Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 479 - Weirder Science
Episode Date: September 22, 2025The 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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E-hah.
You sound so excited.
Always I am.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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?
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.
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.
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
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
like it is so
dramatic
every single
choice
every single one
could end in your death
if that
if that makes any sense
yeah
no I see
it isn't
it isn't just like
you make a choice
and something
every single
choice can kill you
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
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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,
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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,
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Yep.
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All right, let's go to chopper six and guys.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
Uh, weather request, Jidnia, Poland.
It is a seaside city surrounded by dense and unbothered forest.
Great place to live.
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All right.
Let's see.
Gidnia.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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
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
like a scrimmage
buddy
that guy
Paulie Shore
the Paulsher
character
he literally has gloves
too
uh
yeah
look at that
yeah
I didn't really
whoa
Roxanne's dad
doesn't have gloves
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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,
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
loved it yeah
that's great
and that's the big news story of the day
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