Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 494 - When Ai Art Becomes Art

Episode Date: February 2, 2026

The boys are back and this time Jesse is pestered by bugs while Crendor exists in the frostiest, bug freeiest cold storm in America. Of course this somehow leads to talk about the upcoming game Mewgenics, insane pizza ingredients, and some guys Ai art exhibit that got eaten by someone. It's just that kind of show - an all new Cox n' Crendor! Go to http://factormeals.com/cox50off and use code cox50off to get 50% off your first Factor box PLUS free breakfast for 1 year. Go to http://meundies.com/crendor and use promo code CRENDOR for up to 50% off. https://x.com/Axenor/status/1998714654969766179?s=20

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Hello, is up and Gak, Crendor in the morning. Hello, everybody like, 70. I was over to Cax and Crenor in the morning. Ah, it's cold. So I hear, not here. Here, it's delightful. Ah, well. But the rest of the country right here is a mess.

I feel like that's just an L.A. thing, though. Oh, yeah. For the most part. Or just Southern California. It was great. I went out and got a tie for lunch with the parents. Got like a delicious coffee on the way back. Everything's great, man.

But no, tell me what it's like to live in the frozen north. I mean, honestly, it's not even as bad here compared to some other places. Like, pretty much all over the south are getting like ice storms. Then the east is getting nice. And then there's like snow lightning in the south too. And then I saw like the northeast and the east is getting like a foot or two feet of snow. admittedly, I, uh, I don't feel too bad for, you know, someone in Chicago or someone in New England or whatever. You know, you knew what you were signing up for.

But if you're in like Alabama and you're getting blasted with snow, yo, my bad. I feel, I feel for you. That's what I mean. It's like, I think it's worse for the, like Atlanta. I think it's having like super ice storms. It's like a lot of those. Like here it was like, you know, uh, I. I think the coldest it got was like negative nine with like some wind chills at like negative 30 or 40.

I'm not going to lie. I walked to the gym wearing my normal hoodie without a coat on and that. Again, like I said, everyone operating in that space of the northern half of the country kind of knows what they're in for. They decide to live there and, you know, they're the guys wearing shorts in the blizzard. Yeah, absolutely. But if you're in the southern part, bless you. You're in for a long week. Yeah, it's more so we're just, this is just normal winter.

Like we've already had numerous snows of just like, you know, three to seven inches of snow. We've already had, you know, cold days. I mean, we get this like every year. People are just like, Krendor, are you okay over there? I'm like, yeah, it's just winter right now. I'm good. Same with earthquakes here. People are like, you okay?

I'm like, yeah, man, I slept through it. Yeah. You experienced it enough. It's kind of like, yeah, no, I understand what to do. We're all good. Yeah, plus, honestly, like ice, I think is worse than snow a lot of the time. Like, because it's like weighing down trees and shit. There's like trees exploding.

You see that? Roof's collapsing. Oh, yeah. Like, mm-mm, no, thank you. I did see the tree explosion thing. That's wild. Yeah, that was crazy. See, that's the problem.

You're like, the cold invades the south, and that it's like, it's not, You're getting like the weird hybrid stuff where it's like kind of cold, but it's also like warm and it's like you get the ice and then the ice is like rain and then the rain goes back to ice and it's just like all wacky. Yeah, that's why they have like either the thunder and or lightning snow, which is basically a storm, but it's so cold that the water turns into snow. Like that's crazy. Yeah. No, it's, uh, and honestly it's crazy how much of the country over here it's impacting too. Just like seeing it all. Yeah.

I will say the funniest thing I've seen so far is all the people in Florida who are like, I'm just happy to be in Florida, where I don't have to deal with all that. And there's like an alligator attacking a baby in the background. You're like, right, Florida. Sure, okay. That's the thing is there, even though you can be where it's warm, like Florida or even L.A., you got to deal with other stuff. Like Florida, you got the, you know, drug addicts and the alligators and, you know,

in Los Angeles, you have the plastic. people and like weird Hollywood things. And you would think because of that certain things wouldn't happen in L.A. and Hollywood, but there are some problems that will never cease being problems. Years ago at this point, my old apartment, I like went overseas one time and came back and went to bed and I woke up in the middle of the night and they were like ants all over me, right? Apparently they were doing construction at the end of the street and an ant, a massive ant colony was built under it.

And the ants were looking for a place to go. And so they went to my apartment complex and just happened to choose my side of the building. And so they were everywhere. It was the worst for like four or five days. Just ants everywhere. And I still to this day think about the sensation of like a hundred ants on my body. Right? And so today, this only happens in weather where it is like if it was snowing, this would not be an issue.

is what I'm saying. And so today I found one ant on my arm and one on my leg from, I assume either the restaurant we ate at because we were eating outside or the coffee place that I went to because I was standing against the wall. It was probably the coffee place. And, you know, it's just two ants. Nothing crazy. Like, whatever.

But now my whole body has the sensation of if I feel anything, I'm like, that's an ant. Oh, God, they're all over me. It's driving me crazy. And I've been that way for about 45 minutes. And anytime I feel an itch or like any hair on my body move, I'm like, oh, so what I'm saying is, if I lived in the North, I wouldn't even remotely think that because I'd be like, they're all dead. F them. Yeah, that's true. That is the nice part about the cold is that it's just the bugs and insects and shit die off.

I'm not a bug guy. And even though scientists keep telling me that we need to have bugs and bugs are great, bees, shit. Sure. I love bees. Bees are great. But all of their bugs, F them. I don't even like those guys. I mean, as long as they're like living in the woods away from me, I don't care. Sure. Yeah. So once they get into your house or they start, you know, just like crawling on the windows and shit. You're just like, get out of here. I'm not a bug guy. I don't like them.

Yeah. So yeah, that's the winter blast. Doing all right. Well, as long as everyone's safe and you're doing well. Dude, in fact, later this week is going to get up to 31 degrees. Heat wave. Ooh. Yeah.

I mean, genuinely, when you go from negative 9 to 30. The water might start to melt a little bit. Yeah, you might start losing some snow, maybe. It's like when you think about it, that's the equivalent of going from 30 to 70. You know? When you think about it, yeah, when you think about it, and I'm thinking all right. Yeah. You know what?

What happened to you? What a positive attitude to have? Um, I guess. I'm just saying, out of all the things you could have said, that's the most positive outlook that's ever come out of your mouth. Uh, you know, maybe you're right. My God, 2026 is here. It's doing a thing for you.

Yeah, and my hips are. Right, but. Um, but, where's the positive and a spin? Spin it positively. but but at least here great see

did it you did it there we go I did it how what else have you been doing this week oh man this week was cool I went to the sort of area of town I don't really go to all that

often up by Hollywood the Scary Game Squad boys and I went up to Blumhouse to go play their new game, Cri Sol, which is sort of like Bioshock meets a horror game. It's pretty neat. I mean, the original Bioshock was kind of horary,

but this is a little more like, I don't even know how to describe it. Imagine Catholicism meets like Eldridge Horror. It's very cool aesthetic. It looks awesome. One of the giant monsters that chases you is basically a giant robot with the face of Virgin Mary, which is absolutely crazy.

