024, sorry to see after dark is going away to be replaced by the Patreon exclusive, glad to see the outdoor episodes and I hope they do amazingly!
Glad Connor jumped in with the Great Depression example, because that is what was going on through my head when asking "Has there been a time when DEPRESSION has been as GREAT as it is today."
Connor in general has been pushed to notice a bigger narrative he hasn’t yet fully understood. But the spirit giving him these realizations didn’t come from his own background, rather they come from his ties with Mouse. If you looked into Mouse and her family, their faith is one that is centered on a God more powerful than the gods the evil elites worshipped. Who proclaims: “I am the way, the TRUTH, and the life.” You too are being pushed to notice the bigger picture.
I saw an article saying that the US and Canada will have serious power outages due to big tech companies and the cost of electricity is too much. There's nothing to be happy about.
Collective depression for Millennials and Gen Z are indeed due to network knowledge (social media, news, etc.) and having it generally fine enough to worry about the level above your day to day. A hundred years ago you had less time to worry about the future because you were in the factory all day from the time you were 17 or younger. The percentage of our time, money and energy (physical and mental) that we spend on survival is going down. That also affects many other things mentioned this episode.
“italian doesn’t engineer anything other than espresso machine” ferrari, lamborghini, pagani, alfa romeo, maserati, and fiat are all sobbing right now…
I watched Trash Taste for the first few episodes during peak Covid 19 but fell off, the last few weeks i had been getting really back into Conners videos and that brought me back to the Trash Taste and i have to say that you guys have been helping me through a tough time, the current state of the Podcast be great,camt wait for 2024 episodes
Connor: "they're monetizing your loneliness"
He says as I've been watching Trash Taste since 2020 to cope with isolation.
Well, you’re not paying to watch/listen, are you?
Don't call me out, not like this.
@@Threebs_ That feels like the sort of rationale coined by youtubers who put ads on their apology videos.
@@Threebs_the people that pay for patreon do
Literally lol
"That's crazy. They would let a man marry a DS but not let two gays marry."
I got a whipsplash hearing this.
what's a DS ?
@@siliconhawkare you serious?
@@PurplePiiPii i didn't reach that point in the video so I totally didn't get this comment. Well now I do so yeah
@@PurplePiiPiiwhy not just answer the question instead of being a nuisance lmao
@@PurplePiiPiiif you heard it out of context, would you be able to figure out that they're talking bout marrying a fuckin nintendo ds?
I want an episode where Garnt, Conner, and Joey are replaced by Sydny, Aki, and Meilyne
Sydny, Aki and Chris* cmon gotta keep it to couples.
Syd, Aki, and Sharla would be fun! Or Ironmouse
@@KittRembo definitely Mouse
Syndi, Aci, Canur, Joie, Maling, Grint, Chrast, and Amaricen Pite
@@Inudash1 if you’re sitting here thinking a 3d model of a woman who doesn’t show her face would be a good podcast host go outside buddy
Mad props to Garnt for being so honest about his experience with loneliness. 🥺💜
Yeah, I felt that. It's sad to think that he's experienced true loneliness
@@mcshreddies Well, it's not unreasonable to say that this age we're living in is a social dystopia- meaning it's designed very poorly for community, family and friendship, all of which are necessary for human-wellbeing.
@@mcshreddiesme too for the past 3-4 years I've been experiencing true loneliness and like isolation almost
yeah I'm in that state right now, high school was great, but I just don't understand the social life of college, parties aren't for me, I just go in and out of class, and I hardly know anyone, and while I'm not afraid of talking to girls like many guys in this situation are, as an introvert, I'm just not good at starting conversations with anyone, but hey he's found great people in his life through his work so the same might happen to the rest of us, personally I've always found it easier getting to know people when I was doing part time work than through courses
@@grey_f98 i hope u get better, :(
Call the 'Specials' Taking Out The Trash
That's unironically a fantastic name.
yo thats actually a hype name LMAO
Really a good name.
I think they are aware of this cause in some of the specials somebody else too commented this name
This needs to happen
This one went kinda deep. Really suprised by the lack of reaction. The boys waded into loneliness, kinks, cults, sexism and all that schizz. Opinions were wholesome all around and I can't help but be proud of them. They've all stared into the abyss and got away as better people and most important, they willingly talk about it. Love it guys!
Social sciences are nebulous so take it with a grain of salt. But I've read that due to falling purchase power, many members of the younger generation feels locked out of many things their parents took for granted, such a starting a family and purchasing real estate. With no improvement in sight, we become increasingly traumatised and become easy prey to services that monetise our porn addiction.
@@ausreir yeah this is the core issue. In 1960, a high school graduate with no skills could get a manufacturing job that paid the equivalent of ~$65k yearly. Meanwhile, an average family home cost about $75k, you could pay for a top-tier college education with a part-time job, competition for jobs and college was practically nonexistent, etc. There was trust in institutions, taxes actually paid for comprehensive services, and there was no social media systematically amplifying the most insipid, toxic, and corrosive aspects of human society. Climate change is becoming impossible to ignore, AI is threatening to upend society in the forseeable future, and stable western governments are falling into the authoritarian trap left and right. I'm fully aware of the "kids these days" fallacy and the tendency for people to always consider their time to be unique, but things are objectively on the brink right now.
