Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 309 - 5 Successful Habits of Crendor

Episode Date: October 4, 2021

This week Crendor tries to clean up his life - it doesn't really work. Meanwhile Jesse learns staring at people in the eyes while they talk doesn't really mean you're listening. But thankfully Crendor has some tips we think he got from a book that can help! All this and a trash can takes on an alligator, on this brand new Cox n' Crendor! Go to http://calm.com/cox for 40% off unlimited access to Calm's entire library. Go to http://ritual.com/COX to get 10% off during your first 3 months!

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let me see crendorrendor Words in the Morning. Hi! Welcome back to Words in the morning today we're gonna be talking about words today's word is uh-huh uh stomach pain why is it stomach pain why are you hurting well i have the uh i have that same irritation. Remember, like, months ago, and I was like, ah, I'm getting my stomach looked at. Yeah? I have that pain again. It's not as bad.

It's just, like, a little bit of a flare-up of it, but I think it's the old IBS hitting. So is that, like, what is that? Well, I'm tying it to the fact that yesterday I ate a donut. I ate a Reese's. I mean, I ate healthy Reese's. I mean, I ate healthy for other parts of it, but then the day before that, we had

Mexican food. So I could just all add it up again. I mean, maybe. I don't know. It depends on how much of everything you had, right? Unless it's just like that donut set you off. Yeah, I think the donut was the tipping point. So now, the last time this happened. What kind of donut was it tipping point so now the last time what kind of donut

was it is a jelly filled donut well there's your problem yeah so uh i know some big creditor you don't got a gallbladder eating too much fats all right i know um so that's probably part of it too so i uh the last time this happened i was like yeah whatever and i kind of ignored it and that's what made it worse so now i'm like all right you know i just gotta watch it you know and i've had it i've had it flare up a little bit like this a couple times and then it goes away in like a day or so so i mean it's once i once i'm like all right let's let's calm down then we're good it just sounds like you've chosen to ignore everything your body i mean this is this is essentially what most people in life do.

You know, you get some sort of pain. The pain makes you stop doing a thing. And you're like, oh, my God. Now that that pain is gone, I'll never go back to my old ways. And a few months later, you're like doing the things you did. But you can manage it a little better. Well, I mean, I don't know about that. Well, here's what I wanted to do.

All right. I wanted to have a full week of just cooking at home like no eating out no not i want to like you know make my own oatmeal i don't like oats you know uh not use like instant oatmeal i want to know i know oats you know that way i can like manage what I'm eating. Uh-huh, yeah. That's it. How's that going for you? I don't know. I haven't done it yet.

Oh. I said I want to do that. Oh, I was really impressed. I was like, a whole week? Damn, I don't know I could do that. Yeah, no. I mean, the last time I had this pain I was like eating at home every day. So, I mean, I know I'm capable of it. It's just it gets so boring.

So I'm like, what am I going to eat today? I'll eat a peanut butter sandwich. Then I'll eat my oatmeal. Then I'll have my half a cup of coffee. I am allowed. Then I'll have my turkey burger. Then I'll have my chicken with vegetables. That's what I'm saying.

I think here's the problem. It's our options. Before, when we were busting ass, it was like, look, you've got to eat at home. Because that's how it'd be. You've got the money to eat at home. That's all you can do. And now I'm like, I could make that turkey sandwich. Or there's a Mexican place down the street and they are way better than a turkey sandwich.

And that is the society has given us too many options, frankly. And our ancestors, it was like, look, we got bread, the one cheese that we've had all winter, and that meat that we've been slowly making our way through since you killed that bear six months back. Like, that's it. That's all you got and we're just like i mean i could eat this turkey burger but there is a new sushi place down the street and i feel like we should be going oh yeah yeah i i very much get that oh this is boring like i'll sit there and try to be like all right let me go to the grocery store i'm gonna get a week's worth of food like prep this stuff and like make these like chicken and broccoli and do this.

And by like Wednesday afternoon, I'm over it. Yeah. What a dumb plan that was. All I want is like a freaking pizza. This sucks. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's not fair is what it is.

It's not fair. So it's, you know know at least now i can be like all right you know i think the thing that doesn't bother me as much now is i'm like all right i know i'm not dying because i had my you know my endoscopy and he looked at it and he's like no you're good it's just your your irritable bowel you know that for sure yeah so i'm like all right plus i've had this happen over so many years i'm like all right you know you just you get used to it but you're just like I don't want this to happen. How do I manage it?

It's like it's trying to find what triggers it. I think the hardest part, right, is that you never really know what does aggravate. Like, I think it's facts. Weren't you keeping a journal? Didn't you know? I was keeping a journal, but I stopped because it would go all over the place.

Maybe, all right. Well, that's not how science works. Maybe I need to do it again. Maybe I need to do the journal again. But I would write everything, and I'm like, I think that thing does it. But then when I feel better and I eat that thing, it's fine. Although there's the possibility that maybe because my stomach's better, it's able to handle it a little better.

