Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 463 - The Cren Cave Lifestyle Plan

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

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Where does buddy come from? Late 18th century, perhaps an alteration of brother. What? Ah, from British slang for buddy B U T T Y or companion. Oh, where's buddy come from then? Probably like all things, Americans just, you know, warped it a little bit over the years. Oh yeah, oh yeah, so it's like brother,

but then buddy, it's like butter. So at least it's kind of like butter. Interesting, it's so weird that under the use of a buddy, someone asked, is it considered derogatory? What? When has that ever been the case? You know what? The internet? Asking the questions no one has ever dared to ask. You know what? That's fine, I guess. It's... The internet used to be fun. It did. Now I dread it's the internet used to be fun it did now I now I dread it to the extent that I'm like you know I can't I can't ever say

anything or do anything without someone we've talked about this before but it's the whole like I like pancakes it's like you didn't even mention waffles waffles so much but like that's not that's not the conversation we were having yeah I mean that's literally every pointless top ten I make someone's literally every pointless top ten

I make someone's like you forgot this guy like no I didn't Yeah, yeah Dude, it's I even heard a thing. There's a quote somebody had I don't know who it's from but I thought it was true quote Which was we used to go on the internet to escape reality, now we go to reality to escape the internet. There's gotta be a third place, because I don't like either.

Well, it's because everybody's connected now. We're always connected to the internet, so people are like, I gotta go outside, I gotta touch grass, I gotta walk around, right? That's your escaping the internet, because now you're just so hooked into the internet. Sure, sure. I think like when you think about reality, you think about all the other nonsensical things happening there and how some of it you're just like, oh, you know,

that's where jobs are. That's where, you know, like drama is. And so I think, yeah, maybe that whole escape to nature thing is where people wanna be, except now we're actively going our way to get rid of more and more nature, so I don't have an answer. But I will say it does interest me greatly in Kojima's newest Death Stranding. I don't know, did you play the first Death Stranding game?

I've watched people play it a bit. Like, metaphor-wise, the game's phenomenal. Because basically the first Death Stranding is like, hey, in a world where everyone is divided and things are a mess, you can either make the act of choice to connect with other human beings or you can cut yourself off from the world. The bad guy is literally an incel. That is the bad guy of that thing. He keeps himself in his air quotes basement and he hates the world because they don't get him

and no one's like, like that kind of thing. And then the main character is a guy who metaphorically reaches out to others and he becomes a better person for it because he forms connections. It's a game where you go around delivering mail and shit, but you're building bridges is literally the point like that kind of thing. And I loved that I thought it was amazing and it kind of was this uh COVID-esque you know in a world we're all separated let's connect and let's get together and let's learn from each other.

The sequel I think is fascinating because it is so very the modern aftermath of that where the premise literally is maybe we made a mistake. Which I think is fascinating where it's like, hey, we connected everyone in the world got together maybe some people shouldn't have been connected. Some people were better off not connecting with others because it only made them worse. And I think that's fascinating. And I can't wait to play this. And I think that's fascinating. And I can't wait to play this game because I know he's going to have like a hot take.

And I'm pretty sure I know what the hot takes going to be. But I'm like, I can't wait to see where this story goes for a story that literally is like a dude with a baby who delivers mail. Yeah, like it's not a very compelling way of delivering a story, but it is fascinating. It's like he just not a very compelling way of delivering a story, but it is fascinating It's like he just selected a reign of profession. He was like this will do Like I genuinely think he watched like it does have Kojima stuff There's weird goop monsters and strange rain that makes you age quickly like there's bizarre things

All right, but I genuinely think he watched the movie, the, is it The Postman? I think that's what it is. The Kevin Costner movie that was a giant bomb and is actually not a great movie, but is fascinating. Cause it's literally about a guy who delivers mail in a post-apocalyptic US and everyone's like, that man was a hero. Dude, this movie's three hours long.

Yeah, it's crazy long. I believe he self-financed it, I think, and when he showed it to screeners and different people watching it, they were like, please shorten this movie. It doesn't need to be this long. And he was like, never. And admittedly, it feels like a three,

you know how sometimes you see a three hour movie and you're like, wow, that was fast. Nah, nah, nah, this is, it feels like three hours. Probably feels even longer. It has a lot of, uh, you know, those dramatic scenes where slow mo riding a horse, holding an American flag. Like we're going to bring back the U S baby. There's a lot of that. There's a lot of that.

Have you ever seen Kevin Costner's water world? Yes. I actually kind of like Waterworld. It's not a great movie, but it's fun. And I will say the best part of Universal Studios. Oh, if you're ever in LA, I'll take you to Universal Studios. We have to go see the Waterworld show. It's actually amazing. I love that show.

It is a fly a plane in. There's explosions. It's like it's great. It's super fun. Because the only reason I know about Kevin Costner's Waterworld is seeing Simpsons clips. And there's one where Millhouse is putting the quarters into an arcade machine. And he's playing Kevin Costner's Waterworld.

You take one step and he's just like put more quarters in to continue playing he's like ah man he starts putting quarters in again it is um a weird movie about a world where you know I guess the oceans rose and flooded everything and everyone lives in the water and there's I have a lot of questions about how people survive In this world. It seems like they've done it for a while, but also everyone's about to die all the time I really it's just like a weird movie again. It's not great But I think it's fun compared it to the other one. He made the postman or whatever. That's like I Don't know. It's kind of a drag it's I

mean look at Kevin Costner's made a lot of like mediocre movies almost like Nick Cage here yeah I think the difference is he had a lot of major hits yeah like made him a bunch of money and so he wanted to invest that money into making other movies and a lot of them just And so he wanted to invest that money into making other movies. And a lot of them just aren't great. Nick Cage is like, I made a bunch of money, but I made terrible choices and bought like dinosaur skulls and all sorts of other shit

instead of actually making more movies with it. So now he's in bad movies, but I don't think it's because he wants to be in them. Kevin Costner is like, I wanna make a movie about the 1800s and how tough it was to be in America. It's an 18 hour epic. And people are like, we don't,

Kevin, we don't need that. He's like, I need it. It's like, okay, cool. Dude, I don't know what this movie is. I got a TikTok of Nick Cage and they're like, I can't believe Nick Cage is acting in this. And he's like dressed up as this weird vampire guy. Is it Ren, Renfeld?

It's, it's not Renfeld. He's like a side character is some shit. Is it Long Legs? Maybe it's Long Legs. The one, because that's the horror movie where he is the the bad guy he's only in like a little bit because most the time it's like who is this monster man

yeah it's uh it's so it's gotta be that because they're like I can't believe his voice and he's like you want to take me out I'll take you, he's talking like that It's a crazy shit. I wonder if I could just send it to you I Am here for that yeah, if you want to send it to me. I'll watch it. I don't um I Don't know what it could be the thing is oh, what you slingers Gunslingers what the hell?

The thing is... Oh, it's Gunslingers! Gunslingers? What the hell? I was about to say, when you describe Nick Cage doing a weird voice in a movie that he's barely in, that could be any number of movies. Hold on, I've just sent it to you on TikTok so you can hear it. Oh boy. You've gotta hear it.

It's genuinely ins... I guess this movie's coming out this year or just came out. So this might already be a class. It's got 3.5 stars. Yo! Alright, for people who are curious what he sounds like, I'll give you two examples. One, have you seen The Batman? The guy who plays the chief of police in the Batman that guy or to general

grievous general that's what he sounds like yeah it's insane the best part about this is in the clip, in the clip, it looks like it's the year 1867, except Nick Cain is wearing sunglasses that are also crosses. It's incredible, I love this. Dude, I'll be signing for this movie immediately. Oh yeah. This will probably be on the free YouTube in a matter of months at this rate.

I can't wait. Maybe at launch. I don't know. I don't know how I got here, but yeah. Oh yeah, Kevin Costner, that's right. How was your traveling? I know your suitcase broke. It did. It was great except for that. I don't know what the hell happened there at the end.

