Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 471 - ATTACK OF THE GROUND SQUIRRELS

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

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Hey, it's exciting time. Oh, is it? I guess. I mean, we're doing our show so it's kind of fun. I mean, I figured I would ask. I didn't know, you know. Well, this is a weird show. Normally, normally you got geekenders and then this.

We had like the Cox and crendor geekender edition now We got the actual cox and crendor. It's like double. Yeah double show this week. Well. What can I say? I like I like a good double show. I agree twice as much me. That's Well you do that anyway, but now we have double us Yeah, Dodgers there to just be like You know See Dodger she just goes Pretty much honestly over a decade. That's half the time. She just goes

But then and then I guess you know she's she's gotten older. I think she's gotten more like mom mom brain Oh, she's patient with me for sure. Yeah, she definitely is. Oh yeah, it's pure patience. She tolerates me at best, yes, yes. Yeah. So anyway, we did Cox and Krendler, Geek Enders. I did save some details from some things on Geek Enders that I didn't, I was like,

I know I'm gonna save that for this show, right? I don't even know what you're referring to. So, I'm specifically save that for this show right? I don't even know what you're referring to so I'm specifically referring to the red fair Yes, yes because I did ask you to record stuff And then I did see over on your tick-tock that you did in fact record stuff from the mud brothers This is what I'm here for all right. I'm gonna sit back. I'm gonna go like smoking pipe I'm gonna sit in front of a fire like you would gale me with tails of the red fair all right, so

Neil yeah, tick-tock Crenthor I put up two mud show things one is the the Billy Billy Billy Von Billy playing his horn the other was the guy Being like we shall eat the mud and he starts to eat the mud So yeah, it's great you make it sound so regal we shall eat the mud and he starts to eat the mud. So yeah, it was great. You make it sound so regal. We shall eat the mud. So the thing is like, you know, I've seen the mud show so many times, gotta see it once a year at least. And then I was like, okay, what's something I could like ask them once the show's done? Cause they were just like, I would listen, my legs hurt. So I was just sitting around more than normal. Right. And so did you ask them if they saw the animation

I've asked them that a few times and they said yes first off awesome yep in fact when I mentioned it this time I was like if you remember I'm the one with the internet anim the podcast with the internet animated he's like oh yeah I remember we first saw that down in Texas and And some guy was like, Oh, you guys got an animation. So they do know about it. Great. Great. And I was like, they're like shoveling mud.

It was like the last show of the day. So they're like prepping the mud pit for the week, I guess, or getting the mud out of there. I don't know what they I don't know the intricacies of mud maintenance, but they were talking to this guy that came over with his son and he's like, man, you guys are great. I am a plumber, you know, and really good stuff out that mud and everything. He's like, I told my kid, you know, you always say stay in school so you don't become one of one of them. And then the Mudbrother guy, Billy was like, hey, you know what?

It beats accounting. I mean, there's a sadness involved, but hey, what are you gonna do? Oh my God. And then the guy was like, yeah. So I was curious as somebody who was, you know, going through my ailments, I was like, what do these guys do when they get hurt?

Right? Cause like the show must go on. Put mud on it. So maybe, so I was like, hey, what do you guys do when you get hurt? Have you been hurt? And Billy was like, dude, my rotator cuff is terrible. He's like, whenever I do my arms in the air,

I gotta lift this arm up for the rotator cuff. And then the other guy was like, yeah, I broke my knuckles once. I have so many questions what do you mean? Yeah then Billy said he got a hip replacement so like dude they've been through it I guess they started in 79 so like they're worn down. Oh they definitely for those who have never seen the Mudbrothers I must stress this they definitely look like they started in the 70s oh yeah there's some might say they're still there that's what I was gonna say they haven't really left they're still there and they are living

their best life yeah so that was cool I got some mud brother lore very fun learned about their injuries and then let, let's see, you know, walked around, did the classic Ren Fair stuff, you know, sat a lot, watched some shows. I did run into a fan there. That was pretty neat. He wears a big hat and he sits outside one of the stores. And I saw him last year and he's like, Krednor, I love Pointless Top Ten. And then I saw him again and he's like, Krednor, Pointless Top Ten. And I was like, year and he's like cred the oil of pointless top ten and then I saw him again He's like cred or pointless top ten. I was like, yeah dude still watching. That's good. I don't watch it

Apparently he also he is like dude my there's a nerve in my hip that's getting pushed on. It's terrible So everybody's got the ailments over at the end. He lives in the Renaissance. So it's probably way worse Oh, yeah, no, it's gotta be way worse. The surgeons, the doctors. Yeah, he's gonna die of leech poisoning or something. Yeah, dysentery leech poisoning. The classic. So yeah, that was cool. You know, everything else was, you know, your classic Ren Fair and then my legs hurt. Did you eat all the food? Did you do all the stuff? We didn't eat all the food. We had the turkey leg. We had some potatoes with onions. We had some artichoke. So that was good. I always liked those. Did you get a pickle?

Didn't get a pickle. I think for the later in the year I'm gonna get a pickle. Did you get mushrooms? We didn't get the mushrooms. Alright? That's why later in the year we go again, we'll be able to get those, all right? When does it end? It goes to Labor Day, so we still got a while. Ah, you have plenty of time.

Yeah, we got plenty of time. And then my legs will heal up a bit more, which by the way, I think I figured out what was causing some of my leg pain. This is gonna sound insane. You know what? No matter what you would have said to me when you said, I think I figured out what's causing some of my leg pain, I was already

preparing myself to hear the craziest thing I've ever heard. Alright, perfect. So back when my knee was hurting more I bought some shoe orthotics or inserts or whatever you want to call them right okay yeah and they're like alright so for these shoe orthotics they're called like sole orthotics or something I don't know they're like you get them and you put them in the oven for two minutes all right and then you stand in them and it helps mold the arch and so you get like this arch support, right? But here's the thing. I think they had too much arch support.

