Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 497 - Peanut Butter Cup Crisis

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

The boys are back and this time Jesse is getting spam called by his Farmer's Market. Meanwhile Crendor is looking up drunk people on the internet and it somehow leads to Coast to Coast AM being bad now. Then Jesse threatens the audience while they sleep - or not? Look it feels threatening! All that and Reese's Peanut Buttercups are under fire from Reeses!? Buy us at https://www.bldblz.com/products/cox-n-crendor Go to http://heroforge.com and use code CRENDOR to get 5% off. Sign up for your $1-per-month trial today at http://shopify.com/crendor

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Shopify's here to help you get your next business opportunity up and running and make it look just like you envision. Now let's jump into this podcast. Hello everybody, it's time for Gawson Crendor in the morning In the morning Hi, podcast, live, live, live, live, live, live. Before our recording studio, recording. Wait your ass up.

It's up, Gakst, Freddard in the morning. Hello, everybody, one's the episode of the Cox and Crenor in the morning. Hello. That was good? Yeah. The end there. The, the, the, the, the, wasn't really, but, you know. Yeah.

It's a work in progress. I'm thinking, how do other people, like, open up their podcasts? We probably should look into that one day and steal their ideas. We probably should. We haven't, so, you know, that's fine. Like, do other people just do it normally, like, hello everybody and welcome to the episode of blah, blah, blah, blah. Is that what they do? You would think.

That's what I would like to do. However, every podcast I'm on starts insanely. Every single one of them. I would say how does Trulamani start, but I've been on it like five times and I can't even tell you how it starts. That's what I'm saying. Mathis says a bunch of nonsense.

In the bonus episode, they'll be like, Hello, welcome. It sounds gross and creepy. Dodger, she starts the podcast. like, hey, she does a whole thing. If anything, we're the most normal out of all of them. You know, I think you're right. It says a lot, to be honest.

Maybe it's because we've done this for so long, too. We're so jaded to the possibilities of a podcast intro. And we've already done all the possibilities, maybe. You think you think that's what it is? It's got to be. I mean, we're approaching 500 episodes over a decade. We are. Too close.

That's that, yeah. This is like a Simpsons level occurrence. What season of Simpsons are we in? Oh, 500? When was 500 episodes of The Simpsons? That's a great question. That's got to be season like 18 or some shit. 500 was February 12th, 19th, 2012.

That was pretty close. They definitely were not good then. And the Simpsons started in the 80s, so. Yeah. That says a lot. About how long it takes. I mean, yeah, we started this fine program in 2012. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. What? So can we say we are the emotional, psychological? I'm going to say spiritual successor to The Simpsons. Because if their 500th episode was in February of 2012, could you not say us starting in 2012? means we're carrying on their legacy? You know, I think we could say that.

I don't know how accurate it would be. Sure, sure. I mean, like, yeah. We could say it. We could. Who's going to stop us? No one. Yeah, ain't nobody stopping us.

Ain't nobody. We're going to get a letter from Fox. It's going to be like, please stop. I don't even think they care anymore. It's like whatever. Oh, my God. That reminds me of speaking of podcasts

going on for too long and their downfall. Or they're uprising, which I guess could be a downfall. Sure, sure. Thank you for that. Yeah, yeah. Give us a positive spin, okay. I was on, I was,

what was I looking up? I looked up some coast-to-coast AM thing. No, I was looking up somebody getting drunk. It was like some. There's, you went on a journey there and I tried to follow you.

Okay, so you were you were Googling a drunk person. Okay, I know what it was now. I was looking up because I was seeing things that were like, Jimmy Fallon's like an alcoholic. And I was like, honestly, that doesn't surprise me. Jimmy Fallon? No way. That guy?

What? I would, I see the sarcasm. Yeah, you got off. Yeah, and there's like numerous reports of people who's being like, yeah, he's wasted. One of his old, like, Saturday night live co-workers was like, we used to get drunk all the time. There's all there's like a lot of things anyway. I was just like yeah that makes sense But then someone typed in George Norrie drunk and I was like what which again wouldn't surprise me

But I started like looking up and then I ended up on a post from seven days ago on coast-to-coast a.m. Reddit and somebody said coast to coast a.m. and it's downfall. Why is this show still on? Oh, oh. Our local AM station dropped them a few years ago. I wish Ian Punnett, God bless him, was still around. John B. Wells, not sure, but way more grounded. Jimmy Church, anybody who believes in Dr. Greer needs to find a quiet place alone and stay there. George is an idiot, horrible interviewer, and not just engaging with anything.

This used to be a show people stayed up late to listen to or watch for comfort while driving on those long, lonely roads, and wanted a little spooky stuff. Art Bell, yes, but no. He went off the deep end after marrying him. his very young bride. Now just supplements, sponsors. I truly believe George Norey is illiterate. Jesus right. Please name me one time he actually read the guest's book.

George Knapp, stop writing Bob Lazard like a drunk prom bait and his bullshit story with no evidence. Really getting sick of the disclosure movement, blah. This post had 87 upvotes. People are agreeing. I will say I haven't listened to Coast to Coast A.M. in a while, but that's also because

the people they would have on and I'm going to blame George for this as well. We're all nuts. Like, Art Bell, so I would listen to Coast to Coast A.m. when I worked overnight shifts when I was much younger. And

especially, you know, during the Iraq war and stuff like that, I remember them covering it while I was sitting there stocking shelves and stuff. And so it would be the thing I'd listen to because it was weird and entertaining and it would go all night and I could get through a shift and it would be fine.

But with that said, when Art Bell was around, when George Norrie first started, it wasn't bad. It was fine. But over the years it got more and more, just like that dude said, every ad was some sort of insane supplement

or gold ad or like, you got to stock up on your supplies or else the world were in, like that kind of stuff. Yeah. And all the guests were just bonkers and the thing is

Art Bell would have said that's not real that didn't happen he'd question them George was like oh really really oh uh huh go on

and it's like you're pandering to absolute idiots George and I just so eventually he'd have people on there was a whole string where he had Alex Jones on and he'd be like

they're they'd turn the Froggie he'd say crazy And George would be like, uh-huh, yeah, uh-huh. So, yeah, it kind of went off the deep end in a not cool way. Like when dudes would call Art Bell and be like, Art, I'm flying over Area 51 right now. And he'd be like, well, this is, I got to let this go. So he'd keep that going. George will have on a guy who's going to tell you about Bigfoot while also selling his Bigfoot brand supplements.

It's whatever. It's a whatever show. I'm, yeah, I haven't listened in years. Yeah. No, because I remember I would listen every night to like fall asleep. And I was just like, yeah, back like when we were like a few years into this podcast, I think. And I was just like, yeah. Yeah.

As I was just like, this was fun. And then they did what you said. They would just slowly start creeping in with the like, get your super beats. Get your ancient tomb to bury your loved ones in. So they go to the right place when they died. It's like weird-ass shit. You're just like, okay. That's the biggest problem with talk radio.

And even on paid services like Sirius XM or whatever, if you listen to something that's a syndicated talk show, the format is always this and it infuriates me. It is ads for the first five minutes. Then let's say the show starts at 8 a.m. At 8.05, the show finally starts after a bunch of ads. Then it goes till about eight, let's say, 20, then another series of ads, they come back at 825, go for like three minutes, and then at 828, another series of ads, and then they come back at 835, and at 835, the show goes until, let's say, like, 8.50, and then another series of ads, and then, like, maybe a one-minute stinger where they come back, and then at the top of the hour, the news, and then they come back, and then they come back.

And then they come back in at 905. The amount of actual content is so small. It's all ads and it's unlistenable. I just can't do it. Yeah. I remember they'd even just used to be like, all right, and here's the show. But coming up on the show is these people.

And then I would just go right back to ads. And you're like, oh, okay. Glad I got my, like, one little string of content to go back to my ads. It's just insane. And that's the thing that as a listener, as a person who consumes that content, yeah, I hate that stuff. I genuinely like listening to podcasts that have the exact same quality in content, but just give me one hour where it's not interrupted. Even if it's one or two ads, I'm fine. Like on this show, I purposely said I don't want more than two ads an episode.

Yeah. Like, it's just, I think it's too much. And like, obviously, we got to pay the bills. But it's like I'm not out here trying to inundate the listener with a bunch of stuff. It annoys me. So I imagine it would annoy you listening at home. And yeah, I've never been a fan of that. I absolutely hate it.