And then when it gets overloaded, then it's like, all right, I'm done with this shit. I think that's probably what it is. Yeah, there's a million possibilities. I imagine everyone's stomach's different. Yeah. So I think by eating at home more and doing all that, it'll help me figure out what actually does cause it. Sometimes it's like you try to get healthy at home and you feel worse.

Sometimes I'm like, oh, man, I'm going to eat, like, some olives. Those are supposed to be healthy. And they're like, oh, olives are high in sodium and fat. And I'm like, oh, neat. You know? I just made a salad for lunch, and it was, like, a big, boisterous bowl of lettuce. And, you know, there might be such a thing as too much salad. I was like, oh, why do I eat that?

That's so much fiber. That's the thing, right? They tell you you eat fiber, but if you eat too much fiber, it like bloats you, and you're all gassy, and you're like, oh, I'm bloated. I'm like a balloon right now. You could fly me like on a house. I'd lift up the house and take you and a Boy Scout away.

Yeah. Oh my god. By the way, well, it's kind of related uh so i was thinking about like burning out because i mentioned in my my burnout video i made i'm like i mid i've made where i was like oh sometimes like you don't feel good and that makes you burn out or whatever so i was thinking that but a lot of people thought i was like i made that video because i was burned out but i'm not burned out right now i made it because i used to be burned out and i took my break and now i see everybody else being burned out and that's why i wanted to make it to be like oh this is why youtubers and streamers get burned out and of

course there's there's like the two people all right everyone's like yeah two people like well we'll try working a normal job and then burning out. It's like, okay, well, you know what that reminds me of? The weather people. Right? It reminds me of the weather people where it's like, oh, man, it's cold out. I knew that was going to happen. I was waiting for it. It's so cold out today at 45 degrees and someone's like, whoa, you think that's cold?

It's negative 800 here. Try living in that. I get what they're saying, right? They're saying, well, well you know you're burning out but look at me i'm working a harder job and i still burn out and stuff like i get it the point is that's the whole point is you you burn out even more because in your head you're invalidating those feelings like i shouldn't feel burned out because i am working this great job but you are and it loops and it's fine well yeah and i think assume, because let's be real, I assume this about a lot of people too.

When someone posts something on Twitter, for example, or makes a video where the video is like, you know, it's all right if you do your own thing. Not every day do you have to go by someone else's drum. I hate when, and then they go on a rant about something and you're like ah That just happened to you and you're trying to be like Right so I understand how people can see You saying hey don't burn out As I'm burning out and I'm trying to tell you But really I'm speaking to myself

That kind of thing Yeah no I can see that Cause I mean I have done that before You make a video talking about something But you're kind of talking to yourself So I get it I've been there I've definitely been there before you make a video talking about something but you're kind of talking to yourself. So I get it. I've been there. I've definitely been there and been like, I'm going to make

a video and it's really just me saying it out loud so I can get through the day. I'm not even burning it. I'm at a point where I think I mentioned it last week, but I didn't do it again. Where I want to take a day off or two days and just organize and clean everything

and i didn't do it i can't believe you didn't do it i didn't do it i don't know why i didn't oh i need i need to organize and clean i need to do it i did a little bit of organizing and cleaning but i didn't do enough i didn't like go marie kondo well i tried this week i went through and i so I have one closet where I kind of just store everything. Like I have a, and it's just a bunch of bins. And so I was like, oh, those are the bins of things that I said, you know what?

I'm going to keep that stuff. And then I looked at them. I was like, why do I have four bins of stuff? What if I could get that down to three? And so, I opened them all up and took everything out and now my living room is filled with stuff. I'm looking at it right now. And I started going through it, and then I found my box that has all of my receipts and all different things.

And I was like, how long do I have to keep this stuff? And I looked it online, and it said three years from the date it was used to file something. from the date it was used to file something so it basically i need to to save i think up back to 2016 maybe 2017 so i'm like no matter what no matter what i was just like oh my god so i got things from 2013 in there and i'm like all right what do i actually need it's like piles of stuff i'm like oh my god so i started going that, and then I was going through a desk, and, you know, there's most of it's just, like, stuff I need for, you know, if I open the desk right

now, I got one lighter, one, what is this? You know, like, thing. What is this called? Like a USB drive. Oh, yeah. Scissors, a thing to clean is this called? Like a USB drive. Oh yeah.

Scissors, a thing to clean a keyboard and then, uh, uh, stuff for my phone. Right. That's all it's in there. Oh my God.

I have so many like cables that I just keep some, like I do. I might need this HDMI cable or this like printer cable and I never need it. Yeah, no, I don't, I don't do that anymore. I do have three extra Ethernet cords in this desk

in one of the lower drawers, just in case, because I actually use those. But I found a ring, and clearly I've kept this for a long time, and I just put it in there because I obviously don't know what to do with it. But it is a gold ring with a black

onyx top and then a like a crazy ass symbol in it and it's definitely my grandfather's and it was definitely given to me and i definitely don't know what it is and i have honestly been looking up trying to figure out what the symbol is because it looks like it could be anything from a college ring to like some sort of cult i don't know what i don't know what this thing is but it's got like it's got a shield on it and on the shield is like a symbol with a triangle so already i'm like what does this mean and then there's three little symbols above it and i can't see what they are because they're so small and then above that is like an eagle and that was worrisome. Cause the only time I've ever seen an Eagle like this is on like Nazi flags.

