Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 491 - The Florida Man Games Return!

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

The boys are back and this time we wrap up the year with some hot takes, some strange letters written by a prince, Crendor becoming completely invested in a story for the first time ever, and the return of the Florida Man Games! All this and so much more on the last Cox n' Crendor of 2025! Head to http://heroforge.com to give the gift of a custom miniature or custom dice this holiday season. Go to http://factormeals.com/cox50off and use code cox50off to get 50% off your first box, plus Free Breakfast for 1 Year.

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In 4-hour reporting studio, recording, we're here. Let me wake your ass up. It's up, Gak, Crendon, in the morning. Hello, everybody likes any episode of Gax and Crenor in the morning. Folks, we're here. We are. Yeah, we are. You said it so dramatically.

Well, I was going to say we're here for the final time this year. It's true. We are. We are. This is it. You say that and it also still sounds dramatic, but also it's, what, two weeks, so, you know, it's the 21st. So, like, whatever. Yeah. But, uh, yeah, what are, uh, what are you, are you doing a bit? Are you going somewhere for New Year's? You're doing a big New Year's Christmas Fiesta? Uh, Christmas is kind of like whatevs around the Cox household. I think it's because there are no kids. You know what I mean? Like it's really mostly for the kids. Yeah. So I think on the 24th we're going to go out to eat.

We were going to go to this kind of like a garden spot. There's a lot of those places in LA that's kind of like a nursery or like one of those garden things. And then there's a restaurant in it and they're always great. And we were going to go to one but apparently it is going to 100% chance of rain on the 24th. So we're not doing that anymore and my mom is scrambling trying to find a place now. And then on the 25th. On the 25th, usually I'll show up. My mom will make pancakes or some other breakfast thing will open presents.

I don't know. When you like decorate cookies, she'll force me to watch some video she recorded, like a show she wants to watch. And my dad didn't want to watch, but since I'm there, I'm obligated by law. Somewhere in the Bible, I'm pretty sure it says Jesus said you're forced to watch a movie on my birthday with your mother. I think it's in there. Yeah, it's in one of those crazy crazy books. Nobody reads. Yeah, like,

Leviticus or some shit. Yeah, it's in there. It's like an, like a hag-eye. Yeah, it's an apocrycle tale. It's in like the Dead Sea Scrolls. Yeah, or like Thessalonians or some shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's in there somewhere. And then, uh, yeah, that's kind of the vibe for that. We'll just hang out.

And, uh, you know, most of our gifts are kind of what-eves. They're not crazy. We usually, my mom will get me gift cards to like a movie theater or something. And then maybe like a weird candy that's like a Santa pooping or something. Like just goofy gifts. You know. And then for New Year's, it depends. I'll either go and hang out at someone's house and we'll just like chill.

Or sometimes I'll go downtown to downtown L.A. They do like a whole thing down there. Or if the weather's nice over by like Santa Monica Pier or Venice Beach Pier, their stuff. It's whatever. I'm not a big, like, a New Year's guy. The city's, it's too big and it's new years. And it's just, there's so many people. And if you go out, you're going to be stuck out for a long time to like 3 a.m. You know what I mean? Getting back's going to be a pain in the ass. So, I don't know. If I was like back in Ohio, I'd probably make a bigger deal out of New Year's. But here I'm like, yo, what a hassle. So I don't know. Honestly, I haven't

thought that far ahead. My plans are get through this week and then make it to the next week and we'll see what happens then. That's true. Didn't you say you're going to England or something at some point? Oh, no. At the start of the year, I'm going to Maryland for Magfest.

Ah, that's what it was. Yeah, Magfest is the 8th through 11th and it is one of my favorite conventions. It's interesting because it's like a normal gaming convention, but I guess it has its roots and kind of like retro style stuff. So they also have a lot of music. I don't know how it got the way it is,

but it's like both video game and music things. So during the day, there'll be a lot of like, you know, normal con stuff. But at night in the giant, I think it's like the Gaylord Hotel or whatever it is that's in Maryland, like right next to D.C. And it'll be from, I'm going to say, like, 8 p.m. till 5 a.m. concerts all night long. Damn.

And it's crazy. Like some of the, if you think like, you know, that nerdy culture music stuff, people will be there. So you'll get things like a big big band, you'll get like Mega Ran, you'll get like all sorts of groups that will show up and put on shows all night long. There's like different DJ sets and all sorts of stuff. It's pretty cool. I like it a lot. And thankfully they invite me back every year to host a show they do. And then I do a few other like panel thingies.

But other than that, I just vibe. and then I'll go down at like, you know, 2 a.m. when I can't sleep and walk over and be like, yo, what's this? And just watch some concert with like a crowd of drunken nerds. It's fun. It's genuinely fun. Oh, that does sound fun. Yeah, it's cool.

Again, I sometimes feel like, oh, no, I'm too old for this room. I'll go to like a concert and be like, look at these kids living their lives. Oh, time for old man, Jesse, to go to bed. We did that shit in, I did that shit like 10 years ago at Coxcon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone was like out partying and I was just like, dude, I'm going back to the hotel room and watching British television. Oh, you were on that late night BBC.

We're here in Upper Kensington to look at this farm and see if there's anything of value that we might sell at auction. And then they just do the whole thing. But then there's always the guy who's like, I'm Randy Randy, Randy. And I'm crazy. let's say what we can find today and he's wearing like a purple he looks like the joker he's wearing like a purple suit and he's running around fralking through the forest and you're like I love this I love everything about this it is great so what are you doing over the next couple weeks

I mean we usually do our classic you know get together with a small family do the presents do the you know the Just hang out. Honestly, my favorite is New Year's because we like, we chill out. We get like our fancy champagne. We'll like have a charcutory board. This is like you in toast or is this a family thing? No, that's just me and her.

Cool, cool. And then we'll like have a charcutory. We watch all the like the New Year's Eve parties for like local things. Like here at local channel, whatever, we're down at the old bar in Chicago. And they're just like, hey, hey, new year. They're like freaking out. And then a lot of times we watch when Harry met Sally. Ah, classic, classic film.

Yeah. And it ends with New Year's. So it's like a New Year's movie. I love that. I love that. Yeah, I, I'm trying to remember. I think last year, because I love local TV when it comes to New Year's, I think last year we watched local Canadian TV.

Like we piped it in and watched the, this dude was in like. I think that, I remember you talking about that. Yeah, and he had like a, you know, the Canadian tuxedo of all denim on and he's going on. One of the greatest things I've ever seen. That's the kind of stuff I love. The big, like, New Year's, Times Square. I don't want to watch it be awkward. We're like, and now Ninja's going to do a dance for you.

Like, I just don't care. But when it's like, I'm Ron Ronson, broadcasting live from Manitoba. And I'm like, yeah, let's go. Yeah, there's like, there's like some hockey thing going on too, I think. Yeah, oh, it's great. Yeah, that's the good stuff. If you have like a local one, those are the funnest because they clearly, they're just like, we're here down on 4th Street Live talking to the locals and it's just drunk slurring.

There's like, ha, it's like, yeah. Oh, yeah, so I found like the local mascot named like Salty, the Salt Shaker. Whatever the shit he was He's just dancing That's amazing I love that stuff Yeah Oh my god

So this reminded me Because you're talking about Canada And made me think of foods Like different cultural foods And I thought of strangle Yeah All right

So I've been in an intense heated debate On my live stream Over ketchup All right In what capacity So, like, to me, there's, like, a few types of people.

