Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 503 - Chimpanzee: Civil War

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

Episode 503 - Chimpanzee: Civil War by Cox n' Crendor Show

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We'll jump into that later. but now let's get into this podcast. Hello everybody, it's time for Kaukos and Trending. In the morning. In the morning. Broadcasting, live, live, live, live, live, in four hour reporting studio, recording. Recording.

Wake your ass up! It's up, Strendon in the morning! Hapoooooo! Huffoooooo! Hello, everybody's sitting with Cox and Quendo. door in the morning. Woo, yippy. It's fun time.

I didn't promise fun. You know what? You're right. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on now. It was serious business time now. This is all serious, all business. All the time.

That's what they've always said. What's up? How's it going? Dude, you know, good, good. Today was a get stuff done day. Every once in a while I have a, I'm sure, some sort of mental disorder freak out day where I immediately

said about doing all the things I probably should have done earlier in the week but forced myself to do an exactly one four hour period on a Sunday. I mean I'd say that's pretty common. I'd say the vast majority of people aren't consistent in doing really any sort of

like cleaning. Yeah, but most people I think have stuff in their life going on. You know what I mean? Like they got things. me, the only difference is I probably should have done some of this on like Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday, but instead was like, there is one thing that I'm missing in Dynasty Warriors origins in order to get 99%. And I have 99%. I'm trying to get 100%.

And I can't figure out what I'm missing. I guess I have to go to the internet. Okay, so I got to go back and do this one level over again. But while doing that level, I have to read, that's what I was doing instead. I see. So you're saying you had nothing to do. so you should have been doing this thing. Yes, this is what I'm saying.

I should have been doing it. It wasn't like I was raising kids or stuck late at the office or like I wasn't, there was nothing preventing me from doing it. I just made the choice to do something totally useless that is unnecessary, did not in any way make my day better. You know, like sometimes people are like, well, video games, man, it's your escape from doing stuff and sometimes you need to unwind. This wasn't that.

This was, I was stressed that I was stressed that I couldn't. find this thing. So I needed to find this thing. That's like an obsessive personality problem right there. Uh, yeah, I don't know. You probably got, you got some problems. Oh, yeah, no, that's true. That's real. Yeah. Uh, so you just do nothing all week? Are you just like sitting around playing Dynasty Warriors? No, I mean, like, you know, I worked and I did stuff. But I got home, I tried to get home every day around like five or something, 530. And then I'll make dinner. If I didn't get to work out in the morning, I'll work out. But then, like, I got the rest of the night.

I could have done all the example today. I needed to take a bunch of stuff to Goodwill. But I also needed to bring a bunch of stuff from the office home. So what that is is just lifting a bunch of boxes back and forth to different places. Now, I could have done that at any point in the week. I could have done that one box at a time. over the course of many days. Instead, I just let it sit there until I, today was like, well, I got to move these.

All right. You know what I'm saying? Like, I could have done it. There wasn't anything stopping me from doing it. I just made the choice to put it off until, like, the last possible minute, really. Because tomorrow after you get my car fixed, so I can't have a bunch of stuff in my car. So I had to get it done. And I wasn't sure when I'm going to get my car back.

So, you know, like that. I was like, well, I got to do it now. That's been my problem my entire life. I will, oh, paper due on Monday. Yeah, I'm doing that Sunday night, 11.59 p.m. Yeah, but again, I think that's the majority of people. I never once was like, time to get my stuff done right on time. Like the amount of times I was like last second, I got to get this shit done.

He's like, oh, do it. But how many those people want to be the person who's like, I get it done on time? Because I want to be that person. I strive to be that. that and I fail miserably every time. Well, yeah, because it's hard to do. That's why nobody does it. Yeah, well, I want to do that.

It's the thing I want, I want to be that person who's like, oh, I get this done right away. But I'm just not. And it hurts me on an emotional level. Like, I know I probably should just let it go, man, and go with the flow. But I want to get stuff done. And when I don't, I genuinely beat myself up for it. It's, well, I mean, the problem I think is just you have to convince yourself that it's worth doing right now compared to other things. And if you're doing something like you've worked all day or you're doing other things, they take priority.

And so when you've done all that stuff and then you're like, you're depleted of energy and it's like, well, now I did all that stuff. And I could do this thing, but I'm just going to like chill out and like reset. So let's, I think that's why when you get to a day where there's nothing going on, then it's easier to do those things because you haven't, you. You don't have the other shit draining your energy. True, true. I feel good about the fact that I woke up today, got a bunch of stuff done, and then showed up to this completely free of obligations. But that's how I want to feel all the time. That's honestly why I get rid of material things.

I'm like, well, if I don't have to worry about it, I'm free of the thought of it. And I mean, I mean, that is the, I would say that's the prime core belief system of like, minimalism is that you're getting rid of the objects and things so that you don't have to worry about them and that stress gone from your mind. That's what I'm saying. I think my life objective also I think this goes back to the idea of me wanting to be like a kept man for some rich old lady. I just I think I want to turn my brain off. I think I'm tired of it. I think I'm tired of thinking. I've been thinking and using this damn thing my entire life and I'm over it. I would be fine being one of those like automaton's that just does stuff. You know? know what I mean? Like you don't what to do. Okay, I do it. I don't think. I just do. That's what I want. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of always having to think a thing. He's like, you know what? No. I'm going to shut it off permanently. I'm going to just be like, duh. I mean, to be fair, there's plenty of people that are like that. I know. And they all seem ridiculously happy in their stupidity. They are because ignorance and splice. Yes, that's what I'm saying. That's what I want. I want that. I want that. I want that. I want that. I

want to be cipher from the matrix, plug me back in, give me steak. I don't give a shit. I don't want to know. I don't want to know everything I know. According to some of these studies, uh, on some websites I'm looking into it says 15 to 20 percent of adults are chronic procrastinators. Among students, 70 to 90 percent procrastinate until the deadline. Well, that, I, that I get because, I mean, even as a teacher, you would see students don't want to do the stuff. Very few students are excited about writing a paper or taking a test or reading eight chapters a night or whatever. That's not what they focus on. They're more concerned about the a million other things happening in their lives.

But once you reach adulthood, most of it is all this crap. But I think I'm still in the 20% like you were saying that is in that high school, I don't want to do it. This is the life I want. This is stupid. And I honestly, I'm with that. I don't even even the. stuff I enjoy doing day to day.

It's all the other crap. And that's why, you know, I'll sit there try to get a stupid achievement in Dines Wars origins rather than do the things that need to get done because I'm like, at least this isn't that. Yeah. It's, uh, you're kind of like replacing one task with another, or with another that gives you the same satisfaction of completion. Absolutely.

But it is something I want to do rather than something that needs to get done. Yes, for sure. Yeah, I'd say that's why a lot of people scroll on their phone, too. They'll be like, I want to, I need to get this done, but I could just look at this TikTok about how to become a YouTuber or like that type of stuff. Or like how to, why this thing is a thing. And it's like if you watch a video or watch a short or watch whatever about like how to better yourself or some self-improvement thing, you might be like, hey, you know what?

That was productive. Good job, me. but so you get this like kind of false sense of productivity even though you haven't actually done anything yet and I think that's that's kind of what the internet kind of drives to be honest. The amount of people I know who are like that it's why there's there's a psychological phenomenon where if you tell people about what you're doing

you become less likely to actually do it and it's because you have that satisfaction which is why do we go back to the Crendor method that I learned from something all right you just do something for like four minutes. That's all you got to do. Tell your brain, like, I'm going to do it for four minutes. And once you start,

then you actually do it more than that. Because the hardest part is like getting to, getting to the point where you're going to start something because your brain's like, I'm going to start doing it. It's going to take forever. And you're just like, you know what?

I'll just do like a couple minutes. And then you start. And then it makes you be like, you know what, I can actually do a bit more than you're good. Yeah. Yeah. I find that that that's how I usually think

about working out in general where I'm like, just do it, just start, just start. It's the hardest part is just starting literally every time. Because I'm just like, but I could do anything else though. Even though it's not even that long. It's just like, yeah,

but I could do anything else though. And I will, it's always a struggle, which is honestly why in the morning I think it's easier for me. Because in the afternoon I have excuses, like hundreds of excuses. In the morning, the only excuse is how much time do I have before I have to leave the house? Right.

And if I wake up early enough, there's zero excuses. I'm like, all right, let's get it done. Which, again, it goes back to the amount of stuff that I'm thinking about or that I'm worrying about or that I'm stric. The less I have suddenly I can just achieve things. When I'm on like a vacation somewhere or I'm like traveling, the brain shuts off and I just like appreciate life a little more. And I want to get there just all the time. You want to achieve that like modern day minimalist Buddhism or something? Something like that.

Yeah, yeah. There's got to be something out there for me that I'll just like be like, like, this is it. This is who I am from now on. But with that said, you know, I can't. I can't because the world keeps, I keep getting physical goods and they're stressors. A great example. This is so funny.

In my PO box, there was. a gift from unknown person. Shout out to whoever you are. But also, how dare you? It was a, I guess there's a brand new age of Sigmar, like chaos unit. That's like something, something the spear of the ever chosen. You know me, I love Archeon, except the problem is I have that $160 damn thing. I cannot paint it because I'm scared to ruin it.

