Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 486 - Which Caesar is Which?

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

The boys are back and this week Jesse's cousin comes into town and boy does he have stories to tell. Also have you been on booktok? No? What about the weird sexy world of cottagecore? Well Jesse's been all up in that. And now Crendor is along for the ride. Also for some reason Australia doesn't know the difference between August and Julius Caesar. All this and more on Cox n' Crendor! Visit http://HeroForge.com to start designing your custom miniature and dice today and check back often: new content is added every week. Go to http://greenchef.com/50cox and use code 50COX to get 50% off your first month, then 20% off for two months with free shipping.

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Broadcastle, live, live, live. before our reporting studio recording. Wake your ass up in the same worded in the morning. Hello, everyone like that's going to the morning. Yes, yep, yep, yep. That was an intro, all right? I started saying the same word like four times.

Yeah, that's what it's all about. Just saying the same word over and over and then, uh, I just realized we haven't we haven't done one of these in a while because we had our live show. Yeah, yeah, live show was fun, good stuff. Yeah, it's a good time. Had a lot of goofs, a lot of gaffes. A lot of...

So many goofs and gaffes. Goofy gaffes. Yeah, oh, the goofiest of gaffes. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'd talk more, but I think that was the last week's episodes. I mean, you probably heard the live show if you didn't hear it. Yeah, and if you didn't, that, you know what?

That's fine. It's whatever. I'm not too stressed about it. Yeah. How are you doing? Good, good, got back from the live show, and then my cousin flew out here for a week. And we hung out. I haven't really spent a lot of time with him in, like, the last few years.

So it was nice to hang out and do stuff and took him around the city, did the whole city thing. My man, do I have stories? My goodness. First off, this one, so we went to Hollywood because, like, the first day was here. I was like, look, we're going to do all the touristy. stuff we're going to get it out of the way day one we're going to breeze through it so we were walking around Hollywood at one point

and we were going down you know where they have the stars on the walk of fame and stuff like that as we're walking we see this family and this kid's like yo yo yo yo stop stop stop stop stop stop stop you know it's sting and the mom goes you know who sting is

he's like yeah yeah yeah the wrestler and he kneels dad take a photo with me take a photo with me as we're walking by she looks at me I look at her and the mom starts cracking up, but she's like, you know that's a musician, right? And the son goes, the wrestler has an album? And the mom lost it, and I lost it and was like, yo, that is such a funny generational divide. Is there actually a wrestler named Sting? Yeah, Sting was in the WCW and the WW. Like he was the guy who were the, he's the white face paint guy. Yeah, I see.

Who would come down from the rafters. And so it's very funny. to me because he's clearly that kid is clearly old enough to know who sting the wrestler is but not old enough to know who sting the musician is yeah so it's which is pretty amazing so i got to witness that and it was great the mom was losing it she was like you want you the wrestler you the kid was just like i did no clue he did music it was great it's uh it's one of those things where maybe he's just really into wrestling so you like learn all about the history of wrestling too and you're probably like oh okay and then

probably not as much with music yeah it's just very funny that he knelt down and wanted to get a photo with it if I was the mom I wouldn't have said a damn thing I would have been like take that photo I'm gonna frame it and in 10 years I'm gonna have that still hanging up in the house and he's gonna be like what was I

thinking yeah I can't wait but um that was very funny uh we were also gifted with the you know how sometimes people tell you who they are in ways that you're like ah right you are an asshole so we were looking to pull out of a parking garage and as we get to the car there's a dude in his like i want to say family but it just looked like random strangers in the car with him and all

of his doors were open and he was kind of in the middle of the lane to get out so we couldn't leave. We're sitting there waiting patiently for this guy to do anything and all the doors are open and he's like trying to get stuff put away in his car. Why he didn't do that in his parking space beyond me. So he's there in the lane. No one's coming up or down. So I think he just thought like screw it. I can get away with this. But we were literally right there. So we're waiting. I'm patient. I'm looking through my rear view window at the guy. He's looking directly at me. He recognizes we're wanting to leave. He does not move. He is getting stuff. He's moving. He's moving. and stuff. All the doors are open. Finally, I go to open my door to be like, hey man, come on. As I go

to open my door, he closes all the doors. And I guess he just didn't want a confrontation. It jumps in the car. And so I start following him down the ramp. And I'm like, this guy, he's doing one of those things where he's driving like aggressively fast through the parking garage, which makes no sense. I don't understand why. At this point, you're already holding me up. So what the hell do I care? Yeah. We get to the exit. I follow him out. And it's, you know, it's Hollywood, so there's, the parking garage is kind of in an alley, and you have to turn to the right or to the left. Well, at that alley is a stoplight.

And as you know, you do not turn red, at least here in the States, you not turn left on red. It's just not the thing you do. This guy immediately pulls out, turns left on red. I was like, what the hell? Light turns green. I go left as well. I see him at the end of the block. I catch up to him.

And he immediately turns left on red. I'm like, what? What? Light goes green. I start following him. Eventually, I catch up to him again. And now he's like honking at a guy in front of him who is turning right in a, it's only one lane. He's turning right, but there's cars coming and he's honking him to move.

And I'm like, yo, what is this dude's malfunction? I have no answers for this man. This guy was operating in a world of his own where he did not need any rules. and he had no patience for any other human being but again when confronted immediately retreated that is that sounds exactly what happens most of the time

it was crazy we were like what is this guy I was genuinely concerned for everyone in his car yeah that sounds insane it was wild it was a wild you know it's Hollywood so that's you know that's Hollywood maybe but also it rained up

lunch this week. It's still raining here in L.A., which is, you know, it's that time of year again where it rains for like a week and then stops for another six months. But I will say, for those curious, apartment is holding up fine. Everything's good, which is all I require, really, an apartment where it doesn't constantly leak. So far, so good. And then, oh, Crendor, do you know what book talk is? I do, yes. Okay, so I did not, to the point where recently someone, because people have been making me suffer with some truly awful stuff over on Too Old for this. Of course. And so, finally someone sent in Book Talk, and they were like, there's a Book Talk video you should watch.

