Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 256 - Just Two Nerds Nerding
Episode Date: September 21, 2020This week Crendor takes Jesse down the path to nerdom. Thankfully they are pulled back by even more nerdom. It's a pretty nerdy episode. That and a man paints an alligator! All this and more on a bran...d new Cox n' Crendor! Use promo code COX at http://babbel.com to get an additional 3 months FREE! Go to http://meundies.com/crendor to get 15% off your first order, free shipping, and a 100% satisfaction guarantee!
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Uh, oh jeez.
Hello?
I was trying to figure out what to say, I was going to say greetings, and I was like, I've done that bit already, and I was just going to say hello, and I was like was like i can't just say hello so you just run out of things or you just you're like you know
what i got nothing today pretty much yeah i got nothing cool well you know it happens to all of
us it does well i mean it could but at the same time does it are you i don't i don't know i feel
like you were having one of those like you know you know, we all have our off day moments.
But then you were like, no, not me.
Well, I don't even feel like it's an off day.
I think it's because we got Cheesecake Factory today.
So I'm in like a post Cheesecake Factory state.
What'd you get at Cheesecake Factory?
Hold on.
Tell me about this experience.
I'm not a big Cheesecake Factory eater.
All right. Well, they have about a billion items. I'm not a big Cheesecake Factory eater. All right.
Well, they have about a billion items on the menu, but I only ever get one.
Which is?
And it's the Chipotle chicken pasta.
And I like it because I can eat half of it and then save the other half for later,
and I don't have to eat a whole thing.
And it reheats very well.
What does it taste like?
It's got, like, a spicy sauce. I'm about to Google this. What does the chipotle chicken, what does it taste like? It's got like a spicy sauce.
I'm about to Google this.
What is the chipotle chicken pasta?
I feel like we've talked about this like five years ago.
Probably sooner than that, but I've never actually looked it up.
It's chipotle chicken pasta.
There it is.
Just look it up.
It pretty much looks like that.
It's got like peas.
It's got the long pasta noodleshuh it's got like peas it's got the long uh pasta noodles
it's got like asparagus it's got a little peppers it's got some garlic this is not at all what i
thought it would look like i never once was like oh yes it has red and yellow peppers peas
asparagus never once did i think this is what it would be.
I mean, listen.
All right.
It's pretty good.
And I've gotten it.
I've gotten it every time.
It doesn't look like anything I'd ever order, ever.
Why not?
I'm just, I just don't understand asparagus and pasta.
I just don't get it.
Why?
Because it's not a flavor combination I want.
Chipotle asparagus is not something I've ever said like, that sounds good.
Yeah, but then you try it and you're like, hey, that's pretty good.
I guess.
I mean, you seem to enjoy it.
It's a pretty solid Combination plus
Okay
They give you the bread
Alright so you get the little bread with it
And then when you get it to go
They put in like a little bread bag
So it's like here's your bread bag and you're like oh boy
Um
Oh boy
Oh boy
Oh boy bread. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
Right back, Pluto.
Oh, boy.
And then we got our cheesecake, which we waited a few hours before even eating the cheesecake.
So I was like, I can't process all this right at once.
Like, physically, I can't without my gallbladder, or I'm going to get some pain.
Even with a gallbladder, I probably couldn't process it.
I can't believe the number of items I'm looking at on this menu.
They have so many items.
It's insane.
I can't figure out how any of this is fresh.
It just blows my mind that 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
15 things alone in the small plates and appetizer section.
15 appetizers.
Then just their main menu broken down into categories.
They have desserts.
I love how that's first.
I guess if you're the Cheesecake Factory, that's first.
Then small plates and appetizers, salads, super in air quotes foods, flatbread pizzas, glam burgers and sandwiches, pasta, steaks, chops, fish and seafood, specialties, skinnylicious, eggs and omelets, Brunch, Kids, New Items, Beverages.
Yes.
There's so much here.
It even says, I just looked up a thing.
Although Cheesecake Factory may get some flack for being a chain restaurant,
there's no denying that the food is made with the utmost care and quality.
When I toured the kitchen for the first time,
my location,
I was blown away by the cleanliness organization efficiency.
The walk-in fridges,
the restaurant are massive compared to the freezers.
Cause the restaurant simply doesn't serve a lot of frozen items outside of
ice cream and cheesecake.
Nearly all the sauces dressings for every dish are made fresh and each item
is prepared right when ordered.
All right.
I mean,
I still don't know how it's possible.
I don't know how it's possible i don't know it's possible
to have all these things prepared to ordered but like okay all right i'll take that mysterious
stranger's opinion well and i think uh actually i watched a video the kitchen's just massive so i
think they just have a lot of employees so when you have that many employees you have like so
many different things and i guess i don't know i mean i don't think they try to get things out at the same time
like when they bring you your table they all try to serve you at the same time yeah interesting i
wonder what it's back there have you know being an aficionado having watched hell's kitchen i wonder
what the process is because you know there's that like, all right, order up.