This episode is called “trash taste” and they said many times before, you shouldn’t take their words seriously.
Conner said something like Japan is weird not allowing gay marriage but allowing a guy married to his DS in the middle part of this episode. However, I think it’s a BRUH moment for me. His point says a lot about himself. He think minorities like gay should be supported and gay marriage should be allowed in Japan, but minorities like fictosexuals are weirdos, their marriages are not allowed and they shouldn’t existed. Later he said “I felt torn because this guys looks genuinely happy, and I think people are entitled to their happiness”. So this is another example shows Conner is monke and always spitting out some random illogical self-contradictory nonsense bullshit without a logically consistent understanding in his own mind. He is kind of boomer is this sense and 5 steps of grief/facepalm/disbelief is kind of gold he finally said “it can’t be real, it gotta be publicity stunt, I don’t believe this is true” and Joey on the side just started to laugh🤣
Even though he explained what is asexual, I think he don’t a thing called “fictosexual”. And he don’t know in English speaking circle, fictosexual is considered as a member of asexual spectrum. (Reference: r/Asexual. “A visualization of the Asexuality Spectrum. 2022-02-03.)
@@ryana5435do not source Wikipedia friend lmao. wild comment. some people haven’t heard of that identity before so obviously it’s going to be weirder and harder to wrap your head around but I don’t think he said anything bad.
@@ryana5435wtf
Conor: All the engineering in Italy went to coffee machines
Charles Leclerc: you're goddam right
He can not get a break😂
Worst thing about Leclerc isn't his car, it's his fans. Almost as toxic as teamLH was in 2021
sadly true
I think Charles minds his strategy team more than either of those @@PolarBear_ed
Every time I'd hear his engineer ask him about any plan beyond letter C, I knew bad things were about to happen....
Honestly, Garnt's right about loneliness. I just recently learned to be comfortable in my own shoes and accept being alone. I used to feel very lonely and left out during my 11th and 12th grades, and I didn't really score well either, I was barely passing Physics and Chemistry lol. I just never wanted to study, and I went on a weird Henti and pron addiction, even tolerating and being exposed to weird kinks I never had in my wildest dreams. It just went on a downward spiral where I'd watch the most f-ed up stuff and feel nothing about it. I was an addict looking for a new fix. Add that to betrayals, I was basically a recluse. But getting into university, I just buried myself with work and projects and stuff like that so that no stray thought goes to my weird addiction. The thing is, it worked for a while, until I got my next horrible breakdown where I was just a mess for 4 months. I just couldn't stop crying lol. I'd get out and I'd just burst out crying for no reason. Like ugly sobbing and stuff, and I really didn't know how to deal with that at all. Therapy is basically non-existent in India, and I was just told to "not be sad" which didn't help. It was so goddamn hard to move out of that mindset and if I hadn't done some radical changes, I'd still be miserable.
Then, I started watching Trash Taste, and I found out that I wasn't alone, and everyone goes through that at some point in their lives. If I had money to burn, and there was a premium option in Tinder, I'd have 100% taken up on that offer, even if I knew that it didn't work. It's weird, but seeing you guys talk, I just copied some of your mannerisms, and I slowly built my confidence. I also kind of gave up trying to find happiness while being lonely (not like extreme Hikikomori, more like I stopped thinking too much about it.) That worked for me, and 2023 was basically the year I was rebuilding my life after 3 of my friends stabbed me in the back. It's a daily struggle to not get into the same mindset I was. I've traded in bad habits for other bad habits. I'm noticeably fatter and have some binge eating problems, but out of all the 21 years of my life, this is the best version I've been in. I'm able to earn decent money and not depend on my parents, which not many people have the privilege to.
TL:DR; Loneliness if a slow poison and it's hard but anyone can pull themselves out if you make a conscious effort. And boys, your weekly episodes have genuinely changed me for the better. You taught me to value my life as a human being even more and not waste my time trying to salvage broken relationships. I know this won't be seen, but thanks a lot boys!
Happy to hear it's getting better.
Even if there are still issues you're dealing with, steadily working on fixing them can be a snowball effect. The further you improve parts of your life, become more confident, knowledgeable, connected, the easier it is to grow and eventually fix other things like your appearance or a better living situation.
I admittedly say this not speaking from personal experience, having barely passed high school (though socially i progressed quite a bit. Going from a quiet kid to a quiet kid that isn't a total social wreck.)
I'm neglecting doing things that would better my future, soon to be 21. I live in a pretty toxic household with not a lot of opportunities I know of, solely hinging on the dream of sooner or later leaving and living on my own for some time, expecting that while it may be really hard, it'd still let me leave the stagnant part of my life.
So glad your doing OK now. I too have an porn addiction and it has effected me from making friends or relationships with people.
Really happy you're doing better and could gain lots out of the times with Trash Taste.
"Anyone can pull themselves out if you make a conscious effort" is a hard gut punch to me though. I feel so useless and have no more energy or motivation to try in the first place. I don't even know what to try.