But, you know, if you're going to give me an hour or two hours of content and like five minutes of ads, fine. I'm all right. I get it. I'm going to get no complaints for me. But the minute it becomes half ads, half talk, I'm like this is trying. Yeah. No, there's so many of those too. It's insane. Because they realize how many, they're like, how many can we fit? Right? There's like, how many can we place without people leaving? Which I think is what it boils down to. It's just like, how many ads can we fit without people leaving? And a lot of people do that thing now, especially if you watch podcasts that are in video form, where the timestamps of where the ads are, so you can skip them. Honestly, I love that. I'm not even going to hate you for it. If you want to put in your 50 ads, that's whatever, as long as you give me the information to skip them. them, sure, we're good. That's a YouTube all says that thing where it's like jump ahead. I'm like,

yes, I will. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm all right. Here we go. Yeah, yeah, it's, it makes sense why it's just on the downfall. Plus, I think ever since, you know, certain political things started, I think it also got a lot worse. Yeah, the problem with conspiracy people is that it's all also a little political. So these dudes who would go on coast to coast and talk about secret government organizations and how everything's run by a cabal of pedophiles or whatever. And then with the modern news, you would think they'd be taking a victory lap and be like, we told you. But instead they're like, I don't know that I believe it now. Like, what the hell?

What do you mean? I just think it's one of those things where over time it lost what the show was and became, I don't know, like a platform for just like crazy dudes to sell their crap. rather than people to explore the unknown. You know what I mean? Yeah. And it became really obvious to anyone who listened that it was no longer,

today we're going to talk about a subject and try to figure out what's going on here and like, oh, that's spooky or like, oh, that's weird. Instead it was some dude coming on to explain why you needed to buy a certain supplement because we as a people are eating more protein than fiber. So this fiber, like that kind of thing. And they're like, this is trash.

Yeah, they're no Malibu Max, man. Shout out to Malibu Macs. Malibu Fit Max with two X's. That guy rules. I've been watching him ever since I made that video. That guy knows rules. After I'm inundated with trash I hate on the internet, finding someone who is a general good person I'm here for.

Um, what else have you done this week? I'm obsessed with, I feel like this is a challenge we should do. but I don't know that I will have the patience for it but a thing popped up and I guess this is from the beginning of the year but some guy made kind of like a big post around it talking about it and what the good and bad of something like that is but anyway

at the beginning of the year people were posting I don't know if you saw any of these they kept track of every single day from 2025 and then rated whether they were good or bad what those shit and so they had like giant spreadsheets and it'd be color-coded. So it would be like, oh, today was a yellow day.

And it was, you know, it was all right. Today was a green day. Oh, I love it. Or like a dark green day. Some are red or like really red. And those were bad days. And so they'd rank all the days. And then at the end of the year, they tallied up what days were good and what days were bad.

And that sort of was a look at their year. So they wouldn't forget the bad or the good. They had it all listed, right? And I was like, that's interesting. It seems like an awful lot of work. I'm not sure what the objective here is. This guy was trying to explain what these people were trying to do and what the outcomes were and what it says about you as a person.

If you, you know, see this information and you have a positive reaction to like, oh, there were so many positive days where you see the information. You know, it's like when I was half, full, half empty situations. Right. And he was just going through the list and I kept thinking like, I don't know that I'd do this for a whole year, but I imagine it could be fun to try and do something like this for a month, just to see in a month what kind of good days or bad days did I have?

And I was really interested because I was like, well, maybe I could talk Crendor into doing like March or something with me where we rank our days and then in April report back. Yeah, I mean, I'd do that. I've done close to that anyway just from ranking my pain. You know? I'm sorry. What was it? You rank your pain?

Yeah, well, back when my, my, my, all of my injuries first hit, I started, like, ranking my pain in terms, so I could, like, manage my, uh, my physical therapy type of stuff of, like, I did therapy this day. How am I feeling after that? How am I feeling the next day? Then you, like, kind of do it over and over. Make sure you're not overdoing it or seeing progress. Well, this would simply be, I guess, emotionally, or maybe just, I don't know, however you felt that day and ranking it. Yeah. No,

I'd do that. I think we should do that. I think for all of March, we should rank all of March and report back in April what the status of our March was. And are we ranking this on like a one to ten? I feel like it should be on a dark green is great. Normal green is good. Yellow is average day.

You're like, eh, it's all right. Red. No, let's do like a like a, like a. I don't know, like some type of light red or an orange. I don't know. Something is a, it's like, eh, it wasn't a great day. And then red is, it was a bad day. All right.

Because I would love to talk to you then when we're done about, like, if you have it a red day, I'd be like, well, what happened on that day to make it red? You know? Right. Or vice versa. Yes. Like what made it good? What made that day amazing?

Or what made that day average? And I feel like that would say a lot about us what our baseline average day is and what we consider average. You know what I mean? Because I imagine your average day might be someone's great day. You know what I mean? That is true. Yeah. Honestly, yeah, I'll do it.

That sounds fun. Sounds interesting. All right. Great. Because I was thinking like that could be a real treat to go through and do it. Yeah, let's do it. I believe. I had that.

I wanted to bring up. But also, dude, I got got got got this week. I know I got got and frankly, should have expected it. So I went to the farmer's market. And it's one of those ones where, you know, it changes out stalls quite frequently because a lot of people are trying to get in there. And so they have like an informational booth at the farmer's market. And they were like, oh, yeah, no, if you, you know, scan this QR code and you enter your phone number,

will text you the list of who's going to be at the farmer's market the weekend so you can get the people you want. Because there's this one guy who does like hummus and feta and, you know, different breads and stuff. And one of his things is he does a jalapeno feta, which is so good. Oh, my God. But no one else who has any sort of Middle Eastern-esque booth. No one else has the jalapeno feta. It's just this one guy. And I'm always disappointed.

Because everyone's got jalapeno hummus and all the other, but no one's got the fetter. And I'm like, all right, I only want to get that one guy. So let me know when he rolls through. Yes, just as an example of why I would do this. So, give him my stuff. Everything's good. Here's the thing, though, Crendor. I, much like most people, still am a little wary of giving my information out to people.

So when it asked me for a name, I wrote the name Phil. Okay. Well, you want to know how I know they sold all of my information? Because within days of giving them my phone number, I'm starting to get political ads crazy. Like if you, you know, here's literally one example. I'll just read it to you. Don't miss this opportunity. Don't pass up on this new job, Phil.

Yep. So absolutely just sold my information immediately. They didn't even wait until they were like, we got to have money or whatever. They just took it and clearly sold the information to companies. Oh, yeah. Or the company that owns the farmer's market is the company that also does all these other things. That's also a possibility. That is kind of insane that you've concocted this way of figuring this out,

but you didn't even intend for it that happened, really. You're just kind of suspicious. It sucks to me that most businesses now aren't in the business of a product they sell you. They're in the business of monetizing your information as a consumer. Yeah. I mean, that's like everything. That coffee shop down the street is doing the same thing. Yeah.

Well, I mean, that also is probably at an all-time high now because people are just buying information for their AI shit too. Yeah, that messes me up. I hate that. I was looking at it and I was like, wait a minute. Why am I getting an ad for like the Northern California Something Society on my phone? And it's like, Phil, you can help support us right now more than ever. And I'm like, what? That is.

That just sucks. Absolutely. It's so goofy that that's, well, I mean, at least I know. Because when I see Phil, I'm like, okay. All right, block. I don't even It makes it easier, that's for sure. I'm just upset that they still haven't sent me a message

about who's going to be at the farmer's market. That's true. I have yet to receive that update. The one information you're looking for. I have not gotten it. Yeah, it's been exactly one week. The farmer's market happened this weekend. I got no message on my phone.

But, or like what type of cheese they're going to be like the feto one? Right? Or it could be like what type of food that they're going to be selling at the farm. There's any type of farmer's market information at all. That's what I'm saying. That's the whole point of it was they were going to update you to a link that would then list out on the web page everyone who was going to be there. Yeah. So then you can see before going there. And yeah, I was like, oh, okay.

