Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 368 - Shake Your Grump

Episode Date: December 19, 2022

The boys are back and this week Crendor takes issues with the lack of winter themed levels in his games. Well more specifically he's made about League of Legends, which definitely checks out. Meanwhile Jesse got a new bed and is living his BEST LIFE - while also trying to cut out deliver foods - but one company won't let him leave. And then not one, but two stories involving the Grinch! All this and more on a brand new Cox n' Crendor! Go to http://hellofresh.com/cox18 and use code cox18 for 18 free meals plus free shipping! Go to http://babbel.com/cox to get up to 55% off your subscription.

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Broadcasting live, live, live, live, live. In 4-hour recording studio. Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Cacks and Grendar in the morning! Here we are. Here we are. Here we are. Here we are. I had no idea what you said. I thought you said VR. I was like, VR? VR.

VR. Nah, I was just saying here we are because we are here. Right. Yeah. This is where we are. Here. Yeah. Here is where we are.

In VR. Well, we're not in VR. We are VR. That's getting a little too Facebook for me. We are VR. Honestly, they should have made that their slogan. We are VR. Now no one's going to use it.

It's going to be garbage. Yeah. What's their slogan? It's probably like the metaverse, changing possibilities and creating life or some shit like that. I got to look this up. What is the metaverse slogan? Metaverse slogan. Jesus, it's even worse.

So metaverse's long form slogan is moving towards immersive experiences to build the next evolution in social technology. Oh my god. That is. But then their shorter versions are live in the future. Right. Build awesome things. Mm-hmm. This sucks.

Meta. Meta mates. Me. What does that mean bro those are so bad you know i'm starting to think rich people are dumb as shit i'm just this is like okay is this are we like who made these up is this like like the... Did Mark Zuckerberg make these up? Did a business squad of marketing team make this up? Who made these? Did the developers make this up?

Who was in charge? I don't know. I'm looking at an article right now that's literally titled, Meta's new slogans aren't impressing brand experts. And I can understand why. Well, yeah. Imagine if it just said we are vr they're like dude that's that's great that would be amazing yeah yeah yeah this one is i guess they're saying facebook ditched its old motto which was be bold which is very stupid already, to live

in the future. I don't know what that means. I don't know what... Yeah, it's, you know, I guess you're living in the future of VR, but I don't know if you look at the metaverse, doesn't look like the future to me. In fact, looks like I'm playing a

Nintendo 64 game in virtual reality. Another one of their slogans is move fast. The hell? What are they, like a cheetah? This is genuinely... It explains everything I need to know about why meta

sucks so badly. Oh yeah, 100%. If this is the best your marketing team can do to like sell everyone on what's next, no wonder no one wants to use it. Give me a brief synopsis of what you got. Move fast. Imagine a world in which we're all living in the future and we're direct and focusing on a long-term move fast

meta, metamates, me, brand. on a long-term move fast meta meta mates me brand that's so bad we are moving towards an immersive experience and building the next evolution in social technology like like move fast and then like creating the new tech. It almost sounds like they're creating a Nike, like they're creating a shoe. Dude, it gets even better. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I can't believe this.

This is from August 2022. These are real quotes from an actual event. The people are pieces of software called avatars. In simplest terms, the metaverse is the internet, but 3D. That is the internet, but 3D. But 3D, because we needed that. Because mankind sat down and said, I could swipe on my phone, press one button and be done, or put on a headset, travel through a virtual community, and then interact with virtual things to get the same product.

I think the worst part about all this is that VR chat just does it better than the metaverse. And it's like literally a place where like anime avatars go. And it like already does it better. Man. It's, I just don't, I've never seen anyone. I was about to say I've never seen anyone throw away money so quickly, but Elon Musk literally just threw away 44 billion. So what the hell do I know? You saw my tweet. I swear god i'm scrolling twitter and i just keep getting these things of like like some guy being like i'm a fruit enzyme expert follow me you're like uh i like just like

there was one it was a promoted tweet of some woman being like it's my dog's birthday i was like why would you promote this? Why are you even paying for this? Dude, I have the exact same problem. Every time I go to Twitter, now, because all the big ad companies have left, I assume ad dollars and ad spending and all that stuff has declined enough. They're just taking anyone's money

now. And I swear to you, every third tweet is a new ad. I responded to you, I third tweet is a new ad. I responded to you. I've seen ads for online gambling. I've seen ads for weird products that definitely are being sold at 3 a.m. on TV. Just the worst things. And I keep having to mute them. And then another thing will pop up.

And it's always something stupid. It's never like, here's a product you'll need. It's always like, oh, yes, here's a product you'll need it's always like oh yes here's another one ditch the dad wallet get our new air tag tracking wallet yeah like why that was that's the first thing i saw when i went when i went there was that I just got a shitty anime game. I got the swivel robotic arm swivel extension faucet aerator. I got the hell this the best soccer defender out there. And that's the dog again.

It's the woman with the dog birthday dog like dancing around. I'm muting this account. I don't get it. You know what? A lot of these people are like marketing people. It's the people that come up with the metaverse slogan that are like, I need to stay hip. I need to promote myself on the Twitter to show that

I'm a powerful. It's like, what are you doing? I got an ad for chess.com chess.com chess.com they got that big twitter money now I guess oh my god I got this guy named Cam Rogers official

Christmas movie power rankings the most accurate rankings ever created your thoughts like at least this guy's getting creative with it you know what I mean I mean I want to know how much it costs to have it. Maybe we should do a Cox and Grendel ad. The ad's just like, do you like shitty podcasts?