And then they have to bring everything up at the same time to plate.
So if it's a big kitchen, how do – like if we're at a table and you get your pasta and I get a flatbread pizza and like Toast gets a double burger with extra fries as she's known to do.
How all that translates to coming up at the same time
i don't know i bet it's i bet it's you know i bet it if it's all fresh i bet it's a a routine
they have to get down i don't know how i don't know how it's possible it also says here uh when
they used to work there many of the servers have been working there for years nearly all the upper
management was filled by people who moved up from host to server kitchen positions over time.
And the company ranks number 25 in the top 100 best companies to work for in 2019.
Interesting.
Wow, yeah, look at this.
This is the kitchen.
Let me look at it.
So I think that's how they do it.
There's just a lot of people working in the kitchen.
Huh.
Okay.
I can't, you know, all right.
Yeah.
So how'd I get here?
Oh, yeah, I had Cheesecake Factory.
You did have Cheesecake Factory, yeah.
That was your big news for the week.
That was my big news for the week that was my big news for the week and it has left me in a half comatose state uh but i'm feeling pretty good good good i'm glad
you're feeling pretty good anything else happened with you or is that it oh you know what there was
another thing uh we were walking the other night and we were walking just outside and we walked
past uh one area and there's a skunk and he and the skunk did like a and he shuffled we just ran
across street we didn't get sprayed or anything that skunk was crazy you just saw a skunk and
that was like the most interesting thing that happened to you is you saw a skunk but it gave
me a flashback to that old cox and crendor animation where i ran into a skunk
back then as well so it was like a nostalgic flashback to running into a skunk um yep i love
how that's your nostalgia i ran into a skunk and it happened and then i remembered that other skunk
i ran into it was great yeah i don't know what else happened uh i played wow farm some
wow mounts preparing for the pre-patch i'm trying to get revered with the mecha gnomes
or mechagon or whatever so i can make a mecha gnome you're doing too much
too much totally unnecessary no totally completely unnecessary all this in your bid just to play with
those guys when the game comes out.
Well, no.
I can play with them anyway, but I want to play as a Mecham though.
Ah, it's a terrible idea.
Only Kraken's playing as a Mecham though.
But he wants to play.
He wants friends that aren't made of flesh.
So I was like, ah, I'll pop in.
I'll be a Mecham though.
So I'm excited.
Giant waste of time.
No, no, no. I mean, living
in general can be a waste
of time when you boil it down. What?
What? No! The idea that
you were grinding for a thing
that, like, you can just be a gnome
and you'll be fine.
It's more than that, man.
It's not about just being a mechano.
It's about living as a mechonom.
I'm so turned off from WoW right now.
I'm like over it.
Oh my god.
It's funny because like you're so far into Final Fantasy, but I'm like I'm pretty far into WoW right now.
I've gone full back in.
I'm just enjoying an MMO experience for the first time in years.
It's very nice.
And, you know, I don't feel like I need all the stuff WoW has.
Just all the grinds and all the BS.
It's nice not to have to worry about that.
Well, you see the key here is you got to farm mounts.
That's what I like.
I never care about mounts.
Like, I just don't.
Why not?
Because mounts, like, the problem is I like being a troll,
and I have the troll stuff I want,
and then I see all the new, you know,
the reason why I could care less about Shadowlands
is all the gear is emo as shit.
It's like, I am the Dark Knight.
And it's like, cool, but my troll's gonna look like an idiot in that. If I put
that outfit on my gangly
ass troll with his big ass
tusks and ridiculous hairdo,
that's gonna look stupid.
So why would I want that? And then all
the mounts, most mounts
are some form of horse. If you've ever seen
a troll on a horse, it's ridiculous
looking. It does not look right.
It is, like, most of the things don't
work with me so why the hell should i care i mean you know do you have the rat mount um i look like
my feet go through the floor on the rat mount oh my god i'd be riding that mount every day then
i think we i think we have different views on that. I think we do.
Here's the thing.
Whenever... So, when I play WoW, I play at the start of the expansion and at the end of the expansion.
Like, I literally just did Argus content.
Because I realized you can get exalted with the Argus stuff and get mounts.
So, I was like, well, I gotta do that.
And it's double rep and double experience now. So So I was like, well, I gotta do that. And it's double rep and double experience
now. So I was like, perfect timing. So I
just played through the entire storyline of Argus
and I was like revered already. I was like,
nice. And so
then I just did all that and I kill everything
in one shot. So I'm about to get my mounts.
Then I go back to Outland,
farm some Mag'har rep from
BC. Then I get eight Talbux
and then I get my armored red dragon
hawk for hitting 200 mounts i mean you're look you're you're doing it right i'm a fool i like
will play a game and play along with it and think i'm doing things good and then like
then i'll get burnt out to be like oh this sucks and then the secret is i play wow at the end and
the beginning and in the middle that's's when I inject League of Legends.
Well, I will never do that.
I value my sanity.