Because they molded to you. Yeah, but I don't think they molded enough. So I was walking around and I kept being like, man, arch support is pretty weird. Like I always feel like just pushing up into my arch and my feet kind of hurt. And I was like, man, I'm like, it's weird how like my calves are just really tight all the time. Like, I don't know, it's not like they're straight. And then I looked it up online and they're like, yeah,

too much arch support's really terrible. You should never feel like something's pushing into your arch. It should be like balancing your whole foot and like it can lead to like hip pain, leg. And I was like, did i just do this to myself 100 you did and then wait did it always hurt wait oh whoa whoa whoa did you just suffer through the pain the entire time no well i never really used arch support i never really had a problem though and then i had my knee issue but

i think i just needed for the knee issue i just really had to let it like calm down. How long have you had said pain? Well the arch support type of leg probably like a month, which is about when I started wearing the arch supports So Crendor They're supposed to support for full month, dude Yeah Crendor. They're supposed to support. For a full month, dude? Yeah. Crendor. I was like, man, I wonder if this was causing a lot of my issues.

So listen, all right, again, they're supposed to be supporting your art, but I guess it's mainly if you've got flat feet. I don't have flat feet. Or if you've got super high arches, which like, I got, I just have normal arches. I got normal feet. So I was like, I don't actually, I don't think I need it. So today is the first day I took the arch supports out

and was walking around. I'm like, dude, this feels pretty good. I adore. Yeah. I love that you were so beat up your feet were such a mess that you didn't notice that you were hurting yourself further so I mean overall I

mean that's a it's a combination of things but that definitely did not help and then obviously like it for a while is walking with a brace around like not like a heavy brace but just like one of those you wrap around your knee to make sure you remind yourself like don't go crazy right so don't go crazy so the combination of that plus the like on the over arch

support I think just kind of wacky out my legs and so now I'm just I'm in the process of read normalizing them and here I am well I'm glad you figured out your problem I think every once in a while people have their own self-inflicted injuries because of you know weird things like that so I'm glad you got it right because it's like I always hear people like get some inserts get some like shoe thing help your arches

whatever like yeah you know what that'll probably help and then it hurt That sucks Then It was my birthday So it's uh, it's a officially been two years since I can cuss myself So it's fun Cuz it was the day after my birthday, two years ago, I slammed my head and can cussed myself.

So it was fun. Well, I'm glad, yeah, you learned a lesson. And your birthday seemed fun. You were streaming and watching really weird things when I stopped by to wish you a happy birthday. I have no idea. Were you just watching weird training videos all night? What were you doing?

So I did a daytime, well, Here's my whole birthday. All right. I went and played warhammer against my friend She was like oh, you're all right thing. Yeah, he's like play some warhammer old world So I was like yeah, I'll play my beastman. I haven't played in a while, so that was fun Oh my god, which by the way, maybe the greatest interaction of the day happened at the war hammer store. All right so there With my friend I was playing against he's he's like 25 so he plays horse girl gaming right okay yeah then my other friend was also there and he also plays horse girl so he's like 30 he's like in his early 30s and he was like I hate how much I love this game dude he's like I shouldn't love it and I do and so

we were just talking and there's another game going on with this man who is in his mid 50s and he you know he's got tattoos he's like but he's a warhammer player right but he overheard he's like horse girls what what's happening horse girl and he's like oh boy he's like yeah it's like racing him and he's like, horse girls? What? What's happening? Horse girl? And he's like, oh boy. He's like, it's like racing them, right? And he's like, you're racing the girls?

And he's like, no, well, they're like horses. And he's like, you're racing the horses? But the what? And he's like, yeah, they're like girls, but they're horses. Like they run around the track. And that's when he started realizing the normal people how insane this sounds. Exactly. track. That's it. He started realizing the normal people how insane this sounds Exactly exactly. It's crazy. He was like are people jerking it to these

First off if he answered anything besides yes, he is lying There we were like you know there there's definitely something that And so he was like dude back in the eighties I'd like a girl I dated and like was she was my ex after a while but like if I these horse girls maybe I wouldn't have got in the drugs and had an ex girlfriend shit then he's like well how do you bang him do you lift the

tail and I was like dude we got it we got to stop literally everybody in the game store was just like dying they're just like oh my god dude he's uh so yeah that was that was an interaction that started my birthday then we then I streamed that's what I I did my watching old training videos and stuff like that, the Waffle House training. How you put mustard packets on jelly packets to figure out what things are.

None of that made sense. It's insane. Having watched many training videos over the years, just for fun, especially like the Wendy's ones, which have wraps that tell you how to do stuff. Shout out to the hamburger wrap. I know how to make a hamburger at Wendy's for sure. And the coffee rap, both very good.

But I've never seen anything that was quite like the Waffle House where I guess they don't do tickets. The whole problem could be solved by tickets. Yeah, you would think so. But then there's one person in my chat who was like, oh yeah, I worked in food industry. It was pretty common for like quick time management thing my chat who was like, oh yeah, I worked in food industry. It was pretty common for like quick, quick time management thing. And I was like, what?

Oh, nothing seems quick about the onboarding seems like I said in your chat, if I went to my first day at Waffle House and they show me this video, I would quit. Oh yeah. The thing is like, if I had to learn this to be like a really good chef somewhere or whatever, I'd be like, all right, but like you're making minimum wage at Waffle House to learn all this like no thank you Yeah Yeah It's absolutely crazy the fact that they're like if someone orders a special you put up the pickle in the middle of the plate

Then if it's two patties two slices of onion. It's like what the? Now if you flip the onion over then it's an omelet But if it's an upside onion, then it's a scrambled egg. And it's a chicken sandwich if it's a mustard packet, but if you flip it over, then it's a pork chop sandwich. Yeah, and if you want two pork chop sandwiches, you do one order of pork, which creates the double pork, which means two slam together sausages. Remember that. Like I guess genuinely insane. None of it makes sense. They're like, and if you have a omelet, you place your ketchup package at either midnight, three, six or nine, depending on what the meat is for it. Now it's a plain omelet, but it's also, and you're like, what the hell? Crazy. I will

say, I think the fact that the two of us are regaling each other of exactly what it said means it might work. That's the fact that we now know where to place things for omelets. I'm like, they might've got me. Yeah. Cause I was showing the latest. I did it again on my later stream. I was like, you guys got to see this. And then I was like, okay, that means I was like pork chop sandwich as a pork chop sandwich. I know it now. I know the code. Yeah. So maybe they might actually work.

