Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 518 - CnC Forever

Episode Date: September 21, 2026

The boys are back and this time Jesse freaked out mall food court workers. Meanwhile Crendor is deep into the World of Warcraft Forever, maybe too deep. All this and a predator tour gone wrong on a brand new Cox n' Crendor! Go to http://heroforge.com and use code CRENDOR to get 5% off.

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Record it. Let me, wake your ass up. It's up next, Trending, in the morning. Hello, everybody. I'm those on Cax and Cretor in the morning. Wow, those are words. Yep, I was scatmanning right there. That was a scatman intro.

Yeah, the scatman can do it, baby. So can you. I'm the scatman. Yeah, I've always said you were kind of like the scatman. I've always wanted to be like scatman John. I could do it. I could do it. You can do it.

Yeah, you just got to. wiggle your tongue a bunch and make some noises. That's it. That's it. You're on the one-way train the scat town. Nope. I don't know if you want to go there. No. No, sir. No, I am not. Yeah, maybe you don't want to go there. No, I'm all right. I'm good. How are you doing? Lovely, lovely. I just got, literally just got back from the mall. I went on like a little mall expedition. Nice. Although I realized you just said

mall like mall which in a world of Warcraft world has a different connotation. Yeah. But yeah, I went to the mall and went around and did like a little walk around them. I was like I want to go for a walk

today but I want to like get stuff done. And I know the mall near me has a bunch of different shops and stuff in it that I was like ooh I could get stuff done there. So I went and like you know I went to J.C. Pennies and bought a shirt to work out in. And then I went over and got a soap at the one soap place.

And then I walked around, you know, just like did a morning. I'm walking around the mall thing. Yeah. So I go to go get lunch at the mall. I go to the food court area. And there is a one of those Mongolian barbecue places where they do the grill thing. They have the big round grill. So I walk up to them.

And like, you know, I know how they do. I'm no fool. they either give you way too much rice and or noodles and not enough of everything else and I didn't want rice or noodles I was there for the meat and veggies I was trying to live a healthy life right and I walk up and I'm like

yeah can I get the combo and yeah just chicken and beef please and so the woman's like okay she puts the chicken the beef she weighs it right so already I know they're like yeah she weighs it to make sure she puts one of the beef things she gave me back

in the big container of meat. And she's like, we're giving them too much meat. We can't do that. So then it comes to the veggies and I'm like, all right. I want, I want like broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cucumber, you know, I want the peppers. I'm like going through the whole thing.

I want water chest. And you got to give them baby corns. But I was like, all right. And then everything you just put in there, double that. Like go back through and then do it again. And she looked at me, she's like, but there won't be any room for the noodles.

So like, oh, I don't want noodles. And she's like, but everyone wants noodles. And I'm like, no, no, I don't. Just, you know, it's like full, but I know you put the noodles on top. Just put more of the veggies on top. Like, you know, if you can only do cabbage, fine. Just give me a ton of cabbage. Like, I'll be okay.

She's like, but what about the noodles? Like, I don't want any. I don't want the meat. The little meat you gave me and then a bunch of vegetables because that's what I'm here for. I want the vegetables. And then I want the sauce. I want an extra hot. you know and she was like

but then where would I put the noodles I don't want noodles I don't want them and she looks at the guy on the grill and he looks at her and then they look to the cashier and they're all like what do we do? Yeah they're like you know they looked around

trying to figure out what the hell is going on and I just don't want the noodles and they're like okay but all right and I think I think the realization that I had they finally gave in but when they gave me my food at the end, it was, you know, that little bit of meat that they give you

and then two full helpings of vegetables, right? Right. But because it all cooked down when they put it in their giant bin thing they have that's like their takeaway tray, it was barely half of the tray. Yeah, no, I see. And it made me realize, oh, the noodles are how they mask the fact that they're not giving you actually a lot of meat and vegetables.

Yeah. No, that's absolutely. And so they looked at me like I had cracked I was like I don't care I know what this is I know you're about to not give me a full plate of food That's fine

I just want all these things I don't with the noodles And we'll be good And I think they just thought like Is he trying to see through the You know the Matrix code here What's he doing? No I know what I wanted

Guys I don't care I'm not trying to like gotcha You guys don't provide me with enough food Don't care I know exactly what I'm doing But they were shocked They were like huh It's like when people try to scam Chipotle.

They're just like, oh, can I just get a little more meat in there? Just like an extra meat. And then there's like, that'll be, that'll cost you double. And they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, I just, I just want a little more meat. I want double meat. Or they try to like, people try to scam the Chipotle thing all the time. So maybe there are people trying to scam them.

I mean, with that said, I just thought you were one of it. I mean, sure. Like with that said, I also get at Chipotle when someone gets mad where if you order a bowl and then you see how much rice they put in that bowl, compared to everything else, it's crazy. Oh, yeah. And that's just another, you know, it's the same thing with the noodles.

It's just a way to make it appear like there's more food there. And I guess, you know, it technically counts. That is a lot of, you know, noodles and or rice or whatever. But, you know, that's not what I'm there for, clearly. I'm there for your meat and your vegetables

and their weird sauces. That's what I want. Dude, the last two times I went to Chipotle, they made the rice terribly. to where it's like really hard and you can't eat it. I don't know if it's overcooked,

undercooked, but whatever it is, I'm just like, and then I'm like, why don't I just make this myself? Like, it's literally just like rice and beans. Yes, that is the exact epiphany I had myself,

except with breakfast, right? I would for, I don't even know how long, too long is the answer, go for when I was doing my morning walk, I'd go over to this coffee place and I'd get like a sandwich and a coffee and then I'd go for my walk.

Except while the coffee is, great. The sandwich is just okay. It's fine. But it was kind of a morning ritual, right? I get my really good cup of coffee and my mediocre sandwich and I go for my walk. Well, I realized that for the price of one of those sandwiches, and by realize I mean I knew it, but now I'm actually acting on it. But I realized that I could just go to the grocery store, buy all the ingredients, and make the sandwich at home, eat the sandwich as I walk over to the coffee place, get my great cup of like, you know, finely crafted espresso

and then go about my day. And it's been a delightful it's, you know what? I'd make a better sandwich than that coffee place. I'm going to say it. Their coffee's great, and they can make coffee better than I ever could. Yeah.

But I'm destroying them in the sandwich game. No, it's, it's coming to the realization now. You're like, dude, I can just cook at home. Like, the only downside is you have to cook and clean and do all that, but like, you know,

at least you know what you're eating and it tastes good. Yeah. But I still like eating brunch, so we'll get brunch like once a week. But that's more like you order things that you wouldn't normally cook there too. Sure, of course. And it's about the experience. You get to like sit there.

You get like people watch, drink your coffee. You hear like the old man be like, burn my bacon. I want burn bacon. You're just like, dude, hell yeah. Hell yeah, old man. Burn that bacon. You get right in there and you burn it good. I burned my bacon since World War I.

I ain't going to quit now. But yeah, for everything else. Most days, I just eat at home. I make my coffee. I have like a kind bar. And then a few hours later, I have oatmeal. That's pretty much my every day. I wish I could get on that level.

I wish I could get on the, like, Crendor. I eat like a little tiny, I don't know, chipmunk level. But I can't. Listen, that's not chipmunk level, all right? I'm eating nuts. Well, I guess chipmunks too. Yeah, go on. Yes.

