Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 404 - Episode Not Found

Episode Date: October 30, 2023

The boys are back and Jesse has done nothing but play Alan Wake 2. Meanwhile Crendor is snooping on other conversations while eating ribs. Speaking of ribs - do you enjoy them? And what about the McRib?! Meanwhile in Florida, a new olympic level gaming event is set to be held next year and the boys are very interested. Go to http://factormeals.com/cox50 and use code cox50 to get 50% off. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp — go to http://betterhelp.com/cox to get 10% off your first month.

Today's episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. If you're thinking of giving therapy a try, give BetterHelp a try. Also, today we're brought to you by Factor. Factor's gonna get you those good meals all inside of you. Now, let's jump into this podcast. Hello, everybody. It's time for Ghost on Trend Dog. Ghost on Trend Dog in the morning. In the morning. Broadcasting live, live, a normal intro this time. Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of Cox and Crandall in the morning. Hey, at a normal intro this time.

You know what, sometimes my brain doesn't get ahead of my mouth. Or vice versa, I'm not sure. Sometimes. Well, most of the time. Actually, you know what? I'm actually curious now, how many times you've had a goof intro and how many times you've had a standard intro. Don't ask that. You know someone's going to go out there, and then we're going to learn something about me that's like,

actually, it's gotten worse over the years. And I don't want to know that. I don't want to know those things. Is Jesse's brain deteriorating? I don't need to know that answer. I'm fine not knowing. Looking at the 10-year graph, you can actually plot his brain cell growth and death. He is actually getting so much worse.

It's concerning. Say, somebody do that. That'll be fun. That's not fun. Don't do that. Don't do that. Speaking of fun, how's your week? Yo, I'm sure I did things.

I don't remember anything except for the last four days. All I've been doing is playing Alan Wake 2. I'm so immersed. It is truly one of the greatest things I've ever played in my entire life. I am living for this game. Wow. You've actually had a lot of good games until you had Baldur's Gate. You had Alan Wake. You had – actually, that's it.

That's two games. I mean, there's a lot of games that I've just fallen in love with this year, so I'm not – I'm trying to think off the top of my head. Baldur's Gate, Stone Cold Killer, amazing. I am absolutely here for Alan Wake. Alan Wake may be my game of the year, even though Baldur's Gate 3 is so good. Dead Space Remastered, one of my favorite games

ever. Remastered came out this year. That was at the beginning of the year. Forgot that existed. Star Wars Jedi Survivor. Final Fantasy 16. I've been eating good. Resident Evil 4 Remake. I mean, I know other games existed. I'm sure someone would say like Starfield was their game of the year.

I don't know how I feel about that. But like, you know, Zelda came out this year. I didn't even play it, but I know people are going to be like, game of the year, bro, game of the year. There's so many games. This is a big year. This was a pretty big year. I will say I'm going to be playing Pikmin 4 soon. soon and your pikmin 4 is amazing that's the thing and

i'm listen i'm more than nintendo guys so i'm like all right we got pikmin i got it back when it came up that's when i got my concussion the old the old headbang you can't be a pikmin with concussion that's just you can't do that so i couldn't even play it gave me eye strain so now i'm gonna play it and then the new super mario wonder came out and everyone's like dude this is amazing so i gotta play that one so i bet you would love that game based on everything you can do i want to watch you play super mario wonder actually a lot i want to watch that so i'm finally uh getting the end of just constantly playing either uh hardcore wild classic or uh kaizo iron man so i gotta i want to add a little variety so then of just constantly playing either Hardcore WoW Classic or Kaizo Iron Man.

So I want to add a little variety. So I'm going to have Mario Monday and Pikmin Wednesday or something. Amazing. I had my WoW week this week, I guess, a little bit, where I, for the briefest of moments, you know, now that dear old Bobby Kotick is leaving, thank God. Yeah, now that he's gone, I don't know if it's going to change anything,

but spiritually, I feel a little bit better about being interested in it all again. And so, yeah, I saw everyone was like, dude, there's leaks about the next expansion. And one of my favorite, even though I absolutely hate it, one of my favorite tropes of WoW is like, long ago, there was another continent,

but it was shrouded in magic and forgotten until now. And it's like, okay, how many times have we done this? You can't keep just being like, there's a whole other place you haven't been like, all right. Okay.

It's like the mists of whatever. Yeah. Mr. Pandaria, the, the the like the dragon flight one now that was like and then it opened a new realm like they're all it's the same thing even when it's like the islands when it was the uh uh goblins and stuff it's always like there was another realm it's like okay all right sure just uh i've hit that point now where I've done five hardcore Tarn shamans. And I think now that I'm level 34, almost 35, I think this is it.

If I die, I don't think I can get back to here. Like when you're in like, you know, I died at like level 12. I'm like, okay, I get there fast. That's a couple hours. Then like 23, I was like, all right, all right you know i get there like a week or like a little under a week and then now i'm like this is like weeks after like i don't i don't think i can come back from this but it should be easier i mean what's your it does get easier are you running are you running dungeons or are you not because that's insane no i am not running my

shaman is my solo guy we do have like a goofy alliance group, like me, Benji, Spud, Brett. Like we're just kind of doing dungeons and I'm a dwarf paladin. It's a goofy group. That's our dungeon thing. But if you die, you die? Yeah.

If you die, you die. It's an official server thing. So it's like... Right, right. But you're doing it as a team doing dungeons. Yes. I don't know that I put my faith in those three. I don't know I put my faith in you to get me through a dungeon.

