Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 407 - That One Video I'll Never Get Back

Episode Date: November 27, 2023

The boys are back and this time the boys are back to talk about Black Friday - or at least they would if it actually was a thing anymore. Meanwhile Jesse is impressed with his parents dog and Crendor went to McDonalds at midnight, which was a mistake. Also what is a cranberry? How do minds work?! And then it's time to once again deep dive the McCoxnCrendor. All this and more on a brand new Cox n' Crendor! Go to http://meundies.com/cox to get 25% off your first order and free shipping. Go to http://uncommongoods.com/cox to get 15% off. Grab the exclusive NordVPN deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/cox and get extra subscription time. Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Thanks to NordVPN for sponsoring our show.

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In 4-hour recording studio. Recording! Wake your ass up! It's Cox and Crendor in the morning! Hello everybody, it's Owen! Welcome to an exciting episode of Docks and Crandor. You're on a streak of doing really well, that was probably the worst one. You know what, it comes, it goes, and sometimes I just have to accept that it goes more than it comes. That does not sound right.

After I said it I realized it's not great not great well how's it going well it's coming um honestly i uh i'm doing great i am mesmerized by the things i do when i know i shouldn't so a great example is for years I've said Costco. What a hellscape. What a truly awful demon portal to an alternate reality. Not a fan. But the more we do stuff here in the office and the more we're back at it full strength, I feel like it's just easier to go to Costco than to order stuff from Amazon and all. You know what I mean? Or like go to the grocery store. It might just be easier to go to Costco than to order stuff from Amazon and all, you know what I mean?

Or like go to the grocery store. It might just be easier to buy stuff in bulk, like tissues or, you know, soaps or whatever. And so my parents for some time have been asking, Jesse, Jesse, what do you want for Christmas? What's the thing you want for Christmas? And I'm like, I don't really, I don't like anything. I don't know. It's fine. Just your company's fine.

And finally, I was like, you know what? You guys can buy me a Costco membership. And so my mom said today, Jesse, be up at 9 a.m. We'll be to your apartment and we'll go take you to Costco and get you a membership. Like, okay. All right. So I meet them downstairs at 915 promptly. I've surely been down there for a little bit, but I'd go to like, someone's wrong with my stomach when I woke up.

So I'd go to the bathroom really bad. And I went down to the car. The minute I got in the car, stomach started rumbling. I was like, oh no, it's going to be one of those days. So we drive over to costco and immediately when we get there my mom's like what it's 9 a.m there's so many people here i thought there wouldn't be anyone here at all this is crazy packed the lot is packed like people are in line to get in the hot dog pizza place a line already it's 9 a.m how on earth is there a line

for people trying to get hot dogs i'll never understand it but i guess a dollar 50 hot dog is worth its weight and yeah time spent and so everyone's out there you know absolutely crazy it's chaos the minute we pull into the parking lot my mom decides to park the farthest away from the entrance she can. And I get it. She doesn't want to ding her car. Right. But I'm also just like, oh, no.

Oh, no. Am I going to have to find a bathroom in a Costco? Come on, dude. This, I can't. So I take my parents into the Costco. Mom's like, I'm going to go look for this item I need to get your dad. He's going to buy you the card for Christmas. I was like, okay.

So we go to wait in line. Already my dad is pissed because we have to wait in a line. I can already tell he's upset that we're in a line. And then he acts like he doesn't understand it. He's like, why can't I just go talk to this guy right here? I'm like, because there's a line, dad. He's like, but I'm directly across from him. It's weird that I'm looking right at this man and I can't go talk to him. I'm like, right, because there's a line dad he's like but i'm directly across from him it's weird that i'm looking right at this man and i can't go talk to him i'm like right because

there's a line and the there's an order and he's like right right but he's not talking to anybody i'm like oh my god dad so he clearly is upset and i'm just like what's going on with you man why are you what's happening to you and And he's like, what can I say? The world's in flames, Jesse. Like, what? What does that have to do with right now? I'm asking why you can't just wait in line. And he's like, there's war in the Middle East.

This country is going to shit. That has nothing to do with the current situation at all. And so, you know, we wait in line. We do our thing. And we get up to the front. And this lady's like, hey, welcome. Hi. And I'm like, oh, hey, how's it going?

I am getting a Costco card. She's like, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Okay, so there's 50 options. And I'm just like, nope, just the cheapest one, please. And she's like, okay, but you know, if you do this thing, you get a credit card. I'm like, nope, just the cheapest one, please. She's like, okay, well, for another $60, you can upgrade to you get a credit card i'm like nope just the cheapest one please she's like okay well for another six dollars you can upgrade to the executive i'm like nope just the cheapest one please she's like have you considered that we have a business i'm like nope just the cheapest one please i'm like my dad's paying for it and she goes oh okay so i think she just thought i was broke which ended that conversation and i was

like my dad's paying for it so my dad dad gives them a card, which apparently they only accept Visa or cash, which is a thing I didn't know. But now I know. Yeah, they only accept Visa and cash. And so my dad gives the woman his Visa. And they're like, okay, great. If you just fill out some of this paperwork. So I had to put in my information. So I guess I could have online access to stuff.

And my dad was like, all right, I'm going to go find your mom. I'm like, okay, I'll be here. So they go and they take a photo of me. And they put it on my card. And then the woman tries to get the card to work. But the card doesn't work. And so she has to retake a photo of me. And my dad reappears.

And the only thing I hear him go is, smile. Smile on the camera. And I was like, dad, I'm not going to be smiling half the time I come here. Why would I lie? If they're trying to recognize my face, they want the non smile version.

Trust me. And when I was like, come on, smile. I'm like, weren't you going to go look for mom? He's like, I gave up.

I was like, okay. It had been maybe four minutes. It's like, okay, cool, smile. I'm like, weren't you going to go look for mom? He's like, I gave up. I was like, okay. It had been maybe four minutes. He's like, okay, cool, cool. So I get my card, and as we're leaving, some random dude comes up to me and is like, excuse me, sir. Is this what I get tires? I was like, no, sorry. No, I honestly don't know.

He's like, okay, thank you. And he walked away. My dad looks at me and goes, what did that guy want? I'm like, I don't know, man. He's just maybe thought I worked here because I came behind the counter. I have no clue. And he's like, oh, I thought I was trying to sell you something. I'm like, what did you think he was trying to sell?

He's like, I don't know, drugs, bombs, who knows? I was like, I can't tell if that is racist or what like i don't know what's going on right now i was like so i put i literally went like dad grow up and he goes you're no fun like what do you what do you mean so we we go to find my mom who was shopping somewhere. And I'm like, we should check. We should 100% check out the checkout lanes because it's been long enough that if she was going for one thing, she's definitely in those long ass checkout lines. Let's just go there. My dad's like, no, no, I know where she is.

So, of course, I follow my dad all the way to the back where all the chickens and the things are. And he's looking around for her. I'm like, I'm telling you, she's not here. He's like, oh, she's here, all right. Meanwhile, the entire time he's trying to look, he's also trying to see if there's free snacks. I 100% know this. He's trying to see if there's free snacks around. And then he's dodging carts and getting more angry. And I can tell it's not the kind of anger that's just like boy there's a lot of people around I

hate crowded spaces it's very targeted old man anger where he's just like all these women with their carts always they don't care about me like it's very you know like the same the exact same thing is when we're driving somewhere and if anyone pulls in front of him doesn't matter if it's a man, a kid, whatever.

He's like, oh, these women drivers. I'm like, that is a dude, dad. What do you do? Anyway, he's like, oh, I don't know. What should we do? And I'm like, let me just text mom. So I'm like, hey, where are you at? And she's like, I'm up front waiting in line.

I was like, see, I told you. And he's like, okay. So we try to walk our way out. And again, people are just moving their carts. And he's dodging it like he's playing dodgeball. He's so overexaggerated. He's like, oh, oh, like dodging. What are you doing?