Continue, please. But those are high, those are dense calories. A chipmunk would never eat dense calorie nuts. That'd be crazy. Listen, those nuts, I have like the oatmeal. I put granola in there, some walnuts, blueberries. It's good. And it's calorically dense.

I get, I get what you're saying. But the problem is, if I were to have a kind bar, If I were to have like granola, like, my body is like something's missing. Something's missing from this. And it happens all the time. Like, if I get a salad and it's just a salad, I need to either have meat with that salad or bread with that salad. If it's just a salad, my body's like, that's not going to cut it, bro. Like, what do you mean, body?

And it's like, sorry, man, I'm still hungry. I'm still, you need, you should have eaten something else. I'm like, oh, come on. But if I have like a breadstick and or meat on the, I'm fine. And I don't know why. So for breakfast, eating like oatmeal, 20 minutes later, my body would be like, what if we, what if we had bacon? Right, bro?

What if we had bacon? I'm like, body, stop it. I'm just saying, though, it's so much better than that oatmeal you ate. Plus, you get both technically. And I'm like, technically you're right, body. technically you're right. Like I can't. I can't just sit there and eat nuts and be like,

hmm, I'm fool now. I can't. It's impossible. Well, my thing is I do, I'm like that, but for lunch and dinner, not for breakfast. So maybe that's the difference.

Maybe my body's just so accustomed to it. So that might just be it. Because then if I only do that for lunch, I'll be like, I'm still hungry. But for some reason, breakfast, I can do it. I'm fine.

I don't know what it is. Bless you. That's... Thank you. Like, that's why, for some reason, I get along well with avocado toast. It's toast plus some sort of weird vegetable thing. And my body's like, good, we're good. It's fine. I don't know why. I, like, have, like, an internal requirement that I must have something besides healthy.

And my body's like, hmm. I mean, alcohol, or alcohol? You can have alcohol with your breakfast. I mean, I guess you technically can. The avocado is, like, high in saturated fats. and so is a lot of meat. So maybe your body's just craving saturated fats. That's probably it.

That could very well be it. Because I'm just like, yeah, trying to be like a healthy boy for breakfast. Like I could eat some like fruits or something, you know, like, but if I got just that, then my body would be like, you could also order a meat omelet though. Like, you're right, body, you're right.

but also should I? It's like, yeah, you should. Like, okay. Well, also, how many, are you only eating like two meals a day, three meals a day? Like, is this, I know some people eat like two big meals. It depends. It depends on where I'm at or what I'm doing. If I'm at home, probably three, I'll wake up.

I will go make some, at this point, I'm making Irish breakfast tea. And then I will drink some water and make. right now make a delicious breakfast sandwich but then you know a little later we're on lunchtime like today I went and I got that my non-noodle Mongolian

barbecue and then like tonight for dinner I'll probably have a shout out to one of our sponsors a factor meal which is sitting in my fridge okay that's pretty normal then that's what I'll do yeah and I might like have a snack during the day I got like

yo what the hell of these things called Dots Dots Pretzels Yeah yeah So there's Dots Pretzels Where it's like a brand of pretzel

But ignore the pretzels for a minute Ignore that All right They have Like It's basically checks mix But not It's dot snack mix

That shit Slaps dude It's so good It's delicious I think I've actually seen that It's It might be my new favorite Like snack

It really is like just, it tastes great. It isn't as like, what's the right word? It doesn't feel as processed as checks mix, which rip checks mix. Yeah, and it's great. It tastes good. And so I have a bag of that and I just snack on it every once in a while. And it usually lasts me a little bit. And so, yeah, that's where I've been vibing.

But, yeah, that's if you like pretzely things. I see. Okay. I mean, I do like pretzley things. Me too, dude. Pretzels are good. And pretzley things are good. Those are my, I love pretzily things.

And this is, yeah, you get pretzels and it has like those little, whatever those things are, the little hard as hell, like bread pieces, you know, you know what I'm talking about, the brown ones, whatever that is. And then it has fake checks in there and then it has pita chips. It's good. Oh, yeah, the pita chips. Yep, yep. Good stuff. I like it a lot.

That was pretty good. It's pretty solid. Yes, I mean, that's kind of where I'm rolling when it comes to food and snacking and whatnot. But I'm also just kind of like, you know, I'm trying to lose weight, but I also don't want to be one of those people that like starves themselves, loses weight. And then the minute they're on the other side starts eating again. And then it's like, I gained it all back. I'm trying actively to just make healthier. choices that require me to, you know, I'm not going to change much.

That makes any sense. Yeah. I mean, that's the healthiest way to go about it. People do that shit with working out too. They're like, I'm just going to work out nonstop. I'm going to do all this stuff. And then they like burn out. And then they either get injured or they get burned out.

And then they're just like, all right, I'm done. And then you just go back to it. So it's like, what if you just like, just do a little bit. You know, lift a little bit of weights. Do a little bit of cardio. You just do that. And you just build up. And then before you know it.

you're doing better and it's part of your life. Yeah, that's pretty much it really, is I'm just kind of like, I'm taking it slow and steady, trying to make long-term changes rather than just get it done, which seems to be a lot of people's problem, at least from what I've seen, a lot of people are like, I lost a ton of weight, and like, that's amazing.

And then a month later, they're back to where they were. Yeah. No, that's, I'd say that's a thing a lot of people do too, because it's easy to get really motivated. motivated, go all in, be like, let's get it done. And then just burn yourself out. I mean, people do that with even YouTube, with streaming, with hobbies. Like, people do that with a lot of different things. Yeah. And that's, it's unfortunate because it's that passion you have to do it. And you're like, yes, I'm in it. And you need that. But you also need to regulate it or else it will burn you out. Yeah. It's like doing a sub-a-thon. That is, that is real. constantly sitting there streaming all day destroying your body

it's uh I don't understand I don't get it but you know people be doing subathons like scams stripping but his stuffathon is still going on I don't understand I don't understand it like that's I don't know I guess I don't know the rules of a subathon because I thought

like it's been weeks yep day 26 it says of right now. That can't be, like I just don't, maybe I don't, I don't understand. Hold on, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. What is a sub-a-thon? Uh-huh.

How sub-athons work. The stream starts with a base amount of time visible count down. Every time a viewer subscribes, gifts of subscription, cheers with bits, donates it more times added. Some streamers set maximum time limit to protect their health,

while others run uncapped streams. I can go by for days or weeks. Yep. Streamers often set secondary goals, such as eating spicy food, playing specific games, or doing challenges when certain subscription milestones are met.

That's a sub-a-thon, all right. Yeah. But the thing is, like, back in the day, it felt like people would do sub-a-thons as like, I'm just going to stream for, like, 48 hours,

or, like, they would just stream as long as possible and then, like, pass out. Like, they wouldn't sleep. So it used to be, like, an unhealthy thing of, like, we're not going to sleep.