Yeah. We might have screwed up. Yeah. So, yeah, then we went and got birthday. We went to the birthday wine place. That was fun. Heard some wine talk. People were sitting around and one woman was like did you see the Coldplay the Coldplay affair so I didn't even know that happened until she said

it oh that's funny yeah now sports games when people are doing the fan cams everyone's posing like that and it's great yeah it's great so that was good and then I came back and stream some more that's what we did birthday gaming It's great. So that was good. And then I came back and streamed some more. That's when we did birthday gaming. Played, you know, horse girls, played kaizo,

played battleship, watched some stuff. So it was a fun birthday gaming session and then watched Spirited Away, which is my birthday tradition. Well, that's fun. Yeah, overall. It's good stuff. Very good, very good birthday. Yeah, sounds like it. not overall very good very good birthday sounds like it sounds like you had a

good time you have cake we had cheesecake oh what kind we got Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake had a gift card so okay but what kind of cheesecake not the I don't care where it came from right well the toaster woman gets the goodiva Chocolate one. Love that.

And then I get the Tiramisu Cheesecake. So they mix the Tiramisu and cheesecake into like some sort of Frankenstein cheesecake and both. Sure. The best, I'm not like a huge cheesecake guy, which is always depressing when there's places like a Cheesecake Factory. However, one time I went to a barbecue restaurant and they had a cheesecake that I guess the owner

was from the Mediterranean or something, so they had a baklava cheesecake. Dude, it was so good. I thought, I think about that all the time. It went out of business during COVID, but like, I think about it and I wonder, I wonder if she's out there making delicious cheesecakes still. It reminds me of when we ate a, what was that? It was like ribs and pie.

Didn't they have baklava? Yes. That was Morpheus ribs and pie. Oh, that was. Yeah. I remember that. She's not there anymore. Morpheus gone. Damn. That was a, that was a good experience. Yeah! I love that place. It's gone now. Damn. Hopefully they're doing well somewhere else. I don't know. Now it's like a Mexican place, which is fine, but it's not ribs and pie. Yeah, it's not ribs and pie. It just felt like a combo that was just like,

they teamed up, right? They were just like, you got the ribs, I I got the pie let's get this done right yes there's there's also a place nearby that that's called like Saints and Angels and I can't tell if it's someone who wanted to open a bakery but they wanted to sell like healthy bakery stuff but then realized they had to sell bad stuff or it was two people making two different kinds of desserts. But it's a bakery that's split in one side is all healthy options, which is crazy for a bakery. And then one side is all the like decadent crazy stuff.

Ah, I see. I've never been in it, but I've definitely walked by and been like, huh, okay. But I'm not, you know, I'm not like a go out and buy a bunch of pastries at a bakery guy. Right. I just don't... What's your favorite like bakery thing? If I'm gonna go to a bakery probably just bread like a really good loaf of bread. Um

What if you're like eating there? Oh, there's there's a place That I went to a little bit ago called like lip and something. It was a French bakery and what I got there to eat was a bakery and what I got there to eat was a, cause I am a bougie, like West Coast idiot, I got a avocado toast on some of their bread, which was great, it was delicious. But I also got a, you know one of those French donuts that they put the cream in it?

And you think it's just a cream donut, but it's not really, it's like way better? I got one of those too. Yeah, it was great. Oh, that's pretty good. Yeah, so I'll do something like that, but most of the time I don't want anything too sweet or cakey or pie-y-y.

Usually if I get pie it's from like, oh, Gina's Diner, and it's delicious. I'll eat the hell out of that. But I'm not like, yeah, if I go to a bakery I'll get bread and or granola maybe I like I like a good bakery made granola It's the French thing is that like a beignet? No, um let me see if I can find an image of it Uh, I sent it to you so you can describe it to the people all right. It is delicious. I cannot stress

Let's see French cream donut. Oh oh I've seen these yeah it's like a like it's not your own or macaroni yeah but it's like a donut like a donut but it's not iced or anything and they cut it open and they put a cream in the middle of it yeah that does look really good I want those yeah it was a I got it thinking I was like well I'll get this and then I was like I really want maybe I should get the you know the toast with the avocado

and I was like screw it I want both. It's great. It's a great choice. Solid choice. I'm a fan of croissants but I like the the flavored types, like they got the, they had an almond croissant was really good. Uh, or I've had like the chocolate croissant. I don't like a plain croissant. Like it's gotta be one of those types of things, but I like that with coffee. It's like a good combo. Sure. I like, um, I also, you know what I realized if they have like a berry tart, I'm kind of a tart guy. I like a good tart. Yeah, I can see that. It's like there's a lot of bakery goods that are good when they're tart, like a raspberry type of thing. Yeah, like a mixed berry, you know, and they put it

over like a white chocolate mousse or whatever the hell, and like one of those little pie shell things. Yeah, I love that stuff, but that's probably the extent. I'm not like a big cupcake guy. I'm not a big, like I'll eat cake on that stuff, but that's probably the extent. I'm not like a big cupcake guy I'm not a big like I'll eat cake on a birthday, but I'm like a big I need a cake guy I'm not like I don't want to eat like a panel chocolate. I'm not like that I don't like you know there's I'm not gonna get a God I can't even think of bakery things like a a Belgian waffle or like a Gruyere croissant. Yeah, like I'm not, sometimes a muffin's great, but I've been ruined for muffins ever since I went

to that one restaurant with Alex where it was like a diner and you could order, you know, a breakfast meal, but instead of toast, you had the option to get a muffin. And I was like, yeah, I love a muffin. And they're like, we got blueberry. And I was like, oh, blueberry is perfect. I love that. Dude, I told you this before. I'll tell you it again. They cut that muffin down the middle and grilled it on the flat top. And it was the best thing I've ever eaten in my life. And it changed the game for me. And now normal muffins do not do it. Damn. I don't think I've ever heard of a grilled muffin.