It's really, really neat. So we went up there and we played that in a giant theater, which is every time I go to Blumhouse, shout out to them, they're incredible. They literally have a theater room, which I assume to screen the movies they make, but every once in a while, they invite us up to play a game,

and it's just straight up on the same screen. And what a treat, it's great. Playing that with the bass and the surround sound, and there's very little actual, you know, controller lag. It's wild. It's an experience. Anyway, while we're up there, oh, first off, every once a while, when I go up there, they'll give me like a gift, and it's never anything that you would think would be normal.

All right. Crendor. Yeah. I went up to a major motion picture studio place. They gave me a gift. What do you think that gift was? I don't know Some sort of statue thing

Nope It was Blumhouse branded pickleball rackets That's you know I would not have guessed that No one would have Not even us and we got them It was so

I was like oh okay Thank you Which is It's very funny I don't think anyone else on earth Has Blumhouse branded pickleball rackets But um I just

made me laugh. And so anyway, afterwards, Alex was like, yo, I know this burger spot up the street, we should go. And I'm like, okay. So we go to this burger spot, which is right next to a Warhammer slash magic shop. So we definitely went to the Warhammer slash magic shop. They had way more Warhammer than magic. And they had things that I'd never seen before when it comes like the old school Warhammer stuff. Like before they did the remodels of the plastic or whatever. So they had a bunch of metal things. I was like, damn, okay. But the burger place, I realized, I think I, we've talked about this before and I, I've said this before, but I always have to be reminded of it. We went to this burger place and they're known for like their,

you know, smash burgers. And they have a way they make it. It's like this is a smash burger. It's got the onions. It's got the sauce. It's got all the pickles. Whatever. Instead of getting fries, I'm like a two burger guy now. That's just how I roll. I'm like, no, I don't want fries. I'll do two burgers. And I got one the normal way. And then I got one with, it's just a hamburger, lettuce, tomato, nothing else on it.

Lettuce and tomato is fine. It was delicious. It was simple. I loved it. The one that was the way they normally make it, I was like, it's too much. I can't. The sauce and like all the onions and like the big pig. I just can't.

I realized I'm officially hit. Keep it simple stupid. I don't need a bunch of crap on my burgers I just need the meat, the bread and maybe like a lettuce, onion, and tomato and I'll be fine. I mean, that's what I've always enjoyed. It's the simplicity of the burger.

I had this rant the other week on one of my things where I talk about too much sauce. People put too much sauce on all these burgers and things. Yeah, it was like gooping off the side and I was like the sauce tastes fine, but it's like I can't taste the burger anymore. And when I tasted the burger, Without all the sauce on it, it tastes so good.

I was like, the burger itself is delicious. Yeah, sauce should just always come on the side. Like, no matter what. That should just be a thing. Yeah, agreed. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I've never been a big, you know, person of just like too much sauce or too much stuff. Like, yeah, really just anything.

Because then one of the things is going to overpower the other thing, right? So it's like, you just need a balance of ingredients. Like, yeah, that's what it's all about. I think I also realize that a lot of places use sauce to cover up how actual shit their food is. McDonald's. Like, there's just so many of them. Plus, I mean, if anything, this ties more into your personality of, like, minimalist, the gang rid of everything. I guess.

Like, I, you know, I like a good curry, and that's basically everything covered with a sauce. I mean, that's true. But I feel like in a curry, the sauce is the point. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's also true. Because like you could put anything in the damn sauce and it tastes good and that's the point. The sauce is the thing you're there for. Yeah.

So really it's just dependent on the food. I guess. Yeah. I mean, look, I know I'm a walking hypocrite in everything I do. I just like certain things the way I like certain things. Like a great example is the coffee that I got today. For some reason, you know, I was like a big latte guy. And then at a certain point I was like, I don't like all that milk in my coffee.

So then I discovered that this place near me does something called a Lamborghini. Didn't know what this was. It's literally just an Americano with chai in it. So basically it's a coffee, but it tastes like cinnamon and it's delicious. Interesting. Isn't it a, I don't even. Americano is just like watered down coffee. Espresso.

Yeah, it's what they would make, you know, GIs or whatever. It's basically for Americans because our coffee is different than, you know, European coffee. Yeah, I see. And so, yeah, it's just an Americano. So it's basically just a black coffee, but, you know, espresso watered down with with chai in it. And it tastes like cinnamon and it's super delicious. And it's, you know what? It works for me.

I mean, you just got to find, you just got to find what works for you. That's what it's all about. Yeah, before it was like, a simple vanilla latte is all I need. And now I'm like, the vanilla's too sweet. I don't like the taste. It tastes artificial. I hate that. Dude

Honestly So a few weeks back I think this is what started it A few weeks back I started working out early in the morning And I have been doing it every single day since Like

I'm up at five And I'm working out It's the first thing I do Yeah It's the first thing I do And then I eat breakfast And then I take a shower And then I start my day

I'm usually off, getting stuff done at 8 a.m. When do you... Wait, hold on. When do I go to bed? Is that what you're asking? Yeah. I'm in bed by 9 and I'm asleep by 10. I like scroll a little bit.

Damn, that's crazy. Yeah, so I'm usually rocking seven hours asleep. Maybe six and a half. I mean, that's fine. Maybe around 7 is still pretty good. And I think it's like affecting my attitude about everything. because if I work out in the morning, rather than the afternoon,

which is what I used to do, when I worked out in the afternoon, sometimes I'd be too tired, sometimes I would be like, now, I'll do it tomorrow, whatever, and I would have excuses. In the morning, I have no excuses. But in the afternoon,

I'd be working out to, let's say, for example, I would have a lunch, and I'd be like, well, I'm going to work out tonight so I can get this thing for lunch. Now, because I worked out in the morning, I was like,

well, I worked out already. I don't want to ruin that workout by eating something stupid. You know what I mean? It's absolutely affecting me. I mean, is there ever been a time where you were waking up that early?

As a teacher. The problem is, as a teacher... You had to go teach. Well, yeah, I had to go teach. More importantly, it's also when I was deep into my wow addiction.

Because I taught 2007 through 2010. And that's like the height of wow addiction for me. That is true, yes. And so I would play way late into the evening and get maybe like five hours of sleep. So waking up early was not smart. But I had to do it for work.