And I was like, I don't know that I care about that because I looked up what Book Talk was. And apparently, as far as I can tell, it is the TikTok side of things where people talk about books. But as far as I'm aware, it's mostly want to be writers trying to hawk their product, trying to like sell their book to people through TikToks. As far as I can tell, that's what it is.

Or people reviewing and shitting on the books that are on book talk. And that's a lot of it as far, you know, like, based on what I've deduced, that's it. So anyway, I guess in this video, it's amazing. It's going to be a future episode of Too Old for this. It's so good.

But now that I know that, I am down the rabbit hole. Most of my feed on YouTube right now are people reviewing book talk books. And every thumbnail is like, how was this made? Worst book ever. This is disgusting. I can't believe it was. It's great.

Crendor, it's great. I realize that most of the books that are there, you know how there's like adult novels for the ladies that are basically, you know, disguised porn? Oh, yeah. it's that but to the nth degree like i watched one today that was a murder mystery but it was about this woman who was having an affair with this guy at a shoe store and the guy at the shoe store and the woman uh killed her evil husband he was like a bad guy who was like molesting kids and you know that that's like the basis of the story and in the end the bad guy gets his and And the wife is like, well, the man at the shoe store and I, we parted ways, and I never saw him again.

But we'd still talk from time of time. And the reveal at the end of the book is that the kid at the shoe store was 16 years old. What? And so all the reviewers are like, wait, so the wife convinced the 16-year-old boy she was having sex with to murder the husband who was like diddling kids. But that's no better. It's so, and people are like, what do you mean? It's great. Crendor?

Book talk is amazing. It's insane people over there I am in I am in to vote talk now I love it I am down the rabbit hole There is one girl Who is the topic of the

The too old for this Who tried to like make a book But she clearly can't write But then convinced everyone she could And got a bunch of pre-orders and stuff It is drama city Crendor Drama City and I'm here for it That's what I've been doing the last like five days

is just, I don't need to read these books, but I will live vicariously through those who did. Yeah, it is, you know, I remember learning about it and seeing a lot of the Romanticy stuff over there, which like, that's fine. I don't care, but it does seem pretty wild. There's this like centaur relationships, goblin relationships. Like, it's honestly, it reminds me of like those books you'd see in the grocery store with, like the half-naked man, like Fabio or something, but with like centaurs and shit. When we went and looked at Amazon, when it was books that were like, I fell in love with the Raptor King or whatever.

Right. That was just pure fetish content. This is people trying to disguise their fetish content as real literature, which is hilarious. Because they're really trying to sell it. It's like, I've spent the last 15 years writing this novel. It's the greatest thing I've ever worked on. And then someone will review it and be like, it's. filled with typos.

How's that possible? Things like that. It's great. I love it. It is pretty funny, Ian. I'm excited to react to this one. Oh, yeah. You know what?

I was given a great video. I'm genuinely surprised such a great video was made and delivered to me and it just lined up perfectly. I don't want to spoil anything. I really want to talk about it, though, but I don't want to spoil anything.

It was great. Yeah, I'm excited. Is that the one on Tuesday or Thursday? It is, yes Oh, okay, excellent Yeah, but that's, I mean, that's what I did Just hang out with my cousin and be stupid Uh, you know, that kind of stuff

What did, uh, what was your cousin's thoughts and opinions? Like, was he also just people watching? Was he like, like, what was he doing? Oh, yes. I think he, so he definitely listens to this show and, like, watch his video sometimes. So I think he's on our bandwagon of just watching people. Yeah, I see.

There were times we'd go out and we'd, uh, like, get dinner, and we just sit there at like a cafe and just watch the madness. And it was great. Dude, that is, oh my God, that reminds me. Hold on. I got to, where's my phone? Hold on. Bring out the notes.

All right. All right. Hold on. It is floating. All right. So, we were out for breakfast the other day. all right or brunch

I guess I should say and we were just like eating and doing whatever and then there's these old people behind us and they are like typical old people stuff

the lady was just like remember that guy that liked the soup he doesn't come in anymore like that's that was one of the things I heard them say so I was like

okay you know that's your classic old people just eating or whatever sucks about that is my first thought was, oh, he's probably dead. Yeah, he's probably dead. He probably is. Had thought to have.

But the minute you were like, these old people are sitting there and the guy doesn't show up anymore, I'm like, oh, he probably died. Yeah, he probably, probably did. In that soup, in that soup pot in the sky. So then there is a table, like adjacent to us. And it's just like these people probably in their like 40s, like mid-late 40s. They're just eating. And the one guy was just like, he was like mentioning something about his,

some, one of his family members is in the military. He's just like, oh, Air Force, and then the old, the old people behind us, she's like, did he say military? Did he say military? And he's like, I think he, what? And then the woman gets up and she goes to the table and goes, I'm 90. And my husband is 91, and he was in the Air Force. I was like, oh, God.

Oh, boy. And they're just like, oh, wow, that's so cool. And she's like, and my son, he owns a farm out in the countryside, and he is, that's Mark. And he does this stuff. You have to know his name. Yeah, you got to know his name. And then they're just like, oh, wow, that's really cool. And she's like, I've been married to my husband for eight years.