I would be dead. We already have enough issues trying to schedule it. Benji's like, oh, you do like British time. And he's just like, dude, I don't want to do British time. And I'm like, oh, my God. Well, that's how you guys are still alive. You just haven't done it that much. Yeah, we just did Wailing caverns and we did dead mines

before that that's literally all we've done uh but my shaman i'm at 35 or about to be 35 so it's it's getting there but i actually like level 30 to like 50 once i hit 50 that's right i hate it winter spring is like the only zone past 50 i like so i told people were like if you hit 60 you're gonna to raid. And I was like, God, no. I was like, I will literally go to Thunder Bluff and I will jump off and I will just say I return to the Earth Mother. And those will be my last words. No way.

I would sit and log out in Thunder Bluff and I would forever be there. He'll never have died. He will just live in Thunderbluff, smoke in that good thunder herb, and just live in his life. You know what one thing I noticed is all of the classic heroes had custom voices, which I don't

think they do anymore. Back then, he literally sounds like Gandalf. Cairn Blood. He's like, Yeah, dude. Yeah, I love Cairn Blood! Yeah, I love that dude! That guy was great! Yeah.

It was just, even like Gazlowe and Ratchet, he's like, hey, welcome to Ratchet. Time to work. Yeah, they were all great. Yeah. So yeah, that's the main thing is, whatever that is, then I'm going to be doing Pikmin Monday and Mario Wednesday, or whatever I said. What I like to do is, I don't like to play all the games in one had, then I'm going to be doing Pikmin Monday and Mario Wednesday or whatever.

I said, what I like to do is I don't like to play all the games in one city. So I do one level. And then I'm like, all right, we did our level. So I did that with Donkey Kong. I've done that with like a banjo too. I did it with a bunch of stuff for one levels,

like a couple hours. And you're like, all right, move on. Is it a couple hours? It depends when you first start levels a couple hours. There's no way tropical freeze a couple hours? It depends. When you first start the game. A Donkey Kong level is a couple hours? There's no way. Tropical Freeze?

A couple hours? Okay, so the first levels were like an hour. Okay. In fact, hold on. I'll let you know right now. Kren Clips Donkey Kong. All right. So it progressively got crazier.

So part one was the first level. It took an hour and a half. Second level only took an hour and 14 minutes. Third level was an hour. Fourth level was an hour and 24 minutes. Fifth was an hour and 44 minutes. And the final level was three hours. Because I could not beat the

last boss to save my life. Is that a different game than what I remember from the Donkey Kong games where you just ran across like a stage? No, it's... I mean, those are Donkey Kong games. Did you not play Tropical Freeze? No, no, I didn't. Okay, well, it's kind of like the old school Donkey Kongs, but like modern graphics. Okay, but like those didn't seem like each level was long. Well, at the, you do like a level and then you progress through the map right like there's the map so you're referring to like the the not a stage a level level so you're

so like the ice zone or the like exactly okay okay so be like if you're playing super mario world the different islands is what you're saying yeah Yeah. Okay. I thought you meant the stages, and I was like, there's no way, bro. No, that would, that's literally like, it could be like 10 minutes. So yeah, no, I did that. So that's kind of what I like doing, because they usually take like an hour or two, and I'm like, alright, then I can do

something else. And then every week, someone's like, ooh, he's doing the ice level this week or whatever it is, so it's fun. That's cute. I like that. Yeah So it's fun. That's cute. I like that. Yeah, it's fun. It's a little thing you look forward to every week. I don't know.

What else did I buy? I didn't really like Zelda. Not going to lie. Neither did I, but I didn't like the first one. And it isn't because it's not a great game. It's just not a game for me. I think it's too open. I think it's too unstructured.

I need to be pushed in a direction where I literally will sit there. I know it would happen. If I played this new Zelda game, I'd just make like giant dick monsters the entire time. I know what I would do. I'd make rocket ships. I'd make boats, but I would never see the end of it. My issue is that I like the open world, which

is why I love the first one and just exploring and running around. And this one, there's too much structure they've added to the open world because they're like, you gotta build a race car. You gotta build a rocket ship. You gotta build a super weapon. And I'm like, dude, I don't want to do that. I just want to run around. But they kind of force you into it and people be like,

just do it the way you want. I think it's so funny you think that's structure. Well, I just hate that you have to do that. For me, I'm like, it gives you so many options. It's too much. It's just too much. I think I just get PTSD from Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts.

Why is that? Is it because the game where you crafted stuff? Yeah, you had to craft cars. And it was just the worst part of Banjo-Kazoo kazooie nuts and bolts was it was supposed to be banjo kazooie 3 or whatever they're gonna call it and then they shifted and made it a racing game and they joke about how it was gonna be the actual third game but they're like kids these days don't want that and i was like yes we do we do want that everybody wants and then i just because the whole time you're playing it you're like this would have been the level where it's a platformer and this would have been not a car.

It would have been something. And I just hated it. And so I think just building stuff just brings, there's like an added element of just trauma from that. I kind of get it. it like it reminds me of in the weird 2010s final fantasy period where everything was like final fantasy 13 they were doing like final fantasy 13 and final fantasy 13 this thing and and there was like they're making like five final fantasy 13 games for some insane reason and then when they realized like maybe we should stop they they then made Final Fantasy XIII, whatever it was called, like, Versus, into Final Fantasy XV. And you can see bits and pieces of what was the original game in there, but they, like, just couldn't get rid of it.

And it was really upsetting because, like, they just started fresh. This would have been a great game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so it's... I don't know, because the... Like, the first Zelda, like, when I played that, you know, you had your, like, things you would do.

You learn your powers and your little Zelda stuff. Then you could just explore the world. And you just, like, go, you do the bosses, you do all that. I just enjoyed the simplicity of that more. But I get that some people love Bill. Like, some people are like, oh, I hated the first one.

