Our Favorite Things of 2025 | Trash Taste #287

Hello and welcome to another episode of trash taste arm your host for today gone. I don't know why I grab Mr. Potato Head as I was doing the I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I just saw moving parts and I was like, oh look at look at that. And join me once again. Oh, the boys Joey and Connor and we get to talk about our favorite things that we got into watched red listened to whatever because it's the end of the year guys. Yeah, let's talk about it. It doesn't feel like the end of the year. This is this has been a weird ass year. Yeah. Yeah, every time this this episode rolls around like the favorite things think because we've done this multiple times now. I think it's like third time maybe. So we've done this every time this episode rolls around. I'm just like, what the fuck I done this year? It's weird how it goes so fast yet. I remember something so clearly and they feel so far away. Yeah. Also, they feel so quite like the Swiss special we filmed that in February. Yeah. Yeah. Right. That does not feel like this year. That doesn't it weirdly doesn't feel like this year, but so many memories feel so vivid that I feel like it was like two months ago. Yeah. Yeah. True. It's really weird. How does that matter? It's true. Time is such a funny thing and we're also getting older and we're going to die. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's also that's also something. Not all the things that are in our list are things from 2025. Yeah. No, no, no. This is our excuse just to be like just to talk about shit that we like and we discovered or maybe watched in 2025. This is our representation of our year. Yeah. And out of every year that we've ever done this, this is by far the hardest I had to work to scrounge nine fucking things to represent me in my year. I remember the first time we did this, this like favorite things of whatever year it was. Yeah. It was like, oh, yeah, I mean, only nine. What the, yeah, am I going to put in this year? I was like, I put three in, I was just like, well, I'm done. Like this year. One of the other things that's going to be on my list. Yeah. This year, my year was top heavy of just this one thing was like 70% of my year. Yeah. And then I'm like, go for a couple of things in the draw. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the other things I did this year outside of this one thing. Yeah. We might have talked about some of these things on past episodes. We might not have. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this would be the episode where we go maybe a bit more in depth. We'll talk about all these things in detail. Sure. Yeah. Exactly. So who wants to go first? Fuck that out. Let's spend the pan. Okay. We'll let you know all the other things. All right. All right. All right. It is. That's close. Joey. What the fuck? It was like a two percent chance. I was going to be cornered. Yeah. I was going to bring out trash box to know I was like, ah, I can't be bothered to worry. All right. Fine. Joey's going first. Load up my three in the first three. So before you talk about each one, just say what the nine things are. Yeah. Okay. So nine things are meditations by Marcus Aurelius, fantasy life one, Garnieville, Hans Zimmer, my engagement. I feel like I feel like I could kill me if I didn't put that on. Exit eight, he may have done best buds and togglepy. Okay. Okay. We'll do what to start with. I don't know. What do you guys want to start with? Let's talk about all of these. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. I can't. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. So this is a book that I read. Not that long ago, actually. I was rereading it the other day at the trash-based offers. Because I finally, I finally popped my philosophy novel, Cherry. Yeah. I was like, fuck, can I would you? Yeah. You've got you've got to step you've got to step even like down the rabbit hole. Yeah. Yeah. So what's this book about? So this is a book written by Marcus Aurelius, who if you you guys know anything about Roman history was the leader of the Roman Empire. I think it was AD 160. Something like that. Yeah. We're going to have to look that up. But yeah, he was the emperor. If you watch the movie Gladiator, absolute banger, he was the old guy that gets killed by Waking Phoenix's character near the beginning. Yeah. And he was a real person. And he wrote this book called Meditations, which is considered one of the greatest philosophy books ever written. And I think it was back in like, I think it was while we were in LA this year, Brandama Expo. Yeah. I went to a couple of like bookstores that people were recommending to me. And there was like this entire section for philosophy. It was like a huge section for philosophy. And I was looking at it. I was like, I've always been interested in reading philosophy of books. But it's like, you know, because there's so many different types of philosophy, it's like where the hell do I even begin? Right? Because I feel like if you start reading the wrong one or you go too far into the rabbit hole as your first novel, then your viewer philosophy just gets kind of skewed to like one side or the other. So I asked people online being like, Hey, what is like a good go to start to go into like the gateway novel for philosophy books. And out of a number of ones that end up buying, this one was brought up a lot. Do you know anything about this? No, not at anything. So do you know who you know who Marcus Arrelli's was? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he was he was again, as I said, he was at one point the most powerful person in the world when he was like the head of the Roman Empire. And he wrote this book called Meditations. And it's not even really a book. It's like a list of almost journal entries that he wrote throughout his lifetime that was never meant to be published. He basically wrote it. It was basically his as the name suggests, Meditations towards the way that he lived his life and the way that he wanted to live his life and the way that he viewed life and stuff like that. And it's all based around this philosophy called stoicism, which is where the word stoic comes from. Yeah. Which is all about this idea of not letting certain things control your life that are outside of your control and kind of being the drive like sitting in the driver's seat of your life. And this was this book that he wrote or listed journal entries that he wrote, which again, were never meant for publication. But some 2000 years later, it is now considered one of the greatest philosophy books ever written. And this like, you know, you know, sometimes you'll read something and every single thing you read is like holy shit. Yeah. That was this book. Like literally every single entry in this book, I had to reread several times because it's not only written in a very poetic way that can be open to interpretation, but also just I've never met or I've never never met. I've never seen a person who can give this much of like a poignant statement on life and the way that you should be living life. And like I'd always heard of the term like stoic and stoicism and stuff like that. But I never had like a full grasp of what it actually meant. I thought, you know, when I hear the when someone says oh, he's very stoic. Yeah. Like what do you imagine when someone says, oh, he's a very stoic person. Someone doesn't confine in people easily or able to someone who keeps themselves. Yeah. Yeah. So it's it's a lot of that, but also a big like misconception that a lot of people get when they hear stoic is, oh, you shouldn't feel like emotions towards anything because you shouldn't let your emotions like overrun your life. Um, Marcus Aurelis instead kind of said, well, no, you're a human. You're going to feel emotions towards certain things. But what you should, so you shouldn't, it's not it's not this idea of you shouldn't feel emotions towards certain things and just get things done. It's this idea of you should feel emotions towards things, but you shouldn't let those feelings and emotions control your life. And it's like I can just read, I can just write off or list off just like a bunch of like quotes from this book. Yeah. Like I feel like it's kind of crazy to think that a dude who lived 2000 years ago and was talking about life 2000 years ago, which suffice to say none of us can relate to. Yeah. On a surface level can write shit that every single person, no matter what walk of life you're in, can relate to in one way or another. Now, if I had a library, sorry, if I had a fucking diary and that would just got like leaked to the entire world, I would hope my writing was being addressed. Right. And it's not just like who got pissed up the fucking spoons today. Can't remember what happened that night out. I'm sure that might have been in there, but maybe it was removed. So she is 2000 years ago. I imagine that this, you know, his words have been almost translated quite a lot. Yeah. So it's probably, you know, it's probably the rough meaning of what he said. Yeah. Yeah. So why have I read it? Yeah. So there's so he originally wrote this all in Greek, obviously. But it's been translated multiple times over many, many, many iterations. I read the one that is like the most highly accepted and praised translation. Yeah. I forget the author's name. I apologize, but I'm Mark's relics. Well, yes, the translator author. I give you a quote. Okay. I'll give you a quote. This one is on perspective. He said, everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Yeah. That's pretty. Yeah. Which is like very, yeah, boss. Yeah. You know, you could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do in saying thing. So it's just like, it's very simple terminology, but said in a very almost poetic way. And like, and you know, there's there's quotes like that that are very just like to the point, yeah, I understand what he's trying to say. Obviously, easier said than done kind of things. Yeah. But he also throws in, because you know, at the time, Greek was this language that was very like poetry, and yeah. And Marcus are really, you know, would describe things in like, like, there's this one chapter where he talked about how when someone begs bread, yeah. And when the when the bread rises, the cracks at the top of the bread, you know, break the dough upon. And he kind of alluded that to this whole idea of, well, the cracks are there because of the bread rose. So it's like some some time, I interpret that that as, you know, when every person rises to their best, sometimes it's not going to be perfect. You know, there are going to be some consequences of some cracks in the road. But at the end of the day, the bread is made. Yeah. And it's, it's, he says all of these things in a really like poignant and poetic way, where I feel like this is going to be one of those books that I'm just going to continue to reread over my life, because, you know, different moments of my life, I feel like I'm going to reflect on different things that he said. And it's again, it's just crazy that like I can relate to this 2,000 year old Roman empire and use those words to reflect on my role. Yeah. Yeah. And it's just crazy that, you know, at the end of it all, he nip, he wrote all of these things for no one else but himself to see. And yet he was able to write like that. So like as someone who like, you know, wants to get more into like creative writing and stuff like that too, yeah. This was just like a really good, not only like, you know, good way to like look back on my life and kind of think about the way I'm living my life, but also just like a really good study material on just writing and like poetry and stuff like that, which I really fucked with. I mean, I mean, what you said reminds me of a line that really stuck with me this year from, from all back, actually, where there's a character that was just talking about the magic of books and how she can like, you know, she can read words written thousands of years ago and relate to someone who she would have never known and never knew existed. And yet she in relate to this real person, their words that existed generations and generations ago. And this is like just a real life example of that. Yeah. Like honestly, like even if you'd like, don't really like care to like read philosophy books or anything like, I feel like this is one of those books like legitimately, like we always say things like, oh, this is a book that everybody needs to read. I genuinely think this is a book that everybody needs to read because it's just you learn so much about not only yourself, but also it's just a really good way to just take control of your life. Yeah. You know, maybe not in the same way that say a Roman emperor did, but just like, you know, use his reflections and use, you know, because again, this is coming from a guy who at one point was literally standing at the top of the world. Yeah. And you know, there's that saying of like, you know, absolute crop, absolute power crops absolutely. Yeah. This is one of the few examples where it really didn't like if anything, the power that he gained over his lifetime, he used that in the most meaningful way possible. And to like use that self reflection to then again, kind of inadvertently teach people fucking millennia, you know, since then. Yeah. So just like, just be a good person. And to like, just take control of your life. And that's like the best way to live life. Yeah. Yeah. I forgot which Roman emperor was one of them was like, literally a farmer. And he was like, fine, I'll fucking just thought it out. He starts farming. Like, all right, I'll take a river for like two, two, four years. Yeah. Sort of it all out. And then he was like, we're going back to farming now. Now back to my real passions. That's why I call it my huge cause we have a word named after this guy. I really, yeah, I forgot what the fucking thing is. Do you think this is like the original Sigma grind set? People in the Roman Empire just like, they were just like, we're in the show. Yeah. Since then this is yeah, since natty is named after this guy. Oh, really? This is where yeah, it's like he basically, yeah, when when Rome was having a fucking hard time, he was like, final, sort of out, not farming. Yeah. Sort out, went back to farming based. You know, it's the thing that doesn't happen nowadays. You would know when, you know, there's no people want more, more, more, more, more, the greed of more is corrupting power. Yeah. You know that whole meme of like, how often do you think about the Roman Empire? After this book, I mean, I think about the law now. The meme is so only present because so much of, especially at least like European and American culture, you know, draws from it in nearly every single aspect of life. Yeah. Totally. If you look hard enough at anything that we do, it somehow always ends up coming back to the fucking moment. It is. And also they built things that are still around. So of course, you're like, who built this fucking thing? This thing is shaking off the Romans. Yeah. And then you're like, when they didn't build, you're like, oh, they didn't build it. That's true. With the aqueducts and wells, like, this is so impressive. It must have been the Romans. Yeah. It wasn't there's like 1700s. You're like, yeah, we did build things. Damn, we did that. We can do that shit. I think I think the other like, last thing I'll touch upon this because I've gone on this book forever. But like, I think the other incredibly poignant thing about at least like the translated version that I read of this is that because these, you know, excerpts that he wrote throughout his life were more so he wasn't telling anyone in particular who was telling himself these things as like as the name suggests, like self, you know, meditation. So the book, at least the one I read is all in second person. So he refers to himself as you. So it's a talk to shop. It is original signal. So it almost sounds like, yeah, it almost sounds like he's talking to you. Yeah, that's funny. You know, it's saying like you need to do this. You need to do this. But in originally, he was talking to himself. Yeah. Being like, bro, get you should get that you need to do this. Don't forget this, bro. Yeah, don't forget this. He was the original guy who locked in. You should get into a diogen. He's next. Oh, yeah, yeah. This is definitely like ever since I've read this book, I've read a bunch of other like kind of surface level philosophy books like I read the tale of cisterphas and stuff like that. I'm actually like sat down and read the book for that, which is also an amazing book. But yeah, this is like slowly taking me down the philosophy of philosophy. The problem of me like tangentially listening to people talk about philosophies. I feel like I know what cisterphas did, but I can't tell you right now. Yeah, right, right. You know, all these things. Yeah, I'm like, I know what they are. And I'm like, I should probably just sit down and actually read these and get into it. Yeah, that's the thing. It's like I knew about the name cisterphas and like, you know, the push in the ball, the rop the hill or whatever, but I've never knew what that story actually tells her like what punishment. Yeah. Yeah. Or like what the idea of what cisterphas is tail in tail that turns it into the rage game. That's what I mean. There's no better thing to quote is a joke than philosophy. You sound so fucking funny when you cry. Yeah, like this, you know, yeah, but you know, there's that there's that great quote of like, you know, one must imagine cisterphas happy. Yeah. Like that was there was a that was originally based off of the book about cisterphas. And now that I actually read that book, they just had such fucking cold fucking stories. I know one must imagine cisterphas happy is become like a meme. It has become a meme. Now I hear that and there's so much like so many lines that fucking hit. And now I just think down this has been that's a meme to fuck. I know. It's so annoying. Yeah. Is that down. Jean is the cave. Now who did the cave? What's the cave? One way fucking like meme where you you like you're in the cave and you hold up the like the silhouette and it projects onto the back of the cave. This is like one of the. Oh, oh, yeah. I know what you're talking about. I forgot the name. I know. Diogenes he was basically like the original troll. Oh, yeah, the guy was like, but what if this? Like I like there's a few stories I remember like I think like it's so weird that all of these like philosophers lived in the same time. So Plato, I believe was like they were trying to define man. Yeah. And uh, and Plato was like, I think man is a featherless biped and fucking diogenes rocks up to one of his lectures, but plugs the chicken, plops it on the fucking desk and be like and was like, behold, man. And Plato retracted that statement. Let's just the back we still have good discussions. Yeah, I know the OG ratio. The OG ratio. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, yeah, even, yeah, even if you're not into philosophy, like this changed my mind on everything. I think every, every man is born with a counter. That's counting down for the moment you're born. And it is this when you get into philosophy, the pre-determined time in your life when you get into philosophy. Everyone's counter is different, but it happens to every man. Well, it goes back to like you said, it's the man council for reading about the Roman Empire. Yeah, exactly. Or the Greek Empire, you know, this, to me it all came at once. When this book, I think when you live your life a bit more, you kind of, you've come to respect what has come before you. I think it's a natural part of just living life. On a personal thing of life, fantasy life. Yeah. What is fantasy life? So I was thinking about like, all right, I need to put like a video game in this story. I thought about I'm like, man, I had compared to like the previous years. I haven't really played a whole lot of games like. Yeah. I mean, I played like Dragon Quest 3 and 1 remake. I finished those. Those were great. But I think them when I thought about what's the game I put the most amount of hours into this year? It was fantasy life. The fuck is fantasy life? Okay. So how do you heard this game? No. Okay. So this is a game that I think Oki found because she thought it was going to be some kind of like cozy, you know, like stardew valley-esque type of like farming simulator type of game, which in an aspect it is. Yeah. But this is a game where it's really hard to explain. So it's all about, it's really an is a guy story of this kid who gets transported into this like fantasy world and he needs to find a way to get back and also like stop the, you know, the great being that's like trying to destroy the world or whatever. Yeah. But it's really confusing because the game throws so much shit at you that you're like, you get like 5, 10 hours into this game and you're like, what is this game trying to be? The ratings are amazing. Yeah. It's amazingly fun. Like if you love like cozy JRPGs, this is like the best game to play. Yeah. I put like a hundred aisles into this game. What'd you do in it? So what do you do? You can literally do it. So it starts off, it's like imagine if you took the job building aspect of runescape with the village creation element of like a stardew valley. But also like the dungeon crawling aspect of any like, you know, strategically generated dungeon and also an open world like Breath of the World. Wow. It's like it's like it's like it's like this team when all right, name your top five favorite games and was like, okay, we'll do all five of those at the same time. It's super cozy and super fun. And there's like multiplayer in this as well. So it's good fun. Yeah. While we were in a while we were in LA because I was in America for like what three and a half weeks after anama expo. Yeah. Dude, for like two weeks straight, I just played this game. I just like chilled on the couch. I was like, I'm not going to do any work. I'm just going to chill and play this cozy arse game and I ended up seeking a hundred hours into it. Yeah. There's also like you can get like skills and shit as well. And there's like dungeon crawling. I genuinely don't know how to describe this game, but it is if you love cozy JRPGs, this is like the game to play. It looks visually quite fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's visually super simple. Really, really good fun. Of course, this fishing and stuff. I mean, it's not a JRPG without fishing. Of course. Yeah. And again, I like the whole aspect of like it's almost like the Roomscape job building. So you can go out and like fight monsters, but you can also like build your fishing level or build your like tree cutting level or your like or your mining level or you know, stuff like that. Yeah. It's just a really simple fun game that I sunk way too many hours into. So yeah. It looks fun. Yeah. It actually looks and it's multiplayer as well. Yeah. You can do multiplayer in the open wall statement. Oh, yeah. And then this straight up like breath of the wild style. Like the fuck is this? The shrines and shit as well. Because why not? Is there farming in this? Yeah. There is farming in this. Of course. There's farming in this. Yeah. Okay. Again, it's like it's like again, it's like Roomscape, Stadu Valley, Breath of the Wild dungeon crawling. Is there romance in this? Yes. There is romance in this. Oh, shit. I gotta I gotta. I gotta. Because you can say a great couch game. Yeah. This is a great couch game. Super fun. Chill. If you just want to like chill for like a couple of hours, I recommend this to Sydney then. Oh, yeah. This is how to Sydney. It looks like such a Sydney game. Yeah. Sydney would love this game. Absolutely. That's cool. Yeah. There you go. That was the one game that I've liked. That looks fun, man. Yeah. You're a gamer. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a gamer. Backaru. Cool. Oh, Gunny about it. Gunny about it. Yeah. Yeah. Right to left. So this is the one manga choice that I put in. So my hairdresser actually recommended this manga to me. This is like a 13 or 14 volume kind of like horror thriller novel. Yeah. That's us is amazing. So basically the the the premises. There's like this police officer who moves into this countryside with his family to kind of get away from the city. And he's the only like kind of police officer in this tiny little village in the mountains. And as he's trying to like assimilate to the village life and to like, you know, get to know all the villages and stuff like that. Yeah. He notices they're like a little bit weird and they're like a little like the vibe is off basically. He's like something's up with this village. And there are these rumors floating around from people outside of the village that this particular village has a cult family that is said to eat humans. And he's like, well, as a man of the law, I can't let that slide. And also I have a kid and wife I need to take care of as well. I'm not letting them get eaten. So he goes out and investigates and it's just this fucking roller coaster ride of this guy just trying to basically put a stop to this like whole family. And the art was really captivating for me. And also just there are so many story beats where you're just like, Oh, shit. I don't know what's going to happen anymore. It's one of those thrillers horror is where it's just like, you think you know where the story is going. Yeah. And then you just throw something in there like actually not it's nothing like that now. So completely, you have to completely change your perspective. And what's also cool is that when I reread it, it's one of those manga where the hints were very obvious from the beginning. Yeah. It's just that because you didn't yeah, yeah, because you didn't have the knowledge of what was happening. That's the best kind of. It's the best kind. Yeah. Because then you can rewatch it. You're like, oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. That was so fucking obvious kind of deal. Who is the author? I don't know this author. I feel like they're only known for this. There was also live action as well of this. Nino Miyamasaki. It was live action. Yeah. There was also a live action TV series of this. Japanese one that my hairdresser originally recommended Meeta Wach. But he was like, 22. But he was like, you should probably read the manga first. Right. And I watched this live action as well. And it was very good for for a manga based live action in Japan. This was very, very good. That's the boss. I don't always have faith in Japanese live exactly. Exactly. Yeah. 7.4 is good. That's very, very good. Yeah. I got a bunch of my friends into this one as well. Very, very good. That was definitely my manga pick of the year. I will have to check it out. Yeah. Next one. Oh, that's Hans Zimmer. The guy. The guy. So I, I can't wait to go see Hans Zimmer live. Oh, shit. No fucking way. Easily the most expensive concert ticket I've ever paid for. But fuck me, man. Was it like, how much was the concert? So we were in this, it was this giant stadium. I think it was, was it taking a big side or one of the big ones. And we were right in the middle on the ground. Oh, no. Yeah. Because it's all seeded. But we were right in the middle on the ground. Like, band is right there. Kind of deal. I think I paid 500 bucks. Geez. But I mean, but I was just in America. No, in Japan. It was in Japan. I've never heard of a concert. Yeah. So when I saw the ticket prices, I was like, oh my god. That is, but then again, I thought to myself, I'm like, when am I ever going to see Hans Zimmer? That's crazy. I didn't even know he came to Japan. Yeah. Yeah. What did concerts? Yeah. So him and his band came and it was like a two and a half hour concert. And they just did all of the Hans Zimmer soundtracks. And it was, oh my god, when they did the gladiator soundtrack, dude. Oh, that must have been. I was crying because they also got the original singer that does like the vocal tracks and stuff like that. They did parts of the Caribbean. They did Inception. You did parts of the Caribbean. Yeah. Oh, God. It's everything. It's not everything. He's done all the goaded ones. They did Lion King. They did. Yeah, just like all of the doon as well. Oh my god. Doon live. Oh, that's crazy. They opened up with that shit. And I was just like, oh my god. I would love to hear the doon. Yeah. Yeah. So that was all done live. And it was so cool as well because it's like Hans was like in the middle at the entire time. He was like playing guitar and playing all these instruments. And he was just conducting the entire thing but also playing it. Yeah. But it was just so cool because it's like you're watching him play. And he clearly loves this shit so fucking much. Right. Like the entire two and a half hours, his face literally looked like that. It was just smile on his face, like looking back at his band and it's just being like, yeah, let's, I know I'm killing this shit. And also he's so fucking funny on stage. Oh, really? Like between each set of tracks, they split it up into each movie. So they would play like doon and then do a couple of tracks from the doon soundtrack. And then Hans would kind of talk to the crowd a little bit and introduce the next thing and stuff like that. Man's got jokes. He loves just fucking throwing around jokes. He's the guy. He's so funny. And he clearly loves like his band members so much and just all the music he may. I remember one, one of the soundtracks he did, I forgot what the name of the movie was because I had to look it up afterwards. It was a soundtrack that Hans Zimmer did back in like, I think during the COVID times or something of like some superhero movie that was incredibly poorly received. It was like red, red skull it or some shit like that. Oh, he said the black widow movie. Yeah, the black widow movie did that. Yeah. And when he, I remember he was just like, okay, so this next set of tracks is from a movie. I'm not going to name because it's a terrible movie. But he proceeds to do the sound. Yeah. And he's like, but I think the soundtrack is amazing. But the movie is terrible. That's enjoy. And I remember everyone in the crowd is like, what the fuck are you talking about? So we have to look at that. That would never fucking happen in Japan. Oh, yeah. That's hilarious. But yeah, that was, I mean, I went to a lot of concerts this year, but that one was my favorite. What was the best soundtrack to hear live? It was a tie between Dune and Gladiator. Oh, Gladiator would be so good. I think, I think the Gladiator soundtrack might honestly be my favorite Hans Zimmer soundtrack. I just have core memories of, you know, all those shots when they do like the flashback in the fields. Yeah, there's dead and there's that music that's blasting. Oh, yeah. Oh, with the woman singing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When they were the woman singing one is like, that's like the most iconic. My wife is dead flashback. Yeah. You know, it's, it's either like in a field or they're under the bedsheets. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking sheets. So like, you know, it's like peak. My wife is dead flashback. Yeah. I'll do when that song started coming on, bro. I started crying. It was, it was fucking beautiful. And it was really cool as well because the entire time behind the band, there was this like ultra ultra wide LED backdrop. And they were just playing scenes from the movie. Oh, it's all behind it. And just, oh, yeah. So you know where the song is from. Yeah. So you know where the song is from. And where was the venue? I forget where I was, it was somewhere in Tokyo. It was one of the big, I was, was a zap. I don't remember exactly where it was, but it was probably like a 10,000 cap venue. So it was a big venue. It was a big venue. Yeah. Um, and yeah, that was out of all the bands I went to go see. That was easily the best concert. Pro, I would honestly say might honestly be one of the best concerts I've ever been to. I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, I would love to hear Hunts in my life. Yeah. On some of the tracks. Yeah. So funny that I remember we spoke about on Trash Taste, but he like roasts people on right. Oh, really? He's like really, he like gives criticism to people's like soundtracks. And he's fucking brutal. I mean, look, I think if anyone has the right to be critical about the soundtracks, it's here. Yeah. I mean, he's kind of the goat. Yeah. It's like, it's like if Messi says you're a bad football player. Yeah. Well, it's, it's Messi. So you know, he is the guy. He was he was he was rude about it. But he's the guy. So what's his middle one? Uh, you know, I'm just casually getting engaged. Um, also, I also included in this the, uh, because you know, I did a lot of jazz. Yeah. I did a lot of traveling this year to like different parts of Japan and different countries, but that Madagascar trip. Um, memorable trip, Joey? Oh, incredibly. I mean, honestly, even without the engagement, it might honestly be the my favorite trip I took this year or within the last couple of years. Okay. What is one country boys want to go to this? Coming here? This coming year? Yeah. Well, it's like you're like, I've been put off for one reason or other, but I want to go. We should hold each other accounts. America. Fuck me. Fuck off. We're gonna we live in America, basically. I really, I've always said right now, the top of my bucket list is Iceland. Okay. Where do you want to go? But I'm probably going to end up going for like my honeymoon to Iceland. Um, I do have somewhere in my bucket list. You want to say, but I don't want to say it. Right. Yeah. I mean, one of my bucket list is Malaysia, but I'm going next year. Yeah. We all got to go. Yeah. Do this thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We will happen. Yeah. You go to Iceland. You go to your place. I'll go to and you go to go to where where you're going to go. Somewhere that's not a mere Philippines. You're just run it. Yeah, dude. We're not. I feel like why not, man? Why should I just run it? Did you just pick a random country or just one of the South East Asia? They deserve it. They deserve it. They deserve my presence. They deserve me. No, it's over. I feel like I'm going to have them up. Yeah. I'm going to go there and I got to feel like it's I got to know the how fucking heated is. I got to know I want to try the food. Yeah. It's it should over. Do that. I got to start hyping it up. Yeah. I need to go there. Be like, yeah, Philippines changed my life. And then I'll come on the pot and talk about it. Absolutely. You have to. So if you don't do that next year, what can we do? If we don't go to the country we're thinking of, you're going to donate $1,000 charity. Easy. Easy. I mean, sure. If you don't do it, the thing is, I don't know if I'm going to because the thing is we're eventually. I'll charity. Okay. Let me let me change my answer then because I because Iceland is going to be off to my wedding. Okay. Okay. Okay. Which is probably the year after. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Let me change my answer. The next year. Okay. Yeah. Can't be something we've already been. Can't be somewhere I've already been. Oh, man. That's kind of tough actually because I definitely want to go to like say. You've been in New Zealand. Yeah. When I was like, I do actually want to go back to New Zealand because the first time I went I was like three years old. Yeah. I also want to go back to New Zealand. Definitely for sure. I want to go back to I also want to go back. I also want to like visit like hungry and stuff like that because you know, I have my family who live there. Yeah. Hungry is good. She's watching this YouTube video of this guy cycling from UK to China. Yeah. And I was like, this looks ridiculous. But when he was like cycling through like Uzbekistan, I was like, just kind of want to check it out. Yeah. It looks crazy. He's just cycling through a desert for like 10 days. Actually, I'd like to go to China as well. I've never been to China. China school. Yeah. I want to try to. China. I feel it's a waste of not going to go. It's cool now. It's in. It's in now. It's in right now. I would say that I would say that I would say that other countries are shitting themselves in the foot. China by virtue of just being China as like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the it's the valve effect, you know. Where you know, when all your competitors just shoot themselves in the foot. Yeah. You know, you just I guess we're the best now. You win by doing nothing. Win by default. Yeah. Next up is X to A. Yesterday, I did talk about the reason you want to briefly mention Whites on the list. Sure. I thought I was thinking about like what movies or like what were some of my favorite movies I watched this year? And I realized that I didn't actually watch a whole lot of like new movies this year. Yeah. I kind of rewatched a lot of like old favorites that I used to have or, you know, because there's been a lot of like re screenings of old movies and cinemas that I've seen a lot of like I went to go see, you know, the 4K reinterpretation of on of reinterpretation, but re screening of Princess Mono, okay. And I saw that as well. Yeah, which was amazing. Well, it was so fucking good. No, I was like, I'm so glad that because like that was one of the first jibli films I watched as a kid or my fucking VHS that I probably watched at least 50 times growing up. So it was finally cool to actually see it on the big screen. Yeah. And it was, it just it just reaffirmed to me that it is the best jibli film ever made, like no question. But the out of the new movies I watched, I would probably say, yeah, exit eight was my like it was the most surprisingly good. I didn't think it was going to be good. Just because I've played the game and I'm like, there's no story to this game. How the fuck are they going to make a 90 minute movie out of this? Shockingly good. I would definitely rewatch that movie for sure. All right. Yeah. And then I guess I can also in that also same vein I can talk about. Go go go about to Princess Mono, okay. Yeah. Have you only seen it in Japanese? Yes. Okay. So you haven't seen the dog. I haven't seen the dog. Okay. Should I? Huh? Should I? I mean, the dub is fucking like it's a good. So it's it's all like, you know, it's a Disney. It's a Disney. It's a Disney dub basically. Okay. So basically you can never really go wrong with the ghibli dubs anyway. You know, same thing with all the other ghibli movies like House of Mephancassal has like Christian Bale and all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Love husband. I was like, am I crazy? Because, you know, the girl at the beginning that gives her charm to you like Ashitaka. Oh, his sister. Is it? I think it's his sister. Is it his sister? Yeah. I've seen the movie by the way. I've never seen Princess Mono. Okay. Oh, you've never seen Princess Mono. I've got to watch many ghibli films. Okay. If you have to watch any ghibli film, it's this one. Yeah. This one seems like the next one that I really want to watch because I really liked Cast on the Sky. I really felt where I believe this was the one off the castle on the sky if I'm not mistaken. I watched Valley of the Wind. I think I watched Nascar. Yeah. I think I watched Nascar. Yeah. Nascar's up there as well. You can watch that one too. And the boy and her and I like a lot too. Yeah. I don't know if it was like a sub thing when I watched the Princess Mono. Okay. In like Japanese theaters. But I was like, I think it implies that that girl was her, his betrothed or something like that. And I was like, I was like, what, I don't think it was like that in the doubles. Yeah. You know, did they change it to assist or was that like a mix up in the sub titles? See, he's the thing right. So I like when I went to go watch it at iMacs, it had been at least a good five, 10 years. Maybe since the last time I watched it. Yeah. And you know, the the story is set in the Nara period, which is what the 1200s if you're off Japan. So the language that they use is very old. Right. And if you're not paying attention or you're not, you know, if you don't understand, there's a lot of terminology that they use that is just old Japanese that people don't say anymore. So which is, but at the same time, it's also very, yeah, kaya, right? Yeah. That's the sister. Yeah. Oh, oh, it's, you know what? Never mind. There you go. And they say they did change it. The original sub version of the film, kaya is not actually actually talk a sister, but his bride to be. I thought I was like tweaking out when I saw that and send him a mic. No, because it was they changed it to his sister in the dub. Oh, you know, Disney were like, well, that's a sister. That's like really famous on film law that he was getting fucking pissed off with them changing his movies. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got like, you sent the famous thing is sending the swords with Katana being like, no cuts. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's right. Yeah. I think Disney did. Disney five. Oh, well, there you go. I didn't even see I didn't even point that out or figure that out. Because I feel like again, it's like for me, for instance, one of my guys really good because it's I can watch it multiple times because again, the language is so old that if you don't really pay attention to it or you don't read it in the Japanese subtitles, you can miss out on a lot of nuance and you can miss out on a lot of like the the finer details of the conversations that are happening because I remember, you know, even though I was like, what five or six years old when I first watched this movie, I didn't understand what the fuck they were saying. Yeah. Because I was like five. I just enjoyed the movie for what it was because you can still enjoy the movie visually speaking. It's it is a visual marvel considering it's 100% is considering it's almost a fucking 30 year old movie. Yeah, it's films of age. But uh, oh, yeah. But like just I remember just like some of those scenes on the big screen and I max I was just like, wow, this is a painting. Good animation just doesn't age man. Oh, dude, 100% and the story is so good. Yeah. And the voice acting is like, was that the first time you watched in Japanese? Oh, yes, it was. How was it? Compared to the dog. I mean, it was great as well. I mean, both. For instance, on an okay was the first anime movie I ever watched. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. Because I know like you're you're not really a huge fan of a huge fan of jibbley. Like, you know, some people they fucking love jibbley. Oh, yeah, they good films. And it's just, you know, a lot of them just aren't really like to my taste, I would say. But, you know, they are a marvel filmmaking technically and critically. And I remember being shown Princess Mononoke by my cousin and I was like seven or something and it was just like the first anime film I'd ever watched. Yeah. Show me never played on British TV. It never was added everyone Australian TV was never. I mean, my my only exposure tool was my grandma singing me the VHS of Japan. Yeah. I think I feel like that's how you come across it right. So I just gave you the VHS. But I remember I saw a post about Christian Bale where they were like, what what what what one of your movies would you show your kid and the he said house. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And everyone was like, we didn't say Batman. What the fuck? It's like, down no Americans like who? That's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. I wonder if he hates that character to the next 10. I'm sure he does now. I think he's I think he's like talked about this before. Where he was just like, you know, he I believe he had like an interview. What he talks about the main character of American Psycho and he I think this was even before the modern internet movement maybe, but he'd not like, you know, business people and fucking, you know, New York, you know, like your stockbrokers, they were like, you know, I fucking love that character, man. And you're like, you like the guy, you like the writing of the character, right? And he kind of like realized, oh, no, they actually just like the character, even though he just like me for real. I'm like, do you want that though? That's actually like that's fucking terrifying. Yeah. I think my favorite thing about Prince of Mononoke is well, such a small thing. But like the voice actor for Mora, the Japanese voice actor for Mora, Miyake Hikor is just like, because he also played the the witch, you know, the fat witch and how as well. His voice acting is just like on another fucking level. He's so scarily good at the characters that he plays. And I remember just like watching it in the big screen. I'm like, oh my God, I am terrified all over again. Like I was when I was fucking five years old. But yeah, anyway, ex it a great movie. Go check that out. Watch it. What's next? I guess I can talk about talk a bit as well. Yeah. Because we've obviously talked about this. Well, we haven't finished talking about talk about the pause because we reacted to the first chapter. Yeah. Did you finish it? I did finish it. Yeah. How was it? I'm finished. Yeah. I haven't finished. Yeah. It's like six episodes. Yeah. I know. It's probably going to be on my best of anime lists. So when I know something's going to be on that list, I normally wait till the end of the year to watch it. So it's like fresh in my mind when I write about it. I'll go watch first two episodes. I was like, yeah, it's probably going to be on the list. Yeah. That's very good. Yeah. I mean, you know, I made a whole video on it as well. And just I think it's one of the best probably for a long time. Well, I'll probably talk a bit which we've already talked about. This is the year that I would say as a me. I'm like, yeah, I'm joys watching anime. And I think it started with Takopee if I remember correctly. It did start with Takopee. Yeah. Because I've I've loved that manga. I just love all of Tyson five stuff from the manga. And Takopee was certainly up there. So when I saw that they were going to make an anime of I was like, all right, I got I got to come out of retirement for this one. Yeah. And I watched it and it was it couldn't have been any better. Like this, this was one of the most perfect like, you know, so many people like glaze this show of this year. But I think rightfully so like it is just in terms of directing and obviously the writing is great because it's Tyson five. But I think the thing that impressed me the most about this is that even though if you've read the manga, you'll know that for the most part, it is a very quiet show where technically like there's some big points that happen throughout the story. But other than that, not a whole lot of like quite a quite exciting things happen. And yet they somehow managed to turn some of those very quiet scenes into just some of the most unnerving moments I've seen in an anime in a long time. Just like whoever was responsible for directing the anime knew exactly what they were doing when it comes to like building suspense and like holding tension in scenes because that's the whole reason why the manga was so powerful when it came out as well. And and the animation and like cinematography and it is just on another level. And I just as a big like horror and like thriller anime advocate, I wish more shows did like horror in anime like they did in Tucklepie. Yeah. Because it's just too many, I feel like the horror genre in anime especially has just gotten such a sour taste to it because just a lot of the adaptations have just been not that great because either the director doesn't quite understand how to turn that tension into into you know movement or you know show it on the screen and stuff like that but the Tucklepie team fucking knocked it out of the box. You've used these perspective really well. Yeah. I think it's a hard thing to sometimes show or write the story from multiple characters perspectives. I think it is a really good way of blending them and allowing you to kind of question everything. Yeah totally. And a really solid way. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, that was yeah easily the best anime I watched this year. So I had to include that. Overall solid do you have a anime solid year. Yeah. The one of the bottom there. Best spots. I just included that just because I had nothing else to put in. Joey made another YouTube channel. I made another YouTube channel. What do you know what do we do? What you were like can't monetize your hobbies. You make another hobby and monetize it. What the fuck is that? Yeah, we've made a whopping 30 dollars. So yeah, this is just like Alex who is our content producer for trash taste. Him and I were like we miss all let's plays. Let's make a let's play channel where we just fucking dick around and just like have fun together. So we started out while I was in America back in June. And almost at 10k subs. So yeah, nice. But yeah, I think it's just like a great outlet for me and Alex just like hang out because he's an America. Yeah. And we don't really get to talk all that often. And I love talking to him. He's my boy. So yeah, we was just like fuck it. Let's just like bring back all like 2010s energy. Let's plays your game grumps. Yeah, we love game grow so much that we made our own game. So yeah, I just wanted to throw that in there as a shout out. Go subscribe if you want. And then the bottom left one. This is a novel series called Himading or the Dense It's a series by Nishioishin. Nishioishin for those of you don't know made the Monogatari series Carton Agata. You know, Medical Box. He's made so many like iconic anime and manga series. Yeah, but he's originally an author. And this is one of those series where it got no adaptation, no manga, no anime. It's just a novel series. And I wanted to kind of go through because I loved you know, everything that he's written so far. I just wanted to go through the rest of his catalog. And I stumbled across this dense It's a series. It's like 10 novels. And I'm like through the fourth one right now. And it's fucking wild like it's it is so Nishioishin. The only way I can describe this show is it's it's so hard to describe a Nishioishin story without it sounding like a fever dream. But essentially the main character. So so this novel starts off with the a third of the entire world's population dies overnight because the earth let out a giant screen. Okay. And it's this scream that like nobody heard but everybody felt and it killed a third of the population. And our main character. He's like it's the book starts off where he's kind of talking to his like therapist and he's talking about like coming to terms with the fact that a third of the world has died and he's done and he can't do anything about it. And then he gets recruited by this organization which is an organization that was created to basically fight against the earth. So it's this weird like kind of parody on the superhero magical girl genre where humans go up against the earth and try to destroy the earth before the earth kills everybody. Right. And obviously it's Nishioishin. So like the characters are fucking crazy. The main character is crazy. Yeah. The writing is bonkers. And there's just so much like fun like kind of what's the word like dissections and like kind of para-defying you know magical girl genre and the superhero genre and the thriller genre and stuff like that in ways where it's just like I've been reading through this thing and I'm like I don't know what the fuck is happening in this book. But I just can't stop reading it because it's just so far. Yeah I would say out of all of Nishioishin stories I've read this might be one of his most fucking bonkers story that he's ever written. And I can see why this didn't get an adaptation. Yeah. Because there's I just can't imagine this being adapted and in making sense for anybody. Maybe there's a way you could tell the story. Maybe. You know, I mean, everyone always say things on adaptable but that yeah. Maybe one day we'll get it but it's it was one of yeah. I would say this is probably his like maybe I don't want to say his toughest read but I mean each of the books are like 700 pages long and there's 10 of them. So they'd not only take a long time to go through because Nishioishin loves this thing where he pages and pages he goes off about one thing that at the end of a dozen fucking matters of the story. But yeah exactly. And it's and it's just really cool as well because like there are so many moments where like for example in like I don't want to give too much away but like say for example in the second book the main character meets this group of five magical girls right who literally are just magical girls. And and and the first book there is no hint towards these magical girls coming out. Yeah. In the second book. Yeah. So the second book opens up where um he gets notified that the entirety of Q-shoe like all the people who live on Q-shoe disappeared overnight. And so he's sent into Q-shoe to figure out what the hell happened. And so when he gets there the first thing he encounters is this magical girl who's just standing in the middle of a field who tries to kill. But no reason. And there are just these moments where like there would be like chapters of Nishioishin describing this magical girl giving her a name, giving her a personality, giving her pages and pages and pages of her interacting with the main character. Yeah. Only for then it to end with her head exploiting for no reason. And there were just so many moments like that where you just like wait. So you tell me I said I said there are 150 pages of you describing this character thinking that you know maybe they're going to be like friends with the main character or something or you know like be a pivotal part and they just suddenly die. Maybe he writes it all and he's like yeah man. I have a feeling he starts writing a character who's like I don't like a killer off. This is what we call vibe writing. It is vibe writing. He's definitely vibe coding. He's definitely vibe coding. No, it's the rising version of vibe coding. Yeah. That was yes. So I've been loving this novel series so far. How many entries are there in this? So there's 10 entries. Oh wow. And I'm through book four right now. So that's like what I've read through almost 2,000 pages so far of this novel. So it's been great to like keep my Japanese up to shape. But yeah, one easily one of the most bonkers stories I've read. I have no idea if there's an English translation for this. I've just been reading on my Kindle in Japanese but yeah it's been a lot of fun reading through this. If there is an English adaptation and you like Monogatari series of Katana Gotter any of Nishioishin's stuff, yeah, I would highly recommend this one. And there you go. That was my three better awesome. This is like a very list of things. Yeah. Yeah. Because other than all of these, I was just I don't know. I was just chill in this. We're working a lot. We worked a lot. We worked a lot. Working a lot. Yeah. So these are the ones I could scrape out. So there you go. All right. All right. What's going on? You want to get this? There's like a next. Okay. All right. Fine. All right. Let me ask you. My list. As you can see. Wow. This is a mostly video game. This is this is Connor's Twitch channel. Yeah. 2025. So if I so just a reason why this is so many video games, I have played I counted. I played 150 games. Holy shit. On the stream. Wow. I played games off stream too. Holy fuck. I am a gamer through. I'm locked into being a gamer this year. Huh? This year I went so incredibly hard on video games. It is a read even when I look back at their games. I've played this year. I'm like, wow, I played a lot of fucking classics. Is there a reason why this year in particular was such a game playing this many games last year? Did you? Yeah. No, I think this year I will last year I kind of really enjoyed playing a lot of longer games. And this year I just really wanted to play a bunch of video games. Yeah. I found myself just really appreciating the medium of gaming and getting really into it. Really? Like this. I've had so much fun with playing video games. So yeah. That's why there's a lot of games here. But also there's a lot more that I could put on here. I had to really like be very selective here with the games that I chose. Yeah. I only reared the games on this list of from this year. But they're very good games. Yes. And I had to put one music. I was like, fuck it. I put one music. One. I didn't put new music. Yeah. Joey did. You did hands in my. Oh yeah. I felt like I should put some music in at least this was this is a way to talk about all but least. Yeah. So let me go through the nine that I chose. Yeah. Our first one is second action. Japanese band at the opening for all but this is quite a lot this year. Oh, I'm pretty sure. And the artist that I've listened to maybe the most this year. Right. Not Tape and Paola. Exhibition 33. Battle of Enzy Tactics over the Chronicles. F1. The movie, the documentary and the sport general. Yeah. And the middle is Metal Gear Solid. Yeah. Dispatch. Is this the sixth one? Adolescence. From my favorite TV show this year. Soma. And then one battle after another. It's probably my favorite film I've watched this year. But again, it was very hard to decide. I'll go through because I want to at least have one TV, one movie and one music. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, it could have been nine games. Yeah. Because that is genuinely the thing I've done most this year. Yeah. Right. The most feelings about. Yeah. We can start with second action. Yeah. Basically all was so good. And the opening. I love it when you discover an artist through like an anime opening. Yeah. And then I listened to Monster or Kaji. Sorry. That's the name of the song. Right. Kaji. I think so. Yeah. I listened to that song so much that eventually I was like, fuck it. Let's listen to the rest of that. Yeah. And then I was like, oh, bangers. Yeah. Not like the Zangos. Have they done anything else outside of Wolbe? I don't know if they've done the other anime. But they're a very, very popular band within Japan. Yeah. They've been around for a long time. Yeah. I think Xpin Kakarajima was like the first like big hit. I think that's soccer action, right? Not too sure. Oh, there's a couple. Okay. They've done it. Okay. Let's see what else they've done. Oh, just all down. What a banger. Yeah. One and done. That's all that that's all that needs to be done. I'm surprised because they definitely struck me as a band that would be in a lot more anime. Yeah. I mean, I mean, I mean, I'm not sure. I mean, all as an opening, it doesn't, it's a little, I think it's unique. Yeah. No, no, no. They're definitely, their sound is definitely unique. Yeah. I feel like, you know, especially in these past couple of years, I feel like anime openings aren't just like your generic like J-pop songs anymore. Like they're definitely kind of, you know, I mean, anime openings have always had artists and bands that are a little more on the unique side in terms of like sound. Yeah. And like, soccer action, like, I think perfectly fits that vibe for a lot of shows. Yeah. And also, Orb did the fucking amazing thing of not changing the opening up way through. It's just, it's the iconic opening of Orb. Yeah. And I think it's better to do that than to. Yeah. I think so too. I think to change it up. Yeah. I think so. Like usually the first opening is the best for me. Exactly. The amount of times you get to like the second opening and you're like, this definitely sounds like a second opening. Yeah. You know, like the dandruff on second opening, but it feels like a second. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The same thing with like Oceanoko as well. I don't like those. Oceanoko. Gotcha. As well. I'm just like, that's nice. Me when I'm the band who gets commissioned to go check. Yeah. I'm sure I have to follow up the ad. Yeah. Bro, for real. Yeah. I mean, Orb was probably my favorite anime of this year, even though I'd no technically started last year, but it went into this year. It was probably still my favorite anime of this year. As much as I love Takopee and I loved a lot of other anime. I just came out this year. I didn't want to miss it. Many to be honest. It was still, I think, you know, and this song was so fucking good. Yeah. It got me into listening to this band. So I wish all for doing that. Or I know. Yeah. I guess we should, which order should we go? Should we leave games to last? Sure. Sure. Sure. I guess I got a lot to talk about with games. Okay. F1. I've talked about in the part a lot. Yeah. I'm a boy. You guys too much. I watched the F1 movie, which I really, really enjoyed. I thought it was, again, maybe one of my top three movies of this year didn't put it on here because I felt like this kind of encompasses it anyway. Yeah. And drive to survive I got into and through that started watching F1. And it was just like a really fun, fun year for me to get into it. Yeah. It's probably been my favorite sport thing that I've gotten into this year. Yeah. I feel like every year I, I dipped my toes in another sport. Yeah. Kind of get a little bit into it, which is really nice because there's always just random events that pop up and sometimes the sport you like. Yeah. Or you kind of got kind of into. It's like, oh, it's doing something. Okay. Cool. I watch it. Yeah. The other day a random F1 video finally popped up on my fingers. Oh, yeah. But it definitely wasn't like the story oriented F1 style stuff that you've been watching. It was one of those like, I forgot what the title of the video was, but it was something on the lines of like 12 infamous F1 cases where the horrible, where the driver died in horrible ways. I think someone hasn't died in a long time. Yeah. It does. What has happened? A lot of them were from like the 50s and 60s where like regulations were finally set up. Yeah. Even nowadays, they're how fast they're going. You're like, Jesus Christ. Somebody's crashes. You're like, fuck me. Yeah. But it's been such a cool sport to get into. I hope my boy Lewis Hamilton can bring it back sometime. And I've won. Yeah. But it's, yeah, it's just it's been a really fun sport to get into. And yeah, if you want to get into a new thing, I reckon watching Drive Survive or just watch the F1 movies because it was so good. Yeah. It's such a good movie. And I want to watch it. It feels like an ad for the sport, but in the best way possible. Yeah. It feels like I love that it's this. Hell yeah. Yeah. Because he, you know, like that it's such a beautifully shot film. And obviously all the actors are fantastic in it. It's just it's the perfect package of what a banging sports movie is meant to be. Yeah. So highly recommend it. Man Brad Pitt does a lot of the good sports films. And then I think probably my favorite TV show was probably Adolescence. I haven't heard of this. I was pretty popular when it came out. Really? Maybe I just don't watch TV shows. Yeah. I don't know what TV shows. Did you hear about this show? I feel like I did show Adolescence is Netflix. Yeah. Netflix is a four episode series. And the notable thing about this show is that it was all one shot. Oh, wow. So each episode is one camera, no cuts and it moves around. Right. Right. Which has some limitations, but it is so fucking good. And basically, I'll tell you the story. Oh, you can see it there. A 13-year-old is accused of murder by classmates. This family, the therapist and the detective are all in charge of left asking what really happened. Right. And so it kind of it's all very dramatic. The first episode is them kind of arresting this kid and all the initial reactions of the police, the family. And then the second episode is kind of questioning further the school kids about what's going on. And then the third episode is where they kind of interrogate this kid. And the whole episode is just interrogating this kid. And it's such a good episode. And this kid is his first time acting. And he did such an amazing job. But the best part was Stephen Graham. I think it's his name. Who's, I mean, if you're a British, you will have seen this guy a bunch. Got this guy. Okay. Yes. Yeah. He plays the dad. And he does such a fucking gut-wrenching performance. I probably one of my favorite performances just full stop this year of any actor. I've never, I've not, I've not been that hurt in a long time and watching him. And also like, I think maybe because you're sent in the UK, but Stephen Graham's character is such a typical British man. Yeah. That watching him really kind of go through this from the lens that I feel like maybe even like, I see a lot of my dad. Right. So similar. Because he's also, I think also from Liverpool, where that's from Liverpool. Yeah. So watching a character who feels so close to something in my life. Yeah. And seeing a man, because you know, like, I'm sure your dad as well, like, and all our dads, to the extent it's like watching someone go through something horrific and kind of watching a dad from that generation, if you can't cry, you can't go through any of this stuff. Yeah. Like, I'm sure I'm ocean having to kind of like outwardly deal with this emotions and kind of go through it and deal with what's happening is a really horrific, really hard thing to watch. Yeah. But he does such an amazing job. And it was, it was one of the shows that's really stuck with me this year. Right. And I really, really enjoyed it. For episodes, I highly recommend watching it. They're about, I think four minutes to an hour each an episode, but some of the best acting, really amazing intentional camera work as well, but really like sucks you in. You can feel like you can never look away. Right. Right. Again, there's no cuts. It's just constantly following. Yeah. And it's kind of like watching this beautiful clockwork of all these actors, because again, the camera's moving. Yeah. You see everyone's moving around doing their thing and all the actors to be where they need to be at the right time. And it feels like almost a stage play in real life. Right. You can see the last two episodes of the highest rated, which I feel like it's unusual for a show that's like this, like, you know, normally these shows that kind of, to be shows where they're limited run, some of the first episodes, the big hook, you know, kind of lose a steam box. So show that honestly, kind of reaches its apex in my third episode. Okay. Okay. But, uh, you know, is the single camera shot, would you say that? It adds to it. Yeah, it's true. That's true. A lot of the times like with 19 19 12 or 19 plus that movie, 1917, 17 or 17. I think it's 17, 1917. At times I felt like the camera being one shot was limiting. Yeah. In a way, the same thing with, uh, what's that other fucking film? Well, that stage actor, Birdman or something like that. Oh, yeah, Birdman. It was a bird. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you can feel like limitation. Yeah. But I felt like because of what the scope of this was, which was basically, again, like one of the episodes is just in an interrogation room. Yeah. Yeah. It never felt like it was a hindrance. And it added to a lot of the pacing of like, you know, trying to arrest this person, figure out what's going on. Yeah. Really added to like the tension of like everything's constantly simmering. Okay. And it worked really well. Um, so I highly recommend if you didn't watch this because it was, it was like the most watched TV show. It came out. Right. If you didn't watch it for whatever reason, I still really think you should watch it. It's really amazing, really worth watching. Um, one of the most gut-wrenching performances. Yeah. This came out much. Yeah. March. I please watch this. Like this is genuinely if I could tell you to watch any TV show this year, this is it. Okay. Okay. Again, four episodes. Yeah. And you watch one episode come back to it week later. Like, yeah. But for me, I had to, I had to, you binge it. Yeah. I had to. I couldn't stop when I watched it. Yeah. I mean, and this, it'd be so easy to binge, too, because it's not with four episodes. Yeah. And it feels very, um, it feels very British and very, maybe Australian to extent, you know, very, it's more of the kin to the style of, you know, when something is a bit explosive acting wise, it's explosive in the lens of British acting. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I was like, you know, my personal preference, I like, I like the more grounded approach. Not over conflated. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's about as dramatic as it can get. Oh, yeah. It's something original for murder. Like it is. Yeah. But again, a really amazing show. I don't think I ever talked about untrash taste. No. You didn't. I think I went straight into cycle of thought after watching it. Yeah. I think that's probably why I never ended up talking about it. Right. Right. But and the kid also, I think he won an Emmy for his acting. Oh, six. And I think also Stephen Graham did too. I could be wrong. Um, but it was Stephen Graham again, best performance I watched all year. All right. Okay. My favorite one. Yeah. All right. Nice. And then movies, honestly, there's a lot of great movies this year that I watched. Yeah. Honestly, my, the one that left another was probably my favorite. Mm-hmm. I watched. Uh-huh. Because he's, uh, it's the other caprio, uh, Vinicio del Toro, is that his name? Vinicio del Toro. Yeah. He was amazing in this movie. I really enjoyed it. Um, what's it about? Wow. Show. God. Uh, uh, so the movie two hours, 50 minutes. So the movie, Sean Penn, Sean Penn, I will say Sean Penn is the reason why this movie is so good. Oh, right. I feel Sean Penn never misses. He seems like a crazy person in real life and a little bit of a, an intense guy. Cause I watched him in the Charlie Sheen doc. Right. And I swear at one point in this doc, he's doing coke on the table. He seems like an insane guy. I don't know if I'm like, it was a weird thing. Anyway, Sean Penn seems like a fucking crazy guy. But um, the movie opens up with them breaking, uh, immigrants out of an immigration center. Right. So you can imagine maybe how maybe someone in the discussion around this movie got right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a people like, it's too. Whoa. Like they basically like the opening scene is they scout out this immigration camp where they're being held under like pretty like rough conditions. And then Leonardo the Capriere and, uh, there's another character. I forgot the name. So sorry, uh, they break them out of this immigration center. Yeah. And Sean Penn is the cop. And then one of the opening scenes where I was like, Oh, this is not going to be a normal film. Uh, was, uh, I forgot with the name of the actress, but Tiana Taylor, Tiana Taylor, she's like a Disney actress, isn't she? Uh, originally, I'm not mistaken. Uh, I'm not sure what I mean. Or like a Nick kid's actress originally. So when they're breaking them out of this immigration camp, um, Sean Penn is like the main cop who's there stationed. Yeah. And she goes in this room and like, makes him jerk off in front of her. What? And then you're like, okay, he wants revenge. Yeah. No, he really was turned on by this and like wants to hunt her down to like have sex with that. So it gets like really fucking weird. Okay. And I, I mean, so that's like the first 20 minutes and they timeskip like 16 years. And yeah, you know, I, the story gets very convoluted in a good way. Yeah. Um, and I would say like the first hour and a half of the film is a 10 out of 10 and the last hour or so, I get eight or nine. Like it definitely loses a little bit of steam, but it's very good, very funny. Uh, the actor, the director, uh, Paul Thomas Anderson, who's done another couple of films that I've really enjoyed too. So really good film. Pretty my favorite film that came out this year. Yeah. Um, highly recommend it. Vinicial Del Torrid did great. I also watched him in the finition scheme this year, which I really didn't enjoy, but I was like one of those Wes Anderson films where it just felt like a Wes Anderson film didn't blow you away. Right. Wes Anderson film doesn't feel like a Wes Anderson film. But sometimes they, they do, they, they feel like a Wes Anderson film. But I'm also like super impressed and locked in. Yeah. And that was like grand pt. Best hotel is like, oh, yeah. By far as best, he's best film. And it feels like the Wes Anderson isms pushed that story in a great direction. Yeah. Whereas some films feel like it is at the extent, like it is the movie suffers for the Wes Anderson. Right. It like takes you out of it all. Yeah. And the first thing the finition scheme is a movie that is really cool. But it feels like a movie that was made for actors and not for like people. You think it was Oscar bait? Because it's just like, eh, sometimes it's just like, you know, every actor was just, you know, trying to work with like a direct like Wes Anderson, you know. Yeah. I mean, it feels like a movie for someone who really enjoys the arts and that world. Yeah. I don't know what I even mean by that necessarily. But like, it, I don't know. There's a lot of things I wish it was. There's a character in this movie called jungle pussy. Yeah. So Sean Pan is in this movie. And I will say the reason why I think this movie is rated so highly is because of Sean Pan. He is fucking terrifying in this film. He is maniacal evil and like, every single time he's on screen, he's fucking terrifying. And his character name is Lockjaw. Yeah. God fucking James Christ. Colonel Stephen J Lockjaw. And I think another reason why a lot of maybe groups didn't like this film is because there is a like in this movie, he has like this meeting with this thing called like the Christmas Club. Yeah. And it's just a bunch of like white nationalists who like control everything. Right. And he's like, he like wants to join them. But they're like, you haven't had sex with a black person. Have you? He's like, no, no. And then they find out he's lying to them. Yeah, it's all very odd. It's all, but really good movie. Really gripping. I highly recommend it. You know, it might not be for everyone. I don't think everyone's going to enjoy this film. But I think and it's, it is a messy film. It feels like a couple of things are all over the place. Yeah. But you know, you have Sean Pan, you have a little caprio, but you should also really like bring together as well as a keep it together. Yeah, I've heard a lot about this film, but very few people who actually watch the film. I mean, I would look, I would, it's one of those films. I would not mind watching it again, even those two and a half hours. Yeah, I do want to watch it. If it wouldn't have been this, it would have been like, I don't know, a lot of it to Arabia, which I watched this year, which I loved, watched it twice. Oh, the original one. Yeah, what's that twice? That's such a and I was bridged of the required this year that could have been out. You also watched heat, didn't you this year? Or should heat the share. Yeah, you watch all the classics. Yeah, there's a lot of movies that could have been, but I think what's ran this year as well? What's right? Yeah, exactly. I watched somebody get films. Yeah, but I will say just because it's 25 and I thought those movies were very good. Fuck it. You can go up there. Yeah. All right, gaming time. All right, it's going through the game. I'm in the middle of the game. Okay, there's a lot of, we got, I mean, look, gaming this year. Fucking great. Great. You're for gamers. What do you feel like was the best year? Best. So not all of these games came out this year. No, no, but could you have filled this list out with games that came out this year? Did you play a lot of games that came out this year? Or was it mostly like older games? Well, tactics and dissatisfaction. I played a lot of games that came out. So there's an X-list in 33, especially those three tactics. Yeah. And yeah, so if three of these games came out this year, I think I've become playing games that come out right away. Like I will say, I really enjoyed playing in solution D3. I love playing dispatch. And it is fun to play these games at the peak of their popularity. Yeah, but also being a live