Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 512 - So do we like fireworks?

Episode Date: July 6, 2026

The boys are back and this time Crendor and Jesse have lots to say on the 4th of July, most of it people watching more than firework watching. Also it's that time of year for the amazing Joey Chestnut intros! Also the boys have thoughts on streaming and driving - expect those crazy hot takes. And then we discover a town in Georgia with absolutely love. And then we're introduced to the worlds loudest person. All this and more on a brand new Cox n' Crendor! Head to http://Factormeals.com/cox50off and use code cox50off to get 50% off and free daily greens per box

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Wake your ass up. It's up. Next, Brendan, in the morning. I don't even know if you just said words. I did. I thought I said it pretty well, to be honest. You might have, but it was like, there's a point where it was a string.

I think the cadence was different. That, yeah, I think you're right, the cadence threw me off. I did like a whole different. I had a pause where there wasn't supposed to be a pause. You know, three off. Yeah, and it's easy to throw me off. Well, exactly. And that's why I did it.

Yeah. But you know what isn't throwing off? Oh no. Yes. The 4th of July. Oh, did you do anything? Do you celebrate? We did. We always barbecue. Well, you know what? I guess it was kind of thrown off because it was raining here. But needed, right? Like, it's been pretty hot? Well, it's been hot, but I think it's humid. And it was like downpouring for like days, actually. We've got like thunderstorms.

In fact, I have a fun story about that as well. okay yes go on yeah we like barbecue it was whatever you know it was normal you know it was just it was raining outside but it is what it is uh so we went to a like uh like summertime fest thing one of those like hey you know we're gonna throw a summertime fest every would they like put up tents and shit have bands play is that kind of by the place you took me that one time or is this a different place uh it's a different place but Because that place seemed like the summertime, like that got to go over there and stop over at the summertime. They probably got summertime stuff too.

Like at this point, just pick a weekend. There's probably somebody doing summertime. Eat our food. Listen to music. Walk around. I also want to stress for the record that, uh, you said the word summertime and I just went with it. I'm not even sure I understand what that means. And I accepted it so easily.

You really did. Like, yeah, okay. It's just, you know, it's one of those things where the, in the summertime, every, every, like, suburban town and, like, city and pretty much if there's a place with people, they throw some sort of festival. Yeah, I bought it in a meeting. I was like, yeah, I know. The Midwest, I get it. Yeah, it's Midwest. They got, like, carnival rides.

They put up. They got, like, bands. They, like, do all that shit. Right? Yeah, there's a face painter. Yeah. They got a parade that features the local high school. Oh, yeah.

No, I get it. Exactly. People fight for parade spots. they're like, I'm going to put my blanket here and I'm getting my parade spot or I want to see the fireworks. Because it's very important. Yeah, which by the way,

all the fireworks they're going to do got like canceled because it rained and people are just like, this is unbelievable. The weather has destroyed my summer. Anyway, so we were at one of these things. It was me and toast room in there. We got a beer. They're like, all right, you know,

just chill there a bit and then go home. Just like people watch. Because, you know, it's fun to see the people there. There's a lot of, interesting people. Right. So it starts raining a bit. And there's like lightning.

So they're like, hey, everybody, you know, lightning in the area. We're going to have to like, wait until we get the all clear. So people are like,

all right, whatever. And then some guy in his phone goes, it's supposed to be done in like 10 minutes. Turns out it was not. It was hours of rain. Yeah. And the weather thing.

I mean, that's how it happens when random guy looks at his phone. And it's like, I'm a meteorologist. I know how this works. Yeah. I mean, to be fair, I looked at my phone too, and it also said like 10 minutes. So I think he was looking at the same weather app. That's just like the normalized weather app.

It was like whatever. Sure. Anyway, it's like kind of raining. Like whatever. And then it's like, actually, it's going to rain for like 30 minutes. And then everyone's like, some people are like, I'm just leaving. And then people are leaving. Like, whatever.

You know, we'll wait a bit. Then it starts like thunder and more. Then it starts like heavy raining. Then it starts, then it's like, actually it's going to be heavy rain for like, I don't know, an hour and a half. And we're just like, uh, so people are just like chilling under the tent. The problem is the tent's got like metal ass poles holding it up, right? So then there's like a, uh, the people there like, you have to leave the tent. It is now a safety hazard.

Then they got like a cop there and he's like, you must leave the tent. And he's doing his like, weep, weep, whip, whip. Like, you got to leave the tent. So we're just like, well, it's pouring rain. So we're just going to like walk. We got to walk back to our car in the pouring rain. So we were waiting to see if it calmed down. But I'm glad we waited because we saw two of the most insane people I have ever seen.

Perfect. Yes, this is, yes. This is what I'm here for. Fourth of July is not great without its crazy people. Yeah. So one guy bald with a mustache. All right. Just put that in your head.

How big was the mustache? Like one of those carnival moustaches. Love it. Great. All right. Good. Yeah. All right.

He's got a cigarette as well. Perfect. And he goes, I ain't leaving this tent. I ain't leaving this tent. All right. He said, what? I said, yo, you get to stay in the cop car, man. I got to be out in the rain.

You're shielded from the rain. I ain't leaving this tent. I got a medical condition. I can't get wet. I got a medical condition. I can't get wet. Get Wet is amazing. I can't get wet.

He's gonna be like a maugly or whatever the hell. He's gonna turn into like a Gremlin if it gets wet. Yeah, so he's yelling about his medical condition, which I don't think he's got one. I think he was making that up. But you know what? Who am I to judge? He might have one. So he was just like, that cops telling me to leave.

I ain't leaving shit. You know what? He's like, shut everything. Shut everything down. Then I'll leave. Then I'll leave the tent and this other guy there who was wearing like a yellow like safety vest or like a reflector vest And people thought he worked there, but he didn't. He's just the guy and he was like yeah, I ain't leaving this shit Yeah, he's like if you arrest me, I'm gonna be the worst person you ever arrested I'm gonna shit on the walls

What? That's what he said says he's gonna shit on the walls Sure man. That's, you know what? These are the kind of guys who will talk a big game than the minute they get arrested to be like, someone call my mother. Absolutely. Without a doubt. They were probably also like two, three beer in.

That's so, it's so performative. Like, it's absolutely goofy the amount of people who will just, I'm tough and I'm guys, right? Everyone? Right? Like, you wouldn't do that. You just wouldn't say anything. If you were like a tough guy, you wouldn't say. anything and you'd wait them out.

Yeah, absolutely. You would just sit there and not talk to them and not interact. You drink your beers and you would be like, I don't listen to cops. And you just sit there. You want to make a big show that's nonsense. Yeah. And then, you know, I mean, listen, it was

two guys in a large amount of people. So, like, the other people were just like maybe like putting garbage bags on their head or like just trying to run to their car. Like, I got a walk to my car, I want to do it. But then once these guys started ramping up, some people are just like, I don't know, I'm just going to leave. I don't want to be around them. Yeah. If anything, people are

going to, you know, you make a scene like that. No one wants to be in that tent with you. Those two guys, though, they can cover that tent with all the shit they want. Yeah. So then the, they also had like food vendors there, but he's like, how about the food vendors leave? And it's like, well, they clearly work there. Like, they probably have a contract. Right. So like, if they get hit by lightning they probably already got some contractual thing of like it's your fault not ours so he's like i'll leave when you shut down all this stuff and then uh it's like still downpouring and i was like yeah we should we should probably just you know deal with it i do have a question okay so this is a tent where there's food and like everyone's hanging out there's multiple tents like

stack together and shit and the cops roll up and they're like you guys got to go because the weather Yeah, well they're like already there just like making sure people like this aren't causing problems And they were anyway but still but what's interesting though is the idea of These guys are so adamant about not all you got to do is just go anywhere else There's probably a bar nearby there's like you can do whatever and they're making such a big fuss out of it It's a non thing and I don't understand it but it feels like these guys are the dudes like I've got nowhere else to go. Yeah.

Like, why would you care? Because yeah, it's like, it's raining. You know, if you, listen, you're going to go out. You're going to get drenched. Your clothes are going to be all wet, but like, that's going to happen anyway. It's going to be raining for like two hours, man. Like deal with it. It is what it is.