It's so much money. So anyway, I got this thing sent to me in the mail. I went online, I was like, how much is this? I went online, looked it up, it's like $120. It's like, are you kidding me? Who said this to me? You know you're torturing me. You know what I was like, cool.

Now I have two things. I'm too afraid to paint. Oh, you get an abracia spear of the ever chosen? That's the one. Okay, yeah. That's, uh, I was like, been out for a while, but it is a cool model. I was like, cool, cool.

All right, great. I don't, I don't have the talent to do this. I was like, well, so now I just have two completely unopened chaos champions that I won't meanwhile I have all these other junk ones that I just mess around with and paint for fun but those are like I bought it on sale for like six bucks I'm like yeah I'll try these are these are like the pieces if I was a master I'd make and then put somewhere and like display I'm just not that and I'm like I don't want to ruin this oh god so yeah this is like oh so thank you for thinking of me random

stranger who did not include their name, but also, how dare you? Yeah, you should be sending me the Warhammer. I'll actually build it and paint it. Yeah, he'll do a whole thing with it. Me, I'll be like, oh, boy, if I mess with this, I'm going to ruin it. That's the thing is, it was saying here that the common reasons of procrastination, it kind of ties into what you're saying here, are an adrenaline effect of focus boosting. like a it's getting close to the deadline.

Uh-oh. And it like, it gives you like a little boost of adrenaline and it. I do have that. When it's close to the deadline, I lock in a way I do not lock in any other times. I will like go to 11. My brain kicks in.

My body kicks in and I can get it done and do it well, which is why probably I allow it to happen. Like when I get it done and it, and it's like, all right, that was great. And it's the last minute. There's no repercussion, really, for waiting to the last minute.

Yeah. That's kind of me when, like, numbers are down. I'm just like, uh-oh. I've been lazy. I need to kick it up. And then I started, like, going on. I'm like, post here, post there. We need to make a video here, do another video.

I need to stream more. Right? Yeah, well, really, you should just be doing a constant thing. Yeah, no, I'm with you. Yeah. Yeah. But then the other two were, uh, the task is boring or overwhelming.

Or there's a fear of starting and or perfectionism. and I think a lot of people get that. Yeah, yeah, that's me. Yeah, I'd say a lot of people get that not only with things like Warhammer because you're like, I don't want to ruin it or something, right? Like, I never had that. I'm just like, yeah, whatever, I'll paint it.

Right? But people get that with every, like, writing, with streaming, with making YouTube videos, with, you know, like literally any type of creative or productive type of thing where it's like, ah, you know, I don't know if it's going to be good enough. I don't know if I'm going to do it right, like that type of thing.

But I'm, I don't know. I've never had that type of mindset, but I also make non-content and stuff that isn't, you know, the peak of perfectionistic. Yeah, I mean, you, again, I've said this numerous times, are an aspirational figure for me sometimes where I'm like, he's got to figure it out. How do I, how do I do that? How do I just shut that off in my brain? I just can't. I'm just bad at it. I genuinely think it's from my upbringing.

I think I've mentioned it before but growing up my mom would always just be like that is unbelievable you're doing such a good job and I would like anything I'd make it could be like a line with like a happy face sticker I put on

and she'd be like you should be an artist like it was just constantly that for my entire I'd get like a C minus on a test and she'd be like wow that's better than you would typically do or you'd get a D good job so that's why

that definitely carried into like my YouTube and everything I do because I just make something and be like, yeah, it's good. Put it up. There's no like it's not good enough. I'm like, no, this is good. I always think it's not good enough. I will work on stuff, upload it, and after it's uploaded for like a day, notice a mistake I made.

And stress about it. Like, should I take it down? Oh, God, it's already up. Like, I don't know if anyone even notices them, but I do and it drives me nuts. Yeah. And I think that's a lot of people. I think people even do that about themselves. They'll just be like, oh, I have this like little like mark on my face.

Everyone's going to notice it. And everyone's like, what are you talking about? Like nobody. Because it's like everyone's always hyper aware of their own issues or their own things that they've done. Or it's like, oh, I made a mistake on this. Everyone's going to notice. But like everyone else is focused on their own. Yeah, if anything, when people do notice stuff, it's because they're also worried about that same problem with themselves.

Yeah, exactly. And they'll be like, oh, I noticed that on this person. but they're really thinking about themselves. And it's like, if I notice it on them, others are going to notice it on me, like that kind of thing. Yeah. So it's something I don't have to deal with, thankfully. But I got plenty of other stuff to deal with. So at least that's something I don't have to.

No. But the moral of the story here is you cleaned your thing. I don't even remember what you cleaned. I mean, not much cleaning, just a lot of moving stuff around. Like, I went through the more pounds I take off, the more clothes I have that just do not fit. And so I was like, I'm getting rid of these. So I had to take like two boxes worth of stuff to the goodwill. The sad thing is, is there like more expensive styles of clothing?

So, yeah, it's kind of a bummer. But what are you going to do? What are you going to do? When you go to sleep and wake up now This is like my annual check-in Because like there was a while you're like I'm going to bed at like whenever time You're one day you go to bed at like 10 p.m.

The next you'd go to bed at like 2 a.m. Like are you consistent? So right now I'm pretty consistent in that I'm honest to God I think it's because I don't have a PC at home right now It's been like I don't know a couple months I was going to get a new one And then I started playing on my PlayStation again

And like getting achievements And having like a chill vibe for a couple hours every night instead of having a computer at home and when I have a computer at home I just work and the working made me stay up late now I'm like

ready for bed by nine I'll roll into bed I will like either listen to a thing or maybe like watch YouTube clips or something but no matter what I'm down by 10 p.m. Without like every night the last I don't know

like month and a half for me two months every night. And then I'll wake up depending on what the next day is. I'll either be up at like 6 a.m. Sometimes 7. You know, and then I'll get something, I'll get like a workout in. And then I'll just like make breakfast, have some tea, walk around my apartment.

Like I have nothing to do that day. Honestly, it's kind of like the reverse of at night before I'd wake up like right before I had to go to the office. I'd take a shower, you know, go to work, do the whole thing, come home, and then at night, like late at night, I lay in bed. And that time that I, just, because I've been working all day, the time to, like, scroll through the internet and look at stuff and comment on things. That would be my time at night. And it's like I'm reclaiming my day because I had no free time. Now, any of that crap, I'm getting out of the way at, like, you know, 8 a.m., walking around my apartment, just like, good to be. take my time, slip my tea.

Oh, stare out the window a little bit. Yep, yep, that's, you know, like I have that moment in the morning. So when I get home at night, I'm just like, I'm chill, man. I don't need to check in on the world. I don't give a damn what's going on out there. I'll find out tomorrow. Honestly, pretty liberating to not, you know, spend X number of hours doom scrolling on the internet at night and then trying to sleep.

I like, you know, look at it in the morning. You figured it out. You got your whole thing now. I really do. With that said, this will probably all change simply because at some point later this year, the lease on the office is up. And they really want to raise the rent a great deal. I really don't want to pay that rent. So I may have to ditch the office at least for a little bit until we find a new place.

Or maybe we won't find a new place. Maybe I'll just go back to working at home and everyone that works here will just work at home, save some gas money or whatever. I don't know. That's a ways off. But it's one of those things where if I'm at home and I don't have got to leave home and I have my own schedule again, I don't have to be in an office at 9 a.m. With a bunch of people, you know,

I will probably just start, you know, doing whatever. Right? There will be no schedule in my life anymore and I'll just do whatever. But with that said, it also brings up logistical stuff of like, okay, how do I film Scary Game Squad? How do I do this thing? And how do I? A lot of questions. No answers. I guess we'll all find out. But that's future Jesse's problem. Do you have any conventions coming up? Because that could probably throw stuff off too.

I have Final Fantasy Fan Fest, which is the 24th and 25th of April. And I'm not too concerned. Probably the first night I'll like hang out and party a little bit. But I'm also not. particularly excited about like getting wasted, you know, like, I got, you know, I got stuff I want to do. And then I'll probably be an adult, he said, knowing that's a lie. Yeah, I don't know. We'll find out, I guess. I was just in packs and I was in bed every night by 10. Damn, look at that. I even went to two parties one night and was still in bed by 10.

Impressive. Oh, yeah, you're truly achieving old person goals by. I just, you're getting to do your party things and connect and do a whole thing, but you're still going to bed. Yeah, I mean, like, I'm not trying to get absolutely wasted at these things like I would 10, 20 years ago. Now, I'm like, look, I, tomorrow I have X, Y, and Z to do. I would love to come to your party and I will come to your party. And I'll say hi.

I have a few drinks, but I'm leaving and I'm going to wake up because I got to be back to do this shit tomorrow morning. And that's it. I just, that, however, is the focused version of me. But I'm only that focused when I'm, you know, I'm at a convention and I don't have to think about the eight million other things in my life because all I have is the convention. And it's so simple for me. And I can be that guy. That's just what I want to be all the time. Yeah.

It's, I think deep down, I think you're just a morning person. I honest to God, maybe. This could be what I'm finding out that, like, the morning. mornings are where I should be. Like when we were playing RV there yet and you're like, you want to play at seven? I'm like, seven, dude, that's like, I got two or three more hours before I need to be in bed.