So, yeah, I've never had the, oh, I slept seven hours and got a great seven hours of sleep. And then went and worked out, which 100% at first I hated it. And I was like, oh, my whole body, I just. But now after I'm done, I'm like, I could tackle the. world. Let's go, bros. It's a different vibe. It's very interesting. Yeah, it's, uh, I mean, I prefer working out, not like right when I get up, but like a few hours after. Because I mean, usually, uh, get up out of bed, throw on some workout stuff and immediately do it. I get it done to the point where I will forget by like 1 p.m. that I had worked out that day. Uh, I mean,

there is something to where you're supposed to allow the first hour you wake up to like just do nothing. Sure. I haven't. I wake up, I drink some water and I'm like, let's go. I was looking, I remember reading about this. Apparently there is

for people that, like there's a lot of people where they're just naturally normal people of let's just like go to bed at 10, wake up at 5, like that type of thing. But there's people that have the cry one gene, which apparently makes your

circadian rhythm delayed. So it's like approximately 20% of humanity are night owls and might have that gene maybe not, but like and then there's like 5% are extreme night owls which are the people at sleep

like during the daytime which I think is crazy. I wonder if I put myself in that category but I'm actually just a basic bitch and have a 10 p.m. bedtime. You know what I mean? Like For years, I think I put myself in the

I'm going to stay up till midnight or 1 a.m. category. And now I'm like, why do I do that? I feel much more productive. And you know me, I like to work. So when I, it's like 2 p.m. and I've done everything I need to do for the day. It's like liberating, dude. I'm over here just like,

I am the master of my universe. I am unstoppable. It's wild. No, yeah. I'm not like that. Oh, I'm aware. I just, as somebody who has, you know, back in like high school, I'd even go to bed at midnight, wake up at seven. And then, you know, like in my early 20s, I would stay up until like 6, 7 a.m.

Wake up at like 2, 3 p.m. And right now, I think I am in my sweet spot of like, I truly love going to bed at like 4 to 5 a.m. in that area. And then I wake up at like 12 30. You are that 5%. Well, I'm like in the 20%, I would say. 5% is when you sleep. I would imagine through the day. I guess you can technically sleep through the morning.

I mean, like yeah, you're sleeping through the bulk of like when you wake up, people are getting off of work. I mean, I wake up at 12.30 at noon. So I mean, not many people are getting off at work then. I used to wake up at 3 p.m. back in my early 20s. That's what I'm saying. Honestly, that felt terrible.

I didn't like doing that. Now, did you have parents that would hound you? Like me, whenever I would, whenever I would go to bed late, both my parents would be up so early that it wouldn't matter when I went to bed. I was waking up. They were going to wake me up.

Which was the rootest shit anyone has ever done to me in my entire life. Literally like, get up. They'd bang on stuff. And I'd be like, I only got four hours of sleep. Like, that's your prize. Get up. I'm like, oh, ha, ha. I certainly didn't have that.

No. In fact, I'd be like, my mom would wake up at like 4 a.m. and I would like talk to her a bit. And then she'd be like, all right, good night. See, different experience. When I had to move home with my parents after teaching, I would work on YouTube videos and it would be like 4 a.m. My dad would wake up.

You're like, what are you doing awake? Go to bed. I'm like, yeah. So, different experience, I guess. that is definitely different experiences plus like I always said my grandpa he lived in 95 he used to go to bed at 1 to 2 a.m. every day

and he used to like work at Motorola and like do electronics and shit and he would always stay up to like 1 2 a.m. So I think if anything that's where I got it from I believe that it's in your DNA baby I'm telling you are one of those like if this was ancient times you'd be one of the night guards

you'd watch the camp. Yeah yeah Like, I think the earliest I would want to go to bed is like 3 a.m. Like, that's the earliest I think I could do. That's crazy to me. I, there's moments at, even when I would go to bed late, if I'd hit like 1 a.m., my eyes would be like, what if I'd close right now?

Even if I had woke up at like noon that day, the minute it's past midnight, my body's like, no, it's time to for bad jesse. I'm like, okay, body. That's the thing is like people hear that I do that and they're like, are you tired? I'm like no Like I still sleep seven to eight hours like I still that I feel fine. I'm not like like oh like everything's fine. I feel great Yeah, you're just yeah you're that guy on the wall holding the torch knife. That's me wall door Wall door wall door actually I feel like it'd be Crenwall

Crenwall yeah that's nobody gets past the Crenwall First, you must get fast Crenwall to get the Crenthor. Because I've heard there's a lot of people where I'm just lucky that I do this for my living and I can actually, you know, do it. Because there's people that have this and they prefer to be up late, but then they have to wake up early. So they're just in a constant state of just like, you know? So I feel bad for them. Absolutely. That's, I'm so patient with everyone who has real jobs.

Yeah. I get it. I get it. I was on Naomi Kyle's podcast this past week. And she was like, so if, you know, one of those like lightning round things where they ask you a bunch of questions. Yeah. And she was like, so if you couldn't do, you know, content creation anymore, what would you do? And I was like, if it doesn't pay, she's like, yeah, if it doesn't pay you anymore, it's like, well, I'd still do this.

Like, I'd still make videos and things. It just wouldn't be as frequent because I'd have to. work a real job. But at this point, I don't know what I do for a real job because I am such a like baby boy when it comes to actual real work now that I don't know that I could like work for the man. You know what I mean? Like I actively don't know what job I would have. That that would be fulfilling enough that I would want to do it and not just walk into the ocean. Yeah. No, without a doubt. I mean, I always said, I always mention your thing where you're just like, I just walk into the ocean. I believe it. You would

just walk into the ocean. Like I just, I wouldn't go back to teaching because that is the most underappreciated, underpaid thing in the world. I wouldn't work in retail because having done that, it sucks ass. I like, the best I could think of is I, like,

maybe become a baker. Yeah. No, I'd have to I'd probably have to like, try to be a something other career. Like, I'd try to be a writer. I would go like full blown. Like, I'd still create things. I just, it wouldn't be as frequent.

But I'd, like, there's something in me that's like, I have to do that. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's what I was telling even on stream. I was like, even if, like, everyone was like, you don't get paid for streaming anymore. This is it. I would still have the urge to be like, well, I'm going to play this game. I should, like, stream it and talk to people I'm playing. Yeah.

Like, I'd still want to do that. And there's definitely plenty of people that would not do that at all. The amount of people would be. shocking to a lot of their viewers. The amount of people would just vanish because it's a job to them and not like a creative outlet. Even back like years ago, like 10, 15 years ago, it was like still, there's still people doing it more as like a hobby, like that type of thing.

But I feel like within the last like five to 10 years, it's really become like, I'm going to grow up and be a streamer YouTuber. I'm going to do this for a living. How do I like figure out the algorithm to a point of like making so much or like milking every dollar you can out of it? I honestly think it's the same thing as with professional sports player or a movie star, whatever. People see the flaunting of wealth by a lot of these streamers and YouTubers. And they are like, I want that. Because everyone wants to be successful and have the ability to take care of themselves.

And a lot of people want the ability to like buy 18 cars. and a yacht or whatever. And they see that and they're like, oh my God, I want that. And what they don't see, just like with sports stars and movie stars, is the thousands and millions of people that tried to do that and didn't. Yeah. And it's like, you're more likely going to be that. But like, I wish you luck and I hope the best for you.