Everybody keeps being like,
Crendor, play Among Us with Jesse,
but you need, like, eight other people.
And so I've just played with, like, all the Kraken people
because they always put together groups,
so I'm like, all right, I'll play with them.
Yeah, I don't...
I was invited to play once and i
was like i don't even own the game i mean so it's like a dollar or something yeah i i don't i've
never thought about playing it i don't i haven't had like there's nothing in me that wants to see
how much of a liar my friends are there's nothing in me that wants to see how much my friends will betray me And ruin my trust
I mean that was Secret Hiller
Yeah
I don't
Yeah
I guess people
Keep forgetting that like
I do
I don't have time
Like I just don't have time to be a streamer
Everyone's like
Justly but you're streaming Final Fantasy
Well yeah
Because I'm doing it
Because I'm going to go through the story
And then like You're just doing it because you'm going to go through the story and then like
you're just doing it because you're like might as well because you're gonna do it anyway
yeah i'm gonna do it anyway so and people are like we want to see you go through the story i
was like okay i'm gonna do it anyway uh yeah but i don't you know when i'm not doing that i'm
working on video stuff i'm working on a game i'm working on a game. I'm working on a show. Like I got so much stuff
I'm doing that it's like, I don't have time to just be like, Oh, Hey, I got a text message
from someone who says, do you want to play this game? Like I literally can't right now.
I can't drop what I'm doing to go play. Cause I'm working. And people like, I don't think
understand that they assume work is just streaming. And I'm like, look for many people, that's
what it is, but that's not what I'm doing.
I'm like 75% streamer life now.
I get it.
It's easier.
It's better to just have fun and make streaming content than it is to even try YouTube.
YouTube's a mess.
That's very true.
I stream it.
I'll just stream my wow mounts.
I put on some jazz music.
Sounds great. Just go around. And then I essentially just stream my WoW mounts. I put on some jazz music. Sounds great.
Just go around. And then
I essentially just play the lottery.
Like, oh man, are we going to get
Ultraxian today? I know so many
dungeon and raids, old raids
like voice lines because I've
ran them so many times now.
He's like, I am the beginning and the
end. He's me Ultraxian.
And I'm like, man, this guy's voice is ass. That guy who's like, powering down.
That dude?
No, that's the, you're in Pandaria where he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
That guy is, I don't know what they were thinking with that voice.
That voice is so bad.
It's like, powering you down.
Oh, my God.
And then there's the other one in the Pandaria with the troll.
And he's like, take your trinkets.
And I love how he says, take your trinkets every time.
That's my favorite.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, it is truly something.
There's one Voice in Ice Crown
I think it's like the first Lichu fight
Where I feel like
She's reading every line of dialogue
Like it's a question
Oh yeah
For the master
Like
I don't know
Is it for the master
It's so funny
Like you just forget sometimes in the early days, they were like, yeah, like, get a friend to do this.
Yeah, they really did.
Oh, my God.
There's the other one with the ZG with the raptor boss, which I have done.
Oh, my God.
I've done that every day for, like, so long.
And you kill him, and he's like, big peace worms.
I be delivering you to Harkar myself. But every time I kill him and he's like big peace worms i'd be delivering you to huck are my
son but every time i kill him he's like big he dies in like a second sometimes i let him get
the full voice line off because i want to hear it sure i get that i understand that that's like
the i remember you that's that guy yeah in the, yeah. I've done Ulduar a few times.
By a few, I mean like 35.
I just did the stable garrison just so I could get the mounts from the stable.
I did that too.
But I'm also the person that did every single garrison thing.
You're more of like you do all the things you want, like you have to do,
like all the achievements and getting everything done because you've got to complete it.
I'm not really a completionist.'m more of a like rng like i play for the i play for the high highs and the low lows where i'm like dude there's a one percent chance that i can get
this thing let's go and then i try to get it that's how i play all games really except league
i don't do low lows i'd rather i'd rather overpower and over
level and always win that's how i do things if i can break it and win great that's why uh
league of legends was essentially gambling like you gamble who you're gonna get on your team and
you just gotta play but i love man when you win in league of legends and when you get like a win
streak going,
you may as well just inject the League of Legends heroin.
You're like, yes, I'll keep winning.
And then when you start losing, you're like, well, I got to win one.
And then you just go on a stupid losing streak of 10 games
because you're like, I got to win one.
And then before you know it all your dopamine serotonin
whatever it's all gone no chemicals that make you feel good or left but then that's when the next
day you're like i need more and then you realize you're addicted but then you hit plat and you're
like nice then you quit i i can't possibly relate to that no no no no no no that's great in fact
sam's addicted right now.
Right now, he's trying to get out of bronze.
I think he did.
No, he got to bronze one.
He went from bronze two to bronze one.
And right now, he's been streaming four hours.
And let's see.
Where is he?
He is in bronze one 66 LP.
So he's actually like two to three wins away from getting into his silver promos.
But here's the thing.
Once he hits silver, he's going to be like, well, now I got to hit gold.
