Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 448 - Googly Eye Renaissance

Episode Date: December 15, 2024

The boys are back and this time the Jesse is exhausted from a week of Game Awards events and driving around LA. Meanwhile Crendor went out to eat and can't sleep. You know a normal episode of Cox n' Crendor. Also Bend Oregon disappoints the boys with their silly choice not to have fun. Go to http://meundies.com/crendor and use code CRENDOR to get exclusive holiday deals and savings all month long. Go to http://HeroForge.com and use code CRENDOR to get 5% off all orders of physical miniatures.

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We're going to the morning! Hello everybody! Welcome to another episode of Cags and Crandor in the morning! I was drinking tea. Oh, I gotcha, I caught you off guard. Yeah, I'm drinking hibiscus tea. No, I could use some tea. I messed up. I'm sure people at home can tell my voice is shot. Oh yeah, well, I mean, I can kinda tell but you still sound like you. Well, yeah, I have spent the last many hours not talking, so if at a certain point in this RambleFest,

I start to lose my voice, you'll understand why. You're doing the old crendor now over the last couple of months. Yeah, well, I screwed up. This past week was the Game Awards. So for the whole week, people from all over the world are in LA, Yeah, well, I screwed up this past week was the game awards. So for the whole week, people from all over the world are in LA and they're all my like video game nerd friends. And a lot of them are, you know, voice actors or producers or, uh, you know, devs or the influencer team. So I spent a lot of time this week, run around meeting people just to, you know,

be a good friend. I tried my hardest not to make it about work. You know what I mean? Like I didn't want to be like, hey person, I randomly see once every year, let's talk about business. Like, no, I just want you to remember I'm your friend that I love and we're good buds. That's all I wanted.

And so I did that. The problem is, you know, they wanted me in the morning. I was like, let's go get coffee, let's do stuff. And by the way, early morning driving in LA, fine. If you want to have a coffee sesh at 8 a.m., I am in. It'll take me 15 minutes to get there. But the minute you say nine, 10, 11, traffic, I'm screwed. And the same thing at night,

when it comes to a lot of events were held here. A great example is I went and saw a very like cool screening at the Alamo Drafthouse of the new Amazon show Secret Level. That's a bunch of video game, it's like that show Love, Death and Robots I think is what it's called. And it's just an anthology series of micro movies that are done in game cinematic stuff for various franchises, right? So the very first episode of Secret Level that we watched, I'm not sure what it is in the order that we would watch on Amazon,

but the very first one we watched was Warhammer 40K. It was awesome, very cool. It was like that kind of thing, right? And there were a bunch of them that I really enjoyed. Some of them was like, whatever. But I realized after watching the game awards that a lot of them are very clearly trailers for upcoming projects, which I thought was pretty neat. I was like, oh, OK, that explains, for instance, why the Pac-Man episode of Secret Level is so bizarre and weird and kind of like an edgy Pac-Man rather than map map map map map. And then when you see the trailer for the new game in the game awards it's like oh they're connected that makes perfect sense that kind of thing anyway that event was 6 15 p.m. downtown so to get from where I

lived there I had to leave an hour and a half early mind you it is 11 miles Yeah So that's just you know And it's one of those things I'm like the people who plan these events live in LA surely they know getting around LA is a pain in the ass, but Whatever I would be like what if you made it eight or nine o'clock at night like I'd be fine with that I would not care. I know they just don't care. Yeah. Well, that's the same thing I had on Friday night too. I went to a very crazy event and that started at 6 2 and I was like, why is everything 6

pm? But that was drive to Hollywood. So that was equally like, oh come on gang. Then I'd just get in my car and I'd patiently wait. So I did a lot of hobnobbing and elbow rubbing and you know, that kind of thing. I was very social this past week. And it was a lot of talking. And so my voice has just shot.

Yeah, I hear it fading now. Yeah, yeah, glad you do. Just like hopes and dreams. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. There they go. Yeah, it was very fun. I'm glad I got to spend the week doing all that stuff and running around and seeing people.

I love that stuff. You know me. I'm a very, I'm a social butterfly till I'm not. And right now I'm not. And I don't want to see a damn person. I'm like, yo, I am spent. I have seen everyone there is to see. I'm crushed until the live show.

Of course. Well, yeah, I've got a few days. I got, I got till Friday, so I'm fine. Yeah. Well, at least you've had your social activity. You got it out of the way early. It was interesting to be in the world of, of like downtown LA game a sphere, like a great, a great example of,

because it's people from all over the world, but they're not in full LA. Everyone goes to one very specific area of downtown right outside the arena, outside the, where they do the event, all that stuff. Right. And this happens during the summer for playdays. It's the exact same thing, but it's really funny because as an example, I went to meet dear friend Ben Starr for breakfast on Tuesday, right?

And he and I were just chatting, we're eating breakfast, sitting there. But in the place we were at, two tables over is like Sam Lake and the team from Revity. And then directly behind us is Austin Winnery, I think is behind us. And so just like big names in gaming, right? And then directly behind us is Austin Winnery, I think is behind us. And so just like big names in gaming, right? Yeah.

And then we're sitting there and we're like, this is cute. Thursday, I go down to meet with one of my friends who works at Remedy to talk about a video I wanna make. And I was like, I wanna pick your brain because I have some thoughts, but I don't know if this is what you guys think, you know,

cause it's very like the games are very weird and kind of out there. And I was like, this is what I think's happening. I just want to run this by you. And then once we did that, he was like, no, you're good. That's exactly what's happening. I was like, okay, okay. And then we just like started chilling. But I noticed as we're talking about like, you know,

just life directly behind him is Ben Starr again, but this time he's with like Neil Nubin, like a bunch of voice actors all sitting at this table. And Ben and I, I don't know if you've ever seen an episode of Always Sunny where Charlie and Mac notice each other from across the room at a restaurant and they can't stop staring at each other and they keep like doing like that, like,

I don't know, gopher thing or whatever, meerkat thing where they're looking at each other, exact same vibe. And I was just, I felt terrible because he was directly in my line of sight and I was directly in his and we kept looking at each other um and then around us the team from warframe was there there was another team um oh man I'm trying to think that the it takes two team was there like everyone he was just it's weird right because it's so confined Isn't it like how Manhattan's really small? I'm sure they see them people Yeah, it's the exact same vibe again. Ellie's massive not like tall but wide so yeah every once

Well, you'll see a celebrity You'll see people but most of the time you don't because there's 10 million people living here, But when you do, it's kind of like, oh, that's interesting. And that's what it was there, except it was like repeating over and over again. You turn left, you turn right, you'd be like, oh, I know that person. I know that person. But you also are sitting there with another person that you're giving your time to. So you want to focus on them. You know what I mean?

Like I didn't come there to meet anyone else. I came there to meet this one person. And so I'm trying to be like a professional, cool dude, and be nice, but at the same time there's just people everywhere, and they're like, I know that person too, and I know that person. It's very, you know, I don't wanna be overwhelmed, but at the same time I'm overwhelmed, yeah.

Yeah, no, I get that. And so that was kind of the vibe of the whole week, is it was just constantly meeting people. Like, Friday night, I don't even know how to describe this to you, dude. It was so crazy. So in Alan Wake 2, in the DLC, there is a section of the game

where you find a bunch of letters and one of the letters is in a room that constantly plays a song where the lyrics aren't evil sounding but they keep repeating the number 666 over again like that kind of vibe where it's like what is happening like you know a very creepy song but in a room that isn't so creepy but with letters in that room that are very creepy. And again, Alan Wake, but one of the letters has a website address. And I, of course on stream was like, I gotta know what this is. So I went to the website address, saw that it was this thing called the Siren

Society, and it just asked you for your email and information and on stream I was like, well, I have to put it in. So I just did it. Everything was fine. Cut to, I don't know, in. So I just did it. Everything was fine. Cut to, I don't know, maybe a week, two weeks later, an email arrives and an ARG begins. This crazy ARG that if you solved it, you got a passcode special thing in Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California, at night, Friday the 13th, in a nondescript building. And I was like, what the hell is this? And I had to go, right? So I brought cameras, I

brought like the team, we're like we're filming this I don't know what the hell's gonna be I cannot stress to you how much I desperately want to talk about this But I'm making a video on it. I don't want to spoil anything, but I'm gonna send you a photo It's one that I posted to Twitter, so it's not that big of a spoil But like just take a look at this this was the vibe it was Beyond crazy, and it was everything I ever wanted. It was such a good reward for people who figured out the ARG.