So we finally get to the. He's not a fan. And so we get to the front. We meet my mom. My mom, in fact, didn't buy one thing. She bought three things. And one of the reasons why is, is she was up trying to buy some, you know, like hors d'oeuvres and things for when we get together over Christmas. She loves to do hors d'oeuvres.

That's like her thing. get together over Christmas. She loves to do hors d'oeuvres. That's like her thing. And she just saw this old lady buying a bunch of one specific thing that she wasn't even on her radar, but she was like, if she liked it, it must be good. So she bought

it. I think it was like gyoza or something, or like a begogi gyoza, which is a weird combination. And she was like, oh my god, and she bought it something or like a big, a big goal gigioza, which is a weird combination. And, uh, she was like, Oh my God. And she bought it just cause this lady got like 12 of them.

She's like, she almost cleaned it out. I had to get it. There was only a few left. I had to get them. I was like, well, of course you did. Yeah. And mind you, all of this was happening. I just want to remind everyone all of this was happening while my stomach was like,

we got to find a bathroom, bro, now. So I was just like, mmm. So I was trying to be the most pleasant version of myself because I was like, the faster we get out of here, the faster we can get home. I used my own bathroom and like, let's go. That was an unpleasant experience. But I now have a Costco card, which means probably this week

I'll gather the entire team at the office and be like, yo, it's Costco time. And we'll just go buy a bunch of stuff and hopefully I won't have to keep buying stuff because it's like, you know, every time we buy things for the office, depending on who comes to the office, great know, every time we buy things for the office, depending on who comes to the office.

Great example. If we buy waters and scary game squads at the office, those waters are gone that night. Every water is gone. Those boys love to drink water and they'll just disappear. Things like that where I'm like, okay, we just got to, we got to plan. We got to plan in advance. And I think that's, I think that's the objective and try to save some money in 2024. Yeah, Costco is great for that.

Like, if you know you're going to buy something and use it for a long time, it's like, just get it at Costco. So it's going to be bigger and you get more of it and you get it cheaper. I, too, have become more like an old person the older I get. I'm just like, i can do the digital coupon for an extra 50 cents this is great like just things like that you know i'm just back in the day you know like uh years ago i'd be like oh i'm eating like this fancy thing and like i'm gonna try this i'm cool and now i'm just like nope not now i'm just now i'm just about saving money

i think a lot of people have that and then they get it out of their system like they have a wow i can't wait to try this thing or do this thing but once you do you realize it isn't that much better you know what i mean like it's fun to do it's great but there definitely is a diminishing return on all that stuff like i went out and got a great dinner, but if you have too many great dinners, it ruins great dinners for you. It's true.

Or like I went on vacation. I went on all these vacations. Yeah. Okay. Well now you kind of ruined the concept of a vacation. That reminds me of like my Michelin star thing. Like the first time I was like greatest meal I ever had. And then the one time you couldn't make it, we went,

I was like, it's not as good. I was like this. I'd rather, I'd rather just go to a normal restaurant. That's what I'm saying. I was like, well, rather just go to a normal restaurant. That's what I'm saying. I was like, well, I don't want to do this again. If you pay a lot for a great meal and it's not great, then it makes you never want to do that again.

You're like, well, why would I ever do this again? Yeah, yeah. Because the whole point is it's supposed to be an experience. What's great about LA is a lot of chefs chefs i don't know if this is the thing a lot of mission star chefs do but i feel like they should in la there's a dude who has it's like it's like a two-star restaurant and it is amazing it's multi-floored and for each uh course in the meal you go up a different level oh i see very cool high concept but because it can only do so many people across the street is sort of like a cafe that does roughly the same equivalent

and it's just as good if not better you can sit outside and chill and you're not paying ridiculous pretentious prices you're just going to a cafe yeah and I'm like, okay, so it's the exact same concept, just simplified. And I'm not getting like no weird foams were put inside a mouth that looks like a fish that then you suck. None of that stuff. Literally, it's like, yeah, okay, here's your avocado toast, but it's delicious. Speaking of food, how was your Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving was great. Once again, my parents and I went out and got Thanksgiving at a restaurant. It was great.

We had turkey and stuffing and green beans and Brussels sprouts and a delicious sweet potato mash of some sort. That was great. And then, yeah, then we had like a little pumpkin pie dessert thing. It was lovely. You know what? When you don't have to cook it, it's great. I feel like one day I should do a Friendsgiving and invite friends over and we just like try to cook a meal. I think that would be funny just in the concept.

But, yeah, I don't know. I'm totally okay with a good we went and we ate and then we came back to my parents house and watched the dog show that is every thanksgiving and i laughed my ass off at every dog that looked like a rat and or was furry for no reason like there's one dog that was maybe the smallest dog I've ever seen, but was 90% fur. Just like poofy fur. That thing, it won one of the awards, so I guess it's a good dog.

I don't know. But yeah, we watched the dog show, and we sat around, and then I realized my parents' dog doesn't actually like me, but only uses me as a springboard to jump up onto taller things. i was sitting there and then this dog comes up and sits on my lap but not really it then looks around and then sees oh i can jump to a higher advantage point from jesse and then did it multiple times and i was like cool thanks for uh thanks for stopping by so this is a springboard absolutely dog was just like hold on now i can actually get up higher yeah never stuck around me never cared would come up to me with little like puppy dog eyes like could i please sit on you i'm like all right and then

no jump up and then be like all right where can where can I jump to now? What a mean dog. My parents are like, we love Maxine. She's lovely. What a wonderful dog. Like, that dog is... An eagle could swoop down and take that dog away. This dog is rat size. A little tiny rat dog.

It's probably smaller than my cat. I would say roughly the same size. Yes. All right. Except your cat is like poofy. This dog is skin and bones. This dog, its legs look like chicken wings. They're so, like chicken wings have more meat than the legs.

It's crazy. I just think of a chicken dog walking around. Apparently, they were saying during the dog show that this particular dog is used to hunt rats, and I was like, it makes perfect sense. This is a little rat dog. This dog is like, I can get inside the walls. Like, oh, yeah. No, my parents love their dog.

Like, she's so smart. I'm like, yeah, okay. Although she did completely avoid me and then use me as a springboard to get to higher places, which is pretty smart. That is pretty smart that was my thanksgiving what did you do so speaking of cooking we cooked hell so did you have family over was that the point yes it was uh my grandma my aunt and my parents so it was like a smaller thing so we didn't it was only for like the six of us but it's still a lot of cooking so we like made a turkey we had like sweet potatoes we had mashed potatoes we had uh asparagus with garlic uh we had my mom made green bean casseroles my dad

only likes the way she makes it the other year we did it where i made like uh or no we like we both made like fresh green bean casserole like we actually made like mushroom sauce with like real mushrooms and like cream and then we like fried onions and did all these things and i was like dude this tastes amazing it tastes like real green bean casserole like mushroom and then my dad was like, I don't know. Doesn't taste like the good old one, you know? It is a flavor and I know exactly what

your dad means, but yours sounds delicious. But I get it. It's like my mom with the cranberry sauce. From the can, she loves it. But if it's like some dude made a cranberry sauce, she's like, it's not the same. That's also my dad. I mean, that's like me with cherry pies.

I don't, if you make a cherry pie, we're like, you get the cherries and you do. It's not as good as that crappy canned and like neon red. That's the shit. I'm like, that's, that's delicious. That's what a pie is to me. And so I get it. I absolutely get it. Speaking of the cranberry sauce, we made cranberry sauce,

which every year I make it. It's the Gordon Ramsay cranberry sauce. So if you haven't seen it, literally just look up Gordon Ramsay cranberry sauce. I'm doing it right now. He makes it for Christmas. And you pretty much put sugar in a pan, and then you melt it, you caramelize it,

and then you put in star anise and cardamom, and then you put the like caramelize it and then you put in like star anise and cardamom and then you put the cranberries in that and the caramel like melts the cranberries essentially and cooks them and then you put on like some orange zest and you put on like you squeeze the orange into it like salt pepper and then that love it but uh last year we got a can cranberry sauce from my dad and he didn't even eat it he just ate the one we made and i was like well why do you even so we didn't even get that this i mean you want him over that's that's a win yeah that's good so he ate that listen it's i think it's great i also love gordon ramsay that he's like salt and pepper he's like it's so important so important you season i just and it's great. I also love Gordon Ramsay in that. He's like salt and pepper. He's like, you're so important.

