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Mega Rand, Jesse, and Dodger.

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Hello, everybody.

Welcome to Geek and Hear.

Hi, welcome to the Dodging Cocks podcast.

Hope you guys are having a good weekend.

We're getting excited for ours here.

Holding our cock and being excited.

Whoa, whoa.

And that what the chatter says.

He means rooster.

He means rooster.

And that what the chatter says this video.

He means rooster.

Roll it over.

Let's start it up.

Start it over.

Cockroach.

Oh, okay.

Sure.

I'll rerun the intro.

Baba da-da-ba-ba-da-da-ba-ba-ba-da-ba.

Hello, everybody.

And welcome to Keekenders,

featuring friend of the show,

It Me JP.

That's right.

Friend of the show.

Yeah.

Friend of the show.

Yeah.

Friend who doesn't get invited either, who invites himself on the show.

That's the only thing.

Me and Crendor have to invite ourselves on the show.

True.

I'm not going to deny that.

I'm not going to deny that at all.

You're not a part of this, Jesse.

You didn't even know I was on the show till about 27 minutes ago.

That is true.

That's very true.

See, here's the thing.

See, though, JP,

is

you established established this storyline

of wanting to fight us.

And so

what?

Yeah, you would come into chat and be like, what are they saying?

Let me defend myself, etc.

You know,

I don't think I drink that.

Can you pull it on the chat, Moril?

100%.

Yeah, no, I have one right here.

It says, it me JP

at 9.23 a.m.

He says, guys,

is my wee wee small?

I feel weird about this asking in chat, but I need to know what's up with that.

And we were like, what are you talking about, JP?

And you said, fight me.

I hate both of you.

And you left.

I remember.

That's like, that happened.

That was happening.

That was like three episodes ago.

Yeah.

That was Ollie.

Ollie knows how to pipe now.

Oh,

that's pretty cool.

He was framing me.

Yep.

He's growing up.

He was framing me.

Aw,

he was framing me.

I asked Jesse if you and I could talk about dogs today, and he said no.

What?

Why?

Because that's not.

Yeah, why, Jesse?

Are you jealous?

This podcast has a purpose and it's a purpose and it's

not anything, dude.

Yeah.

I got it.

You guys just made a

you guys made a podcast.

You did the easiest thing and made a podcast about nothing.

Hold on, hold on.

It's about something.

It's about

video games and movies.

No, that's your fallback.

That's your fallback.

That's the conversation that you go to if the guest is uninteresting.

Otherwise, you focus on the guest.

So when are we going to talk about

video games and movies and stuff?

I mean, that's why I wanted to talk about video games and movies today.

Yeah.

That's why I was.

I was worried our guests would be uninteresting, and I wanted to focus on that instead of the money.

No, I already made that joke, Jesse Cox.

I already made that joke, Jesse Cox.

You can't make it.

But then I was saying it about you.

Oh, hold on.

Because then you

hold on.

You got to check your phone.

Is something

important on there?

So we're just getting all the beef out of the way now.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sure.

Sure.

Now.

Oh, my goodness.

How are you guys doing?

Aside from beefing?

Yeah, I'm doing fine.

Yeah, I'm doing all right.

How's Ollie?

He's downstairs.

He's doing great.

I can check on him.

Let me pull up Ollie Cam here on my phone.

This is not me.

In what way?

How?

What do you mean?

Like a baby camera, but for all.

Is it like a room camera?

Yeah.

This is a live camera of Ollie.

Where's my daddy?

I'm all alone.

All he does is stare at that big screen.

I don't know why.

Is it more important than me, his best friend?

He's just hanging out down there.

I miss my daddy so much.

Every day he goes and click clacks away on that machine, but he doesn't click clack on my belly.

I need them scratches, daddy.

That's what he's thinking.

And you know what?

You're just not

being good to that sweet boy.

He's probably upset because he hasn't had a walk yet.

I stand by what I said.

I saw a video the other day that was like, things you might be doing that hurts your dog's feelings.

And I was like, I don't want to watch that.

Oh, yeah.

Those are traps.

Bro, it was things like, do you go to work?

Probably hurting your dog.

How long are you gone for?

How long do you work?

You should feel like shit.

I was like,

that's the bulk of like what social media and TikTok is.

Just like, how can we create anxiety for the viewer and then try to solve it with these 10 simple steps?

Yeah.

I was going on a rant the other day about because I think at this point, most people

know about like kid affirmations, right?

They're also adults.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What?

Yeah, just like, you know,

when little kids say like, I'm smart, I'm capable, I'm a good friend, you know, all those sorts of things.

No, I don't know.

When did that start?

Do you not know that

like that's like a therapy thing for adults too?

I mean, I'm aware of that.

It was made fun of on Saturday Night Live and has been ridiculed ever since.

I will never do that.

My question is, why?

Let me put you to you a different way.

Do you know that there's like studies that show that if you make fun of foot fetishes enough, you eventually develop a foot fetish?

Are you trying to tell me that every single time anyone has ever been like, you know, we should take away rights from X number person, they're also just like,

I also am a weird creep who believe like that kind of thing?

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Like, like you pretend to

be in defeat, and eventually you like, are kind of in defeat.

Oh, you mean fake till you make it?

Yes.

So fake till you make it is literally exactly what affirmations are.

Sure.

No, I'm aware of what an affirmation is.

Okay.

I'm talking about the fact that I was unaware that children are doing affirmations.

And I thought children were just ridiculed and nagged until they did something correctly.

What I assumed was how that worked.

I wasn't aware that we've changed up the whole parenting thing.

The reason that I thought about this with the dogs is because

something that keeps happening is they'll be like, you should be reinforcing to your kid that they're smart every day.

And then the next video you'll see is like,

actually tell them they're smart.

Don't actually tell them that they're smart because then they'll feel so much pressure.

And then later on in life, when they're not smart or they struggle with something, they'll be like, they'll have an existential crisis about it.

And I'm like, Jesus, okay.

And then, and then another affirmation, right?

It's like, I'm beautiful.

And they're like, but don't actually call them beautiful because they need to know that their value isn't just in how they look.

and what if they aren't uh like fitting into normal beauty standards like how is that going to affect their self-esteem and i'm like jesus now that's the parenting i like

mixed messages

really mess with their heads yeah like get them while they're young when they're really malleable and just mess with their heads get them all worked up freaked out.

Are they beautiful?

No, of course not.

But they want to be beautiful, but they're not.

But they they are, but they're not really.

Like, you got to get right in there.

Like, are they smart?

Sure.

But not really.

It's a good thing.

But like, yeah, sure, you're a smart.

Yeah, you want to really get in there and mess with those.

Yeah.

They do.

That way they'll be well-adjusted adults.

Humans and animals, I feel like.

They really want you to not know what the fuck is going on.

Yeah, if you can confuse them when they're young, you can control them the rest of your life.

That's a tip from Jesse Cox.

Life tips.

life tips

from Jesse Cox.

I'm always so pleased with my terrible bits.

I'm like, yeah, did that for myself, feeling pretty good about that joke.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I feel like I make jokes just to make myself laugh

fairly often now.

Yeah.

That just means you're getting old, I think.

I think so, too.

That's what I mean.

Because you reach that point where you're like, the Chinese restaurant that I used to go to with my mom all the time when I was a kid.

Every single time we ordered our food, my mom would go, my mom would make our order, and everything would be chicken chow mein, chicken fried rice, you know, chicken, chicken, chicken.

And she'd go, We're the chicken family.

And she said it every single time.

No one ever once laughed, but she loved to say it.

I love that.

She would just go into the store and say, we're the chicken.

Who was she saying, we're the chicken family to?

To myself.

Remember,

this is old-timey.

So we would go to the restaurant to make it.

No, no, I get that.

But like, when she would say,

she'd be saying it to the person who was taking the order.

Oh, my God.

That's even funnier.

Yeah.

So she'd be at the counter, like

chicken fau man,

chicken fried rice, you know, sweet and sour chicken.

We're the chicken family every time.

Every time.

It's grace cream chickens.

Just like herself.

She thought it was funny.

I love that.

It covers all the bases too, because there's a little bit of,

like, I have to feel the first time it was

like,

I don't know what you would call a little bit of.

I don't know if shame is the right word, but the idea that you go in and you're like chicken this, chicken this, chicken, this, chicken, this, chicken, this, and you realize how ridiculous it sounds.

You go, we're the chicken family.

And I guarantee the person on the, like, like, taking the order goes,

yeah.

And then she just kept saying it.

And

she's like, that's the winner.

She was like, bro, that killed.

You know, that's fine.

We're the chicken family.

Yeah.

Why not?

I love that.

It's the little things.

You know,

it's the little things.

Big fan.

Big fan of them.

Yeah.

So you guys are talking about dogs or what?

What's the...

Well, hold on.

Jesse, she was asking me how I'm doing.

Nobody really cares.

So you guys need to talk about dogs?

Jesse, how are you?

I'm doing okay.

I'm very worried, though, because everyone's saying I'm having, am I having tech issues on y'all's end, or is this just a stream thing?

You

look jaundiced.

Yeah, it's almost like you are in front of a green screen right now

no but that it's almost like this is on my side this is a green screen I can turn the green screen off but it looks fine on my side does it look better now

no you just have like a green tint like a weird green hue

and I don't I don't know why because you didn't earlier

So I don't know what's happening to you.

Are you getting keyed out?

No,

yeah.

The edges of his his

sense.

Then there wouldn't.

There's like a little girl.

It's less than it was before.

You're doing fine.

His shirt has changed colors.

Guys, nothing's happening.

Nothing is happening on my end.

I just wanted everyone to see that it was a green screen and how hilarious it is that you have that background because I love it.

I mean, for years.

I think that's so smart.

Jesse, you want me to go to a dark place here, Jesse?

Oh, that's from like years ago, this background.

You don't even have to do that.

You know why I don't have this background anymore, Jesse?

Because it's gone, destroyed, all of it, taken, stolen.

No, Jesse.

Because I got a divorce and I don't live in that house anymore.

I mean, I knew that.

But it doesn't mean that you can't take that stuff with you.

Oh, I have all that stuff.

It's just at a

room somewhere.

To look exactly like that would be a pain in the ass, surely.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, I mean, like, I honestly think it's genius because one of my my big things is the background is a little bit part of your streaming vibe.

So to have that background, like, and the glove and stuff moving, even though I can see what the loop is, you can, I like.

No, you can't.

How long do you think?

That loop's like two minutes, Jesse.

You can't see the loop.

Yeah.

Oh, I can see it.

I can see it.

No, you can't.

You can't.

But I love it.

I honestly like that idea because I've wanted to do that for a while.

Like, I want to just film locations and stick it in the background to be like, yeah, Yeah,

I'm broadcasting from uh the Mars Rover, you know, good stuff.

I did wait a minute.

What if I wait, does that look better?

It looks no, you look green.

Sorry, there's no difference happening right now,

okay.

Green, red, green, red.

I like red, you, it seems more Irish.

It was St.

Patrick's Day, apparently.

That's what I'm saying.

Like, you got it.

Even I seem a little bright.

This is just a JP bit.

Guys, this is not a me bit.

God damn it.

This is just a JP bit.

He did say, and he came in here specifically said, I want to be the worst guest you've ever had.

He did say that.

He said it.

And I challenge him.

That is true.

Oh, God.

Now I'm super red, though.

Like, I'm giggling.

It seems natural.

So there's like a, there's like a red and blue glow around your glasses, like they're 3D glasses.

And then you look at

your beard is green.

Like this?

Huge difference.

Yeah.

Really?

Way better.

Yeah.

There's some sort of reflection happening off of the glasses that's turning your beard green.

Can I tell you?

I'm doing the rest of the show without glasses.

Let's do this.

Can I tell you what's tripping me out right now?

And I'm going to need everyone on planet.

This is for visual watchers only.

Yeah.

Has anyone ever realized that this section right here of JP when he takes his glasses off looks exactly like Kriken?

I'm too inclined to this.

I don't see it.

But it's exactly the same.

That one.

I have been told, my stream community says they call me kind JP when I take my glasses off.

And Kriken does look kind.

So that's what I'm saying.

I could have.

Have they given you a specific reason for

why you have a kinder aura without your glasses?

No.

No.

I think it's because I have really sad eyes, Dodger.

I don't think think you have sad eyes.

No, they're not sad eyes, but definitely the eyes of like

third shift McDonald's employee.

It's late.

Yeah, like I've seen you.

You're tired.

Yeah, like you've been through

a few robberies, but like you got bills to pay, man.

You robberies?

Jesus.

You got stuff to do.

You're like, look, I don't take the money.

I have work to do.

I don't get paid to keep the money in the register.

You do what you do.

Yeah, that's that's you.

Yeah, it makes sense.

It makes sense, anyways.

Yeah, uh, it's been uh, it's been I've been all right since the last time I was on here.

I've gotten divorced.

I got a hearing aid now.

I have a hearing aid.

What?

Very exciting.

Yeah, when I came back.

I didn't know that.

Yeah, I went to an audiologist and they said, You've been deaf in your left ear for about 10 years.

And I said, No way.

And they were like, Yeah, way.

And then they said, You need a hearing aid.

So I got a hearing aid.

I live in Austin now.

It's very exciting.

How did they know that

you had dealt with this for a while?