@@sodecdash9336 Hey, baby steps man, just chill and don't overthink it. The less brain space you give it, the better it gets, man. Hope you get through tough times!
Can't believe we witnessed some alcohol peer-pressuring on my family friendly anime podcast
What peer pressure?
..have a beer!
ayo you call it “family friendly” even though this podcast have done some episodes about Hentai?
(Edit: after watching this episode for around 30 minutes, I can confirm this podcast is very family friendly 31:17 )
too many kids watch trash taste.
Anyways
*sips on beer*
r/woosh@@ryana5435
34:34 its not Parallel Paradise, thats a manga about a world of girls that yearns to mate with the extinct male race. Garnt was talking about a Manhwa called Sweet Guy and it is an amazing read
And that's why you're the GOAT
Yeah I thought that too cuz he said Manwha and not Manga
I love the boys but I cannot believe it took 184 episodes for someone to finally say 'I just said that' after garnt says something that the other boys have already said LMAO
EDIT: timestamp 2:15-3:30
LMAOOOOO 😭
i feel this...
My biggest pet peeve😂
They've said it before. I remember one was from connor and garnt was like..no I meant this.. lol back pedaled. Garnt has a hard time with some stuff on things he doesn't pre write and read. Almost every episode he repeats the same thing as one of the others or their wording. I think most of the time the boys let it go
Timestamp?
3 minutes in and Connor is agreeing with Garnt on something. There's been a breach in the timeline, i don't know what dimension i stumbled into.
The timeline where podcast is called MEN OF CULTURE
You know they've agreed on more occasions right? This is not the first time, the meme of them never agreeing is pretty old lol
3 minutes in and Garnt is repeating something Conor literally just said 20 seconds earlier
I can't believe they are adding chris and Pete as 4th and 5th trash taste members
I know right?? I'm super excited for this new arc of Trash Taste!!
And Kaho as the 6th
I can't wait for the 2nd set of hosts! 🎉🎉
Don't spread false info
Spoilers! Lol
1:36:09 Honestly was interesting how Mudan incorporated Connor's texts with his old roommate in, and just generally nice seeing that Connor had that good host/co-host energy even when he was just a roommate too.
(Also now listening to Joey's part in that segment, yh deffo know the folks he's talking about lol. I remember when he posted up his proper move to Japan in vlogs on the Joey channel, was deffo different times. I can only assume he prolly wasn't enjoying that experience for "other" reasons too, but hey, maybe it wasn't as bad as one would think. Though I'm sure Kat would've been a chill roommate prolly.)
The internet went ham over the “behind the scenes” it got ridiculous
@@Threebs_ what does this mean?? did they give him shit for it?
@@Threebs_ wait what happend 😂
The text thread between Conner and his ex roomie is by far the best surprise edit I've seen on TT
I was expecting to see more comments about that.
It was really sweet to read.
That wasn't actually their message to each other though? I thought it was just a meme, cause I doubt they would actually reveal what she said.
It was funny though
@@zerenityzerene4410 it sounded genuine enough, don't see why it would be faked.
@@Verchiel_it seemed quite fake to me, just overall. I would actually be surprised if that was real.
Edit: even Connor's messages seemed fake with the uwu and the boys filming trash taste at 2 am. Overall doesn't really matter either way, just didn't seem real to me
You got to remember that they live in Japan so it's 2 am where ever the roommates lives rn not that the boys are recording at 2 am in Japan the uwu is definitely something mudan added as a joke@@zerenityzerene4410
Garnt sharing about his loneliness was so open & raw. I remember watching a video about dating apps on Memeable Data & reading about the male experience with dating apps in the comment section was truly eye opening. We should normalize men talking about insecurities & genuine feelings more.
Trash Taste is literally going from the Top Gear phase, to the Grand Tour phase....
And I'm totally down for it
The iconic British trio will forever be legendary
This is the best comparison I’ve ever seen
Top gear was better than grand tour. But the specials are awesome
Now they just need to some car based challenges across Japan
To be truly grand tour they would need a lot of specials within a short span, and then only specials
Connor: *goes into a philosophical rant about the future throughout the episode*
Also Connor (45:14): *cheese*
*Monke brain mode activate*
joey and garnt js going with it and immediately moving on
I fucking love Trash Taste.
Even while struggling financially after a car accident on Christmas Day, Trash Taste never fails to make me laugh and give me an escape from stressful life events.
Please never stop bringing joy to those that need it.
hope everything goes well for you broski
@@RamdanRandom thanks man 💕
Car accident??😮
@@seasyrenn yeah, semi lost control and was stopped on the interstate blocking all the lanes. There was snow and wind, I couldn’t stop in enough time when I noticed
I think Connor right about the van / RV life. It seems to be a last option for a lot of people that can't afford housing. Unaffordable housing always seems to be part of that conversation.