So important. You're seasoned. And it's got like, do-do-do-do-do-do-do. It's like happy Christmas music in the background. Great video. Great recipe. So do the cranberries, do they have pits and stuff in them? How does that work?

Mm-mm. Cranberries. I mean, I'll be honest. I've never eaten a cranberry non-cooked. Does that make any sense? Or in juice form. I love cranberry juice, but I haven't had a cranberry cranberry. It's kind of like when you have, oh what the hell is that called all the kids love it

uh right pomegranates like pomegranate juice is delicious pomegranate flavored things are delicious but an actual pomegranate like it's hard as hell to eat i'm like no i'm over it i don't need to eat this i mean i think that's how you when you cook it it becomes very like need to eat this. I mean, I think that's how you when you cook it, it becomes very easy to eat, obviously. But it's more like a jelly. You get that cranberry sauce texture. It's very jelly-like. But... Oh, okay.

It's like a berry. It's like a blueberry almost, but like a very tart more solidified blueberry, I guess. I don't know. But it's great. I love it. And then I think we made a couple other things, but Oh yeah. Stuffing toaster woman made the stuffing.

Awesome. What kind of stuffing does toast make? Uh, it was another, we pretty much got all our recipes from YouTube. All the like chef people on YouTube. There's a lot of them. Uh, damn. I went to Just to interrupt, I went to the website and there's a bottom

thing that says next. I was like, what could possibly be the next thing past cranberry? They got blue cheese dip. I love blue cheese. Oh my god, a blue cheese dip? Okay. Okay, Gordon. And it looks super easy to make and i'm like oh my god

all right i gotta stop looking at this anyway sorry to interrupt yeah so i mean gordon rams got some banger recipes there's a lot of good recipes out there um so yeah we cooked that went great everything went well and then uh we pretty much were eating leftovers and then we got a got a fun story so yesterday or the day after thanksgiving that night we were like you know what we're we're tired of eating leftovers didn't really want to cook anything so we went and got mcdonald's okay so apparently the day after Thanksgiving is Friendsgiving right yeah so went to McDonald's and they had the McRib and I was like dude I get my yearly McRib right so we go there and we go to the drive-thru and they're like uh the the drive-thru is not working

you got to come inside I'm like okay mind you this is like midnight so i'm like whatever so go inside and it is like it's like a high school in there like it's just three packs of just high schoolers there's like a like a family in there there's like a couple families and then like just some random like college kids or whatever. And I swear to God, this one girl was I don't even know if she was like drunk. Hi, both. Yeah, maybe both. Yeah, but she was like stumbling around and she was like, dude, oh i am so excited for mcnuggets and then she like sat on the floor she just sat on the floor and then her friends just like get up what are you

doing she's like i'm on the floor i'm breaking in my mom's boots she's wearing these like white boots and she's like i'm breaking them in and then she's like where's my zins i was like what the hell is a zin so i looked it up apparently it's like oral tobacco or uh nothing but like nicotine like oral nicotine is that like zeus or whatever what the hell every time i went overseas all the kids from norway would have like something like snooze snooze. Is that the name of it? Snooze snooze, a smokeless moist powder tobacco pouch from Sweden. Oh,

sorry. Sorry. Sorry, Norway. I mean, I guess Norwegians could use it too. Um, you place under your top lip such as mint and wintergreen flavors.

You don't burn it and you don't have to spit when you use it. Yeah, I think it's... Zin is literally nicotine pouch, smoke-free, spit-free. It's like the same thing. Yeah, alright. Snooze, like loose. Snooze is better. I don't give a shit. Yeah, I think snooze is better. Zinc?

No, that's trash. Apparently, they are not approved by the FDA. That sounds correct and it's just i guess everybody's doing that now so cool uh so she was like my zins and then she like asked some like high school kid he looked like high school she's like can you open this and he was like uh okay and he like opened it up then she was like we're gonna sit at your table and they like just sat down like these like gonna sit at your table and they like just sat down like these like five high school guys table and they're just like bro what

and then i was like just standing there and this like one dude who's like he looked like um you know they got the cop guy from stranger things yes the beard he literally looked like him and he just like came in alone he got his food and he literally got his food as he was leaving he's like everybody happy thanksgiving and then everybody just looked over like what okay whatever this girl was just like oh my god i can't wait for my mcnuggets and then they start giving out food let me let me ask one more question follow up again what time was this midnight and why were you there didn't want to cook dinner tired of leftovers well i also wanted to make a rib i drive i also got i also got to make ribib this week Alright anyway please continue

Oh my god how was it Uh I mean It was a McRib In terms of like McRib quality Was it a good quality McRib So here's the thing As is tradition

I drove past McDonald's looked at it And was like oh damn for cox and crendor so i did a ue i like you turned back to mcdonald's and i was like i gotta get a mccox and crendor so i got the two main ingredients that that sweet sweet mcrib and a lovely mcdouble and uh i saw that you know they didn't have jalapenos or whatever, but it was fine. It didn't matter. I was living. And I went to go combine them, but I was like, I guess I'll taste what the McRib tastes like without this monstrosity of a hell beast we've created.

It's solidly mediocre. I was not impressed at all. mediocre it's i was not impressed at all um but when you combine the two it becomes more of an event than a food and so at that point i didn't care it is it was like how on earth do i eat this but other than that you know it's not something i ever want to do anytime soon again right yeah usually i only have one to two a year that That's like, it is more of an event. I'm like, it's the McRib time. Then I'm like, all right, McRib time is over. Yeah, once was enough.

I'm good. But then they got a bag of food. And one of the guys at that table, so he's looking and he's like, wait. It is such a weird thing to say, they got a bag of food. They got a bag of food. They got a bag of food. Who knows what bag of food. I got a bag of food. Who knows what's inside? So it was literally like almost my order.

It had everything but the McRib in it. So then he was like, uh, and he's like, wait, who ordered this? Then the one goes like, I ordered cheese. And then the one goes like, I had McNuggets. Are those McNuggets? And then he's like, no. And then he like looked around and he was like, is this your food? And I went and looked and I'm like, uh, it's got everything I had except the McRib.

And then I was like, so I don't think it is. And he's like, uh, and then the one girl's like, hold on. I got cheeseburgers. Give me that. She's like grabs the bag. And then he was like, sorry, I have to like, we're like dealing with them. And I was like, it's good. I know. Sorry, we're dealing with, sorry, we're like dealing with them. And I was like, it's good, I know. Sorry, we're dealing with sorry. We're dealing with them. So I just like walk away. And the other girl that's like the Zin girl,

she's just like, I have a boyfriend and like, he's really cool. She just said that out of nowhere. Like nobody asked. Nobody said, she just said that. And everyone was like, okay okay that's cool man she screams like i have got main character energy very much yeah in her mind you all were there to serve her story yeah and they also had those uh kiosks you can order at like the you just order it a screen and she ordered at that but while sitting on the

floor you know you know as you do yeah as you do um so then finally the lady behind the counter was like what did you order i was like this is my order and she's like oh yeah it's right here then they like made it and then i left that was that yeah they made it and you left but or i forgot to mention as i was as they were handing me mine, that girl came up to the counter and she literally was like, I could go into the kitchen. I could go into the McDonald's kitchen right now. She said that out loud.

She needs someone to hold her back. So her friend was there and she's like, I wouldn't do that. So that was her friend holding her back. That's a good friend. That's a good friend. But her friend also I looked like glanced over and saw her eyes. She was not in a sober state. Those eyes were gone.