Now once he hit gold, I got to hit plat.
Me?
I knew my ceiling was plat.
And I'm like, when I hit plat, that's it.
That's where I'm done.
I've proven it to myself.
And then I did.
So until the new season resets, I'm
happy here. Also, Heimerdinger, best
champion. I don't know
what that means. I couldn't
tell you what that meant. Raise your
dongers. That's what it means.
I don't know what that means.
Oh my god.
Can I tell you?
Nerdy ass podcast, yes.
In order to just complete the nerdiness of the podcast.
Right.
So this week, earlier this week, I watched a video.
What a nerd.
Yeah.
So on YouTube, I think I tweeted this out.
Like, I literally hate the algorithm on YouTube.
If you watch one video, it pumps to you videos that are similar.
Oh, yeah.
And not just videos that are similar, but, like, videos they think you'll want to watch because you want to watch something.
So I watched a video this week that was, I think it was, like, something about the Mandalorian and how maybe one of the characters, like, left set halfway through recording or
something like that and I was like is this real and of course the video was
nonsense right it was all like clickbait yeah anyway so I watched that video and
my entire feed became videos very similar to it things like but the
problem is is that it's that it's that sort of gateway into really messed up stuff.
So I watched a video about the Mandalorian.
And what I got was my timeline filled with things like China bans Mulan Press.
Mulan in trouble.
John Boyega banned from doing interviews.
Kathleen Kennedy ruins Indiana Jones.
Disney Star Wars failure is complete.
I'm like, what?
And it just got worse and worse and worse.
And so then I realized I started seeing a lot from the same people over and over again.
Like the same people over and over again, like the same people. And I tweeted a thing that was like, I watched one wow video
and my timeline became filled with like Asmongold videos. And I was like, how the hell is this
possible? Right. So I clicked this one guy's, I'm not going to mention his name cause I'm
no way I'm going to give him, I'm going to give him stuff. But I clicked this guy's thing, and he is one of the people that keeps showing up in my timeline now who I had to mute because I was like, I do not want to watch these videos.
I'm not – this is not what I want.
And so I realized that they have like a pattern.
These clickbaity videos have like a flow to them that I never realized before.
And let me just like walk you through this because it's incredible.
All right.
All right.
So one week ago, this video, Disney's big trouble over China.
Disney's Mulan catches heat from U.S. lawmakers, right?
big trouble over China, Disney's Mulan catches heat from US lawmakers, right? Then, four days later, Mulan tanks with Chinese audiences. Then, a few days after that, Mulan, bought by 30% of
Disney subscribers, I call bullshit, right? Well, then ignore that timeline. Go to the next day.
Well, then ignore that timeline.
Go to the next day.
The next day, Cyborg is really salty.
Ray Fisher salty over Warner's blowing off Cyborg.
And it's Cyborg wants a re-roll.
And then wait a few days.
And it's like DC moves to HBO Max.
Then wait a few days.
And so like, and then the next day after that, it's about Star Trek.
And it's the same thing as Star Trek.
And the next day after that It's about Star Trek and it's the same thing as Star Trek And the next day after that It's the same thing but it's about
Uh you know like
Star Wars stuff
And the next day after that it's the same thing
But it's about Playstation
And then you know stuff like
PS5 sells out but Last of Us Part 2
Is still trash like that kind of stuff
And it's a cycle
And then every so many days they upload another video
That literally almost has the exact same thumbnail
As the previous videos
And most likely is roughly the same information
But they're just like dumping
The same shit
Over and over and over again
It's ridiculous
I never
Expected it to be like this trashy, but that's what it is.
I mean, there's a reason you go to the grocery store and there's always the magazines that have like the same like top five ways to lose weight.
Like crazy stuff that you wouldn't see on television and like all that type of stuff.
Like it's because people buy it.
I hate that.
I hate that.
of like it's because people buy it i can't i hate that i hate that and so that's why if i go to my home page it's all the same trash over and over and over and over again well one thing i realized
is i never even really go to my home page i always just go straight to my subscription box
but when i do go to my home page let's see, what do I have?
Uh,
I have Wow Mount Farm World Tour
Kalimdor.
Uh, retail
archaeology. A dead mall gets
worse. Uh,
Falcons vs. Cowboys. Week 2.
NFL highlights. Cozy Fall
Coffee Shop Ambience.
Relaxing jazz music and rain.
12 hours of Studio Ghibli sleep music.
Honestly, mine's pretty good.
Five minute easy fried rice.
McDonald's Japan only menu.
Because in the last week, I watched one murder case video,
one episode of Angry Video Game Nerd, and I listened to some Final Fantasy music.
My entire feed is Angry Video Game Nerd stuff, criminal case stuff, and Final Fantasy music.
It's so funny.
I'm just scrolling through and that's literally all it is which if you were viewing this without any
sort of information you'd be like is this person a psychopath is this a crazy person
i wonder if like now i want to know everybody in the comments should link what's on your home page
i'm hopefully just cox and crendor stuff if we're lucky. Very true. Hopefully it's just Dantan animations.