So anyway, uh, it was like us. We were just kind of wait and see if it like lightened up a bit. And then there's like maybe like 10 other people there just like also waiting. and then they're just like all right, you know, you gotta start leaving, whatever. And I was like, all right, but I wanted to see if these guys did anything else. Just the, just the, you know, and so then the one guy. Yeah, they start like being like, all right, you know,

we're trying to push everything, like push everyone out of here, make sure you shut it down. And these guys are like, I'm not leaving. And the one guy goes, I'll F your wife. I'll F your mom. Just yelling at the, at the cops

yes yo that's that is some like I I must stress this clearly is a Midwestern white dude situation

because any other person anywhere else it would have been it would have been done yeah it's absolutely and you know the

they're just like dude the cops just like I don't want to deal with this shit and so So at that point, I was like, all right, then we just, then we left. And we did get soaked, but, you know, you get home, you dry off, you move on.

I genuinely wonder if this is like an incident. You know how some people won't go out in the, like, windy weather? Because they're afraid their hair will get all mess up and it's like a vanity thing. Or some people won't, they don't like hot weather because they have like really sweaty pits whatever and they destroy. You know, like there's always a thing behind everyone's emotions. And I wonder if these dudes, something about getting wet, would make them look or feel ridiculous. And they were like, I would rather go to jail than experience that. Yeah, it might be. I mean, he might have a medical condition that's going to destroy his mustache or something.

Right. Like one time I was, I was on. I've, I've seen plenty of videos of this, but I've never seen. seen in real life except this one time, but you know like when you're on a flight, you're at an airport or whatever, and someone freaks out, you see videos of it all the time. I've never had that actually happen, but I did experience a minor freak out where this couple was yelling at each other at the airport. And eventually the cops had to like come over and be like, what's going on? Calm down, guys. And the reason they got in a fight is because the man wanted to get up and get up and

go stand and wait. But the girl wanted to wait until everyone in the area of the terminal had left to go get on the flight. And it turns out the reason why is because she, I guess, had her period and wasn't prepared. And so she stained the seats. And so she didn't want to get up and have people see that. She wanted to wait until everyone was gone. So no one would be like, ew, gross.

you know what I mean? Yeah. Now that's not a thought of like what's going to happen when you get on the plane or whatever. You know what I mean? But just in that moment she was so mortified

she would rather instigate an argument with a bunch of people than get up. And I think about that often where I'm like, people will do crazy stuff to avoid, they would rather be

shamed in a different way than shame for the thing they're actually trying to cover up. Yeah. I mean, honestly, that is an interesting situation. It's like, what if you shit your paints? Exactly. Yeah.

It's like, you're just going to, you know, try to divert the attention. Yeah, I keep wondering about like mustache guy. Like if he gets wet, his mustache like false part or something, you know what I mean? Like he's like, what's so much work in my mustache? I don't want to, or he like has a leather jacket maybe and he's like, it's going to get ruined. That I can understand. People are weird like that. And I think about that all the time when I interact with people who seem to be having a bad day.

Because I always am like, what set them off originally? Because it ain't me. That's for sure. Yeah. Plus, these two guys are like feeding off each other. That's like the back and forth of like these like, that's, I got my constitutional rights. They're saying shit like that. Well, yeah, they found each other without Facebook.

But it's the same thing. Yeah. It's Facebook guys finding each other in real life. Yeah. So that was interesting. And then, let's see, anything else happened 4th of July? Oh yeah, I watched the classic. I watched the hot dog eating contest.

Yo, not only did I watch it. I sent you the Joey Chestnut intro this year. Oh, yeah. I sent it over on TikTok to you. Yeah, I listen. Oh, it's incredible. It's great. I would still love that man to introduce us at literally anything a lot.

the live show. I want to have for this live show that we're doing in August. I want to do an intro for each of us. A Joey Chestnut style intro. I have to get on that. I need to remind myself, I will get someone, I don't know, we'll find a voice actor of some sort to do it for us. And I need to find the song. I don't know what that song like do. Oh, I know it is. I found it. Okay, yes, yes, we have to do this. I don't want to introduce us this time. I wanted to be like,

this is their cathedral, the crystal dome of umbrella blue sky whose vaulted ceilings touch the edge of the heavens themselves. Volcanoes of entertainment have erupted, and magma of laughter has poured out, but many have been burned by the burns of laughter. Hold on, can I, I want to ask the audience

if they will allow this. I think it would be very funny to take all the Joey Chestnut videos, feed it into an AI, and ask it to create our intros. Honestly, that would be pretty interesting. I would love to know. I don't want to read them.

I'll have the team do it. If the audience is down, let us know. Please comment. Let us know. On social media, wherever. if you're listening on YouTube right there that's fine

I want the team to do it I don't want to know and then I want us to go out on stage hearing it for the first time that would be amazing actually I think that would be hilarious one of the only good uses of AI in the world yes yes I think if we just fed it all the

Joey Chestnut intros what would it possibly because you know it would be like forged from the volcanoes of heaven the angels right on Florida, man. I can only imagine. I would love it.

Dude, I was watching his other intros from like previous years. And he does intros for other people. They're just not as intense. But he had one for this guy who was like 80 years old competing. And he goes, We start drinking coffee at our young age with milk and sugar. Then we drink just sugar. then we drink it black, then we drink decaf, and then we die.

This man is at the decaf stage. It's so dark. It was insane. You know what's crazy is that is also my parents. They're at the decaf stage. That's it. He's not wrong. And I'm drinking my coffee black right now.

Dude, you're almost, you're on the road to decaf. I'm almost to the decaf. I'm still in the latte stage. I'm feeling pretty good. I'm thinking I'm good. That was, he had another one. This guy comes up.

He's like, this man has failed at every sport in his life. Soccer, football, basketball, baseball, curling. And he's like listing him off. And he's like,

but professional eating is the one that he is good at. It's like, holy shit. We really, I need, yeah, I need to, I'm going to have the team this week

work on that. It's my, I will not pull the trigger on it until everyone approves, chat, let us know. But I feel like this could be the one time that we need to. Yeah. I think last year's was still my favorite with the shards of broken angels or whatever the shit you said. Yeah, that was incredible. This one, I keep messing it up, but he says something about like, under the heavenly dome of this blue sky. Like he does a whole, he does a whole thing.

and I just don't know what the hell he's talking about, but it's amazing. It's practically poetry. It really is. It is how I imagine I would want to be announced if I was like a gladiator in ancient Rome. Yeah.

Like it's definitely got to, it's like wrestling tier intros. But like even better. It's impressive. Very. I love that man. Yeah. So watch that.

And then, yeah, then we barbed. barbecue, went to my parents, did all that, and then watch the PBS 4th of July, which is the most like scripted as, uh, fun 4th of July.

I love just like looking at the people in the background. like it'll be a guy trying to like walk onto the thing, like shove them back like you're not allowed here. I saw that happen like twice. And they're just like, we're having a great time at 4th of July. And he's just like, and well, 42 minutes till the fireworks. It's like they'll leave it the Beaver 4th of July special for boomers.

Yeah, all the music is like cheesy. I'm, I am a fan of when they had like John Williams and stuff. I don't know if they do that anymore, but they used to do that. And that was kind of fun. But something about fireworks doesn't do it for me anymore. I don't know what happened to me. I'm like jaded. I don't know what's going on.

Like yesterday, honestly, I think it's because of where I live. So the area of L.A. I live is not particularly touristy unless it's the fourth. of July because it's where they set off fireworks in the city. So during the 4th, everyone comes here. It's a mess. There's no parking anywhere. The streets are filled with cars. It's trouble.

But usually that starts around 4 p.m. So yesterday, I just went around during the day and checked out stuff. I went down to the beach. I went over to the pier, walked around this little shopping thing. I was doing all this. My goal was to be out of there by 4. I was like, I'm getting out of here. I'm going home.

I don't even want to be around this area of the city. So, you know, went and got like, there's this little tiny barbecue shack place that I went to. And I got a chicken sausage sandwich with fries and that was delicious. And I had a good time. But like, yeah, it's just bumming around. However, oh my God, dude. I saw two things that made me realize, I feel like we're living in a simulation. So first I went to go get gas.

And while I'm sitting there pumping gas, I don't know if this is something you have in your area. I know it's really in like major, major cities right now, but Waymo's. Do you have Waymos? I think I've seen a few, but not like a whole lot of them. In L.A. we have a lot. There was one time I was on a four-way intersection, and there were two in front of me, and then there were three at each of the other things at the intersection. I was like, they're taking over the city. This is ridiculous.