I just think it's so funny that you were like, you know what? It's midnight. I'm going to go to McDonald's. The least sane option I've ever heard is the McRib. I mean, I get what it was. It's just

you didn't have to do it. So then the girl she's like, yeah, I'm not going to go in the kitchen. It's Friendsgiving. It's booze giving. You guys, everybody drinking at night. It's Friendsgiving. It's booze giving. You guys, everybody drinking at night. It's Friendsgiving. Nobody responded.

And then the lady behind the couch is like, the McNugget and whatever she got. She's like, oh my God, that's mine. Thank you so much. And she just took it and went and sat down. You know what? I hope that did the trick. I hope that she just feels so much and she just took it and went and sat down i you know what i hope that did the trick i hope that she just feels so much better like i want her to be her best self because yeah that

poor woman that sounds like a mess yeah she was she is definitely a mess i don't know how the next day was either it's gotta be it's gotta be something considering the way she was acting i imagine she's like 22 so I would assume yeah the next day She woke up just fine cuz 20 year olds have Incredible just fine skills. That's true. Yeah Except me when I was 22 of course No, I mean I was you probably didn't go out and get Greasy food the night before she was planning a that's true. That's pretty smart. That's true. Actually, you know what?

I think I was fine. Occasionally, I'd have some bad heartburn or something. 25 was when it started topping on the sled. So, speaking of which, then at the doctor's office, Toaster Woman was getting her allergy appointment thing, and there's this old man

with his always an old man at the allergy office and wrote this down and I quote his wife was like did you drink soup and he goes yeah it was Campbell's and it tasted bad. And then she said, but it was low sodium. And he goes, it tasted like dishwater. And she said, it was low sodium. Maybe that man's trying to tell us something. Maybe the low sodium tastes like dishwater. It does, apparently. It's the, I mean, I haven't tried it. Here's the thing. Low sodium and Campbell's, that's still probably like dishwater. It does, apparently. I mean, I haven't tried it.

Here's the thing. Low sodium in Campbell's, that's still probably like high sodium overall. Too high. Yeah, but it's also there's so many preservatives and things they have to keep in that to keep it shelf stable. I will say, though, that old man needs to get on the

Jesse Cox Campbell's train. Every time I'm there, I don't know what's going on. I don't know if the taste palettes of Americans have changed, but next time at the grocery store, and this may just be an LA thing, maybe a West Coast or a Southwest thing. I don't know. They have multiple varieties of soups that are now extra spicy. They've got chicken noodle, which is what I like. I like the chicken noodle one. It's spicy. It's delicious. It's probably not great, which is what I like. I like the chicken noodle one. It's spicy.

It's delicious. It's probably not great for you, but I like it. They have chowders and stews, and now it's all like extra spicy. And they even have one that's like Carolina Reaper flavor. And I tried that one.

Too hot to enjoy. I can eat it, but it's too hot to enjoy. Right. And so, I don't know. Like, it's weird that that's the thing that's

happening it's only i've only seen in the last couple months but i will say it got me to buy campbell soup well look at that they got you that's their they got me that's all they really care about honestly i'm not buying a lot of it i'll usually like from the grocery store i'll buy one can of campbell soup but i'm like you know what If one day I need a meal but I don't want to do anything, it's a winner. Yeah. So there's that old man. I like him.

I started selling my Crocky plush. I don't know if you've seen that. Here comes the shameless plug. I've definitely seen it. Over on makeship.com slash product slash crocky dash plush.

I am selling crocky plush. Links in the description, potentially. I've got 16 days, 12 hours to hit 200 sold so that he gets funded. Currently, we're at 74. So we're almost halfway there. We're at 37%.

Plenty of time. Please buy it. I believe we're at 74. So we're almost halfway there. We're at 37%. Plenty of time. Please buy it. I believe. Please buy it. He's great. I don't know if you saw, I made a video on my YouTube channel called The Crocky Plush Will Change Your Life Cren Shopping Network Special. You know what? You're finally

doing it. You're finally in your stride. If you watch that video i think i will convince you to buy it is a fantastic video it's pretending to be qvc home shopping network and it's it's really great stuff i actually put more effort into that than i normally do anything i do well there's your problem you just made a video that was like i got a plush go buy it thanks and left i still have a shitty green screen and everything happening it's it's high quality You just made a video that was like, I got a plush. Go buy it. Thanks. And left. I still have a shitty green screen and everything happening.

It's high quality, low quality at the same time. You know what? All right. I'll take it. High quality, low quality. That's a brand right there. That is a brand. Then the stories are continued.

I wrote down a lot this week. Then I wrote down about this tweet i made this tweet like blew up everybody was loving this how i said i still think about the cox and crendor from years ago about how some people don't have inner monologues and how i don't understand it and so i wanted to clarify with you do you have an inner monologue um um I would assume yes I don't have I can't visualize things visualize things okay but you have like a voice in your

head where you're just like in your head like should I do this okay I'll do that um sometimes I mean it depends on the situation if I'm if I have time to think something over I will think something over. But if it's like in the – for example, this show. Right.

I have not thought through a thing I've said. Everything I've said has come out of my mouth with zero thought behind it, and I will also forget everything I said. I couldn't tell you what we talked about 10 minutes ago. Costco. See? I think I do it half the time. Half the time, I'm able to do that. The other half, I have to think about everything.

I mean, I probably should think about stuff more, to be honest, but I try to be a little spur-of-the-moment kind of thing where I just want to say, here's the first thing I thought of because it always works out better that way. When it comes to other things, like if I have to write an email or if I have to

talk to someone, like, okay, I got to be a boss for a minute. That kind of stuff, I'll think through what I want to say. What about, say you're driving in a car. You're driving in the car. Are you thinking, like, let's see, what am I going to do today? Am I going to do this? Do I got to talk?

Are you thinking that out in your head? I don't know if... I get flashes of like, well, okay, I'll go do this. But I don't sit there and think it out. If you really want to know what's going on in my head, 90% of the time, I'm humming a tune. I'm literally just like silently going on in my head 90% of the time I'm humming a tune. I'm literally just like silently

whistling in my head. It's like I got nothing going on out there, dude. I'm letting you know. I might be the simplest man who ever lived on planet Earth. That's insane to me. That's like the actual thing.

I'm pretty sure it's ADD or some shit. Like it's ADHD. Like I'm letting you know, I acknowledge it's not normal. I realize I'm an outlier in society. I don't like it necessarily. On this website, which I don't know if it's true or not,

but apparently a bunch of websites are saying it says 30 to 50 percent of people don't have internal monologues so you might just be i don't even think it's that unusual i think it's like just 30 to 50 percent of people it's pretty much half well that makes me feel better um but also makes me scared because if i if most of the world is exactly like me that's a problem well it says it's common for writers and artists to have conversations with themselves. Which is why I am more of like a creative person. So I'm like, maybe it's like the creative part of the brain. You have more like internal dialogue.

It's crazy to me because I talk to myself in my head nonstop. Like, literally not. Unless I'm like talking right now like I am, then I'm not talking to myself. But like if I'm stuck, I like talk to myself in my head. I most certainly do not. That's crazy. But also it could be

because of some sort of mental deficiency on my part where I require constant stimulation. So I don't have the downtime to talk to myself. Maybe if I talked to myself in my head, I would discover dark truths about it. I don't know. We don't like at night. Some people will lay in bed quietly. I will have a podcast on every single night. And I will listen

to the podcast and then fall asleep. And I don't have any sort of like, well, tomorrow will be another day, Jesse. I just don't. I don't. Yeah, but if you didn't have the podcast on, would that be occurring? And you just don't want to.

The only times, this is, all right, this is some inside baseball, but I don't care. It's true. We're talking. The only time I don't play a podcast is if someone's spending the night, wink, wink, and I don't play anything then.

And usually just go to bed in silence because I'm trying to respect the other person. Right. And I don't, you know, sometimes it's like, well, I don't know what they want to listen to or what they're doing and they seem very tired. So whatever. And in that case, I will, you know, go to bed without something on, but I, and in this case, absolutely. I will sit there, but I, but it won't be good conversations in my head.