That'd be fantastic.
That would be great for me.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's just a crazy system.
But it definitely rewards more of the... Which is funny, because YouTube used to be more about that type of thing, with animations and short videos. And then people got away from that, because everyone's like youtube used to be more about uh like that type of thing with like animations and
like short videos and then people got away from that because everyone's like oh youtube's trying
to promote long content long content make let's plays do all this and now it's actually shifted
back more to like the 8 to 15 minute video well because the reason why and i had this conversation
with a person at youtube i think I might have said this to you
Is literally they're like long form content
No one wants to spend an hour
Watching a video anymore
And so you're not going to get anyone new
Clicking your channel
Because they're looking for short stuff
And so while long form content
Will get you more money
In the end
It won't get you the same views.
So unless you're like someone super famous that can make an hour long video and every one of your 50 million subs are just going to go to it, that's totally different than someone just trying to like get a break.
Yeah.
No, that definitely makes sense. I mean, my most viewed video right now in the last, man, like a couple of months,
ever since we did the reaction series, has been my battle for Azeroth in a minute.
And part of that's because people rewatch it.
Yeah.
And they can share it.
They have one minute.
Yeah, you got one minute.
And I'm like, man, I need to start doing this again.
This is what got me here yeah i was looking at uh the angry video game nerd stuff and even back in the day he was doing like 15 minute videos yeah that's what i mean that's the sweet spot the
problem is like i just like making long form content so i don know. I'll have to be creative, which sounds terrible.
You're the
Principal Skinner meme where he's like,
no, it is the children who are wrong.
I know.
It is the zoomers who are wrong.
It is the zoomers who are wrong.
Granted, I will say
when we made our reaction series,
we had some high views and high viewer retention on some 50-minute reactions.
Yes, but that also was one of those things like it had diminishing returns.
Oh, yeah.
If we would have kept that up forever as people wanted,
we would have had like 300 people who were really into it,
and they would have tweeted this every day.
But everyone else would have been like, I'm way over this. all right we get it all right the the bit is over the goof has been done well speaking of bits and goofs being done
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Alright, Crandor, let's go to chapter number 7.
This is Kyle the Crandor. How's that traffic out there?
Traffic out here.
Well, let me tell you something.
The traffic is just traffic. But you know what
isn't? The number of the day
with David Lynch. And he is still
not drawn to number 7.
I meant to bring this up earlier in the show, but I'm using my traffic report to bring it up now I want
him to draw that number seven and it is gonna drive me insane part of me thinks
he's not doing it on purpose but he has shown the seven so might be an illusion
might just be crazy I don't know but man David Lynch, crazy stuff.
Oh, that reminds me.
I started doing a weekly mount thing on YouTube where I'm going to be farming a mount every week.
So now it's kind of like I'm doing my own, uh, my own, like, draw a number thing.
You know what I'm saying?
Back to you.
Thanks, Crandor.
I have no clue what you're saying.
Oh!
Let's go to the weather.
That's Grendor.
How's that weather?
That's weather.
That's Grendor.
Oh, yeah.
What was that?
What was that?
Alien Grendor?
That's weather.
But, you know.
So, okay.
Some people were commenting their places for weather on the YouTube channel.
Okay, hit us with a place.
Where are we going? Someone said
weather request. This one's
got seven thumbs up.
Beverly Hills, except it's the one
in Pampania,
Philippines.
Amazing. Yes. Okay.
Alright. Beverly Hills.
Wait, how do all right Beverly Hills Wait, how do I see though?
Beverly Hill I need to I need to google Beverly Hills Philippines. What does this look like?
Philippines
Let's see it's not even coming up in my thing Beverly Hills, Philippines
Let's see Beverly Hills of the
Philippines.
Wait, that's a trip advisor.
Bonifacio
Global City.
What the shit?
There's the Beverly Hills Polo Club,
Philippines.
That must be it.
Wait, Beverly Hills. I found Beverly Hills California
Florida San Juan Puerto Rico and Beverly Hills New South Wales Australia but I
have not found a Philippines but I guess he said Pam Bonia Just like copy it.
Pampanya, Philippines.
I found a Pampanya Davao, Philippines.
So maybe it's here.
It's got to be it.
Pampanya Davao.
I think that's it.
We're going with Pampania de Val.
Whoa, can I just point out how crazy this is?
What? So, in this area, they have Angeles, San Fernando.
This is like little L.A.
But it's in the Philippines.
The Philippines.
Huh.
Interesting. Oh, Oh yeah look at that
Huh okay
They got a purple bean coffee
Yo I bet
That's fun
Yeah the purple bean it's got a 4.2
And they're serving a sausage
What What Why are they serving a hot dog or let's that's like a
it's not like a bratwurst it's like an actual like italian sausage
can i just read for you this description of panpanga panpanga panpanga A province in the Philippines northwest of Manila.
A cultural theme park there has replicas of major national sites.