There's so many. The self-driving ones, right? Yes. self-driving, like driverless cars. And I have friends who swear by them. They love them. I was always kind of hesitant. I'm like, I don't know.

However, while getting gas, I think I had an epiphany of like, oh, no, they're just like us. I saw, I saw a waymo, no passenger, no driver cut through the gas station parking lot to skip traffic. I was like, yo, that thing gained sentience. What do you mean? It literally was driving And then I saw it go into the gas station I was like it's an electric car Why was it any gas?

First of how would it pump gas And then it like drove around everyone And then cut through the side And like went down the road more I was like it just It skipped a red light I was like this is amazing This thing is it clearly was like

Not today I have places to be I was like all right man It was incredible I was like all right cool And then I was at the grocery store Because I was like, well, you know I'm going to be at home.

It's the 4th of July. Like, I'll get a pizza. Like, I don't want to order one. That'll be a mess. But like, you know, the grocery store has those like fresh pizzas you can cook at home. And I was like, I'll get one of those and, you know, get like a few drinks. And I'll just go home and chill, man. And I have a chill night, which by the way, totally did.

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Had a great time. That's what I did for my 4th of July. It was great. And then I heard the fireworks literally outside my window. I was like, yeah, I'm all right. But anyway, During the day at the grocery store walking around, I might have been there for like 20 minutes, dude.

Went in, got a coffee, walked around with my coffee, grabbed stuff, waited in line. In that time, in that 20 minutes, I saw, I'm going to say minimum six people steal from that grocery store. What the shit? It was packed. The grocery store is packed. And I don't know if it's just a sign of economic times or whatever, but people were, one guy looked like an older man, didn't have the like, I'm a criminal look to him, just like an old man, walked out of the entrance only thing. So, like, beep, beep, bit, bit detectors are going off. He has in his hands one towel and a thing of pickles.

Boyd. Exactly. I don't, I, he stole a towel. a towel from the grocery store which is crazy. He stole a towel and a jar of pickles. Walked out, all the alarms went off. No one stopped him. He just kept going.

I think he like hit old man status where no one gave a shit. They were like, eh, he's old. I don't know what was going. And then at the entrance to another side of the grocery store, there was this woman fighting with a guy, like one of the security ladies who was there was fighting with this guy

because he was trying to walk out with, I'm going to say like 30, like health bars. those like cliff bars he was walking out with like a box of them and she's like you didn't pay for those and he's like oh I had forgotten see she's like mm-mm you don't get to forget you have to pay and he's like

well no I like was gonna and then I forgot that I was walking out and I was like oh what happened I'm so dumb and she's like mm-mm honey I was like okay then I saw this guy walk in and there's a Starbucks in there and he just started

stealing Starbucks cups What the I'm telling you man It was Again It's so weird because this section of the city Is not touristy But during one day out of the year

Everyone comes here And it becomes chaos Pure chaos I don't think anyone can manage Like the grocery store Was actively trying to People were just walking out with food Like this one guy

Went to the deli counter area And he literally just took a bunch of chickens And like dipped And the security guards on the comms talking about it. I didn't see it, but they were talking about, like, this guy walked out with three chickens. That is, like the, like the rotisserie chickens? Yes, the rotisserie chickens.

That's crazy. That is, because, like, everyone's there and they're like, I can get away with it. Absolutely, absolutely. But I have to feel like, I don't know. Was it like this every year? Because it doesn't feel like it, but maybe I'm just not there. at, you know, 3 p.m. on the 4th of July when it's about, the store's going to close at 5. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know.

Yeah. That's true. It might just be that. Yeah. I, I at first was like, oh, maybe it's because, you know, people aren't doing like economically well right now. So they're just stealing. But it's probably more likely they're just doing it to do it. Probably. I mean, it can be both. Yeah. It's a, it's, what's also crazy is that area of the city, uh, sort of has like a high way coming off of it, like an exit ramp. And there were a lot of bushes and trees and shrubbery there. And homeless people like lived up in that, right?

And it was kind of like a weird exit because there'd just be like 30 homeless dudes chilling like cooking a like meat over a fire. And you'd be like, what the hell? Anyway, I guess the city went in, cleared all the shrubbery. So it just looks like dirt as you drive in now. And there's no one there. But it also looks weird. make any sense? Like they destroyed the area

to keep the homeless guys out, but in doing so, ruined what the area looked like. Yeah, they essentially just like can nuke the area and be like, now no one can use it, but it just looks like it's fully destroyed. Yes, exactly. It's very, it's very weird.

Yeah, this city is a trip, man. It's, uh, it's interesting. And then last night, during the fireworks, they started at nine. And I don't think ended till 2 a.m. People were just setting them off around the city and you can hear them. So that was, I was up, I think, till three.

Because I couldn't, they were loud. Like I couldn't get to sleep. I was like, ah, screw it. So I just like went back to playing games. I was like, eh, whatever. That's, uh, I guess that was the one good thing about all the rain here is we got a drastically lower amount of fireworks. So I'm kind of the same. Like, I don't, the thing with fireworks to me is like, you just see them so often over the years. whatever it's like I don't know they just kind of look the same

it's nothing that crazy it's not like you're a Disneyland or something where they're doing like crazy shit they're great yeah that's what I mean there's like there's cool fireworks like if you do Disneyland or like they're doing like crazy designs and shit like that you're like ooh but like otherwise just like

hey look it's another firework just like it is every year boom wow yeah that's I went online because I was like all right I got to see what the hell they were doing in DC where they were like it's going to a Guinness world record fireworks display. I was like, all right, sure, let's see. Dude, it was mostly the same red firework over and over and over again.

And it was like a lot, but it wasn't, I don't know if I'm just, the internet has ruined me, like social media or whatever, but it wasn't entertaining. It was just a lot. Like it was numerically high, but entertainment value low. Yeah, quantity, not quality. And that's what it was. I was like, yeah, this sucks. And I kept skipping forward to be like, this is, this is stupid.

Yeah, I need like a good 15 minute Disneyland fireworks display where it's a bunch of cool stuff. Or the light one, like the water show one, or drones. I'll take drones too. I don't need fireworks. Yeah, yeah. No, I agree. I'm with you. It's just plus like fireworks, like they disrupt the wildlife.

Like all the animals hate them. there's like smoke and shit after they fire them off it's like pollution and everything like oh I mean it's literally explosives you know yeah so like I'm not a big fireworks person but I've never been a big fireworks person either but now I'm even less of a fireworks person I think as a kid

I loved fireworks and I understand why because it's cool boom sparkles I get it but like and the older I get the more I'm like I don't need fireworks so I If I had kids, I'd be like, let's go. I know this will be cool for you. But like the older I get, I don't, I don't have kids and I don't care. I'll do anything else.

And I even made the conscious effort to get up early. Like, did farmers market stuff. I like went around the city, led a full-ass life from like 9 a.m. till 4. And then it was like, all right, I'm done. I'm done for the night. I'm going to go home, make a pizza. I don't play video games. I'm out.

And it felt great. I was like, yo, this is the solid. strategy. You know, speaking of which. I so last year when it was 4th of July, I played Final Fantasy 3. All right.

Uh-huh. Yes, because you liked that one, if I recall. It's because years ago, I want to say like 2000, God, maybe like 2008 or 9. 2000 God. Good year. Good year. That was, those are great. The Lord's finally back.

That's when the shards of fallen angel. Rained from the sky. By the way, that song is a prime, like, I'd put that in one of my wow machinima was in like 2010. I'd put it in my machina now. I mean, yeah. It's great.

It is great. But anyway, so I did that last year, and I was like, that was all right. And then I remember I mentioned it, and you were like, you should play Final Fantasy 5. Mm-hmm. It's true. And so they had some sale last year for Final Fantasy remaster pixel things so I bought Final Fantasy 5

yep and I played that last night for probably like three hours okay and you know what I liked it I feel like you would it's I vividly remember this is one of my favorite like lore tidbits of Final Fantasy we got Final Fantasy Final Fantasy 2 which was actually Final Fantasy 4 and Final Fantasy 3 which was actually Final Fantasy 6 And the reason why

is specifically why they skipped 5 The earlier ones You know, there's a bunch of reasons why we didn't get those But they didn't release all the Japanese games here Right? So we went from 4 to 6 And they named them 2 and 3 And then if you're in America, the next one was seven, which was wild.