I mean, literally just cut it down the middle and then put it on I assume the buttery flat top of the grill where they're grilling everything else Yeah, oh my god. Oh, it's good delicious. Yeah, so good. I wonder you just do that at home Probably that would mean I have to go out and either make or buy muffins That's true, and I'm like I don't need muffins that much they would go bad. What else did you do this week? Oh this week was a lot of like I decided to start going for longer and longer walks just to like you know I was mapping out the area before and now I'm like okay I know where things are I'm getting bored where things are. So, you know, in order to keep my mind active, because that's what kills me when

it comes to any sort of working out anything. Right. I was like, all right, well, maybe I'll go for a walk over to that place over there. And so I decided to just, I picked a direction to start walking. And I realized where I was walking to was into like, uh, like an Amazon warehouse district. Oh. Where I guess in LA they have, there's, there's this massive Amazon facility where all the things in LA that like, I don't know if this is like where you are, but for us in LA, if we order

something from Amazon, you have an option to have it delivered to you by the mail, or some dude that day will just drive it to your house. And it costs nothing else. Right? And so I don't know if that's a major city thing or that's an LA thing. Well, clearly it's a major city thing. But so, as I've wondered towards it, there must have been 1,500 Amazon trucks, all lined up, ready to get boxes. And I was like, this is crazy looking. It looked like in a movie when the evil villain was like, assemble the army, it looked crazy.

Yeah, that's, I mean, the amount of Amazon orders coming in. That's what I mean the amount of Amazon orders coming in. That's what I'm saying. It was bizarre. And what's even weirder is this was like, mmm, 6.30 at night and they were filling up the trucks. So were they intent on delivering them at night? Maybe. I mean I've gotten stuff like 9 p.m. 10 p.m. that's crazy it's it it's very weird to me that they you know I guess I grew up in a time where if it

wasn't delivered by six you are not getting it to the next day yeah well it's like if you're going through the post office they ain't doing that right but Amazon I mean they I've even seen options they're like you'll get it between 4 and 8 a.m. I'm like what the hell why the hell I don't doing that. Right. But Amazon, I mean, I've even seen options, they're like, you'll get it between four and eight a.m. I'm like, what the hell? Why the hell? I don't need that bad. Geez. I mean, somebody might. Like, I need it at four a.m.

So I do my morning runs. Yeah, so I ended up walking over there and I checked it out and it was fine. And then I started walking back and I got back and my app on my phone was like, you know, you're only 180 calories away from completing your day. And I was like, what does that mean? And so I just jumped on the elliptical and just went for it. And that was great. But I realized I should probably get on the elliptical more because I went like hard and I sweated more on the elliptical than I did the entire time walking.

I was a complete mess. I was like, oh my God, what the hell? Am I out of shape? I was like, yeah, no, that's true. So I was like, all right, well maybe I'll try that again. So the next night I was like, all right, instead of doing a walk, what if I just do one of the elliptical programs and do that? So I did that, and it was fine, but again, sweaty, gross mess. I was like, okay, all right, great. You know what, I feel good about that,

but I forget half the thing is your arms are moving with your legs. Right. So I woke up yesterday, and my shoulders hurt like crazy. I was like, oh, well, that was a mistake. Probably shouldn't have jumped on that right away. So then I decided, all right, well, I'll take some time. I'll go for a walk. I'll do some chores. We'll get stuff done. And I realized that when I was going for a walk, I like, this is a weird statement was breathing better and I

think it's because I did the two days of elliptical programs and it made me in 30 minutes do more than what I was doing in two hours yeah I mean ellipticals get pretty intense I used to do hit cardio on the elliptical so I was getting you know you can max your heart rate out on those things oh I mean it definitely did so I was like oh my god what the hell so I went for the walk and was like this is the easiest breeziest walk I've ever done is that what the elliptical did so now I'm rethinking my entire like instead of going for long walks what if I just do that that'll save me some time but I like going for

walks and I feel like it's less intense in the body and so it's like chill but the same time I want to save time so I don like it's less intense in the body and so it's like chill, but at the same time I want to save time. So I don't know. I have no idea what's happening with me, but it was a weird like damn Should I should I just do that instead which I don't know. I probably have to go look up What is actually better? You know what I mean? Yeah but I would say that walking is just kind of like the universal thing that's like good for you. It's like everybody walks, all people walk. Like walking gets everything moving. Plus you get outside, you get fresh air, whatever. I would say elliptical is more if you're like you want to get a little more intense. So I'd probably do elliptical maybe like two three times a week and then walk the other days

That's probably a good Amount we'll see what happens. I like last night I In order to finish off my little app thing. I went over to the Whole Foods and was like, you know what? I'm gonna go over and I'm gonna go find like something to eat and you know trying to get some dinner and I went over there and was like, I don't want anything and I just went home and ate soup. Like the most old man shit ever.

I was like, yeah, this all, I don't want this and I just went home and got a can of soup and ate that. You know what I mean I could respect that soup is good But I love soup It is good. However, it's just I could not just eat a can of soup Well, I mean I had a Loaf of ancient grain bread shout out to the ancient grain bread at Pavilions, I think it is.

Very good, they got like a bakery there and they got like a dude who I see maybe once every two weeks and I buy a loaf of bread from him. That's great. Oh. Yeah. Ancient grains. It's definitely not for sandwiches, that's for sure.

It's like a normal loaf of bread. And yeah, I'll take that and I'll dip it in the soup. What's in the grains? What's you know like a normal loaf of bread and yeah I'll take that what's in the grains like what's it taste like oh I mean it tastes delicious the outside is crusty but the inside is like soft and it has like seeds and you know oats and all sorts of crap in it it's great oh I see so it's a is like one of those stone ground kind of yeah, yeah, yeah I wish I had an answer for you on exactly what was in it Okay

That's why I hear like ancient grain. I think I'm like grinding up stuff in a mortar and pestle or whatever it's called Yeah, it is in fact. Let me see if I can give you what's inside this it has Spelt einkorn, kamut, whole grain flour, yeah they have oats and things in there, and then they, yeah there's seeds. I'm not sure what the seeds are, I have no idea how that works, but yeah it's delicious, and it's one of the few breads I'm like like that's the one I want Interesting maybe I'll try that one day But yeah, I don't know if they're I assume they're different everywhere You know what I mean, but the one the one at the grocery store pavilions in Los Angeles is lovely

Yeah, it's like you don't know if they're all using the same ancient grains Right sure they're making it. I don't know local bakery. Yeah, it's weird because there's, when you go there, the bakery section has already wrapped up breads ready to go but those are shipped in breads. Yet they put them right alongside the breads they make

at the bakery. And so you have to ask the dude, hey, do you have any ancient grain things? Then he'll go in the back and you can see it on the rack of where they just baked them and he'll pull it out and then he'll cut it for you and put it in its own bag. And that's how I know, like when he has to make his own, you know, scan checker thing with the price on it

in order to wrap it, that's something like, okay, so you bake this here, great. Love that, good. Yeah, that's pretty neat. And so I had that with the soup and that's what I ate for dinner. I was like, old man Jesse watching, by the way, again, season two of Hell's Kitchen is the worst, dude.