That's cool. No information but tons of ads. It's been a week and I've received at least eight messages on my phone. from random companies. Yeah, that sucks. Yep. So that's kind of what's going on over here. I will say,

I will say I did learn a lesson about uploads on YouTube. Oh. I was trying to. So the guys and I at Scary Game Squad played this game, Cresole, which is very fun. Absolutely love it. It has zero online presence,

unfortunately, for that game. I went and I looked at all the other videos online and, like, no one's watching footage of it. It's just not a game people care about in the YouTube space. You know what I mean? There's a lot of reviews and a lot of people on Reddit and stuff. They're like, you've got to play this game. It's a really cool horror game, that kind of thing.

But it's a little less jump scary two-hour horror game and a little more Bioshock 12-hour horror game. So not a lot of people are making videos. So Scary Game Squad and I, we decided to play it, not knowing any of that knowledge of how long it was. We beat it in roughly 14 hours. And so I went online to look like, all right, well, is it worth uploading? And this is the things you have to consider when you do YouTube.

I was like, is it worth uploading in a series, which will drop off? And I'll still be spamming the channel with videos, you know, however many videos later. And no one's going to care by the time we get to the last one. Or do I upload it in one giant video, get it out of the way? So I made the judgment call to upload it in one giant video. And if people want to go back and watch all 14 hours in the one video, they can. Right. However, I recently learned that, and this is after I uploaded it, that the most YouTube can do at the moment is 12 hours.

Oh, I didn't even know that. They set like a hard firm rule. I think it's because when they did YouTube gaming or YouTube streaming, people would do 24-hour streams or like really long streams. And so there are a few things that are grandfathered in. But if you're doing something new at the moment, you cannot. So, yeah, they're like eight-day streams or whatever that still exist in the year. YouTube archives, but not anymore. So I uploaded it, went to bed, woke up, getting ready to set it all live, and it was

like, nope, sorry. So I had to split the video in two and upload two like seven hourish videos. I'm not a fan of that. I know that video number two will not do nearly as well as video number one. And that's in a space where I already know this game is not one that a lot of people want to watch online. despite it being like very fun I just know having looked at what other people uploaded

like the best videos were 11,000 views yeah so you already know it's gonna it's gonna be like you're probably have the number one video for this game on the internet yeah but it won't be a lot of people watching it because I guess it's one of those games people don't want to watch and that just it happens from time to time

yeah where it's like your audience will watch it that's about it yeah yeah even my audience I'm not sure wants to watch it. Like, I don't know. Sometimes I wonder what they want. And a lot of people are like, we want to do, we want the scary jump scare games. We want to do that. I'm like, cool, cool. I love that. And then I'll bring it up to the guys and they'll be like, no. I'm like, oh, okay. All right, we're not going to play that one.

So I have to appease many people, is what I'm saying. Yeah, no, that makes sense. I mean, I'm glad I know that because I've been doing the compilations. Well, I was doing them when ad rates were high. Now, I haven't done much in the last couple months. But. Sure. I mean, January February is a mess on YouTube. Yeah, it's always bad. So it's more just like figuring out what you're going to do and all that stuff.

But, I mean, when I look at my analytic things, people are still watching eight hours of random wow facts to fall asleep, dude. Those are winners, dude. I absolutely get that. There are people that will listen to stuff that, you know, I've done or we've done, and they'll put it on the background and go to sleep. I take that as a compliment. Yeah. No, I do, too. I'm sure you could joke and be like, you listen to me to fall asleep, but like, oh, you're comfortable enough with me to close your eyes and let yourself be your most vulnerable around my voice?

All right, thank you. I like how you say that is if your voice is going to attack them or something. Well, you know what I'm saying is that it's when you sleep, you're at your weakest. And you view the content or whatever that we make or that you make as. comforting enough to to put on while you law yourself into your weakest state. That does sound psychotic the way I say that, but I mean it genuinely in the nicest way possible. It's just like, oh boy, this guy's voice. I will show up in your home and kill you.

It does sound like I'm a ghoul who when you put me on, you summoned me into your home and I will murder you. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, it definitely sounded more like that. Well, it's not what I meant, okay? It's not what I was saying. It's just like, thank you for trusting me in your vulnerable state. My voice, we're not striking the night. Well, you know what? Look, look, I blame this on a cat video I watched on TikTok last night.

I was in bed and I was laying there and I was looking at this video. Oh, you know, I was doing my nightly doom scroll. And it was a video about cats. And it was some guy who was saying a thing that I think everyone understands, but he was trying to make it sound like he just figured it out for the first time. And he was like, yeah, there's. There's a reason why cats sleep with you at night. No, it's not because you're warm. It's because cats love you so much that they trust you.

Because most of the time when you look at cats in the wild or any, you know, cats with no one, they hide in a corner or they, like, get under something when they sleep because they're looking for protection. And in this case, they view you as the protection, so they lay next to you because, like that kind of thing. So that's where my head is at when I was trying to describe this about us and the music or whatever. the podcasts. That's what I was, that's where I mentally was. And I realized it sounds crazy and I sound even more crazy now. But that's what I was saying. This guy's crazy. But yeah, it's, it is nice. I mean, I've gotten that comment like some, I mean, even like years ago, people would just be like, dude, I love falling asleep to your stuff. And they'd always just be like,

I know if that's weird or something, but I never thought it was weird. Or I guess people could think it's also like an insulting thing like you're so boring I fall asleep to you type of thing but I'm like nah dude whatever keeps you listening I don't know yeah if anything that is you just gave me an uninterrupted

eight hours or whatever of you watching something I'm doing like that's thank you yeah that's super boosting the algorithm and like yeah that's great please keep doing it so yeah now I got to make 12 hours of random wow facts especially because I've

I've added more pointless top 10 since then. Technically 11 hours 59 minutes. Ah, okay. Now you round up. If you make 12, it may stop you. That's... Yeah, I'd probably do that. But if you just, uh, you just say 12 in the title anyway, nobody cares. If anything, people comment and be like... Also, can't be more than 256 gigabytes, so...

Oh, gee, I don't think that's too bad. Because I've done eight hours. I think that was like... I'm gonna say like 50 or 60 gigabytes. By the way, what do you? you are you still using Adobe Premiere to edit? I am, yes. But I have a computer that is designed literally from the ground up to be like the most Adobe efficient computer ever.

It's got a stamp on it. Normal videos, if it's like 30 minutes to an hour long, it does it in like six minutes. This podcast, I'll put it in, I'll like balance the audio and put it in Adobe Premiere to do a final render. it'll do it in like 23 seconds. The thing is like, I always try to use Adobe Premiere, or I've tried numerous times. I just can't do it. It's such a resource hog,

and if it crashes, you'll lose so much stuff if you don't save. So, like, I get it. It's not what I would consider the most, like, average Joe-friendly product, but I'm actually so used to it now that learning something new, I'm like, nah,

I don't have the patient. I'll stick with this. It's fine. Dude, exactly. That's why I still use Sony Vegas. And it's not even owned by Sony anymore. It's owned by some other company. But like, I've just used it for so long. The UI is easy. I'm used to it. People are like, you're using Sony Vegas.

That shit's in. I'm like, dude, I don't care. I'm literally just putting together like random wow clips and rendering them out with some text. Like, I'm not doing anything crazy. When I first started, I was using Windows Movie Maker. So there's no, like, there's absolutely no way you can tell me that one thing's better than another. No one noticed the difference when I switch from movie maker to Adobe.

I'm not even going to say what year that happened or what, like it wasn't in the first year of me doing this. That's for sure. And no one noticed or cared. Yeah. I mean, it's, I doubt anyone would be able to care anyway because really you're not going to notice like, shit like that, like what program, you can not, it's not like you watch someone's video and go, oh, they edited this and, you know, Apple, whatever this shit is. Yeah, most of the edits that I'm doing are literally just like, oh, faded to this or this.

And most of it, especially gameplay content, is literally, is the gameplay audio louder than my voice? And is there any weird background or desinking? That's it. That's all I'm looking for. Yeah. No, as long as it can do that. then you're good. Although I did have a thing where I updated my video card drivers and then it wouldn't render

because it's rendering with my NVIDIA card. And so I go on to the thing and they're just like, the latest drivers, fuck everything up. And I'm like, all right, well, you like revert back. It's like, all right, well, I guess we're here for now. So that sucks, but whatever. Yeah, there's always weird little problems with those softwares whenever they update or they add something new.

Like, there's AI in here now and you're like, oh, cool, man. Yeah, no, I do that. Even like with, I use Microsoft Word, and it's just like, Co-Pilot can help you out. And I'm like, no, I'm good. It's, yeah, it just sucks. I would rather those AI features, instead of it be like, hey, do you want to do this thing for you? I'd rather something pop up and be like, oh, hey, what do you want to do?