And I'm like, Oh, so I don't know what that means. And then like the, it's got like text written underneath it, but it's so small. I can't see what it is. And I tried to take a photo with my phone and like zoom in and it blurred.

And I spent much longer than I will. I'm willing to admit on that part of it but I like literally couldn't see what it says I don't know what this is I've looked it up online I've like typed in every possible thing I can think of it is it has to be like ye olde class ring or something like it has to be but yeah art deco monogramming is what it has on it So I know like all the features of it I just don't know what the symbol is And I don't think it's like a terribly expensive ring Right

I've seen rings that are similar to it online That aren't like They're not like thousand dollars It's clearly just like a dude's ring But I don't know what it means And I'm fascinated by it I spent the last hour before we started this podcast Looking up stuff just so i could figure out what it was i'm gonna let you know everything that it showed me was the masons and i'm just like is this the

masons but i don't know that's true either because it isn't it clearly isn't a secretly join the masons i mean if that's the case ain't nobody come to me and be like you're part of the group now no one's told me that you probably would have to give the case, ain't nobody come to me and be like, you're part of the group now. No one's told me that. You probably would have to give the ring back or they would have to, like, take you out or something. Yeah, no one's taken me out. It's been years. I just, you know, I haven't done anything with it. It's just sat here.

And clearly it's not, like, a valuable thing. There's no jewels in it, right? It's just literally, like, a black sheet. Like, you know, it could be gold plated for all I know. Like, I just don't know what it is i couldn't tell you what it and i've it's clearly just an art deco ring it's obviously from the you know 40s and or 30s and it is like i don't know it's weird looking it's crazy huh yeah so i'm just like well maybe this could be like a treasure or it could be you know total trash either way i have it and on the

search continues i'm gonna try and figure out what the symbol it has to be it seems like a call like to me it looks like a college seal you know like a crest or something like that yeah but i have no idea what this would be and the fact there's like a crazy pyramid on it, I'm like, oh, this is, I'm an Illuminati now. I don't know what I'm in. So, yeah. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed I'm in the Illuminati. That could be great.

How's the rest of your cleaning? Good. I went through and found a bunch of just wacky stuff. Like a lot of change, apparently. Just like in random places. So I have one of those wood change coziesies i don't know what to call that but years ago it was given to me as like a gift right and you know sometimes you get gifts that you're like what the hell am i gonna do with this well that gift i thought that way but now i have a thing on my desk here that has i'm gonna say a bunch of

quarters pennies dimes and nickels in it and i I'm just, it's great. I'm like, Ooh, I got changed from whatever. Right. And so I just store my change. What am I going to do with it? Couldn't tell you, but it's sitting there and it's looking at me like, Hey, if you ever need money, I think I have like a good a $6 there. So watch out future me. You're going to be rich kids. And then, uh, I went through and found a bunch of books books I don't know what I'm gonna do with them they're like classics though they're like classic books like oh you know it's nice to keep them in case I'll ever read them again but also like I've read them you know like there's only so many times I can read Frankenstein like I you you know, great book, lovely story, wonderful, weird adventure. But also, you know, once you read it once, it's like, all right, I get it.

Thanks, Mary Shelley. Actually, we went through our books as well. There's a whole bunch of books I forgot I even had. Back in the day, I was buying all these marketing books and self help books and I was like I'm going to become a big time YouTube gamer or I don't know

and not socially awkward how'd that work out? I mean better than it used to be I guess but I don't know if the books did it or just actually being casted into the social fires did it probably the latter uh anyway there's like a bunch of books and i was looking through

them and some i was like i haven't even read this one like this one was like not even that good some of them that's like they have the they're like 10 things on how to be a better you. And then you can just, like, look at the chapters and just, like, do these things. And you're like, all right, well, that's the book. Like, put it away. So it's like, I don't know. Did any of those actually help you?

Because I always wonder, because everyone's like, oh, I read this book and it helped me so much. And I'm like, all right, in what way did it help you? And they're like, well, in this one chapter, it said to do this, so I did this. I'm like, okay, so you did it help you and they're like well and this one chapter decided to do this so i did this i'm like okay so you did the one thing what else in the book helped they're like well you know i just did the one thing and it seemed to really work i was like so did you need the book or just that one bit of advice right like a lot of questions i think uh there's like bits and pieces that help but yeah it's like what they said it's like you get a couple things from it where you're like, oh, that's pretty interesting.

And then the rest of it, I feel like it's just filler so they can write a book and sell it. Like, believe in yourself. Like, what's that even mean? Believe in yourself. Like, okay, I believe in myself now. Now what? Now what do I do? That's like when everybody's like, just be yourself.