streamer sometimes playing these games like by far the worst time, like worst chat experience I had was exhibition D3. Oh, really? Viewers are insufferable because they because they all like when it's like the game of the month or the week, you get the most insufferable people who come into your chat and trust all things or tell you what to do. Like, no, no, you got to do this. Please, you see Ellen, your team, like they can't fucking like you're not playing the game that I play it. But the good thing is like when I found when I've played what maybe was the like when I played for that recently, like I played fucking five nights at Friday's. I played five days of Friday's one through five recently. Okay. My first out of a sudden. That's crazy. That's crazy. At a great time. Chat. Great. It was awesome vibes because enough time has passed where people don't care about what you're doing. Yeah. They're just pumped that someone's playing it. They're like, oh, dude, this game was like my fucking peak when I was a kid. And also, it's still very popular. Yeah. But because time has passed and it's not like cool to currently like it right now, people are so much more fun about like watching you play it. Right. The more casual fans are going to watch it or I just thought the non-super die hard fans. But like when people play it like so for a game like dispatch as well, at times people like this as well when I was playing it, but because it's so new, you know, we all get hyper fixated on things. When something comes out, we make we want to learn everything about it for about two weeks and then we do. And so dispatch because I played it like right when it was basically finished. I had a similar experience where a lot of people were trying to backseat, we're trying to be like, oh, we're going to do this. You're going to see the scene, please. Please, you have to do this. You know, it's like, no, no, just let me fucking play the game. Yeah. But yeah, I think this year I could have probably filled this list out with games came with just this year. But I also mostly played games that didn't come out this year. And that was that wasn't intentional. It was just like I kind of just get in my head. I'm like, I want to play this game. Fuck it. I'll play it. But I got into, for example, Metal Gear because I had a sponsorship lineup. And I was like excited because I was like finally, Connor gets to play the peak that is Metal Gear. And I will say out of all the games that I played, I think playing the Metal Gear series is probably my favorite gaming experience. I mean, it's one of my favorite gaming experiences of all time. That's a classic. Yeah. And like, you know, depending on the day you ask me, I'll tell you which game is my favorite and it will change every day. Yeah. I will have a different mood. What is it today? I think two, it'd be two if you asked me. Two. I think two, I think about a lot. Two, two, the ending, the ending. If you watched the, the scenes from the end again, not recently, you should go back and watch the calls at the end. Now it's fucked. The more things he kind of predicted is shocking. The more you, the more the internet progresses, the more I lean more and more towards two. That's being too scary. It is the serial experiments lane of the video game. Yeah. Yeah. Where the more time passes, the more relevant again. Well, because there's like in two, there's like, there's this whole thing at the end where obviously two is all the simulation. Yeah. I'm a fuck out. Okay, spoiler alert. But then two is all the simulation. And there's a whole big speech where they're talking about controlling information. And the he goes, the AI goes off into being like, if we allow everybody to have a say over information and the flow of information, nothing will be reliable. Everything will be a mess. And people, the loudest, the loudest voices will control the say. We need to control the flow information to limit what people can see and do. And it was like, it was like when, when everyone has free access to information, not everything becomes meaningless. And I was like, oh my god. You're like, it is shocking how accurate the prediction was and how well it's aged. But then also like three is amazing. And I think three is obvious. Like I still, I to this day, I don't, there's literally no basis in this. I feel like two came out and they were like, could you, could you chill out a little bit, buddy? I made three. You know, I 100% agree with that way. You know, you have zero proof. Zero proof. It's, it's feeling. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, sometimes you just see like a visionary in terms of like, and like whatever art form they do and you're like, damn, there is shows and movies I like that is based on, you know, a structural storytelling kind of style. And sometimes you just see someone who just does whatever the fuck they want to do. And I feel that would could you, my man? I would say it. One is amazing as well. One might be like, I honestly feel like start to finish the most polished metal gear in terms of like flow. Yeah. And then two gets like really fucking crazy. And three is amazing too and extremely polished, but how some convoluted aspects to it, like the camo system and the original is a little like, and the, the medical aspect of it is like innovative at the time, but you're like, and I understand what he's trying to do. Yeah. But I think that's the charm of co-geomers art is that it is so weird and convoluted, but you're watching a guy who is passionate and who managed to make something interesting. Yeah. And that's the coolest thing. And that's the best thing about art. Yeah. I feel like all three are just different experiences. You never wanted to make the same game twice. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Despite having it being the same series, you know, all three have their own unique identities doing their own unique things. I mean, they always say, you know, imitators are rarely as remembered as originators. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like this is totally the case, where it's like there was no other game that was doing it like this and not really a lot of games that were doing it like it afterwards. I want to play for, I will play for some point. I don't know why I've put it off. I haven't really no reason not to just to have it. Yeah. It's pretty been my favorite experience of gaming and you know, people have been really supportive as well, like me experiencing it. Yeah. Again, like none of the toxicity of any like games when I play like brand new games. Yeah. Everyone's stoked. I think it all gives fans just get so excited when they're like, oh, when you person coming into this obsession. I'm not. When you won the board, when he was like getting your mail, he was like, oh shit, I got it. I got it. I got it all in finish three before I really like that was me with when he went into when he got into final fantasy. Yeah, here we go. Yeah. So that was pretty like my pinnacle this year. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously, expression 33. Yeah. I mean, it's my by far. I still need a player, man. It is by far my favorite game that came out this year. Hopefully, hopefully since we, you know, December and January, this time in December, January, we're a little less busy or at least I'm a little less busy. Yeah. That'll hopefully be the time where I could get into it. Yeah. Start this game. Yeah. I mean, it's on my three way three as well. I think it, there's a good chance it would be because I'm just like, it's just not even close for me. I've seen now that it's gotten so popular that like people are starting to push back against it. It's always the cycle. It's gotten too high. Yeah. The highs are too high. They're like, we got to bring the French down somehow. I think, I think the reason why that is though. And I think again, like, expression 33, his kind of introduced a, let me start again because I think gaming as in general in the past, I want to say two, three years has really reached its apex of like, I don't know if it will keep going up, but pretty well of like popularity. That's like an accepted medium. Like, I feel like we are talking about games or at least getting there games are on the same level as movies and TV shows. Totally. They happen for a while. Yeah. But I feel like, you know, it's like I could talk to my parent about like movies. I can't talk about games yet. But I feel like every year we're getting closer and closer to that being like where gaming is in that thing. And I think because as well, I think we are seeing the fruits of the Fortnite's labor of like Minecraft and all, you know, these kids who grew up with playing Minecraft and Fortnite like eight nine years ago who are now, you know, they're all young adults. Yeah. I think this has been, I think like one of the first games that has really kind of crossed the gaming spectrum. Every single type of gamer knows about this game as given in a shot, whereas other games that are huge releases like Dark Souls, like the cod players I'm touching it or talking about it, like, you know, stuff like that. But, but Elden Ring also did the same thing I think as well. But I think it's been, it's been the first like really heavily story driven game that has kind of crossed into all facets of gaming. And so I think everyone's getting into it. Everyone's talking about it. And a lot of those gamers who have an experienced, like Chrono Trigger or these types of games are like, yeah, like all these gamers haven't really experienced peak gaming. I like this is the best thing ever. Yeah. I think it's the best game ever. But look, no, I think it's too early to have that conversation as well. But I think like it is kind of, it is open a lot of people's eyes to especially younger gamers to the beautiful world of storytelling and video games and is becoming like, you know, so I think that's why we're getting a bit of pushback against it. People are like, I'm tired of people pretending like it's the best thing ever. Yeah. It's like, yes, there are other amazing stories. But it's also, I think it's a good thing. I think it's also the fact that like, you know, the fact that again, I think a lot of non RPG player gamers or just non-gamers in general maybe looked at us, you know, a game mechanic like turn-based and maybe have like a slight negative connotation to it, where it's like, oh, it's boring or it's whatever. Yeah. We then played this game was like, actually, turn-based can be really good. Yeah. And I think in this is, this is ruined a lot of turn-based combat for me because I'm just like, it's just, it's so good where it triggers that part of my brain that likes active gameplay and also turn-based gameplay. And it actually triggers the best part of both worlds as opposed to me having to choose between one side or the other. Just fucking insane characters great as well. The music is phenomenal. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I don't know how the fuck they just found that composer like, oh, like developer forum. Yeah. He just turned out to be like the biggest genius in the world. It's always the ones you least expected. And like, I didn't, I really don't feel like it did anything new. It just did everything fucking amazing. Yeah. Right. Like, people like, wow, they turn-based combat with blocking. It's like, that's not new. No. But they like, they just did it so well. Yeah. And I think it's an it's an it's an earnest story. It's like, it's storytelling. It's risky. You know, there's some really big twists in it that I think a lot of games nowadays would really shy away from trying to tackle those things. It is go one of the best hooks in video games. Like the prologue, if you finish that prologue and you are 100% guaranteed to finish the game. Right. Yeah. The prologue is just that good. And if I will have like one complaint about it, which is like my only complaint about Expedition 33 is just it. The more that modern games like evolve, the more I'm just like, damn, games are just like looking the same. You know, and it's just I something about Expedition 33's like visual language. I'm just like Unreal Engine look. Yeah. The Unreal Engine look, which is just like, there's so many like cool designs in it, you know, like, you know, the cool many so many cool monsters, so many cool designs, but something about it, the color, the color scheme and just the the aesthetic, they all just like blend together in all this like visual triple A game gloop that makes me like does like even though the designs themselves are very interesting, just the the aesthetics, just all blend together for me and all like the triple A game gloop that I don't think the game is perfect. Yeah. Like I like I just didn't remember the UI was like horrible. Yeah. Like navigating the menu and having to pick your what were they called? Pictose. Pictose. What's your fucking annoying? Yeah. It's like this. We found decades of Final Fantasy to figure this out. Come on. Yeah. And I do think I know this controversial. I do think like the last act is probably the weakest of the well you didn't do any side content. I didn't do any side content. I'm a cool bullshit on that. What you're telling me is I need 100%. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If I if I won thing that I could have done and I think I will go back and revisit it because they're adding a bunch of new side stuff. Yeah. Right. So you need to do the millennial. I do want to do them. But they're also clear case that adding a new like world and a couple new boss fights. So I think when that comes out, I'm going to go back and do all the side content. Yeah. Because I'm so actually it's kind of good that you waited. Okay. Now you can go all into it. So I'm going to revisit it. Yeah. I now this holiday season I am 100% going to dedicate time to actually starting this game. Yeah. But the first act is so good. First act. The first act is like absolute 10 out of 10 like God tier. But I'm excited because I also think the world they created was ultimately extremely fascinating. I'm excited to see what other stories they tell. Yeah. I think with the ending, it gave we didn't find out everything. We found out enough. Yeah. I'm not saying the ending is bad. It's like first one 10 out of 10 middle act 10 out of 10 last act and add 10. It's not very good idea. I just didn't really like the pacing towards the end. But that's my personal preference. Yeah. And I don't know people don't like when I say that, but fuck you. It's still like by far the best game I've played this year. And I feel like it is healthy to offer criticism if any two and amazing game. I feel like, you know, absolutely. It is important. But yeah, it's genuinely fucking fantastic game. You haven't played it. There's a reason why I've once talking about it. It is it is a very moving piece of art. Yeah. And you would you're doing yourself a disservice by not playing it. Yeah. Colorful. I wish more AAA games were colorful. It is quite dark. It is quite dark. And it's it's it's not even like AAA games as well. It's just like modern movies, you know, it's it's the Marvel kind of like muted fucking colors aesthetic that. Unreal Engine does often have that look. Yeah. I just I for me like right now, I just love games that have a very unique like visual language. Because that's I don't care too much now, but like ultra realism anymore. You know, it's all about okay. I think anyone wants ultra realism. That's tell that to the gaming industry. Yeah. That's just what they think people want. Yeah. I think people do that because it's like the simplest thing to say that you've done differently. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, look, it's the most realistic. Yeah. It's like nobody wants this. Yeah. It should easy to convince a board of executives that like this is a good thing. Yeah. Like that's the only thing right. Yeah. But also, um, I think it's I want to talk about dispatched next year. I'm curious about dispatched because Exxon 3 is ex Ubisoft devs and dispatch was the ex telltale's founders who then went to Ubisoft and were like, oops, it's a bit shit. And then made dispatch or ad hoc games. Right. Dispatched. So two two games of the year, I think really Ubisoft with the generational throw. I mean, you know, the reason it's it's you know, if I'm Ubisoft, right? Yeah. Also, I think there was some news article recently. I don't know what is going on. And by the time this episode is out, it might be more lashed out. But it implied that they were having some financial difficulties. Right. And it's like, if you put a Ubisoft game, you fucking know why they deserve to be in financial difficulty. Oh, like 100% deserve to be. It's like, this is absolutely nobody feels sorry for them because this is of your own doing. Right. You play any of these games. It's fucking horrible. They have these, this stupid native game launcher they want you to download on PC. All they games are monetized and bloated to shit. None of that games feel inspired. So that's the same shade. What the fuck are they even doing with that franchise? And why is it still alive? Well, keeping that shit on fucking it's like on life support. But they keep pumping it out because I think people want it. And and game is a stupid enough while they're by it. And then, you know, you have to be asking yourself, fuck, we fumbled like two devs that made went on to go and make fucking absolute artwork that sold amazingly. Like what are we doing? We we have these talented people, but we don't listen or let them do what they want. I think even the dispatch devs are talking that they had approached Ubisoft and were like, Hey, we'd love to start our own studio in Ubisoft to make the games. And they were like, no, like, well, what, what, what, what, what, what, what are I fuck you then? Dude, they literally came to you to make a game for you. And you said no. Like they, I think the biggest crime that Ubisoft done is that it doesn't respect the art of gaming. No, it respects the profits. It doesn't, it has no respect for it as art as a medium. So I, it's hard to feel sorry for them. Obviously, I don't want people to lose their jobs. And there's a lot of time that people clearly at Ubisoft right now who could be making amazing stuff. But it's fucking people at the top. It's a travesty that they, you know, that this kind of these people that are so creative that have the potential to make such amazing things that move us are being fucking shackled behind having to sell you fucking battle passes for Assassin's Creed. It's ridiculous. What a waste of talent. But dispatch is fucking amazing. So I heard a lot about this game. I don't know anything about it. Have you ever played telltale games? The Walking Dead? Do you remember that game with the, I haven't played I've watched people play those games. Yeah. So it is kind of like the spiritual successor to those games. Okay. It's really fucking good. It's basically your superhero who's you've a mech and your mech breaks. But you know, you're still superhero and you're trying to, you're dealing with that loss. So instead of being a superhero now, you are going to be working for the company that dispatches the superheroes to the thing. So you, you know, you're going about kind of dealing with these misfits of superheroes or supervillains turn superheroes and you're kind of dealing with that. The whole time is a bunch of romance going on and you're constantly being asked to choose which path to go down and it's just fantastic. The voice acting, he's voiced by Charlie, by the way, more critical. Oh really? Yeah. And Jack, you know, and you always worry when it's YouTube is in games. You're like, it could be just for the name. But Jack, Sean and Charlie did such a phenomenal job. I was these characters and genuinely like not just glazing them because of their friends of ours, but they did such a good job. Really. Yeah. Yeah. Some of the best writing in video games that I've experienced a while. I was laughing constantly. Takes about eight hours to go through. Beautifully animated. The gameplay whilst very simple is a very rewarding loop that uses the characters' strong writing to its strength. It just oozes passion. Every single part of this game is just so fun. Animation is great as you can see. Yeah. Yeah. It looks really. Aaron Paul voices the main character for Breaking Bad. And he, he does such a good job. There's like no, no Peter Dinklage in Destiny. It's a genuine like you can tell he's passionate about it and doing a fucking fantastic job. Chase who is the black guy who you work with. He's voiced by another famous actor. I can't remember his name, but he is so fucking funny in this game. I'm constantly laughing. Oh, yeah. But just a genuinely 10 out of 10 game and some of the most fun I've had in a very long time. And it's basically just a movie. Yeah. But a movie where you get to control some of the core aspects of it. Right. And it is so fucking good. This has got a lot of fucking love this game. I mean, I'm been meaningfully. Yeah. When I'm next to it. This is really fun. It's it's I cannot sing. A lot of good story based game. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm really excited to see what they do because if this is their first outing as a studio, I mean, presumably you're going to go from strength story finish now or is it look because telltale did episode episode. Yeah. So the story is finished, but they're saying that there's going to be a dispatch to okay. Don't know what that story's going to be. It's going to follow the same thing, but it's it's contained in it's finished. Okay. This story is basically done. Okay. And it's it's it's amazing. Like I was so thoroughly impressed by every aspect of this game. Right on. And I can't think it's a process enough. And it feels like a breath fresh air. All right. I'm very excited to play it. Yeah. I mean, like gaming has gotten again, we're spoiled. Gaming has gotten so good. Yeah. And I feel like these these extremely strong narrative of games that are that really are just movies with slight gaming moments. That's just my that's just yeah, that's just a lot of the genre a lot. Yeah. I played a lot of them. And I think they are such a tree and I'm glad that there's another studio now that is still trying to put these these really big things. Yeah. I could easily see this being like a franchise of stuff, though. Like it's such a fun world. And cool characters. So credit to ad hoc studio. Fucking fantastic job while done. Right. I'm so excited to see what you guys do next. Amazing game. Final Fantasy tactics. Eveless Chronicles. Probably my favorite story and writing and dialogue and voice acting in any Final Fantasy game. I've only played two games of voice acting in Final Fantasy. But it is it is genuinely, I think I'm so glad you fuck with this game. This is amazing. This is easily my favorite Final Fantasy spin-off game. I think such fun gameplay. I think the story and the writing is the best of any mainline game. I have to agree. Yeah. It's definitely up there. I just such a memorable game with such poignant story moments. And also it's aged amazingly. This is a story that is still extremely relevant, especially to today. I mean, it's you know, it's a lot about the rich versus the poor, the elite versus the the working class. What does it mean to be good? What does what does it mean to fight to do nothing? Is that to to be a part of it? Does that picking aside? You know, it's it's such a relevant game in today's society. And I also love strategy games in general. And it's a fantastic fucking system. The job system is one of the best strategy fighting systems I've seen of any game. Yeah. You know, I recently played XCOM 2, which maybe is my favorite strategy game of all time. And it's cool comparing the two because obviously this came out in 907. XCOM came out in like 2016. Yeah. And seeing the different ways that games handle strategy and top down kind of battle. It's one of my favorite genres. And interesting to see how insanely flashed out the Final Fantasy tactics was for the time. Oh, yeah. I mean, when a first came out, this game was so ahead of the time. This would have blown my mind if I was like, well, I was one at the time. Yeah, I would have blown my mind full stop. But if I like, if this was my first strategy game, yeah, I would have been like, Jesus Christ, how can I play anything else? I mean, this was the game that got me into the Fire Emblem series. Like I played this first. I will say like after playing this, it does kind of feel like the at least on when you're combating and playing the combat, like the job system is so much more refined as a system than the three houses. I want to play that. But three houses real strength is the multiple dialogue options and the character relationships you build, right? That's the important thing. But like seeing the story, then with this amazing combat system and really thoughtful job system that kind of really allows you to kind of shape any character you want to be whatever you want them to be. Yeah, totally. It's a very, but it has a lot of data to aspects. Like leveling up is really odd. Like, you level up based on how many actions successfully you do. Yeah. So it's a very weird kind of class and game system to have to use, but still a really fun one. Right. And if you want a strategy game and you have a lot of time, highly recommend this one. It is, but it's also a game that's it's a tough game to recommend because the story is so complex and so long that I feel like if you stop playing this game for a week, you're all forgotten extremely important details. But there's a couple of quality of life changes they added this game that I'm really enjoying that I want more games to add this game to the least that are really complex, which is like they have the like the law button on the menu. Yeah. Where any point you can literally look at all the law, but they also have a timeline and the world map and the characters faces on them and what they were doing and what why so it was really helpful to kind of be like in between days, just like, check what's going on in the story, but they did that in 13 centenials, but it didn't help. Because that story was so complex. No way. You cannot follow. I've forgotten that fucking. I forgot in the port on to that. Yeah. That's why I had to play that game like three days straight. Yeah. I'm like, if I stop for one day, I'm going to forget everything. Exactly. But if it's acting, it feels like you have to play this game and this game only until you're done otherwise it might be tough. I started playing when I got to when the game came out like the day it came out and I played it for like a good four or five hours and then I just got busy. It's so I feel like I have to start from the beginning again, even though I already know the story technically, but yeah, I'm just like, I don't even know where the fuck I am right now. You play the new one. Yeah. The voice acting is so good in there as well. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm almost tempted to play it in English because as good as the Japanese voice acting is. I've heard so many good things about the English voice acting. I would. I would I mean, it's setting like the UK. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like setting is a lie as it makes sense for its beginning. Yeah. I mean, it's very reminiscent. I think it's very heavily draws inspiration from the war, the roses in the UK. So it's very, very similar and touches on a lot of the similar themes. So I highly recommend it. And then I down here put Soma and this was a hard one because I wanted to put there's a couple of games that could have gone here. Could have been mouth washing. Could have been Soma. A couple other games maybe even look outside. I played a lot of games. But ultimately for me, I feel like Soma is maybe my favorite story of this year. It's like just from a storytelling perspective. It's the one that I've thought about the most. I still think about it. I think about Soma a lot. And it's only been like two months, but I still think about it very often. And the implications of that Soma asks and makes you wonder, I think you're going to be relevant for an extremely long time. And it only become more prominent point as time go on. This is an Expedition 33 of the two games I'm playing this whole I say. I really want you to play it so that we can do like a one hour section where we talk about Soma. One of the best endings in video game here. Yeah. All right. I think it might be the best. Yeah. I think it might be my it's funny. Two of my favorite ending of video games of all time are on this list with MGS 3 and Soma. I'm just a serious and amazing ending. Yeah. You know it's weird. MGS 3. You I in my head, I feel like it ends in the field. Yeah. But it doesn't. There's the whole Ocelot fight in the helicopter. Oh, I forgot about that. You have the sex scene. Which is a pretty good ending. And then you have the graveyard. Which happens all but to me, it feels like it ends in the flower. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But then I mean, you have the scene of like, this is the fucking him with the grave. Yeah. That's comfy. But Soma, I think if you play it, Jerry, you'll understand. I think why I think it's so poignant. But yeah, that ending. I think I'll think about that for a very, very long time. Yeah. Hell yeah. It's it's it's absolutely fucking genius. Yeah. Well, hope we can catch up in the holiday season, Joe, when you played both of them. Yeah. I've been I have been lacking in the gaming department this year. So this holiday season is just going to try and finish as many of these games that I know I'm going to like and all my friends have been saying a good Soma is going to make you really not excited about the future. At least that's how many me feel. I was like, I hope we never get here. Yeah. And last but so many not least, here is. Yes. As I said, this year I had to struggle to find enough things to put on. Yeah. Just because my attention and time this year was just so skewed towards one project. Which was obviously barn. And which was the biggest projects I've ever worked on in my career. And my life, you know, I looked back and a lot of my year from like March to the documentary release, it was just like I was having trouble finding a free weekend or a moment. Yeah. And it wasn't just, you know, I didn't really watch anything, didn't replay anything, didn't hang out with friends barely hang out with my wife. But it is out now. Obviously. And, you know, I'll just, I'll just start off talking about that, which is the middle thing I didn't put on because I was just like, you know, I've talked about it a lot. But I don't think I normally put stuff I made on my favorite three by three's list of the year. But I do think that's the documentary I just finished is, you know, as as a creator, I think barn was obviously the biggest ever project I've ever worked on ever made with a, you know, a team of people. But as a YouTuber, I rarely say this, but I do genuinely think I've made my own Magnum Opus. Just because it's something this documentary was something that unlike barn was worked on by myself, Alan and one other editor, just just the pure YouTube team. And it was a fucking mountain to climb to do this documentary. And ideally, we wanted to release it like, you know, get on the hype of barn and just release it a week after. And we did not know how much work this was going to take until we started working on it. And the release date kept getting like delayed and delayed to the point where I had to have like a meeting with my team just because they were, we were really, really close to burning out. And they were like, we, you know, they felt really bad because they were like, we know we need to capitalize on the hype. And, you know, you know, push it to cap, you know, if we want like good views and stuff like that. And I, you know, sat them down. And I was like, guys, okay, I don't normally say this like often, but take a break for one, because we all need a break from working on this project. And number two, I don't really care about the views on this. This is something that I feel come into this like you are, you have one, you know, opportunity to work on a project this big. And this grant. And even if we miss out on the hype of the release, I just want you to make something that we're all proud of. And we're all like, we can all look at and point at and say, this is the best thing I've ever made in my career. Hell yeah. And I can, I think I can proudly say that, you know, I think we achieve that. There is this documentary is not only, it's not only like a technical documentary because I've made technical documentaries before making an I make you have as well, Joey, where we've run as like studio tours and everything like that. We much more approach this as just a narrative journey about what it's like to take on a project this big. And it was much more of an emotional journey as opposed to a technical one. Obviously, there are, you know, technical aspects to it. And it's just there are some things happened in this year that were just that were just fucking hard. If if you've watched the documentary, I don't think there has been any other project where I have like laid myself out and just laid myself out as bare as a documentary. And there are certain points in this documentary that I have to just hand off to other people just because it was so difficult for me to revisit some moments that I genuinely like could not do it. And I think Alan did an amazing job at distilling what the emotions were like during that time. But you know, it's really touching. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, watch the whole thing and it was. Oh, thank you. Yeah, so really I'm just really proud of you. Yeah. It was also awesome to just, you know, be the support my boy. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, thank you so much because, yeah, for the first time in ages, I had to dust off my editing skills. And I edited, you know, a big portion of this documentary myself as well because a lot of it is, you know, one thing I learned is like, it didn't documentary just fucking hard because it's not like you have to, you have like, we had like over a hundred hours of footage and we had to like distill that into a narrative, basically. We had so much we needed to cut and it was just piecing together so many different things and having it, having a narrative payoff to each part of the documentary because we split the entire mind, entire two-year journey into like different different different parts, which all have their own like payoff to that to that part itself. And it has made me understand how different, how difficult it is to make a documentary and actually make a narrative out of life, you know, because I filmed a lot of this not knowing what was going to be in the final documentary. I actually had some people message me to be like, did you like, did you like fake some of this, like some of the shots here because like, how did you know you were going to like this moment was going to happen? I think there was one poem moment which you guys saw in the theater, which you know, it's like the moment where I find out that Barn was like, Barn was approved and I had like this like this moment where or just like, like, sunken and Daitos was like, you know, how the fuck did you know you were going to film a documentary and I'm like, bro, YouTube brain man. You just got a film shoot. Yeah, I was, you know, you're going to pitch it. Yeah, like why not fucking get the camera out? Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I like when they got approved, I didn't know I was going to make a documentary, but I was like, this is a pivotal moment. Maybe I should film this just in case. Yeah, totally. And there were some moments obviously in the year where it was fucking hard to turn on the camera with like some of the stuff that was going on my personal life. And I've really had to struggle with just like, fuck man, what are the fuck am I doing man? What if I turn on the camera today and this is a reminder that of just like the maybe the worst fucking moment of like my life, you know, it's it's it was super surreal experiencing that as a creator and just as like the subject of a story in the documentary. But you know, you guys watch Trash Nation know how the story ends and yeah, I can safely say that this is the proudest thing I've ever made. It's two hours and it, you know, I treated it like a two hour feature length film. It is not a two hour YouTube video per se. This is like two it is not optimized for YouTube in a way because it's it's like two hours of just me, Alan and Abby making a film where you have to like you where we assume the audience of pay attention, you know, because it wasn't second monitor content, which is what YouTube is grateful. It is two hours of pure heavy story. It's amazing. Yeah, I remember the best YouTube video you've ever made. Yeah. Yeah. And it's not a YouTube video that anyone can make regardless of how long they've been doing YouTube. Like this is yeah, this is the culmination of your almost two decade long YouTube video making career, I think. And it's yeah, it was fucking amazing. Yeah. And yeah, if you haven't seen it already, if you have time in the Christmas holidays, it would make me very happy if you go if you go and watch it. Go watch it. I don't think I'm ever going to make or ever going to be able to make a project like this on YouTube ever again. So me and my team poured our fucking hearts and our souls into this. And we are all very, very fucking proud of the final of the final products. Hell yeah, dude. And that's I think this is the first time I put one of my own YouTube videos in my nine, nine, my three by three. Right. So with that out of the way, that is 70% of my year actually done. So I don't know what to start off with. We've already talked about Exposition 33. Did that screenwriting that is screenwriting? So obviously as an offshoot to barn and now that barn's over, I'm just something awoke. I mean, you're really enjoying my passion. I just did like I'm not even like it's not even like I want to make another barn or another project writing thing. I just I can't describe the fucking magic of just having something in your head, whether it be characters or like a story or something. And just being able to realize it physically and just have something that exists. I think that's fucking magical. And that's why it's like working on barn has completely changed my perspective on like any creative project, right? Because it's I just think it's fucking cool. If you are able to finish a project and you know, people have like made OCs or like, you know, inter-original characters, I had like concepts for like stories or you know, concepts for different games or something. But I think there's something fucking magical about someone or a team being able to just complete a project. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It's easy to start it, but it's hard to end. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Someone has put out their fully realized vision out there. And it's something that was just formed from imagination. I just think that's cool as fuck, man. And so I've just been getting into just, you know, screenwriting's one of my outlets, but there's so many different ideas for just so many different things I want to work on, which is not just creating YouTube stuff, but it's just more so creating original stuff. That's, you know, I really have it working on barn really. I work something in me. I've been what I've been writing just a lot of like short stories. Probably will never see the light of day. I don't really care if they ever do. I'm working on another project, which it's a much smaller project than barn. I'm going to say that out now. It's I want to take on something smaller in scale, but that should be out at the end of January, which I'm not going to talk about now, but talk about it when it happens. Yeah, I'll talk about it when it happens, but it is, you know, that it is down that kind of path. But in general, I've just had a lot of fun reading other screenplays and just seeing the entire kind of like pipeline of what happens when you know, another creator where that where ideas come from. And I think what I've come to appreciate is just how much a creator puts of themselves into whatever work they make. Totally. You know, even if it's a creator that works with a team, you know, it's just everyone puts a little bit of the own of their own experiences, a little bit of their own personality into whatever they make. I think one of my favorite shorts that I've seen recently, which is one that I have like truly, truly related to. I saw like this interview with Winston Tarantino when he was talking about the making of in glorious bastards. And at the beginning, he was like they could not find the casting for Christophe Waltz's character. I've got the character name, but they were like, we cannot, he was like, we cannot make this film unless we find this character. Yeah. And unless we find his character, it's not going to be made, right? And so they go off and they find Christophe Waltz. And once they find Christophe Waltz, it was like to Quentin Tarantino, I was like, holy shit, this movie is being made because seeing Christophe Waltz portrayal of I think Landa is the character name. Biggest Landa. Yeah. Seeing his portrayal of the character, he said that Christophe taught him aspects of his character that he had no idea about until we saw his portrayal. And I saw that interview before I made Bond and after I made Bond and seeing that after I made Bond, it just, I fucking get what he means so much because, you know, it's your perception of the character. It's your perception of the character and you made the character. I made these characters, but working with other people to actually realize them. It's like they, it was almost like they were out of my control. I had an image of the people they were and the, you know, the characters that they were. And then through every process, through every process of this stage, the artwork, the voice acting portrayal, you know, both English and Japanese, it's like every, every single person that was in that pipeline added a little bit of their own experiences, a little bit of their own self, their own soul into them. That's, you know, by the time I got to the final product, I knew this character, but also they were their own separate things. And it's just, I just think that's, I'd like to me, I just think that's so fucking cool that, you know, you can make something and you realize it physically and other people can interact with it and other people can interpret it. And it's just, it's just the same thing now. It's just, it's out of your control. And I can't begin to describe just how cool that feeling is. And I'm chasing the high again. And that's why I, this year, I've just, you know, found, founded this new passion of just, you know, creating writing stories. And I want to get better as well, which is why I'm writing not out of any kind of want to, you know, to, any kind of like feeling that I'm going to turn this into anything. I'm just writing and making just, just to practice and just to get something physical and get something that I can, you know, tangibly look at. Because I do think with any creative process, unless you finish it, it doesn't exist. You know, it's, it's, unless, unless you have finished the full stop until like this, this project has a beginning and it ends in my mind, it doesn't exist until that point. Totally. And until it gets that point, it is just a vague idea. Because once it's realized, once it's finished, then you can look at it and then you could be like, okay, I could have done this better. I could have done that better. I could have learnt, you know, I, you, you can like refine it and stuff, but you need to get to that finish point with every creative process, which is what I'm, which is what I'm trying to do, just trying to work on like small things. Because I'm very, very proud of Bond. I don't think it's the best thing I can do. Now that it's over, it's just the beginning. Now that it's over, I've learned so fucking much. Yeah. And I'm, I'm fucking proud. I don't fucking happy that I saw this to the end. And it's out and people can watch it and judge it. And I'm like, fuck yes, I'm so fucking proud of that. Elliot. And then the other side of me is just like, shit, man, I can do better. I know I can do better. I can't, I'm sure you're Kirk. Yeah, man. You always do. Yeah, man. Yeah. But, yeah, that, that has been my passion. Elliot. That I've discovered this year. Let's say what I will continue to do. So let's talk about the stuff that I've already talked about. Chainsaw Man movie. Best. This isn't going to go out and watch it yet. But, Matt Tatsuki Fujimoto is just on some kind of, he has signed his soul to the devil. He's an alien dude. Because everything that he touches has gotten like a triple A adaptation. And the Chainsaw Man movie, I rewatched it actually. And I fucking never rewatch anime. We anime anything. Yeah. It was, it was that good. There's, and to me, there is one scene in it because you guys haven't seen it yet. There is one scene in it. It's my favorite scene in the Chainsaw Man movie. It's not even an action scene. Obviously, the action is fucking incredible in this movie. But there is just, there is just this one of the most beautiful moments, the most beautiful, quiet moments I've seen in anime in a while that has lived rent-free in my mind since I watched Chainsaw Man. And I wanted to experience it again. And so I did, so I did so in IMAX. Yeah, he is, it is just an amazing adaptation. Outside of this, I also have been watching Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 as well. Short stories. Like the anthology of short stories. They are fucking like going to the bottom of the barrel. And the bottom of the barrel is still fire. It's still going. Okay, some of it is fire. Some of it is like fucking weird as fuck. I feel like you watching this, watching this, okay, so what is this? It's like an anthology of short stories that Tatsuki Fujimoto made before Chainsaw Man. So when he was a lot younger. And I felt like you were a red someone's work. And you're like, damn, I feel like I'm learning a lot about you right now. Like you'll taste some preferences. Number one, I really, really think he really wants to write a romance. He really wants to write a romance. But he is shackled. Yeah, he shackled that. I think when he tries writing a vanilla romance, it just never, never. Well, I mean, he can't do vanilla. There's also like elements, say for example, in like both look back in good Bayeri, for example, where there are definitely romantic elements that are kind of hinted at. Yeah. But as soon as he tries to, as soon as he tries to step into that, he always has to throw something where it's like, yeah, but I just can't make it like a meat and potatoes. I gotta, I gotta do something or add some kind of elements of the character of the story where it's just like, you thought it was going to be a right. Yeah. But it's just fucking weird. Yeah. And it's just like sometimes, sometimes you read a artist's work and you're just, you know, it's such a, some, like, you know, like with a congeema that we talked about, sometimes you just feel like they're just such a passion. Yeah. Such a passion and just inserting their own weird preferences with no care about whether it makes sense. Yeah. They're just doing it because they're just wanting with feet, bro. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to break down one of the shorts in, there's eight shorts. I'm going to break down one of these shorts. But I'm just like, sometimes you watch one of these shorts and you're like, damn, you're just a weird guy. Which one? I've read the manga. You read the manga. It's the one where there's this guy. Okay. There's this guy who has a crush on his teacher, right? And he has, he's in his room and he has his crush on his teacher and is like, damn, she's my goddess, right? And so what in the middle of this classroom, another fucking, there's a guy like comes in this classroom and he's like a fucking school shooter or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And he has this gun in Japan. I don't know how to. Yeah. Got his gun in Japan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's, it's an older guy, right? And it's, it's a guy who used to go to school with the teacher. Yeah. And he's like, I fell in love with you and you just like ignored me. I can't believe you. And I'm going to shoot, I'm going to shoot everyone and the teacher is just like, no, you can do whatever you want to me. But whatever you do, don't do anything to the children. Yeah. And, and so the guys, and so the, the shooter is like, I can do anything. That means I can have sex with you, right? And the teacher's like, oh, oh, yeah. I mean, I guess so. And so at this point, you got me. And this, at this point, the kid is like, the teacher, the teacher's going to have sex. No, I must stop this. She's my goddess. She can't have sex. And so he's, he like stands up. And he's like, yeah, man, oh, you, you must not have sex with the teacher. I feel like that was like the beginnings of Dengie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? So what happens? And so what happens is he has, he tries to convince the school shooter to not have sex with the teacher, right? He's like, and he's like, bro, you know, I'm from the future, actually. I'm a time traveler. I'm the time traveler. I'm you. And let me tell you what, and the shooter's like, what is that? Yeah, I know what my future is. I'm going to get arrested for this. Obviously, I'm going to go to jail. And he's like, yes, you will get arrested. You go to jail, but you know what? When you're in jail, you're going to study. And when you study, you're going to get qualified after you get out of like, get out of jail and you're going to find a job desperately trying to convince him, not because he cares about the shooter, but because he doesn't want the shooter to have sex with his, yeah, with this cross feature. And so the shooter, just fucking like freaks out, fives the gun at the kid, and the kid matrix style, just like, just like does this, right? And has this flashback about how the teacher tells him that she's actually a real god goddess, right? Has this like demon's layer flashback, other than catches the bullet. He catches the bullet. Everyone's like, because the name of the show, I can't remember his name, but the name of the show is like, oh, this person caught the bullet. So motherfucker just catches the bullet. And he's like, yes, I have proved now that I'm a time traveler. I knew the bullet was going to go in that trajectory. And I caught it. And yeah, and it's awesome. I'm just like, what the fuck is going on with your mind, though? What the I'm like, this is like the epitome of like never, never let bro know your next move. Because you cannot, you cannot know what like direction he's going to take the story. Yeah, I feel Fujimoto is one of those people who clearly has, he cares, such a good understanding on like really compelling character writing and just like human psychology. But but decides not to lean into it and just goes like, yeah, I understand all of this. I'm not going to explore it in any way whatsoever. Which what like, what I appreciate is just you just see the rawness in like what he's trying to put into his work, which is why when he eventually gets into like shonen jump, I'm like, damn, that editor, it is the real go. It's like, it's supposed to head to rain in some, some holding the shackle back. Chancellor man is also fucking weird. But there is a there was a fucking, you feel like there is a direction to it. Yeah, they're there. It's on it's on rails. And because of that, it's just so fucking good and an absolute fucking masterpiece. And I think we told before about how at the end of season one, you know, I was like on the fence. I was like, yeah, me too. I was like, forgetable. After watching this film, I'm like, oh, I'm a fucking chainsaw man fan. I'm like, 100% through and through. I'll watch it. I watch it. Yeah. All right. What else? What do you guys? What's the top middle one there? Top middle one. This, so this, I got into in the animation on YouTube quite a lot. And this is a series, a YouTube series called a Milky Subway. And it is. Oh, I've seen Japanese or English. I've seen a little bit of it. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen them pop up on Instagram. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so I don't even know. I was going to Hindi dub. Let's go. I mean, this is, uh, this is kind of like that weird middle ground where it's in the anime, but also, um, it's, it was picked up by, uh, some Japanese, uh, I don't, I don't know too much about. Yeah. Shin a animation. Shin a animation. But it's basically mostly made, by one guy who served as a lot of the staffing for this project. So I don't know what the making of behind the scenes. But this started off as one Indian animator who posted this short on YouTube. And I assume he got funding from some Japanese company to, to make this into a full season. And even then it's like, I think, uh, 12 episodes or something or eight episodes. Ten. Is it 10 12 episodes, but each episode is only three, four minutes long. Um, and, uh, three to four minutes long. And it all details. It's basically one season, one story arc, uh, where it's just a group of space delinquents that are trapped on this train. And they have to find, you know, trapped on this, you know, galactic, galactic express, they're trapped in this train. And they're just figuring out what is going on. And why they're trapped in this train. Um, and honestly, it is just the most charming thing I've seen in 2025, uh, because I don't, I don't know about you guys. A lot of times I don't find comedy anime funny. Uh, just a lot of their style of humor just doesn't vibe with me. But this has by far some of the best banter and some best writing. Uh, I've seen, uh, in three minutes, sorry, all in three minutes. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's, it's, um, it's, it's like three minutes, but really it's a 30 to 40 minute short film, right? Cut something to three minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, and yeah, it's, it's genuinely just really fucking charming and really fucking funny. Um, it is someone who, it is written by someone who obviously knows internet humor, right? Um, so it's not the style of humor you kind of like expects in anime, you know, uh, one thing that I think they've do really, really well is banter, because sometimes an anime, you, you know what I mean? When I, you watch, you watch an anime on that and it's, and it's like personate talks, person be talks, personate talks, person be talks. Right. This one, the banter feels so fucking organic and it's something that I'm not used to in, um, in Japanese animation, you know, you know, you, we've seen it before like Western animation and Western sitcoms, but this one, it's just absolute chaos with people with all of these, like, large and life characters, all these different characters trying to figure out what's going on and everyone has their own character arc and everything like that. Um, and the banter is just fucking top tier that's I was laughing all throughout like every single episode. There was like something funny that happens and the character writing was absolutely strong as well, where even though this is like a comedy, I would class this as a comedy animation, um, some, some of the character arcs generally like, damn, this is like this hit me. Okay. You know, you know, sometimes it throws in some serious, serious messages as well and I don't know, I wish more comedy anime were this good. And just the fact that this is an indie animation that is free to watch on YouTube, you know, I would class it closer to stuff like, stuff, you know, something like what glitches do with like nice of going to be yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think that's YouTube and the animation is going to be like a renaissance. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And yeah, this is one of my favorite, one of my favorite things I've watched this year on YouTube. I recommend it. Yeah, I've seen that red devil girl pop up on Instagram real so often and I've always wondered what it was. Yeah, yeah. And now I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you've got, yeah, uh, satellite. Yeah, what's the top, uh, so top left. Uh, so this, uh, I got into a new genre of music this year. It started off with this group, satellite lovers, um, this sons of 1973, this album got to recommend it to me on YouTube a while ago. And it just put me down into this rabbit hole of, uh, this genre of music, which I didn't know I was craving. But I definitely was craving. It's called Shibuya K. Oh, Shibuya K. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you probably know about this show. Yeah, yeah. But, uh, basically Shibuya K, um, is kind of like if there was a genre of music that encapsulated the brightness and the optimism that I felt during like the 90s. I'd say like nine, like the 90s, early 2000s, maybe late 80s as well, that kind of period because everyone knows about city pop now. City pop has gotten insanely insanely popular. Yeah. And this was, I think it's like post city pop. This was post city pop. It wasn't inspired by city pop. Yeah. But, um, it has elements of that. But it is definitely its own genre of music. It has like a little bit of like bossa nova in there as well. It's like a little bit more chill. But like I can you search up? It's got a little bit of like jazz fusion elements to it as well. Yeah, it's got like jazz fusion. Yeah. Can you search up? Um, goodbye, our pastel bridge on YouTube. So I just hour hour, our pastel bridge. Yeah, this one just such like Shemaya. Like I just like this, this is genre music. You can mute it. But I'm just like, bro, this color palette, this aesthetic, the sepia tone. Oh, just, it's just ungodly yellow. Yeah. I'm just like, damn, this, this is what listening to this genre of music makes me feel. Whereas just the world is just a little bit brighter, a little bit more optimistic, man. Bro, they definitely did not get permission to film on this, on this train, man. But it just like, this, this genre of music just encapsulates this fucking time period. That is like that just doesn't exist anymore, obviously. But just listen, just, you know, listen to Shibuya K, just reminds me of just a brighter time. And at some of, yeah, yeah, it's a very, very fun genre of music and I think in terms of anime opening, a song that would fit to this genre of music is the Chobits opening. If you remember the Chobits opening, yeah, that is, that is Shibuya K. Oh, fuck yeah. That's good vibes. Yeah, yeah. So obviously, Cron, have you guys listened to any of it since this is the YouTube video? Got listening right. Yeah. So, Hi, recommend Shibuya K. You can start down in the same rabbit hole that I did with Sasslight Lovers. But honestly, this entire genre of music is just something that I fell into and yeah, I've, you know, I, I just yearn for a brighter time, man. Bring back some more. Yeah, or a brighter, simpler time. Bring me back, bring me back to this. Hopefully we'll get back to another great band. There's a couple of bands that are very much in that, this same band as well. I don't know if you've, I don't know how far you've gone down. But like Yuzu is another great, oh, spits are another great group as well. Like, yeah, it's just, yeah, as you said, it's just like, it's just happy music. Yeah, it is. It just makes you feel like you need that. Yeah, it's just good. It's just feel good music. It's just happy, simple music. Yeah. If you don't have this, you have the whiskey, was it on your list? Did you get into drinking? Yeah. So this, this was me just like, what did I get into this year? And of course, there was so another, aside of barn, the biggest thing that the biggest event I was involved in this year was I hosted a family reunion with my family. And we hadn't seen each other in, I think about like 15 to like between 15 and 18 years that my entire family had not gathered together again. And I sorted out this big family reunion where I got to, you know, I got to meet my cousins, my aunties and uncles, some who hadn't seen in like a decade, some family members had never seen each other period. That was how big this family reunion was. And I remember having this moment, this year I turned 35, I turned mid 30s. Which is great. That's all, man. Yes, thank you very much. You're almost 40. Thank you very much. And this last day of this family reunion, it was just me and my older cousin who's basically my older brother at this point grew up with him. And he was like, what do you want to drink? And I was like, you know, maybe I maybe I have a wine or a beer or something and he's like, no, no, no, it's time. You're the worst. All right, it's time because he's he's married to a Scottish person. So he's like, no, no, no, we're not drinking any of that baby shit today. Brings out a whiskey and I'm like, oh, fucking, are you serious? Okay, fine. And I was like, can I get it with ice in his like, no, no, no, we're we're we're doing straight. We're doing it straight. We're doing it straight. He was very drunk at this one, by the way. He was definitely imposing his, his influence over me. So he brings out whiskey. It's a it's a scotch of some kind. And he's just like, he pours me a glass. And I remember just like having this first sip and I'm just like, why does this not taste awful? I'm like, yeah, I'm like, shit. Is this what happens? You meet, you meet, you hit mid 30s and you're like, you see, I mean, you have to keep just trying it until you taste good. You just need that one person in your life who's just adamant in you being like, Nana, give it another go. Yeah, I'm giving it another go. Maybe it was just the vibe of that night because it was a very emotional night. You know, again, he spent time with like my family and person I love that like, you know, people I care about the most, but just I remember, I just remember, I just remember that night. And he just literally slides over the glass to me. And I just take it, I just like, okay, I'm doing this for my bro. I'm doing this for my bro. Show my support. Sure. And just taking that first sip and just there are moments in your life where you feel your brain chemistry changing. That was one of those moments. I just remember taking that first sip and I was like, why is this not like any other sip I've taken a whiskey in my life? Right place, right time. And now I'm chasing that fucking high again. See, I was, when I first saw this through by three and I saw, you know, the bar and documentary and then I saw whiskey. I was like, oh God, is this like, is this like Gansley tortured poets to my eyes? Like, I just started drinking. That's what we know is going to make the most fire shit. It's like, that's the magic. I got to like two in the morning, like, head in hands just being like, I need a whiskey. I'm glad I'm glad it's more positive. I realized it looked like that. Yeah. From like, I was like, yeah, it's like screenwriting whiskey. I'm like, I'm going into screenwriting and whiskey are the same stuff. That's like, should we okay? It's like, good. My birth's gone through some shit. I'm like, shit, this is like the, this is a righteous three by three. It's like, next is going to be like a fucking mobru, mobru, or some shit like that. That's going to be like next year's, you can have like, me as acky. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to be him. So, this country's gone to shit. Yeah. But the problem is, I don't want to tell anyone that I was going to get whiskey. Yeah, because like, we shall hear alcohol. Not that, I'm not like it's not like an alcoholic, but I'm afraid that people are going to get me whiskey as like gift, which is like, I don't join the club, which is, yeah, which is fine, you know, because I do like whiskey. I would appreciate it. But unlike a bottle of wine, you're like, okay, this gift is going to last, you know, a day. Yeah. Yeah. When whenever I choose to open it, shit, man. I'm not enough of an alcoholic to be like, shit, I'm going to get through this like, give me give me give me a few days. I've got like four bottles of whiskey at home. I'm not even open yet. I'm just waiting for the time to be like, I need to gather some people. Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to make it through this myself. I've won every drink in my house that I just have. Yeah. Exactly. Every time of alcohol you'd ever want. Yeah. I'm just like, please come over. I need to empty these. But the problem is, no one drinks whiskey. Yeah. I drink whiskey. No, no one drinks. Oh, yeah. Well, like no one's at a party. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. This whiskey is just like, it's a vibrant. You need to go to an establishment as well. Yeah. whiskey bar. Yeah. In order to like actually have a proper time with whiskey. Yeah. Exactly. So what's next under the list? What's next? I see Dexter there. Yeah. I this was I was like struggling to. Oh, G series to the new one. Huh? The OG series are the new one. So Dexter, I ended up rewatching a lot of Dexter this year. But I will 100% say, it was mostly second monitor month content. This was the shit I just put on in the background. Because I'd already watched Dexter. Yeah. Yeah. I've watched it. I've already watched it. And Dexter was just, man, I am so susceptible to advertising and whatever. Because I think I just kept getting recommended Dexter clips just in short randomly. That's good show. And I think it's because like the memes for Dexter resurface this year. Yeah. Yeah. Also, the new season apparently is amazing. It's like 9.1 on IMDB. Really? I wasn't gushing up there. Yeah. There's like the brand new series and where he's like, pretend to be young. But it looks refining. Yeah. Dexter, new blood. Yeah. It's like sitting like a fucking nine. I haven't seen a single episode. It's very good. Yeah. One of the classic era box sets. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I think it's a no, not this one. It's a different one. Different Dexter. Yeah. That one's from 2020. original original original original sense. Original sense. It might be resurrection. Yeah. 9.1 on IMDB. Damn. With 100,000 reviews. Damn. All right. Kind of crazy to see him kind of come back and just crush it. Yeah. Holy shit. God damn. I want to watch it. Apparently it's godlike. So I will get there soon. I guess I'm working my way through all the seasons. And I forgot how genuinely good the first two seasons. He's amazing. Like the first two seasons were like fucking peak television. I think my favorite season is one where John Lithgow is the psychopath. He's very good. I guess season four. Who can you search up his John Lithgow Dexter? How long John Lithgow man? He's very good. In Dexter. Dexter. Oh, I think it's season three. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Season is probably my favorite season. Yeah. He has a very, very good, he was a very, very good villain as well. He's just a great actor. Yeah. I mean, he's his character. Yeah. His character, he's like, because he plays one of the villains every season in Dexter has a villain that gets played and his is a serial killer similar to Dexter, but his whole spiel is that he is also living a normal life as well. And he has found his he has found balance between living a normal life and serial killing, right? Which is what Dexter yearns for because he's like hero. I guess a little bit more fuss up in here. Do you know that you know the concept of Dexter? Not at all. The concept of Dexter is essentially Dexter is a serial killer, but he only kills people who deserve it. Most of the time it's like other serial killers or other things as well. And the reason he's like that is because he has always had this urge to this yearning, this urge to kill since he was like a young kid. And his dad, who is a cop, found out about his like urge to kill, right? So instead of, you know, reporting him or whatever, his dad teaches him how to like commit like the perfect crime. So that he can, he can like kill without being caught. One of his main rules is like, whatever you do, do not get caught. But number two is just like before he kills anyone, like make sure that they deserve it. Make sure that they are someone who actually has fallen through the cracks of the justice system. Yeah. Because the reason his dad taught him was because he was a cop and there were a lot of people who he felt were free and outroaming that didn't deserve it. So it's worth checking out. Yeah, yeah. Definitely worth checking out. Okay. And I would say that the first two seasons are fucking fantastic. They both have amazing villains and some really interesting characters. Well, like probably the character you've seen is Dokes, who is the, who is the black police officer who for the memes for him. All the memes. You know the one where he's like in this car. Yeah. Like, oh, that guy. He's Dexter and the one who's surprised. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. He is one of the main characters in the early seasons of this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Eric King. Eric King. Yeah. I don't know why this got a resurgence this year. I think I think maybe the show and other things too. But yeah. I get from. Yeah. And I think because of the memes, I just started rewatching Dexter again. And you know what? I don't even know. I don't know if I would recommend it. That's the problem. If you want, if you want a classic box set shows, you're called them like a prison break or 24. Yeah. It's a good job. Because it's just like, it's funny because I know a few people this year that has gotten back into the box set era, but just watched stuff on second monitor. Yeah. Like have you heard that Diodist watched all of the soprano second. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, he's that the second monitor type of show. Not not really, but Sydney has been watching King of the Hill second monitor. My gosh. And yeah, I've been watching. To be fair, the reason I watched Dexter was because I was like, yeah, there's a short man. The short man. The short. The short just get me with because there are so many fucking, there are so many fantastic moments of Dexter. But holy shit, the box set era of TV, I could not stand today because there was so much fluff. There was so much like on the floor. Yeah. Nowadays, I think I've just taken for granted just how fast it takes to get to the point of a TV show and how fast it is to get to that hook. And every episode builds on the previous episode. And going back to this box set era and especially, you know, especially revisiting a series I've already watched. I'm like, holy fuck it shit man. Just get to that moment. I want to revisit in that short. Just please, please get to that moment because I, you know, I ended up watching the first few episodes of that new Vince Gilligan TV series. Yeah. It's fucking fantastic. Yes, the point right. It gets to the point right away. And every episode I've watched builds on this a new idea, a new conflict. And down watching Dexter plebberus. Yeah. Yeah. It's this is just like great fucking TV. And then going back and watching Dexter as well, I'm just like, thanks for all. I'm like, yeah, I don't actually feel guilty. Yeah, it's like a monitor. Yeah, it's fair enough. All right. And your final one and my final one just because I try to not put anime on this because I try not to spoil my best of anime 2025. To be here X my Chinese animation of the year. It is amazing. It is amazing. I am a little bit biased because the met the bloke. I met the creator and he's so fucking cool. He's I mean, I'm sure you're talking about it more in depth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On your best of anime. Yeah, yeah. But should you recommend it? So let me tell you on why it is very, very interesting. I'll give you two pieces. Number one, it is a superhero. It is a superhero world. And it is a superhero world through the lens of, I guess, China. But it has a very unique power system where the power system is based on influence. So it is a world where influencers are superheroes. Right? Okay. So the more that it's not even about social media followers per se, but the more social influence. Yeah, the more people believe in you and want to like cheer for you, it's almost it's almost close to idols. Right? Okay. Yeah. The more people want you to succeed, the more power that you get within this world and the more that manifests into different powers. Right? Right. And the really interesting thing about this world is that you see how fickle that can be with just not just like influencing, you know, not just like, you know, how many followers does someone have, but how quickly can influence like Peter and fall depending on public perception and just how much like one like dodgy article or one one bad rumor can be spread around you, you know? And how easy it is for people to move on to the next hero and find new heroes. Right? Because this this entire world of two B herex follows different heroes, the top 10 heroes of this world. And like how they came to be like the top 10 heroes, right? And it takes place in like different timelines, following different characters that all like converge by the end. And I just found that really, really interesting, not only as someone who is, you know, a creator, influencer, that was I thought as a really interesting power system, but just a very unique spin on the superhero genre as well. And the second thing is that it has by far some of the most insane fucking animation. I've seen clips. Have you seen clips? So a lot of it boils down to the number one hero, which is named X and bro, every time here appears on screen, it is it's it's it is number one but some of the coolest sequences of animation that you've seen because his power, right, is that every time he clicks his fingers, he basically changes animation style. So during his fights, Kai, can you, it's it's better, it's easier to show you as opposed to as opposed to just describing, but every time he clicks, he changes animation style. And so in the universe, it's kind of like him changing dimensions. I'm not too sure if it's like properly explained, right. But he is, but it's some of the coolest, you know, action animation and action choreography I've seen in an animated TV series, just like conceptually. And conceptually, it's really, really cool. But to see it actually be executed on a level and not in like a spiderverse level budget. I'm just like, holy shit, meeting the creator. I just I was I was lost for words. Yeah, let me let me show you one of the scenes. Yeah. Kai, can you maybe go on my Twitter because I retweeted out a while ago of like one of the scenes because if you need, if you need a reason to watch TV here X, um, just just watch some of the how long is this 2022? Oh, because you're not logged in. Oh, shit, you have to log in. Yeah, oh fuck. Weird. Okay. I mean, never mind. Never mind. We have no deal listeners anyway. Yeah, yeah, we'll watch it. Yeah. I mean, that's cool. Yeah. Thanks for showing us your three by three. Yeah. According to a while, we go for Oh, shit. All right. We just can't stop talking about the things that talk about the life. That is. That was my three by three. Hell yeah. Thank you for sharing. No worries, man. And that was our favorite things of 2025. And hey, look at all these patrons. I hope are things. Yeah, these are also our favorite things of 2025. All of you who supported us for this year. I believe there's one other episode after this before we wrap up the new year. But until then, what you can do is head on over to our patron because not only will you be supporting us into the new year, but also you'll have an entire year's worth of patron exclusive content that you guys can go check out right after this one. But hey, if you want to check that out and support the show in the process, head on over to patreon.com slash trash tastes also falls on Twitter. Send us a memes on the subrider. Any fair to face listen to us on Spotify. 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