Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 378 - I Just Want That Chicken Sandwich

Episode Date: March 13, 2023

The boys are back, and this time Jesse has beef with a resturants chicken sandwich. Meanwhile Crendor makes a brand new youtube video and it's a journey. Then we deep dive into Jesse's weird new internet hobby, high chair drama, future plans, and flying bikes! It's just another day for Cox n' Crendor! Go to http://babbel.com/cox to get up to 55% off your subscription. Go to http://joinhoney.com/cox to get PayPal Honey for free.

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Broadcasting live, live, live, live, live. In four-hour recording studios. Recording. Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Gags and Crandor in the morning. It is exciting time. You know what? I kind of almost believed you there. Kind of almost. That's good enough for me. Yeah. Exciting time. Exciting times to be alive is what it is.

Alright, maybe too exciting. Yeah, that's too much. You suddenly became an owl. You were like, Maybe too exciting. Yeah, that's too much. You suddenly became an owl. You're like, woo, woo, woo.

What's going on? Hello. Hi, hello. You know, boy, I don't even know where to start. I got some, usually there's some weeks where I got nothing. Right. And then some weeks where I am just filled with not rage, inconvenience. Okay. Like, I'm not mad.

I'm just like, boy, I got to complain to Crandor about this. Oh, boy, I'm ready. I do have a problem. It's strictly a glasses person problem. You have glasses, you know, got to keep them suckers clean. And those of you who don't, you dirty. You nasty dirty. You nasty dirty, and I'm judging you. But in an effort to keep my glasses clean, I always have, you know, those little like glasses, cloth things, or some lens cleaner or

something. It's always around. And I was pointed to online this product that's supposed to be the next evolution in glass cleaning technology. I'm not going to advertise the name of it, but the best way to describe it is imagine tweezers, but at the end, instead of tweezers that would like pull at something, there's two little pads, and the pads are supposed to go around your glasses, and then squeeze it and then it like is supposed to clean it it not only does it not work it makes it way worse because it just smudges around it just makes it worse and so i was like oh well maybe i have to spray stuff and then do that and then all it did was make the pads damp so i mean good on this company for trying to do a thing, bad on me for falling for it, but what's even funnier is that after I assume, I'm going to say 12,000 years of glasses technology, the best is still just a microfiber cloth and some spray.

Who knew? It's always the most simple thing. Thing was like at the mall and it was like 12 bucks and I bought this thing. That was $12. I'm never getting back. A giant waste of money. This was. Thanks sucks.

So that sucked. And then, oh my God, same day, same day. I'm at the mall. I decided to meet up with some friends and they say, yo, we want to go to this restaurant that's in the mall. I'm like, cool. There's a lot of great places in the mall. yo we want to go to this restaurant that's in the mall i'm like cool there's a lot of great places in the mall the place we decided to go into the mall is this it's a pretty fancy restaurant that

is known for its alcohol right like the beers and stuff that they craft brew and things yeah but every time that we're there every time i go there they always get my order wrong every single time i must have gone to this place over my time living in la a hundred times in 12 years and it's not because i want to go it's because everyone's like oh yeah man we can go there we can get like a flight of beers we can do this and i'm like all right well i don't i'm not gonna say no to that but the food sucks and so so we roll up to this place. Once again, I sit down and I flip through the menu and I say to myself, self, I get that chicken sandwich today. We get chicken sandwich and I'm going to ask for no ranch, no mayo, no whatever, but instead hot sauce. Right.

That's not like a picky order. That's just I don't want the white sauces and I want the hot red sauce. All right. Right. That's not like a picky order. That's just, I don't want the, the, the white sauces and I want the hot red sauce. It'll make me hurt. That's all I want. Nothing else was different.

Nothing else. And what I got when they brought it to my table and I could tell immediately it was wrong because as they brought it first off, I wanted chips and salsa instead of French fries. Right. Yeah. A pile of fries. I can see it coming down.

I'm like, okay. All right. So I know they got that wrong. Then as they place it in front of me, like the sides of the bottom bun and all this like goopy white, maybe blue cheese. I don't know what it was all over the side, like ranch or something. Not a speck of hot sauce to be found. Okay, great. So all you did was drench this piece of chicken in ranch.

I have no idea what this sauce was. Is this like you sit down and then the waiter waitress takes your order place? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like write it down.

You would think again, let me just state this happens every time. I don't think they take custom orders or they don't even like, I don't know. I don't know how they work back in the kitchen, but no one else ordered anything special. They just got what was on the menu and theirs came out fine. So I asked politely, Hey, can you, I didn't want any of this.

I wanted, they're like, oh, I'm so sorry. Yes, of course. Take the food back. 35 minutes later, still no food. And everyone else around me was trying to wait and be polite. But no, I was like, just eat. Just, it's fine. So 35 minutes later later the waitress

finally returns and is like what happened to your food i was like you took it back to the kitchen to get me new food she's like oh i'm so oh i'm so sorry we're really busy today if i did a 360 scan of the room there was like four people there dude it was not it was not busy they might have like one person there normally it was a packed house how this place stays open is beyond me i again it's got really great beer i'll give it that i'm not gonna complain about that they do like made in-house things it's amazing but the food again, again, sucks so badly. And so I'm just like, yeah, you know, it's fine. Everyone's already done.