Right? Like, now what? Like, what do I do? That's like when everybody's like, just be yourself. Right? Like, now what? Like, what do you do now? What if you don't like yourself? What if you don't know who you are? How can you be yourself if you don't know who you are, right? I think that's the thing is vagary sells because it's easy. And people kind of understand vagueness.

It goes back to what I was talking about on that show, The Circle, when the people that were vague, was like that was real and the woman who gave specifics they were like fake that's a fake person and like i'm telling you that's gonna stick with me forever i'm gonna think about that till the day i die is that they like got that poor woman and they just lied and made crendor they made up stuff they just made up stuff and people are like well that seems real that if anything i'd sell that tells me all i need to know about humanity i just like everything i did oh it breaks my heart anyway you know if you want to if you want to give people real help um you you

should be specific but the problem is with specifics it doesn't always relate to that person and and once they hear a thing that's specific they immediately are like oh well that's not about me and they stop so so you know you can say be yourself but really what you're saying is like get good with yourself be able to look at yourself and critically size yourself up and figure out like what your flaws are like the other day in chat when I was streaming, there was someone who was like, I haven't had a date in a long time and I think that these women think I'm like ugly or whatever. I don't remember the exact thing, but that's basically the gist. And I was like, well, what about you do you think is ugly? Like if you could change something about yourself, what would you change?

Right. Is there something wrong with you that you think other people have issue with? You know, is there something about yourself that would make you more attractive to other people? And if you're like, no, I think I'm fine. Then that's on them. That's their problem, not yours. Like if you are good with you, then that's those people are idiots and find yourself a new group of people to hang out with and other things you know if it's like look i i take a shower once a week maybe consider doing it more right if people like you

stank maybe consider not stinking so much or if people are like oh man this guy he farts a lot maybe think about not farting so much in public. You know, like there's really dumb examples. But if you can like. This picture is some guy sitting there. He's like, hold it in. Hold it in. What even happens if you like hold it in?

Is that like bad for you? I don't know. What I do know is that sometimes when I've had to fart and I've held it in, about an hour later, I have the like, I got to run to the bathroom. I'm like, whoa. All right. We're about to learn. Is holding a fart in bad for you?

From time to time, you may want to hold in gas to suppress flatulence when you're in a room with others. But holding in gas too frequently can actually irritate the colon. It may also irritate hemorrhoids. Releasing gas is healthier. Look at that. There you go irritate hemorrhoids. Releasing gas is healthier. Look at that. There you go. Well, maybe step away. Step away.

Yeah, step away. Unleash your fart. Return. I don't think you need to. I don't think you need to do it. You know, a lot of, or if you have to burp, right? Maybe, maybe like step away and burp. All I'm saying is

You gotta like figure out the things That might turn people off and then you know Address it and if you don't think that's an issue If you think that your burps are like mighty Burps and should be heard Then that's again Not on you anymore If the people you're with can't handle it

Then don't be with those people The problem is when we tell people that, none of that's an easy answer. None of that's an easy solution. But saying be yourself, people are like, I get that. It's like, well, all right. Cool. Yeah. Good luck.

There's, I think from all those books I was thinking back on, there's a few things I can remember. So one of them I actually brought up back in like season one of this podcast if you want to put them in seasons uh the blue paint theory what do you consider season one like the first year gotcha okay

yeah I put each season in year form so that was season one we're on like year nine now or whatever season nine so yeah I would say the blue paint theory was one you remember that i don't i don't remember the blue paint all right so that is the idea that if there's like a red wall and you put one little patch of blue paint on that wall everyone's gonna notice the blue paint okay so like Okay. So your attention, looking at that wall,

it's instantly going to go to that blue. Because it's like, all right, everything's red. Everything's red. Something's wrong. That thing is blue. And so that was, I think it was Seth Godin, something like that. I think it was the spotted cow.

So his thing was the purple cow. But I said the blue paint theory, because I thought it made more sense. Or it's like a purple cow in a field you're gonna notice the purple cow either way so it makes it so like if you're making a video or you're live streaming or you're i don't know trying to sell something like a commercial or whatever if you make something different from what's normal it's going to stand out because people aren't used to it so i mean it's true it makes sense but it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to stand out because people aren't used to it. So, I mean, it's true. It makes sense. It doesn't necessarily mean

it's a good thing, but it's true. For sure. It's good to know it. Right. You might use it. You might not. Sometimes you don't want to stand out constantly. You'd be like, ah, they're trying. There's companies that have done that as the wacky

kind of quirky company. Like, hey guys, we're different again. And it's like, alright, I get it. Then there's the Make Friends Influence People book. That was actually a really good book. Which, I think it's one of the most famous books on self-help stuff. I was about to say. That definitely sounds like something my mom probably read 25 years ago. It was originally published in 1936 by Dale Carnegie.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. 1936? That book has life. That's Dale Carnegie. So the Carnegie Hall. That's him. And I remember reading that book.

