anything goes with emma chamberlain
olives are best pizza topping, unpopular opinions
Sun, 10 Nov 2024
i woke up this morning in the mood for a debate, so i'm gonna spend the next thirty minutes to an hour discussing some of my unpopular opinions. some of these might anger you, and i know that. but let's get into it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are unpopular opinions?
I woke up this morning in the mood for debate, okay? I want to rile people up. I want to stir the pot. I want to start some minor arguments. And that's why today I'm going to spend the next 30 minutes to an hour discussing some of my unpopular opinions. Some of these might anger you. I know that, okay? Wow, my voice is really raspy today. It's very raspy, but it's raspy in a good way.
I lose my voice all the time. My voice is always kind of raspy. But it's a little different every time. Like sometimes I lose my voice and it sounds weak and fragile and it hurts to talk and that is not fun. And then sometimes I lose my voice like this where it doesn't hurt to talk and it just sounds kind of sexy and smoldering. Super exciting. I went out last night, which is why I lost my voice.
And I have not been going out recently. I go through phases where I go out a lot. Then I don't. Then I do. Then I don't. Then I decide that I'm never going out again. Then I decide that being social is the only way to live my life. It's like a very, very unhealthy back and forth. And every single time I go through a phase, I...
think that that phase will last for the rest of my life, which is stupid, just to then ultimately go back to how I was before. You know what I mean? Like, it's just a mess. So what was the point of all that? Oh, I went out last night after not going out for a while. I actually had fun and that's kind of rare. So good for me. But now my voice is raspy and sexy and smoldering. Okay. That is my cat.
Okay, let's get into it. Let me share with you some of my unpopular opinions.
Okay, to start...
Very controversial. I truly do believe that olives are the best pizza topping. I truly believe that. I also understand why people don't like olives on pizza. I get it. Olives have a slightly sour, sometimes even metallic kind of taste. They look kind of gross. You know, texturally, they might be kind of gross to some people. I personally think they're delightful, okay?
When you're taking a bite of pizza, it's salty, it's maybe a little tangy, it's yeasty, it's bready, it's sort of umami, like fatty. It is so nice to have a pop of acidity when you're eating pizza. It just brightens the whole thing up, okay? From like a scientific level. I don't understand food science. I didn't study it. But I think I'm hypothesizing, and I'm too lazy to Google it right now.
I don't want to Google it. But I would assume... that adding acid to pizza is good for the overall flavor experience, okay? You know, when you're eating something, you want to have fat. You want to have acid, sourness, tanginess. You want to have umami. You want to have, you know, all these different flavor profiles. The more you have going on at once in harmony,
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Chapter 2: Why are olives considered the best pizza topping?
And then as time moves forward and you're wearing them over and over again, they get dirtier, they get more worn in, and you don't even really notice because it just kind of blends into what's already there. That's also kind of awesome. Like, you can't even tell that you're wearing them in because it already looked worn in.
Like, I swear to God, those shoes that I bought, the Acne Studios sneakers that were pre-worn in with the scuffs and everything, they, I've worn those shoes so much. Like, unbelievable. I wear those shoes all the time. They look exactly the same. Okay, next. A lot of people think that it's weird that I often will drive in silence or run slash exercise in silence. Especially driving.
People think it's very odd that I drive often without music. Sorry that I'm fucking thinking. I think running, driving, doing these sorts of activities that are autopilot, monotonous sort of activities, I think that these activities can be even more beneficial when done in silence. Now, are there times when I want to play music in the car? Absolutely.
Are there times when I want to listen to a podcast or a YouTube video or something while I'm driving? Sure. But probably 50 to 60% of the time, I'm driving in silence. I'm running in silence because I want to use it as time to think and time to sort of meditate. And I think it's not weird. I think it's kind of awesome. And I recommend you give it a try.
It also has to be something that's intuitive, though. Like, you have to sort of be craving it. Like, there are times when I crave silence in the car. I just want to think. you know? And then there are times when I'm like, I don't fucking want to think at all. And I want to listen to music and sing. That's fine too.
But I'm just saying, it's like a lot of people think I'm a freak and a sociopath for not listening to music in the car. And I don't know. I just, I feel like that's ridiculous. It can be delightful and everyone should try it when it feels, when they're being called to it. Next, I, wow, this is my second thing about movies. I guess I just love movies.
I watched this horrible movie recently with someone else. Like I don't, I actually never watch movies alone, ever. That is an activity for with friends or with a boyfriend for me. Otherwise I'm not watching a movie. Anyway, so I watched this really bad rom-com movie. It's like a new rom-com. I'm not saying which one it is because I don't want to call it bad and then say which one it is.
It was horrible in a lot of ways. It was unbelievable in a lot of ways. I enjoyed watching this movie so much, okay? The writing was cringe. It was so cringe. The acting was kind of cringe, but I fucking loved it. I was like, this is amazing. I'm making fun of it a little bit, but I'm also like... invested in the dumb storyline. Like it was amazing.
I actually think bad movies are just as fun to watch and just as enjoyable to watch as like genuinely incredible cinema. I think there's no in between. Like I think I most enjoy watching either a really, really good movie or a really, really bad movie. And I know, I don't know if that's even an unpopular opinion, but...
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