They said because of the like significance of the hearing loss or something like that,

that there's no way that it like it was a gradual thing, I think, is what they said.

I didn't really ask.

I was just kind of in shock at like, what?

I need a hearing aid?

I'm

in my 30s.

What are you talking about?

I am so

like just in awe of your ability not to make jokes there like you could like you were doing it but not

i love you for that you were you were telling a genuine story and i because you kept going like like so i had to get a hearing aid and the doctor said da da da and then you kept saying what and i thought you were making a joke but you're like no i really was just upset about having to get a hearing aid oh no no i'm upset about it no no no no no no and now now there's like a true fear of like oh my god what if i like actually lose all my hearing like what if this is a gradual thing right that would suck I would have to learn how to sign.

And then I could no longer do podcast.

If you lose the ability to hear, do you, do you lose the, like, do you over time lose the ability to talk?

I don't think so.

Because there are people who are, who have like complete

hearing loss and are able to learn to speak.

Yeah, the only

30 plus years of your life speaking, I don't think you would lose that.

I think the only time that you would have difficulty speaking would be if you were, you couldn't hear from birth because you have no concept of how things are.

You have no concept.

Yeah, of language, sure.

Okay.

You've had, what, 50 years worth of hearing things?

And so 60 give or take, yeah.

Plus or minus.

Yeah.

And so you would be able to speak because you know how stuff is supposed to sound.

Okay.

But I think that would be the bit as I just slowly stop learning to speak.

I don't know if that's a good speak.

I feel like that's, I don't know if that's a good bit.

That might be difficult for you.

It might be.

We'll see.

That might make your life significantly worse.

I'll let you know it goes, Jesse.

Okay.

All right.

The big thing to get used to, probably, I'm saying this from no point of view.

Zero experience.

Sure.

Yeah.

Would probably be the way that it sounds like in your head or how it feels in your head when you're speaking.

It would be so drastically different, right?

Sure.

But I don't even know how you would

like, what would

the voice, man, that's a question I never ever thought about once in my life.

If you don't know how things sound, what does the voice in your head sound like?

Well, you and I don't have head voices.

So you guys don't have head voices.

You're one of those people.

One of the ones.

But even from time to time, I'll talk to myself.

Sure.

In my own head, I'll be like, all right, we got to do this.

We'll plan this.

And like that kind of thing.

Yeah.

Oh, so you do have a voice in your head.

It's not running dialogue.

Yeah, it's not a dialogue thing.

Like vocalizing thoughts in that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm talking about like, like, if I was like, okay, I have to, you know, like making notes, what would that sound like?

I just, I guess I don't know.

It's a, it's a personal thing that I guess I have never thought of before.

Fair.

That's what I aim to do, you know, make people think about things.

You got me thinking.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're thinking now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's my goal.

Talking to self is a head voice.

Well, then when I'm taking notes and wondering why I'm taking the notes, then yes, I have a head voice, I guess.

I don't remember what I was going to say.

It's fine.

When I was in college,

when I first ever had a roommate, I'll never forget listening to music.

And that was the first time that I realized that I listened to music at a level that was like horrific for me because I'd be in another room and my roommate would knock on the door and be like, bro, I can hear what you're listening to through the wall.

Oh,

yeah, way too loud.

And I was like, huh?

And I've wondered before if I should get my ears checked.

And I just haven't.

Well, that, yeah, not to get like super clinical, but they, they said that they gave me a a very high percentage of people that just have never had their ears checked after leaving like elementary school.

Yeah.

Uh, and so the majority of people these days apparently walk around with like hearing loss.

It's they said it's actually pretty common because no one like yeah, think about the last time you got your ears checked or

what this conversation was making me do is go, yeah, the I mean, even My kid, right?

The last time that her hearing was checked was the day she was born.

They check babies right when they're born to like see if they react to stuff.

Right.

So yeah, I can't and I can't remember a single moment in my life that somebody's been like, we're going to do a hearing test on you.

Yeah.

The other cool thing about that too is right around this time that it all started

probably like nine months ago at this point, Apple announced that they were going to start having their AirPods serve as like hearing aid.

ish devices.

But the thing is, is that the ear doesn't get fully closed.

Like the, you have to close off the complete ear canal in order to have like proper hearing aids.

So they're not really that great.

But you can do a hearing test with AirPods.

If you have like Gen 3 or Gen 4

AirPods, you can actually do a hearing test on your phone.

Which is kind of cool.

Yeah.

It's not like as precise as going in and getting an actual

proper hearing test, but

if you're bored and or you have anxiety about it, you can give yourself a hearing test.

This is making you go, shit, should I test my ears?

You have an option in your house right now.

Yeah, it's kind of cool.

And also, now that I have like the

wavelengths or whatever, that

there's some measurement that you can just like tell an audiologist and they'll understand it.

You can plug that into the iPhone and like the health section.

And so now whenever I put on AirPods, the left ear automatically gets like a gain boost.

So it brings it up to 100%

with the right arm.

So that's pretty cool.

You get to learn all these things about

disabilities that I guess have support that you would never even think about.

Yeah, for sure.

Yeah.

It's interesting stuff.

That's really cool.

I remember somebody saying that they were using AirPods for something having to do with their hearing, but I guess that's, that gives me more context on what they were probably talking about.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You ever think about how and a conversation about our friend JP

and his hearing aid and having, you know, just learning more about it?

Out of context, we will never beat the rap of being a podcast about old people.

Because we're literally on here at 8 a.m.

on a Friday.

So then I was talking about my hearing aid and I said, I can't hear anything while reading the newspaper in the morning and eating my oatmeal.

Yeah.

It is always weird when I go to the audiologist and I'm sitting in the waiting room and everyone there is 70 years or older.

Sure.

Yeah.

And they start asking me like what hearing aid I have.

And then I show them, they're like, oh, I have this one.

And they pull out like a bell that's like been in their ear.

It's like ancient technology.

Yeah.

When you ring it, I know you're speaking.

Yeah.

They got a giant little speaker coming out of their ear to the old-time ones.

What are you saying, Lee?

Yeah, yeah, I'm usually the youngest one in the waiting room for sure.

Your beard is fixed.

Your beard de-neoned.

Oh, really?

It's because I'm not wearing glasses anymore.

No, but like slowly over time, it became Jolly Rancher Green.

Like I was like, from I was like in the world of avowed or something.

Yeah, I really, I just didn't want to bring it up because I didn't want you to spiral.

So I was like, I must

dress to everyone well i gotta take off my shirt now

jp i must stress to you i'm seeing i've been watching you this entire time and i'm seeing none of it i've not seen you be green once you're perfectly normal on my screen

i'm telling you you look perfectly normal on my screen i've been acting like

maybe maybe i'm just not seeing it you look fine to me The beef is starting.

This is how it starts, you guys.

This is how you get it.

You look fine to me.

I'm telling you, everyone in chat's confirming you're like green, but I'm telling you, you're not.

Yes, oh my god,

JP, JP, on my hold on, hold on, hold on.

I'm gonna print screen.

I'm gonna send this to you guys.

You do not look green on my end at all.

You look beautiful for Jesse.

How come that's what I'm saying?

You look great for me.

Do you have hardware acceleration on in Discord?

Where would I find that?

Probably under video.

Why would it?

Well, hold on.

I got to put on my glasses for this because I can't read the monitor.

Hold on.

You would go

and let's go with voice and video.

Voice hardware acceleration.

And then scroll down and then turn on the OpenH264 video codec and hardware acceleration.

They're on.

Everything's on.

Turn them off.

The thing is, is it might actually kill the video.

So maybe you don't.

I was going to say, right now, in the middle of the show.

Yeah, it might.

You might not want to do that.

Yeah.

It's up to you.

This is your show, ma'am.

I'm just here for the vibe.

I think we should just do it just to see what happens, right?

Yeah.

Fuck it, man.

Let it ride.

I think Jesse's face.

I don't know what's going to happen.

I have no clue.

I'm just shocked that it's so different.

I'm de-clicking hardware acceleration.

Ready?

Do it.

Passionately waiting.

Yeah, fixed it immediately.

Immediate fix.

Immediate fix.

Look at that.

Oh, instant.

That was amazing.

Tech guy, JP.

We did it.

I know you can wear your glasses.

I'm so glad.

And now I can read chat.

Yeah.

I can actually read what's happening.

I'm so sorry.

Whoa.

I never would have thought of that.

All right.

Fantastic.

Look at that.

There you go.

Love that.

We did it.

Love that for y'all.

We did it.

Yeah.

Anyways, what do y'all do on here?

What is this?

How long does this thing go on?

What are we doing?

I got things to do.

You got, so

you don't have to stick around if you don't want to.

I don't even like.

You wanted to be here.

I don't want to go.

This is a bit.

I'm down.

Good.

I don't want to.

You want to go.

I want to go.

This is my only place to stay.

We're not supposed to take it.

I got nobody else to go.

I mean, I was going to tell you about my dog.

Let's hear it.

How is your dog doing?

Can I just say?

Yes.

I'm going to put your husband on blast.

He sucks at communicating.

You know, he just is the worst.

I've asked this guy how his dog is

probably three times.

Zero answer.

Can't believe it.

Zero answer.

Then

he will be like, hey, you want to play X game on stream, blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's fine.

Are you?

Yeah, but how about you?

What about the dog?

What about the dog?

What about the fucking dog?

Tell me about your dog.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, it just, it's crazy.

It's crazy.

So how is your dog?

She's good.

She's two weeks post-op on her legs.

She's reached the point where she's convinced that she's perfectly fine and should be.

It's a dangerous period.

yeah that she shouldn't have to be in the crate that she should be allowed to jump all the time and run places and it's a nightmare because so for for anybody who's curious she had what's called tplo surgery um it's a very common surgery in dogs especially bigger dogs or basically the tendon that protects the knee from the like bottom leg bone i can't remember what it's called gets fucked up it happens in dogs all the time so you have to put a plate you like realign everything and you put a big plate on there and then sew them back up.

And it's about four months of recovery,

two months of which are really limited activities.

So the first month is like crate rest, like you take them out for like five to 10 minutes max.

Like

a couple times a day.

Yeah.

So she's a very high energy puppy.

She's not even a year old, right?

So she's like, what the fuck is this?

All of my friends are outside.

Like, let me out, you know?

So we've reached the, Samoyeds are also very vocal.

So, we've reached the, the, I'm just going to bark until you let me out

point,

um, which is awful.

Yeah, no, that's not a good time.

It sucks, but yeah, she's, I mean, her recovery's going great.

She's just, she's just mad at me all the time.

Yeah, she's like, let me out.

She's mad at the situation, not at, not at you.

Right, she's mad at the system, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Um,

yeah, that barking is definitely a that's got to be a stressor so that that's awful uh but it sounds like she's recovering well is ollie like a super vocal dog or not early

um

he is vocal he ollie's weird he he will bark at anything that's like outside because it's like a protection thing like he's trying to protect the house but then the second that he can actually like

go up to the person, he becomes like the sweetest dog of all time.

So he's pretty vocal to a point, but he's never, he's never like gotten, he'll bark a lot, but he's never like super crazy.

Yeah.

He's like going to sign or anything like that.

Yeah.

He just wants you to know that there's shit going on.

He's my doorbell.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's my doorbell.

Anytime food gets delivered or a package is here or something, he's the sounding alarm.

So that works out.

But he's, he's not a super, I don't, I don't think

English sheepdogs are like that vocal of a dog.

Yeah.

Because they're usually like they're a working breed.

So they probably just, they chill all the time, I would assume.

My goal, I've never been able to run, really.

Like, I can run for maybe a minute and then my heart hurts so bad, right?

But Samoyeds are sled dogs.

They want to pull stuff.

And so you can do what's called canacross, where you have basically a lead, but it's strapped to your torso and you run with them and they kind of pull you like a sled so i was like while she's in recovery because she's going to be recovering for you know a few months it's like while she's in recovery i'm going to try to do like a couch to 5k kind of a thing just like just get more used to running and then maybe once she's able to like exercise some more we can run together

How's that going?

It is not so far.

It's not going.

I need to do it.

I don't need to do it, but I want to do it for enrichment for my dog, right?

Yeah.

But I'm regretting it now because I'm like, yeah, that's a great idea.

I should really do that for my dog.

And then every day I go, I should probably

stop.

You've created a guilty, a guilty stress.

I'm in the guilt cycle of like, when am I going to run though?

When should I do that?

Today?

Yeah,

changing your routine

an adult.

It's rough, man.

That's another getting old stage.

It's rough, right, Jesse?

You know, adding things to your routine.

It's really hard.

I wouldn't know about that.

I never change anything.

You never change your routine, Jesse.

I've been the same for 4,000 years.

Ah.

Ah.

That's a long time.

That's watching.

The civilizations of man rise and fall, and there's only ever been one constant.

Me.

cox, that's the constant, cox, yeah.

The cox constant, it's very, it's like a lot of math, it's like a lot of math.

Yeah, yeah, I get it, I get it.

What's the number?

What's the most uh repeating number in uh Cox math?

Cox math, three,

okay, I knew it was gonna be three, yeah, that's because that's true, that's because that's true, it's because it's the one that looks like a butt, yep,

or a kitty face,

Yeah.

So that's, that's, that's, I'm glad you guys talked about dogs.

That's great.

We did.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You got to talk about dogs.

Dogs are great.