Like, what do you mean? Seven. That's true. I'm starting my stream when you're going to bed practically. Yeah, there's been sometimes when you were doing, um, uh, Pokemon, uh, Kizo, whatever. Yeah. Uh, Ironmon. Where I would just like put you on in the background and like, all right, I'm going to bed, bye.

Yeah, I'm very much a night person though, but now I've like become more of an adult night person if that may like I used to go to bed like 10 plus years ago. I'd go to bed at like 7 a.m. 6 a.m. Now I go to bed at like 435 and usually I wake up at like 1130. So I actually wake up before noon. I used to always wake up at like 1 p.m. or something. I get that. And if I didn't shoehorn myself into the responsibility of having to be in an office every day at nine, simply because I was like, well, if I'm going to ask people to be there, I should be there. Right. If I didn't have that, I probably would be on a Crendoor schedule, which is why I'm saying, if I leave the office, there is a high chance.

I might end up on a Crenor schedule. And I'm fine with that because I have no other, you know, there's nothing in me that says you have to be there at this time. Right. But, you know, I don't know. I genuinely don't know. I know there's like the thing where some people are just genetically more night people. But because I'm like, I still like the morning, but I don't like the morning morning. I like the, you know, like 10.30, 11 a.m. That's like, that's a solid morning wake up for me.

I'm like, I get some sun, right? I can do my thing. The stuff's open. I'm like, cool. And then I just go about. Because usually what I do when I wake up is I read and I make my coffee and I'll like sit by the window or like open the door and get sun and then I'm just like reading in the sun. Now like just check some stuff.

Be like nice. Dude, I, I screwed up. So I started reading a new book. Speaking of reading. I started reading this new book. And I genuinely am now afraid of just the world. What? It's this book called Longhall, which is, it's written by an FBI guy.

And I was doing it as sort of a potential topic for, uh, uh, uh, Luminati, right? Yeah. And it's basically about how there is a string

of essentially unsolved, uh, serial killer murders happening along major highways in the U.S. All of them being committed by truckers who are using the trucking profession as a cover to move from place to place to place to kill. What the hell? I know, dude.

And so there's like 800 some murders and I'm just like, what the shit? So I'm reading this book and every page is just like the intro is about this guy who would go around and like at truck stops pick up you know

various like strippers or hookers whatever and then chain them in his truck in the cab like some sort of medieval torture device while he drove down the road like Mad Max or some shit I'm like what?

That's what I'm saying I was like I screwed up reading this book I shouldn't have read this I was like oh no No. Yeah. So that's so well you're reading probably like the next great you know American novel. I'm over here like oh boy shouldn't have read that that's gonna I'm gonna think about that every time I see a truck. Like it's crazy shit. Yeah, I don't like reading stuff like that. Granted I'm reading Game of Thrones. So there's still like I really just read the part where it's like Jamie and Brian. I'm like halfway through book three and then he gets his hand cut off. Then they're like making them ride with them the mercenaries wherever they are and they're just like, making him drink like horse piss.

And then they're like, ha, ha. And then he tries to fight him and stumbles over. And they're like, Kingslayer, more like dumb ass. And he's like stumbling and his like wounds like all like infected and shit. And they're like, and he like throws up on himself and Brianna has to like clean him up. Like that type of thing. It was just like, what the hell? Look, I'll say this.

For as messed up as it is, it does feel like good comeuppance for Jamie considering what an ass he is. Oh yeah. And it makes his character significant. significantly more compelling later on in the story. Yeah. No, he really does go to like the arc of like the... He is one of my favorite characters in all of a song of ice and fire.

And like, it sucks that they did him so wrong in the series of the end there. But like, yeah, there's so much to love about him watching him grow. Like he goes from being a complete asshole to like, oh, you really are a night dude.

That's pretty awesome. Yeah. No, it is a really cool character arc. But speaking of apparently, and this is all. grain of salt. But apparently over on Reddit and 4chan and all that stuff,

some dude is like, hey, I work for the copying people who are doing all the proof reading and stuff for George R. Martin. The next book is coming later this year, I promise you. And everyone's like, I don't believe it. That's how broken people are. People are like, no. I don't care if everything you're saying sounds real. I don't believe it.

Yeah, that is. is it's one of those things where it's like, yeah, it doesn't, it could definitely be not real, but then you're like, but it is possible. Yeah, I would love it if it was true. I've been waiting so long for this last damn book. Well, second to last book. I've been saying, when I finish this book, that's what the cue was. I just needed to read Game of Thrones.

And right when I finish reading, this book's going to come out. Yeah. I was the deciding fact. I think the guy said it was like 1,600 pages. Oh my God. I mean, yeah, it wouldn't make sense.

Apparently it's the longest one. And I'm like, you know what, I'm fine with that. The man had a lot of stuff to wrap up. Yeah, there's definitely a lot of stuff. It's just,

it's really fun reading it after having watched the show a long time ago and like being able to like see all that stuff. I've noticed, there's like some chapters I've kind of skim through where they weren't as like exciting to me. like, what's his name? Every Sansa chapter.

I would say, I mean, the Sansa chapters are okay. They're like whatever. I stand by that. Every Sansa chapter bores me to tears, but all right. The Samwell chapters, I'm kind of like, eh, he, like, he just had the one where he, like,

fights off the White Walker, and, like, I don't really care that much. I just, like, couldn't get into it. Poor Sam. Poor Sam out here almost dying. You're like, eh. Yeah. And then some of the John Snow chapters I like skim a bit. I am, to this day, I feel like such a fool because I was hyping up Stannis to all my friends.

I was like, dude, Stanis in the books rocks, man, rocks. And then they kind of did Stannis so wrong in the show. And I'm like, all right, cool, man. Yeah, it's, um, It was fun seeing the, I would say out of all the chapters, like Jamie's really good. I like Tyrion, obviously, Arias chapters are really good. Honestly, I haven't minded DeNaris's chapters, because I know a lot of people like, those are boring, but like, it's been all right. Maybe they get more boring.

Yeah, if you, I'm curious to go back and read, I don't know that I have the time or patience to read through it all again. But I'm curious to go back and read the DeNaris section. and wonder if George was really hinting at her being cuckoo bananas. You know what I mean? Yeah. She makes some choices that are like, what? But I always thought they were played off as her being young and experienced. Rather than secretly, she's an insane person.

You know what I mean? Right. Maybe it's supposed to be like the hinting of like she's got Targaryen in her and they're crazy or something, right? I mean, that's what if you go off the idea that the end of the show is going to be the end of the book series, then like, yeah, that's, I think that's what they're talking about, but most of what I got when I read was that DeNaris just didn't know what the hell she was doing and she was trying really hard to like figure it out along the way.

And everyone's like, that is a terrible idea. And she's like, but it's right for the people. And they're like, yeah, well, not these people. They're going to lose their minds, lady. Yeah. If anything, it is, it's just fun. Honestly, I just like his writing style. Because I've been trying to read other authors and two

and just like get a taste of like other writers and all that. But I don't know. I just like his writing style the most. I was talking with Davis this week about World of Warcraft and the story there. And he was like, what does Krendor think? And I was like, oh, Krendor had issues with the story. He's like, whoa, Krenner had an issue with the story.

He's like, yeah, he's been reading out of Game of Thrones. so I think he knows what good writing is now. Well, I would say you can read a lot and still not know good writing. You can feel that's good right, but you don't know why it's good writing. And I think writing my book and learning about writing has helped me the most of good writing. Sure, sure. It actually, it kind of stems like from what we were talking about earlier, where now I know all this stuff about good writing, but you need to actually write.

And so, like, you know, I'm like slowly doing it because I'll have to, I'll do the thing where I'm like, I'm going to write. And then I sit down to write and I look and I'm like, oh, wait, I didn't do this thing on YouTube yet. And then I'll be like, all right. I'm like, oh, wait, I didn't do my horse girl daily. So I need to do those real quick. And I'm like, right. Yes, yes.

So I literally, what I do is I like put on a, I'll find some random YouTube video of like, write with me. And it'll just be like some girl being like, I'm writing my book. And she'll have like an hour of her just writing with like keyboard noises and like, like filming her screen and her like keyboard. And I'm like, this is what I need. So I just put that on. and then that just makes me write.

Because I'm very much the person of like, someone else is doing it. So that helps me to do it. And so that's what I do now. I sit down. I'm like, put that on. And then I write. And so I've actually been making more progress. Now I'm almost at 12,000 words.

I love that. I love that. Slowly moving along. But yeah, it's like I said, the more I've learned about writing and good and bad writing. How much is 12,000 words for you? Is that like a chapter, two chapters? I guess currently it's 27 pages

And I think it's like three chapters Okay I was trying to figure out if you Like what kind of writer you are Because every time I think books I think oh I understand what a book is I remember that one I really enjoyed Dan Brown novels

And two Dan Brown's like One page is a chapter Oh yeah You're like holy crap How many chapters are in this book Dan I mean I'd say the big thing with chapters is just as long as the pacing fits the chapter. Like as long as you do like an intro part,

if the chapter ends, you move on to the next one, and you're like, hey, you know what? This feels like a good time to end this chapter and move on to the next part. Then I'm like, that's good. But sometimes people just end it and start a new chapter and you're like, well, that's, that feels like it was a little too early to end that chapter.