There's people that don't eat ketchup, which is pretty rare, to be honest. There's people that'll put ketchup on some things, where it's like, you know, I put it on my fries or, like, I have it with, like, a couple different things in a little bit. And then there's people that just put ketchup on everything. And to me, I feel like I was trying to figure out, is that, like, an American thing? But then some people are like, no, over here we put ketchup on a lot of stuff. but I feel like it's a predominantly America thing. I don't know. I'm very curious about the ketchup and everything, too,

because I feel like I fall squarely into ketchup belongs on certain things and not anywhere near other things. Yes. It's because it's dumb because we were talking about Chicago hot dogs. And they're like, there's no ketchup on Chicago hot dogs. And people are like, well, why not? Like, that's dumb. Like, everybody's like, I eat ketchup on my hot dog.

I was like, you just don't do it. I'm with President Obama on this one. Ketchup on hot dogs is not a thing. I do not like it. I don't want it. But I'll put ketchup on a hamburger. I'll put ketchup on like other things, fries. Like I'm not a big like when I see people do aoles and, you know, mayonnaise is with fries.

I'm like, what are you doing? Like, no thing is ketchup. Ketchup is the only solution here. With that said, I don't hate when people do it. I'm not going to be like, you can't do it. you can't do it but I just won't it's not a thing that I like

yes all right you're on the Krendor team then yeah let's go like in my mind all of those condiments are to cover up the fact that it probably was low quality you know what I mean like I think that's why it was originally developed

mm-hmm yeah it's um I was even checking here and it says so this is the Google review this may be it's pulling from actual articles though so I'm gonna trust this yes as we've discussed We trust, but we verify.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. No ketchup on hot dogs, especially in Chicago, stems from a tradition where ketchup was used to hide the taste of poor quality meat during the Depression. So avoiding it became a sign of pride and quality, but also respecting complex flavor balance of the fully loaded Chicago dogs. So it was masking the bad meat. Then it became like a thing of pride as well. But it's also the flavor balance where sweet ketchup can overpower the complex flavors. So, like, if you have, like, you know, mustard, relish, onion, tomato pickle, like, you got all the stuff.

And then ketchup's just going to, like, overpower it. Exactly. That leads me to the point of ketchup. Like, some people just like ketchup. And then they'll just put it on anything to just mask whatever it is. Because, you know, I'm not saying you can't do that or, like, you're whatever. I'm just saying, I think that's why people do it. I mean, that's the, when I'm in the UK, I put that HP sauce on everything.

Oh, yeah. I love it. It's basically like a more. vinegary ketchup kind of thing, except it's brown. I'll put that on, I love that sauce. It's one of my favorites. But I wouldn't put it on a hot dog. You know what I mean?

Like I think that it's absolutely correcting the idea that a lot of the sauces, even spices, throughout history, all the spices, all the different things were used to cover up the fact that sometimes meat wasn't so great for a lot of people. And now it's just tradition to have it a certain way. That's how you prepare it. And I'm fine with that.

I'm not going to poo that. But like when you go out and you have like a really good steak, for example. In my mind, I'm thinking, don't mess with it. If this is a high quality piece of meat, don't screw it up. Maybe a little pepper, salt. I'm good. I'm good.

That's it. My dad will do that. He's like, where's the A1? But then he was like, I think I like A1 because we used to have shitty steak growing up. Yeah, probably. When I think it's Chicago dog, I'm thinking like, you have the mustard is

one flavor. And then you have the sweet, that sweet ashy, hyper green relish. If you had that plus ketchup, it would, the hot dog would be ruined. Yeah. No, it's, especially me. I'm like a food douche and a wine douche. Like, I'm all about, like, tasting the weird different flavors and different things. So it's like, if anything's overpower, I mean, that's not even ketchup, but just like sauce.

I think I mentioned this before. But, like, I just, I hate when there's too much sauce on anything. Yeah, I'm not a, I'm not a sauce guy. Even, like, spaghetti. You know what I mean? Yeah. No, in fact, I'd prefer even like olive oil on pasta, like some garlic or like something like that. Sure.

Rather than just full-blown, like, mariner sauce. Like, I just think, I don't know. There's a place in L.A. Next time you deign to come here, it's in Santa Monica and it's like a cheese restaurant. I don't know, man. It's very like up its own butt dushy. However, they have a ton of pasta. It's like cheese plates.

and cheese platters and chakouterie things but then they also have pasta and they make their pasta literally that way you're not going to get it with like crazy sauces the best you could probably get is like they coat it in a cheese wheel and then give you that kind of it's delicious and it's very very simple

that kind of thing I'm down for that too frankly as long as the pasta's fresh you can serve it to me anyway and I'll feel fine yeah yeah that is that is very true Oh my God That's like

Whenever we get the scrandle with the British stuff It's always just some sort of pie Covered in gravy With like the mushy peas or mash peas Or whatever it is Every single time And it always drives me crazy Especially the ones where it's one pie versus another pie

And they look the exact same to me And then just you have to pick But I do get it Because when they show the pies Minus the gravy They look dry as hell So in my mind I'm like I'd rather have the gravy then Cover it in gravy because there's no way I'm going to eat that dry ass pie

Without some sort of like lubrication to get it down Because that is not cool And honestly I know people shit on mushy peas I like mushy peas I like them a lot They're actually pretty good I don't know that I've had minted mushy peas Maybe I have but I like mushy peas

I'm a big I like peas Munchy peas How's that? It's peas with mint Mint? Yeah That is I don't even

I mean I like beans I like their beans Sometimes I worry Because again The mushy peas looks less like A mashed potato consistency And more like soup And that's not cool

I'd get pea soup If I want to pee soup I don't want You could scoop on goop onto my plate Like I'm in a retirement home Like I just want You know Again it comes down to like

Did whoever made this care About what they made And sadly for Scandal most of the images we get from those ballparks overseas. It's like, nobody cared when they made this. There was no love involved with this. Yeah, definitely not.

That's the thing. Sometimes they're like, oh, this thing looks good. And I'm like, dude, I would eat the, like, the Rocky Mountain Oysters where I was like, this actually looks all right, but like I'm only going to eat this from a good restaurant, not from a sports venue. Yeah, I'm not going to get balls from like a ballpark, although that's pretty funny.

But I wouldn't. If you're going to sell me on the concept of like Eat this crazy thing With that said they did have one I think it was like from Bolivia Peru maybe where it was cowhart And it was just grilled Oh yeah yeah

And I was like okay I could probably do that at a ballpark Because I think it would be impossible to screw up grilling food Yeah Like you're just throwing it on fire and calling it a life The worst case scenario is they burn it a little bit and I'm fine with the char so whatever let's go but yeah if you're trying to sell me on like deep fried things at a ballpark I know that's been sitting under a light for X number of hours like I'm not no I'm no dude yeah no that's I'm good yeah uh or like if it's like

that type of thing you know barely any people order it and that shit's just like sitting around too yes yeah no no no no and all those for those who don't know scrandles this amazing website where you compare food from mostly British United Kingdom stadiums but also will do things from like the rest of Europe, South America and every once in a while America will show up

and you'll be shocked at the price difference it outragees me every time I see it it'll be like do you want to get this hamburger from the UK for five pounds or this one from America that's 22 pounds and I was like we screwed ourselves America with the problem every time I see it I'm shocked

Yeah, it's I don't know A lot of times it's just The beer Beer ends up being like $13 But even then Some of the food is still like

Like $15 for some of that shit Yeah One the other day that got me That made me really mad Was that the difference It was like a hamburger I think it was a hamburger I don't know what it was

It was like some sandwich And then the other side was Like a feast and then all you can drink beer and everyone chose the sandwich and I was like are you crazy are you insane?