And they're like, wait, like, 80 or 8? And she's like, hey, my first husband's dead. But then I met him. Oh, my God. I was like, holy shit. Who says you can't find love in your 80s? Meanwhile, the husband is just like sitting at the table, still like eating his bacon and shit. And she's like, he's doing his own thing.

I'm the one. I get everything going in this place. You know how it is. But he's, yeah, he was in the air. and then how are you guys live around here? Robben, she's, I swear I actually talked to them for like 10 minutes. And then after all that, she's like, well, now you know my whole life story. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

And, like, walked away. And they were just like, hey, you know, that's life's all about. It's learning other people's stories. And then. I genuinely just thought she was going to get it and be like, thank you for your service. And, like, go back. I forgot. The elderly love to talk to you.

Oh, yeah. they love to talk about primarily themselves sure no one else is listening so yeah so it was that was just the whole thing so and then the waitress was just like yeah you know that happens like she she must have seen this happen before i genuinely honest to god if i was with you i would have asked them so many questions i've been like whoa you guys got married in your 80s what was that like how did you meet tell me all about it what i would have so many questions about their relationship. Because marrying

I'll be like, did you get a wedding? Did you have family? What family showed up? I would have so many questions. Yeah. Well, that's because we do the deep dive. We get to the answers. People don't get to. They're just like, uh, you know, that's not an everyday thing. Most people when they're in their

80s are like, ah, screw it. I'll just be alone until I die. These people are like, no. Love is in the air and we're good. And I'm like, all right. I like this. What happened though? Did you mean at a home? Did you meet? Like, where did you meet?

I think, I feel like, just listening to this lady, I feel like after her husband died, she was just like, I need it. She seems like the type that's very social. So she's probably like, I need someone else. Like, I need to be with someone. Like, that's the vibe she gave off. Because I'm sure there's plenty of people that would also just be like, I'm not going to marry anyone again or do whatever.

But she, I mean, just the fact that she got up from a table and went up and talked to people, It's like, all right, she's not afraid to, you know, be social and extroverted. Yeah, it's funny to me because I would imagine, like, if you're in your 40s or 50s and your spouse dies, it's like, all right, maybe I'll find someone and I'll marry again. But if you're in your 80s, dude, that's, I mean, like the connection, I would love to know what connection they have. It was simply like, well, we needed insurance and lower taxes, so here we are. Like, I just want to know. Yeah, no, I'm, I am also genuinely curious, but, you know, maybe I'll see him again. If you do, I demand that you and Toast ask them questions.

Yeah, I demand, I demand answers. I need to know, like, is it because she loves to talk and he loves to listen? You know, I don't know. I know what got them together. And why did they, why not just be friends if you're in 80s? They're not doing it unless they are, in which case I need answers. Yeah. No, there's a lot of, a lot of things left unanswered that maybe we'll find out.

Because as we know, in the nursing home, they'd be raw dogging like crazy. So I'm curious that that translates to this marriage. Like, I got, I want to know. She's willing to talk. I'm willing to listen. She'd definitely be willing to talk. I'd be like, Nana, you boning down? What's going on?

Let's see, what else did I write that? I wrote down there's a guy in the radio that was drunk and head. breathing. That was at like 1 a.m. You mean a caller? Yeah, it was a caller. He's just like, Welcome back. 1077.

No, that wasn't that. But okay, he was caught is the collar that was just absolutely wasted. Like this man was like, I think Texas is going to win by two touchdowns.

And then the guy would be like, well, let me responded and he'd be like and he'd be like and I was just like oh my god this man it's like on a ventilator out here like what is going on that was weird

and then I also wanted to bring up something completely unrelated just because somebody brought it up on stream a while ago and it is probiotic sodas oh like olip and all that

yeah so I've never tried one but I know many people have and every time I hear somebody tries one they're like this taste terrible and so I'm just like have you tried one like at any point I have I don't I don't know yeah I have I have a whole foods next to me so you know they don't have normal ass sodas there they have those so if I go there to get like a soup and bread or like a sandwich if I get a drink it'll either be a tea or one of those probiotic sodas um Yeah, to be fair, they do not taste great. I think mostly because they're not using sugar sugars.

They're using all sorts of different things that aren't sweeteners. And so, yeah, sometimes they're a little funky. It kind of depends on which flavor you're getting. So I've settled on anything that's supposed to taste like a soda or anything. Like they have, you know, one that's like a fake Mountain Dew and one that's like a fake. or Coke and like that kind of stuff that's like an olypop this thing or that

nah they don't taste like it it's why try to get the fake version of it I'll go for one that's like you know a ginger ale or one that's like a fruit punch something that is not trying to be anything else so it

I don't expect it to taste a certain way because it does not anyone who says it does is wrong I've never had one I want to try it just to like try but like I'm you genuinely may like it I don't know if I would you don't like sweet stuff so you may like that it's not trying to be that again it comes down to the flavor right like there's different varieties of them yeah I mean I don't like overly sweet things I still like sweet things that's the thing yeah so like the on the olypop page I'm going there right now just

to look at the different flavors because I'll try to tell you what I've had um Um, they've got all sorts of different kinds. They have a ginger ale. The ginger ale is actually quite good. All right. It just tastes like a jank ginger ale. It's not like, you know, what you would expect. They have a, like a sparkling cider apple one that, that I think is good.