Everyone on that, like, I don't know what the hell happened between season two and three, but I feel like they got standards when they had the people, because I'm really curious what season one is like when I finally get to that. But season two, dear God, so every season, at a certain point when it's down to the last,

you know, three on each team roughly, Gordon's like, okay, so this is what I'm going to need you to do. Today it's red team versus blue team menus. We're not cooking from my menu. You each go upstairs and create menus of your own. Now I noticed that in seasons three on, when they present him the food to cook, or you know, that they have on their menu, he tastes it and gives them suggestions.

Season two, not so much. In season two, he clearly learned a lesson because the blue team, their whole thing was, we're gonna make standard dishes everyone knows. It's like a steak and a burger and a chicken thing, you know. The girls team on the red team, they were just like, okay, we're gonna make a sashimi dish, we're gonna make a lamb dish,

we're gonna do all these different things. And all of them seemed so, the girl who said she makes sashimi, she's like, I make sashimi all the time, super easy. The girl who did lamb, she's like, I make lamb all the time, super easy. They didn't serve one dish. They could not, the lamb was raw all the time.

The sashimi, they couldn't slice it correctly and Gordon's like, what are you doing? It was insane. I've never seen anything like it. And I realized that Gordon messed up. He didn't taste any of their dishes. When they present him completed dishes, like it's terrible tasting.

It's like he clearly learned a lesson. It was very funny. They are bad. Like I need to know who won this season because I can't believe anyone won. We are down to the final five and they suck dude. They're still terrible. There's one chef that I thought was gonna be the like the star and I feel like she's still gonna win but she is clearly the best of the worst.

What is it? Why is she the best of the worst? Like she's just good at, they're like the best at just like getting stuff done and then like cooked properly. Not even that! She can't get stuff done. She's just the most competent out of all of them. I See Hell's Kitchen. It is it is a time capsule that I Shouldn't have gone back into But you know what you should go into oh my god, what a segue the heads Right, which is what I'll do. Hey, there are plenty of things happening over at Hero Forge, including the new face customizer for all your mini fun with an extensive selection of editable areas like the scalp, eyebrows, nose, jawline, and so much more. They got posable ears, advanced teeth, not to mention just the presets and

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People are crafting the ticks You gotta watch out those ticks will get you with the old Lyme disease So if you're in craftic right now, you're trying to craft watch out for those ticks Or you might get the or the Rocky Mountain fever. I think the other one. Yeah, watch out. Thank you Rocky Mountain fever. Yeah, the Rocky Mountain fever sounds like a sounds like a 70s porn movie. No Kind of does yeah, it's a The illness you get from ticks specific things really yeah from the Rocky Mountains I

Don't know I just know that's what it's called Bacterial disease transmitted through a bite of infected tick can be fatal the disease is found throughout America's including the US okay but symptoms sudden fever headache muscle pain nausea vomiting rash damn that sucks because those symptoms could be a million things yes they definitely could so you just have to like know that you got bit by a pig pretty much which I don't know how you would know yeah well it would be attached to you for a while it usually takes they'll attach and then they take

like a few days before they fall off ah yeah okay all right this makes more sense the rash would appear on your ankles or wrists. Ah, okay. So that makes more sense. It'd also be if you're like, you know, out in the wild walking around, like grass and stuff. Yeah, you'd probably have answers. Yeah, you're right. I don't think you'd get it like, I went to, I don't know, where would you go?

Waffle House, and I came back, and I got the fever. I don't know, you probably could get it at Waffle House. You're right. You're right. Unless they sponsor this podcast, in which case it's waffle house. It is tick free. Yep. And that's the craft tick. Oh, let's go to the weather weather time weather time. We've got, well, we got 19 weather requests. Oh my God. Oh goodness. All right. Reminder got, well, we got 19 weather requests. Oh my God. Oh goodness. All right. Reminder, you know,

if you don't get your weather request this time, keep posting it and you might get it. It's like playing the lottery, but you win a lot less than the lottery. But hey, you know what? Then we'll talk about your food. Yeah. That's kind of a lottery win or loss.

Kinda, kinda. Perception. We have landed on weather request for Purshore England a town in Worcestershire where my girlfriend and I have recently bought our first house it is famous for its Plum Festival and seventh century Abbey that's the first thing that pops up when you look online this the Abbey oh yeah I see it there it is let's see the weather in the per shore UK is whoa moderate thunderstorm warning we will we will hold on hold hold wait hold on it's in Celsius so I get this this was my freedom units where that's what the F

stands for yeah hold on Bereshore England all right I think I'm on America weather now all right yeah there we go all right 55 degrees feels like 55 degrees that makes sense currently it is winds at South Southeast one mile an hour 20% cloud cover zero UV index 91% humidity mama mia it's humid out there yeah they're kind of right in the middle of the country so

yeah that checks out yeah and also it is a sunrise...wait, they put moonrise and moon set. They don't even care about the sun over here. They're like, when's the moonrise and when's the moon set? Which I guess makes sense. That's the witches. Yeah, that checks out. Yeah, witches. Moonrise 1224 AM, moon set 548 PM for all you witches.

And it's a waning crescent moon. Waning Crescent. Take a look at the 10 day here. 74 degrees mostly cloudy on Monday 72 on Tuesday with showers Wednesday 71 cloudy Thursday 74 mostly cloudy Friday 77 partly cloudy Saturday 75 partly cloudy and Sunday 74 mostly cloudy so a lot of mid 70s and clouds over here in the old Purshore England. You know sometimes I'm amazed by England and just their stick-to-it-iveness. They do things that are unnecessary. Like I was looking at the different places they have to eat and a lot of it is you know

your standard British fare. But I clicked on the Pickled Plum Pub. And I thought to myself, okay, love good pub food. The pub looks fun. I see bangers and mash. I see what looks like a breakfast deal. They got burgers. They got cakes and cheesecakes and whatnot.

