Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 499 - Is this humor?

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

The boys are back and this time Crendor is curious about humor and what people find funny. Somehow Jesse takes this into the direction of parenting and eventually social media manipulations?! This episode goes places! And one of those places is Florida where a man steals Pokémon cards with Mexican spices? It's gonna be that kind of Cox n' Crendor! Go to http://buyraycon.com/cox to get 20% off. Go to http://meundies.com/crendor to get 20% off your first order + free shipping.

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Welcome. Welcome. Three welcome. That's a... It's like we'd combo breaked or something. That was great. It's like the, uh, the three stooges where they're like, hello, hello, hello. Well, I guess they say...

Hello? Yeah, they do like a hello at the end. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. By the way, our core demographic loves the stooges. Of course, yes. That's probably some. I would imagine, yes. I know I laugh, but I would imagine, yes, that's probably very true.

Because I grew up and my dad would show me three stooges stuff, so that's how I knew about him. Big same. He would just be like, man, this is the stuff that people love right here. That's just like, all right. I think about that often, about how generationally, I don't know. You know, you and I will watch through Gen Z and Gen Alpha stuff. But I don't know how those parents, in this case I guess Gen X and millennial parents, interact with their kids.

I don't have any. You don't have any. Everyone I know who does have kids, I don't know that they're doing the same things that our parents did when we were young, which was, oh, this is something I, liked as a kid, Stooges or like a weird western movie or, you know, music or whatever. And then kind of like, hey, you watch this now. When I look at the few parents I know, and again, we're in the entertainment industry, so I'm sure it's a little different, but generalizing here, when I look at the parents I know,

I see them kind of catering to what their child is interested in and saying, yeah, sure, that seems fun and letting them kind of find their own thing. When we were kids, my parents were like, you should try this or you should try this or you should get into this. They really kind of tried to mold you. And I know maybe that's just a very specific me thing, but I feel like most millennials who were raised by boomers, it's kind of the experience we all had. But I just don't know. I have no experience with that because most people I know don't have kids. And so I keep thinking about that often is when I was young, my dad would sit me down.

and I'd watch whatever the hell he wanted. There'd be times where I would take back my hours that I'd spent with my parents playing with like action figures in my room late at night. Because I like, you know, they were like, don't be indoors all day. Go do something. Right. So I just don't know how kids are being raised these days. And I'm curious if modern parents are saying, hey, watch this thing I love.

And it's, you know, like a movie from the early 90s or late 80s. or something. Like, Goonies, you're going to love it. You know what I mean? I think they probably do. I would also say we've hit a point where parents recommend video games to their kids. Like, there was, I saw even one guy with wow, someone was like,

like, are kids even playing this? And one guy was like, yeah, my kid's like 10 and I just taught him how to play wow, and now he's our tank. Yeah. So there's probably plenty of kids that grow up with like, like I would show my kid banjo Kazui or something, right? There's probably parents who are like, I played this as a kid. Now you can play.

I'm sure there's plenty of that. Because we didn't really have that because our parents didn't play video games. So, like, I do understand the desire to have a shared interest with your kid. Again, with anyone your family, I get that. But I guess my general question is, are parents these days more likely to allow children to kind of go find what they want and nurture that and not show them the things they love? Or, in the case of this wow thing, for example,

is that just a natural thing for parents to do? Is to introduce their kids to things they love and the hopes that their kids will love them or whatever? But then I have to ask the question, is it something the kid loves, or are they doing it because the parents doing it and they, you know, for whatever reason, want to be involved in that?

Or is it kind of like one of those things that my friend Mike used to do back in the day where he'd get his little sister to play EverQuest? Not play it really, but just to do all the grinding he didn't want to do, but she felt involved. And so she did it, and she liked it, but really he was just using her. I guess what I'm saying is,

is this one of those things where the kids want to do it? Or the parents have convinced the kid, this is what they want? I know that's incredibly cynical of me. I'm just, you know, curious. And I think about all the different media that exists right now, all the different things you can watch and see and look at and expose yourself to,

at a very young age that you absolutely could not 20, 30, 40 years ago. Which is why you're probably. parents would be a gateway to learning about things because you didn't have stuff at your fingertips. That's all kind of changed. There's definitely a lot more than what it used to be. That's also kind of, it ties into like the humor. Like you, we've, we've reacted on our thing to different types of humor. And I think I get the Gen Z humor a little more than you do. So like I kind of get, but like I'm, it's like, then I look at that type of thing like three stooges. It's very like slapstick. Like, what are you doing? You know, knuckle head and he like punches him in the

head and he's like, oh, and then every, like, all the boomer people are like, oh, my God, that's hysterical. But like, and I liked it more as a kid, but then I would like, as I grew up, I didn't really like it as much. Or like, I appreciate it, but I'm not like, I'm dying over here, you know. It also, again, just depends on the person. That's why it's so hard, they're, like, like, breakdown generations and stuff. Like, sure, there's going to be norms and, like, repeated patterns of, like, people liking that type of thing. But then there's going to be people, like, you know, There's like boomer people like more sarcastic, dry, like millennial type of humor, like, probably even Gen Z humor.

Like, it all just depends. Yeah, I think that's actually some solid advice for anyone out there who enjoys entertaining or, you know, comedy and they want to do comedy or they want to do videos or whatever the case may be. There is always someone who will like your type of humor. It might not be everyone. In fact, it won't be everyone. But the fact that there's a humor for ever. I think is kind of great.

It shows that, you know, everyone wants to laugh at something. Yeah. I think that's, you know, it shouldn't even matter, like, what type of humor you're into as long as you're, you're having a good time. You're having some goofs. I mean, as long as your humor isn't like, uh, that guy died, hilarious. You know what I mean? Well, it's like, I don't even mind like darker humor as long as it's like not actually

offending somewhat. Like, there's like dark humor where you're like, okay, that's pretty messed up, but like, you're not actually saying it at someone. And there's like actual like... Yeah, then there's the joker. And you're like, oh, no, that's too far. We've gone too far. Then there's like live streamers.

Yes. Yeah. The modern day we live in a society. Yeah, exactly. And then there's certain types of humor where like you'll... It also depends. It's kind of contextual, I would say. If somebody says something, you're like, okay, like I see that they're not serious.

Like, you know, they don't actually believe. these things, whatever. Then there's like somebody who could say a joke like that and you're like, actually that person might actually believe what they're saying. You know what I mean? Like that type of thing. Honestly, it's also like the type of thing with friend groups too or like it's like how

even like back in the day TB would be like Crendor, you're just dumb or like other people like you're being stupid. I'm just like but then if somebody in my chat's like Crendor you're stupid I'm like shut up, idiot. All right? Because like there is like a tie where like if you already know people and like you

establish your friends. You have this thing. Or it's like you can joke around more. But when like some random person does it, it's almost like where they're like, hey, my older brother can like pick on me, but not you. Right? Like that type of dynamic. I think that's the biggest problem though is the outside person seeing someone give it the go ahead,

if that makes any sense. The idea of, oh, that dude probably saw TB giving you a hard time. And then was like, ha, so I am allowed to do it too. Yeah, exactly. Which gives people permission, which You know, sucks because sometimes that permission is like, Ah, yes, I found that racist humor hilarious. So I shall be a racist too.

And you're like, oh, bro, no. Yeah, exactly. Getting back into the humor styles. Like, my dad loves the like Rodney Dangerfield stand-up jokes. He gets no respect. Yeah. Yeah. That's like his favorite thing is he could just tell Rodney Dangerfield jokes for forever.

And if you like laugh, even if you're fake laughing, he'll just keep going. That's really funny. He's like, I got a captive crowd. He's just like, I told my wife, embrace her mistakes, and she gave me a hug. That's actually a good joke. So yeah, he'll keep going with those. But then it hits a point where we're like, all right, we've had enough. We've had enough.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And I feel like that's like, those are like the very like boomer types of jokes. Those are like, I like those types of boomer jokes. I think they're fun. And there's like more slapstick where I'm like, whatever. I would say Gen X types of humor is more like, uh, probably more satire and sarcasm,

like kind of like 90s pop culture, like rebellious almost, right? I feel like the best way to describe a, the way Gen X and millennials, because that's a huge span of time. Mm-hmm. But I feel like the best way to describe it is, were you a fan of Caddyshack or were you not a fan of Caddyshack? That's true. There is clearly a divide in that generation.