Do you like annoying promoted ads on Twitter? There you go. We got an annoying promoted ad for you. Dude, I can't. Yeah, I can't believe some of the things that they promote on here now. And it's just like today, earlier today, saw an advertisement for a back massager. And they're using it on the back, but it looked like a dick, dude. I was like, I don't think that's a back massager, my man. And he's rubbing it on his back.

He's like, it feels really good. I'm like, uh-huh. Uh-huh. Oh, my man. And he's like rubbing it on his back. He's like, it feels really good. I'm like, uh-huh. Uh-huh. Oh, my God. I just got one that says it's a Caleb Ogden. He says Instagram is better than Twitter. Way better. Like all the way better.

Check out my Instagram at Twitter support. Dude, I think we have to see what it takes to get an ad. Just the fact that this dude paid to promote himself to plug his other social media when they just were like, we won't allow social media, and it went through anyway. That's so good. Oh, man. We should make an ad. We should make an ad where it's us promoting the metaverse using only metaverse quotes. That would be good.

Just be like, the metaverse isn't a thing a company builds. It's the next chapter of the internet overall. The metaverse is here. And it's not only transforming how we see the world, but also how we participate in it, from the factory floor to the meeting room. From the factory floor. Get the fuck out. The factory floor. I absolutely hate all social media. Get out of here.

From the factory floor. All right. Time to build your car. Put on your VR headset. The factory floor. We are fast. Faster than my irritable colon. This quote also sucks.

Here we are. We finally have all our devices, but they're still built around apps, not people. The experiences we're allowed to build and use are more tightly controlled than ever. And high taxes on new creative ideas are stifling. This is not the way we were meant to use technology. So really, he's like, come use my technology and I'll tax the crap out of you. Yeah. Cool, all right.

Oh my god, I hate this. Because I keep muting things, now I keep getting the same ads, and I've seen the same, like, AirTag wallet five times now. Yeah, it's... I'm going to mute that too. It's, my god. And they just, it just, it never stops. You're going to keep getting new ones.

I don't even know why I bother muting. It's just, whatever. I don't even know why I bother muting. It's just Whatever. I don't care listen People are like Twitter's going like it Twitter already sucked now It just sucks more you know cuz like now a lot of people be like oh, you know what to get away from like the shittiness Of Twitter I'm just gonna make like a different account and follow like things that I enjoy You know or things that are fun that i only care and now even if you do that you got like jim johnson popping up being like you like christmas

tier lists like get out of here i really think we should do something stupid like that we probably I can't believe it's so stupid Let's see Well, how's your week going? I mean, good, good I finally have my new bed All good, all set Everything is fantastic And I'm gonna let you know I've had some of the best nights of sleep I've ever had

It feels so good So good I didn't even know you were getting a new bed Well I was going to get it a while ago And then the elevator broke And so I didn't want the mover people to come Deliver the bed and have to go up You know five floors to deliver it

So I was like just wait till it's fixed And then they had to There was a delay Because You know Shipping Whatever They were like

Look So it took an extra two weeks And they finally delivered it It was the best You know what I didn't realize How crappy my old bed was I'm gonna let you know

I've had that thing Since like 2010 And I thought to myself You know Actually no that's a lie I think I might have had it 2012 It's 10 years old Because I bought it when I moved to LA So either way

Damn thing I was Yeah it's old You know they say Get your mattress Every 8 years or whatever They're right I don't

I'll let you know I've been feeling great I wake up and I'm like Wait I don't, I'll let you know. I, I, I've been feeling great. I wake up and I'm like, wait, I don't ache. Hold on a second. Like, I don't have to stretch when I get out of bed. I like get out of bed. I'm like, oh, oh, I feel, do I feel refreshed? Like I slept well.

It's crazy, dude. It's crazy. Huh? Well, that's good. At least least you're i know you're making health progress yeah yeah it's pretty it's pretty all right it's pretty okay yeah i um the only thing happened to me this week besides getting work done and having good sleep and stuff is uh i've been trying so i was like know, speaking of health progress, I'm like, I'm all these damn food apps that I put on my phone over COVID they're, they like are

such a lure. You know what I mean? I'm like, I could make food or I could just order something delivered. So I deleted all of them, except I realized that I had Uber eats on my phone with, uh, like $20 in credit. I was like, well, you know what? I might as well order something and spend that credit. So just like a simple order. You know, just ordered some like coffee for the office. Did a whole thing.

Look at my phone. They didn't use the credit. So now I'm like, I just want to get rid of it so now it's sitting here with the credit still on it torturing me like don't you want to order some food jesse i'm like no stop it's like come on baby you know you want to so yeah I have $26.33 In credit On this damn thing and I just Desperately want to use it and Then delete it but I'm like

If I use it that means I'm going to order food and I'm stuck dude I'm stuck can't you order like Healthy food Um yeah except it's really expensive And I'm trying not to spend More you know what I mean I'm trying not to spend more. You know what I mean? I'm trying not to spend $35 on a salad. Yeah, but if there's any time to do it, it's now.

You got a bunch of credit. I mean, you're right. So, I mean, technically, you're only spending like $11 on a salad. Touche. And then you never do it again. Yeah. I'm like like it's so silly I'm looking at My receipt for this last order and it just

Completely avoided using the credits I cannot explain to you Why it was like We're fine Well it's uh I mean that's what a lot of things do right They give you like five dollars off or like get your next thing free. Like it's always to get you in there.

That's what they want. Like a lot of times be like, hey, get a 10% off this thing. A lot of times, you know, some be like, ooh, and then they go into the store and then they buy a whole bunch of stuff, right? Well, it's not even like, I get it. I understand that. But just imagine that, but it's not even like i get it i understand that but just imagine that but it's also terrible service too yeah like during covid delivery worked right it was fine but now that you know people are beyond that shit uh the livery drivers suck they're terrible like they'll it'll take 45 minutes for them to deliver a coffee.