But when I got my suitcase, I put it down on the ground, and it just fell over, and I was my suitcase, I put it down on the ground and it just fell over and I was like, what the hell? So I looked at the bottom and one of the, one of the, it's like a four wheel suitcase, one of the wheels was clearly broken and the whole section of that suitcase was mashed in. Now this is a hard suitcase.

So I don't know how they did it. I'm not sure what happened but when I sort of punched it out to try and you know make it normal again it was all cracked and completely destroyed. They did something to it but yeah I reached out to their customer service people and they were like sir we hold no responsibility for damaged luggage and I was was like, cool, thanks. So I gotta get a new suitcase. Yeah, that was dumb.

However, with that said, the rest of the trip was great. I went to Amsterdam first for a day to go see Kings Day. Now I've been told about Kings Day for a while. My layover was in Amsterdam anyway, so I was like, I'll just spend the night there. Kings Day is, as far as I'm aware, I know I'm sure it has some significance to them, but as far as I could tell, it was basically the way we celebrate St. Patrick's Day except everyone was wearing orange when they got drunk, but it's the exact same thing.

There was no difference. People were out on the street, they were drunk, dudes were puking in the corner. There was people out till 4 a.m. just losing their minds. It was an all-day thing. There were people on the street trying to sell you stuff. There was guys drinking in the street. There were DJs setting up street. Like, uh, like I don't even know raves. Fascinating. Loved it. But I saw the best thing I've ever seen before. So this time I went with the sole purpose of one, finding the weird windmill bar that I went to, uh, years ago when I was there, uh, pre COVID days and getting a drink there. Cause I remember that being fun, but also, as I've mentioned many times in the storytelling of my trip to Amsterdam

I was there two days last time and I was so drunk and high I was in bed by 9 a.m Every night wait not I could not make it. I could not function. I was like Yeah, so this time I was said What now you said 9 a.m. Oh, I'm sorry. I told 9 a.m. You're like I was in bed by 9 a.m. No, I was in bed by 9 p.m. Okay, and uh, so this time I went in with the idea of like I'm gonna be as sober as I possibly can I want to experience the city so I right away went to

The windmill bar much further than I remember it being. I was like how did I walk home this drunk and high? Like I must have a superpower where when I am drunk I can walk anywhere. It reminds me the time after Pax when I found that chicken restaurant and upon further review, it was like five, six miles away from the convention center. It was like, how did I get there and

back? What was I doing? Same thing here. I don't know what happened. I just, I got there and I had a drink and that was fun. But, um, I also wanted to go check out the red light district. Never been, uh, when I was there before, my hotel was right next to it. I literally just didn't get there. So this time I was like, I want to go. I will say I was there in the morning already. There are ladies in windows. There's like women trying to like lure men in.

I was like, it is 11 AM. I was like, all right, I guess. I thought this was a nighttime place, but I'm walking around. I'm looking at the different stuff there. It was all right. You know, it's a normal street, but I did see the greatest thing. And I keep thinking about this because I don't know how I'd react, but I saw three dudes. They were clearly drunk and there was this woman in one of the windows, and she's in a bikini, and she's sexy dancing. And these three guys walk up to the window,

and they start pawing at the window, and they're like, hey, you and me, let's go right now. And this woman does the uh-uh-uh sign to them, right? And then closes the window on them. And I was like, hold up, did she just reject these guys? First off, never in my life. Obviously I've never dealt with prostitution before, so it never once crossed my mind that yeah,

of course a prostitute could be like, nah, I'm not into it. She did that to these guys. And the second thing that crossed my mind was, I don't know how I would emotionally recover from being rejected by a person that you would pay to have sex with. Yeah, that's...

I would be dead if I was like, hey baby, here's some money, let's do it. And she was like, nah. I would be like, wait was like, hey baby, here's some money, let's do it, and she was like, nah. I would be like, wait, is that your job? Like, did you serve you servants? I'd rather be poor. To sleep with you, god, you're ugly. That's what I'm saying, I couldn't believe it.

I would be like, wow. So that's, I keep thinking about that, cause these three guys, I didn't stick around cause I was walking through, but I just saw that part happen and was like, God, I would be an emotional wreck. I don't know how I'd react. I'd be like, what?

I'd go into one of the rivers and just let the tide take me out to sea. Like, I don't know what I would do at that point. Yeah. Well, I want one of the rivers. You're just like, get hit by rocks and shit along the way. Yeah, I mean, like, what's the point? Just, I'm right there in Amsterdam,

you know that water's gotta go to the sea at some point, so I'll just let it take me. That's fair. The water'll take you, unlike the prostitute. I just, it was so funny, I don't know if it was because it was three of them, or because they were drunk. Like I don't know what the deal was, and I guess it doesn't really matter,

just the concept, I never thought of it before now. That's all I can think about is like Wow Yeah, that's I Really think of that either, but I guess it does make sense Yeah, totally makes perfect sense Like if it's your just like any business has the right to refuse service like if your business is your body Then yeah, you would have the right to be like, nah, you're not the guy for me.

But just absolutely never thought of it before. And so watching it happen and watching me, three guys who were very drunk and her just, it wasn't just, she said no. She literally closed the curtain and the window on them. Like the whole gimmick is if you are one of the ladies dancing in the window, you're trying to lure people in. She was like, not you though.

Yeah, she like shut it down. It just made me laugh really hard. I was like, damn, I never once considered any of this. That is genuinely crazy. Yeah. And then, then I jumped on a plane to Helsinki and it was my favorite flight I've ever been on ever. You know how these days when you go on a plane and they do the safety announcement,

it's always so damn long. It is like either a video where they try to be funny. Like the Virgin one, yeah. Yeah, or they try to do little raps and things like if you're on Southwest or whatever. This flight to Helsinki, I don't know if it's a Finnish thing, but they, it took 40, 45 seconds and they were to the point. They were like, this is a seatbelt. It goes on like this. Wear it for safety. I was like, damn, okay. They were like, these are life preservers. You put them on if we hit the water.

They go like this. It was not even, there was no flourish. I loved it, I was so happy. It's like, most people know what to do, right? It's not like you have to tell them. And then I think here with all the dancing and singing, it's just people trying to get a little showboaty with it. Like we could have fun, you know, make people have fun putting on their seatbelt or whatever

and be like, well, that was fun and whatever. But it's just like just tell us what stuff does and how to do it and move on. Absolutely. I think U.S. companies consistently learn the wrong lesson. And this is an example of that, where a lot of people don't pay attention to the safety announcements, because they're just so long and it's stuff you know. So people try to make them fun and silly, right?

But that's not the way you should take it, because all it did was make them even longer. This flight literally was like, you know it, you don't wanna hear this, let's get it over with real quick. And it was great great I loved it yeah it's I wonder if that's only Finland or if all the like countries over there do that like the Nordic countries

maybe yeah maybe it's a specific airline yeah I mean when I flew with KLM they didn't do it they have an entire thing that's like a little painted tiles that are stop motion animation and it goes on for way too long. So they certainly don't have it in their Dutch. So it might be a Nordic thing. I don't know.

Yeah, maybe. I mean, it does feel like they would be like, all right, do it and move on. I got all the people, they feel like they'd be one of the, one of the top people who have no nonsense. Do your shit, move on. Yeah, I will say, the best parts about Finland for me, and this is the most Krendor coded thing

I'm ever gonna say. It was a beautiful place. The forests were gorgeous. Everything about, I will say the forest also had a vibe of like, I understand why remedy is headquartered there because it definitely has the occult could operate here and kill people in the forest. That's how thick the forests are. And no one would know vibe. But, um, the, the big takeaway is from the minute you land to the minute

you hit the hotel, to when I was at the remedy offices, to all these different things, every person, every guy in Finland, lady in Finland, whoever in Finland was like, yo, have you tried the water? Everyone. And Krendor, I get it. And Crendor, I get it. I, from the tap, the water was like glacial cold. It tasted so good. It was the purest water I've ever had in my life, but it had like a flavor. I don't know how to describe it, dude.