I have no idea. I imagine most Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids don't care about Caddyshack. A few of them probably do. You know there's some golf bros out there who think it's hilarious. But like for a vast majority of people in the millennial and Gen X group, Caddyshack was kind of that thing where even when I was a kid, in high school, people would talk about Caddyshack all the time. Oh, yeah, there's probably a lot of specific medias that are like generation dividing. Yeah, and I feel like that is as a comedy movie, that is one of those things that like,

either that's your comedy or it's not, and that kind of defines you as what your humor is in that age range of like, I don't know, 28, I'm guessing what the lowest millennial is, 28 to like 50 something. Which is an insane age range. Yeah, I mean, that's two generations, you know? It's like when I think millennial, it's like a, I'm like right in the middle of super millennial. I think of like a lot of self deprecation,

a lot of like, maybe like quick witty irony, relatability. Like when I made my wow videos, I almost think of that where I'm just like the types of people you see in a dungeon. and I'm like, it's the go guy, he's yelling go, and people go, it's funny because it's the things I've seen, but in a dramatic sense. Right? Like, it's that type of thing. And I feel like, I think Gen Z moved more into a little more absurdity.

Right? I think they still have that, but I think it's just got, they have a little more absurdity, a little more like, probably internet culture, actually. I think that changed a lot of their humor too. If you stick with the idea of the go guy, he's like, go, go, go, go, your version of that is pointing out that it exists and why it's funny, that we all know it exists, right? Like, oh, it's funny because we've all experienced that, and that's a thing. And I feel like the Gen Zia or Gen Alpha version would be like, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, like that kind of thing where it just gets ridiculous. Yeah.

I feel like that would be the difference. Yeah, it starts bordering on like, almost like anti-humor, I guess, where it's like a little crazy. It's like you know the joke and it's like taking it to another level where you're just like, okay, this is this is kind of crazy. Like that type of thing. Like, I don't know. It's unexpected and it's weird. And it kind of pushes the limits of, of, you know, audio fidelity. It's just, you know, it's unexpected.

You're like, whoa, that's wacky. It almost reminds me of like the YouTube poop things from like the like that was kind of our introduction I think to it. Well, at least mine. You're probably all right. I remember watching the YouTube. They like do the edits where it's just Mario being like, where the toasters, all toasters, toast toast, toast. And then it's like Luigi being like, I hope I made lots of spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, like that type of shit. Honestly, I think that because it is on the, I was about to say ass end of millennials, you know, the back end of millennials.

Yeah. That is what young Gen Z watched. And so that influenced them dramatically. I would have to believe that. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I would say so. Because that was around the same time we were doing YouTube and stuff. Yeah, and we were doing, the content we do is because we were influenced by Gen X humor.

Yeah. It's, you know, it all checks out. It's just so interesting to me to just be like, we could all these, we all laugh at weird different things. or we like weird different things. And it's usually because of something someone else introduced us to. And it sort of formed who we were. And I was like, I wonder how that works for like, you know, a millennial parent. When really kids technically don't need them to show them stuff.

Kids can just find stuff. Yeah. No, that is, that is true because we're in like the age where you really can just find everything on your own compared to back in the day. Like what do you remember? learning about humor when you were like growing up because it'd probably be more like TVs and or TV like TV shows and like movies and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, sitcom humor, I think is

it played a big role for me. And the kind of jokes and things my parents liked, I know for a fact that when I was in high school and in, I guess, you know, elementary school and stuff, a lot of what they liked because I, one of my big problems was is I was really uninspired by a lot of my classes. And so, you know, I would, I would do, you know, book reports or I would have to, you know, memorize, you know, memorize, you know, you'd be in like an interest class.

They'd tell you to memorize a poem or something. And I wouldn't know what to do. I wasn't into poetry. So I'd ask my parents, and they'd give me some sort of like Robert Frost. They would give me stuff they knew. So most of what I did was stuff they knew that was probably awesome in 1969, but not really great for a 90s kid. And so a lot of that happened in my life where I just did it because I didn't know what to do

My parents gave it to me and they said, do this. And I'm like, all right, because I didn't particularly care about the outcome I was like, I'm going to do it, I'm going to try to get an A on this And then move on. Like it doesn't, this isn't going to influence me But I think it probably did, you know what I mean? Yeah, that makes sense. Because there's so many new influences

Because like even when I'm thinking about it Because, like, my humor's changed, even since I was, like, 20, right? So, like, and clearly I'm getting influenced by different things as well, just, like, real life or shows or whatever it might be. And I think more so when you're growing up, it does tie more into, like, you're in school and you're watching TV and you're listening to, or you're watching movies, and you have, like, your parents showing you stuff, too. And so, it really does.

Like, honestly, I think your humor just evolves over time. But then I say that, but then there's people like my dad who's like, he's like the three stooges since he was like, like 15 or some shit. But like I guess they're also not going online and learning crazy shit and stuff like that either. I think the positive is that by experiencing and learning the things that my parents liked and were into, it made me more, I guess I'll say cultured is probably the word I would use. I don't know if that's the right word, but it feels like it. and I understand more and experience more things from before I even existed. You know what I mean? So I got to, I think maybe that's why I was into history because I like the idea of all these old things and kind of, wow, I wasn't even around then and this happened and this happened and this happened.

And yeah, I think because things move so fast now and there's so much to take in that I'd be really curious to learn from. you know, someone who's younger, but, you know, not a teen, someone who is like a college student, what they're into, what they like, and how their parents affected their tastes. Because I think it would be really interesting just to see just in general how that all pans out for you as a person in a modern setting. Honestly, humor is very interesting because it's like everybody's got some sense of humor. Well, the vast majority of people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. and it's just

it's weird how like so many people have so many different styles like I love Tim and Eric humor and I know someone else is gonna watch Tim and Eric and be like this sucks like I don't get it it's weird and it's just like and I think it's just because like

I love that type of like self-conscious meta humor where like for example there's like the one skit they have where I think it's Tim is like doing a cooking show and he keeps like it's got that you have to know what a TV cooking show is like to appreciate like the skit

Because he's just like, oh, and we're back with this cooking show, and we're going to add some mustard on this. And he keeps putting more and more mustard. He's like, we just need more mustard. And like his friend shows up. And Eric's just like, dude, man, we haven't seen you in like two weeks. Like, where are you? And it's just like, it starts like breaking down that norm that you know of just like, oh, yeah, this is a structured TV show. And you're just like, oh, it's plying off of that.

So I really like that. Because that's like it's a, I don't know, it's like a meta-humor type of thing, which I think is actually more Gen Z. You're absolutely right that it is meta-humor, and I think that's what's so interesting about Tim and Eric and all that stuff, is that, do you see the, oh man, what was it called? It was like Heidecker stand-up or something like that they did, where basically it was a stand-up show, except it was specifically spoofing all the, like,

aged out comedians who go really hard into, like, like the racist anti-trans, like that kind of stuff. And it's him doing that bit in front of a live audience. I assume the live audience knows that's what he's doing. But if you have no clue what's happening, it looks like you're watching a man bomb on stage. Yeah, exactly. Like he screams, he like has notes. He walks off the stage at one point.

The whole thing is a spoof of all these other comedians who are hacks now. And it's really funny if you know the goof of what he's doing because you're like, oh, I know who he's trying to be right now. Like that kind of thing. But if you don't, I imagine you'd be like, what is this? Yeah. It's like, there's another guy that does that too.

I forgot his name. It's like Greg, I think his name starts with the G, and he's on TikTok. And it's funny because there's a lot of people that'll watch it. And they think he's being serious when he like clearly is not. Like he'll just, he's like live streaming it. And he'll be like,

Someone in the chat just said to try Sugandis. And then he said Sugandis nuts. I don't think I've ever tried Sugandis nuts before. I'm going to have to really, I'm going to have to check that one out. And then the comments are just like, dude, he doesn't get it. Like he's good. And I'm just like, no, that's the point is he does get it. He's like, is he the guy?

