The Trash Taste 2025 Year in Review | Trash Taste #288

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That was, I'm going to start off this episode with a positive. Please. With glasses. God damn, is it the more you live, the more you're like finding positives in life is just like holding harder? Yeah. Especially being on the internet. But yeah, we hit our big milestone this year. Didn't think half a decade. Yeah, didn't think we'd fucking, didn't think we'd get here. I don't think anyone expected us to get here. Yeah, this is we're very close to episode 300 with this, right? Like that's Jesus. It's a big milestone. 300 episodes. I think we're very close. Holy fuck. Yeah, I think we're going to hit it. 292. We're at 292 right now. Yes, they're very close. Maybe we're in next year. We'll be 300. Damn. Holy shit. That's so random. I just watched 300 years last week. Is that actually? Yeah. What the movie? Yeah. What a coincidence. Damn. That's a very movie to watch. It's faded, bro. It's so good. It's so good. I fucking outbought this best role. I forgot how good it was just seeing it as a 16 year old kid and then real experiencing it as a 35 year old guy. It is the most broad pumping thing a man can watch. Whenever that came on, halfway through the movie on TV, you know, it was like, what the fuck is this? It looks so distinct because the call of power is so dark as well. Yeah. And before action-eyed like slow mo. Yeah, before the, the Schneider like slow mo kind of like aesthetic became meme all the time. I'm like, yo, this shit popped off back. Oh my god, dude. It's great to rewatch too. It is. It is. Yeah. Because I remember the first time I experienced it was actually in cinemas and you watch a shit in cinemas. Damn you old. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, bro. Yeah, I didn't come out. Damn you old. When it went in 300 come out. Yeah, I am old. Damn. Yeah, I was 17 when it came out. I was a lot of it. Bro, this shit. This shit as a 17 year old, this, this, this, I went in the cinemas boy came out a man. Yeah. Literally, this was my puberty right here. This would make you want to fucking lock in in life. Yeah. Have you ever been in the cinema where outside of like laughter, you've had a moment where people are like, you know, just putting like gas, but you've heard like a noise like come out. Because I remember the first time I heard it in cinemas was the scene that the final scenes on the spot is for 300, the final scene. Yeah. Yeah. It's a historical. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking fucking the the ending scene where Leonis throws the. I checked it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And you could like, you heard a pin drop in the cinema and then it missed and the entire cinema just gasped in unison. That's the like I've heard like last before, but this is like the first and maybe only time I've just genuinely heard like like because he was like no fucking way. But you you want him to hit it. Yeah. Everything your body wants you to hit it. Yeah. Of course he misses. God. It's so good. I think I also remember at the time as well, there was like a weird like not controversy I would say, but there was like a hugely discussion piece about like because you know, obviously like the story of the Spartans going up against the Persians is like based on you know, what happened in history. Yeah. But like so a lot of people are like, oh yeah, this is like at the time I remember people saying like this is the one of the most historically accurate what films about, you know, the songs and shit like that. Or no one knows around. What? But then I also found out that like a Xerxes, the the leader of the Persians at the time was like in this movie, he's like this giant fucking like seven foot monster. Yeah. But just towers over Leonidas apparently those season real life was like five feet. I think most people by them are five feet. Yeah. I'm still five feet. Look, I'm still five feet. Look, this is the ancient gaslighting technique, you know, you you you have to portray yourself. I mean, literally in this movie, it's it's it is also a gaslight because it's actually like the story being told through the surviving member of the so it might not even be it's probably not even like 300, you know. Yeah, but there's also a part of me that was like maybe it's actually not like saw them was just like nah, let's make him a seven foot monster just because it'll just make it that much more epic for the film like. Yeah, I mean, God's something like the cinematography in this film and just it's just pure adrenaline and fucking visual cocaine from beginning to when totally. Do you think you could have locked in a middle spot? No. I'm a be real man. I wish I go down wish. I'm the guy who was just like what is your job? And I'm like, I'm a potter, sir. Look, I'm a carpenter. Somebody has to make the bread. I can make the bread for you. It's like you come in a war with like now I'm sticking back. Yeah, I got a pot to make. Yeah. Like okay, I'll get like the fucking pitch fork. I don't know what to do. And then whenever you talk about the stuff like this, there's always a one guy in the comments be like, actually, the bread maker was the who was the one who got to fuck all the wives because in Spartan culture, the bread guy was the most important. You're like, okay, even back there, the bread maker gets all the pussy. The Spartan guy, you're like, he's Spartan's for you. They had to figure it out. Yeah. So what job do you think you'd want if you were born in like ancient or medieval times, man? Because hey, hey, no, I know we'd be peasants, bro. Yeah, we'd be stuck. Well, yeah, we'd be like fucking moving rocks. I'd be a rock A to rock being a man. Bro, I mean, I'd want to be a blacksmith. I don't know. The traveling con man sounds traveling, traveling, traveling, selling, ointments and snake oils. Yeah, merchant, merchant, merchant. That's tied, honestly. Merchant would be cool because it also, you also get to like travel the world and shit, you know, interact with other people. Okay, I'm getting soft topic here, but merchant, I just did like four jumps of like connection. Yeah. Obviously, they're watching it like what's cool merchants, the merchant from Vindland Saga, really cool. And then I was cleaning my house yesterday and I just try to get pretty sad. There was this thing that was like, it was just like a, like a, a poster that was like wrapped up in like plastic. Yeah. And I was like, I was just going to throw it away. I was like, I don't need this poster. But I opened it up and I was like, what is this poster? And I'm, I'm opening it. I'm like, oh, it's Vindland Saga season, season two. And then I kept it really more. I was like, signed by the director. Why do I have this? I don't know. I get this. When I got this gone. Oh, did you meet the director of villain saga at any point? I don't think I did, but I have a signed poster of villain saga season two from the director. And I was like, is this gone? Did I somehow get gone? There is two possibilities. Tell me. Okay. Number one, could be you just given to it, given it at a anime expo, because me and Joey hosted a villain saga panel. Yeah. And then there was a win-engine and your director was there, or somehow, you got it with my interview with Makota Yukimura. I feel like AX probably makes more sense. And you think so, yeah. But this is like, unearthing like, like, like an unboxed, like, a bookmark. And it's just in the fucking corner. It was literally, like, it was like, covered in dust in this plastic wrap. It was, it was all in good qualities, yeah, but I, when I opened it, I was like, oh, what was it doing here? It's like, eh, it just thrown away, you know, whatever. It just thrown away. I was like, I don't, I've just so much crap around. I had to throw things away, so I had to clean things. And I was like, what the fuck is this doing here? It's like cleaning out your fucking funny, like a hundred old bills. Like what the fuck? What the fuck? I was like, what the hell? I've got like a piece of history in my apartment and I was just gonna throw it out. Sorry, I was just completely leaped. I was like, what the fuck, when did I get this? Along the way from merchant to that. What do you think merchant, villain saga merchant was cool? villain saga, I just found a villain saga merchant. When did I find this? I know God would know the answer. Bro, Bro's unlocked the ADHD technique. Yes, that's just, that's just my brain every day. It was six degrees of separation with everything. I just have coffee to like, alright. I'm awake now, but yeah, 2025, how's your 2025 been? It was good. It was, at least for me, it was way more children-loving. On a tier list. tier list. What compared to like, S to S, S, S to S to F. tier list. We're gonna do one out 10s there. We're YouTubers, we do tier list. I don't know. I've so much to think about. So many caveats to juggle. I don't know, maybe like a, like a B or an A, I'd say. This is a pretty good year for me. Pretty good year. I got engaged, you know. I got a fairer job. That's just, you gotta have, you gotta play a B. You gotta get engaged, but you gotta get engaged. Yeah, it's an A. It's an A. It's an A for a B. It's an A. But then, yeah, you know, and then I did a lot less traveling this year. So I was just mostly chilling in Japan. I got to, I feel like I got to properly, like, just spend time and go around Japan again. Yeah. Because I feel like we hadn't done that since after COVID ended and, you know, there was at least for us, there was that huge rush for the last two or three years of just like, we're going overseas, we're doing tours, we're going to, going every fucking convention under the sun. Yeah. So this year was kind of just like the, the call down after that where I was just like, yeah, I'll do a bit of traveling, but also I'll just, I don't know, explore the country I fucking live in. Yeah. Yeah. What do I do guys? A S to F. How was your music? I was using C or D. Really? C or D? That's right. Wow. Yeah. You just live in, man. What? You exist in. I don't know. I felt like it was quite, I mean, obviously despite all the turmoil in the world. Yeah. It's really, yeah. I'm not taking that in on the camera. No. You can't, I can't help but like, you know, that kind of bleeds in a little bit to like how you feel about things. Yeah. For sure. I don't know. There's certain things that personally I think I wish could have gone better or whatever, but you know, obviously you won't get into all that all of that now. But you're like, damn, I wish I can have handled a couple of things different. But you know, how life generally is. And then you feel like sometimes you're like, I kind of wish I could process certain things a bit better as well. But yeah, so overall it's pretty good. Yeah, definitely hoping that next year will be better. But I mean, I feel like it's always good to try and look on the bright side of this. No, not totally. Totally. No, not that it was bad to you about it means, but always wanted to be as an existing year. It's a year of use. Yeah, like not a bad, not good. Yeah, there's a lot of, that's why I like see is like, I think there's a lot to improve on. Yeah, a lot worse, good bit of death. Yeah. That's like, I don't know. Dying. Dying is an F. But you know, I think there's always things to improve. But I'm always really like mindful. Especially this time of year when you look back and you're like, what went well? What am I grateful for? What did I wish could have done differently or who should I have spent more time with? Or who should I have reached out to more? Yeah, I think these, I mean, maybe I'm reaching the big three. Are they like these things? Oh, shit. These things pop up. It's happening. It's happening. Come join us. Well, yeah, I mean, I feel like it is inevitable that you're kind of life priorities in your head start to be like, all right, what am I, what am I trying to do here? Yeah, what's the, what's the, what's the, what's the end go here? What's the end game look like? Yeah, I don't know. So there's a lot of, a lot of thinking, a lot of thinking this year. I've never stopped. I've never stopped. I've never stopped. Yeah, I've never stopped. If anything, it just escalates once you hit the enemy. Yeah, I think it's a, it's always an interesting thing, right? Because we're always doing so much work and stuff and traveling. Yeah. You always don't give enough time for yourself. So I'm always trying to figure out how to balance all that. Yeah. That was kind of what it was for me this year as well. Like, ever since I hit 30, I also went through that stereotypical like 30 year old man thing which is to like really start like self reflecting on just like, not just like where you are in life, but where you are like as a person as well. So like, I, this year and last year, I personally made a lot of like, not big changes, but I'd say like, you know, lots of small little changes to my life and like my viewpoints and like have a one-of-life and like, I feel like 2024, once I hit 30, that was kind of the year where I was still trying to figure out all that shit out. And then I feel like I started committing to it this year and it's really improved a lot of things just about my personal life. So like, yeah, that's why I gave it like an A because it's just like compared to last year, I feel like I've finally started to get like my footing in life. You know, that sounds kind of cheesy to say, but like, that's why like next year, I want to just like keep that going. Yeah. Yeah, getting your footing life and you're like, shit, I'm 30 man. Yeah. I've only won now. I've already figured this out. Yeah, I'm 31. I'm like, you know, I should probably start getting my shit together. You know what my life feels like every so turn 30. You know, the fucking image of the rabbit like points to the clock. