Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 479 - Weirder Science

Episode Date: September 22, 2025

The boys are back and this time Jesse is obsessed with a Chinese FMV Game and how completely over the top it is. Then the boys tackle super powers, super haters, and science that actually operates on ...our level. All this and more on a brand new Cox n' Crendor! Go to http://HeroForge.com and use code CRENDOR to get 5% off all orders of physical miniatures.

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Starting point is 00:00:25 Recorded. Hey, me wake your ass up! It's up next Brendan in the morning. Hello, everybody. One of the next to an episode of Cags and Creddor in the morning. E-hah. You sound so excited. Always I am.
Starting point is 00:00:45 I'm more excited, and I blew out my voice. I blew out my voice. That's right. Blew out me vors this morning. Dang, you never want to do that. Yeah, I was doing. some voice recording for the fmv game i'm making and uh i had to do like a gruff like a like that kind of voice uh yeah and uh yeah my throat is like why why why bro why was it fun at least it was great
Starting point is 00:01:11 the the lines sound good i'm literally a talking skull if that makes any sense to anyone it shouldn't because that's the whole point and um yeah i just my i'm gone but I have plenty of water and tea, so I should be fine. Well, that's good. I saw you play in that other FMV game, the one where you're like an empress. Oh, loved it. Big fan. That actually was very entertaining.
Starting point is 00:01:42 I don't know if I'm missing out on the world of Chinese soap operas or dramas or whatever, like C dramas, I guess they'd be called. They are something else. There's moments where like a character will make a choice, and then you'll get a 25-minute flashback of like everything that led up to that moment and you're like, whoa, this is the most dramatic. For example, there was a love story happening between two characters. They don't want to spoil which two.
Starting point is 00:02:06 Right. But one of them is forced to leave because of custom. And the love story between the two of them is told in a flashback that's the most dramatic. The music, you watch the episode of Too Old for this, where I, I, did love in deep space. You know how the music and that was the piano, the soft piano? Same thing, same vibe, except it's in ancient, like, seventh century China, and it is amazing.
Starting point is 00:02:35 I couldn't believe it. Yeah, for those who don't know what I'm talking about, it's called Road to Empress. It's a game where you play as a young woman in China who needs to survive in the royal capital in order to eventually become Empress. and so it's this FMV game and the I'm going to say it someone in China with a
Starting point is 00:02:57 bajillion dollars funded this thing because the value you know how you're like I wonder where the money went in this game like where they put the money it is obvious there are costumes and dance numbers and actors actually acting
Starting point is 00:03:12 and like it is impressive it's very impressive but also over the top see drama style where again people will turn and the lights will change color and there'll be like a glow and it's hilarious i loved every minute of it i did great and you can die frequently the very first choice i made moment one this girl who i hadn't seen like you're entering the royal palace and it's you and a bunch of consorts and you're walking into the palace
Starting point is 00:03:39 and uh one of the girls in the group with you is i guess an old friend and she's like here i brought you this this clip this hair clip it's for good luck because i miss you so much you so much and my father wanted to give this to you, la-da-da. And so you take the hair clip, and then it falls on the ground because you get startled by, I guess, like one of the chief consorts showing up, and she is, to put it nicely,
Starting point is 00:04:05 the biggest bitch on planet Earth. So she rolls in and starts being mean to everyone right away, and she sees the hair clip and says, all right, who does this belong to? You can either say it belongs to me, It belongs to my friend, or one of the girls in the front dropped it. And if you say it belongs to me, she's like, oh my God, which is what I did, because I was like, I don't know what's going to happen. I'm going to own up to it.
Starting point is 00:04:31 It was mine now. Even though my friend just gave it to me, it was a gift, it's mine. So I was like, yes, this is mine. She's like, how dare you have something so, you know, beautiful, unique, or whatever, like this wrong color. I don't remember what she said. Needless to say, she punishes me by having it branded onto my forehead. And then I guess I died from that. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:04:54 It was like, you lose. I was like, oh, all right. So I went back in and I was like, well, I guess it's one of the girls in the front of me. And the girl in front of me, she's like, you'll be branded. I was like, oh, damn. Okay, so no matter what, this is bad because what happened is I recognize that the girl who gave me that knew that was going to happen. And so from moment one, everyone's conniving and backstabbing. Like the girl who said she's my friend from moment one.
Starting point is 00:05:20 wanted to get me out of the competition to be one of the lead consorts and i was like oh that's how we're playing so from that moment that one singular death i went full little finger and was like eff it everyone's going down i'll trust anyone everyone's in my way i will i will make sure everyone pays for this and i did pretty good i over the course of playing only died seven times uh five of my deaths We're literally trying to save a monk And I'm not even going to explain why But I died five times doing that And I'm just going to let you know
Starting point is 00:05:54 I don't think it was worth it And I thought I did fine But then I found out Dodger died 47 times So I feel much better That's insane Yeah That is so many times I mean I will say
Starting point is 00:06:09 I think it's helpful to know Some Chinese history Because I'm a big Dynasty Warriors fan So there's certain things Like there's one choice where in order to get out of trouble, you can try to persuade this, like, court astrologer. I was about to say magician, but he's an astrologer.
Starting point is 00:06:23 And the way I did it was just simply by knowing the rules of dynasty warriors. Like, in that game, shit happens that to anyone outside of, you know, first century China would be like, why would anyone do that? But if you know how the dynastic period was, you're like, oh, no, that's it. And so literally it saved my ass.
Starting point is 00:06:45 So many times. Just knowing the right thing to say because I've heard it said in Dynastew Warriors. I was like, yes, Dynast to Warriors is paying off. It was great. I had a blast. I might actually play that tonight at this point. I think it would enjoy it. You don't have to read anything, mostly because it has subtitles, but they move so quickly that you will not be able to read it out loud.
Starting point is 00:07:10 Oh, God. All right. The good news is that it's very easy to follow what's happening in the story, but like, Yeah, if you ever get to a point where you feel like you need to read something out loud, just take it in, you know, but don't, don't try to read it because by the time you even start reading it, it will have moved on. All right, that sounds, honestly, that sounds like my type of thing. Yeah, the pace is very quick, but it took me like six hours to beat, but it's a pretty quick pace and, uh, there are chapters and stuff and, uh, it's, you'll get, you'll, you'll either die a bunch or you'll get the hang of it very quickly. All right. Yeah, I'm curious.
Starting point is 00:07:47 Maybe I'll be in the middle. I'll have like 20 something. That's... The interesting thing is when you beat it, it gives you... First off, there are tokens and money in the game. And I was like, what the hell is this about? What does this mean? I still don't know what the money does.