Man, I just watched a video like two days ago. It was on, it was like a YouTube short or TikTok or something. And I think it was this dude. I could be wrong though. Same vibe though. Where the first half was, you know, it's one of those like response shorts where the first half is this girl talking about how she's pissed off, her professor, is so tired of them using AI or the fear of them using AI that he makes them write in their handwriting on a piece of

paper, all their essays and turned in that way. And so then it cuts to the guy. clearly pretending to be the professor, and he's like, I'm so tired of these kids. They don't know how to do anything anymore. And it shows the page, and he reads out what is on it in the handwriting. It is so very clearly not this girl's handwriting. It's not even the same page. She has one of those three whole punch pages, and this is just one ripped out of a thing.

But it's like, I enjoy book, book good, make me brain good. Right? Like, that's like how it's written. Yeah. And all the comments, it's very clearly just him goofing, but all the comments are like, kids these days. I'm like, what? It's so very clearly him just messing around. Yeah.

No, it's exactly. It's that type of thing where, and I don't know if those people are just like, maybe they're older people, maybe even the younger generation that like doesn't really get it type of thing. Like, I don't know. But I think it's just people absorb stuff they see on the internet without a. single thought. And they didn't take the time to look at the image of the picture. It's different handwriting.

They were just like, this kid is stupid. Yeah, that's right. It confirms my beliefs. Kids are stupid. It's like, okay, man. Yeah, they're just looking to find things that appeal to their interest and confirm what they believe.

That's why there could be like some joke thing about like some woman like trying to do something. If she's joking, they'll be like, women. That's what I'm saying. Yes. Dude, the fact that most TikToks and or shorts are people purposefully trying to rage bait you. Yep.

Even on Twitter. Anytime I see anything where it's someone very clearly having a terrible, like truly genuinely terrible take. They always have a checkmark next to their name. And I want to say, oh, that's because these checkmark people are stupid as hell. But what I know it to be is that if you have a checkmark and you have high interaction, you get paid more. See, people are literally just rage baiting you to make a buck. Yeah, no, they've crafted an environment that rewards you for rage baiting. And so that's all social media.

It's crazy. Yeah, it is actually insane. And then it keeps you there because you're like, well, I need the fight with these people. I need to see more of these dumb opinions. It's the same, honestly, they do the same shit on like TV now. It's like ESPN used to have like actual sports and like in-depth analysis. and stuff and now it's just like Stephen A. Smith being like, this guy's an idiot. And then someone else being like, are you brain dead?

Like just fighting each other. And I'm like, dude, this sucks. It's so interesting. I know you're really into kind of like psychology and I don't want to say manipulation, but like the tactics people use to like, I'm trying to think of the right word. You can help me out here because you know the better word for this. It's really just marketing. Yeah, like the marketing of stuff.

But there was a CIA document. Actually, I think it was a British intelligence document. But it was one of the ones that Snowden leaked long ago. But that document was basically like the best way. If there's like someone you're trying to control or manipulate or influence or whatever the case may be. Like if let's say you start to run for Congress or something, right? Right. If I hit you with scandalous nonsense like Crendor when he goes to the gym,

pimps himself out in the locker room to women 75 plus. The idea is you'll spend so much time trying to defend yourself from that accusation that you won't actually run properly for whatever position you're trying to go for. And so that's just the thing. People will do that online

in the rage baiting sphere knowing that if I say something so ludicrous, you will try to convince me that I'm wrong. and it will waste all your time and give me all the money. Jesse Cox, he can't stop doing drugs. He loves drugs. Yeah, I mean, like that's, that's, you like, obviously we're using a fairly mundane versions of what people would say online.

Right. There's some really messed up stuff. I mean, yeah, there's so many things, and these people, I mean, companies, not even companies, not even companies, like government agencies, like all these things have studied all of this stuff to the point. Like, uh, it's like you were talking about. about like the FBI tactic things I was talking you about. Like they know just like every they know how people communicate. They know what people

do. And like so do markers all these marketers and all these things like they're like this is how I got people will like me. Like just like they know that shit. That's why whenever you see like whenever I see businessmen or people like standing outside those kiosks and they're just like hey you're looking

good today man. I'm just like you know what they're doing. But then there's plenty of people that don't. And that's what they're looking for. They're looking for those people and be like, ooh, my prey. Can I say one thing, though, that I think is really funny? In the mall, you got the shoe guys who are trying to get you to get your shoes clean. You got the weird, like, watch guy. You got like the phone case guy.

There's so many people trying to like, hey, man, come over here, come over here. Yeah. The one little kiosk in the mall that never does, and I think this is so funny, the weird spray paint and or custom shirt guy. Yeah. Never once is that dude with all. of his shirts that are like, you know, current memes. Never once has that dude ever, I've never seen those people ever be like, come on, buy his shirt,

buy it. Like, no one does. That's the one kiosk that never does. And it's so funny to me. Yeah, they're always on their phone. They're just like, I don't get a shit about this. Like, it's, it is fun. I mean, they're probably just getting paid by the hour anyways.

They probably don't care. Sure. It's just funny to me that, like, how does this business stay afloat? Unless the whole point is that whoever owns the moment. all owns that kiosk and like screw it i don't care it's a it's a loss for us but at least we own the kiosk i don't know it makes no sense because i i never see maybe they make all their money at christmas like i never see anyone is like damn is that a brand new six seven shirt i need that yeah no that's i've never seen anyone buy from any of those kiosk you're right

it's uh it's like the uh what do you call them like the the mattress stores we had all the different mattress stores yes it's like is this is some sort of money laundering scheme. I want to believe it's that. I have to believe it's that. But every time you ask a mattress person, you know, how does, apparently if you sell like two mattresses a month, because there's no overhead, really, and you only have so many employees. So if you sell two mattresses a month, basically you're good. That's true. I guess if you're just selling expensive shit, it's got to sell one. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's what they'd say. Now, I find that hard to believe here in L.A. that you can have a mattress

store five blocks from another mattress store and you both are making money. That makes no sense to me, especially property and rents and whatever, but like, okay, man. All right. Yeah. No, it's it is really interesting. That's why I just kind of like learning how all these

different things work, even if they don't work very well. Which is why I like learning about the too old for this thing with the Taco Bell marketing. we didn't really learn anything from that. He was just like talking about it. But when I read the book about it, that was actually really interesting.

It's interesting to see the Wall Street Journal video just because it's not something I would ever watch unless someone said, hey, watch this. And that's what it was. But like, yeah, I don't give a damn about Corpo speak with the Wall Street Journal. I understand why they do it because investors and whatever, that's how everyone talks. But like, yeah, ignoring how he spoke, I think. think he's probably right on the money that, you know, learning about how Taco Bell approaches younger people, lower income people, like minorities and different people that they try to associate with rather than, I honest to God, I want to say almost every other

fast food place, which is like, bring your family. You know what I mean? Taco Bell is like, oh, are you high at 4 a.m.? We got stuff for you. Yep, pretty much. I mean, it's funny because now I would say a lot of the fast food places are trying to copy Taco Bell. Oh, 100%. Yeah.

Burger King going like, we got crazy shit over here too. We got like fried chicken fries and like the super whatever burger like shit like that or like the big arch. They're just like, yeah, you know, we're trying to give you like a fancy burger. And like they're all trying to do what Taco Bell kind of did. The thing is that Taco Bell, it's not selling it as fancy. Does that make any sense? It's selling it as like cool. Yeah. They're selling it as like a cool experience. It's like what I said. When I read about it, they were saying they had people that like went and tried food like rich people going like I ate at my Michelin Star restaurant. I say is I'm not rich but ate at one. But like, you know. Sometimes you got to treat yourself. I get it.