Like, you can just get rid of the food and I'll just get something in the mall. Like, the mall has, it's the big mall that we went to that's outdoors. Oh, yeah. So there's, like, plenty of places to eat. Not even worried. The food court alone has many great options. I was like, yeah, don't worry about it. Just take mine off the bill.

I'll pay for my booze. We're good. She's like, all right. I'm so sorry that you didn't get your food. That's my fault. I'm so sorry. And then she leaves. Maybe five, ten minutes later comes back with the check.

And right there on the check is my food not removed and ever the worst part is is because as a group usually when we go out we just all sort of throw in our cards and don't really take the time to look over the receipt we just kind of throw our cards in right and thankfully i did because i was like they're gonna get it wrong i know they're gonna get it wrong and there was mine so she comes back and she tries to take the cards i'm like before you do that can you remove the chicken sandwich she's like oh i'm so sorry i forgot so i you know but i'm being very polite i'm being just like kind and just like a nice guy like yeah and just if you could remove that, that'd be great. She's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be right back. She leaves, comes back, new check.

Of course, this time it's removed. Everything seems fine. Like, all right, okay, we're good. As we go to leave, a dude walks in with a bag, a carryout bag, places it on the counter. Clearly he picked it up, I guess, for a to-go order. I don't know. And he's like, you got this order wrong.

My chicken sandwich is super spicy. I didn't want super spicy. I wanted it to have ranch on it. The mystery's been solved. Mystery solved. I got all my answers. But if anything, it made it worse because it was like, how do you mistake ranch for, I don't, yeah, that place sucks. That place is the worst restaurant ever.

It upsets me tremendously. Yeah, like, I can get it if it's, like, packed, but if there's, like, not that many people and they're still, like, messing up, it's pretty bad. At least you got food, I think. Well, I mean, after that, I went and just went to the food court and I got a. What is that thing called? I don't want to say teriyaki chicken, but, you know, there's like always in the food court, the Japanese restaurant. Yeah, that works like the chicken plus the rice, plus the cabbage and carrots and stuff that you know what? That was delicious.

That's always good. Plus the guy there, he looked at me and he was like, I'll give you more chicken. I was like, thanks, man. He's like, you know what? You could use more chicken. I guess I had a vibe of like, I watched all my friends eat lunch. And I sat there like an idiot drinking. He knew, man.

He knew. He can sense it. That's why they're the best. That's why you don't mess with that food court life. Yeah. And also, as I'm sure you know, I am obsessed with deciphering the YouTube algorithm and all the analytics and all that stuff. So I spent a lot of time, not just this week, but over the last month or so, just really deep diving.

And I discovered a fun thing that I like to do now, which is find brand new YouTube channels and just watch them and see what happens. See what inspires people. See what people like, what people don't like from a fresh, totally like these are new sub 5,000 subscriber channels that have one or two videos that were created in the last, I don't know, 30, 40 days. And so, uh, I've been watching, you know, five or six different people just to see what their process will become, what they're going to do.

Maybe trying to figure out on my end, a little more information about how the brain works. You know me, I'm that guy. I'm that guy who loves that kind of stuff. Right. So this brings me to our favorite topic, ASMR, because one of the people I found is a brand new, fresh out the gate, ASMR artist or whatever they're called.

And she is one of the most beautiful people I've ever seen in my entire life just gorgeous but i guess she decided that asmr is the thing she wants to do with her life and she's going to use her gorgeousness to make great clickbait thumbnails it seems to be the requirement for asmr if you want to be successful you must be beautiful as well right there has to be a little bit of like this is sexual to every ass i don't care what anyone says it's what it is right someone in your ear going like that's sexual i don't care what's going on and that's why the hottest ones always succeed anyway doesn't matter because i'm not necessarily concerned about what content she's

making i just want to see the frequency of how much she makes it, how long the videos are, what the thumbnails will be. I just want to see what her creative process will be in these initial starting days. Because it's been 12 years for me, and honestly, I don't remember what it was like starting out.

And more importantly, I know that I had a leg up because there were so few people, and the people I was competing with, we all kind of became friends and we helped raise each other. And so it was, it was a different experience. There's so many people out there. And in this case, so many ASMR people that how do you get noticed? And that's why I was like, I'm going to follow her and see what her career becomes. So I add her to my list of brand new internet talent that I'm like, okay,

So I add her to my list of brand new internet talent that I'm like, okay, how are they going to manage this? And her first video is, you know, whatever. Then she makes a second video. And the second video is her doing that, like, good night. Good night. I'm going to tuck you in now. Like that kind of thing. Yeah. That video gets 500 some thousand views. i was like whoa okay maybe she cracked a code

maybe it's about something about what she was doing and then i saw the thumbnail the thumbnail is like overtly sexual and i was like okay sex still sells good to know but that tells me nothing new right it's a beautiful woman people click just to see what the vibe was like What's gonna happen next video is her next video gonna draw traffic? Because she she doesn't have a lot of subscribers like just cuz she got 500,000 views doesn't mean people subscribed Yeah, right, and then she proceeds to do multiple mukbang videos back-to-back and Maybe the highest one is like 30 000 views again thumbnail the clickbait she's

looking gorgeous there's like i understand but the videos themselves are truly awful just like really gross she has the like gain all the way up so the like the munching is like, it's so bad, dude. It's bad. But it's hilarious. I'm watching this laughing my ass off because it's hilarious. I'm like, yo, this is fascinating to watch because it's very obvious she wants to do that. She wants to do the mukbang because she does mukbang back to back to back to back. Right.