It will be like, I'm hot. Do I take this cover off? What are they going to think of? I just pull the covers off and I'm just laying here. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I'm, I'm letting you know, I want a hundred percent do, but I think because of, I don't know. It's always something in your childhood, right? I don't know what it is,

but I'm sure at some point in my life as a kid or as a teenager in high school or something, something sparked where I don't like silence. And it could be because of then I start talking to myself and I get in my head. And if I just make it noisy, I won't get in my head and start overthinking things. You know what I mean? I honestly have no clue. Well, I also don't like silence, but I like white noise. But I've heard that white noise actually makes you think better.

Or like it helps your brain more. I think that's the same concept as like ASMR stuff. Not the ASMR that's like, hello, today we're going to make pancakes. The ASMR stuff was like someone flicking like this over and over and over again. Apparently that's supposed to help you in some way. I don't know that that's true, but I guess that helps you focus.

I mean, you could even say that having music on in the background is a form of ASMR. That's true, but I messed up because this past week when I was working, I was playing music and the music just got me. I was so caught up in the jams that I started like air drumming instead of writing. I was like, I the music just got me. I was so caught up in the jams that I started like air drumming instead of writing. I was like, I got a script to write.

Yeah, I was not paying attention. Yeah, so that's it. I mean, that means you do have it. It's almost like you just don't want to access it because. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I don't know why. I mean, I do sometimes where you know if i need to a great example is today i was like oh i gotta write this email oh my god all right well

i gotta get this done because if i do the show with crendor i'll forget to do it afterwards so all right like i'll have that that conversation but i won't like like, I cannot picture, you know, when we were talking about what we ate for Thanksgiving, I can't mentally focus hard enough to see the, like, Thanksgiving plate that was in front of me. Like, I know it was on it because I ate it, but I can't revisualize what it was. So you can't picture it. Can you picture anything? No, but I can explain it to you because I know what it was because I have the recognition of what it was. Does that make any sense?

I can't visualize the plate, but I know what was on the plate and I know what in order it was and I know what a slice of turkey looks like. So I could put it back together for you and be pretty accurate, I think, but I don't see it in my head

and then immediately recreate it on paper, for example. I couldn't do that. Yeah. I'd be lying to you if I was like, oh yeah, I know exactly what it looks like. It'd just be me faking it and being like, yep, that's the approximate of what it was. Yeah.

Well, I mean, I can do that. It like varies. It's like a varying scale. Sometimes I can like not picture stuff that well and then other times I have like 4K. Like there's times especially when I'm going to bed and I'm just like laying there.

I can like see stuff in 4K like I'm dreaming almost like and I even dream like super high detail dreaming. It's pretty insane. You know what? Actually, there's an exception to this. There's an exception to this rule. There's one thing that I can vividly see in my head,

and I think it's because it's unattainable. In college, again, this is probably too much inside baseball. In college, when I moved out of the dorms and into a house with a bunch of friends, I was the only guy with a computer at the time. And so they all wanted to use my computer. And I was like, yeah, yeah, whatever. It's fine. And I remember I had found, looking back now, it's probably the lowest qualities. I found, let's say a video of an erotic nature that I can

see in... My eyes are closed and I can see it right now. There was like a neon sign in the background and it was like, it's three ladies and they were just like, going to town. And here's the thing. I don't know what it's called. I don't remember

any of the names of the people in it. I have no clue. But I do know that if I were to find it now, it would be smaller than like 120p. It has to be the lowest. Because that would have been 2002. Oh, yeah. So that would have been bad.

But it was the best thing I'd ever seen. It was the hottest, most amazing video I've ever seen. And then all those damn guys in my house got... One day I just went to my computer, and when I went to go turn it on, 50 pop-ups appeared. They filled my computer with so many viruses that I had to just remove everything. I had to put in the Windows disk and write everything back to zeros and ones in order to save the computer.

And I was so mad because I couldn't access anything. It's gone. Dude, it's gone. I don't know where it's at, except it's in my brain. I'm like one of those sci-fi movie guys who's like, he has the last Bible. Well, where does he have it? It's all up here. Like that's me with that video.

It exists permanently in my head and I'll never be able to find it again. But I think about it every so often like, man, I wish I had that video. You know, and just like, and now it's gone. That's going to be a quote in, like, episode 500. It's like, he has the last Bible.

It's all up here. That's what I'm saying. And I just... It's one of those things that I absolutely might have consumed all my memory trying to retain. I'm not even joking.. I, I can, I'm not even joking right now. I'm looking at this.

I'm looking at my computer screen, listening to you. And I still have a V like perfect four by three box image of what it is in my head. And I'm like, Oh my God, did I really forego all other knowledge storing and just kept that up there? Worth it, by the way.

Just, yeah, I don't know. That is, I did not expect that, but I also, it doesn't surprise me. Yeah. Yeah. It broke my heart. I was so mad. I was like, guys, I can't believe you did this. My computer.

And they're like sorry dude like we know you worked hard on that csgo account i was like yeah yeah yeah csgo yeah that's what i meant see the thing is like when they tell you you know the thing where they're like envision an apple right i feel like that's it it's only to a certain extent because i feel like some people they envision things in different ways like you it feels like your envisioning is all tied into those types of experiences. I mean, like if there was an apple in that video and you said envision the apple, I bet I could. It'd be a perfect five out of five. Yeah, I don't.

Again, as you said that, I tried to envision an apple. And I was like, the problem is I know what an apple looks like. So anything I try to envision is me telling my brain, here's an apple. Rather than seeing it in my mind's eye, I'm just like, here's an apple. I'm like, oh, okay. See, mine is kind of like that. If they're envisioning an apple, I get a two or a three, where I'm like, I see the apple. It's not very colored, and I'm like, whatever.

two or three where I'm like I see the apple it's not like very colored and I'm like whatever but then if I like try to envision something I'm having fun with where I'm like okay I'm just gonna create some crazy shit I'm like there's a turkey he's got like a katana and he's like cutting down bamboo and he's like yelling at the

clouds like I can envision that sure but if somebody tells me what to envision like envision a pencil i can i like struggle to do that more but i can kind of do it but i can i can envision things that i create like if i'm like this is what i want to envision like a leprechaun you know running around a track and he's got like like olympic gear on i envision that like easily sure sure uh i i guess because you're using your imagination more and you're creating the leprechaun running around the track rather than the confines

of an apple yeah that's it yeah i think so it has to it has to come from my imagination in order for me to envision it better which is kind of crazy when you think about it and i'm sure there's people that like have the opposite. Where they can't really create stuff. But they can envision things really powerfully. But that sounds worse to me. That is interesting. Yeah, I don't know.

Thank God I don't have the problem. I'm just like, yeah, don't worry about it. Yeah. So I got two more things. We're going crazy here. I'll go through them fast. One, radio ads. Terrible. Agreed. You don't even have to. Agreed. Yeah. Literally, we were driving to breakfast the other day. We put on Christmas music station like, oh, it's Christmas music. And then it was like nonstop ads. They played one Christmas song and then we had to go into the restaurant. We got out of the restaurant, turned it on, more ads. Then by the time we were like two minutes from home. They played like one more Christmas song. I was like this sucks

Could just play a Spotify playlist at that point Yeah, I'm thing is I Was like man Do I do I buy Spotify? cuz I'm like... I pay for Spotify just because I go to the gym, so I have all my, like, wub wubs on there. That's what I'm saying. Like, I use it enough now that I'm like,

should I keep getting commercials? Should I just pay for this? It's a problem. I have too many accounts with things. I've had to go through and cancel stuff. I went through and was like, why do I still have this account? Oh, yeah. It's too much. I've had to go through and cancel stuff. I went through and was like, why do I still have this account? Oh, yeah. It's too much.

I did that, too. Especially like HBO. I was like, I don't want to use this. I was like, cancel that. And then they're like, but do you want HBO for like $1 for three months? And I was like, alright. I'll do that. But then they hook you in again. They hope you forget. Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much it. And I had a I had an account for oh, what the hell is that shit called?