We just stream. And then it ends. And then people are like, hey, I could just like play YouTube videos and go sleep and then come back and start streaming again. Then it's like I'm just streaming normally and people watch YouTube videos while I'm gone. And that's kind of become the new meta of Sub-Athon. So it's like, hey guys, you know, I'm going to go leave and sleep, but I'll come back and then we'll just start streaming right again like when I wake up. And so that's that's essentially the Sub-Athon meta where people can do it for days and, you know, weeks and months. And it just hits a point where it's like, I don't know, I would just value my health too much. It's crazy. So looking up subathons and how subathons have taken off in the different form you're talking about, it really started during COVID. Like I'm looking back and basically all the big modern day subathons are either based off of Ludwig's 2001 subathon. Oh, yeah. Kaisenatz, sorry, not 2001, 2021.

Kai Sinat's 2021 sub-a-thon Pokemon's 2020-sub-a-thon So basically it's like that 20-20-2020 one When everyone was stuck inside And they had nowhere to go So they literally just started doing sub-a-thons To make money But here's the thing

It's not bad anymore Yeah We're not all stuck inside So doing this like seems insane But also to be clear Ludwig Kai, Pockeman, XQValki, Valki Art some of, like they're the top 0-000-0-0-0-0-0-1% of streamers

Yeah. It's like when you check he may he got 282,000 subscribers. Right. So I mean, he did a sub-a-thon but made like half a million dollars, if not more. Right, right, right. So like, you know, you can probably do a 30-day sub-a-thon and be like, hey, guys, I'm going to take a couple months off now. Be all right. So, yeah, there's people doing sub-athons that definitely are not getting that many subs. much less and still

like deteriorating their health. I mean it clearly gets money and I guess it's all perspective. Like if you have none getting some is a lot better than none. You know what I mean? Yeah. So it's perspective but I guess I just don't understand

how it can go so long. Like surely you know in this case going back to Sam surely there's things this man wants to do besides like in my mind when I streamed I only stream when I have no other commitments. Does that make sense?

Like when I know I have nothing else going on, I'll stream. But if I have things I need to do, I got to focus on that before I stream. And it's like, well, what do you do for fun though? And that I think is the problem where you're talking about burnout. I think that's like because it's so fun and because you're making money and because you have success, you don't burn out.

You just keep going and going and going. And then the burnout creeps in. Like you don't notice it, but it will be there. And I think the people who burn out, you know, the fastest are the ones that don't see a lot of that growth. But a lot of people are stuck in that sub mode thing. They see the numbers coming in. They're like, oh, numbers up. People like me.

Everything's good. But you will burn out eventually. Yeah. It's impossible not to. And I mean, it's like, it's like you said, it's all kind of subjectively depends on your situation. Like if you're going to work, I don't know, you have to work like 12 hours at Walmart versus. like a 12-hour stream day and you're gonna make like the same amount,

people would probably rather stream, right? Like I guess it depends on your situation. But I mean, there's, this is one of the reasons I still don't like being, like, or don't like streaming as a primary source of your income. That's the reason I went back to YouTube. It's like YouTube's just better for every metric.

It's better for you make a video and get discovered. Like there's more discoverability. It's easier to get found. by people in general with different kinds, different types of like content. In the business world though, YouTube is kind of old hat and streaming's where it's at. Streaming is where people are like,

yo, the people that connect us to the people out there, the ones we're gonna work with with brand integration and whatnot, it's all streaming. It's all streaming now. And I think it's also a, you know, the sub-a-thon thing, it's also a little bit because sub-athons have that kind of, um,

And it has panned out to be true for the most successful people that subathons kind of engage your audience to give you more. Right. They definitely do. And so people do it because they're like, oh, my audience will, you know, I, man, I got to pay rent this month. So we're doing a subathon. And that, and it will like, you know, you have an excuse to be like, hey, please donate and support for the subathon. rather than just saying it normally, it makes it an easier ask.

But, you know, I think a lot of people just assume if I do a sub-a-thon, I will get more subs. Absolutely. That's definitely it. And I mean,

it's one of the things, like I was saying, where it's a combination of stuff. But when you're doing something, streamer first, if you're like, I'm going to be a streamer, that's what you have to rely on.

You have to rely on people giving you, giving you money or on sponsors. And if you're big enough, then like, sure, that's easy. You'll get sponsors, you'll get other things. But it's like, if you're not, then you're just, like, driving yourself into the ground. Which is why on YouTube, it's much easier to make a video.

It can get discovered. And then through that, you can, like, tell people you stream and then you get new watchers of your stream. Like, it's just, YouTube's just better in every way for... Yeah, and YouTube can be like, a great example is, I'm really interested in Warcraft forever. And I Google search while for... forever and I might find 80 different videos that are like here's my hot take but then I also if I watch one we'll start getting fed videos and YouTube loves to do this shit but then it might end up being your video of like I went through every zone you know what I mean and it can happen like a great

example is this week a lot of people started doing reviews for um uh control resonant and my video which is like a beginner's guide to the Remedyverse is showing up on a lot of people's feeds. I see the data. And there are people click, more people are, this is the first video in a while, more people have clicked

that aren't subscribers of mine than usual. Usually subscribers click my videos and no one else cares. And now this is people who have no clue who I am watching this video. Yeah. And that's really what you want. Yeah, you can't do that.

That's not a thing on Twitch. That does not exist. Yeah, Twitch is very much a you need people to keep watching. Like you need to get people to want to watch you and keep watching you. And the more and more saturated it gets, the harder that is. So it's Twitch to me, like, to me Twitch is there is like a chill, like side type of thing, which is what it started out as for me at least is, you know, I did YouTube and then you stream and be like, hey, you know what?

I'm going to play StarCraft. I'm going to play Warcraft 3. I'm going to play wow and just talk to chat, chill. have a good time and you know if I get subs I do if I don't I don't and I think that's it's a much healthier way and you don't have to be like I missed a day of streaming I'm gonna go insane so it's like I view that as just a healthier good but at the same time it's hard to get to that point because then you have to have a YouTube channel and something you're doing on YouTube that allows you to do that instead because a lot of people when they're streamers they do YouTube

they're just like well I'll do YouTube and their YouTube is just them getting clips of streams and then editing those with like, oh god, what is that girl's name? Stormfall. There was nothing particularly different about her streams. There are many people that streamed just like her. But what she did do is she generated clips. I don't know if it was a conscious decision on her part to clip farm or she just creates fun moments every now and again. But what ended up happening is they became shorts on YouTube and those blew up to the point where I kept seeing them all the time. And then it led back to her Twitch. And now she's rocking 2,500 people every stream at minimum, like on average. And that's how you do it, to be real. You use the other platform,

like whatever your main platform is, you have to be everywhere. We've talked about this. You have to be everywhere. Yeah. I would still say that's like an outlier type of thing to that level of success. Oh, for sure, but now you had. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Like there are other, other people doing like other the exact same thing she's doing she just had really great like the clips

she used again if you watch her streams she is for the most part kind of it's like she'll interact with chat but she kind of like Sam a little bit and there'll be moments of just complete quiet and she's just playing the thing right so why did she get more traction than other people and I generally think it's because the clips she made were the equivalent of when you saw people playing like

um arc survival or eve online or whatever where you see one amazing moment you're like oh my god is it all like that and then you have to go check it out that i think is what happened they she just had really great clips chosen to be used to promote and that's what i mean like that's really kind what it is, is just being able to take your best stuff and market it well. Yeah. I mean, that's probably at the end of the day what it's all about is taking what you're good at

and doing it in a way that generates new viewership and makes people want to watch you and come back. Yeah. That's really what it is. And she does that extremely well. And I would say you know, a lot of, I mean, people like us like I can kind of get away with things.