Right. Or it's just her eating and she's eating different foods on stream or whatever it is on YouTube. And no one seems to like it. Then the follow up video is her making another ASMR video. It's got an extremely flirtatious thumbnail. The video is one of those ones where it's like, I'm your girlfriend and I lay beside you in bed and wish you good night. So it's her like laying in the bed, looking at the camera and stuff.

I knew immediately this was going to be a success. But behind all that, I noticed she didn't seem to be having nearly as much fun. It was so obvious. She liked the mukbang stuff. She liked talking about the food she was eating and doing that whole thing. But her doing the flirtatious stuff that sells, she wasn't feeling it. And then she did another flirtatious video. And I realized she's going through a thing that a lot of streamers and YouTubers and whatever go through when they have to determine, do they be themselves or do they create this persona that sells well that they then can

earn money with and have a job with? I don't know. I wonder if she'll end up being a more overtly sexual streamer or if she'll just be like, I like food. Food is fun. I don't know, but I I'm into watch cause I love this kind of stuff. I love getting answers. Well, have you gotten any answers? You said you started this search because you wanted answers for algorithmic questions. Right now, the answer, you mean like overall answers, not just her? I mean, overall answers, I think I'm trying to formulate some sort of hypothesis, but I don't think I have the answers yet. Right.

The idea is when someone, at least in my mind, when someone joins either YouTube or Twitch or whatever, they do so with great intentions of having fun and just exploring it. And maybe they think about making money. That would be great. But over time, it always ends up in burnout because that initial, oh my God, this is amazing. You get that rush of endorphins and things. People seem to care about you or when people do seem to care about your content, now you're in it. Or when money comes in, suddenly it's like, I can make money. Oh my God, let's make more money. And you keep pushing yourself and pushing yourself and pushing yourself. So eventually you burn out. And I'm just right now watching these brand new people to see where does that happen? If it does happen, I'd say that for some people, but some people,

their video style is only fitting to making like only like one or two videos a month. Oh yeah. Yeah. Those are entirely different type of person though right the idea that someone can see all of the potential for the fame and the money or the whatever and commit to doing one two three four really quality videos a month rather than doing a video every day or a video as much as possible you know what i mean and those people what about the person that makes a video every four months and it's you know two hours long and it's in depth and what about them is different are they doing it for the money are they doing it for the creativity and if they're doing it for the creativity what are they doing to supplement their creativity you know like that

kind of stuff yeah they probably do then i would suspect they'd have to have some sort of Patreon backing. Because YouTube as an algorithm thing is not going to reward you for putting out two pieces of content to their platform. It will punish you for that. I feel like it used to be like that, but I don't think it's like that anymore. Do you have an example?

Yeah, so I watched Eddie burback talk about ghost kitchens this week and it was fantastic of course you did but he's made uh that was his six days ago it's got 2.9 million views three months ago he did i tried to bowl two perfect games in a row and we bowling i got 1.1 million that was one of his lower viewed videos eight months ago, he did I Tried to Bowl Two Perfect Games in a Row in Wee Bowling. That got 1.1 million. That was one of his lower viewed videos. Eight months ago, he did I Ate at Every Rainforest Cafe in the Country. That got 6.5 million views. I watched that.

That was fantastic. Sounds like what he's doing, though, is the same thing that Mr. Beast does or the people that are very, very big where they do spectacle videos. And so spectacle videos will always fight an audience because saying, I ate at every rainforest cafe

in the country is something people will click on. Exactly. Well, that's my argument. It's that if you want to do that type of thing, you want to hit the algorithm, you don't have to make videos

all the time if you just do something like that. Right, but I'm saying that I don't think he's doing it for the money. Yeah, I don't think so either. I think he's having fun with it. And that's the difference is people who are like, oh, I can make money and this can be my job. They get suckered into that game of, well, is my this is i gotta keep working or i'll be broke or i'll have to get like a you know a real ass job you know and so they get suckered into that grind um yeah the people are making video like once a month that's that's because they

love to make videos that's it yeah well that was kind of my thing i think those are the best videos on youtube right now. I would agree, completely. Anytime you go to your homepage and you see all the recommended things, most of them are that type of thing, or stuff that you're interested in. But I think we're so used to the gamer culture, which was like, pump out three videos a day, let's plays, all this stuff. The algorithm isn't like that like the algorithm doesn't

like that either because most of the time if you're doing that then some of those videos aren't going to do well and then you're just not doing well overall i think you enjoy watching people burn out because you yourself burned out and you enjoy the relatability and seeing others burn out makes you feel some sort of relatability with them i I think it's more than that. I think it's the idea that I am trying to not just get relatability, but to understand it again. This is why every time we talk about it, it's like, it's,

it's not a, don't make it your job. Do it for fun. Yeah. Which it'll kill you. A great pivot point. I started because I love these types of videos so much, like the Eddie ones I was mentioning,