Yeah. And so they were just like what if we like recreated that at like an affordable price for just like everybody? And they're like yeah, that sounds like a good idea. And it genuinely was a good idea because you're just like, yo look at this like cool shit like. cheesy gordita crunches and like nacho fries and like just like weird shit where you're like damn that's kind of weird i want to try that yeah i think that's fascinating because when we were younger taco bell was literally like the mexican fast food chain yeah and now i don't know that i can even qualify it as text mex it is its own entity where the food that's there is i don't even know what to classify it as it's literally just taco bell like it's its own thing yeah it's yeah it's Like, every other place is, like, I think honestly the closest thing I can say is Chipotle is probably the closest Taco Bell.

And that I don't consider Chipotle Mexican or Tex-Mex. Chipotle is just Chipotle. Yeah. Exactly. It's, because I mean, I don't know, even with like McDonald's, like, they're still very much like relying on their main thing of like, here's our burgers. Here's our chicken sandwiches. And it's like, you know what it is. It's like McDonald's.

But like even when they try to experiment, they're like, here's the big arch. And I'm like, this is just like a big Mac, but with like some different sauce and bun. You know? Like it doesn't feel like they're doing anything crazy or new, but like Taco Bell always kind of does. It's just, it's really just figuring out their identity kind of. Like, and then just going into it. And realizing that you're not the thing you set out to be. I think that's what's fascinating is the pivot to like, look, we understand we're never going to be.

that. So what can we be? And if you hit that, it works, man. It really works. I mean, you can even tie it into like YouTubers and streaming. Like think of how many YouTubers you'll like subscribe to somebody because they're doing something and you're like, yeah, it's right. And then they're like, I'm going to try something different or I'm going to start doing this thing and everyone's like, what are you doing? I think the difference there is that if you're on the decline, it's because people don't like what you're giving them. And so a pivot at that, at that point is very smart. But if you're very successful and then you pivot, like all these people who are let's players and then suddenly they're just vloggers because they made a million

D dollars and they're like, I'm going to live my life and just film stuff because I feel like I owe it to people. Right. That kind of pivot kills your channel. Yeah, because they tuned in for one thing and you're not giving it to them, but if you are, you know, not keeping your audience and you pivot, that's the smartest thing you could do. rather than just slowly fading away. Yeah. Dude, I will say today,

I was at Whole Foods buying. Oh, boy. Well, usually we go to Whole Foods and get like our steak stuff there once a week. Ooh, hold on. What do you, what'd you buy? Steakwise.

Do you go like to the deli? Or not deli, whatever it is, the butcher thing, yeah. And then usually get a New York strip. And then steaks are expensive, so we usually just split it.

So we just get one and split it. I mean, you're the, I drink half a baby Coke man, so I don't expect you to eat a lot anyway. You know what I mean? Yeah. Plus,

it's like fatty. I can't have a lot of fat. It's gonna, no gallbladder, right? I can't overeat excess fats. So it just, you know,

it's eating. And then we get like kale and garlic and then we'll do like potatoes, stuff like that. Okay. All right. Spargas, got the asparagus.

It's always good. But anyway, we're going to check out. And there's this like mom and daughter And the mom was trying to get some drink And the daughter goes No, don't get that one. That's like only 20 grams of protein. I was like

Only 20 grams. The daughter Who was trying to Protein Max bro. She's like mom You gotta get 56 grams. Yeah, it's And honestly it's like It reminded me because I think there was

I don't remember which two. I think it was the McDonald's one where he was like, we need, or protein's gonna be big, right? Or fiber's gonna be big, whatever he said. And it just reminded me, because like, people just go all out with this shit. And it's like, when we get to the point where it's people are like needing more fiber, needing more protein, that doesn't mean you need to eat like eight billion grams, whatever. Like if you eat too much fiber, you're gonna get bloated. And you're gonna be like, ugh.

But like, you should eat more fiber because people aren't eating enough. And it's just like you just probably need a good amount of fiber in your diet, like moderation. It's like the same with protein. Like, hey, maybe you're not eating enough protein. Maybe you should eat more. But then people are like, what if I eat like 10 times the amount? It's like, well, you're not like an Olympic athlete or some shit. Like, they probably need it.

But you're just, it's like people drinking Gatorade. And it's like, you probably don't need Gatorade when you're just like sitting around doing nothing. It's better for me than a soda, bro. And I'm like, is it? Yeah, it's really not by much. like maybe if you're out like running a lot and exercising and shit like you know your body's processing the sugar then because it needs it but there's still plenty of healthier options you can go with so it's far it's just a lot of it's just marketing and that's one of the things I brought up like in the video reacted to is they'll be like here's this item that's always had like 12 grams of protein in it and nobody gives a shit and they're just like it's a bar and then the protein fat hits and everyone's just like oh, this has got 12, like they market it now, like 12 grams of protein, but it's always had that. Now they're just putting it on the things.

They know it's popular, right? I literally saw a video the other day of some guy freaking out because some food, man, I wish I could remember. It was some food at like at Costco. And it was him freaking out because he was like, ugh, they've gone woke because they have all these things on the, like, we've gone green and we do this. Like that kind of thing. And the comments of the video were like, dude, it's always had that. They're just advertising it now. Which is exactly what you're saying is they follow the trends.

They're like, oh, we don't even have to do anything. All they do is change our packaging. Cool, man. And this guy flipped out because he's like, look what? This is ridiculous. What are they doing to change in the formula? And it's like, no, no, it's always been that way. Yeah.

And that just, one, that ties into the rage bait of like them creating the rage bait content. or just like just content where you complain about shit. Which granted, we do very often. To an extent though, not to this extent. The third though. Not me, I would never. Not me. We would never.

But yeah, it's just like repackaged. It's just marketing. Like it's just repackaged the, it's just buzzword. And it's honestly, people were doing that with Wow Midnight too. Or like, I'd be streaming it. And people'd come to the chat and be like, do you think the game's getting a little too woke? I'm like, well, define woke. Like, that's the, people always just say like blanket generic buzzwords.

Like, it's becoming woke. And I'm like, well, what's woke about it? And they're like, uh, well, it's not like orcs versus humans, like Warcraft anymore. And I'm like, well, I mean, we haven't really had that since like Warcraft 2. Yeah, it's been like this game is how many years old? It's been at least 15 years since it's been that. So I'm like, I'm just saying it's woke because we haven't done something since Warcraft 2 now? like you just want Warcraft orcs versus humans?

Like, and then the game wouldn't be woke anymore. Like, that's the problem is people will just say shit like that, but there's no depth behind it. Like, there's no, because once you get into the depth of something, then you can actually discuss what your issue is. You can be like, oh, I don't like that there's like, someone's like, there's too many women heroes now. And it's like, okay.

So are you just saying you don't like the way they're written? Is it like the, they don't, like, there has to be, some other reasons. They've just like, woman in game bad because too many women. I need man carry. Like,

what? What's crazy about that is watching the dudes who are like, there are too many lead female characters in this game now. It's a bunch of women just talking.

And I'm like, bro, the character you're playing is a chick. Yeah. You made your main character a woman and you're freak. Like,

what do you? Okay, man. Cool, dude. Yeah. Like, to me, I brought this up in my reaction, or my first reaction take the wow. My big issue with the wow story was it's very like, like in your face, tell, not show, which other people are like, if you just read the quest, it's less like that.

But like I don't really care about reading the quest because I feel like I don't care about the story. But reading the quest literally is tell, not show. Yeah, well, like, for example, there's a cutscene where the like the old god, or not old god, the Loa, he comes out of the thing and he's like, I see you have pierced the veil. And then I'm like, oh, okay, so this is the, like, Loa God. And he put the fog up here or whatever. And then the, what's her name?

The Blood Elf girl is just like, oh, so you're the one who created the fog and have made it like this. And I'm like, dude, like, I can use my brain here. I can piece this. I don't need you to like tell me this shit. I just hate when they do that. Because I feel like it feels as if they're viewing the people that are watching. the cut scene is like, oh, they're too dumb to get this. Which I don't think anybody's too dumb to get it.