Are you a cat person, Jesse, or do you just not like pets?

I'm a, I'm a, uh, the concept of pets.

Yeah, I'm a selfish person.

I like me time.

Okay.

The idea of caring for another living thing worries me.

I would be terrible at it.

Fair enough.

That makes sense.

That makes sense.

So I don't do it.

Why put something else through my whims?

I'll be like, I want to go somewhere.

And then I'd have to worry about a cat or a dog.

I can't do that.

Jesse's like one of my only friends that I can't go to and bribe.

Like, you could come pet some sheep if you come visit me.

He's like, I don't care.

I don't want to do that.

Oh.

No.

Oh, randomly about visiting you.

Jesse, are you perhaps going to London in the middle of April?

I was invited to go to London in the middle of April, but sadly at the end of April, I'm going to Helsinki.

So I'm already doing stuff.

All right.

And I couldn't justify it.

Even though I very much wanted to, I can't.

Yeah.

I potentially might still go to London in the middle of April.

And if I do, Dodger, I'll let you know.

Because I'll make a stop by Thorn Ranch.

Hilariously, I will be in America in the middle of April, but Sam will be here.

So you guys should hang if you wind up out here.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

We'll see.

We'll see.

Yeah.

I'll let you know.

We're going to.

Anyway, sorry for the random tangent.

I'm going to come for her birthday.

Oh, okay.

Happy, happy birthday to the chicken mom.

You can tell her I said that.

I will.

You should go to the Chinese restaurant and see if she still does the bit.

Oh, that would be good.

Unfortunately, it closed forever ago.

I know.

Rest in peace.

Small town town woes.

Yeah, small town woes for sure.

She's clearly avoiding you, JP.

I know.

I didn't want to say it, but that's.

No, I'm not.

Don't say that, chat.

That's how it is, chat.

It's the constant Dodger just avoiding me.

It's in her name.

It's in her name.

Dodger avoided me, dude.

I was there.

I was there.

And Dodger was like, sorry, my entire property is flooded and I can't come to you right now.

And I was like, a real friend would swim.

That's right.

Just saying.

And then, and then the day that I thought maybe I could come out, the train strike was happening.

So I was like, well.

So you tell me you can't walk?

You don't got feet?

Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

Some friend.

Some friend.

I was in London for two weeks.

Did she come see me?

Not once.

Not once.

Not once.

She said all but excuse.

Excuses.

Jesse, she had to, she had to live up to the name of the podcast, you know?

Dodger.

She was Dodging Cox.

No, No, you're right.

You're right.

You've always been right, JP.

So what was the reason you couldn't come to the farm?

Train strike.

I mean, that was.

There was flooding on the farm.

So, like, why would I go?

Like, I would just put it in the future.

Those are really hard to get.

It's a tough problem to solve.

They're tough cookie to crack.

Yeah, how am I supposed to decide what the trains do?

That's a lot of stuff.

Yeah, that's a lot of problems.

Yeah.

It's messed up.

It's messed up.

Can we talk TV shows?

I want to talk TV shows.

I'm going to steer us in another direction.

Have you guys heard of The Pit?

No.

The Pit?

The Pit?

With

Two T's.

It's

like Brad Pitt?

Is it?

Yeah, like Brad Pitt?

No, like

Pittsburgh?

I think it's Pittsburgh, yeah.

So The Pit

is

a medical drama with noah wiley from er that's essentially er too

i already hate it but it's in a summation of it it's basically competency porn right like everyone is super competent in the show because it's a it's like true to life they it's they're not messing around they're not it's not like house where it's like ah it's tuberculosis no they don't do that it's it's a real er

in terms of how they actually like operate and and do everything but it's also the way the show takes place is it starts at

i think the first episode was 8 a.m and every episode is an hour in the er of one day interesting and so they're up to they're up to 7 p.m and it's been seen by jack bauer but like whatever yeah yeah yeah it's very realistic and it's on hbo so that's

really cool They uh, I got to watch an entire birthing scene where they didn't,

they showed everything.

It felt like I was in like an 80s health education class.

And so that was everyone needs to see that.

Everyone, yeah, everyone should have to be forced to watch one of those.

Yeah, it's very, very, very, very, very good.

It's probably my favorite show of the year by a long shot.

But it also, like,

I can't recommend the show to parents.

I can't recommend the show to people that are squeamish.

I can't recommend the show to people that have like health fears because it is, it's way too real.

Like they, they did an honor walk in one episode because a child died and then the family decided to like give up his organs.

Yeah.

And it's all like very real life things that happen.

But there's and there's also like, you know, the the inner drama between all the doctors because it's a teaching hospital.

So they have like students there.

I was about to ask, when do we get to the personal drama between the doctors that happens in between the surgeries?

The personal drama is like very it's it's not like Gray's anatomy.

It's it's very much like old school ER from like the 90s because it's Noah Wiley like he's he's in the show.

He's basically playing the same exact character.

Are there no sassy doctors?

Is there any like who's the sex bomb?

Like what's it's like who's the one that's like always sleeping with the nurses?

There's not really anyone like that.

Then it's not medical drama.

Yeah, it's

like a rogue doctor who's like, I experiment on my patients.

And they're like, you can't do that.

And he's like, it's the only way to move forward in science.

No, not really.

There's not that.

There is a doctor that, well, I'm not going to say,

there are like,

I guess, generic

doctor drama issues.

There's like a Nepo baby doctor who has like a higher up surgeon or something in the hospital but yeah it's very good last night's episode was 40 minutes of basically teetering on a panic attack for me because it's a it's a mass shooting hour

and uh they show what a hospital looks like when they go into triage and and how that

looks and you're just like

Well, this is fucking awful.

This is a tragic day.

And it's really like eye-opening if you've never seen that type of stuff before.

Because you just, you don't expect it, I guess.

Like you don't understand the

second to second that someone in the health world goes through.

And so if anything, I gained a shit ton of like appreciation for that.

But it's not an easy watch by any stretch of the imagination.

So if you if you're in like a great cheery mood, I wouldn't recommend the show i mean most medical shows i don't know that you have to be in a great like it's not a great cheery mood genre

yeah

yeah that's very true um but this one is is also just like everyone's so smart and everyone's like so good at their job and everyone's like it's competency born right like they're doing everything correctly and you're just like oh my god this is that is right this is awesome 100 why i love the movie the martian yeah yeah it's exactly like the martian yeah

I'm like, yeah, look at these smart people doing things smartly.

Yeah.

Like, that is, I love that movie for that reason.

It's like Star Trek from the 90s, where everyone's just like working towards the better of whatever.

Let them be smart.

Yeah.

I love that.

I'm with you on that.

Yeah.

There's also, yeah, Chad's saying it deals with post-COVID PTSD from the medical perspective.

There's a lot of that.

It deals with like every angle of the world of health, too, which is like insurance.

It deals with like budget cuts and nursing strikes and all that type of stuff.

Is the show kind of like

anything Dick Wolf does, which by the way, still best name in show business.

Is it anything like it when it's like,

you know, all the Law and Order shows where they just take real stories and then TVify them?

Not necessarily.

There's no like, there's no real world parallels

other other than like they are real problems that people have mass shootings and the like post-covid stuff and the i mean that's just that's stuff that happens like i i know that's what i'm saying is like they're they're they're not mirroring any one specific day though that happened in real life it's just kind of a culmination of all that type of stuff

um

but yeah it's it's fascinating to see what happens to like an er room during uh i know all the acronym now during a uh uh what is it a GSW or or something like that which is a mass shooting or some acronym for a mass shooting

or no GSW's gunshot wound sorry that's that's a that's a term for a patient what that has a gunshot wound no I picked up yeah it's a GSW's gunshot wound uh there's a

there's a term for whatever the mass shooting is I forget that but it's wild how like it turns into a combat

scenario of how they start.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's fast.

And they, they, uh, they show,

um, it's, it's top of mind for me.

So they have bracelets in this.

Like, you know, like those slap-on bracelets that we had when we were in the 90s as kids.

Exactly.

It tells them who to treat and not to treat.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So there's four stages.

There's, yeah, it's all triage.

There's like red, which means like critical.

There's yellow, which is like borderline critical.

I think green is the one where it's kind of like they can go to family medicine.

And then there's black.

And that just means that they're going to die and/or they are dead.

And so, like, people start showing up in cars and they just like look in there and they, they do 10 seconds to judge a person and what they are going to do.

And so, they just look at 10 seconds and they're like,

and they just like slap on a black wrist and they go on to the next person.

And like, this is what really happens.

I could never,

it's insane.

It's absolutely insane that that's, that's a way that that is, that's a real life thing that people have really done.

Uh, it blows my, my fucking mind.

Could not imagine that.

Yeah.

My sister is like front desk for an emergency room in Oregon.

And she said the stress is just crazy and she's not even treating people, you know?

Yeah.

But like, yeah, the, the vibe.

in there is really intense way too often.

And like the amount of stress that healthcare workers have to deal with is crazy yeah it gives it's given me like the utmost respect uh i i think friend of both of y'all dr john anytime he's around i'm just like you're a good man

good man oh but i know you're a good man so i never say that i would never say that but like

all right man yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah uh i've tried to get him uh on the show as well because the other very interesting thing is after every show airs, I go and I go and visit the subreddit or like try to find places that are talking about it.

And the subreddit is filled with subreddit is filled with actual doctors and ER

people and combat medics and all this stuff.

And they like go through everything.

They're like, yep.

that's really how it is.

Yep, this is a real thing.

Yep.

They could totally do like this.

It's all real.

Like it's very much structured in reality.

And it's fascinating to see all that stuff so i find it really interesting how again my sister and her entire family they all work in the same er

and um like in in different they do different jobs but they all love

watching like medical stuff

but i know that that's not the case like like for a lot of people they're like that's my job and it's stressful and i don't want to watch anything having to do with that You know, I think it's really interesting the difference like between finding it interesting to watch a medical show versus being like, I would rather not.

Yeah.

Like, no, thank you.

I already lived that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They do a really good job of showing how a lot of like doctors cope.

And so they had like, uh, because it was all hands on deck, they call in like everyone that works at the hospital and they called in a

like one of the overnight guys, the third shift guys.

And he's like, they're waiting for everyone to show up at the hospital.

And he's just like drinking a watered down Dunkin' Donuts cup and like, oh man, it's nice weather out.

It's great.

And they're just like completely nonchalant about everything while everyone around him is like getting prepped up and they've done like this huge speech and gone through all the motions.

And everyone's like, yep, that's a real thing.

Some people just like completely disassociate from the job and that's how they cope with it,

Which I guess makes a lot of sense.

Like, any way you can get through that, I guess, is the best way.

So, is the show done?

No, I think there's two more episodes.

Two or two episodes or one more episode.

Yeah.

Next week is 7 p.m.

And I think it closes out at 8 p.m.

So, gotcha.

Almost close to being done.

It's like 15 episodes.

And then, in the last episode, Jack Bauer kicks down the doors and locks in.

That would close.

That would be sick.

I'm inside the hospital.

I found the terrorists.

They're everywhere.

Yeah.

Yeah, I got green lit for season two.

Sorry.

I hope so.

I got green lit for season two, and I think they said that they're going to skip forward like six months or eight months or something like that and do another day, which will be kind of cool to see.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I highly recommend it.

Yeah, that sounds really good.

And

horrific, but like.

Yeah,

they don't shy away from the medical aspect.

you see

everything

yeah and i do mean everything they have like that's why that's why it's on hbo that's why it's on hbo they have like third-degree burns patient and they like show them cutting into them so that the patient can breathe because the skin is like basically encased and and burned away so he can't breathe through it

so don't like that they're like not a fan like we gotta we gotta create like a an airway and then they just oh let me just cut into his sternum it's wild uh it's absolutely wild all right so on to more positive tv shows yeah what do you want so while all of y'all were watching brand new stuff

i watched exactly four and a half seasons of hell's kitchen yeah unedited on youtube unedited on youtube i wait american

american or uk oh no you're thinking kitchen nightmares

i'm thinking hell's kitchen which is the the game

oh g isn't isn't there...

No, Hell's Kitchen is the reality show where they go and like...

No, that's Kitchen Nightmares, where he goes to the different.

Trust me, I know.

Kitchen Nightmares is Gordon Ramsey goes around and it's like, I'm going to fix your bloody kitchen.

And he does until they shut down three days later.

That's that.

The competition show is called Hell's Kitchen.

And that's where he's like.

Is there not a UK Hell's Kitchen?

Maybe there is.

I don't know.

But there's definitely 21 seasons of the American version.

And so.

Yeah, there is a British version.

Okay.

And so, what happens is it's you know, the premise for those of you who don't know, Gordon Ramsey's like, I've got these chefs, and I'm gonna have one of them at the end work at my brand new Gordon Ramsey steak in whatever restaurant in Las Vegas.

And then,

I don't know, I think it's like 15, 20 chefs, half of them completely insane people, and they compete on the show and they cook dinner service, and he yells at them.

He's like, It's raw!

it's fucking raw and idiot sandwich.

It's all that show.

All the classics.

Yeah, yeah.

So I've been watching.

I realized there are 21 seasons.

And I only know this because I saw a clip pop up and I was like, I've never seen this season before.

Who are these people?

So I went and found on YouTube a completely unedited, I guess it's like the full episodes unedited.

So they're dropping F-bombs and everything.