Um, they have a pineapple, whoa, they have a SpongeBob pineapple paradise. Never had that before. Um, but the root beer, the cream soda, the vintage cola, the, you know, like those I do not like. The lemon lime one, I don't. like it. They have Ridge Rush, which is basically their Mountain Dew. Nah, not a fan. But the Tropical Punch one, pretty good. Right? Like the ones that are not trying to be, like I said, trying to be something

else. Like they have a Dr. Goodwin, which is their Dr. Pepper, and I don't like that one very much. But yeah, I've kind of gone through them all and tried them. There's also other brands, but I was like, I'll try the Olipop ones and go through that first, since that's the one everyone kind of recommended as the prebiotic soda. And, yeah, I mean, the thing is, they're also expensive. So, like, you know, it's a, you have to really want to be healthy.

Yeah. No, that makes sense. I mean, that's kind of my problem is that I feel like if I'm going to drink soda, I'd rather just drink soda and have like a little bit of it. Yeah, we've talked about that before. Might as well just have a normal soda and only have a little bit rather than drink a whole thing of something you don't like. yeah because it's like I'm not a big artificial sweetener person like whenever people are like I drink coke zero or whatever I just I've tried it I can't do it I just I hate that taste it's just I don't know I may I imagine it's an acquired taste but I'm like I'd rather just drink water to be honest like sparkling water sure yeah I mean I'd rather just have unsweetened iced tea like I'm at the point where sweetened iced tea I'm like no no I'm all right it's a little too much sugar and now that I'm looking at those things

We got a bunch of Arizona iced tea in the office because I literally harassed them online about how they have a Ristler brand berry drink now. And I was like, send me some. And they were like, okay. So we got a bunch. Look, Arizona iced tea is cheap and affordable and it's pretty good. However, each one of them has like 230 percent your daily amount of sugar. It's wild, dude. I'm like, while drinking it, I'm like, I'm going to get diabetes.

from this like you feel it you're like god that's a lot of sugar so yeah i'm not we have a lot of those in the office and thankfully it's being drank by others but yeah one was enough i was like all right i had my risler drink and we're moving on yep that's it's all you need one risler drink and you're good yeah yeah i got to drink it on the show so that was fun yeah no i saw that one um let's see uh do anything else? Was it just your cousin visited? Did you have any crazy eating experiences? No, everything was pretty chill. We went around and we kind of hit all the different spots in the city. You went to this pizza place that I love. And they hilariously, we got there, it was raining, we got there at like, I don't know, 5 p.m. because this was the day before he had

to leave. So this was Friday. And he left yesterday. at his flight was 7 a.m. So we had to get his ass to the airport early. So I was up very early. And so the day before we were like, we'll eat dinner early, we'll go to bed early, we'll do the whole thing. So we're at this place at 5. And the lady was like, oh, you don't have any reservations?

And we're like, no, no. There's no one there, dude. No one there. And we're like, no reservations. She's like, okay, well, we're booked up starting at 6. Do you guys think you could eat in an hour? and we looked at each other like, can you make it fast?

Like, we can eat fast? We're fine. I don't know what. An hour to eat a pizza is like, no, we're good. If you can make it, we will eat it. It's that kind of stuff.

So we went around. We, you know, had that. We went to, oh my God, dude, I took him to, Capcom is doing their Street Fighter World Cup right now.

Right. And so in a place in L.A., like towards Burbank, they're recording. it. And I got an invite like, hey, do you want to come to the Capcom World Cup? You can sit in the audience. I was like, sure, sure. So in my mind, I'm thinking it's more along the lines of what Evo and things like that are. I show up the first day, round one, there's no one else there except for the teams. It's me, my cousin, maybe one guy who's like the friend of another

guy, some girlfriends of some of the players, and maybe like 50 players on different teams. So the audience is all the other players and then my cousin and I. And we stand out because we're in the back and we're like so much taller than everyone else who's there that like we look like giants on that video feed. It's so funny. We were like making, you know, faces in the crowd and like doing things. But it was essentially, I'm going to say 20 seats. It wasn't big. And it was so small that the players would cycle in and out of who got to sit and watch the matches because there just

wasn't enough room and it was very Hollywood there were a ton of cameras and there was a guy being like all right right we're coming back to the break everyone clap clap clap clap like that kind of stuff

and we were just like my cousin had never seen the behind the scenes before so he was kind of into it but very quickly was like all right well we've seen this I was like okay good good good let's leave

yeah it was it was fun I like watching Street Fighter but also it was very produced Like, there were dudes running around with clipboards trying to, you know, micromanage every aspect of it. I was like, okay, all right. This isn't really a, like, made-to-be-watched event. This is a made-for-video event, and we're just here to be set dressing.

Gotcha. Yeah. Gotcha. Again, I like Speedfighter. I was excited to see some of the best players in the world do their thing. But also, the environment wasn't necessarily the place where you just show up and watch. although it was day one of round one so maybe by the time it gets to the later rounds

later next month then it'll be actually something to watch live but for now it was kind of like should we even be here yeah and the price we paid for doing that was driving home and it took two and a half hours to go 14 miles so oh my god

yep Los Angeles baby yeah that sounds like Los Angeles Oh yeah, we watched the Nick Cage movie Yes, the unbearable weight of massive talent Good film, love it, good stuff That was actually way better than I thought it'd be It's, it is one of those movies

