Triforce! #56 - Lewis' Japanese Adventure!

[@Alybobson]

"Mummy! mummy! Can I listen to the Triforce Podcast?" "FUCK OFF!!!!"

[@BONESTORM2501]

Alasdair Bobson takes me back

[@bcdmasamune]

I'm an English teacher in Japan. My favorite "Engrish" T-Shirt said: Round Eyed Lad Precise Dwarf Bravery

[@user-me7hx8zf9y]

bcdmasamune what would you recommend for learning japanese

[@ReunionMana]

@@user-me7hx8zf9y go to japan

[@poojerwoojer4185]

Hahaha. When sips asked Alexa to sing my Alexa heard and decided to join in like a round! I was dying!

[@zebliks]

i speak trapanese *oh no*

[@Draksie]

zebliks is someone gonna tell lewis.....

[@ElectricBears]

Wow, are you serious? The food was the best part about Japan! I was there for a month and traveled all around and did not have one bad meal the entire time, their attention to detail and passion for perfection in flavour is second to none. I even had a friend with me who was not the adventurous food type and even he was raving about the food. But it does sound like you fell into a lot of the stereotypical tourist traps

[@hoathanatos6179]

A lot of East Asian food has slimy and gelatinous textures that tend to turn Westerners off. You have lots of fermented fish and beans, raw fish and meat, fried and boiled insects, live fish that you chew and kill in your mouth, and then there's stuff like fish milt, which I won't even touch. Some more traditional foods are just too weird for many Westerners' pallets.

[@pogpengwyn]

hes a vegetarian, so probably very limited in food choices

[@bapo224]

Even for vegetarians there's lots of great dishes such as a bunch of different ramen dishes.

[@jamiefroud633]

The food here is flavourless and terrible, unless you're eating posh restaurant food every day.

[@Dillarrin]

Ho Athanatos You're just naming all of the weird stuff that isn't even that common. There is sushi, takoyaki, curry, and ramen shops everywhere with amazing food just to name a few choices.

[@TzarOTG]

I love how Sips's icon's mouth moved as Alexa sang happy birthday. Gave me the mental image of Sips singing in a woman's voice.

[@gunz2233]

What really happend at the café: "Ah Lewis-sama, would you like gym-trainer-san to be your server today?" "Haiiii! Lewis want Mr. Trainer-san kudesai. Can I rent him to go to a love hotel after-desuka?"

[@tukaluna5576]

An anime about Lewis when huh?

[@randomname7918]

Tuka Luna I mean, even jayden fucking smith got one. It's bout time lewis the magnificent gym weirdo fullfilled his dream and became a kawaii anime character too

[@kingkuma4112]

I'd watch that.

[@slotzoffuntrue]

I'd watch the hentai

[@tess2127]

think of the doujins

[@Novaximus]

Thank you. I very much enjoyed listening to this video. My favorite part was when Lewis was talking about the bonus bowl of cold noodles and not knowing what to do with it..."It's like just giving me sliced bread....Am I supposed to rub my fingers on it? What do I do with it?!!!!" lmao

[@JackFroster]

There better be a spactacular yogpod this year or ill...be sad but eventually get over it...

[@8Lorelei8]

I wonder if Lewis has a girlfriend he doesn't want to talk about, he seems very reluctant to say who he was with =o

[@redzepher2]

the trainer from the gym

[@neonnetworkedm]

redzepher2 I fucking knew it

[@MestHoop]

To be fair, maybe his friend asked him not to mention him directly. Some people would rather stay anonymous.

[@sandrojones8068]

+redzepher2 huuuuh!!! :0

[@lelcetz7628]

LOL lewis having a relationship with anyone LOL

[@herbivorethecarnivore8447]

'1 minute ago' well alright

[@Sinders]

Lewis: You know at Universal Studios there are rides like Indiana Jones Me: *Facepalm*

[@rywilk]

I'm surprised Lewis didn't like the food in Japan. I thought it was amazing when I went.

[@XxHizzyxX]

He's used to eating bland English food.

[@James-tl4jw]

Hiz Oku English food ain’t bland

[@maximepauquin9306]

its as bland as an rcas luke warm spit up ur ass boiii

[@robertcox9871]

Well being vegetarian probably limited his food choices

[@bapo224]

Darthjames 10 Not all food in England is bland, but imo all food that's called typically English is bland and not tasty at all.