Uh, Xbox gold pass or whatever. Uh, and I had it because I went to an event where they gave me a year free. And then all of a sudden I see a charge for like a hundred some bucks for a year's worth of Xbox. I'm like, what the hell? And I just forgot that I got it for free. And so I had to cancel it and it was like, alright, you've canceled it, but enjoy

your year. I'm like, oh my god. Can't I just prorate and not like, oh, come on guys. And then the final thing I had, which truly dives into this podcast,

Black Friday sucks even more so than last year. I completely agree. I have been let down by Black Friday for many years, as we've discussed on this show. Here's the thing. There aren't sales anymore. Yeah. If anything we learned from this year,

all the TikTok videos, all the things I'm seeing online, people are just going to stores, removing the sale item price, and then underneath it is the original price. It's the exact same price. Exactly. It's all bullshit now.

Before it was like, I'm going to fight you for this $19 DVD player. Now it all sucks. I don't know. And it's all spread out. It's not even a day anymore. It's like a month. Yeah.

It's like Black Friday month. They're like, it's starting early and it ends late. It's like it's not even Black Friday anymore. The whole point was it was like one day. Cyber Monday. Can't buy it online? Cyber Monday. And It's like, it's not even Black Friday anymore. The whole point was that it was like Cyber Monday. Can't buy it online? Cyber Monday. And you're like, cool.

Here's the thing. It's great for the employees. You know, they don't have to deal with all the shit and everything. That's great. I mean, they just, they shouldn't be working anyway if that's, if it's not going to be a special thing. Exactly. And you know what? The one Thanksgiving night we thought about, we were like, maybe we go to Target or something. Nobody was open. So I was like, hey,

you know what? Even though I wanted to go, this is good for the employees. They don't have to work. They probably don't have to work until like 6 a.m. or something. That's great. However, it sucks for people like us to report on this and get entertainment out of it.

Here's the thing. I'm alright with it. You know what? It sucks that we don't have any people trampling people, but I guess people aren't getting trampled, and so it's fine. Honestly, you can probably just find people getting trampled somewhere else.

Yeah, there's so many other tramplings happening that you don't need it to happen at Black Friday. Yeah. It's definitely one of those things where it felt like a day where you're like, dude, I'm going to get so many great deals. This will be fun. Now it's just like the deals aren't even good.

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the guy with the creditor. How's that traffic out there? Oh boy, traffic. Let me tell you, it's crazy. There's so many traveling people for Thanksgiving, going to Thanksgiving, coming back from Thanksgiving. It's cold out there. It's just going to get crazier.

Holiday season, man. Holiday season. You know what it is. It's that holiday season. Back to you. You sang the Rebecca Black version of It's holiday, holiday, holiday season. Yeah, you had a thing going on there for sure.

By the way, did you know at the last place we went to holiday season. Yeah, you had a thing going on there for sure. By the way, did you know at the last place we went to for Cox and Crandor Live, the Lincoln, not the Lincoln Hall, but the recent one? Uh-huh. In the bathroom, there's a thing that said Rebecca Black was here. And I'm pretty sure Rebecca Black performed

where we performed. I'm letting sure Rebecca Black performed where we performed. I'm letting you know that's awesome. Yep. I feel like well deserved for us. Yeah. We're making it. We really are. I'm very impressed by you know, we're up there

with such amazing talent. Yeah. We got to get down on Friday. Yeah, and we did. And we did, sir. And we did. That's the traffic. Alright, let's go to weather.

Weather time. Weather time. Weather time. We have a request for Rupert, Idaho. Check a request for Rupert, Idaho. Check it out. Rupert, Idaho. Rupert, Idaho.

Check out Acapulco for the best Mexican food. Fun fact, the city turns into Christmas City, USA during the holidays. Currently in Rupert, Idaho. I'll activate WAPI. WAPI activated. 8 degrees Fahrenheit. Rupert, Idaho. Haze.

High. Low. 7 degrees. Humidity. 81%. Pressure. 30.56 inches. Visibility.

2 miles. Winds. 2 miles per hour, 739 a.m. sunrise, 504 p.m. sunset, dew point 3, UV index 0 of 11, moon phase, full moon. 10 day 5 degrees currently Monday 32 Partly cloudy Tuesday 35 Sunny Wednesday 32 Mostly cloudy Thursday 31 Mostly cloudy

Friday 31 Mostly cloudy Saturday 33 Mostly cloudy Sunday 35 Snow to rain Monday 39 Rain snow showers 33, mostly cloudy. Sunday, 35, snow to rain. Monday, 39, rain, snow, showers. Yep.

Yep. Let me tell you something about Acapulco. So finding this restaurant, not hard, because there's roughly six that I can see in the entire city. I also see that there's just one big road going through this city. Yeah. Welcome to the, like, I don't know. Does this count as Midwest, I guess?

Actually, this would probably be literal Midwest because it's, like, the mid and then a bit west. Yeah, but I feel like this is, aren't these the plains states? They have a name. The great, the open plains, yeah. Yeah, shout I feel like this is, aren't these the Plains states? They have a name. The open plains, yeah. Shout out to Acapulco. You know how I know this place is good? The menu is written on a whiteboard.

And then there's a bunch of photos around it. There is no real menu as far as I can tell. In fact, the actual restaurant sign looks like it's they wrote it themselves. It absolutely does. That's so good.

It looks like they kind of forgot how to spell Acapulco and then fit it in at the last minute. It's like, we can't redo this. Yeah, this is the final copy. Yeah, I can tell this place is delicious because it looks like, and this is a thing that we've done every time we've gone somewhere. If the outside looks like they definitely sell drugs on the inside, that place has amazing food. 100% yes. Acapulco, the outside looks like it should not be good. But all the food, I'm like, yeah, I'd mess with this in a heartbeat.

The thing is, the people that get these places, they're passionate about food. And they're just like, dude, I just want to, like, sell my food. So they just get, like, the lowest cost place so they can put all their effort into the food. I'm looking at, there's an angled shot of the entrance. When you walk in, there is a little glass counter that looks like they probably sold tchotchkes or something. This wasn't a Mexican restaurant before. I have to believe that. Yeah.

And that little counter. And then there's a snapper cooler with a bunch of drinks in it. And then behind this little glass counter is the menu, which I'm telling you is one fourth of a whiteboard with a bunch of stuff written on it and then images of things. And then there's another whiteboard on top of the snapple thing with breakfast options yep and i'm not gonna lie i dig it hold on i zoomed out i was like there's got to be some crazy shit here I saw the Flamingo Lodge Motel

and the Flamingo Lodge Motel one of the reviews said horrible nasty place has no phone and the one above that said 5 out of 5 Flamingo Motel more like the War of 1812 Motel am I right I saw a dead

Victorian era child in the vents and it asked for licorice. I'm sorry, what? That's what he said. Then he said, who likes licorice? Dead kids from the war of 1812.

But he gave it a 5 out of 5. Yeah. What's crazy about this is if you actually go scroll out, like full on scroll out, street view too. Mm hmm. Across the street from Acapulco is potentially a plant of some sort processing something. A road that looks like it is permanently under construction. Yeah. And then behind it is a trailer park.

It really has middle of nowhere vibes. Yeah. Oh my god, even the place next to it. It's just like some mechanic shack. It just says breaks AC tune up in like painter's tape. And it just says breaks ac tune up in like in like painter's tape and also misties yeah but also there's oh boy i can't read that i don't know what that says something chiquita too it looks like a supermarket i can't read what it says um but it's like a spanish language supermarket do you think the place across the street that looks like a Spanish language supermarket?