Like sometimes like, okay, this chapter could have ended like three pages ago or something like that. So a lot of it's just figuring out the pacing of it. Yeah, I wonder if that's, uh, Similar to YouTube let's plays, when I'd have to chop up footage, I would always end a video on either a period or a cliffhanger. So it would either be like, okay, this section completely wrapped up, period, done, or, whoa, that was crazy, cut.

You know what I mean? And I feel like that's how you do a chapter. You want to keep people, you want to either give them a reason to be like, all right, well, I'm done reading for the night, or to keep going. Well, I would argue against the first part. You don't want anyone to ever be done reading. It's kind of like YouTube where they want you to keep watching, right? Like you want people to keep reading.

So cliffhangers are good because you're going to get people to like, be like what's happening next. But you can't keep using cliffhangers because then it becomes like people like this entire book is just cliffhangers. So it's almost like the, I forgot what the exact thing is, but you end it in like a, it's almost like a positive cliffhanger. Because a lot of cliffhangers feel like they're a little shock value or almost like negative.

hanging off a cliff, that kind of thing, yeah. Yeah, but like in a positive cliffhanger, you could just be like, oh man, like, I don't know what we were going to do, but then they're like just sitting around a table or whatever, and they're like, wait, who's that? It is like, look in the door and they're just like, oh, my God, he's back or like something like that where it's, it's not like a bad thing, but you're more like a, wait, who's back? It's like you, you almost have to end a chapter on like a question or on some sort of, just something that makes you

curious that makes you want to go to the next part which honestly a lot of that does stem to like YouTube and just media in general but you the thing is you have to do it in a natural way you can't have it feeling forced because then people be like oh that's dumb which honestly somebody okay that ties me back to the wow lore

this is like our third week of Crenthor's wild lord that's because they keep releasing videos that are insane dude I watched that the like end of the campaign cinematic and was like what the shit was that? Yeah I mean the thing that

someone on our comments section said I wonder if Crenthor did the quest line at the end of war within where you go you and Erethor go to try and convince Sylvanus to come back and help fight Zalatath because that coupled with the Winrunner spire dungeon did foreshadow that she would play a role this expansion to be fair though

they, that before mentioned quest line was optional. So like there's, there's a couple problems I have with this. Number one is that, again, they're putting like some sort of major foreshadowing in an optional quest line. Like, why?

Like an optional quest line shouldn't have major plot line foreshadowing. I mean, that's why they, they do that with the books. The books are optional, yet they have massive plot revelations within them. And you're like, why? So you'll buy it. But which is, which is And then we have the big part of the like the issue I have with Silvanus returning is the way she returns because it's a literal Deu Sechre Machina

Like they're like oh no x-crazy she's gonna go and then Dada like she shoots an arrow through a portal that hits like an all-powerful being and she's like I'm back like it's extreme deus ex machina and I hate that type of shit because deosax machina is just like lazy writing because it's just to describe it a Deus X Machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly or abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence. And they do that shit all the time. It's like if they

brought Silvanus back in a normal way I would still be like what is happening but like I wouldn't be as upset about it except be like all right well but it's the fact that she just comes back like bam like hero to save the day like that da da da like that type of shit.

I mean even that I watched the end cinematic thing where all the elves make a new well situation and all it struck me was as I don't know what is going on over at Blizzard

when it comes to the pacing of what they're doing but I thought the whole point of having a three game arc was that they could take the time to tell the story over three games. It seems to me based on everything I'm seeing that they are steam rolling through this plot

Yeah, it does. Like they're just, things are resolving themselves and stuff is getting, I was like, I thought the whole idea of midnight was that it was supposed to be like, it's midnight, it's dark, this is, this is the last, like, it's the last line of offense,

the world's crumbling, you guys are going to lose, does not seem the case at all. I guess I read that wrong, despite the fact that's how they pitched it. Yeah, no, I thought that as well. Like, it's, I don't know, it's, again, it's like inconsistency.

just like things that don't make sense. Like ASX Machina's like there's just there's so many bad things in the writing and I just, I don't know. With like that's what's crazy. With that said, I watched the whole world first race thing. Cool as hell. The fights looked awesome. Everything about it looked really neat. And I was like, wow, that's cool.

It almost seems like my initial assessment years ago about wow, not giving a damn about the story, but like caring about everything else is accurate. still is accurate and will never change. Yeah, like I've, I've had great times with the, the, uh, the gameplay. You know, I love Delves. I, the actual raids I've enjoyed. Uh, like, yeah, I don't know. I like the art. I like the zones.

Yeah. I've had a great time with all that. Um, but yeah, it's, uh, oh my God. So, dude, I almost forgot I wrote this down. It reminded me because of, I thought of warlocks. in wow. Okay. So,

all right. You're not even going to guess what this is. So I was walking. I have no clue, no. I was walking outside of Target. There's a guy. If you saw a warlock outside of Target, I would believe you. Well, there's a guy, and he was just, like, talking outside.

And I was, like, walking past him to go to my car. And he was, like, just talking extremely loudly. And he's just like, I don't know, man. I don't know. He just felt like witches or something. And I was like, what? And then he goes, yeah, like he felt like witches or warlocks where I have to emerge, like some demonology shit. And that's what I heard.

And I was like, I got to write that down because that is an insane thing to not only just hear anywhere, but they hear outside of a target. Honestly, that, again, I stand by that. A target's the place where that would be. would there be a guy just outside probably next to one of those red balls. He's like warlocks, man. He kind of looked like limp biscuit.

Yeah, he's just having one of those days. No, I get it. Yeah, but it wasn't even him talking about how he was being like the warlocks and witches were after him. It was somebody he knew. Right, well, warlocks and witches aren't going to mess with him because he keeps rolling, rolling, rolling,

rolling. You know what? That's true. They can't catch him. He's still just rolling and rolling. I should have known. So yeah, that was weird. I was just wondering.

I was like, I wonder where his friend is that's getting attacked by witches and warlocks. Probably in the target. They might have been in the target. They might also just be on drugs. It's a mystery, really. Yeah. It could be any number of wacky things. Yeah.

Maybe getting shot by a Sylvannis Arrow. Who knows? Let's see. What else? Honestly, I've been going back to the gym more. That's been nice. Yeah. Because unlike you or you're like, oh, man, I got to work out.

I actively love working out and seek it way more than possible. I'm just like, man, I wish I could, like, run more. I wish I could, like, just, like, work out this thing. But it's, like, kind of sore. I wish I could, like, do this. Like I just every day I'm like Dude it's gym time I got arms I do my abs

I do back neck And then I only have like one leg day Because I'm trying to still revamp my legs Well I mean like I get it I'm only focusing on my butt really I want to have a big snatched ass But other than that yeah I get it All right what are you doing for that

I don't know I made that up But imagine that's what I was doing Really focusing on my butt Making it pop I am also focusing on that, but for different reasons. Whoa, hold on now. All right, but boy, you let me know. What are you doing?

Okay, I don't want to be a butt boy. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's your new license plate, butt boy. I'd rather be glute boy. I'd rather be glute boy. You call me gluteyce, maximus. I'll call you gluteus maximus. Thank you. So the problem with glutes is that when you sit for years, your glute shut off.

All right. So when you sit a long time, your glutes deactivate and they're just other muscles take over or the glutes, which are one of your biggest, if not the biggest muscle in the bi. Right. So you have to reactivate your glutes. Oh, is this one of those like back pain things where like if your butt muscles are strong, it helps with like the tension of your lower back or something? Yeah, it helps with that. Especially like SI joint. Thank God you said yes because I was swinging for the fences on that one.

Yeah, it helps lower back. but it helps your hips. I mean, it really just helps everything. Like, a lot of it's just aligned together. So because of my hip stuff and going to physical therapy, also I go to physical therapy as well, all right? I'm not just like, winging this. She was just like, yeah, your glutes are just really weak,

probably from sitting. Your hip flexors are insanely tight because when your glutes are weak and you're in a seated, a seated posture, your hip flexors tighten up. So when you, like, stand, they lengthen. but when you sit, they shrink. So the main thing you have to do is you lengthen the hip flexors through like stretching. And then you kind of do like some walking or like active exercises to help them get a bit stronger.

And then you do a little more like strengthening, like targeted exercises or resistance bands or like squats are good. But not just like squatting over and over like isometric squats. Isometrics are like really good, especially for tendon health. And so just a lot of like isometric holds. And so strengthening glutes helps with that because it like aligns and kind of holds the pelvis in place. But then it takes pressure off the hip flexors. All right. So you got that.

Then you got your quads because my quads actually tightened up too much. So now that also strengthens the quads because you're like engaging them when you're doing a squat. And then I do my ankle resistance bands because I'm. strengthening my posterior tibial tendons and my ankles so that I can also strengthen my arches because when you got a strong arch that helps your whole leg uh like structure as well because when you got a flat arch or a pronate then you're going to like cave in your knees and your knees are going to be bad and your hips will be bad and everything's bad you know so many ways to hurt yourself it's really funny well that's just that's just the body deteriorating it's just really like in my

mind, I'm like, okay, I'm going to do this thing because it'll help X. You're like, I'm going to do this thing because if I don't, X, Y, and Z will crumble in your body and you'll fall apart. Well, part of that is it already started falling apart and I'm trying to correct it. Sure, of course. Yeah, like, and it all started almost a year ago because I had my knee strain, which may have been a meniscus thing, may just been whatever, but that got better. But then I overdid it, giving myself like a tendonitis from overdoing physical therapy and then

dealing with that in my ankles and then not being able to do as much tighten my hips. And then when I strain my hips, all my muscles like super tightened up to like protect everything. And then you got like a combination of just like insanely tight muscles paired up with aggravated tendons. All right. So. Yeah. Yeah, I symmetrics. I don't even know if I mentioned this the other week, but I love it.