1:05:00 "That's crazy that they would let a man marry a DS, but not let two gays marry." THAT'S WHY CONNOR IS THE GOATTT
L take, both shouldn't be able to marry
@googlemeister8459 bro just jealous that gay people can find sexual partners but you can't
@@googlemeister8459 dinosaur take.
wait holup whats a DS do they mean the console or is this some new underground internet fettish that i dont know of
@@siliconhawk the console
1:36:13 was a pleasant surprise to see some extra gfx magic this ep! ty to mudan and co. for letting us know the context of xina's texts while the convo continued (also just v funny to hear firsthand what connor was like as a flatmate XD). bless up for all the patient housemates out there in the world 🙏 as well as to another year of trash taste!! thanks for 3 years of being my friday wind-down laugh session best of luck on all the TT-on-the-move mini specials for 2024!
Xina,
Who?
Conner's (female) roommate, it it?
Connor's hair in this episode deserves an award in the trash taste awardw just by itself
What hair?
Covering up that hairline the best he can.
how are bald jokes still the only acceptable jokes about genetics one can't change lol
make one joke about fat people who could just lose weight and everybody hates you
Wow how mature of you🙄🙄
@@Mayu-xyxy Fat jokes are still acceptable. Especially in Japan.
Social media isn't real life.
1:36:15 "Weakness:... screaming at night"
LMAO here I thought the Connor screaming thing was just meme.
Also the strong points she listed are wholesome out of nowhere bro was a great roommate.
Congrats on another year of terrible takes, lets hope 2024 is even bigger
Bigger trash takes. 🎉
Can’t wait for even trashier takes next year^^
Connor saying "in our generation" when it's debatable if he's a millennial or gen z is weirdly funny to me 😂
Garnt and Joey is definitely millennials but connor is something between millennials and gen z and he's only 2 years older than me and im a gen z
As someone Connor's age, I think many of us do identify as millennials. Heck, I'm still wearing skinny jeans.
@@Freya_Blue yeah if you're on the borderline, it's however you identify. The exact cutoffs are ultimately arbitrary, and the definitions are hazy in the first place. It's all about average experience - as soon as you look at individuals and edge cases it loses meaning. However, there is a gigantic difference between the Millennials who remember a pre-internet world and didn't have social media until uni, and everyone born afterward. This throws a wrench into the whole thing because it's a different criteria that's out of phase with the formal generational cutoffs.
Hes very early Gen Z, hes a year older than me.
As someone just a year younger it's always been a situation to me where I'm too old to be fully gen z and too young to be fully millennial. I can relate with both sides.
They gotta call the outside episodes “Taking Out The Trash” or somthin crazy, it’s gotta be absolutely bonkers
Connor actually mentioned his unborn child without either giving it away, selling it or tading it with something else
*character development*
Wait what?
Omg yes 😂 Conner Junior finally can exist without him being in danger 😂😂
LMAO
That's so true.
Introducing them to alcohol early lol
@@ShadowOfMassDestructionteach em when they are young
I can speak for everyone when I say we are super excited for more specials! I think it is a core part of the TT fandom and has given us most of the memes.
I'm excited but also have zero expectations for them. They also said there would be more specials for 2023 but so far we only got 2, and one of them was just a vod of one of their tour
I expect: camping special.
I think the difference now it seems they have a plan of how to do it and no tour this year so more time
@@optinium1665Sometimes less is more
I want to say thank you to Connor on behalf of all the asexuals for clarifying that asexuality doesn't necessarily mean no romance.
It doesn’t even mean no sex. Some asexual people do have sex
@@hajarmdn4883 That’s… no? I mean yes, that’s true, but that’s missing the idea. Asexual people can have sex yeah, they aren’t allergic, but they don’t have a desire for sex.
You can have sex because you want to make your partner happy but some people just have low libido.
Just be normal
@@repingers9777 I refuse
Trash Taste Outside. Promising change for 2024!
not really, joeys still going to be involved
Trash Taste touching grass edition
Trash Taste touch grass
Camping special?
@@crashnielsThey already touch grass in all their specials though.
As someone who's been watching Trash Taste weekly since near the very beginning, I will say that I am very excited to see the new forms of videos in the new year, though I always will appreciate and look forward to the regular episodes of the boys just sitting down and chatting for two hours. This podcast has consistently brought me joy every week since that first time I clicked on the channel. Trash Taste gave me a place of belonging and just gave me something consistent in a time where so much was going on and changing, and still, so much is going on and changing. And yet, no matter what I had going on in my life, I knew I had a Trash Taste episode at the end of the week I could sit back and enjoy, and escape everything for two hours. And in the same way that you guys were here for me, I will be here at the end of every week, no matter the circumstances, to sit back, watch Trash Taste, and support you boys. I wish y'all the best in the new year!!
Interested in changes. I've tuned out of Trash Taste for much of this second half of the year. Maybe I've gotten older. Maybe the production got stale. I can't quite put my finger on why I've fallen out but I welcome a change and maybe it'll get me excited about the podcast again. Let's see what 2024 has in store for us all.
it because we have less time to watch, this year a lot of people got back to work. so the guys were doing so much stuff for there own youtube stuff that podcast fell to the side for them and watching enough of trash tastes you slowly get the feeling that they want to cut back on the podcast just to get throught it.
i got a ticket to the live show but never went, found out too late it was at an awkward location but then realised i wasnt watching since a few of the guests didnt click for me, then i saw the show a bit differently since i think.
