45: The Geekenders: Are We Too Old for Conventions?

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Yo, it's the weekend.

Yeah, it's time to geek out.

Let it begin.

Go on, scream and shout.

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Geek Enders.

I'm one of your hosts, Dodger.

And that's one of your hosts, Jesse.

And that's

Crendor.

Hey, what's up?

I'm back.

Our sweet love, Crendor.

Yeah, he's pre-show.

Pre-show, I already had him being existential.

jesse was like it doesn't even matter we're not number one we'll we'll be forgotten about in a hundred years

none of it whoa whoa don't spin this yarn this is literally what you said

we said that this is the number one geek podcast without a doubt and then you said is it though and i said

probably not but in our mindset and in a hundred years it won't matter in a hundred years it won't matter no and i said why'd you pick a hundred you could said a thousand but a hundred realistic

You don't.

It's not even realistic.

You could be someone else in a 10-year-old.

The 1920s that you love, Crendor.

You know,

Jim Brown, NFL.

He played back then, I think.

1920s?

Yeah, he played.

Furiously, Googles.

Yeah.

Uh-oh, that was 1957.

Try again.

Try again.

I'm close.

That's what I'm saying.

100 years is a long time.

No one will remember you, dude.

There might be somebody in the chat who's going to be there, and he's like taking this future drugs to stay alive.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Actually, out of anyone I know, you're probably the one person I believe in 100 years people will still be talking about.

It's possible.

I may have been like David Lynchard.

It's like that meme that was going around that was,

you know, in a thousand years, no one will know who you are.

And and the guy's like not if i eat the mona lisa and that's how i feel about you you'll do something so goofy that the universe will just know you forever like that's

it's possible yeah

no you know what's great though is is we're like adjacent so we'll know about it immediately yeah i don't happy about that That feels like some sort of conspiracy thing where we all go to jail together.

And I, frankly, I'm not down for that.

You think you're going to get roped?

You're not doing well in prison.

I think think if Crendor ate the Mona Lisa, it would be really difficult.

Unless they go back and watch this podcast, it would be really difficult to tie us to it, you know?

But if they watch this, then they're like, Jesse, put that thought in his head.

Accessory.

And then you go to jail.

Yeah.

So

who knows?

Yeah, but I would never eat the Mona Lisa.

Unless it was like...

What would you eat?

What piece of art looks delicious to you that you would eat?

I don't.

A pollock, maybe?

I don't know enough about art to even like answer the question.

That's a good joke.

I don't even get it.

It was above Krendor's head, but it was a good joke.

It was way above my head.

I got nothing.

I mean, the art, all the art I know is from Animal Crossing.

Where you have to buy it from the fox.

Right.

And I'm like, dude, that's art.

And then I know about it because I learned about it in the game.

It's like when I learned everything about history from playing Age of Empires or like Total War games.

Jesse laughed.

That's how much that alarmed him.

It was very well timed, though.

All right, hold on.

Yes.

Grendor, you've been on the show many times, but because you're our friend and have been for some time, we've never truly done chat gets on us.

We don't necessarily do intros very well.

That's so true.

And for you, we've never done an intro.

And I'd like you right now to please pitch yourself, Grendor.

Introduce yourself to everyone.

Yeah, everyone listening or watching.

Pretend that you're that that we don't have this rapport and you need to like really be like i'm

here's what i do either of you are yeah you don't you do

fresh fresh podcast energy yeah we invited you on our podcast and you're aware of us you looked this up once or twice and you were like it seems fine you listen to the first like five seconds of one of the geekenders and you're

at the gist these troubles yeah right yeah okay

hey what's up

Hey, how's it going?

Thanks for being on.

Hey, thanks for having me.

You look, you know, really familiar, but

I think it's just because I've seen this show once in a, you know, years ago.

Same with most people who have watched the show.

Just one time.

Yeah, just one time.

That's enough.

Yep.

Because a lot of them have the same sort of

situation going on.

So, right, right.

Exactly.

I'm Crenor.

I create things online sometimes, such as

pointless top 10.

How does that work?

I'm glad you asked

because it is a show where I've made top 10 lists out of pointless things, but they're not actually pointless things.

And it's actually bothered me.

Give us an example.

Well, in the intro, okay, I say you make it out of pointless things.

All right, but the things of the list aren't pointless.

The list itself is pointless to the point where I've decided I was going to redo the intro to change that bit, but I didn't because I was like, no, I've done this for like a decade.

I can't change it now, right?

So what you're saying is the things that wind up on the list aren't pointless.

It's, it's more of a vibe of like, who would make this?

Why did someone take the time to make this top 10 list?

Right.

Because everybody makes top 10 lists.

They're like top 10 lists out of whatever.

And everyone's got a, you know, the same list over and over.

But I was like, what if I make a list out of like grass?

Nobody's going to do that.

And so the list itself became pointless, not the things on the list.

However, like, however, the things on the list can be pointless.

Okay.

But they aren't necessarily pointless.

Exactly.

Okay.

So what would be on this list?

What would be on these lists?

I'm glad you had you go look it up on youtube.com/slash crendor right now and see those lists for yourself.

And what and it's just like, you know, like best forests?

Is it like

best walks I've been on?

Like, how does this work?

Exactly.

Could be anything.

Grass.

That's pretty evergreen, honestly.

You could just do whatever.

Yeah.

Exactly.

You could watch those from like eight years ago if you wanted on youtube.com/slash cremendor.

And they people still are.

In fact,

people

that don't even play World of Warcraft watch those.

Is World of Warcraft typically like your

thing?

Oh, is it?

Of course.

Is it?

Well, I guess it used to be, but then it wasn't, and now it is again.

Oh, it's been a, it's been a roller coaster, much like actual World of Warcraft.

Yeah.

Yeah,

because, you know,

I try to do my due diligence.

I was looking you up.

Apparently you used to do something called machinimas.

What is that?

That's a machine cinema.

Ancient terminology you're digging up there.

Ancient.

machine

so it's like a machine microphone or yeah no it's uh it's well it was the term for making a movie all right cinema the wordage uh out of a machine which would be your computer all right and then you are you're filming these these video games as the kids call them uh and and combining them into works of art.

I'll like the ones on Pornhub.

No.

Did you make stuff for Pornhub?

Are you one of the original?

I did.

I did not get paid enough.

No.

No, that wasn't me.

That's not like CGI.

That's not the same as CGI.

Oh, yeah.

No, no, no.

That was Crandor.

But.

I'm not going to lie.

I forgot what I was talking about.

And

you went as long as you could.

and honestly i'm impressed

dude i get it i can't work that far i can't work in structure even if it's like

like even within that structure i started branching into like a what is pointless top pen

but like it's true

right

also i just want to say

also first is like uh this is a weird

it's hard to do like a pretend you don't know us when i literally do a show every week for 10 years with one of the people it's like i don't know who you are

just getting our dead fish stare at you like yeah this is like the this is like one of those weird uh like sitcoms or reality thing where the the time paradoxes happen right right it's like uh it's like in sailor moonlem

he becomes stefan

yeah urkel becomes cool it's like sailor moon like with her like seeing different reality like you know it's like any of those as you know what i did just learn something, though.

I didn't know that machine cinema is where machinima came from.

Yeah.

So thank you for that.

Yeah, no problem.

That's what I'm all about.

I know that.