Really good looking fish and chips. But then for some insane reason nachos nachos with salsa sour cream and guacamole and none of it looks like salsa sour cream or guacamole like I've never understood bless the Brits I love y'all so much. You cannot, for the life of you, do a single Mexican thing even remotely close. Oh my God, I see it. It is, it looks like what you would get at a ballpark. You know what I mean?

Where they just kind of throw crap on and they're like, here's your eight dollar nachos, asshole. You get like five nachos that a bunch of the toppings just load it on there and then they like sprinkle a little cilantro or something it's just it's insane to me everything else there looks so good and then just the nachos yeah what are we doing what

are we doing this like who's ordering them they don't even it's not even it looks like they just put Doritos on a plate yeah it kind of does They do not look appetizing. Meanwhile they got trifles and delicious beer options. They got pateis. They got all sorts of stuff. It looks lit. And then they're like, here you go, have that. I don't understand it. Never will. It's very funny to me. Let's see what else. There's the Newlands fish bar. That looks good. Yeah. I'm looking

at Roly Poly Eats right now. Dude, that's too big. That's, Roly Poly is how you're going to be when you leave. That's like all of the Roly Poly. My God, that's so much meat. Here's the thing. They got like a snack pack or whatever that is. I don't know if that's one of the halal snack packs or I don't know what that is but my god it is. That's what I would eat. With like the French fries and they put the meat and the sauce like that's the winner. This place looks amazing. I would definitely go here. Yeah. It's so good. There's I mean you can't go wrong with stuff like that. And in the UK, they do that pretty well.

Like, if you're going to get meat, you'll be pretty well off. It's the nacho thing that has me shocked. Like, they just, they keep trying. I think I told you that one time when I was going to see Dodger, and I had to board a train so we could go to Belgium. So I was going to stay at the train station at a hotel next to it. And the only restaurant in the hotel was a Mexican restaurant and I was like what? So I went there and the

burrito I got came with french fries in the burrito. I was like no you made a wrap this isn't a burrito but when you opened it up it was all the ingredients of a burrito but there's just french fries in there and they included an aioli sauce. I was like no one puts an aioli on a bur was like no one puts an aioli on a burrito. What do we do? It was crazy. And then I asked for chips and they gave me a bag of Doritos. That does sound like England. Yeah. And I was like the like all the stuff England makes is just stolen from other countries. But they it's like they don't really got any like specialty specifics

outside of like- I mean they definitely do. There are like, there's some things they have like the bangers and mash and the fish and chips and whatnot. Oh yeah, I guess there's that. Or like the breakfast. But it's, I don't know, it's not- I mean it's just like America.

We're a nation of most of the stuff because we were international, we brought it back, and they did the same thing. They basically imperialismed their way across the world and then brought stuff back. And so that's why they have all the different foods. And so, you know, it's hard to say, well, that's what English food is. When you don't like a good curry in England, you're going to, you know, you're going to find it in England. I don't know if you're going to find the same curry in the rest of the world.

You know what I mean? Yeah, that's true. I mean, the, the more I said it out loud, I was like, you know what, that's kind of just the way it is. Although, yeah, I mean it's very American. Although I must stress, I just found a place called Jimmy Pickles. What do you think Jimmy Pickles serves? Um, I mean, I would say sandwiches. Indian food. Oh. Yeah, that was my second guess of course. Yep yep looking at it right now. Indian food at Jimmy Pickles. Jimmy Pickles. Dude I'll tell you I still love a good British breakfast with the mushrooms and the egg and the beans the tomato. It is very heartburn inducing

though it's the only downside. Well I mean if you're gonna do like a nice walk you're gonna go around like it's fine. Well it's fine if you don't got heartburn inducing though. It's the only downside. Well, I mean, if you're gonna do like a nice walk, you're gonna go around, like it's fine. Well, it's fine if you don't got heartburn. Okay. Well, I don't, so. Exactly, that's what I mean. You don't got the GERD coming up on you. That's what it is. You don't know the trials and tribulations of GERD.

I don't. That's true. I don't. Yep. Oh yeah I see Jimmy Pickles now. Yeah well honestly you know what honestly they had better better stuff in a small little English town than I thought they would. I am always pleasantly surprised by small little English towns they actually have like you know decent pub, which I appreciate. Didn't we, uh, where are we near here? You said I remember going through Birmingham for Telford. Where's Telford? Yes, Telford is on the other side of Birmingham.

Uh, oh, it's north west and this is southwest. Okay, there it is. Yeah. Look at that. Wow, Coxcon. Yep. I'm actually headed back that way in August. Oh, why? For, uh, just random, uh, there's a wedding that I'm going to. And then it turns out roughly at the same time, a bunch of people who are former Cox con attendees want to have a little shindig and they're like, would you come? And I was like, yeah, I'll stop by. So I'll be up that way. Uh way in the first week of August, yeah. That was 10 years ago.

That's crazy. Yeah, the last one was 2019. Oh yeah, I guess that's right. Right before COVID. And then everyone's like, are you gonna do it again? I was like, it costs so much money to make that happen. Yeah. And all the infrastructure's gone because of COVID and everyone sort of moved on with their life because that was

three years of nothing happening. And then everyone aged up and lived their life and moved on. So it's just me. There's like no team on the back end. I'd be starting over. No, I'm all right. I'm fine. Is the convention center still there? Is that not there? Yeah, one of the days that I was gonna stop by, they have something happening at the convention center. So I was looking for a hotel for the night, but they're like, nah dude.

I was like, okay. Oh yeah, there it is, it's still there. There's the Nando's, they still got Nando's. Yep, yep. Right there, wow. Yeehaw. Yeah, I mean it's not that far. Probably if push comes to shove,

stay in Birmingham and like go out. I've never been to Birmingham, so I have no idea what's, I've been to Nottingham. Ah, yeah. I've been to Manchester, but I've never been to Birmingham. Huh. I've been to Northampton, I've been to Southampton. You've been all over England. Uh, I've been to Bristol, I've been in Northampton. I've been to Southampton. You've been all over England.