I can play off nostalgia a bit. How we react to the AI nostalgia. Yeah, yeah. Too old for this thing, but like, that is a thing. Like, the amount of people when I'm doing Wow Forever, they're just like, Crendor's still around. He's still here.

And I'm like, dude, barely. Yes, yes. But I think that's part of what makes your wow videos happening right now successful. Is that Crenor's still around. He's still playing this game. I like him. I'll watch this stuff. Yeah, exactly.

So I do have the benefit of that nostalgia factor of like people already know who I am. And not everybody's going to have that clearly. But I think... Right. But you're using... You know, again, you're using the fervor for while forever right now.

And you're creating content and you're in it. Again, it's that kind of you have to... It goes back to that one video we watched where C-Dog was all like, you got to strike while the iron's hot. And that's the vibe. It really is. You just got to keep going.

But like I was saying, sometimes that Iron B-2 hot man and sometimes you will burn yourself and you don't want to burn out. Yeah. Like I could be making videos every day. I could be streaming this nonstop and I'm like, you know what? Like I'm going to, I'm going to keep going

making more videos than usual streaming this but like I'm not going to go crazy. Right? Because again, it is the balance. You got to stay balanced. But also I think the other nice thing is I can offer a perspective that's just like

it's the non-content like chill vibe where you get a lot of streamers and YouTubers and people you click on it and they'll just be like is wow forever dying isn't going to be the thing or it's just like chat GPT scripts of like wow forever isn't just a game

it's an experience for play and I just like show up and I'm just like hey man what's up I just play this game it's pretty good like I'm just like some like a normal person talking I'm like listen I didn't script this shit all right I'm not I'm not going crazy I'm just here to be like a normal

And I think that also resonates a lot, especially in our modern society of all that shit. It's weird to say this, but your success on sort of a, you know, people come to me because they want to get, you know, normal commentary. I want to be like, thank God everything's changed. Thank God everything's good. But if you look at the channels that are like the drama channels for, for wow, their numbers have never been bigger. Oh, absolutely. Like, they are so, like, seeing your success, I'm like, yes, it's so nice to see Crendor is like just killing it right now. And people are like, yeah, I want to know more about, well, forever.

I'll let go into someone who's not going to be like a psychopath when they talk about it. But then you look at all the other content creators who are making stuff, who most of their content is like, are you just always mad? their numbers are huge like grossly huge yeah and that's just that's just the way it always is for any game

it's always the negativity will get the higher views but yeah you know it's it's also that type of environment also breeds toxicity toxicity toxicity

in our safety but yeah you know it's like sure you get less views but like it's just a much better you know culture society that you build in terms of your channel. You don't have to have 8,000 mods on your streams or whatever. Yeah.

And having to go. Like, it's crazy because watching you play or watching people who I enjoy play to get me like kind of hype to jump back in in November. I'm like, yeah, this looks fun. Oh, that's so neat. Mulgore. Oh, wow, look at that. Or like Stormwind looks so cool at night.

Oh, that's really nice. that's one type of video and I love that and then there's a whole it just baffles me there's a whole other section of the internet where videos are being made about how awful the new like sky elves are

right and I'm like all right well first off you need to tell me they were awful I already knew that except I'm an adult so I'm not going to pay for them I don't want to deal with them they're clearly new wow and I want the old wow experience and it's very funny

because all the videos are like, these new elves, their starting zone feels like modern well, it feels like, you know, retail, where at the end at level 10, you have to fight like an epic world ending boss, and it's so crazy. And I was like, yeah, I mean, yeah.

So I'm not gonna do that. And I'll be all right. But like, thank you for letting me know. They're like, it ruins the game. Everything's, I'm like, no, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. It doesn't ruin the game. That may suck, and I don't like it.

But that's like 10 levels of, content for people who just want to play elves. You could play an ork and never see that and be just fine. Now, I will say there is the juxtaposition of they are like standing out

compared to the classic assets. So some people are just like, I want to see classic stuff and then there's like retail looking things and it just looks weird. Oh, I can get that. I can I saw some guy post a thing of like, this is my human rogue.

And this is what I made her look like as like the normal old assets. And when I turn on the HD thing, this is what she looks like. And it was significantly worse. Yep. Like she looked ridiculously bad. And I was like, what? Okay, that you can complain about. That seems weird to make choices like that.

But to be like this new thing for this new faction that was added brand new, of course it's going to represent the way Wow was made today. Yeah, it's But the thing is like When people make these videos They aren't just like Hey guys let's have like a nice Logistical chat about the thing

It's just like This may destroy the game Like it's always some sort of cataclysmic Thing that's going on It's like Like I don't know I'm playing it And like sure like I'll see a thing

And be like ah That looks kind of weird But you know I just I just keep going It's like it's not gonna Make me close the game Yeah, I don't know

It's interesting to see the way people cover it and what they focus on Because it's very clear that some people Are geared towards focusing on positives And some people only see negatives Yeah, but many people don't only see negatives Also only see it for views That's real So yeah

They probably go hunting for the like What's wrong with it so I can talk about it Yeah, I mean I've seen plenty of people That'll be like, this might be the worst game ever And then they're like, actually it's the best game ever I mean, it's that YouTube thing. Someone made that, like, meme of it's just like the YouTube cycle. They're just like, well, this game changed the thing forever.

And they're like, the game came out. It's amazing. Like, actually, the game's getting bad. Actually, the game's getting something new. It just like loops over and over. That's pretty much the thing in all my videos. I'll just be like, here's the thing I think. And someone will just be like, they need to put the war back in warcraft.

It's just like slogans. I'm like, what does that mean? And they're like, um, orcs versus humans. I'm like, they did that. There's like, um, yeah, like, it's always easy to do like generalizations. Yeah, I mean, like, I understand, I understand one to have a vibe, but I feel like saying the phrase put the war back in Warcraft, there's an implicit thought there that it, oh, you're one of those people that doesn't like

the fact that most of the story right now is like, and then the horde of lines joined together to fight the space god. Like, you want it to be simple, it's what you're saying. It's what you mean. You want it to go back to being a simple story. Exactly. It just becomes like a phrase that said, but it's like, what are like, let's break it down. What do you actually want?

Like, let's talk about what you like, what you dislike. Have you played the game recently? Like, there's so many things you can talk about. Yes. It's the same vibe as like, make America great again. And what way? When? How?

One was great. How does that work? What do you mean by that? It's a vibe thing. It's a, they have a vibe. And they would like. that vibe again. It's like, all right, but what does that mean to you? What is the, what's the vibe you're going for? And it's hard for people to explain because it's a, it's a slogan more than it is a

thing. Yeah. And I mean, the thing is people, there's always been slogans. Like obviously, the, the, the MAGA one is like the most recent one. But like, you know, we had, uh, the, like going all the way back. I remember there was the, what was the Barack Obama one? It was like, yes, we can. There was like hope. Yeah, yeah. Hope and all. Like, yeah. There's always been slogans. It's just, I think we've also reached a point where we've learned a lot more about psychological marketing.