I was like, how can I incorporate this into my style of videos? And so I began working on one. And I've filmed a lot of it already. And so I've hinted at it some places. I'll tell everyone here. It is, I decided to make a level one unbent character and go from tyrus fall glades to booty bay but everyone's like well that's just easy like people do that all the time they make running of the gnomes is a thing where people run i was like no i'm doing this on a hardcore server

so if my character dies i I have to restart it. And let me tell you, I did it. And it was a journey. Now I got to edit it. And it was, man. So, you know, that's the type of thing where then I can make a video and be like, I ran my level one hardcore character across the continent right and then people be like wow i want to see him do that like it's something you can click on and even if you

don't care that much about wow you'd still be like ah you know or if you used to play wow right you could still click it and be like oh that's interesting i know these things so that's what i'm doing i'm starting to go into that because i i actually think those videos are fun as long as you have fun making them and they're not just being pumped out just because yeah i i absolutely agree i think that's a solid idea and more importantly it should be a good solid goof yeah did you see you probably didn't even see but he did the video on ghost kitchens i don't know if you know about ghost kitchens no i don't i don't know anything about the fact that you said ghost kitchens to me i was like yeah that's a crendor thing that's all i

thought as soon as i saw that video i was like what the shit so i watched it oh my god dude it's insane you need to watch so tell me about ghost kitchens ghost kitchens first off what do you think a ghost kitchen is a haunted kitchen no but i need to say that oh oh wait no that's a lie i know exactly what it is all right ghost kitchens this this is how i know this during covid when people would use uh apps like DoorDash or Uber Eats or Grubhub or whatever, there would be restaurants that would appear that would be like, bitch and chicken. Yeah. And I know there's not a restaurant named bitch and chicken.

Yeah. There was some kind of article or something that I read where it was like Steve Aoki's pizza and like five other pizza chains all made their pizza in the same kitchen that was none. It was some other thing. You're correct. That is what it is. So essentially, it pretty much is that it is a kitchen that creates food out of one kitchen, but for like 40 restaurants. That's crazy. It is insane. And so like literally the one but for like 40 restaurants. That's crazy. Like, it is insane.

And so, like literally, the one kitchen had like 40 restaurants. And so, not only is this terrible for health and safety violation reasons. Sure. With like allergies and cross-contamination. But, it's just like, you think you're ordering food from this local place or something, and sometimes it's just chains. They actually had, for example, it was like old man Johnny's Italian pasta, right?

And you're like, oh, old man Johnny cooked up some pasta. It's literally just Olive Garden. Oh, my God, what was it? man johnny cooked up some pasta it's literally just olive garden that's oh what oh my god what was it there was the going back to the pizza there was some restaurant during covid and i bet you could if you're listening right now i bet you could google this but it was called something like um like chester's pizza or something like that. And it was just Chuck E. Cheese's. Yeah. It was just they're selling Chuck E. Cheese's pizza through the app.

That's crazy. Yeah. And so all these are also through the like DoorDash and all those, right? And so they get people from the ex people like, ah, you know, I'll order from this place. It looks like a local place. And then boom, you just ordered like Chuck E. Cheese

or you ordered Olive Garden, right? So it's a way for these big chains to kind of sell you and pretend that they are something they're not and then there's also the things like the Beast Burger right Mr. Beast and all that why did I know Mr. Beast was 100%

involved oh yeah so that's pretty much what Mr. Beast Burger is he literally gave the ingredients to all these restaurants so that any restaurant can make it. But now it makes it so like when he orders it in the video, it looks nothing like what he expected to get. So it really depends on what restaurant you're ordering the Mr. Beast Burger from. And then on top of that, there's all these things. Was Mr. beast in the

video ordering the food he was not oh so it's so the guy who did the video yeah ordered mr beast burger and it came and it looked nothing like what it was supposed to look like yeah like literally when i go to restaurants in the mall yeah like essentially like the restaurant you went to would probably be a candidate for it like Like, they would have the option to get a Beast Burger there. And they'd have, like, the ingredients. And then you would order. Deep in my core. Yeah.

Deep in my core, I believe that that is exactly the case. There's no way. I mean, that could have been what was happening while we were there. Because there was only four people. And they're like, we're really swamped. Yeah, it's possible. They're just a ghost kitchen. Yeah, maybe.