That everyone involved understands what the bit is And how silly that movie is And it's entirely played as absurdity, which I love. The fact that Nick Cage plays a younger Nick Cage doing him's like he is portraying himself as how everyone sees him as young Nick Cage

yeah like an insane over the top guy and then old Nick Cage is a normal person who's like oh man what a crazy life I lead like it's great it's good stuff yeah I think what I thought was

the best part was I just thought it was gonna be like a goofy movie of like you know they do like some inside jokes. It's like Nick Cage just being like oh, you know, I'm meming. And they did kind of do that, but like it actually felt like a real movie that was like

a good movie. Which like that's what I didn't expect. I didn't expect that they have like an actual decent plot with like some twist and turns and stuff. Yeah, and also Pedro Pascal delivered. He came completely he's like, I'm going to play this at 110%. I need you to know

if I'm going to be with Nick Cage, I'm going to be on his level the entire time. And it works. yeah it really does like it was a great cast honestly everybody in the movie is pretty good

yeah I'm still in love I don't know who the hell Pedro Pescal's love interest in this movie is I don't know who that actress is she's gorgeous I don't know I was like damn the entire time she was on screen I was like I love this woman

and I know nothing about her I don't know who she is yeah that does that does seem like a Jesse Cox I was about to say she reminds me of all of those women who do like

cottage core videos on YouTube however I just realized that this morning I had the epiphany so I was going through YouTube

trying to clear out my when you start watching a bunch of book talk stuff a lot of your stuff becomes book talk and I was like I don't need this I'm trying to clear stuff

so we'll reset my algorithm and as I'm doing that I see a lot of these cottage core videos but it's not like in my mind I think okay This is women dressed in kind of like 1950s outfits,

needing dough and making stuff, and it's very kind of like female-focused. Wrong, false. I don't think women are watching this, because I saw one, and the thumbnail was this girl bent over, her ass like right in the thumbnail. And I was like, well, of course I'm going to click this video.

I clicked the video. And it is her in no bra. kneading dough, boobs jiggling everywhere, she keeps bending over and I was like, this is just this is just porn. What are we this? I'm like, come on now. So then I was like, all right, I got to see what's going on.

And I'm like, deep dove, most of them are that. Most of them are either, it's either softcore porn where a woman is like erotically baking or some trad wife stuff where it's like insane. Like, I bake for my 12 kids every day and I make 30, and you're like, This is, this is, no, you don't.

You don't do this. And that's it. There's no, like, I feel bad because there's no, hey ladies, today we're gonna, have you ever just wanted to leave and go live in the woods? Like, who's the woman making these videos for, like, Dodger? You know what I mean? I don't think they exist, or at least they weren't when I looked for them.

Or if they do exist, they have so few views that they can't compete with like boobs McGee over here needing Brett. I mean, listen, I don't think anyone should be surprised that, you know, Boob's McGee is out here generating view. I'm not surprised. I guess I'm just shocked that it's another, like, sex is in everything. But for some reason, this was the one, I was like, you know, a lady in like a weird cottage that kind of looks like she's out in the woods. I was like, for sure, this is not going to be for the male gaze. Nope, totally was. I was like, oh, all right.

It's, uh, I mean, at the end of the day, at least it's not the YouTube parents. Dude. You know? I would say I don't know who that's for, but it's clearly for a lot of people because each one of those damn families has like 30 plus million subscribers and they're all just like, we love you. Oh my God. I'm just like, who the hell watches this? You don't find it creepy and weird? Cool. Yeah, it's genuinely insane. Like, how many people watch it. Like, I would have a problem if it was just like a few million. It's like multiple millions.

Like insane. Like some of the most popular content on YouTube. And it's not even presented in a slick way. It's literally like, my daughter is going on a date and I'm going to film it all and ruin it for them. And you're like, that's not normal. That's not normal. It's literally reality television. Like it reminds me of those MTV shows from like 2005 where they're,

They're just like, my parents want me to date somebody else because they hate my spouse. And then the spouse like sits in a room with the parents and it's just like, they're going to have a bad time with the person you picked out to date that, like that type of shit. But like even that was more fun because it's like kind of cheesy. And like, you can tell it was kind of fake. I'm glad. I'm glad you brought that up. I'm glad because that was that is so fake that one of the guys that used to work in the old office was on that show as the boyfriend. he was hired as an actor to pretend to be the boyfriend to sit in the room with the parents

while the girl went out with the guy she had never met before it was all fake and that's how I feel about these damn YouTube videos like I called the police on my parents no you didn't shut up no you didn't I think that's what makes it worse is like when it's on TV it does have that semblance of like okay I can see how this is fake or like it's a show it's all produced for but like the YouTube's always like we're genuine watch these

real people or whatever that's what it was always built on it but now it's become possibly even more fake which I think is just insane but the problem is people believe it especially younger people like because that's the target demographic that's because they're all doing the same thing it would be like if MTV had a show again where like sit with my parent or sit with your parents while you date some of their guy and they get really and then TLC started doing it and ABC started doing it and like the family channel started doing it that's same YouTube is just like we hid an amusement park for four to eight hours

and then another channel does the exact same thing and another channel does the exact it's insane that they can get away with it but there's so many people watching YouTube that those audiences don't cross over until you realize that they do people love watching these families do the same stupid shit over and over again

and it's mind blowing I have never like I never thought I mean like I knew I knew deep in my core that people are getting stupider, but I never thought they were getting this stupid. Well, I mean, instead of learning, there's use an AI now. Oh, man.

Yeah. I was doing an episode for Chluminati, and in that episode, I was doing a thing about this website called Mortis, which doesn't exist anymore, it's from the 90s, and it was this weird internet thing where it was just a website, there was nothing on it, and people were like, what the hell is this? And so they started rabbit holeing the whole thing, and it was leading to weird shit on the internet and eventually it vanished and the thing that made it weird is that if you go to the wayback machine it's it purposely says it was removed on purpose which makes people be like what

you know it's a huge mystery anyway because there's so little information i was uh googling stuff and you know how google does its um summary the ai summary yep well the ai summary popped up and had a bunch of information that i had never seen before so i went to google whatever that is the google AI thing. It was like, um, give me more information, right? And I was, and give me sources and started printing out information and sources, all these things. I was like, how have I never seen this before? I started reading through it. It was talking about how it had a countdown to a date and people were freaking out about the countdown. I was like, I've never seen this before. And I went to the sources and the sources I couldn't find. So eventually I went back to the

Google thing and said, is this real information? And the Google AI was like, oh, no, I made it all up because it seemed interesting and you wanted more. I was like, I was unaware. It could do that. And I was like, wait, you made up everything? And it was like, yeah, made up everything because you, you've been Googling it

and looking for information and since there was none. And you were trying to find like a scary story version of it. I made you a scary story. That's actually insane. Yeah. It blew my mind. And once I saw that, it was like, I trust nothing.