Really? Yeah. Not Andrew Carnegie? No, no, no, no. It's Dale. Dale? Is that his son? Dale Carnegie.

Sure. Oh, wait. Actually, no. They're not related at all. I was about to say, Andrew Carnegie is not Dale. No, no. It's definitely not true. Listen, it was like the 30s.

Everybody knew anything. There were less people, so technically more people were related. There's a possibility. Sure. there were less people so technically more people were related possibility sure um so his it was actually interesting his tips were like just become genuinely interested in what somebody else is talking about which i think is a good tip because a lot of people when they're talking are trying to think about what they're gonna say next and they're not really paying attention to what the other person's saying uh can i can i tell you when i do that

so i like pay attention what people say but i look them in the eyes when they talk and it it weirds people out it's crazy to see because like they'll i always whenever anyone talks to me i always look them in the eyes and they get like real weird it's like i'm piercing into their soul and i want to let them know i'm just like I'm not like trying. I'm just trying to like I'm paying attention to you. It's how I focus. And people do not like it. They get real weird with it.

They always do that like every time. Every time. And actually I've gotten more used to that now where I'll like look people in the eyes. And I notice either some people just like, you know, be like, and they'll like stare back. And then other people will always like look away. You can tell who are the business, like the business bros, because they will like intense. They will match your stare and then attempt to outstair you. So you'll look away.

And it's like really awkward. And you're just like oh boy okay to me i use the tactic or it's like i do this because i'm like well how do you like break a stare and like keep eye contact while making it natural so i'll be like oh yeah you like make a gesture like and over there and you kind of look over in a way and like point and then you look back so it's like you're giving the eye contact a break but you're also keeping the conversation going or like making a hand you're like there's a little thing and you show like a little box with your hands or something and you look down at it and then you look back so it's like you give the little brief moments this is

what happens when you read like all these books you're like how do i deconstruct the socialing the social process well look you got me you read that one book, you got me. You read that one book, and you got me talking, and you were like, and then? Oh, yeah, that's right. That was in the book. That was the master class. You got my ass. I was like ready to tell you my life story.

That's true. That master class was really good. That was one of my favorite things. If that was a book, I would have highly recommended it, but I highly recommend the master class it's the uh the fbi guy master class just look that up you'll find it uh and he actually had a thing that dale carnegie mentioned which is uh you want to talk in terms of the other person's interest right so when uh in the book he mentions how there's this guy who's doing business with and he keeps talking about sailing or something like that he's like oh yeah i want to go sailing i love boats and he's like oh you love sailing

and he like just gets really into it and the guy's like oh yeah we should go sailing sometime and then a week later the guy comes back he's like oh man and he goes to his secretary and he's like i can't wait to go sailing i didn't know he was a big sailor and her secretary's like he never goes sailing and the guy's like what and so he was literally just like listening to him and like learning about sailing and being like wow that's interesting and just like asking questions about it and that guy just interpreted that it meant he was also very into sailing when he was just being like polite and curious i am very very bad at that. When I hear someone talk about something they love, unless it's something I equally love, I will normally just be like, cool, and zone out. And I know you shouldn't.

I know you shouldn't. I think a lot of people do that. That's the thing. Yeah. And so I have recently, when talking to to people tried to be much more like awesome that's so because i realized the only time i do it is when i talk to kids if i talk to kids and they're like today i saw a butterfly and i'm like i don't know what the kid that was well that kid that i saw Well, that kid. I saw a butterfly.

That kid. I will sit there and be like, oh, my God. What did it look like? Where was it? What was it doing? Oh, do you think it has a family? I'll sit there and, like, pander to that kid. And I realize I don't do that with adults at all. I'll be like, oh, cool.

Wow. Awesome. Right? And I don't know why And I don't know why. I don't know why. So now I've really tried to do that to everyone. And it's, like, worked out really well. It's totally a correct theory.

There's people I talk to. I was just talking to this girl the other day, and she was like, I'm not really into games, but, like, I do like this one mobile game. I'm like, oh, what kind of mobile game is it? She's like, it's kind of fun. I'm like oh what kind of mobile game is it she's like it's kind of fun i'm like oh that's so neat i was just like jesse you know you don't care maybe you feel you're doing it anyway maybe you feel fake that's why you don't like it oh i definitely feel fake that's absolutely true i hate feeling fake that's one of my yeah i i hate because then I have to live with myself.

I'll leave that conversation and be like, why? Why did I? Oh, Jesse, why? I actually get genuinely curious about what other people are interested in, and I like learning about it. So, I mean, you know, like, when I interview people on, like, Fishing with Krendor, and they're always like, oh, I used to play this game. And I'm like, oh, that game? And they're like, yeah, that game. And they, like, go offrendor and they're always like, oh, I used to play this game. And I'm like, oh, that game.