And then I could say, yeah, I'm trying to edit this thing, but I don't know how to make these letters look 3D. Help me out with that. and then like a good tutorial it could like show you what to do in order to make it happen rather than just like would you like me to do it for you and then if I click it it comes up not even remotely what I want it to look like yeah it's and then it's like if you really want something to be like exactly how you look like it's got to use shit where it just steals everything yeah yeah I'm not like it uh it's not helpful it's not great and uh that one guy who used, I don't remember his name, but the guy this past week or the week before was like,

I'm leaving my job in AI, I'm moving out to the woods, mankind you have been warned. I'm like, damn, dude, okay? What do you know? He might be on coast to coast a.m soon. You might be, and we won't listen. Exactly. Yeah, I missed the days of where we had the books in the library. or the ones that I was showing you

before we did the eyewitness books and it would just be like cat and it would have a bunch of like cats on it or like shark and have a bunch of sharks or like planets and it had all the planets. You're like dude this is cool. Yeah a lot of that doesn't exist anymore

for a myriad of reasons mostly because of changing preferences and people and what they want to do etc., etc. But I do miss it. I do miss a place we go to like oh that's the coffee shop. or that's the bookstore that I hang out at.

It's not a lot of that anymore. There used to be like big coffee shops and stuff. And then they started closing even like Starbucks and stuff. They used to have bigger locations. You could sit down and chill and work. And then they're like, what if we made it all drive-thrues? And then now it's just like, though, where's the fun in that? It just sucks.

Starbucks near me did a full remodel. The inside completely changed. Instead of multiple chairs, there's exactly three. couches and nothing else now. That sucks. Yeah, that's true. And so I don't even go there. I found a lovely little, like, local coffee place.

And I go in and I get my coffee. And it's the same, like, three baristas. And I think they own the building. So like, it's, it's chill. It's so much nicer to be able to, you know, just go in, sit down, drink a thing, stare at their weird wall art. And then be like, all right, moving on my mom away.

Yeah. That does seem a lot nicer. It's just Again, I mean, we've brought up the the corporatization of I didn't say it's corporatization. I guess it kind of could be, but they just like suck the life out of everything. Like how in the 90s shit used to be like colorful

and have like cool stuff, like how Wendy's had the little green room and things like that or like McDonald's had all these like goofy characters and colors. And now it's just like gray, gray, gray, modern. Honestly, I think there's, there was at some point someone deduced,

I don't know if this is true or not, but someone was like, we tried to make our locations family friendly to bring families in because we needed to convince them that they should not eat at home, but bring the family and eat with us. Like that was their whole thing.

And at some point, it switched from, families are coming here to, people are going to the drive-thru to grab something while they're on their way to something else. And so we don't need the inside to look good because the inside doesn't matter all that much. It's the outside. We want it to be sleek and modern,

but more importantly, a place that you don't want to hang out because they're there to go through the drive-thru to get in and out. We've got to keep moving. We've got to serve more and faster and be as quick as we can with our food. And that means the food needs to also be able to be made fast,

which means it can't be that fresh. It has to be kind of pre-made and then you just quickly make it and get them out the door. Yeah. And it's all overpriced. There's going to be one day a really fascinating documentary or something about how COVID just let the worst business dudes manipulate everyone. Oh, yeah. Because they could charge an arm and a leg for food delivery during COVID and people took it on the chin because they were like, well, I got to eat.

And they just kept those prices afterwards. And the service remained as shoddy and trash. And the quality still remains trash. because they couldn't shipping and all those different things so they had to stick with what they had and what they had was garbage and they just kept the garbage there's gotta be like an in-depth thing at some point

that's uh I mean it's not only food they've done this for other stuff like I've had Barnes and Nobles do this I don't know if you've been in two different Barnes and Nobles but no we only have one in the area altogether damn well I got more Barnes and Nobles than you do We have a lot of small book shops here, but big ones do not exist anymore in L.A., really. It's like Barnes & Noble used to have more like, well, if you go in one of them, it's got like some cool, like, art on the walls.

And then there's just a kind of like cool cafe vibes. And then it's got more of like a whimsical library vibe. Like you go to the kids area and there's like fake trees with like Winnie the Pooh and like fun stuff up there. And there's like different book characters like climbing on the bookshelves, like the, the like what's his name the frog from the we the willows or whatever the shit I can't remember it's called Mr. Toad yeah like Mr. Toad and then it was just like cool stuff or like characters all over and like there's like a sky background

it's like who this is fun and now it's just probably a borders that was built in 1996 uh yes also Barnes and Noble borders is dead barren yeah that's right Barnes & Noble my bad see like here I'll show you it's like that it's like that Oh, that's cute. That's fun. Yeah. Or like, here's another one, right? But then... I'd love that you have photos of this. Well, I'm looking it up online, though.

Oh, okay, I was about to say. And it's like, and then... It would be weird if you just went to the kids section of a bookstore and just start taking photos. That would be weird. I mean, if there's no kids there, it's whatever. But if there are kids there, that'd be a lot weirder. Then there's the modern one, which like... Yikes, dude.

Yikes. it's just straight up like an airport like it just looks like an airport yo that's the best way to describe it this Barnes & Noble Jr. one that you sent me that has like Babar up in the sky and it's got all these books and they're laid out in like a very

even the lighting is comforting it has this vibe of like it's for the kids man it's like win is it you know yeah there's the pillars look like trees they've done a lot with it and then the new one you sent me you're absolutely right. Looks like an airport shop.

Yeah. It has no life, no color. It is beige. There's gray carpeting. The walls are white. The ceiling is white. The hanging lights are white. Everything has this one color of wood accent. It doesn't look as lively as everything else.

And it's so boring. All the books, I just noticed this, they all blend together. Yep. When you look at the books in the first image you sent me, that's on this sort of like we're camping kind of vibe, right?

All the books have colors that stand out and they're bright and they're ordered in a way that makes them stand out. This last image, except for this one thing that looks yellow

and this one something sniper shark, everything else is just blend, it's all blended together. Yeah. In fact, dude, in fact, in the first,

first images, any toys that are present, are off to the side around the books, like augmenting the books. And in this last image, in order to get to the books, you have to get through the toys. Yeah. That's crazy.

Because, like, I remember even in the 90s, there were a lot of the Barnes and Nobles look like this. I remember going in there, and it's like you're, because you're a kid, too. It's like you're on like an adventure. You're just like, whoa, it's like cool. Like, you're navigating all these books and you're like in the trees and there's like fun characters and vibes and then this is just like you are in the store of books would you like to purchase something it's just like okay

that is weird but it i think honestly the first two images you sent me have the vibe of hey we want you and your child to spend time in our bookstore yeah and the last image is get in get out yep pretty much which says a lot about the philosophy of businesses right now. Is there like, we want your money, we want your business, but we don't want you here. Yeah, exactly.

It's just, that's just like Starbucks. Yeah, we want your money, want your business, but there's no place for you to be while you're here, so go. Yeah, which is crazy because you would think

by having people in there hanging out, they would then spend more money or feel attachments to the places and stuff too. One would think, but that's clearly not what's going on, especially in the world of books where it's like less people are reading now more than ever.

You want as many people in your bookshop as possible. Yeah. Like the last bookstore downtown in downtown L.A. It's famous for people just going there to chill with the books. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like you're just trying to make it fun. Yeah.

Like, wow. It's like using your imagination is cool by reading and imagining. And it's just like instead Just some like solaceous ass airport Stupid Stupid You know Like look at like this is

This is the last bookstore I know I was showing you this thing Hopefully that Google image search will get But like this is what it looks like inside there It's so cool Yeah that's crazy Look at that They like use the books to augment the entire

They'll like have you know pillars of books And weird book windows and book hallways littered with books and like crazy book. The entire place is like a museum to books as well as a bookstore. Yeah, that is really cool. It's very cool. And it's that kind of thing that that's the reason people go there. It's because they get to be like, like the desks are made of books, just piles of books.

Yeah, that was really. It's just a big homage to like, hey, books rule, man. And that's what you need. You need to have like, yes, we're a bookstore, and we're here for people who love books. Come on in rather than buy your shit and leave. Yeah. And it's like, especially nowadays

where everything's becoming more and more and more like stale and soulless and the AI and like robots and shit. It's like people want like color and life and just like imagination more than ever now. Yeah. Honestly. I don't know if I heard this from a thing or if it was something. I don't know where I got this from, but I don't want to take credit.