I won't even, I can't even trust an AI to like, If the Google, I thought, okay, the Google AI is going to give me the information from webpages it pulls from. No, I just bullshitted. It's like, how is this possible? Yeah, so it is. It is. And I learned, I learned that day that I, before I was wary, now I'm like, I don't trust a damn thing AI says. Yeah, no, I don't either because I had a, it was like months ago.

And I was, I remember, I was making a pointless top 10. And I already had a bunch of stuff. And I was like, you know what? What if I asked the thing, like, hey, what are some other things? I was like, maybe I missed something or I'll have some good idea. I'm like, let's try it out. I tried it. Actually, some of the worst ideas I've ever heard.

Like, same thing. Like, it just made shit up. It was like, you should check out Dalaran and find Goofy Larry. He's in the sewers. And I was like, what? And I'd like check. And they're like, there's nobody exist by that name. And I was just like, okay, what's?

another recommendation. It was just like, oh, check out like Big Gabo. He's down in the where like Orgrammar and I'm like okay and I'd check and like, yeah, that doesn't exist. And I was like, it's just making shit up. Like how can anybody trust this shit for like school or

work or like whatever? Like I'm trying to make a dumb-ass YouTube video. I asked it one question and it couldn't do it right about a game that it should be able to figure out stuff in. I was like, yeah, this sucks. I think it's because all AI at the moment at least are designed to please and affirm the writer's beliefs. So if you ask about something, if it's not true, the AI will simply come up with a way to give you something

that feels true or be like, well, I don't know about that, but I think you're on to something. What if we looked at this? It will not just be like, nope, false. It won't do it. AI right now is programmed in a different weird way. And that's not good. That's not healthy. It's making people literally go crazy. I mean, I watched that I don't know if you saw, there's like that Eddie video. Eddie Burback, or is that his name?

Eddie Burba. Yeah, he did the thing where he was like, Chad GPT made me delusional, and so he just kept asking it stuff and giving it pictures and stuff, and it would be like, yes, you are the smartest person ever. Go into the desert. And it would just like tell

him to do crazy shit. And then apparently they had an update where it was just like, actually, don't do this, go get help. So, like, they patched some stuff in, but like, still, there's, for a long time, the AI was just making insane people more insane. Or, like, if they tried to be like, I'm going to use AI as my therapist. It was essentially just confirm, like, anything you told it and be like, you're actually insanely smart.

Yeah, if you have free time, listener at home, look up chat GTP or whatever, GPT, psychosis it's a real thing it's happening to people where less than mentally stable people are getting their delusions confirmed by

AI and it's making them do insane stuff and it's tearing them apart from their family people are being checked into mental hospitals and stuff like it's wild

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Oh, I forgot to turn on the old microphone or the, yes. uh yeah it's looking like uh traffic up here right now if i'm looking down yep i'm here back to you you almost made it seem like that was all fake yeah no it's real yeah that's totally real weird weird coincidental situation there right yeah yeah yeah moving on very quickly to weather then yes weather Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-de-de-we've got weather requests for Monthe, Switzerland, small town, 20,000 people built around a chemical plant where Ferrari and Coca-Cola come, or at least used to come to get rid of their paints. If you ever come there, yeah, I don't know. If you ever do try to come here for the carnival around February to see the same.

city being completely taken over by masked marching bands, Gugan, Gugan music, confetti, and a lot of bad cocktails. Also, it is home of Kishan George, who's been killing it in the NBA this season, even if it's with the Washington Wizards. Oh, that's why I haven't heard of them. All right, let's see here. Yeah, I'm, okay, the fact that the selling point of this town is, it's where everyone dumps their paints is wild to me, but okay.

It is pretty wild. currently in Monthe, Switzerland is 48 degrees Fahrenheit feels like 48 degrees Fahrenheit. Humidity 93% pressure, 29.78 inches. Visibility 4 miles, winds at 3 miles an hour, 2.46. UV index 0 of 11, moon phase waning crescent. Sunrise, 7.34 a.m. sunset 4.58 p.m. and the 10 day

we got 47 with rain tonight Monday 50 with rain 44 with sun on Tuesday Wednesday partly cloudy 46 36 36 on Thursday with snow Friday 34 with snow Saturday 37 with snow and then Sunday 41 with rain snow I'm always so impressed when I see a new city that I've never seen before

uh in europe because i like this is it's kind of down the road from geneva and it's also very close to leone and france it's kind of south in europe but also kind of along the same parallel as like if you're going to new york in the u.s or maybe chicago it feels very like that um however when i think switzerland i think mountains and this is not that this is this is kind of down in the flat area I've never seen this place before but with that said it does have all the trappings

of Switzerland like half the restaurants when you click it they just have lots of chocolate just everything is chocolate oh yeah which I'm I am here but it's a lot of we're a cafe and yeah we serve you a sandwich

but also he has 18 different types of chocolate to be fair that would be pretty fun trying a bunch of different chocolates. Yeah, there's this one place. Oh, boy. Confissary, Heidinger. Yep.