Starting point is 00:08:06 Couldn't tell you. But the tokens, when you beat the game, you can use the tokens to vote for with everyone else in the world, else in the world who you think the best characters are. And you can get there's there's a rating of best and worst characters and you can see them on this list and people will just funneling tokens into them, which is interesting. I'll give it that. I've never seen that before. And then at the end when you beat it, this is incredible.
Starting point is 00:08:35 So while you play, you get sort of like a word chart, one of those like word balloon graph things, whatever they're called, the more of a thing you are, the bigger the word. Does that make sense? Yeah, that exists in the game. And at the end of the game, it literally gives you a not star chart, but like a personality test.
Starting point is 00:08:59 Based on the choices, every choice you made throughout the entire game, this is who you are. Is this like all your choices add up to this? Is that what you're saying? Yes, and that's what it says. I have no idea how much of this is accurate. But all your choices right and wrong Apparently equal this thing
Starting point is 00:09:16 And so I don't know what Dodgers was But I do know mine was hilarious I got arsenic Arsonic It said your personality is that of arsenic But in a good way And I was like, what do you mean?
Starting point is 00:09:30 And apparently it's because I'm decisive And I affect those around me And I'm like, like poison? It was one of the funniest things Because it kept trying to be very nice It would be like, like arsenic, those around you feel an overwhelming. I'm like, sense of dread? What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:09:49 And it's like, you change everyone you come in contact with. You're a force to be wrecking with. I'm like, like poison? So yeah, that's what it told me I was, which was very funny. And then it gives you like a pet animal. Mine was a melon child. Melanchil. Like a baby made of melons, dude, dude, I don't do it.
Starting point is 00:10:06 Beat the game. Beat the game and you tell me what you got because it's insane. Again, I don't know what any of this has to do with the, it's an FMV game about 7th century China, but the beginning and end of it is like, do you want to take a personality quiz? Like, I guess. Crazy, crazy game. This game sounds great. I'm all in now. I just bought it for six bucks.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Yeah. Solid, solid purchase. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, I'll check that out. I don't know if I can beat it tonight, but. you can probably not i beat it because i was just like i'm gonna want and done this thing uh and so it took like six hours but that was a fun six hours admittedly laughed the entire time
Starting point is 00:10:53 there are some amazing moments where my jaw just dropped most of me playing is my mouth hanging open like i can't believe i'm watching this huh all right yeah this uh sounds pretty fun i mean i like i enjoyed the fame game because of how dumb it was but this seems like it's actually good so that'll be nice it is dumb in a different way
Starting point is 00:11:16 like it is so dramatic every single choice every single one could end in your death if that if that makes any sense
Starting point is 00:11:26 yeah no I see it isn't it isn't just like you make a choice and something every single choice can kill you
Starting point is 00:11:33 as far as I'm aware it's like Game of Thrones but even crazier dude pure Game of Thrones Every single character By the end I was like
Starting point is 00:11:44 I don't trust any of you Any of you The one character I did trust Was this guy That I kept flirting with To the point where he fell in love with me And I was like I'm gonna use him And that was done pretty well
Starting point is 00:11:53 I had him wrapped around my finger And I used him the entire time And I felt good about it so Nice Yeah Yeah It's good stuff Let's see
Starting point is 00:12:04 I was gonna ask you about Oh that's what it was You tweeted All right There's a tweet You said, sometimes I read comments, I know I know, but tonight I read one that was particularly mean, and out of curiosity, I clicked the person's page. Y'all, I have an amazing story to tell on geek enders, but then geekenders didn't happen. So now it's here.
Starting point is 00:12:31 You want me to tell it to you? I'm still going to tell it on geekenders. You must understand because it's geek under's related. So when I don't listen to right now, you're about to hear the story twice, just being prepared. So, yeah, it was a comment on a geekender's video. Not video, it was a short. But this guy, basically in, I'll use the nice version of what he said, but basically he said, you know, you are terrible, I hate this, I will not be returning,
Starting point is 00:13:00 I'm going to block all your content, here's the reasons why you suck. And it was things like, you know, the title is misleading. that you're using a girl to get views even though it's Dodger. Yeah. And, yeah, he was just like going off. And it was very mean, not like a trolley, just like mean.
Starting point is 00:13:24 And so, I don't know, it just hit me in a way. And I was going to respond and kind of be a dick to him and hit him back with like a dick response. And then I decided, you know, wait, before I do this, This could be like a kid. This could be like a person having a bad day.
Starting point is 00:13:43 This could be any sort of thing. Let me click his profile. So I clicked this dude's profile. And he had a few videos on his YouTube, which is rare. Usually you go to someone and you can see their page and you can see kind of what they like versus what they don't like. Or maybe they don't have anything there and maybe it's like, all right, or whatever. But anyway, went to this guy's page. He had three videos.
Starting point is 00:14:08 Two were years and years old. One was like him playing piano as a kid. You know, like that kind of stuff. But then one of them was him in his room that, look, it was challenging Asmund Gold for gross rooms. Like, it was bad. And he looked a mess, like a mess mess. So immediately I was like, okay, I'm not going to go on in this guy. He's got enough problems.
Starting point is 00:14:36 Right. But for some reason, and the video, by the way, was like him rating characters in a game, right? Yep. It had like 60 views. So, for some reason, I decided to go down and look at the three comments he had. And of those three comments, one of them was asking where he had been. One of them was saying that it was, you know, interesting to see that he was back. and one of them essentially said
Starting point is 00:15:05 you suck this is terrible I don't like this I can't believe you're using roughly what he said to me and he was like this is lazy content and the guy responded thanks for telling me
Starting point is 00:15:21 I don't know who you are and I don't care and it hit me in that moment this dude was going through the exact same thing I was but with him and I was like you know what I'm going to take a you know page out of the playbook of this guy and be like I don't care right I don't know it was just like a weird
Starting point is 00:15:38 full circle thing where this dude who had no one watch like it's 60 people watch this video and even out of 60 someone was like this is lazy you suck this is terrible I'm never going to come back here and I was like that's so crazy there is no there's no level in which you're immune
Starting point is 00:15:54 to being absolutely roasted by randoms on the internet yeah and I mean it's almost like he tried to do YouTube and got those comments and so now he's kind of become that. Yeah, right? Yeah, and that's like what I took away from it. I was like, all right, I'm not going to mess with you, dude.