Animatronic dinosaurs roam the dinosaur island nearby.
A mountain trail leads the streams of the Myamit Falls.
And farther west, the Turquoise Lake fills Mount Pinatubo's volcanic crater in Angeles.
The Museo Ning Angeles documents the area's history.
That's what I learned today.
Huh.
I'm more interested in this Dinosaur Island.
Where the hell is this?
Where is Dinosaur Island?
Where is Dinosaur Island?
Also, I learned that the population in 1995 was 36,000,
and now the population is only like 14,000.
Interesting.
Why'd everyone leave?
Did Dinosaur Island come back?
Yeah, maybe they didn't leave.
Maybe Dinosaur Island got them. it's got to be that's a
sharp drop off they go from dinosaur island is also home to insect landia
insect landia yeah sick landia there it is! Insectlandia! Dude, it's like an amusement park!
Yeah!
And there's Bugs Life!
Oh my god, do you see it?
Do you see the Bugs Life?
Insectlandia! Look at this!
Hold on.
Let me lick it.
Oh, let me link it.
Now that is my favorite part is the fat.
The fat caterpillar is not a fat cat.
It's just a dude.
Yeah.
They didn't even try with that one.
At least with the.
That's great.
That's really funny.
Insectlandia.
Interesting.
Oh yeah, dino feeding.
There she is.
She's feeding the dinosaur.
My favorite part is that you can get, for a five person group, you can get five dinosaur island entrance passes.
Five insectlandia entrance passes.
Five wonders of the Island entrance passes. Five. Insectlandia entrance passes. Five.
Wonders of the World entrance pass.
And a five.
Terracan meal.
One piece chicken with rice and iced tea.
Huh.
So there you go.
Interesting.
Well, what's more interesting is the weather there.
Currently, 90 degrees today with mixed clouds and sun. You got some scattered thunderstorms developing this afternoon.
High near 90.
Wind south at 10 to 15 miles an hour.
You got a chance of rain 40%.
Then Tuesday, you got 90 with scattered storms.
Wednesday, 90 scattered storms.
Thursday, 91 scattered storms. Friday, scattered storms thursday 91 scattered storms friday isolated
storms 90 uh saturday 89 p.m thunderstorms sunday 88 thunderstorms monday 89 thunderstorms
tuesday 89 thunderstorms wednesday scattered thunderstorms 90 degrees it's like the same
every day um so if you like heat and you like thunderstorms
You're gonna love going
Is it the rainy season? Is that what it is?
I think so
Well I mean it very much
Seems like it
Uh what if this isn't even rainy season
Like oh yeah this is dry season
Like thunderstorm
Then they better change to rainy season
Cause that many thunderstorms
that's not dry season they can't claim that yeah well it's uh it's gonna rain it's gonna be hot
okay it's the weather all right what's going on sports sports sports uh yo we're here up at the Sports. Sports. Sports.
Yo, we're here up at the sports desk, and we've got some crazy sports news for you.
So the Stanley Cup final is happening between Dallas and Tampa Bay,
the two last places you'd expect hockey to be happening at.
In the NBA, the Lakers are up 2-0 on the nuggets the heat are up i believe 2-0 are you up 2-0 on the celtics oh wait no they're up 2-1 the celtics won so 2-1 on the uh
heater up on the celtics and then baseball, we're closing in on the playoffs.
I think we only got one week or something left.
Looks like Tampa Bay's in.
The Yankees are in.
The White Sox are in.
The Twins are in.
And Oakland is in.
And over in the East, you got Atlanta, the Cubs, the Dodgers. Are they doing best of seven still?
That's a good question.
I'm not sure.
I think they said they're letting more teams
into the playoffs that's what i'm saying so are they still doing best of seven uh mlb playoff
format let's find out a lot of teams best of seven this thing we could be like Mr. December. MLB announces expanded playoffs, so an expanded 16-team playoff format.
So it says eight from the American League, eight from the National League,
and then there will be four rounds,
but instead of a round featuring a sudden-death wildcard game
with the division winners resting, the format will be as follows.
Number one, verse eight. Number two, verse seven. Number three, verse six. Number four best of five.
Yes, they're doing a best of five,
but they're letting eight teams in,
which is crazy.
And then the second round.
Oh, no.
The wild card series.
So the first round's a best of three.
So they're letting more teams in. I like that.
I like that.
I like that, too.
So they're doing a best of three.
Then the next round's a best of five.
And then the next round's a best of seven.
And then it's the World Series, which is a best of seven.
So that's still kind of...
That's still pretty crazy.
I like that.
That's kind of wacky-wonky. Yeah. I like that. That's kind of wacky wonky.
Yeah.
I love, I like, I like that more than just like it's seven games.
Yeah.
They need to spice it up a bit.
That's a good way to spice it up.
Yeah.
And then over in football, we've had the crazy games today.
Tam, Tam, the Tam, Tam Brady Buccaneers in Tampa Bay.
131-17.