[@DazedGhost]

NANI?!

[@Communist_Gangsta]

Confuzed?? Omaiwa mou shindriu

[@CaptainCrunch7100]

I love how Lewis just sat there silently during the all the X-COM talk

[@Yummygem_]

Haggis is delicious you madmen. Haggis and black pudding on a roll is to die for.

[@LordTrilobite]

Haggis is indeed delicious.

[@RufusOmega]

Yup, haggis is great. Sadly I have an intolerance to oats so I can't have it.

[@henryjohnson-ville3834]

Haggis is disgusting, I never tried it anything involves with organs from animals. 🤮

[@DazedGhost]

this ones gonna be juicy

[@multieyedmyr]

Welcome back Lewis! TTT has suffered without you.

[@douwis125]

I love how quiet Pyrion is, Lewis and Sips are like Japan pros.

[@OfficialCaduceus]

47:04 Sips does a very good Alexa impression.

[@acrow5488]

This is perfect timing, episode released just as I was getting on the bus

[@papabless2441]

Funny how playing arcade games on ur work break is classed as weird but Lewis goes on tea party 😂😂

[@lackadaisy8683]

Yesssah I was waiting for this one. LewLew ramble ahead!

[@RubelliteFae]

Captain Power was also a series of toys that worked a bit like a light gun that you played on a VCR. My uncle had a few of them that I inherited (including the powerup stand Sips described). The 80s were wild.

[@Orochimaul]

My 4 year old son loves the talking triangles, he keeps asking why the red one is mad.

[@coffeeafters3x]

i wore a sock on my left foot and kept my right foot bare so i can experience the best of both worlds when listening to this

[@TheEighthDay0]

I always loved Epcot as a kid... Idk what sips was talking about. They have a few cool rides and then all of the countries. Many of the rides there are extremely well done and a bit more thrilling. Test Track and Mission Space are really good.

[@briandoolittle3422]

A shirt with "I speak trapanese"... Is that basically an advertisement to traps that your down for it?

[@TheDubiousSalmon]

everyone who isn't gay

[@Chick3nluvver]

tfw no qt3.14 japanese trap gf :'(

[@MasseysGamingInc]

I love how Lewis is alluding really indirectly to this person he was with... a little suspicious if you ask me

[@BigBigBigJeff]

I was in Japan for 2 weeks a week or so before Lewis and hearing his opinions are hilarious

[@-bruh8484]

Wtf how is Lewis 34 almost he looks like he is 25 no joke

[@James-tl4jw]

SURFERDUDE5000 don’t u remember he’s a lebonease child daddy flax adopted

[@theacer3aper]

Darthjames 10 Who surprisingly is into choking people

[@JohnSmithJane]

My theory is that around 2013-2014 Lewis got bitten by a vampire. If you look at him from 2012 compared to now he went Geek to young Stud

[@lakibro_3723]

that is what playing games for a living will do to you

[@cozy-boi8616]

Don't you mean pushing.

[@KLLWCH]

Thank the yogs, I'm not gonna be sad this Halloween night.

[@Furtner5]

We need to have an animation of the "Porcelain Orca Incident"! This shit is hilarious! (Pun intended)

[@SheerAwsome]

Remember when they said the regular yogpod would return?

[@vickywitton1008]

Jsut noticed the triangles boing about gently whilst waiting to talk

[@chromeeagle7172]

Happy Birthday Lewis

[@tsully2874]

Really enjoyed this one

[@neontv15]

22:30 "It's alright, bit weird", sounds like a Karl Pilkington quote

[@Casanters]

Even after having lived there for like 3 years, I pretty much feel the same as Lewlew. "It's alright, but a bit weird." No real desire to go back, and don't really miss it.

[@thesecondkate]

As salty as lewlew's review of his holiday in Japan was, it really made me miss my holiday there 😢

[@DJ_NSG]

33:30 I can almost see a frantic, perspiring Lewis desperately shovelling rancid fermented fish and pickled rice down his fucking gullet before the nice japanese people come back into the room

[@blitzhd8377]

fuck yeah triforce!

[@QuantumShock1]

Went to the exact same place as Lewis last year, pretty great. Found the building a little bit too thin for my liking.

[@douwis125]

Also, my brother was nicknamed the human dustbin too. Wow.

[@ChrisDN]

34:12 - An un-microwaved Ginsters pasty.

