Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 477 - Lego of your World Record Dreams

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

The boys are back and this time Jesse and Crendor are still reeling from the world of Roblox movies. So many questions, so few answers. Meanwhile Jesse discovers that the world of Youtube is much bigger than just the stuff he is fed by the algorithm. And then we jump into the reddit meta! So you know this podcast is going to take off! But not too fast, because there are legos on the runway!!! Get 50% off your first year at http://monarchmoney.com with code COX.

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More morning. Better people. Cox and Crenthor. No absolute psycho dudes making your pizza. That's not a thing. We don't even make pizza. We're not even part of that. No rules just right.

Have it your way. Yeah, that's, what's our, what's our slogan? You get what you get. yeah every episode we promise you you'll get what you get get what you get we've always said that for the last decade speaking of getting i uh was supposed to i think so i have a credit card through my old credit union that i've had for a while and the credit union i guess because the elderly i don't know if you work with the credit union or you are

in one, they vote for things, right? So, you know, they vote for who's going to run the credit union and who's going to do this and what kind of services they're going to offer, all the kind of stuff. Well, apparently, they've still voted against having one of those readers on your credit card,

so I still have to stick it in the machine. I can't just tap it. Oh, you don't have a tap thing? That's pretty weird. I do not. To this day, I do not. And then I got a letter in the mail that said, hey, it's happening. And I thought, okay, cool. Does that mean it's happening now or should I get a thing? And I have looked everywhere.

There's no information. I can't figure out. I try to call them, but I keep forgetting that they're way back on the East Coast and I'm over here. So I'm like, huh. All right. So is this happening? And they're like, we have no evidence of that, sir. I'm like, did I even get a letter from you guys?

Who was the letter from? Like, I don't know who you're talking about, sir. Like, that's not something we're doing. I'm like, what? So I don't know what's going on. I'm absolutely totally confused. I have no idea. I would like it if they could tap it.

Right now I just use my phone. I mean, yeah, that works. I like to think there's a guy and he's just playing a massive goof on you. Honestly, that's fine. I would rather be told that than, yes, we are doing it. We sent you a card. Didn't you get it? Which is a whole other hassle.

He's just every day he's giving you mail. He's like, I'm going to get this guy. I'm going to tell him his credit card can tap stuff. stuff now. Yeah, of all the stupid things to get me for, though, like, you won't ever have to insert your credit card again, fool. Maybe it's, uh, maybe he does this all over. It's like named the taper. For the longest time going overseas, I, they would always be like, yo, can you tap. I'm like, sorry, I can't tap. I don't cut the tap power. And here in the States, it was fine, because we didn't have that. Now we have it. And everyone keeps trying to

tap my damn card. And I'm like, here's the. problem. I wouldn't even use this credit card if I wasn't compelled to do so by the fact that when I wasn't using any credit cards, my credit score dramatically dropped to the point where they were like, look, we'd love to help you, but we can't because your credit's low. So now that I have a credit card, my credit is high, but I have to use this damn card that I don't want to you. I, the whole system is a scam, man. I'm just saying it's a scam, and frankly, I'm so over it. The woods are calling my name. And if I can handle the woods, that's where you'd find me.

Yeah, but you can't handle the woods. I can't handle it, so this is the life I live. I live a shameful life of no tap in the big city. No tap in the big city. My favorite book. Yeah, not nearly as good as sex in the city, but like, no tap in the big city is, you know, it's my story. Yeah. Yeah.

What would the characters of no tap in the big city be? exact same characters, exact same actors, just they can't get their cards to work. And then you randomly show up occasionally, and you're just like, I can't get mine to work either. And Kim control's like, I was at an orgy last Friday trying to pay for drinks, and my card wouldn't tap either. And then Sarah Jessica Parker is like, no, Samantha, you're so childish. That's why you don't have a real credit card. And then Samantha's like, shut up, Carrie, you bitch. You know, sex in the city.

And then Carrie goes up, and she starts writing being like, people can get tapped, but cards can't. Exactly. Yeah. That would be a phenomenal show. Great show. New HBO exclusive. Yeah.

I mean, the last couple of things they did absolutely sucked, and I don't think anyone watched them. But, hey, you know what? I'd bring it back. What else did you do this week? This week, all I did was I came back from like a fun week of doing stuff and then just worked like non-stop and um yeah i wish i had something excited to tell you i simply don't i just worked and then went home and worked out and then got up and did

it all over again for the full week oh that's a lie uh yesterday i uh spent most of the day streaming and then uh watched fifth element with you and then went home and slept so i did not work out yesterday. So I've got to do it today for sure. Oh yeah, that's true. We watch Fifth Element. Yeah. Yeah. And that that was a great time. I think 90s sci-fi is just the fun vibe.

Yes. Yes. It still has that we're having fun attitude instead of it being entirely up its own butt. With that set, however, 80s sci-fi, which is entirely up its own butt, is very fun as well. Because some of that is so goofy and weird.

And still has like a 70s aesthetic. Oh, it's good. It's good stuff. I mean, what's some 80s sci-fi? I mean, I guess back to the future is kind of like 80s sci-fi. Yeah, for sure. I was thinking more along lines of like Last Starfighter or a battery's not included. Short Circuit is another one.

Short Circuit. Yeah, Terminator. Terminator. I would consider that more 90s just because I was like Terminator 2 is when I started watching. I didn't really have like I wasn't into Terminator. Tron, I believe, counts. Obviously, Empire Strikes Back. Escape from New York, that's fun.

Blade Runner, that's a classic. Aliens was in the 80s. And aliens, I like better than alien. I only have seen any of those. Damn, man. Well, you weren't born. That's true. So, you know, I get it. But neither was I.

I mean, I was like a baby baby. So I think in the 90s, as I moved into like pre-teenhood, then I probably started watching all of these. Because they weren't that old for me. It would be like kids these days watching, you know, Lord of the Rings. Right. It's 20 years old, but it's not that old. And it holds up. And at the time, a lot of these held up pretty well.