It was, I know you like your Starbucks water, times a thousand. Dang. It was, I did not drink a soda or anything, I just, I was like, water please, everywhere I went. Dude, crazy, crazy good. It says Finland is renowned for its clean and high quality tap water considered

among the best in the world. I'm telling you, dude. This is due to their lakes, rivers, and groundwater sources. There is a sign in the bathroom of the airport that says, you can actually drink the tap water. That is pretty funny. Yeah. And when you go around, most of the places, if you go to like a 7-Eleven or I

don't know what they would call them there, but then across from the hotel there was a convenience mart. And at night, you know, I'd be like, oh man, I want to get some, like maybe a bottle of water so I can put it by the side of my bed or something. That's not a thing. They have sparkling water. They have vitamin waters. They have sodas. You're not getting a lot of water options from a bottle or a can. It's not happening. They're just like, go get it from the tap, dumb dumb. And they were right. They were right. Hey, that's... I don't even know. I wonder how America's water ranks in terms of what states.

Terrible. What are the worst? Well, I mean obviously, but I mean in terms of states. California, I cannot stress this enough. I have had numerous people visit and everyone's like, dude, the water smells. I'm like, yeah, no, you're right. It was just like California. Yeah, yeah.

And I assume that's because we have to pipe in our water from like thousands of miles away. Oh yeah, I guess that's true. I don't know, I always hear at California, well specifically I guess LA, always being like, oh I gotta have tap water, not that bottled water. Yeah, I wouldn't drink the tap water here if you paid me.

Like I just don't, yeah. I don't like it at all. It is an unpleasant, weird taste. And I'm probably sure there's a bunch of chemicals in there. I don't even know where the original source was. It's probably recycled water. Nah, I'm all right. I would say most water in the United States is bad.

And I know there's gonna be some guys like, that's cause they put the fluoride in it. That's not the reason why. the reason why is because we don't take care of our infrastructure at all in this country be it bridges or roads or water pipes whatever it's all trash apparently the top 10 worst states with water issues are Arizona New New Mexico, Alabama, Oklahoma, Indiana, Nevada, Maryland, Wisconsin, Texas, and California. That sounds right.

I would imagine the Southwest for sure. And there were a lot of Southwest states in there. Just because it's desert. Like, you have to get the water from somewhere else, which means you have to send it through pipes, which means you have to take care of the pipes. And I promise you, no one's doing that. Yeah. Like here we got like the Great Lakes and shits that's like something although they're yeah starting to get polluted I guess. But at least you have that freshwater source and that you know there's something there plus the further north you are in the United States

the more access you have to like Canadian groundwater and I'm sure we have some sort of deal with with Canada. Yeah. Although why is Wisconsin on that list then? I got, you know what? It's probably got like brat, bratwurst, Jews contamination or something. I would imagine the same reason that Michigan has bad water. You know what I mean? Like they just, the infrastructure is old.

Yeah. It's just terrible. And that sucks, but I would love to know what the infrastructure situation is in Finland maybe because like I was talking with a bunch of people about The quality of life and and you know rent prices and stuff because everyone's always when I say I'm from LA Everyone's always curious about living here and how expensive it is and I was talking with people in Finland and they were saying oh Yeah, no, you can get an apartment in downtown Helsinki for like 1500 bucks a month. And I was like, damn that in like the heart of the capital.

And they're like, yeah, apparently though, the idea is that is, uh, still a lot of money because the average pay is like 40,000 a year. Oh, so, and I think it's because a lot of the money goes to the government and taxes and stuff. But I think those taxes and stuff go to make sure everything is up to code and up to. Yeah, that makes sense. But I know that like individual wealth, you know, yeah, OK, I make forty thousand a year. But if I'm make if I'm paying 1,500 bucks a month at rent that's a lot actually yeah no that makes

sense huh what uh what did you learn about Finland on top all that so just like have you been to Finland before never no no. I did learn no other like Norway, Sweden, they can kind of understand each other's languages. No one understands Finnish, no one. Dude, one of the radio stations it started with a T and an L and I have no idea how to pronounce that. Like, but I know it doesn't sound like that, because it's gonna sound like something else. And I think someone said it to me, and I was like, what? But yeah, I think it was a T and an L, and I was like, how?

Tla? I was like, how do you say that? Like, no, no, no, that's not how you say that. But I will say, it has so many English-speaking people. Like, most people spoke English, and I think that's because probably finishes a monster to learn. And then, yeah, I mean, it's, you would think it'd be huge, but it's not a really big, like, Helsinki's not a huge city. And it's surrounded by a bunch of water and little islands. I know they have their zoo on an island, which is kind of cool because it's like Jurassic Park a little bit. they have their zoo on an island, which is kind of cool because it's like Jurassic Park a little bit. But for the most part, it's just kind of like

you're a basic city. One night I got ramen, you know what I mean? It just felt like a normal city. There wasn't anything like crazy, oh this seems like Finland. The one thing I did like, and I know Norway does this too, I'm not sure about Sweden, but I guess high school, I think it's high school kids every year on May 1st dress up in colored track suits, jumpsuits, whatever it is, and they go around and celebrate, I guess, graduating, I think, and they get drunk and collect patches and go to different places. They get different bands for doing different things

Which I imagine if you're in high school probably most of them are sexual. I don't know that seems accurate to me and We saw a bunch of them just roaming the streets like packs of drunk teens Like oh alright. I guess this is Guess this is a thing That's a free you can like drink at 18 over there right I think so I'm not maybe exactly sure even 16 oh you know I did see though one night we were coming home cuz I hung out with some of the remedy guys and we went to a bar and while I was walking back to my hotel I passed this huge group of like

30 or 40 kids outside of a nightclub. But the nightclub seemed American themed and I never wanted to go into a place more in my life. I wanted to know what was going on there, but everyone seemed young and I've never felt so old. I was like, nah, nah, I'm all right. And then, yeah, it was pretty much an in-and-out trip. I went there I landed like I spent a day in Amsterdam then flew to Helsinki and then you know flew back to Amsterdam

Stayed there the night and then flew back in the morning. Wait, how long were you there? I Left last Friday and I came back on I was back in LA Thursday morning Okay, that's not too bad. No, I mean, I didn't have any weird jet lag or anything. I do now. Now I do. I woke up today exhausted, and I've been trying to be really good about sleeping and getting

reacclimated to LA, but man, I don't know. I think because I didn't stare at a computer screen very like I didn't you know Didn't bring a laptop or anything. So when I got back here Looking at a computer screen made my eyes hurt. I was like, oh, so my eyes were all red And then I was like, what if I just take a nap and then I took a nap and that was a mistake So I'm just a complete mess. I'm I'm totally out of whack That's actually I wonder if your body just adapts to like all the screens and shit after a while then when you it

must leave it yeah it's just like oh my god real light and nature and then you go back and it's just like blah blinded yeah oh that mean that's what happened to me is is uh you know when I was recording geek hunters with dodger I was like guys I must apologize to everyone. These lights, this screen, this is the first time I've looked at a computer screen in days, and I'm dying over here. I was like, this sucks.