I mentioned on stream. Isometrics are like the best thing for tendons. So it's just like isometric. resistance bands or like calf raises and holding it or like uh like i said squats and stuff or and it doesn't even have to be that much just like as long as you're getting some pressure and you hold it 30 seconds and then you do two minute break and you do that like four times uh i watched uh oh my god what was his name and in exercise keith something uh it is dr keith bar who is a professor at the University of California Davis. You see Davis. If you want to learn about tendons, watch Keith

Barr, really good stuff. It's one of the things where people don't care about issues until they experience those issues for the most part. It's that, I forget what it's called, but it's like how you won't notice something and then when you get it, you notice it more often. Like if you don't have any gallbladder problems, then you lose your gallbladder. You're like, oh, now I notice that this person had their gallbladder out and this person has got, like you notice more gallbladder stuff. It's kind of like when you had you strained your foot when you were sleeping or whatever and then you were

just like freaked out and started doing everything to fix it, right? Yes, yes, yes. Yeah. So it's like that type of thing where I didn't care about my tendons. I was like whatever. But then once you strain them and they get tendonitis I'm like dude, I didn't learn about tendons so I can fix this shit because it's terrible. Because when your

tendons are weak, then your muscles take the force then your muscles get aggravated and then you can barely function normally. So yeah. Listen, I've gone through, this has been my tendon arc, the Crendor tendon arc this year. Great time. I, look, you don't have to convince me.

Again, one little foot thing and I was like, I'd rather be dead. So like, yeah, I get it. Yeah, like not feeling good sucks ice. Yeah, not great. But like, I never, I always had that kind of like, you know, it doesn't matter what I'm going through, what's going on. like I would keep pushing forward I keep trying my hardest you know I wouldn't let little things get me down

I'm telling you I had one like sprained tendon foot problem I don't know what it was I'm gonna let you know I was like just kill me I couldn't go to the bathroom dude it was the worst I was like I'd rather just cut my leg off

let's get it over with like that's where I was that's what I'm saying that's honestly that's what sparked me going to the gym like all those years ago is the gallblower ladder and like all my problems. I'm like, I need to get healthy. Big same. Big same. Yeah, you have one minor inconvenience that turns out to hurt a lot and you're like, no, never happening again. I'm not doing this anymore. Yeah. So it's just like I feel bad. And for like after like it took me like like month like nearly a year to

start fixing all this stuff. So it's just like I feel bad for just chronic pain people or people deal with like this shit all at times. I'm like, oh yeah. Back in August, September when I initially when I was dealing with all my ankle stuff and then I strained my hip and my muscles tightened so hard that they were compressing my aggravated tendons. It was like constant burning in my thighs. And I know I mentioned that

when we did the podcast, then you were like burning thighs, hoo-hoo-hoo! That shit burns terribly. And I was like, dude, if I had to live like this every day, I think I don't know how long I could do it. Like it was like so bad because it gets to the point where the only thing

you can think about is pain. like you can't think of anything else so it's just like it's terrible yeah I think everyone has had that like leg tension thing you know what I mean

or like your muscles and your leg flex or like get really tense all the sudden like whether you stretch a lot you're in bed or something like that is already too much for me I'm like no no I have like a whole system

when I if I feel it start to come on I just like a fool relax I'm like nobody no Not today. Not today, body. Yeah, it's, uh, listen, if anyone out there, there's already, listen, our audience is already, like, in their 30s and 40s at this point.

Yeah, these old assholes. If you got pendant problems, look up Dr. Keith Barr on pendant stuff. That shit, I can already vouch for it because, like, doing my isometric ankle holds and shit, I feel like 70% better. It takes, like, months, but you have to be consistent. but like it works. I'm telling you, man.

And I vouch for it. Crendor, 2026. Well, if Crenor vouches for it. Yeah, if Crenor's in, everyone should be. Listen, they should be. I'm the person where like, I get pain

and I'm like, I got to fix this shit now. And it works. So, and it's working for my, my quads as well. So there we go. Understood. But, you know what else you can fix?

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But they're not. The traffic, that is, is still coming. that is is still crazy out here. I think because the weather's pretty hot outside for most people, especially here. I mean, even in places where it's typically hot, it might be cooling down, but, you know, it's still pretty nice out. And so people are traveling. They're going all over. And, yeah, watch out, especially for Kit Kat trucks, because, you know, if you hit one of those, that's going to be a chocolatey mess. Back to you. Not many on the road these days. All the Kit Katz got stolen, man. You know. The Kit Kots are gone. The Kit Kots.

By the way, speaking of gas, dude, I don't know what it's like in Chicago. In L.A.? Yikes forever. I, thankfully, I still have my Costco card and they have a gas station and it's cheaper there. But my dude, not by much. The average cost of gas where I'm at is like $6.50. Oh my God. It's crazy.

Yeah. It's wild. Here it's like $460-ish. So it's like not. The war, it's not that bad, but it's still not good. Yeah, that's, that's, when I, and I saw some guy bragging about like, yeah, man, it's only like two bucks here. I was like, where, though? Where do you live, though? Yeah, that's got to be like middle of nowhere or something.

Yeah, I was like, okay, sure, man. Yeah, it's, uh, it's expensive. The Costco gas is like, 590, which is still really expensive, but it's much cheaper. So I'm like, okay, I'll go wait. this damn line. Thankfully, I have that card still. You know, best,

honestly, best birthday gift I ever received. Costco, it keeps paying for itself. I mean, honestly, Costco's fantastic

outside of dealing with the people. Yeah, the people suck. The other people that go to Costco with me, morons,

all of them, every single one. But the Costco itself, great. And I'm not going to lie. Every time I go to

a Costco, I walk to that food court, I get a $1.50 drinking hot dog, and I'm a happy boy. $1.50? That's a steal, man. That's a steal. That is an insane deal, especially in this economy. That was a steal of a deal back like 10 years ago.

Yeah, it hasn't changed. You still get a drink and a hot dog at a baseball game. That'd be 20 bucks. Oh, yeah. I mean, I think they bank on you obviously spending money at Costco and like having the Costco membership and stuff. Sometimes I don't. I'll walk into the Costco, go look for something that I want, realize I don't need 85. of them and be like, you know what? No, I'll just like buy a normal small pack of batteries and like go. And then I'll just walk outside and be like, but you know, a dollar 50 though for a hot dog. He's like a hot dog and a drink. I'm in.

Let's go. Yeah. No, it's a great deal. Yeah, it's the traffic. Okay. Let's go to weather. Weather time. Weather time.

It is weather time. Yep. Weather time, weather time. I had to type it in. All right, here we go. Weather request for St. Peterport, Guernsey Island. The town is one of the ten parishes on the island of Guernsey and the Channel Islands. It is known that a trading post or town existed here before Roman times with a pre-Christian name, which is not survived.

People from St. Peterport were nicknamed Levelevis, the townspeople, or Leachshards in the Gernes size I don't know that I want to be called a Lichard Yeah I licharted myself Oh man I lest shard in my Wait where does Where does Sips live? Is he on the Isle of Man or is he in

Guernsey? Where is he at? I think he's on the Isle of Man Otherwise known as the Isle of Sips. Honestly, I kind of part of me wants to know the vibe you know yeah like I want to visit Sips and just be like what's going on on your little island

in the middle of like between the UK and Ireland what's that little what's that what's going on in there it is really weird like I uh because like it's just like the some smallest island it's called the Isle of Maine so it's like why

that's what I'm saying like I love that There's something in a fantasy world that would be like where man came from Yeah, but he's like from Canada Right, right, right yeah he wanted to go to the UK, but like not actually Yeah, he's like I need to go to the Isle of Main Yeah Anyway in St. Peter Port Guernsey it is currently 45 degrees Fahrenheit feels like 42 degrees Fahrenheit high of 50

low of 42. Winds 4 miles an hour, air quality 45, pressure 29.93 inches, visibility 7 miles. Sunrise, 622 a.m. Sunset 7.59 p.m. 82% humidity, dew point 40, UV in Dek 0 and a waning crescent moon. Dendey. We got 53 on Monday, partly cloudy, Tuesday 56, cloudy, Wednesday, 58. with some light rain. Thursday, 56, parley cloudy, Friday, 57, mostly cloudy, Saturday, 55, parley cloudy, Sunday, 55, partly cloudy, Monday, 56,

barley cloudy. I guess I'm kind of shocked that I thought, you know, sometimes we'll look at an island in the Mediterranean or the island off the coast of X, Y, or Z. You know, it's an island, and there's a lot of nature and things to go visit and touristy stuff. This island is covered with roads

The town is like one half the island. It is honestly kind of impressive. It must be a tourist spot. This must be like a place that I guess maybe, I want to say the French, but it seems like mostly a British thing. Yep. Like without having to go to France. We're close. We can go to two Frenchies, which by the way is a real place and that's amazing.