[@swansonalex]

Pyrion sounded so disappointed learning about Universal and Epcot. I wonder what he envisioned? A Pyrion planned theme park would be a hell of ride I think.

[@AJxB]

YAY! TRIFORCE IS BACK!

[@ToastyRoland]

Very funny episode... cheers lads.

[@pjluigi1426]

Lewis's eyes in the animation bug me but I love you guys so keep up the good work

[@TeaBowHT]

Hooray!

[@kaltemrix]

Can we please have more of the food segments. I want to hear more about how good halloumi is on different foods

[@momomo393]

Happy late birthday lewis! Cool to find out we are fellow libras

[@TheNumbaoneblood]

6:40 in the morning isn't bad at all. Most my flights are at one am XD

[@comrad1410]

Japanese culture REALLY shines in Kyoto and Osaka, thought I had seen heaven on my first week in Japan Tokyo but Osaka and Kyoto was just WOW

[@ryanlewis6823]

I was starting to have withdrawal symptoms from not having triforce podcast.

[@HerohammerStudios]

0:59 I like to think there wasn't a doubt in Lewis' mind that Pflax was being sincere

[@joebroughton4472]

Yay more triforce!!

[@michaellake1615]

just finished watching all 56 episodes in under a month. god dammit

[@MegaRXB]

Yeeees! I've been waiting for this!

[@whynot6262]

As an American I usually don't complain in restaurants for most things (you could bring me the wrong meal and if it looked good I wouldn't say anything). However, most Americans will complain about super small things. I work at a pizza place and if you cut it slightly wrong or add too much/little of anything they will probably ask for it to be redone. Wtf Americans

[@gangsterbread3696]

I'm the same way. I'm not that picky in terms of small problems at restaurants.

[@Gindisi]

literally nobody does that

[@rdizzy1]

You obviously haven't been to many restaurants if you think no one does that. I've seen people screaming at cashiers at grocery stores because their tuna can is dented, or the dollar bill they got back isn't crisp. Also have seen people yelling at McDonalds workers for cheese burgers not being hot enough, or not enough extra bbq sauce, etc. Same with normal restaurants.

[@BalthorYT]

Wow nurbs, way to completely change the issue. If you pay for something and an important or sizable part of it is in some way wrong, yeah, of course it's normal to ask that the service you payed for is provided as it should. But if you're being a shithead and getting angry at someone because a minute detail or completely unimportant thing is "wrong", then yeah it's absolutely rude and awful in every conceivable way. Europe just doesn't have so many people with their heads so far up their ass that they complain about super small things and make a ruckus, but of course they will complain if they ask for steak and they get a salad. Don't pretend that being able to ask for your product to be as it was sold to you is a "positive American trait", it's just common sense and, surprise surprise, it exists all over the world, Europe included. Whining about details, making huge issues out of stupid things, and being absolute garbage human beings towards cashiers and service providers in general though, is absolutely a negative American trait, and one that's been earned through countless and unparalleled cases for quite some time. Maybe if those consumer protection laws were a thing in 'good ol' Murica' these kinds of things would happen less often...

[@gangsterbread3696]

The other thing too is is getting mad at your server or cashier for making a complicated item wrong or a item they barely have on the menu. I've never understood people that are like "i'll have scrambled eggs and bacon at this steak house" and their defense is "well, they have those ingredients here" just go to a breakfast place ffs.

[@purrminator123]

well now im fuckin convinced lewis is dating. i wonder how big his boyfriends beard is

[@transorm987]

In Japan, you're not meant to finish meals beacause they assume you're still hungry. Leaving it is polite

[@tomhubbard8510]

That is bollocks. Sorry. If you're dining in someone's house, watch what they do. If in doubt, finish your f food.

[@transorm987]

@@tomhubbard8510 I mean, it's a cultural thing.

[@olliemorris5358]

If I got a pound every time Lewis swears, I would have a yacht

[@eruno_]

Akihabara is great, it's sad that Lewis didn't appreciate one of the major parts of Japanese contemporary culture

[@user-me7hx8zf9y]

コイノ/ Koino at least someone appreciates the culture.

[@UnicornBandit]

Epcot was my favourite park!

[@emerald_headz4900]

I've seen Japanese tourists... In Iceland (the country, not the frozen food store)

[@ChrisWachtler]

Seriously, all food I had in Japanese, besides one meal, was fantastic.