So, that was a really interesting video and then by the end of it you realize it's it's pretty shady uh but it's it's mainly just what is the shady part of it besides the fact that it's lying about where the food's being made that that's the shady part oh well okay yeah i mean you're literally ordering food from a place you think is like local or somewhere and it's not and the fact that like it doesn't even say anywhere like oh this is actually olive garden if you're ordering it and it's from olive garden like you don't even you don't even know and like sometimes he would get it and he'd be like oh i ordered you know this thing and it would come in like a box from that restaurant like it would literally be like oh i ordered this like you know bitchin burger from the the burger bitches and it's literally just like red robin it like came

in a red robin box so it's like that the fact that like you do that it's like that shouldn't even be a thing like it should just be red robin and it's just flooding the app with unnecessary filler so that they can try and make more money so it's dumb so i just need to let you know because now i'm obsessed with finding out where mr peaceburger's right according to uh articles on the internet the well i this has probably changed but when this came out which would have been 2021 early 2021 all right this is a quote a portion of mr beast burger branded burgers are made in kitchens run by buca de pepo yep that sucks dude yeah that is awful yeah so that's why it's just you don't even know where your food is coming from when you're ordering through the which is why i never really use those i literally

just order from a place i find and then i order through their website usually and or call it in and i just go pick it up because i just i don't trust it now there's an entire series of articles about ghost kitchens now I think you've sent me down a rabbit hole I'm not okay with this yeah no you gotta watch the Eddie video it's great it's really good so yeah that was

oh is this this video with him and Mr. Beastling on his shoulder that's pretty good yeah it's really good. So that was a great video. And then, did you see the streamer awards? No. I didn't either.

I saw that they were happening because apparently Twitter loves to include when people like things on my timeline now which is just the best thanks and so yeah I get to see that so I knew they were going on but I just don't care I don't care it's I don't care about actual award shows as well

like the Hollywood one so like why would I care about a streamer it's literally just like a big rich people popularity contest it is it's even worse than that it is a very select group of rich people yeah it's also just like a clout thing it's also a lot of people in those things are just trying to like go up the ladder what's crazy to me is i mean that is absolutely true what's crazy to me is that i saw people that i know in the industry as a whole posting headed off to the streamer awards and they're like people that work at riot you're in a stream what are you doing why are you this isn't like a cool there's nothing cool

about this this is the least cool thing there ever was. They're like, can't wait. And they're all dressed up looking nice. And I'm like, if you're Pokimane, then sure, you go. Because that's like your crew and it's your vibe and it's like a social... But if you're like the software engineer at Riot, why the hell are you there? It doesn't make any sense to me. They probably go just because

they probably want to meet a lot of streamer people like i guarantee they're probably fans of a lot of these people they're just like dude i can meet them that would be like me as a fan being like i can't wait to go meet tom cruise at the oscars like that's never happening why would i think that why would i think that's a thing that would occur? Tom Cruise isn't playing your game. Touche. Touche. Yeah.

It's like, I don't know. I think we're also just, we've been in this industry for so long. You know, you just get jaded to it. You just kind of don't care. I mean, most of the people that are going to these things, they're like the hip Zoomer streamers, not like the old prehistoric people. I disagree. A lot of people are.

You know what? Maybe for the women. The women are hip Zoomer streamers. All the dudes, half the dudes there are old as shit, and they look like a mess. Nah. If anyone ever says there's not a double standard, uh,

no, the internet's full of shit. The dude show, I watched the dude show up. They all look scummy and dirty. All the women are beautiful and they're dressed up in gowns and stuff. And all the guys are like, Hey,

watch my stream. Yeah. Well, if you see it, they're also the streamers that are just like the, you know, drama streamers and like crazy, like, you know, drama streamers and like crazy, like, you know, great example. Hold on. I have a photo for you. Um, where did I put

this thing? I might've, it might've taken it at home. Oh, son of a gun. Anyway, I'll tell you the story. So I saw on Twitter that our dear pal, Sam responded to some dude who was one of those gambler streamers that got booted off of Twitch and said gambler streamer was like, hey, you all should come over to kick. I have no idea what kick is, but I don't either. He said you should come over to kick. And I was like, what the hell is this? And he had a picture on the picture was his dashboard.

And I was dashboard. It said he made 12,000, 16,000. I don't remember what the number was. Something thousand dollars in a month. And Sam responded with a like, Oh, you know, I was like, all right, well, if Sam is thinking this is something big and this guy's saying this is only i gotta check it out so i went to kick and it is basically a bootleg twitch except on the on the platform the first second and third things of most popularity were gambling sports which i think is maybe people just watching sports or gambling or i don't know how they're doing that legally. And then just chatting followed by bathtub slash pool streams.

Essentially, if it's banned on Twitch, you can stream over here. So that's that sounds like what it is. If it's banned on Twitch and you want to stream, you go there. The number one streamer is. Pooling baddies live. It's pulling baddies, dude. Pulling baddies. I mean, this literally just looks like

Twitch. Remember how they were like Twitch got its info hacked? Yeah. This is like they paid for that hack to get it looks exactly like Twitch. Yeah. The only difference is this is like evil Twitch. This is like Twitch's goateed brother. Yeah. The only difference is this is like evil Twitch. This is like Twitch's goateed brother.

Yeah, I don't know. Twitch is bad. I wouldn't trust this at all. The fact that they're trying to lure people to come to the site with big payouts, it's big payouts to people. One of the people on here is Trainwreck. Trainwreck was incredibly popular for casino stuff. Right.