And you're like, well, why? I could have just driven there and got it. That might be an LA thing. Here it's been fine. Oh, it's terrible. It's only gotten worse. So I'm like, you know what? It's giving me a reason to just delete it, and I'm fine with it,

and I got to do it anyway because it's not healthy. None of it's healthy food. So I'm like, all right, delete. And I was doing well until they were like, bro money and i was like no no i just want to be rid of you so i feel like there's there's like the rural areas then there's like the more populated you know smaller towns then there's like cities then there's smaller towns. Then there's like cities. Then there's like big cities. And then there's like L.A.

And it's like its own monstrosity. It is. And so, like, when we had COVID, like a month and a half or whenever ago, two months, we were ordering everything. And, like, everything was fine. They delivered stuff. They were all on time. Like, it was all fine. They delivered stuff. They were all on time. It was all fine.

No problem. I came in. The last X number of deliveries I had, all of them were late. You know when it says latest arrival, insert number here? It's always past that. And then they're just like, we're so sorry. I'm like, the food was cold. It was terrible, which is probably why they give me crappy drivers

because I'm giving everyone zero stars. I'm like, you can't deliver up zero stars. Which is probably why I'm getting drivers that have 87% ratings. I'm like, we don't want this guy. So that's why I'm like, you know what? It's probably for the best.

That's, uh, yeah, I feel like there's something to be said for like the cold weather places because i feel like in la everyone's like you know it's just nice all the time it's warm everyone's just relaxed and stuff but like you're like you know new york chicago boston like all the cold weather plays they're just like i gotta deliver this shit so i can get home you're absolutely right they'll complain the entire time and curse up a storm, but it'll get there. It'll get there. Here they're

like all smiles and they're so happy, but they're 25 minutes late. It's like, oh, look at Venice Beach. It's pretty nice. I actually went to get your coffee and then I ordered a coffee for myself and I said, I love coffee.

Like that kind of thing. And you're like, come on, bro. Oh, there's a skateboard scooter festival going on. Maybe I'll join in for a couple minutes. It won't mind. Also, the crazy part is half the time when I order stuff, they don't arrive in a car. It's like a dude who picked it up on a bike or a guy in a scooter. And I'm like, come on.

Oh, yeah. The whole point is you're supposed to deliver it quickly. And they're it up on a bike or like a guy in a scooter. And I'm like, come on. Oh, yeah. The whole point is you're supposed to deliver it quickly. And they're like rolling up on their huffy. It's like, come on, dude. Yeah, so you can't do that here. You'll die. It's true. You're absolutely right.

Just getting hit by the ice. Yeah. You know, the snow. You know, like even in a car. Like you just, you have to use, otherwise, there's no scooter Bob strolling around like, yeah, it's just that it's determined it's a better form of transportation for myself and the environment. Like, that's great, but I want my shit.

Yeah, I have, every time I ever would order a thing and then it would show up and there would be a little bike symbol, I'd be like, come on. The whole point is, just tell me some dude on a bike is going to grab it, so I'll just go get it myself. Is it like if it's like five minutes away? Or do they just do it for like anything? I've gotten ones where it's been like, you know, everything is roughly five minutes away in LA. It just depends on traffic. So I understand a bike.

But the bike is just as slow. So what is the point? Plus you're in the open air. So literally you're just making my stuff cold as you bike over here. That's why I'm done with it. Over the past, like, two weeks I've just been deleting stuff. Making sure all my information is off of it. Just like, nope, nope, nope sure all my information is off of it. Just like, nope.

Nope. Nope. The last one is Uber Eats. I'm going to get rid of it. I'm so pleased with myself. And then like an adult, maybe I'll make a sandwich. No way. I know, dude. I know. By the way, this

podcast is sponsored by Uber Eats. It's not, by the way. I don't think they would ever do that. Yeah, they definitely wouldn't, no. But then again, they'd listen. If they want to give us money, I'll tell you how good it is, but we all know the truth. I was going to say, I've been trying to, speaking of clean up stuff,

I've been trying to do that again. Because every couple of months, you hit that point where you're like, I've got to clean. You go through stuff like, am I really going to use this? Because the last time you organized, you're like, maybe I'll use this. And then you're like, no, I'm not going to use it. And then you get rid of it. When you're cleaning, are you giving stuff to goodwill or to charity or like what is your vibe or are you just like moving it cleaning and then moving it back

well it's a combination like certain like clothes and stuff we usually give to goodwill or like charity or whatever it is uh and then i have like so much computer electronic stuff yeah yeah yeah that sounds right and so i either give it to other people like friends that are like i'm using this 15 year old video card and i'm like well here's my four-year-old video card that i don't need anymore and they're, whoa. So stuff like that. Or just like random little shit like books or like cards. Random shit like books. Not even like real books, like little mini books. Are they Warhammer books, Crandor?

Oh, God, no. I already have a bunch of those. I was about to say, I feel like if anyone has a series of small Warhammer books that are totally useless, it would be you. Well, I have a lot of just Warhammer shit in general because I'm on their, like, cool, like, promotional person thing. So I get sent, like, everything that comes out, almost. Not everything, but I get sent a lot. So I'll just be like, here you go. And I'm like, all right, well, I guess I don't have time to build this now.