Now they're kind of goofy. Yeah, I know most of the movies I watched when I was a kid I watched at like a friend's house or on VHS. It wasn't until like 94. What year did Jurassic Park come out? 1993. Jurassic Park is the first big movie I remember seeing in the theater that wasn't like a cartoon. Oh, I see. Yeah, I saw Jurassic Park.

And that was like back-to-back bangers. I remember Jurassic Park. I remember Independence Day. I remember seeing Independence Day on July 3rd. And then when it hit July 4th in the movie, it ticked over to July 4th. in real life. That movie theater planned it out that way.

Great. Everyone of the audience cheered, big fun. Yeah, it was like during that time period where it was those kind of when summer blockbusters really were becoming a thing.

And you had to go. Friends were like, we gotta go. And I think I think I went and I had to go see, yeah, I had to go see Jurassic Park with my parents because I was not old enough

to see a PG-13 movie by myself. But, yeah, it was fun. Fifth Element is a solid seven out of ten, but is bolstered by everyone having a great time, so it just is a fun movie. I love it. With that said, I did nothing else. I did nothing of value this entire week,

except, you know, take care of myself and try to, you know, get fit. But even then, yeah, I didn't do it yesterday. So what kind of fool am I? Instead, I spent all day sitting and playing video games. I clear my throat Let me clear my throat That sounds like a Sesame Street type of song I mean, yes, exactly, that's right

I was gonna say we did react to Roblox or you did and then I reacted to the Roblox which I knew Roblox was insane but it's like I didn't realize the amount of viewers ship that Roblox obtains from being that insane. I kind of figured, because it has that same energy as those Spider-Man got Elsa pregnant. Yeah, it does.

Or it has a sort of a freak show vibe to it. But with that said, the audience, it's weird, dude. Like, I can respect a weird internet video, but I don't like how every weird internet video, be it the Elsa, Spider-Man, or the Roblox. it always seems to be targeting kids and I think that goes back to the previous video about brain rot in that it's less about the brain rot and more about parents putting an iPad in front of their kid and the kid just lets stuff play and it auto plays into weird territories yeah and I feel like that's what most of these videos are relying on but even then I simply don't get it like I don't know who I'm a teenager age girl and I got pregnant by the stud at school and he's rich and his parents are going to let us get married and my life's going to be beautiful and then all the comments are like I got to see what happens to the kid is the baby going to get raised right and I'm

like what what is the meant I just don't understand the mentality of it well it's because it's literally children sure sure they don't get your but here's what I'm trying to say it isn't like a oh no I can't believe we have this accident, let's deal with this together, like a real world drama. It's aspirational. It's like all the main characters are thrilled to have this happen to them. And they're like, finally a baby. I can live my life. You're like, wait, what? You are young enough that I don't know how old you are and it says you go to high school. And that's worrying to me as an adult. I don't like this. I don't like what's happening?

I think it's a combination of things. I think one is it's like nine-year-olds that are just, you know, they've been raised on this and they look, they watch Roblox or play Roblox, then they start getting into it and they're like, oh, this is like, you know, pregnancy. This is like adult stuff. So they like that, you know,

like I remember being a kid and you're like curious like, wow, what's that, right? So I think that's part of it and then you learn it from Roblox. the problem is that the YouTubers make the insane brain rot here Roblox stuff as well and then they're just watching it

and parents don't care they're just like watch what you want right and so it's like you're raised on this stuff I guess my concern is less about

the brain rot aspect or the you know what people watch and how they interact with that kind of thing like the iPad to me is the gateway to the content

but the fact that the content exists, I think, is the problem for me. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know who sat at home or at an office or whatever and said, we need to tell this story and we need to do it in Roblox. Like, that's my, like, I get that a kid could stumble on it and be like, what? And watch, I just don't know who the creators are and why they felt the need to make it. Well, I would say the creators are probably people that also played Roblox, right? Because Roblox came out in...

Oh, like, 2005, 7, something. It's old, yeah. Right. So people making, like, if you watch Roblox from, like, when you were born, like, even let's say you were born in, like, early 2000, you probably grew up on Roblox. And now you're like, dude, I can make Roblox videos. And people love Roblox videos. and they're just going to watch, people are going to watch them. So they realize, like, they've grown up knowing that they can make Roblox video.

Or maybe they even did make Roblox videos. They've evolved and being like, what's the crazy stuff I could do? They're essentially becoming Mr. Beast of Roblox. Right. My question is, why is that a thing? I mean, I guess if you are in Minecraft or you are in Roblox or whatever, and that's your media, very similar to Wow Machinima. right like that's the thing you like and use that as the medium to express yourself and tell your stories i like

get that uh again i understand i think i mentioned this in the the video i understand that afmow for example is i get what she does she makes like a kid content that's i think it's called like my life or something but it's like very kid oriented uh like we're in high school or we're in you know great school and shit's crazy i get that it's like kid probably But this is adult problems in a kid format. It isn't even like, you're watching like a blueie or whatever the hell the kids watch these days. And then, you know, there's something for the kids and some of the adults, but it has a message. There's no message to any of this.

It is just like watching Jerry Springer, but in Roblox. I just don't understand it. It doesn't register to me as being logical, which I guess that's why it's so off my radar. So off my radar, I never considered it an option, and while watching it was completely weirded out by it. Well, that's because kids, they're literally kid. They haven't developed the logic yet. They're like children. And I feel like the main thing here is that they, like kids usually want to feel like they're an adult.

Like when you're a teenager, you're like, I'm an adult, right? Or like you're hit that. And I feel like that's kind of what this targets is kids that want to feel like they're adults, even though they're watching like really shitty Roblox videos, but it's like with adult themes behind these Roblox things. So it's like blending these two universes of like something they grew up with and something that they like want to learn about or know about or feel like they're an adult.