And I think that's part of the thing that makes reading and stuff like that fun. It's not just like the author trying to describe everything to you because then like the book becomes boring because you're not figuring anything out. And I think people is like figuring stuff out. So it's like I wish they just wouldn't do that. I wonder if it's just a symptom of modern day media. Like you know, you use, I don't know if you saw this, but the, um, I think they had Ben Affleck or Matt Damon or whoever. They were talking about a movie they made for Netflix

and how they were given the rule of like you have to repeat plot elements multiple times for people to understand because they're on their phone. Right. Or, you know, just like as a Star Wars fan, Star Wars in the last 10 years has like dumbed their properties down in a way that they have to explain things and things. And it's like before you didn't, why do we have to do this now? Why do we have to like give a little too much information?

Why can't people just watch and be like, oh, I get it. You know? I think that's why I liked Andor so much is that as a show, it didn't bog itself down with a bunch of nonsense. It was like we're going to tell a story and you should be adult enough to follow along. I think a great example. Because like, again, I don't even want to like bash the wow story this time because I do think it's like better. Like I just in general. Like there's plenty of wow stories.

like as I've been questing and stuff where I was like that's pretty fun like I'm not like trying to be one of those people it's just like this game sucks whatever but like it's like for example if we're at the Rathgate like people love the Rathgate right like it's one of the most popular

wow cinematics yeah yeah probably ever done it's just like imagine we're at the Rathgate and then they're like fighting and stuff and then the undead dude rolls up and he's like ah it's me time to die everyone he like starts launching the plug and shit if they're just like

oh no it appears that the undead dead have decided that we are both evil and betrayed us. Like that type. It's like, I know, we get it. Right? Like, that's, I think that's the problem. It's like, if they just did less, like, trying to tell everybody what's going on, I think people would actually enjoy that more. And I think they want that more because, and I think people have just gotten so used to the media's doing that, that it's like, almost like people don't even notice it at this point. I think it would, it would be wonderful if someone in Blizzard just said

F it we're going to do it and tell a story and if you don't want to come along with us or you get confused that's on you go look up a wiki you know what I mean like they just did a thing because it was a good story

not because they were trying to make it easy to understand yeah and I think that would be my favorite thing they would do if they did that because I was saying in my thing like if they did that like if there's a cut scene like that

and I was like well that would make me want to read the quest. Like that would make me want to go back and be like, yo, now I want to read this stuff. Not what to do this. But like, I don't really, like after watching some of these, I'm just like, whatever. You know, I was comparing to even like a book. Like, you'll read that in a book and it makes you want to go back and reread the book

and stuff like that. Yeah, it's crazy that we live in a world where Eldon Ring is one of the biggest games of all time and that game explains nothing. You have to piece together every plot element from like item descriptions to weird location stuff to like, oh, that thing is connected.

to that thing and like, oh my God, or and half the time people just go watch videos or look up a wiki because they don't understand. And honestly, no one complained. They loved it even more once they found out the Lord. Yeah. I mean, that's me with amazing digital circus. I'm like putting shit together. It could be

extremely wrong in where, but like I'm having fun doing it and it's fun to like try and figure it out. And I think a lot of people just want that. And it builds community and it gets people talking online and it builds chatter and then random people will stumble on it like, wow, I need to check this thing out and then down the rabbit hole they go.

It's smart to leave stuff to the mind, to not explain everything, to let people figure stuff out. I feel like dumbing everything down and just like spoon feeding it to people has never been the right way to go. We're not toddlers. Yeah, exactly. And so it's, that's mainly my main argument there is that's what I'd want. But aside from that, I've enjoyed wow. I mean, I know. I think we're all aware.

Yeah, I got my 90. You wouldn't make content for almost two decades if you hated a thing. Well, listen, that's what I always said. Like, even if I like the story, don't like the story, the gameplay sucks. The game plays good. Listen, I can find 10 rocks that I like in that game. Yeah, yeah. Right?

Like, as long as the art team's cooking, which they always are, I'm good to go. I'm just like, yo, this new zone's pretty sick. that tree's pretty cool that grass is great like that NPC's got a fun name top 10 NPC names I've already done that actually but you know

main thing is like there's always material for me because I just enjoy the world of war crime I had like a weird brain I'm about to say like hemorrhage but that's not what happened I had something in my brain like a weird like fart of inspiration

I know you've done skyboxes before yeah but have you tried the reverse where you just look down at the ground and you do the top 10 like ground textures. I do have top 10 ground textures on my list. Damn, you're on top of it, man. Yeah, I haven't done it yet, but I have, I have it on the list of. Oh, okay. I think that would be fun. I've showed people. I have, um, like this is, I use obsidian, the like notepad document.

And so I just have probably over a hundred different topics. and it's what I do is I fly around and then I'll be like oh that would be good for balloons and then I go to balloons in my thing and I write like a balloon 49 28 dark shore and I like write down why it's cool

and so I kind of just accumulate stuff over time and that way when I'm like ah you know what maybe I'll do ceilings again and then I have like eight ceilings I'm like oh I gotta find like a couple more and then I can figure out what I want to put on this list right so it's like that type of thing where it's it's all kind of organized in my little

obsidian program That's cool as hell. Yeah, I have a link on my desktop to one day get obsidian. I'm like, one day I'll get that. That seems like a really helpful tool. I just have not. It's really good for, well, especially for like keeping track of like lists and little, it's kind of just like an advanced notepad document thing.

Yeah, yeah. Even in the office, people are like, dude, you should check that out. I'm like, yeah, yeah, no, I will. And then I just always forget. But I'm looking at the link right now on my desktop. I'm like, one day. It's a, I have one called uncategorized or I just like write down shit where I'm like, I don't know where this would go. I have things like lion seals on rock, 6647, great sea.

Like, oh, I don't know. One day I might need this put the lion seals there. Or like ogrehead statue, Gorgon, 4470. Like, uh, maybe I'll do some sort of ogre lore one at some point. I have no idea, but it's there. Right? I love that you have them mapped out where you have like the, the quagrin'clock. coordinates.

You know what? Honest to God, I realize in this moment, I am no different from you, and I think it's just, it comes with the job. I literally have a note on a notepad on my desktop. I'm looking at right now. It says, Don Trail Mage Roll Quest 92, scene where you summon forth your ability to see Ether.

Incredible cut scene. Use in future video. Dude, it's literally the same. You're doing it. Yeah. Yeah. Should use a obsidian for it. I really should.

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All right, let's go to Chopin. Let's get out there. Oh, man. Traffic, let me tell you. It's bad. It's good light out. You know, we just moved up ahead. an hour. So right now it's normally 6 p.m. and it's 7 p.m. here. But that means we get more

daylight. We're saving that daylight. And because of that, more people are out. They're driving around now. So watch out for cars and other vehicles. Also, uh, yes, back to you. Thanks, Krendor. Yeah, daylight, savings time got me today. No, we ended up doing our nighttime routine slightly earlier to help just like get used to it. So I stopped streaming like 30 minutes before I normally do. And then they're like normally it's this time. But now it's this time. So we like take take a shower and like get ready for bed and then go to bed as if it's like the same time slightly later.

And then kind of dial it back. So now I'm actually, I'm kind of used to it already. although it does feel a little more like six right now than seven for me, but it's not like too bad because I woke up at like my normal time and I was like, whoa. So we had a debate on my stream last night. So I was like, I don't know if I'd want to keep this time or the previous time, but I was like, I think I'd rather have more daylight. But then some people in the chat were like, I'd rather have more daylight in the morning. And then some people are like, we don't ever change our thing. And then some people like, we're in like a different part of the world.

So it doesn't impact this as much. We came to the conclusion that we just need our own personal times per person. That's insane. No, let's think about it. No, that's insane. No, yeah, that's pretty insane. But it really just all depends on where you are and like your own personal life. Some people wake up earlier.