And I think that, plus, you know, social media and all these different things. But I mean, that's the same vibe. It's like put the war back in Warcraft has the same connotation as like, make America. It's, it's, we want to go back to it before time. But most of it is rose tinted glasses. Like, looking back and being like, it was better back then. Well, back when? You know, back then.

It's like, no, I don't. When specifically? Like, when people talk about, like, putting the war back in Warcraft, what expansion was that moment for you? Well, this, I talk about this in our too old for this thing. But this is also another, this almost borders on another generic statement because when you, when you say like it was better back then, that's also a generic statement. And that's all, because it's like, there are certain things that were better back then.

Like, there are prices. were better. There's like, there could be, you know, like, I think the corporate buildings were better with like how they used to look cool,

that personality, like a Panera head like style. Now it's just like a gray block. It's like, yeah, there's plenty of things that were better, but there's also things that were worse. Like medical science was worse.

They couldn't do robot surgeries on your gallbladder back then. So I'm like, thank God we did, I'm not there now. Right? Like, though, that's the problem is there's so many things that could be better or worse.

and it's just a very gray scale area and you have to specify what you're talking about but nobody's going to do that. They're just going to go right, right, right. And that's that. Yeah, what they mean really truly is back to when I felt something. Yeah, and it's like, listen, there's plenty of things about classic wow

I enjoy. I like the slower pace. I like a lot of the RPG style. I like a lot of the systems they had. Sometimes modern wow just feels like a checklist. There's so many things. There's like 50 different currencies. I'm like, dude, I don't know what I'm doing right now. I have like all these badges and shit. And this, I'm just like, oh, okay, it's got like my stuff. Like, it's very simplistic. I'm like, this is nice. So like, I like that. But then there's plenty of

times, which like, you know, with Wow Forever, how they introduce, uh, just like some more convenient stuff like the auction house. As people being like, it's the retail auction house. And I'm like, retail auction house is actually pretty good. So like, it's fine. It's fine with me. It's much better than the old one. It is weird to put complaints about retail on Wow Forever when Wow Classic exists. Yeah. Like it's right there, go play that. You don't have to play this one.

The problem is that you're, these are people that are probably just being like classic pluses here. Like it's gonna, it's gonna happen. And they have their own idea of what it is. And so that when it's not that, that's when they get upset. It should be this and it's not. And that be, and that ties into that like emotional reaction

like I grew up with this, I care about it, and then they're like, now they're going to make it the way I want, and then they don't, and then you get upset. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. It's like, you know, I mean, imagine if they made like a Final Fantasy classic. There's going to be people that would be like, it's not like the way it was. Then you might say like, the way it was used to suck. So I'm glad it was. And then someone will be like, but that's the way it was. Right? Like it's people are just going to have those attachments to certain things. I feel pretty called out, actually. That's how I feel about the new. Warcraft 3 stuff where

I'm like, cool. It looks great. I watched you play some of it. Like, oh yeah, all right. But I don't think I'm going to pick it up simply because it isn't like something a little off about it. I don't know how to describe it. It doesn't feel like Warcraft 3.

Yeah. No, I actually kind of get that as well. It's like it's a little slower and there is something off about it as well. I noticed that. Like I'm still going to play through it. Yeah, like something's missing. And I don't know what it is. I can't define it.

But very much like, you know, what we're talking about, I know that I'm like, it would be like make Warcraft 3 better again. Because, yeah, I don't know how to describe it, but it just didn't feel right to me. And so I was like, clearly I'm, I'm better than this game and I shall not pick it up. And I think that's, it becomes the thing of like,

will you just stand by the opinion you have just to be like, But you can also be like, hey, you know what? I'm going to try to analyze, like, what don't I like? And, like, maybe there's a thing I can fix. Maybe there's something that I can, like, in pinpoint that I don't like, and that's what I'll tell people. Like, hey, you know what? It's just not as fat.

Like, it definitely feels like it dropped to speed. Like, the game just feels a little slower compared to the normal style. And that might just be me. I don't know. I'd have to, like, check. But I'm like, you know, we could figure that out instead of just being like, it's shit. Like, all right. Yeah, yeah.

But like even a, dude, I've been playing Starcraft, and that's been a lot of fun. Because I always played Starcraft multiplayer. I never played the campaigns, because as you know, I'm not a video game story person. You're missing out on the delightful space romance of Sarah Kerrigan and Jim Raynor. Well, I'm now on the final mission of Brood War. Yo! That's the best mission. It's great. It's, there's, up until now, there's been some.

missions that are easy, there's been some normal ones. There's been a couple that made me go insane. And there's there's been some though are just like some of the hardest missions I've done. But I beat it and I'm like, oh my gosh. Now I'm on the final one. And then I'm probably gonna play that later tonight actually.

And then she calls herself the queen bitch. And so I'll see how that goes. I believe Jim says something along lines of like, I'm coming for you space bitch. And I was like, yo, it was great. It was great. And then StarCraft 2 ruined all of it.

Well, that's what I'm excited for. So I'm like, I've played StarCraft too. I mean, I played StarCraft back in the day, but again, I only played multiplayer. So I'm like, now I'm excited to see StarCraft 2 and how it feels and like all these different things. Wings of Liberty, it rocks. Like, it's really cool. The first of the three campaigns is really, really fun.

It's insane. The story's like, wait, what? But it's neat. And then the second game is a little more like, Huh, okay. And the third game is the most off the rails nonsense story I've ever seen. This is not a spoiler. This is a fact.

Every villain in the Blizzard franchises, if they make the villain a woman, it's the same character every time. It literally, like, there is no difference in my mind between Sarah Kerrigan, Lilith, or Silvanus. None. does feel the same. They're the exact same character in three different games. They have this thing. They have this need. She's terrible. She's the worst. What a badass batty. Oh my God. She's terrible.

Actually, actually what you didn't know? This is a reason behind all of it. And actually, she's going to be the hero that saves all of us. Yep. And they were corrupted in some way. You can't. All right. One time, fine. Multiple times. Like, what do you mean? We can't keep doing this. I don't. know. It drives me crazy. I'm like, you guys have so much talent and you write the same thing. Yeah, they have like so many different ways they could write a character and they're like, what if we do it again? I'll do it again. That's the goofy

meme. I'll do it again. It's because I was noticing. I was playing and seeing Carrigan and stuff and I'm like, it just reminds me a lot of Silvana. So I was like, wait, this happened before Sylvan. Yes, that's what's so weird about it. Is it

it's like a trope they love but it's not a like it's not a great trope because minor spoilers Sylvannis burns like literally murders countless night elves

right easily forgiven Kerrigan murders billions of people across the stars but she's our savior easily forgiven Lilith

is literally part of the reason why suffering exists on, like, in, like, the reason for Diablo as a world exists because of Lilith. And everyone's like, but she, she makes

some good points, though. Like, it's nuts to me. That is actually insane. And I, yeah, I don't know why. I don't know why. Like, and if it was, if it was the thing they did with all their characters, I would, I'd be like, okay, that's just the blizzard thing. They love doing, like, bad person gets redeemed. But it is very specifically just with like, is it an attractive woman we can stick

