I sometimes can't remember if things they said in one episode was said weeks before because I take breaks while watching a single episode. It does feel like new episodes. And then they mention something from days before that was in the start of the episode and you're like... Oh yeah they did talk about that.
my parent cry gift giving story is: my mom is a massive Beatles fan and with her first paycheck when she was 15 she bought a collectors Beatles dolls set that where her prized possessions for years but when i was 5 our house burnt down and they where destroyed, cut to 20 years later when i was around 25 and after a few years of searching for the dolls online i finally found them and purchased them for her when she opened the gift and saw the dolls she broke down and ugly cried due to how happy she was and it made it a very special birthday for her
hey, that's a really nice thing you did for your mother. i bet you she loves them even more, knowing you spent time finding them. i wish you 2 (and the rest of your family) the best
As a fellow welshman, I think Conner needs to be promoting Mari Lwyd, a forgotten Welsh tradition that's making a comeback lately where a bunch of people rock up to your house with a horse skull on a broom covered by a sheet, and engage you in a rap battle, if you lose, you have to let them in for food and drinks
The green paint was called "Emerald Green" and Copper Arsenate was used to give it the brilliant glow. When it broke down it released Arsenic into the air and killed you.
1:25:00 "I hate the fact that minions never died in Japan" The best gift I ever bought myself was an ahegao minion pillow from a Hobby Off. 10/10 would buy again.
Fun fact: the US Month-Day-Year calendar system is originally from England, basically during the colonial era when England was at war all the time. They were using Month Day Year format to keep track of these small wars. England changed to the more common Day-Month-Year system sometime during the Napoleonic wars, the US (having won their independence) never did. Probably, was an active choice to further distance themselves from all things english (we kinda went through a period of that). However, the Month day year format is exclusively used for paperwork and archives that are within the US. All american science, military and international trade documents tend to be in day month year so as to not confuse non-american partners.
Does not seem like it. Many imported products here, as well as sites and services still use the month-day-year model. I am used to it now, but definitely it is NOT only used for paperwork.
@@Kyotosomo yeah but it doesn’t mean they left it with you they also left you with unsanitary things that we have now changed today because we have found better ways you can’t stay in the past
The hello kitty discussion was basically Connor going "this thing that isn't marketed to me, that I have no interest in, is not popular because I say so." Meanwhile Hello Kitty has been established as an industry titan for decades.
Just commenting on the hospital situation around New Years in Japan! The missus and I are doctors here, and we definitely do not (nor do our coworkers) get time off for it. The hospitals are still open, it's just you'll have to call an ambulance which will take you to a place taking emergency patients. They only close walk-in services.
"She literally has everything Kingdom Hearts so like WTF." That's when you buy a commission. One of a kind. They can't possibly already have it. Some artists even make statues. Or imagine a custom keyblade or somethin.
The talk about gifting your parents something very significant made me tear up a bit... that feeling of being able to thank them for raising you is absolutely unmatched.
Yeah I work all week and usually all weekend so I don't go out much and Friday trash taste episode is the thing I look forward too on a Friday I can sit down chill out smoke a joint watch something it's no different than looking forward to the latest film or tv show for me
It's the small moments that remind you. Even if they don't watch as much as they used to, the boys still love anime. Yeah but Joey egging houses is still the clear highlight of this episode dear god I fell out of my chair.
Connor seems to not understand the hype about Hello Kitty because he's not into it. Of course, Pokemon would be so much bigger for him because he's personally invested on it. And I think, gender-norms aside, it's quite impressive that HK is as successful as it is given their target market is hugely female, while Pokemon is more universal.
Joey explained it already to him "he doesn't understand because he never got into it" but nah. That's just how Connor's logic works. Pokémon is of course different because it's an anime, a game and had a movie. The movie was the biggest boost it had. HK is not the traditional anime we know, but given that it didn't have a anything big, the fact that people, almost worldwide, still know HK to this day, still has merch, even appliances and it's own amusement park. It's a damn feat.