Why would I know that?

I didn't make them.

It's like right in the name.

Machine cinema would be the first cinema that

someone.

No.

No.

I maintain.

Machinima.

I don't think a person would immediately go, it means machine cinema.

That's the first thing I would think of because it's right in the middle.

You knew it already.

You can't blame it.

You were molded in it.

You were born and raised in that shit.

Sam is crazy.

You don't have to wait for red versus blue.

I didn't do that.

That wasn't

a thing.

I also didn't know it was machine cinema until I figured it out.

And I was signed on with them.

I didn't know that.

Which, by the way, terrible time.

Actually, you know what?

It wasn't too bad.

Only the contract stuff was bad.

They did like pay you on time and stuff.

Oh my gosh.

Which, like, listen, for 2000.

That sucks.

Well, it was fine, actually.

For like 2010, they like paid you on time.

In fact,

they gave you more money than I think they should have.

I should have stuck on that contract.

They were giving you like flat rate CPMs and shit.

Did a 180 so quickly.

I don't know what happened here.

You were listening to me.

Listen, F machinima, but also, what a good time.

The problem was they tried to own you forever.

So that was bad.

But the actual contract and rates and stuff, looking back on it, they were paying you flat rate CPMs in January.

They were probably like, ah, shit, this is bad.

So, you know, looking back, I was like, you know what?

Kind of wish I said that.

I wish I kept that.

Yeah, maybe I should have worked for him forever.

Although they're out of business.

So that would be bad.

Watching you go back and forth was one of the craziest things I've ever seen.

You should become a politician.

You said nothing.

I said nothing.

I don't know what you're even saying.

I didn't say anything.

You're the loser.

Your contract is bad.

It has been a really interesting

swing that we've done in the last 10 years, right?

Of like...

being in networks and now swung all the way around to like, don't be in a network, just have a manager.

Yeah.

And I'm wondering if it's going to swing back around to people being like, but wouldn't it be great if we were just all in a network together?

I cannot stress to you enough that on TikTok,

well, by no means am I a successful TikToker.

Yes.

Even having some TikToks that get views, you get messages from dudes that are like, hello, I represent the

ninja group, and we are looking for TikTokers to work together on a brand new multi-channel network.

And you're like,

if i was a kid this might get me no whatever no

no i'm out i don't want to be involved yeah oh yeah it's definitely happening still yeah but the thing is there are networks now like you have a bunch of networks of just but now it's like a bunch of big creators have formed their network and then they work together but then they realize much like the networks of the past we should just sign on random people and take their money and everyone's like i want to join the network with big creators

I'm not going to,

what the

hell is I was about to be like, I'm not going to name any names.

Puts blor on, changes voice.

Yeah, I mean, look, it's definitely a thing.

And Credor's absolutely right.

There's a lot of creator forward groups.

The biggest problem is

that when you join something like that, you're tied to the creators.

And sometimes, I'm going to just say it, sometimes young men and women do stupid stuff.

And that stupid stuff can come back to bite you in the butt.

So there's no way.

Be safe, kids.

I've never regretted anything in my whole life.

The silence was so loud.

That's what it's like when no one believes you.

Now you know.

That's because everybody regrets something.

That's true.

I did.

I was lying in case I wasn't clear.

Oh, no, oh, no, we knew.

Oh, we knew.

Yeah, no, it's everybody.

Listen,

even if you regretted, like, just what, like, I shouldn't have eaten that, right?

Like, something.

That's how you know.

It's just completely false.

That's why we were just taking it back.

That's all.

No regrets, dude.

Yeah.

So that's who I am.

I'm Crenor.

You can find me.

Glad we got that out of the way finally.

After multiple episodes, I'm glad we finally got it out of the way.

We did it.

Yeah.

Dude, I got my, I didn't even realize that you had to click in your achievements on Twitch to get your to get your little statue.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Get your purple heart.

So I got it.

You got to get your purple heart, dude.

Yeah, I need to tell people I got my purple heart.

I will say, having a purple heart, it kind of looks nice, but here's the thing.

I don't think it does.

I

this is this is this is the twist here.

It looks nice in comparison to the other two that exist:

the Marvel one and the chrome one.

Having seen them, y'all,

they're they in it.

They're so ugly.

The other like hearts that you can get, yes, the one for 50 million hours watch, the one for like 500 million or whatever it is.

It's oh, yeah, it's they're not

5 million, then jumps to fifty million then jumps to 250 million 250 so bonkers which is they literally made that just for like the top like five people like

and then they're gonna take it and be like what if i threw it off a building

you know they're gonna do that it's the same thing as when youtube was like we're gonna make a

10 million subscriber button for people and it's like okay that's for like six dudes i've never gotten any of my my youtube buttons my youtube

play plaques Let me point you.

No, I don't have that.

You've got your plaque.

No.

I have mine, but in the other room.

Yeah.

You got to get on that.

It makes you feel superior to everyone else.

Honestly, the plaque is cool.

I think the plaque's pretty cool.

It's classy.

The Twitch heart, it's like weird.

It's like they're trying too hard.

They're like, you're bleeding purple, right?

And I'm like, I guess.

I do think, like, I like ours fine.

I think they're fun, but it's definitely easier to figure out where to put something if you can put it on a wall.

Sure.

Immediately, we were like, these are so big.

Where did we get these?

Where did these go?

You know what they should have done?

They should have done a specialized, like,

you know, like a wall hanger or a neon light for people.

Or something to put up in the background.

Yeah, like a big thing, because it is all background stuff.

When you think about it, most of it is what, what are we going to give this person to stick in the background of their video to like

right always remind people that they're superior

yeah they really just let you stay on the platform yeah that's really it i don't know where the else are we gonna go

youtube streaming no thank you never well i have streamed on youtube it's okay same it's uh it's fine yeah i don't want to deal with my i don't think either of you care that much about moderating

kick to do no kick is like,

if you've been banned on another platform, you go to kick.

That's okay.

Yeah, you can tell.

If you want to gamble.

You'll know something's up when Crendor and I are on kick.

Dodger will never go to kick.

It's not going to happen.

Dodger would rather fade into obscurity.

But

Crendor and I, you'll know something.

You'll know we're caught up in some stuff.

If something didn't show up on Tick.

If something shady happened, it's the only place you can go.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We definitely

stole more than candy from babies, but like, there's a reason we're on there.

No.

Yeah.

Just be aware.

Yeah.

No, it's, I mean, really,

you have to do, people always be like, I want to be a streamer, right?

But like, you need to do more than that.

It's like TB always said.

He'd be like, if you don't have at least five sources of income, then you are an imbecile.

And yeah, I remember him saying that.

Actually, he said it more than once.

Not the imbecile part, but show the clip.

Yeah, show the clip.

There.

Jesse, I'm sure you'll find it easy enough.

Yeah, so cool.

Thanks for that one, y'all.

Say it a few times.

Don't worry, I'll just go to my back catalog.

Okay, give me the information that pops up.

TV1 liners.

Yeah, I have a whole dock.

Don't worry.

He told me my arms were two-dimensional.

They're not anymore.

They were back then, however.

He was right.

It was pretty good.

That's almost as good.

Oh, my God.

The best roast I've ever heard in my entire life.

This is like a secondhand.

I heard someone be.

Yeah.