Sure. I mean like I get the idea of kids wanting to be adult or thinking they're adults or having the like, I'm smart enough to make my own choices. Like that kind of kids have done that forever. Again, my concern isn't that the kids are into it. I get why kids would be. I don't understand why the content was made in the first place. Like, that's where I'm at.

It is clearly kid-focused adult content, which again, weirds me out in a way that I cannot even describe. Oh, yeah. I mean, if somebody came to me and they're like, I'm a Roblox content creator, I'd be freaked out. Yeah, I make Roblox videos about high schoolers getting pregnant and adopting children and marrying rich guys or, you know, cheating or scandals or, again, Jerry Springer stuff, but it's done in a format for kids, I would have concerns.

I'd be like, why are you doing? I would genuinely like to know, but at this point, I think the real answer is it gets views. And because it gets views, you make money. and then because you make money you don't care what you do as we've learned from society people who make a lot of money tend to not give a shit how they make that money

yeah it's um I I just it feels like the Minecraft YouTuber era but like more like degenre

like it really does feel like we've taken another step because like it's just like any type of Roblox thing it's just I've always seen it as just insane and it usually is insane but yeah it's like you said the creator like a lot of these creators

are just adults making this stuff so I don't know if they're they're I mean obviously I know why they're doing it they're getting views they're getting money and sponsorships and stuff like I just typed in Roblox all right

and one of the top videos was we survive 99 nights in the forest Roblox and this is from a creator name cat kat here's the thing that as a concept is fine right we survived 99 nights in roblox

like okay cool it's like a challenge thing I'm talking about like if it was we just we survived 99 orgies in roblox I'd be like what right there's clearly a delineation between what is normal content and what is like

this seems problematic yeah like this girl seems like she's just doing like Mr. Beast tears stuff in Roblox like a kid Roblox Mr. Beast. Then there's Daisy Roblox

and it says Daisy got adopted by stranger. Mama called the police Yeah, that's suddenly we're in like weird territory, yes. Yeah, it just gives me the vibes. I think I said in my reaction of like mobile games. It gives or the mobile game ads.

Right? Where, like, the mobile game ads are just off the rails. They're just, like, crazy shit's going out. Like, it feels like that, but with Roblox. Yes, like, the mobile game ads where it's this woman, and then her husband either dies or cheats on her, and then it's, like, 30 seconds of the craziest things you've ever seen, followed by, start your own farm.

You're like, wait, what? That's the game? Yeah. It's genuinely insane. And I, you know, the thing is, like, I feel like these people, we're going to grow up, and they're going to look back and be like, what was I watching? Like, I think they're going to have moments like that.

Because, I mean, I think we mentioned it the other week. There's plenty of times I went back and looked at stuff I watched. I was like, dude, what was I looking at? Right? Yes. Yeah, I mean, yeah, there's tons of stuff on YTM and D that when I look back now, I'm like, oh, no, that was just racist. Like, that wasn't even funny. That was just racism.

Yeah, there's a lot. Newgrounds has tons of that, where when you go back and you look at it, you're like, this was so weird. What about this was I interested in? Yeah. No, like that, again, being a kid, being interested in adult things to feel more like an adult because everyone wants to be older when they're younger until you realize being old, it sucks ass.

Sure does. That I get, again, it's not that. It's the people who are making the content that I'm like, what's your deal? Why? And I guess we found our answer. It's all about money. But still, I just don't, I can't claim to like it. And it's the same with the other thing we watched, with the guy, like, we're going to make secret rooms in this YouTuber's house, right?

Like, it's all kind of like similar, but it's, you know, one's in Roblox, one's in real life. And it's just, I just don't get it. And what's messed up is they're both, in both of those scenarios, the room guy and the Roblox stories, they are exaggerated, bizarre examples of, what someone might think real life is like, but isn't. You know what I mean? Like, it's, I have a bunch of money,

so I build crazy houses in my, it's like, what the hell? No one really does this. But everyone's like, I'd be cool if I did. Yeah, no, it's, it's just,

I think, yeah, that's more concerning when I'll go to the comments and you just see it, and you're like, okay, there's kids. And there's like somebody,

it's like a 30-year-old man who's like, man, this is crazy. crazy. You're just like, what? I can't be like, adults watch this? You and I both watched it and recorded us watching it.

Well, there's the difference. We're watching it for science. And then everyone else watched it with us. Yeah. So basically, we're merely observing. We monkey pawed ourselves into this. We we kind of like ring-good ourselves. Like, well, yeah, well, we

have to watch it for science. And then everyone else watched it for science. And now they all have a bunch more views. You know what I mean? Like, we really screw ourselves in this whole, well, this is trash. We shouldn't watch this. Yeah. It's, um, I mean, you got to learn.

If you don't watch it, we wouldn't even know what it is. And now we know what it is. It's, I don't know. I'm curious to see where it goes from here now. It's like, what's next, right? I don't know what the next Roblox is going to be. I imagine something we won't think about. Like, for a while it was peak.

but the reality of it is peak is basically how funny the people playing it are rather than the game and I saw a lot of people there's my feed is definitely in this weird space and I keep being like no please stop recommending where it's um people streaming video games and while playing one game talking shit on other games which is very popular now so being like uh well the reason why this game's amazing and these other games suck is for this this and this and they do the um oh who's that guy the guy who was popular for a minute and now everyone hates who has like the deep voice but everyone claimed the deep voice was fake whatever the hell that guy's name was where oh yeah the attitude of i know a lot still does really well on youtube and so if you have that air of i know things

and I can express myself very well and talk about why things suck. That's the trend I'm seeing right now. I sound like I know things and I'm going to tell you why stuff sucks. And this is, and everyone's like, yeah, it does suck and he does speak well. And I'm like, nope, don't care about this.