@@pennyinheaven The way I understand it, being from a country that adults view anime and animation in general as Kid stuff. Hello Kitty is in everything for girls. T-shirts, Hoodies, School Notebooks, Keychains, Toys, Plushies. You can say those exist for every franchise but Hello Kitty is marketed so much for girls and anything girl-y = Hello Kitty. Even if a kid never even seen Hello Kitty it's still everywhere and everyone buys it because it equals with girl stuff.
@@sericsson1996 That's why it's consistent over the years, even without a worldwide boost from a new movie or game (any digital media) in the last 2 to 5 years. Even if the kids didn't know who or what HK is, they can be gifted HK stuff. There are also tons of items geared towards adults that aren't tacky at all, rather they're quite cool.
@@sericsson1996 Yeah exactly, that's why I think Hello Kitty is so big. Pokémon is of course bigger, everyone knows Pokémon, and everyone recognize something with Pokémon on it as soon as they see it, but still, even tho anyone knows Pokémon, Pokémon merchs and stuff is still something you can't really gift to anyone randomly or buy for yourself randomly just because it may look nice, you buy something like that only if you know that the other person is really into them, while instead Hello Kitty, worldwide, became like... The "mainstream"/"basic" girly thing, I mean, if you don't know what to gift to a girl, Hello Kitty is the go-to, that's why I think it became so big, because it is the "mainstream" girly thing. But still, if we have to do a comparison between the two, I think that Pokémon is still way waaaaay bigger than Hello Kitty, and the reason why for me is that, while as on a "recognizability" level they are almost the same, there are waaaay more people that are, more or less, really into Pokémon stuff, or at least that they ever played at least one game, or have seen in some period of their life the Pokémon anime, while instead, a lot of people literally just recognize Hello Kitty, as, only the character, and stop, but nothing more. That's why I was surprised too to see Hello Kitty so high.
And they did seem to know about it but... it's pretty and that's what mattered. Lead paint, however is something that got a lot of use up to the late seventies. Again, we knew it was bad but...It was useful. It's not necessarily a lack of knowledge so much as a lack of interest in safety.
Joey got the American equivalent of "watch out for Drop Bears" with that "if there's no echo its a gunshot" bit. Gunshots DO echo, especially in a city block with tall buildings with mostly flat walls for which the sound waves can bounce off of. What might differ between the two is the report/sound of a gunshot from most fireworks. But some works, especially firecrackers, will often sound exactly like gunshots. While some Americans will totally fire off a few rounds in the midst of fireworks going off for the 'tee-hee' or 'yee-haw' factor, it's not going to be as commonplace as anyone might want to make a foreign visitor think.
@@SaccharineCHNOS you see, that's why it's fucked up. Because you try to make it sound better by saying, that not every person would do it, and that it's more common outside the city. I've never heard a random gunshot in my life, and I don't know anyone who did, except for people that lived through wars. USA is fucked up, mate.
@@filipzagawa I kinda don't get your point, I'm just stating facts. People don't shoot guns for fun in cities. It is more violent. In the country and suburbs people do shoot off guns for fun. People hunt and stuff. That's just the way it is here. What am I trying to make sound better? I am just adding on to the OPs comment by pointing out that gunshots hear din LA on the 4th of July are probably not related to the holiday and instead probably just normal LA violence.
1:06:48 Buying a gift to help with a friend's hobby is a bad idea but buying a themed gift for a hobbie is nice. I like flying a planes. Some of the cutest gifts to me are airplane themed. Like a lovely Battle of Britain Mug from my Grandma or Cheesy Santa plane decoration.
I'd be happy if people gave me cute notebooks that I'll never use bc I for some reason really adore them but since we're talking themed gifts I'd really like it if someone gave me something author or writing inspired bc I just enjoy reading but considering how Im very picky about books, you shouldn't give them to me unless I specifically asked for it bc 9/10 ill probs never read it aside from the summary and first chapter.