[@ExpertPlasma]

I've been on that simulator Simpson ride, it's really good.

[@adamlee2550]

Back when triforce wasn't about how Lewis is going crazy in lockdown.

[@douwis125]

Did Lewis go to Japan with his personal trainer?

[@TheSpacecraftX]

Sips' mouth moving with Alexa, ha!

[@oDouBLETAPo]

Epcot is amazing. All the food and alcohol of different cultures.

[@hoathanatos6179]

They gave you a cold noodle soup at the end due to an old Chinese belief that ending your meal with a cold dish will help settle your stomach and aid digestion. While hot and spicy foods, if not balanced out by cold dishes, will cause constipation, diarrhea, gastric pains, etc...

[@ButzPunk]

16:45 can confirm. I'm visiting Germany right now and most people speak very little English. It's been a rude shock, coming from Scandinavia, where everyone is fluent. Edit: the image of Lewis wearing a "stay lit" shirt is absolutely hilarious.

[@rickwelsch8722]

Bristol? Ain't that one of them there pricky bits on me toothbrush?

[@SoberGin]

rip my stomach during the entire food section.

[@GegoXaren]

I like that Akihabara used to be the Electronics district... Now it is... it is what it is...

[@CrowdedMagnum]

enjoyed the vapour chat top notch wouldnt mind knowing what they use

[@greatcarlwash]

The 44. Magnum honestly I went out and bought a vape after this. I usually smoke but I decided fuck it

[@Quantum_Magnus]

The water spouting in the toilet is called a “Buday”(I think that’s how it’s spelled)

[@shadowlich7305]

its back!

[@fintandavies7199]

so, lewis bought a shirt saying "i speak trapanese"... OH NO!

[@thelittlegiant273]

Oh thank god I thought I was going to have get my van out

[@Otmjv]

In my experience in Montreal, English tourists are the worst, always getting hammered and yelling in the streets at ungodly hours, but I guess that's just a certain type of english tourist (usually 20 something lads)

[@caseyjoyce8950]

its pretty common when your at 20ish to go to spain and the canaries in britain, we usually end up pissing off the locals along with also getting a bad reputation for tourists

[@TheWombatWarlock]

At least in here in Finland the British are very good tourists. Easy to work with and polite. I think if you take 20yo lads from any country and give them alcohol in s forgein country they are going to be loud.

[@Quantum_Magnus]

It’s like me going to Canada when I was 10 and saying things like, “THERE’S A MCDONALD’S HERE?! NO WAY!!!”

[@animationguy1000]

"Did you see any t-shirts with jumbled English words?" "Yeah, it said 'stay lit'" My poor, sweet, naïve Lewis...

[@sp00l]

Just fucken make a podcast for 8 hours straight, will listen to the whole thing!

[@danielm6739]

"They started it!" - Pyrion on WWII

[@TheEighthDay0]

Hurray!

[@Alba-1]

Yessssssssss I love you guys

[@Josh1994xd]

Who did Lewis go to Japan with?:o

[@thegamingbox4519]

Josh Kneale his boyfriend

[@oldaccount1378]

The Gaming Box that's zylus, for those who are #outtatheloop

[@Asianese]

pupulishus but wait... zylus was in all the TTT videos...

[@Plysser1]

Josh Kneale ISP :D

[@cedge4536]

living in Birmingham, your description is accurate

[@edwinlee2343]

Trifotce time! Yes yes yes!

[@DavJos82]

Did lewlew go with a lady-friend, a boyfriend or a male friend? I'm so curious.

[@aaronraki]

Lewis should've played Japan bingo with all the things Sips said would happen

[@CosmonautDave]

Who did Lewis go to Japan with? His personal trainer?

[@Miduuza]

I couldn't eat for two weeks, I missed you

[@BrendanGeormer]

45:34 I thought they chose Hiroshima and Nagasaki due to weather issues, not the Defense Secretary having liked the place.

[@kingkuma4112]

No, the kyoto thing is true.

[@user-me7hx8zf9y]

Brendan Geormer Tokyo would have been on the list but it was already leveled after years of bombing

[@qwertyismymom]

at the end of the podcast I typed the letter S in search and "swedish chef spicy sauce" auto-completed for me lmao

[@Reddrum101]

im going to japan next year so i hope this is helpful