Oh yeah, what the shit? That's what I'm saying, dude. And then everyone had this S sweater on and when I left, they gave me one. So I'm pretty sure I'm in a cult. But I think that's supposed to be the Siren Society. And then this clip is pretty sure I'm in a cult. But I think that's supposed to be the Siren Society. And then this clip is Jules Hardy, good friend, recording myself, Sam Lake, and the voice

actor for Carlack from Baldur's Gate 3 standing in front of these weird-ass TVs. And you know, Julie's just like doing a thing. But this is the kind of stuff that was happening there. and you know, Julie's just like doing a thing, but it's, this is the kind of stuff that was happening there. There was, it was so crazy, dude. Um, I enjoyed every minute of it. I was having a blast. Uh, it was the most LA thing I've ever been to, to be honest. Oh yeah. Just from like looking at these, this feels very LA. Yeah, and all the,

but the thing was the only people who could get inside were people who either A, solved the mystery, the ARG, which I guess this is like step one of something, I don't even know. So you had to solve the ARG and then you could go, or you were a big shot in the industry. There were a lot of like important people there. I was like, whoa, okay. And it was a wild night, but also, you know, trippy and weird. And I, the entire time our dear friend Michelle was there and Michelle and I, the entire time was like, should have brought edibles. I wish I did. It would have been great.

However, they did have a guy making like Bespoke margaritas and I was like, all right, let's go. So I drank quite a few of those. Um, But it was it was a wild night. I ended up talking with a dad Of a young woman who I guess won the contest or something, but he was there. He drove her there from Arizona and so I talked with him for like 25, 30 minutes, just about life. He was, he was, he was like, you know, when you have kids, and I didn't want to break it to him. That's never happening. But he's like, when do you have kids?

And I was like, cool, man. But he was a cool dad and not like, you know, the weird nerdy cool dad or like I'm the buff cool dad, but in the, this dad clearly was a Jesse level dad where we started talking about weird books. He's like, Oh yeah, there's a lot of cool, weird books. And I wrote one down. I have no idea if this book is going to be awesome or not, but it's called Griffin and Sabine. And apparently it's a couple who have never met writing letters to each other, but they include the letters in the book. And it's like really trippy and weird. I'm like, yeah,

I'd lost my voice Friday night. And so the last day and a half, I've been trying to recover it. And that is why my voice is messed up. But then I have one more story for you because I overheard this. And it made me laugh so hard. As you know, everyone is talking about Marvel rivals, obviously, because they're all horny as shit. I get it. It makes perfect sense. I'm no fool. Well, that's all I heard people talking about Marvel rivals. Obviously, because they're all horny as shit, I get it, it makes perfect sense, I'm no fool.

That's all I heard people talking about, and it has the exact same aura as early Overwatch, in that people are just, yo, my favorite character's the one I wanna bang, and it's like, yeah, cool dude. I played Marvel rivals last night, because I got a Twitch bounty for it and it it's overwatch It's straight up just overwatch, but here's the thing. It's kind of fun. I

Everyone who's played it every single person's played it said it's literally old Overwatch and honestly, that's what people want so it's a win to be to be Frank. Yeah, it's uh But yeah, I played squirrel girl and Wolverine so those are my this is good for you this is also hilariously you played a squirrel girl who has a massive crush on Wolverine so look at you look at that I knew nothing about squirrel girl except she has squirrels well yeah and that's uh hilariously what I heard so So I'm in line getting, you know, you have to, it's downtown LA. Someone will take your car. You can't, there's no place to park. Everything was, all the parking

spaces that usually are parking spaces for some reason now have a valet dude because of course there's a bunch of people downtown for the event. So they're going to jack up prices, whatever. So I'm waiting in line to get my car, and there's two dudes who are, you know, probably game devs, I don't know. But one guy is like, yo, you play Marvel? And the other guy's like, yeah, dude, love Squirrel Girl. And the first guy's like, what, you a furry? And the guy's like, no, man, she's just the thick hottie.

And the guy looks at him and goes, still a squirrel. And the other dude just goes what? And then there was silence like I think the other guy broke that man. He was like wait am I a furry? Maybe laugh very hard the best part is I tweeted about that and a lot of the comments are people doing like well Technically just because she's part squirrel doesn't mean she's a furry. I'm like, okay guys, all right, my bad. I know there's plenty of people that are probably like, I play this game because I love these characters.

I'm literally just like, she's a drunk rat, she's got squirrels, sick. Like I have no attachment outside of that or like I'm like guys there a Hanzo in this and they're like oh yeah Hawkeye it's literally just Hanzo and I'm like sick dude I'm playing Hanzo and then Wolverine you just go insane and just slice people up it's fantastic it looks fun I'm sure it's very fun I am so over the the 5v5 6v6 PvP shooters that I'm just like you can't do it anymore but if I was I would play Marvel because it

looks fun like overwatch to me has gotten sanitary like sanitized and everything I see of it I'm like well that's all right you know but this I've seen videos where I'm like, well, that's all right. You know, but this, I see videos where I'm like, hold on, you're telling me that Doctor Strange, while fighting a little tiny shark, threw that shark into a portal thing, just like Portal 2, where he's stuck in an infinite loop, and the shark's like, brr, the entire time, and everyone's like, ha ha, and they're laughing.

I'm like, that seems like fun. Yeah, well, I think, I think, again, you're looking for the like, almost story driven goofy moments where you're like, this character I know and this character I know have interacted together. While I don't care about any of that, I'm just like, dude, Pentakill Wolverine, let's go. Like I'm just here to run around and do insane, unbelievable MVP plays, which MVP two games in a row. I may have been playing against babies because it's like I just started playing. However, unbelievable plays, two-time MVP Jeff the Shark Wolverine. Truthfully though, I think that's the brilliant part about it, feels very similar to when, for example, there was PUBG. And then everyone's playing PUBG, they love PUBG,

Fortnite pops off, people ditch PUBG for Fortnite. Sure, PUBG's still around, but Fortnite's the bigger game by far. And I think this has the same vibe, where Overwatch kinda lost its way. It got caught up in trying really hard to be some sort of e-sport and then tried really hard to monetize and do all sorts of dumb shit. And then this game comes along and it's like, remember original Overwatch?

You guys love that, right? Well, we're going to do that again, but we're going to do it it with these characters And it's gonna be silly and fun and don't stress it And I think this has the potential to be significantly bigger than over watches I mean maybe it probably depends because overwatch has already been around for so long sure well This is like been out for a week or whatever it is so like I don't know about long-term potential But like in the moment, it's great, but like it could hit that point where like a month from now people are like alright Whatever just move on true. I mean again. I'm not even playing it so I'm already in the whatever category But based on everyone's reactions online it seems like and again this all relates to the Jesse Cox theory of video game success in

which case If people online talk about wanting to have sex with the of video game success, in which case, if people online talk about wanting to have sex with the characters, that game's gonna be huge. Not just one character, not two characters, I'm talking multiple characters. That is gonna be a huge game. And I've been right every single time. No, I do agree with that theory. That is definitely a 100% provable Jesse Cox Certified scientific classic. Yeah, it's weird that I so far might be the only person willing to say it too when you go online Most people like well, it has good mechanics like no, no, no, no, I looked at everything you posted you might say it is good mechanics to justify it but like

Everything you posted was how turned on you were about like magic or some shit like dude magic the best she's so hot I'm like okay All right. Yeah, it's I mean listen if like any of those games even look like genshin impact or You know any? You know and what do you call them? the the gotcha games right sure They if if they had characters that nobody cared about or didn't want to bang or just whatever Nobody care

Here's here's all you know go look up ads. This is rough to say but go look up ads for raid When you do you'll notice all the ads are like of the big titty barbarian orc women you'll notice all the ads are like of the big titty barbarian orc women. Like it isn't, it isn't that game's not that by the way, that game is, is not even remotely just filled with big titty barbarian women, but that's the ad for it because people knows what sells and it's not that hard. You don't have to be a genius to figure it out. And if most people, even though again, there are many women playing video games but the biggest buyers of video game stuff continue to be like just horny dudes who want to dress up their girl in a game like I bought all the skins dude yeah no it's a

I agree that's a it's a full it's a full-on proven theory. Yeah, and with that said though, I know many women who are like, I bought all the skins because I'm also very horny, and to you ladies, I say, call me, what are you doing? Yep. Please don't, please don't call me. I don't have the money to buy all those skins for you.