They get their first win. Steelers beat the
Broncos 26-21.
The
Rams beat the Eagles.
The 49ers beat the
Lowly Jets.
Buffalo beat Miami.
The Colts beat the Vikings. The
Packers destroyed the Lions.
Watch that one.
Very fun.
The Cowboys came back, even though they were down by like 30 points, to beat the Falcons.
Very embarrassing.
The Bears beat the Giants somehow.
Giants, very bad team.
The Cardinals beat the Washington football team.
The Chargers lost to the Chiefs in overtime. Made it close, though. The Ravens beat the Washington football team. The Chargers lost to the Chiefs in overtime.
Made it close, though.
The Ravens beat the Texans.
The Browns beat the Bengals in the Ohio Bowl.
I can't believe that.
I can't even believe that happened.
It happened.
And the game you've all been waiting for.
I was about to say, and the game we've been waiting for.
The Jaguars lost to the Titans.
However.
Hold on.
Everyone else in the team lost.
Yes. Minshew did not
lose. Minshew
did not lose. Minshew went 30 to 45,
339 yards, three TDs,
two interceptions, but
the Titans are
one of the best teams in the AFC
and the
Titans were up 28-10 at
halftime and Minshew led the
comeback and almost won it.
Yeah, his teammates
were holding him back.
If he had a team of like
Vikings, they would have won.
Yeah.
They would have won. Not the other football team, but like
actual Vikings. Yeah, like real
Vikings. Like real Nordic team, but like actual Vikings. Yeah, like real Vikings.
Like real Nordic Vikings, yes.
Yeah.
I can't find any Minshew quotes from today, however.
I did see some photos today where someone sent me a photo of him looking really pissed off. And the caption was, you think I want a Bud Light or something like that?
So, I don't know.
Let's see.
The Jaguars.
Maybe the Jaguars Reddit will have this.
Let's see.
Anything.
Anything from Minshew.
Anything from Minshew.
No, I don't see any.
But, I will say, everybody was writing off the Jaguars.
They were trading away players, getting rid of everybody.
But Minshew's like, nah, dude.
He's going to carry.
I believe.
I think he's going to take them to the playoffs.
This guy, he's the real deal.
And right now, the final game happening today is the Seahawks and the Patriots and somehow some way the New England
Patriots are still in this football game and they are still a team that doesn't even need Tom Brady
they're oh wait they lost never mind good well they lost 35 to 30 but they're still competitive in the game they have cam newton
and he didn't do too bad but luckily for everybody i think the patriots they're good
but they're not like as good as they used to be so it's all it's all balancing out again
which is great that's sports all right what is our big new story of the day
story of the day
uh-huh there's two one is a short one okay i'll take two all right first one is asus republic of gamers and ikea are teaming up to
create a line of gaming furniture coming early 2021 oh no okay yeah following hot on the heels
of the herman miller logitech luxury gaming oh boy yeah, yeah. Comes the next collaboration between PC hardware and furniture.
Do you have too much money and not enough sense?
This is the furniture for you!
A line of affordable gaming furniture designed by IKEA's Product Development Center in Shanghai
and the Asus Design Center in Taipei and Shanghai.
There's no detail on what products are going to be part of the, quote, in Shanghai and the Asus Design Center in Taipei and Shanghai.
There's no detail on what products are going to be part of the, quote,
new home gaming ecosystem.
Oh, my God.
I don't know if that's very new for me.
That both companies aim to create.
And while I'm no mind reader, a desk and chair seem like a safe bet.
The furniture line is set to roll out in early February 2021.
And then will likely become available in China in 2021.
And then become available in other regions across the world.
This guy says, I'm still using my Ikea Mickey table.
A table that fits a laptop and not much else.
Which usually leads me to avoiding my setup altogether but ikea and rog know that in order to achieve victories from bedroom to basement
as they call it jesus you presumably have to use an actual desk so perhaps this is what i need to
get me started as an esports In an esports career.
Oof.
Yep.
Can I just tell you.
Right now I'm looking at the Herman Miller.
Gaming desk.
Right. The gaming desk is.
Big enough.
For.
One monitor.
Maybe two if you're lucky.
Hmm.
And.
They say that it moves up and down.
Like you press a button it moves up and down. Like you press a button, it moves up and down.
Total cost for this all black, not really aesthetically pleasing desk, $1,200.
Wow.
This desk, like hold on.
Let me show you this.
This desk, there's no way this desk costs this much to put together.
It literally is just a black slab with legs.
Oh, yeah.
$1,200.
Does it go up and down at least?
Is it motorized?
Yes, they're saying it moves up.
There's a little button on the side that moves it up and down.
But that's still not worth the cost.
Look how tiny it is.
I got the exact same desk at Ikea.
And I think I paid.
I got it years ago.
This desk was, I think, like $200 or $300.
So literally $1,000 left.
I'm looking at this desk.
There's nothing about it that's worth $1,200.
Like the desk.