It is an unpleasant experience if you don't have that daily computer screen thing. I get it. I understand why people's eyes go crazy looking at computer screens. Yeah, no, I have have in fact. I have a lot of my brightness on my monitors set like all the way down her like pretty low Or I have a smart. Yeah, I Don't know how people do it's like if my efflux accidentally Like sometimes they'll glitch out and then it takes like a second to go back to normal at night

And I like go full bright mode I'm just like yeah like oh my god how do I how does anybody how does anyone not use a flux or any of those programs yeah I had something it was like I something I can't remember what it was but I had that on my computer for a while until they were like it's no longer free you have to pay and I was like no I'm all right so I just went into the window settings and turn things down but yeah it is it's atrocious and I don't know I don't know I don't know how I spent all those years staring at a non edited I guess is the right way to say it computer screen yeah I just did it just I think getting

older just makes you realize how much you need those types of things. Or it's like, oh man, I need a standing desk so I can sit and stand so I'm not in one position. I need the efflux and the things so I'm not getting my eyes really, but when you're younger you're like, whatever, you sit like a crab and get your eyes blasted by blue light. Mm-hmm. So, it's, I think it's just part of getting older. You get more discomforts and pains and you get more realization of those pains and stuff

because they actually start bothering you more. Which by the way I started using my standing desk more. I did see that. I did see that you were I think it was during a stream you switched it up during the stream and I was like that's pretty neat. My biggest concern is cables. In order to like really truly use my sit stand desk that I'm literally on right now, every time I use it to stand, every cable is like at the extent of which it can be and I'm like, hang in there computer. I, it terrifies me.

So I feel like to really appreciate it. I have to get some special cables that, you know, when I'm standing are can extend. But when I'm sitting, aren't just drooping to the floor and wrapping around my legs as I sit. Yeah, that's that's the that's the big problem for me. That is part of you do need the cable management. A lot of my cables are like pretty good.

Some do kind of droop when they're all the way down. Some are a little stretched when they're all the way down some are a little stretched when they're all the way up but like I'm also shorter so it's not as bad you probably have to raise the desk a bit higher than sometimes those cables start being like about the pop every time I raise my desk my webcam falls off the top of my

monitor yeah probably should put it on something like I probably should get an actual camera camera. Oh yeah, I know a lot of people do that. But I don't know how to do it. Put like light or something behind it. Yeah, I have the ability to. We have cameras in the office and I could definitely just take one of those.

But something about just, you you know the webcam is already hooked up so I don't have to turn on the camera and you know make sure the plugged in and make sure there's a save card or something in there so it doesn't just a lot of work and I'm like I'm just gonna I'm only doing this for a few hours it's not like yeah I'm doing an everyday vlog thing yeah because there's a lot of people they vlog or even they stream like full screen 4k or like they do all that and I'm like nobody cares about seeing me in 4k dude yeah especially

from a box in the corner of the screen it doesn't matter that much I'll go like full screen sometimes people are like cred door you're a little scrunchie and then I'm like dude I don't give a shit like whatever it's a I'm not doing this all the time. I will say, I've had some interesting conversations with YouTube lately about the best practices

of modern YouTube and one of the things they're really pushing is 4K videos. Which to anyone who's used any render software to make videos is a giant pain in the ass. It is not fun to render in 4k and then upload in 4k. With that said though, I guess the reason why is because more and more people are watching YouTube content on TV and 1080p on TVs, especially YouTube's whatever processing they have there, it kind of degrades the quality a little bit. And it's very noticeable. If you watch a 1080p, a great example is I've been watching, every episode that we do of this

comes back to me watching Hell's Kitchen. Or some Gordon Ramsay equivalent. Yeah, I'm on season 10 right now. I'm slowly making, I'm gonna finish it and then I'll never have anything else to watch Gordon Ramsey wise. But yeah, I will turn it on TV sometimes if I'm like doing something in my living room. And absolutely, the quality from my computer and my phone, which it's 1080p and I'm like, okay, it's not the same on the TV. It says it's 1080p, but it looks blurry as hell.

Hmm. So I think the idea of them saying make it 4K so that it's more and more TV compatible. And I was like, who is watching TV with YouTube? And then I went and looked at the analytics and dear God, it's a lot of people. Oh yeah, I'll watch YouTube on TV sometimes. I mean, it's just convenient because everybody's got one of those either got like an Apple TV, a Roku, your TV's a Smart TV like they can all access YouTube and so you just

go there and you go well put something on YouTube. Like even my parents will be like I want to put on ambient noise with YouTube and they like put on some, I don't know, AI fireplace or some shit that they don't even know is AI. They're just like, that's a nice scene. I'm like, okay, the coffee table's got like 20 legs or some shit they don't know. It's just weird AI. But yeah, I'm just like, that lights a little warped. That's kind of odd. But yeah, a lot of people, I think, do it. The thing is, I guess it depends what you're doing.

Like if I'm doing wow, pointless top 10, I don't think I got to do that in 4K. Like maybe. I mean, I would think not. But yeah, we've we've tested a few things and put stuff out in 4K to see if it's worth doing. It's a hassle hassle for sure. It definitely is one of those you have to upload it the night before, cause it takes hours for it to process.

Right. But yeah, I mean, hopefully people appreciate it. We're just testing right now to see if it's worth it. Um, but YouTube insists it is. And I wonder if it might actually be better to do, you know, like the YouTube thing where YouTube says, you should do this. I wonder if maybe that's the YouTube,

we are promoting this, and if you do this, the algorithm will pick you up more. I don't know, no one gives you answers, but we'll see. Yeah, it's maybe, although although if anything it's probably just somebody might watch the video more if it's 4k and then that would make more people watch it which would bump the algorithm. That's what I would imagine. Yeah maybe? I have no answers for you but that's just kind of the vibe of what's going on with YouTube stuff but you're absolutely right you and I when I was over at your place we watched YouTube on TV. Yeah it's it's just convenient it's easy and it's

it's like anything else except you instead of clicking a mouse to click a video and watch it on a monitor you're just using your remote to do it. Yeah interestingly enough Twitch not the same there will be times where I will be I will be sitting on my couch watching TV and be like, I wonder what's on Twitch and I'll turn on the Twitch app on my TV. It is not intuitive at all. Oh yeah, it sucks. Just like their phone. It's also like two or three, I'm not going to say minutes.

Let's say a minute behind. There's say a minute behind It's there's definitely a delay, but it's it's noticeable and so because I don't want to try and chat on my TV Which would be insane I'll pull up my phone and go to the chat and the chat's just not if I say hey Crendor it could be five minutes before I see response for you on my TV Yeah Now twitch for some reason twitch is just the worst at designing their apps I don't know what it is I don't know why they're so bad at it they just just hire somebody that knows what they're doing

I feel like it's not that hard yeah yeah I'm sure there's a lot of politicking in it now because Amazon's involved and I'm sure they have a lot of like Amazon ideas and big corporate things they have to do I wonder what it would have been like before they were bought But I feel like they had to be bought in order to keep going because as far as I'm aware twitch is a constant money loser oh

Yeah, well, I mean a lot of these things are Like when you look up you're like, oh, I'm sure this company makes money like most of them are just losing money It costs so much to manage everything. Yeah. And then they just get bought up by like a big corporation. Then it's like cut the costs. Fire everyone. Yeah.

The classic. I mean, you would think Amazon would know how to make an app though, or at least tell Twitch how to make an app. Maybe they don't. Maybe they are dumb. Yeah. They had the opportunity to make a great app and they don't. Maybe they are dumb. Yeah they had the opportunity to make a great app and they were like, what can we take from TikTok? Yeah. I don't know, make your own damn thing. You know they just said, or they're just like, you know what,

what's popular out there? They're like TikTok, we'll make it like TikTok. And everyone's like good, good idea. That's pretty much what YouTube does yeah YouTube at least is better at it than them like even now Amazon's more like audiobooks and books even though they are like and they're where you buy your just like random shit like you need a ceiling fan or not a seal but like a fan you can put down on the floor you'd probably still go like Home Depot or something for a ceiling fan or some store yeah yeah I mean I'm very fortunate there's literally a Home Depot right near me and I can get all sorts of crazy stuff so yeah I like that I don't

I don't want to have to order it I need to see what it looks like before you know as much as I trust your image I don't want to just get a thing from Tmoo out of nowhere yeah that's like half half of TikTok shops. I hate TikTok shop. They do that shit. Yeah yeah I got oh man I got suckered in. I saw a hat and I was like oh I love that hat it's so good. When it arrived it was the worst constructed hat I've ever seen my entire life. I gave it to one of the guys at the office. I was like I don't want to look at this again. I hate this It was bad. I don't know who assembled it or what country was made in but it was trash quality You're like the red light district seeing the those people out the window. You're like you close the blinds on that head Yeah, I was like, yeah arrived. I'm so excited. I opened the package and it was like

You know the brim the bill of your hat, how it has to have some sort of like, it has to be hard, right? This thing, I don't think they put anything, it was like, dude it felt like there was paper in it. It was bad. It was, yeah. So definitely lesson immediately learned.