It's true, he doesn't't I assume that's part of it I assume when you date a woman who's horned up for characters online who buys all the skins you are now helping by those Skins and frankly I I can't do that for you Yeah, no I'm just I and I'm the complete opposite of people who play those games I Don't I don't really, uh... I don't know. I think maybe that's why, because like, again, I get so into like more of the competitive nature of things. And then I don't care about it.

Right, I mean, you're a different type of gamer. I'm a different type of gamer. You like that. Yeah. Yeah. Um... I don't know. I get it, but again, much like many other things people disagree with me on, I disagree right back.

Damn. Damn. Look at that. Can you do that? Are you allowed to do that? No. I'm actually being arrested. As we speak. Anything else happen? Any crazy wacky stuff or is that your main week? I mean, that was pretty much it. I'm trying to think of anything else weird happened, but not really. A lot of, uh, yeah, mostly stuck in traffic this week, a lot of that. And, uh, then seeing people and being stupid. I must admit, I went to places in downtown LA that I've never been to

before and they were beautiful. So I think much like the rest of the city, there's places in downtown LA that I've never been to before and they were beautiful. So I think much like the rest of the city, there's places in downtown LA that I'm like, wow, this, I'd love this area. And then about block away is like a genuine slum. And you're like, Oh, right. Right. Los Angeles. Right. Right. But other than that, no, it just, uh, pretty chill. I, uh, I went out to eat with my one friend and we got a burger, we got a beer, two tree beer and uh... What day was this? When did you do this? This was a

Thursday I think and there was a table of people that was a very interesting table, I will say. So imagine. I don't know what that means. Imagine a group of, I want to say like 55 to 60 year olds at a table, probably like, there's like three men in this one woman and they were just being very loud and ranting about something. And whenever I'd like overhear them I'd like kind of pick up what they were saying but then at the same time I had no idea what they were talking about. I think this was like a Christmas work meeting get together because

they kept bringing up work and he kept being like you know this shit you know this shit's all about the bottom line you know it's all about the bottom line. You know it's all about the bottom line I'd be like okay. They're talking about like The bottom line like there's Yeah, and then I you know I'd like whatever so I'd talk to my friend a bit And then like a couple minutes later he like my friends like I gotta go to the bathroom like alright So I like listen in again the guy goes I wrote this down you got to trim the goddamn fat off the goddamn pork now

Do you think he meant as in a business bloating or did he mean genuine pork like he was like guys? I know you got it. I know they're serving pork here, but you got to shut it from the fat No, he definitely meant business cuz they were done eating and They were all maybe he was upset about the meal He just got you don't know I do know because I mean, this is like everyone there was happy everyone looked like they're having a good time It looked like they enjoyed their food like nobody was complaining

At least I didn't hear him complain, but it's because right after he said this He also then started going off being like Jeff doesn't really get it Jeff's the type of guy that just doesn't do that shit and So I was like alright. Well. I don't think Jeff's here with them Jeff was in the corner like And then the woman was like it's not like the way it was in the 88 It's not like it and he was like that's exactly right back then 88 Yep, 88 what the hell?

Mm-hmm, and so this table like they just stuck around being very loud and They they did the thing they did the classic Midwest goodbye where they all stood up and then they just kept talking after, like they grabbed their coats, they're like getting ready to leave, but they just talked for another like 10 minutes while standing up.

And then you could tell the restaurant people are like, we just want to like take your shit and like clean the table and get you out of here. And they were just like, yeah, you know, and I just, it's the way things are and you know they just it's all about sales and they just started talking about like business stuff again I was like dude I don't know I've heard so much of this conversation from them just screaming it and I still

have no idea what they're talking about yeah what do you think their job is I would love like you spent time with them what do you think their job is if I had to take a wild guess I Would say it's some sort of weird Engineering manufacturing sales thing you know one of those things where it's like I sell motors for Refrigerators or some shit like that's what I think it is I think they all work at some small company where they sell like wheels that go on like rolling chairs or some shit And so they they're like higher-ups on like rolling chairs or some shit and so they They're like higher ups because they've been around so long

I don't think they're managers or anything, but they're like they're probably like the the upper tier of like Manage they're like they're their management, but they're not management. You know what I mean They don't run the business or company, but they are in charge of people that work there Oh, yeah, cuz they've been there since 88 dude Exactly and it was like that at 88 Power to change anything so they're definitely middle management mm-hmm Exactly they're the they're kind of like the Michael Scott's The upper tier right above them

So that's that's what I think they worked. That's what it had the vibe of. So that was, that was where my friend kept looking at me and he's like, what are they talking about? And I was like, dude, I have no idea. He's like, they're talking about bottom lines and shit? I'm like, dude, I have no idea. So yeah, that was, that was a fun time good stuff and then what

else did I do let's see I yeah yeah yeah yeah I was playing games obviously played more Path to Exile 2 I got my new video card. When did I remember? Yeah I was about to say so for So for people who are curious, this man has been playing with, was it a 2080? 2080 Ti. So that is a many years old graphics card. It's not bad. The one we used to do scare game squads at 2080, but like, it also, it's old in this grand scheme of internet performance that we do. Yeah, especially in the industry.

Right. You may as well have like a rock from the Stone Age running your games. So yeah, I upgraded, I got a 4070 Ti Super. And so far, it's pretty good. It does the things that it's supposed to do it plays games and they work and don't lag and I can edit videos more seamlessly It's got more like VRAM. That's the that's all the rage today. Apparently everyone's like anymore VRAM. I guess I don't know you're For the fact that we've been doing this so long people this, that's the exact same thing as when I went into that weed store down the street from our office

and I was like, hold on, what is this? Because it says THC but then also says like VHC. I'm like, you can't just make stuff up. They're like, that's like caffeine in it. I'm like, so basically you made the Four Loco of weed. Yeah, here's the thing I have no idea what any of this stuff does either all right like the they're like the TI the super I like to me I'm like I guess it just means

it's better I'll get it plus it's just hard to like find video cards that's one of the reasons it took me so long to upgrade because finding video card like everyone buys them up now so they could run their like bit mining or whatever shit they do or AI and everything so everyone's just buying up video cards now like it was like ten years ago or you just everybody had video cards everywhere you went it's like oh a brand new one I can buy it right away now it's like we got two left of this one of the TI super from last year and you're like all right I guess like it sucks and then you got scalpers and

shit too probably yes it's dumb where's that go with this oh yeah it works. It's good. I like it I've had the thing where the last couple nights. I've had the insomnia. I always hate that It's what happened to the last couple nights. I don't even know just like I lay down can't fall asleep like 30 minutes goes by an hour goes by and you're like, come on, let's go to sleep. And then I finally fell asleep. It was like two hours later. And then I woke up late because of that. And so you can't get through that.

That starts the cycle. Because then if you wake up late, then you try to go to bed again. Your body's like, well, I guess we're going to bed later. And then the next night, I was like, ah, geez, I didn't fall asleep till later the next night. So today I was like, you know what? I gotta wake up early, plus football was on. So I woke up a bit earlier, so that should help. But yeah, sometime.

And then the worst part is when you can't sleep and then you're just sitting there being like, come on, we gotta sleep. Because like, I know a lot of people get up and start, you know, reading or something like that. But that's what I should have done, but I didn't. Cause then you're like, well, what if I fall asleep? What if I get up and I would have fallen asleep? Like, hey, do that now.