Some people go to bed later. So it's just, you know, it all just depends. But it is, it does get annoying having to change the clocks. But like, honestly at this point, I'm just like, I feel like I'm just giving in. I'm like, whatever. Eventually, no matter what, the year will progress, and you will always have more light in the morning,

and then it will fade away. Like, everyone will be happy for a little bit. It's kind of, you know what it is? Getting rid of daylight savings time is the cheesecake factory of time. No one's going to be thrilled, but you will be happy at some point during the experience. As long as at some point I get my, spicy Chipotle chicken pasta

and it's you know it's not light out at 3 a.m. And you know it may like it does at this time of the year it'll increase your risk of a heart attack slightly but that's the risk you got to run. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think more people would be inclined

to get rid of daily saving times if we pitch it as it's the cheesecake factory of time change. I like it. We should do that. We really should. And then everyone gets free bread. Yeah, you got, oh yeah, you got to get the free bread. You got to get the free bread, dude.

Yeah. That's the traffic. All right, let's go to weather. We have landed on weather request. Been a fan since I was in ninth grade. Now I'm 29 and a teacher, oh God, the pain. Anyways, as per request. Okay.

On episode 494 to fill in the weather map, I request Riga, the capital of Latvia, my home city, the capital of Art Nouveau. If you want to check it out, it's Alberta Street, basically buildings which have really fancy outside facade and me back streets. For those of you who don't know what Art Nouveau is, just as a like a history jesse moment here. I guess art history Jesse moment. It literally just means new art. And the idea is, and please real art historians, feel free to correct me. But from what I understand, the idea is that it is embracing the natural, embracing nature in its shapes and forms and curves.

So things might resemble a leaf or might resemble the flow of water or things like that. Rather than being a structure that's designed to stand apart from nature, this is designed to be inspired by, influenced by, and be a part of nature. I'm not saying it's made of wood, it looks like trees, but it's aesthetically like, oh, yes, that looks like the flow of the wind, but in the sconces of a building or something like that. In Riga Latvia, it is currently 33 degrees Fahrenheit feels like 29. Winds four miles an hour, air quality 136, unhealthy for sensitive groups. Pressure 30.42 inches, visibility seven miles, sunrise 65 a.m. sunset 613. P.m. humidity 83% 2.29. UV index

0 because it's nighttime and a moon phase of waning gibbis. 10 date. Monday, 56 and sunny. Tuesday, 57 and sunny. Wednesday, 53, partly cloudy, cloudy, 56 on Thursday, partly cloudy, Friday, 56. With some heart clouds. Saturday, 57, partly cloudy, Sunday,

51 parley cloudy. There's a lot of parley cloudies. Oh, Monday 51 showers. There we go. But pretty much 50s partly cloudy, not bad. Yeah, I mean, for where it is, you know, for Latvia, yeah, that seems pretty good. Yeah. Is that? Let's see. Oh, yeah, that's kind of like

way more north. I don't realize it's that far north. It's one of those places where you think it's in central Europe, but it's very clearly not. Yeah, I very much thought it was in central Europe. Yeah, that is not the case. And then there's going to be the...

We've already got the European showing up like, oh, could you not know? Oh, yeah, tell me where Indiana is. All right. I swear, every time. Or like South Dakota or Arkansas. We try our best. Yeah, all right.

You're not going to get them all. Yeah, let's see here. Yo, by the way, we've been watching Rick Steves like every night. It's good like background TV. I know I've mentioned Rick Steves before on this podcast. but we've been watching a lot of Rick Steves. Like, what are you watching? Just like traveling?

Yeah, that's all he does. He's like Rick Steves goes to, you know, Scotland. Rick Steves goes to like France. Rick Steve goes to Germany. We watch Rick Steve goes to Egypt. Rick Steves went to, uh,

just like, you know, a whole bunch, Turkey. We just watched Turkey. That was a fun one. So just like, and it's fun because he's just like the Mr.

Rogers of traveling. Like he's always having fun. He's always smiling. He's like meeting people and just being like, yeah, we're having fun. and it's it's just it's nice. That would be my dream job is to just travel,

meet people and eat shit. That sounds like a hell of a job. Yeah. In fact, they gave me a YouTube TikTok of Rick Steves and they're like, what's your like big suggestion for people? And he was just like,

don't go to the touristy spots. Go like sit in a bath house in Norway. Or like go to like a bingo hall in Turkey. You're like all these like crazy places where he's like the actual people are and not just like touristy spots. these spots. That's absolutely why when I go to Japan, I want to have someone there as a local who speaks Japanese to be my guide. That's why I haven't gone yet. I know if I go right now,

I'll just do the touristy shit, which is fine and I'll probably enjoy it, but I want to like experience the culture. And I feel like in places where I absolutely do not understand the language, I would not thrive in that way. If I go to England or I go to places where they speak English. I can like get by and I can find cool places to visit and things to see. But yeah, I don't, all the touristy stuff, I don't like that much anymore. I'm like, no, I don't want to do that. I don't want to stand in line to get a picture with this weird thing. Like, I don't care. Yeah. Even have that like cities here to some extent. It's like if people come to Chicago, they're like, I'll see the bean. I'll go to an AVP. I'll go to like these players.

But then, then you get the true Chicago when you're just like, let's get Portillo. let's go to the meatball mania let's get the Polish food then you're starting to get the real stuff Yeah it's like when people come to L.A and they're like What should we do?

I'm like well one I'm not taking you to Hollywood Hollywood sucks It's so boring There's nothing to do there Unless you are just like really Into seeing a place A movie star once eight Like it doesn't

There's so many other things to do in L.A. There's so much more fun Trust me on this And it's usually not anything too crazy And I think that's the fun of it. Yeah. Which, by the way, looking at Riga, I do see what you mean now.

Yo, I just want to shout out really quick. Oka burgers. It looks like a barbecue place. These burgers look delicious. It's clear I have not eaten anything today because I'm like, oh my God. Look at this burger. And every table has different hot sauces or different like barbecue sauces. Bro, I am doomed.

I'm like, oh, my God, that looks good. He's doomed. I see the thing because I see like a bridge, but it's got like vines and shit all over it with like trees. Yeah, there's a lot of, I don't know if they're apartments, multi-story buildings, I'll say. They have this vibe of like, they're very blue and they have this architecture that I don't even know how I would describe it. I guess Art Nouveau is how you describe it. But it like looks, it doesn't, it is, I don't want to say jarring. It is like, you're like, oh, look at that.

but it isn't like a all-glass thing or like a giant metal structure. It has a vibe to it and I absolutely appreciate it. Yeah. No, it is really cool because, yeah, it's like a blend of different styles or something. See, okay, this is what I would do if I was in Riga right now. The Riga Central Market looks like a place to go. It looks huge. It looks like they have live music and bands, a bunch of different like restaurants,

but also weird shops you can buy like lentils and like just crazy stuff. It looks like a place where you go to shop, but also is a touristy place. But also, but also what the hell are these? Hold on open a new tab. While you're there for touristy stuff and you're listening to music and you're getting food, you can also buy whatever the hell this is. What the hell? They almost look like Garfields, but not.

They kind of do. They definitely look like something. rat? I don't know what the... They're almost like characters from a storybook, but they're so cute and I don't know what this is. Those are definitely something I would purchase and put in my house. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah, yeah. They're hilarious

looking. They're just a little tiny like, I don't know, statues? But they're big. Maybe they're made out of wood. I can't tell. This photo's too small, but like, that's the kind of stuff I would be in. This is where I would go. If I was like there for a day, I would forego all tour stuff and just head here on. walk around and look at things. Yeah.

No, this is great. I love these. Dude, yeah, there's a place called coffees. It's like C-O-F-Y-Z. And it's like, it's got some top-tier looking pastries and coffee. I think that's one thing we discovered is that for every time we see a shitty European pizza, there is eight coffee shops that are just significantly better than what we have in the States. Oh, yeah.

You're like, damn. This shit's insane. Yeah, this would be like top tier over. here and you got them like all over the place over there. Yeah, yeah. I think honestly, maybe it's cultural, just the idea of I'm going to take a moment to sit down, drink my cup of coffee and just watch the world, you know? Yeah, I think so. We don't have that. Our coffee is, we got to get to work so I need caffeine. Go. Yeah. I mean, when I was in England, I even, I did that experience where I got my like coffee at the little corner place and I just sat on like a metal table outside

watching people in traffic and I was like dude I am a European right now I get it man that's like a big time dream of mine is to get to the point where I'm like screw it I'm just gonna go and waste half a day yeah

it's like sail on a boat but not like a yacht like the rich people just like some small eyes boat yeah not really go that far off a shore just like be there like yeah man taking a moment for me and then you got like you would hire like some old sailor guy

where's a hat that just be like y'r, I'll take you out. Oh, shit, Crendor, I found our spot. What? I guess it's Max Saccat or Kikot? I don't know, kitchen. Click that. This is our place.