I love the second one. I guess just it depends. It's all preference. Yeah, yeah. Like, I couldn't handle either of them. Not because I think they're bad games, just Some people are like, oh, I hated the first one. I love the second one. I guess just it depends. It's all preference. Yeah, yeah. I couldn't handle either of them. Not because I think they're bad games. Just because I'm like, I will never... I will get bored after putting a ton of time into this, and I'll never complete it.

I'll be like, I got what I want out of it. Then people will yell at me forever like, Josh, you never completed it. I was like, you know what? I'm just not going to start. I'm just not going to start it. You're the completionist type of person. I'm just not going to start. I'm just not going to start it. You're the completionist type of person. I'm definitely not. I think that definitely feeds into it.

Aren't you doing Skyrim again? Yes, I have all the mods and stuff ready to go. I mean, man, I just do too much. As we know, I do too much. Every time I try to do less, I end up doing just as much for some reason.

Like, you know, it's stressful. I don't know. But I think I'm going to have to start cutting back stuff. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what happens. Didn't you... He said that the other day. He tweeted about doing another show. He said the Dodger show.

Yes. And that is part of cutting back. I might have to cut things to then do that, but that will, in theory, replace the stuff I cut. I see. But that will be a once-a-week thing versus a multi-thing, right? So it might be smarter just to scrap a daily show and do a once a week show. You know what I mean?

I don't know how that's going to mess with stuff. But we'll see. Is this supposed to be a gaming show? Or is this just a talk show? It's supposed to be an anything show. It's friends hanging out talking about the games they played or the weird shows they watched. I don't know. It's not a thing yet in any shape or form.

It's Dodger and I being like, what if we made a show? And then we invited our friends on to be on the show with us. That's literally it. Listen, I got a pitchy idea, all right? You know how every podcast has those people that are like the editor sound people? And they always buzz them in. There's the host. And then they're like like let's talk to editor

Jimmy and he's just like and he's like yeah guys uh pulling us up or like yeah yeah see I can do that but I can be terrible at it I don't know I don't know that we need terrible but like I'll take less than good maybe

I can do that less than good is my middle name all right then yeah um i don't know that i like the idea of giving you the control of a soundboard like but i'll gladly shout crendor look that up that's all i need i'll be the guy to look stuff up yeah we always got to have a look stuff up guy yeah but they still like buzz in to just give their you know input on certain things sure sure sure right yeah that's what that's it's like a modern podcast thing it's just it's a great thing to have apparently yeah i keep seeing that happen there's always like a dude there's always a dude who barely says like anything and then eventually he's like yeah i was there i saw that yeah oh okay there's a they have one of those on the radio because

there's like the two guys that talk and then the the editor guy the sound guys just always come in and one guy was like talking about potatoes and then they got this big potato thing and the next day they had him do a potato tier list and he ranked all of his potato dishes he's ever eaten. I mean, you make a valid point. Usually, the radio show format is two guys and one girl who's smarter than both of them. So, like, it's a valid point. That's all I'm saying. Anyway, I do have something that happened this week.

Okay. So, I went out with my friend to a restaurant because he was like, let's get a burger and a beer because I hadn't talked to him in a while. I was like, alright. Burger and a beer. That's a good friend reaching out. Yeah, so we go out.

Went to this place. It's one of those half bar, half restaurant type things. It was pretty good. Does it have a cool Chicago name like bonachacos yeah go to bonachacos and you know we're sitting there we're next to two people well next to them is in like one sitting right behind us and one sitting like the there's a an empty table and then like i just want to say for the record There is I looked up Bonachocco

And I don't know who There is a Bonachocco But it's someone named Bonachocco Fandy It is a person He's an influencer somewhere He goes to the Etude University

De Obome What the hell? I'm looking this up. What is this? Where is this at? Where is this? Google search this. What country is this? West Africa.

Okay. Is that where Bonachoco is? That's where Bonachoco lives. Huh. Hell yeah, Bonachoco. Just opened a restaurant in chicago then damn that guy's living his best life all right sorry to interrupt uh anyway then there's so there's a table behind us these two guys talking probably like late 50s just too like maybe like

just in their 50s i don't know like whatever and then there's another table of like two guys and a girl like literally a podcast just sitting in the corner uh talking and they're like you know the table uh it was like us empty table them so we can hear both of them pretty easily we're like all right just sitting there watching sports like talking but then we hear the table behind us of these 250 year old men and he's just like well I don't know how you don't believe in religion then and the guy's like well I don't know how you do believe in religion and I was just like uh oh boy is this gonna is this gonna is it gonna get crazy and my friend was just like I don't know why

they're like debating religion at a bar on a Thursday. I was like, I don't know. And the one guy was just like, you know, I just don't believe that this day. And he's like getting louder. And the other guy's like, just tell me. Tell me what you believe. All right. And they go back and forth.

They're just like getting louder and louder. And then after like five minutes, he's like, this is why is why i like you though because we could have civil debates and then i was like all right well that's happening but the other table was the complete opposite they were getting crazy all right this guy was like i flew in from philadelphia the other day and uh it's great to see you guys and you know we went to the World Series game all right and then we got a you know we ate and I got a cheesesteak yeah it's great and then I came here you know I get off the plane first thing I do I get portillos that's what I do they're just like yeah it's great to see you. Great to see you. I haven't seen you since you're dating multiple girls. And he's like, oh, yeah, I remember.

I remember. That's the only time I dated multiple girls. That was Carrie. That's she was the one that got away. Yep. And I was like, OK, so one table is just like this guy who i guess world traveler and he's just dating everybody but the one girl he dated i don't know how long ago it was was carrie and she got away so i guess he's just still not with anybody then the other table they're just yelling about philosophy philosophy. One that got away. Yeah.