Starting point is 00:16:10 You, you have taught me a lesson today and I'm going to walk away with this information and appreciate what I just learned here. Yeah. I mean, there's probably a tinge of like just jealousy in there too of like these people are doing all this stuff and like, you know, like, I can do it better and like,
Starting point is 00:16:28 blah, blah, blah, blah, like that type of thing too. Yeah, I don't want to say that the video I did watch of his, that was the, you know, rating characters in video game. I didn't want to say anything, but he did have like, you know, sometimes when people talk, they have that air of, I'm
Starting point is 00:16:44 better than you. Right. Now, imagine that on a guy who did not look it. The guy who definitely needed a hug. This guy, I don't know, it just seemed funny to me that yeah, everyone kind of goes through that, and I shouldn't get,
Starting point is 00:17:00 even the days when a guy will get to me. I should know better. And I was like, all right. All right. Lesson learned universe. I get it. Yeah. And it's, uh, I mean, I've had plenty of those moments. There's three years. I was somebody will say something mean or just like a, you know, whatever. And I'll
Starting point is 00:17:16 click on their profile and just be like, what does this person watch? What are they looking at? And I'm like, all right, that's fine. I see. You just like, you check out what their profile. Even if they haven't made videos, you see what they watch and stuff. I'm like, okay, never mind. I see. I see why this is the way it is.
Starting point is 00:17:33 Yeah, yeah. And it's, it's not one of those things where I'm like, I want everyone to like me. It's, I'm just really curious who would take the time to hate. Does that make any sense? Like, I really want to know, I don't care if you don't like me
Starting point is 00:17:46 and then don't comment and don't watch. Like, whatever, that's life. But the person who takes the time to, not just say like you suck, but the person who takes time to rant at you, I'm like, what have I done to you? What about me set you off personally? Yeah, because it's like they've taken
Starting point is 00:18:00 the time to get upset enough that they're like I need to write something and then they go through with writing it and they post it like there's a lot of people be like oh this sucks and then they'll start writing and be like it's not worth it or like they'll just be like I don't know like I'll just move on it's
Starting point is 00:18:16 honestly one of the one of the parts of the the YouTube streamer job or I mean at this point it's I mean we consider it a job because it is but like there's people just make YouTube videos for fun that deal with that you know or just stream or anything this dude at 60 views and some guy was telling him how bad
Starting point is 00:18:32 sucked yeah so if i saw a person with 60 views i'd be like keep it up keep improving i wouldn't be like you suck like that's a whole other level of hater that's crazy yeah or you just don't say anything right yeah i don't understand it but uh yeah i it was just an interesting observation i had i went to go snoop on someone and discovered like my own i don't know equilibrium my own like all right come down Jesse it doesn't matter yeah it's the it's just the projection
Starting point is 00:19:06 of what they're doing and then you just you realize it there's a lot of that yeah I mean that's just anytime you put yourself out there no matter what it is you're going to get that type of thing at least like a couple of those oh I found an interesting
Starting point is 00:19:24 Reddit post that I wanted to read you all right it's not one of those weird ones someone makes up a whole story about how like my ex cheated on me with 85 guys but I still love her what should I do it's none of those um this one is about superpowers and pills and I wanted to learn more about you because I feel like I know the answer
Starting point is 00:19:46 but I don't know that I do because there's a lot of options all right all right okay you may only choose one of these pills all right okay don't pick yet just take the time to listen and think in your head. All right. One, strength.
Starting point is 00:20:04 Increases your general strength, endurance, and athleticism. You may lift tons. Deliver denting blows and run faster than a vehicle. You're almost resistant to all physical injuries. Intelligence.
Starting point is 00:20:21 Exponentially increase your intellect. You may learn the content of a book just by looking at it. You are more decisive and, and you're also a great tactician. Then there's immunity. You are immune to every known or unknown disease. Your blood is the cure to cancer.
Starting point is 00:20:41 You have perfect vision, hearing, etc. Then there's psyche. You are a psychic. This ability allows you to foresee the future. You may also read the minds of individuals. You may lift items with your mind that are up to two times your own weight. you may directly talk with your target through telepathy. Then there's elemental.
Starting point is 00:21:05 Become one with nature. The elements are with you rather than against you. You will never need to be hot or cold. You'll never be too hot and you'll never be too cold. Fire or any sort of harmful element will never harm you. Your lungs will not yield to limited breathing time. You may control or bend only one element at a time, But you can also talk to animals.
Starting point is 00:21:30 Then time travel gives you the ability to travel back in the past. Be cautious, though, changing the past can dangerously affect the future. Then, for some insane reason, assassin. You are the perfect assassin. You know everything about moving in the dark. You may also see in the dark. You are granted one hour every day to move invisibly. You also gain a sixth sense.
Starting point is 00:21:56 You may detect movement from feet away, and you are able to see through objects. Then, of course, flying. You are granted the ability to fly or levitate. You can never grow tired, and you may conceal your wings. Which one would you choose? Strength, first one. Easy. I felt that as well.
Starting point is 00:22:23 And here's the thing. I really thought about this. And I felt strength, honestly, I thought you were thinking, you know, strength or immunity, one of those two. But I feel like immunity is a curse. Exactly. If you're immune to everything and your blood is the cure for cancer, they will dissect the hell out of you. Yeah, you're a science fiction movie, wait in the heaven. Yeah, they're going to come to.
Starting point is 00:22:46 Intelligence. Yeah, and then you'll just suffer forever. Intelligence, I feel like, could be fun. But also just, I don't like where it says you're more logical. Sometimes I don't want to be logical. Sometimes I want my flights of fancy, but whatever. Psychic powers, the only good thing there is for me. It says you can lift twice your weight.
Starting point is 00:23:06 So the however you are, the better advantage you have in life. Right. But with that said, everything else, like, I don't want to read people's minds. Like, that sounds terrible. I don't want, I'd be like, everyone's talking shit. Elemental? I mean, all right. That could be fun.
Starting point is 00:23:21 But the problem is one element at a time. I want all four. I want to, like, avatar that. Time travel is too dangerous. Perfect assassin. I don't understand why. Although being able to see through objects, that's pretty fun. Flying, I get hit by a plane.
Starting point is 00:23:34 Strength is the way to go. I'm with you completely on this. Yeah, because, I mean, you'll be healthy enough to do what you want. I mean, you can, you know, you can still learn intelligence stuff. You won't have super intelligence, but, you know, you'll feel good, be able to do what you want. You know, you're not immortal. Nobody's going to be harvesting your blood. Like, it's great.