It's funny he mentioned the toxic paint because in the 16th century women used to apply Venetian Ceruse (a type of makeup for skin whitening) which contained lead...naturally, this didn't go over well. Lots of facial paralysis, tremors, and death eventually. I mean shit, the US didn't even ban lead in paint until the 70s or something.
I can totally relate to Joey's egg-throwing story. My parents were strongly religious, so they wouldn't do anything Hallowe'en related, so we got quite a few eggs thrown at our house when I was a kid. Then local councils started encouraging shops to limit sales of eggs around that time of year, so now no-one goes Trick or Treating anymore.
Lol, bastards taking the fun out of everything, I relate to this comment on a spiritual level. My thing that I got canceled , is there was insanely huge ball cages in Walmart.... but because of me gangs .. adventures.. lol we made the cage disappear
From a total foreigner POV, this story sound kinda sad ngl. Even though I’m not religious one bit, being religious shouldn’t warrant you being the targets of a neighbourhood egging lol
@@dinotech3416 Here in Sweden, I remember some places requiring people to show ID cards if they wanted to buy eggs. Reason was cause kids where buying eggs and throwing them at people's houses. Doing so, they temporarily stopped selling eggs to kids cause kids normally don't have ID cards.
FYI: at 31:30 Songkran day (วันสงกรานต์) was originally a day for you to catch up with your family and relatives and you get to get blessing from your oldest member of your family so what you do basically is gather with your relatives, bow or prostate to your oldest relatives and basically wash their hands with scented powder and water and they give you blessing afterward and do whatever you usually do with relatives like going to temple or going to a beach but it's been modernized and became one of the deadliest week in Thailand because accidents rate went up like 20 folds
Also, Connor wondering about why America does MM-DD-YY is pretty ironic because that was how the British did it, and America just inherited that convention of writing dates. The Brits eventually switched to the European way of writing dates (e.g. DD-MM-YY)
9:19 Wow that’s so interesting! I grew up in a Spanish household and Christmas Eve is a big celebration for us! We celebrate New Years with family as well. Also, I don’t think gifting money is an insult. I think most people would prefer it! You’re able to buy what you need, pay bills, save money etc.
I have a friend whose family redecorated their house inside and out, and turned it to into a walk through haunted house. It was kind of fun to scare kids.
Once on my street some people “breaded” someone’s house. Like 3 loafs of sliced bread thrown just all over the house and yard. And it rained that night, so now there’s soggy bread everywhere, and then the crows came
1:34:58 "You guys will soon find out that I'm having an Eva theme wedding." Yeah, we saw it Grant. It was an amazing and lovely wedding. Congrats on our marriage once again btw
I'm grateful for this podcast. I tend to not know when I'm experiencing great moments until it's long past, but I know this podcast is a special moment in time. I know to the boys, this is just hanging out with each other. But it means a whole lot to me. Thanks boys.
What I find funnier is the fact we sell soda in liters, like either 1 liter or 2 liter bottles. Or cans, but I digress. We use and learn metric system sometimes, but most of the time no. Also it costs too much to change everything so we just get to enjoy our state of being I suppose. Thankfully I have a great memory, so I don't forget units of measurement.
@@darkrite9000 I got used to doing conversions and developed a sense of metric measurements playing Space Engineers. As for 2L Cokes, soda is just about the only thing I can think of that's commonly measured in metric and even that is only some products.
Candy Corn is a polarizing taste. its like, just pure condensed sugar XD. I for one think it is amazing! you gotta get the Brachs ones though, made with honey~ and the autumn mix ones with the pumpkins are to die for!
Back when i was little i had love hate thing for candy corn, i like the taste but since i live in a agriculture scene, i know how real corn taste and smell like, but as i grow i realize something Candy corn basically isnt pure corn taste, its just corn syrup taste and add the corn fragrance, so its just corn : the hard way, and man it ruined my childhood big time
Yeah candy corn doesn't taste like corn, it just tastes like sugar and the texture is so weird. I liked them as a kid but now that my sugar tolerance is lower and they taste like nothing I hate them.