Because you're like, wait a minute. We were just on three. What do you mean? Seven. But Final Fantasy Five was deemed too complicated for American audiences by the devs. So they did not port it. They were just like, no, they won't figure this out. It's too complicated, which is crazy.

So we didn't get Final Fantasy Five until I think 1999 when they released a CD anthology for the PlayStation. that is crazy yeah and so and I am convinced while it isn't my favorite one I think mechanically it's the most fun like you can do so much nonsense

in that game I love it I genuinely love that game yeah and it's I don't know because people are like

why do you like this one more than the last one I was like I don't know like I guess it does feel like there's more quality of life things I do think the remaster thing also helps

because they got some stuff where they're just like get more experience turn off combat when you walk around like that type of shit which that's always like my least favorite stuff

in a lot of the games like like JRP stuff where it's like time to grind for 80 hours yeah yeah yeah you walk around you're just trying to like go explore a thing

and you keep getting in fights yeah that's annoying yeah like I was on that boat and I was like I don't know where to go on this boat and I'm like walking around it's just like

here's a goblin again I'm like get out of here yeah I don't want and then but with that I'm just like just like, oh, I can just click my switch to right stick and it turns off engagement things or whatever. So that was pretty neat. So yeah, I was playing that.

That was fun. Honestly, solid game. I'd probably play more of it. I think you would enjoy it. It's a solid, solid game. It's not too story heavy compared to the other ones. It's more like, all right, you want to be this job? We have to do this, this and this.

It's very, it's like, have you played Final Fantasy Tactics? I've not, but I have seen a lot of people love that. I feel like that's one you'd like too. It's like a tactical RPG. They just did a re-release and it's got like all the voice acting and stuff so you don't have to read a damn thing now. Oh, hell yeah. And it straight up is like, okay, when you start, you can be these like three or four classes. And then as you play, you unlock new ones.

But in order to have those, you have to have like, all right, well, in order to be this thing, you need to have this many levels and this other thing. And the best part is there's a, depending on which version you play, they're like different super jobs. But one of them is, oh boy, I think it's called an arithmeticist. It used to be a calculator. But basically, whatever they call it now, imagine a class that is the culmination of everything you've done before. so if you try to play it from the start, it would suck. But if you level up black mage, white mage, time mage, whatever,

and then you play it, you have all the things you unlocked available to you, but like 10 times more powerful. It's great. It's so busted and you're just like, the power of math, bitch, and everyone dies, it's awesome. Like that kind of stuff, it's really fun. It's a classic for a reason. Yeah, like I already, as I was,

doing it, I was realizing like the wackies, because I was like, dude, you go berser but then you get the monk thing, so you could just be like a monk berserker, so you're just like a berserker without weapons, you just punch it. It's good stuff. Like it, and you just start piecing it together. I'm like, dude, this is pretty cool. Plus, like

the, like you said, the story's not that crazy. Yeah, in five, it's not too crazy. In tactics, the story's pretty like adult. It's not crazy, but it's very like religious-centered and kind of like

you know like this family it's like Game of Thrones like this betrayed us and this did this and you guys and it's yeah for the time it was like way more adult than other Final Fantasy's yeah

there's like fun stuff out there not everything is like I have to hop on my chocobo and smoke the dragoon you know like it doesn't have to be that and so I think that's what's kind of fun about the Final Fantasy games is there's just a ton of them and each one's different

yeah yo I play I don't know if I talked about Batomon. You played Botomon? That's not really a U-game. It was one of the demos for the Steam demos and stuff

but it's not even like a demo It's like a full-on game. It's like Pokemon auto-bateling And so I played that a bunch. I played it on stream And it's essentially just Pokemon auto-bateling It's kind of like

Super Auto-Pets or whatever that one game I need you to know then when I typed in Batoman, the first thing came up was, did you mean Batman? No, I did it. Batman auto-bateling. But yeah, no, it's a solid game. For anyone that likes any type of auto-bateling or Pokemon-related type of thing.

It's not actual Pokemon, but it's like Pokemon-esque. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really good. The Pokemon are just slightly off. But mechanically, it's just an auto-battler. It looks awesome. Yeah. No, it was really good.

And then, of course, there's the big UMA update. So I've been playing a lot of horsegirl racing again. I would have looked into it. I saw it pop up on my Twitter feed. And I was like, oh, cool. I clicked the hashtag. Nope, shouldn't have done that. It was all porn.

All Uma porn. I was like, this site sucks. I can't. All I want to do. wanted was information and it was like hey do you want to see a horse titties like a horse titties yeah um yeah that's that sounds like the internet uh but the the big thing here for for summing up what changed is there was a career mode they added in called uh track blazer wherever the shit trailblazer trackblazer.

Sure. And pretty much you would do that and you would have to run like 30 races in a mode and then manage your items and all this shit. And it was just at first it's like pretty fun because it's new. And then once you realize that's all you have to do for the career mode, because the old career mode, the one you played, it's just like, do you want speed or do you want guts or do you want width or you just do that over and over? This one's just like, I have to buy this item and I got.

give her energy and then she's got to do this race but then I have to make sure I pop my hammer so she gets bonus stats and if I don't have enough hammers by the end then I'm not going to get enough bonus. It's just like and sometimes you're just like I don't want to do that as well I shut my brain off and click wit and that's it. So

with this new update they're essentially we're just like hey the old career modes they added in are good again and the one that nobody likes is like you don't have to play that one anymore unless you want to like farm parent sparks or whatever shit but that's like, you know.

So yeah, it's been pretty much everybody's been playing again because of that. And it's been a lot of fun because now you can run a career mode in like 25 minutes instead of an hour. That's cool. Yeah. That's been great. I've been playing a lot of that. I did make my video on Wow immersion and that was actually doing pretty well. But I think I mentioned that last week.

Yeah, you said that people were giving you a hard time. Yeah. But now there's been like some other YouTubers that have also reacted to my video. So it was getting more traction. Yo, that's the winner right there. I love that. Speaking of traction, I am so incredibly confused by what takes off on Twitter versus what takes off on Blue Sky. Like, I frequently will post the same thing to both, right?

And a great example is, yesterday I posted this thing about how my favorite Fourth of July memory was actually seeing the movie Independence Day on July 3rd. And as it clicked over to July 4th in the movie, it clicked over to July 4th in real life and everyone in the theater lost their minds. Right? It was a very 90s, a very like simple time kind of thing. I remember that and loved that. Twitter? Yeah, that's cool, Jesse. Blue Sky?

Oh my God. Everyone is thrilled about that. Like sharing it with people. And I don't know why. Meanwhile, there'll be other times we're all post a thing. And Blue Sky would be like two people like this. And then on Twitter, it's like four. 45,000 people.

I'm like, what? I don't understand. It's just like when you post something to TikTok versus YouTube shorts. I don't know why one audience favors something more than another. Just from my general consensus here, I think Twitter loves more dramatic stuff. So like, just from looking at your Twitter real quick, just like a, hey, here's me talking about the Epic Games CEO thing, right?

So that's kind of like a drama thing. Oh, yeah. The thing I did about extra Emily when she got caught again, driving and almost crashing. The thing got picked up by news stories. Yeah. There's like articles that are like, YouTuber, Jesse Cox, said this. I'm like, why am I included? Yeah.

And it's because it's drama and they see you tweeted about that drama. And so they're just picking that up and going, Put it in our The least hot take, by the way. Me being like, if you're driving and you're talking with chat, you should get your license. You should be kicked off.

You shouldn't be allowed to drive. It's happened so many times to her. Like, this is ridiculous. Not a, not a sassy take. The realest, like, lamest most milk toast take ever.

And people are like, oh, okay. They should really just make it on Twitch. If you are driving a car, you should not be able to like, read chat or look at your phone or like her apology was crazy because she was like

I'm going to reflect on this and I'm going to drive less while streaming it's like no drive zero while streaming what are you talking about? And the fact that this happened before in 23 and she made almost the exact same apology video like do yeah come on come on you can't you can't keep getting away with this just grow up already

yeah no it's and it's the thing where she's getting away with it because she's like one of the bigger Twitch people. So they, like if this was a smaller stream or something, they'd be ban. Yeah. Oh, for sure. The one guy who posted, I did the same thing or whatever and was banned for nine years. Yeah. And I mean, the shit happens in sports and stuff, right? Like, they'll be like, oh, this guy got arrested for domestic abuse, but he runs fast and he's got like 12 touchdowns last year. Yeah, so it's all right. So he's better than us. So he, yeah, yeah, it's fine.