This is the spot we go to. Oh my God. This is, without a doubt. This place looks awesome. If they brought me out those seashell things, I'd already be like, This is fantastic. The bowls don't make sense.

Yes. I'm looking at this one bowl that is like soup, but it's 90% plate. And there's the little thing in the middle for the soup. Like, this is one of those meals that would cost a fortune, but would be an experience. Yes, this is so good. Yeah, the bowl is like feathers or some shit. Every one of these dishes is ludicrous looking. I love this place.

I love this place. Yeah. No, it would definitely go here. Every image looks like a work of art This looks like this looks like a place where when you went to go eat there at the end They'd kill you you know what I mean Yeah They'd be like yes chef and then everyone dies

Yes it does This is incredible looking Yeah this is insane Oh my God I'm looking through all this stuff There's like some like just the plating In itself Just visually it looks like art Everything looks like art

Yeah Like this is served on a rock. Although there's one image here that is a loaf of bread, but then with the bread is some sort of green salad-y-looking thing. I assume you put on the bread and that shit looks incredible. Wait, but then there's one dish that literally just looks like dip and dots. Oh yeah, I see that. What the hell is this food? Bro, this would be the spot. This would be the spot to go. Yeah, this place is fantastic. And then once we didn't get enough food, here because it's too expensive we go to the burger place.

Exactly. Well, the thing is, like, when they give you, like, numerous courses that all add up, I mean, you do feel, like, pretty full by the end of it. Yeah, because it's going slowly in your stomach. You're slowly, you're, like, eating tiny things, but a lot of tiny things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right. Yeah, because I remember that one time we ate with JP and all, like, everybody at that one place, and I was just, like, taking a few bites, but they gave you a lot of food, and people

were, like, eating all of it. By the halfway point, people were like, well, and I was like, you guys are dumb. That's like when we went to the Brazilian steakhouse and everyone was eating all the stuff and you and I were like, no, no, you're idiots. Yeah. We're here for that particular meat. Thank you very much. And give us all of it. Yeah, that's like eating the cheesecake factory bread.

Yeah, that's what they get you. Yeah. Yeah, this is great. But that's the weather. All right, let's go to sports. Sports. We've got sports. Here they are.

Sports. It says here that the SEC. tournament final has happened, then Texas beat South Carolina. I don't know what that means. Oh, that might be March Madness. I think we're getting into March. That sounds right. It is March.

Yeah. That sounds great. Yeah, I think they're doing all the like in conference tournaments. So that sets up the brackets that'll happen soon. So yeah, okay, that makes sense. So we're next week, I think we'll be starting March Madness or like a week and a half. So it'll be fun.

We have basketball. like NBA basketball. We got the pistons in first with the Celtics and the Knicks right behind them. And we got the thunder in the West in first with the spurs right behind them and then the rockets and the Timberwolves far away,

but still there. In hockey, we've got the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Buffalo Sabres in first, do the Sabres. What is that happening? All right. I think it's the first time I've seen the Sabres at the top in like maybe 20 years. That's crazy.

Hey man, if you were from Buffalo, they were always your number one. That's a lie. Who am I kidding? Dude, I always say, I like the bills and the sabers, because growing up, I used to play, like,

RTS games and, like, various computer games in, like, 2003 with them, and they were all from Buffalo, and they'd be like, the sabers, the bills.

So, uh, the sabers have not made the playoffs since 2011. Jesus. So, It looks like they will actually make the playoffs

All that rebuilding finally paying off Yeah That's crazy Yeah they're Well let me check the expanded Currently they're the What would this be

Second best team Third best team in the east Tied with the Lightning And there are only four points Back of the Hurricane for the best Damn That's wild And then the avalanche

Are the best team in hockey with the stars and wild behind them in the West. That's cool. And that's cool. Oh yeah, and then spring training. Baseball's happening. Currently, the records don't even matter in spring training. They're just warming up, really.

So that's sports. Okay. What's our fact of the day? Fact of the day, fact of the day. Before I say the facts, let me just say, I've been playing Pocopia. That game's very fun. I hear amazing things about that game.

I hear so many good things about it. Crazy. It's literally Animal Crossing, blended with Pokemon, blended with like Minecraft-esque elements. A lot of people said it's like, I guess Dragon Quest, something.

Yeah, builders or whatever the hell the game was called. Yeah, I am. Yeah. So it's like all that. And it's, it's just very good. That's become my wind down game where we put on Rick Steves and I just play Pokemon

Polcopia. Just being like I mean like honestly that's a solid vibe. I think everyone needs a good wind down game. Yeah. Oddly enough Sam stripping his wind down game was League of Legends he said. I'm aware. He's going to wind his way down to a heart attack. Dude I the most insane shit I've ever heard the other day. All right. I'm going to out Sam. I don't even know if Dodgers told you this or anybody, but he told us this we were all playing while.

By the way, it was 7 a.m. in England at this time, okay? He was eating ramen, okay? I guess his midnight snack equivalent. And he ran out of broth. And so he poured his old coffee into his ramen and ate it. Wait, all right, all right. Wait, hold on. Hold on. Let me see. Okay.

So what was the problem that he had to do this? The problem was his ramen he had didn't have enough broth in it. So to substitute, instead of pouring like water in, he just poured his old coffee in. He didn't go get water from the tap or boil some hot water to pour it in to make the ramen. He added old coffee. Did he explain to you why he did this? He's just like, oh no, it was easy. Listen, I don't know how he works

That man is an enigma Every day I realize more and more That Dodger and Sam are the most compatible couple There ever was Yeah Because that literally There was a moment I don't know maybe a year ago

Where Dodger and I were doing geekenders And she was drinking coffee And she was like, oh, it's terrible I'm like, what happened? Don't you like have a coffee company? What's going? Why are you drinking like crap coffee? She's like, well, I had some coffee, but I didn't want to brew some more coffee. So I just made instant coffee and then mixed the old coffee with the instant coffee. I was like, girl, what? Yep. Like, you would think she'd be like, oh yeah, I only brew the finest bruise as a coffee connoisseur. I'm shocked they have instant coffee at all. You know what I mean? I was like, what do you mean? You have a coffee company. Because he's like, normally we French press, but then I just do like instant coffee and shit. And I'm just like, what? Yeah, I just thought I'd mention that. Oh, the entirely crazy thing that happened?

Yeah, I'm fine with being interrupted for that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But anyway, fact, the bumblebee bat is the world's smallest flying mammal. I assume because it's called bumblebee, but now I got to look this damn thing up. The bumblebee bat? How small are we talking? I would assume as small as a bumblebee.

Oh, it's smaller than your finger. dude, he's such a cutie pie. Yeah, that was a tiny bet. Look at this little guy. Also, he has crazy looking ears. Oh my God, yeah. I love the bumblebee bat. This guy rocks.

Yeah, I agree. I love the bumblebee bet. Weighing in at 0.05 to 0.07 ounces with a head-to-body length of 1.4 to 1.29 inches and a wingspan of 5 to 7 or 5 to 5.7 inches. The bumblebee bat, also known as Kitty's Hog, Nosed Bat, is the smallest flying mammal in the world, according to the Guinness World Records. Many consider the bumblebee bat

to be the smallest mammal overall, but its weight overlaps a bit with another of the Earth's tiniest creatures, the Etruscan Shrew. Oh my God. To see this tiny bat for yourself, you have to visit a select few limestone caves on the Kway Noi River

in Conschenabri province of southwest thailand i need some sort of red wall style story involving that bat and the atruscan shrew because holy crap this little shrew is so cute too like what a little cutie pie small like as small again your finger is bigger than this thing yeah and he's got a like a big anteater nose or something but it's like a tiny yeah and he's got like a you know a little mouse-esque body it's so like these guys rule. Yeah, these are great. I love these guys. I need the two of them on like a wacky friend adventure together. Yeah, there's be a cartoon. It's just so small.