But just be aware that most people aren't going to make it in any of these industries because it's 90% fluke. Yeah. It's just one of those things where you have to be a realist about whatever you're doing. Like even how I talk about writing, I'm like, I don't expect to become like a giant writer, but I'm like, if that happened, that's cool. But like you go into it just being like, I'm doing it because it's like something I want to do and it's fun. And that's kind of what I do with YouTube.

I went into it just being like, this will be fun. I'll try this out. And then it just so happened that it took off and I got in at the right time. Really, a lot of it's just timings everything as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean, I'm very curious. So we know a lot of people who became very successful, Northern Lion, off of playing binding of Isaac. The new game that's coming out from McMill, the Mugetics game, having played a bunch of that,

it is phenomenal. And I know because it's like there's going to be, like for example, it's, it's, you know, a strategy game, but each character that you can create has so many different combinations and so many different ways to play and so many different abilities. And like, it's going to be one of those games that people are going to be finding stuff out in for years. And you know someone's about to make a career off that game. Oh, yeah.

Without a doubt. And so it's one of, yeah, it's one of those things where you're talking about timing. This is one of those times. Yeah. It does become harder than it used to be because now there's so much more competition of people trying to do that compared to years ago. But I mean, it still is an opportunity. Like if you're doing something other people aren't or you're just finding things that other people aren't finding or, you know, whatever it might be. Like that's- Same thing with a high tail, whatever this new game is that is basically Minecraft over again.

Yeah, that's blowing up as well. That's another example of like, okay, there you go. if you want to do it, now's the time. Yeah. I mean, there's opportunities. It can be done, but you're absolutely right. Everyone's doing it. Just like with every game that comes out that's huge, everyone's going to try.

But that's how you play the game these days. Yeah. It's, it was interesting because even with wow, when I started doing my wow videos, I remember it was Wrath of the Litch Kings. You would think like, oh, man, that's peak wow, right? Everybody's playing. But I remember all the wow machinima YouTube people. were just like, man, wow, everything's dying.

It's not worth making videos for this game anymore. And I was just like, what are you talking about? And then I just started doing it. I was like the only one doing it. So I was just like, shit. And that's why you find success. I mean, that's the big thing. So for Final Fantasy 14, when I started playing at the beginning of COVID, right?

It was during that time that no one else was on board that train, except for the people that had already been there. So having a new voice with an already built in audience, all those videos I made blew up. up. And then everyone jumped on the Final Fantasy 14 bandwagon for like a good two years there. And then it became harder to get in. But I was already in. So now I'm getting questions from people about the game and builds and strategies for raids and shit. And I'm like, go talk to the people that have been playing this for years who know way more than me. Please, I'm not the guy.

But because I got in when I did, people associate me with the game in a lot of ways. Yeah. I'm just I'm playing for fun. I'm not like hardcore rating. I don't know all the builds and all the strats. Like, I'm not that guy. But I'm honored that you think I am, but I'm not. Well, I think that's part of it too is that a lot of people prefer to watch somebody like you or they're just having fun. Well, not like, you know, that's not like they don't think the other people are having fun.

But sometimes watching somebody do like, here's my meta progression or like IPVP is this one specific? thing is kind of like a little too specific and then watching somebody just have fun and be like, wee, I'm having fun. It's like, ooh, I like this because they're having fun and now I'm having fun, right? But I mean, that's the entrance. That's the bear. It makes, it's game grumps.

They barely talk about the games they play. It's a podcast with the game in the background. Yeah, exactly. And I love that. And I think a lot of other people love that. But I think you're more of the person that gets invested in the game, so I don't think you like it as much. I mean, I love,

I love listening to people talk and have great conversation, but I also like playing games and like watching the story to a game. But with that said, I'm not there for the, like, my favorite games done quick games aren't necessarily the ones where it's just someone beats a game fast, or technically figures out a way to hack through a thing. My favorite ones are the ones where it's like absolutely goofy. There's a really great one from a few years back where this lovely streamer Adef plays the Ratatoui game.

But he and everyone in his couch dress up as chefs and the entire time are like, yes, chef, whenever they talk to each other, which is incredible. They had one this year where it was everyone doing a Super Mario 64 challenge where they were trying to get all the stars. But it's 70 stars with 70 speed runners. So each one had to do a different level. and they had like that is that's it's like entertainment for me there's like a fine there's like a line between where it becomes too technical and where it's just for fun and I want it I want to see the technical expertise but I don't want them to focus on it you know what I mean like I love the idea of someone

being good at a thing but they're really creative in how they present it rather than okay so you have to hold this plate and walk towards this door and if you hit these frame at the exact right angle the I saw Of the hypotenuse, you're like, oh my God. Yeah. It's, I mean, I think you also like the goofy. Like you were mentioning, like watching them play the game. It sounds like more they were having fun doing like goofy stuff tied into the game.

Yeah, yeah. Like that's so a great example is when it comes to like game Grumps in Northern Line, when you guys are having fun and being goofy with the game, I love that. But when the game is just there and no one. focusing on the game, I'm out. Does that make sense? That's what I mean. You're there because the, because of the game still. Yes, yeah, yeah. I'm there for the game, but I'm there for people enjoying the game. And when people are talking about or interacting with stuff that isn't the game, I'm like, why even have the game? Like, I came to watch the game and you have fun with it.

And now I'm just watching you guys talk, which doesn't help me at all. But that's what I love. Oh, I'm aware. Because, I mean, listen, I've got 600 and something out. of PubG. All right. That game was the biggest podcast game. Knowing the man, you would just sit out in the field waiting for the gas to push in or whatever. And we would just sit there and be like, what's the deal? Right? You pull out the Seinfeld bit and just start ranting about stuff, talking about stuff. Because it was just like, it was fun. And I think that's what people like about about Northern Lion? Because I even, I was checking like Reddit.

Somebody posted, why do you watch Northern Lion? And the top one is just 99.9% of streamers have a shitload of dead air, but Northern Lion never shuts up. He's always trying to keep it entertaining. So it's, so that's another big thing, right? And I think a lot of people underestimate

how important it is to not have dead air. That is my biggest pet peeve in all of entertainment. think it's because I originally the very first job I had in the entertainment world was radio. And that dead air is murder. Like they will fire your ass for dead air. And so I will say, like even on geekenders, there'll be times where I say a thing and I wait for Dodger to say a thing. And she just goes, and I'm like, it might be three seconds, but in my mind I'm counting one, two.

I'm like, oh my God, talk, someone talk. I'm just like, please, anyone talk. And I don't want to keep talking because I feel like if I do, then I'm just taking over the conversation. And I'm like, oh my God, just someone please talk, please. Yeah, no, it's, I've done that on this as well, like say something, something.