Okay, here's my tip for getting others gifts - you hit them with the triple attack. Get them something they can hold in their hands, one food or snacky item, and some cash to go. Doesn't have to be expensive, but works a treat. Plus, if you're a cook, you can cook the food yourself to save money and it seems more personal. My go to combo is chocolate, a book or movie, and $20 - $50 bucks depending on the person.
Its the best (more or less) when both of you share the brain cell. You both want stuff the other knows you want but wouldnt never buy it personally because you think it's not worth it to buy for yourself, BUT you d get it for the other in a heart beat (merch from close to your heart youtubers with hella good merch, games single player (especially if one of you is rather more into piracy and rarely would buy smth just to save money for more urgent matters) or multiplayer s amazing because you can have some banger times together). If one of you has a sweet tooth and you (or your mother lol) are real good at cooking, you sure as heck know the gift that never fails (especially for holidays). Or one of you has the one food that they always eat as comfort food (eg. Korean samyang, ramen). Or sometimes the small gifts sometimes hit harder in terms of excitement (they dont stretch the money mark of any of you). The things you dont buy thinking: ugh i should first finish what i have already, i already have smth similar i wish i had an excuse to get this, i so would want this silly thing even if it seems childish but i could use the money for smth more important..., and so on.
Garnt: "just wanted to show my gratitude for my parents raising me--and hopefully raising me right" Also Garnt: wearing a shirt of anime girl pulling up sweater for underboob
Joey thinking that egging (tricking) houses that won't give you candy (treats) is a strictly Australian thing is very funny, that concept is the whole origin of the phrase 'trick or treat"
he never said it was a strictly australian thing, he even acknowledged that egging was the trick part of trick or treating. i think everyone knows about egging and tp-ing peoples houses.
It's not an Australian thing either. Halloween isn't really celebrated here sometimes university or something might have a Halloween party but that is more an excuse to put on a costume and get drunk than anything else. People just don't knock on doors and expect to get chocolate. Also Joey forgot to mention ANZAC Day which is another super weird Australian public holiday where there is basically unregulated gambling game (two-up) played at pubs everywhere you get really drunk and bet on outcome of a coin flip.
@@miks_w8945 “You have to understand that because trick or treating was just not a thing in Australia, some people just did not like- wouldn’t have like- at all like ‘I don’t want these f*cking kids coming up to my doorstep asking for candy’ right? So, some people were really f*cking rude about it, right? Like they’d just open the door, the moment they would see some kids dressing up, they just f*cking slam the door, right? And that was the time that… the eggs came loose.” - Joey
My grandma lives in the UK and comes to Mexico every Christmas to celebrate it with my brothers and I, and let me tell you, I've never seen someone hoard gifts for 8 months quite like her. She leaves the open brief case in another room for 8 months just slowly pilling the gifts for Christmas next year its insane
tbf if you follow the podcast for awhile you'll notice these guy had and have a fairly privileged life so its a different situation for them. not that i call it a bad thing that they see it that way but its still a different perspective
i guess its a cultural difference or different perspective because for me when i was a kid i would be happy being given money. but now i just feel like being given money shows that they dont care to know what you want so they just give you money.
@@hamtier oh yeah for sure. These guys love talking about traveling, including when they were young. Traveling is nothing more than a pipe dream for me lol
they put arsenic on their skin too. to look pale. oh and what about the glow at night items in the us around 1920 that required the workers to lick their brushes. radium brushes
@@kisnpisn4919 You are referring to the "Radium Girls". They were told it was safe and encourage to lick the brush tip to paint on the watch faces. They would coat there teeth and fingernails..... until their teeth and jaw bones turned to swiss cheese and would fall off. Then the corporations said they had syphilis so they didn't have to payout for it until most of them had died.