It's great.

And so They have playlists of all of them.

And I was like, well, hell, I'll watch through.

I like, I haven't seen any of these.

And when I'm like making dinner or I'm hanging out at home, I'll just watch them.

I realized what episodes I've seen, what I haven't.

I realized there's a chunk in the middle I have no knowledge of.

So I've been watching season 13, 14, 15, 16, right?

Okay.

I realize

that

there are things happening on that show that are insane.

Like genuinely insane.

And I've watched so many episodes in a row that I'm starting to pick up on the things.

And I'm like,

TV is a lie.

So

a great example, and they do this all the time.

And all of you can go watch this.

You don't have to watch a full episode.

You can just watch this and have evidence of it.

The thing they do that I think is hilarious is you'll watch an episode and it'll be like, oh, you're all terrible.

Vote for two people.

And I'm going to kick one of them out.

And so they do that.

And then it's like, the person gets booted.

And then it goes to credits and it goes, next time on Hell's Kitchen.

And then it shows two people fighting.

And it's like, I'll kill you, Steve.

You burnt the roast.

and he's like no you're and it's like has love bloomed in hell's kitchen then two people are like you're my favorite he's like you're my favorite and then it's like or have things gotten out of control and then they'll have a guy be like

he's like punching a wall then you watch the next episode none of that happens

none of it happens

it never happens and i'm like what the hell

They do another thing where they will over the course of a season, and I've only noticed this while watching full seasons they'll do another thing where you know how in reality shows they do a lot of editing so for example you will see like especially in Hell's Kitchen the way they present dinner service is they're like Gordon is having the you know the chefs and the red team prepare uh the appetizers and then they'll do app and like the blue teams already ahead on their appetizers but then They'll be like and now they're doing dinner service and like the main entrees, but that's not how kitchens work people are doing appetizing entrees at different times.

But the way they set it up, so the way they edit it is you'll notice that in the background of various times, like if he kicks a chef out, five minutes later in the background, that chef will be there still for some damn reason because they're just editing pieces together.

And I thought, well, of course, in an episode, they're going to do that.

That's just how editing works if you have TV shows like this.

Except what they do is they don't just edit from one episode.

They edit across the season that way.

And the fact that there are times where you will see a background shot of the dining room and it'll be people from four episodes ago.

Right.

And you're like,

what?

And it's just because that one shot was better, maybe, for some reason.

And so the editing, it is like so insane the amount of editing they're doing where they're like,

you know, producers are moving pieces.

And so I, the entire time I'm watching, I was like, I don't even know what's real anymore.

Like, it's very obvious they are making things in this show to fit a narrative.

And I'm like, I don't know.

They also do a thing, and it's tried and true.

It's very much,

I watch a lot of like cooking reality TV shows.

I don't know why.

It's like what I put in the background.

By the way, just started a new season.

Love Chopped Chef.

Love Chopped.

But like, one of the things that Chopped is a great example of this.

Everything is, it's so formulaic.

Everything's the same.

I can tell you while watching chopped who's the first person getting kicked out because every time they ask them, what are you going to do with the money?

And you know, they ask that to every person, but the one person they include is definitely the person getting chopped every time.

And they're like, I just can't wait to take my money and I'm going to go home and like treat my kids.

We're going to go on vacation and then they're gone.

And then you're like, Why'd you like?

Why do you include that?

Or on Health's Kitchen, they do a very funny thing where every time someone's like, I have made pasta my entire life.

I'm the pasta guy.

Everything I do is pasta.

Cut to them failing making

every time.

Yeah.

Every time.

And they like, it's once you watch enough of it, you're like, no, they definitely have a list of things and they send it to editors to like make it look like this.

Well, you start to, you start to see the script.

You start to see the framework of the show, right?

So yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's why I think it's so hard to do reality, a reality TV show.

Or it's so hard for me to watch a reality TV show because I will clue into that very quickly after like a season.

It's wild wild that like survivors on like season 26 or some shit.

Oh my god.

Survivor has been going for so long.

And then it's very much the same thing.

But survivor does a very good job of creating stories.

And I think Hell's Kitchen does that too to some extent.

The problem with Hell's Kitchen is they have a formula where the winner usually doesn't start to be featured.

Until about half a day.

Until about halfway.

Yeah.

Yep.

Yeah.

The person, it's always a person in the background who is just doing their job.

Like, there's a, so in season 14, it might be my favorite season because everyone on that season is like just amazing.

But one guy, his name is Randy.

He's like, I think like an ex-marine or maybe like just an army vet.

But he like looks like he is a king of the hill character.

And he sounds like it too.

And Randy just does his shit.

He just shows up and he cooks.

The man, I don't know that he has a real personality on that show because Randy's just like, he's like,

I just don't even, I don't even know why they're not cooking good.

These crazy boys up in here.

And then, like, that's it.

He will say nothing else for the rest of the episode.

And you're like, what's my boy Randy doing?

And you don't know.

And then about half of the season, he starts getting featured because now Gordon is like, Randy, you're doing things in the kitchen that no one else is doing right now.

But then Randy starts to crumble because now he's under the pressure.

He's trying to make his fish and chips work, but the guy who's on the lamb, the guy is in the lamb, he's running behind.

So his fish and chips are getting soggy.

And Gordon's like, why is is the fish and chips soggy?

Yes, I grew up eating fish and chips.

And Randy's like, I don't want to blame the other guy, but it's definitely his fault that my fish and chips are soggy.

And I'm just like,

I love this.

I'm amazed.

Oh, every time.

I'm just amazed how entertaining it is for me.

Because

I will say, I don't care who wins.

In fact, I think season, one of the seasons, I literally just skipped the last episode because I'm only there.

The last episode's fluff anyway.

It's all it's, you know.

But those middle episodes where it's just them cooking and they're like, you're terrible at this.

Or they fight with each other.

Oh, man.

You just watch the drama of it.

Oh, there's this one girl.

I don't remember her name, but she's like

the worst.

She's terrible.

Although,

I just realized the fact that I don't remember her name and she's like the worst says a lot about me because there's this one girl, Mary Lou.

Shout out to Mary Lou.

I don't know what season that is.

First off, she has the name of like my grandmother, which is hilarious.

But more importantly, she has a bunch of like very colorful wigs that she wears.

She's a sweetheart.

I love her.

I think she's hilarious.

And all of those are great.

I'm deeply invested.

And I don't know why.

I have no real interest in like other reality shows, just cooking-based reality shows.

And I think because there's a product at the end, like each episode.

Yeah.

Rather than you have to watch an entire season of, say, Survivor to

get like, oh, what's going to happen?

With this, every episode is like, hey, hey, here's the thing.

Right.

Like a great example.

Out of brutal curiosity, I went and watched the Mr.

Beast games.

I didn't watch all of them.

Oh my God.

I was literally about to talk about Beast Games.

Not Beast Games directly, but

go for it.

It is one of the worst reality shows I've ever seen in my entire life.

Like, not just a bad show, but like a bad reality show.

And I don't think he knows how to make a reality show.

Like, I don't think he knows what it takes.

Like, he knows how to give away money and make like dramatic moments, but there's no stakes to any of it in a way that like makes you feel like you care about what's going on.

And it was from like jump how quickly that hit me.

I was like, what is happening?

Hilariously, it has the same issue as actual reality show squid game.

Oh, yeah, except actual reality show squid game is like people die.

What do you mean?

No, none of that.

No, like the real life one where people pretend

they made a real life squid game and it's just as bad.

And it's terrible.

Oh, but I was going to shout out, there's a YouTuber that I love named Big Joel.

I watch everything Big Joel makes.

Okay.

But he made a video called Beast Games and Autopsy, and it's great.

He basically from the start is like, look, there's plenty of people making videos about Mr.

Beast and his controversies and whatever.

I'm not a journalist.

I'm not, you don't need to hear that from me.

What I would like to do is just talk about the show.

and if the show has any value.

And he literally goes through every single game and talks about every single game.

Amazing.

And bro, the whole at a certain point, he's like, I'm going to create a fake guy and talk about whether or not somebody could have coasted through this entire thing and made it to the end.

It's amazing.

And

it's crazy.

He's 100% right.

Like, I don't,

man, I was about to say I don't want to spoil anything, but like, what's there to spoil?

It is so boring.

The first game.

So as a person who just like has for years watched reality-based stuff and, you know, fallen off of most of it, I kind of know what to expect.

the first game out the gate is such a myster beast video but like a truly terrible concept for a first game he has a thousand people on little boxes and his first this is the first game he's like there's a bunch of rows if one person in your row leaves the rest of you can stay but if they don't three of the rows i'm just booting all of you

And so the first game is people just have to sacrifice themselves for strangers.

So someone has to say, fine, I will leave this game where I can win five million dollars so that someone else can win.

And like already, that's the weirdest start to a reality show I've ever seen.

There's no emotional investment in it.

You're like, yeah, I don't know these people.

They don't know each other.

Everyone's screaming at each other.

And like, again, if this is a YouTube video and it's 10 minutes and it's like everyone's standing here and everyone has to give up, like one person has to win or nobody wins.

Like that's a solid YouTube video for 10 minutes.

That's very Mr.

Beast.

But like,

that's the stupidest beginning to a reality show.

And the first like two episodes, I gave up after that.

I have no idea how the show ends.

But the first two episodes are literally that room, dude.

Yeah.

I mean, it's the first episode.

At some point, he takes them to like a weird campus.

Then he's like, I built a campus for you to live on.

And you would think, oh, this is where they establish the characters and we meet people.

Right.

And we start to see them.

That never happens.

In fact, they do the craziest thing in the world, which is

there will be moments where Mr.

Beast will show up and talk about the game they're going to do.

And in the game, it'll be like,

I know you've been friends with this person for some time since you've gotten here.

And then we'll show like a two-second clip of them hanging out playing like cards or something.

We didn't see that.

We've never like it is straight up in a movie where someone shows up and they're like, the armies of the north have assembled and they're marching on us right now.

In fact, they're right over there, led by Gorgoth the Smasher, a guy you probably know from seven, like that kind of shit.

It is insane to me that he, that it is truly terrible.

And not in like a I hate Mr.

Beast kind of way, or I'm just like hating to hate.

Like the

show, it is so clearly made by people who do not know how to tell a single story.

Yeah.

Like the editing is crazy.

It is essentially

JP you must understand

It is a YouTube video.

They just put it on Amazon.

I think Amazon.

Yeah, but it's such a YouTube video.

This isn't even a joke at one point The man is like and you guys can win all this money turns to camera and he's like just how you can win money by some like yes

Prize that like he does branded content in the show.

Oh, yeah, sure.

Of course.

I've never seen anything

from for the winner or whatever, I'm sure, is that it was all sponsor funded.

On an Amazon show, dude, I've never seen anything like that my entire life.

I just don't understand.

Yeah.

I couldn't believe it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He had a Mr.

Beast had a tweet pop off two days ago, which I think is a great way to culminate the Beast Games scenario.

And it was, I have a pilot living in a $2.5 million private jet.

And if he doesn't leave for 100 days, he keeps it.

A cop slash criminal in a jail.

And if they don't leave for 100 days, they win 500,000.

And someone living in the gym until he loses 100 pounds for $500,000.

Can't wait to upload these.

And everyone's just like,

what are you doing?

But that's, but that's like,

that is

the show.

But instead of it being like, it's again, 10-minute videos, he milks these things for an hour.

Like each episode has multiple games in it.

There's one,

man, they're all blending together, so you have to bear with me.

There's one episode where the whole point of the episode is, so he just moves them to this compound, right?

And we're supposed to have them like hang out, and none of that happens.

And then while they're at the compound, he's like, we're going to go to an island.

And if you want to go to the island to compete for the island, I guess he's giving away an island.

You have to do these competition things to go.

Every single one of the challenges is like the, like,

I don't know how to describe it.

It's like what you would do at a family reunion.

Just like awkward competition is what you mean?

One of them is like you have to hold a, like, not a spinning plate, but like a ball on a thing, and you're supposed to pass it.

And people who passed it, it'll always fall over and break.

So the people who won literally just didn't pass it and waited until everyone broke theirs.

Like it is.

There is no

one of the games was

everyone has to be, I think it was blindfolded, and one person would step into a ring, and the person who stepped into the ring got to go to the island.

But if more than one person stepped in, they were eliminated.

So, literally, this girl steps in and like makes a bunch of noise that she stepped in.

So, no one else steps in because they're afraid of stepping in.

So, she just wins.

Yeah.

Smart again.

Smart.

It is is

one of the stupidest.

I don't think I've ever.

I don't think anyone on the show knew what they were doing.

There's moments where they, like, it is very clearly about him and his friends rather than the contestants.

Like, if you watch Survivor or you watch like Hell's Kitchen or whatever,

yeah, it is, it is about Gordon Ramsey or it's about whatever his name is.

I can't remember his name.

The guy from Survivor.

Jeff John.

Jeff John.

Jeff, Jeff John, Jeff John.

It's Jeff something or other.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um,

like it's fine.

Yeah, they're, they're on it and, and they are featured, but they're not the focus.

Like, they don't go behind the scenes.

Yeah.

And, and, like, you know, on Hell's Kitchen, they'll go into the dorms.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is literally the, like, it is just Mr.

Beast and his friends.

Like, there's scenes where it's just like his friends in the background.

Like,

it's so weird.