Starting point is 00:23:54 You are faster than. a vehicle. That's how fast you can run. That's wild. I mean, I wouldn't need to, I would just run. I wouldn't, I wouldn't take the car anywhere at that point. If I, if I have amazing strength and endurance and athleticism and I could punch
Starting point is 00:24:09 things and dent, stuff, like no, I would, that's the way to go. Yeah. No, I agree. Plus you're resistant to almost every physical injury. Yeah. No, there's no reason not to take that one. Unless maybe you're, literally the only choice for me. Like maybe
Starting point is 00:24:25 if you're already a strong person but even then I feel like you would just be like oh I could be even stronger and more resistant yeah yeah that's gotta be the choice if you could get away with the immunity one without people knowing I take that
Starting point is 00:24:40 because I feel like that's like the perfect thing is you have perfect vision perfect hearing perfect everything you're immune to every disease unknown and known this is one of those things where you live to be 200 years old
Starting point is 00:24:52 yes but you'd like have a good time doing it. But with that said, again, the minute you go to a doctor one time, you would never be able to go to a doctor again. Oh, yeah. The minute they take a blood sample, if you got an accident, you're done, you're done. They would be like, you have cancer curing blood and they'd be like, give us all your blood. They'd be, they would take you away. Yeah, you'd be taken away. Even if there was just, you were being used for like the elite. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, you would, you'd be stuck somewhere and they'd have wires in you all day. Yeah. No, no thanks.
Starting point is 00:25:25 I just want to know. I just want to know what you would choose because I figured it would be strength but immunity was a close second. Yeah, no, I as soon as I heard the immunity, I was like, it's a curse. No, I would
Starting point is 00:25:39 take that in a heartbeat. Just being able to just have the strength, the ability, like just being strong and like not injured and especially now. I would love that. It would be fantastic. I figured that's the one you would pick
Starting point is 00:25:52 simply because the no injury. Yeah. No, I could I mean, I guess you wouldn't have to like even work out because you'd already be strong But like then you could just work out And like have a good time doing it Do what you want
Starting point is 00:26:04 Sure I wonder if it changes your physique That's the real thing Like could you just be like The Blob, the X-Men, the blob Like just like a big fat dude Who just like wrecks buildings Doesn't matter how you look
Starting point is 00:26:18 Could you be like a little tiny skinny boy And then like you know Punch through a wall Or does it automatically make you just jacked. That's a good question. Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't really say.
Starting point is 00:26:30 Yeah, I guess it would just make you have sort of like the force of an ant. Yeah. Where even, no matter what your size is, you are exponentially more powerful than your size. Yeah. No, I can see that. I don't know. No, I like, uh, I like that one. I think with a lot of superpower type things, it always feels like there's one or two that
Starting point is 00:26:52 just stand out and all the others are just kind of like, It'd be cool to have, but not make your main superpower. Absolutely. So, like, if you could, like, if you remove strength, maybe then, take, like, nature or something? I don't know. Yeah, I might, I might do the, uh, yeah, if there was, if there was one that let me, like the psyche one, like the psychic powers,
Starting point is 00:27:21 I might do that. Yeah. Is that? Once you remove the, uh, yeah. the primary one, then it's like, all right, which one of these, like, others that aren't like the meta pick are you going to think? Oh, no. What else did you do this week? That's all I did, really. What did you get up to? Uh, let's see. I honestly just mainly worked on some videos, uh, did some streams, did some, uh, yeah, what else did we do? Oh yeah, we went to my
Starting point is 00:27:50 friends like October Fest pig roast thing. That was fun. I did see a, photo of you on Instagram that was just your face looking down at the camera like a psychopath and you're like I'm October fest and I was like cool yeah
Starting point is 00:28:06 dude I love a I love a good beer festival did you have like German beer girls or was it just friends at a house well that was just friends at a house and then there was also like another October fest
Starting point is 00:28:23 that we went to It was like an actual, like, fest thing that had the people dressed up and stuff. So that was cool, too. That's fun. I assume we have a lot of that in a Chicago area. There's a lot of those. There's a lot of German people here. People like to drink here, even if they're not German.
Starting point is 00:28:42 Yeah, we have a German, like, sausage place that's doing an October Fest thing here in L.A. But other than that, not really happening. Huh, yeah. No, we have, like, we have so many. Pover Fest things here. Like they happened like constantly. So it was uh, it was cool. I will say I'm definitely done drinking for a while. I can believe that. Yeah. You just, you just have so much beer and it's fun. And then you're like, all right, I think I'm done. There's plenty of people that keep going. But I mean, I didn't have like that many. I had like three, four beer.
Starting point is 00:29:20 You know? But even that, it's like, I don't, I'm not. not a type of person that likes getting actually drunk. I just, I'm more of a person, I just like, I like buzz. Like, I'd rather have one, two, beer, and then be like, hey, I'm good. If you got drunk, I imagine you just hurt yourself in some way. Oh, I
Starting point is 00:29:39 probably would. Like, you'd trip and fall and you'd shatter, like a, like a plate. Yeah, no, I probably would. Something bad would definitely happen. Yeah, it's, no, always, uh,
Starting point is 00:29:53 always just one, two, beer. you know one two one two wine now I'm good don't need any more than that and then uh because I mean even then I did have my three four beer and it's just like you get you get like you know like hungover hunger but like you get like a headache you feel kind of like the next day type of thing
Starting point is 00:30:12 or even like later that night my big issue is that for some reason no other drink does this beer makes me sleepy oh I don't know why if I have I don't know I think it might be because it's just also
Starting point is 00:30:28 more filling. I don't exactly know why, but if I have, you know, three, four beer I won't be happy drunk. I'll be like, what am I take a nap? Like, that's where I get. Yeah. Anything else? I'm just like
Starting point is 00:30:44 hey, we're at a party. I'm fine. But the minute I drink beer, it's like, oh, God. Maybe someone else should drive Like that's how I could It's got to be I mean I think
Starting point is 00:30:59 I mean Is beer like the highest carb Maybe I would imagine so Yeah But yeah like one beer fine Two beer fine The minute we start to get into three or four
Starting point is 00:31:13 Suddenly I'm like Okay Why do I do this I couldn't tell you I don't know why that happens No other drink Does that to me at all I'm trying to figure out
Starting point is 00:31:28 I mean I'm like why does beer make you sleep either like alcohol is in it like obviously yeah well I mean like yeah and it's not that high of a content of alcohol yeah I just think it's something about like the carb plus bubbles plus you know like I don't know I have no real explanation for it
Starting point is 00:31:48 if I did I probably would have solved my problem by now It does say hops can make you a bit sleepier So it is possible Yeah I'm literally looking at the thing right now that says The hops have sedative properties Yeah I did not know that
Starting point is 00:32:09 Interesting That's pretty That's pretty It's true There are other alcohols where you don't feel that Not even remotely There are plenty of alcohol out there I'm like
Starting point is 00:32:20 Yeah it was great Love that. But beer, for some reason, just does it to me. And I'll be like, okay, well, this is a bit fun. Yeah, wine doesn't do that. Like, a tequila won't do that. A vodka won't do that. Like a rum won't do that.
Starting point is 00:32:36 I don't know, you know what, maybe like a bourbon or a whiskey might. But I couldn't tell you why that is either. Yeah, I don't know. That could. But I also don't drink bourbon or whiskey often. That's like maybe a once a year thing for me. It could just be in the situation you're in. Yeah, it might be.