Also, yeah sameness between episodes, i saw i was kinda just getting through episodes rather than watching and enjoying them
@@jackleface2903completely disagree i truly just believe its a natural phenomena for most podcasts that don’t have guests on every week or talk about actual news that they will all simply run out of things to talk about that interest people and again over time will die out. Additionally for non NA viewers the constant tours would produce several shit filler episodes with nothing in them just due to trash taste wanting to stick to never missing an upload. The only rhing though i wish they didnt do is kill afterdark because those streams truly were great and it felt like it was going to surpass the main channel in enjoyment.
I feel you man I realized I’ve mainly watched the episodes with guests
@@savio953 After Dark solved the problem with "running out of things to talk about" because they could literally play a different game every week or eat different foods every week and always have something to talk about. It's such a shame it got shelved for so long.
"the act of existing keeps getting harder" they said as they have a table filled with beer and ham 😂😂😂😂
Probably he means things getting more nihilistic and dehumanizing.
Existing gets hard when you spend your days with headphones in.
At some point your head should be in the same place as your feet.
If only beer and snack could nourish your soul
@crushinnihilism I really like this comment! I think there are a lot of problems with constantly having your mind occupied with internet bs. But also y'know, I think their point was that having a place to live and food to eat is getting ridiculously expensive for the average person compared to previous generations. My mom bought her first home at 22 with a baby, now I'm 22 and I can't imagine being able to afford a down payment OR a child as a single parent, let alone both. The TT bois are rich TH-camrs, but they are still aware of and empathetic to the way most people struggle right now and I appreciate that.
@@luvuberrymuch49 firstly, thank you. I think not being in the matrix sometimes is important.
Secondly, I get suspect about these claims about living. The same people complaining about money are eating out every night and frequent starbucks.
Im worknat walmart, and Its always people living outside their means who complain about how expensive life is.
That said, epmires rise and fade. As does the value of currency. All currency eventually trades at 0. We were just born at an unfortunate time of a grand cycle.
The way universities get around you not using old textbooks is they have all the homework online behind a key that you can only get by buying the brand new book that is exactly the same as last year's book woth the chapters rearranged. I failed like 3 classes because i refused to buy brand new books and my parents refused to buy the new ones also even when i told them.
I for one, don't find loneliness painful. It's quite peaceful actually. I try to live by a few things.
1. If you can't take it 24 hours at a time, it ain't going to get better with a partner. Learn to tolerate solitude.
2. Prioritise long-term wellbeing over short-term happiness. Work at something, no matter how small, and dedicate time to it.
3. Don't take yourself too seriously. The world will not notice if I disappeared tomorrow and I'm perfectly okay with that.
I'm just curious, if you ever get the feeling you want to to talk to someone, what do you do specifically ?
Yeah this only works when you’re doing things that aren’t too important but if you want to take a vacation, or go to a concert, festivals, or any kind of medical emergency you definitely will want someone there. And theirs nothing wrong with wanting that. If anything wanting to live a solitary life is selfish.
I really prefer solo travelling, maybe i am selfish, but i absolutely love being alone in a foreign place
@@yunyunpilled Both are selfish.
@@kairos_fluent Well, personally for me, I just randomly go up to someone and talk for a while (I'm in university) and I can talk to strangers pretty easily (most of the time, they also don't mind), so I do that. It's the feeling of closeness and stuff that I can't gel with nor am I able to do stuff like that. In that aspect I sometimes feel lonely. Hope that answered your question.
Connors point about being pessimistic towards the future resonated with me. I graduate high school this year (Grade 12) and I seriously don't know what to look forward to. Especially considering housing and such is so bad and only getting worse. The only thing I and my friends can do is to try to look through a positive lens, and enjoy the small things in life. :)
Dude, even like say 2 decades ago, you were not going to buy a house immediately after graduation. You were still going to struggle with college debt, and likely not own a home until you got married and got like a family in your late 20's early 30's.
Housing is going to be the least of our worries. This cope that "every generation says the next generation is doomed" doesn't hold water. We've never lived in a world more susceptible to pandemics (due to Gain of Function research and increased global travel), previous generations weren't facing a near future when much of the earth can no longer support crops and billions die from starvation and wars of migration, mental health has never been so fucked because humanity is not built for the internet, AI is a much bigger threat than people realize, and another thing people don't realize is that the threat of nuclear war is as high as it's ever been. The world IS fucked in ways it never has been before
@@OhGeeGanksta To be fair, he didn't say "buying a house"; he said "housing". Many US universities have hit a point of not having enough on campus housing to meet the needs of the incoming freshmen they require to live on campus, and upperclassmen in many universities are fighting to find off-campus housing they can afford, even with six to eight people paying for it, that's close enough to campus.
@@fooguwuyou're mental lmao we've survived blights, floods, famine, plagues, wars and we're going to continue surviving them
Do not go to uni if you just feel like you don't know what to do. Be forklift certified😌
Connor pointing out and debunking the stereotype of asexuality = being aromantic warms my heart. He's not a part of the ace community but he's still being kind towards them and that's pretty rare online.