So like, I don't know that I trust that, but it's to me, it's literally just the, it's like a streaming site for gambling. Like that's what it is. Yeah. It's all the stuff that Twitch was like, we don't want to mess with that because that could legally come back to bite us in the ass. This website was like, we want our ass ass ate but i think this website is saying they want their ass ate they want their ass ate um we want our ass uh oh i was gonna bring up your one tweet

oh which tweet is this oh boy got confused. It said the easiest way to tell if there's a content drought in your game is the number of drama videos appear on YouTube increases. It's true. It's factual. Like, what's an example? Um, well, the reason why I tweeted that is, in the Final Fantasy XIV

community, it's been relatively chill. Right? It's been, like, pretty chill. And then, when a bunch of i don't know at the end of 2021 uh when the new expansion came out a bunch of new people joined the community like a bunch of uh big time youtubers because before then admittedly battle fantasy 14's community wasn't that huge when it came to content creation and so a lot of people joined the community and when they joined

as content creators they had to create content you know what that's like it's the same grind we were just talking about where you have to make stuff and so since that time Yoshi P the director of Final Fantasy 14 has said numerous times.

It's why I like the game. He said, look, our game is not a kind of games as a service thing. We're not attempting to keep you online playing all the time. Go play something else. You don't have, you can drop your subscription. We'll be here when you come back. It's totally fine. That's not what we're trying to do.

We're not trying to create grinds to keep you online all the time it's fine and so i think a lot of people just don't understand that and they complain about there's nothing to do during this patch and i'm so upset that i beat everything in three days those are the same problems wow had for forever yeah yeah but and i think i think it's because a lot of that a lot of wow players join the community during shadowlands and the ones that stuck around still have that same vibe of like i'm gonna make a 12 minute video where i complain about a topic that is truly unimportant right and uh lately another great example is in the most recent patch, they added as what is basically a goof a thing called a Lollifelon high chair. And, you know, just Lollifels are like gnomes,

little tiny people. But the high chair is made to look like a baby chair. And it's clearly a goof. And people are so outraged. And at first I thought they were mad, you know, for comedy's sake. They were like, oh, this is, oh, I'm so mad. And at first I thought they were mad for comedy's sake. They were like, oh, I'm so mad. They were just goofing.

But people, I guess, are really mad that the first time they get a chair that's Lollafell-sized, it looks like a baby chair. And so videos are starting to get made. And then because the videos are being made, people are reacting to the videos. And then those reaction videos are starting to get made and then because the videos are being made people are reacting to the videos and then those reaction videos are being uploaded and those reaction videos are sparking more outrage and now there's all these videos about well the drama in the community and then people are reacting to the drama videos about the drama in the community and it's just like this is truly we joke about your videos being non-content this is truly non-content this is truly unimportant not real doesn't matter and i and i had the realization that this only happens when there's nothing really to talk about right if we had a bunch of shit to talk about they'd

be making videos like strategy videos and boss kill videos and videos how to farm this thing and instead it's like here's me reacting uh to this 20 minute rant this guy had about a baby chair i mean at the same time people are watching oh i i'm not in no way am i saying that no one cares and no one's watching it. What I'm saying is that you can tell your game has no content right now when people start making videos like that. Yeah. I mean, it's just a fundamental fact. It happened in WoW. It happens every time. People didn't make WoW videos analyzing why the jailer sucks so bad when there was stuff to do.

It's only when there there was stuff to do. It's only when there's not stuff to do that they have time to sit there and be like, God, this sucks. Yeah. It's the roller coaster. You got the wee, go up, having fun, then it crashes, there's no Contaro, and it goes back up, and then you're like, wee.

I mean, you don't have to do anything, but at the same time, if it's your job and you're like hey this thing's gonna get me like 300 000 views from talking about a high chair you're probably gonna make that video yeah yeah i cynical as shit but yeah it's uh that's that's the internet life. I hate it. And he hates it. I want to be on... I told you, my endgame, sitting on a beach, earning 20%, not doing a thing.

Having some beautiful woman in a hula skirt serve me a drink. And then me complaining about the people in front of me blocking the sun. That's really what I want my future to be. Get your damn, get it out of the way. That umbrella's blocking the sun.

And the people in front of you are just filming and they're like, old man yells at us on the beach. You won't believe. What's up, guys? This old guy has been yelling at us to get out of the way. He wants his son. It's unbelievable. Like, comment, subscribe. What do you think? This old guy has been yelling at us to get out of the way. He wants his son. Get out of there. Move your umbrella. It's unbelievable.

Like, comment, subscribe. What are you doing? Are you recording a video? It is. I just hate the older generation. They don't get it. They don't understand drama videos. I was here before you were born.

I respect your elders. Thanks. Thanks for the mojito, sweetheart. I respect your elders. Damn it. Like, comment, subscribe. Share. I don't know. So yeah.

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Oh boy It is the traffic And here we are In the traffic Well, we're not actually in the traffic we're flying above the traffic um and right now it's actually not looking too bad usually i say there's crazy traffic out there but right now uh pretty pretty smooth sailing out there unless you're on the 53 that thing's backed up but aside from that we're all good back to you thanks crend. Now let's go over to weather. How's that weather out there?