And then I kind of just stopped listening at that point, but it was just every so often I'd like tune in, but nothing crazy, you know, and that was that, but it was a good time. If you just listen, this is just another great example. If you just listen to the weird shit around you, you're going to hear some amazing

stuff. Oh, yeah. That's all you got to do. I want to know more about that guy and dating multiple women. Like, did he try? You know, he flew too close to the sun. Like, he could have had. He could have had the one, and she got away. Yeah, which I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.

I feel like she probably got away for the best. This guy sounds like he's just dating everybody. Yeah, no. Hopefully, he learned a lesson. That's what I'm saying. I don't think he did. Well, he's single now, so maybe. Lesson learned?

Maybe. Maybe. Although, they made it sound like it was a while ago. Like, I'd say at least 10 years. So, I don't know what was going on. They were having a great time. He got the ribs. He was like, I got to try these ribs.

So that's what he got. But still a great time. Good stuff. I love that he's like, I got to try the ribs. So he's like, I got to try these ribs. Guys, I got to try the ribs. You don't even know. Can I ask you these ribs. Guys, I gotta try the ribs. Gotta try the ribs. Can I ask you a question?

Like, real talk. What's your take on ribs? I like ribs. Not like all the time. Like, ribs to me are like a once or twice a year thing. Ribs for me are like once or twice a decade thing. I'm going to... Ribs for me are like once or twice a decade thing. I don't like ribs. Why not?

If ribs are given to me, I guess I'll politely eat them. I don't know. Every time I eat ribs, it's always either too fatty or it's like... I don't know. It makes me...

I don't feel well. Too solidified? Too chewy? No, it just doesn't make me feel well, but if you were to give me any other type of barbecued or grilled meat, fine. Ribs? I don't know what it is. I can't explain it.

I wish I had an answer for you. I just don't like them. And I know I'm going to get someone and be like, what? How's the fat guy not like ribs? Great question, Earth. I don't know. I don't like them. Let's see. A full rack of ribs contains around 1,100 calories. Of course,

that's normally not what you're eating in one sitting, but that's the general amount. 550 comes from fat. It's a lot of fat in there. I don't like fatty meat. Now, if it's like a steak and it's marbled well and the fat's a lot of fat in there. I don't like fatty meat. Now, if it's like a steak and it's marbled well and the fat's a little grilled, that's delicious.

But like, chewy fat? Again, we've talked about this before. I'm a texture person. If the texture is too gooey, chewy, slimy, it makes me sick. Every time. Yeah, I feel that. I can't have high fat. thing i mean i don't even got my gallbladder so i can't i mean that's i mean that's just you know but biologically you can't yeah no so it's uh it says baby back ribs are the best because they're lowest in fat and more tender and quick cooking i mean that's i learned that from work the commercials on tv i want my baby back yeah i learned that i mean that

obviously i know that i mean you didn't learn that you just learned that you want my baby back baby back but you don't even want them no but that's what the that's what the tv told me But you don't even want them. No, but that's what the TV told me. That's true. And so, of course, it's like, okay, well, the TV says it. Okay. It's like those kids with the Apple Jacks.

Why do you like them? They're just like, we just do. Yeah, it doesn't matter. They don't taste like apples. Still weird. Still weird kind of commercial to have, but like, okay. Oh, my God, that reminds me. Isn't the McRib is like coming back, isn't it?

Is it? Hold on. I'm Googling McRib. Is the McRib back? McRib is back. It says so. Is this according to the McRib locator? Oh wait, McRib locator says 14 days.

Oh, the United States has select locations, 14 days, 16 hours. I hate this exists. I hate this exists. Oh, yeah, here it is. McDonald's McRib is back. Let's see. You know what sucks? Pricing over the last four months.

This is so funny. Highest cost of a McRib is Derby, Connecticut. $6.99. But in Jasper 20C, Crendor, it's happening again. It's happening. I'm losing my mind. He's losing it. $6.00.

Two for $6.00. Why you would ever want two McRibs is beyond me. Oh, yeah, no. I already said I can handle one a year. That's it. The only McRib I can handle is one mixed in with the great McCox and Crandor. That's true. You got to get that McCox and Crandor.

You got to get that McCox and Crandor. Yeah. See, they did that. Last year, they did that thing. They're like the McRib farewell tour and it's back so we that was a lie it's all I mean it seems like a lie it seems like it's always a lie I knew it was a lie then and it it surely was it turns out not everyone was ready to say goodbye to the McRib after last year's farewell tour while it won't be available

nationwide some lucky fans may find their favorite elusive saucy sandwich at their local mcdonald's this november read a statement from mcdonald's usa so yeah they were literally like it's a farewell tour and then they're like oh never mind turns out people like this saying like yeah that's why it's been here for like 40 years or whatever it is i wonder what the rest of the world's vibe about McRibs are. Like, McRib, McRib Germany. Does anyone in Germany like McRibs? I don't know.

Did you know that Germany happens to be the only country that serves McDonald's McRib sandwich year-round? What? Damn. Oh, they must love the McRib. Damn. Look at that. Well, who knew? I don't know why I chose Germany.

I have no clue why I chose Germany, but here we are. It does seem like they'd be the ones that would like the McRib, though. You just drink a bunch of beer, and then you're like, man, I want a McRib. You know what's crazy? It sounds like something would happen. The McRib was introduced the same year I was born. Am I a McRib. You know what's crazy? The McRib was introduced the same year I was born. Am I a McRib? You might be.

I feel like a McRib. Maybe that's why you don't like to eat ribs, because I am a rib. That's what I was going to say. You don't like ribs because you are a McRib. Damn, dude. Wow. It's practically cannibalism. Practically. Practically.

