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Burnt Toast · Edison Shen and Nathan Xie

Revival!

July 6, 2020·34 min·3 clips
Timothy and the host argue over who caused the two-week podcast break, sparking a chaotic revival.
The episode opens with both hosts blaming each other for a two-week recording gap, with one attempting to scroll through chat logs as evidence while a virtual desktop goose disrupts his cursor. The hosts introduce their virtual pets, with one having named his desktop goose Bean and given it a hat. One host mentions he may have COVID-19 because he has been seeing people outside his household during a period when pandemic restrictions were relaxing. They look up real-time case data and find San Diego has exactly 6,969 cases, which prompts laughter before a more serious note that the U.S. has not yet reached its peak while countries like Italy, Germany, and the UK have already passed theirs. The hosts discuss the daily global case count of around 200,000 and a 3.4% estimated mortality rate. One host is reluctant to discuss why the U.S. trajectory differs from other countries, calling the topic controversial. They pivot to Minecraft, discussing game modes including Bedwars, Skyblock, Skywars, and a Zombies mode they describe as extremely difficult. A debate breaks out over whether spending hours on Skyblock qualifies as casual or try-hard gameplay. They give a shout-out to a mutual friend named Daniel Hong who has a music album and nearly 3,000 monthly listeners, while also roasting him for being a poor Minecraft player. One host plays the rhythm game osu! during the recording and fails a map after making a joke. The hosts discuss anime and manga, with one recommending Nisekoi and Violet Evergarden. One host reveals he read all 219 chapters of Nisekoi in under 24 hours but has never read Harry Potter, prompting his co-host to call him uncultured. They attempt to recall the name of the main character from the anime Doraemon, eventually finding it is Nobita, and discover other characters have English dub names like Big G and Sneech. One host shares a story about needing five doctors to hold him down during a blood draw in fifth grade, only to realize he never noticed when the blood was actually taken. The episode ends with one host announcing a recurring segment where he will suggest one anime per episode, and the other suggesting a music track. The outro reveals the episode was recorded on a Saturday and one host jokes that the other will release it on a Tuesday.

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A comeback episode that turns a two-week gap into a comic argument.

Burnt Toast returns after about a two-week gap and makes the comeback itself part of the joke, with Timothy taking the blame while both hosts keep circling over who asked first, which day it was, and whose messages actually line up.

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You want a comeback episode that opens with a fight over what day it is.

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