The ace community accepts Connor as our own
another point for connor 🤪
Tbh I relate more to the DS guy than most asexuals. It's too much of an integral part of me and its absence would be a complete game changer.
Maybe connor feels different.
I was looking for this comment! It made me so happy to hear him say that🥹💜
As someone who's gravitating towards the aro spectrum, was surprised and grateful to hear it. Not many people do think to differentiate the two.
Episode 184 and I'm still waiting for Sharla as a guest. She's lived in Japan for like 20 years, she's had a couple of interesting jobs, she runs an inn, etc. Surely there's lots to talk about. Plus they could all roast Chris.
-She's lived in Japan for like 20 years
Isn't she Canadian?
@@Jepze158 and that changes what?
@@mopslikvonsteinWhy do you sound offended? He is just confused on how could she be living in Japan for 20 years when she is Canadian and asks a question so that you can clear it.
We’ve gotten through another year and I hope the year ahead brings nothing but goodness 🙏🏻
connor: "I want to rise a mil for charity"
Garnt: "I want to play more genshin man!"
LOL.
Another good year of me really enjoying trash taste. I hope they at least give us 500 episodes
The manhwa they're talking about at 34:28 - It's "He does a body good" (or "Sweet guy", in other translations). Not the one shown on screen. You're all welcome.
1:36:11 Showing her messages on screen was a nice touch!
what a great way to end of 2023. You guys are awesome, I don't mind the less activity on podcasts. I feel the specials or TT outside is a great way of entertainment but i do understand they are much harder to produce, overall I feel this new direction for TT is gonna be incredible
I can't stop starring (respectfully) at Connor's hair. I mean, that volume! Jokes aside, thank you so much for another year! Looking forward to whatever you choose to do!
Connor really has an Uber eats addiction. Bro has a whole ass kitchen with an oven and he choses to order food instead of cooking for himself. Bro can make a salad at home easily😭
Probably because its cheaper?
He said in an old ep that ordering uber eats is cheaper than cooking. He rounded it up, time and expenses iirc. But yeah, cooking for yourself is a good thing to do every once in a while.
@@azidndthat makes sense but it’s sad Connor isn’t using his nice kitchen he’s got
Unless you’re really passionate about cooking or you’re cooking for guests like it’s more than two people, it’s actually way more expensive unless you buy in bulk… during a TimeSale which is like 3pm on a Thursday Afternoon for Leeks at a specific Grocery Store in Suginami-ku and you have to freeze it and Japanese freezers are TINY.
@@Bazilisk_AUDang, in my country, I can cook three meals for the price of one Uber eat
Fun fact about the generation thing
Socrates was talking back in ancient Greece how new generations were losing their memory due to writing...
It truly never changes...
The funny thing is that he is not wrong; evolutionarily, having good memories is because information is not permanent. Once you not only get it down but also standardize it such that you do not have to remember, over time remembrance becomes less necessary and people forget stuff more easily.
Connor is like that reasonable fun uncle who will give you advice but also give you your first beer.
Almost a perfect upload schedule for 2023.
Almost...
They fumble at the last second.
The upload schedule had a couple slip ups before this one lol
Wait what was the fumble?
@@aartasian8852I’m assuming they mean they could’ve waited a few days to make this come out on the Eve/New Year; if I’m correct, the problem with that mentality is that they’re assuming everyone watches these videos the day it comes out when it could easily also be a podcast treat saved for a few days.
It’s also probably them trying to make a little joke and so let’s just let them have it.
1:23:48 that’s wild to me, when i was in uni my professors sometimes explicitly told us to NOT buy the book-to buy second hand older editions, to scan pages from library versions, or to straight-up pirate the pdfs
Joey correcting the name of his "wife" was so hilarious HAHAHAHA
18:20 no, Connor. Other cities on Earth does do that. When I was in the Philippines, I used to frequent this small fried chicken stall in the corner near my apartment. After a while, the vendor would call out to me calling me "sukke" or something (sorry filipinos I don't know how it is spelled). I then asked a friend of mine what that means and he told me it's what vendors call frequent customers. They literally have a word of endearment for repeat customers.
I only knew a few words in Japanese but I was able to have a few conversations in Japan all being at bars. The bars there are SUPER friendly but stick to smaller places that are not tourist traps
1:40:27 For me as an introvert, that's a no to being roommates with friends or co-workers unless they are also introverted. Being neighbors with them would be fine. You already see and are with them most of the day, then I would crave some alone time by the end of the day. There's no such thing as being alone together because that is just uncomfortable awkward silence.
As a traveling barista having to taste a lot of coffee all the time id love decaf varieties of beans while keeping unique and delicious flavours, would make my work life so much easier 😂
The talk about drinking cultures really hit me. I'm in Australia and I've been sober for 3 and a half years now and it is not easy. You feel so isolated and judged. It took time but now I have a great network of friends who never judge or pressure me to drink, but anyone outside of it is scary.
basically my experience living in ireland in a nutshell too. I just want the fizzy grass water everyones obsessed with
Conner needs to try non alcoholic corona beer. It tastes just like regular corona. I can’t have alcohol, dang allergy messes me up.