Do you think the place across the street that looks like a processing plant? Is this one of those things we're going to find out that a lot of Mexican immigrants live here because of either chicken or cow or pork? They're farmworking. And so that's why there's a lot of Mexican restaurants here. Probably why there's also a lot of good Mexican restaurants. Because it's actually like people who know what they're doing. And that's probably lot of Mexican restaurants here. Probably why there's also a lot of good Mexican restaurants because it's actually like people who know what they're doing and that's probably why they all live here. It could explain the um, trailer park across

the street from this processing plant too. Yeah, because there's a lot of Mexican restaurants. There's like five more Mexican restaurants in like middle of nowhere Idaho. It's weird. I mean, I guess potentially that's yeah, I mean maybe that's because they're all because this is kind of it's in the middle of nowhere it is middle of nowhere

if there's like one main road that's that's pretty much middle of nowhere yeah especially if that road is named like North Meridian but but North Meridian becomes S.A. Street and then turns into a numbered street the further you go. Like, that's definitely, yeah, and then there's Route 24 or something runs through it. And then there's railroads because the

railroads pick up all the produce or whatever, the cow bits or something. Interesting. I wonder what Rupert's known for. What do they process? There's the E Street Deli. Wait, this has 4.8 out of 5? Yo, the E Street Deli looks pretty good.

It looks like a solid-ass deli. Yeah. You know why I know that you like this? Because it's got weird, like, it also sells socks. And ice cream. I didn't even see that. You know what I love about this? What?

They also have the, in the bathrooms, it's Legendo Neutral Bathroom. And it just says, whatever, just wash your hands. I'm like, that's a good attitude to have. It is. Oh, yeah, this place.

The ice cream looks delicious. Yeah delicious They clearly are making their own Bread and sandwiches Their own mac and cheese I love how the photo of beer They have is a stock photo of beer Like we also sell beer But again, the E Street Deli Appears to be on a street

With Like it's a barren it's a barren. It's a barren street. Yeah, but I guess not. It's like downtown, but it's like old school downtown. You know, like old middle America downtown where it's one street and everything's on that street. And if you're looking for something else, it's not on that street.

Okay, hold on. I found cozy coffee. All right. and everything's on that street, and if you're looking for something else, it's not on that street. Okay. Hold on. I found cozy coffee. All right? And you need to see. You need to see this man. I think it'll bring you to him when I link you that. That guy screams,

I've lived here my entire life. But also, two cigars in his pocket. He's a baller. That's right. Two cigars in his pocket. It looks like, I don't know what he's holding. It looks like a gavel or like a sausage on a stick. I don't know which one it is.

They definitely have some sort of on a stick theme. Because if you scroll up, there's people eating, I think it's cake pops on a stick. But they look like actual real ass cake pops that a stick theme. Because if you scroll up, there's people eating I think it's cake pops on a stick, but they look like actual real ass cake pops that a person made instead of the Starbucks ones. Yeah. I don't know what that is. There's a place called Sophie's Chatterbox

that's just down the street. It looks like a standard diner. The pancakes have smiley faces. You gotta have smiley face pancakes. You gotta have a smiley face. Yeah, got to have smiley face pancakes. You've got to have a smiley face. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But yeah, this is wild.

It reminds, like, even when I lived in Ohio, you'd have to go, I lived in Dayton, so you'd have to go pretty far out to find this type of thing. This is like, even Youngstown, which I thought was pretty, well, there's nothing here. This is even smaller than that. This is pretty wild. Yeah, this is like. This is even smaller than that. This is pretty wild. Yeah.

Again, you kind of forget. You kind of forget. Yeah. Like a lot of America's like, especially when you live in like cities like we do. Yeah. Mad River Laser. What the hell is Mad River Laser? Oh, what?

It's laser engraved items. Interesting. Oh, I see. Like hats engraved items. Interesting. Oh, I see. Like hats and little bags and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But 100%, I was looking this up, there's a lot of cattle-based things. Farms for, there's dairy services and dairy this and dairy that.

Yeah, a lot of farms, a lot of cow stuff. So I feel like the reason why there's a lot of... Yeah, so, oh, this is perfect. If you drive up the 24, it's all farms. Ah, yeah. So the minute you leave the city, you get outside of the city, Rupert, it's all farms all the way up.

Yeah, that makes sense, actually. Oh, yeah, look at that. There you go up. It's just a bunch of small little towns. Yeah, probably where people had to, you know, well, we got to park here because this is the fastest way to get to the farm. We're going to work there. It makes sense. What's the capital? Isn't it Boise, Idaho?

Is it the capital? Of Idaho? Yeah, Boise. Boise would be northwest. Oh yeah, there it is, northwest. I want to see. I mean, like, Boise's a city city. It's not like a crap city. Yeah, Boise's a city city. Yeah, they got a bunch

of stuff. Yeah, it's just interesting to me that it's one of those places where Idaho's one of those places very much like Wyoming or Montana or the Dakotas. They all fall in that there's usually one or two huge cities and then everything else is like six people living in a hut. You know what I mean? It's like everything outside of the city is like, wait, people live out here? Oh, yeah. Same thing with Nevada. Nevada's the same. hut you know what i mean like it's like everything outside of that of the city is like wait people

live out here oh yeah same thing with nevada nevada is the same there's vegas and then i guess reno you could count maybe but then everything else is just like wait a minute house is a town there's like four people living here it's like it's a town our sheriff our sheriff's the dog you're like okay i mean to be fair it's kind of like chicago there's like chicago the chicago area and then it's just like farmland like the rest of illinois is just farms but like chicago itself is millions of people so it's like i mean like the best the best way to picture it is here's just a stock photo of Earth at night based on lights. Just look at this thing.

You can see that when you finally... East Coast lit up. But the further west you go, except for California and Washington and Oregon, there's the big city in your state and then nothing. You can see Idaho, even though it's not mapped out. You can see Boise and then everything else around it. There's nothing from a space. It's like, no, there ain't nobody there.

That actually is pretty crazy. Like that entire middle West area is just like no lights. That's because it's all huge farms and, uh, you know, it's where we feed the country basically. Um, but also not really a lot of it is like where we grow way too much corn so we can put it in a bunch of shit that nobody wants anymore dude you gotta you gotta grow that corn in fact i watched a thing about like farmers in illinois like chicago like outside chicago so i was like what because this guy's like i drove out of the city and then he talked to some farmer in like southern ill Because this guy's like, I drove out of the city. And then he talked

to some farmer in like Southern Illinois. And he's like, yep, I sell my corn. He's like, oh, where do you sell it to Chicago? And he's like, nah, I sell it to China. Yeah. And I was like, what? I didn't even realize. He's like, yeah, we just sell the corn to China. I was like, oh, all right. There was, I don't know what happened, but there was some sort of incentive a while ago where the government was trying to get people to make a lot of corn and things. A lot of the soybeans and stuff we grow, we sell overseas. There's a lot of stuff we do that you're like, what? Yeah.

So, yeah, I don't quite understand it, but I'm no farmer and I don't blame them for trying to make a buck but uh it yeah it's crazy when you look at a map and you see the country when you realize that the vast majority of the population of the u.s lives on the east coast and sort of middle where illinois would be in down and then after texas it starts to fizzle off and then it hits the west coast and it's bright as hell. Yeah. It's the whole coast. Yeah. It's just very weird to me, but that's the nature of the country, I suppose. There's probably people listening, and they're just like, these damn city folk.

You know what? They're right. I didn't fully admit I am in damn city. When I look at some places, I'm just like, how? Yeah. damn city. Like when I look at some places, I'm just like, how? Yeah. I mean, I literally grew up like being able to hear if my neighbors were like throwing up. You open the window, you could hear them having the flu or some shit.

I can't imagine like being like, yeah, our neighbors are like 800 yards away. Like what? That genuinely scares me. I love apartments. When I grew up, even in Ohio, my neighbors were close, right? We were almost on top of each other. And when I live in an apartment, I'm fine because I know there are people around

me, and for some reason, it's comforting. Me plus woods plus cabin equals terrified the entire time. I agree. It freaks me out. Some people love that. They're like, yeah, I'm in the middle of nowhere. Nobody's near me.