And then there's like two seconds of silence. And I'm just like, yep, yep, yep, yep. Like, you just start making noises. Right? You got to keep flowing. Because otherwise, yeah, it's just like people hear that and they think, oh man, this is getting boring or like they're out of stuff to talk about,

this is whatever, right? And then they click off. Yeah, I mean, it's not their fault for thinking that. But the thing is, I wonder if that's just the audience you've cultivated or if that's people in general. Because we can sit here and talk about how the attention span of Gen Z and Gen Alpha, everything has to be quick. But then I go watch streamers.

And they just, it's like, silence for 20 minutes. Yep. I'm like, how the, you can't tell me, but maybe it's because chat and they're focusing on chat? I don't know, but I'm like, you can't tell me that a younger person doesn't have patience. I watch them, watch streamers. Yeah. It does depend on the streamer, I would say.

There's certain streamers where that is their thing is they barely talk. Even, um, even just thinking like Crip, Cripp will just sit there and be like, he did the build he's supposed to do I don't know he did that but also I think Kruperian has a

older audience yeah exactly that's what I mean I think it definitely is but people also expect that of them while there might be somebody that is usually

talkative and if they're not talking people will be like what's wrong so it depends on who it is yeah because I even in my stream like people know

what they're getting into with me I'm gonna play the game I'm gonna be like what the shit I'm gonna make weird noises and the hum the music and then I'm going to go on occasional rants about stuff and that's what you're

getting. And like usually with you, they tune in, they know you're going to play the game, you're going to get super into the game to a point of probably ignoring chat. You're going to laugh, you're going to have a goofy time, you're going to be like, what's this over here? And you're going to pick up an item and be like,

what go? Gap, and then, you know, that's it. I genuinely, the other day I was playing one of those FMV games and which by the way, oh, my god, Krendor. You must, and I mean this, you must go find the game. Hold on, let me find the exact name of this thing. Roommates, Romance, and Ringing Hearts. You know how most of the time I play dating games that are like these Chinese FMVs that are really serious? Roommate's Romance and Ringing Hearts is a demo for a game coming out in March that's Japanese. And this one,

my friend, is not serious. It is basically a live action anime. where you play as this guy who is going to university in Tokyo and you're forced to stay with your best friend who's like a girl from childhood. And then another girl moves in. And then like all of them are the goofiest characters. And then when you play, there is, all right, so you know how most of these are like a scene plays and you do choices, right? Yeah. This is an actual game game.

point where in one of the scenes you have to clean your apartment and the way it works is you have to you know kind of like quick time stuff but the people the actual humans act like video game characters so the the your roommate the girl when you click for her to go somewhere she she moves like an old school video game character she's like she like scoots across the ground her feet move really fast and it does like a sound effect dude it's crazy and I kept thinking about like this is this is the perfect game for Crendor he will love this shit um there's one class that you like you can choose to either go to a class with one girl or go to a class with another girl or say no and just go to your own class and you go to a class with this guy and the two of you

do not know what like the professor's writing and gibberish on the board and you're like I don't know what any of this means it's so funny and I was laughing hysterically at it but I missed like four raids dude I felt so bad I was so invested in this game and it was only like 45 minutes but I was so invested I just missed a complete like wave of raids so yeah you're right that happens to me yeah but I get it like you're the person to get super into the game so it's just like you know you stop reading chat and you stop doing all that you're just like you're locked in yeah yeah you're right but you know what else we're locked in about wanting to eat better

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Oh, man, traffic. Well, it's pretty bad. As we talked about earlier, there's like ice and snow and stuff all over the place and a lot of flight delays, a lot of travel delays. So try to not do that. Back mute. Thanks, Crenor. Hey, uh, by the way.

before we jump into weather, which we're about to. Yes. I want to give a shout out once again to our loyal weather reporter in the field. Oh. Who at every live show gives us a full breakdown. Ah, yes. Because now we have, I don't know if you've seen this. I'd mentioned this before, but I forgot to link it to you.

So I'm going to link it to you again. This incredible, it's a website that if you click it, it is. visited places.com there's a whole thing but basically it's every Cox and Crenor location we've visited in order we've used and visited them in.

Oh yeah, I remember seeing this now. It is so cool I must stress it continues to impress me it also makes me realize that there are many countries we have not visited. That's true. There are a lot of places we have not visit. Where's the people in Madagascar who listen? We'd love to talk about you.

Yeah. No one in Paraguay. No one in French Guiana? Just saying. Latvia? I know we got Estonians. I know we got Lithuanians. Where's the Latvians?

Yeah. Where are they? Surely there's someone and Bhutan listening right now. Surely. Sri Lanka? Anyone? Got to be at least one person. Yeah.

But I love it. We visited 80 countries. It's impressive. That is impressive. Look at it. Oh, wait. I clicked. Uh-oh. Did I mess it up? I clicked it. And now it says 79. Oh, wait, no. There we go. If you redo it, it was.

I was about to say. I don't think you can if you don't own the page. Yeah. I don't know. That's pretty neat. Yeah, it's very cool. Thanks to at Axnor. All right. So where are we going in? Weather. Oh, yeah, weather.

We've got, let's see, we got a lot of weather requests today. Let's see what we land on. We have landed on Innsbruck, Austria, a city smack dab in the middle of the Alps, full of rich history, but also pretty modern due to University City. 50 years ago, the Winter Olympics were here, so the Olympic Village was incorporated into a district later. I go straight up the mountain right from my doorstep. You know, what the heck? So you can live in the former Olympic village?

I guess so. Or like near it? Okay. Let's see. So yeah, innsbruck, Austria. We done Austria? Check the thing. Check the thing.

Yes, we've done Austria. Okay. Well, I'm sure we haven't done it many times. That's fine. Currently in Innsbruck, Austria, it is. 32 degrees Fahrenheit, feels like 27, winds at 5 miles an hour, pressure 29.39.39 inches, visibility, visibility, visibility, and a. 747 a.m., sunset 507 p.m. 85% humidity, 29% humidity, 29 on the dewpoint, zero on the UV index, and a waxing crescent moon phase. 10 day

Tonight Tonight scattered snow showers 30% chance 27 degrees winds light and variable Monday 41 cloudy Tuesday 42 mostly cloudy Wednesday 44 cloudy

Thursday 40 am snow showers Friday 42 parley cloudy Saturday 41 partly cloudy Sunday 40 party cloudy And Monday 41 Partly cloudy Seems like a pretty cloudy situation over there

It does seem like a cloudy situation Let's see. I zoomed in and I found Burger King right away. That's honestly the first thing I saw too. Which is so funny. Just like, yeah,

all right, cool, man. Yeah. But then there's Karafoo. That looks pretty good. How do you spell that? I'm going to try and find that. I don't know. K-A-R-A-F-U.

Karafu. It's very, so it's a macha place. Macha and coffee. Oh, yeah, And the reason I know that is because even though we're in Austria, in big English letters, it explains what this place is. Oh. Well, I'll do it.

Literally in the outside says, the green you've been waiting for. The green you've been waiting for. That is, okay. What the heck? But it looks like literally everything. All right, I probably would hate this place. I'm not like a huge matra fan, but it looks like everything is matcha. Even the lattes are macha.