Please don't give this to me anymore. And it keeps happening. YouTube's like, yep, yep, yep. You want to see this. I'm like, no, I don't. I do not care about this. I would rather you send me like, boob videos YouTube than

this. Like I'd rather get spammed with like reply girls than this. It's just yeah. So I have no clue. My algorithm's a complete mess. And that's what happens when you have to go watch Roblox videos. And I just have the weirdest

the weirdest algorithm right now. Yeah, that's well I mean that's why sometimes I'll be on like different YouTube accounts because I have so many different YouTube accounts. Sometimes I'll forget which one I'm on. Usually I'm on my main one, but other times I'm just like, well, I'm getting recommended this stuff. And I'm like, oh, I'm on my other account. So sometimes it just depends too. Maybe you should just make a new

account and test it. Uh, I did. So one of the things I wanted to do while, uh, doing this new channel was see what's on the main page without having my account active and just go there. And right away, I realized that unlike the way it used to be where you go to a landing page and see what YouTube wanted you to see now if you go in like incognito mode for example or if you go

without having logged in it'll take you to a page and be like nothing to view here start watching videos so we can start filling this out yeah that's true I guess it does do that and I was like no I want you to recommend some things so I can see what's popular today

so I can use that for my video series please and thank you and it simply would not. And so finally, I got to a page that had what was popular. And surprisingly, but not really, most of it was foreign language. I don't know if it was the time of day or what was going on, but most of it was German, Spanish, I want to say Chinese. Like, it wasn't even English,

which just goes to show you how big YouTube is it's a property. Now, there's spaces we don't even delve into. Yeah, that is. that was absolutely true I mean there's like streamers like 8 billion viewers and they're just like he's the biggest person in Spain

or Mexico or like wherever yeah like there's a there's a guy I saw who had like 36 million views on his video that came out like two days ago and he's in Brazil and he's like the biggest Brazilian guy

and I was like I have no idea who this dude is clearly he's killing it yeah it's they even oh man when I was watching football the other day because they had the game in Brazil and they're like, here's

YouTuber with 6 million subscribers, like Destroyer or something. I was like, who? I was like, what? Yeah. I was like, all right, I can never heard of them, but I guess they're big

in Brazil or something. Like, it's just, it's crazy how big just all these platforms have been. That was like somebody on my, my Patreon. I always do a Patreon AMA every month and Somebody said, as a fellow old person, I remember the Wild West days of the internet and how crazy things could get. You have a favorite memory. And I was like, I think my favorite memory was just the lack of people on YouTube.

Yeah, there was. It was very American-centric. And then it became very English-centric. And then as it exploded in popularity, people from around the world were like, I can do that. And now it's a world commodity. YouTube's huge. Even though everyone was like, YouTube's going to die, Twitch is going to kill it. YouTube's bigger than ever

and there's people you will never heard of that are bigger than you know the biggest American YouTubers and it's I mean it makes sense because there's other places in the world. With a lot more people yeah no I get it. A lot more people so yeah it's just

it's crazy man I think they but honestly I think the craziest thing is how long we've done this it is the longest job I've ever had that's true yeah I mean, it's been 15, 16 years. Yep.

So it's, it's pretty wild. And people are still listening. Somehow. Earlier when I clicked on our YouTube.com slash Cox and Crendor podcast, I did notice that we lost nine subscribers in the last 28 days. Damn. So nine of those people were like, you know what? They were not listening.

They were tired of it. I'm done with this shit. Yeah, I get it. And you know what? Fair enough. Yeah. Fair enough. I understand. I get it.

I know what? I'm going to unsubscribe to. Well, you know what we need to do in order to get the subscribers back? We need to do what podcasts do right now. The meta for podcasts, read from Reddit. And I brought you a Reddit thing we can read from. Oh, okay. This is good. Yeah, this is good. This is what the people want.

They want you to just read Reddit to them. Okay, good. Now, most podcasts would read the, am I the asshole or the like, are they cheating on me? or am I overreacting Reddits? Not us. I have brought to you this amazing topic, and it's one of my favorites because I loved every reply,

what's a cheat code you discovered in real life that actually works? Oh, okay. The replies are things that will make your life better that seem like a cheat. Okay. Great example, right off the bat. Complement people in minor ways.

Don't make it weird, just if someone is wearing something they clearly went into some effort to pick out a watch necklace shoes whatever and if you generally like it say hey nice shoes or that color really suits you and then leave it don't say anything else just give them the compliment the end and everyone's like dude this really is a hack if you just tell people they look good or you like what they're wearing they get so excited about that and remember it forever and i was like that's true i don't do that often. But when people do it to me, I'm like, thank you. And I was like, yeah, that is true. I remember every time someone complimented me. That's how little it happens. And I think if it's like

one of those things where when you do it and you're genuine about it, people can usually tell. It's not just like, hey, you look good. It's just like, oh, wow, that's a cool brain. slid or whatever you must uh or like i haven't noticed that before or it's like something where it's like a new thing yeah or the um flip side which is like oh you're amazing you know like like that fake over the top version don't like that that one i'm like come on now please yeah oh my god that that reminds me of uh i've been watching uh hg tv okay and yeah and there's a lot of they're like okay our renovation house is done here we go and they're just like

we're gonna bring our friends over right and the friends come over and they're just like oh my god this is so amazing and there's like this is the bedroom like oh my god it's so amazing I hate that here's the bathroom like wow this is so unbelievable

I'm just like this is the most fake ass it's a bathroom it's not that unbelievable if it was a bathroom like some of the ones I've seen on the internet where it has sort of like an open skylight thing and there are plants in the shower and the shower is this massive

sort of walk-in those are amazing those that has like 15 shower heads that's amazing this tiny ass bathroom with the walk-in shower that has like barely dripping water that's not amazing

that's a shower that's a toilet that's not amazing plus like a lot of these houses just look exactly the same they're like we made it open concept it's like I'm kind of tired of this

open concept. I'm kind of tired of all houses looking the same to begin with, but yes, I'm with you. Yeah, exactly. And it's like, especially the renovation things. They're never like, hey, let's try to mix it up. They're always like, we'll just knock out all the walls. We made everything gray and white. There we go. Yeah, it's all gray, white, modern.