And it just looks like a little tiny cafe, but all the images besides quesant and, you know, coffee or whatever, are delicious looking chocolates and what appears to be hot chocolates and all sorts of chocolatey goodness. There's a place called choccalat. Rafin S-A And it looks There you go There's one of the things

It's like an apple A little worm coming out Yeah look at that It's a chocolate apple There's a little chocolate delicious Like that looks so good Yeah I'm looking at a place called the expert tea room It's literally X-P-R-T

And it's a little tiny tea room With a bunch of desserts And that looks delicious It all looks, you know Really good I can't even fight this. There's a lot of little cafes. Then there's a McDonald's. Yep. And it looks like a McDonald's and the KFC looks like a KFC. And they've got the classic European pizza

places. Ah, yes. I'll look the same. I see it now. The pizza that you're like, you're so close to Italy. Are they not offended? It's that kind of thing. Yeah. But then yeah, a lot of it's just little tiny coffee shops, which, you know, it's a vibe. I like, oh, I found, I found a The kebab place, nice. Oh, very nice. Yeah, oh, I like a good kebab. Also, the kebab place, as far as I can tell, appears to be on a road with just homes.

Oh. Which is, I guess that makes sense. You're not going to have an Americanized, like, main street. You know what I mean? Yeah. No, it does make sense. But, yeah, well, that's neat. Lovely little city.

Yeah, she's a pretty neat little city. Oh, pretty good. That's the weather. I still love that worm. I'm glad you sent that to me. That guy looks so happy. It is a fantastic worm. Yeah.

That's a great looking dessert. All right. Let's go to sports. Sports. Oh, boy. Sports desk time. We've got sports. Currently, we got the NFL scores happening.

We had the, well, Thursday, we had the Patriots beat the Jets. Then we had the Jaguars beat the Chargers. The Rangers, the Steelers beat the Bengals, the Packers beat the Giants, the Bears beat the Vikings, the Texans beat the Titans, the Bills beat the Buccaneers, the Panthers beat the Falcons, the Dolphins, beat the commanders, and currently the Chiefs Broncos are tied, Ravens are losing to the Browns, the 49ers are up on the Cardinals, and the Seahawks are losing to the Rams. In the NBA, we got the Pistons in first place in the east with the Knicks and the Cavaliers right behind. In the West, we got the Thunder in first place, 13 and 1. They've only lost one game. And the Nuggets right behind in second and the Rockets in third.

And then we've got the NHL, where we've got the Boston Bruins atop the Atlantic, the New Jersey Devils, atop the Metropolitan Division, the Colorado Avalanche, top Central, and the Kings atop the Pacific. And...

That's sports. Okay. What's our fact of the day? Fact of the day. Let's see. Let's see this fact of the day. Here it is. Right.

This is a good fact right here. Look at this fact. Did you know that the Philippines consists of 7,641 islands? I didn't know the exact number, but I didn't know it was a lot. That's quite a lot. That is quite a lot. The Philippines is an archipelago, which means it's made up of a group of islands, 7,641 to be exact. That figure does not include the thousands of sandbars and other landforms that emerge during low tide.

Yeah. I don't, I mean, I guess some of that doesn't count, like a sandbar emerging cause of low tide. No one's living there. It's just, you know, it exists, I guess. Yeah, there's a lot of islands. I wonder what the place with the most islands in the world is. Ooh, I don't know. The place is the most island.

Sweden. Sweden. What? 267,000. That's probably all, yeah, I would imagine. It's like Norway and Finland are also way up there Yeah

I think because Do you think it's because of the Like Look at the coastline The Western coastline It's just there's so many little islands As you go up the coast Yeah

No that does make sense So I guess that technically counts Yeah And then Norway is close behind it 239,000 That's because they Norway has that entire northern bit. Yeah.

No, yeah, I see that. So it's just... Sweden and Norway just have like an insane amount of islands. It's like... Because then you got Finland 178,000 and then Canada, 52,000. So like...

That's like, they got more just by themselves than like the rest of the world combined. Yeah. Each one of them. That's crazy. And that's your fact of the day. Okay. Who has come to us with? with tears in their eyes?

We've got tears. We have tears. We have tears. Dear Lesteris, sirs, the tears of my eyes, and a song of hope in my heart, I come before on my knees to ask, if you could commentate a wacky sports event like Cotton, McNight and Pepper Brooks in Dodgeball, what sport would you choose? I think I speak for Crenor here when I say there are only two options. either one curling or two pickleball. Yeah, no, I was going to say curling. Yeah, I instantly do.

Yeah, that's it. Curling would be a treat. But I'd settle for pickleball because I don't understand it, and I feel like no one would care if I commented over it because I don't think anyone else understands it either. Yeah, plus you get like really into it like, oh, Johnson will the massive serve. Yeah.

Like shit like that. That would be pretty fun. They're like, and they're rubbing there, rubbing that ice. They're rubbing their ice. They're rubbing so hard on that ice. the ice is being rubbed so hard. Yeah. Yeah, that would be, I think we would do great at that. Someone called the janitor. They aren't needed hitter day. They are sweeping so hard.

Yeah, and then I could be the color commentator guy that's like, you really don't see this from Johnson too often. Normally he's sweeping that ice with a furious vigor, but today he's just taking it up a notch. It's just truly something you have to witness by yourself in person to appreciate what type of guy this is in the curling environment. I think we'd be good at it. I think we would be good. Yeah, I think we'd be great. I don't want to go that far. I feel like there's probably two Canadian guys who are immaculate at it.