on the title of our game? Great. That's the one. And they have to be corrupted in some way at some point. Right, right. Attractive, but corrupted in like a bad girl way. Yeah, yeah. Like, not too attractive, but like you still, you still would have sex with this creature. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like even like honestly, even the opening of Warcraft 3, you can tell they're like glazing Slavannis already. They're just like, it's Queen Silvatus. And then they have to like kneel before and then the Dark Ranger like elbows the guy like Neil you idiot and they're just like it's Solvonis

and I'm like is this going to be like the hey we love Sylvanus this is how she got control by the way here in the latest wow expansion she's going to come back and save the day because she already kind of has like I already know it is I don't even know what that is it 100%

is them having seen all of the Warcraft 3 like new stuff they made it's pure glazory it is like you're in a donut shop because they are they be glazing yeah the whole thing is like savonis rules actually yeah and then they're like wow people love wow forever and it's like yeah because i'm just like out in the world helping mancric find his wife and now they they actually added a quest and now he has like a bonus quest after that that's amazing yeah what's what's funny is that uh i think you brought this up before

but it is interesting that uh in all the media savonis is the person going for the whole yet in game she's like F the horde I hate the horde you all suck Oh yeah Noble said that Yeah that's what it was That's crazy that's crazy to me

Yeah it's I just want some like logistical consistency is all Like that's all I want It's like maybe they're like you can't escape The Ma except for me you Silvanus Everybody Like

Okay or I did Listen I'm I'm just doing my quests out in the Barons. I'm having a great time. I killed some centaurs. I'm glad that that's a thing I can do now. Yeah, I'm excited. That's what I'm excited for. I want to play that.

And I don't, and this isn't like I can't wait to go back to the better times. Like, I understand that time marches on. It's not going to be a better time. I just want to have an experience that I'll be like, that was fun. You know, I'm not trying to like relive 10, 15 years ago.

Yeah. I mean, I've had some people in comments or things just be like, you like, wow, forever classic because of nostalgia. And I'm like, I mean, there's probably an element of that, like, sure, but it's like genuinely a good game. I mean, you can watch even people like, what's his name, G-Bay. If you've seen G-Bay on YouTube, he started playing Warcraft 3 and that made him want to play Wow. And then he tried retail. He tried Classic. And he's just like, dude, like, I just started playing Classic Wow.

Like, this is an insane game. Like, I'm addicted. I can't stop playing. And he's like never played Wow before. So it's like, I mean, both things can be true. It can be a good game and it can be nostalgic. And I think that creates a more powerful tie to it. But like, it's still a good game.

Like it's a good slow RPG. Like there's a reason wow was as big as it was back in the day. Yeah, I mean, there's, there are people playing Warcraft 1 now. There's EverQuest is still a thing. People are jumping back into Final Fantasy 11, RuneScape, Ultima. Oh, yeah. People are going back to older games. And I think, you know, this is probably generalization.

but I think in a rush to make everything as monetizable as possible, modern online gaming lacks something that was there in the old versions of online gaming. Like it feels a little soulless. And I think people recognize that and pick up on that. And yeah, while those older games are probably slower or, you know, not as beautiful to look at, there's something in them that feels a little more innocent. and a little more like, oh, yeah, this is what online gaming used to be. He used to have to be like, I'm in a town shouting for a party, or I'm, like, that kind of thing.

It's an experience that we don't have anymore. I think people want to have that again. Yeah, I mean, I said before, but like modern while a lot of times feels like a checklist. It's like I log in. I'm like, did I do my thing? That I do my daily? Did I do my thing for my crests? That I do my other weekly?

And it's just like, it doesn't feel like I'm jumping in to be a, like, let's go explore, which is why I just like, Wow Mount Farm and explore the world myself, because then I'm like, hey, you know what, this is pretty fun. And that's kind of what the Wow Forever, Classic Wow does give you, is that ability to just like play the game at your own pace, level,

explore, just kind of chill out, like, whoa, that's pretty cool, or I can get some buffs and sit by the fire with people, and then some guys talking, you're just like, oh, what's up, man? Like, it's, you know, someone runs by and buffs you with arcane intellect, and you're just like, yo, thanks, like that type of thing. Community is what

it is, it's the community again. It's a lot of the new modern features for MMOs were added because players wanted to get in quick, do something quick, quick, quick, quick. And that's great. It allows more people to try stuff and to get into it, but it kills off what made MMOs popular, which was my friends are there. I'm going to log in and talk with my friends. And oh, this person came over and did a thing.

And like, it's, yeah, it's the idea that you're online. with a bunch of people. And, you know, you don't really have that feeling anymore. Yeah. And it's, I mean, there's still, like, plenty of things. Like, with retail, like, Mythic Plus is good, ratings good. Like, there's a lot of good systems in retail, wow, but it does kind of lack in those areas that it used to thrive in.

I mean, it's a different experience. You know, like, it is completely different from top to bottom. And it's because, like you said, there's a million different currencies and a million different currencies, and a million different ways to play and a million different types of players and everyone kind of and back in the day

there was only so much you could do and it just you know redefined how you play now because there's so much you know it changes the play experience and in you know years ago it was what it was yeah and I mean that's

that's kind of the thing with the new wow is that people have mastered classic wow like it's been out for a billion years people know what to do what gear to get and now they're just like shaking it up. Like, what if we made new gear? What if we redid some of the gear? What if we made more dungeons? What if there were quests where there

weren't any quests before? What if you had, like, more quests? And it's just like, dude, this is pretty cool. I think that's what makes it so fun. Like, wow, I can hit, like, level 37 and not have to grind centaurs for an entire level and desalus. Like, this is pretty neat. So, yeah.

It's got me wanting to try stuff I've never tried before. Like, I want to, I'm like, maybe I'll be a shadow priest. Like a, a troll shadow priest could be fun. Like I've never done that before. You know, that kind of stuff. I'm like, huh,

maybe I'll try something new. Yeah. Look at that. So, only time we'll tell on how good it is and how it plays out and everything. But I'm pretty hopeful.

I'm cautiously optimistic. So, Wahoo, but you know what I'm very optimistic about? There you go. All right, I was waiting for it.

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Code Crendor. That's me. Oh, all right, let's go to chopper. That's the guy with Crenor. How's that traffic out there? Oh, man, let me tell you about the traffic. It's, uh, it's raining a lot, so it's not good. Everyone's slipping and sliding.

Uh, well, I guess it depends where you are, but yeah, it's raining here. It's raining a lot of places. Um, yeah, I don't know. There's a, oh, there's a duck. That duck is swimming down the road. There's some flooding. There's also the Duckmobile. There's like four ducks.

They got a Duckmobile. They're driving around. The horn clacks. Yeah, I don't know. They must have some good engineers, but the horn clacks. So they're all clacking, and then the horns like quark,

and it's a big, like, fog horn clack. Pretty crazy. So watch out for them. Thank you. Thanks, Crenor. I am watching. Although, do you think it'd be like, you know how in some cities

they have those duck tours? Oh, yeah, that's right. The ducks would drive a duck tour boat? Because that would be cute. That'd be cute. that's kind of what I was picturing actually I would like that I went on one of those in Boston one time

when it was way too cold to have done that at one point they take you into like we're gonna go into the harbor now and I'm like cool no terrible choice just not a good choice it was so cold and the water was so cold and I was like what did I do this

yeah no that does not sound good but ducks yep ducks all right let's go to weather woohoo weather dime

let's see the weather we got and we've got a greetings from Germany please do the weather for Bonn it's the birthplace

of Ludwig van Beethoven and was the capital of Western Germany after the war okay all right B-O-N-N B-O-N-N

B-O-N-B-N-B-N Bon Germany. Oh, right near Cologne, Cone, if you will. Yes, I'm sure that's how you say it. Currently, the Games Fest is, Gamescom, not GamesFest,

Gamescom. So many festivals, so many cons, so many Bonds. Yep. Games Bond. Yeah, Games Bond, James Bond, James Bond. James Bond. Games Bond.