I wasn't present for this roast, but I heard someone was called this, and it might be my favorite roast ever.

No purpose flour.

What?

They even called no purpose flour, and that's really funny to me.

I don't know why.

That's

because there's all purpose.

No purpose.

I don't know.

That's

icy.

Like cooking flour.

I get it.

Okay.

I understand.

And that made me laugh.

I was like, that's a solid roast.

That is a pretty good roast.

Now that I understand the context of the humor impended,

I do find it quite humorous.

It's a pretty good roast.

Did you guys know

that raw flour is like

extremely bad for you?

Hey, how many of those videos did you watch this week, Dodger, that you

the video?

The videos, first off, people are like, make this weird raw flour thing.

And then the video where the girl's like, don't eat raw flour.

Sounds like salmonella, doesn't it?

Yeah, so I always thought the reason that you shouldn't eat like raw cookie dough is because of the eggs.

But it's apparently way worse to have eaten uncooked flour than it is to eat uncooked, like raw eggs.

And I never knew that.

And I feel like more people should know that.

They probably should, yeah.

I feel like most people do.

There's just some people that have been given access to the internet and are stupid.

There's no hope.

And that's not true.

Everyone on the internet's very smart.

We have a show on here we do every week.

I think that's proof the opposite of what you're saying.

I'm still.

You do how many shows?

Does that like extra that I feel like I'm right, whether I'm not?

It doesn't matter.

That's true.

That's why I'm here to keep them in check.

You're just on shows.

Yeah.

If you're just on those shows, people have to believe you.

In fact, half our podcast is Jesse being like this thing.

And I'm like, I don't think you're right.

And then we look into it and he's like, you know what?

I might not be right, but I don't care.

That's my whole life with Sam.

Oh, yeah, I guess that would be true.

That man knows how to triple down on a thing when he knows he's wrong, just to say, I feel like Sam wouldn't even be like, you know what?

Okay, like Sam still thinks he's right,

even if you like, show him everything.

If I, he's like, no, if I can get him to the point where he tries to double down on a thing, but laughs instead.

I've won.

If it's like, it's so ridiculous for him to like insist that he's right about a thing that he laughs about it.

Great.

I did it.

What's an example?

Small victories, I guess.

Small victories.

What's a great example of this?

Oh my gosh.

It hasn't happened recently.

Is he changing?

Let me just, let me, let me just

let me just stress.

I'm stressed.

This

is

salmon dodger

yeah

literally will not make

toasted cheese sandwiches oh

because neither one of them wants to like not even know no no no no no not a toasted cheese sandwich

Toast with cheese on top broiled with with drizzle shit.

I'm not doing it.

Never, ever.

I'll never do it.

Right.

I do like when they brought it up.

We'll not do it either.

So now no one's doing it.

No one gets to eat.

Neither of you will give in to a thing

you both enjoy.

I don't even think.

I didn't eat it.

I never ate it.

I was trying to do a nice thing.

I don't know why you always got to bring this up, but it gets me heated all over again.

I was just trying to do a nice thing and make a nice thing for my husband.

And he was like, what the fuck is this?

And I was like, well,

I'm never going to try that again.

In fact, when I brought it up on the one stream I did with him, I was like, you remember that?

And he was like, oh, yeah.

And I was like, well, she said she never did it again because it was bad.

He's like, yeah, it fucking sucked.

I was like, all right.

We both

still have a lot of feelings about fucking bread with cheese broiled on top.

Also, can I say, I think think that man,

I already thought he was like,

I already thought he was, he's lost his mind, but I think he's like fully off the deep end now.

I remember this was like a month or two ago.

I tuned in and he is like in his pre-chat thing.

He had the chat screen up, whatever.

People are talking and he's like, listen, chat, like,

I don't know, like, nothing in my life is good.

And everyone was like, what do you mean?

You have like a career and a family and like a wife and kid.

He's like, yeah, whatever.

And I was like, this man needs help.

I'm not even joking.

He's that was straight up.

He's like, oh, whatever.

Because I think he was just so focused on his Twitch numbers, which listen, once you've hit that point,

you can't go full Twitch.

Can't do it.

Roll the clip.

Roll it.

Roll the clip.

Somebody roll the clip, please.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

That was when he was streaming League.

I think that was, that was Tilton.

I was about to say, I was about to say, it's all context because

I'm not even lying.

Somebody knew.

They're like, oh, yeah, that was his league stream.

That's exciting.

You are like that when you play league.

You're like, I'm not like that.

Meaning this game.

No, no, no, that's not true.

That's not true.

You're lying.

My opponent's a liar.

I didn't say that.

I never said life had no meaning.

Literally, there's a whole ass animation of you being like, kids, don't play league.

Exactly.

Cocaine, don't do it.

It'll kill you.

That's not me saying life has no meaning.

All right.

That's me saying don't play league.

It's not.

Because when you play league, the meaning of life becomes league.

So there's no meaning.

There's no, there's no no meaning.

Right?

But if the meaning of life is league, and then league is the problem.

League is depressing the shit out of you.

Exactly.

But League is your, it's the same way if you're

a drug addict or whatever.

The drugs become your life.

They've taken over your life.

They are your life.

Yeah.

And just like that, I think both you and Sam realized that it wasn't for you.

You had to get out.

I don't know if Sam's realized that.

Okay, well, you know, I tried.

All I'm saying is you're wrong.

Because you said there's no meaning of life, but the meaning of life becomes the game.

And on top of that, I don't even get mad at life if I'm playing the game.

I get mad at the people in the game, which is the reason that I don't like playing it.

Well, actually, you know what?

I kind of better get mad at yourself for bad plays than to get mad at others who had nothing to do with it.

You're the last person to say that.

You played Heroes of the Storm.

You would blame everybody.

You'd be like, My team is garbage.

I'm playing Asmoday.

And then my team doesn't do anything.

Be like, Jesse, you're like one in 10.

Then you're like, my team.

All right.

See, this is what I mean.

Everything.

This is Cox and Crendor's.

Jesse says a thing.

Don't call me out on it.

Like, that's so rude.

I'm not going to let you get away with it.

It's wrong.

Look, here's the thing.

If I was really pissed at a game and I said, fuck, I hate this game.

I want to die.

My life sucks.

And somebody was like, actually, here's a bunch of stuff that you should be grateful for.

I'd be like, shut the fuck up.

So, exactly.

You know, like, I feel like we've all been there.

Yeah.

I've never done that.

It puts you on edge.

I've never done that.

No, never?

No.

Not that I can remember.

Can somebody roll the clip?

Roll the clip.

Somebody roll the clip.

It's literally just the clip of me going to Dodge's room and yelling at you.

This is the whole game.

You're stupid.

Hey, we roll that clip.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

And so, you know, sometimes play, it was even therapeutic in the league because you'd just like yell at the people in the game where they'd be like, jungler, can you do this?

And I'd be like, no, I got to do this, you dumbass.

And then you'd like go back and forth.

It was like just venting.

Can I ask a question, Crenmore?

Yeah.

We're about to have Arcane season two.

Are you ready for yet another huge influx of new baby players because they love Arcane so much?

Well, two things.

Number one, I haven't even watched Arcane one.

What?

Because Because I just, I don't care.

Number two,

listen, I don't care about all the arcane characters, the human characters or whatever.

In fact, it makes me mad because it reminds me that Riot was like, we're selling Yaswos to the people.