Weather. What is this? Sofia? Not pronounced like the name. Bulgaria. So not Sofia. Correct. The country where during the 9th century the Cyrillic alphabet was created. The city was once a Roman town called Certica. Nowadays, there's lots of food options from Shopska salad to Kebapacheta

to Benitsa or Donner. Act of nightlife. Popular destination for shooting of Hollywood movies. What you just said, if you just put like a Russian accent on it. Great for Hollywood movies. We also have Donner and the popular destination for shooting of Hollywood movies.

That's like a promo on a website or something. All right, here we are. Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria. 31 degrees Fahrenheit. Feels like 29 degrees Fahrenheit. Humidity 67%. Pressure 30.19 inches. Visibility 10 miles.

Wind 3 miles an hour. Dewpoint 22. UV index 0 of 10. Moon phase waning gibbous. 6.42 a.m. sunrise. 6.30 p.m. sunset. Which, by the way, daylight savings time.m sunrise 6 30 p.m sunset uh which by the way daylight savings time gotta love it not a fan it messed me up today messed me up it messed me up too just keep it why why are we still doing this it's dumb it's stupid there's like states that

don't do it states that do it just. Just make it a thing. Agreed. Completely agree. You're not going to get any argument from me. I'm over it. Especially when they steal an hour from you. Not a fan. Yeah. Come on. By the way, Sophia, it is Sophia?

Like the so is more important? Right. Is what it looks like online? So it's like Sophia instead of Sophia ah Sophia I think that's I think that's what they were implying by it's not oh, I don't know I have no clue I See okay. I tried man. I tried I Found look at this restaurant Vodin meet Zada

There you go. Send me them links. Restaurant Vodenizada. Yo, this place looks amazing. That's what I'm saying. Do we even have restaurants like this here in the States? If we do, they're like few and far between. the states if they if we do they're like few and far between wow this place looks like it's from a land before time yeah oh my god this is amazing looking it's like a medieval

cottage or something i don't even know it really is there's like a river and a forest in the back yeah this reminds me of when I was traveling cross-country with my parents, and it was so that they could move out to LA. I was helping them move. And we were in the middle, I think, Oklahoma or Kansas or somewhere, and my mom was like, I picked out dinner for us tonight. We're going to a farm.

What? We go to this farm in the middle of nowhere, drive up, their basement is a restaurant. And it was delicious. There was a bunch of other people there. It must have been a known commodity. Delicious. Had the exact same vibe.

I love this aesthetic. Big fan. Also a big fan of this plate of food that I see here that looks like just meat from around the world. Look at this thing. They have the longest, swirliest sausage I've ever seen. Oh my God.

They really do. That is like every piece of meat they could come up with. Isn't there? Oh my God. Yeah. This place looks amazing. It does look good. Everything about this looks great.

Yeah. This would be a spot. Oh my God. So the inside has this vibe of like,'re in someone's, like Nana's basement. But the outside, holy majoli, look at this. I would love to sit outside. I bet you can't do it often, but I love it. Oh yeah, wow.

It looks like a Disney restaurant. It looks fake. There's like a river running through it. And then there's like a bunch of tables man eat by the fountain here i am going to a restaurant where they can't remember my damn order well they did remember it they just gave it to someone touche yeah this plate look at this plate this is like a medieval church bar. Man. Yeah, it really is.

It's almost like other countries have like a history. No, that can't be it. There's no way. Wild. Big fan. I love this. This is the exact same vibe of that one bar that I went to in Poland that was in the dungeon of a bridge. Oh, yeah. I remember you saying that. That was amazing.

The walls were painted the same way. Like here it's sort of religious drawings and like dudes drinking. But you know, in Poland it was a half-naked Viking riding a dragon, which is pretty cool. So, you know, to each their own. Yeah.

Man. They got some crazy restaurants. Also, looking at some of the dudes in these photos, they're either supreme drinkers or in the mob. There's no in between. Yeah, there's one guy. He looks like he's been working in the in the mines for like years and drinking after working in the mine oh my god i see a guy who i'm pretty sure is who you're talking about link it just so i can see if you're hold on this guy this dude this dude is just my favorite guy in the world it is i knew it i knew it as soon as you

said it he looks like he's seen some shit but he's ready to eat he's seen some shit but he's he's drank a lot of shit too yeah. Yeah, life doesn't phase him. He phases life, man. Well, that's the weather. All right. Let's go to sports. Sports. Over at sports, we've got

basketball. You still got the Bucks in first. Celtics, 76ers, Cavs, Nets, Knicks. Then the playing teams, the Heat, Hawks, Raptors, and Bulls. As we close in on the end of the season here. Over in the west, you got the Nuggets, Kings, Grizzlies, Suns, Clippers, Warriors. With the Timberwolves, Mavericks, Lakers, Jazz as the current playing teams. Over in hockey, you got the Bruins, Maple Leafs.

At the top of the East Metropolitan Division, you got the Hurricanes and the Devils. Central, you got the Stars and the Wild. And Pacific, you got the Knights and the Kings. And then baseball, still spring training. Football, Aaron Rodgers. Seems like he's going to get traded to the Jets. Jalen Ramsey got traded today to the Dolphins. A whole bunch of off-season action happening. Derek Carr signed with the Saints.