But I love the thought process behind the fact that as more and more stuff online or in movies or everywhere becomes indistinguishable. Like we just can't tell whether it's AI or not. And I'm already having that problem with a lot of stuff. That live theater will start to pick up again. Oh yeah, I can see that Because people will be like Oh, I can go watch a human perform And I know it's them

Because we're in a thing together And I can watch them do it live Yeah No, it's I think And I believe that completely Live shit in general It's probably gonna pick up

And then plus we had like COVID Where everyone was just inside And I think people also got used to being inside too Like when you go back and watch Even shit like From the 90s Like watching like A lot of the shows

It just feels like everyone's out and about and doing stuff. But obviously, you know, computers were less prevalent as well back then where people were just going out. Also, I think, you know, I can understand what people wouldn't want to go out. Staying at home, being able to do stuff online, it liberates you a little bit from the performativeness of having to go out and dress up and look a certain way and act a certain way. You can just be your like slovenly self.

And I get people wanting to do that. But with that said, the more. I've done it, the more I'm like, nah, this ain't the way to live, man. This sucks. I hate this. So I'm about being back out there. I'll go out and do stuff just to go out and do stuff. Yeah. Dude, trust me, you're talking to, I spent my entire high school years sitting inside playing wow in various other games. I live that life. And it's, I will say it's not, I know a lot of people are like, oh, I wish I could have the money to go out. I'm not saying go out and like spend money. I'm saying just like, there's plenty of free stuff to do that you can do and just go and do it,

just to go outside and do it. Yeah, I mean, it's the reason I love going to the gym in places like that. Like, I'm working out around people. It's just nice to like be around other people doing stuff or like going to the library. It doesn't take money to go to the library. Yeah, sometimes I'll just go to the mall to walk around the mall. I'm not there to buy anything. I just like go to look at stuff, look at the people, just walk. I get a nice walk in. I get to see some cool stuff and then I go home, the end. Yeah. No, exactly.

And it's like, it's just nice to do that type of thing. Just be around other people and cool types of things or whatever, unless, you know, the government takes it away. Or defunds it. Like, look at this. This is like the, because I was linking you, the utopian scholastic stuff. Like, look at that. That's from like the 80s, 90s.

Like, it's all just like learning colorful vibes. The idea that it's like a little learning. area where you can go in. This reminds me of the L.A. tar pits. They have a little area like this where if you're, if you go to the area where the museum is, you can see the whole tar pits thing,

but also kind of like go through, check out all the weird stuff for kids. And it's like, this is an animal in the tar pits. It's great. And then everything kind of smells a little bit like tar. That's part of the experience. My dad loves that smell.

That's his favorite smell. Dude. I feel like, Your dad has like the same energy as me or I'm just, I'm smelling the freezers. And then he's smelling the tar. He loves that. He loves that stuff. Yeah, that's great.

So moral of the story is we need more fun, adventurous, cool places to go or learn or just hang out. We don't got those. That's honestly, if you're going to open. a business, a physical business, make it that. Make it somewhere where you want people to spend time at, not, please leave. Yeah. In fact, it's a, it kind of reminds me

of how modern indie games are now just more popular than big box games, because they're just like having fun creating things they want to create. Yes, and you can see when you play it, oh, they had fun making this. Yeah. And it's, honestly, it's like that

the Olympic skater girl. Everyone's like, wow, she's just having fun. Everyone's like, wow, fun. What is that? Yes. Watching her perform with a smile is a great thing to see compared to other people who are stressing the shit out. Yeah.

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trafficking up here. There's birds. The birds are just backed up. There's one bird. He's giving the bird to the birds, you know? There's also just numerous turtles. They're stacked on top of each other. They can't be good down in the water. It looks like there are numerous cats and dogs that are trying to... I don't know what they're trying to do, really. I'm not a cat or a dog, but they're backed up.

It's all backed up. And then the actual cars and stuff on the road aren't really backed up. There's not much traffic there, but it's really just animal backups all over the place. Thank you. Yep. It's all animal backups. My favorite part of that is the phrase almost insane because

I want to know what that means on sort of like a psychological level. Because I feel like that is a thing. You can be almost insane, but what does that mean? Like you're not crazy. But like you're real close. It's like pre-diabetes.

Like you're really close though. Yeah, you're in a pre-diabic state. You need to cut back on some of that insane juice. You're a little, little out there. That's my god, that reminds me of a comment I read on YouTube, which was the fact that

you didn't put this on your list is terrifying. There's some shit where he called something terrifying and I was like if not doing something like that is terrifying, like then what is an actual terrifying thing to this guy? Wait a minute, well, time out, time out. Are you talking about

on one of your top 10 lists? You didn't make a list of like top 10 things the world needs to do it order to survive or top 10 you know like political machinations of the last 70 years you didn't do any of that you were like top 10 locations where crabs look like they're having fun and this guy was like the fact you didn't include number 11 is terrifying bro there are numerous people on top 10 list that'll be like you didn't include this it is actually an outrage and the crime and I'm just like that's cool man uh

I don't know. Okay, I can't find it. However, somebody legit just said, like, it's terrifying. It's something like, it's just like over nothing. Which me, it's like when somebody is like, this is the worst thing I've ever seen. But then what happens when you see the worst thing you've ever seen? Right? Then what happens to the previous one? It's like, it's like when the opposite way can be true as well. When people are like, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen.

Or this is the greatest experience of my life. and it's like, really? Right? Like, I feel like there's numerous better things that are going to happen. Sometimes I think people say stuff to make others feel good. You know what I mean? I don't think that they mean it's the best thing. I think they're saying that because they're addressing the person

and they want them to feel good about what they've done and they're being kind. Yeah, but you could also feel like. That might say a lot about me as a person. You know I mean you could You can just be like this is awesome You don't have to be like This is the greatest thing ever

I'm not saying that by saying that Yeah but that's just how some people talk You know what I mean? Like some people just talk like that Because Probably they learned it from a parent But most of the time It's like oh my God

It's the best thing ever Is You know Them just saying I like it a lot I get that I'm not trying to like bring them down Well I guess I kind of am But I'm not true

I'm more so devil's advocating this to be like, I'm more like breaking it down to a point where I'm just like, it really, it probably isn't the greatest thing ever. And it's probably not the most terrifying thing you've ever seen. Probably not. But, you know,

that's really all I was going for. But also you don't know. This could be the first time they've thought about this. That's true. They could have been sitting there and then they saw that video thing. They're just like, Oh, yeah, they could have like jump scared themselves, flipped out, had some sort of existential dread moment where they screamed into the void, like, ah! Oh, no!

And they started writing where they were like, you don't understand. I see you now. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you're right. And that's, uh, anyway, that's why the animals are in travest. Yo, do you see that the monkey that carries around the IKEA monkey? I did. I am so confused because I've been following it all week on Reddit where the monkey had the little plushy and then was in the enclosure and the other monkey started attacking him and now he has like a monkey buddy looks out for him, that kind of thing. But also I saw people say that this information is 10 years old and the monkey has friends and is living his good life right now and everything's fine.

So I don't know whether that's real or not. I don't know what about this is real. But from a simple emotional level, watching this little monkey cling to a plushy and finally find a friend has been very, very good for the soul. Yeah. Plus, they even at IKEA have made a new version,

which is him and the monkey as a plush together. Stop this. What do you? I'm going to IKEA. Yeah. I don't think it's called IKEA Monkey, but we'll look. It might be. So yeah, the jungle scog is the first one, I think.

Yeah, that's the first one. It is. They still have, they still have that giant bear. They do. That's a giant bear. I love him. Yep. Hold on.

Here you go. Maybe it's not out yet. There, I like it. Oh, that's cute. Yeah. Oh, stop it. That is, IKEA knows what they're doing. The thing is, what they really did is they took the sandalabare.

Yikes. Basically, they already have a, like, a little chimp with dark skin. And then they have the one with orange, well, the fur, not skin. Orange fur. And then they just are selling them together. Yeah. Which is, honestly, like, really smart than to do this. Yes, absolutely brilliant.

Yeah, yeah. They literally are just doing, it's the two they have, but they're combining them together. Yeah. That's actually really smart. That's well done. Yeah. You know what?