And they're like, yeah, that game. And they like go off about it. And I'm like, whoa. So it's like it works really well in an interview format because you kind of keep the interview flowing that way. But I feel like for a lot of maybe like normal conversations, like if you're at a bar or something, it might be boring because you'd be like, oh, what's going on? And they'd be like, yeah, watching the game. And if you don't care about the game it's gonna be weird yeah that's it then it's done and i there are definitely times i don't have conversations with people where they say a thing and i literally have no desire to follow up

and so we'll just sit there in silence and here's the thing people might find that awkward. I do not. I'm happy the conversation's over. I'm like, oh, thank God I don't have to talk about the weather. If we got there, I'd be over it. I would love talking about the weather. I know. I'm aware.

And then the last thing was uh the i think it was the five minute rule where it's you just do something for five minutes and that's one of the best ways to like get started with anything because whenever you think of a task you think of the entire thing like oh i gotta clean that's gonna take forever but if you're like you know what i'm just gonna clean up this small little thing on my desk for five minutes. Then you do it. And then that gets you rolling. Once the ball's rolling, you're like, well, I might as well go clean that thing over there. And maybe I'll go do that over there.

And it works for like, like even editing. I used to be like, oh, I don't want to make this video. And I'm like, you know what? I'll do like five minutes of editing. And then before I knew it, I was like doing the whole thing. I don't have that at all. I, if I do anything, I have to set time aside i can't be like all right just take five minutes to do this if i did that nothing would get done i would have

three schedules i know but like everything's scheduled at least if i had if i was like five minutes for this then i would only spend five minutes on it and nothing would get done that's what i'm saying like I would spend exactly five and be like alright that was enough of that time to move on and nothing would get done well it worked for me not all these will work for everybody so

those were the ones that helped me the most I think plus I think I just learned even from making my WoW machinimas way back that people enjoy relatability so you know one would be like this is the type of person you see in a dungeon and they're like go go go go and everyone's like I've seen that guy that's in my and everyone's like yeah that's like you Jimmy and they like point to their friend so everybody likes that relateability Jimmy's's like, you sons of bitches. So, I mean, that's kind of what comedy is in a way.

Well, one form of comedy, at least, is just relatability in a kind of over-exaggerated way. That's true. Everyone just point and laugh at Billy. Let's laugh at him. Yeah. You sons of bitches. So those are the main things I learned Well those are good things to learn That's true

I uh Yeah I didn't learn nothing I know for a fact I've learned so little I know how dumb I am That's the problem At least you've learned that I learned nothing I didn't even learn that know how dumb I am. That's the problem. At least you've learned that. I learned nothing. I didn't even learn that.

I mean, I say I know how dumb I am, but I forget. Sometimes I think I got it figured out, and then I'm like, oh, you idiot. You don't have it figured out at all. That's what I mean. You learn that you don't know anything. Really, none of us know anything when you think about it. Well, that's true, except that the biggest idiots definitely don't think about it.

That's the problem. That's the problem. Whenever somebody's like, oh, I'm so dumb, that means that they're probably not dumb. I mean, the fact that they're able to analyze themselves and think about themselves and their situation and surroundings probably means they're not dumb. But the people that are like, yeah, I'm pretty smart, that usually means they're the dumbest ones. You know what's not dumb? Oh, boy.

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Calm.com slash cox. All right, Crandor, let's go. Oh, boy. Traffic out there is wild. There's a lot of rain all over. So watch out for that rain because it is raining. You know, why do they say raining cats and dogs is there like is there a thing behind that did we ever look that up that seems like something you can google it yeah hold on i'm gonna google it cool i'll just sit here in Uh, here we go.

We don't know. The phrase might have its roots in Norse mythology, medieval superstitions, the obsolete word catadoop, waterfall, or dead animals in the streets of Britain being picked up by water storms. The first recorded use of the phrase, to raining cats and dogs was in 1651 Collection of poems from Olar Iscanus Um A whole bunch of other stuff so uh we don't know

Back to you That's super morbid though It rained so much that it picked up The dead cats and dogs That's messed up Yeah but it might Not be that so I mean but it might not be that So

I mean yeah it might not be But I feel like it is It probably is Knowing like history Right Okay well Speaking of weather I like to think it's just cats and dogs

Raining from the sky That's even worse That's even worse and more messy That's not good That's terrible I guess that's not good I like to move on Alright well speaking of Let's go to weather Weather

Time Welcome to the weather desk How are you? I mean I'm great how's the weather? Weather's looking good Today we're going to go to either Cric-Gouin-le either Crick-Gouin-le or Crick-Gouin-le,

France. Which one do you want to go to? They sound the same. What were you talking about? Ones with a K and ones with a C. But are they the same? Hold on, I'll send it to you so you can see for yourself here.

Are you sure they're not the same place? Pretty sure. It's literally spelled the exact same way except for... You know, it might be the same place. I feel like it's the same place. Well, either way, it's like, how do you say it? I don't know. Let me see.

Pronunciation. Internet, help me out. For French, it's got to be like, you know. How do you say that? The worst part is there's nothing on the internet that says how to spell this. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe it's the different... How do you spell Le Cray?

How to pronounce Le Cray? Cray France. Should I press a button? Pronunciation. I can't even find it on the weather thing. Crack. Crack. Crack.