We're selling jinx and Aries and shit.

What happened to the Malfits?

Can't put that shit in the show, so they're not going to do it.

What happened to the dingers?

There's like one Heimer Dinger clip in there where he's like, whoa, whoa.

That's like all I've seen.

That's the only thing that would make me watch the show.

All right.

Dinger is a major character in the show, he's great, yeah.

But, like, that's the one, that's that's what I'm saying.

That's the one thing that'll get me to watch the show, all right?

The dingers,

uh, and like they just stop because now it's just full of like

the champions that don't

they're making champions that sell money, right?

They want people to buy it, they want to like make shows up.

That's why they made Yasuo's brother because everyone banned Yasuo and they're like, uh-oh, make his brother.

Then you got to ban both of them, and then they don't give you like more than one ban.

Or actually, they give you two bans, they might have at this point.

I don't know.

I stopped playing league, actually.

It's been a while.

I don't play league at all, and I love Arcane.

Same.

Well, yeah, because it's that's their audience.

What does that mean?

Their audience is people who don't know anything about league exactly because they want you to play it.

That's the point.

I gotta be real with you.

I think maybe, look, I'm willing to hold in this hand the possibility that you wouldn't like it because it's been built up too much and you'd be like, it was fine, I guess.

But, like, it's legitimately such a good show, dude.

Exactly, because it's made for people that don't like League of Legends.

This is my third point.

People that like League of Legends love the show.

They're going to watch it no matter what because they're like, it's a League of Legends show.

I got to watch it.

It's like people who watch the shitty ass video game movies and they suck ass.

They're like, well, that sucked ass, but I like the game, so I'm going to watch the movie.

Worse to argue with than Sam somehow.

I'm not even making it.

This is an actual argument I think I believe in.

I think I believe in.

This is one of those few times I think I maybe believe what I'm saying.

The thing is, okay, I know it's a good show.

Everybody's saying it's a good show.

I'm not saying it's bad.

I'm just saying a lot of the times these video game shows suck ass.

It just so happened they made a good one, but people that play League of Legends are going to watch it no matter what.

It's like people who watch the World of Warcraft movie.

So, you're saying because I don't like those shows,

you're saying you just don't, you just don't know who to believe because you can't do that.

No, he's saying he doesn't trust you can't trust league people because they'll love it regardless because it's league, and you can't trust people who don't like league because they won't have the lore knowledge to be able to make an informed decision about whether or not they did the story justice.

No,

no,

what I'm saying is they made a League of Legends piece of media, much like many other video games have made media based on the thing, because they're like, people are going to watch this because it's got a thing on it that says League of Legends.

The same way if they made a movie called, like, for example, a World of Warcraft movie,

I would not have seen that movie if it was World of Warcraft.

But that was a thing where I'm like, you know what?

I got to see the World of Warcraft movie.

And guess what?

I thought it was mediocre and I'd never watched it again.

But I watched it because it was World of Warcraft, the same way some people watch this because it's League of Legends.

But it just so happened that this is a good show.

So they're like, wow, I like League of Legends and I watch it.

This is a good show.

Yes.

Wouldn't you agree that most people that watched the WoW movie thought it was mediocre?

Exactly.

So then, if most people that watched Arcane think it's good,

maybe

you'd think it's good.

You would think that.

But I'm not most people.

Because now.

I'm going to save you here really quick.

I'm going to save you.

Having known Crendor, I'm going to say too long.

I can get through the gunk, the Kren swamp.

I can get through the Kren swamp of this discussion and let you know.

Crendor does not and never will give a damn about the story in anything.

He plays league because he can like shoot Heimerdingers at people.

He doesn't care who Heimerdinger is.

He doesn't want to know who Heimerdinger is.

It's just a man who's a little furry boy who has like stuff.

And Crendor will never need to or never want to know any of the backstory for any of that because he exists in a world where none of that's important.

So what he's trying to say is, I don't want to watch that show because I don't want to give it my time because I don't care.

And he's just talking around that.

I'm fine with that.

That's fine.

We don't want to watch it.

Yeah, it's more.

I don't want to watch it because I know I wouldn't care.

It's the same way where, like, I really don't.

I played Diablo 4 recently, skipped every cutscene.

Every single one.

When I played WoW, skipped every single cutscene.

And actually, you know what?

I gotta watch Summo 1.

It was like one of the in-game ones.

Like, I just don't care.

They could have been like, the story is like a clown came down and like started dancing and he caused the rainstorm.

I'd be like, sick, dude.

Skip.

Someone in chat said, but he's into Warhammer.

Chat, he is not into the lore of Warhammer.

Oh, yeah, I'm not into the list.

He's like, yo, I like this rat because it has armor and a gun.

I also love the rat because he looks funny.

I also just made like the RNG aspect of rolling 10,000 dice in Warhammer too.

That's really.

For those who are curious, this is his description.

This is real.

This happened.

I don't remember if it happened on this podcast or on Cox and and Crendor, but this happened.

I said, Crendor, Tasha, what the hell is what the hell is going on?

Just keep talking.

You know what?

This one's for the VOD, I guess.

So,

Crendor,

when asked about World of Warcraft and what he enjoyed from the new expansion, his answer was, and I quote,

I got to the second zone and I saw a lizard.

And I like, look at that lizard for 20 minutes.

That was a cool lizard, man.

what that's what this man said to me that was his selling point on world of war i was like

he's like it was a cool lizard yeah like a weird face

a lot of cool stuff

yep roll the clip roll the clip roll the roll the clip

um listen like yeah my thing is i enjoy exploring in games i i enjoy the the art and the atmosphere and the music and like everything like that's what i enjoy but like the story to me like i don't hate story it's just it's a thing that's there so like i like when i play when i play warhammer i'm like dude i love warhammer i love playing the rats i love playing lizard men i love whatever and people be like did you know the frog is like one of the oldest wizards in all of space and time and like he transcends the universe i'm like oh that's pretty sick anyway

i'm gonna use him to cast my endless spells which are called manifestations i've i you know what things are starting to click into place this is why crendor was perfectly happy with killing off every NPC in Baldur's Gate.

Oh, exactly.

Yep.

Who cares about it?

Because he doesn't give a shit

about what was going on with them.

Who cares?

Yeah,

that's it.

Because it's

the story of that game, which is why I loved it, is it's you're creating the story.

So like, why do I need some characters?

They're going to tell me their story.

Like, it's not their story.

It's my story.

Sure.

That's why.

Bring in.

They could be part of your story.

well guess who's part of my story now random has ghost people have been summoned by the the dead dude nice they're mercenaries and you know what they got their own story now now they're they have a story that's been created through our playthrough of the game

exactly

yep exactly yep

We played Baldur game.

We did.

We started our goblin run, dude.

Yeah.

In fact, I loved how much Jesse was trying to get the story.

Like, Jesse's the complete option.

I saw the NPC alive.

I'm sorry.

We did.

We didn't kill everybody.

Well, that's because that's because the one, look, Cretan and I were talking about this.

I genuinely thought that we had died and wiped because we were like, if we wipe, that's it.

We're done.

But then they threw us in prison.

I've never seen that before.

I didn't know that was an option.

That was pretty impressive.

I didn't either.

And I think it even happened to me, and I still didn't know.

Yeah.

And then we escaped, and our goblin adventures continued.