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Anyway, that's the traffic Alright, let's go to weather Weather Time, weather Time, it is time for weather There it is beautiful Did you know that the last episode we did I think was our longest episode we've ever done

It was I had to put it together so yeah, I'm aware That checks out This guy must have edited it Uh, yes, it's an hour and 42 minutes. We had a couple like hour, 20 minute ones, but I think that truly was the longest. 140, pretty long. If you haven't listened to that one, you should go listen to it because it'll help you kill a lot of time.

All right, here we go. Weather requests for, uh, weather review of Norwich, England. I need to know. Cheers. What? What? Why do you need to know? I need to know. Cheers.

They just said, do weather review of Norwich, England, I need to know. Cheers. Like, why do you need to know, though? If they just heard about Norwich, England? And they're like, that's a place I need to know about. These are questions they probably, or answers they probably should have included in the question. They probably should. Maybe they'll answer it next time.

But currently, it is 50 degrees, Fahrenheit, and it feels like 44. winds at 15 miles per hour, air quality is 31, which is good, pressure at 99.91 inches. Visibility 8 miles, sunrise, 656 a.m., sunset at 5.20 p.m. humidity 77. Percentiles. Do point 43, UV index, zero, because it is not sunny, because it's nighttime. Check of the 10-day. 54 Monday, mostly cloudy. Tuesdays, 56, PM's sun,

AM clouds. Clouds are going to part ways in the afternoon. Wednesday, 59, partly cloudy. Thursday, you got PM showers. Friday, you got 54 with AM showers. Saturday, you got 49, partly cloudy,

Sunday, 51, mostly cloudy, and then Monday, 52, with a few showers. First off, Norwich, is cool. But I it's if the closer you get to it it says Norwich over the water which I like even more. What? Norwich whatever.

Norwich over the water is a much better name and everything in England should have that. Like umshaya over Humpterton or like bowling over green you know like that kind of stuff. Yeah. I do like Norwich over water. I need that in my British cities. Yeah. Yeah.

But it has a castle. And the castle looks like every castle a six-year-old would design. It really does. It is literally a square. It's like a perfect square with a few like, you know, ramparts at the top. But it is, that is a goofy, amazing castle. And you can see kind of like an older castle behind it. So they probably kept updating it over the years.

Oh, yeah. But like maybe that was just added on to make it look. more like a castle later. You know what I mean? Like it just doesn't, it's weird. But the inside's so funny because it is a museum, but also

it is filled with dead animals. What the shit? There's so many just stuffed animals. But then also art and things that are like, what it would have been like to live in the castle? They got mummies.

They got all sorts of stuff. there. It's crazy. This is pretty crazy. It looks very, maybe it's like they built it this way because it's like sturdy. It's like efficient. Right? It's got to be like that. It must be. Dude,

this entire city is so fun. So there's like, right next to the castle is Cosmo All You Can Eat World Buffet, which is so silly. But then there's a place called Bun X. at my cobers

and I'm like what the hell kind of weird ass restaurant is this every building I keep forgetting because it's England you can have the weirdest

restaurant in the world and still looks like it's in an old home yep and this place Bun X looks like a place you would see in L.A.

Food-wise the food is like actually over the top and kind of looks effing delicious but also is, you know, like you get Korean fried chicken or you get something with like 18 weird sauces on it

or a pizza that looks like it costs $35. Yep. This place looks great. But also, the image on the front is it just looks like a rundown pub. It really does. That's everything here. Like all of the different places, there's Adam and Eve. Oh, yeah, Adam and Eve.

Outside Adam and Eve looks like an old-ass pub. wig and pen another old ass pub but you might not believe this but inside it also looks like an old ass pub yeah I mean yeah this is but but I will say it looks like all along the river

here is hyper walkable oh yeah it's definitely walkable plus I mean oh man wait what the shit none of this makes sense Adam and Eve in America would be a sex shop

yeah and they're This restaurant called the ribs of beef, one would think would be a beef shop. The first image is a pizza, a genuinely good-looking pizza. I swear to God, to find the best pizza in Europe, you have to go to the non-pita places. It really is. Like, the menu, it's all beer. They got bar food, burger stuff, but most of it's pizza. But why is it called ribs of beef?

I guess maybe that was probably a thing from like 1420 or something. some nonsense. Okay. Adding to that, there's Gonzo's tea room. All right? I was like, oh, they probably got some good tea. It is burgers, brownies, and like

alcohol. That sounds correct. Is that just what you do there? You just name some place like Jimmy's Chinese food and it's all like Italian. You just do the opposite. Look, dude, there's a place called The Mischief. And I'm like, oh, what is the mischief?

Looks like a pub. they serve Indian cuisine What? That's got to be what they do. They just name shit, just random stuff, and then have absolutely not that thing. Be what you eat things. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's a pub all right.

I guess maybe that's the thing is they're all technically pubs, but then within them they hire a chef to serve whatever it's going to make them stand out. Yeah, that makes sense. Because this one, the mischief apparently is from 1599. So like, What do you do at that point to stand out besides just a place where you drink? You have to like bring them food that is a different than the pub because there's like 15 pubs on the street.

So how do you stand out? Like, oh, we're the one that does, you know, this type of food or we're the one that does this type of food. Yeah, no, that makes sense because there are a lot of pubs, especially all around this area. There really are. Like every single one, it's like the reindeer. It's a pub. The white lion. it's a pub.

Chambers Cocktail Company. There's so many weather spoons. There's, yeah. Yeah. What is this? The Weaver's Arms. Actually, this one looks pretty good. It's like a dinner place.

I will say there is a place called Chish and Phipps, which is a fish and chips place. Nothing is going to beat when we stayed over where Jack the Ripper killed people. Last time we were in London. and there's a fishing there's a fishing ship's place called Jack the Chipper and that's

I mean come on nothing's beating that that's the winner That's pretty good Where did we eat that one time I don't remember what it was called We ate fish and chips at some place And you were like this place is good

I don't remember what it was called though Oh it was like up by It's one of the famous ones It was up by Camden Town Which is like a whole ass thing Now it's very touristy Before it was touristy, but now it's like very, because that was a decade ago. That really was.

It really was a decade. It really was a decade. Believe me. The fat cat and the canary. That's another good one. Some of these places are fun read the names. Yes, I will say what's funny about this is when we look at England versus Australia, England will have a place called like the fat cat or the black.

black horse or like the queen's knickers right yeah and australia will have a place called like your fanny's tush or the dingleberry and the geese or like jack's frumpus bottom and you're like what the hell they sell there and it's same pub same vibe just the wackier name for next week give us like australian places with the craziest names and then we can check that up let's see that sounds good yeah give us a place you place next time with wacky names, we'll compare. Yeah, and that's the weather. Okay, let's go to

sports. Sports. It's the final day of the Olympics. Exactly. In fact, are they like done now? I think over there they might be like, they already do their wrap up thing. Yeah, I think all that's left is the closing

ceremony, right? Yeah, that's what I thought. That might be occurring right now or something. It might. In fact, let me do it for the news here. The news that you can use. Here we go, news you can use. Olympic closing ceremony. It is today at it is occurring right now.

And we'll replay at 9 p.m. Eastern, which is probably still after this has been uploaded. So it's really meaningless even talk about it. But you can probably watch it anywhere. Yeah. But yeah, it was great. We had the USA win Olympic gold in both hockey men and women's. Sounds pretty cool. Can we also talk about how the Canadians, even though they 100% cheated, still won it curling?

Yeah, that is. Like, that's not even, they 100% cheat. The best part was that dude was like, they set me up. They set me. They put cameras. where cameras weren't before just to catch me. How dare they? Still one.

Canada, you know what? Curling's still yours. You don't need to cheat though, Canada. You don't need to cheat. You don't need the cheat. We also saw the figure skating was mentioning earlier. We had the U.S. girl win that, Alyssa Lou. U.S. girl. U.S. girl.

then we had, oh, I saw that one speed skater girl got hit in the face with a ice skate. That was crazy. Yeah. That's, dude, I got, I saw one TikTok where the one dude was like summer versus winter Olympics. They're like, we're going to run around the track. And then it's just like winter. And they're just like, we're going to go like 80 miles an hour on like ice skates go insane. And then they're just like, we're going to play.