Well, it has hardly any flavour in its alcoholic variant, sooo.. 😉
He needs to try the zero Heineken
Non-alcoholic Guinness also tastes the same... Just as watery and meh as the regular stuff. (I've only had Guinness in Finland and Germany, people keep telling me that it's different in the UK, but I don't believe it until I get a chance to taste it myself)
Actually a banger episode, talking about the struggles of loneliness and the life of being a Uni student. Was funny how relatable the ticks about living with flatmates was.
I just got engaged to my boyfriend who was my first and only date from tinder! Before that I had only ever dated girls I met irl. But one day I had been single for a few months so I decide to try online dating just to find a summer flirt, and because I thought it might be easier to find out gay people that way since we’re a rare breed here haha. I made an account and within five minutes he super liked me and sent me a message, a few days later we had an amazing first date, half a year later I moved in with him, and three years after that he proposed. I’m fully aware that my experience isn’t the norm tho, because my fiancé has a ton of tinder horror stories. He entertains me with the tales of his suffering sometimes, and I tease him with how he had to do all the work and kiss all the frogs while I just made an account for about five minutes😂❤️
My Uni never forced me to buy books. They literally suggested books written by them or other colleagues and never pushed further. In fact the provided some books for free. I bought 1 that I never opened and never bought one again. The one thing uni was supposed to teach me "social life" was ruined by covid i barely even know most of my colleagues still. I did semi-recently and im much more social. But uni wasnt really a contributor.
"Trash Taste: Outside" sounds like an amazing idea 😊 Looking forward to 2024 🎉
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I heard about Universities forcing students to buy textbooks a while ago and it blew my mind, I could've never imagined it. In my country teachers would never force you to buy a certain book, and especially in University, teachers only suggest which one they prefer, but no one is forced to use one in particular. And on top of that, a lot of my teachers also told us not to buy them because they are expensive and instead suggested to use the ones of the library, which is free. I think some teachers even shared with us their pdf versions of the book so that we didn't need to buy them.
Who buys textbooks when Libgen exists?
Absolute banger of a final episode for the year. Loved all the points touched. Probably one of my favorite episodes
"that's crazy they would let a man marry a ds but not let two gays marry" tell me why i laughed so hard lmao
Influenza that Connor was talking about was Spanish Flu and it was brought to Europe by American soldiers. (Literally from Kansas) So hos point kinds scuff.
On Apology, a book written by Aaron Lazare is a very good book on apologies. Most people could benefit from reading it.
HOW HAVE WE INJOYED 184 EPISODES IT FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY THE SIERS CAME OUT
I'm not going to defend New York bread, but I will say I have noticed a marked decrease in quality of the common pizza when you get away from the New York/CT area, and its commonly (note that does not mean correctly) attributed to the water.
Hearing their talk about uni and socializing being the most useful thing there made me very sad. Started uni during first year of pandemic, the first 2 years of lectures were online and by that point no one was interested in getting to know eachother and were dreading the study course. Really it was a horrible experience, dont think i got any value from it
Sorry to hear that. I just got into uni around 2022 (foundation year)
And now I'm almost finishing my first year.
@@sagemaster1357 hope you have a good uni experience and you like it
In my case me and my colleagues have such different core beliefs that communication in good faith is nigh impossible.
Goals for 2024:
Pack 30 boxes for Operation Christmas Child.
Rearrange & Update my bedroom with much needed improvements.
Shop more locally.
Travel somewhere for vacation.
Im 100% non-alc beer gang for pretty much all the reasons Connor stated. He gets it.
1:48:00 The way boys talked about how there were "no games" this year
made me wonder if there was an unlimited amount of bacon involved
Part of the reason Door-To-Door Salesman are soo pushy and mean sometimes, is cause the end goal is there hoping you get mad enough to call the company and complain, and then they will offer you a discount or some other deal to apologize, when in reality there told to be rude and pushy on purpose from the start.
Noo, that can't be. Some people just fold under pressure.
14:57 the actual reason for it being forbidden is that it takes the mind away so you don't have the ability to make sound decisions.
As usual great episode.
I feel like Sydney would be the type to get jealous at the elderly woman at the konbini where Garnt frequents, and he's all like "don't worry about it" while getting spoonfed and told "いい子いい子" by the nice old lady
I feel like Sydney being a huge perv that she would be on Garnt's ass all the damn time, ball and chain style
Lmao 💀
rooming w ppl def makes or breaks friendships fr. had a roommate who was both inconsiderate, loud, AND didnt pay for shit who used to be a friend
Are we finally getting The Girls episode with Sydney, Aki, and Mouse replacing The Boys?
God I hope so
Please not mouse, meilyne instead
@@Che1seabluesdrogba11 I want mouse but it won't be possible unless they do an episode wherever she lives due to her condition, but meilyne would be a good third member as well.
The start of 2023 was just aweful for me! This whole year was nothing but filled with a severe case of "Lumbar Vertebral Osteomyelitis"
And Im just 32 years old and I got two jobs that I walk too.