Starting point is 00:32:56 Because I'm not, that's not, they're not my favorite. Even though I know a lot of people love them and they swear by it as like their go-to drink, it's not, it's not for me. Yeah. It's, uh, honestly, I always feel the worst after really sugary drinks, like the mixed drinks or stuff. Those are always the worst. Yeah, if I get like, uh, I don't, I used to be like, give me the weird fruity drink. And now, I don't know what happened to me. Taste bud wise, honestly, it might be drinking so much water.
Starting point is 00:33:27 Taste bud wise, I'm like, ugh, that tastes like I'm drinking a sugar cube. Yeah. I think it's like the combination, too. It's like alcohol plus sugar just feels, it's like a lot. Yeah. Like at least if you have like beer or wine or, you know, something by itself, it's not as, I don't know, it doesn't feel as intense with the sugar hit. Like that makes me the sleepiest and feel worse.
Starting point is 00:33:51 in general so yeah wait how did we get here you were drinking that's all we got here yeah that's right so uh yeah that was fun good time
Starting point is 00:34:04 uh yeah it always like that always kind of initiates fall for me as well like you start the October fest even though we're in September which is kind of weird but that always feels like the start of fall it's a bit cooler outside and I mean I'm ready for fall
Starting point is 00:34:19 I'm ready for fall and the colder weather. I'm tired of the heat. Yeah, my one time of year is when I come to Chicago for the live show and I freeze my ass off for three days. Yeah, that sounds about right. And I'm like, well, that was enough of that.
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Starting point is 00:37:20 Crenor, how's that traffic out there? Oh, man, traffic. It's still pretty crazy right now. So watch out for that traffic. A lot of people trying to go to the gas stations, get gas. You know, I'll tell you what, I went to gas the other day, and it was like one gas station, it was like $3.80. I was like, what the heck?
Starting point is 00:37:38 And I went to another one. It was like $2.90. I was like, oh, what? All these gas stations got different prices. I don't get. it, but I got gas at that one, and so did many other people, because it was packed. Back to you. Thanks, Krendor.
Starting point is 00:37:51 I imagine that's one of those situations where the guys who's like, it'll be 380, and then everyone goes to 290, and then the 290 guy is like, well, I got more gas and 380 guy's like, oh, now it's $4. You know what I mean? Like, that seems like some long con game. I think some of it's also just the location. I think some people, they'll, like, put it in high populated spots. Then they'll just be like, I guess all those good guys here, right?
Starting point is 00:38:19 So then it ends up working out. So they're like, nice, I can charge more. There is an infamous gas station here in L.A. That's in Beverly Hills. And because it's in Beverly Hills, they charge, I don't know, $3 more than everyone else. Right. Crazy that that gas station exists. That is crazy.
Starting point is 00:38:36 Yeah, it's like they get the money for it and people pay it. So they're just like, hey, screw it. Gross, but yeah. Yeah, um, that's the traffic. Okay, let's go to weather. Weather! We've got 15 weather requests today. Holding down the key, let's see where we land on, we'll be landing on.
Starting point is 00:39:01 Uh, weather request, Jidnia, Poland. It is a seaside city surrounded by dense and unbothered forest. Great place to live. Crendor, unrelated note, I gently but firmly urge you to play Warhammer, Dark Omen, Old School Warhammer game with shitty graphics, but great mechanics and engaging charm to the death. All right. Let's see. Gidnia.
Starting point is 00:39:24 How do you spell Gidnia? G-D-Y-N-I-A. Now that I know how it's spelled, I'm so curious if that's how it's pronounced. You know what I mean? Probably not. Because it never is. Poland, no matter what you think it's pronounced, I promise you it's not pronounced that way. It's probably like Zubnyrdwych.
Starting point is 00:39:42 I don't know what this is, but... Okay. Uh, all right, here we are. In Jidnia, Poland, we've got... Loading. Loading? Loading? Loading?
Starting point is 00:39:58 Dude, apparently nobody's loaded the Jinnia weather today. It's taken like 10 years to load these. Uh, hold on. Hold on. There it is. Feels like 60 degrees, but it's 62 degrees. 6.31 a.m. sunrise, 64 p.m. sunset. 70% humidity, pressure, 29.86 inches, visibility, 10 miles. 14 mile an hour winds. 2.54. UV index 0 in a new moon phase. Looks like it's raining right now as well. It's going to be raining through the night for a bit. Then we've got tomorrow Monday a.m. rain 60 degrees. Tuesday, 58, partly cloudy. Wednesday, 58, partly cloudy. Thursday, 57, mostly sunny. Fridays, 58 and sunny. Saturday, mostly sunny. 60 degrees. You got your Sunday at 59, partly cloudy, Monday, 57. And pretty much around 60 and partly cloudy most days. Very nice.
Starting point is 00:40:57 You know, I was going to go look and see what kind of restaurants or whatever they had there, but I was immediately distracted by the large selection of museum. and one of them is the museum of the Second World War. And the outside is this orange kind of slanted, I guess, like on its side pyramid thing. I don't even know what I'm looking at. Very bizarre looking building. But on the inside, it is so cool. I've never seen a World War II exhibit where it looks like the battlefield. Yeah, that is actually really cool.
Starting point is 00:41:33 Wow. It looks like you're walking through a street that has been destroyed during the war. And there's like a tank and rubble everywhere. But it's like on the inside, it's fascinating. I've never, like what a way to bring history to life. That is so neat looking. Yeah, that is a while. I see that too.
Starting point is 00:41:53 I'm looking around. Yeah. Like they, I mean, they have some of the absolute sadder parts where it's like, you can see all the Nazi memorabilia. and things of like the Holocaust stuff but then they also have parts of the city, air quote city this fake city they are maybe it's what's left over of a thing
Starting point is 00:42:13 I don't know but there's parts where it's still operational or like made to look that way so you can see the difference between when it was destroyed and not like this is what a fascinating building I am thoroughly impressed yeah no it's crazy and that's just one of them
Starting point is 00:42:31 There's an entire, there's a National Maritime Museum. There's the Deja Vu Museum. There's the museum, no, rod, oh boy. Narada, Narada, Naradv. Junk, Junk, sure. There's a, another, it's like a rock museum, museum of music of some sort. There's so many other museums that I literally cannot. the European Solidarity Center
Starting point is 00:43:03 Thank God for the English on that one There's like a whole row of there's so many museums Huh That's pretty well But what is the Mondantovnia I assume that W is a Montavia
Starting point is 00:43:19 Food Hall Yo shout to the food hall Okay This is a spot This food hall is just like one of those places where you can get kind of whatever you want. And I love those. I love places like that.