And it has a 4.9. It's a bakery that looks delicious. but yeah, most of it seems like British kind of ex-pat vibes. There's a lot of British style pub food and things like that, but also food from around the world here. I do think it's very British to be like, man, I want to go to France, but I really don't want to go to France.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So let's make our own France. They do have a restaurant called Slaughterhouse, which is a crazy name for a restaurant. And honestly, it looks really good. It looks pretty good. Yeah, looks pretty good. It looks very good, in fact.

I'd eat there. Yeah, there's a lot of, uh, it's, what an interesting island. There's, there's so many what you consider touristy spots, but they're all kind of on the west coast and in the south. And then in the middle and north is pretty much just a city. Yeah. I mean, there's some places on the north. Like a big ass city.

A lot of the north places are like the beach house or like beach place and like on the water. Yeah, I wonder, this probably is like the summer spot where you can get like a, you know, $59, some sort of flight and then land there, stay there for a couple days, get crazy, you know, Guernsey. That's what they always say. Get crazy at Guernsey. That's what they say. That's what they say. Where exactly would you get crazy at Guernsey? Me personally? Probably St. Jock's Tavern. Oh, I see it.

Literally just looks like these three girls opened a small bar in their home. It does actually look like that. You know how when people talk about their favorite drinking place in Tokyo and it's like the small bar that fits four people? That's what this looks like. it really does like even just like the pictures are like two women dancing in a basement yes what I'm saying I love this I would this is a spot I'd go to I'd spend so much it looks it genuinely looks like it's just in someone's home it really does I I but he they show the outside and it's kind of like a building type of thing like it doesn't look like a house

it's very bizarre but then down the road is the blue chicken house bakery and it literally is a blue chicken house and a lot of delicious baked goods. You know what? God, you know what? It makes me upset that we don't have any

decent normal bakeries here in L.A. We have bakeries but they serve the most dushy version of whatever and it's like 15. Here in L.A. there's a renaissance of pies happening right now. Like people are serving pies and they're getting pies

and their pie shops opening up everywhere and like restaurants have pies and things. And admittedly, they're delicious. However, if you want to get like a whole pie to give you some example, they're like 80 bucks. Yeah. Plus like, like you said, they're making some weird. They're probably like, this is olive oil coated avocado cocoa 90% powdered tomato pie. Yeah.

Where they use like, we used all the best ingredients to make this pie, luxury pie. But it's like, dude, my favorite pie. is a cherry pie homemade with that literal canned ass goop cherry that they have in the grocery store for like five bucks that's my favorite pie

I don't need your fancy ass pie it's like when I took you to my Midwest town thing they're just like grandma's old cookies and like ice cream it's like very Midwestern type of like shit like that that's I love that stuff it is there's something infinitely more real about just

that compared to the L.A. version where everything is cranked up to 11. I was talking with Dodger about Irwan, which is this ridiculous expensive grocery store here in L.A. where most people go there, either as a status symbol because you can afford it, or you're a tourist or a influencer going there to like make a video or goof on it. Oh yeah.

I watched Danny Gonzalez did that. He like bought a, I think that's the expensive strawberry from there. and then he literally flew from Chicago to LA to taste the strawberry. And he was like, man, it's okay. Then he just flew back. Yeah, the thing about that. That's what Dodger and I were talking about is like,

that exists because of Japanese culture and the idea that it's like, you know, you would give fruit as gifts, right? And then it got corporatized the point where it's like, well, this is $100 strawberry, which is insane. But the idea is if you're giving it as a gift, the person who receives it recognizes, it as a $100 strawberry

so they know you spent a large amount of money on this thing for them, which is kind of you know, that's the selling point. Yeah. Other than that, it's just a strawberry. It's a beautiful looking strawberry, but it's just a strawberry. That's the thing

is they have all that kind of crap, or they'll have like an $85 small thing of honey. And like, yes, but this honey is only from bees that live on the moon, like that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah. Or they'll have, the big thing that they had for a while was that Haley Bieber smoothie, which all the like influencer girls were getting,

which probably kept that damn thing going longer than should have. That's like a $35 smoothie. That's insane. Yeah, that's crazy. But it's about the idea of, well, I have so much money, I don't care. Which is at the end of the day, no matter what people say, kind of what America's about. That's like when you go to Nordstrom and shit, they're just like, here's like a $100 shirt. It's like the same shirt got made in China for like a dollar.

or less. Yes. That one time, I don't know if you were with us. It was one of the times we were at Coxcon and we went to Herods

and we were walking around Herods and we went to like the clothing section. Herons, by the way, if you've never been to Herods in the UK, faithful listener out there, imagine just like a giant

shopping center thing but clearly designed for the wealthy. And so as you walk through, you'll see things we're like, what the what? And some of the clothing areas, you'll walk around and see clothes that not only

would no one be able, like normal person be able to afford, but also you'd have no situation of where to wear it. Like some of the outfits are like, when would you put that on? That does not seem like everyday wear, but they're asking for $16,000 for a shirt. Like, what do you mean? Yeah, it's that kind of thing.

It's about like, screw it, I've got so much money, I don't care. Of course I'll buy it. Which is insane for most people. Or like, you know, fancy places like London or like actual cities. Yes. But, I mean, you said honey from moonbees. I mean, moonbees, that would be some crazy honey, I could imagine. Like moon bee honey?

I feel like it would be crazy since there's no flowers on the moon. So it would be interesting how they made it. But yeah. Maybe they pollinate space honey. rocks, you know. Ooh, space rock honey. That'd probably be like that, the same thing is that honey that's from like New Zealand or whatever that's expensive.

Manuka honey. Yeah, yeah. I will say, though, as someone who's tried it, it's kind of awesome. I tried it too. It's got a funky taste, but you get used to it. Yeah, well, like if you put it in tea or something, there's no real difference. But yeah, when you open the jar, it smells funky. It's got like a funk.

But with that said, kind of love it. It's too expensive, though, for. you know, everyday use. There's no way. I think going back to what we were saying about L.A. pies and like other things. I think it's because when you have that type of thing, like fancy pie, like all that's,

it's like very pretentious. And like they're creating the pie as like an art form. And just like this is highly crafted food that I've done. But like when you have like, Grandma Judy's like pie shack. She's just like, I'm like it's like comfort food or like cozy comfort pie. where you're just like, wow, yeah, it is good stuff.

Like, she doesn't care about, you know, art or like, she just wants it to taste good and make you happy. And I mean, I think there's a place for both. Like, I still like eating my crazy Alinea food and, like, fancy stuff. But that's like, to me, that's like a treat. You know, that's like every once in a while you do something like that. But the other one's like, dude, every week I'll take a root beer float from like old Pappy's root beard shack.

Like, I got the best root beer. And that's the weather. All right. What's going on in sports? Sports, sports. We got sports. It is time for sports. Currently, we got the Masters going on.

And it says Rory McElroy has won the Masters. Becomes the fourth to repeat. That's pretty crazy. Yeah, he's the, I think, I remember him from like a while ago. Let's see. I don't really know much about golf, but I know some names. I don't at all. Yep. A couple weeks, we got the NFL draft pump for that. One of my favorite times of the year.

Extremely nerdy sports thing. It is the nerdiest of sports things. Yes. It's, you know, me and all the, my fellow football podcast guys love it. Very fun. We got the NHL playoffs getting very close, I believe. Playoffs. Playoffs.

we're like only a I think they're going to start like next week or something and currently we have the let's see we have the sabers at number one in the Atlantic

and the hurricanes number one in the metropolitan which they all kind of blend together I believe but the actual playoffs are Buffalo Tampa Bay Montreal Carolina Pittsburgh Ottawa

Boston and then one of either Philadelphia Washington or Columbus or potentially the island There's, I don't know, there's like a battle going on down there. I'm just going to be cheering for the sabers. I'm not going to lie. I hope they win.

And on the other side, we got the avalanche, the stars, the wild, the golden nights, the Oilers, the Utah mammoth are in. I'll be, dude, I want a mammoth versus Buffalo Stanley Cup. That's what I want, which probably means they'll both. Verses Buffalo. Yeah, that'd be great. All right. That's wild, but yes.

Yeah. They'll probably both lose first round. It'll be like Colorado versus Tampa Bay or something. And then the last spot is either going to be the ducks, the kings, the predators, or there's the jets and the sharks. But I think the jets and the sharks are pretty much eliminated. Then, same thing going on the NBA. They're about to start their playoffs. Today's the last day, actually, for NBA basketball.

We got the Piston, Celtics, Knicks, Caves, Hawks, all in the playoffs right now with the Raptors and the Magic 76ers and the Hornets and the Heat, trying to battle for playing stuff and other stuff. And other stuff. Yeah, then we got the Thunder up top as well as the Spurs, and they're kind of a league of their own. And then there's the Nuggets, the Lakers, who are extremely banged, up and injured, and then the rockets, timber wolves, and the play-in is Suns, Trailblazers,

clippers, and warriors. And then in baseball, we have the Tampa Bay Rays, the Yankees, and the Orioles all tied atop the east, the guardians atop the Central with the twins right behind them, the Rangers and the athletics atop the West. The athletics are good now. What the heck? The Braves atop the east with the Marlins right behind them. the pirates atop the central.