I cannot stress it enough.

I don't recommend watching, but it sounds like the video Dodger recommended.

It's very very good.

Big John, what the hell is that guy's name?

Big Joel.

He makes amazing videos.

Check out his videos.

They're great.

Watch that video.

I would watch that over the actual show any day.

It's great.

It's a good takedown.

And I think the top comment on that video is crazy how they invited a thousand people onto this show and then spent most of the show begging people to leave.

Because like so many of these games are like, if you can convince this many people to leave or like, we'll give you money to to please exit the game.

Here's, oh my God, you just remind me.

Here's a great example of one of the games.

So, like, the game is constructed wrong.

So,

he has the groups, he makes four groups, and he says, Hey, each of you pick a captain.

And the captains, he brings up on top of this giant platform thing he built.

And he says to them, Guys,

I know you're the captain of these teams, but right now,

you can take $1 million

and you can just have it and your entire team loses, but you get the million dollars.

Now,

any person who does, like, they don't know these people.

They don't have a clue who these people are.

I would take the million dollars immediately.

Here's the problem.

And this is why the game screwed up.

He says, if you don't take, if you do take the million,

Your team loses and you keep the million and you get back in the game.

That's the inherent flaw.

The mini says you get back in the game, everyone who remains knows you are going to lie to them.

So no one's going to trust you.

So why would you ever take the million?

You would have, if you don't take the million, you have goodwill and you are like back in the game.

So, and you can ride that goodwill to the end, right?

Except if he would have said, you take the money, you get to go home.

All four of them would have taken.

I guarantee.

Like the game is just flawed.

Like, and that's every single one of them.

It's a social experiment, Jesse.

All right.

It's all about putting people in an awkward and seeing if they choose the money or the goodwill.

But you're...

Oh, let me.

Do they have empathy or money, Jesse?

They all had empathy, which I think,

based on the footage they had, I think shocked Mr.

Beast.

What?

You guys have friends?

Oh, geez.

You know what's wild, though?

The wild part is, given today's culture if someone actually did take the money and they were in the video they would probably be canceled on the internet

i mean that's and it was and that's the whole thing it was like a public thing as well

again if you you're standing there before everyone and you have to make the choice and again he's like you can keep the money and and like your whole team loses

He just adds like,

but if you do keep the money, you're back in the game.

Like, I would genuinely be worried that the other three teams would be like, kick that guy's ass.

Mr.

Pete stayed here all day.

Like,

absolutely.

Yeah.

I'm just, there's no way I would, the pressure on you, like, yeah, of course, you'd be like, I'm still, I'm still going to take the money.

But now there's a pressure on you that you don't, if I take the money, I'm an asshole and everyone will hate me.

And so you don't do it.

But if you were like, oh, we're going to take you on a helicopter and get you out of here immediately, in a heartbeat, I'd be like, bye, haters.

Yeah, I do think, like, along with sort of what we were talking about earlier, like how inherently difficult it is to create a narrative out of reality television, right?

One of the things that would make that a little bit easier, you would think, with a game show is, yeah, creating those moments of tension, but the problem is, is that they They don't know.

And this is, I don't think that this is an actual problem, but this is why they're missing the mark right is that a lot of these shows are really good at manipulating people and I think this show was really bad at manipulating people so people would consistently go into games and behave logically or normally about things and think things through and be and just like communicate with each other and a lot of times decide to just not do anything because that was the best course of action.

And then they'd be like, surely somebody wants to do the thing.

Yeah.

And going back to what Dodger was talking about with the squid game show.

So yeah, there's the real show that's like a television show.

But then they, Netflix made a squid game reality show that is truly terrible.

It's roughly the same thing, except misses the whole point of what that show was about.

And it has them go through all the motions of what the show is,

except they don't.

So they have however many people, like a ludicrous number of people on the show, which was the same problem with the Mr.

Beast show.

And there are a hundred people,

even that, maybe.

It just, there's too many people.

Like, whatever.

And so, in the first couple episodes, they actively go out of their way to establish characters, right?

But most of those characters, by halfway point of the series, are gone.

Like, there's one guy they set up as the bad guy.

That dude is gone halfway through the show.

And you're like, so who's the?

It's just like real, real quote-unquote squid game.

It's 456 players.

Oh, that's it.

So that's all.

That's so many people.

And so already

you don't know who to follow or what stories they want you to follow.

In fact, they're just not telling any stories, really.

But they do have a few.

Again, they have this one guy who's the asshole.

They have this one that's like, it's a grandson and a grandmother.

They have like all these different.

But again, they keep getting removed.

In fact, the only through line that really sticks out towards most of the end is the grandmother, grandson.

And they get them to that one point where only one of them can move on and it's like a very touching moment you're like okay this is good this is good ass tv right they you know in the show it'd be like one of them has to die but in this they like fake die which makes even funnier in the reality show dude

in the first episode you know the one where it's like it sings the song it's the red light green light and then it guns them down

Go watch the first episode of just the reality show because it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen my entire life.

There are people who are super into it, right?

So when they're, if they get caught and they, and like their little squib goes off, they, they go, oh, and they like fall over dead and the camera captures them.

But at the same time, there are people when it goes off, they go, and just turn around and walk away.

It's so good.

Yeah.

There's no like controlled version of the, like they were clearly told to like pretend to die.

And some of them were like, I'm not doing it.

I'm not doing it.

Some of them are like, I'm not getting on the ground.

The ground's dirty.

Yeah.

And it's so good.

And so that's the inherent problem with the entire show is some people are fully bought into like, I'm going to pretend like I'm on the show.

And some people are like, I'm here to win money.

I do not care.

And that clashes constantly to the point where there are moments where things just don't make sense.

So going back to the one where it's, it's, you have to choose between one of us is going to live, one of us is going to die.

You have great moments like the son and grandmother.

And she's like, baby.

You've got to go win this for all of us.

Spoiler, the son is out next, the next episode.

It is like such the biggest letdown in the history of letdowns.

I don't care.

That show sucks.

And so they're just bad at story arcs, is really the point.

They don't make story arcs for any of the characters, and you feel like they're starting one

and then nothing, there's no payoff.

You feel satisfied

every time.

The winner at the end, she doesn't show up as a character until about three episodes before the end.

And you're supposed to give a damn that she won.

Like, it's crazy the editing they do.

It is exactly you're absolutely right.

It is the same problem that Mr.

Beast has I like I don't know if they got caught up in it of what the concept was but they're not reality shows are good because stories are being told and their stories are being told because shit's being manipulated Like the producers are going in and they're getting people to say certain things and do certain things and then at the end they edit it all together to make it look like oh that was the bad guy and that was the good guy and this is like they give you a story.

That is not the case in the Mr.

Beast show or the Squid Game show.

Just not.

And it's very noticeable.

And you realize it.

So while I can sit here and be like, man, the editing in Hell's Kitchen is so whack.

They do some really stupid things.

They still tell a story.

I still know who each of the characters are.

Even if, like, my man Randy barely has any time on screen.

When he is on screen, he's like, just a joy to watch.

And that's, they're nailing that kind of stuff.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

I could rant about that Mr.

Beast show all day.

It is the worst.

It's one of those things where I just...

I don't know.

I still watch

Top Chef, but I don't think I watch any other reality shows these days.

Yeah.

I don't think there's anyone that pulls me.

Top Chef is still.

It's probably one of the most formulaic ones, but.

I don't know what other reality shows.

are out there.

There's one.

There's really taunted towards.

Oh, I'm sure there are.

I just don't know them.

um called culinary class wars have you guys seen that one it's on netflix sounds like an anime and it does doesn't it i was like culinary class wars yeah uh but apparently it's great i think i think it's like a

home cooks versus like

you know uh

starship sort of yeah i know my mom and my sister still watch big brother like every season of big brother yeah no big brother is still huge.

Yeah, it's still big.

And I don't think my sister will ever forgive me for when they were like trying to get, you know, content creators on there.

And they were like, do you have any interest in being on Big Brother?

And I was like, absolutely not.

She was like, I can't believe you

because she just wanted to see me crash out on live TV, which is crazy.

Yeah, I mean, all the like favorites are still big.

Big Brother is still big, Survivor.

Survivor's still huge.

Top Chef.

Anyway, the best reality show on TV right now.

Right now, the best one is Traitors UK.

Not the US version.

Oh my God.

I think that's that a few times.

It's like a werewolf, right?

It's like werewolf, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But like a live-action version.

And the U.S.

version is celebrities, right?

It's all celebrities.

They're hamming it up.

And it's like, it's whatever.

The UK version is just normal ass people.

And it's so fun watching the British scheme.

I love watching like mom and pop Brit scheme.

And they're just like,

that was quite awful.

We'll have to get him tomorrow, eh?

He's like, yes, indeed.

You're like, yay.

Yeah.

I was recommended this show by

a fellow mother.

She was just like, oh my gosh, you've got to watch Traitors.

And I was like, I've never heard of this game before.

And she was trying, she was like really struggling to explain the concept of the show.

And at a certain point, I was like, oh, it's werewolf.

And she looked at me like I was crazy.

I was like, okay, never mind.

Sorry.

I thought this was a touchstone for us, but clearly it's not.

Yeah.

Thank you for the confirmation, though.

It's werewolf.

It is, it is really, the British version is really good.

It is very well done.

Again, the U.S.

version, I'm sure it's great, but like the minute I started watching it, it was like.

Celebrity is like, it's not going to have the same vibe.

It's not good.

It's not going to be remotely the same.

They're there for like, I'm going to ham it up for my career.

It's a totally different vibe.

And the UK one is,

I guess there's an Australian one as well, which makes me even happier because I bet that is hilarious.

That one's probably real good.

I've been trainard.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Very excited.

I'd watch that in a heartbeat.

I have a show for both of you that I'm curious if, I think, Dodger, you've watched the one that I have to recommend to you.

I don't know if you've watched the one that I have to recommend to you, Jesse.

But Free Rune.

Yeah, you watched Free Rune, right?

Of course.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm only halfway through it.

Well,

I don't know if I'm halfway.

And I'm out of episodes in, like nine or 10, maybe.

I think there's only 24 in the first season and season two got confirmed.

But that show's very good.

It's still one of those shows.

I've realized that all of the shows that I'm like super into right now are very dark.

Free run's like not a happy feeling.

Yeah.

It's a pretty dark show.

Yeah, moment to moment, it feels very like

comforting and nice, but the overall theme

of the show.

Yeah, is

yeah.

Is this the anime show that I constantly see people posting images about?

Possibly.

It's really popular right now.

Constantly.

The

like general pitch of it.

Like a little elf like a white-haired elf girl?

Yes.

Yep.

That's her.

That's for you right now.

The general pitch of it is you follow an elf girl

who

likes doesn't really value the amount of time that normal people have on the planet.

So she's been alive for so long that she meets humans and by the time she thinks to like see them again, they're dead, right?

So she, she just doesn't,

she doesn't conceptualize like

how long other people have.

And

it's about her starting to, for the first time, make connections with people and really live in the moment with the people that she finds valuable to her and that she cares about.

And so it's very, it's very sweet.

She's been around for a very long time.

So you get that like that dad lore element of she'll just say shit and people will be like, wait, when did that happen?

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The other.

The other big part of the story is that it takes place after the big bad has already been defeated.

And so the world's been saved and like she was a part of the adventuring group.

Yeah.

She was part of the adventuring group and then like a hundred years pass and for her it's like a blink of an eye.

And for everyone else it's a hundred years of like human life.

It's kind of like meditative in a lot of ways too, because they they really harp on the fact that like she doesn't know like what Dodger was saying, like 10 years pass.

And for like a human, that's, you know, a tenth of their lifespan, essentially.

But for her, it's like the next day or whatever, so there's a lot of uh conversations and contemplative thought on that, and it gets kind of okay in some episodes.

Do what?

How do they show that?

I don't know how to answer that without spoiling stuff, yeah.

I don't know how to answer that without spoiling stuff.

I feel like it's one of those shows where, like,

it's it's really nice to watch it.

Um,

I say okay, I'm gonna forget about this conversation and not watch it, but it's on

It's very easy to digest.

It is.

It's very good.

Yeah.

I think currently, like ratings-wise, when people are asked like what the best anime is, it's like in the top.

Yeah, it's up to the top.

Because people loved it so much.

I think

I got it, got interested because of the,

how do I say?

I browse TikTok and TikTok does that thing where it's probably the companies them doing it, but it's.

It plays full episodes.

Yeah, well, no, it plays like important episodes uh or important moments from episodes of tv and it was the moment uh where she says kill yourself um

that's like a huge moment in the show and i saw that clip and i was like geez that was kind of insane what's this show about

and i like watched the the actual show and i was like huh okay that's not what i expected but it's still very good um

yeah and then jesse

what i was just gonna say i love how often that's the case where you like see a clip on

TikTok or something and you're like, oh my God, what is this?

And then when you actually go to look it up, you're like, oh, it's nothing like that.

Like that clip is an outlier.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's very much an outlier for sure.

Makes it seem like there's a lot more action than there actually is in the show.

For like in anime, there's very little action.

It's kind of just people walking and having a conversation.

Slice of life.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then, Jesse, the show for you, I don't know if you've actually watched this or even if you care about this world at all, because it is, I say world, but the Wheel of Time show, have you watched any of that?

I watched the first season, hated it.