And sports. Okay, what is our fact of the day? Fact of the day. Fact of the day. We got you can buy a flying bicycle like a real one. I don't know. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, but British inventors John Foden and Yannick Reed have come up with a bicycle that actually flies. The Explore Air Paravelo is composed of a folding bicycle and a lightweight trailer that contains a biofuel-powered fan motor.

The motor turns the fan, and with enough of a runway, it can reach up to 25 miles an hour in the air and 4,000 feet in altitude. While the inventors were unable to reach their funding goal to produce enough Explorers for wide availability, they are offering their inventive services through bespoke production. Does it work, though?

I don't know. There's a picture of it flying. There it is. I mean, I'm, it's not nearly as cool as I thought it was going to be. It's not like it's just a bicycle that flies. It's got like a big ass,

like hang glider thing attached to it. Well, hold on. Hold on, cool dude. Okay. Because what you sent me is not what I just discovered five days ago. Oh. March 7th.

Look at this. A brand new world's first flying bike hits market for $500,000. What the shit? That is like a James Bond villain drone vehicle. It looks like a snowmobile, except it has a James Bond drone. Yeah.

It's like you got snowmobile bottom, but the top looks like one of those drones that a normal person could buy at, I don't know, Walmart. Just giant size. And then the rest of the snowmobile is on the top of that. That is insane. That is something like an evil villain is going to buy instantly. Oh, man, there's a YouTube video. This thing is called the X, what is this?

The Arwen's X Turismo? That's a terrible name. World's first flying bike. And it is a dude flying on a bike. He's doing it over water. Oh wait, hold on. Never mind. This is fake. Time out. They showed a clip of this guy flying. That is not real.

That is not... There's no way that's real. Alright, I don't know if I believe that. The man did like a 90 degree turn in air while on a bike that's not real at all that can't happen that can't happen I mean it is

far better than whatever the that other one is yeah the one so the one Crandor sent me is literally a bicycle with a giant fan on the back and then a parachute. Which in my mind, it makes more sense. It's like, yeah, you're parachuting off a thing and you use the fan like you're on a fan boat. No, the one that this one is legit just a giant $500,000 drone. Yeah.

Don't trust it. That's gonna get you killed. At least you have a parachute in the other one. Yeah, that's true. Man, that is... That is something. Well, I guess those exist. Yeah, they do.

That's your fact of the day. Alright, what is our big news story of the day big news story of the day at key west's annual conch shell blowing contest the winners really blow yeah no i mean it makes sense it's not false but uh a canadian woman and a pediatric cardiologist from georgia won the men and women's contest at key west's annual conch shell blowing contest using different techniques to impress the judges brian cartus of macon georgia played the jimmy buffett song fins on a pink line conch shell with holes so it can be played like a flute, while Carol Whiteley of Ontario, Canada, blew a long, loud blast with her shell to best other competitors. Gardas said he began blowing the marine mollusk shell 10 years ago during a family

visit to Key West, adapting techniques he learned playing the trumpet as a child. Quote, you sort of have to just buzz your lips when you're blowing into it. You have to make a noise with your lips in order to generate the sound. Whiteley says she plays the shell at her Riverside home to celebrate sunsets. Can you imagine? You're just out like watching the sunset. Like it's be a nice, you know, relaxing sunset. You're just there. I was going to say something, but I think you said it for me, but the idea,

like, cause she blows it at sunsets, but like, I don't necessarily need to know what the people who participate in this event look like. Cause they already have a pretty good mental image of, like, every aging hippie that ever was. Like, I blow it to honor the sunset.

Like, yeah, okay, of course you do. Other winners. All right, judges evaluated entrance ranging from children to seniors on the quality, novelty, duration, and loudness of sounds produced. Other winners included Michael and Georgian Watcher, a couple from Avon Lake, Ohio, who performed a conch shell and vocal duet parodying Elvis Presley's Hound Dog that drew cheers and laughter. that drew cheers and laughter. The conch shell, an enduring symbol of the Florida Keys,

has been used as a Marriott Times signaling device in the region for more than two centuries. The island chain is nicknamed the Conch Republic. The contest was conceived by the Old Island Restoration Foundation in 1972 and took place in the garden of Key West's

oldest house museum. Yeah, I don't know why it just took till right then for me to realize. Oh, yeah, and Key West. Well, of course. So it's not just aging hippies, but aging hippie pirates also is there. Aging hippie biker pirates. It's pretty much what I'm imagining now. Yeah, aging hippie biker pirate.

Which makes a lot more sense when you picture that, to be honest. If you Google aging hippie biker pirate, I guarantee it's going to link you to somewhere in Key West. Some biker bar where it's like women can only enter topless and guys must dress in pirate outfits. I did search aging hippie biker pirate. And there are some interesting results. Very interesting results. Well, I knew there would be. Yeah. So, I mean, there you go.

If you didn't know that existed, now you do. Now you do. All right. Well, that is, there you go. If you didn't know that existed, now you do. Now you do. All right. Well, that is it for the show. Thanks so much for listening and watching. I'm enjoying this podcast. Crendor, hit up the socials. We've got socials.

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