I gotta keep trying to fall asleep. Like you made it so much more complicated than it had to be. You didn't like put on rain sounds or... I did have my some heart It wasn't working It's I feel like I just never really I feel like you just don't have insomnia You're right. That's definitely true I know like it's crazy to me that you're just

Like what do you do if you can't sleep? Oh man? if I can't sleep? Oh man, if I can't sleep I lay in bed and then continue to lay in bed, roll around a little bit and then eventually it's the next morning and I don't know what happened. Alright? Like I'll just clearly pass out. Yeah. But how long are you rolling around for? Oh great question.

Don't know. Whenever I know I need to be up early the next day that's when I can't sleep. Okay yeah that makes sense. Every time. Now if I don't have to be up early, I'm fine. Or if I have to be up very, very early, I'm fine. But if I say I'm going to go to bed early so I can be up early for no other reason other than to do that, right? I will not go to bed so for example if I go if I get in a bed at 9 p.m. and I'm like oh yeah I can go to bed at 9 I'll be up at 6 this will

be great false I will be laying in bed it'll be like 11 then 12 and I'll fight the urge to be like well I can't sleep so maybe if I just look at my phone and like no Jesse don't do that it It's going to make it worse. So I'll just lay there and I'll be listening to stuff and I'll try to fall asleep or I'll fall asleep and then wake up. And it's now, you know, I went to bed at nine and now it's like 10 30. I'm like, Oh my God, that kind of thing. Um, but if I go to bed and it's 12 15 AM and I need to be up at, you know, six or whatever, I will pass out immediately and then wake up and say, Oh, I only got like

five and a half hours of sleep. If only I'd slept longer, dude. So then the next time I'll be like, I gotta be up at six. I will go to bed at nine. False, wrong, done, ruined. I don't know what that is. I don't know why it's that way but it is constantly I've had that too or you know you have to get up early and it's just like they just keep thinking about it so your brains just like on the on the what do you call it the it's on your

mind really like time like you keep thinking about time That's like the worst thing you could do in fact. I remember I read that if you think about falling asleep That's the worst thing you can do, but if you tell your body like I don't want to fall asleep I want to stay awake it actually makes you fall asleep faster Hmm because you like trick your brain Which that was like the study they did. Which, I mean, it makes sense, because like, everybody falls asleep easily

if you're like watching TV earlier and you don't want to fall asleep, you want to watch something and then you start falling asleep and you're like, wait, stay awake, come on. And then it's like, alright, then you like get ready and you're like, now I go to bed. And then you lay down and you're just like, here I am ready to sleep now body.

And then your body's like, now we're good. We can get up. It's a snowball effect. It's, if I know I have to be up early, I will have it scheduled and then you're fine. I'll go to bed early and I'll be fine. Like it won't stress about it, but as I lay in bed and I can't get to sleep, I will then start thinking I need to go to sleep because they have to be up early

I can't lay in bed and we'll just get worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. Yeah It's uh, that's exactly what happens because that's usually what happens to me if I go to bed and it's like a little bit I'm like, alright, whatever but like once it starts going past a certain amount of time Like once it's like past an hour and you're laying there and you're like, alright Now then you start like mathing it out like well, I guess if I go to sleep now I'll wake up at this time and I still get like seven seven seven and a half hours sleep and they're like alright You know, you know like six hours and then you start being like what if I don't sleep? I don't sleep. What if I can't sleep and I'm like, that's crazy body. We've never had that happen We always sleep at Sun that's like yeah, but this time might be different. You're like, what if I don't sleep? What if I don't sleep? What if I can't sleep? And I'm like, that's crazy body. We've never had that happen. We always sleep at sun. That's like, yeah,

but this time might be different. You're like, oh shit, it might be different. And then your heart starts picking up and then just like, oh yeah. And you're like, ah, so yeah, that's, that's, thankfully I don't get that far, but, but also admittedly I've now learned, I don't have a lot of insomnia lately because I'm fully on board the, if I know I need to go to bed, I open that little packet of rainbow sunshine, I'm like, oh hello, edible, designed to knock me out, and it does, every time, I'm no fool, every time.

That's true, you could just do that. And I do. If I know I need to be up early, and I'm gonna go to bed early, and I'll be fine. Because I only have two states of either being drunk or high. Here's what it is.

One, happiest in the world. Just a happy boy. Or two, sleepy. That's it, there's nothing in between. And happy always leads to sleepy. I don't have sad or angry or like I don't do that. I either am very happy or going to pass out and that's it. So it works pretty well for me.

It's a, I can't do that because whenever I have something like that now, I think I mentioned it the other time. I like grind my teeth teeth or like makes me like grind my teeth more or like I sleep worse Hmm, so I can fall asleep, but I get bad sleep, so I'm like I don't do that It's I mean it's the equivalent people do that. There's like I just have the People used to do that when they were sick like I just drink my hot toddy or whatever with whiskey And it's like well, it's gonna make you fall asleep, but you're gonna get shitty sleep. It's alcohol people used to do that when they were sick. Like I just drink my hot toddy or whatever with whiskey and it's like, well, that's gonna make you fall asleep,

but you're gonna get shitty sleep because of alcohol. Yeah. So it's like, I just wanna sleep normally. That's all I want. But I don't know, you know, I asked my chat even, I'm like, you guys have sleep, some guys like I get three hours of sleep every night and I'm just like, oh my God.

Yeah, no. What are you doing? No, false. Can't do that. That's insane. That that yeah I guess is like probably true insomnia or like real bad insomnia I feel like everybody has short bouts of insomnia every here and there but like there's people a guy like every day which is I do not envy you anyone with that that's yeah I always hear that there's like, I've been getting five hours of sleep for the last 55 years. And I'm like, oh, all right. I get it for like two days.

Yeah, there's some people who are lucky. They can just do that. I never understood it. I don't understand it now. But it's just a thing people can do. They're equipped that way. And I am not. I mean I would say some people probably it's not good for them but they've gotten used to it and now their

bodies just in a constant state of accepting that's how it is and I think once if they were to sleep more they'd be like wow this does feel good you know I mean I think some people are just like this is this is what I do. I mean, I think people do that a lot even in school and stuff. Like you'll, you're like, I gotta wake up at 7am, but you're like, I'm gonna stay up late. And then every night you're going to bed at like midnight or 1am, and you're like, oh boy. And then after a while you're like, maybe I can sleep in or like sleep more.

And then you're like, wow, that feels good. And it's like, well, yeah, that's what I'm supposed to be doing. I feel like if you can pull off five hours of sleep, which admittedly I could as a kid. When I was younger, I'd do it all the time. But at some point, I realized, oh no, oh no, aging is so much better. I like, what a fool I've been.

And then once you hit that, you're like, I can't go back. Yeah, see, that's the worst part for me is like I I do I love getting my sleep So like if I get I can do like a day or two where I get like six hours or like five hours I'm like alright, but then I need to go back to my like seven eight hours But when I do this I it's like it's almost like when you take naps and it messes up your schedule, I think a lot of people have that too. I'll sleep, but then I oversleep? Because it's like, oh, I laid in bed, it was 4.30, then it's 5.30, and then it's 6.30, so I fall asleep, and I wake up at 1.30, and I'm like, uh-oh.

So then my body's just like, I guess we're waking up at 1.30 now, so I'm not going to go to sleep until 5.30. Because then I'm just like, guess we're waking up at 1 30 now So I'm not gonna go to sleep until 5 30 because then that I'm just like no body we are we are reset so it's like a You got it. You got a I don't know man shit sucks Yeah, it's a Sleeping man not fun. How do we what a flaw in our design as a species Yeah, yeah, that's dumb

We should have the sleep Sleep switch in our brain. Yeah, where you could just I don't know how you do it. Maybe some sort of like Thought pattern is like you think this and then you go to sleep Which honestly probably does work for someone if you make it a routine one way that I used to fall asleep real fast is I would build Warhammer lists in my head hahahaha like counting sheep?

kinda like counting sheep I think the entire premise of counting sheep is to just get your mind off thinking about sleeping but my version was to build Warhammer lists but I've been too busy and all my friends been busy so I haven't been playing much Warhammer. So I'm not doing that. And then I was like, what else have I done? I used to like think up stories in my head like writing like story ideas or like everything.