Crack. Crack. Crack something. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack something. Crack something. Crack. Crack. Crack something. Crack a hoe.

Yeah, I think that's how it's said. Well, if that's the case, we're going to Crack France. Aaron, I don't even know if this is the right Crack France. Wait, why did you choose this? What happened? How did we get here? It was on the podcast comments. So someone lives in Crack and they can tell us how it's spelled?

I guess. Crack. I don't know if they don't know or if they live there or if they just are recommending it or what it is. From now on, when someone tells us where to go, tell us how to pronounce it too. All right, all right. Because I ain't no American about to pronounce crack. Good day.

Crack frames. So it's 58 degrees Fahrenheit. You can convert that to Celsius. 46% chance of rain through 3 a.m. It is currently 79% humidity, 29.91 inches of pressure, 8-mile visibility, 12-mile-an-hour winds, dew point at 52, 0 out of 10 on the old UV. Moon phase, waning crescent moon. Over on the 10-day day you've got weather uh considerable cloudiness with occasional rain showers low near 55 10 to 20 mile an hour winds chance to rain 70 percent then you got monday 64

with pm showers tuesday 62 windy wednesday 64 partly cloudy thursday 65 partly cloudy. Thursday, 65, partly cloudy. Friday, 67, mostly sunny. And Saturday is 68 with partly cloudy and pretty much just that for every day after as well. So that is crack France weather. Okay, let's go. Sports. Sports. Welcome to the sports desk.

Okay, I'm at the sports desk. Okay, thank you. I got you. Here at the sports desk, we've got sports games happening. So, NFL football today. We had, well, on Thursday, the Bengals beat the Jaguars. Jaguars have now lost 19 games in a row. Well, you know what?

That's what happens when you get rid of Minshew. That's what happens. They goof themselves. Jets beat the Titans in overtime. The Bears beat the Lions. It was a sloppy game. I watched that one. Colts beat the Dolphins.

Browns beat the Vikings. The Washington football team beat the Falcons. The Bills beat the Texans 40 to nothing. What is happening? What is happening? The world is upside down. What? These scores are, I don't know.

Teams are winning that should not be winning. The Giants beat the Saints in overtime. The Chiefs beat the Eagles. The Cowboys beat the Panthers. The Seahawks beat the 49ers. The Cardinals beat the Saints in overtime, the Chiefs beat the Eagles, the Cowboys beat the Panthers, the Seahawks beat the 49ers, the Cardinals beat the Rams, Packers beat the Steelers. I watched that one.

Ravens beat the Broncos. And tonight, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be taking on the New England Patriots as Tom Brady returns to New England. And you know what's about to happen? The Patriots are about to lose. Yep, they're going to lose, definitely. Up is down, down is up.

Cats sleeping with dogs. Mass hysteria. Mass hysteria. Over in baseball, the playoffs are going to be starting up. All the final games got played today. The wild card games will be the red socks and the yankees and the winner gets to play tampa bay and then the white socks play houston and the nl you got the

dodgers and the cardinals and the winner plays san francisco and then the braves and the brewers and the other side that's like the those are like four teams I just don't like. The Red Sox, Yankees, Cardinals, and Dodgers. I just wish they all lost and then the other teams played. Not a thing. Someone's going to be like, what's wrong with them? I just don't like.

I'm cheering for Tampa Bay and the Brewers. Those are my teams for the baseball playoffs. So if they both reach the World Series, I'll be pretty happy. I'll also pull for the Giants because they got Chris Bryant. He used to be the Cubs. And then NBA is going to be starting up preseason this week,

which I'm excited about. And then hockey's already started up their preseason. So this is one of the best sports months. You got playoff baseball, you got basketball starting, hockey starting, and football going on. So that's a lot of sports. A lot of sports. A lot of sports.

I'm going to say too much. No, no, no, not too much. We should combine at least two or three of them. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What if we combined hockey, basketball, and you know what? Football's a little bit of hockey too.

Put all the basketball players on skates. They have to dribble. I mean, it could be fun. Make it an Olympic sport. It sounds pretty Olympic. They have to skate. They have to do a like a SoCal 360 while kicking the ball through the field goal, right?

While kicking a field goal. Yeah. You know what know what yeah i'd still watch it also what if they were robots when do are we gonna let robots fight it has promised a future that we are not delivering on i want robot gladiators right that'd be tried that for a little bit but it was brought to sci-fi and that's where shows go to die so all i want to know is when are we gonna get robot battles where's real steel butts yeah come on what what that movie took place in hold on real steel wiki i can't believe this is where i'm going The real steel wiki Okay Real steel takes place Get out of town

In 2020 Human boxes have replaced robots Or been replaced by robots Human boxes So in 2020 they had robot boxers Some bullshit Oh my God. Bullshit. Oh my God. Our 2020 was so much worse.

