We put Conan Gray in the hot seat to see if he can determine which items are most expensive (spoiler alert: he almost never prefers the $$ stuff!). Watch as Conan professes his love of homemade carrot cake and cheap coffee, and tries to figure out the difference between a $1,270 pair of loafers vs. a $53.99 pair.
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00:00You fools! You and your trickery!
00:02Hey, y'all, it's Conan Gray, and I'm playing Expensive Taste Test with Cosmo.
00:08How do you think this is gonna go?
00:09I grew up poor, so I'm gonna like all the things that are bad
00:13because they're familiar to me.
00:15So, yeah, we'll see.
00:23Here we have gloves.
00:24I do wear a lot of gloves when I'm performing,
00:27so I think I might be able to answer this correctly.
00:30OK.
00:32So these are incredibly soft.
00:35OK.
00:36Oh, these are also really soft.
00:38These are both genuine leather for sure.
00:41I'd be pretty surprised if this wasn't.
00:44So this has like some kind of fake fur on the inside,
00:49which makes me think maybe it's not as expensive.
00:51This is wool.
00:52I hate wool because it's itchy and you can't wash it.
00:56Why would I want that?
00:57I have like a lot of sensory things.
00:59I was like the kind of kid who like would put on his sock,
01:02and if the sock was like on slightly wrong,
01:04I'd like start crying and can't go to school.
01:07OK.
01:08So just based on this, this little like fur,
01:12I'm gonna say these are the expensive ones.
01:19Gosh, I've gone with my first instinct.
01:21Which ones of these would you wear for a performance?
01:23I would wear neither of these because they're lined
01:26and my hands would get so sweaty and disgusting.
01:29That'd be so gross.
01:36I love shitty coffee.
01:37When I'm on tour, I ask my bus driver
01:41to stop the bus at the gas station
01:43so I can crawl into the gas station in my pajamas
01:46and get iced coffee from the gas stations.
01:48I love it.
01:49I feel pretty strong about this.
01:50I think I'm gonna know.
01:52Also, expensive coffee always tastes like fruits.
01:55So if I get this wrong, I'm gonna be surprised.
01:59OK, this one's a little...
02:03This one's a little redder, this one's a little kind of bolder.
02:07Darker.
02:08Also, there's crushed ice in here,
02:10which is bougie as f**k.
02:17Yeah, that's shitty coffee.
02:21Yeah, this is definitely the expensive one.
02:24This one tastes like it came out of a sewer.
02:28Just how I like it.
02:31That was actually incredibly easy.
02:33This tastes like...
02:34Sometimes I do want a sharp, little, weird, fruity coffee,
02:38but if I say I want a coffee, I want this.
02:41This is what I want.
02:41I want there to be a little bit of dirt in there.
02:44Ha ba ba da ba
02:46Ba da da
02:48Ba da
02:49Here we have chain necklaces.
02:52Now, I don't know anything about nice jewelry at all.
02:57This necklace has lived on my neck for an entire year
03:01because it's the symbol of my album.
03:03And this is, like, the only necklace I know.
03:05Let's start with weight.
03:09Well, this one's larger, so, of course, it's a little heavier.
03:11It's a little lighter in colour,
03:13color, which makes me think that maybe it's silver and this is stainless steel.
03:18Like I'm looking if there's any signs of like this being organically made versus this one being
03:23like made by a machine. I mean, my first instinct would be like, oh, like this is a little more
03:27gaudy than this one. So like maybe this one's just like you're trying to trick me into thinking
03:32this one's cheaper, but it's actually more expensive. This clasp is so robust.
03:43And like nice. This one's a little fancy clasp. This is like some fancy bullshit. I don't know,
03:51but it doesn't really work that well. This one just has a little more wear and tear on it,
03:56which is kind of the only reason why I'm going to say this is more expensive.
03:59Yes!
04:13Carrot cake! Oh, yeah. This is going to be good. I already like this one more. It's just like that
04:23one's calling my name. This one's like the ratio of whipped cream cheese frosting so much less than
04:28this one. This one looks a lot moister and it has such a thick layer of frosting.
04:38Whereas this one, they don't care if you live or die. And maybe that's because they're like,
04:43because we know we're fancy. F*** you. So I don't know. I'm going to have to taste.