I lost my mind I was like what are we doing? That's what I thought and then someone's like some people don't drink I was like dude for a dollar

I'd be good and start drinking yeah are you kidding me I was crazy I was like if you don't drink take that beer they're giving you for free and give it to a friend

you just made a friend dude like go find a random stranger sitting next to you and give them the beer yeah and you still get the cheap food you can eat. That's like Costco prices. I was like, that's incredible. Are you kidding me? Yeah.

And also I think it goes to show kind of what people value because there was one that was literally like this long, delicious looking sausage and like a roll and then mustard on this plate. Very simple, very easy. And the next to it was like some piled high, giant

garbage pail of food. And everyone chose the garbage pail. I'm like, dude, if I'm in a ball game, I want that sausage, I want that bread, and I like, Keep it simple. Like, that's crazy. The other one, I take that back to my seat. I'm sitting there with stuff all over me the entire game. I stink like barbecue sauce or whatever.

Like, you kidding me? Yeah, it goes back to the sauce. There's some of those I'm like, oh, this is drenched in shit. I'm not picking this. Then it's like 90% and I'm like, you kidding me? Like, what? And the prices don't make sense sometimes. I'm just like, wait a minute.

It's the same thing, but you'd rather pay five pounds more for this one because it has lettuce on it? What are we doing, internet? Yeah, no, that's crazy. I don't know. Yeah, it is a constant source of frustration for me to play that because I am always amazed, and I have to keep reminding myself, it's not what I would choose, it's what the world shows.

And I'm like, oh, Lord. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah, speaking of frustrating, watching that smiling friends thing. Dude. Not the friend by the same. I can't wait to see. Did you already put out a video? I haven't seen the reaction to it yet.

Yeah, I did it yesterday. I need to watch that. I'm doing that literally tonight. I genuinely was like skipping it out of some parts. I couldn't even handle it. The part where the one girl just keeps talking, I was like, y'all, this is the worst thing I've ever seen. I was like, this is so cringing.

And what's crazy is, I still, after it's over, I still don't know if it's real or not. So for people who did not see this, Smiling Friends is a show that's on Adult Swim and it's also on HBO It's a very silly, very funny Kind of like Gen Z-Focus TV show Like Adult Swim type of thing

Yes, very adult swim coded Some episodes are like Very absurd, some episodes are like a horror show For some reason You know like that kind of stuff And online People have begun inserting themselves into episodes

Like they'll post clips And then they'll insert themselves into it And it was weird because a year, like, I don't know, maybe a year and a half ago, this guy, autistic gamer was doing it. And it was very clearly like just a goof. Because he'd put his face at the end and it would, you know, a scene would play out and he'd be like, thank you for watching. You know, like that kind of thing. Yeah. And then a year went by with nothing.

And then in this October of this year, he comes back. This girl, Dolly Dimpley is doing it. And then this other guy's doing it. And everyone's like, wait, what? Because they start releasing them roughly the same time. Back to back, to back, to back. And they start referencing each other, and they start doing this thing. And then the quality increases to the point where the voices of the characters in the show

are now talking about these other characters. And everyone's like, is this something that is part of, this is this like an ARG? Is this something that is part of the actual show and they're going to show up at some point? I'm still convinced it's just fandom run amok. But the quality is so good at some points that it's jarring. Yeah. It's like machinima level quality, but then them taking content that already exists and inserting themselves. It's wild.

It's wild. It's, uh, yeah. At first I was like, oh, yeah. And then, you know, I was like, uh, but then as it kept going and we saw more and more, I was like, dude, I, I, I'm way too old for this. I can't handle us And it's crazy because The Dolly Dimpley stuff I believe is purposely supposed to be

mocking self inserts But it's doing it in a way That is so accurate to how I feel about Self inserts that it's almost unwatchable Like it is hyper cringe And so weird And the goof is at least with the Dolly Dimpley character

None of the characters in the show pay attention to her She's literally just like Is that right fellas? Come on And everyone ignores her completely and there's something about that that is like really sad but also compelling to me because I'm like they know what they're doing

they must know what this is so why are they doing this like why take the time why I genuinely don't know it's a fascinating subculture to me it's I mean I'm I still don't know like there's still part of me

that thinks it's real somebody's like actually just doing this for what purpose I don't why not other shows, you know what I mean? Like, why not in, why is there not a digital circus self-insert character? There's so many animated shows, why not other things? Why just this specific one? Yeah, I mean, like, I'm with you.

It's weird to the point where I, in order to believe that it's not pure insanity, I have to believe that it's in some way related to the show. I mean, yeah, that's true. I mean, I don't know. I genuinely don't. know. I think that's also what kind of freaks me out. Because, you know, if it's somebody just having fun doing their own thing, like, whatever.

Like, they're, you know, everybody, that's like essentially fan fiction. Right? Like, they're doing their own type of advanced fan fiction. Sure. Yeah. But it's, I think what also throws me off in a lot of these is, like, I get that it's trying to be cringe or whatever, but it's

like the, it doesn't mesh with, like, the theme of what's going on, right? Like, the show is very dry and there's like kind of you know a lot of sarcastic humor and like like four like not four but you know kind of meta jokes almost like

Tim and Eric ask type of things and then you have somebody's just like insanely normal just being like guys that's not fun and you're just like what? Like huh? And again I think that's like the point? I don't know it's weird and

I'm glad people said check it out because it was interesting to watch but also very strange you know what I mean like if it's just someone doing it for fun it's mildly concerning yeah

it is really weird though like it's I don't but speaking of digital circus stuff I was gonna say speaking of weird did you watch my theories so here's the thing

I um watched the first five minutes and then stop and was like, oh, I need to do a full React video. So I think either later today or tomorrow, I'm going to record a full React of me reacting to that and upload it on Christmas Day on the channel. Not edited, nothing.

Just going to just sit there and watch and do the React. Yeah, I watched the first five minutes and had to stop myself. I was like, oh, my God. Because, ladies and gentlemen, for years we have heard Mr. Krendor himself say he doesn't care about story. He doesn't like story. Story's not a thing. And my man went fooling in a way that I've never seen you this excited about something before when it comes to storytelling.

Well, here's the thing I've kind of gone through with like figuring out, even on stream, is that I've realized I don't really like video game stories. Ah, okay I like movie stories I like show stories I like books Right Otherwise I wouldn't even be writing a book If I didn't like stories

Agreed So it's like I love story And I think what I don't like About video game stories Is it feels like it's Bogging it down a bit Which

For some people It's not that Some people get very immersed In it like you You know what I just realized This is your ketchup You like story in some things and you like story

you don't like it in other things and a video game you're there to play a thing rather than watch a thing and if you want to watch a thing you just watch TV all right yeah I vibe with that I get it yeah because like even even just like playing some games or they're just like they give you like the two dialogue options and I'm like dude I would rather they just like

say one of the dialogues and I don't even have a choice like I don't like it just feels like meaningless to me which is why things like Baldur's Gate I think is something I enjoyed because it was much more like my choices actually do matter

like that's impacting the world like I can't have a team of people that nobody's even met before because I like killed all the other ones accidentally right well I feel like there's a lot of games where they give you choice but it's like an illusion of choice where it kind of just ends up in the same spot

no matter what you do I genuinely think you should go back on stream and play Divinity 2 Divinity Original Sent 2 I know you dabbled a little bit but I think you should because that game has even more choice and it's not D&D grounded. Like Baldur's Gate 3 is grounded in like D&D rules.