Yeah.

No, it's

I just loved how you were just like, we need to go here because the story thing.

I'm like, that's not the point.

The point is we're playing together and forming our own story.

And you're just like, the story.

Oh, I was like, I just want to see how you'd react to it.

I wasn't trying to get the story to happen.

I was trying to get moments where I could see what you guys would do in cutscenes.

That's all I wanted.

You want us to react to the story, though.

That's what you wanted.

Yeah, because I knew you'd do goofy things like when you talked to the guy that was, you were trying to get the ogre to join us, and I was like, this is pretty funny.

Or when Astarian was like grabbing your guy and you were like, this guy's trying to joke me.

Oh,

my God.

The Astarian thing was so funny because on my screen, he started to walk away.

I went to talk to him and he went, oh, hello, and then immediately died.

so funny i was just roll the clip roll the clip roll the clip yeah the best part is that it was just like the timing could not have been better we're standing over his naked body and it's like

immediately raided by the voice actor very funny very good

good times

oh yeah that's right he did raid you yeah neil showed up and it was an awkward moment to be had by all

didn't mean to kill your character dynam was fine he was fine.

Yeah, he was just in our way.

He threatened Crendor.

He just needs a little drinky poo and then he'll be fine.

Yeah.

He's okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So

we did somehow live.

So that was impressive.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Even though we haven't, I don't think, upgraded anything

at all.

No.

The one guy that we could have bought some upgrades from

died.

Question mark?

Died mysteriously.

Died under mysterious circumstances.

Yeah.

And then a bunch of other people in that town died mysteriously.

Yeah.

And then we woke up in prison, which was, I don't know how that happened.

Well, we killed a few more people to get out.

But we did get out, so that's pretty good.

Yeah.

We did get out.

We did get out.

Yeah.

We did get out.

We escaped with our fellow Gabbo.

Yep.

Good job of us.

Now that I realize you haven't completed Act One, I really want to do that with you, Dodger.

You have no clue.

I think it would be really fun for us to keep playing as gobbos.

Yeah, I can't believe you didn't complete act one.

That's wild.

Nope.

I'm jealous of the experience you're going to get to have.

To be fair, I think Dodger is the most goblin so far in the playthrough.

Yeah, like you fully embraced the goblin.

Like Jesse, he's still like part Jesse in there.

That's why he keeps being like,

but like you're not fully embracing the goblin roleplay.

Because if you're a goblin, you'd be like, Yes, kill them,

right?

No, yeah, just

no.

If I was a goblin, I'd be like, That goblin.

Look, we haven't gotten there yet.

There's a goblin in the goblin hideout.

That when you go talk to them, all they do is they ask you, they go, tribe,

and then you can just say back tribe, and they go, tribe.

That's it.

That's all they say.

That's that's the goblin I am.

Yeah, like tribe.

That's it.

Tribe.

Tribe.

Tribe.

Tribe.

Yeah.

Tribe.

I think the funniest part so far has been,

for those of you who haven't played Baldur's Gate 3, like really early, we honestly did not get that far because we were goblining too hard.

Yeah.

Really early on in the game, you come across like a group of people like who have like fortified an area with a big gate and they're being attacked by goblins.

And we had a mod on that made us into goblins, right?

So we showed up, and the game automatically put us on the side of the not goblins because

you can't be a goblin in the normal game, right?

And then once the goblins all were defeated, they were like, quickly inside.

And we were like, us?

Okay.

And then

we acted in.

We walked inside, I think.

Yeah, we walked, they let us in, those fools, and then we murdered people in the town.

We were like, I don't know why you let us in here.

Why'd you invite us in?

You knew what was going to happen.

It's very fun.

That was very fun.

Honestly, I like that it gives us wargs as well.

I think that really does add the...

I think that's awesome.

Yeah.

It's a nice little, it kind of makes up for not having any other characters help us.

The wargs are our friends.

True.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't have time for fast-talking wizard boys or

vampires.

I don't know.

Yep.

Well, I mean, we didn't even talk to Gail.

Gail, we left in a portal and we didn't even acknowledge.

Yeah, because who the fuck is going to be touching all that shit?

Not me.

Yeah.

Yeah, that shit's scary.

Jesse.

Yeah.

We left Lizelle in a cage.

We didn't even go go that direction.

So you could tell

it's like tearing at Jesse's soul, not like getting these story points.

He's like,

we couldn't.

We have to get this star.

We need a fourth.

Look, I don't care who we get.

We need a fourth person.

We can't not have.

You just want to see if we can have a goblin sex scene with her.

That's not even the point.

Obviously, yes, but it's not.

We need the fourth person.

We don't need him.

I mean, like,

but the sex scene.

the sex

let me just stress to everyone while playing as a goblin the very first time we see our character we're you know you know in the beginning you're in the sarcophagus and you're like this and you like oh and you try to get out

and this is the goblin you're already halfway through it standing like the game for whatever reason we can't lay down There's no like animation of us like anything other than mostly upright.

So any scene where we're supposed to be like slightly laying down, it's just standing up.

Scene where Starian grabs you and holds your neck, it was him holding nothing.

And Crendor's character was like, Hey, get off of me, but he's like, Nowhere near it.

All I want to see is the programming for the sex scene.

It's going to be hilarious.

I can't even imagine what that looks like.

It's going to be pure, pure joy is all I can see.

That's fair enough.

Yeah.

Very excited.

Yeah.

I was going to bring up something completely unrelated.

Yeah, do it.

What's up?

So

I was watching people at TwitchCon.

And I realized

how much I feel like we've outgrown conventions.

It's just like...

I'm not going to do it by this.

Because like we used to go to a bunch of conventions back in like our 20s.

And it's like,

I feel feel like I've hit the point where I like conventions somewhat now for like the aesthetic and kind of being like, it's pretty cool.

But like, there's still,

it feels like now they're just,

I don't know.

It's like people go to conventions just to go to parties and like connect.

Are you talking about you?

What?

Like, is it just a you thing

feel?

Yes, and I'm just seeing if you agree.

That's why, why else would I bring this up?

Be like, I'm going to bring this up.

Don't give me any opinions.

I think a couple things to consider is

we at this point maybe have burnt out on them, that they're still really fun and novel and exciting to people who haven't had the opportunities to go to a shit ton of them like we have.

But yeah, it's, I would, I would agree that it's more difficult for me to go to them now, that I find them more exhausting now, for sure.

But I

feel more FOMO, not in wishing that I was there to like see everything that's on the floor and all of that, but more like they used to be a really good, convenient way to see a bunch of people that I never get to see, you know?

So I do miss that.

How do you feel, Jesse?

Thank you for inviting me to this conversation.

Yes, you're welcome.

I

feel

that the world of conventions, while no longer what it once was,

it's still a great place to meet old friends,

see fans, experience the finest in video game entertainment, and more importantly,

sell out to anyone who's willing to spend the money on me to come see their booth.

This is like E3.

If you pay me, I will.

I'll come to your booth and be like, wow, what a great game.

It can be anything.

I don't care.

Boy.

I think out of the three of us, Jesse, you're the one that has continued to consistently go to them and still goes to them.

Do you feel like?

Yeah, no,

I'm joking when I no one, no one pays me.

I wish they did, but ain't nobody paying me.

This is some bullshit.

Um, Jesse made it on the convention.