Yeah. The thing is like, do you think rich people buy shit on tick tock shop or any of these things? No, no. Yeah, of course not. Yeah. They go to like these fancy places. Yeah. I see advertisements all the time. If you drive through Santa Monica, there'll be advertisements for places like Baluches and then it's just like dudes in sweater vests and it's like huh I wonder what that place is like if you look it up online it's like a t-shirt it's $1,800 and like ah that's where the rich shop yep throw all the big

streamers shop what's crazy is they you definitely see the people online now in China with all the tariff stuff being like, actually all that clothes is made at the same place and you just pay for the brand name and you can get it for 18 bucks. And like yeah, I think everyone knew that. But also, I don't think if you're that rich, you care. No, they don't have to care. Money is the last problem they got. They can do whatever they want. So getting an $1,800 shirt or whatever,

a lot of people's wrong word, to a very few select billionaires, they don't care. They're like, yeah, I have my expensive shirt on because it means I'm better than you. That's why I always hate when there's the Twitch streamers and stuff that's not they're like yeah have my expensive shirt on because it means I'm better than you yeah that's why I always hate when there's the twitch streamers and stuff to pretend like they're poor and then they'll be like guys we just need keep getting some subs here they're like getting subs from people they're like actually you know struggling to make a living being like I like this streamer then they leak their earnings they're making like 300,000 in a month like okay like if

there's a streamer who has if they're like rocking three to four thousand people every stream and they're streaming every day and all three four thousand are subscribed ish they're doing they're doing gangbusters they those are the people that are making money yeah then they're making money off literally that and YouTube they're making money off literally that and YouTube. They're putting all their shit up on YouTube. They're putting clips up. They got the ads going.

Yeah, those are like... They got sponsors. They got merch. Yeah, when you see people who have like 20,000 viewers asking, like, guys, remember to sub. It's like, you're doing all right. Yeah, they're like, they're probably a millionaire if they're over 20,000 at that point. For sure, for sure. There's a lot of people who are millionaires on Twitch, brand deal-wise, that have, you know, 10,000 people watching.

Oh, yeah. Just because those numbers, a company would be like, we'll pay you so much money. Yeah. I mean, honestly, if they want to pay us instead, that would be fine. My benefit is that I get to do this for a living and live like a retired person. Like I don't get any other benefits. I can't, I can't actually retire. I don't get health insurance.

I don't get anything. I don't make enough to buy $1,800 shirts, but you know what? I can live like a retired old man while playing Pokemon. And that's like good enough for me. You have the same attitude as like Aristotle you are a guy I think you would be a great ancient Greek I think so where you like life is for the living and I should go and be a scholar and but my scholarly pursuits will be Pokemon. And making the top ten lists on YouTube. Yeah I mean I think the big takeaway should be, be it streaming like Cranador or you know

if you want to be a baker or an accountant or whatever, if it's something you love then it makes everything else so much easier. Yeah. I think that's also what a lot of people do, is they, a lot of people work, then they retire, and then they do what they love, because then they have enough money to do it, right? Right. Which I think, that is a strategy. Like, it is a strategy. But I think most people, you know, the way to really live life since most of your life you won't be retired is to find a job you love and I understand it's hard because you know money but yeah that is the that is the

secret yeah it's just it's difficult honestly we just we just got lucky like there's no for sure for sure yeah he's got extremely lucky Like there's no... For sure, for sure. Yeah, we just got extremely lucky. So that's that's kind of the thing I'm grateful for. It's like you know what, I'm not rich, but I'm I'm lucky. Well sometimes I'm lucky. It depends what we're talking about luck-wise. Yeah, well I mean you know job-wise I guess. Which by the way while living my old man life we went out to Walk and we were walking around the track because it's nice out so we went to like a park with a track We're just walking around it And we would walk by people because everyone was walking around and so we had the thing where you always walk past somebody and you just

hear the little like blurps of their conversation. So we're they're walking these two old people go we're living it you better believe it we're living it and then they kept laughing and I was like dude I want to know what they're living it dude they're living it yeah they just kept being like we're living it you better believe it and I was like but what are where they living are they living it maybe they were tired they opened up a bakery or something they wanted to do I'd like to imagine that they only said that when they walked

past you that would be funny oh Oh my god, that would be... Can you imagine if we did an entire thing where we just walked past people in public and just start random conversation tidbits, no matter, just be like I told him if he was gonna shit himself, do it in the forest. And then just walk

by. Yeah, just keep walking. And then the next time you walk by it's a whole other conversation. Yeah. you're just like I told them you don't want to eat that it's plastic it's just like keep making shit up right next time we go around just be like I told him you gotta put it on backwards it wouldn't do it. I told him that as well.

Yeah, I would love to do that. Although I am curious, what do you and toast talk about when you go on walks? What do we talk about? We just kind of talk about whatever. I'll talk about. We talked about last. Let's talk about what we're doing. Talk about work stuff. Talk about, uh, family stuff. Talk like, just whatever's

on your mind. Just cause walking just gets everything off your mind. That's the main thing. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Every time I walk, there's only two modes I have, and I'm not a good walker. Either I hum a little song to myself, or I'm completely silent. Yeah, honestly. Even when I'm walking with people, yeah, I guess we can have a conversation, but I never do, I just look at stuff.

I'm like, oh, that's interesting. Yeah, I think if I walk alone, I'm more like that. If I walk with somebody else, usually I'm either talking or I'm just- I mean, I hope if I walk alone I'm more like that. If I walk with somebody else usually I'm either talking or... I mean I hope when you walk alone you aren't just talking to your self. That's what I should... Although I will say there's another girl she was walking but she was on the phone and so she's just walking around. She walked past us once and she sounded like she was talking in a different language and we were like oh okay but then the around. She walked past us once and she sounded like she was talking in a different language. And we were like, oh, okay. But then the next time we walked past, she was talking English and she went, I said,

this isn't ringworm, this is psoriasis. And I was like, wait, what? What? That's all I heard. She was like yelling it on the phone. And I was like, maybe earlier she was doing like language lessons or something, or like talking to somebody else and now she's talking to a different person. And that's what she yelled. And I was like, I guess it wasn't Ringworm. Part of me feels like she's on the phone with her mom.

Something about that entire thing seems conversation with mom yeah cuz that's like especially if you're like they grow up with a different language your parents more like that you probably alternate between the two like English in that language so that would make sense plus that's definitely who would shout it's not it's not ringworm it's psoriasis too yeah who else are you gonna have that conversation with? That's true, you're not going to have it with many people. And then the only other person, I think it was on a completely different day, it was these two guys in their like 50s and he was

like, dude it's so nice to get walking. So nice to get walking. And they were just like walking yelling and he was like, the other day, oh man, I had that thing, I was shitting myself and then he's like, no I'm I had that thing I was shitting myself and then he's like no I'm getting the juices moving you gotta get your juices moving so this guy's recovering from a whole day of shitting himself yeah and he's like I'm back baby gonna go for a walk no shit's here he's walking fast too they're they're really getting those juices moving. You know, because he had to. The man told you, gotta get the juices moving. Gotta get them moving. So that was fun. A lot of fun walking.