Right. a lot of things you can do, they tried to do in Baldur's Gate 3, but obviously, you know, they had to stick to like what the D&D rule set was. killing NPCs for no damn real. You could like burn a town to the ground, right? Right. You could be a, there was one time I killed an NPC who was a quest giver and they were like, uh, what?

And I was like, well, and, but the thing is is you can get the same quest from like out in the wild when you find a thing on a dead deer. You know what I mean? There was multiple ways of doing stuff. So it was great. And then you could do wacky things where it was like, okay, I'm going to cover the ground in

water with a water spell. And then I can electrocute the ground, or I can turn it into mist with fire or I can turn to poison or you can do tons of wacky shit that you know you could kind of sort of do in Baldur's Gate 3 but not to the extent

you could do it in Divinity Ridgelson 2 and I feel like that would be very fun for you because it's just a sandbox of insanity and you could really go crazy and they're not going to try to force a massive story down your throat it's kind of like figure out the story yourself man enjoy

yeah No, I like that I mean, I enjoyed Divinity when I play In fact, I think I played it with It was like me you, Dodger, and same Yeah, that's the one where I played the dwarf And you all died and I ended up beating

The giant worm thing And I felt like the biggest badass whoever lived Yeah Yeah, but honestly, yeah, I'd like to go back And play that, maybe I will. Yeah, it would be fun Absolutely goofery territory And I think it would be so fun to watch you

Just kind of like Crendor your way through that Because it isn't going to try and force on like this is a story and he's like it won't do that it won't try to force that on you yeah because uh because that is my big thing because it's like i don't hate the video game story like it's i'd rather it's one of the reasons i'd rather watch someone else play a video game story like i'd rather watch you do a play through than actually play it myself because i just hate i don't know what it is i just don't like interacting with the story in that way well how did you

feel about like road to empress and stuff like that you seem to me that's like i do but to me that's like more goofy. I think if it's goofier, I don't mind. Gotcha. Okay. Because it's just like, oh, we're getting souped again. Oh, this thing. But like, I don't think I enjoy the actual, like, serious stories like that. I think that's the big thing. All right, yeah. I mean,

it's true. There's, I think a lot of people have that vibe of, like, when they sit down and play a video game and they get like a really serious tale, they get hit a little bit with cringe because it's like a little too serious. You know what I mean? Yeah, or like, I just Or it just doesn't mesh with like how I feel it would go or how, I don't know.

I just, it's, I think out of all the forms of media, I've oddly enough become a fan of reading the most out of all of them. Yo, big same. Honestly, the older I get, the more I'm like, I need a good book. I don't know if it's like a detox thing. I read the other day that Gen Z is getting more, and I don't know how viable this is because it was. It was in one of those, like, it was in printed media to begin with, you know what I mean? But it was one of those things that was, Gen Z are getting more and more bored with the internet. And they're going back to books.

And I was like, we're doing it. We're finally going full circle. No, it really are. I mean, it's like reading is just nice because you just, you know, you sit there. It's very, you go at your own pace. It's like, it's just fun reading words and using your imagination. Like, I don't know, it's just, and you can, you know, when somebody writes, they can write whatever. They don't have to have a budget of actors and, like, scene creation and all this stuff.

But it's like, it's just, it has the most freedom to create what you want to create, which is why everybody, anytime they have something, they're like, oh, man, you saw the show, but you got to read the book. Like, everyone's always like, you got to read the book. Very rarely are they're like, don't read the book. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm very curious about a return to books. and return to reading mostly because I feel like right now we're sort of in like a comfort like oh read stuff you love

but I genuinely firmly believe Amazing Digital Circus is a perfect example even the creator had some comments about like people interpreting the media because after the last episode there was a lot of talk about like the episode and what's going on in it would you love to give a quick summary

of episode seven and like your vibe with that before I jump into this? Oh, yeah. I mean, I've really gone head first. Oh, I'm aware, and I love it. Okay, I think one of my biggest things I love is foreshadowing, right? I love the, what's it called, Chekhov's gun types of stuff where you can go back and, like, try to piece things together, try to theorize. And so, pretty much the, well, you want me to actually, like, say the show is. I mean, you can vaguely kind of describe the episode or what attracted you to that episode.

All right. So it pretty much starts off like they're not going on an adventure like they normally are. The Kane, the AI guy, he's an AI. It's just like, hey, you know what? No adventures today. Like whatever. And so they have the Chinese room, of course, which is a joke about a computer. programming stuff. You could watch the thing

if you ought to fully go. In fact, your video goes in on it. What's very interesting is that going back to your time about the Chekhov's gone, like the foreshadowing, like the pieces, the breadcrumbs they're laying for you. There's been hints in the past that one of the characters, Kinger, is

a developer who worked on the actual amazing digital circus and is also trapped inside the program, right? And they haven't said it, but they keep dropping hints. And one of those hints, I think, is funny, is that when they're talking about the Chinese room bit and Kane, the AI, gets a joke back

and he laughs at the message he receives and he says like a thing, Kinger is the only one who laughs because he too understands the Chinese room joke because he's a programmer. And I thought that's very funny. That's super like, I see what you're doing. Like that kind of stuff is why I like the show.

It's really brilliant. Yeah. No, I agree. And so, yeah, they go through that and then they meet a random NPC that's been like watching them this whole time. If you go back to different episodes, you can see the NPC watching him. And so he's just like, hey guys, like I'm not actually an NPC. I am like a person like you and my name's Abel. And I created or I was part of this.

And then they, you know, tried to get rid of me or whatever. And they're just like, oh shit. And so he's like, I know where the exit is. And so the whole episode is like trying to follow his directions of like, we got to get out of here. Like, just follow what I say and we're going to get out. And then they do all that. And they're like, okay, here we go. And then they get to the end.

They're like, this is it. Like, we're going home. And then Jacks freaks out and has, like, insane real life flashbacks. And he's just like, nah, nah, da, da. And then he hits the, like, button that says, like, do you want to go home or you want to stay? And then they're all like, we got to hit go home. And then he hits the stay button, the red button. And then it turns out it was an adventure.

And Cain's like, hey, there was. go you made the right choice and they're all just like what the shit and then they're like you played with us and did all these things and he's like what and then they're just like you controlled us you can change our mind he's just like ah shit i got to go and that's how it yeah the episode ends with them staring blankly at the screen like oh my god what and i love that but going back to what goose works the creator was talking about online if you look at the reactions to this episode that idea of like media literacy i said it earlier the this week that I thought media literacy was dead

and I firmly believe it, looking into this even more, where so many people online were complaining that POMNI, the main character, when given the choice of whether to leave or stay, paused and didn't know what to do and turned and asked to everyone, like, what do we do? But, right, when obviously she wants to get out,

people are like, I don't understand. Completely forgetting that not five minutes before, Abel, she's the last person there with Abel, and Abel is like, make the right choice. And he keeps saying to her make the right choice, which absolutely is one of those like mind F things that when she gets there and she has to make a choice, she's thinking, oh my God, what is the right choice? Why would he say that to me? What does that mean?