I'll put it in the pile. And now I just have like a massive just load of Warhammer stuff that I'm like, I've seen your office. There was a time when that thing was clean and now it is filled to the brim with Warhammer figures there's so many yeah it's a lot of Warhammer so you know there's that uh and then and even that like I've started like I have my Warhammer friends I'm just like hey do you guys want like this kill team thing and they're like yeah I'll take it and I'm like great and so a lot like my one friend I'll like trade him stuff and he'll like prime my

miniatures because I'm like I don't want to prime all this I'm like you prime literally all this that's when you like you take your you know you're outsourcing your priming to people because I hate priming it's like you got so much, especially when you like play actual full armies and I'm like, alright, I got a hundred clan rats, like three vermin lords, and a partridge and a pear tree, and then I'm like, I don't want to prime all this, so I'm like, yo, I'll

give you stuff, and then can you prime it? And he's like, yeah, I'll do it. I'm like, sweet. So it's great. So, you know, just going through everything and then like organizing my desk and i just like having not a lot of stuff visible but then things over time just pile up and then i just forget and i'm like man remember when it was clean and i'm like i gotta do that and then i do it and it's just a cycle i very much understand you it is a cycle but it's like a good cycle I love posts clean clarity is that a thing we can you know you look upon your domain and you say

I did this and it's clean and I'm very proud of it yeah yeah it is you know murray condo's onto something it's very uh i don't know it's it feels good for your mind like there's clarity of the mind you know you got like uh space you know what it is i think it's just it's like when you have too many things to do and you end up doing none of them yep it's that but with stuff so you're like there's so much stuff around i don't know what to clean around my mind i'm just gonna do nothing like it gives you that kind of mindset but when you clean it all you're like hey no i feel you know clear i absolutely feel that way and i i finished a big video this past week.

And getting that done and having it out of my brain, even though it's been there for the last X number of months, that feels great too. Making sure everything going into the new year is kind of like, well, I did that, and I cleaned this, and I fixed that. It feels good. It feels better than any kind of like, my new year's resolution. It's like, no, no, no.

I did stuff already. I feel good about it. I'm alright. Exactly. You don't need a resolution. You just gotta do it. Right? You just gotta go out, clean your thing, you go to the gym, you just do it.

There shouldn't be like a resolution for it because that's the problem no matter the resolution all my resolutions fail but when uh you know during like randomly in august when i'm like i'm gonna start working out then that keeps going because that's like a life choice you're making or like you know what i'm gonna just start cleaning stuff and then it's like wow that was great but like when everybody hits the january and they're like you know what this is the time of the year when i'm just gonna never works yeah i i wish i don't know i wish i had the clarity to to make a choice and stick to it. All of my weird cleaning things and all of my weird video things are because eventually I'm just like, I have to. Damn it.

And then I shut down all other parts of my life to finish it. Where I don't do it over X number of weeks and get a little bit done every day. I'm like, I'm spending all week. No one talked to me. I get it done. And I'm like, man, I felt good about that. Probably should have done that seven months ago. Yeah.

No, it's a. What was it? Yeah, I remember somebody was just like, is that is that important to you? Like cleaning stuff? And I was like, yeah. And then they're like, well, why don't you do it? And I'm like, I don't know. and I was like, yeah.

And then they're like, well, why don't you do it? And I'm like, I don't know. It's like, I think your brain is just kind of like, it's not that important compared to other stuff. But really, it is because it helps to, like, your environment helps you to focus and do other things. So when your environment's clean and organized and everything, it makes you, like you able to do the things

you want to do. Yeah, it's... I guess because we prioritize a bunch of other stuff in life that's kind of BS, comparative to... But you need it, right? I was about to say we prioritize work, but you need work because work gives you

money and you need money to live. I get it. But it also probably shouldn't be that way you know what i mean like in reality we should prioritize like our space and the way we like treat each other and how we like handle our instead of just like work work money money make stuff buy things right it's a little messed up it's uh yeah I don't know there's like so many factors that go into it because obviously there's like people that are

you know working like you know casually and being like yeah you know I can do whatever and then there's people working like three jobs that are just like I don't got time for this right so I mean it depends on your life situation as well but it's you know i think no matter what it shows that having a clean space and being organized is just a good thing and if

you know even if you even if you only do it like once a month like it's still worth doing that one time a month rather than not doing it at all. Yeah. Yeah. Just like scheduling a time to do it. Even if it's not a month. Even if it's like a quarterly or seasonal thing. We're just like, we've scheduled this coming Saturday for the big clean day. And just like go to town. Once you're in it, it's not hard if you like chunk it.

You're like, all right, I'm going to start with this room. And I'm going to start with this room. Then I'll hit this room. and then we'll do this room. And you just, like, take it bit by bit, and you'll get it done. It's just it seems so overwhelming because you're just like, oh, boy. And it probably, again, should be those things that you do over the course of, like, a week. Like, today we're doing this room.

But no, if you're like me, you're like, all right, should I do it so no one talked to me for the next 24 hours or else I'm not going to get it done. Yeah, it actually is crazy because there's people like that where they're like, you know, piece by piece every day, you know, do a little bit. I'm the opposite too. I'm like, I got to just dedicate. I'm like, today I'm not making videos. I'm not streaming, not doing anything.