Currently in Bond, it is 53 degrees Fahrenheit, feels like 52 degrees Fahrenheit. High of 68, low of 49, chance of rain. 3%. We have 52. Oh, wait, that's not the real one. 79 on the humidity.

79%. 4 mile an hour winds. UV index 0.26 on the air quality. Due point 46, pressure 30.43 inches, 10 miles of visibility. 7.16 a.m. sunrise. 732 p.m. sunset. And we have ourselves a wax. Gibis moon. 10 date.

68 tonight. Monday, 68 parley cloudy. Tuesday, 67 parley cloudy. Wednesday, 71, parley cloudy. Thursday, 66, parley cloudy. Friday, 72, parley cloudy. Saturday, 76, parley cloudy.

Sunday, 78, partly cloudy. And you might guess it, 78 on Monday, partly cloudy. You know, I'll be honest. Lovely city. surprised I haven't been there before, even though I've been so close for Gamescom. But interesting to see the eclectic tastes of food here. Kind of impressed.

It is all over the place. You've got Persian, Turkish, Mexican, normal German fair. You've got sushi. It's a very metropolitan city, it looks like. There's a place called Gast House. I'm Stifled. Driesen gastronomy Yeah, and that's just like an old

German bar and one of the reviews Has a little like owl puppet guy Looking around, I don't know, what's happening? Germany man Yep There's Yang Go Fu Molotang Chinese And it's got like a giant wall of

Like buffet style shit you pick out Hell yeah I think they cook it or something Or you just take it? I don't even know or it might be like a hot pot thing I'm not sure yeah there are a lot of Donner places

I guess it's very popular but it's popular everywhere but there's a lot of like oh it's time for your meat you know what I mean yep that's true I mean yeah I think it's just one of those things

where you people drink and then they're like give me one of those doner kebabs that's what they sound like over there obviously right of course everyone know yeah but it's kind I think it's kind of like the late night snack food type of thing for the most part.

You look at this place. Does that open up when I link it? Yo, what the hell? This is a red ass bar. Yeah, I don't know what this is, but it looks, it's got like, uh, sexual things all over the place. Yep, it has panties hanging from the ceiling. It has a mini sex shop. That's a thing.

Um, yep. It has a giant sign that says, me, sexual I guess it's a bar that's playing up the red light district aspect but I feel like it's not a red light district it's just the bars themed that way

Yeah, I think so It's like it's just the other theme When I was there, the I walked by a bar that had like There's this game series I love called Rusty Lake And they have these weird symbols They always use, right?

And I'm sure they're symbols that have been around for centuries But Rusty Lake just uses them and I walked past the bar that had those symbols in the window and I almost was going to take a photo and send it to the Rusty Lake guys and I was like, who cares? I was like, no, I don't care that much. It's, you know, it's clearly generic symbols,

but for some reason it had the exact same generic symbols as Rusty Lake and I was like, that's pretty funny. Maybe that's more of a common thing over there. Oh, for sure. I mean, that's where the devs are. You know what I mean? The devs are in Europe, so probably. Yeah.

It's over here. They had that there'd be people being like, oh, they'd be like, Satan. Satan is here. Yes. My virgin eyes. Yes. Yeah. Overall, pretty cool.

Fun. All right. Let's go to sports. Sports. We've got sports. Sports. Currently, we've got NFL week. who happening.

And as of right now, we have the, uh, da, da, da, da, da. Wait, where's the, where's my scores? Hold on. Where's? Hold on. Hold on, please. Okay, there we're going.

We're good, we're good. Uh, the bills beat the lions on Thursday. Bengals beat the Texans today. Packers beat the jets in overtime. Saints beat the Ravens. Eagles beat the Titans. Vikings beat the Bears, but the Bears quarterback got hurt,

which was the bigger. story. Browns beat the Buccaneers, the Patriots beat the Steelers, the Panthers beat the Falcons, and currently, Raiders are beating the Chargers, the Broncos are

beating the Jaguars, the Cowboys are beating the commanders, the 49ers are destroying the Dolphins, and the Seahawks are beating the Cardinals. In baseball, we got the Tampa Bay Rays in first

with the Yankees and the Red Sox also there, and they're all going to the playoffs just in a it's unsure what order they'll go then we got the guardians in first in the central and the rangers in first in the west uh then we got the braves the brewers and the dodgers all in first in the national league they're all going to the playoffs and then the phillies cubs padres seem to be the teams going to the wild card with the diamondbacks probably not making it but it's still technically a possibility statistically but they will statistically yeah mathematically it's possible. Yeah, mathematically,

it's possible, but it's not looking great for them. However, we're only like a week or so away, I think, from actual playoff baseball. So we're just about that time. Playoffs. And then we got the NBA's preseason

starts, I think, in a couple weeks here. Hockey I believe is starting today. The preseason starts today for hockey. New Jersey Devils beat the Islanders 2 to 1 and Anaheim beat San Jose 6 to 2 so hockey is officially back

now. Wowie. We're hitting my favorite time of the year where all four major sports are occurring at the same time. I love it. That's sports. Oki dokey. What is our fact of the day? Fact of the day.

We have this is a wild one. A bolt of lightning. can toast 100,000 slices of bread. Each bolt of lightning is worth 5 billion jowls. This means the average toaster

1,000 watts. J-O-U-L-E-S. It's got to be jowls. J-O-U-L-E-S. J-O-L-S? It's not a Stargate, Deep Space, whatever. It's like that J-O-Ls are here.

No. How do you see? say it. Jules pronunciation. It's Jules. Jewel, that's stupid. But that's what it is. That's what it is. Not Jowels.

I get that that's what it is. I like Jowls more. Jowls are the things old guys have. Like, I'm not a crook. Yeah, I know. I know the Jowls. I like them in this world. The power of lightning is judged by the power of Jowls. The average toaster is 1,000 watts and can be powered for 84,000 minutes,

which results in 100,000 pieces of toasted bread. Okay, so they just mathed it. They didn't really do like, we shot lightning at a breadloaf to see what would happen. Gotcha. No, yeah, they just math it out. Also, this one right above it, we just talk about red lights. The average person will spend six months of their life waiting at a red light. It normally takes 75 seconds for a red light to pass

and accounts for 20% of all driving time. You know, if you walked, you wouldn't have to, you wouldn't, it would be 60, what is it, 60, 6 months of, uh, standing at crosswalks, which is probably better for you. That's true, but depending on where you are, it's pretty much impossible to walk in some areas. That's true. That's true.