Oh, okay. I mean, I like matcha, but I do think we're in a state of like over macha for fupupper over macha fifying everything. I can't even say it. Yeah. I mean, it looks, I will say everything there looks incredible. But also, I'm just not a fan of macha. Yeah, that makes sense.

We got burn work. We got, it looks pretty good. Cafe Glockin beer. Oh, what that heck? There's so many, like, gastropubs and... Honestly, I'm so curious about this. You know, the town itself... Yeah.

It appears... I'm not sure what the protocol for traveling between nations and Europe is all that much. When I do it, I always have to have a passport just because I'm, like, not from there. But I imagine if it's an EU thing, because looking at this, it looks like you could drive from Munich right past this town and then down to Venice, Italy. Oh yeah. Interesting. I have no idea how long that trip would take, probably based on the fact that everyone in Europe thinks America is huge, not as long as I think.

Yeah, that's true. It explains so much about why I'm seeing so many like international cuisines, because I feel like there's a lot of, like there's a lot of German cuisine, but then there's also things that are like the Spaghetti Shack, you know, like, so I wonder if that's why, because it's like, it really is like a very small kind of like, uh, it's almost like the, the panhandle in Oklahoma. It's just kind of sticking out in between two other countries. Oh yeah, it's, that is true. It's, fascinating. Fascinating. Because I was looking at this and I was like, looking at this town. it seems quite small, but there's so many food places.

Like out of all the small places we've seen, I'll say medium-sized places we've seen, the amount of food is insane. It seems like every block has two or three restaurants on it. Or coffee places. Like there is next to Krofu is cater-noster coffee bar. Boy, that's not how you say that. And then right next door to that is Torto and right next to that is a whole other. Like, there's so many places.

I wonder if it's the combination of their college university pound, they said. Ooh, and there's casinos. Yeah. That's probably it. Yeah, that's probably a lot of tourists. And then it's probably got like leftover Olympic stuff. You know what? Yeah.

So, I mean, I'm just looking at it. Half the city is an airport. Oh, yeah. I see that. And then another half is like, I don't even know what is this? Do you see how in part of the city? You know how there's green and that's mountains. And then part of the city is like, I guess that's still mountain?

It's like tan. Maybe that's higher elevated mountain. That's got to just be the higher elevated mountain. I mean, it is right next to the Alps. That's what I'm saying. So this is like, oh, you know what? So then it's 100% This is like, we're going skiing.

This is the tourist town. Oh, yeah, I bet it does have stuff like that. That explains why there's so much food because as someone who's never been skiing but has many skiing friends, all they do is ski for like two hours, then eat themselves silly. Yeah, that checks out. Oh, yeah, there's some skiing stuff.

I see it now. I'm just still shocked by the amount. Again, I guess it makes sense. If you're up higher, there's going to be cold stuff. But like, it's fascinating to me that there's so many coffee places. Yeah, it really is. There's a lot of coffee places. There's just a lot of restaurants in general.

Like, there's so many. Usually when we see a place, we find like, you know, five or six big ones. And this is like every corner has a 4.7 star cafe. Yeah, no, there's a lot of. cafes. I'm quite impressed. I don't know that I'll ever get there. Shout out to pasta crocodiles. Pasta crocodiles.

Yeah, it's called pasta crocodiles and their mascot is a crocodile and they are making pasta. Why? Crocodile? I don't know. I like it. But it looks good. That's like something I'd throw together. The pizzas are insane. I don't

dude. I'm going to send you this All right Please It's another European pizza that I It's so close to Italy I feel like Italians would be offended Do you see this pizza?

Oh, what is that? It's what I'm saying It's got lima beans on it dude That's this is insane That pizza is atrocious What are we doing? Is that lima beans? It looks like celery

It might be celery. I don't know. It could be celery, but it also looks like llama beans and that's scary. Yeah. Like it looks like dried out celery. Like either way, it is not supposed to be there. Yeah, meanwhile, all the other, like the pasta looks delicious. But the pizza?

Yeah. We need to have a talk Europe. What is going on with the pizzas? What is happening? It's insane. It's all over. They're all doing it. Every time we, and especially when you get close to Italy, is this like, are you doing it on purpose to piss Italians off?

Is that what this is? Yeah, that's, is there any other crazy pizzas or is this the only one? I'm looking through. I mean, they have, they have other pizzas, but they, you know, it's that weird, like, I'm looking at one, it's pepperoni and corn. Yeah, what the heck? Pepperoni and corn. I just, all right, man. Okay.

Like, I've had corn on pizza, but it's been like a Korean pizza with baguoggi and stuff. And that works. Like they have one pizza that looks like, it looks really good. But then right under it is a pizza that I'm like, who made this? Why did you put shrimp with the tails on on this pizza? Yeah, what the heck?

I don't like that. I just don't understand. I have so many, like, all right, you want to put shrimp on a pizza? Fine. Leaving the tail on is insane to me. Yeah,

I never understood why people do that. I guess some people be like, it's just the way it is cultural thing. Or like, I don't know if it's flavor. Like people want to like, Undo it. Yeah, all right, sure, cultural thing.

But like, I don't know, man. Just take it up. It's on the way between Germany and Italy, and I feel like someone's got to say something. Like, guys, what are we doing? No wonder Italians are so angry about their food all the time and people messing it up. Because it is clearly happening.

Yeah, no. Hold on. I found Pizzeria Acasa. Oh, God, they got even... Okay. Hold on. I genuinely, this has to be like the revenge for, oh my God.

What the shit is this pizza? It looks it's even worse. I just, this pizza's crazy because half of it looks like it, no, three-fourths of it looks like it's pistachio cream and then there's just one rogue slice of a normal pizza. It must be from the other person's pizza and they're sharing.

It must be. I guess are you? It looks like it's baloney. Like they put baloney on, I can't. Oh my, dude, if you scroll down, there's one. It's like a seafood pizza and they got like all the shrimp. It has shells on it. Why?

Pizza should not have shells on it. I'm drunk. I genuinely believe this is done to troll Italy. There's no other reason. I just can't figure it out. This one's got pickles on it. What is this? I feel like there must be some sort of like

We're going to get a letter from like the Austrian consulate It's like the cultural differences That's fine I would love just an explanation because it seems insane Meanwhile you scroll down far enough There's a great chakutery board There's like amazing looking desserts Yeah okay yes great

Even their pizzas that are just cheese look good Yeah And then you scroll down one more And it's like yeah we put the whole ocean on a pizza and didn't take any of the shells off. Enjoy. Yeah, this shit's insane. I don't understand.

It's always the pizza. It's never, everything else looks incredible. And then you get to the pizza and it's like, yeah, we put this weird shit on it. Yeah, they go a little too crazy.

And I don't know, like, I don't even know what's on this. It's got like weird green sauce. Like, I don't know, is that, it's not Pestno.