I'm just cleaning. That's like all I do. Well, I think I might give up too easy as well. Because I, as an example, on Friday night, one of the, one of the nights this past week, I was invited to a party and it was an hour away. So already I'm like an an hour for a party? I don't know. But I'm like, alright. A lot of people are going to be

there and I haven't seen them in a while, so I'll go. So I get in my car, start driving down the highway, and it's fine. It's like 9pm when I leave because I'm like, I'm not going to be the first person there. The hell with that. It's 9pm and I'm driving down the highway It's pretty easy

And then I get to a point where there's a traffic jam Because a car broke down in the middle of the road Like a moving truck I'm like oh god And I look at my directions And it says I'm maybe 5 minutes away I have an hour trip I'm 5 minutes away and I was like

I could just turn around and go back And no one would care maybe five minutes away. I have an hour trip, I'm five minutes away, and I was like, I could just turn around and go back and no one would care. Like, no one would care if I just turned around and went back. I don't need to even go to this party. I got to win this damn trip. I could just turn around right now. And so instead I was like, no, Jesse, no. You're going to go to this party. And I get to the party and I realize there's no parking.

And I'm like, if I have to park five blocks away, I'm going to be so mad. Oh, I'm just going to drive home. And then I see there's a parking spot right across from the venue. I'm like, oh, okay. And only because the parking spot was right there was I like, all right, well, I'm fine. But if it was like you got to park five blocks down the road in a terrible section of town, I was like, nah. Nah, I'm not getting my car broken into.

So I was like, alright, you know what? It's fine. Went to the party, had fun, came home, was good. But I realized along the way, I gave myself multiple outs. I was like, Jesse, you don't have to do this, buddy. And I realized I do that quite frequently, where I'm just like, yeah't have to do this buddy And I realize I do that quite frequently

Where I'm just like yeah I could do this thing Or Not at all do that thing And I always not always Mostly choose not at all do that thing Right I would feel that's the most natural human reaction Because I feel like

Most people if they're like You could go do this thing or you can just sit and play video game right like most people would be like i'll take the video game right it's just the most people are going to choose the path of least resistance so it's like it's why people always are just like you know what new year's resolution i'm gonna go to the gym but it's like you want to go out into the cold and then go to the gym and run and lift some weight or do you want to just stay at home where it's warm and like play a video game after working you know it's like man what a choice but it really does it's if you get into the routine of something it makes it that much easier it really does make humans seem to be like that's like our, like, bear animal side.

Just like, I just want to hibernate. I just want to stay indoors in my cave and just play my entertainments and eat my foods and not be bugged. That really is the base of what we are. But then we have the power. We have the ability to rise up and say, no, I don't. Go to the gym. I'm going to organize my stuff.

And I'm going to change because I can overpower my natural instincts. And I'm going to go into the metaverse. Because we are characters. And in the metaverse, we're known as avatars. Be forward. Think outside the box. Be forward. Think outside the box. Be meta.

Meta is me. Metaverse. Be fast. Be fast. Be fast is the shittiest slogan I've ever heard. It really is. Be fast. Even Nike is probably, be fast.

Come on, dude. That's garbage, be fast. Come on, dude. That's garbage. Be fast. But really, that would have been a much better metaverse ad. All that we just said. Metaverse, rise up against your mortal chains. Unleash yourself upon the digital world. Yeah.

You just got to hype up people. Yeah. Which, by the way, Metaverse, when they say all this shit, they really just want you to sit at home and put on your VR headset

and go to Walmart in your headset. Again, why anyone thinks putting a headset on is the optimal state for anyone. What a pain in the ass it is

to just be like, I'm in VR, put my headset on Like it's a fun gimmick for 20 or 30 minutes But I don't want to go to work in a headset That sucks Yeah, no that sounds terrible Like after, you're going to get nauseated after a while

You're going to see your Terrible VR Although, I do want to know What would your VR avatar, in this future What does your VR avatar look like? I would say Man yeah, what would I use?

Yeah, who would just be like be a sloth which you know it would be fun But I feel like you'd still have to have like some sort of what if it was like a hybrid human sloth You'd still have to have some sort of... What if it was like a hybrid human sloth? It's like really creepy. This is the future Elon wants. You know that, right? Not Elon. Zuckerberg.

Doesn't matter. They're both the same. They're both the same damn person. Robots. Yeah. I don't... I would just try to make a creepy hybrid human sloth thing. I don't even know.

Yeah, I want to be, like, some type of fruit. Like a pineapple, but with a mouth. Like that crappy, annoying orange. Except it's just a pineapple with a mouth. That's what I want. And then you roll me around in the vr world like hey help me get to my next meeting and then you push me there i'm trying i'm trying to see what do people use vr for like the statistics of it because i want to see how much is just pornography i was about to say porn is is 90 of that. It has to be.

It's like there's all these statistics, like the compound annual growth rate of the VR. I don't give a shit. I just want to see how much is pornography, how much is like I can go into my classroom. Who would want to go to a classroom in VR? That sounds like terrible idea. This is not good. Yeah.

It's, this is dumb. Uh, what is VR most used for entertainment applications such as video game, 3d cinema, amusement park rides, or virtual worlds. So porn.

Yeah. When they say 3d cinema and video games, they or virtual worlds. So, porn. Yeah. When they say 3D cinema and video games, they mean porn. Yeah. Crazy video game stuff and then porn. And then porn. Yeah. That's it. I did, completely off topic, I wanted to bring out the video game, like, Christmas themed themed stuff do you have any like because everybody does

their like winter christmas themed stuff around now right and so yeah i always like a lot of those things it's like it's like having a holiday in a hall like like the winter veil and wow or like animal crossing like it starts snowing and you know they've got like their Christmas stuff up and everything or like in uh League of Legends they used to do the winter map then they stopped doing it it made me angry

uh like do you have any of those man um I don't I don't think I play enough online games to know the Christmassy vibes. I'm trying to think. I know Final Fantasy XIV just had their Christmas event, and honestly, the Christmas event is like whatever every year.