12:33 Good news: That green had very little lead in it. Bad news: Instead it was blasted with arsenic. Which was actually pretty safe. As long as the paint stayed on the wall. As soon as some of the paint chipped or the wall got wet, then it broke into fine dust that anyone inhaled pretty much 24/7... Which is, as you might know, not quite as healthy as not breathing arsenic dust.
12:38 Connor mixed up lead with arsenic. Green dyes in the 1800s came from using arsenic and the dyes could be found in anything from dresses to paint and wall paper. Lead paint did exist but it wasn't used for green, iirc it was usually used in white and even worse lead paints could be found in a lot of children's toys, including some meant for infants.
ngl that gifting segment is definitely a discussion everyone should have as they reach adulthood. like everyone always says “it’s the thought that counts” but it really doesn’t take away the pressure over wanting to get someone a gift that shows how much you care about that person (enough to pay attention to what they want as well, idk?)
American here: just to say, Saint Patrick is the patron saint of engineers - so my university, which is an engineering school, is big on Saint Pat's. They have a statue of him and the Greek houses carry around logs & shalele's to beat the ground of rubber snakes. It's nuts.
My dad told me that New Year’s Eve as a medical student in the Philippines was horrific to behold people would come in with missing fingers or hands from fireworks accidents (we still make a point to buy fireworks for New Year’s Eve)
"Any country which celebrates the downfall of its own government other than French people is British people" I'm French and I just realized that we do that, and that is a very French thing to do XD
Joey, you underestimate Aki, all those crime documentaries she probably learned how to hide a full scale figurine by now, she would have figured it out :P
As a Greek, my favorite holiday is "Clean Monday", it's the day people start fasting until Easter. I absolutely love the food we eat that specific holiday and also the custom of flying kites.Most importantly I loved the feeling back when I was kid and I got an extention to my weekend since the holiday is supposed to land on Monday every year.
The green paint Connor is talking about used arsenic and was called scheeles green. They also made it another type of “safe paint” once they realized it was deadly… called Paris or emerald green which only made it worse because it was basically a gaseous form when wet
My gifts for the past 2 years have been pretty great since starting to build personal gifts for people, last year for my stepson I made a wooden chest, stained the wood, put in a velvet lining and filled it with a great book series. I've also acquired a resin 3d printer and I make and paint custom statues for people, those ones end up being not very expensive, but there's definitely a time expense involved and it's pretty great when people see things that have been made personally for them instead of generic thing that anyone can pickup from any shop.
The thanksgiving episode has arrived! Let us give thanks to not only the boys for the others who made the podcast possible and here’s to many more episodes and specials to come!
Okay. So you boys gotta understand, Joey’s not wrong about the egg thing. Egging houses and Toilet papering houses is a pretty standard American Halloween prank.
@@tianayogenth1003 not really maybe only in cities and that because there are thousands and thousands of cars to chose from it says that there are 250 for every 100,000 which isnt a huge number around .25%
Yeah. Where I grew up, it was called Mischief Night and it was the night before Halloween. In fact, most of the adults expected the kids to do it. Some teachers would even give out extra work to try and stop kids from doing anything.
Giving gifts is like a love language for me. I adore giving to people and tend to go overboard sometimes. I create a lot of them from scratch too. I never expect anything in return. My gift is the look on peoples faces when they open my gifts. It’s awesome. I sometimes forget that folks have a hard time with gift giving.
I learned this recently, the US doesn't actually have holidays. Not oficially, no paid holiday exists that is federally mandated, it is all at the discretion of the businesses. You can find in the wiki article "List of minimum annual leave by country" that it is the only country in the world with 0 paid vacation days and 0 public holidays, so a sum total of 0 paid leave. "According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 77% of private employers offer paid vacation to their employees" which I asssume implies that 23% don't. "Some employers offer no vacation at all"
Most fast food joints are open for pretty much every holiday. My dad has been thrown off more than once when our local McDonald's closed on a holiday, that's how rare it is.