Yeah,

yeah.

I was gonna ask if you feel like there's a difference,

like

better or worse, in

quality of like what there is to do at conventions.

So, here's the thing: I think

the Summer Game Fest Playdays is amazing.

It's my favorite one.

It's basically like baby E3, and that it's very small, but like every game is there.

Nice.

Huge fan of that one.

Love it.

Well, I mean, this is fun.

Is that a fun?

This is a fire alarm.

Are you going to need to leave?

No.

Are you sure?

Positive.

Okay.

Hi, everyone.

Jessica's here.

So I was going to message Dodger earlier this week

about how I got a message on Monday saying that there'd be fire alarm testing Friday in the morning and how I'd have to do the podcast from home.

Except my ADHD kicked in.

I forgot to message her and then also forgot.

And I also forgot that it would be happening.

And so here we are.

Here we are.

I mean, the test is pretty much done.

It works.

I think the test is over.

All right.

They did it.

That was quick.

Look at this.

Normally, when there's like a fire alarm test, they're like, and now we're also going to test how everyone is going to exit the building.

So that's why I was like, do you have to go?

Oh, I feel so dumb.

Yeah.

Well, that's my life.

What are we talking about?

Conventions.

So you were listing off like, you had listed off game days as like a convention that you really love.

Right.

So Play Days is great.

Very fun.

Here's the difference.

That is.

A limited amount of people.

It is

very like

you're in, you're playing the games, you're moving from one thing to the next, the next, the next, the next.

Uh, to show you how small it is, there's an open, there's like an open drinks area,

and then you know, like, that's how small we're talking, like, this is this is pretty chill.

Yeah, that's very fun.

PAX is still very fun, but the problem with PAX is it has like a lot of uh

I don't know, it like keeps getting

like there's less and less games there.

Does that make any sense?

Like,

it is, it is less and

co-opted.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, I guess the only reason I can think of go to PAX is if you want to see, like, a cool panel or you want to, like, I don't know,

but vendor-wise, they're not vendor, but exhibitor-wise, it gets less and less gamey every year.

It's more like Comic-Con-y.

Yeah, yeah.

But I mean, that's why I don't like TwitchCon or any, or going to Comic-Con's, they're just too big, or Gamescom's, too big.

But it's each, what I'm trying to get to, the point is each one's different and so i can say i love some of them but i would not go to twitch con again like twitch con every time i go i convince myself it's going to be different and every time it's like 85 booths of lighting and makeup and credit cards and then maybe two or three booths that are video games and none of it really speaks to me as being fun to look at and see and most of it is performative you see a lot of people going around with like the crew and everyone's filming and they're all like, we're live from TwitchCon.

And it's like a lot and it's just not my scene.

Like it isn't the last TwitchCon I went to, I witnessed three separate fights.

All being recorded.

I was like,

nah.

And I heard that stuff went down at this TwitchCon because people from Kik showed up trying to like start stuff.

And I was like, that's hilarious.

Why?

Classic?

I was like, classic gig.

Yeah.

And so I just don't, I just don't like TwitchCon just because it's not, it skews young.

It feels like going to VidCon.

Anyone who's been around knows that VidCon is like...

Oh my God, I haven't thought about VidCon in years.

VidCon's like 14-year-old girl screaming, and it's not our scene, that's for sure.

No.

Yeah.

Yeah,

I think that's part of it too.

I think a lot of conventions now have a bunch of people streaming them too.

And there's this weird like,

no matter where you are in the convention, it's like there's somebody that's going to be streaming it and you're gonna be like oh I picked my nose They're like dude, there he is in the background picking his nose

Somebody picked their nose in that clip clip it put it on live stream channels Yeah, clip it

Yes and that even happened at like I remember the last BlizzCon we went it was like 2019 There was like people live streaming it and I would just see them like stream and walk around like and I was like I'm gonna go the other way

It was just like but also admittedly

Dodger, you live on the other side of the world.

You have a lovely family and you have like a life outside of twitch crendor you don't do anything so the fact that the two of you are like it's really hard to go to conventions i'm like yeah because you both grew up not me

i i'm going to the grave being a goofy goober

so so i love conventions i love going to them i love seeing people that's why i love doing live shows i i suck up your energy that's how i continue to live it's true he does feed off the energy he does 100

i am an energy vampire.

I'm sucking you up.

Yeah.

Okay.

Then how about this for a question, Jessup?

Yeah.

If you, if somebody came to you and was like, I want to go to a convention, but I'm not sure which ones are the most attendee friendly.

So like, I think we could agree, like, TwitchCon is more for streamers than it is for stream viewers, right?

Yes.

What would you say would be your like top two, top three?

Like what conventions would be best for an attendee?

Somebody who isn't going to get any sort of special treatment or you know just going to experience it

for attendees specifically.

I think MAGFest has a lot to offer.

MagFest every year has a lot of like great music venue things.

At night, that place is crazy.

And I think during the day, although admittedly, most people do not wake up during the day.

They're up all night at like concerts and stuff.

But yeah, MAGFest is fun.

Dragon Con, I think, is incredibly fun.

DragonCon is so fun, dude.

So much to do with DragonCon.

Absolutely think that's a winner.

I think if you're

a

like,

even though I hate to give them credit on this, because I...

When I go, I always do not engage that much, but I definitely feel that if you're a Blizzard fan, BlizzCon is a lot of fun.

It is a thing that, you know, you're not like

us where we've been in the ecosystem and we've like seen how sausage gets made.

If you're just a fan, BlizzCon is incredibly fun for fans.

And so I'll give them that credit for sure.

But yeah, if you're like on the other end of that and you know how cons run, you're like,

but

yeah.

I think BlizzCon is a great con for Blizzard fans for sure.

Just like I would imagine Tenocon is a great convention as well.

Or, you know, whatever the Quake one was.

The very, the like hyper-specific cons, if you're a fan, it's probably

like Adepticon.

Organ state catered to.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's a bunch of people in chat who have never heard of DragonCon before.

DragonCon is buck wild.

It is absolutely massive.

It is in America.

But the thing that makes DragonCon really interesting is it doesn't cater to a specific genre of like nerdiness, it's just everything.

So, like, Jesse and I, when we went, we we went to a bunch of like paranormal panels where people were talking about ghosts and shit.

So, like, like, there's so much like just any, anybody who has something to nerd out about, they'll have a panel and you can go watch it.

They have, they have different tracks.

So, it isn't just like, this is the cosplay, or this is the gaming, or this is the sci-fi, whatever.

They have, you can see lists of things It's like well this building because again dragon codes huge There's like different hotels that host different panels and Each hotel has like a different track of things where if you just want to go and see paranormal panels all day you can and that's when Dodger and I were waiting to go do our video game panel We were like, let's go see the paranormal ones That was the best couple hours of my life.

That was some of the funniest things I've ever I'll never I'll go to my grave knowing that this woman was telling a story about like

ghosts.

And they were like, well, how did she die?

She's like, she was decapitated.

And then the host said, okay, well, that's it.

And then everyone got up and left.

And we're like, that was the note that it ended on was a lady telling a really long story

and then being asked for a specific detail about how this person she told a story about died.

And she was like, oh, she was decapitated.

And then we just all had to leave.

Like, there was no closure.

It was one of the craziest things.

I couldn't believe.