And so she pauses and turns to everyone else to ask, right? And the fact that the internet was like, that's so out of character. What does that mean? And I'm like, what are you talking? That was not five minutes ago? What are you talking about? It's that kind of thing where I think, you know, there's other things where people were complaining that Jack's, they're like, oh, this is just one of those things where the creator loves Jacks so much. And I was like, what do you mean?

Jacks was hardly in some episodes. Yeah. These are character arcs that are all coming, that kind of thing where I feel bad for any creatives. Even like in the internet, like YouTube space of us where we're not on sort of like a TV show level where I'm just like, man, we really. really do like we there's American education system maybe the world I don't know really screwed up. It might just be the world at this

point. Yeah like we I keep thinking back to when I was a kid we were forced to read Shakespeare and old English poetry and shit that I hated but like when we talked through it I understood and then if you go see Shakespeare live

if you see really good actors put on a Shakespeare performance the inflection of their voice the way they say things you understand suddenly what that old English means. You're like, oh, that's what they were talking about. Like, oh, it makes perfect sense. It just sounds different, but

I get what it means now. And, you know, if you like Canterbury Tales or Beowulf or whatever, it's just hard to understand. You have to sit there as a class and, like, dissect it and figure out what the hell they're saying. Now, even when I taught, that was not a thing that we did. It was not

mandated that we know that stuff. It was not mandated that we teach that stuff. So kids would read anything but it was like, how can we get kids to read easy content? And I think that's a huge problem because no one has to dissect information anymore and so now they're like well what does it show me?

Well it showed me this thing my brain says it's this and it's like what did you think about it for like five minutes? No? Okay well that explains everything. It's uh in fact I would even go as far just saying like media like just TV shows and stuff in general like I remember back

even watching things like the Simpsons or like the first few seasons of SpongeBob Like, if you watch those, there's, like, so much depth and so many, like, just, like, well-written jokes, and, like, they have plenty of things, like, foreshadowing and, like, all these things of good writing, and then it hits a point where it gets worse, and you're like, oh, because the writing falls off. And now, you have so many people that just watch, like, growing up, like, YouTube slop and, like, just garbage stuff, and, like, nobody's even watching shows and stuff that do that type of thing. and so that that adds into the like nobody can analyze anything earlier this week I posted what maybe the best joke I've ever posted online ever I saw that

where it literally was just it was like what what take would get you like this and it was the guy burning in the wicker man and I literally just wrote a very solid joke which is I should be able to stand in a fire and healers need to keep me alive the joke being that if I were to stand in a fire I would be like that guy burning alive right

Like that's, it's not even subtle. It's like very obvious, that's what the joke is. And the amount of people that got upset. And then when I was like, guys, I'm sorry I pushed buttons. It's very clear that some of you were, like, I thought the reason they were upset is because they were like, remembering back to being a healer in an RPG. No, I was wrong. People were upset because they thought I meant it. I thought they were messing with me.

I thought people were playing with me because they're like, oh, I would never heal you. And I was like, I know, that's the point. But most people were really upset. and finally some guy was like you should have added slash s or sarcasm and I was like I should no I shouldn't I shouldn't have to do that the fact that people need

somebody to type like Reddit slash S should tell you all you all you need to know you need me to put like a little winky face at the end or something like are you kidding me the joke is literally this man is burning alive it wasn't one of those things where it's like knives at the throat or whatever where there's the potential that it could have like you know I said a thing and you're going to

get me? No, this guy was already got. He was already dead. He's burning alive. That's the goof. And people are like, it's not funny, dude. That's not funny. People should not stand in fires. I'm like, what? Agreed. Like, absolutely agreed. Yeah, there's no, there's no depth to any of this thought. They're just like, people value being first to hit you back with a reaction rather than taking a moment to think about what it is. And honestly, like years ago, I bet you could go back like 10 years and find that I was the same way. Yeah, I do think some of it is like age related. I think a lot of people

that are younger, just they have to like, you know, as they get older, they probably develop that part of their brain more. I mean, even getting back to the digital circus stuff, there's like theories I would be and be like, dude, dad, this is like, there's eyes here and these things and I would look online and there'd be people like, somebody would have the same

thing like, do you guys see the eyes here and they'd be like, it's just eyes? What do you, what? Like, were you trying to find something when there's nothing? I was like, dude, are you kidding me? Like these people like literally just like this means nothing I'm like it clearly means something there's like eyes everywhere there's eyes in paintings there's eyes like

literally and they're just like it's just eyes like there's no eye himself is literally a mouth with two giant the eyeballs are the main feature of the character yeah it's of course it means that's the point even in episode one I saw someone post this and I was like yo that's smart

where he said I have eyes everywhere yeah the character says it and then you see it and you're like A to B to C, it's not that hard. Yeah, but there's people who's like, say these people are crazy. They think the eye. I'm like, holy. Okay, but that's why I just stopped reading all that.

So I just went full Crendor, like, I'm in my own world. I'm so excited. I must stress again, I got on the elliptical and was like, let's go put on the video, I started watching got five minutes, and I was like, nope, I have to stop this. I have to watch something else because I need to fully react to this. because you dude

we're so in I've never seen that before my life ever I've never seen you that passionate about anything you were like oh I have theories

and I got this thing I was like this is brilliant well I'm even gonna I'll bring up some things now that I don't even mention in the video

that I found after I recorded that okay one of which is the recurring theme of a bowling ball I don't know if you've noticed this

the one the one like they when they did the montage and the bowling balls it was like cake cake cake bowling ball and some people got bowling balls yeah yeah yes so if you if you watch when in episode one coughmo abstracts right and if you look in his room it's literally a bowling ball there so like i don't know why he has a bowling ball in his room jacks takes the bowling ball and he's

like i've been looking for this and then he's gone then there's pictures of bowling balls like on the wall then like you said there's the the thing where they're dropping bowling balls on people in the intermission. And when they try to drop it on Kinger, he catches it and it's all like dark around him. Then, it all turns white and the ball disappears

and then he gets hit by a black rook, like a chest piece, and it knocks him off the thing and then it turns black again. So like, there's some weird symbolic shit going on. I love this version of you. This is my favorite version of Crendor.

I love this. I'm enjoying this so much. You have no clue. No, yeah. It's like you're trying to piece things together. You know? I love that type of thing. It really is a mystery.

I think that's my favorite part of the show is it is, it comes off as being like, hey, it's a fun, goofy kid show. No, it's not. Not even remotely. It is a mystery that is deep and it has so many layers. and I love that they're slowly pulling back stuff and they're giving you so many breadcrumbs in each episode and it all connects to something else. It is genuinely, like,

even the fact that they said it's going to be Beach episode, episode 7. I knew right away, no way in hell, not happening. It's that kind of thing that I enjoy. Like, yeah, they'll throw in a moment where the sharks are like, oh, geez, oh, no, which is hilarious. And then five minutes later it'll be like, what am I looking at? And you're like, what are you?

Yeah. And you're like, what is this mean? What am I supposed to see? And I know later on they will come back to that. Oh, yeah. Like, you have enough faith in them as creators to know they will circle back to things they hint at. And it's great. Yeah.