It doesn't look like Pistow. I think it's a Pistachio, dude. I think it's a pistachio. Pistachio. What the heck? I just can't I can't do it It's just so goofy

I Yeah I don't get this I don't get this at all And those what's crazy is they have like This incredible looking Woodfire oven And like And then they're like

Yeah yeah just throw the random shit on it It just seems insane to me I just don't get it I don't get it either This is weird and that's the weather All right, let's go to sports Sports

Here we are sports Do do do sports Currently NFL football We've got the New England Patriots Going to the Super Bowl There it is, we've ever seen that one before Cool man Hopefully they go up against a team I care about

Or this is giving me another year right Don't watch. Last year, didn't watch, didn't care they will be playing either the Rams or the Seahawks. The winner of that game. Rams beat the Bears, yes? Correct, yes. As I predicted. As you did.

Yep. I kind of want the Seahawks because I like Sam Darnold. He's kind of like a journeyman quarterback that just ended up there. Now he's actually like almost to a Super Bowl. So I kind of want that, which means they'll probably lose. But I don't mind the Rams either. They got the Vante Adams, former Packer great. So, you know, I like him.

But we'll see. Then in basketball, we currently have the pistons. Basketball, Pistons up top of the east with the Celtics, Knicks, Raptors, Cavaliers all right behind them. And then in the west you got the Thunder with the Spurs, Nuggets, Rockets, and Lakers all right behind them. Although everybody's pretty far behind the top two teams. then in NHL we have the Red Wings

I believe one conference there you go we got the hurricane in the Red Wings the top the east with the lightning and the Buffalo Sabres are still there What hell? It's happening

They haven't been up here in like 20 years Canadians Bruins all up there as well go sabers. And then avalanche up top of the west with the wild, the stars, the golden nights, and the Oilers.

Ooh, the mammoth are there as well. And then, folks, don't look now. We have the Winter Olympics. It's coming. What is that? Like a week and a half. I'm excited.

It's good stuff. Hell yeah. It's got to be good. I believe in the dream. Yes, I'm ready. I'm pumped. in Milan, Milan.

Speaking of Italy. Milan. Milan. Milan. Milan. So yeah, that'll be good. And that sports. Okay.

What is our fact of the day? Fact of the day. Hippos can't swim. Huh? That's right. Hippos really do have big bones, so big and dense, in fact, they're barely buoyant at all. They don't swim and instead perform a slow motion gallop on the riverbed or on the

sea floor. In fact, hippos can even sleep underwater thanks to built-in reflex that allows them to bob up and take a breath and sink bag down without waking. I have seen video of that and it's wild to look at. That's crazy. What the heck? I don't, I'm just blown away about the concept that they have you ever seen it's making me boy this is messing me up right now

because it's making me think about have you ever seen the memes about Godzilla and how they're like how does Godzilla stand in the water and they always make the memes about how he just has really long legs to touch the ocean floor or whatever yeah yeah

and now that I think about these guys I'm like maybe he's just got big dense bones and so he like walks around on the water you know what I mean? Like he's like, just his little legs are paddling really fast. It's blowing my mind because now I want to see what underwater looks like with a hippo, where he's just like his little legs are moving really quick as his big body.

It's like kind of like a motorboat. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's like watching gnomes walk in World of Warcraft. A real fast. Yes, yes. So if the water's deep, they, they have, that still counts of swimming, right? I don't

I guess it depends on how deep it is. Like do they even Go in deep water? Do they just sink to the bottom and die? I don't know. But they float to the top Dude, this is tripping me up. This is tripping me up. We have any like animal I've never given hippos this much thought. I'm

losing my mind. Do we have any hippologists in the chat? Hipologists if you will. Yeah, hippologists. We need your expertise. That's fascinating. Yeah, no, that's crazy. Yeah, I had no, I had not a clue. Not a clue.

Huh. Look at Hippovacs. That's a good fact. Yeah. Alright, who's come to us with tears in their eyes? What? Tears. Dear Lesteris, sirs, I come before you kneeled with tears in my eyes.

If Jesse and Crendor were both teachers, what subject would you teach and if applicable, what after-school activity would you be in charge of, be it a club or coach for a sports? sports team. I think by law, if you're a history teacher, you have to coach either football or basketball. I'm pretty sure that's how it works. So if I was a history teacher, I would be one of those. I think that those are the rules. Well, I mean, what if you could teach something else? Would you have thought something else or would you teach history again? If I could teach anything, I would love to have done like, I, in high school, school, I had a genuine crazy old man. I can't remember his name at all. I miss him. He was my favorite teacher who taught comparative religions. It was my favorite senior year class in high

school. I learned so much about the world just from that one class where it isn't, it's just like, look, we're going to talk about some crazy shit. And I have no expectations for you. This is for people who want to be here. You know, like one of those like elective classes in high school. Right. I don't want to teach English or science or history or math again. Give me one of the other classes that people wanted that signed up for. Yeah. No, I would, I would definitely want to teach

one of those like elective classes as well. I'd teach like you know what? I'd probably be a P.E. teacher. Just because I always love Jim and doing all that. But then again, they'd probably be annoying.

Just having the deal with like P.E. stuff. You know what? Maybe I'd rather just teach like, the, I'd rather, I'd rather. I would teach, like, YouTube marketing. There we go. I could do that. Honestly, Homeck, I would love, I would teach Homeck in a heartbeat. I feel like students need that shit now more than ever.

That's true. You're like, hey, here's how you fix a thing, or here's how you make a meal, or here's how you stitch something that happened to your shirt. Like, here's how to take care of your car. Here's how to, like, clean your damn house. Well, like, I would thrive in that. That would be a pretty good one. I'm trying to think like what else there'd be.

Oh, you know what? I mean, you just teach like, okay, you know what? My YouTube marketing or just YouTube, it could just be like a YouTube streamer thing in general you teach. But I would be the person that's like, what they teach you in these books,

doesn't matter. We're going to listen to my word. You'd be Mr. Tant. You'd be my Mr. Tant from eighth grade science who was like, what they teach you. It ain't the real knowledge you need to learn. And then he'd tell us insane stories about being a kid. He's like one time, he was the guy who told us,

I found out when I was young that they were going to drop nuclear bombs on us here in America. When I learned what they did, I wished, I prayed that if they dropped a bomb, it'd be right on me. So it vaporized me and my family. I'm like, holy shit, dude. He's like, I don't want to. anyone to suffer turn me to dust and then he'd tell us stories that were like um one time i was on the the back of a truck and there was a bunch of tiles and they made a turn it was real quick and i fell off the truck on a bunch of tiles my back split open like an orange we're like oh my god what does this

have to do with science yeah great he was also the guy who'd be like he'd be like i see you kids down in the woods i know what you're doing smoking that wacky to back eating injecting that P.B. and J. And we're like, what are you talking about? We're in eighth grade. Like, we don't know who you. What do you mean, sir? You'd be that guy, is what I'm hearing.