Honestly, those were mainly my fun parts of my week. I love the fun parts of your week was I went to the track and walked. Yeah, it's, uh, I did see a lot of people being like, uh, you and Dodger need to do the boring podcast. That's true. That's I, I, I hit, I hit her up with the idea that you two should do a home ownership podcast. Yeah. We just boringly talk about the ins and outs of like, well today had to mow the lawn, didn't like that. You know, like that kind of stuff. Yeah. Honestly, I would even take it a step further. I'd do literally anything boring. Just anything that nobody on a normal show wants to talk about. I don't think Dodger can keep up with that.

I don't know. I think she could. She's too hype for that kind of stuff. Hmm. I don't know. It depends. Oh, unless she was really excited about things that were very boring. Exactly. That's the point. Oh, okay. Like how Dodger, like she'd get really excited about knitting or something, right?

Just be like, yeah, we'd have a whole thing on knitting or like just how it's like kind of like how it's made You're talking about like washers and dryers Like how's your washer and dryer experience? I guess kind of stems in the homeownership Yeah, I like yeah, there's there's a lot of stuff. So We'll see maybe that way the dangerous thing is that you're, there's a lot of stuff, so we'll see, maybe. The dangerous thing is that you're slowly creeping into the territory of this podcast. Well, my geek end is already kind of blends in,

but then, once I do a podcast with her, then we form the trifecta, right? Then it just kind of all intertwines, in a way. I mean, that was the point. I think that was the whole point of our, we create some sort of weird, intertwined, connected universe, our own MCU, if you will. Yeah, we're creating our own Marvel universe.

Yeah, the Krendor Cinematic Universe. Yeah, I do think that'd be fun. I just know that we're gonna just be like and uh, how are your farm animals doing? Then she'll just get a moment of trying to be really ASMR and just be like, like wake everyone up. That's what I'm saying. She couldn't, I don't think she could do ASMR. Yeah, but I mean, that's fine. Okay, well, it's our own form ASMR. Right? Cren-SMR. Yeah. Cren-Dodger-SMR.

Cren-Dodger-SMR? Sucks. That just sounds like somebody's name. Yeah, that sucks. Cren-Dodger-SMR. Um, yeah, so, maybe. We'll see if it happens. somebody's name yeah that sucks friend dodger some are yes well maybe we'll fail we'll see if it happens it might I'd honestly flip a coin 50-50 it might happen it might not well I like those odds that means it may actually happen we'll see the universe may well it into existence it It may, it may. It may. It's gonna be may.

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I thought I was gonna mention it earlier and I forgot. He almost died filming the movie Surf. He said, quote, I just got pounded and literally got stuck in the riptide. They said they saw my board. They call it tombstone like that triangle tap. I'm climbing up the leash as something summer salting and I could have died. Now I have a young kid. I don't know if I want to do it anymore. However, Cage isn't giving up on surfing dream. He added the goal is to retire, surf, drink red

wine and eat spaghetti back to you That is the best thing I've ever heard Not the near-death thing, but the retiring eat spaghetti drink wine Nick cage like that guy Hey, it's not the surf drink red wine and eat spaghetti. Okay, so I will say I Forgot that he had a kid and I forgot that it's like, I think his wife is very young. Yes, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I think, you know what?

It's Nick Cage, I don't care. I'll be honest, I expected from Nick Cage. Yeah, she's, hold on, she is 30, he is 61. You know what? Not as bad as, uh, what's his face? Bellagio. Oh yeah. Belichick. I think he's a Leonardo DiCaprio. He is, he's not as bad as Nick cage. There's gradients. Leonardo DiCaprio,

he has a weird like, I don't want anyone older than 26 thing going on. And that's, that's on him. Yeah. Belichick on the other hand, I don't know anyone older than 26 thing going on and that's that's on him Yeah, Belichick on the other hand. I don't know what the hell's got bad 70 something. He's ain't a 24 year old They met when she was 20. That's a whole other thing. Yeah, that is a very weird thing Yeah, it's like you couldn't find like at least a 30 year old my dude you would alright whatever Yeah, no, that's that's definitely a bit very weird a bit weird very weird yeah definitely I was like I keep thinking

like what do you what do y'all talk about and I imagine you know what who am I kidding they're not having conversations he's just happy that like some woman wants to see his wiener and she's like I got money now. That's it What am I talking about? Yeah Yeah, I think you solved it. Yeah, they definitely don't have conversations. What the hell am I dumb? Try to rationalize it like that's not what's going on And that's the traffic all right, let's go to weather.

Weather. We've got a weather request for your weather requests here. We are cycling through the weather requests ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba mid shift due to a number of things most notably being touched on the shoulder by the building's resident ghost Charlie who lived in the wine cellar. Dude I be honest I did not think that's where that was going. What? Classic resident ghost. Yeah, was it is it Timberlake's pub? What is the name of this? I gotta know the name of this pub. Uh, it is... What is the... What?

Local pub. Yeah, I don't know. They just said local pub. So, yeah, let us know what the pub's name is. Uh, Blowing Rock, North Carolina. It is currently... Beep-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop-Boop- zero with a first quarter moon. The 10 day. It is going to be 59 Monday Tuesday 64 mostly sunny Wednesday 67 mostly cloudy Thursday 69 nice partly cloudy Friday 66 partly cloudy Saturday 63 partly cloudy Sunday 64 partly cloudy and Monday 66 with some PM showers. I don't know what I expect and told it was right near Appalachia, but like some of the restaurants here look absolutely phenomenal. Sure. They have the outbacks and the other things,

but they have like a barbecue place. It looks like a good-ass barbecue place. They have a Mexican restaurant that looks like, you know, not crap. Although it does have hilariously a drink that you drink out of a woman's torso, which is a whole thing I've never seen before, but that's, that's there. Mexican rock restaurant. You can see that thing. They have a pizza place that looks pretty good. They more importantly they have a fine dining restaurant that actually looks like very awesome. I for some reason I thought it should be kind of like a I don't know just a bunch of McDonald's's and stuff. Yeah no this place looks pretty good. Yeah they have a seafood restaurant that

looks really good. They have a breakfast place that I'm like, okay. However, never mind. All that is completely changed by the fact that they have a restaurant. Where did it go? Where's the... Where's Rollin'? What? Where's my Rollin'? Egg Rollin'. There's a place called Egg Rollin' and it literally is only things served in egg rolls.

What? It is a... You can get mac and cheese egg rolls, pizza egg rolls, Philly cheesesteak egg rolls, traditional egg rolls, buffalo chicken egg rolls, Cuban egg rolls, Ruben rolls, barbecue and slaw rolls, there's specialty rolls, dessert rolls. Crazy. That is, that's crazy. Dude, I would eat a crazy egg roll. Yeah, I'm looking at combos of different egg rolls and they have dipping sauces. I mean it's so cool. Yeah, it's wild looking looking but I'd give it a go there's a place called say cheese and they just serve a bunch of grilled cheese with tomato soup

honestly that's a win that's a I feel like you could do it at home but yeah it's a win that's that's like the only thing they serve though it's got like 15 types of grilled cheese and you get your tomato soup and that's all they got. Man, I gotta know where this dude worked at or whoever the person was. Because there's a few pubs I see and I wonder which one it was. Was it Timberlake's? Was it the Town Tavern or Sixpence pub? Yeah, there's... What is Hellbender Bed and Beverage?

What? Yo, it is literally some dude's home. What? It is a home, it is a house, but also a bar? But also a bed and breakfast? Oh yeah, I see it. Yo, I love this. I don't know the legality of it, but everything there looks delicious.