But then like some like practice squad guy does it. They're like, we think better of our players than have someone like this on our team. Get them on here. Like it's easy to do it if it's, you don't give a shit. But if it's somebody that's like making you money and making your team better and doing all this stuff, you're like, well, can't lose them. That's the same thing. Which admittedly, it's not. Because when it comes to football or whatever, right?

Right. There's only so many players. But on YouTube and Twitch and kick. or whatever. Look, I know, I know how the back end works. They can elevate someone and make them famous. They can. So like, boot the bad people and then pick someone new to have the guy who runs the CEO

hang out with. Like, that dude is always in video with this girl. Just find someone else. You can find someone else. You know how this industry works with connections and knowing people. I would be like, nah, you're trash. Let's find someone new. I would do like the old studio executives back in the day, like the 1930s.

And I'd be like, I can replace you. You're all replaceable. Yeah, but you're also not going to like Twitch parties talking to the girls. That's right. I am not a 60-year-old man going to, yeah. I'm not a 6-year-old man to hang out with 20-somethings. You're right. You're right.

Yeah. So, you know, just the Twitch television classic. It's all it is. But yeah, that's, but I think, again, Twitter is more the drama side and it loves drama or anything rage baity or anything that can gauge or, you know, get people commenting and replying to a thing or posting somewhere. While blue sky is just kind of like, but probably more like old Twitter, to be honest. Where it's just like, hey, here's a fun thing I like. And people are like, that is a fun thing.

although I will say while Twitter has its like complete crazy people Blue Sky has I don't want to say crazy If you post I like pancakes on Twitter Someone will be like You cook only cucks eat pancakes

And if you post it on Blue Sky it's like Waffles are preferable And it's like okay At least we're back to baseline internet You know what I mean Like at least I don't like it, but at least I can understand it.

It has that little smugness to it. But that's more like old Twitter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, all right, look, I don't like this. And I feel like you're up your own ass, but you didn't say you're going to kill my family. So I'm pretty good with this. Yeah. That's just, you know, it's just your standard, you know, Warhammer player or something like that.

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So really if you can just Take the Chocobo trails That's probably a better option Thank you Honestly true true And as a fan of Match at the Gathering That they released a Chocobo tracks set and all the foils have little chokubo

footprints all over them, they're really cute anyway, totally unrelated, but yeah, that's fun. Yeah, I did see that one when you posted that picture at that event you went to with the Chocobo the Final Fantasy one. Uh-huh. Is that a realistic replica

of the chokobo in the game? Because they have gigantic, gigantic feet. The one that, is that, that I posted with, that is, there's two mascots, there's Chocobos, which are like, you know, Chocobos. And they're like giant, almost ostrich-looking Velociraptor

looking bird things. But then there is the Chokebo from the game Chocobo's Dungeon, which is who that guy is. And he's basically a baby Chocobo, like, or like a kid Chocobo. Like that's the mascot of those games. Chokebo Dungeon games are really, cute. You would actually probably

enjoy them. He just plays the little chokobo guy. And so that's kind of like a mascot version. Is it life size? I don't know. But I like that guy. And then of course basically Square Inix is like Square Soft is the Chokebo mascot side. And then the

annex part is the Dragon Quest side, which is their mascot is a little blue slime. And so you'll always see them together now. And I you know what? I'm fine with it. I like both those guys. That slime? He's great. All right.

Just wanted to make sure. Yeah, no, I got you. I got you. I got you covered. I really had to make sure. Yeah, that's the traffic. Okay. Let's go to weather.

Weather. All right, hold on. Here we go. We got 13 weather requests. Let's see where we land today. We have landed on. Weather request. Mildgeville, Georgia, home to Georgia's old capital until Sherman's March to the Sea.

Also final home and resting place of writer Flannery O'Connor. And currently, in Mildgaville, it is, 92 degrees, feels like 103, woo. A chance of rain, 7%. It is winds at 4 miles an hour southwest, humidity 54%. EV Index 1. Air quality 61, 10 mile visibility, dew.73, pressure 29.87 inches. Moon phase waning gibbis with a 629 a.m. sunrise and an 8.45 p.m. sunset. Tonight. Shows early. Monday. PM thunderstorms 93 degrees. Tuesday. 95 degrees. Partly cloudy. Wednesday. Mostly sunny 98 degrees. Thursday. Mostly sunny. 90 degrees. Thursday. Mostly sunny. 90 sunny. 97. Friday, partly cloudy, 96. Saturday, partly cloudy, 95, Sunday. Scattered, storms, 91.

And it's pretty much just mid-90s with sun or rain every day. This town is amazing. I strongly recommend everyone who is listening right now, when you have the time, look up Millardville, Georgia. Because it is, you said this was the original capital before the Civil War? It's home to Georgia's old capital until Sherman's March to the Sea. Has huge southern town vibes where there is a very small, very central upscale area. So right in the middle, you have the Georgia College of Arts and Sciences, right?

You have the old governor's mansion. You have all these different places, like a lot of parks. And then you have like, you know, the local yokel cafe or the matron. Apollos Cafe. You have like all these different like Buffingtons and barbaritos and you know the brick, right? You have all these places

that look kind of like small town but you know very fancy food. Yeah. Like the vault is another place right. Maybe touristy, I don't know, but like very I came downtown to spend the day walking around and we're going to eat at one of these fancy places. But then

you go two blocks in any direction and suddenly you're like out on streets where no you get to play like AJ's hot wings to go looks like it's in the middle of nowhere yeah it's just a shack it's just right and that's two blocks away the other direction two blocks away

you're going to end up at bean cats bean cats I guess this would be like a like a cheese steak restaurant oh yeah I see that But even this, it's same vibe. It's in the middle of nowhere. Like, street view-wise, and it's very southern town where, like, there's a really tight

intersection of that town, which it's got the main buildings, and then a bunch of delicious, like, when my parents lived in Kentucky, this was a lot of the cities there, where, like, you have three blocks of just, it feels like a really cool, chill, mini-metropolis place. And then the minute you leave those three blocks, you are out in the middle of nowhere, and the restaurants are like, welcome to the old shack. There's one in the south. It's called shrimp boat of Mildgeville.

That's, dude, I'm telling you. That is, this is, uh, this is very southern. Yeah, they got Ellen's diner. Ellen's diner looks like a brick shack. I don't, I would assume it's closed. There's the Haynes snack bar.

That place, I don't even, I don't think there's an actual building. I think it's just someone's house. It probably is. There's, oh my, way down in the southern area, there's country buffet.

It's not even the old country buffet. It's just the country buffet. Yeah, there's nothing old about it. Yeah. And it's just, it's a buffet. They got like macaroni and cheese. Yeah, your mashed potatoes,

various fried meats, collared greens. Yeah. And it looks like it. cafeteria of like a high school. It does. Yeah. It's so crazy to me that that's, I mean, that's just, that's the vibe.

And then, but then you go right into Midville millage. I can't even say the name of this place. Right. Proper. And Korean barbecue, sushi. Yeah. Bakery's. A lot of coffee places.

Ned Kelly's downstairs. Green Southern Kitchen. My favorite sweet tea with a twist. You know, you got like the Velvet Elvis grill and tap. You got more chicken wing places than I can buy. There's so many places. Even a smoothie king, bro. Like there's just so many places here, but only in this one particular spot.

And then everything is just like, oh, you go a little further out and you're in the middle of nowhere. And there's a shack that's like, we sell every food. It really is just like the. They got that like a couple streets of just like, you got to eat your fancy food and then everything else. It's so quintessentially southern. Again, I'm not sure. I don't think that's the case for like northern, uh, small towns like this. Where it's just like the, because usually the downtown is, honestly, I think it's because suburbs.

Mm-hmm. Suburbs make it so there's a lot of places spread out. But in the south, it isn't a lot of that. I'm not sure what the Georgia suburb situation is like. I guess I just don't know, but it's crazy to me. That is crazy. It was an interesting place. Yeah.