I mean, they're definitely are. In the American scene, it's all Cox and Creadore. Oh, yeah, no doubt. Dear Lustreus, sirs, I come to you with my eyes and tears because I'm making an eye. tier list. Jesse is often size says something along the lines of this is the most insert name

game ever. So if all the games currently released, what would you say is actually the most Jesse Crenthor Dodger and Sam game of all time? Like, is this, are they asking individual ones? I think it's individual. It can't be the one that all of us would enjoy. That's an impossible thing.

Yeah, that's the thing. It's like we all have such different tastes that I'll I think we'd all enjoyed just a singular game. Of all time, I feel like Dodgers has to be, what's that game where you're the farm person? Oh, like Stardew Valley? Yeah, Star Doe Valley is the most Dodger game, for sure. Yeah, I can see it. Yeah.

For me, the most Jesse game is definitely control. That's easy. That's very simple. Yeah. for Sam God Probably like One of the survival games

You have to farm for 80 hours Oh yeah I heard you say control And I was like yeah But then I was like I don't even know what control is Control is that remedy game Where it's like

Super weird and trippy And there's a lot of like Interesting SCP-esque things to read about And discover and you like it straight up has like some most bizarre things

I've ever seen in a video game it's extremely it's a the game that came up before Alan Wake 2 Oh I see okay Yeah It's just one of my favorite games I love it to death It's so Jesse

It's everything I like about video games Carry on what was your other one And the last one's you And for you I have no clue I would imagine like football sports manager or some nonsense. Wait, no, Banjo Kizui.

I mean, I could play, well, I guess it's a, it is a very Krendor game. I guess it's like, to be fair, it is a Krendor game that's transcended generations of Krendor. So you know what? I think you're right. I think it is Banjo Kizui. Yeah, it's the one you keep going back to.

So I feel like it has to mean something. Yeah, no, I. I agree. Hey, you're right. I think you got them all. Look at that. Feeling pretty good. And that is the dear less research. All right. What is our big news story of the day? Big news story of the day. Day. Day. Australian students won't take history exam after being taught the wrong Roman ruler.

What do you mean? What? Yep. Interesting. Melbourne, Australia. Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler. Augustus Caesar instead of his predecessor, Julius Caesar.

I have so many questions. Did they mistake Augustus for Julius? Or did they teach about Augustus instead of Julius? Yeah, that's a good question. question. I don't know. Let's see if they answer it. The students in Queensland ended up being exempt from the statewide exam on Wednesday, while education minister John Paul Langbroek said he would investigate the mix-up, describing the experience for the students as extremely traumatic. What? I don't know that I believe that. I feel like these students are milking it, and honestly, go for it, kids. Yeah. Since the error in the curriculum was discovered on Monday, schools applied and were granted an exemption from the exam for the students, even as panicked high school. schoolers were cramming about Julius Caesar's exploits as a Roman general and statesman.

Quote, I'm very unhappy about the situation, Langbrook told reporters and announcing that the 140 seniors affected by the mix-up would not have to sit the exam. Langbrook said he would ensure those students were, quote, not disadvantaged in any way. Still, the incident brought waves of criticisms. Parents complained that the panic created around the ancient history exam had distracted their children from preparing for other exams, including an earlier exam on Wednesday. The exam amounts to 25% of the student's mark for the year. Students who were exempted from the test on Wednesday would be given a credit based on

their assessment for the remaining 75% of their marks. The Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority said it had told the state's 180 high schools two years ago the ancient history exam topic would change to Julius Caesar in 2025. The topic had been Augustus Caesar for previous years. I mean, I guess it's interesting because as a history person who loves that period of Rome, like, yeah, Augustus is important because he's the first emperor of Rome. Right. And so he, his story is kind of like the aftermath of the whole Julius Caesar thing. But I guess Julius Caesar is how does a republic become an empire, right?

How does it? And so that's a whole different topic. And I guess that's, yeah, okay, that can really screw you up. But it's also, you know, you figure that they would tackle both because it's cause and effect. Yeah, you would think so. Because one can't happen without the other. So it's kind of like you would have to tackle Julius to talk about Augustus, wouldn't you? So wouldn't they, I mean, that's just, the problem with this is just like when I was a teacher, everything's about teaching to the tests now.

And so you're not teaching students things, you're teaching them facts to answer on a test. rather than educating them. And this is the problem is if you only teach them about Augustus so they can answer questions about Augustus, they're totally screwed. But Julius Caesar is right before Augustus. Like that one leads to the other. So how on earth can they not know that?

Yeah, that seems dumb. Yeah. I do love the fact that they're just like, I am traumatized. I'm going to have to get therapy over this. That's just unbelievable. Even though I know the goof is like, you know, they didn't learn.

about Julius and I therapy, but I feel like that when you said it's 25% of their grade, if they don't pass, they now permanently have a C. That's crazy. I wouldn't do that. That is insane, actually. To be fair, I get that stress. I think that's, uh, that's a shitty system. That's very shitty. That, like, if there are people who do not take tests well, like, I'm a very good paper writer, I was never good test taker. So I can write a paper the night before and kick ass. But if you want me to take a test, unless it's something I really know, I will second guess myself like crazy. Yeah. No, I was that as well. I was terrible at test taking, but I was decent at paper writing. So I'd stress the hell out about 20. If I, and then they said, oh, well,

based on the 75% you had left. If I was not doing well, you know, and I was counting on this thing to raise my grade to an A, then I guess I'm screwed. Like, I don't know. I'd be, you know what, Get them, kids. Get that school system. They screwed up. Yeah, get them. That's a big new story of the day. All right. Well, that's it for us. Thanks so much for listening and watching. I'm going to join this podcast. Crendor. Hit them with the socials. We got socials. YouTube.com slash Cox and Crendor podcast. All one word. Leave your weather requests.

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