Plus it's just you can sleep there. That actually does look really good. Wow. I kinda dig that. Yeah, this is, there's like a, I feel like there's a bunch of these. I would imagine so. It's got that Carolina slash you're right on the edge of some mountains if you're like a hiker or tourist. Mm-hmm. Plus the biscuits. The biscuits look good. Although it is the south so I expect good biscuits. Yeah, you gotta have them. Yeah, if you got trash biscuits in the south, they'll kick you out.

Yeah Yeah, there's the Mexican Rock restaurant. Yeah, if you click the images you'll see the torso lady. Oh, yeah, there it is. I don't know what that drink is, but it's served in a torso. It's just... Leg, skirt, belly button. That's it. Not even legs, like thighs. Yeah, thighs. Let's see.

It looks like when you're doing one of those shooter games and you blow a guy up and he like ragdolls, but it's just the middle half of him because the arms are programmed to blow off. That's what it looks like. It does. Uh, the pedal and pig barbecue. Oh yeah, that looks good. That's what I'm saying. There's a lot of places that look really, really good. There are not a lot of, like I said, there's an Outback. I think I saw a Subway, but there's not a lot of fast food

places I could see. Yeah. I see subway. There's not many. I think that's honestly, we need more of that. We could all use a little bit more of that. Yes. 100%. Oh yeah. I found egg rolling. It was like amazing.

Yeah. I mean, it's, it's definitely going to be one of those things that I wouldn't go too often cause it seems like a lot of grease but like I Conceptually could could handle some like Buffalo chicken egg rolls or things like that. Yeah No, that looks that's definitely the type of place you ever like once in a while just be like I just want to try a Fun little egg roll. Yeah

That's the weather. Oh, all right let's go to sports sports okay it's the sports time currently it's halftime at the Warriors Rockets game Warriors up 51 39 in game 7 hey oh the Pacers take game one of their series against Cleveland and the NBA playoffs and then St. Louis Winnipeg tied in game seven in hockey. Oh boy that'll end in somebody being very sad stars The Dallas Stars win the series over the Avalanche four to three

Golden Knights win their series over the Wild four to2. Oilers beat the Kings 4-2. Pirano moves on over the Senators 4-2. Panthers over the Lightning 4-1. Washington beats the Canadians 4-1. And Carolina beats the Devils 4-1. In the NBA playoff bracket we got the Thunder and the Nuggets advancing to play each other. And then the Timberwolves take down the Lakers and they will play the winner of the Rockets Warriors. And then I just mentioned Cavaliers Pacers. And then we got Nick Celtics. That's a good one in the other part there.

So a pretty good playoff series we got all around. Then baseball playoff. We got the Yankees in first, the Tigers in first, the Mariners in first, the Mets in first, the Cubs in first, and the Dodgers in first. And that is sports. Okay, what is our fact of the day? Fact of the day, day, day. Fact of the day, day, day. Platypuses, sweat, milk.

I don't, I have no comment on that fact, but the way you said it was hilarious. It's a matter of fact. I didn't know you were gonna start with the word platypus, so that was great. And then when you said sweat, I was like, where are wepus so that was great and then when he said sweat I was like where are we going and you said milk and we got there and I was like I you know what never heard that before yeah three words that's all you need there yeah honestly sometimes that's really it the three words you've been waiting for to hear from someone

platypus is wet milk. This is because it doesn't have a teat. Milk appears as sweat on a platypus but it's an aquatic mammal so it doesn't actually sweat at all. So they actually feed their babies by just sweating milk and then the babies like lick it up off the

off their bodies? Yeah. Crazy. Yeah I guess that makes sense. It's weird. This is actually crazy. It says, since the delivery system is less hygienic than direct nipple and mouth method, platypus milk contains a powerful antibacterial protein to protect the babies

from illness. These proteins may be a useful source of future antibiotics. Those little bastards, These proteins may be a useful source of future antibiotics. That's pretty cool. Those little bastards. Platypi, I guess. Yeah, they're fascinating. They're so weird. There's just like, so many cool animals got stuff like that. It's like how sharks just don't get cancer. It's like always regenerating shit.

Yeah. Like animals got some crazy stuff. That's your fact of the day. Oh Right who has come to us with tears in their eyes in need of help Dear illustrious sir with tears in my eye. They said sir is only one of us. I Probably for you. You're a much better gentleman than me. Yeah Thank you I come before you with heavy arms and weak knees to ask of you with the rise of fitness Influencers and YouTube ads promoting pseudoscience health advice when will we get the Crendor's way of healthy living book?

You know I'm not sure when but it will happen at some point. That's a proven I genuinely think you should and I want the cover to be getting fit with Krendor But you're dressed up like oh my god Richard's was it Richard Simmons? Oh, yeah, Richard Simmons I want you dressed up in like the tight outfit with the you know underwear on the outside Lifting a very small weight on the cover. Yeah, get fit with Krendor Dancing the random 80s beats. Yeah, I would love that. That would be pretty great. Yeah, and then I could just uh... And I feel those those books are always written like a high school essay where they have a lot of filler words and just stuff

That doesn't make sense. They'll just be like one day I was out walking down the street when I decided everybody's been eating oranges for a while I should harness the power of oranges and so I did and they'll just say shit like that and you're just like what okay oh yeah no there has to be some pseudoscience history lesson involved where it's like cavemen didn't have access to the things we have access to today that means cavemen are better than us what did they have? Caves. That's why I formed the new Krendor cave system. Spend up to 20 hours a day inside a cave.

It will increase your life expectancy and garner the ancient power of the caveman. Caves emit a natural chemical. The sonic vibrations of echoing your voice through a cave reverberate back in your body and feed you the nutrients you need to live. That way, when you feel the vibrations, it sets the tones of your energy in line. Most people like to cook in kitchens, but we were meant to cook in caves. That way, when we cook inside a cave and eat an orange inside a cave, the energies of the orange are unleashed at a magnitude much higher than if we were in a

standard American suburban kitchen. Exactly, when you're in a cave and you shout, it echoes, it reverberates. That's your voice extending beyond its mortal limits. With an orange in a cave, you are getting the exact same nutrient levels as your voice echoing off those walls That's why with all the money I've generated from you the listener. I have built a cave inside my house Now you can do this with your basement However, you will only get a fraction of the nutrients that I get in my cave. You can go a step further. I've hired divers to go into the ocean and bring coral

up from beneath so that I can place it on the walls, attach it as if I'm in an underground lair. I've also bought a desk and have hired henchmen. And my cave is in a volcano. Now I may be planning to take over the world, but that's James Bond's problem, not yours. So please buy my book. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah. And then you just do a bunch of YouTube videos in your cave, walking around, pick-pocks. Yeah. Holding a book. Easy. Yeah. Yeah. Always holding a book. Always. There's no instance where you're not holding that book Yeah, then you'd be like I'm always learning every day constant, but the book is like a best of Garfield Honestly, that's the best kind of learning

How's that crazy cat get up to it Dear illustrious sirs with tears in my eyes and candy in my nose I ask you what is your current estimate for the future of MMOs what are some of your favorite features from current MMOs that you strongly feel should become the norm going forward and what old-school features should make a comeback do I think I don't think we're gonna get a lot of new MMOs? Yeah, unless there's like a huge paradigm shift in what an MMO is Right now I feel like we're pretty tapped out on the idea of spending a lot of time playing a video game online

That requires you to keep doing it Yeah, if anything, we're seeing a shift towards more casual style MMO playing like for example wow did delves so it's like you could just do a dungeon by yourself and with brand and then you just don't have to deal with people and you can go do something else and come back and it's still there and everyone's

like this is pretty cool in fact that's like half the time I play wow like for gear and stuff I just do delves it's like this is cool I don't have to deal with anyone and I can like take my time do whatever and then things like player housing obviously like that's coming to WoW I feel like I feel like people are just gonna take player housing and keep running with it in all MMOs because I feel like it's such a thing like it's such a focal point of what a lot of people want of just collecting and displaying in-game items.