Practically. Actually, speaking of which, we watched that vampire Nick Cage movie. Oh, yeah. Okay. I was like, where are you going with this? That was a great movie. It would have been better if it was filled with ska. Yep.

That was my biggest downside of that movie is they mentioned ska. They do the whole ska thing, and then they just don't with ska. Yep. That was my biggest... As we learned. My biggest downside of that movie is they mention ska, they do the whole ska thing, and then they just don't have ska. Like, what are you doing? Yeah, the whole goof is that ska is not dead. Ska is not dead,

and they hate that it's not dead. In a movie with an undead character, the final fight should have been a ska song. Yeah. No, it should have been. There should have been at least three songs. The whole movie should have been all ska music. Yeah.

That's an editorial failure on their part. I just, I don't know. I don't know how you create that movie. It goes through all the processes of Hollywood and checks and everything, and nobody's just like, no, we should have put ska in this. Nobody? I don't know. checks and everything and nobody's just like you know we should put ska on this like nobody i don't know i feel like uh you know sometimes sometimes maybe they couldn't license maybe they didn't have the money to license such amazing music like 1990s ska you know there's got to be some ska that's like i'm sure if i was a ska band, I'd be thrilled to be in any movie.

Yeah. I'd be so happy. There's got to be some unknown ska band. In fact, if you're an unknown ska band, you go into that, you're probably going to get a bunch of listens. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. I feel like it would have been fine, but nope.

Yeah. It's... That was the big thing. But Nick Cage, great vampire. Great vampire. He played the part probably as good as you could play. Yeah, as good as anyone could play a vampire. I love that when he talks through his fake teeth, he's like,

Renfield, bring me poltergeist. I love it. Yeah, it was a fun movie. It was a love it. Yeah. Big fan. It was a fun movie. It was a big thing. It was just fun. But I don't know. I think that's all my things of the week. You do anything else?

No. I've done nothing of value. I've played video games for the last three, four days straight. And honestly, I've loved every minute of it. It's been a while since I've enjoyed something this much. So I am here for it. Oh, I will say this is even from this week, but the other week I did turn on the TV.

Well, YouTube TV and it recommended me chopped. So I was like, it must be listening to our hell. Yeah, because I watched chopped and I was doing your your must be listening to our thing. Hell yeah. Because I watched Chopped, and I was doing your template algorithm or whatever you said. You're right. The one guy who's like, I hope to win this so that I can give my family money and a good life. And they're like, yeah, he's Chopped.

Yeah, I was watching. Oh, man. I don't remember who I was watching it with, but I was watching with someone the other day. And it was an episode where it was clearly very close. All the food looked amazing. But this one woman goes, they say, well, why are you here? What are you competing for?

And she says, you know, I'm trying to show my daughter that anyone can do anything. And I was like, oh, she's going to get chopped. But then two contestants later, the last person they talked to, they're like, so what would you do with the $10,000? And I was like, oh, he's chopped. Never mind. If they ask that question, what would you do

with the money? You're gone. They're not giving you the money. That is the firm rule. they can say anything else they can ask you about your life and stuff and it's like okay that person's probably gone but no they they say what are you gonna do with the money chopped i was like oh they're gone and then of course they were because that show is so formulaic i don't give a shit it is great that is a great show i don't know why they do Is it because they do that so you think, like, oh, this person has to win and they get rid of them? Like, is that it?

I think they assume that no one's watching every single episode or because they have to produce so many episodes so quickly that whoever the editing team is, they're given a mandate and they just chop it up in that way. There's a lot of times where if you look really hard, as the clock ticks down, let's say there's like 50 seconds remaining and they're working their butts off trying to cook the food.

If you look at actually their stations and the editing, they're clearly done way before they run out of time. You'll see that they're panicking to get stuff done, but then it will cut to a wide shot and half of them

are done with their food, and then it will cut to a quick shot of that same person shopping something at the last minute. It's like, okay. Alright. Alright. It's all for drama. We get it it and here's the thing i enjoy it i'm not gonna i'm not gonna hate on it it's just if you pay enough attention you're like okay this is highly edited and they very clearly have because the way it works is um i don't know have you ever done like a like a show like this in your YouTube career? What?

Like chop? I mean like just any type of live, uh, sort of like reality TV thing. Uh, I feel like I have once, but I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure I have like what they will do is it'll be like,

okay, we're doing the competition. So let's say it's like a video game competition and you and I are playing a game against each other, right? Yeah. We play the game. We do all that. They get the footage. Then what ends up happening is if there's judges or whatever, the judges are pulled aside and they're interviewed.

And they're asked questions like, all right, so when you were watching and Jesse was ahead by one point, what were you feeling at the time? And then they're told to phrase it, so there I was watching Jesse's one point, like that kind of thing. They don't answer the question, they phrase it. And then same thing with us. We'd be pulled aside, and then it's like, so Crandor, you came back in the end and you won. What were you feeling in that moment? And you'd have to be like, there I was. I was winning, and I just blew my mind.

Like that kind of shit. But they do it after the fact so they can take the questions, and then they edit it to put it in the moment. So it seems like as you're playing, you're like, I knew I was going to win. I could feel it in my bones. Like that kind of thing. Yeah. And so it's all kind of like scripted, even though it's reality.

There's a producer or someone there writing notes, taking notes, trying to figure out exactly how to spin what just happened. Yeah. So it's like they kind of do the office format. Absolutely. Yes, the office is the gateway into that. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. And so because you always think like, how are these people talking about the things they're doing right now?