Starting point is 00:43:37 It's like Grand Central Market downtown downtown. Oh, yeah. That is cool. Yeah, I love these kinds of places. But better. Yeah. But like all the food, the pizza there looks so good. The ramen and the sushi and looks like there's Greek and or steaks.
Starting point is 00:43:53 Oh, yeah. That looks good. See, that's the kind of stuff I love. I love this kind of stuff. When I was in, last time I was in Poland, I went to a convention. And at the end, we went to a food hall that was in an old, oh boy, like an old train station. And they converted into a food hall slash nightclub. And we were there at night.
Starting point is 00:44:13 And so all the food hall, like all the ticket stalls where you buy tickets back in the day are now restaurants that you would go in order from. And then there was like a dance hall area and stuff. That's the place where I infamously had to go to the bathroom, but they ran on toilet paper. So I had to walk like a crab. from one stall to the other while there was just a layer of I'm going to assume water but I hope it was water on the floor
Starting point is 00:44:40 Oh yeah I remember this story Yeah that was that place So there you go That's I know what unabashedly love these kinds of things I love it when they have toilet paper but you know like yeah Yeah You know
Starting point is 00:44:54 Oh that's cool This place kind of has Is very hip with the Kids. There's a place called Lolo Tyjolo. First off, that's awesome. That sounds like a Final Fantasy 14 Lola Fell. Yeah, that looks really good.
Starting point is 00:45:13 There's a place called Secret Room. Stop this. One of their desserts is a flower pot. That's so creative. Oh, I love that. So it's a flower pot with a chocolate. The flower pot is a chocolate shell. and inside they have like a cocoa thing
Starting point is 00:45:33 I'm watching this girl break it down and oh that looks like so much fun oh I love having fun with food this secret room looks like an absolute go there with your friends and get drunk while you eat weird food that looks like it would be from a Michelin Star restaurant that does sound pretty great yeah oh that's cute I love that
Starting point is 00:45:56 but again very trendy this whole area area. There's like a chain, a fast food chain I've never heard of called Zabka. Is it, is it a, um, is it like a, uh, a Polish themed chain? It just kind of looks like a convenience store. I'm looking at Zabka right now. It's not what I thought it was. I keep thinking, yeah, it does look at a convenience store. There's a rest, so when I was in Warsaw years ago with Dodger, I remember we went to CD Project. And while we were in, there, the first night we went out to go find like, yeah, let's go
Starting point is 00:46:33 get some Polish food. Let's go get something like you know, we'll get some I don't know, like a weird soup or something. And we ended up going this one place and we got progi, we got a split piece soup that had like a sausage hanging above it that you could cut and dip in the soup. Whatever
Starting point is 00:46:50 the case may be, we loved it. We thought it was delicious. We went to the CD project offices the next day and they were like, oh, so what did you do last night? We told them and we said, oh yeah, we went to this place. It was so good. We'd loved it. Like, that was real good Polish food. And everyone was like, that's basically the Taco Bell of Poland.
Starting point is 00:47:06 Where do you ate at? And I was like, I don't care. That was delicious. That was exactly what I wanted. Sometimes you want Taco Bell. Exactly. Sometimes you want Taco Bell. Everyone's always like, that's not real Mexican food. I'm like, yeah, that's why I'm getting it. If I had real Mexican food, I go get it. I just found this outdoor pub,
Starting point is 00:47:26 I assume that says bar and restaurant, PG4. Gdunsk I don't know But like I'm looking at This is so interesting So you know how you can get a flight of beers Right
Starting point is 00:47:39 Yeah Well here a flight of beers Is also served with four little Bight size bites That are paired with the beer Oh Like that's fun That is fun
Starting point is 00:47:51 That's pretty cool Yeah The last time I drank in Poland I had a cherry beer And it was the best beer I had it forever And now that's all I think about and oh well
Starting point is 00:48:01 say Levy. Not a thing we have here in L.A., that's for sure. You'd think you would. You would think. I've looked. Can't find it. That's the weather. Okay, let's go to sports. Sports.
Starting point is 00:48:18 Here's sports time. Sports. We got football happening right now. I was watching it earlier. today we had the Packers lose to the Browns in terrible implosion fashion. We had the Jaguars beat the Texans, the Panthers shut out, the Falcons, the Washington commanders beat the Las Vegas Raiders, Buccaneers beat the Jets, Eagles beat the Rams,
Starting point is 00:48:50 Steelers beat the Patriots, Vikings beat the Bengals, Colts beat the Titans, and on Thursday night, the Bills beat the Dolphins. and other games are still occurring right now and other games are still occurring we got baseball staying things we're getting close to playoff baseball actually playoffs playoffs we got the let's check the old
Starting point is 00:49:17 we got the blue jays are in the Phillies are in the Brewers the Cubs and the Dodgers of all clinch playoff spots then for wild card stuff we've got Yankees red socks ass Astros, Guardians, all battling it out in the American League and National League. We've got Padres, Reds, and Mets, and Diamondbacks all battling it out for the last spots. And then you got the Tigers in first with the Guardians game back, Mariners in first with the Astros two games back.
Starting point is 00:49:45 And Padres three and a half back of the Dodgers, they probably won't get there. But this is the fun part. Now the games actually matter. And that's sports. Okay. Talk to me about our fact of the day. Fact of the day Fact
Starting point is 00:50:05 I may have done this one a while ago But I do think it's interesting Especially because we've just We were watching some Disney movie stuff Many Disney characters wear gloves To keep animation simple Huh That's right
Starting point is 00:50:22 What do you mean like thick gloves Or finger gloves? Because I imagine the finger gloves Wouldn't change from hands Like the Mickey Mouse Gloves. Okay, all right. It says, Walt Disney might have been the first to put gloves on his characters as seen in 1929's Opry House starring Mickey Mouse. The gloves distinguished Mickey's hands from his body and became part of the official stage costume.
Starting point is 00:50:44 But in addition to being easier to animate, there's a reason for the gloves. In the Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's animated characters, Disney was quoted as saying, we didn't want him to have mouse hands because he was supposed to be more human, so we gave him gloves. I guess that makes sense You don't really think about that But yeah At a certain point Having
Starting point is 00:51:06 The gloves sets them apart as Yeah if you saw their weird hands You'd be creeped out Yeah Because like And a lot of the characters do have Like Mickey has it Mini Goofy has the glove hands
Starting point is 00:51:19 So many characters have it Yeah All the mice characters did Mm-hmm Goofy Does Max have gloves? I think so. Max has gloves, dude.
Starting point is 00:51:35 Yeah. Wow, I just thought Max was like a normal. Yeah, I guess you don't think about the gloves. Yeah. It's, uh, I'm looking through now you can see. We watched, uh, we watched the goofy movie. Yeah. PJ and Pete both have gloves.