When you buy a Pokémon related gift to someone, it's because you know that person likes Pokémon. If you wanna buy a gift for a little girl, and you come across to a Hello Kitty pen, you buy it for her, not because she knows Hello Kitty as a franchise, but because it's cute, and she's gonna like it because of it. I think that's why Hello Kitty is the second most successful franchise.
Yup, well, girly little girls. Don't assume the girl would like it just because she's a little girl. She might have a preference already even at a young age. But yeah, just knowing they are girly, even if you're not sure if they even know HK, it's easy to buy it for them.
true true, you dont have to know or like Hello Kitty to buy the merch, it has generic appeal, you get it because oh its got a cute little cat on it! where as pokemon, sure some are cute or whatever, like you could put skitty on a shirt. but its still too stylized, or foreign or off looking to attract just a random buyer who doesnt already know what it is.
Joey: “Girls like HelloKitty.” Garnt: “HelloKitty is massive.” Joey: “HelloKitty is huge. Because Girls like cute things” Connor: “Thats like me saying ‘Girls like to menstruate. Of course they do. Why would they do it so often?’ You know like, haha” I thought Connor only made an satire-esque comment about Joeys statement
I kind of understand what he was trying to say, he was satirizing gender stereotypes, but the way he said it was... Whew lad your train of thought left the station and I don't even have my ticket yet.
Just wanted to share a bit of information. The US got the M-D-Y format from the UK who used it before the 20th century, and then later changed it to D-M-Y. Also similar the US took the Imperial system from the UK as well. “The More You Know”
Buying a gift. Garnt: It's the thought that counts right? Connor: I know that's all nonsense, you can't buy thoughts, can't do anything with it. Then explains that he doesn't care that they bought him a gift, but that they cared enough to get him a gift. ..... Which means.....it's the thought that counts haha.
For gifts, I keep notes of the things people say they want but won’t buy. It’ll range from snacks to more niche items. Then depending on how I feel towards them in November, I choose how much I’m willing to spend. If it’s a really good gift, I tell mutual people so it’s not a repeat gift. If it’s a bad gift, I will buy glittery wrapping paper that’ll make a mess everywhere, but it looks pretty so it makes the gift more special. My go-to gift are colognes/perfumes, as it’s something that’ll be used & it also just makes a good impression. Usually during holiday times, a lot of colognes come with an extra gifts like robes/slippers, and perfumes come with collectible purses/etc. If it’s a parent, I’ll bring flowers (for mother’s) or a good alcohol (for dad’s). When it comes to people with hobbies, a box of cheap yet themed-things works (and you can also make something up on Amazon and get a box lol). If it’s an animanga fan, a character art commission of what you think of them (in the style of the series they like) has never failed me. When it comes to gifts that you really have no clue where to start, you have to aim for personable/unique enough so they remember it’s from you, but cool enough for it to be shown off (hence why a good alcohol is great when you know it’s gonna be a full house lol)
Here's my tip for gift giving. All year, whenever you find something you think a friend or family member would like, make a note of it. This could be a note on your phone, a text document on your computer, or a private wishlist on Amazon. When the next gift giving event is coming up look over the list for ideas. If you make this an ongoing habit, gift giving is a breeze. I usually get my Christmas shopping done around the end of October because of this strategy.
If you happen to want a Brit's perspective having lived in America for over 10 years, I recommend watching the RU-vidr Lawrence Brown on his Lost in the Pond channel. America is BIG. Each state is in effect its own little nation with its own set of cultures. Wisconsin is nothing like Minnesota, which is nothing like Iowa, or Chicago, or Illinois. (There's a joke there.) And, that's just in the Midwest.