If you're in a city, like, sure you go. Or, or, you go for a walk, but you like bring brass knuckles. You know what I mean? You're going out to fight. Well, what about people living like the country or like middle of Wisconsin

in the forest? Bring your shotgun. Yeah, but Walmart's 30 minutes away. Yeah. By driving. Yeah, so you'll be really fit. You know what? All right, maybe you just need to get a number.

That's like, you're going to get your 10,000 steps in. Let me tell you. It's like, you're on going again. Please don't do that. Please don't. Please don't. I am joking. Be safe.

So you guys, your facts of the day. Okay. Who has come to us with tears in their eyes? We've got tears. Dear Lustrious sir, is the tears of my eyes and crumbs of delicious pastry in my beard, I beseeched thine wisdom. After realizing there is no ESPN 7, the president of all sports TV, John Madden, I assume, puts you in charge of deciding what goes.

there. What sport does your ESPN 7 air? We already have the Ocho. I don't want to do Spanish. What's a good, there's got to be like a good, hold on. It's like a number seven. Seven's supposed to be lucky, right? Oh, Dutch is Zaven? Yo. Yeah, it's not Zaven, Zavin. That's the one for me.

ESPN Zaven. Honestly, that's pretty sick. But what would you put on it? Irish, it looks like it's, It's shacked. ESPN shacked is pretty good too. It just sounds like ESPN shat. You know what?

That's fine. Anyway, ooh, there's Latin is septum. ESPN septum. That's all for your nose. Problem. Ukrainian is sim.

I don't know. What I would put there would be ESPN 7s where you put e-sports, dude. Oh, that's true. That's a good. For sure. ESPN 7 is e-sports. Yeah,

I like that. And occasionally they throw in like some BMX or something. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, late night. Yes,

during the day, it's, yeah, it's all the guys who are just like playing video games. But at night, the extreme sport,

oh, most extreme elimination challenge plays on this as well. Oh, yeah. That's, we do Takashi's castle. We do all of it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Perfect. American gladiators, we have that. Basically, the channel we're making is what G4 became. It actually is, yeah. And that turned out well.

Yeah, we also play cops every now and again. Yep, as a gamer station does. Yeah, as a gamer station that is certainly not on its last leg does. All right. Next, dear illustrious sir, we've got... Still going. Dear illustriouser. I've come.

God. If you were both forced to take one personality trait away from each other and give it to yourself, what would it be? The other person will lose this part of themselves permanently, and it will now be part of you, but they will be able to take something of yours in return. What would I take from you? I already know what I would. Oh, well, I would take your metabolism.

You know what? That makes sense. I take that. Yep. Just the ability to eat whatever you want. Yeah. I don't want all the other problems you have

that force you not to eat whatever you want. But I will take your metabolism. Yeah. Yep. I would take your lack of anxiety. Oh, that's good. That's good. Although now the problem is

you will have no metabolism but you won't care and you won't stress. And I will have super metabolism and I will always be stressing out. Cool, great. We've ruined each other. We really would ruin each other. That's,

you know, maybe it's better the way we are. We're probably, yeah, we're probably who we are for a reason. Yep. And there we go. That's the dear lustrousers.

Hey. Well, it's that time for a big news story of the day. Big news story of the day. Day. day. This one I actually saw

recommended to us on the Shibuzi Reddit because it show up in my email. It's show up in my email. As someone posted this, they're like, great Cox and Crenthor news story. Which then I saw on your Reddit, someone said, ever been reminded you and your favorite podcast

are getting old by your Reddit comments? And it was them being like, Cox and Crenthor is my favorite from 11 years ago. It doesn't necessarily make me think you're old, but it definitely makes me, feel old. Exactly. But that's not, we got this news story.

Right, right, right, right, right, right. Sorry, time. We have no, we have no use for you. Yeah, take that time. Zoo advertises tickets for Child Predator Tor. No.

No, you know, no. I know, I know what this is going to be, but this you got to have a friend tell you when you're screwing up. Yep. Bosses at Chester Zoo

quickly changed the 90-minute bus tour's name after it was branded sinister by visitors. A zoo spokeswoman said the air was due to our default naming convention in our system, but quickly changed. The name blunder earlier this week was part of the Cheshire Zoo's ticket promotion

to allow visitors to go on a tour showcasing its Sumatrin Tigers Lions Rhin and Komodo dragons. The mistake was mocked by the zoo's customers and visitors online. One remarked, I hope this has been cleared by Cheshire Police seems a bit dangerous. Another said, staggering.

How'd that get approved? The private bus store cost 25 pounds for children. Adult predator tickets were also advertised by mistake for 30 pounds. The zoo's website discovers... The child predator thing is like, wow. But the adult predator tickets is hilarious. Like that is no one solve that as a problem. It's like, we got to name of something.

Just call them adult predators and sell them. Like, okay. Oh my God, an adult predator. Well, at least it's not a child predator. Yeah, this is not a child predator. The zoo's website said, Discover the Predators of the Animal Kingdom and their prey in our brand new guided tour.

You'll be the first movie. It would be even funnier if it was like, Discover the Predators of the Animal Kingdom. and it was just a picture of like a happy couple. You know what I mean? It's just like two humans. It's like, Discover the predators. The animal gets just like, ooh, what are they trying to say?

Just go on the ride. And then right away, it's Chris Henson. Like, where do you think you're going? I just thought it was a zoo. I thought we were going to see animals. He's like, oh, I don't think so. You're your text message here. When you buy your tickets, you said you were excited to be at the child predator ride.

What did you mean by that? What's going on? I just want to leave. You know, you can leave. Your ticket here says you are an adult predator. Why do you buy a ticket that says that? And why are you carrying lubricant on? Why do you have all those ropes?

Why did you bring so many ropes and binding tools to the museum? To the zoo. Not museum. It would be weirder if you brought that to museum. I just, you know, I felt like an adventure, you know, bringing my rope and my map. You never know when mummies are going to come to life, so I felt like I should bind them. And the lube, you know, I always have a lube on hay and. Yeah, yeah.

Like, I get really stiff and dry. So I got to, you know. Got a loom up. Got to loop up. That's going to be a quote from like two years from now. Be like, when did you say got to lube up? The problem is you can't say which one of us was because we both literally just said you got to loo up. That's true.

That might be a first bother. That could be a first boather. You gotta loom up. That's a boather. You'll be the first visitors in the zoo as you board our electric tour bus and enjoy 90 minutes of the zoo all to yourself, it said. Come face to face with some of the zoo's most iconic animals away from the crowds, including our family of Sumatran tigers. And your expert tour guides will be on hand to share fascinating facts about some of nature's most effective hunters. So, there we go.

They goofed it. And now people made fun of them. And then they changed it. So that's honestly, that's a, that's a funny fail. You know, nobody, nobody got hurt. Just a bad, bad phrasing and marketing. Just terrible phrasing. Just truly awful marketing.

But if anything, that goes to show that probably the people at that zoo are little wholesome babies who just love their animals so much. Because if that didn't cross their mind once, you know they're existing in like a perfect little bubble of, of like, do you see the new otter kids today? They're so cute. You know that's where they're at, right? They're in a perfect little happy animal kingdom world. And they didn't think because they've never had to.

They had to be like, is this weird? Is this creepy? I wish that were me. Oh, big same. But that's our big news story of the day. Okay. That's it for us. Thanks so much listening.

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