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't even know what it's counting down to, but like that's what I constantly feel like like shit. Yeah. I got to figure this shit out. Yeah. I mean, it was 25. It would have been, it would have been an S if some things hadn't happened within the year. It's caused me a lot of stress, but genuinely, generally, happy ending and got to, I mean, I got to do a live dream this year. Yeah. Fuck yeah. Of course, it's, it was always going to rate high, but now I'm just like, shit, is this the peak? Is this it? Yeah, can we get much higher? Yeah, can we get much higher? But like career wise, obviously, very much highlights, personal wise, definitely would like more time in my personal life going forward. I wish that for the two. We're doing career and personal. I guess I would have personal. I mean, I think it's fair enough to me. Yeah. Because it's a fucking, it's an absolutely fucking balancing act, which is like, okay, you put more time into your career. Personal life kind of like suffers. And sometimes you're just like, shit, you get to that stage where you're like, is this worth all this time and effort I'm putting into my career, you know, or like, or whatever work that you do, or do you find other priorities? And I think finding that balance is something you're constantly fighting with, especially when you turn 30 because you're 20s, you're just like, yo, I got to make bank man. Yeah. I got to make grinds. I got a grind as much as possible. And then you get older and you're like, wait, is there more to life than just that? Is there more to life than the grind? The answer is yes, actually, for a lot of people. And I'm not going to say that next year, I'm going to travel less because every time I say it, it's a fucking lie. I fucking like traveling now. I just decided. Yeah. And I'm gonna be the real me. I like it. You're fully committing. I like it. I mean, how many, did you do more flights this year than last year? Fuck yeah. Or is it roughly the same? Because I feel like you're in the fucking US like every other week this year. Yeah, which is citizenship. Yeah, but. Where can you be in your car? I fucking deserve it. Managlasum. Yeah. No, I mean, a lot, but also not that difficult to go to LA. It's like a 10 hour flight and you can get it at midnight. I'm like, aren't you with me on my land? So it's really like not that big of a deal. Anything is like the travel days can be annoying sometimes, but not immigration as an eye. As it always is. Yeah. As we all are. Yeah. I do have the easiest way. It's painfully asked, but I mean, traveling to like, when we went to like Portugal, like that 20 hours versus 10 hours, there's an extra 10 hours. I feel like an extra 40. Like that. Yeah. Go in there like it's kind of like a. Because it constantly. It's the entire 20 hours, right? Yeah. Yeah. And then like we flew to Okinawa and that was like a three hour flight and that felt nothing. Although then like I realized, you know, we I left for the airport at like eight and I didn't get to the hotel like 5 p.m. So like it was kind of like a crazy long time. Yeah. It felt like whatever. Yeah. For sure. Sorry. It's weird travel in general, but I like doing it. I realized I don't think I just like it. I like the vibe. Everyone's gone places. Yeah. That is the definition of travel. I like going to the airport. It's fun. I don't know. I don't mind it now. I feel like you just get so used to it and like. Again, like one of the one of the biggest things and one of the the privileges that we have, obviously is that you know, we can afford travel and that we have if things go wrong, we're in the financial financial position where we can kind of, you know, fix any problems that might arise. Yeah. I think for me, like when I used to travel, it was like if this flight gets delayed and my hotel gets fucked up, like I financially cannot recover from this. So that's like when it would get really stressful. But now if it's like, okay, well, I mean, I've still never missed a flight. Mm-hmm. A lot of things. Okay. Please. I've still never missed a flight. I've never had a massive flight cancellation, anything like that. Yeah. Which I feel like it's kind of crazy the amount I travel. Right? Yeah, that is. I've heard from everyone at least that flight gets canceled every now and then, but I've never had a flight before he canceled. I would need to know. National flight cancel dawns. Yeah, I've had like one hour. I wish. I wish. What are flights? Like it's been like Europe as well. It's like you miss what fucking roll the dice every time you show up to the airport. Yeah. Yeah. But like I've never had like a long international flight be canceled or anything. So I, you know, I haven't had gone go through that stress yet, but even when I have a awful, even when I've had situation to like layovers have been canceled and stuck in the airport, it's like, I don't know. And you just got to have that attitude of like, all right, just let's just fucking place some steam deck games until like, what can I do? You know, getting a phone flight TV, you know, getting upset about it. Yeah. So I like traveling and I think I'll do more. It's a TLDR. Sorry. So me, it's like because I've experienced cancellations and long flights, both domestic and international. Well, yeah, because I mean, look, I'm jealous because I don't want anyone to experience that. It is a terrible time. It is like, especially when an international flight gets canceled, you just like, well, I guess a terminal two starring me and Tom Hanks is happening right now. I am stuck here. Like, I don't want to be stuck in the airport. What pisses me off is they don't fucking tell you what's happening and they don't, they don't try to help you. Like Brian and staff. Yeah, yeah. And then you're just sitting there with all the other confused travelers like the fuck is going on? Like, I think everyone, I would have been fine if they're like, hey, come back tomorrow or hit your hotel immediately. Yeah. Because we're actually when I got canceled in Germany, the layer of a, that was the one hour flight that got canceled. All right. That was last year. That was stressful, not because it being canceled because I could, you know, I'm fine with that. It was stressful because it was like, why the fuck wouldn't you tell me what the fuck is going on? I'm going to be like four hours and standing around here. Yeah. Well, that's part of the stress. I remember when, what was the fucking computer virus thing called where? Oh, crowd. Crowd strike. Crowd strike. Crowd strike was something like that. Yeah. Because I, I got stuck in America when that happens. Oh, yeah. I was, and I was in Wisconsin trying to get to Japan, which was nylon fucking impossible for the Milwaukee airport. And I remember I had a flight book to go to council. Then the next day got canceled and I would have to wait in line every day for like, you know, two, three hours to find out, oh, no, your flight is actually canceled. Yeah. That was stressful. And so I was like, I, I, I never thought I'd need to do this in my life because like, you know, I can't really like own a head or whatever. So I remember one of the third day, I was, I was just, you know, I just went up to the counter and I was like, give me your next flight to LA. I don't care. I don't care where it is. That shit. And luckily there was like one single flight going to LA, but like that was, that was a stressful fucking time, man. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you just wet, it only takes one bad travel experience to be like, I never want to travel again. I never want to experience this again. Yeah. You know, because I had to feel those. Yeah. Right. And you're like, I'm never touching a plane again. I thought I got the porter from the States. I'm just like, I'm not leaving my home ever again. Like, it's got me to be. It's got me. I wouldn't want to go back to the US. Yeah. Well, why do you think of right now? I know. I know. Yeah. I don't want to. Yeah. I don't want to go. Sorry, guys. Can you, can all my US friends just come here, please? Not the other way around. Yeah. But it's also going to that stage where it's like every year now. I'm just like, OK, I have to prepare for like at least one probably two weddings in a year that's going to happen in a friend group. Oh, that's an age, right? That's crazy. Yeah. Right. And it's just like, I never really thought about that until I got to this age, but like every year, I'm like, oh, shit, I'm like traveling a lot just for like certain weddings. Yeah. I mean, like this year, going to two weddings next year, already booked out for two weddings. Oh, yeah. I got a wedding booked for two years from now. Oh, really? Yeah. Fuck, man. I wish everyone would like slow down because then I feel like the pressure's on. Yeah. And I'm just like, shit, OK, maybe we all schedule like the same week. You know, this is like, the premium and maybe I should have stayed in the same country as all my like, like offline friends. Because then I wouldn't be able to like travel all this fucking time, just go to a wedding constantly. But, but yeah. So I already know there's going to be like certain certain weeks next year that I'm going to be traveling traveling for weddings. But yeah, I mean, I spent quite a lot of time in Thailand this year. And I think I'm going to continue that next year. I do. How can I? I just like Japan winter is cool, but I just need my sunlight. I love sunlight. Yeah. I mean, we just came back from Okinawa and just waking up and seeing like sunshine and having like decent weather. I was just like, oh shit. Yeah, sun's pretty underrated. That's true. I was going to get that vitamin D, man. Yeah, man. Yeah. Totally. I mean, I like the sun, but this is also like perfect weather right now. It is cold, but not too cold. It's like one jacket's enough for the t-shirt. I get to dress up and you know, like, yeah, it's stuff like it's nice. Yeah, I got the fuck. I got the sick metal gear jacket that I've been waiting to use, but it's so thick. I can't use it to like deep winter. Yeah, all my jackets are like, please get cold as soon as I need to. I've not been able to weather Goku drip jacket forever because I feel like I haven't seen you wear that in a while because it's never cold enough in Tokyo. Yeah, that's true. So memes dead. It is no. I mean, memes dead. I mean, memes dead. It's still, it's still hold weight. It's still hold weight. I'm going to post it. I'm going to post it. You'll see what I mean. I'm going to be like, what is this? How old is the drip meme? That feels ancient now. Like, three or the start of the podcast. Yeah, start of podcast, which is in its terms is like 50 years. That's like COVID era memes, man. Yeah. You think about code? You think about it? Every time I go to Kyoto, I think about COVID and I'm like, yeah, bring it back. Dead out. I do sometimes think like, because we moved to Japan right before COVID. Yeah. Like, how, like, what if one of us went to like, like, I'm going to go home for the week and then you get locked out of Japan. Yeah. And it's not crazy that would be. Yeah. And that's not something I know it's insane. I was thinking about that. I'm like, that was, I come up, we did that. I'm just like, the hotel room? Yeah, too, uh, yeah, I do remember the hotel room there. Yeah. Yes, that was awful. Yeah, I