Yeah. Like, we're going to play volleyball. And just like, we're going to hop into this mobile thing with like four other people and go. you down. It's just like, what this shit is happening? Yep. Yeah, honestly, I was a fun Olympics. I enjoyed that. It was well worth the way. And then the last couple of days, I just saw the, uh, what's the cross country thing, which like, honestly is like the least intense one. It's just like a fatigue thing, it feels like. Because they're just kind of going on their skis. They're just like walking the whole way. And then they just

got to stop and go upstairs. And then they put the skis back on. I'm just. like, why did they do that? Why do you have to stop and go upstairs? Solid question. There are rules to that that I do not understand at all, dude. You're just like doing this intense, like, fatigue-inducing Olympic event. They're like, go up some stairs with your skis off. And then there's like, oh, they're putting them back on. Like, they're, like, they're five years old putting their shoes on. It's like, they're going fast.

All right. I don't know. Maybe there is, like, something behind it, but it's just kind of funny. So, yeah, that was the Olympic. Then we have NBA standings. Pistons still in first with the Celtics and the Knicks right behind them. We got the Thunder in first with the Spurs right behind them. The NBA also trying to implement some sort of anti-tanking rule for next year,

but really nobody knows what they're going to do, but they want to do that. Wait, what does that mean exactly? They're just like, we're tired of teams tanking for draft positioning. And it's like, well, you made the system that incensivizes tanking. Yeah, that you did that. Yeah, so now they're trying to undo it somehow, but cool. They'll probably figure out some terrible method. And then in NHL hockey, we've had the lightning and the hurricane atop the east,

and we still have the avalanche atop the west with the wild and stars right behind them. And the spring training has started in baseball as we get ready for our long-ass baseball season. It begins again. It begins again. And that is sports. All right. What's our fact of the day? Said that you're Scottish.

That's right. What the fact? Give me the falk to the day. I will indeed give you a fact of the day. That's a nice falked. It says here that Finland is the happiest country on earth. And it has been for six years in a row. Having been there, I get it.

Everyone seems so happy. I feel like it has a lot to do with like health care and the, you know, cost of living and general well-being amongst the populace. However, with that all said, everywhere looks like a place that you kill someone in a murder movie. Yeah. That's a really, the funny part is in the other top ten happiest countries, we also have Denmark at number two, Iceland at three, and Sweden at four. So it's just all of those. There must be something about it. I don't know what it is.

Maybe it also weeds out the unhappy people. And I don't mean that in like going dark way. But I mean that and like you have to want to live there. And if you don't, you'd move. Yeah. No, I can see that. But it seems like maybe, isn't that the, are these the places where they all have like super health care and all the stuff?

It's just to get packs tired. Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I know that in Norway, a lot of friends that I have that live in Norway get various monies from the government. Like a great example is one of my friends had to get a surgery done. But the doctor discovered that because the injury occurred when they were at school, it falls under some sort of protection the government has where it's essentially as a kid that's your job. So that counts as a workers thing. So they got the surgery for free.

Oh my god, wow Yeah Because it happened while they were at the job site Which is school That is And even though that was when they were 18 And now it's God, they're in their 30s Still counted

That's honestly, that's probably the most insane part How far down the line it is But I think that's just because If you take care of your population And keep them healthy They're more likely to support whatever nonsense you're doing. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's true.

So yeah, look at that. There's your happy fact of the day. That is, that is, look, not for us. Yeah, not for us, but for people up there, I guess. Yeah, yeah. All right, well, who has come to us

with tears in their eyes? Dear illustrious sirs, I come to you with tears in my eyes and my wisdom teeth freshly removed, my face numb, and my life Icore flowing free from my gums. Thanks getting me through that appointment. Several weeks ago, as you watched vertical dramas

on Too Old for this and Almost Too Old for This, please hear my cries to the sky and block out a Cox and Crenor Vertical Drama starring classic characters such as Guy Hero, Green Cheetah, The Yule Lads, and other characters that have come up over the years. Let's see. Mine would definitely involve

Newport, Richie. Okay. That's got to be one of my favorite characters. There would be Newport, Richie. There would be the Green Cheetah, and they would be battling to see who can become the

newest member of the Yule Lads. Oh my God. Okay, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. And the Yule Lads, some of the Yule Lads would want certain members, and other Yul Lads would want the other members. Some are like, I want Newport Ritchie. Some are like, I want the

green cheetah. And so the Yule Lads would also be conniving and trying to backstab each other. Like the airport scene in Avengers or whatever, the Captain America Civil War. We have to pick sides. They're all fighting each other at the airport. Yeah, exactly. They're all fighting. And so, just, I would have crazy anthics occur with that. But then we would have like some outside source appear like, oh God, who else would there be? Like the woman who trains squirrels to bite that guy in the nuts. Right?

That I think ended up being fake. Yes, yes. But she would show up and they would be like, actually, you know what? She's the, she's the U-L-L-L-A. And then Green Cheat would be like, what the shit? Newport Richie'd be like, what the shit? And then it would just go from there. I like that.

Honestly, I like that a lot. I would, my version would have to have the couple that tried to make a radioactive snake. Tito Watts selling tickets to heaven. and I don't know Maybe like I want to have guy hero You know what I mean? Like I want to have guy hero involved

But I also feel like Our underutilization of the gray storm We gotta have the gray storm Yeah we got to have the gray storm That's true But I think you're right on the money I love the idea of There's a split

In the Yule lads and lines have been drawn. Yeah, I like that. Yeah. No, that's, I think that's a good one. So there we go. Next up. We have, Dear Lustrious sirs,

I come to you now with tears in my eyes at the turn of the tide. I ask you, if you had to cast yourself. Well, if you had to cast yourself and your friends in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, who would you be? or who would be who? If I may humbly make one recommendation,

let TB be Gandalf so he may return to us as TB the snide. Okay, that's fine. TB can be Gandalf. Be Gandalf. 100%. If we're just doing the like co-optional universe,

I can do it one way. But if we're doing like everyone, we know I can do it another way. You know what I mean? Yeah. Just do everyone. Screw it. Oh, well, first of all.

Alex is Radigas the Brown That's 100% Yeah That's that absolutely Right there I think that Crendor

You are I want to say That we're Frodo and Sam But we're so clearly Mary and Pippin Like we're definitely Marion Pippin Yeah

That's who we are I would also Stay in the room Being like The Shadows is like an old king eats grapes yeah Sam would probably be

like we're in trouble now, Pip oh no yeah you would be causing the mischief and I would just be tagging along I think Sam would be I can see you convincing trees to go to war oh yeah I definitely would no doubt

no doubter we're we're already All the trees are going to war. The ants are marching to war. Yeah. What about Gimley? Who would be Gimley? Oh, man.

Who would be Gimley? Uh, I feel, look, look. Ah, that's tough because we'd also have to find a Legolas. Yeah, that's true. Someone, do we know anyone even remotely handsome enough to be Legolas? Um. I know if you like Eragorn handsome dude. but not like beautiful.

You know what I mean? Yeah. That's what I was saying Sam could be Errigorn. Because he's just kind of like, he's like always trying to help people. He's like, he's very Aragorn-esque, I think. Sure. Oh, we know a lot of Aragorns.

I don't think we know any Lego losses. I don't think we do either. I'm trying to try to go through everybody. I don't know. Yeah, I don't think we do. Yeah. I mean, obviously Gimley is Dodger. Yeah, obviously.

Obviously. Yeah. So maybe in this case, Sam is Legolas and Dodgers Gimley. That checks out. That works. Yeah, you know, maybe that's. That's what it is. Yeah. And then we'll say Mathis, Mathis can be, let's see, looking here. Oh, Mathis is 100% Boramir. Mathis would take the power for himself in a heartbeat.

But he's a good guy at heart, but yeah, he's like, I need it, the power. I wish Sauron would kidnap me and probe me. Actually, I think that makes Mathis into Smeagel. You know what Mathis would be Gallum? Mathis is like, yeah, Mathis wanted to be caught and tortured, and he wants that ring, so he needs his precious. He's just in a cave on mushrooms. Yeah, yeah, that checks out, actually. Just eating all the mushrooms that grow down there.

asking riddles. Yeah. That checks out. Yeah. There we go. That's your dear illustrious sirs. All right. What is our big news story of the day?