That's it. It's like, you know, there's like other things we can do. You know? I'm pretty sure that's like one of those, it's on the cheap and we're trying to flip a house kind of situations. Yeah. The one that I recently saw was the house from home alone, they renovated it and are trying to sell it before and after

pictures. Not only does it not look like the house from home alone anymore, it just looks sanitized and boring. And I hate it. I hate it. Yeah. It's like they're making a hospital. Yeah. That's not. And I know it's one of those things we're kind of like in the 70s when everything was shag carpet and like conversation pits. It's one of those trends that is going to die off. And then they're going to be stuck with some weird ass like, will it look future retro niche or whatever the hell and yeah and then your grandkids are going to laugh at you because you used

to live like that there are houses that have timeless style that's what we should be focusing on that's uh oh my god what's the it's like the you remember the early 2000s house style I was getting a lot of those on like the just recommended to me

on like TikTok or whatever early 2000s house style it's uh hold on let me see here you go kind of like this yes with holy dude that looks just like my uh my old house and if you were you were by there in Dayton Ohio yeah if you would have gone in that's kind of what our kitchen would look like yeah it's just like that that would that stained wood but then also for some reason it's a marble countertop

yes yes yes yes yes yeah yeah and I don't know what it's called it's um oh wait i think oh it's like tuscan it's like a tuscan aesthetic i think is what they said uh sure i guess i get that it is yeah it's not very um it's kind of that like every house is an apartment vibe you know what i mean like the way apartments make their kitchens look it isn't very homie or welcoming it just looks kind of like we built 80 of these in a midwest suburban district and we had to keep building and moving so this is what you get yeah it's not that exciting yeah so uh now it's like i think we're it's like uh people are just tired of the modern boring-ass stuff it's like we just want to we just want to go back to some fun you know

not like full seven these like you said shag car but just like you know just something some color i think houses are sort of of like the bread right like it it doesn't have to be fancy it's what you put in it or on it in the case of bread that makes it like sparkle and shine and it's the things that you brought to it so you don't need some ridiculous looking over the top modern future house you just need a house that is fun like i love those old spanish houses the colonial houses houses that are just timeless are always fun to me. I love those houses.

Yeah. Yeah. And then you can fill it with all your weird tech stuff and you'll be fine. But the house itself should be a like oh, this is a house that looks like in a hundred years you would still want to live there. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So,

I just, I'm ready to go back to the you know, the color and life in buildings and design. So here's some more for us. Some of these are great. Never say something to a person who is unable to hear it. Stay silent on the subject.

Actually, they will get curious and ask your opinion. When a person has had to work for information, they're more likely to consider it honestly, even if it's criticism. Which I think is actually really smart. Rather than just blurting something out and being like, hey, here's my thoughts on this thing. Don't say a damn thing. And if they want to know, they'll ask you.

Otherwise, I got no patience for people who don't want to hear what I have to say. Yeah. No, that's honestly very good advice. Yeah. I was like, oh, that's a solid one. Okay, that's good. My favorite one, and I can't, I'm trying to find it right now, and it might be the single greatest thing I've ever seen my entire life.

Because, a lot of them are pick your battles or, you know, never stop dating your wife. or um this one when buying tickets in a raffle that you get to place your own ticket in the receptacle gently fold it or crumple it up before putting it in so it doesn't lay down flat most likely you will get chosen this is a cheat code that i've used to win frequently which i was like okay no one really ever thinks to do that a lot of them are like please and thank you that kind of thing the best one this is my favorite place a tortilla under your tacos so when you eat them and stuff falls out you get an extra taco at the end of the night as a plate cleaner I have seen that one before I was like that is the single greatest that is the best

pro tip I've ever heard that is a fantastic tip yeah I was like everyone else is everyone else is giving replies about like how to treat other people and like how to live this guy's like no no no what do you get tacos get another shell and it would all fall in the shell then you just eat it I was like yep that's the winner yeah that's now that may be the most important one of them all yeah some of these are like humor can work magic or getting a car repaired bring donuts give it to their mechanics that kind of thing or uh if a family member's in the hospital show up for them that kind of like just things that you kind of already know

but people just don't do because everyone's lazy but that taco one i was like that's the real pro tip dude that it yeah yeah i mean like some of the other like humor's great like well obviously people like funny people like it's just that's literally everything yeah yeah like some of these are stop putting people above or below you or if you call in sick

tell your boss spare them the details like that kind of thing so make it sound like you're just gross and you know yeah it's whatever things that people know they just don't want to do or they don't think of at the time like it's it's whatever but I did enjoy

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man, I feel like every week, I'm just like, the traffic's terrible out here, and it's really just terrible again, but I think, you know, I'm either just noticing people or worse drivers or, you know, maybe they've always been bad, and right now they're just staying that out more. It's just, uh, it's impressive.

And it's traffic. Back dude. I'm telling you, dude, exact same vibe. I honestly, firmly had a, like I had a conversation with myself as I pulled into the parking lot to the office today, where I sat in the car and was like, I think either COVID and or just the world in general right now made people intolerable. And I don't know if that's a me thing or they have become insane, but a great example is I'm trying to drive into the parking lot for the office. and it's on this street that's right next to a bar as I've mentioned many times and so it's a weekend so there are people at the bar

anyway there's this girl and I assume her boyfriend I don't know but she's driving and she pulls into the driveway of the parking lot so I'm sitting there waiting to turn in and she is waiting for me to move but I'm like I can't move

you're blocking because she like wants to back out and reverse and go down another part of the street and I'm like so you're blocking where I need to go I can't move because there's cars on other side of me you have to do all the work lady and she's looking to me like waiting for me to do something and I'm like patiently just there then cars get behind me and they start honking and she's looking to me I'll do it a full minutes going by

and she's like move move I'm like I can't move what do you want me to do so while this is going on I'm also watching this guy go out to his car that's parked and so he's getting ready to leave to And I'm like, oh boy. Okay.