What's wild is if you take the road that goes north and I assume leads you to Atlanta, that's, yeah, it definitely does. That road, the 441, if you go south, there's nothing. But if you go north, all along that road is like Jack's Family restaurant Sonic Drive-In, Zaxby's, Chick-fil-A, cookout, Huey Magoose, chicken tenders, bro? Holy shit. That's crazy. Like an applebees, a longhorn, a canina, like a fa place.

It's all along this road. In fact, there's like holiday ins and Fairfield Suites. You can tell what's important. Yeah. This road clearly is people are going to Atlanta, so we're going to, like even along this road, the further you get out is old Clinton barbecue. You, I'd go there in a heartbeat. I'm not even going to lie.

Holy shit. The place looks like it seats five people. But I bet the barbecue is like solid. That's, uh, oh my God. I was going south on the road. So I was like, okay, so this road just goes south. It's just you're going to Florida essentially. Yeah, yeah.

The 441 south is, it leads you to Dublin, Georgia. And then all the way down to Florida. If you go to Brockston and Broxton, in Broxton, Georgia. There's one place I see called Blues Place in all capital letters. And this looks like an office building. And it's got five stars.

And the menu's just like, some dude's Weber Grill. And I think he's just grilling shit up in his Weber Grill and like throwing it on styrofoam plates. I mean, yeah, that's probably correct. It does look like, it just does look like an office. Although, no, if you look at the street view, dude, that's not an office. There's a giant, I'm going to assume warehouse or something across the street.

Random, there's, the street view is just dogs. There's like a pack of dogs. And then the building looks like a white shack. This is how you know you're in the country, dude. Even when we were looking at like Wyoming and stuff, it didn't look like this. Oh my God. Yeah, I see. he's probably feeding the warehouse workers or something.

Honestly, I would imagine this dude is actually doing pretty well. A 5.0 with 43 reviews, I would imagine, is this the only place to eat in this small town? There's a supermarket. Dude, I... It might be. I think it is. Which, honestly, you'd be a fool not to open like a burger place. a place like this.

Yeah. You're telling me in the hook, they get, there's more used tire places than there is. That really is it? Yeah. I mean,

even looking at the Google reviews, every single person's, like this place is amazing. I mean, the menu literally is a burger, pooled pork, pork chop,

pulled chicken, and then legs. That's it. Yeah. That's it. Oh, and baked potatoes. Oh, yeah, and baked potatoes. But everything else is like, my man is selling a can of soda for a buck.

You tried to get that here in L.A. That's like $3.50. It's for a can, man. A burger. The prices had to have changed. This is six years ago. But like, that's still 2020. This guy, uh, lunch menu, Monday through Thursday.

My man, you can get a triple burger, eight bucks. That's an insane deal With a triple Burger combo Sandwich fries drink 1099 Oh my god Yeah that is That's a steel

That's crazy But you're right It looks like Like an office It looks like the The main area of the show The Office when you walk in Yeah it does

It really does That's just that he's got a the blues place. I don't even know if that's like Photoshopped on or if that really is on the desk. I imagine it's on the desk. Maybe. But with that said,

looking at this plate of food, the burger looks like a cookout burger. It doesn't look like one of those burgers you would get like a fast food place or even like a Chili's or whatever. This looks like a real. The tomato looks good. The pickles.

I get it. I'm in. This, that's a real ass restaurant. You know, Blue's place? This is like when we found that place in San Antonio. That was like in the middle of nowhere. I was like, yes, this is the real shit.

Yeah, they're just like, listen, I just want to make my food. I don't care where I am. The most expensive thing on this menu, as far as I can tell, is the 1099 triple burger combo. That's crazy. That is crazy. Also, yes, it is very clearly designed for the workers. Their operational hours are 11 to 5 and then 11 to 5. and then 11 to 4 on weekends.

Oh, yeah. Maybe that says 9, 11 to 9 on weekends. But whatever the case may be, they very clearly are open for lunch. That's it. Yeah. Which is awesome. That is awesome.

So I mean, then then, because there's people that live nearby too, though. Like right above there, you can see there's like. Well, let's be very clear. It's not a lot of people. Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah, like if you drop in, up here. It's very much like...

It's not a lot of people. That's for sure. It's like a step above trailer park home is kind of to do. Like, looking at some of these. Yeah. But honestly, that's kind of dope. You know what? And it's crazy that then south of that is Douglas. I know nothing about Douglas, Georgia. Yeah, I don't either. It's got... It's like a big circle or a big roundabout thing there.

Yeah. A lot of barbecue places, though. And I do like barbecue. They have a, dude, they have an old times country buffet. Country buffet. I see that. That's amazing. It reminds me of how in driving between Cincinnati and Louisville, Kentucky, there used to be a waffle house. But I guess they sold it or the franchisee didn't want to pay whatever.

So it became waffle steak because steak fit where house was. Yeah, that makes sense. So same buy. Dude, there is a picture of an. old man with a giant white beard eating at the old times country buffet. Hell yes. Hell yes. Like that.

Does that work? Oh, it works all right. Yo, this rules. That is amazing. I'm actually kind of shocked that a country, and I'm sorry, an old times country buffet still has a 4.1. I would have figured a buffet is going to get like a three something. Yeah, you would think so. You would.

You know what? I trust the old times country buffet more than the actual old country buffet. Well, that's because it's spelled O-L-E. Yeah, that's what I mean. It's not old times. It's the old. Or Olay times if you want to get spicy. The Ole times.

There we go. That's the weather. Oh, right. Let's go to sports. Sports. We got sports all over the place. Let's see. Today, Norway beat Brazil.

Oh, my God, that's pretty crazy. When I was getting into my car, I was going down to the elevator today. And I'm going to say, like, 20 Brazilian fans got in. And they were so hype. And they were like talking about how they're like, no one in Norway even knows how to play football. They're terrible. We're going to beat them. And then I saw the score and was like, yikes.

That's rough. Yeah, we had, let's see, in the previous rounds, where is this? We had Paraguay beat Germany, France beat Sweden, and then France beat Paraguay. Let's see, we had Canada beat South Africa, but then they lost to Morocco who beat the Netherlands. Now it's France versus Morocco. We had Portugal beat Croatia, Spain beat Austria, and then Portugal, Spain are going to play. That's going to be a crazy game. USA beat Bosnia-Herz, which I do not know where that is.

If you asked me to point for that. Yeah, I don't know where that is. I mean, there was a whole war. There was a whole thing America was involved in. No, you don't remember that? You're probably too young, to be honest. I probably was too young, yeah. I figure it's probably like, oh yeah, okay.

It's like southeast of Croatia. You would think I would know. It's in those countries most Americans don't know. In that area of Europe where it's like there's too many. It's like states over there. You got too many. I'm I supposed to. Yeah, it's that part.

I don't blame you. I feel bad for them because we really should know, but no one ever does. I'm also like part Croatian. I'm like right there, but you would think, but you know, I know. Croatia, but listen, I'm like American Croatian, all right. Yeah, look, look, I got

all sorts of Irish and Middle Eastern blood in me, and if you were to ask me about like the ins and outs of Ireland, for example, I wouldn't know. Yeah, it's it's the same when, like you said, America, like, do you think most people know where Indiana is? Yeah, they don't.

Yeah, I mean, if they started making like a Bosnian TV show everyone loved, I bet we would real quick. Like if you were to ask people overseas, we're Scranton as I bet they would know. Yeah, probably. Then we had, uh, let's see. Oh yeah, Belgium beat Senegal. So now it's USA versus Belgium. That's tomorrow. Uh, Brazil beat Japan. And then Norway beat the Ivory Coast. So then Norway beat Brazil. So they moved on. Mexico beat Ecuador. And then England won against Congo. So now it's Mexico, England. I'm so excited. Have you seen videos online? It's wild. They, uh, so the English, um, team made it look like they were staying at different hotels so they could trick the Mexican fans because the Mexican fans were going around outside the hotel, setting off fireworks and chanting loudly.

Like, they couldn't sleep. That's insane. And I guess they still found them, which is incredible. I was like, oh my God. What's crazy? There are so many Mexican flags, Brazilian flags, Spain, Colombia. I'm trying to think of what else I've seen. But like, how am I racist doing? You know, like, I keep, there's dudes driving down the road with giant Mexican flags. And I have to imagine, if you're not up on the World Cup, you are literally having a moment right now. You're losing your mind. You're like, oh, God, they're finally taken over.