Big news story of the day. A grandson of the inventor of Reese's peanut butter cups accuses Hershey's of cutting corners. I saw this. And I, you know what? I believe this deep in my core. This guy's right on telling the truth. Yep. The grandson of the inventor of Reese's peanut butter cups

has lashed out at the Hershey's company accusing the candy company of hurting the Reese's brand by shifting to cheaper ingredients. Hershey acknowledges some recipe changes but said Wednesday that it was trying to meet consumer demand for innovation. High cocoa prices have also led Hershey and other manufacturers to experiment with using less chocolate in recent years.

Great experimentation and innovation. Yeah. No, gross. Brand Rees, 70. For some reason, I didn't expect his name to be Reese, but it makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Said in February 14th letter to Hershey Corporate Brand Manager that for multiple Reese's products, the company replaced milk chocolate with compound coatings and peanut butter with peanut cream.

I would love to know when he thinks that started because I would have said 20 years ago it started. I mean, maybe they started doing it a little. bit. But I think in the last, I would say 10 years, they probably really went into it. Yo, all the, I think I'll classify them as gas station foods. Yep. All the gas station foods, those little donuts, the like snack cakes, the candy bars, all of them are more expensive and less in quality than they ever were before. Not worth buying at all. Do not purchase them. They're trash. Like even the, uh, the chips. stuff they sell like in the bag they'll like start putting less and less in the bag like it's a big

ass bag it's like a fifth of the way filled with chips yeah no trash i i i do not it upsets me the you know how they used to have those little uh like those little cookies that had the cream in them the oatmeal cookies and they were like 25 cents and then they were 50 cents and now they're like a buck 59 or two dollars first off not worth it but second off they do not i don't know of as an adult grew out of it, but I got one while I was on a road trip and bro, I've never tasted something that tasted so like nothing

before. Like it had no, it was just the pure taste of sugar, nothing else, there's no other flavor at all. I'm like, this is an oatmeal cookie, I should be able to taste the oatmeal cookie. Nope, pure shirt, it was gross. It's clearly I mean, this is happening in like all products.

Not just these, but like I would say a special ease because they're also the most well-known and like they can also I think get away with it more so how does the Hershey Co continue to position Reese's as its flagship brand a symbol of trust quality and leadership while quietly replacing the very ingredients

that built Reese's trust in the first place Reese wrote in the letter which he posted on his LinkedIn profile he is the grandson of H.B. Reese who spent two years at Hershey's before forming his own candy company in 1919. H.B. Reese invented Reese's peanut butter cups

in 1928 and his six sons eventually sold his company to Hershey in 1963. Damn, that, so it really, as long as we've been alive, hasn't been the Reese's people, even remotely connected to it.

But, they were, at least at some point, attempting to make it, like, reasonably good. Mm-hmm. Because I will admit, even when I was a kid, they were the best candy. Yeah. I love Venus.

Like a peanut butter cup rock. Yeah, like that was the, it was exactly what you were getting. Chocolate, peanut butter, that was it. It is not the same now. I would wager if you found an old package and looked at the back of both the old package from like 20 years ago and the new package, you'd be shocked at the difference. Yeah, no, without a doubt. Hershey said Wednesday the Reese's peanut butter cups are made the same way they've always been

with milk, chocolate and peanut butter that the company makes itself from roasted peanuts and a few other ingredients, including sugar and salt. but some Reese's ingredients vary, Hershey said. As we've grown and expanded the Reese's product line, we make product recipe adjustments to allow us to make new shape,

sizes, and innovations. The Ries' fans have come to love and ask for, while always protecting the essence of what makes Reese's unique and special. The perfect combination of chocolate and peanut butter, said the company. Uh-huh.

Yeah, all right. Brad Reese said he thinks Hershey's went too far. He said recently he threw out a bag of Reese's mini hearts, which were the new product released for Valentine's. The packaging notes that the heart-shaped candies are made from, chocolate candy and peanut butter cream, not milk chocolate and peanut butter. It was not edible, Reese told the associate press an interview. You have to understand. I used to eat Reese's every day. This is very devastating for me. This man knows his Reese's. All right, so maybe the cups are fine. But there isn't it, like if you go and get like the

Trader Joe's version. Right. Versus' version. It is noticeably different in quality. Yeah, it's vastly better. The Trader Joe, Reese's, or not read, the dark chocolate peanut butter cups are like phenomenal. Delicious.

Yeah. Yeah. Which I know I just said phenomenal after being like you shouldn't use insane word. But you know what? Those are phenomenal. The man stands by it. Yeah. The FDA has strict ingredient labeling requirements for chocolate.

be considered milk chocolate. Products must contain at least 10% chocolate liqueur, which is a paste made from ground cocoa beans and contains no alcohol. Products also must contain at least 12% milk solids and 3.39% milk fat. Why the... This is why the rest of the world laughs at our chocolate. Yeah. The fact that you just said all of that, it's like, well, the minimum standards, you have to have 10% chocolate in your chocolate. That's crazy. Yeah. Uh, company's around these rules by using other words on their packaging. The rapper for Hershey's Mr. Goodbar, for example, contains the words chocolate candy instead of milk chocolate. Yep.

We're trash. We got trash foods over here, man. What the hell? Yep. Reese said Hershey changed the recipe for multiple Reese's products in recent years. Reese's Take Five and Fast Break bars used to be coated with milk chocolate, he said, but now they aren't. In the early 2000s, when Hershey's released white Reese's, they were made with one. white chocolate. Now they're made with white cream. Risa said, the fact that it's all literally, if this,

you know what this is, it goes back to what I said at the beginning. Companies, businesses, it's not about making a product for your customer. It's about all the other bullshit. In this case, it's about how can we nickel and dime them and, you know,

cheap them out of stuff while raising all of our stock prices. Yeah. It's, it is definitely, like, oh yeah, let's make it cheap. and worse just so we can get like

30 more cents this quarter. Yeah, it's I hate it. It's so dumb. Yeah, dude. Rees said peanut butter cups sold in Europe, the UK and Ireland are also different than the US versions. On Wednesday, a package advertised

on the website of British online supermarket Okato described the candy as milk chocolate flavored coating and peanut butter cream. Hershey disputed that. The company said Reese's peanut butter cups, it sells in the European Union, and the UK are the same recipe as the U.S. version. Labels vary because of the EU and the UK,

both requiring milk chocolate products to have higher percentages of cocoa milk solids and milk fats. In a conference call with investors last year, Hershey Chief Financial Officer Stephen Vosquil said the company has made some changes to its formula. Voskiel did not say for which products, but said Hershey was very careful to maintain the taste profile and specialness of our iconic brand, which really just boils down to, how do we make it cheaper, but it tastes pretty much the same?

Yep, that's it. How do we make it taste the same and it be absolutely a scam? Cool, man. I would say in all the changes that we've made this far, there have been no consumer impact whatsoever. As you can imagine, even on the smallest brand in the portfolio, if we were to make a change, there's extensive consumer testing, he said. But Brad Reese said he often has people tell him

Reese's products don't taste as good as they used to. Honestly, I did that last year and I was like, this doesn't taste as good. He said Pennsylvania-based Hershey should keep in mind, a famous quote from its founder, Milton Hershey, quote, give them quality. That's the best advertising. Dude, that should be our slogan. Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, I don't know if we can justify that being our slogan, but it should be. You're right. I absolutely believe in innovation, but my preference is innovation with quality, reset. So yeah. Yeah, look. Yeah, that's not shocking. That's real. Yeah. That is some real-ass shit. He's just like, listen, this product sucks eyes now.

And you know what? Just like many other things, it really does. When you look at all the things that succeed long term, it's just because, you know, some person somewhere said we're just going to make a quality thing and we're not out here trying to make eight bajillion dollars. We're fine making $8 million. You know? Yeah. It's all just a big, because people are always like, how much money do these people have?

Don't they have enough? It's not about that. It's like streamers and YouTubers. You can see it in live action where they might have like 30,000 viewers and they're like, yeah, but my friend has 40,000. Yeah. Like it becomes like that big circle jerk mentality of like, I only have 24 billion, but Jimmy, the owner of Hershey's has like 28 billion, so I'm a loser.

Like it just becomes that. Yes. And it's trying to impress the other. billionaires and be like, well, I have a... Like, who cares, man? That's an attitude of unfulfillment. It's just they're all smog the dragons. They're all smogged the dragons hoarding their wealth.

And they're just sitting on it. And then they get mad when you try to take one gold coin. It's, uh, it sucks. Yes. Yeah. Um, and that's your big news story of the day. All right. Well, that's it for us.

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