04:47Also, look how bad the coat on this is. They didn't do a crumb coat, whereas they took the
04:52time to cover up the frosting there. Do I taste? First, I'm going to taste the shitty one.
05:00I've already told myself that it's the shitty one.
05:07F*** hell, it's so good. Oh my God, it's so good. Jesus. No. Okay.
05:16I feel like despair in my heart. I don't know why.
05:20It just got brought back to a part of my life. I don't know. Let's see.
05:28I mean, I don't know. Like I said, I grew up poor for majority of my life. This tastes
05:36like so much more homemade and like so much better. Like it was made with love.
05:41I don't even care if it's more expensive. This one's better. So I'm just going to say this one.
05:46Really? Damn. Yeah. See, I told you. This tastes like childhood to me. Like this is,
05:53oh my God, this is so good. I could eat this entire slice right now.
05:58Actually, I probably shouldn't.
06:04Here we have some journals. Life lesson that you learn from journals is nothing's that serious.
06:11Nothing's so serious you need to journal it. But alas, we do it anyways.
06:20So this one has this little thingy on it, which is like, oh, maybe this is more expensive,
06:25but maybe you're trying to trick me. Oh, there's quotes too. Memories make the now fully inhabitable.
06:32Yeah, bitch. Sure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold,
06:39it would be a merrier world. Once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for
06:44ourselves. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Monthly reflection.
06:52I don't want to reflect. I want to forget. I mean, I hate this one. This one should be
06:58burned after this. Let's just, oh. So this one has this little thingy, which means like,
07:03maybe it's more expensive, maybe not. It's dotted. That's not as bad.
07:10Okay, there's also a pocket on this one, which is interesting.
07:15And you know what? I'm just going to say this paper is a little...
07:22I feel like I'm probably being tricked, but I'm a dumb guy, so I'm going to go with this one.
07:27You fools. You and your trickery.
07:30What kind of journals are you usually using?
07:33I'm usually using a journal that doesn't have quotes in it. Don't inspire me every day.
07:49We have fanny packs. Well, this one's a little colorful. This one looks like you
07:53Well, this one's a little colorful. This one looks like you might actually go on a hike with it.
07:58This one looks a little more like you wouldn't go on a hike with it and you'd wear it as part
08:02of your outfit. Also, this buckle is metal, which feels unnecessary, which makes me think maybe
08:08it's expensive. This is plastic. A little lighter. This is like a little cord. These are all metal,
08:19and they're like a shiny metal. This just looks like it was made for someone who's
08:24not going to go outside, which makes me think it's more expensive. And that's my answer.
08:33What's your take on the fanny pack trend?
08:35I don't care. We're a fanny pack. I don't... whatever. I have purse.
08:40I had to get my tonsils taken out last year because I got viciously ill while I was making
08:45my last album, and I had a lot of diffusers going on in my room. And so now this is taking
08:50me back to a dark time. Thanks a lot, Cosmo. Wow. This one's design is just better. It's a lot
09:07This one's design is just better. It's a little not like, oh, it's leaking on me.
09:12Delicious. A little more conscious in its design. There's like plastic here,
09:17which like I just feel like over time, this clear plastic is just going to turn a little ugly.
09:23There's only one button on this one, which is interesting. Whereas this one has two buttons.
09:29But this one is leaky and this one isn't. Really makes you think. I'm just going to go with this
09:34one just because I like that it's matte on the outside. That's my answer.
09:43Yeah. Eggshell. Platform loafers. I have boots on right now. These just already feel cheap.
09:57This is like foam down here. Delicious. This is really hard.
10:07I do know that I think Prada makes a pair of shoes that are quite similar to this,
10:11and they're covering up something on this thing, which makes me think maybe,
10:16but they might actually just be like bullshit knockoffs. And these are marks,
10:21but they just feel so squishy and like, look how bendy this is.
10:28But of course this can't bend because it's like so much thicker.
10:36I think I'm going to go with this one. I think this one's more expensive.
10:41Okay. And that's what we call capitalism. Thank you so much for watching my five out of eight.
10:47Again, the best things in life are sometimes $2.99. And you can listen to my album Found
10:53Heaven. It's out now. And if not, you can not listen to it and you can come to my tour instead.