Like, I just don't know what's going on right now. over the Super Bowl I have to. But it's crazy. I'm here for it. I love seeing people be like, again, like I said, 20 people all decked out in Brazilian stuff got in the elevator today. And I was like, cool. Enjoy, enjoy your match.

But like, yeah, I really do like the World Cup stuff. I think it's really nice to see everyone kind of like hype about their team. It's interesting. I didn't think I would like it as much as I did. I thought it was going to be annoying. You know what? You know what I mean? Which makes me feel like maybe the Olympics in L.A. could be good.

I don't know. Yeah. I mean, maybe. Although, honestly, I think people care more about the World Cup than the Olympics. Oh, for sure. For sure. Yeah, then we had Argentina beat Cape Verde, which I saw was like insane. Argentina almost lost.

Yeah. I think they play Egypt next, I think. Yeah, Egypt beat Australia. So it's Argentina, Egypt. And then we had Switzerland beat Algeria and Columbia beat Ghana. So it's Switzerland, Colombia. So. Yeah.

Honestly, best games look forward to for me, even though the USA is playing. Nah, it's Portugal versus Spain. That's awesome. And then Mexico versus England because that's, I like, the English fans are one thing. But the Mexican fans are a whole other thing. And I want to see that crowd. I demand all crowd shots. They need to have like the game in the corner.

and then just crowd shots the entire time. Yeah, absolutely. That's going to be an insane game. Yeah, that would be fantastic. I would, that's a game that I would have loved, like, to be there at. Yeah. And then we have baseball standings where Tampa Bay Rays in first place, the White Sox in first place in the Central,

the Mariners first place in the West, Braves first place in the East, Brewers first place in the Central, and the Dodgers first place in the West. And that's sports. Okay, dokey. What is our big fact of the day? Oh, this is a big fact of the day right here. Big, big fact.

Um, big fact. I do. I didn't, you know what? Not only new stories can be big. I want a big fact. All right. This is a big fact. Okay.

A turtle shell Is unique in that it is made up of around 50 bones Oh Uh Okay It's not big enough for you You just can do No I mean it's that's 50 bone big

But I'm trying to imagine Is it the inside? Because does the outside count as bone? Uh Let's see it says with rib shoulder bones vertebrae fuse together to form the hard external shell

how it forms today can be observed in a developing turtle embryo ribs broadened first followed by the broadening of vertebrae final state is the outer layer of the perimeter of the shell is a complex structure whose initial transformation started

over 260 million years ago dude if you go to the wiki for turtle shell they have an image of like a slice of a, like a turtle, and you can see its bones are connected directly to the top of its shell. Oh, yeah, that's crazy. I never would have thought of it like that for some reason.

They always sell it in media as like, that's his little home, you know? Obviously, he can't get a new shell, but I never put two to together. Literally, his spine is fused to the thing. Yeah, that's like actually in. I guess that's why when you see like sea turtles or whatever and they have a lot of barnacles on them, and they have to remove the barnacles, they have to sedate them or give them drugs because I imagine it would hurt.

Because it's used to the literal body. Yeah. Or like if people mess with turtle shells, like it's actually hurting them. So that's literally their body. Yeah. Oh, that's great. I never have looked at it. Like even his spine, dude got scoliosis.

The spine, like the curve and it's. It's wild looking. No wonder they're like, hoi. He's got the body of a YouTuber streamer. Yes. Do you be looking at his phone too much.

That's crazy. That is a big, you know what? That's a big fact. That's a big fact, dude, there you go. Well delivered. I like that.

Yeah. There it is. Okay. Who has come to us with tears in the rise? We have tears, dear, illustrious tears.

Oh, we got eight this time. People are commenting. Keep commenting. Even if you don't get picked, you have a chance. You enter the Cox and Crendor lottery. Where the prizes are this. Yep, that's it.

That's the prize. Dear illustrious sirs, I come to you with tears in my eyes and an oven overflowing with pies. What is your perfect relaxation day? I thought this was going to be about pies. Yeah, I mean, like, Pie could be included. I had good cherry pie.

I'm a big fan of. I can handle that. That's true. I like key lime pie. You know what? I like key lime pie too. You should Google Coochie's key lime pie and go down that rabbit hole. Oh, okay.

It's a weird internet mystery. You will love it. Ah, man. Honestly, I think yesterday was a pretty good. I went out in the morning. I walked around, got some like exercise in, did all that kind of stuff, had a great barbecue. lunch, came home and played video games the rest of the night and just relaxed and chilled. Like that's that's a vibe for me.

That was a good day. That was a chill day. I loved it. That is pretty good. I think for me, relaxing would just be, you know, maybe building paint and playing some Warhammer, you know, reading, writing, working on my book. uh, you know, maybe play some video games a little bit. Uh, probably go to the gym.

Uh, then, uh, let's see, maybe go out to eat somewhere. It's like, uh, you got good wine. Uh, you know, I have a couple glasses of that. And, you know, maybe go for a walk. I'm telling you, dude, I genuinely think the key to relaxing day is to include a walk at some point. Oh, you got to include a walk. You have to include a walk.

Like, and it can't be like just a walk down the street. Like, go for a walk, walk. Yeah, real walk. That's, it'll clear, you'll, like, think things and you'll see stuff and you'll, like, get sun and air and your body will be like, thanks, bro. It's great. I'm going to say, if you have the chance to go for a walk, go for a walk. That's honestly something that should be like a pretty.

common thing people include in their life, but many people probably do not. Everything walks are slow, man. Like, you, you, until you shut down and say, I don't, I'm not going to do anything else but go for a walk. You will constantly be like, I could be doing other things right now than just walking. That's never me. I would be like, dude, I could be walking right now instead of doing these things. Well, that's because you're a better person than me. That's for sure.

But I think most people are like, ah, you know, I got stuff to do. I don't have time to just like go walk around. I'll get my walk in by like rushing around. Like take a stroll is what I'm saying. Yeah, now you're going for the stroll walk. Yeah. Like take it like a, I don't have a care in the world for an hour and just let that happen. Like take the time to like go walk around and explore and just learn about your community.

I bet you would enjoy it. Yeah, I think so. Um, that's pretty good one. Look that. Uh, all right. Let's see. Our other dear illustrious sir. We have landed on dear illustrious sirs with tears in my eyes.

And a half inch deep hole in my finger from my new hobby knife. Oh, God. Damn. Uh, if you were to suddenly become a witch of some sort, what kind would you be? The evil cackling kind, the friendly village witch, etc. I'm literally going to type in types of witches. I need to know the complete options here. Yeah, I feel it.

So there's different witches. Oh, there's a witch. Hold on. There's witch quizzes and stuff online. Which choices? What type of witch are you? Oh, my God. Let's go.

Yes. Discover your type. Yes. Okay. Crendor, I want to start with you. All right. What are your. are your most what are you most naturally drawn boy i can't speak what are you most naturally drawn to herbs and plants

recipes tarot runes or other divination tools working with the moon working with the sun astrology death ancestors or spirit transitions sigils or experimented spells structured ritual systems crystals and stones reading signs of animals or weather learning practical spells ocean magic or the unseen

oh man it's down to either herbs and plants or the signs of animals and rituals or whatever I think I'm gonna go with ritual signs all right which of these feels

closest to how you think about magic I'm interested in connecting with ancestors I'm curious about crossing between worlds or spirit communication. I'm drawn to working with land spirits or fairfolk. I see magic mostly as symbolic or psychological. I prefer structured magical systems with correspondences and timing. I'm most interested in practical spellwork that solves everyday problems. I like combining ideas from different traditions.

I'm especially interested in working with death or major transitions. I'm drawn to working with symbols or systems used to understand fate. What was the third one? I'm drawn to working with land spirits or fairy folk. That one. Great, done. Okay, where does magic feel strongest to you? In forest fields or wild landscapes?

In the kitchen when cooking or baking? Near oceans or rivers. Under the night sky. At sunrise or midday. In cemeteries or ancestral. places at thresholds or crossroads or inside structured ritual space. Definitely forests. All right.