Starting point is 00:51:52 Yeah, like they all have gloves. Hold on. Hold on. Oh, beret girl in the movie. does not. And I think that's because she is completely a lighter-skinned character.
Starting point is 00:52:05 Oh, maybe. PJ, for example, is some sort of animal. I don't know what he's supposed to be, but he clearly has like a face color and then like rest of his body color. Yeah. And this girl, which I think is by the way, hilarious. I just want to point out for the record,
Starting point is 00:52:21 it's so funny to me that in all animation, the male characters are the goofiest weirdest-looking things, but every female character is the sexiest thing that ever existed in that it's so funny. But yeah, the beret girl that he meets that he like rizzes up in that one scene
Starting point is 00:52:37 in Goof Troop, she's wearing a black turtleneck and a beret, but she has red hair and the rest of her, except for her nose, looks like a human being. Her nose is kind of like a dog nose, but the rest of her just looks like it, yeah, okay. I assume Roxanne is the exact same way.
Starting point is 00:52:57 Yeah, Roxanne is the exact same way? Yeah. That's so funny. So yeah, no gloves for Roxanne, I guess because, except for her nose, she could pass as a human being. Yeah. No, that's definitely crazy. That is so weird. I didn't even realize that.
Starting point is 00:53:13 I just watched all these. That's, yeah, you don't. You don't think about it. Yeah, even Stacy, their friend, they're weird, like a nerdy friend. She, she has, she's just a normal girl, except she has kind of like, like an animal face a little bit but then yeah
Starting point is 00:53:29 her body is just but PJ the guy who's played I don't know his name of the guy who's played like you know
Starting point is 00:53:35 like a scrimmage buddy that guy Paulie Shore the Paulsher character he literally has gloves too
Starting point is 00:53:44 uh yeah look at that yeah I didn't really whoa Roxanne's dad doesn't have gloves
Starting point is 00:53:52 oh yeah and he's a bulldog dad's I don't Well, I don't even understand the rules. It's so bizarre. I wonder if it's just because they don't animate them as much, so they didn't give them gloves.
Starting point is 00:54:03 It's like the main characters they have to animate all the time. They just give gloves. I guess, yeah, maybe. Interesting. I guess that would make sense. Yeah. Look at that. It's pretty wild.
Starting point is 00:54:14 By the way, I don't know why Roxanne isn't in the second goofy movie. Like, they get together. Like, she doesn't even make a cameo. You think she'd have a cameo in it. I mean, great, great question. I only say that because we watched both of them the other day. And we were just like, wait, what? Like, why is she in this one?
Starting point is 00:54:33 Yeah, I don't know. Why did they make a, you know, a Cars movie without Lightning McQueen? I don't know. Yeah. Sometimes they do weird stuff. That's your fact of the day. Okay, who has come to us with tears in their eyes? We've got tears in eyes.
Starting point is 00:54:54 Whoa. Oh, dear, gorsh. Get the tears out of your eyes, Gould. Dear, illustrious, sirs, with tears in my eyes, I have been a long-time listener of your podcast since 2013 when I was trying to find what to listen to on my hour-long daily bus ride. I never had to listen to a podcast before and thought I would give you a try, and yours was one of the first I ever listened to, and I've never missed an episode. Oh, that's good. My question is, what are some podcasts you would recommend? Oh. I used to listen to podcasts all the time
Starting point is 00:55:27 But most of them have fallen off Like I think How do this get made Still every once in a while makes an episode But if you've never listened to it It's definitely one of those ones to go back and listen to again Just because it's always fun to listen to really talented comedians Roast Bad Movies
Starting point is 00:55:44 The Conan O'Brien's show is hilarious Just flat out hilarious His podcast is very funny I listen to the Bill Burr podcast sometimes Bill Burr podcast is very, very good Yeah, yeah, that's a fun one too That man goes off And I'm like, yes, Bill, do it
Starting point is 00:56:01 Yeah, that's kind of my vibe When it comes to podcasts I don't know if you're like a Yeah, I don't know what you're looking for Because there's so many now There's a billion podcast, yeah The problem that I have is half of them Are literally what we were kind of doing
Starting point is 00:56:19 earlier this episode which is people just the whole thing is all right so I was on Reddit and I saw this thing what's your vibe like that's most podcasts now or podcasts where it's like a gimmick
Starting point is 00:56:32 like that one girl who her whole thing was she interviewed people but like did it oh yeah so who are you why do you like that kind of I'm like I don't care um yeah I think
Starting point is 00:56:44 probably the most active one that I still listen to frequently is Conan's but uh I guess that's it for me Do you have any? It's like the Bill Burr podcast I'd listen to I used to listen like every week
Starting point is 00:56:59 and now I'm kind of like every once in a while and then it's like Warhammer podcast I would listen to like Warhammer Weekly was good when I was playing Warhammer more but like I think I'm just not a big podcast person I think because a lot of people listen like on their way to work and stuff and I don't have to do that
Starting point is 00:57:17 like on the way to school or whatever. So, like, I just, I don't really listen to podcast that much because there's, like, nowhere I'm really going. Usually, if I'm, like, driving somewhere, it's not, like, that long, or I'll just listen to music or the radio or sports or something. Like, I don't know. I don't really listen to any podcast, like, consistently is what I want to say. But, like, there's podcasts I'll, like, see and tune into occasionally and be like, oh, it's cool or, like, different topics, but I never really consistently listen. Yeah, like, I mean, if you're asking Jesse, what other podcasts are you guys in?
Starting point is 00:57:54 Crendor has a sports podcast he does every once in a while. I do geekenders and Chuluminati and I have a Star Wars Book Club podcast. Like, we have other things if you want to listen to more of us. But yeah, honestly, for me, I spend a lot of time. Like, I recently just downloaded a audio book to listen to in the car only because this, there was a show that used to be on TV called Flash Forward. And it only had a few episodes, but premise-wise was fascinating where, like, there was just a day where everyone on planet Earth blacked out and saw the future. Except it wasn't everyone. Some people saw nothing.
Starting point is 00:58:30 And so from that moment on, everything in society kind of collapses. People who didn't see anything think that they're going to die. That's why they didn't see the future, that kind of thing. And it's chaos, right? And it was a TV show that had a cool premise and then it was canceled. And I only just recently discovered there is a book. that it's based off of. And so I downloaded the book to listen to it and was like,
Starting point is 00:58:50 oh, so now I'm going through the book. And by the way, nothing like the TV show. I don't know what they were thinking with the TV show. I was like, the book is so much better. What are we doing? All right. Next, we've got, Dear illustrious sirs, with tears in my eyes
Starting point is 00:59:06 and smears on my thighs because I can't eat pizza pie. Okay, yep. Yep, good rhyming. As two pristine gentlemen who have dabbled in the MMO genre for big part of your life, in recent times. There have been a big move of wild streamers leaving wild and starting to play old school runescape. So my question is this.