Honestly, these are the dudes who survived like the death of the dinosaurs. These are the ones that lived. They deserve it. Yeah, cool. That's your fact of the day. All right. Who has come to us with tears in their eyes? We've got tears. Dear illustrious sirs, I come to thee with tears in my eyes and sinuses itchy with pollen. I have one question. If you could get rid of one allergy from the world, what would it be, i.e. animal fur, dandruff, peanuts, etc. The world would know that you had cured the allergy.

I mean, on a personal level, I would say pollen, that's my one allergy and I hate it. It gets me every time spring comes and I'm a complete mess. However, living in LA, not a big deal. So I feel like I wouldn't stress about that one too much. I'd probably get rid of like one of the allergies that kills people. You know what I mean? Yeah. The one where if a bee stings are you die or like peanuts kill you or shrimp kills you.

One of those allergies. Yeah, that's true. I mean, I think a lot of, probably a lot of allergies could kill you. But I would imagine things like pollen probably not as much because that's just like not as entail. Although there's probably some people that are that allergic to pollen that it could kill them. I don't know. The 10 most common allergies are pollen allergies, food allergies, dust mite allergies, yuck. Mold allergies, insect sting allergies, pet.

You know what? I'd change my mind. Pet allergies. Yeah, you know what? I'd get rid of pet allergies. Yeah, that's true. Because there's probably people that have pets. They don't even know they have a pet allergy. Yeah.

Yeah. I get rid of pet allergies because I feel like there are a lot of kids out there who would love a dog or cat or whatever and can't have one because they'd get sick or whatever. And I feel like denying those little sweetie pies that, screw it, pet allergies, get rid of it. Yeah, I like that one. That's a good one. Dear Alastrious sirs, the tears in my eyes. I come to you with my lords. Wait, I come to you my lords with these questions. Okay. friend door if you could guest appear on any podcast is there a podcast you would love to be on jesse if you could have any guest on geekenders who would you pick my unlikely pick would be angor tom and ben from yog's cast i think you and dodger would have a great laugh with them lots of indian warhammer chat my more likely pick uh would be stripping they for granting me this audience rimmer salute where would you go what would you want to be on uh it would just be carl pilkington i would love to see you and carl pilkington have a podcast together that would be you be the single greatest podcast. Yeah, I would love that.

I don't even know what he's doing anymore. He's just kind of... He's free floating now. Yeah. He's like, yeah, he's like, I don't talk to any of the other guys. They were mean to me. And I'm like, I get it. They were mean to you.

They were mean to him. That's true. I honestly think that the guest I would love the most for geekenders. Because I think he wouldn't understand it at all, but would still be 100% in Nicholas Cage. I would love to have him. That is, you know, that would actually be an insane thing that have happened. Right? I would be happy.

I would do everything in my power to be like, we should be friends. You know what I mean? I'd be like, you want to hang out, Nick Cage? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And that's the dear illustriousers. What is our big news story of the day?

Big news story of the day. Big news story of the day, day, day. Uh, man accused of using taco seasoning packets to steal $40,000 from Target. What? Yep. And it's a Florida man. A Florida man is facing retail theft charges after local authorities alleged he stole thousands of dollars worth of trading cards from multiple target stores using 99 cent taco seasoning packets. I'm following along with what he did.

I'm curious with how he did it. All right, please continue. According to a statement from Florida Attorney General James Outhmeyer's office, Heath Wallace, 39, was arrested after he engaged in organized retail fraud scheme at multiple target locations from Miami to Orlando. He's been charged with counts of felony organized retail theft, three counts of felony dealing and stolen property, one kind of felony money laundering, and probably some other stuff.

Wallace is accused of committing 75 thefts at multiple target locations across Florida between July 2025 and February 26. Investigators believe that in each theft, Wallace would grab large boxes of trading cards and an equal number of 99-cent taco seasoning packets. Then, once at the self-checkout line, Wallace is alleged to have only paid for the season reasoning packets. The already said Wallace would resell the stolen trading cards on eBay generating almost 40,000 in revenue. Wait, what? Okay. So I'm trying to, so I'm trying to see if it's as simple as he would take the boxes and then he'd take the packets. Like one packet or whatever. Right.

Go up, scan it for 99 cents and then put everything in the bag and walk out. So in his mind, he's like, well, at least I paid for something. or if he in some way took like you know how the packets of you know taco seasoning come in boxes and then you pull it out of the box when it's on the shelf did he take the box of packet seasoning remove all the seasoning put the cards in that box and then scan the seasoning box

as a more complicated version like I don't understand exactly what he did here that's what I'm trying to figure out so I'm like yeah did I thought he was going to pretend like the taco seasoning was trading cards. I thought it was going to pretend the trading cards were taco seasoning. Well, yeah, it's, uh, let's see. Is there like a photo of this?

This man has like a 5D plan. Like, what do you mean? All I can think is maybe he literally just got some taco seasoning packets, paid the like 99 cents or $2 or $3 or whatever he paid, however many he got, to make it look like he was checking out properly and then he would slide the cards into the bag but like no wonder he got caught if that's the case yeah that's what I thought he was doing

like sliding the cards into the taco seasoning things and being like ah here's my taco seasoning that's what I thought so yeah I was on part you thought he was taking the cards putting them in the taco seasoning then pulling them out when he left and then reselling the taco seasoning carded cards online Yeah, but I guess that wouldn't work because they'd be covered in taco seasoning. I love the idea of you ordering some cars online, getting them, and they just are covered in taco seasoning.

I'd be like, what the hell? Well, here's like, okay, there's a picture, that's the only picture I can find. Oh, this guy. All right, I know what he did. Okay. Also, for some reason, this guy looks exactly that the kind of guy who would go around doing this. I don't know how other describe it than that's exactly how he looks. What he would do is you can see that the pack of cards is on top and the packet of seasoning is placed on top of the cards.

And then he would scan it to make it look like he was scanning the cards, but it would scan the taco seasoning instead, and then he'd put it in the bag. Ah, I see now. Okay. Because you can see in the picture the taco seasonings right on it with the barcode facing down. So when he scans, it scans the taco seasoning, but you can't see the table seasoning. taco seasoning if you're looking at the camera because the cards are covering it so it looks like he scanned the cards but really he scanned the taco seasoning oh i see now okay dude that's actually kind of crazy yeah that's devious but also there's so many cameras in a target that like yeah he definitely got caught the first time but target is notorious for letting you steal stuff until you reach

the threshold where they can actually prosecute you and then they come down on your ass there's so many people who think they're getting away with it so they keep doing it more and more and more and then Target's like gotcha bitch yeah it's that is great although it says here that the investigation's ongoing authorities suspect Wallace committed additional thefts at Walmart and public locations so he's doing this all over actually

I think because he thought it was working because no one was getting him if he's doing it at targets up and down Florida I think he thought like yeah man I'm pulling this off but Target is notorious for just letting you think you did that yeah so it's Damn, that's wild.

And he might face 90 years in prison. 90 years for Pokemon cards. Damn, dude. Yep. Listen, they're not messing around with those Pokemon cards. 90 years. I have to imagine he stole a lot of cards. Like a lot.

Well, it said he sold him for over 40,000. I mean, that's definitely a lot of cards. This was this guy's job, dude. This is what he did for a living. Steel Pokemon. cars and resell them. It's up to 90 years, but that's still, that's still a lot of years, whatever it ends up being. That's like a lot of theft. Like you have 90 years, you had to have committed a lot of robbery. Yeah. My God. For Pokemon cars, that's crazy, dude. That is crazy.

You should have just stole TV if that, like you get five years for that. What the hell you're doing, man? You should have stole a mattress. He's got to sell one of those. Can you imagine trying to steal a mattress? Where did that mattress go? But that's the big news story of the day. All right. Well, that's it for us.

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