don't, I'm not jealous of you that you had to go through that. Yeah, the quarantine hotel was not good. Yeah, not a fun experience for me. Although I try to make it fun in the video when I found it, but it was, it was tough. Oh, yeah, you made a video out of it, bro. I did. I was like, I'm only willing to do this if I can get some content. because I was like, I can't justify this. Bro, that was an FD a year. Yeah. I don't know. Actually, the COVID years, I look quite fondly on the end. And across this mountain, it's pretty estes. This is time to fund. Oh, this is time to fund. Type two phone. Eight no fucking way. Uh, I think there were certain things that were happened during COVID that I wish I had appreciated a little bit more. Like what? It, it, you left it go out as much. I think I missed it. Bro, you can do that anytime. You know, I can't. Going out as a choice. It's a choice. Um, you're a streamer. I would say it's a requirement. But to be honest, like, yeah, I mean, it was such a weird experience because I mean, I feel like out of, we had like the best of it, really. Yeah. It was so fortunate that there wasn't really a lockdown. I mean, you guys were so slid into the country right before it happened as well. Which I think was perfect timing. I also really appreciate it because I feel like Japan changed quite significantly pre-COVID post COVID. Uh, the vibe definitely shifted, especially as a foreigner, definitely shifted. So I think I appreciate that I at least have a little bit of that insight before, um, to, to understand a bit of the vibe now. Yeah. To show up. To make the picture right. Um, but also it was sick being able to travel all over Japan with no tourists. Yeah, dude. It was so hype. I mean, I was, uh, this past month, I've just been like taking my parents around, taking my friends around, um, and I think this month I went to Kyoto three times because of that. And every time, right, you cannot, every time I was in Kyoto, bro, I, I know, Gion, like the back of my hand now, because I've been there so many fucking times, but I remember, I was, how was Kirito nowadays? Oh, dude, it is as bad as you can imagine. Oh, yeah. It is absolutely fucking slammed out the awesome. And like, but the thing is every time I go to Kyoto now, and I see all of these, like, shoulder to shoulder people literally everywhere. Like even on the backstreet, that before COVID, I remember not many tourists would kind of venture down because they would kind of just stick around like the main sections of Kyoto. Now it's like most of like Kyoto city is just like, you can't turn a corner and not see a foreigner. Yeah. But I remember like when I came, I went near like the beginning of COVID to Kyoto. There was like three people there. And I was just like, oh my god, I'm never going to be able to experience this ever again. I'm so trippy. I don't forget that. I want to just remember that. Remember those good memories. Just remember that that was a thing. Like lived through it. It's crazy. It's weird. Weird how we all just kind of don't talk about it as well. Yeah. What do you mean? Feels like for the scale of disaster that it was, we all moved on quite quickly. I think we all wanted to move on quickly. Yeah. Like we all just want to like forget. I mean, it didn't feel quick. Especially in Japan. I mean, Japan felt like that of the year on to it. Yeah. Yeah. Because where was the rest of the world that kind of already opened up? It was, it was Japan was weird, right? Because so, Japan in the Constitution, you couldn't lock down businesses. So there was never a lockdown. There's never curfew or any restrictions on travel. It was just that certain shops had to close and certain shops had to close like before eight or whatever. So it was always this weird bouncing act of having a lot of precautions. And sometimes felt like very weird, like, you know, at the gym, you couldn't go to the gym or you couldn't run on the treadmill without a mask on, which you know, I remember those things. Yeah. Yeah. And I remember wanting the gag, I was gonna be fucking pissed off at me because I had my mask like down here whilst on the treadmill with the fucking separators facing the window. And I thought it wouldn't be a big deal, but the gag over the upset of me. And I was like, I should buy that. But I feel like Japan held on to those precautions and rules for like another year longer than it. Yeah. And also some restaurants never took down the plastic dividers. Yeah. Which I also don't like. I feel like I'm eating in a prison cell sometimes. Yeah, it was kind of almost like a like a COVID fallout that happened where it was just like even though the rest of the world was signed to get over. And Japan was like, well, but am I come back? You know, we're not too sure. We're gonna make sure. I mean, yeah, trends always been kind of dramatic, leaning. We were wearing masks for decades. Yeah. So I just kind of played into a lot of people's worries already in Japan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like me and me and gone when we were on the plane on Kinawa, we sat next to this person. And I, I don't know. Like, and this is the thing you're like, I don't know if this is like a thing. I don't know if like they would do this regardless. But they like sat down next to us. And they don't really worry, obviously. They sat down next to us and then they put their raincoat on fully zipped it up, put the mask on and like made like a mini hazmat suit. And I was like, I was like, I hope that's not just kids with a forum. You better do this every flight. Right. Or races. But you know, this is like shit. I would not see on a on a flight elsewhere. But I don't know. Because it was so so weird. And yeah, like I guess like taxis here, they had the if you, if you didn't come before COVID, they never, they used to have like the one little plastic thing for the driver. But then they, when the COVID happened, they made the big screen to like like a, so you couldn't get through essentially on this pay. And then now some of them started to take it away. It's interesting. Yeah. So obviously some companies, some businesses are taking them away. Some of them aren't. It is interesting. Yeah. And some companies aren't taking them away because I think they just realized that even though there isn't a pandemic in the world. Good for protection. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For that, tax drives are always thought made. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For restaurants, I'm like, I'm like, please take down the tax. I don't like the tax. It does feel like a prison phone call, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Interact with someone across this like plastic thing. Yeah. It's ridiculous. Also, I'm just like, oh, yeah, because COVID isn't just going to like go over it or under. Yeah, COVID famously. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I was in Japan. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that was that brief like, I think like year period where the world was opening up and it was like, you were looking at all your mates like traveling all the life and traveling you were like, you know, shit. Yeah. That was the year the kind of sucks because you're like the fun part of being in the nozzle all year and kind of enjoying that aspect kind of worn off. And you're like, I really just want to go outside. Yeah. I want to touch ground. And I want to be like walk around and not have to wear a mask all the time. Yeah. And I like, I didn't mind wearing the mask indoors or whatever, but it was very like, man, I'm outside. Can I, can I, can I please? Yeah. Yeah. Well, how do you think next year's going to go? What's your, what's your prediction for next year? I think I'll be a good year. Yeah. Hopefully you'll be same as this year just like, yeah, just do what's worked and don't do what didn't work. What is a good year? What is a good year? Oh, I just had a good year. But that did take like years of like planning and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Without that, a good year is just shit. Wait. It's a good year. It's a, it's coming to me. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, okay. My definition of a good year is. Good things happen. Yeah. No bad things happen. Yeah. My definition of a good, bad things will happen. No, no, no, no. Sometimes it's like unplanned bad things and there's a like a saying. We're married. I do plant bad things. There's a severity to it. I'm going to fuck this shit up tomorrow. I mean, I feel like the older you get, the more bad things happen. Is it, is it sometimes? Minds it. I mean, like, you know, like what? I mean, the obvious thing is the old everyone gets the equipment that close everyone is to die. Oh, yeah. I mean, I have that age. We're not that age thing. We're not, we're not like 80 where everyone's like, oh, like 17 on my friends died this year. Yeah. We're not at that point. Yeah. That's, that's a fucking track. We're not like, we're at the age where we are figuring out who gets married next. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. We're just going to have babies next. Yeah. Give it a 30 years. I'm in a dark mind place. I'm going to think about this. Yeah. Give, give it a like a fucking, yeah, 30 years and then we'll be like, yeah, which one of us is going to quote first, man? Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to say this is like it's you. Shake on. You're all a bit of pint. No, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'll live you Joey. I'll pull one out for you when you die first. Yeah. Yeah. Look, my definition of a good year is, were your family okay, were your friends okay, were you okay? Yeah. And if all of those answers are a medium to solid, yes, then I think it was a good year. So my, my good year then. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But also, are you planning anything exciting? Because to me, a good year is just like, okay, this is a look forward to it. Yeah, there's, there's the baseline, which is nothing bad happens. But also, we're at the age where if you don't do anything, nothing good is going to happen either. You know what I mean? I mean, I'm covered at least for next year because my wedding's next year. So yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bro, it's going to be hard not to have an S year exactly. I'm preloading the S year already. I'm going to be loading the S. Bro, I've just had like a generational run and I don't know what I'm going to do. I've like post COVID, I went from fucking, you know, getting married. Yeah. Then literally like doing shit like going on tour, making my own anime and now it's all over and I'm like, she's got to have a chill. Yeah. One point. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. a difference. I had this means you can you can come back with an album. You know, I probably did like a month and a half long tour. We did. Yeah, we did. That's crazy. We did that. I can't believe we did that. Yeah, man. Yeah. That's crazy. No. No. No. You guys don't like Tori. No, I know. I know you love Tori. I love Tori. It's so fun. It's so fun. It's just like it's a it's a nice change of pace from, you know, the everyday, which like, you know, I'm not complaining about my everyday. Like I'm I'm satisfied with my everyday. But it's like, it's like, you know, for me, it's like the same feeling I had when you were in like elementary school where you were you know, school trip. Yeah, like a school trip or like a school camp, you know, like, yeah, it's that big thing that's coming up that year. And it's like, oh man, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. You know, we're going to have so much fun with my friends. Like that, like touring to me was that. You just go on a trip with your friends. Yeah, you just go on a time plenty of those. I'm worried. I've done plenty of those. Yeah, I was like, it was a nice change of pace for the time. I then became too much of a change of pace for too long. Yeah. And I miss my bed. Yeah. I miss my wife. And if it was like, if I was in my 20s, bro, this would be the dream, you know, absolutely dream. But takes a lot of fucking energy. I think if there was a show that I was passionate about doing as well, that was it. But I think we, the trustees share we've done a good job of doing that show to death. Yeah. We didn't have a solid format. Yeah. But I think, you know, if you ever did it one again, I wanted to do something different. Oh, no, totally. Yeah. But there's nothing I'm in my head that I'm like, this, I gotta do this. Yeah, where we're the canvas is empty right now. Yeah. Which I feel like it should be because we did touring the weird way where we did it to a plan, did all and then figured out the show, which is like, well, I don't know why the hell we did that, but very fortunate. Yeah. And that audience was cool with this yet. Well, I think it was a good show. I think we made a great show considering the, that what we had. I, you know, it's funny because like I still get people coming up to me, like either in Japan or wherever I am, like fans coming up to us and, and they say, like, oh, yeah, I was at your like Chicago show. I was at like your Stockholm show. And like people still come up and tell me like, yeah, how much they fucking love the talk both in Europe and the US. So that tells me that we did a good job. If people are still talking about it after, I mean, fuck, we did the US tour. How many years ago, three years ago, three years ago. Yeah. If people are still talking about it, then I'd say we did a pretty fucking good job considering it again, the format we went with. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think we just, I'll be honest, we just got lucky. Now we just got it. Yeah. Sure. Sure. We just got to show, we got lucky. And we, you know, one, one can, one can be true without the other being false. Yeah. I found that. What about you guys? Do you have anything exciting coming off for 2026? I've blown my load, man. I've got, I've got, I've got, I've got a pre 26, 2026, the year of the moon. Yeah. I've got, I've got, I've got a, like, I've got to start loading up again. 20, I'm looking for 2027 now, man, 2026. Yeah. That's, that's, that's going to be like a buildup. Yeah. You're storing the pin in the balls and 2026 and then planning on losing 2026. It's like a, it's, it's like figuring out where the Marvel universe is going to go after endgame, you know, it's just like, yeah, I've got a big, you made an endgame. Tell me you made it. You sent me a look in the idea. I'm telling you, but that's my life. It's the endgame of my life. You're not going to admit that we're the goat. You will turn around like I'm in terms of like my fucking career. You know, Iron Man, that's what you made. We're at the start of the Marvel universe. Exactly. You're looking at it. You're building up to the end. You don't realize you made Iron Man. You're building up. You just started it. That's the, that's the hype part. You're just getting started. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. I got, I got to start fucking building up again and, you know, seeing, seeing where life takes, life takes me from here. No, you're not going to slow down. You're addicted. You're addicted to the pen. You can't help yourself. I got to slow down. You got to write. You got to write. I got to slow down eventually, man. That's how you know you're two, you're too good. Yeah. If you, if you had to tell yourself, man, I have to put the brakes on. I'm too good at this. I got to slow down. I'm, I'm going to give up. People are chants. This shit too easy. Like it comes so naturally to you that you will just keep doing it. Yeah. No, do you guys not have the fear of just like shit? If I slow down now, I might never get this chance ever again to do whatever it is you want to do. I think that's how I justify me putting too much time into it. But I don't even know why, why do I think it's too much time? I don't know why I feel that. Because I thought it's that fucking new ticket. I'm just like, oh, you're going to, you're going to like fall off next year. Who knows? Yeah, yeah. Talk to talk. But it's just like, you know, it's with, with the internet, and content creators. It's so momentum based. It's just like, it's just like trying to capture your momentum when it's still on like an upward trajectory. It's that that's gotten me through, I guess, my tie YouTube. I mean, we are, you know, in a lot of ways being, you know, a YouTube, which, you know, a lot of people aspire to be, which is amazing. People want to, you know, I'm very fortunate that we get to do this, right? But we're like, we're like really shit sports players with, you know, sports players. They, you know, you, you make a lot of money during your period that you're there. But who knows how long you're going to be doing it for? There's an easy retirement option. You often don't have a lot of skills that can translate into other jobs outside of it. So it's, it's, it's a, you know, there's a, there's a worry of like, hey, some of the shit that we've talked about in this pod might not make us very employables. So we kind of need to make retirement here, gone. Otherwise life might become a little harder. So this, I mean, this is a way I've kind of viewed it, which is like, I always, I always think about like, you know, I've always wanted to be able to take some time off and get like, all right, I want to get like much better at Japanese or something and get like really fluent. I could take like a year off and maybe get much better. But in the same time like, man, taking a year off would be disastrous. Yeah, career wise. So at the same time like, ah, but maybe setting myself up for life might be more important than I can always get better. Yeah, that's the balancing act that you have to start. See, this is how I know you're about to turn 30. This is the exact same shit I went through as well. And then I'm, I'm smart enough to know that I can't lie to myself and be like, I can do both. You can't. Yeah. And then like, this is, yeah, that, I mean, that's life, understanding that you just can't do everything. Yeah. And how to accept and prioritize what you want to do. Totally. I think it's like, one, I like playing video games too, which is helpful. But, uh, yeah, you played a lot of video games. I want to play more video games that year. That's, that's on my, that's on my list. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. Plus games, man. I played, I played like a decent amount last year, but this year, I just like, I just all enough, you know, yeah, but maybe you can use that as your excuse to like have that chill you next year. Right? So just be like, I need to play more video games. So I'm going to start fucking right. I'm going to put the pen down for a second and pick up a control. Am I being good? That might be a good like thing to do to just like refresh your mind as well. Yeah. Because I think I realized this year when we did the last episode where we did like our three by three, normally I'm just like, okay, I have like a thing like a lot of things I'm comfortable. I talking about one. This is my three by three. And I just like last, last, last week, I was like, shit, what the fuck did I watch or play anything this year, bro? Yeah. I need to find some balance in my life. No stock consuming. Yeah. Yeah. But to be fair, there's one, the one thing I'm glad about this year, I was able to spend a lot more time with family. That's good. Sounds cheesy. No, but genuinely, it's like, it's the next phase, it's like, the next phase when you reach 30 is that you realize, oh shit, you know, family is important. And you want to get so much time with them and you hear all people talking about it. And then it finally hits that moment when you like look at your parents and you're like, shit, you know, you don't look like how I remember you as a kid. And that's that's that's that's such like a strong fucking like motivator. Oh, no, to like, like to me, you know, you have you have you have this image of your parents for like when you're a kid and when you're growing up. And I don't know why, but they always look the same. You know what I mean? They they always like never change from the from like the years of like zero to like 18 or 20 or like, or even like, you know, in your 20s like, shit, okay, dad mom, they're always the same. Suddenly, like, I hit 30 and I'm like, damn. Did you always have that many great hands? Yeah. That many wrinkles. Yeah. I'm like, shit, man. Yeah. I feel that. So yeah, I'm really feel really blessed and thankful that I got spend more time with family, not just like my mom and dad, but sort out my family reunion this year as well, got to reconnect with a lot of a lot of family worldwide, which was really really cool. And now they come to Japan next year. I've like opened like reconnected that way. So wait, how many? How many of these? Because you have like how many? Yeah, I have a lot. So I think it was too big. Yeah, we expect like 50 Thai people to come off the plane. Not everyone, but I feel my American ones and some of my British ones. Oh, hell yeah. So I went to sort out a Japan trip next year. Oh, hell yeah. So my whole family's coming in February as well. Nice. Oh yeah. So it's really interesting. Like siblings and everyone. Oh, hell yeah, dude. Well, white families on that big though. But you're full. You're three brothers. I feel like a while. Yeah. Yeah. But like, and like, and like, and like, and like, white families, you're like cousins most of the time. Then I'm part of the family. It's part of their part of the family gatherings. Right. Like family family. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Unless you get some people really close to their cousins, but generally I find that like, you know, like, it's like the immediate family. Yeah, right. So do you have a lot of cousins? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like all my cousins, but like, it's just different vibe, right? With like immediate family. Oh, for sure. Yeah. And I feel like when I talk to Southeast Asians, this is not the case. There is the cousin is as much of the family as the immediate family. Yeah. Which I always find so interesting. I kind of like realized growing up why Southeast Asians are so addicted to soap operas. And I just realized, oh, shit, it's because that's just that's just normal family. That's just every day life. That's just every day life. It's literally we were born with this shit. That's true. That's why that's why moms love the soap operas so much. Oh, yeah. And so do the guys as well. We just we just don't know yet. It's, I feel like it's similar to Weston style. Their cousins not never really hear about that. It's always like, maybe uncles are quite close, but it depends on the family. At least for me, I'm pretty close with my two older cousins. Like I can call them whenever, you know, talk to them whenever, stuff like that. But it's also quite small as well. Like I have a lot of like second cousins and stuff, but I haven't met the majority of them. So I know they exist. Like all my dad's side, for instance, I've apparently got like 20 cousins who live in like Germany and Hungary. I don't know any of their names. I've never met any of them. Second cousins quite, we're getting quite far now. Yeah. But that's a thing. We're getting point that we like not family. Yeah. It's like at that point, it's like, is that even I mean, they are family in the technical sense, but I don't have any connection with them. So they're pretty much strangers to me. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of them probably don't share blood though. I do share blood with them. But at the same time, I'm like a majority of them probably don't even know I exist. Yeah, I feel like that's worth more than the blood. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, obviously, like if they walked up to your door like, Joe, I need help. I'd be like, I'll be like, sorry, I don't know. I don't know you. I don't know you. Like the DNA test out. You are now 23 me right now. The third cousin. Pull up your ass history. Joe, right now, we shared the same primordial soup. Yeah. Fuck yeah. Come on. Come on. Exactly. Come on, bro. Only second cousins invoke the cousin card when they want to, they want some shit. Exactly. I mean, yeah. It's like real second cousins don't message you ever. And then maybe you get like a fun Facebook message 50 years. I saw you on TV at cousin. Yeah. Yeah. He's a second cousin. I don't know. It's your cousin's cousin. All right. It's a cousin cousin. Or it's a cousin's. That should don't count. Or it's a cousin's child. I always forget which one is which. Can we put up the family tree here? Look, if this is not immediately understandable, the same great grandparents as you, but not the same. That does not. Yeah. So it's your far back. Yeah. So it's your grandparents siblings. Grants on or granddaughter. She. Yeah. Rob, this is why we just call everyone like cousins. It's our piece later. Everyone's cousins, aunties, uncles. We would have time to like, we would have time for the shit. Again, I don't know any of my second cousins. So it's just like, yeah. If I met them, I would probably be like, you're my cousin, I guess. Yeah. So your parents and your second cousins parents are cousins. This is so nice. That's that's so fucking confusing, man. So it's like a, it's like it's like layers, right? So if no matter how far away you are, like even if it's like your grand great-grandparents is sibling who's like, you know, the sixth sibling or whatever. It was like all the way over here in the family tree. As long as you're sitting on the same horizontal, you're technically cousins. So okay. But you don't keep up with like, you're not like texting your like cousins all the time. It's like if you see them at the gathering, you're like, you're what's up? I mean, I, I take my cousins quite a lot now. It depends on how much time you spend with your cousin, right? Yeah. Yeah, true. I mean, we had a Linchpin, which was my grandma. So we were like, we are like a shared kind of like experience, which I think is important. Yeah. Because we all had something more and over, which was even though we were, you know, growing up over different sides of the world with different experiences where you had the shared experience of like going to grandma's house and sometimes we're in the same place and sometimes we weren't. But you know, we felt it felt like a family, which I think is important. Even more like bloodline, which is I'm so fucking thankful that my grandma like gave us that experience. And yeah, we still have like quite a strong bond. I'm going to ask a question that is a lot less wholesome, but going on to like the second cousin thing. Sure. And this is just purely just out of curiosity, right? Okay. So how far are you moved? Do you have to be for it to count as incest? I think it is second cousins. Yeah. I think second or third cousin is the limit, right? I think and most, probably that makes sense to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The most places in the world, I think it's second cousin is like, I think where it's like the cutoff, I think. Well, it's also like dependent on the countries like, I think each country has like different roles or some should. Yeah, but like there's some places they're like, oh no, cousin doesn't count as incest. And I'm like, fucking these kind of questions are like, we'll get you at the list. Okay. At what point is it not an insincere? Yeah. Yeah. Let's see what reddit says. Too afraid to ask. A lot of relatives. Yeah. Yeah. But okay. How far removed? Yeah. Yeah. Because like taking the whole like six degrees of separation thing out for a second. Yeah. It's like, you know, because that whole thing is like, oh, technically, we're all related. But like, yeah, on a moral standpoint. All right. It's okay. Like second or third. Just Google is second cousin incest. Yeah. Where's just like cut the shit? Yeah. Legally speaking, no, but would you? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. No, I know I would fucking not go. Okay. Obviously, I would not. Because some, you know, why I wouldn't do it? Because someone in my family knows both of us. That's the problem I would have. It's not, it's not the fucking, the fucking percentage of blood. There's just somebody fucking noses both when we were kids. That's the problem. That is true. Okay. In the United States, second cousins are legally allowed to marry in every state. Yeah. Because I mean, look, the bar used to be so low. The royal family should see a fuck brother. Yeah. You know, so like the bar used to be so so low. They managed to get it all the way up to second cousins. Yeah. You know, I'm sure they fought for that shit. Yeah. They fought for it. It's not that. What do you mean I can't fuck my cousin? There's bullshit. You know, it's like second. Yeah. Again, okay. Legally speaking, second cousin is legal. But morally speaking, would you do it? I know. No. No. No. Look, there's no, there's even if you sit like third cousin, which I'm sure at that point, there's probably nothing there. But yeah. Just because you're, you're, you're saying a word that has a relationship. Yeah. Yeah. It's which is going to cause people discomfort. The moment I hear the word cousin, it's going to be a media tunnel. Yeah. I feel like third cousin. That's gay. No, you said we're you're a good cousin. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, surely fourth cousin is fine. Yeah. Look, cousin is really fourth cousin. I'm sure that's so many years. Go. I'm just thinking like hypothetical situation or not even like small town, right? Yeah. Modern day small town. Just call me out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Modern day small town. What's your degree of separation to the people in that small town if you're like from a small community, right? It's it's going to be surely is going to be, you know, second cousin, okay. Third cousin, you probably know someone who is unintentionally your third cousin. Maybe it's a small town. I think this reddit post for people finding out that they like married third cousin or married fourth cousin or something and like asking like what they should do. What they should do. Like should they tell their partner or something or should that we're technically blood. Would you tell them somehow God? What if you find out? I'm these your fourth cousin. I'm very glad that I have been I don't know. I feel like likely that it's highly unlikely that the floodline fixed. Yeah. So you got it now. We played a safe. We we we're getting married to a person else in our media. Like what if we're okay. I have to let it be somehow by freaking it for you or fourth cousin. Yeah. And you found out and nobody else is ever going to find out. Yeah. You somehow found out you saw something you should never would you tell your partner would you die with it? I think I die with it. I think I die with it because it's because I don't know I don't like a live with that shit. God's shit. Might make the marriage more enticing. It might be hard. I don't know. It might be high. Not even that. It's not that a do it. I don't know why I say not. But it's just like. Could you could you like how do you process that? Like every time you you look at humans are really good at pushing things down. We're like super good at that. Like as it as a species. We're like how are good at ignoring things. I mean look if it was just like an offhanded like hey by the way I just found out we're fourth cousins Lamau. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you know, the movie theater where like you like eating popcorn and then the movie gets so quiet and you just stop cheering it. Yeah. It's super loud. Yeah. It's like you're in the movie and it's quite like. It's like what? Like once and done kind of thing. I'm like I told you this information and we're not going to touch on the game. I'm going to tell you something. You honey, you cannot bring this up. I'm bringing up every day. It's a good situation. All right. You you find out Arkey. You know, you are you are distantly related to Arkey. Sure. What? How would you bring it up? Is it like you're doing a dinner where you like the turkey made is great. By the way, we're fourth cousins. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Honey. I don't know. I'd just be like I think I'd just be like okay. I'll wait. Okay. It's like fourth cousins. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like not even great grandparents. It's great great grandparents. I mean, come on. So I know it's four generations. Are you like honey? I found out something hilarious today. Yeah. I would literally just be like so you're not going to believe this. Are you framing something hilarious? I'm not serious. You're like this is so funny. I honestly, yeah. I think I would because like I can't imagine being in like a serious like, I can't be like honey sit down. We need to talk. I just found out. Okay. Okay. So let's say I'm cooking. I'm like, I'm cleaning the dishes. How do you come in the room? You're like I'm cleaning the dishes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So this is kind of crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I just found out something crazy at work today. Oh. Um, we're fourth cousins. Or maybe I would lead it on first with like the same question we were asking each other of like at what point is it insist? I would ask like, and then depending on their answer, I would either tell them or not tell them. I'd be like, hey, do you know any of your fourth cousins? Now you do. Now you do. Me. Oh, that's crazy. I would ask them to be like, so is marrying your second cousin considered incest? And if she came out to me, I was like, oh yeah, it doesn't matter. It could be third, fourth, fifth, iron cares. I think it's insist. Then I'll be like, never mind. Then I'm not going to tell them. But if they're like, oh yeah, it's whatever. It's fourth cousins. It's so many generations away. Then I'll be like, speaking of which? So you're like, you would keep on doing the forbidden knowledge just in case. Depending on if they think it's a moral dilemma for them, then I'm not going to bring it up and rule the mood. Yeah. You know, I'll die with that shit. But if they're cool with it and they're just like, lemaw fourth cousins, then I'll be like, yeah, okay, whatever. I'll tell them. You know, damn it. When you do the same or would you just die with a no matter what? I think I die with it. You reckon? 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You know, statistically speaking, basically, you're the one with the in bread. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you didn't have to tell me that. I'm joking. I'm joking. Oh, God. Yeah. But that's the thing right. It's like, okay. If, for example, like I wouldn't keep bringing it up though is the thing. Even if I did tell it, even if I did tell it, right? In this hypothetical situation where I told her, right? Wait, wait. Why does you assume that I assumed you would keep bringing it up? No, no, no. Because every time you have a conversation, I think information like this to your partner is like, there's many caveats, right? I'm saying. It's like, okay, if I just told her, like, this is the situation. Let's just like let's acknowledge it, but let's not bring it up ever again. Then I think it'd be like a way less awkward, right? But if I every other week is just like, hey, let's compare grandparents. Well, now we're related. Like, then yeah, it's going to be fucking awkward. You know what I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just like, you were dinner. So like, so we haven't talked about this. This. This worth cousin thing. Yeah. I feel like. We have the duchy. We have. We have. We have. We have. Can you explain the. It's the fox going on. Alright. Well, good to know. Where. Where. We stands. Why the. Incessment. Why don't you bring them up. Because we're talking about second cousins. And. We brought up family and got. Incess. No. No. No. No, no, no, no. Far down doesn't go. I was thinking about the old medieval days, you know? Where it's just like cousins. Okay, the cousins? You look at the family tree and you're like, where does the moral lie here? Because you probably have to... This is your gene pool write here. But you know, I go with... I'm a believer of the smell meta. where I wouldn't be attracted to anyone who is near my gene pool because we're literally programmed to sniff each other out. Yeah, to sniff each other out. We can literally sniff out the incest, I think. Well, isn't that like the, that's the same reason why animals don't commit incest, right? Isn't that like the same thing? I think animals do commit incest. Do they? Some, some animals do some of those. And some plants. Can you, can you convince us? I'm pretty sure. Plants commit incest. Yeah, plants, there's not some plants too. I don't think plants can consent to... Why do you think animals consent? I mean, plants, I mean, plants is just like, it's just R&G, isn't it? Because it's just like the B. I think the wind, I think it depends on the plant. Not every plant. Do you mean it depends on the plant? Not every single plant is pollinated by Bs. Well, it's like Bs or the wind, right? Yeah, it's not like they have a choice, you know? Yeah, but in the last one. The plants are standing there after a gust of a breeze. Yeah, fuck, I just committed incest. What do you think their gust is doing, Garnt? What do you mean? It's trying to below the fucking seeds away from the, oh, like the plant itself and it's like fucking siblings. Yeah, but why try to spread genetics? Yeah, but it doesn't have a choice which direction it's spread. I don't know, but the whole point is that, this is like why the trees drop the thing. They're trying to move around slowly to diversify the genetics of the plant and have some kind of, so they're not just breeding with the same plant. Hmm. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a believe you for that one because it sounds believable. Believe me, believe me. But we are like everything DNA needs to like have some kind of new. We need to move on fact check. I do agree with that. Yeah, okay, do animals commit incest? However, I guess recent studies have actually shown that incestious behavior has not completely disappeared and that it is more common than generally thought. Okay, never mind then. Yeah, animals in brood. I don't think it's always successful. Yeah, yeah, but they haven't read it. Well, I mean dogs, dogs will in read. If you like put like a brother, it's just the dog that, you know, next to each other. Yeah, but dogs will fuck anything that moves. It's the most animals. Yeah, that is the most animal. That is the most animals, you know. Yeah, yeah. Oh, no, let's not get into, let's not get into the puppies. Yeah, let's not get into the puppies. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, bro. Puppy's fortified week old can recognize their siblings and their mother. Bro, have you seen like a mother dog discipline like the puppies? Uh, no, no, I think I have. Oh, it's yeah, it's so fucking, it's so adorable. But goddamn, you, you, I like how like the relate ability of being disciplined by your mom, just like transcends species. Hmm, goes, one of my favorite videos is, there's like this mother dog that comes in and all her puppies are fucking like excited. They want to like drink a milk, they're really hungry and then she just fucking box. And then everyone just sits the fuck down. It's like real life. Yeah, it is, it is. I'm like, go down from the mom's shots. And we're like, okay, okay, cheese mom. What made you want to think about in breeding? I don't know. What did that come from? I was just something you want to talk about. No, no. So you want to talk about? I just, I just, I just introduced the thoughts. Okay. What do you want to hear? What do you want to hear? It's usually always on your mind. It's not always on my mind. Which favorite anime? What's my favorite anime? Favorite anime. What's up? Three by three. Don't mention mom in breeding in testing. Well, I was just, uh, it was, you know, sometimes trash tastes, I feel is the place that I have these discussions. Yeah. Two to two. Two ask questions. I'm so close to have these questions. Where I would get lynched in society from, yeah, you can't say this out loud. I'm like, yeah, you can't, you can't bring this up at a bar. So like, where can I fuck my cousins? What a morality. Like, what is that cool? Speaking of entrenched any good anime is this year that you've enjoyed. What the fuck? What the fuck? Any good anime? I mean, anime standouts this year that you've really thought a lot about the wasn't chantsomano or deemslakes. We spoke about that quite a lot. Yeah. Have it spoke about really untrash taste. Yeah. Unfortunately, this comes out before my video is going to come out. So I can't really spoil too much. But catch up to my here academia that is, I'm, I'm, I'm for real. I'm for real. I'm, I'm, I'm joking. I'm, I'm not joking. Is it good? Yeah, it's really good now. Right. We, we clowned on it for so many years. I know. Yeah, I stuck with it though. See, when, when, when I clown on something, I'm like, I need to make sure that I'm just a fighting class. You know, that's, that's just the type of man I am. I saw a lot of people arguing online. People were now getting back into my hero and people were arguing with me like, you're a fake, my hero academia fan. You were clowning on it. And now it's good. So that, right. Right. Is it actually good now? Well, genuinely, uh, manga anime, or both, uh, what manga is over. I read it. Anime is in its final. I'm younger and quite a while. Uh, so it's like the final season, but, uh, I mean season, she has a lot of season. There's a lot of season. What do we have? Like seven? It's season eight now. Eight. Uh, it's season eight. I, uh, and you, and you know this because we clowned on it, Bunch. I tried to stick with it. I did. I did two seasons of bed. I did two seasons as well. And I was like, yeah, what, what, uh, what, uh, what point did you stop at in your season two? I stopped at the fight. Okay. If you stopped at any season two, you already like, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm going, I'm going for Connor here. Yeah. I think the last big thing I remember happening, um, obviously they, uh, it was the one where that guy, he was the new guy they introduced. And it was all my assistant, the green head guy had the fight and that, that'll happen. Uh, okay. What season was that? You have, I believe shit. Is it one season or half a season before I think it really starts getting good, getting back on track again because I, I feel like my hero started to like refine its footing. The second half of season six or maybe all of season six, but I definitely remember the second half of season six where they turned, uh, Deku, uh, edgy. And I was like, oh, this is, this is actually, they're doing something interesting with this character. I mean, that's, that was one of my biggest gripes with Deku as a character. Yeah. He was the one dimensional good guy. Yeah. Uh, yeah. I mean, they basically turned him into like Batman for season and that was actually genuinely interesting. And then from then on, it just like ramps up, ramps up ramps up season seven, I think is, uh, fantastic season. Um, and, uh, season eight, which is the one airing right now is, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, it's fucking phenomenal so far. So if you want something, you think it's worth, yes, if you want something to watch when you're in the gym, you know, you'll, it's, it's, it's probably, it's probably worth it. I'm not saying there's a season. Uh, season seven is how can you, can you check season seven? Yeah, check all the seasons. Cause look, for the amount I've clowned on it, I think I have, I deserve another shot. Yeah. Just the amount of clowning I've told them. Cause season seven and season, like see, this season is only 11 episodes and season seven, I think is also a short season, uh, season, holy, holy, holy, holy, they, they beat Hunter, Hunter for 24 counts, 21 episodes, season seven, oh, 21 episodes. Oh, bro, that was 21 episodes. That was 21 episodes of pure fucking bang and content, man. Yeah. Well, season seven, uh, made it just about made it to my favorites anime list last year. And, excuse me. And it has, uh, exceeded that. Wow. Damn. So, yeah, it's, it's really, really good. Again, I'm, I'm happy it's really, really good. But I mean, this is like the climax of everything. Uh, at the time of recording, I don't know how season eight ends. So I don't know how good the ending of my hero academia is because I know when it ended, people were pissed and people memed the shit out of it. Uh, I don't know because here's the thing. Sometimes I can't fucking trust manga readers, you know? Dude, manga readers are like the biggest haters in their own shit. Yeah. I've never seen manga readers that like enjoy an ending. I've never seen. I've never seen it. Yeah. Cause their expectations are way too high for everything. Cause they're like saying that as a manga reader. Because all their favorite manga's don't have endings. Yeah. Berserk doesn't have an ending. Fucking vagabond. I don't think it has an ending. Uh, not at the moment. Like loads of these fucking things that they are like, these are the best ones you gotta read. They have an end is. They don't know what a good ending looks like. They never read it. Yeah. Yeah. But also I, I, I swear, I sometimes see like the consensus change. Because most of the time when you get a like, um, an ending to a long running manga series, I swear to God. 90% of the time it's like rage. People, people are angry at something because maybe it's because there's like no enough time for a proper epilogue or there are some certain things where people have thought the, you know, the ending has fallen off. Like I swear to God, Joe, you're around in this era. When Naruto ended, what people like, what people unhappy with the Naruto ending, because I swear there was this like consensus that, and this, this might, this, this is, this might be like my memory. I swear there was this consensus where people were just like, finally, it's ended because it felt like the fourth ninja rock went on for like a fucking century or something. So people were just like, can we get this to end? And now that it's like, now the time has passed, I swear like the consensus change to be like, you're Naruto, it's like such a fucking go to the end. I think what it is. And I think this also applies to like all the big shows that have ended now like my year academia or or demon slayer or juice the kaisen like the manga anyway. I think what it is. And maybe the same thing happened with Naruto as well. Well, like I think people aren't mad at the ending. I think they're mad at the fact that their favorite show has ended. Yeah. And again, you have this like such a long time span for this build up to happen. Yeah. And then you know, a lot for a lot of these people, like these are shows that have stuck around throughout, you know, decades, right? And so I think they just upset at the fact that maybe not only that the ending was not up to their expectation or didn't turn out the way that they envisioned it in their head, but I think they're also just like salty at the fact that, oh, fuck, it's done now. Yeah. And I don't know where to like throw this. Oh, no, I know what it was as well. It was, it was the final villain that got introduced after Madera as well. I never want to just like, who, why do we get it? Like, I, Kaguya, do you remember that? Kaguya. It didn't register. It didn't register. I didn't. Okay. I mean, but then again, I'm not like the biggest Naruto fan, but, you know, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I remember her. Yeah. Everyone was like, everyone was like, yeah, let's see. Like, it's been, it's been so long now. By the time the fourth Ninja war happened, I was already checked out. Yeah. See, see, it's, but it's like, it's like the, the consensus and the discussion of Naruto now is just like, oh, this is obviously like Naruto is one of the goats. People were like saying, yo, it's, it's my hero academia, the Gen Z Naruto. And I'm just like, nah, I think Naruto is the Gen Z Naruto. Yeah. Well, it was the last time you felt like people can like love the ending. Well, okay. For like a big show like this. Like any show or anything, you'll fucking love the ending. I think that's the issue. Is that like all of the most hype shows or the longest running shows or the most popular shows that do eventually end? There's always that incredibly loud minority that nine times out of ten is a manga reader who is just like, ah, that wasn't up to the expectation. They could have done so much more with this story, blah, blah, blah. Well, we've all, we've also lived through something else where, you know, everyone, every manga reader told me the ending of this was going to be a disaster, which was the Takwan Titan, you know, the manga reader's so long. Not a manga reader's hated it. Yeah, the manga reader's absolutely despised it, meamed on it, thought it was going to be a disaster. And I mean, it wasn't like the best ending in the world. I think there are a lot of things that could have been expanded on and proved on, but having like being an anime watcher watching the ending of a Takwan Titan, I was like, yeah, I can, I can see what they were going for. Was it executed the best? No, but it wasn't an absolute satisfactory. It wasn't an absolute disaster like I was made to believe it was going to be. And, ah, and I can't wait for this discussion to age horribly when my hero isn't actually all for ending. But I'm going to call it now. I don't think my hero academia is going to have an awful ending. I don't know. I don't know. I can't see how it's going to have such a disastrous ending. Well, I mean, people have also been saying that with like, Jews, the Kaisen as well, right? Like now the manga is ended and from the general consensus I got, the manga readers were not happy with the ending of JJK. I don't know when the manga readers have ever been happy. They just fucking consume, consume, consume, and then get pissed off at everything. Yeah. Because I want to have an opinion on Twitter. Yeah, I mean, you shouldn't be on