That's like every Cox and Crendor news story.

It'll be like, this man threw peanut butter at a house and he got arrested and shouted like 2050.

And we'll be like, wait, what?

And they're like, that's it.

And we're like, what?

There's no, there's no answers.

We, we went to a panel that was literally three people.

pitching their ideas for a TV show and then playing the episode of the TV show where it was like, welcome down to spooky Louisiana or whatever.

It's like, we're going to to go see all the haunted places in y'all.

And it was, imagine the three most stereotypical ghost hunters you can think of.

And it was just them.

It was so funny.

We were sitting there and the whole, I couldn't believe what this, it was literally just, we're trying to pitch you our TV show.

That was the whole thing.

And I've never seen that TV show clearly didn't make it.

So we had to see the one and only episode of a TV show that they were definitely hoping would be a thing.

And it was great.

I've also never, I think we we talked about this before, but I have never seen a panel like that before.

Before that or since then, of people being like, Yeah, we got a panel slot here to pitch you our idea for a show.

We're just going to play you an hour episode for a while.

We're going to play you a pilot episode.

Yeah.

I loved it.

It was so much fun.

Again, that is, it's so purely a

like fan-based convention that that you can find something to do the entire time and that's why when you said fan-based that's what I was thinking like oh mag fest is like

constant party dragon con there's something for everyone like those kinds of things I think is very uh fan-friendly like the problem I think with PAX is that a lot of it's driven by creators I don't know how their ecosystem became so lopsided but like every panel is essentially your favorite streamer is coming

so yeah you should come too and it's like all right but then it sort of deludes the overall, like, what the vibe of the convention is because everyone's just there for their one person or two people.

And then no one interacts anymore.

No one like hangs out and vibes.

It's kind of like, I went and saw the panel and now I'm going to go home.

And it's like, oh, okay, cool.

Yeah.

I would say, in fact, I think most reasons like people go to panels is to just hang out with their, or not panel, but conventions was to hang out with their friends.

Sure.

And I think it's still like that.

That's why I do it.

I know a lot of people that are like, no, I didn't get a ticket to go in, but so many of my friends are going to be there that I'm just going to get a ticket and not a ticket, but like get a plane ticket and then just hang out with people the whole time.

Yeah.

You know, like,

I mean, even thinking back on all the conventions I've been to, and most of my memories are just.

of interactions with other people.

It's never like, man, I played this game there and it was amazing or like, I went to this panel.

It's always just like hanging out with somebody.

Yeah, it isn't, it isn't the convention.

It's at 2 a.m.

stumbling into a Little Woody's and having the best chicken sandwich of your life because you've never been drunker.

And then telling your friend Dodger about that chicken sandwich from Little Woody's, and then discovering that chicken sandwich from Little Woody's doesn't exist.

And you have to wonder where the hell you got that chicken sandwich from.

And things start getting weird.

That's a story.

That's good times.

Yeah, more like when you go to a Whataburger and then you're so drunk that you go sit down and then they come up to jesse and go you forgot your wallet and he's like oh

it was the nicest whataburger people i've ever you know what they gave my wallet they did the same thing it was great yeah but but with that said and somebody showed up outside the window when you were sitting with your wallet and they were like it's just gox he grinned

Say right

also with PAC South and PAX South slapped.

PAC South was probably the best PAX, yeah.

It was the best one.

It was, it It was the chillest.

It was the most fun.

Plus, San Antonio, we had a lot of fun finding random restaurants in that city that were like delicious.

It was a blast.

And then they shut it down, ripped.

You know, man.

That sucked.

I remember at Pac South,

I was talking to some

game developer there, and then some guys came over and like,

they were, I was here, developer here, person walks up in between us like this.

and we looked and we're like hello and he said

are you crendor and i said yeah and he goes do you know where dodger is

and i'm not gonna lie i didn't know where dodger was but i was like oh yeah i think i saw her over there so i just like sent him on a random direction That's funny because I have similar stories too.

One time at PAX, I was having a conversation.

I think it was with Octo at the time.

And we're by a trash can, and a man walks up to us and says, Hey, are you Jesse Cox?

And I'm like, Yeah, he's like, Do you know where Dodger is?

And I was like, No, I don't.

And he's like, Here.

And he took off his shirt and he gave it to me.

He's like, Give this to her.

And then walked away.

We threw the shirt in the trash, mind you, but it was always forget this story.

The man took off his shirt and was like, Give this to her.

So

a lot of people looking for that.

Everyone one for being chill

it was never like anybody that was just like hey what's up man like how's it going like is dodger around there it was always just really weird it's always the the amount of times in my life i've had people this is not even a joke i could this is what i was like for every nickel i had i would have money people constantly are like hey jesse question for you i'm like what's up like Do you know where Dodger is?

I'm like, oh,

no, I don't.

Like, all right, cool.

One, my favorite one.

Oh, my God.

My favorite one is One Time Dodger.

You were right next to me.

Yeah.

And this dude was like, hey, Dodger at his health.

And I was like, no, I don't know.

And you were like standing right there.

It was amazing.

It was amazing.

Oh, my God.

That reminds me of we went to, I don't even remember what it was.

It might have been like Fogo.

It was a JP thing.

JP was like, come wherever.

So we went there and we had, there's a family that came up to us.

You know what I mean?

I just just love, sometimes when you're telling stories, you leave out, you decide to leave out details that like people want.

It makes me laugh.

Anyway, we were going, well, it doesn't matter.

So anyway, this guy came over.

Yeah, it doesn't matter.

A family came up to us.

All right.

It was a, JP invited people to go out to eat.

All right, there you go.

So we were there.

It was like me and Jesse were sitting next to each other and this family came up and they were like, wait, are you, you're Crendor from Cox and Crendor.

And I was like, yeah.

And they're like, oh my God, this is awesome.

And they took a picture and Jesse was right there.

And they're like, all right, bye.

The best was the name call out too.

They're like, from Cox and Crendor.

And I'm like, they knew.

Oh, never mind.

Nope, they don't care.

They didn't acknowledge you one bit.

I mean, I think sometimes this happens because

Like

occasionally we travel in little packs, you know, we just we just walk around as, as like a little group of friendos and a person will come over and be like, holy shit, you're so-and-so.

And we've done this enough times that the rest of us will sort of like hang back and be like, oh, we'll let them have a moment, chat with this person, whatever, you know?

And so then when

there's a follow-up of like, hey, I'm also looking for this person, but the person that they're looking for is like over the shoulder of the person they're talking to.

There's something kind of funny about that.

But at the same time,

we did step back, right?

We did try to give you some space.

So it's, you know.

It's just normally, 99% of the time, it's usually people are like, it's Jesse.

And then they look over and they're like, and you're Crendor.

But this time it was just, you're Crendor.

I think Jesse's very recognizable.

Yeah, I always saw Jesse.

I was like Jesse first.

Jesse is like a lighthouse beacon of social activity.

Like he's just like,

he's just constantly shining the light and people are just like, oh, Jesse Cox.

You know,

you think it would work in my favor, but it also lures everyone ever on the street.

Like,

no matter what.

In the last week, to give you an example, I have had four dudes come up to me and ask for cash.

Why me?

No clue.

I was at a grocery store and a kid was like, kept looking at me.

This like little baby kid kept looking at me.

And I'd smile at this kid.

This kid would make like the cutest noise.