I've been to Bristol. I've been to Bath. That was fun. I saw Stonehenge. That was fun. Oh, I went to Oxford once. But yeah, I haven't been too far north. I'd love to go past that up to Edinburgh and stuff, but... Oh yeah, so you're in Scotland. I don't know that I have time. Yeah, I'd go to Scotland. I have yet to go. Well, that's the weather.

Hey, let's go to sports. Sports, here we are, sports. Let's see, we got baseball starting back up after the All-Star break. Looks like everything's ready for the second half of the season, blah, blah, blah, of the season. The MLB trade deadline is gonna be in a week or so I believe. We got the Blue Jays in first, the Tigers in first, the Astros in first, the Phillies in first, but only by half a

game over the Mets, the Cubs and the Brewers tied in first, and the Dodgers in first. And I do it, I couldn't believe it. We're only two weeks away from the first NFL preseason game. That's crazy. That's crazy. It is crazy. I'm right. Because I got to start my football podcast again. I still do that. It's me and pretty much everybody from the Northern Lions Super Show from back in the day.

And we just talked about football. It's a great time. It's one of the probably most unprofessional football podcasts out there, but we have a very loyal fan base that loves it. You on a show that's unprofessional madness. Not only that, I'm like the host of the show. I like to do all the work for it. Well, okay then. I do the recording. I do the uploading. I do all the graphic. I do all the work for it. Well, okay then. I do the recording, I do the uploading,

I do all the graphic, like I do all the football stuff. They just show up. So now I know what it's like. But, listen, I do it out of, we do the show out of pure like fandom of football. Like we don't really make money from it. We just, we have a great time ranting about our football

teams and watching every week. It's good. As you do. So it's been like six years of us doing that. It's been a while. So yeah I'm excited. Football. Next sports. What's our fact of the day? Fact of the day. That was our fact of the day. Fact of the day. LEGO bricks withstand compression better than concrete. That makes sense. I'm waiting to hear the answer. That checks out in my mind, though.

Yeah, I believe it. An ordinary plastic LEGO brick is able to support the weight of 375,000 other bricks before it fails. This, theoretically, would let you build a tower nearing 3.5 kilometers in height. Scaling this up to house-size bricks, however, would cost far too much. Yes, but that is... did you see the people 3D printing the bricks? I did not. I think there's like a 3D printing method they're using that roughly looks like big Legos.

And then they're assembling houses that way. There's also another way where they have a machine that just squirts out goop. And I've seen that too. And then it makes the mold of a house and then they fill it in with stuff. Oh. Yeah, they decided to make this weird,

go look up concrete 3D printer and you'll see a video of the other version where it just squirts it out. Huh. In fact, it's just something squirting out. I don't know about that. I don't either, but apparently it works and they're trying to make affordable housing that way and like great, I hope that works because housing is not affordable that is true but knowing the world that affordable housing will become unaffordable very quickly yeah yep yep so there we go that's the random

fact I almost said weather yeah you ever see those videos with like clamp stuff and they do high-pressure tension thingies there's got to be a Lego one I wonder how much that can hold oh yeah like the hydraulic press type of stuff yeah wonder how strong Lego could be I don't know it's gotta be pretty strong so everybody always just does the meme of like you step on a Lego it's like the biggest pain you ever experience like that stuff But it is genuinely impressive how strong these Lego bricks are Yeah, wonder if you put like and I wonder what kind of size or how many Legos put together would you know what?

I mean, there's got to be like a mix. I just don't know what it is Hmm Yeah That's the fact Okay, as anyone come to us with tears in their eyes dear illustrious sirs I come before thee with tears in my eyes and on my bare knees to beg of thee oh Jesse will you ever get back with the boys to play Jedi survivor again I'm rewatching your Jedi series it frequently has me in

stitches I would watch or I would enjoy to see my favorite swash fuckler again. First off, I forgot we called him that. That's hilarious. Second off, probably not. Probably not. Getting them in the same room is tough. Everyone, it's, you know, it's hard to do anything with three people. Let alone getting Krendor and I in a room. That's two! That's already a pain in the ass. So probably not. Enjoy what you have. And know that his adventures continue on in our hearts.

I did watch Kraken play some it was like Jedi Academy or something. Ah, the old one? Yeah, that's good stuff. And he had it modded so he could just like port He had like new Star Wars. He was like porting in Jedi's and people they'd fight each other, and they'd be like I will fight you It's just a bunch of people so guys like dude. I want to play that I like that yeah, yeah

Now we have another one it is Dear illustrious sirs I come to you with tears in my eyes not because something is broken But because modding has become my life vanilla games I don't know her do either of you dabble in the fight a fine art of modding with what games if any have you were In the honor of being broken and rebuilt by your image warm regards to many ESP files Ray Foster I Used to mod X-wing versus TIE Fighter back in the day. That was very fun. And we would, there wasn't like deep internet at the time.

It existed and there were forums and stuff, but you weren't like online like crazy. So what we'd do is we would mod the game and then upload our game like, because you could incorporate like, like online like crazy. So what we'd do is we would mod the game and then upload our game like because you could incorporate like you'd basically go through and you'd make a mission or series of missions that connected together and then you would upload that file system whatever that was to the site and then you had a profile so basically basically, everyone had their own capital ship,

and so every mission took place from your capital ship, and then you would upload it for people to play. And that was fun, and so rather than be your screen name or like, I'm Admiral Jesse, you would just be the name of your capital ship. I see. It was pretty fun, and so I did that. The most recent modding is when you and I

did goblins for Baldur's Gate 3. Oh yeah. And that was ridiculous. Yeah. I mean, I've played plenty of mods and I've like dabbled in like scenario builders and games and you know, doing stuff like that. But I've never like actually modded,

modded like a file, like program file. I'm too dumb for that. I don't know how to do that. Yeah, I've also found that sometimes when modding things, like there've been a few games where I've been like, I don't wanna, like indie games. So this isn't, you know, real like heavy duty crazy stuff going on in the backend games.