It's, um, I even had the theory of like the bowling ball is kind of, it's like a blue circle, which is the same as the cane and able logo. Oh. Or like all the things. So it was like, it could be some sort of symbolic thing there. There's also, because. The big theory I get into is I still don't think Abel is just fake. Like, I think Kane knows that Kinger is Abel.

And he's just kind of playing it off. That's kind of my big theory. I like that too. Yeah, yeah. And because even he's on, even when he does, they're like, what's your name? And he's like, it's able. And they're like, why do you pick that name? And he's like, I think it's cool.

Like he's just kind of doing it. But then if you notice, there's also other similar things. Like, there's bubble, which this could be a stretch, but there's like a bubble and a bubble is almost like able. Okay. Or there's cane and bubble. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, and then there's, in the fast food episode, there's Kinger writing a bowl because he wasn't on the adventure. And everyone's like, why's Kinger writing a bowl?

But a bowl is like able. Okay, yes, that's cute. There's some little hints like that all over the place. So I'm like, all right, but. red string again red string credor best credor favorite credor yeah there's also a lot of references to eggs which i don't really get there's like a lot of egg references so i don't know if it's like there was that one where he was like hey help me sort my eggs and they were black and white eggs well i guess brown and white but if you think of chess pieces like i don't know man there's a lot of interesting

things going on in this show there's also jacks as he hates egg sacks uh there's also the the gummy goo gators are like carving up eggs on their adventure like there's a lot of eggs yeah i'm so yeah i'm so curious when the show ends if they're going to spell out everything or leave it still a mystery because honest to god i'm still in this kind of like space of i don't know if there is a way out yeah i almost feel like maybe this is one of those like they aren't even like the soma thing yeah kind of like that where it's just a scan and it's all fake i'm also of a mind that maybe only one of them is real and everything else is fake yeah because a lot of it doesn't make sense that you could be there for so long

and still be alive like i know what they do with this episode basically without spoiling too much this episode episode seven was kind of like yes no we know what the internet says and we're going to mock you all for it. But I think at the same time, there's some theories where they pretend to mock that still could be some sort of like red herring mock. Like they're mocking it like, see, this isn't right, but it still is but they're making you think it's not. I think that's what

where I was like, dude, this is crazy. Yeah, yeah. Now I really, no, man, all right, I'm going to have to watch your stuff sooner rather than later. It is, you'll see. It's like when I go through, because I go through a few older episodes just to like show off

some stuff and it's like, There's some crazy shit that you definitely did not notice. My favorite part is knowing that someone listening to this has never seen Amazing Digital Circus. And it's like, what the shit are they talking about? And to you, I say, you should have paused 20 minutes ago and gone to watch. Yeah. No, yeah, shit's crazy. So, you also said you had two things you did this week.

I did. I did. I'll give you one. save the other one doesn't matter we'll save it for later but this one was really funny and it just happened this morning so i went out uh to go like you know do grocery shopping stuff and uh there was an in-and-out burger next door so i was like screw it i'm gonna get a burger let's go so i walk in and as i'm walking in there are three old men outside sitting at for those of you who know in-and-outs there you have a lot of like outside benches and chairs people can eat and um there were three old men sitting out there and this was the conversation

I heard as I'm walking in and it was I've never subconsciously nodded to something so hard in my entire life. So they're sitting there and the one guy goes he was up all night talking to his ex then the guy next to him was like

your grandson was talking to his ex all night he's like yeah all night and the third guy goes what? There's a reason she's his ex move on kid and then the other guy goes I don't know kids never change, they think people will just

figure out what's wrong overnight and fix it, I guess. The third guy goes, no, that boy's stupid. That boy's stupid. I've never nodded like, yes, bro. Yeah, I was like, yop. Yop. Old man, three, gets it.

He's like, yes, there's a reason that's an ex. Move on, son. This is actually pretty good. Yeah. And then I went inside and got a hamburger and it was a good, good day. But I like, those three men, I love them. For some reason, the old man, like, ornery old man vibe, like the Muppets or what, like, strong vibe.

That is my end goal. I want to get there and just be old and dispensed truths. Let me tell you. This is why you're wrong, you damn kids. Yeah, that's what I want. You're not going to listen anyway, but I'm going to say it. I mean, honestly, that's practically we're doing now. Think about it.

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let me tell you, it's terrible. It is real bad. It is, oh, man, I can't even, there's so much traffic. I can't even think about traffic because the traffic has trafficked my mind. Now my mind traffic is so backed up that I can't even think of the thing that I'm trafficked because traffic. And if the traffic's traffic, then I'm trafficked. Back to traffic. I feel like at a certain point that word lost all meaning to you.

I will say, though, when I was out today, there was not that many. I would figure the Sunday before Christmas it would be crazy. Not really. Not really. I don't know if people did all their stuff a week ago or whatever. I wasn't out then, but like, yeah.

It was kind of, I was shocked. Probably also just buy it online. That's probably true. Yeah, you're probably right. People are like, I'm not going out on that. That's terrible. And because they did that, there was no one out, which was great for me because I drove around

and got stuff done. I went and got my car wash. I did all sorts of stuff. It was great. Yeah, look at that. I'm sure there's some people that probably get in, like, this week. So I'm sure the next few days are probably true. I bet a lot of people are thinking, oh, I'll just go on on Monday because people will be at work or whatever.

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Come on down to high holidays, man That's the traffic Okay, let's go to weather Weather We've got weather for Al Blasserdam The Netherlands In August

Gabe Newell bought Oshanko A custom yacht builder company Based from Alblasterdam Usually people drive through here to get to the windmills of Kindergik. Yeah, wow. It's right outside of Rotterdam, and it is small, dude. Well, all right,

maybe not small, small, compared to some the times we cover, but it's pretty small. Well, it's currently 43 degrees Fahrenheit. It feels like 37. We got 29.8 inches of pressure, 11 mile an hour winds, 8 mile visibility, 8.46 a.m. sunrise,

4.32 p.m. sunset. 87% humidity, 40 on the 2.0 on the UV index. and a waxing crescent moon. 10 day. We got 45 partly cloudy, Monday, 41, cloudy, Tuesday, 36, mostly sunny, Wednesday, Thursday, 33,

with sun, Friday, 35, sunny, Saturday, 39, partly cloudy, Sunday, 38, party, blah, blah, blah. Monday, 41, partly cloudy, Tuesday, 41, mostly cloudy, and Wednesday, 42, PM showers. I, you know, I'm always impressed by Amsterdam and the Netherlands, and in this case, Rotterdam, And, man, Al Blasterdam? I can barely say that.

All the restaurants, every time I look at them, I think, at least I can pronounce these. Like, Margaret's Corner. Like, it got that. That's true, yeah. Cafeteria Jocko. Like, got that. I get it. I know what we're in for.

Drew, Boom, Mead. Yeah. Like, okay. It isn't like something where I'm like, I don't know how to say this at all. Right. There's one called Steakhus, Montana. So it's Montana Steakhouse. Yes.

Love that. But it looks not the best. Well, it's like one is like the pizzas like all smushed. I will say, I don't know if this is a Netherlands thing, but I'm noticing a lot of reviews on these places. And they seem very honest. Like, I haven't found a restaurant above a 4-5. Yeah. Like, when we look at restaurants, we usually see, like, wow, 4-7, a 4-9.