And I was like, I haven't done that in a while. So I started working on my writing stuff again. So I was like, dude, now if I can't sleep, I can just build my story or think of ideas in my head. So that way it gets my mind off sleeping and I'm being productive in my time of not sleeping. Okay. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. Really? It's just a method to not get anxious about not sleeping. You're talking about it like it's a problem you suffer from frequently, but it's not, is it?

No, it's a, I almost think it's a seasonal thing because I have it happen whenever it gets like June, like when it's too bright outside and it's like the sun rises at like 4am and sets at like 10pm. and sets at like 10 p.m. So it always kind of happens around there for like a week or two. And then I think it's happening now because we're in like the darkest days. So I wake up, like even though, like I'll wake up at noon. And so it's been cloudy. So it's like, I don't even get sun

because the clouds are out and it's cold. And then there's no sun like at all. And I think that's also messing me up because I used to like, like even a couple of months ago I'd wake up and be like, oh yeah son I just like sit in the door like open the door and just get some like sun for 20 minutes So I think that does help In fact, I know it helps because there's like multiple things that are like getting light

It helps you sleep at night because it sets your rhythm your circadian rhythm So I think that the like seasonal extremes mess with me the most. I think that's what it is. It's so different for me. Yes. So for me in the summer, I'm with you, but I think it's cause I just don't like it hot. That's true. So at night I'm like, but in the winter it's cold and dark and I turn into a polar bear. winter, it's cold and dark and I turn into a polar bear. I go full hibernation mode. I can sleep at any point in time. A great example is when I was in London, the curtains of the hotel I was at were those blackout curtains and I'm talking

about like the ones you buy on Amazon that barely work. I'm talking someone designed these to make you not understand what time it was. And so I would go to bed, close those curtains, wake up, it was still pitch black. I would think, oh, it must still be night. And I'd go back to bed. I'd wake up and it'd be two in the afternoon. I'm like, what the hell?

People have knocked on the door to make sure I was still alive. There'll be two in the afternoon. I'm like, what the hell? People have knocked on the door to make sure I was still alive. There'll be a note being like, we stopped by to change your towels or whatever, but you didn't open. And I was like, oh my God, what the hell happened? And that, dude, I think one night I must've slept 14 hours, dude.

I was. That is not good. I know, but I didn't know. My brain was like, go back to sleep, baby. And I was like, okay good. I know but I didn't know my brain was like go back to sleep, baby And I was like okay brain, and I did and it was I loved it Great that's exactly what I'm talking about your brain was confused Just like how mine's confused because it's like you're not getting light And you need to get some light during the day because then it's like all right. This is daytime So this is when we're awake, and then you hit nighttime, and it's like all right. This is daytime So this is when we're awake and then you hit nighttime and it's like okay time to sleep

But when it's always dark, she's crazy when people live in like Alaska and shit where it's like dark non-stop Actually Alaska be the word cuz that's always like daytime and the whatever right I don't know I'm not a scientist. Don't ask me But yeah, I think that's that's kind of what I that's why when it's too dark Like I have no problem staying is once I go asleep And I've fallen asleep like I stay asleep and even if I wake up for a bit I'm like I go back to sleep like right away like I don't have a problem of like waking up and being like I can't

But I can't go back to sleep because then I'll wake up and be like oh man now I slept but like I fell asleep late, and like, oh man, now I slept, but like, I fell asleep late, and now I woke up late, but I could keep sleeping. I'm like, no, we gotta get up, and I get up. So like, that's not my issue. Do you think it's because you eat and drink pretty late? No, in fact, you know what? Oh okay, then nevermind.

Well I eat on like a normal schedule. Like, eating, people are like, oh my God, you're eating dinner at like midnight? Well it's like, yeah, I'm going to bed at 4.30. It's the equivalent of eating dinner at 6.30 and going to bed at like 10 or 10.30. But people always see it's late and they're like, wow, that's late. But really, really it's like, I'm just doing normal people hours just at a different time.

Look, I get it. I understand. I'm sure there's some sort of science that tells us why that's still messed up But I don't have it on me. So I can't I Feel like everybody's messed up. Nobody's got a perfect sleep schedule or perfect anything except for those like those super Scientists that are like lifestyle wizards on YouTube and they're just like I take 40 grams of goat protein Synthesized into a formula.

I also inject 23 B12 vitamins into my ass, which power charges my vitamin D consumption. Like that's cool, but that's, most people aren't doing that. Yeah. Also very funny. Which, you know, I've listened to some of those. Sometimes they do have, like, good things I've heard.

Where they're just like, resistance training is actually really healthy for you. And I'm like, I agree. I like resistance training. And exercise is good. Cardiovascular health is important. And I'm like, I agree. But then, listen, once they're like, taking magnesium, and I mentioned that like a glycinate or like whatever citrate or whatever eight

you want like cool. But once they start being like, yeah, you have to inject walrus blubber synthesized into a fat soluble injection into my eyelids at least twice a day to prevent the oily liver disease go on go on. Then I'm like alright. You're speaking my language? Yeah. I think I'll risk that one. That's like uh, I don't know. Listen, they go like all out. It's like you got to live a little bit. Alright? Like you can do some healthy things here and there, but like come on. You gotta, every once in a while, you gotta live. Right? Admittedly, I will often watch videos of people who are like, every day, this is what I eat to maintain my beautiful lifestyle. And it's like for breakfast, I had one drop of lavender oil.

And for lunch, I ate a salad. And for dinner, I made a plain chicken with broccoli. And I'm like, and you do that every day? Yeah, no, I'm all right. I'm fine. Well, you know some of those people, they're just like, here it is, and the camera shuts off, and they're like, I got alright. I'm fine. Well, you know some of those people they're just like here it is the camera shuts off They're like I got five guys on the way

Like a hundred percent. I definitely believe that because I was watching a video. Oh, man I can't remember what it was about but it was like some dude Doing one of those very similar things where it goes around he tries to Oh, I know it was is this dude in Japan who is saying that he is, uh, trying to live like a homeless man in Japan and what that's like. Right. But there's so many cuts. I can't the entire time.

It's like, I don't know if I believe this because he's going to do it. He's like, this is my, I'm going to do it for a year. This is my plan. I'm going to show you what it's like. And I was like, this is my, I'm going to do it for a year. This is my plan. I'm going to show you what it's like. And I was like, okay. But when you upload a video, it's one day of you doing it. And what are you doing the rest of those days, my man? Like you aren't uploading every day.

What are you doing? And I think about that frequently because yeah, I'll look at posts of people who are at the same events I'm at and they'll post things and it's like that you're just making stuff up. Like you clearly edited this in some way. Like I saw you, you didn't look like that. Don't pretend you look like that. Right? Or people will talk about, you know, their lovely family. And then especially, especially on Tik TOK people talking about raising their kids. Then you find out they're super abusive to their kids. And it's like, I don't believe any of you.

And it sucks because I want to be taken away by like the goofy nature of like, Oh, this is fun. What is this? But then while I'm watching it, my editor brain kicks in, my producer brain kicks in. I'm like, oh this is fun, what is this? But then while I'm watching it, my editor brain kicks in, my producer brain kicks in, I'm like, mmm, this is probably fake. Oh yeah, plenty of it's just super fake. Again, I'm like you, where I believe nothing unless proven otherwise. Sure, which is, I mean, I don't know

if you've been in this sphere this week, but because I do Chiluminati, which by the way, see you on Friday as well, all week, Mathis has been barding us with his videos that he's seen online of these drones, whatever they are, flying over the country. Yeah, New Jersey, they're in Washington, there's one from Arizona he sent us, they're in, you know, Washington. There's one from Arizona he sent us.