So now I got to like figure out how to navigate all this. Finally, she decides to reverse and go down another part of the street, which she does. And as she reverses and I go to turn into the driveway into the parking lot, the dude who just parked in his like Mazda whatever, I'm going a hundred miles from stop. Like he's like, bro, he tries to get past the woman who's reversing, past me who's turning in so he can slip through there. He almost hit both of us. I was like, he couldn't wait two seconds. Meanwhile, all the cars behind me are still honking because they can't see what's going on

because there's a bunch of cars on the left and right of us because the street, everyone's parking on the street. So it should be a two-lane street, but it's only one because everyone's at the bar. Just the entire time I was like, all this couldn't be avoided, if people just took two seconds to assess the situation and realize, oh, I'm the problem.

But no one does. And it's like, you got to move for me, man. Like, I cannot move for you. Yikes, dude. Yikes. That's even worse by you with L.A. traffic. Yeah, I just, I'm genuinely shocked how bad it is. Yeah, it's, I don't know.

Like, even around here, it just feels like people are just, just worse at driving. I don't know what it is. I don't know if there's just more people or what it is, but they just, it's been bad. So. Yeah. See if it gets better or worse. That's traffic. Okay, let's go to Sweather.

Sweather? Yep, that's right. It's weather time. Sweather. There we go. We got 16 weather requests, and we're landing on weather requests. Can you do a weather request for Burst, Belgium? It's a small town that's part of Earpmear.

First time in the town is mentioned is 825 under the name Bersitia, and the land was a gift to the monastery in Ghent. It consisted of the place called Bursitia, near the stream Borsbeak, a farm with trees for the table of the brothers, sowing land where one can sew 41 units, pasture where one can mow six cartloads of hay,

and the forest emistrude, where one can keep ten pigs. I love all of that, by the way. It sounds so like, We just got a letter from 1046 or some nonsense. But also, Ghent, real talk, love Ghent. Been there twice now. Big fan of the cherry beer.

Big fan of riding on the river. Big fan of all of it. Good stuff. Shout out to Larian Studios. Whoa. Well, in Bursk, Belgium, it feels like 67 degrees Fahrenheit. Because it is 67 degrees Fahrenheit. height. I got a high of 72, low 52, humidity 84%, 29.95 inches of pressure. Visibility 10 miles,

7.09 a.m. sunrise, 813 p.m. sunset. Winds at 5 miles an hour. Due point 62 UV index zero and a full moon. 10 day. Tend day. Ola little wet. Uh, Tuesday, or no, Monday, 72 degrees with partly cloudy skies. Tuesday, 71 with AM clouds, PM sun. Wednesday. Most mostly cloudy, 73, partly cloudy on Thursday, 68, showers Friday, 64, Saturday, 66, mostly cloudy, Sunday, 68 with showers, Monday, 67 a.m. showers. And Tuesday, 67, partly cloudy. I'm obsessed with it. It's like such a small town, but the food ranges from shack hole in the wall to massive, one of the biggest bakeries I've ever seen my entire life. to donut shop,

do nottery or whatever this is called. Oh, yeah, I see the donuterie. Looks delicious. Looks delicious. But then also, there's, you know, Bejjikin, whatever the hell this is, and it just, as far as I can tell, someone's home.

I know, dude, this is actually really funny. I went to the Beazjeken trying to figure out what the hell it was, and the Google map on the map puts you right out next to a house that the house looks like suburban America plop down right in the middle of Belgium. It looks like it has fake grass in the backyard, a giant green fence. That's really funny. That's bless. Yeah, this is kind of interesting.

There's a lot of places that, again, very hole in the wall. But then out of nowhere, what the hell is this, Crendor? Pita or P-I-T-T-A-S shop-1 burst I don't even know how to describe It looks like I don't know what this place is But it genuinely looks like A setting from fallout There is a sky tech helicopter

Which appears to be crashed There is weird pipes and metal objects there is a bunker and then a room with a bunch of dead animals and then a punching bag made out of foxes. What the hell? That's what I'm saying. I don't know what this isn't food.

I don't know what this is. Oh yeah. What is this? Pito one shot burst. Yo, that's crazy. What is it? I don't know what this is. But wait, there's food.

If I went to their Facebook, and there's food there. It's a, literally, it's a pita place. They're selling, they're selling euros and stuff, but like, is that? Okay, okay, okay. It is right next door. It's next door, yes, it's right next door to this incredibly weird place. But the thing is, if you look up the pita shop, it all is listed as being the same thing.

Yeah. That's so weird. That is very weird. Your old PETA taxidermy. Yeah, that's, with that said, I kind of, it's like, would be an experience. I don't want to go see it, just to see it. That's pretty cool.

Yeah, you look at the location. This is very clearly the countryside, because there's this giant bakery place, and then across the street are just homes. Yeah. It doesn't appear to have, like, a real downtown, which I guess maybe is the, Is that kind of the hallmark for most of Europe?

There isn't just a downtown? Is that an American thing? Like going downtown? It might be, uh. I mean, there's like downtown London and stuff, right? So I don't know. Well, I mean, there's London, and then there's the city of London. Like, London's a different beast compared to most places.

Like, you know, for example, okay, okay, going back to again, there was very clearly a you can't drive here. area and I feel like maybe that's considered downtown like there was a you got there and you had to walk wherever you were at the cars couldn't go further you had to walk through the area maybe that's considered downtown but is that a new concept or is that an old thing and they just have kept it I don't know like Amsterdam there's Amsterdam proper but it's a big like yeah I just don't know dude I would love to, I mean, I'm assuming, yes, there are downtowns. But the vibe I get from a lot of, you know, places in Europe is, that's not the case. But maybe that's just countryside. I don't know. That is interesting. I guess it could be, because actually, I think smaller towns having downtown makes more sense. Right. I mean, that's what I think about when I think of American small town America. But when I look at small town Europe, that doesn't appear to be the case. yeah everything's just kind of intertwined yeah i don't know and i feel like maybe because small town

europe has existed significantly longer than small town america that they didn't start with here's main street and all the shops are on main street and we build out from there instead it was this is where farms used to be and then people started building homes and when we needed we needed a restaurant here so we built that like that kind of thing yeah it's just all over the place yeah i don't know interesting well that's the weather okay that's the weather okay that's talk sports. Sports. Folks.