That's pretty crazy. Although everyone's like two games apart. And then the Dodgers, of course, atop the West with the Padres right behind them. Although, look at that. The Colorado Rockies are six and ten. Last year they were like 0 and 20s. They're making progress.

Good for them. That's so funny in a season that's like 140-some games. Like, all right, yeah, no, they're doing it. 16 in. Yep. You never know. And that is sports. Okay

What is our fact of the day? Fact of the day It's the fact of the day In the early days of volleyball The game was originally played With a bladder From a basketball Wait what?

Oh like the inside of a basketball Oh Yeah I guess it was played with the inside of a basketball It makes me one So wait what's the origin of Volleyball? Was it just like hey We wanted to play basketball today

but we couldn't, so we're going to go into the sand and hit around a basketball? Like that kind of thing? It says here that the origin of volleyball was created in 1895 by William Morgan, a YMCA physical education director in Massachusetts, is a less strenuous alternative to basketball for older members. There you go. Look at that. Yeah, damn. That's actually, that's pretty cool.

I never knew that. I didn't realize volleyball was that new as well. You would think 1890, still pretty, you know, relatively. It's not like that. Like, there's sports. They're like thousands of years old. They're like hundreds of years old.

It's like, yeah, that was like a hundred some years. Not like that crazy. I guess, yeah. You would think they would have invented a sport like that. Unless maybe they did back in the day and it just wasn't as popular or something. I don't know. Whatever it is.

That's the origin. That's pretty cool. That is very cool. Yeah. In fact, they. Okay. Who has come to us with tears in their eyes? Boy, oh boy.

We got a lot of tears this week. And here we are. Dear Lesteris, sirs, with tears in mine eyes and a sense of mischief in my heart, I must ask you upon this question. If you were to steal an entire moving truck worth of goods, 24-foot utility U-Haul-style truck or similar vehicle, what would it have to be loaded with in order to be worth the hassle? For bonus points, it should not be something you can easily resell,

like magic or Pokemon cards or cash. Or Kit-Kats, not that we would know. Anything about that. Yeah. So it's got to be like a moving truck worth of stuff. And it has to be something. To me, it has to be something because, you know, I don't want stuff, right? Right.

So it's got to be something that I would always use to the point where I'd used through all of it, or I could sell. Yes. The best selling version of that would be a truck filled with Jordans. Yeah, but I feel like you could resell those easily. That's what I'm saying. Isn't that the point that you could resell it easily? No, they said you cannot resell it easily.

Oh. To make it harder. Dinosaur bones That's the Nick Cage Yeah I want to The only person I could sell him to Is to be Nick Cage He'd have to meet with me

And I think it'll be worth it I've got tons of dinosaur bones for you Nick We got our big dinosaurs our little dinosaurs Whatever dinosaur you want It's in the back of my you all dude I'm looking for a brontosaurus 2.4 million BC Oh I got it

I don't you worry. I got it. I love you, dinosaur man. Thank you. That's what they call me on the streets. They call me Dinosaur D on the streets. Dinosaur D. I like that. That's good. Good stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I would do. I don't know.

I would want to, I'd pick some, like, weird shit where people'd go missing and they'd be like, whatever. It has to be like I don't know what is weird stuff transported in trucks oh here we go 25 bizarre truck trailers that'll raise

eyebrows Oh that's truck trailers That's like that's a different beast entirely Yeah Someone said live worms The worm I would not want to hijack that truck. Yeah, that would be a weird one because you're just like, I got a worm,

but there'd be people willing to buy it. You would have to work a bit harder. And you could just tell people I have. You'd tell people like, I have worms. They'd be like, get away from it. Yeah, although I bet there's a, there's like, if you went to like that Florida man competition, I bet you could sell some worms there. Oh, it seems like fishermen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That would be. It's all about the right people, right place, man. Yeah. That's honestly, you know what? Yeah, I'd take worms.

I'd just go to various fishing locations. Again, nobody's, it's like, you know, plus the, who even owns the worms? The worms are just, they're one with the ground. So it's. They're one with the ground. Yeah. Um, there we go. Uh, all right, next one.

Your illustrious. sirs. I come to me with tears in my eyes from a thought of a question that keeps me up long into the night. Oh boy. Thought of a question. Okay. If you were to do a dear illustrious sirs with tears in your eyes to one another what would you ask to have answered

by the other? Oh man. That's... This is like one of those I got to think about it situations. This is. So if I had to be like, dear illustrious Crendor, if you had to live in a major city like in the heart of the city

what city would it be? Let's see because I know you don't like living in cities I don't so let's see I'd have to see if I take a look at the world here

Give it a look Give it a glance Yeah I feel like a lot of people here Would say like Japan And like that is a good option But I don't know

I feel like I'm I'm more of like an old European man Mm-hmm So I feel like Where would you go Old European man? You know what?

I'm like I am part Croatian And I did watch a Rick Steves In Croatia And it seemed pretty cool I think I might just pick Croatia Like somewhere

Somewhere in Croatia That's like It's pretty close to other European places You can like go to Italy If you want You go to like Somewhere else

It's not too bad I kind of dig that But like where in Croatia Uh It's got to be major city It's uh this one Is it Zagreb You want to go to Zagreb?

My man All right yes Okay Yeah Why not What What are you You're like

Ah yeah I just Of all the places I one didn't expect you to pick overseas And two Didn't expect you to pick Croatia Honestly I am impressed

Yeah I mean Like I said, I would, I could go out in the morning and like drink a coffee on the, you know, the road from like a local place. You like go to a park. I could like, you know, it's pretty nice out. I think it's probably similar weather to Chicago, actually. Probably. It's got chill vibes and stuff.

Yeah, I don't know. I again, I can appreciate all that. I would not have expected you to have chosen outside the U.S. But admittedly, if I had to pick a city to live in, nine out of ten would be outside the U.S., so. Like, I get it. I understand. It's also the thing we're like, I think because I am part Croatian.

I was always interested in Croatia because my grandfather was like, he would like speak Croatian and he would talk about it. It's like that made me interest in it, interested in it as well. So he would try like Croatian foods and stuff too growing up. So it's a bit of like a familiar thing as well. Yeah, I mean, look, I've definitely been at the point where I've thought if I didn't have to do X, Y, and Z, I would ditch the U.S. And go like, I don't know, there's so many other places where I'd be like, that sounds beautiful and a lot less stressful. Yeah.

It's, uh, it doesn't see. Plus, like I said, if I, you like fly to Italy in like a couple hours or something. Yeah. If you want, you have like a vacation there. I could like fly to, you know, like somewhere. Go eat like Bratworth in Germany or something. That'd probably just be a couple hours. You also were the guys that doesn't like to travel though.

But you could get on trains. Yeah, that's the thing. Here's the, the big thing I hate with traveling is how long it takes. But like, if it's like a three hour, two, three. three hour flight, that's fine. That's, that's like doable. Plus, like, there's not a lot of time zone shifting around as much over there.

It's, like, one of the reasons I wouldn't want to go there now is, like, I'm going across the world. It's like 10 hours. And I'm just like, ugh. Like, I don't do that. But if I was already over there, I'd probably go see stuff because it wouldn't be that far. Plus, yeah, you got, like, trains and shit. You, like, take a train, although

I'd probably fly to. Taking the channel from the UK with Dodger into France and then going over to Ghent for the, you know, the thing we did for Baldr's Gate 3. The time, it was so quick that I still thought we were in the UK when we were in France. That's how fast it was. Damn. Because you go through a tunnel and I expected us to be underground for a long time.

No, we must have been zooming through. And so when we came out of the tunnel, I thought that was just like a little UK tunnel thing. It wasn't until after a while I started noticing things were in front. French, I was like, wait a minute, are we in France already? It was that kind of thing. It was crazy fast. Hey. Yeah, that's some good technology.

It makes me kind of miss on the East Coast here in the States. We have a lot of, you know, you can get between cities pretty quickly, but we don't have those, that fast train stuff. We don't, you can get through, you know, the Northeast especially very quickly. But it's just, you know, It's just not the same. There's something about the fact that in Europe, they actually spent a lot of money on trains.

While in the States, it's kind of like, yeah, I mean, you can get on Amtrak if you want, but it'll probably break down. Yeah, that's true.

Although, honestly, the Chicago trains are pretty good compared to a lot of the rest of the country. That's, I mean, the ones I've been on with you, great.

Yeah. Oh, they're pretty solid. Oh, yeah, I have to ask, you something. Okay, y'all. Let's see.

I would say, Dear illustrious, Cox, uh-huh. Go on. Why haven't you played Skyrim for your million subscribers yet? Solid question.

It's sitting on my desktop. I'm looking at it right now. We downloaded a bunch of add-ons to make it like look nice. And then I had my team download a bunch of add-ons to make it like, like goofy and fun so when I played through it, crazy shit could happen, right?

And so and all this stuff, I was ready to go. And then a bunch of other nonsense happened. And a bunch of other games came along. And I started playing those, then more time ticked away. And then more time ticked away. And I kept putting it off. And then I put it off so much to the point where when I went to go play finally, every add-on was broken.

So I had to then get everyone to redownload stuff, except I had other stuff to do that day. So I was like, all we'll redown all the ad-ons next time. And then it just, that kept building. So remember the beginning of this episode when I was talking about like, he putting stuff off? This is an example of that. I know I should be playing it.