So I watched the first season and the first thing's terrible.

First season of what

the Wheel of Time on Amazon.

I got to the very end and like the final episode, I was like,

Okay, that's kind of interesting.

And then I didn't watch it for, I like forgot the show existed, right?

And so they just started season three, maybe like two weeks ago or three weeks ago.

And there was a ton of buzz about like how good season three is.

And I was like, what?

Season one wasn't all that incredible.

Maybe I should like watch some more of it.

So I started season two.

I don't understand what happened or how they improved it, but it needs to be studied because I'm really enjoying season two.

I think it, I think it honestly was money.

And like so much of season one is them just setting up the world.

Because season two, they like go into so much of how the magic works and so much of like different tertiary characters and regions and lore and like all of this type of stuff.

And it's very interesting.

It's very good.

Like there's there's a

there's a whole thing where like the dream world is a is like the the magic in the world.

The people that can channel the source, right?

To use all the terms in the show, can enter the dream world at any time

and like have conversations across the world and all this shit.

None of them

are on this show.

I don't know.

I really like all the magic.

I just like did not.

I even gave the first couple episodes into a chance.

And I like, I think I fell asleep at one point.

I just don't think it's like for me.

I don't know if it's just not like,

don't know i i kept trying and i was like everyone says this is great but it's also very like uh

it's very like

right now at least where i'm at in season two it's very much like oh evil is like winning like they're they're like i mean that's fine

that's cool i just realized i mean maybe evil should win because i realized i don't like any of the main characters all of them i was like every one of them's annoying like every single one of them i don't like they Basically, the friend group or whatever.

Of all the main characters.

Like, even the like evil lady in red.

I'm just like, no, I don't like any of y'all.

What's crazy is that I don't,

I don't know if it's even remotely similar to the books either.

Because it doesn't seem like it's.

See, according to what everyone tells me, not really, it's like a poor adaptation of the books, apparently.

Yeah.

Like they all, like all the main characters, I just, I'm like, y'all, if you just talked to each other this show would be one episode right because all of your problems are because like i'm too proud to share what my real motivations are and you're like i thought y'all were friends like what the shit is this like this is this is yeah that's very true for more gain uh the like the the blue eyes sedai or whatever her uh her deal is for sure um I like the bad guys too.

Like, Lan.

I don't know if you know who Landfair is, but she's real cool.

i know

to me any of these people but like big bad uh is really cool um i'm interested to see what everyone's going crazy about for season three because apparently the most recent episode everyone's like that that guy's gonna get an emmy like he's gonna we're gonna get awards for him i think it's the

The actor that plays Rand in the show is who they're talking about.

I don't know what happens in the episode, but apparently he had, they finally had their like star-studded episode.

i see an episode where we was like holy shit yeah yeah so i've been watching that uh jesse have you watched daredevil yet no i don't have dis plus anymore uh daredevil season or yes born again is out only four episodes are

i am i am saving my give money to disney until maybe like

two weeks into the season of andor and then i'll watch all of the stuff i haven't watched yeah but like i'm not uh i don't yeah I literally have no,

I have no more of those channels or no more of those services because I'm just, I never use them enough.

So I was like, screw it.

I'm going to get rid of them until I want them.

And yeah, that's why, if you're like, Jesse, why were you watching

reality shows?

No, reality shows because they're on YouTube for free.

Yeah, they're free.

Yeah.

And so I'll literally put it up on my phone while I'm cooking and I'll watch it.

Like, that's, I'm, my TV exists, but unless it's to play, you know, Warrior's Abyss at home, like I'm not, I'm barely on that damn thing anymore.

I'm uh, I'm, yeah, I don't have a lot of like, I'm gonna sit down and watch TV time because every time I watch TV, I'm like, this show sucked.

What am I doing?

Why am I watching this?

I hate this.

Damn.

You're too critical.

You're too critical.

That's all.

No, I just think, I just think a lot of it's crap.

Like, I can't believe some of the stuff that gets made.

I'm like, you spent how many million making this?

Who, like, what nepotism caused this to happen?

Like, it's just terrible.

Yeah.

Daredevil's really good.

You should watch.

I've heard great things.

I'm excited.

Most recent episode.

It's,

it sucks because they like promoted the most recent episode and it's

like returning character shows up and it's like, boom, here's the returning character when you like load up Disney.

But yeah, that the character, like, that stuff sucks.

It was one of those things where when the character actually showed up, I was like fist pumping and fucking real life and shit because I was so excited.

Uh, so that was really cool.

Um, I'm trying to think if there's anything else I've been watching in terms of shows.

I have a bunch of things that I haven't watched Severance, I haven't started that at all.

I have been waiting for season two to end to watch season two, but season one that is my plan as well.

Yeah, well, it's over.

I don't want to be very good.

Yeah, I don't want to give Apple money week week to week.

So

Apple is honestly the best

one, though, out of all of them.

They've got the best shows.

They've got the best shows.

Every once in a while they do.

Yeah.

And then I'll

buy it for the one month, watch all the shows.

I mean, that's what I did for Ted Lasso

is I

was like, I got to watch this show.

And I did.

Loved it.

Great show.

Binged all three seasons in like a week.

And I was like, this show is beautiful.

I fucking love this show.

Yeah, it was great.

You should watch Shrinking if you haven't seen that yet on Apple.

I don't know what it is.

The quick pitch is Jason Siegel plays a therapist and

Harrison Ford is his boss who's also a therapist.

Yes.

And Jessica Williams is on that show.

Yes.

And Jason Siegel's wife

died and he's raising his daughter by himself.

That's quick pitch.

And Harrison Ford is fucking insane.

Like,

probably the best acting he's done in a very, very long time.

Very, very good on the show.

And like, Harrison Ford's gruff way of acting.

Right.

So.

Oh, geez.

Did he ever say, oh, geez, Chewy?

Probably.

Yeah.

You've got to get the hyper-converters.

He has a monologue in the most recent season that, like, everyone watches it and it just like brings him to fucking tears because of how like

life-affirming, I guess, it is without spoiling anything.

Callista, I was spending all my time with Chewy.

Yep.

On the Falcon.

I like how this is your bad Harrison Ford bit.

Yeah, everyone has to have a bad Harrison Ford.

Yeah.

My bad Harrison Ford is a good Nicholas Cage.

And frankly, I'm here for it.

True.

You got to get on the Falcon, Truey.

Come on.

Have any of you guys ever watched Jack Reacher?

Yes.

I love Jack.

I love Jack Reacher.

I'm all caught up on the.

Wait, are you talking about the movie or the TV show?

The show.

TV show.

The show.

The Amazon show.

That's fine.

I've been watching that too.

TV show rocks.

So I had never heard of this show before.

Had never heard of the movie.

Had no idea what it was.

Nothing.

Not the books.

You just started it blind?

No.

So Sam was like, there's a new season of Jack Reacher out and I haven't watched it yet.

We should watch it.

And I was like, I've never seen this show before.

And he was like, oh, shit.

Well, let's start watching season one.

Are you beginning?

Yo.

Dude.

You got to watch that man beat people up in jail and shit.

Oh, I love Reacher.

But, like, tell me why this show is literally just buff Sherlock Holmes.

It kills me.

Yeah.

No, it's, it's straight up like guy power porn.

Like

season two.

Season two literally starts with male fantasy scene.

Season two, literally, he's like, he walks into a like Goodwill store and is like, hey, I'm going to change out my clothes because that's what I do.

And the girl's like, what do you want to do with this?

He's like, keep it.

You're a Goodwill store, aren't you?

And I'm like, yeah.

And then outside, he's like, I'm going to go across the street to get more money.

And he gets there.

There's a woman at the ATM and she's like shaking.

And he's like,

are you being forced to do this?

That man over there.

Is that man holding you at gunpoint?

She's like, my kid is in the car.

And he's like, I'll be right back.

He walks over, beats the shit out of the man, comes back and he's like, you're good.

And then goes back.

And the woman's like, oh, he's like, I need a new jacket.

And she's like, why do you need a jacket?

He's like, this one's got blood on it.

Cut to credits.

I was like, yeah, let's go.

Yeah, they do the cut to credits so well in that show because it's always a stinger.

He always says something stupid or some like crazy new information.

And then it's just black and white credits with really loud music.

And you're like, oh, it's awesome.

You're like, yeah, let me go.

The moments just in the first episode alone were killing me because I was pointing out every single time that they really wanted to drive home how big this guy is.

Like

the whole him getting brought in with zip ties.

And they were like, we don't have handcuffs big enough for his big hands.

And then like he goes to jail and he's laying on his bunk and his feet are like draped off of the bed.

I was like, they want you to know this man is massive.

It was pulling me.

Season one is great because it's like a really solid introduction to him as a character for people who don't know like.

from the books or the you know the movies that tom cruise made but like yeah season two is really well done because they bring bring in his old teammates, and it really makes you understand like

what kind of a freak Reacher is because they're all like weird in their own ways.

Like, he's like best friend, she only ever eats cereal, which I think is like a great character trait.

I love that in the show.

I think it's very funny.

Every scene, everyone else sorting food and cheese gets a bowl of cereal.

It's very cute, but like they're all weird in their own way, but he's just so significantly more weird that it's just like, I love this.

Because really, he has like this, I'm the macho guy, like the entire time, but not.

He is so not that characteristic.

He's so very mundane.

I love that.

Season one's been the best, I think.

Season two, I didn't like because there was more like team-up-y.

And then season three, the newest season, he goes back to being a solo person for the most part.

I don't know if you guys have watched season three.

There's a cop from Brooklyn, and she has like a really, really, really deep Brooklyn accent, but it also is a Boston accent every other episode because she's British in real life.

That's so funny.

I love that.

Oh my God.

Every time she talks, you're like, what is it going to be today?

You get to figure that out.

And then, yeah, season three, they definitely harp on,

they harp on the fact that like, yeah, he ain't that big.

And he like, there's a, there's a scene where he gets like basically bitch slapped and just like completely taken out.

And you're like, oh, shoot the power to

do that though yeah yeah they gotta have the one guy who's like that's the tough guy who's tougher than him and you're like yeah yeah

exactly yes it's gonna happen don't you worry he's gonna break his knees or something he's smart he's smart reach is smart yeah it's very good it's i also like how the fact that uh

at any moment And he does this across every season.

He'll just grab a person's head and slam it onto a desk if he needs like get out of a situation right there.

he loves that.

And they're dead.

And they're knocked out.

There's something mythological or like superhero-esque about it because he literally, his whole thing is, I just roam around from town to town and save the day.

And it's like a comic book or an anime that's just live action.

Very fun.

I didn't expect it to be as like goofy as it is.

You're right.

It's literally just fun power fantasy.

Like he meets a person, immediately knows everything about them and can break their knees.

And you're like, okay.

Yeah.

Why not?

He's a

lot of, he's shown interest and a lot of people are wanting him to be the new Batman and James Gunn really universe.

Yeah.

Which I think would be kind of

so many.

So many Batman.

We have had a lot of Batmans, but he would be like the most physical Batman.

That would make a lot more sense for the fact that he could actually deal with like other, you know, people like Superman or Wonder Woman in terms of physical strength, at least as a human.

It'd be a little bit more believable than like George fucking Clooney walking out there and shit.

But yeah, yeah, it would be cool.

Richard definitely falls into a class of like media that, besides just being like male fantasy porn, is

also

like it's the exact same thing as

oh god what is that denzel washington series where like the um equalizer the enforcer yeah maybe equalizer i've seen all three of those films they're great yeah or like john wick in that series of like one man rights the wrongs of the universe right it is it is like so supremely entertaining but it isn't just

That it's the fact that for some reason

and I don't know why this is but in all of these shows, all these movies, whatever,

the idea that this man, all evidence points to him being able to kick your ass at any given moment, but everyone constantly disrespects them.

Like, I mean, Equalizer, for example, he clearly has displayed skills that he can murder anyone at any time, no matter what.

But the bad guys are always like, look at this old fart.

What are you going to do, old man?

He's like, he grabbed their finger and be like, if I pull this finger, you'll grab yourself right now.

And they're like, oh, geez, oh, geez.

And it's every time.

Well, that's like a genre of film now, right?

Like, it's the everyday.

Like, I think,

who's the Jason Statham?

Statham?

Whatever his last name is, who does like the beekeeper or

the car driver or whatever.

I think his newest film is literally...

Yeah, the milk.

I think his newest film is literally like the everyday guy.

Because they're just like fuck it.

We don't need you just need a random person.

Oh, no, it's called the working man.

That's the name of the film.

Okay.

Yeah.

He doesn't need an exact job anymore.

He just needs to be a random dude who everyone underestimates and then he beats their ass.

Yeah, it's like that movie Nobody.

I think it was called

that film's great.

Yeah, it's straight up just a genre now of like normal guy doesn't take shit anymore, which definitely tells you about the state of the world.

But I think it's like really interesting that that's kind of the vibe.

And that's Reacher.

That is all these.

And I unabashedly love them.

There's something about them.

Oh, they're great.

I love it.

It ticks the same thing in my head as when I play Dynasty Warriors and I kill a thousand guys.

I'm like, there's just something fun about watching one guy be like, F this noise, and start wailing on dudes.

It's great.

I love it every time.

Yeah, did you see that Ballerina, which is the newest film in the John Wick world,

that has Anna Armis as the main character.