like, online if you want to have thoughtful discussion about your media. Yeah, totally. I also think it's not just that though. It's okay. Twitter people obviously is toxic. But I think there is an expectation, right, where you are following this show weekly. And sometimes you get to see all of the ups and downs weekly. And there is enough time to reflect on what a series did right. Like, you know, I've, I've, I think I've firstly seen this with Naruto where, going towards the ending, I swear people were, you know, really tired of the 4th-inch war arc and then Kage gets introduced and people were, you know, it was a lot of negativity in discussion because we were experiencing this weekly and not seeing the full picture and the full legacy of just like, oh shit, you know, Naruto coming to an end, seeing Naruto achieve his dream and seeing all like the small little loose ends being tied up. Because a lot of the discussion at that time was around the, you know, the weekly negativity of it. So, so I don't, I don't know if it's the same thing with the JJK fan base because I've heard some horrendous things. And I know personal, I know people who are personally following this. So it's not just Twitter people who are just like, you know, this shit, this shit is ass. Yeah, I'm personal from personal friends who are like absolute JJK glaze. Yeah. That was the ending and they were like, I don't want to talk about it. Yeah. But I was like, so I can only imagine what the fucking monger is online saying about it. Yeah. So it's, I don't know, it's, it's going to be interesting. But I can't think of personally a long-running manga that came to an end that people just unanimously love the ending. I mean, bro, if the Code Gear sending came out as a manga today, I'm sure the manga fans that had it, they find a way, they find a way, probably. I mean, Vinns Lager ended, they had it. I hadn't heard anyone talk about it. I know many people talk about it. So maybe it was just an adequate ending, you know, honestly, Vinns Lager has already done enough, but the fact that no one is, I've not seen anyone talking about the ending, tells me enough. Probably a good thing. Yeah, probably a good thing actually. No news is good news. Yeah, there was some kind of way we could see like the percentage of manga readers to the anime of each show. Yeah. I don't think there was a way. I was also thinking this as well, right? Because like, you know, you were saying like, my year academia, I'm going to change topics a little bit, but like, my year academia, you know, the anime is coming to an end. Deemns Lager, last couple of movies are coming out. Juicicisin as well. I think the next film that's coming out is like the last arc or something. Yeah. There's a lot of big shows that are ending, like kind of all at the same time. Didn't this happen like five years ago with all, like eight years ago? Yeah, do you know what's funny? I feel like I feel like, you know, it was funny. The big three. Yeah, the big three people were discussing who was going to take over the big three. Yeah. And I feel like there's been a generational gap where nothing did really take over the big three. And I feel like this, you know, JJK, Deemns Lager, it's like, you know, post COVID stuff. Yeah. But for like a good, when did the big three ends? I felt like that was a four COVID. Yeah. Like 20. Oh, can you can you search up when the Naruto manga, when the last chapter of the Naruto manga was like 2016, 2017, I think, 2014. 2014. So there was this good like five year gap, which I feel like I think bleach ended not long after that. Yeah, bleached and long after a lot, long after that, I think. But, um, well, I think there are a lot of the contests about this was in the context of manga, more opposed to the anime. Yeah, I, it's, it's just funny because I feel like it was funny seeing the Netflix numbers of last year of the most watch anime and it was still fucking Naruto. Yeah. And it was just like, okay, yeah, the Jens, the Jensi Naruto is, it's crazy. It's still Naruto. It's crazy. The Naruto holds so much weight. But I think it Naruto is very popular globally. Mm-hmm. Supposed to wear some of the shows and not as popular globally. Yeah. I know that Naruto seems to be popular literally everywhere. And I feel like now we are seeing, you know, the tail end of some shows, you know, kind of like growing up with a new generation with JJK and demons layer. But I feel like before the new heights that we've reached now, it's still a lot of the ways is the big three. And one piece is still one piece. It's still profiting up. Yeah. And then I feel that's going to be, it's going to be interesting to see where Shonen is going to go or if it's just going to like, I'm on the Kagura Bachi. I'm on the Kagura Bachi train too. Yeah. I'm hoping Kagura Bachi is it? I think it's it. I think it's it. I read the first three volumes of the manga. It's legitimately fantastic. Yeah. It's not just a fucking meme. It's not just a meme. It is legitimately good. Yeah. It's fucking, it's so fucking weird because it was like, obviously it became a big fucking meme after like chapter one and chapter one is like a pretty, you know, standard Shonen opening, right? But then, but then it just gets really good. It gets really good. Pretty fast actually for, you know, the grand scheme of a Shonen. Yeah. And I heard that the anime already got announced and I have a big trust in the anime studio. That's adapting it. Who's adapting it? Cause it's Sci Games Pictures. Oh, wow. And Sci Games Pictures is not like they haven't gotten to the, you know, namesake of a euphotable or a... But they just did some... You carried it. Yes, they did that. They also did all the human movements. They just did. Yeah. I mean, they shit looks godlike. Yeah. And I'm just like, they are a real up and coming, you know, in terms of like name brand there. They have just been pumping out Banger after Banger and they've been doing it for a while actually. The other reason people weren't paying attention to them was because they were adapting a lot of their gacha games. And Apocalypse Hotel is one of my favorite anime this year and that was by Sci Games Pictures and that was an anime original. It just seems like everything they make has like god tier production values, but it's just not a top tier IP. Right. And I think Kaga Rabachi is going to be a top tier IP. That's very good. I think that is going to be the show that is going to put them on the map for like mainstream anime fans. Totally. Because I have a lot of trust. Sci Games is one of the few companies that have used their gacha game funds for good. And I've just actually just been pumping out so many cool original projects as well. And on top of the new human moves, I'm just looking fan fucking tasty. I'm excited for the Kaga Rabachi anime. Yeah, me too. Fun. Yeah. But holy shit. Next year looks aptly stacked for anime. Can we say that every year? He doesn't like me. I feel like you say this every year. Yeah. No, winter like what's the wind line up? We'll tell the audio. We'll tell the audience what it is. You have you have like winter looks 2026. Fucking insane. All right. Let's see. All right. Let's have a look at the winter line of anime. Should you be hyped? Okay. Free Rinse is into. Okay. All right. Just in the top three line up. I'm really fucking hyped. By all you know, curthewed season. Oh, bro. Five or excuse me me. Five or season two. Hong Kong. Fate strange. What is that? What's that? That is a new fate that is set in America. Word. It's. All right. This one's going to be holy grail war. This one is. Yes. In the US. But you have guns. This one's going to pop off. The animation is not you, foe tool, but it's a different art style and a one looks a lot. I mean, it looks insane. It actually looks insane. Is it a original story or yes, an original story? What does that mean? Like is it not based off the game? Is it not based off the game? It's a space of a light novel. Okay. But it's it's like kind of like own separate universe from like. Okay. I mean, that's kind of hype. I mean, I was wondering why we have an old fate in a long time. Well, it's because we've they've been cooking this for like so fucking long. I hope this is good. This is going to be so it's going to be so it's going to be so much fun. All right. I'm imagining Gilgamesh in America is going to be. Yeah. Right. It's going to be so sick. I also will all the things be different. You know how it's like writer and all the people always change. Yeah. So Gilgamesh is going to be in this one. That's a type. He, I believe, is a comment about what other servants, but he's the main servant. Gilgamesh appears. What if this is like really American? It's like Gilgamesh, you're a Democrat. He got sick must the main character. All right. You can go back. Let's see what else is coming out this year. Okay. Okay. Looking pretty stacked, I'd say. Okay. Yeah. Obviously I never heard a chain soldier. Was that? It's like that. It looks like an itchy. Probably an yeah. So. I mean, it's a, it's a, it's a, but it is by studio passion. So. I mean, they, they cooked recently. Yeah. If it's itchy and it's passion, I trust. Does that mean you're supposed to be going to be light porn? Pretty much. Pretty much. I'm in. Yes. I'm watching that. Okay. Go back. Yeah. Go back. Okay. The book. Oh, yeah. You said it was good, though. Yeah, it is good. It is basically my hair academia, but like kickass. It's follows a group of people who basically have, you know, uses power. Okay. Makes sense. Oh, yeah. You try, it's coming out. Is it a new trigger? Yes. You sequel to Stampede. Yes, sequel to Stampede. Oh, wow. Very, very hype for that. Is that going to be following the original or is it like a new? The following Stampede, the remake that's genuinely arranged. Oh, yeah. So it's a complete remake. It's already gone its own separate path. Interesting. And people are so good. Yes. Last season of Golden Camus, as well, which might be my actual, uh, but my, my, my finally, my time to start watching Golden Camus. Yeah. I always see like single and come. I always see out of context, like clips of it. It gets fucking weird. Yeah. I, it's like on that like JoJo level, where it's just like, I need to fucking watch this. There are a lot of episodes that are like legitimately. All I know is that whenever I see Golden Camus stuff out in the wild or any Golden Camus event, it's always only women. Really? Yeah, I've only ever seen women. Oh, I just need to watch the points where I need to find out the context of why these two characters are having a Wankoff. Yeah, we all know. I just need all the Wankoff is about. All right, scroll down. I really, really enjoyed my last season one. In the Coast, 40 as a third season. Yeah, I know. I feel like that came out like last year. Scroll down. Okay. So kind of your standards. And then we go to season all fair. Yeah, I mean, some of these might. The Darwin one, the fucking monkey one. The Darwin incident. Oh, I think I've read the manga for that. Yeah. I mean, some of these might pop off. It's against that point where, you know, one of these is going to be like a hidden gem, which is normally the case with seasonal anime. The invisible man at his soon to be wise. Yeah, I saw that. And I was like, is that a furry mommy right there? But yeah, I mean, like, I mean, the season is set stack, but we just got a lot of like a couple of really big hitters coming out. I mean, we've got, we've got, I mean, this season, season two and three, this season right now is like, fucking, we're in the desert right now. We've got nothing. Yeah, I've not heard anyone talk about any anime. It's just it's my hero. That's it. It's about it. That's it's chainsaw man moving. And then everyone is just clowning over one punch man. Yeah. That's it. That's the season. There's nothing. I feel bad for one punch man because there is nothing good to take away the attention from the disaster that is. Trance on my movies trying. Yeah, it's trying, but it is a movie. That's pretty much it. We were getting made in the best season three. I mean, there's not enough. I think there's a movie coming up. Oh, right. Yeah, they paused, didn't they? Yeah, there's just high. Yeah, there's not enough. Yeah, there's not enough. It's been on high for five years. Something like that. It's been it's been on high for a long time. Damn, that's a shame. Yeah. Yeah, there's just not enough material to adapt. I think they announced a movie and all the manga readers like how the fuck are you making any more content out of this? I'm pretty sure it's to end with the manga right? It's so