And that's why I guess they film it after. Yeah, they film everything after, once it's already happened, and they take the time to sort of like sit down. You know, they probably send us or, you know, if it was the office, it would be like, you know, they film a day. And then the next day they'd be like, hey, so yesterday was pretty crazy. What happened with that thing? Right? film a day and then the next day they'd be like hey so yesterday was pretty crazy what happened with that thing right so the the producers whoever would take the time to come up with questions to guide you into giving them the answer they needed so that then they can edit it in and either make you a good guy or bad guy right that's pretty much yeah yeah it's uh honestly that feels like

the base of reality tv it really is i mean I mean, even in The Office, for example, there was an episode where – I don't know if it was cut, though. It might have been – I saw a cut thing where it was Angela, who is – you know, like everyone sees as kind of a pain in the ass. Yeah. But it's her yelling at the producers for making her look bad. look bad and i think that might have been cut from an episode but like you know even though it's it's a comedy show the idea that they still tried to make it like yo the producers are messing with what's going on in the office i think is fun and so you know that's a it's an interesting take on it well you know what else is an interesting take? Taking some time to work on your mental health. Boy, we got there, though.

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Oh, boy. Traffic is looking pretty crazy, actually, because we are starting to hit that holiday season. We got Halloween right up here soon. Just a couple days away. And then we got Thanksgiving. And then you got Christmas. Oh, man. It is hitting the holidays hard right here, right now.

And the traffic is taking its toll. We got planes. We got conventions. We got trains. We got boats. We got chapter copters. People trying to steal our chapter copter ideas. We won't be doing that. I'll tell you that much. Back to you. We got chapter copters. People trying to steal our chapter copter ideas. We won't be doing that.

I'll tell you that much. Back to you. Thanks, Crandor. All right. Let's go to weather. Weather. Oh, God. I wasn't prepared for the weather.

I was just prepared to do that little intro thing. I mean, bless you. It was an intro. It was. bless you. It was an intro. It was. All right. It was an intro. I have a weather request for Paw Paw, Michigan. I've drove through a few times on my way to Chicago and always wondered about it.

I've only seen a few buildings and a gas station and wonder if there was more to it, but too lazy to research myself, so I was hoping you would. P.S. Jesse is a cutie. First off, thank you. Second, don't look up Papa Michigan because Papa Michigan is a musical artist. Papa Michigan is part of the Michigan and Smiley Jamaican reggae dance hall duo

consisting of Papa Michigan and General Smiley. General Smiley. General Smiley. They rose. This is crazy. They rose to popularity during the first wave of dance hall music in the 1970s, and they're still putting music out in 2022. Hell yes. Dude, General Smiley sounds like he's got lyrics being like,

I lead the war of love. I put a smile on your face but you know reggaeton or something yeah i had general smiley it looks like he's saying with bob marley maybe he did i think it says he did papa michigan papa michigan hell yeah papa michigan okay how do you spell this though how do you spell papa michiganW, like P-A-W space P-A-W. Oh, a village in Michigan. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's not as cool as Papa Michigan, but like, all right. Yeah. Uh, Papa Michigan, 42 degrees right now with some rain and showers. Uh, they're actually getting the rain that we got today uh and we take a look here at currently 38 degrees uh well feels like 38 degrees pressure 30.09 inches visibility seven miles wind six miles an hour 8 12 a.m sunrise 641 p.m sun set dew point 40 uv index zero and a moon phase

of full moon uh pretty crazy full moon you ever know you ever know what those full you never know you ever know uh take a look at the old 10 day monday 42 with am rain and snow uh-oh thursday p.m snow showers uh-oh 38 wednesday 43 mostly cloudy thursday 47 partly cloudy friday 53. Wednesday, 43, mostly cloudy. Thursday, 47, partly cloudy. Friday, 53, mostly cloudy. Saturday, 59, mostly cloudy. Sunday, you're going to see that 55 and mostly cloudy. And then Monday starts right up again with the old 51 with rain.

You know how I can tell this place is very much in the Midwest? Uh, how? This place is very much in the Midwest There's one main street And on this main street It starts at a Walmart super center Goes past the Tractor Supply Co Drives right past A Pizza Hut, Taco Bell McDonald's, Jimmy John's Burger King, Wendy's

Subway All on the same road within seconds of each other. And Red's Root Beer. I'm looking at, yeah, also the Chicken Coop. I'm looking at the Chicken Coop. Red's Root Beer is probably the place. Oh, yeah, that's, it looks like they got your standard, like, hot dog, hamburger. Yeah, Red's.

Red's, here's, yeah, Red's, the burgers look like the buns charred. Red's looks like it slaps. Meanwhile, it's right next to Arby's. Yeah, I don't like that. How's Arby's, Jimmy John's, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Burger King still open when Copper Grill, which looks like an old-timey diner, is open, the Chicken Coop is open, Red's Root Beer is open. Yeah.

Yeah, why would you ever go here? Even the Grape Juice Company. What do you mean the Grape Juice Company? What the hell is this? Grape Juice Company. Grape Juice Company from Beverage World. The Paw Paw Grape Juice Company. The Paw Paw Grape Juice Company. The Paw Paw Grape Juice Company.

They're making grape juice right there in Paw Paw, Michigan. Also, they have the Paw Paw Brewing Co. They have a winery. They got Big B Coffee. They got tons of stuff here. Man. Actually, tons of stuff. Let's see.

They got Chan's Place. Yeah, they got Chan's Place. If you go to Michigan Avenue, they got a whole bunch of other restaurants. Yeah, they got like, you know what? Still Midwest as hell, but like. Oh, yeah, still. Brewsters. You go to Brewsters and get a big slab of ribs.