I want to play it. And every time I feel like, okay, now I can play it. Something else comes along. Or the game itself is like, sorry, not working. You have all these broken add-ons. So yeah. Oh, I'm aware. I think I literally today while I was, you know,

doing all my errands was thinking about like, all right, how do I fit that into my schedule over the next couple months? Yes. Oh, I'm aware. So feel free like everyone already is doing to roast me online and be like, you promised. I'm aware. Don't worry. I'm aware. Listen, I'm just saying, I think it would do great. People love it. They'd watch it. It would get used. There's no reason not to do with my desire. It is everything to do with it. It is sitting on my desktop with about 40 other games I haven't touched yet. I see. So again, overwhelmed. Overwhelmed. There was a time where it was on the desktop. of this computer by itself. There was nothing else there.

It was like, I needed to download. And then it's, yeah, dude, I'm telling, I just, there was a moment where I should have, and I just didn't, which is why I, this is the problem where there was a time where I was streaming every day and then more, more stuff built up, and then I was streaming three times a week. And now, this past week I streamed exactly two times. Right. One was with you and one was early in the week for a brand deal.

Like, that's, I just didn't have the time to get it done. Yeah. I mean, you are more focused on other things, right? That is true. I got a game coming out at the beginning of May. I got this like a bunch of editing stuff I have to do. Like it's just what a complete mess over here. But the dream, the dream is one day I just have like today, starting today and continuing until I'm done.

I'm going to clear all the things off my desktop. I'm not going to play anything new. And I'm just going to go. We're just going to do this. That's the dream. you just get your new computer at home and it just has one big

Skyrim button in the center of the screen that's the only thing on it and then do it that way when you get home it's the only thing you can do if you want to go on the computer yes well that's see now you understand my new problem where this is this is why

this is why everyday with me is a mess I'm like oh surely now since it's April I should get a new computer for home. I haven't had one for two months. It's, you know, I should just get a new computer. However, I'm also thinking if by the end of the summer I have to leave the office, I have to bring this computer I have here home anyway. So I don't have two computers. What a waste of money. So that's where I'm at. I'm like, oh, I didn't have two. What a waste. So

now you understand another look into my mind. Right. But I think you're just got to do it. Oh, you're right. It's just like working out. out, I just gotta do it, but you know, I'm like, I have so much other stuff. Yeah. All right. Very nice. There's your answer, internet.

There it is. I got it for you. Um, so there we go. That's the deer illustrious sirs and the dear illustrious ourselves. What is our big new story of the day? Actually, I may have one. It's not funny, but it might be one of the craziest things I've ever seen. And I found it online and I was like,

maybe I should just read this one. And I think I think I should. I think maybe I should. Fix it up. Okay, here we go. This one's for you. The headline is more insane than the actual story, but my God, is it crazy. From science focus, a massive once in 500 years chimpanzee civil war has broken out.

What the hell? That's right. A community of around 200 chimpanzees living in Uganda's Kibale National Park has fractured into two warring factions, with one group launching a year's long campaign of lethal attacks against the other. The Nogogo? I assume chimpanzees have been studied continuously for three decades, but in recent years, scientists have watched as a violent split unfolded in slow motion. From around 2015, what had been a single cohesive group began to polarize. Social ties, frayed, neighborhoods within the community hearted into distinct factions, and shared territory became a contested border.

By 2018, the break was permanent. What followed was remarkable and troubling. The smaller of the two groups, the Western chimps, began making targeted raids into the territory of the larger central group. Over the next six years, they killed at least seven adult males and 17 infants, dude. What the shit? And that figure is likely an undercount. A further 14 adolescent and adult central males disappeared or died unexpectedly between 2021 and 2024, none of whom showed signs of illness before.

Today, the Western group has surpassed its rival to become the dominant force in the jungle. I just, I never in my life did I think there'd be. be a chimpanzee civil war and they're like this is so rare we don't like we haven't seen this before

that is I mean because there's gotta be are there's like other animals doing this because this feels like a very much like a like the chimpanzees or like the monkeys or like one of the only ones having like crazy

well I guess they other animals wouldn't do it but yeah have no clue. It's crazy because the way they describe it here, you know when you read or you hear about the Civil War here in the United States? It's like, brother turned

on brother, and they were fighting like that kind of thing. The description of this is like former companions, groomers, and long-term social partners turned on each other. Literally it's like brother against like straight up a civil war. It's crazy.

That is that is wait, hold, I I just checked that says animals like dolphins have been observed in violent ganglike confrontations lions, wolves,

mongooses, meerkats ants has actually been ant wars they've rated other ant messes I'm curious though if these wars are so the thing I think they're saying here that's different isn't that it's like a pack of wolves or like a

you know colony of ants versus colony of ants. They're saying this is chimps that were buddies literally turned on each other. That is, yeah. It's like they were just talking, everything's good, and then they're just like, actually, you know what? The things have deteriorated, and now it's time for war.

That's crazy. Yeah, it's like these, they were friends, now they're enemies, and I feel like, for the sake of science, we need to know what set this off. Yeah. Because there's got to be a reason. They have to have noticed something. Yeah.

I'm reading through all these articles trying to find it, and I can't see anything that says what's set it off. All they know is that in around 2015, these two groups began to, like, take issue with each other as a group. Mm-hmm. And then it just evolved. Yeah, so, like, what made them have that issue? That's what I'm saying.

saying someone, some monkey was probably being an ass and his friends stood up for him or something. And the other monkey is like, he's got to go. That guy sucks. They're like, no, he's a friend. And I don't know. I have no clue. There's got to be some follow-up. Somebody has to have something.

I mean, I'm literally looking right now. I'm looking. Wild chimpanzees waging a civil war. On a June day in 2015. primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Nogogo chimpanzees in Uganda's Cabalayan National Park

when you noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees wider group moved closer to the force, the chimpanzees in front of him began to display nervous behavior. They grimaced and touched each other for reassurance acting more like they were about to meet strangers than close companions.

In hindsight, Sandel said that moment was the first sign of what would become a year's long bloody conflict between a close-knit group of chimps. It doesn't really say how it starts. It just says that suddenly these other chimps were a little worried about the other group. And he noticed that, but it doesn't say what set that off.

Maybe they don't even know. Maybe it's like they can't even figure out. Maybe not, yeah. It's like you probably observe certain things of just like, oh, they're like taking, you know, their food or like they're like, you know, invading their habitat, like their territory or whatever. or like something, but like, you're not going to get like the actual like, well, and negotiations at the diplomacy.

Ooh, okay, this is interesting. Scientists think that a similar rupture in civil war may have occurred in the 1970s with a chimpanzee group in Gombay Tanzania, observed by renowned primatologist Jane Goodall Rip, Queen. But at the time, our basic understanding of chimpanzee behavior was too limited to fully appreciate the rarity of in-group violence. In the case of these Nogogo chimps, a change in social hierarchies may explain the group's fracture, researchers said, producing organized aggression and violence. One day, no, I'm sorry, on the day Sandel observed the chimps acting strangely in 2015, earlier that morning the group's alpha male had grunted in submission to another champanee. Yet the group social structure had also been affected by the depth of several key older individuals in the year that preceded the division. Their abrupt death likely weakened the connections among the neighborhoods, which then made the group vulnerable to polarization.

Interesting. So that's like, honestly, that's kind of like historical for humans too. Like the people holding stuff together when they're dead. Oh my God, I just, have you seen the new season of Fallout? I have not. There's a faction. I don't want to spoil too much, but there's a faction where the leader dies. And then there's, they split in two.

and they're fighting over who gets to go look at the leader's last words who would decide who rules, but no one wants to give up the body because they may lose. So they fight with each other constantly while the body sits in the middle of the battlefield. Ah, yeah. And that's kind of the vibe here, is that these guys, all the people holding everything together, died, and then it fractured. Oh, that's crazy. That is great. I mean, that is like a common thing, too, right?

there could just be like the elder being like, you too, not, it could even be like siblings. They're like, I hate him. And they're like, we can't fight because are like, oh, like our father's like, ah, do not fight, you idiot kids. And then he dies. And they're like, fuck you. And they just start fighting. Yes, you really did just describe the house of the dragon plot line. That's it. These are house of the dragon chimpanzee. This is house of the chimpanzee. I guess it's just crazy because I never think of chimps as like yes, gorillas and chimpanzees,

they have very human stuff they do, but I never think of them as like, we were best friends, but one day we're mortal enemies. Like, that's crazy. But I also should probably think of chimps as the same guys who one day are a happy little pet some guy has

and the next day he rips off your face. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, they changed their mind apparently. I think it's just interesting because they're like one of the most humanistic types of animals, right? Compared to like all the other ones.

And I mean, I guess that's kind of in our nature is to just be a little absolutely crazy violence sometimes. Yeah. Imagine like bombing other countries. Yeah, that'd be crazy. Yeah. Thank God we're, thank God we're an enlightened species and not like chimpanzees. Yeah. Actually, we've evolved.

It's a grow up. Yeah. But that story I saw this week It was like, I can't believe that's real. And here we are. No, that's, that is pretty crazy. That was an interesting, big news story of the day. Pretty big and newsy.

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