light. Oh, yeah. So maybe they're doing a side story, original side story. I don't know. Is that all for working on anything else? No, he's that's all he's doing. That's what I know what he's doing. But I mean, there's so much there's so much anime coming out every season. I'm very, very excited for I don't think this is in winter, but in spring, I think my most anticipated is probably which hat a tillia. Which hat a tillia? Every zero and season four, too. And every light and all reader has told me that this season four is the peak arc of Rizero. We'll have to wait and see. This is probably this is probably my most anticipated new IP that's coming out. Since it has my favorite power system in like fancy manga that I read so far. All right. Cool. Yeah. So I just it's by the same studio that made Zom 100 though and a bit worried. So episode one's going to be peak. Yeah. I look at the trailers and the trailers look absolutely fantastic. But it has been delayed and I'm just like I hope this isn't a repeat of Zom 100. You know, delay is never a good sign. Yeah. It's not a sign of things going great. Yeah. But, but you want you want I would prefer there to be a delay for a healthy. Yeah. Healthy. It's quite delayed normally happen. Yeah. That's why GC a six hasn't released right? Okay. I think that I'm releasing it because GTA 5 makes so much fucking money still. They don't need a release GTA 6. Yeah. They can just cook it a little longer. It's the same thing that like the Persona series is doing. I'm sure six has been done for like three years and they're just like, yeah, but we can still squeeze money out of five. I can say when you when you release six, then the the timer starts for set. Yeah. And five literally makes so much money still because of all the online stuff. I mean, half of the streaming industry in Japan is GTA 5. Yeah. So I feel like they're in no rush. Yeah. But so I feel like they're probably just trying to delay it as much as recently possible to get it to your point where maybe it can even make even more money. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure I will. But it's going to make ungodly amounts of money. Did you do you think it's because like they just feel like they can't meet the hype? No, no, no. In terms of like not meet the hymen terms like sales meet the hymen terms of like, you know, critically, I think it'll be the hype. Do you think it will? The size of pretty good track track. Yeah. I mean, with how much hype is happening already, I think it's, yeah, I don't think it's going to be a flop or anything. Because like with the persona sixth thing, I'm just like, you know, I feel like if it was if they wanted to make it, it would have been made already. Oh, dude, I'm convinced the game is like finished like long time ago. Wait, wait, what? Like five fucking wait. No, no, no, no. I'm not. No, no. I'm not kidding. It's like it's been on its last legs for like a year or two at least. And they're just seeing how much they can squeeze out of the son of five because it's the most successful persona game in the entire series. Like it's not even close when it comes like how much like people are playing it. And also, you know, the three remake made them a bunch of money. The fact the four remake is going to come out before the fact that they're going through the remakes. I'm just like, nah, that they they out, they out. You reckon? I don't know. I feel like his here's my conspiracy hat theory. They've probably done like ideas and tests. But you know, sometimes you're just like, we've gone to that point, right? I feel we've gone to that point in like at least like the game or in or and statement industry. Well, if you have like a big long running IP series, the next one, you have to like eclipse the previous one, right? That's that. I mean, that's just how business work a lot of the time. And that's a lot of pressure for the creators. You know what I mean? Because persona six now has gotten to that like ungodly point where fans are expecting something that probably is impossible to reach. You know what I mean? And I feel like maybe maybe if the developers don't feel like they can put something that has the quality that reaches the persona six name brands, then they'd rather make a fucking metaphor or something where it's just like, you know, trying something new. That is true. And it's not as much pressure, but still can, you know, perform pretty decently. I mean, apparently they're already working on a metaphor too. So yeah, yeah, yeah, it might honestly be the point where they're just like, I don't think we need to make any more persona games. We just have to start remaking. Maybe it's not like they don't feel like they need to make more persona games. I feel like there's no rush until they feel they can make something that is like, you know, worthy of the legacy. Then they weren't make another persona game. They try to figure out how to make a green UI work. Yeah, because you know, back in our day, we just we had a mainline release of a new game every like year or two, you know, talking about like the fun fancy days. And now it's just like, yo, what's the gap between GTA five and GTA six versus GTA four and GTA five? It's like, I swear to God, it's getting like longer and longer. I mean, it's how we reached the limit. Have we reached the limit of these links between games? I feel like we've got pretty fucking long now. Yeah, that's true. But I think as well, they're taking advantage like like in the case of GTA five. I think they're taking advantage of the fact that people are still playing a lot of the previous title or even like even the previous titles before that as well. Yeah. And so they're just like, they're banking on the fact that the fan base is going to be interested in this for, they're already interested in this for what? It's been like what? It's been 10 years since five came out, right? Fuck. Yeah, five came out, GTA five came out 10 years ago. Okay. Yeah. Same with persona five as well. It came more than that. It's 12 years ago. When did GTA four come out? GTA four came out five years earlier than that. Damn. So it's already been more than double the time like between GTA five. I remember when the GTA five dropped that release was massive. Yeah. It was like global news. Everyone stopped doing what they were doing for a couple of days. So people died over getting this game. Yeah. Like literally died over this game. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. So six has to somehow trump that as well. Which is going to be of tall fucking order. Holy. I, here's my, my, I think they might delay it one more time. You're I can feel it. I feel it. I feel another delay. I feel another delay. Yeah. But also they have to let it to November, which is the peak holiday season. So I wouldn't be surprised if they really wanted to get it out for Christmas because shit's going to do numbers. Oh my god. Yeah. It's going to print money. Yeah. We're not going to see anything on Twitch for a while except. It's going to be GTA 6. That's going to be everything. I mean, I'm like, you are curious. No, I'm just curious as to bro, how, how, how, how can they possibly meet the hype? I don't know. It's, I mean, so song kind of was that. And I think a lot of people said that it delivered. Yeah, that got away to fuck load. Well, didn't they just stop talking about it for a while? They just don't release it. Yeah. I think that's just the way it is. But that's, that's, that's much lower in scale as well. I think that's what Todd Howard was talk, he didn't interview recently about it and was like, yeah, I think we're just going to shadow drop all our games going forward. Yeah. Yeah. But then I think a lot of people pointed out, and I think this is rightfully so I think everyone just didn't fucking like when the studios would announce a game and be like, coming out in five years. Like, don't fucking talk about it. It's going to come out by fucking years. What a load of shit. Yeah. That is true. And I know it's just because they want to keep stockholders and investors, shareholders, all the stuff happy. And you know, maybe buy more investment. We like, look at much hype we have. Yeah. But it's like, no, just fucking release the game or tell us like six months before or tells a year before I most like, yeah, I don't want to know about a game two years before. Perfectly. I don't, I don't, I can't, I can't think that far ahead. So I'm going to forget about until the next announcement you make anyway. So I feel like there's obviously a difference between like AAA games and maybe something close to like an indie studio where like Bethesda has a, I mean, AAA and they call AAA apparently at times. But like, yeah, they shadowed, they shadowed, they shadowed, dropped the remake. They just dropped it of what of a blivian. Oh, they just released it. Do you remember that? Like they were like, it's coming out next week. Everyone's like, what? I didn't, I didn't hear much about it. But that's not, that's a, that's a huge issue. That's like, I feel like it was very popular. That's completely me issue because I, I, the, the, the games are not really, I was thinking of within my like, circle. I think it's going to become probably, well, probably, I, I would like to see more of it. It's kind of excited. Yeah, it is. I personally, sometimes I've talked about hype fatigue on like trash, day spot, gas before and I'm just like, yeah, I don't get hype for games. Yeah, I don't care. It's, I'm out of the hype cycle now where I like him when the game just drops and everyone just fucking starts talking about it. Yeah. Yeah. And I like not being within that community because sometimes I just, I just psych myself out. I can psych myself out sometimes. I can't start thinking it's great for I even touched it. I just can't, I feel like it's not a healthy way to approach media to be like, the media is amazing. Yeah. I just need to like be like, oh, okay, it's out people like it. Sure. I'll try it. Yeah. I mean, most of the games I get hyped for are the ones that everyone else around me doesn't even know. Yeah. I was like, oh, drank question seven remakes coming out. Fuck yeah, that's going to be sick. No one else talking about it. When's the last time we went into something like completely blinds? A little while. Last, last time I got, when's there something completely blind was like a video game? Anything. Anything. I don't know, to be honest. Yeah. It's a rarity nowadays. Oh, probably, probably a gannibal, the manga that I mentioned last week in my three by three. Like that was pretty much given to me just completely blind. Yeah. And I've really fucking enjoyed that. But other than that, yeah, it's like it's either someone, like it's either one of you guys talking to me about it or I hear it online or I hear it from another friend or something. Is it, is it even possible to go into things completely blind now if you are on the internet? Well, sometimes there are some things where you have to like consciously go into a complete blind. But I don't have that willpower. I think hearing something is good. Yeah. You know, this just going to happen nowadays. Yeah. I think not knowing anything about the game itself or media is going in blind. Okay. You don't know anything about the world and it's just going in. Like going to like a movie premiere or something where it's like literally the first, like first time this is being shown to the world. Yeah. Yeah. Before you see screenshots of it on Twitter or something like that. It's just like, I can't remember the last time I've been able to experience something like that. And it's, I've gotten so used to, I guess, my opinions being, being like, persuade by just knowing what other people think about this and for the better or for the worse, you know, yeah, for sure. Even just not even just like reading reviews, but, you know, knowing that this is being talked about on social media quite a lot before I go into this thing. I know that there is at least something worth talking about, you know. But you know, the few times that I do get to watch something or experience something completely blind, I think that's, I think that's the experience like that is worth cherishing because especially in this day and age, you're just like, now, I get to have an opinion that is a completely clean slate and it has not been swayed by any discussion or anything online. And it's getting rarer and rarer that you can do that nowadays with the world and these that being so much more connected. Well, you know what we are going into completely blind? What? 2026. 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