Yeah, I think the novelty of, oh my god, I'm in a world exploring with people and I'm meeting human beings online, except this guy whose name is Jeff is actually Grubfuck the Deballer. And I think that has passed. I don't think people care about even MOBA or like you know various shootery MMO things right. I feel like the concept has it's old now right. It's not there's the gimmicks gone so it has to be an entertaining game. It can't just be log in do your dailies and then hope you get enough reputation. Like that's dead. Like that is a dumb way to do things anymore. So I would think more casual play is probably what you would expect.

The big question is, will people still be willing to spend 14, 15 bucks a month versus a free thing where they have to pay little gotcha things. Like that's kind of the space we're in now is companies figuring that out. And I'm gonna let you know, they're definitely going to pick the it's free, but we charge you for little tiny things. And, um, yeah, I don't know. I, I, I feel like as a genre, MOBAs are kind of in the, not MOBAs, but MMOs are in the RTS category of like,

yeah, there'll be a few, but it's not going to be a huge thing anymore. Yeah, it's, uh, cause I always think like, what can they add? But then it's like, they'll try to do things like we're going to make crafting and gathering and trading more intense, but like, you can only go so far before you start hitting like Yvonne Line tiers, where it's like, you got the spreadsheet open, you're like, I'm trading you eight billion tons of ore, and I've fought off pirates trying to steal it,

and they cut my internet and doxed me, but I got it. And you're like, oh, okay. But I think that genuinely is a very good point, that like, most of the things you could do have been done. And they exist, so why would you need to create something different? And we saw they did, for a long time, people tried to create new versions of the WoW killer,

and it never stuck. Most of them are gone, and WoW's still here, because when people find their home online, they don't wanna leave it. Except that guy who drove away, He really was he's getting out of here. He's out of here Yeah, it's like you got to do your own thing it's like final fantasy does its own thing wow Started kind of doing its own thing after I feel like they used to do their own thing Then they got kind of lost and now they're going back to it again It's uh, it's kind of the same with even just books and movies and everything, most of the time everything's been done.

Nothing's really new, but what's new is your spin on it and the ways you can do it. You could be like, oh, it's the hero's journey, but with a mailman. I don't know, you can just take random things, be like, oh, I've never seen that with a mailman before. And then Kevin Costner tries to do it. It sucks. I was about to say, you're giving Kevin Costner ideas right now.

But you know what at least they're trying right? That's kind of the thing. I think People it's like how the Lion King is Hamlet or whatever right? Yeah, absolutely It's like the they just took Hamlet and they made their own version of it with animals and stuff But you know what it works. Yeah, I literally the other day saw Thunderbolts the new Marvel movie. First Marvel movie in a while I've actually really enjoyed. I think the reason why I enjoyed it is because it didn't feel like a Marvel movie. Like there's Marvel elements for sure. But like the thing I liked about it is it's essentially Suicide Squad, which is the thing that existed. But

what they did is they made it less about like, we're going to tell a bunch of comedic things and made it more character based. And so I can, I, I don't know what the reviews are on what's going on with the movie, but I liked it because it felt like, Oh, this is a character film about these characters going through stuff rather than these are superheroes fighting giant robots. You know what I mean? And that's a different spin on it compared to what we've had from a lot of Marvel movies lately which has been like intolerable.

Yeah. And so you can do that. You can come up with creative ways of telling a thing that even though we got about 12 movies that are roughly the same as Thunderbolts, this one felt different to me. And I was like, okay, I like that. Yeah. this one felt different to me and I was like okay I like that yeah so yeah I think that answered the question I hope it did yeah that's our dear illustrious

serves all right what is our big news story of the day big news story of the day. Day. Day. Day. Day. Screeching, like a gull, is the goal of this bird brain contest. Wha-what? The European Gull Screeching Championship attracted 60 seagull sound-alikes from 14 countries to the coastal town of Dapan, Belgium.

Alright, that makes a little more sense. I was like, this better not be in America. Who would fly all the way here to do that? Yeah, I don't know. But they did. To Belgium. It's good to have a gull, even if it's screeching like a seagull and that was the aim of the fifth annual

European goal screeching championship. This is only the fifth one which attracted 60 seagulls sound-alikes from 14 countries to Belgium this past weekend. First off, really really quickly really quickly it just hit me. I was like this sounds insane. Screeching like a seagull, it makes no sense to me. I don't understand. I was like, this sounds insane. Like screeching like a seagull,

it makes no sense to me. I don't understand. It's like the pig calls here in the States, but I get pig calls here in the States because Americans are weird. I get that. But in Belgium, I was like, surely they would not do something so silly.

Then I realized what you just said. It's the fifth anniversary, right? The fifth one. It was started in 2020, which means COVID caused this. That makes perfect sense to me. Yeah. Now I get it. Yeah. Um, yeah, they're just sitting around and like, dude, I it's get the world's getting too crazy. We need to start doing our Seagull contest.

Like I got to get out. I've been in the house for so long I just need a screech. Contestants were awarded points based on their sound and performance in three categories adult, junior and colony. That's a group of seagulls. The contest is intended to create a more positive image of the sea birds which have been called trash birds, beach rats, and kleptogulls by naysayers. Kleptogulls? Like, the naysayers. The naysayers of seagulls. They're not even real, dude. I've never seen one before in my life. Gulls are known to be so intrusive that one zoo in Blackpool, England hired people to dress up in inflatable eagle costumes to scare the birds away. That's so funny. But

Gulls won't get any hate from Denmark's Anna Brynald who took gold in the quirky contest. I like that seagulls like fries cuz I love fries and they're all just a bit misunderstood, like me, and they're cute. But she admitted, practicing for the bird brain contest has its challenges. I worked with seagulls, I went to the beach, and I looked at many seagulls,

and I thought that they looked nice, and I screeched at them, but they became scared of me, she said. Maybe because I'm saying something wrong in seagull language, I don't know. Brindle said she was slightly under the weather on Sunday. She hopes to defend her crown next year and improve upon her performance. I think next year, if I participate, I'll be even better. I'll first of all, not be sick.

And I think I'll need some more feathers. Ho ho. Meanwhile, ten year old Cooper Wallace won the junior category for a second year in a row. While his 7-old sister Shelby came in fourth. Damn, they got the Seagull family. Wow, they really do. Their mother, Lauren Wallace, was very proud of her avian imitating offspring. Oh, I thought she was gonna be competing too. Okay, never mind. It's a very tough competition. Everyone who takes part is very, very good. I'm very proud for them both.

We are so happy that Cooper won again but Shelby's gonna be after that title next year I think she says I think like maybe she might be there I've never wondered more what a home life is like all the kids run around screaming yeah no that would drive me crazy. I'm trying to record.

Caw, caw! People are like, dude you got seagulls in your house. No, those are just my kids. Lauren Wallace said the family will definitely return to next year's contest, which is something she admits is hard to imagine It's really an amazing event, but not one I'd ever thought we'd have a talent for in the family. She said I Mean yeah, okay. It's a talent. All right Also, hold on here's the the article of it. No no

That's not what I expected to see. The article Grendor sent me the image on the article as a woman with white face paint almost like a clown but very clearly a seagull. Yep, she's got like yellow lipstick for like beak colored lipstick. The scariest thing is I don't know if she purposefully drew red lines around her eyes or if her eyes are red. She did. But she has the exact same contacts as Anakin Skywalker when he becomes evil and it's like crazy looking. looking oh my god she does yeah that is that is something is some some of the other people it's got like little seagull knitted hats which seems a lot more cute

and fun yeah this this seems yeah this seems like you really like seagulls huh yeah some people a little too much That's That's that's a lot And that's the big news story of the day all right well that's it for us Thanks so much for listening or watching on this podcast Cranndor item of the socials We got socials youtube.com slash cox Cranndor podcast leave your your weather request, leave your dear illustrious sir request, leave your likes and subscribes.

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