I'm not seeing that in a lot of these places. I finally found one, and it's a pizza place. Other than that, most of them are, like, 3-9. I'm like, ooh. I mean, this one is a 4-2, and it's a Steakhouse Montana, but, like, half of it's just pizza. Why is there pizza at the steakhouse? Maybe that's what the hoose is. That's the letting you know.

It's not a steakhouse is a steak who's, bro. Yeah, that's my mistake. Yeah. Just like happy Italy. Happy Italy might be one of the most beautiful restaurants I've ever seen. 3.5. It's gorgeous looking. They're like, nah, dude.

I will not be happy here. Yeah, they got a place called Pavilion. I assume that's what it is. The J-O-E-N is Pavilion, Struis. And that place looks. Baller. That place looks so good. What the shit? I'd eat there in a heartbeat. Yeah, man. All right. Yeah. I mean, look, everywhere we go, I see stuff like this. I'm more excited about the idea of like the, you know, the locks and the waterways. That stuff's always fun to like cruise around and check out.

And I'm going to say to all the Netherlands, your boat tours plus boots. are my favorite thing in the world. Jump on a weird boat. Drink while you're like, this is the home of Vin van dersteen, who was the first plumber in all the Netherlands.

You're like, yo, let's go Vin. Yeah, those are great. That's pretty good. I mean, as Chicago has a thing where you'd get in a boat and you'd sail around and drink and they give you the tour or whatever. Yeah, I've always wanted to do

one of those um what is that called where you like get in the car but it's not a car you're like bicycling but also drinking while you're peddling and then you like drive around the city you know what that you know what I mean yeah I don't know what those damn things are called

but I've always wanted to do one uh yeah I don't know what they're called either I went on the Boston duck tour love that where you get in the duck boat oh yeah the duck boat and you like drive around the city and then you go in the water the problem was

is while driving around the city was fun but the minute we hit the water it was so cold everyone was like freezing and then he was like hey little kids all the children

can come up and drive the boat and those kids were trying to tip us over man he was wild loved it and that's the weather oh right

let's go to sports sports so start with football that that So, bad news for the Chiefs. They're out of the playoffs. Patrick Mahomes last week tore his ACL. So Gardner Minshu got the start today.

And then he tore his ACL. They were gunning for him. Someone's out there like, hit their ACL, do it. Go sweep the leg. Yeah, they're sweeping legs. Then we had Eagles commanders. Eagles beat the commanders. Bears beat the Packers in a terrible fashion as the Packers choke the game away in classic Packer fashion.

The Seahawks beat the Rams in overtime. Panthers beat the Buccaneers. Vikings beat the Giants. Saints beat the Jets. Bengals crushed the dolphins. Titans beat the Chiefs. Chargers beat the Cowboys. Bills beat the Browns. Raiders currently losing to the Texans. Steelers losing to the Lions. These are all in the second quarter, though. Falcons Cardinals are tied and the Jaguars are beating the. the Broncos and Patriots Ravens play later night.

In basketball, we got the Pistons in first still with the Knicks right behind them. We've got the Thunder in first place still at 25 and 3. Mama me, although they did just lose a game with the spurs and the nuggets right behind them. Then we have the, I almost said baseball. Well, there's like baseball off-season stuff, but then we got hockey. We got the Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yo, yo.

Currently have the Red Wings, the Canadians, and the Lightning atop the east with the Hurricane Capitals Islanders, also atop the east, and many other teams very close behind them, actually. Then we have the Avalanche, still the best team in hockey. They've only lost two games, which is pretty insane. They are 25, 2, and 7,

7-0s being overtime losses, so they get a point for that. Dallas right behind them and the Minnesota Wild right there as well and we get closer to the Olympics only like a month and a half away now

it's coming let's go let's go let's go and that is sports okay what is our fact of the day fact of the day fact of the day fact of the day bop bop bap bap

dude what the shit is this fact Charles the 3rd of Spain wrote to his parents telling them about their wedding night and there are some things he wrote down wait wait wait wait you mean his wedding night not he wrote to his parents about their wedding

okay I was like that'd be really weird yeah but it is just weird in general so here's what he wrote down you told me that sometimes young girls are not so easy and that with this hot weather I should try to save my energy not doing it as much as I wanted because it could

ruin my health and that I should be content with once or twice times between night and day, and that otherwise I would end up exhausted that it is better to serve the ladies little and continuously than a lot at once. We went to bed at nine o'clock and both of us were shaking, but we started to kiss and I was soon ready. So I started and after 15 minutes, this time none of us could spill about what you told me about her being young and delicate, warning me that she would make me sweat. I will say that the first time I was sweating like a fountain, but I have not sweat since then. Later, at 3 o'clock in the morning,

I started again, and we both spilled both at the same time. And since then, we have continued like this. Twice a night, except for the night when we had to come here since we had to wake up at 4 in the morning, and we could only do it once. I assure you that I could have done it many more times. What is happening?

First off, let me just stress for the record. Not once in my life that I think that I would ever hear you read anything like this to me, while also we recorded it. Not once in my life and I think this is where it would be. But secondly, what a crazy-ass letter

to write your parents. No, this is like genuinely insane. This is like, you would think they wouldn't do this shit in like the 1700s. Or maybe they had to be like to prove to your mother that I'm trying to create an heir to my legacy. That's got to be what it is. That has

to be. Yeah. And he finishes this by saying, I will also say that we always spill at the same time because we wait for each other. that is so weird dude that is really weird thing to write your parents that's like absolutely insane but I gotta assume

that during the time period what else were you gonna talk about really like how much did you drink today and what did you give the servants yeah that is that is still so weird I don't know it's hyper weird

happy new year everyone Merry Christmas Happy New Year and Merry Christmas That's your fact of the day Oh shit Okay Was anyone come to us with tears in their eyes

I got tears in my eyes Especially after that Dear Lesterius sirs With tears in my eyes With a corn cob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal, I ask you, if you could make a Christmas movie, what would it be? Oh, shit.

Hot Frosty 2. I need it. I need hot Frosty 2. And this time, they circle back and finally reveal that the old couple who gave the scarf away in the beginning, the man was originally a Frosty. I need that conclusion. Netflix get on this.

That is pretty good. I I would make the most nostalgic crazy Christmas movie I think I would get

all right hear me out I would get like Tim Allen Will Ferrell yeah like Chevy Chase and

like Jim Carrey as like the Grinch all right and then Will Ferrell be elf hold on Let me also add We have to have

Kevin McAllister come back as well Oh yeah, of course Oh yeah And I'm with you on this This could be a great movie Yeah I'll have Chevy Chase Is like the Christmas vacation

Just dead Right, but he left his son at home Yep And then Tim Allen is like Santa Claus Right Right And they all get together There'll be like

Snoopy you'll be there Is the dog He'll just be a dog and they just Claymation Reindeer will show up or whatever Yeah, yeah Yeah, and they'll just They'll just go on a wacky Christmas

Adventure It doesn't even matter what they do Just like a bunch of random Christmas shit They go Christmas shopping They can like, you know, go sledding They can just everything you can do for Christmas And then Jim Carries the Grinch is just like I don't like this, I don't

Christmas is dumb And then like, you know Will Ferrell just be like I love Christmas, I'm the elf And then Tim Allen's like Oh, ha, ha, more power. I would genuinely love to see Buddy the elf meets the Grinch.