John Wick is the bad guy.

Oh, perfect.

Like John Wick is hunting her, and so you get her POV

as John Wick is hunting you.

And like that's kind of a fun switch

for that franchise.

That is, yeah, that's very good.

Yeah,

I'll definitely be checking that one out.

I don't even think I've seen it.

I don't know if it's like a prequel or how it works, but they just released the first trailer for it.

It is 100.

Spoilers for the fourth movie.

It has to be a prequel.

Well, the dog sees something.

It has to be a prequel.

You never know.

You never know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Those are the things.

Unless they pull a favorite genre.

Fast and Furious.

And it's like, they were all prequels, dude.

You never know.

Yeah.

You never know.

Yeah.

Aside from that, the only other thing of significance that I've watched is the Dogman, which I adore.

I can't believe, like, that's the winner for you I love it what is dog man I watched this three times now

I love you don't know dog man

okay so the film yes were you in the generation of kids that were into Captain Underpants

or were you

were you adjacent to Captain Underpants no no no the comic series

That's about I know what it is, but I don't think I was into it.

Okay, so it's the same universe as the Captain Underpants stuff.

The concept is the kids that create Captain Underpants in that, it's like their first comic that they ever made together.

And it's Dogman.

And the framework of it is

that there's the best, burliest, coolest cop, but he's dumb.

And his best friend Dog.

who is really smart, but is limited by the fact that he's a dog.

And they are in an explosion

and in the goofiest cartoon way possible that they could do body horror they go to the hospital and the nurse is like i'm so sorry but officer night your head no longer works and he's like oh man he's like and uh greg the dog i'm so sorry but your body no longer works and he's like wow and they're like guys we should put the dog's head on the officer's body and then they do it and he becomes a super cop quote quote and

it's ridiculous i love it okay so it's just wait so there's you've watched the movie three times yes and i had before watching the movie i had read the first comic i think i think the movie covers the first three

do they not address his origin in the comics What do you mean?

Like,

yeah.

The comics seem like they're for children.

they are and i would imagine he just started as a dog cop but i i like no he blows up and

that's a i would have for some reason really appreciated if the comics were just comics and he was just dog cop but for some reason the movie studio thought they really needed to explain

that would be so fucked and they just took a childwood comic that's goofy and like no it has a dark origin story bro

what is there's another comic book that that's reminding me of, but but it's

I think it's like that the dad was an artist and he had his like four-year-old create the story of the comic and it was like a T-Rex police what ax cop is that what you're thinking of is that it that might be it there's a ax cop is definitely that content either it's an older brother and a younger sibling or it's a dad and a kid I can't remember what the that's a five-year-old and his 29 year old brother that that might be it because there's also one where it's it's like there's it says it's a t-rex or something like that but ax cop might be the one that i'm referencing yeah yeah that's a axe cop definitely has a t-rex

oh then that is yeah that is created by a five-year-old and his 29 year old brother yeah yeah it's like the kid conceptualizes the story and the characters and then the the older brother makes it makes it yeah like or draws it and inks it and all that stuff yeah yeah it's a cool cool setup for them is that similar to this movie movie or is this movie just like, nope, it's made by a bunch of adults?

I mean, it is made by an adult.

Yeah.

But he's, I don't know.

He's, he's got a good way of being like,

here's, here's like the, the goofy sort of kid way that maybe, you know, they would construct part of this story.

Yeah, it's oddly sweet.

It's, it's very silly, but like there are so many.

I was actually really emotional at the end the first time that I watched it.

I think that it's a really sweet movie.

It's my current, I always have like a kids' movie that is my comfort film.

Before this, it was Mutant Mayhem, which I still love when I was Dogman.

I don't think I've seen Mutant Mayhem either.

What?

You got Mutant Mayhem.

What do you mean?

The Teenage Me and Ninja Turtles film?

Yes, it's so good.

Okay.

I haven't watched a lot of films in the past couple of years.

For some reason, I just only watch TV.

I don't watch that many films.

Kids' films are great

because

they can't be too complex, right?

Sure.

So like, if you're the sort of person who's like, I'm going to do something while I'm watching this or like, I don't trust myself to like fully invest in this movie.

Yeah.

You're probably still fine.

Mutant Mayhem, I think, absolutely falls into that category.

There's a lot of really fun stuff that happens in it and the animation is gorgeous.

But like,

I don't think you need to be paying like extremely close attention to be like what are these turtles doing you know sure yeah dogman is kind of the same it's it's simple it's simple and it's goofy and the animation looks great but it's also very sweet i don't know

have you seen the wild robot

I haven't, but I heard it's amazing.

I haven't watched it.

It's one of those things that everyone that tells me about it, they're like, yeah, it's great.

I cried for 90 minutes.

And it's like, I don't know if I want to watch that.

I don't know if i want that yeah i saw a video that a really sadistic parent took of their kid after leaving that movie and their kid was just sobbing he was like did you really like that movie the wild robot their kid was like yeah it was really good and i was like i don't think i should watch this yeah yeah i've heard that's really good and then there's one that just won the uh won the oscar over the wild it's about a cat is it a flow flow is the other one i have not seen whoa

Yeah, that's just one animated movie of the year.

You actually will have to watch that, Dodger.

You won't be able to follow along without watching what's going on.

I do actually watch it.

I'm saying to JP, if

he doesn't enjoy watching movies very much, and maybe it's because

there's a lot compacted into two hours.

Kids' movies are nice because

not as much easier.

Well, yeah.

Chad's very quick to point out that I'll watch the pit.

The pit isn't like an emotional.

the pit is a different, the pit's just anxiety, right?

Activate a different,

yeah, wild robots, like, hey, hey, have feelings.

The pit's like, hey, have feelings, but anxiety.

So it's a little different.

I don't want either of them.

I want to be numb while I watch Gordon Ramsey yell at

their dick.

Meat done.

I get it.

That's why is the chicken raw?

How is the chicken raw, JP?

It doesn't make any sense.

Yeah.

I want to watch Mutant Mayhem for the 50th time.

I get it.

Everyone's got their own stuff.

Everybody's got their thing.

That's great.

That's great that we.

I want to watch Bob's Burgers again.

I want to watch Brooklyn 9-9 again.

I don't know.

Have you watched Bojack Horseman, by the way?

Me?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Did you finish it?

I did not finish it.

Okay.

Bojack Horseman is deeply depressing.

Yeah, no, it's one of the most depressed, like one of the

probably the most depressing show I've ever watched.

Might be one of the most depressing things I've ever ever seen.

Yeah.

So I would watch it in spurts and then I'd go, and now I need a break.

Kind of like Berserk.

Whenever I read Berserk, I'm like, all right.

Did a few chapters and now I'm good for a couple of years, I think.

Yeah.

I would binge Bojack in seasons.

And that was when I was like, all right, I'll see you in two weeks, Bojack.

I got to go to therapy.

Literally.

I got to go like lay in a field of flowers and like hang out with a bunch of puppies for a while.

Cause yeah, that show's real depressing.

But in like a very interesting and good way.

But don't watch that if you're in a bad headspace for sure.

No.

That show comes with a million.

You should check out Home Improvement.

Crendor with the real true tip.

There we go.

Home Improvement.

10 out of 10 show.

Yeah.

I would go 11 out of 10.

You're right, Jesse.

I mean, it's a show.

It's pretty good.

Did you see that they brought, they're doing,

Tim Allen has a new show that's the same show that he's always done, but it's new, Jesse, on ABC.

And I forgot what the name of it is.

It's got What's Her Face in it as well, who was in Thor and stuff.

And I can't remember her name.

Kat Dennings, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm hearing it's a Shifting Gears

is the name of the show.

I hear it's just as stupid as all the other comedy shows that are on TV right now.

So bless you.

Perfect.

Great.

It's centered around a classic car restoration shop owner struggling to adjust to his estrange

and her children moving back in.

Is he like, oh, no, Kat Dennings.

He does the grunts.

That was in the preview for the show.

That's why I was like, hey, that show's not all that bad.

Well, of course, no, it's definitely bad.

He did the grunt, and I'm like, I mean, that's a Tim Allen grunt, you know?

It's a Tim Allen grunt.

I'm realizing we're coming up on the two-hour mark.

Do we have

some news we want to rapid fire?

Yeah, I mean, I don't even know what the news would be since we talked not about games at all today, but let's talk video games for exactly five minutes.

Hey,

last November.

GOG announced their preservation program, which is awesome, by the way, where they're taking classic games and making sure they're playable on PC forever, or I guess however long GOG exists.

I've always loved them.

I shout them out all the time.

So, of course, I will shout this out as well.

The latest games included in the preservation program are Silent Hill for the Room, Fear Platinum, Alone Dark Trilogy, a bunch of Tomb Raiders, Vampire the Masquerade, Redemption, Jagged Alliance 2, and the first two Wing Commander games.

So, if you want to go play some classiques, get on it.

On a corporate angle, Phil Spencer says that more more movies and TV shows based on Xbox games are on the way.

I guess they're making more.

And it's very funny because you can definitely tell that

he knows that Halo sucked because basically he was like, guys,

we're learning a lot from what we've done in the past.

And it's like, yeah, I bet.

Yeah.

I bet.

Is this whole thing like part of the Microsoft press junket or something?

Is that why?

Or the Minecraft press junket, I mean, is that why I got it?

It's part of the Minecraft.

Yeah.

So Minecraft comes out April 4th.

It's got, you know, all the peoples in it.

And Variety was asking him about what's happening.

And he's like, yeah,

we are going to make more.

He said

in quotes, we learned from doing Halo.

We learned from doing Fallout.

So all of these build on themselves.

Obviously, we'll have a couple that miss.

But what I'd say is Xbox community,

say to the Xbox community is that, you know, we're working on it and more is to come, that kind of stuff.

So we'll see.

We'll see how good things are.

But did you see the on the topic of games as movies?

Did you see the God of War director

or the God of War writer comment?

He was in an interview.

I don't know exactly who it was with or where it was, but he essentially was like, yeah, I tried to play the game and then I realized I can't play games that well.

So I just gave up.

I've never played the games.

And he's like, but I'm going to write the show.

And you're like, cool, man.

Like, thanks for just getting on that.

Let's go to the next.

And that's already confirmed for season two.

So

I must stress, there is something really

stupid that Hollywood writers do, where they're constantly, when they're asked if they played the game, rather than just going to play the game and then saying, yes, I played it.

They always do that thing where like, no.

No, I didn't play it.

Acting, I don't know if it's because like I'm too cool to play games.

Yeah.

Or

we're approaching it from a different angle.

There's also like a big thing in Hollywood, and it's always been this way.

Having dealt with it, I can tell you for sure.

Everyone loves to leave their own mark.

So if you're a writer and you're given God of War, yeah, you could just retell God of War, but what you really want to do is add your own spin to it.

So it's your baby.

And that sucks because it never works out at all.

At all.

And so, yeah, I don't know what there is, but every time

we like get a show, the writer comes out and is like, actually, I don't know a damn thing about it.

I'm just going off of feels.

And you're like, bro, what?

Well, they did that with Halo, right?

That's why Halo is so rough.

They did that with Witcher.

They did that, like, everything.

They constantly do that.

You know what didn't happen?

I don't recall a Fallout writer coming out and saying, I don't know anything about Fallout.

Well, they worked pretty closely, yeah, with Bethesda.

I mean, Bethesda's name was like an executive producer of the whole thing.

And I think

the showrunner for that was like, no, I love

like I, this game's awesome.

Like I've been playing this game my entire life type deal.

So he just had like a respect for it.

They did it with Yakuza for Amazon.

Yeah, where they're like, no, I've never played the games.

I just don't understand why.

Like, it's a weird thing to do because the minute you say that, you immediately alienate your audience.

I've never understood that.

I don't know what their thought process is.

Yeah, especially when you have such a win like with The Last of Us, where the writers are so involved in that show and like the show's won actual awards and is doing so well.

Like that's the framework that people should follow, not all this other nonsense that gets green lit.

Yeah, and I mean, admittedly, there are times like I love Walton Goggins, so I will make excuses for that man to the end of the time.

But like him saying, I don't play video games.

Well, yeah, because he's an actor and he like his life is a video game, basically.

But the man's been a ton of video games movies.

I don't think actors need to know the game.

Actors play one character in the world and they need to know that character, not the game.

Yeah.

So I'm the writers and the showrunners, those are the people who should be directing the actors to more accurately represent what the game is.

They're just trying to inhabit the character, which admittedly the man did very well.

So

yeah,

I don't understand why.

Writers and showrunners or directors constantly are like, let me remind all of you, I don't know what the hell this is I'm making.

It's a weird vibe.

Never understood it.

Last tangent on Walter Goggins, did you see the White Lotus clip with him and Sam Rockwell?

Holy shit!

I love Sam Rockwell, I love Walton Goggins, the two of them.

For anyone who has ever, if you've never seen White Lotus, it doesn't matter.

There's a scene floating around, yeah, there's a scene around a two-minute scene where Walton Goggins is having a conversation with Sam Rockwell.

And Sam Rockwell is like,

you know, I came here and I just

started banging Asian women.

I was just, I was so into them.

Big, small, fat, thin.

I was just having sex with like two, three at a time.

And I, and I started to ask myself, why am I doing this?

And Wong Gogens, all the entire scene is like, uh-huh.