No, I'm all right. We already talked about that. Yeah, I'm fine with that. we already talked about that yeah i'm fine with that let's see they got the dollar general a classic uh papa ace hardware yep here's the thing though all these other places 4.2 4.3 4.1 stars 4.2. Reds 4.7, bro. Reds is the winner. Meanwhile, everything next to Reds, the Arby's,

actually the Arby's has a higher rating than McDonald's? Oh my god. That's crazy. Or the McDonald's is bad. I mean, McDonald's is rocking a 3.2. That's rough. Or the McDonald's is bad. I mean, McDonald's is rocking a 3.2. That's rough. To be fair, for McDonald's, it's probably about average.

It's probably much worse on numerous other McDonald's. I mean, Taco Bell's got 3.9. I think that says enough. Also, there's just a Starbucks. Oh, Starbucks is in the Family Fair supermarket. You didn't say that Brewster's is also Dickman House. I'm sorry, what? Yeah, it says Brewster's Food and Spirits slash Dickman House.

Hold on. It is Dickman House. Why is it called Dickman House? I don't know. Dickman House. I don't. You know what? Also, just looking at Brewster six months ago,

it definitely looks like a place that Gordon Ramsay would go to and be like, The decor looks like it's from 1980. Also, he sounded more like Dracula than he did Gordon Ramsay. Redfield, the decor in this dick house looks like it's from 1980. I'd watch Dracula's Kitchen Nightmares, honestly. Also, looking at this food, yeah, no, I'm all right. Sorry, Dickmans. This food isn't that appetizing.

None of this looks that good. The prime rib is raw. I love it. Like, they got nachos. Those nachos are 90% green onion. No, this looks bad. This looks bad. No, thank you.

I would any day of the week go to Red's Root Beer comparatively. Red's is the spot. I don't know if I need to be doing this, but I'm going to promote Red's. Red's, that's the shit. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And then they got- Hold on.

What are the prices at Reds Oh they're gonna be cheap You know it Oh my god you can get French fries Like a big thing of french fries for $2.99 Bro And you know they're those like

Diner fries right That's what I'm saying those big ass fries Oh this is cheap. Yeah. Oh man. Oh yeah. I see him. They got those crinkle cuts.

Oh yeah. This is pretty, it's pretty big. It's pretty, you can get the root beer, a large, a large frozen glass root beer, extra large root beer. Oh my God. Root beer. Yeah. They've got that frost. Yo, I just want to say for the record, the root beer. Extra large root beer. Oh, my God. Root beer float. Yeah, they've got that frost. Yo, I just want to say for the record, the root beer floats 420, and that is hilarious.

That is pretty funny. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. Root beer floats 420. That root beer is a little defrosted, but that's all right. That's root beer. Yeah, I love that. I got to look at that.

I got to look. I got to see the root beer. Okay. I love that. I gotta look at that. I gotta see the root beer. Okay. Yo, they got big frosted mugs. Yo, they're just sitting in their car drinking a big glass of root beer. Here's the thing. A lot of people overseas do not know what root beer tastes like. They don't have root beer?

I'm telling you, especially, I've had numerous people in the states from Norway over the years. And I don't know if this is just like a Scandinavian thing, but every time I have anyone in town from like Northern Europe, they are like, what's root beer? I'm like, oh, it's delicious. I love root beer, especially cold root beer. And every time they tried that, like, it tastes like toothpaste. This is gross.

Every time. Every time. pace. This is gross. Every time. Every time. It must be like an acquired American taste, but I love root beer. I love root beer too. It's just like 8 billion grams of sugar. Sure. I mean,

it's mostly, yeah, it's not something I'm going to drink all the time, but like, give me a root beer and like a frosted glass. Oh my God. F me up, dude. Yeah. And that's the weather. All right. Let's go to sports.

Sports. We've got sports right here right now. Looks like the Chargers are up on the Bears 30 to 7. So that is quite the score. We also had some other games today we had the rams losing to the cowboys uh vikings beating the packers but kirk cousins going down with an acl or uh no an achilles tear uh titans beat the falcons saints beat the colts dolphins beat the patriots jets beat the giants jaguars beat the steelers e Eagles beat the Commanders, Panthers beat the Texans,

picking up their first win, Seahawks beat the Browns, Broncos beat the Chiefs somehow, Ravens beat the Cardinals, and the Bengals beat the 49ers. And the Bills won on Thursday night against the Buccaneers. Over in baseball, we have, let's see, are they they playing today right now it's tied at one game apiece between the rangers and the diamondbacks good series over there so now it's down to a best of five instead of best of seven both teams winning the game and basketball has started up and we currently have a decent amount of undefeated teams. We got the Pelicans, Mavericks, Magic, Pacers, Celtics all at 2-0.

And the Nuggets at 3-0. But we also have an entire season to go. And then in hockey, you got the Bruins at the top at 15 points. You got the Rangers at the top at 12. You got the Avalanche at 12. And the Golden Knights at 17. And that is sports. All right.

What is our fact of the day? Fact of the day. So I decided to look up root beer fact. Okay. I like this. Root beer was originally made with sassafras root and bark which due to its mucilaginous properties formed a natural long-lasting foam a characteristic feature of the beverage root beer is originally carbonated by fermentation

as demand and technology change carbonated water was used. Interesting. So what I think is, so I looked this up while you were saying that because I remembered sarsaparilla. Yeah. And I was like, well, what the hell is the difference between sarsaparilla and root beer? Yeah. And apparently sarsaparilla is made from sarsaparilla vine, while root beer is made from the roots of the sassafras tree. Oh, I didn't know that either.

Apparently, now though, a lot of root beer does not include sassafras, as the plant has been known to cause serious health conditions. All right. Well, there you go. But you know what? If I had to pick, I would pick sarsaparilla over root beer. Why? I don't know. There's something about it.