Like just so much worse. It really was. The only people boxing. Like, I mean, I guess, I guess if you, if you think of like influencers as robots, it's, we're pretty close. Most boxes replaced by that. But like, come robots, we're pretty close. Most boxes have been replaced by that. But like, come on. That's not even fair. The worst part is

a lot of the things that took place in the movie were like, oh, that's like a generation one robot. It's not a generation one robot. That'd be like 2017. Man, it's bullshit. We got screwed. That was like the complete opposite of a year.

What's messed up is the movie came out in 2011. So they were like nine years from now. This world's going to be totally different and awesome. You were so wrong. How could you? How could you, Real Steel? That's sports. All right. real steel that's uh that's sports all right well let's go to our weird fact of the day weird

fact of the day here we go this is gonna be a honker of a fact are you ready no but i'm here all right Eddie. No, but I'm here. Alright. Sharks existed before trees. Well, alright, that's probably true. Wait, yeah, but like actual sharks or like pre-sharks? Let's find out. Trees are youngins compared to

the geyser sharks that rule the sea. Sharks have existed for around 400 million years while trees became their own official species only 350 million years ago other notable animals that outlive our leafy ancestors are the horseshoe crab and the jellyfish i mean i guess because they're mostly cartilage right so like they're they really haven't evolved all that much or had a need to i don't know i don't know can't sharks like heal themselves like an insane raid or something yeah when do you think sharks decided to become godless killing

machines was that pretty early on i don't know they probably did just the you know survival all i'm saying is look i'm not very religious but this whole noah arc thing god was like hey get these animals on you notice sharks didn't have to get on that boat just saying just maybe god was trying to drown them in a flood just put it out there just saying what needs to be said and they survived god they survived yeah god this killing machine yeah it's that healing factor they have. They're mutants. Here's your fact of the day. All right.

What is our big news story of the day? Big news story of the day. This is a stall if I've ever heard it. Yes. No, we got one. We got one. Florida man uses recycling bin to catch large alligator outside house. I don't know the procedures, so I did it my own way.

That's 26-year-old. Okay, I think I've seen this. Yes, yes. I don't know the procedures, so I did it my own way, says 26-year-old U.S. Army vet after the reptile hissed at his daughter. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear slides and socks. A U.S. Army vet who has gone viral online for trapping a large Florida alligator in a wheelie bin says he used the front like a hippo mouth to scare the reptile into submission. hippo mouth to scare the reptile into submission. When 26-year-old Eugene Bozzi's daughter told him,

hey, this big alligator just hissed at me. He thought it must be a baby. When he went outside and it was 1.8 meters long, he was daunted but not deterred. I said, no, I'm removing it because he's probably hungry, he told USA Today. The only thing that came to my mind was to protect my kids and the other children outside. So he grabbed the recycling bin, sliding it along the floor, lid open, towards the alligator,

which was at least as long as the large trash can. In a video uploaded to YouTube titled, The Black Dundee, the open-mouth alligator is facing the bin head-on, and at first shuffles slowly towards the... Shuffles backwards hissing. Eventually there's a standoff. The alligator stops moving backwards and Bozzy holds the bin in place. A crowd is gathered and Bozzy asks that someone let him know when the animal's head goes inside the bin. Then he rushes forward and flips the bin's blue lid on the gator's head.

The sun streaks across the camera. The gator hisses and flails straight into the bin, tries to backtrack, swishing its tail, but he tips the bin upright and the gator's tail disappears. I was frightened when I had it in because it was so powerful, and I didn't expect that. It was pushing out, whipping its tail around. Denise Sparks was inside her home when she heard the commotion. I have been gator food i would fainted she said i said what in the world is going

on i heard boom boom boom i don't know the procedures so i did it my own way bozzy said as the video went viral online many people noted that bozzy had pulled off that feet while wearing slides and socks. He was wearing, you know, socks and sandals. Twitter used, called, wait, now Twitter's, okay, these are just people tweeting being like, whoa, he did it. So, yeah, that happened. And if you look that up, you'll find him, and that's it. He gets the gator in the bin. What happened to the gator? They probably threw it back in the swamp somewhere. Yeah, that's it he's he gets the gator in the bin what happened part of that i probably threw it back in the swamp somewhere that's what i figured i mean if the gator got there he had to

have a home that was nearby i the craziest part about the video when you watch it there's a moment where i don't know if this was his intention there's a moment where he lifts the the trash can lid and it kind of looks like a mouth that's trying to eat the gator and the gator pauses he's like what is that thing because up until then he had tried to like move the mouth to make it look like it was moving and so the gator's just like well yeah oh and he like backs up a little i was like oh this gator's freaked out he got him once that happened i knew we got this gator i knew we had him because the gator was like, oh. Oh. That was a good one. I was very impressed.

Yeah, that is. Man. What a story. What a story. That was like a great Florida man story. Yeah, he even had a song written about him. Yeah. Look at that. Florida man.

He's a good guy. Well, sometimes. All right. Not often. Not often. Frequently. Well, sometimes. All right. Not often. Not often. Frequently not a great guy. All right. Let's get out of here.

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