It's like whatever. But yesterday, this is a shout-out to the XIV community because they kill it every year. There's a guild on my server that everyone dresses up like Santa, goes into one of the main towns, stands in the square of the town, and gives away stuff. And every year, hundreds of people line up in a single file line to go talk to an elf who then tells Santa what to give you. So basically you walk up to them and you say, I want this thing.

And they're like, okay. And then you go talk to a person dressed as Santa and they give you the idol. And they do it every year and it is so wholesome watching them do that. It's amazing. I can't believe the line lasts 45 minutes, an hour, and you'll see people standing in the line, cheering and having a good time, and it's like, this is crazy. But that's the only thing that I've seen recently.

I'm trying to remember what I've played where I've been like, oh, that's a fun holiday update. But most of the time, I'm playing single-player games. So I don't have a lot of like whoa fun holiday update yeah that's true i realized that all the games i mentioned are just games i play like constantly all the time i remember this from three years ago as well so that does make sense and really the only one i'm angry about is the the league of legends one because they got rid of the winter map which i always enjoyed.

Is this just a League of Legends rant? You're just upset about that? Everybody is because you go on their new thing like the winter season is here and here's the new champion. Everyone's like, give us the map. It's just all the comments are like, we want the map. I would legit pay like 10 bucks just to

permanently have that map. Just do it. I don't know why they're so dumb. Riot Games. Just do that. They already sell TFT maps. So why not just let me buy them? Because they're like, oh, I think sometimes it makes it harder to play the game.

I don't give a shit. I just want to play in a winter wonderland, all right? The man knows what he likes. He wants the winter wonderland. I know what I want. And then it's got the like, do-do-do-do, do-do and then it's got the like it's got like little bells for the music come on speaking of winter wonderland there's a game that i've been playing called land of the vikings you'd probably enjoy it it's a um like one of those sim games where you build a town right oh yeah except it's your vikings you land on a shore and you have to start

from scratch, right? Like, that's the vibe. And I've been trying to play through it, but I genuinely suck at being a Viking, where I'm trying to, like, create this wonderful village, but then winter will arrive, and all my people will die every time. Every winter, my people die. And I keep

trying to figure out how I'm going to save them, and I keep trying to make these new builds. But there's all, you know, random events and stuff. Something will randomly happen. It's like, all of your food stores have been destroyed. I'm like, well, we're dead. What am I supposed to do about that? Like, we're dead now.

Or I'll be like, it'll be winter. And then it'll be a group of strangers have arrived in your camp. Will you allow them to stay with you? They'll bring you this, this, and this. I'm like, well, hell yeah. And then I'll allow them to stay and then I'll forget that I have no housing for them. And it's like they all died. And I'm like, okay.

All right. Well, good to know. So I need to play more of it, but it's like super silly and fun. It reminds me a lot of, oh, what is that game where it was snow and you had to build a furnace? Oh, Frostpunk. Yeah, I love Frostpunk. That was fun. I'm still upset that Frostpunk literally

has a religion element and a giant furnace. And when people die, you have all these options of what to do with them. The fact that it won't allow me to burn bodies in the furnace to keep us alive, that's the perfect religion! That's bodies in the furnace to keep us alive. Like, that's the perfect religion. That's true. Like, your body shall keep us alive.

Let you burn. Like, when you die, your essence will let us survive. Like, that's the perfect fake religion I can make. And it isn't in the game? I was like, come on now. Yeah. No, that's dumb. That's really everything I had on my thing to talk about.

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It's getting crazy. You know, only a week until Christmas time, which actually kind of insane. Really, like a is picking up. It's getting crazy. Uh, you know, only a week till, uh, Christmas time, which actually kind of insane, really like a week till Christmas or wait, uh, yeah, cause it's on the weekend. Oh my God. That's actually, uh, not great for a lot of people because they probably want the weekday off and now it's like their weekend is the holidays. So you have to be like, ah, I gotta be off on the holidays that are the weekend or, you know, you know what I'm saying.

Thank you. Thanks, Crandor. Now let's go over to Crandor at the weather desk. How's that weather? Weather. Weather. Let's see. We have weather requests.

We do. We have weather requests. We have weather requests we have weather requests let's see um uh let's see any good weather requests here we go we got uh mr g says i really miss my desert town of san pedro de atacama chile if you could do the weather from up there it'll be more than likely it'll be more than likely make my day. Alright. What is that?

Aracamo? It is San Pedro de Atacama. Atacama. Atacama. Whoa! What year is this town from? The first image looks like it's from 1822.

Wow, yeah, it does. Whoa, this is wild looking. I love this. This is beautiful. Yeah, look at that. Let's see. Question, question. How are you listening to us? How did you find us?

You're down in Chile living your life. So it's his hometown. So maybe he's moving. That's what I'm saying. When did you find us in your hometown? Do we have reach into small town Chile? I mean, it's not like they're living on an island with no electricity right but like you never expect this is like when someone in the

northern part of norway is like big fan here's my hometown and it has one road and i just i'm curious i mean it amazes me that anyone cares about what we have to say, especially this town has a meteorite museum. You can go to the meteorite museum. You don't have to listen to us. I mean, I clicked this picture. It's just some girl walking down the road and looking at her phone. Same everywhere. Oh, yeah, the weather.

77 degrees Fahrenheit, partly cloudy wind. Day 79, nighttime 48. It's cold in the desert. Actually, 48 is pretty nice. I like that. You got a high of, well, I just said those. Humidity, 13%. Pressure, 29.66 inches.