I don't know why. Something about that combination sounds incredible. It's the, you know, his eternal optimism versus the Grinch's eternal pessimism. Yes, I would love that. Yeah, and then you collide it with, like, all the other personalities, like Jim, or, not Jim Allen is Santa being like, oh, and then.

I love that your version. of Tim Allen as Santa is literally just typical man Taylor. Yeah. And then you know, Chevy Chase just being like, well, we'll fix this up. We got to have a good old fashioned family Christmas here, guys. Like,

come on. Oh my God. If there's not a scene where it's all of them crammed into like a Winnebago and it's like Holiday Roe! I want that. I want that. No, that'd be perfect. And then they got Snoopy the dog. He's literally Snoopy, but like the same

collars. He's an animated dog. Yeah. No, he's just And he's the hallucination of the Grinch. Yeah. And every time he's on the screen, it just plays like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And whenever the Grinch tries to scold him or make him go away, all Snoopy hears us. Yeah.

And then maybe they go around. They also meet other characters from other movies. Like they'll meet Frosty the Snowman. You know, they'll go to the mall and it's just Arnold Schwarzenegger from Jingle all the way being like we need the rug

but he's just he's only there for a minute they meet the Muppets someone stole Santa's Tim Allen as Santa Santa, right? Because of Santa Claus someone stole all his bags of gifts and in the end we discover

it was Jack Skellington that would be that would be great and then the The Christmas movie. Netflix, make it happen. Everything's on Netflix now, so Netflix make it happen.

And then the Scrooge shows up, and then the Grinch is like, I like this guy. And Scrooge is like, I like this guy. And then the Muppets are like, hmm, yeah, this is weird. Right, but then Waldorf and Sattler show up, and they're like, oh, look at these two old farts. I would love this.

I would love it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's the ultimate Christmas movie. It's the only one you got to watch now. So you go, I'd do that. And at the end, when they finally get the presents and they reveal what the presents were, it's all those lamps with the leg.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's it. That's all the gifts are. That crappy lamp, the leg lamp, yeah. And then they all ride away on the Polar Express. And then weird, creepy Tom Hanks with, like, the digital Tom Hanks, like, come aboard, everyone.

Yes, yeah, yeah. And away we go. And as the train goes away, it's like, Holiday row Ah They go away on the train Hell yes This movie rocks

Your idea is way better than mine Although we need hot frosty in this somewhere That's true We do need hot frosty in there At some point Um Next we have Dear Lustreous sirs

Hands on my knees I humbly ask If both Jesse and Crendor Were both characters An Amazing Digital Circus What would your avatar be What an incredible question to ask specifically for this episode. That's pretty good.

That's wild. That's a solid question because I almost feel like it is in some way each character is an aspect of their personality, but not what defines them. You know what I mean? Well, it's like it is, let's say we both, if we both came in at the same time, we'd probably be similar. Right? I would hope, but maybe not. I don't, no one's the same. You know what I mean?

Like everyone's so dramatically. different that really you could be anything? Yeah. Like I would I'd probably be like a weird animal like a, like not I could say a sloth but like a sloth esk creature like a

like an amalgamation of a sloth and like various other weird creatures. Like a Muppet like a Muppet version of a sloth. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, and then I'd be very just anxious. Like I don't think we should do this guy.

I feel like I would have a big tongue for whatever reason. I don't know why. I feel like whatever I was, I'd just have a giant, like, what's that,

what's that, the Pokemon with a huge tongue? Oh yeah, lick a tongue. Yeah, that's what, I'd be kind of like that. You'd just drag it around everywhere. It's like a ludicrously long tongue.

This would be like, what's he think? You'd be like, reel it in. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like because that's also kind, it's also like a punishment a little bit. And so I like to talk a lot.

make it really hard for me to talk to have a giant tongue. No, that's pretty good. I like that. There you go. All right. What is our last news story of the year? Well, last news, big news story of the day, day, day, day. Florida Mayn Games return in 2026 in a new city at a new venue. Yes, let's go. Wait, is this?

We need information. I think we should go. Well, let's see where it's happening. Florida Man isn't just a phrase that inspired TV shows from HBO and Netflix. It's what we call the kind of person who could walk into the street barefoot to wrangle an alligator, attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean and a giant hamster wheel, which we've both read about. Yep, yep. In February of 2024, sort of Olympic Games for people who consider themselves Florida men took place in St. Augustine,

teams of men competing in challenges like beer belly sumo wrestling and evading a rest obstacle course. And in February of 2026, the third annual Florida Man Games will be held in a new place. Here's what we know. Florida Man Games an event with events and challenges inspired by Florida Man's infamously unique talents. The irreverent competition encourages the state's most unruly residents to serve as demigods of athletic prowess in Competitions. Sure. Okay. Teams of 3 to 5 Florida men and women compete in a series of these Sunshine State-inspired events to win bragging rights and championship belts. Team Hanky Spanky of St. Augustine are the defending champions and won the games in 24 and 25.

The only two main event challenges listed on the Florida Man Games website for 2026 are evading arrest obstacle course and the hurricane party prep grocery aisle rumble. I don't even know Is that like you have to run I imagine in my mind It's like guys grocery games Except instead of running around And grabbing food You run around because there's only like

One jug of water And you have to fight over the jug of water It's what I imagine this is Yeah you have to like get the stuff But everybody's trying to get it at once They're like, oh my work And they're probably like squirting you With squirt guns like a hurricanes

Oh man that's Sounds right up my alley Okay Yeah Here's a list of games in entertainment that were in 2025 that could appear. State of emergency presented by a hatchet pro wrestling.

Some of professionals wrestling all-time greatest and wildest stars invade the Florida Man Games. Fight Night main event. Indie Hartwell, Vicks, Crow, Matt Riddle, Preston, Vance, John Davis, and Brando Calrissian. Take over the arena.

Hando Calrissian rules, dude. That's amazing. Watch the lawnmower race featuring this year's Grand Marshal NASCAR driver Jeffrey Earnhardt The Midget Wrestling Warriors The Gator Shows and

selfies Ripley's Helza Poppin Side Show Ninja Nation Obsticle Course Mechanical Gator It's like the mechanical bull but a gator Axeckx throwing

Akala Knocker Ball What the hell is knocker ball. It says slamming to your friends at full speed in a high intensity knocker ball game. If you haven't tried these yet, you have to. Oh, they have knocker ball in L.A.

There's a whole knocker ball. Oh, it's the, you get in like a big inflatable ball and you just run into each other. Gotcha. Oh, I see. Okay. And then the joust. Go head to head just like the main eventers

and see which one survives the joust. The 24 inaugural Florida Man Games were held at Francis Field in downtown St. Augustine. This year, the games are moving clear across the state to the Freedom Factory in Bradenton, Florida. Never mind. We're not going. Never mind. I'm all right. Yep. The games will be held February 21st at 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. We'll wait for the report. I don't need to be there for that. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think we need to go to Freedom.

right uh VIP tickets are $120 standard tickets are 40 RV camping passes are between 100 and 150 yo I bet that is gonna be a wild drunken time that anyone who does go we need full reports because I bet that is debauched full reports um so there we go that's the big new story of the day damn right and it's a solid way to end 2025 That's it for us. Thank you so much for another great year. We'll see y'all next year. Have a great time.

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