Besides the fact that there's a button on the side that you can move it up and down other than that there is no feature
on this at all it's just a black top and two legs and that is it and if you look at it on the wall look how tiny that desk is the monitor takes up half the desk yeah
i can't like that's not a gaming that's not a gaming desk you can't claim this to be a gaming
desk when literally it is not big it's not big enough for two monitors you can even if I go to Ikea.com, sit stand desk right now, you can find, yeah, you can get like a motorized one for like 300 bucks.
Yeah, I'm looking, I see a bunch of them right now.
Yeah, and it's like the exact same thing.
I mean, maybe it's not as sleek and styling, but I don't think I'm going to pay
an extra $900 to have a sleek style
yeah there's no
that sleek style is unnecessary
yeah no it's
I'd rather just go to Ikea
sorry Herman Miller
ridiculous
so that's that one
then the main story
of course Florida man will paint alligator that attacked him.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
All right, of all the comebacks, sure.
Yes.
In several decades as a professional artist painting Florida's marine life,
Mark Johnson has developed a pretty good eye for detail.
Now, the outdoorsman whose website offers realistic portrayals created
primarily from memory and imagination
is about to start work on a gritty
new work. Alright, this is not
what I thought it was going to be. I thought you meant
literally he was going to go find the alligator
and paint the alligator.
Uh...
I thought you meant he was going to go out
and like find the gator
that attacked him and start painting the gator.
Well, I mean, he might.
We don't know yet.
Okay.
All right.
And as about to start work on a gritty new work, an alligator with rows of perfect white teeth clamped on the thigh of a man out walking his dog.
It will be a self-portrait on a morning stroll with his golden retriever rex along with a
along a canal near his home in port st lucie johnson was attacked by an eight foot six inch
alligator that lunged from the water raced towards him and chomped down on his leg causing a deep
wound that required 60 stitches johnson said he'd freed himself by jabbing his index finger into the eye of the
giant reptile which released its grip and sank back into the canal i've already got the canvas
ordered to paint it johnson 61 said in an interview this image will be on my mind the rest of my life
i can see it now i see my foot i see the gator i see the positionator. I see the position. He had green eyes. The teeth were pearly white. No stain or anything.
He knew he had his prey.
He wanted to roll so he could start dismembering.
He started pulling.
Is he on Animal Planet?
What is happening right now?
This is like they're interviewing.
He's like, I knew he had his prey.
He wanted to roll so he could start dismembering.
He started clamping down really good above my knee,
and my shoe was sticking out of the base of his jaw.
After Johnson freed himself, he said,
he limped home with blood dripping from puncture wounds on his leg
to be reunited with Rex,
who had followed an order to run off when the alligator attacked.
Johnson's wife drove him to the hospital,
where doctors stitched his thigh and a finger injured
when he jabbed the creature's eye
It's important for people to understand how dangerous alligators are
If I'd been a small child or a pet, I wouldn't have had a chance
Rangers from Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission trapped and removed the alligator
According to state records, there have been 283 major alligator attacks on humans in Florida since the records began in 1948
25 were fatal Major alligator attacks on humans in Florida since the records began in 1948.
25 were fatal.
Major alligator attacks.
Watch out for those gators.
Look at that.
So many gators.
This gator does look pretty cool, honestly.
The one they got in this article.
Look at this guy.
Is it the gator, though?
I don't think so. There's no way the gator in this article is the same gator that bit him.
No, there's no way.
No, I would not say so.
I love that he's like, this gator, it had sparkly white teeth.
And when it clamped its jaws down on me, like, it's crazy.
Yeah.
Oh, and here's the guy.
There he is
oh wow that guy
definitely seems like a dude who would
just like animal planet stuff
he even has the animal planet shirt
on oh yeah he
does like he's at a safari
or something yeah he looks like he's going on safari
I did uh
oh then on this one he said the trapper did tell me I was Safari or something. Yeah, it looks like he's going on safari. I did...
Oh, on this one, he said,
the trapper did tell me I was lucky.
The finger to the eye socket trick doesn't always work.
Damn, dude.
Damn.
Well, I want to see his painting,
so hopefully they have an updated article.
Is that what you're in for?
Like, well, you know what?
All right, I want to see his painting now.
I want to see his painting.
You can even see in the background. He pretty good at painting he's got a painting back
there i want to see how detailed that gator like chomping his knee is i mean
it's a weird request It's a very strange request.
And then I want to see David Lynch paint the same thing.
Yeah, and for some reason there would be a number seven in it.
Yes.
Dude, to finish everything off, there's a quote on one of the number videos. And it was a quote from David Lynch from I don't know when.
But he was like, it is always fun to watch insanity of
a man and it's like if a man smashes his head against a wall until it is bloody there's a point
where it becomes funny and they just link that in like the number thing he's like are we the ones
going insane are we the ones hoping for seven bashing our heads against the wall as David Lynch laughs at us. And now I'm
like, I don't know, man.
I don't know, man.
I don't know, man. Is he laughing at us?
But
that's all I got.
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