@@lucasbaker4556 i dont like it. its nasty. its basically just sugar that tastes really bad. idk anyone that likes it, and it even made it, if i remember correctly, to the semi finals of worst candy on good mythical morning lol
I don't know about the rest of the crew but as I get older presents for friends and family have shifted to be experiences rather than specific gifts. Use that money to take someone out to a nice restaurant, a night out on the town or some awesome adventure. When you reach a certain age you have most of the things you need or want, so it's a good mid ground to the whole gift giving quandary. I'll prob be ripped to shreads by the comments but i hope the boys see this (also giving money is the best gift it allows the recipient to make the gift decision for you)
"I just want to buy you a gift that you would never buy for yourself." - CannurVirginia Seriously though, I think this is the best way of thinking about a gift. Find something that you know your friend wants, but is too frugal to spend on themselves. It's similar to saying; "look man, I appreciate you as a person, and you enjoying this enhances -my- life by giving it to you".
The U.S. university education units are almost exclusively metric, I've seen some that have an end result in Imperial but all the equations are metric. So you have to convert and solve. Also there was the Japanese space telescope which failed because of a bad conversion, but this one was all metric units they just confused the unit for velocity I think.
I don't drink and I would still take wine because I could use it as a gift for another person or I could take it out when I have friends over who do drink
The best gift for people with disposable income is to buy them something they want, but can't buy. Example: a spa day for a guy. A guy will never buy this for himself, but he sure as heck will enjoy it. Alternatively u need to buy something they didn't know existed.
Myanmar also have their version of Songkran, "Thingyan". Which is also very similar where people spray each other with water. The washing of water on that day symbolizes "washing away for the new year."
India also has Songkran, it's called Sankrant (pronounced similarly to Songkran). Sankrant for each part of India takes place at different times as Sankrant marks the start of new agricultural year but Songkran sounds like mix of Sankrant and Holi (where we throw water and colors on each other) which takes place a month before Songkran.
I'm a gift giver and I can say that the best gifts are either personally handmade (if you're an artist, crafter, sewer, knitter, etc., or buy something on Etsy to have it personally made) OR something very thoughtful. In order to reach epic thoughtful gift giving status, you have to do your research... meaning you have to actually know and pay attention to your friends LOL If you're someone who doesn't pay attention to detail or conversations, or you're not a good listener or observer, then you're not going to be an epic gift giver. Just make mental notes on what makes them happy and be willing to spend either a decent amount of money or time. Also, bonus points if you give a gift for their pet.
I’m honestly very impressed of how the trash bois already have 76, 2+ hour podcasts and yet still have stuff to talk about. I think I would have probably run out of ideas after 15 or so lol 😂
America's greatest contribution to the imperial system is the introduction of football fields measurement. "You can see to the right here this pile of wasted food from restaurants across the country, a year's worth of it can fit around 3000 football fields!"
1:43:00 I agree with Garnt. After Gen 5 arrived Pokemon went through a somewhat harsh season and soon after the release of Black and White 2 I believe is when Yokai Watch came out and Japan went crazy with it. During Gen 7 I feel like the Pokemon games appealed more to the Yokai Watch kids with stuff like the Z moves and the Island challenge.
bruh yokai watch was fcking crazy. i didn't realize how big that shit was when i was watching it. i don't know how it is doing rn, but all i gotta say is sheeeeeeeeeeesh.
1:29:08 The Travis Scott Meal was a Big Mac Meal with Bacon. One of my students proposed this theory that during the pandemic, there was an abundance of Bacon for McDonalds, thus this collaboration was used to get rid of extra bacon. I do not believe in conspiracy theories, but I will be damned if this is not the most believable theory.
Filling in the information Garnt missed about Thai New Year. Myanmar, the country which neighbors Thailand, similarly celebrate their new year with a national water fight which is called Thingyan. The reason for the water is for blessing a person for the new year and cleansing them. There is also a set of rules about who not to soak, like monks and pregnant women, since people do get intense with their water pressure (I shit you not, fire hoses CAN and WILL be used in places). Where I live even though it is basically the opposite of the year it is still celebrated because of the blessing reasons but also just because its fun.