Visibility visibility 10 miles sunrise 643 a.m. Sunset 816 p.m. 21 mile an hour winds little windy over there 23 on the dew point UV index is 2 of 10 with a waning crescent moon phase waning Crescent take a look at the 10-day waning crescent. Take a look at the 10 day. 80 degrees on Monday. Mostly sunny with wind.

Tuesday, you got 82. Mostly sunny. Wednesday, 84. Sunny. Thursday, 83. Sunny. Friday, 82. Sunny with wind. Saturday, you got sunny. And Sunday, it's sunny with 79 degrees. That's pretty nice. I think my favorite weather is probably like in the mid-70s with the sun. In terms of like for it being warm outside.

Getting higher than that, it gets a little too hot. Colder than that, I still like it. But that's like a good sunny time. But like when it's cloudy, I like rain. I like a good 55 degrees with rain. That might be my favorite weather. But not a cold rain. Like a 55 degree rain.

Not a rain that makes you cold when it touches your skin, but like a normal, that's a fine rain. That's what a 55 degree rain is. You get a nice, slightly chilled. Sometimes, sometimes. Listen, when it rains, it's like 35 and then it freezes overnight. That's a cold rain. 55 rain is not cold. I guess you're right.

That's just like a nice spring rain. And then you get too hot. If you get like 70s or 80s with rain, that's just like you're getting like Florida humid, sticky rain. Like, ugh. I got to say, this town, I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. San Pedro, I'm obsessed with you. This must be a touristy town because there's so many hotels.

But all the restaurants as well? Dude. I'm looking at some of these. There's one called, I think it's supposed to be a French restaurant. It's La Franchuteria? Maybe like a French cafe or French cafeteria. That place looks like the most jesty place I've ever seen. Straight up, it is all outdoor seating.

It's all like coffees and breads and baguette sandwiches. And the building itself looks like a wood shack. I'm looking at this place like, damn, that is the spot. It looks like there's's just They're drinking tea Eating avocado spread on toast That is a bougie Jesse experience If I ever saw one I'm here for it man

It's so good I was looking through the restaurants While we were talking about the weather Most things here are like a 4.5 4.7 And they all kind of have like an outdoor Never mind I found one that's a 3 star But we'll talk about that place

Everybody's got a 3 star But like I'm looking at these places They're all small little cafe things But most of it's outdoor stuff too I mean it makes sense I'm absolutely here for it Some of these look so good dude I'm obsessed with the fact that It looks, some of these look so good, dude. Yeah, look at that.

What is? I'm obsessed with the fact that like every time we find a place, I'm like, what's the food situation there? Like it really has just become like the weather slash food travel show, which I'm all for. Yeah, this place is called the Boltenake. Boltenace. Oh, I see it. A Boltenace restaurant. Looking at this thing, This food looks like art

Oh yeah look at that This place looks incredible Oh yeah look at that That looks great And it's right on a salt lake Is that true? Oh yeah look at that It looks like a salt lake

Ah Cochina Inspiration Indigena I assume that's indigenous cuisine then is what they're saying. I would imagine. Dude, it looks so good. They got some cool art. Oh, it's like an adobo. The restaurant's like an adobo hut kind of thing too.

What the? Look at that. Yo, this place. I'm so upset that I'm over here complaining about stupid uber eats when i could live in the middle of nowhere and get better food this is so upsetting i'm like i guess i'll order a grilled cheese sandwich from uber eats get out of town i'm so stupid i mean i doubt it's like people there eating this every day yeah but i mean what's the point of of being a success on the internet if i can't go eat this delicious whatever what the hell i'm looking at

right now that's true what is this thing yeah this looks wild this looks so good i'm looking at a soup that looks like i love soup have i mentioned how much I love soup? You do love soup. Big soup fan. Numerous times. Love soup. Oh, my God. Then everyone's like out in the giant like salt flat floating in the water. I just want to go visit here now. Oh, I'm so upset. Stupid Uber Eats and stupid LA.

Yeah. That's the weather. All right. Let's go to sports. Sports. Welcome to sports. We got football happening. We had football happen. So we had the 49ers beat the Seahawks on Thursday.

Vikings came back from down 33 to nothing to beat the Colts in overtime. Browns beat the Ravens. Bills beat the Dolphins. Eagles beat the Bears. Lions beat the Jets. Steelers beat the Panthers. Chiefs beating the Texans in overtime. Saints beat the Falcons.

Currently, the Cowboys-Jaguars are in overtime. And then we have numerous other games to be played after that. Over in the World Cup, I think the Argentina won, right? They did. And now everyone's saying Messi's the best, but we're going to need a Pele on this one. We're going to have to have some sort of Pele-Messi digital fight. Do we have any video game where we can have those two match up? Make that happen.

Pele's still the best. I don't care what anyone says. Pele! Then basketball. We got our standings here of the Celtics in first. Bucks, Cavs, Nets, 76ers, Knicks,

Heat, and Pacers in the top eight. And then in the West, we got the Grizzlies at the top with the Pelicans, Nuggets, Suns, Kings, Blazers, Clippers, and Jazz. Then in hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, we got the Bruins at the top. We got the Devils at the top with the Hurricane right behind. We got the Stars with the Jets right behind. And we've got the Golden Knights in first place. And that's sports. All right.

What's our fact of the day? Fact of the day. Day. Day. Day. Day Fact of the day. Day. Day. Day. Day. Day. Day.

Fact of the day. Let's see. We've got the largest pair of eyes in the world belongs to the giant squid. What? That's right. Largest pair of eyes in the world belongs to the giant squid. What? That's right. Largest pair of eyes in the world belongs to the giant squid. Its eyes are the size

of soccer balls and are at least 25 centimeters across. The largest fish eye is only around 9 centimeters wide, which belongs to the sword fish. But wait, why aren't we talking about fish? There's not a there's not like a is a whale eye?