They're all over the place. And part of me is like, interesting, very interesting. But then another part of me is like, okay, so for example, the drone they saw all over DC literally is in the flight path of the nearby Ronald Reagan airport. So I'm like, well, that could clearly be a plane. And because he sent me a video that is one minute in length,

I have no judgment of where those lights are going. You know? Like, they could be moving towards the person with the camera, and that's why it looks the way it does. Right? But then he'll send me some videos where I'm like, I don't know what that is, that's really cool looking. But all the comments are people being like,

aliens dude, aliens. I'm like, hmm. I don't think aliens put on lights that alert people that they are flying in that area, you know what I mean? Like, I don't think aliens would do that. It seems very much like airplane lights on a drone. The question you should ask is like, who's flying the drones, right? right and

It's so bizarre, but that's been like my entire week and 90% of the videos are clearly bullshit Yeah, and it sucks because I'm getting sent so many and so many different people are talking about it that when I go online I'm not looking at like oh cool I can't wait to see what this is I'm immediately bracing myself to be like oh nope that's just a plane you know what I mean?

yeah well it's I mean it's better to do that I mean it's like the Occam's razor right where the the most obvious simple explanations usually the right one it's like how it, and people will always take that and just be like, wake up sheeple. You obviously aren't as big brain as I am. Yeah, the interesting thing is there are some that are, let's see if we can find this one for you, because most of them are trash, right? Most of them are like taken and they're blurry and they're shot from a different angle or whatever. But then some of them are this.

I'm a send this to you and you can describe this to people because it, it seems really out there and weird. This is taken from a plane before arriving at LaGuardia airport. And he's like, we came across this thing. It was in the air. We don't know what this is now. This is cool. It looks looks like a beyblade i don't know what the hell that thing is that is pretty cool it's like a magnemite yeah i can't that's interesting that is clearly a weird thing and that i'm interested in because it's not edited it's this weird thing this guy shot from his plane and it isn't from the bottom so you're not seeing you know what could be any number of things. It's shot from the top it looks like as a

glass dome it's very weird looking I love that yeah that's what I want to see more of I want to see we're in an age of amazing camera phones you're telling me 99% are still blurry I don't I just can't I can't do that Although it does say right below here that it resembles a E170 190 planes or something or the ER J175 new winglets where it's green and red and that one happens to be green or red so it could just be another plane sure absolutely I'm just saying that that one looks interesting. You know what I mean? Most of them are like, I found these lights. Look at those lights.

It's straight up like Bigfoot, but like drones. There's like, look, there he is. It's like some grainy ass picture out in the wilderness. You're like, that's gotta be him, dude. There's no way it's not. Yeah. If anything, it says a lot about the nature of current life in the world. There's a book I read a long, long time ago about aliens and ghosts and all sorts of stuff. And really the, the fear at the end of it is the reason why.

Suddenly there are just waves of people talking about things like this is because it's all about the mental state of everyone involved. Right? So like, if you go back, dig into the headlines around COVID. Suddenly during COVID, lots of weird UFO sightings. And I think it just has to do with the fact that people are hoping that there's something bigger out there rather than like, I can't afford groceries

and this sucks and I hate this, but aliens might make it better, you know what I mean? Like that vibe I do think there is a thing to it of like people expecting these like insane Super things or even like the world is being ran by the lizards and their control and really it's just like some shitty people Are running it this sucks, right? You don't want to think that that other people could be as truly awful as they are but yeah, some people suck dude, and that's just like it's always been that way and You don't want to think that other people could be as truly awful as they are.

But yeah, some people suck, dude. And that's just, and it's always been that way. And it's interesting that people would rather be like, I hope the aliens come and save us. I won't have to work if the aliens come. You know, like that vibe. Yeah. Do you think the aliens have insomnia? I don't think if I'm a cool alien, I don't sleep. Maybe they don't need to sleep honestly again. I feel like sleeping is a flaw in mankind like we sleep and are

100% totally vulnerable to anything while sleeping Yeah, they give you think about that how early man Existed and adapted with that as a feature is crazy. Yeah, it is pretty crazy how you just have to lay down and go unconscious for hours. Yeah, but at the same time it's a neat thing because it's like almost a self-repairing aspect of your life. Yeah, which is good. It's literally repairing your body and your mind, which is the wild part. Yeah, and so it's needed, but also it's, it is kind of like if you're playing a roguelike or something and you get an ability that has a positive and a

negative and you're like, well I need the positive, I guess I'll live with the negative. Yeah it's like repair your entire body but be vulnerable to predators for... You know what it is? It's like those potions or spells in D&D or Final Fantasy or just any RPG where it's like if you drink this your character falls asleep but you gain all your life back. I think there's something that in WoW for a while. I think there's something that in wow for a while I Think there was yeah It's I remember hearing the the theory of the reason we love rain sounds or like stuff like that is because when it's raining You're less likely to get attacked while you're sleeping, which is why people sleep more too interesting

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We have 14 weather requests this week and we have landed on Weather request for my town of Andenese, Norway we have bad weather all year round and a total of three restaurants in a cafe So long this and a whale Safari all right never mind. I thought this was the very northern tip of Norway It's close though. It is like the tip of part of Norway Get out of town. Okay, and hold on You live there Right or inner you you live there. I need to know about this Yeah, I guess they live there. Huh. I said my damn

It is 29 degrees Fahrenheit. Currently it feels like... What does it feel like? Feels like 15 degrees Fahrenheit. Oh good, good. You know what? Fine. Humidity 81 percent, 28.65 inches of pressure, 7 mile visibility of 24 mile an hour wind gusts whoo 24 of the dew point uv zero in a full moon phase uh 10 day

uh this 10 day is looking like a 32 degrees with light snow on mond, Tuesday AM snow showers 33, Wednesday 31 partly cloudy, Thursday 27 cloudy, Friday 30 clouds and PM sun, Saturday partly cloudy, Sunday 29 partly cloudy with same weather is like over here. Although I think we're a little bit warmer for some reason It's just been like 50 degrees. It's like 40. It's 50 tomorrow over here It's like 45 like people worried with the live show like oh is it gonna be cold and it's like It's really not that bad. Although I think it's gonna be like 30s, but like It's winter in Chicago, but it's not gonna be like negative 20 Yeah, no, it's not gonna be like cold cold, which I mean, yeah, it's gonna be a Friday 31 With 13 mile an hour away. That's nothing. It's like baby winter so

I'm exploring the town and I must stress to you that Crendor if you go to a map of this Click the terrain. I think it's the terrain version. No, maybe satellite version. The satellite version, the way they've taken the shot, they've kind of split the ocean right at the town. So one side of the town, the water looks chaotic and hellish. And the other side of the town, it's this beautiful blue water and it almost seems like there's like only we can stop the hell tide from taking over the ocean oh yeah I kind of see that isn't I love it is incredible looking we are the last to stand in defense hell what is I found the Arctic whale tours as well I found the pizza the one pizza place it looks like,

and it appears to be the quintessential Norwegian restaurant. And that the outside, it looks like a home, and the inside, it's the most plain tables and chairs I've ever seen in my entire life. Oh yeah. Pfft. They were like, we do not do fun. We are, you come here, you eat pizza, you leave.

That is it. Yeah, no even, even the other place here was the Ayn, that's the Ayn Denny's Pizza. Then there's a Reston. It also just looks like a house. But then the inside looks like an Ikea catalog Exactly, which I appreciate I know I can I can immediately tell you would

It's so funny. But like yeah, none of them look when you say we only have three restaurants in town I think American restaurants where it's like we have McDonald's we have a subway and we might have one other place run It's like a diner right And none of the food looks particularly amazing. I'm looking at these restaurants, even the pizza place that's Norwegian pizza, which I'm like, suss about that. Still the pizza looks like pizza. This Arresten, it looks delicious. All the food here, there's a fish thing they got going on, if you scroll down far enough, it looks amazing. They're trying to do ribs, and I'm not sure what those ribs taste like but bless me. Yeah, I'm just that But I trust the fish yeah the fish chips looks great the ice cream looks good. They got like a weird

Mushy peas thing going on all of it looks delicious like that. I'm sure is very good Yo, the list ver cat cafe Alex pretty good. I see that as well Yeah, it's also Yo, the Lisverketh Cafe. That looks pretty good. I see that as well. Yeah. They also have... Yeah, they have Vin and Son, which appears to be a bar, but again, looks like a dude's home. Yeah, I see that. It really... He just like opened a bar in his house, like, hey, come on down. I wonder if legally you could.