You are a fay witch. You're drawn to traditions involving land spirits often described as folklore as the fair folk. Fay witches usually explore offerings, boundaries, and landscape-based relationships rooted in older European traditions. your practice develops through awareness of the unseen presence within the natural world. I've always said I'm rooted in ancient European tradition.

Yeah, especially for your witchcraft. I get that. Yeah. All right, well now I need to do me. This is important. Okay, you got to do me. What type of witch am I? Or you didn't.

You know what I mean. I know what you mean. What am I most naturally drawn to? I'm going to say I'm more naturally drawn to You know what? I like experimental spells. Which of these feels closest to you? I don't want to connect my ancestors.

I don't need their judginess. I'm not really curious about crossing between worlds. I don't really care about the Fafoke, although I got a friend clearly who's one of them. I see magic as most. mostly symbolic or psychological? Yeah, that's probably me. All right.

Where does magic feel strongest to you? Oh, for me? I would imagine under the night sky. Crendor, you listen to what I chose. You listened to what I picked, right? How on earth did my selections equal? You are a chaos witch. How does it know me so well?

It knows. I mean, you are a chaos witch. It literally is like you are flexible, with magic systems and you can adapt quickly and produce results without relying on one tradition. Chaos Witch is often experiment and their techniques are borrowed from multiple sources. Your strength comes from testing what works and refining your own approach over time. Sure. All right. Yeah. Chaos Witch. Yeah, that's like some shit or someone to just be like, I'm trying to craft these spells.

It's just not working and they're just like, you need a chaos witch. What's so funny is they have these, they have symbols. Right? Where it's like types of witches, there's an elemental witch, traditional witch, green witch. I thought I was going to get like a green witch or something. Kitchen witch, cosmic witch, lunar witch, divination witch, an eclectic witch, even a hedge witch, which honestly I kind of love the idea of being a hedge witch. But then there's an augury witch and a hereditary witch and a crystal witch and sea and hearth and death and gray. Ooh, I like gray witch.

That's kind of cool. Yeah. There's even a secular witch. But then the chaos witch, I just want you to look at this image. The chaos witch is literally the chaos symbol from 40K. It literally is. Like I've never, it got me. It was like, we know who you are, Jesse.

We know who you are. Nailed me. All right. Great. Yeah. I mean, I'm definitely, I mean, if anything, I'd be the green witch. Because I'm living in the woods and with like the fairies and shit. fairies, I guess because he selected that one thing that said Faye and it was like, that's it

he flagged it, so he's a fairy guy. I'd be like kind of like that mixed with Radagas, the Brown, I think. I've always said you were a Radigas. You're definitely a Radigas and I'm definitely a Saruman. Yeah. I'd just be like the creatures, they change the way they move during the day. The squirrels used to go east. That's all I do all the time.

Like stop calling for war. It's like, it's what I do. So here you go, that's our witches. All right, what is our big new story of the day? Big news story of the day, day, day. We actually have two. One's an update, not an old one. Okay.

So do you remember the story from, I don't know, and maybe like a year ago or something, where a Florida man was accused of stealing a Smokey the Bear sign? I do remember this. Yes. We looked up the sign and everything. Yeah. And Smokey the Bear was like that, like when he was getting arrested, being like, hey, we got him.

Yep, yeah. Smokey the Bear giving the thumbs up. Good stuff. Well, he could now face up to 10 years in prison. Dude, that's so funny. What's crazy is the sign he stole. Literally, you can go and buy that on Etsy. Yeah.

I'm looking at it right now. The man is going to jail. Like you can literally actually The sign he stole is $40 on usda.gov. Yeah. And he tried to sell him. I guess it was literally a year ago in 2025 July.

Facebook marketplace for 1900 each. But yeah. That's so crazy. Like literally you can go buy it. That's nuts. So yeah, he could. face up to 10 years in prison now. So that was...

But anyway, enough for the update. We now have the Australian Air Conditioning Pro crowned world's loudest person. Huh? That's right. In Melbourne, Australia, Joseph McGrail Batap,

an Australian professional air conditioner cleaner and honorary town crier has been recognized as the world's loudest person. The Guinness World Records last week acknowledged the 58-year-old Canberra resident recorded the loudest ever shout by an individual, yelling at, or he yelled now at a 122.4 decibel level. What? How? What?

That broke the previous record of 121.7 decibels set by Northern Ireland schoolteacher Annalisa Flanagan in 1994. where she yelled an ear piercing quiet. That's so loud. I don't. That's, you know, there's times when filming Scary Game Squad that Davis screams,

and it's such a loud scream, it hurts my ears. Yeah. This is louder than that by a significant amount. Yeah, like taking a look at the decibel levels, it says that 198 decibels is enough to kill a human. and would the shockwave would rupture your brain. 182 decibels is the loudest speaker ever,

which is enough to shatter car windscreens nearby. 180 decibels is an aircraft that takeoff. Like, this is insane. That's, now you understand why I was like, huh? Because it doesn't seem like it could be. Like, wouldn't he hurt himself? Well, let's see.

This is at 120,000. 22.4. It's about slightly less than the Vuvuzela. And they got plenty of those. I guess you're right. Trumpets 115. So I mean, I guess if you're like standing right next to it, it's

pretty bad. Does it right in your ear? It probably would be bad. It wouldn't instantly kill you though, but it'd be bad. I mean, you die at 198. So I mean, you're still a while off there. Let's see, because looking baby crying is

110. And that's annoying. So like, yeah, I don't want, I don't want that. And I definitely don't want, 122. That sounds crazy.

Yeah, that's crazy. So that broke the preview. I read that. That is a noise range of a chainsaw jet aircraft taking off ambulance siren in a close range.

Which is crazy. Because 1994 was the previous records. It's been a long time. The record of Temple was not something McGrail Baitup could train for, he said. There's no way you can actually practice for it. You've got to keep it for the day, especially with the world record attempt.

It took me seven attempts just for one word, which was the word now, and my voice was shot for the next couple of days. It was husky. It was terrible. So, no, you can't really practice for it, but it's a lot of fun when you're doing it, he added. I mean, I guess you get the rage out. That's for sure. Yeah.

McGrail Baitup considered himself the world's loudest man, rather than the world's loudest person, he said there was no previous record for the loudest man. I'm pleased that she, Flanagan, gets to keep her record, so she's still the loudest woman in the world, and I'm the loudest male. That's very nice. Yeah, that's nice.

He said he stumbled upon Flanagan's record when searching Guinness World Records unsuccessfully for feats in the realm of town crying. He became competitively loud when he was appointed the official town crier of the

National Capital Canberra in 2017. He became competitively loud, which is such a crazy phrase. Yeah, it's like the hot dog man, competitively loud. Competitively loud, yeah. He makes announcements at community events, school feeds, and car shows.

With the job came membership of the ancient and honorable guild of Australian town criers. Yo, that's kind of awesome. Ancient and honorable. He won the 2024 guild competition with the loudest Oyez, Oyes, Oyes, OYZ

Hover the Australians. Ozy, Ozzy, Ozy! One of those? I think it's got to be one of those. Maybe they just spell it weird. Maybe. It was a command for silence and attention before an Australian town crier makes a proclamation. Oh.

He experimented with several words before settling on now. His shout was recorded May 2nd in a Can Barrow Radio Studio by a professional acoustic engineer and witnesses present. The files were then sent to the Guinness World Records. It's the second time McGrail Bait up broke a world record. In 29, he broke a speed record for an archer shooting 10 arrows. What? Do you ever just think about how some dudes, their whole thing is, I just want to break records?

I think it's just, it got to break records. Yeah, like, it's so interesting to me that there are just some people where it's like a broke one record. What's another record I can break? And it becomes like their thing. Yeah. That's like such a weird other one to have. You'd think it'd be something related to this, but it's just archer shooting arrows.

I genuinely think some people go through the Guinness Book of World Records and they're like, the last time this was done was 1926. Alright, I'll give it a shot. I think so, actually. Well, it says nine months later, a seven-year-old boy shattered that record by 11.4 seconds. McGrill Baitup wasn't interested in attempting to regain the archery record or in keeping his shouting record, saying,

if someone beats me, that's fantastic. Records are meant to be broken. Yeah, I mean, yes, but also crazy, that'd be like, someone beat me shouting. Cool. Yeah, that's actually insane. But there we go. That's our big news stories of the day.

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