But like indie games where I found files and then I'll just open a word editor and then change like from 50 gold to 12,000 gold. And I'm like, all right, great. Good, now I can play this game. It's the basic like modding level. Like dude, I can like do my cheat codes through modding. Yes, pretty much.

Yeah. Yeah, honestly, that's pretty much the extent of that. And like me trying to work with RPG maker years ago to make my non-content RPG. Yes. Yes. Which that was I got I got further in that creation than I thought I would. But it was still like I made like 30 minutes worth of a game. But it was a good time. I don't think I'm gonna ever finish it but

I had fun making it right now still they're making RPG maker games and releasing them on Steam like I've seen a few of them yeah no there's a lot of them it's it makes it very easy to make games I'll say that much yeah it's neat yeah so you go that's the dear illustrious sirs Well, I don't like he doing the mic all right. What's our big news for the day doink? Big news story of the day North Dakota's fourth largest city overrun by ground squirrels I Love the phrase ground squirrel, but the overrun bit is also very funny. What does that mean exactly? Let's find out. The Richardson's ground squirrel weighs less than a pound, is about a foot long, and is native to the Northern Plains.

The little creature is also a ferocious tunneler and it's exasperating the people of Minnow, North Dakota where it's burrowing everywhere from vacant lots to the middle of town and growing more plentiful over the past two decades. Now North Dakota's fourth largest city is fighting back but even the pest control guy leading the charge acknowledges it will be difficult to turn the tide. Joshua Herman said fighting squirrels is akin to one guy standing against a massive storm If I'm trapping, but my neighbor isn't well, we're not getting anywhere Ground squirrels have been an issue

In Minot, Minot a city of nearly 50,000 for at least 20 years, but the problem has dramatically worsened in the last few years. It's unclear how many of the squirrels live in Minot, but many likely live near or exceed the city population. Gosh, there's got to be tens of thousands of them in the area, Herman said. Officials in the city, a green spot along the winding Suri River surrounded by farmland and grassy prairie, no they can't get rid of the squirrels but hope to simply get the rodent numbers down. I don't see the population going to zero ever, I mean it's almost impossible by the numbers we have said Bratton.

Put another way Minnow won't be able to rid itself of squirrels because the animals have lived on the prairie for centuries. Outside the town predators like coyotes, badgers, owls and even snakes love to dine on the squirrels because the animals have lived on the prairie for centuries. Outside the town, predators like coyotes, badgers, owls, and even snakes love to dine on the squirrels, but in residential neighborhoods and even downtown, the rodents can roam pretty freely. Greg Gullickson, an outreach biologist within the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, adds that squirrels now have fewer grassland areas available to them and like the mowed spots they find in town. Female squirrels typically give birth to litters of about six babies a year so

it's easy to see how their numbers can soar. Herman said he kills 3,500 to 5,000 of them a year primarily by putting snares and carbon monoxide in the holes. Dude what the shit? This is like one of those like 90s movies like the squirrel killer. He's literally Bill Murray in Caddyshack Trying to hunt down the groundhog I've had calls downtown calls in the mall long highways the airport early every part of the city I've done trapping for ground squirrels here. Herman said because he checked his traps along an apartment building Oh my god.

Herman says they damage driveways, sidewalks, and lawns, create tripping hazards with their holes and can harbor disease from fleas. Along an apartment building, the squirrels had dug under a concrete slab and against the foundation. Nearby, in a vacant lot, the rodents popped up in and out of holes. Ground squirrels near Paschone Grandson's ground-level apartment dig holes near her door and eat of holes. Ground squirrels near Pashone Grandson's ground level apartment dig holes near her door and eat her plants. One squirrel even got around her baby gate at the door into her daughter's clothes in her bedroom. Oh my god what the hell? It was a little scary. You don't know

what diseases they got. They're dirty. I have a young daughter. I didn't know if it was gonna bite her they said north of town Minot Air Force base which houses bombers and Continental ballistic missiles fire attacks the squirrels has fought the ground squirrels for years earlier this month the base said it had trapped more than 800 dac rats a base name for rodents. Base officials declined the comment on the squirrels. Jared Edwards, facilities director for Minoa Public Schools, which has three schools on the base, said residential areas of the base and runaways are overrun by ground squirrels. He called it a continuous battle for the last 75 years. I'm not going gonna exaggerate. There's millions out there.

I know I shouldn't laugh. It sounds terrible, but also, the way they're talking is like war. If you're gonna live in the random North Dakota Great Plains, I feel like you're gonna run into some crazy shit. You're really on their territory. You're right. Yeah. It's like building stuff out in the ocean being like, I didn't think the sharks would start getting mad. It's like, you're building stuff like where they live and you're eliminating where they used to live, so they're just going to start going to where you are now. It's like, I just wanted to grow my plants and these wild animals are

eating them. Oh yeah, no shit. I don't know. It's just like, it's mind blowing. In town, three school properties have large populations of ground squirrels. School systems using snares. It's something you gotta keep up with. It's mother nature, they added. Still, not everyone sees the squirrels as pests. Some find them cute and fuzzy. Herman says people have sabotaged, stolen, or thrown out as traps. Occasionally, they confront him when he shoots at ground squirrels with an. Some find them cute and fuzzy. Herman says people have sabotage, stolen or thrown out his traps. Occasionally they confront him when he shoots at ground

squirrels with an air rifle, scolding him and hurting the wildlife. They get that cute association and they are, you know, adorable but they're vermin, a pest and dangerous when allowed to proliferate, Herman said. It's just so dramatic. It's so, so And I love that it makes the story 20 times better There's like this one man that's like I'm in charge of hunting them all down, but I can't keep up Too insane my neighbors aren't putting in the effort. We got to work together as a community Take it over. And then there's ground squirrel Gary. He's fighting me back.

He's raising up the squirrels to attack me. We need to stop him. It's just like an entire cult of ground squirrels. Yeah, it could just be one guy's ground squirrel army for all we know yeah he's just the sending him out we will take over the town and then the world come my swells all the nuts shall be yours I love it that's the big news story of the day. All right. Well, that's it for us. Thanks so much for listening and watching. I'm enjoying this podcast. Cranow, hit them with the socials. We got socials. We got youtube.com cox and Cranow. That's where you got the animations. We got youtube.com cox and Cranow podcast. That's where we got all

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