Sports is happening. And right now, we had NFL football today. It's true. Shout to the Steelers. Yep, Aaron Rogers and the Steelers won their game. Although, admittedly, the entire game, I was like, we suck. We're the worst team in the league. This is terrible.

And at the end, it was like, yeah, we're amazing. You know, football. Yeah, classic football. Chargers beat the Chiefs, Eagles beat the Cowboys, Rams beat the Texans Packers beat the Lions They were winning the whole game though So I had a great time

49ers beat the Seahawks Broncos beat the Titans Jaguars beat the Panthers commanders beat the Giants Steelers beat the Jets Cardinals beat the Saints Raiders beat the Patriots Colts beat the Dolphins

Bengals beat the Browns Buccaneers beat the Falcons And currently the Ravens are up by a touchdown on the bills at half time So Pretty fun there. I just, I like having football back. It is, it is. And I know baseball is the American

sport, but like, I do loves football. What can I say? Yeah. I think most people would view football as the American sport at this point. Yeah, yeah. And mostly because we literally don't, it's like, we're the only people like, no, it's football. It's football. And everyone else in the world is like, what do you mean? You're not using your feet at all. Like, no, no, no, no. They run. That's feet That one guy kicked it, that's feet So yeah, that's sports Also, apparently this week

I don't know if it's just Maybe it showed up a algorithm or whatever But I'm getting a lot of people reacting to the Cracken now The Seattle Cracken for some reason They're reacting to All of their intros and entrances And for those of you don't know

Those in the dark, that's pretty cool Yeah, a lot of hockey now, especially I think Because of Vegas, when they had the knights They really Like do up the showmanship of it And I think a lot of new teams are doing the same So for example, the Crackin, which is a fairly new team, They're getting real into the idea of like

On the Ice, you can see the tentacles underneath it, that kind of stuff. Same thing with the Golden Knights where they were like, Long ago. in an age before time and it's like knights and stuff it's very medieval times

but um that is cool I love that stuff I love a good show if I'm gonna go see a thing give me a show too yeah like the Utah mammoth they could do a thing

like there's a blizzard and there's like Rooh like some mammoth always like that'd be sick 30 million years ago the mammoth walked the world

and now it has it and like breaks through the ice and it's like yeah that'd be amazing Yeah, I love a good. Modern Ice Age. Yeah, like, welcome to the Ice Age.

Oh, my God, you have to say that. When they're like, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Ice Age. Like, that'd be awesome. Yeah. No, that'd be great. That's sports. Okay. What is our fact of the day?

Fact of the day. Fact of the day. It is a fact of the day. Europeans. I got excited. I was going to do my own thing. They were scared of eating tomatoes when they were introduced. Yeah, oh, dude, this is so bizarre.

I just yesterday played the new Indiana Jones D.L.C. It takes place in Italy. And in it, there are two recipes you can find. And it's literally for, I think we talked about it on this podcast, the guy who does like the history cooking channel on YouTube. Oh, yeah. He was, it straight up is basically the episode he had about in ancient Rome. they sold French fries, except it wasn't French fries or pomfretes or, you know, chips or whatever.

Because there was no potatoes and there was no tomatoes because that's not a thing they had. Right. And so what they used were parsnips that they cut up into fries. And then they used this garum sauce, which is basically like a fish sauce, that they then fermented as ketchup. But exact same thing. exact same vibe you know you'd sit there and you'd eat

like you're eating French fries except it wasn't and I thought it was fascinating I loved that the Indiana Jones game had that in it but more importantly I also think yeah

of course they would be weirded up by tomatoes or any other weird thing that comes from across the sea and they're like what the hell is this yeah it says

scholars think Spanish conquistador Hernin Cort brought seeds from Meso America to Europe in 1519, with the intent of the fruits being used ornamentally in gardens. By 1700s, aristocrats started eating tomatoes, but they were convinced the fruits were poisonous because people would die after eating them.

In reality, the acidity from tomatoes brought out the lead in pewter plates, and they died of lead poisoning. Yo, that's crazy. That's not at all what I thought you were going to say when you started down this path. Wow. Yeah, it was pretty wild. Damn.

It brought, that's, so because they didn't have highly acidic food like that, they were, they, that's, that's wild. So they got lead poisoning from tomatoes, but not from the tomatoes, but from what they ate the tomatoes on. Yeah, that's crazy. So really, if you were of a lower class then, you would have been fine. Because I feel like it's a high class thing to eat a tomato on a plate, you know what I mean? Yeah, I think so. If you were just eating it right off the vine and why. walking down the street, you would have been okay.

Yeah, I think so. I want to know who the first guy was who said, hey, let's take that fruit slash vegetable thing that's killing people and put it in all of our pasta. Yeah. I don't know. Because they weren't doing that. That was not a thing.

When you think tomatoes in tomato sauce and pasta, that's like, that's Italy, right? But it wasn't clearly, not until the 1500s. yeah no that's that's honestly really cool learn about food history and how like all the different cultures experience different foods and stuff yeah i'm obsessed with with food history i love watching historical food shows or uh you know youtube videos about i get i think i mentioned the one about the egg and how we it used to not be called an egg it was named something completely different and then because chaucer used the word egg one time everyone's like yo it's an egg which is incredible i'm like what is what is what you You can't just change the name of things, but you clearly can. And I love that kind of stuff. And so, yeah, it's weird to see things flow and move. Like, I'm a big fan of the documentary about General South's chicken when they go to China. And they're like, do you know this?