And he's like, I was asking myself, why do I want to sleep with all these Asian women?

And I realized I want to be an Asian woman.

No, he says, I am the Asian woman.

He's like, I am an Asian woman.

And then he goes on to talk about the things that he's done where like he hired people to have sex with him and and then he hired an Asian woman to watch them so that he could watch the Asian woman while he's getting railed.

One of the craziest things I've done is

the entire time.

Walton Goggins, his reactions are so funny.

They're one of the funniest thing I've ever seen.

No, that's the one.

Oh, my God.

You're Walter Goggins in this situation because it cuts back and he's just like,

uh-huh.

I am Walter Goggins.

Oh, it's so.

It's one like the show is crazy, but that might be one of the craziest scenes I've ever seen on TV.

Like, it's just them sitting at the, like, in the bar having this conversation, and it's so funny.

It's pretty funny.

Yeah, it's like, it's one of those.

Like, imagine you were having a conversation with a friend, and everything they said every like few seconds got more and more crazy.

Yeah.

Like, it starts out normal.

He's like, yeah, you ever think about like why you came here?

And then by the end, he's like saying the craziest things.

And Gawkins is just like,

uh-huh.

It's great.

Great scene.

Anyway, last little bits here.

Speaking of,

well, not so great.

I'm sure a lot of you saw that weird Aloy clip they posted online where it's they took Aloy and they just put AI in it.

And it was like at a real ass press conference, like this is the future of what we can do.

And it's like, hello.

I am

Aloy.

And I can't wait to go go on adventures with it.

It gets crazy.

It does that AI voice.

And everyone's like, this is the future.

We can do so many cool things.

And it's so awkward to the point where Ashley Birch had to be like, I do not support that.

That's

scary.

Yeah.

She had to come out against the business.

Go watch that weird Horizon,

that Aloy video.

It is

super weird.

And yeah, and in chat, especially considering the themes of Horizon, it's very strange.

They would pick that game to be like, this is our AI focus.

Right.

Well, and also have Aloy be like their

AI character that they're pushing.

Why not have like Astro Bucket?

I don't know.

I don't know.

That's a whole strange thing.

Yeah.

The whole AI thing is always pushing to be more and more weird.

Yeah.

Not a fan of that.

But one last thing.

I don't know if any of you saw the, this was sent to me in the office this week, and I just want to talk about it.

There's a game called Inzoy.

Yes.

Inzoi.

Yeah.

It is South Korea's answer to The Sims, according to Video Game Chronicle.

But here's the thing.

Okay.

The thumbnails for that game make it look like a steam porn game.

Yeah.

When it was sent to me, I was like, what the hell is this?

I thought it was a steam porn game.

It is, in fact, not.

It is like a make your own character, live your own life, go on adventures.

It is.

i i was already bored with the trailer and i was like it's not steam porn it was a disappointment to me honestly but it looks fine yet somehow off i don't know how to describe it there's something about it that like seems weird to me it's like a it's like a ue5 character creator that they're like what if we made a sims game out of this and that's basically what you do you take this like very highly detailed character and push it out into the world of the sims and

build a house.

I don't know what about it.

There's like something about it that is almost Uncanny Valley, but there's like, it's like weird to me.

I think that's just Dewey 5 in a nutshell.

Yeah, the game itself is very, very, very like you just, you know, become a movie star or like

make buildings and craft a home.

Like that.

It's like, okay, cool.

But there's just something about it that is like really bizarre to me.

And I don't know why.

It almost has the makings.

If like halfway through the trailer, static appeared and it was actually a secret horror game, I would believe it.

There's like something about it that seems real strange to me, and I do not know what it is, but it's it freaks me out.

Yeah, that's like kind of crazy because it you can like uh I was watching Gassy Mexican play it, you can like upload your emote and it'll create a pattern on like your shirt, and then you have like a Gassy Mexican emote shirt.

Um, and it also has like uh, it'll it can use your webcam and do face tracking like it's a like it's a VR model.

And it like pretty much does like one-to-one on the voice or on the

avatar of the model itself in-game.

Crazy.

Just through like a camera.

It's pretty crazy.

It looks incredible.

And the tech involved looks very, like, there's, I cannot crap on this game.

I cannot say that, like, it looks amazing.

I genuinely get weirded out by it, and I don't know why.

Like, it has, it has like a second life vibe to it for sure, but there's just something very strange about it.

And while watching the trailer, I was like, what is, what am I feeling?

It's an uneasiness.

I'm not sure why I feel uneasy, but I feel it and it's very strange.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I feel like if you're really into character creators, that game's character creator is like so in-depth that you can make

one-to-one.

Even in the trailer,

they just show them, be like, most of our trailers are going to be character creation.

You're like, okay.

And they do.

They show it to you, and it looks neat.

It's very something I'm into, but like, there's just still something,

something about it.

I don't know.

I wish I had answers.

Yeah.

It's a weird game.

It's a weird game for sure.

But that's it.

That's the news.

Fantastic.

I'm sorry that I tuned out for part of that.

My child was doing a thing.

Happens.

Children do things.

Not to me.

Not to you.

No No dogs, no pets, no kids.

No nothing.

Only me.

But I have been here for 4,000 years.

As I've watched the men rise and fall, live and die.

You are nothing to me.

I am endless.

I am your God now.

You should watch Freeran.

Yeah.

Yeah, you could relate to Freeran a lot.

That's the show.

Yeah.

I don't want to be reminded of my infinite existence.

It's already depressing.

That was great.

Yeah.

I love that we just had a whole episode where we talked about TV.

We've never done that before, I don't think.

Oh, wait, so that's a first?

It is.

Yeah, it was good.

Thanks for coming on, JP.

Yeah, I'm glad I invited myself on the show.

Yeah, me too.

I'll invite myself on more often.

You should make the thumbnail our Discord conversation of how I ended up here.

Cause that conversation was great what what what face would you have for that what's your thumbnail face thumbnail face i'm re if i reread the conversation it's all caps so i'm probably screaming all right give me your thumbnail face i think the thumbnail face is probably something like uh probably something like

there you go thumbnail face great you want mine feeling that face

uh yeah i'd love your thumbnail face what's yours gonna be yeah

Second?

No, I didn't get it.

No, missed it.

I was going to capture it for the world.

No, that's terrible.

That's truly, that's an awful face.

That's not good.

I'm glad.

What?

Why would you do that?

Who are we pointing to, though?

What if we're all pointing to the birthing scene from the people

and we're all pointing at yourself, but I'm also pointing at you.

Oh, my God.

god i've given you advantage okay all right yeah all right got it yeah it's gonna be a great thumbnail jesse i i anticipate you're

thumbnails are your creation yeah can't wait okay also can we just put crindor in the corner can i ask for a self-insert no he's not in the episode no

it's just gonna be your face he's only allowed here once uh per quarter yeah we have a we have a deal yeah yeah it's in his contract we allow him on once a quarter he doesn't destroy the world

Those are the rules.

Oh.

Smart.

That's a smart contract.

We're basically keeping society going.

We're fixing things.

Yeah.

We're humanitarians.

Yeah.

That makes sense.

JP, what do you got going on this next week and this weekend?

Well, I'm streaming more AC Shadows.

I've been enjoying that.

So I'll be playing that right after the stream here.

So if you want to come join us over on my channel, you can.

Next week, pretty busy, actually.

I've got a sponsored stream on Monday for 33 Immortals.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

I got a sponsored stream on Wednesday for Redacted.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

I got a sponsored stream on Thursday for Path of Exile Co-Stream.

That's going to be a lot of fun for their new season.

And then somehow, somewhere in there, I'm going to try to finish AC Shadows.

So we'll see how all that goes.

Yeah, just a bunch of streaming and a bunch of sponsored stuff over the next week.

Oh, yeah.

Then there's also the first Berserker Kazan, which is like like anime Dark Souls.

Yes.

I really like that demo.

I'm excited.

I love that demo.

It was great.

Yeah.

I'm very excited for

that.

Yeah.

And also Core Keeper as well.

I've decided just to play all the games at the worst possible time.

Play everything.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I'm just playing a little bit of everything.

Oh, and you two will appreciate this, maybe.

I'm finally going to start Dawn Trail.

Oh, nice.

Great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I need, I'm going to start doing Dawn Trail on like a YouTube evening series because streaming Final Fantasy on Twitch is weird.

Oh, you mean no one watches it?

Yeah, you're right.

That's true.

Weird.

We call that weird.

Oh, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Honestly, most people on Twitch don't watch story-heavy content unless

it's something that's been out for a while.

The reason, I think, is because most people don't want their story spoiled.

Like, I get it.

I'm not.

I get it too.

Yep, I get it.

I get it.

Amazing.

What about you, Dodger?

What are you up to?

Oh, my God.

I'm throwing it back to you.

I get to go before Jesse.

That's right.

Oh, my goodness.

I might be trying to finish up Proverbs.

We got to play a bunch of Warframe gang.

I have to get

to the new war, which is like

eight quests away or something.

Yeah.

For a potential sponsored thing.

So, so yeah, I'm trying to go hard on that game.

Fortunately, a lot of the stuff that's super grindy, they have smoothed out over time.

So, the things that would have taken me a million years

won't take me as long.

But I was like, yeah, the dev team said that it should take me like 10 hours.

And somebody in my chat immediately was like, no shot.

It's like 10 hours.

So, I'm doing my best, gang.

But that game continues to be very fun.

I think the main quest line is really cool.

So, yeah, we'll be doing some of that.

I'm not sure.

I'm going to be heading out to America soon.

So I should probably like figure out what I'm doing with my life, dude.

Well,

not, you got to be careful.

Britain put out a travel advisory for that.

Yeah, you're not.

Be careful.

It's trouble here.

Like, literally, be careful.

You don't want to.

You don't want to get disappeared.

So.

Am I not allowed?

Are they not going to let me in?

I'm just letting you know the British government was like, be careful traveling there.

I don't know what's going to happen to you at the border.

You can have a little advisor.

Yeah, I don't know.

You guys in Germany both were like, you look, yeah, you look trouble.

You look like trouble.

You show up with cat ears, they're going to throw you in a, like, a,

I don't know, like a.

I don't think that's what that meant.

I think that meant you guys are trouble.

No, I think that

you're trouble, so don't come here.

Sweet baby girl should not go to Trouble Town.

No, I'm pretty sure they were like, trouble is coming.

Dodger's coming to him.

They didn't.

brought it.

That was recent.

Oh.

This is like.

The advisory was about me.

Right.

Specifically.

Yeah.

I see it.

Also, if you come anywhere near Texas, be careful that you don't bring anime because that's about to get banned as well.

So

get wrecked, stupid Texas with your no anime.

Gotta be careful.

Don't they know that Austin runs on anime?

What are they gonna do?

Well, it's funny, because like Crunchyroll

and like, I think Crunchyroll's headquartered in Austin.

I'm not joking.

Like that is, I'm not even...

Like, I fundamentally believe Austin is powered by anime.

Yeah.

That's wild.

So be careful and enjoy America.

I'll be careful, I guess.

Yeah.

I'll go to Palm Springs where all the old people are, and I'm sure I'll hear some wild shit.

There you go.

Jesse, what are you up to?

Yo, Monday.

Speaking of Final Fantasy, while the servers are down and no one can play, ha ha ha ha ha.

My latest lore video will be out.

So

get ready.

If you've wanted to play, but you've never wanted to play through a Realm Reborn, watch my video and skip it.

And then you can start in Heaven's Ward and be a good, happy child.

So that's all we're doing.

That's next week.

And then finally, I'll be free of having to edit this video together.

It's taken me so long.

So, yeah.

But then I will be free to do whatever it is that I want.

But that's me for

the next However.

Oh, and yeah,

it's

more to come when it comes to like

split fiction and you know, all the other stuff.

Oh, that game's great.

It's great.

Very good game.

Yeah.

Awesome.

Did you see the thing where there was that secret level, Jesse?

I did, and that two people got to fly out or and like hang out with the studio because they beat the secret level.

Yeah, yeah.

Very cool story there.

Yeah.

Level looks also very fun, very red.

There's new sworn stuff as well.

I'm also probably going to play more sworn stuff so I can do the new.

Oh, the new update.

Did you are you playing the new update?

Yeah,

that game's great.

I'm glad that you ended up enjoying that game as much as you did because we pitched it to you on DF.

Yes.

And I played a shit ton of it and fortunately had done enough that I was able to immediately hop into update stuff

once it launched.

So yeah, another great game.

Good game.

Fantastic.

Hey, gang.

If you enjoy geekenders,

you can find all of the past Geek Enders VODs on youtube.com/slash jessecox.

We're also

on all of the podcasty things as well.

If you're interested in just hearing our voices and missing all of our fantastic visual gags, of which there are always many.

So many.

Believe me, trust me.

The most.

It's real, I swear.

Yeah, Dodger made me green this entire episode.

I did.

On purpose.

Yep.

Print it.

Have a fantastic weekend.

A fantastic week.

We will see you guys again next Friday.

So take care.

I will.

They will.

Not me.

He'll be in chat.

Don't let him.

When do you do drop frames?

Sundays?

Sunday.

Drop frames.

JP will see you Sunday.

I'll see you Sunday.

See you Friday.

See these two Friday.

It's a team effort.

There you go.

So long, everybody.

Take care.

Bye-bye.

Bye.

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