Yourself can do the simple match and figure out how litteral painful it was for my case.
Another year of Trash Taste ends but so does another start. I'm looking forward to what you guys put out next
Hearing Garnt say that Joey gives off Luigi vibes is such an amazing out-of-context clip 😂
People who say college or uni is where you become a person and learn to socialize are odd to me because i didnt go to college until i was 25 and i certainly knew how to exist
So fun fact about Kinks: there’s been studies that show that kinks are almost entirely hereditary or based in previous trauma. Meaning that you either gained the kink as a way to cope with a traumatic experience or because someone else in your family had it.
Wow, the last episode of the year. Coincidentally, I also had a few beers today, so cheers everyone. Be happy you made completed another year and do your best for the next one.
When Connor did the interrogation analysis i got chills because it's almost exactly like how they usually narrate those videos
I can’t believe they will add mr affable to the podcast as a permanent member
When did they say this ?
I started Trails in 2023 because of Joey and Garnt and I loved all five of the first games I've played! Thanks guys.
I would love to see more competition videos like the figure challenge where you each have your own video and then come together on trash taste.
Im telling my kids that the latex vaccuum cube person is Gojo in the Prison Realm.
This feels like the first actual episode of Trash Taste in a long while. The previous episodes honestly all felt like After Dark episodes which weren't bad but they definitely felt like something else. With that being said, I'm actually pretty excited about the idea of the boys getting out of the studio and filming more things specifically for Trash Taste since "specials" are few and far between.
1:24:06 After my first semester in uni I just waited a week or two to see if we actually need the "required" textboks 75% of the time you didn't need the textbook at all. The profs either didn't use them, reference them, or even give recommended or required readings. I started this after my first year because of one of my profs. Our university had a required and recommended list of reading for every course. This class had around 15 - 20 books on the required reading list so every got them thinking okay we will be going over each of these. Nope we read and did one novel the rest were just books the professor thought we should have in general. We are talking like over a grand in books we didn't touch. I noticed most of my classes that did use their books didn't start using until after the first and sometimes second week. Well, I ended up waiting until then to see what books the prof would use and I end up saving thousands of dollars by doing this. I did however have a clas that we read 3 to 8 books a week for an entire semester. Even worse is the books were only available at the library in section that only allowed you to take those books out for an hour or two. Otherwise you couldn't buy them the uni so you would have to order them online or figure something out. well, to no ones surprise the class went from 45 people to 12 (it wasn't an intro class). The only silver lining was that the whole class was marked on discussion stuff. So we were split into two groups which alternated between making discussion questions or answering them for each reading(s) for that day. We had to roughly transcribe what was said and give our questions to the prof. The prof guided the discussions and we were marked on how well our questions were crafted, how the disucssion went, and most importantly how indepth we went into the reading(s). After the first two weeks it was actually kind of fun because you kind of just fell into a habit of reading. We probably read 50 books just for that class during the semester and some of the readings were relevant to some of my other classes so it helped me that way. I'm just glad I didn't have to buy the books becuase it would probably have completely made me broke.
Looking forward to 2024, sorry to see after dark is going away to be replaced by the Patreon exclusive, glad to see the outdoor episodes and I hope they do amazingly!
Glad Connor jumped in with the Great Depression example, because that is what was going on through my head when asking "Has there been a time when DEPRESSION has been as GREAT as it is today."
Connor in general has been pushed to notice a bigger narrative he hasn’t yet fully understood. But the spirit giving him these realizations didn’t come from his own background, rather they come from his ties with Mouse. If you looked into Mouse and her family, their faith is one that is centered on a God more powerful than the gods the evil elites worshipped.
Who proclaims: “I am the way, the TRUTH, and the life.”
You too are being pushed to notice the bigger picture.
I saw an article saying that the US and Canada will have serious power outages due to big tech companies and the cost of electricity is too much. There's nothing to be happy about.
Yeah, alot of the US doesn't have somewhat modern infrastructure
Collective depression for Millennials and Gen Z are indeed due to network knowledge (social media, news, etc.) and having it generally fine enough to worry about the level above your day to day.
A hundred years ago you had less time to worry about the future because you were in the factory all day from the time you were 17 or younger. The percentage of our time, money and energy (physical and mental) that we spend on survival is going down. That also affects many other things mentioned this episode.
“italian doesn’t engineer anything other than espresso machine”
ferrari, lamborghini, pagani, alfa romeo, maserati, and fiat are all sobbing right now…
To be fair, as much as I love my Fiat, it is kind of trash 😂
Ferrari 🤡
let's how they fuck up in 2024😂
I watched Trash Taste for the first few episodes during peak Covid 19 but fell off, the last few weeks i had been getting really back into Conners videos and that brought me back to the Trash Taste and i have to say that you guys have been helping me through a tough time, the current state of the Podcast be great,camt wait for 2024 episodes
Most people don’t want to live in their cars. The countries answer to homelessness is parking lots you can live in your car at.
I like how meticulous you guys work together for Trash Taste. Thank you all for your hard work and I can't wait for next year to be just as great.
Connor’s laugh ALWAYS gives me life 😭💕