Something to add to the Hello Kitty vs. Pokemon: Hello Kitty being 2nd as the most successful/popular franchise is not a surprise at all, because Hello Kitty has been around longer. It's been around since the 1970's. Just think about that. Hello Kitty was born before the internet age and the success of Pokemon and it being widespread, I think was helped by the internet as well. I think if you ask the older generation who they know between Pikachu and Hello Kitty, most of them would know who Hello Kitty is and would only say "it's from Pokemon" when they see Pikachu. That's just my assumption tho and I only had 1 person from the older generation whom I could ask. So, I could be totally wrong. lol.
Most Recognizable Anime Character is either Goku or Pikachu lets be real those two r the most known Animes if u go & ask someone to name 5 animes DBZ & Pokemon will be named i say 8/10 times people who don't even watch anime know those two animes
Closed hospitals sounds crazy 😱😱😱 Isn't it statistically proven that much more people get hurt during big celebrations like that? Especially New Year and Christmas. I had an appendicitis on 31st few years back. Was afraid to call an ambulance - thought that medical staff would be drunk from celebrating. Turns out I was a huge idiot and should have called much sooner - ambulance came in 15 minutes and all the staff were sober and professional. God bless all of them for taking care of me and taking me to the hospital🙏
In germqany hospitals are basically in high alert on 31st of december because we celebrate new years with fireworks. It's the day of the year the most people get hurt.
@@jsplit9716 Philippines celebrate New Year with a lot of bang too.. a handful of kid fingers dont make it past December 31 fun fact: we have 2 New Years - the regular one and the Chinese lunar one
In India, what we do a lot is that we gift shirts or other cloth items to people. Because you basically can't go wrong with that (unless you buy the wrong size, which we suprisingly do a lot). A shirt is something that a person needs on a daily basis. Plus the chances of us buying a shirt which is same as a shirt that the person already owns is very low. So I think clothes are the most optimised form of gift giving. Not too cheap, not too costly. The recieving person will probably wear it frequently, so he will definetly remeber the gift.
meilyne probably checks the emails they receive so she sees what targeted ad emails they get+with some knowledge of them she can easily predict what they want as for doing that to others,just heist/inception the gift you plan on giving them,so they will have it in mind when you give it to them
In Finland kids go "trick or treating" on Easter dressed as witches. They decorate branches with feathers and other stuff and say a litle spell at the door to give the person good spring, and then get candy or money from it. That's why trick or treating would never really happen in here because parents would say you do same kind of thing on easter.
Actually it has landed here too, some kids go trick or treating nowadays in Finland too. Most ''older'' (30+) parents don't like it tho, it's mostly the younger parents supporting their kids wanting to do halloween stuff. I live in a small town in Finland, and I went trick or treating when I was about 12 or something, so it's not really a new thing either. But non-rude kids just do it like the easter thing and leave out the trick part and just leave, if people don't have candy.
In Western Germany, our version of Trick or Treating happens on St.Martin's Day (around mid November), where children craft lanterns and go from door to door, singing songs about the importance of sharing for which they get rewarded with pieces of candy. But of course, we've also been having quite a few children coming 2 weeks earlier on Halloween for some American-style Trick or Treating (with the German phrase being "Süßes oder Saures!") as well.
In my experience, nostalgia gifts do really well, so I try to get those when I can. It does require some memorisation/writing down stuff though. Like, if you hear someone talk about something they had/liked in their childhood, check if you can find it and remember or write it down as a potential gift. They’re special and can hold a lot of meaning for said person and I’ve rarely seen people unhappy with a nostalgia gift. That or be really familiar with adjacent-likes. Stuff that seems like the receiver would have an interest in (or has mentioned having an interest in) but just need a push to actually experience it. Those are usually my go-to strategies.
In my personal experience with Christmas gifts, I usually receive a list where I can write down the items I want the most within a specific budget. Sometimes I'll get duplicates of the same gift from different people, but I try to give it to someone who expressed interest in it, to spread the Christmas spirit! 🎄