Starting point is 00:59:22 Have you ever played old school runescape or could you see yourself trying it out in the future? Have you ever played it? I played actual runescape back in the day. Yeah, I have to. I played actual runescape back in the day. I have no desire to go back. I don't either.
Starting point is 00:59:37 But just like how I have no desire to go back to wow. Like once I move on, I move on from something. I don't like have fond feelings for stuff. I will literally go back and watch either you, you or Nobel or or, you know, Belular or Preacher, any of the countless other Bajira, anyone else
Starting point is 00:59:54 playing, wow, I'll go back and just watch you play, rather than play it myself. I, I mean, I'll play old things if I'm like, yo, like going back, having football, like I didn't really get into Roonscape, is my thing. Like, I played it for a bit. I remember
Starting point is 01:00:10 walking around, like, chopping trees and fishing and, like, doing some stuff like that, and then dying and losing everything I head and I was just like I'm just going to play while that was just kind of what I did so I mean I played it but I didn't really get into it so I feel like if I got into it back then maybe I'd want to play it but I just I just don't care that much but I do think it's cool that it's a thing and it's like happening like I think that is cool yeah I have no problem with people going it the idea of someone ditching a game to go play another game I'm like I don't have fun play what you want like that doesn't affect me at all um Yeah, I don't think I would go back Just like how I wouldn't go back to EverQuest Or Final Fantasy 11 or any of the older MMO RPGs Just like I wouldn't do Ultima online again
Starting point is 01:00:56 Right Yeah I just I have moved on from that phase of those And even from Wow Because wow requires a lot of grinding And Final Fantasy 14 is very Casual friendly
Starting point is 01:01:09 Like you don't have to play much In order to get a lot out of it And that's exactly what I want Because then I wouldn't be able to spend six hours playing some Chinese drama sim game. Yeah. That's Dear Lusterouser's search. All right.
Starting point is 01:01:28 What's our big news story of the day? Big news story of the day. Day. Day. Scientists who studied if striped cows attract fewer flies win weird research prize. Huh? That's what I said.
Starting point is 01:01:51 A team of researchers from Japan wondered if painting cows the zebra-like stripes would prevent flies from biting them. Another group from Africa and Europe pondered the types of pizza lizards preferred to eat. Those researchers were honored Thursday in Boston with an IG-L-G-Nobal-the-Prize, a handmade model of a human stomach
Starting point is 01:02:14 for comical scientific achievement. In lieu of big paycheck, each winner was also given a single hand wipe. When I did this experiment, I hope that I would win the IGLG noble. It's my dream, unbelievable, just unbelievable, said Tomoki Kojima, whose team put tape on Japanese beef cows
Starting point is 01:02:33 and then sprayed painted them with white stripes. Kojima appeared on stage in stripes and was surrounded by his fellow researchers who harassed them with cardboard flies. As a result of the paint job, fewer flies were attracted to the cows and they seemed less bothered by the flies. Despite the findings,
Starting point is 01:02:49 Kojima admitted it might be a challenge to apply this approach on a large scale. This year's winner, honored in 10 categories, also included a group from Europe that found drinking alcohol sometimes improved a person's ability to speak a foreign language and a researcher who studied fingernail growth for decades.
Starting point is 01:03:06 That just reminds me I watched the Simpson episode the other day and then Otto gets his license taken away and he's trying to study and he's like, uh, alcohol makes you drive worse. What the hell? Every great discovery ever at first glance seems screwy and laughable. Mark Abraham's master of ceremonies and editor of the magazine said in an email interview
Starting point is 01:03:30 ahead of the award ceremony. The same is true of every worthless discovery. The LG Nobel Prize celebrates all these discoveries because at the very first glance, who really knows? The annual LG is this IG or LG? I think it's, oh it's IG, okay IG Nobel Prize Ceremony is organized by the annals of
Starting point is 01:03:50 Improbable Research A digital So it's a catalog of just weird research? It's a digital magazine that highlights research that makes people laugh and think It's usually held weeks before the actual Nobel Prizes are announced
Starting point is 01:04:06 Gotcha, okay The ceremony to celebrate Winters Thursday night at Boston University began with a long time tradition, the audience pelting the stage with paper airplanes. Several of those who couldn't attend had their speeches read by actual Nobel laureates, including Esther Duflo, Duffalo, who won the Nobel Prize for her experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. There's also a mini opera about gastroenterologists and their patients, inspired by this year's theme, which is digestion. Several people sang about all
Starting point is 01:04:37 the challenges of treating stomach bugs and being fetid by patients who bring them pizza and chili dogs. There's also a section called the 24-second lecture where top researchers explain their work in 24 seconds. Among them was Gus Rankator, who spent most of his time licking an ice cream cone and repeatedly saying, yum, and Tricia Patricia Patricia, who explained her work studying smartphone use on a toilet and potential risk for hemorrhoids. When any winner appeared to be rambling on too long, a man wearing a dress over his suit would appear at their side and repeatedly yell, please stop, I'm bored. Other winters this year included a group from India that studied whether foul-smelling shoes influenced someone's experience using a shoe rack and researchers from the United States and Israel who explored whether eating Teflon is a good way to increase food volume.
Starting point is 01:05:26 There's also a team of international scientists that looked at whether giving alcohol to bats impaired their ability to fly. It's a great honor for us, said Francisco Sanchez, one of the researchers from Columbia who studied the drunken bats. It's really good. You can see scientists are not really square and super serious and can have fun while showing interest in science. Sanchez said their research found the bats weren't fans of rotten fruit, which often has higher concentrations of alcohol. Maybe for good reason. When they were forced to eat it, they're flying and the echolocation suffered. They actually got drunk, similar to us.
Starting point is 01:05:58 When you take some ethanol, you move slower and your speech is impaired. Among the most animated of the winners was a team of researchers from several European countries who studied the physics of pasta sauce. One of the researchers wore a cook's outfit with a fake mustache. to accept the award while another dressed as a big ball of mozzarella cheese and got pummeled by several people holding wooden cookware.
Starting point is 01:06:21 They ended. Genuine question, do you think people will be more into science if this is the science that they were given on a daily basis? I think so. This is like, this reminds me of like the Bill Nye and like Beekman of the 90s. This is very Beakman, yes.
Starting point is 01:06:36 Yeah, it's like wacky science, but still kind of interesting. Like you're still learning something. what the hell they ended by handing out bowls of pasta to the Nobel laureates there it is amazing amazing
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