Biggest eyes in the world. Yeah, colossal squid. I mean, that's it. Yeah, look at that. But there, which mammal has the, what the hell? The tarsiers? Small primates have huge eyes. Well, that's not...

Whoa. I don't know why I'm looking at this. Mantis shrimp have 10,000 eyes. Would you rather have one big eye or 10,000 little eyes? That's a good question. Hey, there you go. That's what this podcast is about. I feel like I'd rather have 10,000 little eyes.

Same. In case one eye gets poked out. Yeah, you're good. You're fine. One big eye, one bad incident, you're done. Plus, don't shrimps see different colors? Yeah, they see even more colors or crazy stuff. Yeah, I want to see that. Yeah, I want to see that.

Yeah, I want to see that too. That's wild. I like how we're over here like, I want to see colors, man. I just want to see more colors. Colors. I want to live in my cave home, put on my VR headset and see colors, man. There's your fact of the day. All right.

Well, what is our big news story of the day? Big news story of the day. We got two smaller ones, both involving the Grinch. None of these are big. Well, I guess that's technically true. These are some big, small news stories of the day. Yep. Again, both involving the Grinch. So, first one.

300 skiing Santas, a Grinch, and a tree hit the slopes for Maine charity. So, a bunch of Santa lookalikes took to the ski slopes to spread some seasonal cheer. More than 300 jolly old elves, all dressed in red, dashed together down a mountain with white beards and Santa hats, flapping in the breeze, at a Sunday River ski resort in Maine. A skiing Grinch and a skiing Christmas tree joined the party. It wasn't exactly a winter wonderland. There was little natural snow. The making machines at sunday river produced enough of the fluffy stuff for the annual tradition uh sunday santa has grown in popularity

for more than two decades raising 7 500 this year for a local charity i love the fact that like it's a uh santa thing but there's always the one guy who's like i going to go as the Grinch. Yeah. I got to go as the Grinch. I always go as the Grinch. I'm the Grinch. And now we have the Grinch story. More so of the Grinch story. By the way, how many... Isn't that one of the movies where there's numerous Grinch movies?

I know there's the Jim Carrey one. Yeah, there's the original and there's that. You mean there's more than one Grinch movie? I think so. Making me look this up. Yeah, 2018 Grinch. Oh, that's right. The one with Benedict Cumberbatch that no one saw. Yeah.

Yeah, that one. The Illumination one. At least the Jim Carey one is just like, it's really weird and you're like, what the shit? And he's like, I will be the Grinch. And then this one's just like a weird animated one. So I guess there's three Grinch movies, which admittedly, probably too, too many. Yeah.

Yeah. The original one's probably still the best. Just the classic old one. I mean, it has the like, you're a mean one. Best Grinch. That's great. Yeah. Yeah. Although, never mind you're a mean one. Best The Grinch. That's great. Yeah. Yeah.

Although, never mind. This is a lie. In 2020, there was a musical The Grinch on NBC. What? Dude, I'm looking at this. Look at this poster. This sucks so badly. What the shit is that?

Shake your grump is what it says. I'm going to pitch that to the Game Grumps. Guys, have you ever considered shake your grump? It got a 3.8 out of 10. It looks so bad. Like, what? Oh, my. Like, look at.

You see, like, some of the pictures from the musical? It looks so bad. I'm looking at it right now. It is a thing that existed. Yeah. It still exists. Why on earth they made This Is Beyond Me, but you know. NBC be doing that.

Yeah. They love their crappy musicals. They sure do. Well, now there's four. Four too many things. Four sure do. Now there's four. Four too many things. Oh my god. Here we go. Arizona police ticket driver for carpooling

with inflatable Grinch. Why is it always Grinches? I don't know. The Grinch came early for an Arizona driver who tried to pass off an inflatable figure of the Dr. Seuss character as a passenger. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says a state trooper last week noticed a car in high occupancy vehicle lane on Interstate 10 in Phoenix with a Seuss-spicious looking green passenger. Yeah, didn't someone else use the Grinch as their carpool person?

I think this is yeah it feels like Is this an old story No this is from last week But I think someone else did this like Years ago Grinch Passenger inflatable This has to be a thing

Well what sucks about this is that I typed in Grinch passenger inflatable And it literally came up with products designed for that. On Amazon, you can literally buy a thing called Christmas Inflatables Grinch Car Buddy Inflatable

Ride Along. $43. That is... So, I mean... You know... Someone else did this years ago but i don't see any like record of it are we the crazy ones what is the what is record keeping on the internet anyway if it's not from the last you know few years and now it doesn't exist i mean it might have been from the last few years i don't even know it's probably people buying this damn thing and thinking that it means they and now it doesn't exist. I mean, it might have been from the last few years. I don't even know.

It's probably people buying this damn thing and thinking that it means they can go to the HOV lane. It's got to be. Does anybody remember us covering a similar thing? There's got to be, right? Either way, while the gag may have caused the officer's heart to grow, it did not stop the driver from getting cited for being in the HOV lane during a restricted time. The agency, however, I'm looking at it right now. I'm looking at the article, and it is 100% the inflatable Grinch from the one you can buy at Amazon.

Yep. I was like, surely they didn't think. Nope, never mind. They did. They sure did. Yep. There you go. This is why I stayed in my cave and put on my VR and go fast.

Yeah, this is why we need them ever. That's big news stories. All right. Well, that is it for us. Thank you so much for listening or watching. I hope you enjoyed this podcast. Crandor, hit them with the socials. We've got socials.

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