I would definitely be that guy without a doubt. And then I'd coach, I don't know, I would just coach whatever sport they wanted me to coach. But I would definitely coach a sport. I don't know what it'd be. I mean, I'd coach basketball, football, whatever it is. I'd be like, it's not about what we're playing. It's about our mentality.

All right? Yeah, of course. Yeah, I'd be that person. Cool. All right, next one is, Dear illustrious sirs, with tears in my eyes, I humbly ask thee, do you have rules regarding music in your car while having passengers?

Are you a my car, my music type? Do you ask what they want to listen to, or maybe wait until they say something. What about other things like volume control? I don't have any rules. Usually if there are passengers in my car, I just turn the music off. Unless it's people I know.

But if it's like randoms, I don't have any music because I'd rather not deal with it. I just talk to people. But if it's me by myself or me with someone I know or like I know their preferences, then I'll put on music for other people because I enjoy all music

unless it's like twangy country yeah like I can do country music but I can't do like bang like I can't do that I hate that

yeah honestly I usually just it depends on the person and stuff like you said if it's somebody new I probably would just turn the music down if it's somebody I know I'd probably be like

you want to play your music and then if it's like people I've known for a long time and like whatever I might just might just play my music like it all just depends yeah yeah I mean and I think again it's about knowing people's like I'm just a people pleaser so I know people's preferences and what will make them comfortable because most of the time I'm not listening to music anyway I'm focusing on the rokes I'm trying not to get my friends killed yeah that's the probably the most important thing yeah I'm like I don't you can select the music I don't give a shit I'm I'm trying to drive Yeah. And they'd probably appreciate that more than anything. Yeah. Getting there safely? I imagine they'll be fine with that. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the near Loserousers.

Okay. What is our big news story of the day? Big news story of the day. Alaska art student arrested for eating another student's AI generated art in protest. First off, if that's real, that's awesome. That's awesome. I think it's real? Welcome to modern news articles. I love that.

Artists and other creative people, not to mention journalists, have been deeply concerned about the way their work has been hoovered up by tech companies to fuel AI. In 2023, several digital artists filed a class action lawsuit targeted at stability AI, mid-journey, and the image-sharing platform Deviant Art, and others filed a suit against online retail Shain for stealing their designs. Such suits scored a small win in court in 2024, but many have felt powerless to stop the endless theft of their output. One university of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate apparently has found a way no one else seems to have thought of

to fight back against AI generated art. Graham Granger. Dude, that's a name. That is, that's the most Alaskan name I've ever heard. Name's Granger. Graham Granger. Yes. I live in a shack in the woods and I hate AI art.

Right on, brother. Let's go. A student in the school's film and art performing, or schools film and performing arts program came upon some AI generated art by MFA student Nick Dwyer. Nick Dwyer. Yeah, Nick Dwyer, that sounds like an AI artist. Yeah.

And promptly ate it in protest. Granger claimed that he destroyed the artwork because it was AI generated, according to the report. Writer writes the papers Lizzie Hahn, adding that in his artist's statement for the exhibit that was destroyed, Dwyer says that his work explores identity, character narrative creation, and crafting false memories of relationships in an interactive role digitally crafted before, during and after. a state of AI psychosis. AI psychosis, not a clinical diagnosis, but a much-discussed phenomenon, according to psychology today,

results from deep engagement with chatbots, which can reinforce grandiose, referential, persecutory, and romantic delusions. We have talked about that, that AI chatbots are designed to make you think you're always right,

and it turns people crazy. Okay. Yep. According to information from Alaska court system, Granger was charged on a Wednesday with criminal mischief resulting in damage of less than $250. A Class B misdemeanor. The presiding judge was Maria P. Barr. The exhibition, including Dwyer's work, this is not awful, is open through January 23rd at the UAF Art Gallery and includes fellow MFA candidate Sarah Dexter, Amy Edler, Iris Sutton, and Matthew Wooler. They called them out. They're like these AI artists.

Judging by Han's photos, the artwork consists of small Polaroid-style images pinned to the wall. Police estimated that at least 57 of the 160 images were ruined, Han writes. They were ruined when they were printed out. That's very true. The works were credited in a wall label to Dwyer and AI. The installation is titled Shadow Searching Chat-GP Psychosis. Yikes. When you make art, you become vulnerable.

and so the artwork is vulnerable, and that's something that makes it seem more alive and more real in the moment, Dwyer told the Sun Star. Neither Dwyer, Granger, the university, nor the University police immediately respond to requests for comment. Cool, man. Yeah.

It's... Also, this guy looks like somebody that would make AI art. Just the... There you go Oh boy Yeah Yeah man It's just

Actually I got How do you just make I mean I almost feel like AI art is just for the people that are Not good at art to begin with Or just don't understand what art is And they're just like

Hey I can do this without like really understanding anything about it I think the interesting thing about it I think the interesting thing about it is like in their minds, having seen enough of this now, the idea of being able to type the right thing to get the AI to create what you're looking for, it does require work and understanding of what the AI, like how it works, now it generates images. But to claim you are anything other than a person who figured out how to talk to a computer well is you're not an artist. You didn't create that. the computer stole a bunch of art assets and amalgamated what you asked for. Yeah. Yeah.

Like that's what happened. So like, yeah, sure, man. You're really good at typing out exactly the image you want. But you didn't create it. You didn't do anything. You just like crafted a thing. And like, you'd be better off with that skill writing a good book. Yeah, yeah.

Somebody said eating art equals art. In fact, you might argue the fact of eating it was more art than the original. art. Exactly. That's what I was thinking the entire time is the artist that ate them is actually more of an artist because of the fact they ate them. That's a better installation. Yeah. It's like just insane, dude. I don't know. Like I'm at, I feel like any school shouldn't even allow AI art. Unless it's like some sort of, you know, like dig it AI art or like some take on it through actual art. I'm sure somewhere some faculty member was like, well, the thing they're trying to do with

the AI art and talk about chat GPT and the psychosis, like, it has merit. But like, you're still using AI art. Yeah. It's, that's the same kind of like, all right, this is a stretch, but follow me here. It's the same kind of logic as when like a dude is caught looking at like kid picks online. And he's like, well, I was doing research so I could stop them. Yeah. Same vibe.

Like, not clearly not the same level, but you know what I mean. Where it's like, cool, man, but you still shouldn't have done it. Yeah. You're going about it wrong. Yeah, it's like every villain in every movie that's like, you know, it's the Thanos. Like, if I just kill half the population of the universe, then I'll save everyone. It's like, yeah, but that's terrible, dude. Don't do that.

That's the shit that happens when they're just like, I'm Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC and they're like, I showed up here to tell them not to talk to people like me. I was going to tell him not to do this. And it's like, uh-huh, all right. Sure, man. Out of my way to make sure that was not going to happen. So overall, that man ate AI art and he's probably going to pay a fine for it or something. Honestly, that's what that's, that's like the most metal art thing of all. It really is.

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