Honestly, I think if legally you could? Honestly I think if it was legal to do so in the States we'd have more of them. You know what I think we'd have too many of them. Yeah people would just be like I'm opening a bar in my basement come on by I think people would. People already have bars in their basements then they would open it the business. With this all said there's a place called oh boy um there's also the me pub dag ivar lund lice du set sorvistein oh boy yeah but uh if you go there and you look at it, it appears to be a very Norwegian centric restaurant. And that one of the dishes, just right out the gate, is reindeer stew.

And I'm looking at it and I don't know what the hell this is. It looks crazy. Oh yeah, what the... I don't... The restaurant itself looks like you're in the galley of a ship, which is pretty great. That is pretty great. I do like that. Dude, scroll down. At some point, it looks like a dessert. Looks like it's ice cream. But it also has a cone towering above it.

And then it looks like it's served in a lunch tray. I don't know what I'm looking at, but I want it badly. Oh yeah. That is... Which again, gives off an Ikea vibe. Yes. Oh yes. Big Ikea vibes. Yeah, I think a lot of these things are just Ikea inspired. That's probably where it all stems from.

Like, we might have found the one place not touched by America. it's probably where it all stems from. Like, we might have found the one place not touched by America. Well, there's that one, but they just opened that Starbucks, forgot where it was. Right, but still, dude, that was the middle of the Amazon. Oh yeah. What's I'm saying?

Even them, even them. There's gotta be something here from America. I'm sure somewhere we'd find it, but yeah, I don't see it. Frankly, I'm pleased. I'm very happy with that. Yeah. That's the weather. All right, let's go to sports.

Sports. Currently in sports, we got the Broncos beating the Colts in the NFL, Bills beating the Lions, the Eagles beating the Steelers, Cardinals beating the Patriots, Buccaneers beating the Chargers, the Chiefs beat the Browns, Bengals beat the Titans, Commanders beat the Saints, Ravens beat the Giants, Cowboys beat the Panthers, Jets beat the Jaguars, and the Texans beat the Dolphins, and then the Rams beat the 49ers on Thursday. Packers play after this podcast which is what I will be watching.

And that's NFL and we have NBA. The NBA Cups been going on. I don't really care that much about it because it's literally just a meaningless thing but it's happening. The Cavaliers in first place with Boston right behind them and you got the Thunder in first place with the Grizzlies right behind them and in the NHL we've got the Maple Leaves, the Panthers atop the Atlantic, Capitals Devils atop the Metropolitan Division, the Jets in the wild battling out the central and the Knights

Golden Knights the Kings and the Oilers battling out the Pacific and a lot of baseball trades including the Cubs acquiring Kyle Tucker from Houston who I don't even think I've seen him play, but he's apparently really good so I was like cool the Cubs did something. So I was happy about that. And Juan Soto signed with the Mets for $700 million or something insane. That sounds about right. Did you see the, there was one thing trending on the internet this week that I was convinced

I had seen before, but everyone was like, yo, the new Rockies mascot, it hatched out of an egg. I was like, the Rockies got a new mascot? What the, wait, what? Oh yeah, well their old mascot was a dinosaur. Maybe they hatched a new one. Well, so I looked it up. It's literally the exact same, it's footage from 1994.

Oh. They just recirculated it as a thing. What? People just not know about it, I guess? I mean, it happens. It absolutely happens. Honestly, I think it's for clout. You know what I mean?

They'll take old footage, and they'll use it for something else. And then people are like, wow, because no one researches anything. They just retweet. And I think that's what I saw. But even I was like, oh, that's so cute. Wait a minute.

I've seen this before. And I was like, oh, that's so cute. Wait a minute. I've seen this before But yeah, that's uh, that's the Rockies mascot he's named dinger like The field I remember this is a kid that was awesome. Yeah. I mean listen even as an adult. That's awesome Pretty dramatic and fun yeah I would like to see every sports mascot and then rank them I don't know that pride to be too many but I think we I think if we picked one sport and right yes I think we could start there I think that would be fun I think that would be fun we could definitely do that because then we'd probably learn about some amazing mascots we don't even know about. Yeah, plus we'd pick the ones that were the

like actual fun, you know? Oh yeah, and then we'd like, we'd send them a message. They'd probably send us a shirt with them, their mascot logo on it or something. You think we can get that? I want, there is a double A baseball team and they're the emperors, but their logo is a penguin, an emperor penguin, but the logo, the mascot is a penguin and he's dressed like a Roman emperor. It's awesome.

I love it. That is pretty great. I love it. That's sports. Oh, right. What's our fact of the day? Fact of the day, day, day, day. Day. Day. Um, let us see here. We've got a fact

that is a fact. Uh huh. This is actually kind of insane. You inhale 50 potentially harmful bacteria every time you breathe. That sounds true because I mean even though most movies don't do this in movies that do do it the minute you take your mask off on an alien world you start to to die. Like everyone's like, ugh. So, and also War of the Worlds was won because the aliens were on Earth too long and died from all the crap we got in the air. So, you know, I get it, it makes perfect sense to me.

I think that's, I think it's the same along the same lines when people are like, I want my kids to be dirty. By being dirty, they get immune to all the stuff that can kill them. Or the guys on TV, they're like, I don't ever wash my hands. And it's like, bro, what you? Those are a little, a little too intense, I would say. But I think it's a lot of the same lines. There's just stuff existing that can harm us, but we just have natural immunities to things. Yeah. It says, thankfully your immune system's

working hard all the time, so virtually all these are promptly destroyed without feeling a thing. That's crazy. Can you imagine being like a single cell virus floating in the air like, I'm gonna get him. Yeah, this is my time. And then you get sucked in, you're like, here we go, and then, I don't know, like some white blood cell

just like beats the shit out of you. Pfft. Like, no, this wasn't my plan. Dude, I saw, there's like some video Like some white blood cell just like beats the shit out of you Dude I saw there's like some video white blood cells moving around I don't know what I expected But they're just kind of like scooting like do do do do do do there's like slinking around like a slime And they're just like organizing like everything good here guys all the way what's over here. This doesn't look right It's just like it's so weird to see that Happening, and you know it's happening just everywhere, but it's like they're It's just like, like it's so weird to see that happening and you know, it's happening just everywhere, but it's like, they're in their own world,

but it's our world. I mean, that's what, that's what the, the RNA code vaccine was. That's why all those really fun animations existed that I absolutely loved during the height of COVID, which were like, you know, little animations of blood cells walking around the white blood cells are like, Hey, what's that? And it was the vaccine, and it was a really weak form of the virus.

They'd beat the crap out of it, and they're like, we'll watch out for you, mister. And then when the tough one shows up, and it's the real virus, like, hey, we know that guy, and they all beat the shit out of him. I was like, yeah, that's how it works. That's what white blood cells do. It's crazy, isn't it, science?