I've always enjoyed it a little bit more. Also, I think it's because it's rarer to find. Oh, okay. I see. If you go to the grocery store, I don't know how often you're just going to see sarsaparilla sitting there but if you're like at texas old barbecue house then it's probably there and it's just you don't see it that often i guess i don't know huh yeah it's uh it says sassafras can cause liver damage and liver cancer jesus well there you go so there you go. Now we know. Consuming just five milliliters of sassafras oil can kill an adult.

What? Well, I guess don't drink a lot of that shit. Or any. Really? But sarsaparilla is not. So I guess root beer. Whoa. Was root beer dangerous back? Is that why I like it so much?

Because it used to be dangerous. Maybe. Maybe you have an ancestor that really loved sassafras, but then they died because they drank so much sassafras. Whoa, in Southeast Asia, sarsaparilla is known as sarsi. Oh. Similar flavor to root beer. Now I want to know what sarsi tastes like.

Probably tastes like sassafran. Also, you can order 10 pounds of Sarsaparilla for $112 on the internet. Wow. What a time to be alive. You can get anything on the internet. There's got to be at least one person that ordered that for some reason. I mean, it's the number one thing that appears when you look up Sarsaparilla. Not the drink.

Ordering bulk 10 pounds of it. What do you even do with it? I assume make the drink. Who is it? I don't know. I'm here at Evergreen Herbs and they're like, yeah, you can get 10 pounds

and it just looks like bark it looks like you're getting bark uh yeah apparently this thing says it reduces inflammation and acts as a diuretic but has been shown to cause serious liver issues. This one says it promotes healthy skin, joints, and is used to combat cancer. But yeah, if it hurts you, what's the point? It's like those drugs, where it's

like, it's going to stop this thing, but it'll cause this other terrible thing. And you're like, okay. What's even crazier about this, you can get 10 pounds, or you can get 8 ounces. Those are the differences. Or you can get the powdered version of 8 ounces, or you can get capsulized sarsaparilla. That's too much sarsaparilla.

That's too many options. Too much sarsaparilla. Far too much. Yeah. That's your fact of the day. All right. What is our big news story of the day? Big news fact of the day. All right. What is our big new story of the day? Big new story of the day.

Day. Day. Day. Here we go. This is a big new story. We actually had quite a few, but I chose this one. Okay. So hopefully these can stay relevant for the future if we don't find any news.

Great. First ever Florida Man Games to feature beer belly wrestling evading arrest obstacle course. Oh, no. The games will poke fun at the state's reputation for producing strange news stories involving guns, drugs, booze, and reptiles. It's not a good reputation. It's not a good reputation. Don't embrace it. It's not good.

It's too late. They've embraced it. Instead of fixing all the problems in our state, everyone get high on meth and let's race. St. Augustine, Florida. That's rice. St. Augustine, Florida. It ain't the Olympics, but a group of Floridians planned the host competition

steamed according to the collective antics of the beer-loving, gator-possessing, rap-sheet-heavy, mullet-wearing social media phenomenon known as Florida Man. Organizers of the Florida Man Games described the competition as the most insane athletic showdown on Earth.

Hell, yes. On Earth. On Earth. The games will poke fun at Florida's reputation for producing strange news stories. Among the contest, among the contest, contests. Yeah. contests yeah plan for plan for next february in saint augustine florida according to the organizers are the evading arrest obstacle course in which contestants jump over fences and through yards while being chased by real police officers the category five cash grab

in which participants participants try to grab as much money in a wind blowing booth and the self-explanatory beer belly wrestling quote. This isn't just a competition. It's a one of a kind Floridian spectacle. I kind of like it. I'm not going to lie. I kind of like it too.

I'd watch this. If it was a little more dangerous, like chased by alligators through a convenience store, I'd be in the Florida man concept crept into the nation's Dangerous like chased by alligators through a convenience store. IBM. The Florida man concept crept into the nation's consciousness a decade ago with Florida man Twitter account. I'll have you know we were. Yeah, we were ahead of that. We were ahead of that curve.

Yeah. The account with the tagline real life stories of the world's worst superhero has been home to headlines such as Florida man fire bombs garage that impounded his car, hits own vehicle. You ever think about how like we started so many trends. We really have. We re I mean like we really, I'm not even,

this isn't even a joke. We really have. Yeah, we really have. It's, we never get credit. No one credits us. Yeah,

nobody, but we don't see credit because like Florida man, And we never get credit. No one credits us. Yeah, nobody. But we don't seek credit because, like Florida Man, we're only here to bring joy. Yeah, it's not about the credit or the fame. It's about the people. Right. Yeah, it's about the people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, it's about the people.

Yeah, it's about the people. Good one. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. It's about the people. Yeah, it's about the people. Good one. Yeah, yeah.

And other headlines such as Florida man tried to pay for McDonald's with weed. General admission tickets to the event are going for $45. Two former stars of the 1990s television show American Gladiators have agreed to serve as referees. Oh, my God. Is it laser and blazer and taser? Doesn't say. Damn. I guess we'll find out. They said a St. Augustine resident is behind the games.

Pete Melfi, owner of the 904 Now, a media outlet covering St. John's County. Quote, We thought, how could we really play on these Florida man headlines we hear so much about? Someone gave me the idea to make it in that athletic competition.

It's going to be a wild day of mud games and Florida style obstacle courses. It's going to be a real opportunity to live that Florida man life for a day. Hell yeah, brother. So yeah, that's February. Florida man games. Buckle up. I'm here for it. I like it. Yeah, that's February. Florida main games. Buckle up.

I'm here for it. I like it. Yeah. Yeah, I'm ready. February, what else are you going to do in Florida? Nothing. Drugs. Exactly.

Yeah. Yeah. That's your big news story of the day. I like it. All right. Well, that is it for us. Thanks so much for listening or watching. I hope you enjoyed this podcast.

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