It's peaceful. I'm like, what if something happens? What if there's a crazy person? Oh, I'm like, there's definitely going to be a crazy person. It's going to happen. It's going to happen. What if something like you have a heart attack? You know, you're just like, well, you're dead. So anyway,

that's the weather. That's the weather. Alright, let's go to sports. Sports. Oh boy, sports. It's been a lot of sports happening. So in terms of football, we had Thanksgiving football where the Packers, unbelievable

victory. Very great over the Detroit Lions. It was very fun. Washington losing to Dallas. San Francisco beating Seattle. You had Miami beating the New York Jets. You had Atlanta beating New Orleans. Pittsburgh beating Cincinnati.

Tennessee beating Carolina. Indianapolis over Tampa Bay. Giants beating New England. Jacksonville over Houston. Denver over Cleveland. Rams over Cardinals. Kansas City over Tampa Bay. Giants beating New England. Jacksonville over Houston. Denver over Cleveland. Rams over Cardinals. Kansas City over Las Vegas. Philadelphia beating Buffalo in overtime.

That game is crazy. And Baltimore over the Chargers. In hockey. We got the Bruins at the top. The Rangers at the top. The Avalanche at the top. And the Golden Knights at the top, the Rangers at the top, the Avalanche at the top, and the Golden Knights at the top. And in basketball, we have the Celtics up top, the Timberwolves in first place.

Wow, the Timberwolves, that's pretty crazy. And the Thunder right behind them. And the Magic and the Bucks behind the Celtics. Wow, the Magic, what the shit? That's pretty crazy. And that is sports. Wow, the magic. What the shit? That's pretty crazy. And that is sports. Okay. What is

our fact of the day? Our fact of the day is, I literally I'm not going to lie. I forgot to look up a fact of the day, so I typed in fact of the day into Google and it gave me a thing that said, how old was Mozart when he started to compose music?

And it says, by the time he was five years old, Mozart had complete mastery of keyboards and violin and had written his first five compositions. At six, he toured Europe as a child prodigy. By 16, he'd already written three operas and 25 symphonies. Damn. What are you doing with your life, man? That's insane. At five years old, I was like, I ain't going through school now. Like, oh my God. I mean, I guess he really didn't have much else to do, though. You know what I mean? Like, what else was he going to do?

Yeah, that's true. Like, what, 1700s Britain or whatever? Yeah, like, what else was he going to do? Nothing. He had nothing to do. So there's your fact of the day. All right. Let's go to our big news story of the day. Big news story of the day.

Day. Day. Day. Day. Day. Day. Day. This one's tied into what we talked about earlier. The adventure-style scavenger hunt McDonald's once held for Golden McRibs. What?

I'm sorry. What? Golden McRibs? I didn't know what that means. Golden McRibs. It's fall, which means it's the greatest time of the year. McRibs? I don't know what that means. Golden McRibs. It's fall, which means it's the greatest time of the year. McRib season. McDonald's has many classic products, but there's probably not one that inspires.

More adamant debate on both sides of the aisle. Some people may poo-poo it, claiming it looks like middle school cafeteria food. But those of us that know realize the McRib is in fact a gift sent from pork heaven. I don't know about that. Yeah, I don't know if I would. This irregular menu item appears and disappears from McDonald's menus seemingly at whim, always creating a social media stir. Part of the reason it does is because of how McDonald's promotes it.

Each time, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But, since no one is buying... Wait, each time it appears, McDonald's claims it's the last time. We'll see. That's true. Since no one is buying that after the restaurant has cried wolf so many times, the company sometimes has to get a little more creative. Over a decade ago, it had one of its more unusual ideas. A contest involving Golden McRibs. That's right a contest involving Golden McRibs.

That's right. Willy Wonka McRibs. I don't know what that means, though. All right. I'm not going to look at it. I keep wanting to look up what gold. You can keep saying Golden McRib like that makes sense. But is it made of gold?

Is it colored gold? Why would you eat it? I have so many questions. Is it colored gold? I don't know. Why would you eat it? I have so many questions. So it says, 2011's quest for the Golden McRib contest was inspired by the golden tickets that form

the basis of Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. That ended great for all the contestants. I think all almost all those kids died, so you know. Yeah, just like people who eat McRibs. Yeah. And the subsequent movie based on it, titled Willy WonRibs. Yeah. In the subsequent movie based on it, titled Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

In the film, kids who find a special golden ticket in their chocolate bars get a free tour of the blah, blah, blah. It's Willy Wonka. But it didn't really work like that. There weren't McRibs wrapped in edible gold foil or anything, but it was clearly intended to provide some of the interactivity of that idea, even going as far to take the movie's same whimsical tone, describing it as your weirdly wonderful journey in advertisements.

The promotion was essentially a Facebook game that utilized Google Maps integration to allow customers Never mind, this sucks, this sucks, I hate this. This does suck. To locate virtual Golden McRibs at nearby McDonald's. Most rewards for participating involve badges and achievements on a customer's user profile. There is also the chance of winning an Arch card worth $500 of McRibs. No. This sucks. This sucks.

The McRib is a fascinatingly odd product because there's no other fast food menu item quite like it. Various other fast food spots have canceled and brought back menu items in response to fan outcry like the Taco Bell Mexican Pizza, but it's hard to find one that comes and goes with the frequency of the McRib, other than maybe the Shamrock Shake. In part of this, because there's nothing quite like the McRib on any fast food menu, it has a very specific flavor and texture thanks to a dizzying number of ingredients. Maybe we should expect that, though, since the McRib, much like the McNugget, originally came about as an experiment of U.S. military meat. Stop. That's the news story.

You're telling me the McRib was developed by the military? Yeah, it says how the U.S. military's meat research helped birth McDonald's McRib? What? I'm blown away by this. Yeah, hold on. Let me pivot to this one. And then the... Contrary to popular belief and urban legend, the McRib is not made of whatever gets scraped off the slaughterhouse floor. The McRib's construction contains a shocking number of ingredients and itself is the intense experimentation in food science. Somehow, though, the story is even more bizarre.

The creation of the McRib is based on military research. This wasn't because the army was developing some sort of pork bomb. They were, however, cooking up something much less explosive. Restructured meat. In the 1960s, research scientists... Restructured meat! They sought to solve the cost-efficiency problem in

MREs, or meals ready to eat. Sure. To this end, they devised a novel idea. What if they took edible, but generally discarded cuts of meat left aside during food processing and found a way to recompress them into a solid structure using animal protein as meat glue? It's easy to forget, but chicken McNuggets weren't always part of the menu. The restaurant's chain or origins as a barbecue restaurant meant the burgers were always its bread and butter.

McNuggets weren't even created until 1979, and the technology for them wouldn't have existed during the early years. Their efforts bore fruit, though, not necessarily in the way they intended. In 1979, in response to rising beef prices and the release of government dietary suggestions that Americans eat fewer cows, McDonald's created the McNugget out of restructured chicken meat. But they didn't stop there. The problem was McNuggets were so popular they set off a chicken shortage.

So the company sought to create another beef alternative using the same methods and the McRib was born using pork shoulder and meat glue. Pork shoulder and meat glue are just some of the fun ingredients. I'm looking this up. This is amazing. Amazing.

Alright. Anemic rib. First off, the ribs aren't actually real pork ribs, but instead ground up in emulsified pork meat. Largely coming from the pork shoulder and possibly

the rectum. The ribs contain multiple preservatives, dextrose, and liquid smoke, and then they're dipped in the barbecue sauce, but also included to make sure they can last a long time are soil fertilizer salts, trans fats, the flour and flour bleaching agents, which are the same bleaching agents used in

yoga mats. Yep. That's the subway special. Yep. Yep. Yep. Um, and I guess there's much more that goes into it. So yeah, once a year sounds exactly correct.

I'm glad that's what I had. I'm glad. You know what? I'm glad I put that in my body. We take for granted now the McRib is popular anytime it shows up. But when it debuted in 1981, it was just a regular menu item. We don't actually know why the company keeps bringing the McRib back occasionally rather than keeping it full time.

But we do know that without the efforts of the military industrial complex, we wouldn't know the McRib every fall season. Well, that's great. That's just lovely. That is fantastic. Alright, well, that's it for us. Crandor, hit them with the socials.

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