We have no idea what that is. Because it's an American invention. I love that kind of stuff. Yeah. That's your fact of the day. Who has come to us with tears in their eyes? Eyes. Dear illustrious sirs, with tears in my eyes, from the pain in my back, I come to you seeking

knowledge. What kind of desk chair do you both use? Ah, okay. This is a good topic. I believe mine is a flexi spot chair, and I got it because since I'm shorter, it's like a shorter chair, and so it was just good for me, and it's pretty decent. So, yeah, mine is flexi spot. And it seems like they sell it quite a few places.

They're going for like $300, though. I think I only paid like $100 and something. But, you know, inflation, economy. Yes. I have many chairs here in the office. I have Secret Lab chairs. I have chairs that have been, you know, promotional, gifted things. But the ones I use frequently, both here and at home,

I have two of these chairs because I love them so much. are steel case chairs. Steel case, you know, you're looking at 500 bucks for a chair at minimum. However,

I cannot stress how good they are for your, I don't have any back issues, my hands are fine. You know, like when people, like, they get like carpal tonnelly

and lethal, I don't have any of those issues. And the one I really like, even though it is significantly pricey, is the gesture worth every penny. It is a chair where you can not,

just move the arms up and down you can move them in out you can move the arm itself the back bit you can change you can change everything about the chair to sit how you like to sit but it has incredible back support one of my favorite chairs

the chair I've had just give you an example the one I'm sitting in right now I've had since 2015 love it to death but it is they're expensive but it was one of those just like glasses When I make a purchase that I know I'm going to keep for a while, I'm fine spending money. Yeah.

Yeah, it's, you're investing in something that's going to be around a long time. Yeah, not having back surgery. Yeah. Next up, we have the dear illustrious sirs with tears in my eyes, down on one knee, begging my one true love, Mr. Cox, for his hand in marriage, I beseech unto the, unto the a question if you were to experience anything for the first time again what would it be

I know the answer is something like a movie or a trip or whatever honestly when I think of something I want to experience again for the first time like barbecue dude you know like some type like pizza like a good taco

you know what I mean like something simple but when you had it and it was good and you were just like oh this is my favorite now I can see eating this forever That's what I want I was gonna say Like playing while That's you know what

If that experience Going back to 2004 Or whatever year that was I too That first kind of you're overwhelmed And you're walking Like yeah I could buy that I would

Because it's like You learn everything about the game And now it's like But back then it was like It was crazy Like it blew your mind So yeah It'd be crazy to have that again

Yeah, I guess it has to do with what time period, can we time travel to do this? Or is it, you wipe your memory, you've never played wow, and now we're going into it in 2025. Because I imagine the experience will be very different. Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question. Because if it's a mind wipe, but it's now, I still stick with food. The whole like I've never had before, what is pizza taste like? Yeah, that's the kind of thing where, okay, I would, that'd be the easiest one.

I know a lot of people would be a movie or whatever, but yeah, I think an experience that's sort of like, you know, taste, touch, smell. One of those like, you know, I think about often eating grilled lobster on a beach in Mexico drinking tequila. That's an experience I like to have again, like those kinds of things, where I'm just bombarded with sensory stuff. And I'm like, yeah, this is, this is life. I would want that again. Yeah. I get that. And that's the dear illustrious sirs.

What is our big new story of the day? Big news story of the day, day, day, day, day. Day. Day. All right. We've got barefoot woman breaks record for running across Lego bricks. First off, lady, why do you hate? yourself.

A New Zealand woman showed the strength of her souls when she ran barefoot over 100 meters of loose Lego bricks in 24.75 seconds. Oh, I don't like that. That sounds awful. Yeah. Gabriel Wall broke the Guinness record for the fastest 100 meter on Lego bricks. Yikes. Which is insane. Both as a record and as something to do. When she attempted the three 328 foot sprint in Christchurch. The track was covered in 6161 pounds of Lego bricks donated by Imagination Station, a New Zealand non-profit used Lego pieces for robotics and mechanics education. Wow said she spent two entire months barefoot to build calluses in preparation for the attempt, even attending a wedding without shoes. I am proud to have pushed myself to new limits.

The record-keeping organization said the mother of two has probably stepped on the plastic bricks more times than she can count. In our video, in our video, Gabriel is wearing sunglasses, presumably to hide tears from the pain of standing on all that Lego, the Guinness record says. Wall said she's considering attempting more Lego-based Guinness records, but for building rather than running.

What did we learn about the Guinness Book of World Records that it's kind of like you just pay to be in it? Do we learn that? Do we learn that? Do you learn that? Because I feel like this is one of those Where did we need this as a record? You know what I mean?

It's funny, but did we need it as a record? And is this one of those things? Here's another example. Is this part of like a branded thing? Or is she connected to something that this is? Like, do we know about this woman? Or is this just lady wants to get crazy? I don't know, actually.

I'm trying to. Because a lot of times when we look these up, we find out that's connected to some. brand activation and or some company did it so they could get a headline. I'm trying to link you to these. None of them are like popping up in Discord. Well, that's, that's kind of the problem with all of this. Every time we get a story, it's like, you wanted more information?

Tough. Hold on. Try clicking that. I mean, I do see her walking across it. And she has a shirt that says athlete on the back, which, okay. Okay, but for what purpose? Yeah, that's a good question. I don't think there is one.

I think it's just. She did it just cause? But then how do you contact? So there's steps here. Like, how do you contact Guinness and say, I want to do this? How do I have, right? Is it already in the book? Because if there's already a record, then you can say I'm going to break the record.

But if there's no record, how do you establish that it's important enough for it to be a record? I don't know. Yeah, that's a good question. And a lot of the times when they do that, it's because. someone paid for it to be in there. Yeah, it says you have to register, apply, submit an application, and then communicate with them for getting in the Guinness Book of World Records. So there is a process to this.

Yeah, I just, oh, aye, aye, aye. Well, I mean, she definitely did it. I just can't figure out why she did it, but yeah. Much like many of the things we learn about, like Roblox and the like. Yeah, no, it exists. I just can't figure out why. That's a big new story today. Okay, that's it for us.

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