Yeah, who knew? Who knew science was cool? Who knew? A's crazy isn't it science. Yeah, who knew? Science was cool who knew a lot of people apparently don't so That's your fact of the day All right who has come to us with tears in their eyes Dear illustrious sirs tears my eyes I beg upon thee to answer mine question How long long would it take you at a sit down restaurant without any attention before leaving? Example,

you've received one glass of water and nobody has come around to check on you. I have the patience of a saint, so I would be there way longer than I should be. I must stress this. A great example happened today where my parents and I went to the mall because for my dad's Christmas gift, he needed new sunglasses. So I got him sunglasses, right? And it wasn't one of those things where I could just randomly guess about it. So I took them to the mall, got them sunglasses, their prescription, that kind of thing. And after we were done, my mom was like, Oh, I really want to try this Greek restaurant that's

at the mall. I was like, okay, I don't know how I feel about mall Greek, but okay. And so we went there. It was all right. I just got like a Greek salad with chicken. So you can't really screw that up. But while we're there, we, you know, it's my parents. So we got there early enough in the day that it might've been 1130, 12. And right then people started filling into this, this restaurant. Well, the, uh,

girl who was our, our waiter left the receipt for us to leave. And then she went to go take care of all the other people around us. Well, my mom was like, don't worry. I got this. So she put down her credit card and my dad clearly wanted to go. He was done. He had eaten. He was ready to go. Yep. But this girl was run around taking all the other orders because there was no one else there taking orders. And so I'm watching her do this and she was at one table for, I don't even know how long. They were not understanding the menu. I don't know what was going on over the table, but she was there for a while. And my dad couldn't see her and he was just like, oh, if I see this waitress, oh man,

I'm gonna, I'm gonna give her, I'm gonna just. He's like really upset. He's like, we could just leave if you want. And I'm like, dad, she's right over there. She's just working, it's fine. And he was ready to dip. He was ready to not pay. It had been maybe 10 minutes since we got our check.

And he was like, and I'm like, she's right. She's literally right there. She's looking at us. She can see you act in a fool, dad. She's fine. That's where I'm at. I'm like, look, I'm watching her do her thing. I know she's busy. I'm not going to be the guy who's like, take care of me before everyone else. I know what it's like to work in that space of customer service and retail, not even stressed. But my dad was not pleased. And so that's, I think that's the line.

My dad is the guy I think I see most of the time. And what I think most people expect is like, if you're not taking care of me, I'm gonna leave. I need someone who's gonna take care of me, give me service. But me, I'm just so patient. I think I'm too patient. In all aspects of life, I will patiently wait for something rather than freak out about it.

Yeah. I mean, we're pretty good too with that. We'll usually wait. But like there was one time I remember we went to this one Mexican restaurant and it was before we found our like go-to Mexican restaurant places and it was We sat down and they're like here's like chips and salsa and we're like, okay and We waited I think 15 or 20 minutes without a Waiter waitress and I was like I think we could we should probably just leave that we did oh my god it was bad I just remembered another one that's actually very funny and I think again this goes back to the fact that I'm just too

patient um we went to a German restaurant because Alex was like dude this place slaps and I was like great okay cool so went to this German restaurant and we ordered a bunch of different things, right? Because we wanted to try a little bit of everything. Yep, and they brought us out half of the food and Then we watched them take a family-style lunch break the chefs the waiters the owners though we were the only people it it was, I don't know, maybe like one in the afternoon, two in the afternoon, and every one of them sat in a room and ate lunch and we were like,

uh, they didn't, we finished what they brought us and then we sat there and like an hour went by and because we got some food and we were drinking and it was fine and we were just chill. Finally, a waiter comes up and goes to give us our check and we're like we didn't get half our food He's like oh Damn, let me go look into that They just forgot oh It was crazy, so they eventually brought the rest of it by that time. I was just like we gotta go they eventually brought the rest of it by that time I was just like we gotta go

we got stuff to do it was crazy but we patiently sat there and waited thinking maybe there was just one chef in the back no dude everyone took a lunch break and we just sat there watching them that is pretty insane it was crazy I yeah I think I probably would have left that or like well I guess if you're like still waiting for I don't know I don't know what I would have thought you maybe be like hey Can I get the check or something? We couldn't say hey can I get the check because they all went into a room together And we watched them bring trays of like they did family style meals And so they're sitting there eating and then someone brought a sheet cake, they're in the back like eating.

Like, it was so crazy. It's, you just like go back there like, hey guys, since I'm not getting my food because I like join you, like it's fun. Like we, again, we all got food because we ordered a bunch of different things and we were all eating off. It wasn't like two people got their food

and no one else did. So we were all eating stuff and it was fine, but Alex had ordered a schnitzel dish that was gonna come out and a three sausage dish that we were gonna all split. And those were the big things. The first stuff we got was the appetizer stuff. And it was, you know, one was a vegetable thing

and one was a pretzel with a bunch of weird things to put on the pretzel, like that kind of stuff. Yeah. But it was just the main courses they did not bring out at all. And so we had to be like, ah, what are we going to do here guys? We waited so patiently. It was crazy. Yeah, that's pretty insane. That's a long time. Yeah. And again, the reason why is because they were all eating lunch. We watched them. We watched them. That's pretty cool. They're doing that though.

Yeah, I was like, that's pretty fun. It's a restaurant that's pretty famous because the chef is like tall, like ludicrously tall. I'm talking maybe six, seven, maybe seven feet tall. I don't know. He's very tall tall and there's a sign in the door when you first walk in That has the mark of where he is and it says anyone over this height eats for free And the whole NBA going there. That's what I say I was like I imagine if the NBA found out about this this guy would be out of business. Yeah serious Yeah, that's your your illustrious sir. Great. Alright! What is our big news story of the day?

Big news story of the day. Day. Day. Day. Day. Mysterious googly eyes appearing on public art in Oregon. You know what? Yes, I approve. Googly eyes have been appearing on sculptures around central Oregon city of Bend, delighting many residents and sparking viral sensation covered widely by news outlets and featured on a popular late night talk show. On social media, the city shared photos of googly eyes on installations in the middle of roundabouts that make up its so-called

roundabout art route One photo shows googly eyes on a sculpture of two deer another shows them attached to a sphere It is not yet known who was putting them there quote while the googly eyes Placed on the various art pieces might have given you a chuckle it costs money to remove them with care to not damage the art says the city the Facebook post hundreds of comments with many either saying they liked the googly eyes my daughter and I went past the flaming chicken today and shared the biggest laugh said nickname Phoenix rising we love the googly eyes the town is getting to be so stuffy. Let's have some fun Another Facebook user wrote. I think the googly eyes on the deer specifically are great look and they should stay that way

Others said the city should focus on addressing more important issues such as homelessness instead of removing You need all your money going into the Google AI removal. There's no way they can do anything else. We really encourage our community to engage with art and have fun. We just need to make sure we can protect it and it doesn't get damaged. Uh... The city so far has been... Oh, are they worried about like their sculptures? I think so.

Alright, let me just stress for the record. One of the sculptures in question is a ball. It is a ball of metal and if you remove those googly eyes, I must stress, it would be boring to look at. But the minute you put those googly eyes on there, that shit's hilarious. I love it. That is amazing. I love that.

That's so good. Yeah, the googly eyes add so much to it. Just a normal ball. It's like whatever. Yeah. And it's the fact that the city's like, we gotta get those eyes off of those things right now. It's like, dude, just let them be there.

Yeah. Come on. There's the Firebird Phoenix one. If you remove the googly eye, it's whatever. It's like fine. But the googly eye adds something fun to it. Yeah. And I mean, look at that.

You're getting like so much press for your city that nobody would care about otherwise. And the city has spent $1,500 on removing googly eyes from seven of the eight sculptures. 1,500? They're really upset too because it's like it damages the art. Um, it left behind residue that you can wipe off. Yeah. I'm looking at the damages in photos and it's like when you stick something to a

wall and you pull it off and a little stuff stays behind the wall, they have to like scrape off. That's what it looks like. Yeah. And then most of the money is probably just from paying the dude to go out there and do it or something. Yes. Yeah. Meanwhile, the art that they're removing stuff from is like a rusted horse. Like that rust, no one's going to like, Oh, whatever. Art is art. And if it's in a public space, it's the same thing. Like when they have the Mothman statue in West Virginia and people stick a tramp stamp on its butt because the Mothman has a big butt like that's if anything it brings more people to the like that's the whole point of art is to be appreciated yeah

and it's and everybody in the towns like this is really fun and cool yeah like they're like this is creative and then the city's like no get these eyes off our art pieces this is art yeah we decide what art is okay yeah stupid in dumb just let him let him have fun let him have the googly eyes at least let it do it for the holiday season take it off in like January so yeah I mean this is the same stuff that I bet if you were to look back in history about these things they probably put a wreath around one of them at one point, or a scarf or a Santa hat, you know? That's fine, but a googly eye's too far. Too far.

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