my favorite episode of frenemies
Kami’s carnival topic for the month „Bear Blog Carnival: Your favorite ____ in your niche hobby“ made me a bit existential. What are even my hobbies and are any of them niche? It didn’t cross my mind that being way too invested in someone’s pet project might be a niche hobby until I received the suggestion to write about my favorite Trisha Paytas crash-out. While not a bad idea, Trisha Paytas has had far too many great crash-outs for me to choose from that I was paralyzed by the variety. I just couldn’t choose. So what I went with instead was my all time favorite Frenemies episode in which Trisha was consistently the stupidest person to walk this earth: Episode 4.
For those that touched more grass than me in 2020-2021, Frenemies was a sister podcast of h3h3Productions by Ethan Klein and Trisha Paytas where the whole project was destined to fail from the start because they both hated each other, hence the name. In fact, a lot of episodes were supposed to be the last 1 and it always coincided with them ordering pizza on set which makes me believe that it was all orchestrated. Moreover, the show didn’t have a clear topic or objective. They just sat down this person notorious for saying and doing anything for clicks and clout with a literal nobody (at least at the time). She had just begun dating his brother-in-law, Moses who is Jewish and likely her first contact point with Judaism, Jewish history and Israel, which was cause for a lot of conflict on the show. That coupled with her being generally mentally unstable and ready to do anything for clout caused plenty of conflict on the show which was sometimes legitimate, other times likely orchestrated for maximum engagement as the show quickly picked up steam. When Frenemies eventually broke up, it was over resource allocation and power-sharing in the decision making process that leads to the making of the show. So pretty boring compared to the explosions that ensued throughout its short-lived existence.
Anyway, Trisha Paytas’ presence carried the show and made it entertaining because she was always involved in one feud or another, oftentimes with Gabbie Hanna or some equally unstable and outrageous influencer. It’s still unclear to me what the people who tuned into the H3 Podcast did that for. Ethan Klein had nothing to say about anything by himself until he pivoted to his version of Liberal Zionism post-October 7, and then began feuding with people on his own.
For every episode they had a dress-up theme or some other event. For episode 4 they did a trivia contest in which the crew prepared a set of mundane questions that any middle schooler would be able to answer and these two knew surprisingly little out of all that. You see her dressed in a rabbit costume while Ethan Klein is cosplaying James Charles which was a choice. What was funniest were Trisha’s comments throughout the episode which were so ridiculously out of pocket that it balanced out my secondhand embarrassment for Ethan’s acting like this is all a piece of cake and he better win against her empty head. Like, yeah, dude, it better be easy for you?
It took me so long to find the timestamps in the original episode so I hope someone out there actually clicks the links so my extra research wasn’t for nothing. So my favorite moments from that episode are the following:
- The first fireworks were invented in the 7th century in which country? (Learns that Hiroshima is not a country). [34:09]
- We love Egypt. [35:59]
- Can we talk about how we actually don’t need gravity? [45:13]
- What’s the thinnest layer of the earth? The foreskin (Repeats question, thinks she answered right). [58:00]
- We role-play Ramses and Moses. [01:01:27]
That’s my favorite thing in a niche hobby of sorts and I hope you found some of the above funny or something. It’s nice to have a bit of a break from serious™️ posts on this blog.