There's a First Time For Everything | Trash Taste #333

On the Trash Taste podcast (#333), hosts Joey, Connor, and Garnt riffed on a series of life-experience prompts, swapping stories about near-death moments, rebellious phases, and the awkward process of becoming an adult. The conversation is less a structured debate and more a free-associative trip through their shared and individual pasts, held together by the theme of “first times.”

Near-Death, Fights, and Autopilot Brains

The episode opens with a cascade of near-death experiences. Garnt recalls being launched from a bouncy castle as a child when a cousin pulled down the inflated arch and then let go, sending him flying like a slingshot. He landed on the ground and blacked out. Connor describes a different kind of scare: a pontoon flipped over on a lake, and a chain wrapped around his leg under the murky water. “I remember being like, ‘fuck, this is it, I guess,’” he says, before managing to escape. Joey’s contribution is a street-level threat: as a teenager in Brighton, a drunk friend started a verbal fight with a neighbor, who emerged from his house with a machete. The group ran.