So I keep smiling.

And the mom looked at me and was like, please don't do that

I have I was at

I had like

a couple in the parking lot of the grocery store

just talking to me about

I like I think it was my shoes I don't know what the hell was going on it was this was like Monday and that is

People just come up to me and talk to me.

And I don't know why.

I don't know.

I want to be the threatening.

I want people to be threatened by my presence.

They see me and they get like

scared.

Apparently, not.

Like I was saying, when I was in London, a random dude came up to you.

He's like, sir, sir, why me?

What about me?

Or people are like, well, he's not threatening at all.

He's, you know what?

If anyone is not going to attack us, it's this guy.

Yeah, Dodger,

have you heard the Take the Sock story?

No.

So I talked about this on Cox and Credor.

It became a massive, massive,

massive whatever.

So

I think people talk about it.

Dodger is absolutely right.

When you start to tell a story, you go one direction, stop,

and then just.

He halts.

And when I'm like, finish the thought.

He's like, we don't even know that is story.

I knew that the situation that you were in with JP was a food situation.

Right.

But not everybody was.

I figured it out.

So

I'm in the grocery store.

Yes.

Yep.

I'm in the grocery store.

Okay.

Walking down a random aisle.

And this like 10-year-old kid runs up.

And he's like,

hey, what's your name?

And I was like,

why?

And then he's like.

Take the sock, take the sock, take the sock.

And he just looks at me and I was like, what?

And he's like, take the sock, take the sock.

And I was like, I don't know what you're saying.

And he's like, you don't know what I'm saying?

And I was like, no.

And then he paused and then he ran away.

And so initially I was like, am I on TikTok?

Am I getting cranked?

Yeah.

Am I going insane?

Is this like a leprechaun?

Take the sock.

Found me.

We could not find him.

I was like, what does it mean?

Take the sock.

And I assume he wasn't handing you a sock.

No, he was not.

That's because I would have been like, yeah, that makes sense.

Or I was like, maybe there's like some TikTok thing where you have to take your sock off.

I don't know.

I don't know the current things.

All right.

So anyway,

I was like, okay, I brought up on Cox and Crendor and we were like, yeah, we can't find it.

But then

some listener was like, I think it's from this.

And then we click it.

And it's this TikTok of this guy who's like going up to random people and he goes, what's your name?

And they're like, Jerry.

And he's like,

take the shot.

Take the shot.

And and then the guy's like oh shit and he like starts running and then the guy's like ha ha and it plays some like stock footage laugh of like

and he does that like 20 times it's the most fake shit you've ever seen it's clearly like extremely staged but like I was like that's it so the kid tried to do that where he was like take the shot take the shot but then he didn't go like

or like he didn't he didn't act into it he just he didn't know how to commit yeah and so I think once a grocery store so like where was the assassin at

on the the cereal boxes cereal yeah yeah so i was like okay and like i think he didn't expect he expected me to be like oh no and run away but i was like dude i don't know and he's just like i gotta get out of here this right away that was it and i was like

that's i think should be the number one indicator that most of those things you see on the internet are fake Like most people don't have the patience for like, take the shot.

I'll be like, what?

Huh?

Dude, what are you doing?

What do you mean?

What are you doing right now?

Yeah, so it's

again, the constant access to brain rot.

It's an issue.

It is.

Speaking of brain rot, I don't, this is a weird segue.

Crendor,

you're the one person I need to know your take on this.

Great.

Nintendo's Alarmo.

Yes.

I don't even know what that is.

Oh.

Nintendo announced that they're releasing an alarm called Alarmo

that you literally use to wake up in the morning, but it senses and detects you so that when you move around in bed, it plays noises like, yo,

it will make noises to get you out of bed.

It's dumb.

I thought for sure you of all people would be the one who's like, yo, that's awesome.

I got to get an alarmo.

No, I don't like this.

I bet there have been people making videos like trying to, trying to guess which sounds would be the like, you got to get the fuck out of bed sounds, like sounds from games that give us a visceral reaction of like, you know, like the like the drowning noise from Mario or something, you know.

I just, I don't want to be woken up like that either.

I don't want it to be like shocking me awake by being like, look at me, like coin collecting noises and shit.

Like, I just want to say that.

Maybe you can decide, like, I want specifically Zelda noises.

And then it's like nice noises.

And then it's probably

on your phone.

You probably just get that on your phone.

So it's like, who are they?

It is interesting.

I was thinking the same thing when I saw the video for it.

I was like, all this can just be, you can program your phone to make you wake up to Mario noises.

Like, you can, you can do that.

But there's like a billion dollars.

I don't know

Probably do you think we said that it would annoy you until you're out of bed?

Yeah, I would say that if you had the Zelda one, that when you when you get up and like you know, you go from like being prone to like sitting up, it does that do do do do do do, you know, like that list that treasure chest sound.

Yeah, that's gotta be the winner.

That'd be fun for like two days, and then you'd be like, whatever.

It does seem like it's it's targeting kids, but at the same time, 99 bucks is too much for a kid's thing.

Like an alarm clock for a kid, nah, that's going to get destroyed.

Oh, yeah.

Apparently, it's 99 bucks, people are saying.

So that also

100 bucks for one of those price for an alarm clock.

Yeah, especially an alarm clock that doesn't like

do anything.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Besides being alarm clock, like it doesn't, it isn't like it's a one of those Google Alexa things where you can actually talk to it.

If I could be like, Alarmo,

what's the weather like today?

And Alarmo was like, hey, it's going to be a so-called wear the jacket.

I would love that.

Then I'd be like, all right, that's cool.

Hold on.

It's got the how does it work?

Before the alarm, a character from the title you selected waits patiently on the screen.

Okay.

Alarm begins.

Gentle sounds unique to the scene you've chosen begin to play.

A visitor arrives.

After a few seconds, someone or something from the scene you picked will appear.

Wave your hand or move your body to make the clock quieter.

Depending on the title you've chosen, you might also hear coins or other familiar game sounds when you interact with Alarmo.

A brief snooze.

Eventually, your visit will end and gentle sounds will play again until your visitor

returns.

This will repeat a number of times if you stay in bed.

If you stay in bed too long, oh shit.

Your alarm will get more intense and you'll get a visit from someone more persuasive, which is Bowser's on the screen.

He's like, listen, man, I'm going to beat you up, little bitch.

You're going to get up.

And then it says, you did it.

When you get all the way out of bed, your alarm will stop and you'll be treated to a brief victory fanfare.

Hurrah.

Amazing.

I need a whole YouTube series, or maybe just a podcast, but maybe ASMR of Crendor reading

Japanese to English copy for products.

That's good.

That was amazing.

That was,

I don't know what the hell it was to do, but I loved it.

This is literally Nintendo.com.

It's not even a Japanese translation.

I'm just saying, it feels like some of those lines of dialogue were like directly just like snooze yourself for morning.

I was like, what?

Huh?

What else do we have in the news this week?

Oh, are we doing news?

Oh, let's do it.

Oh, well.

Oh, news.

Hey, everyone.

If you want to feel old,

this week, Alien Isolation celebrated 10 years.

So that's the whole thing.

And as part of the 10-year anniversary, they announced they're making a sequel.

So

that sounds exciting.

And hopefully with less Android sections.

Silent Hill 2

has been getting great reviews.

Which, you know, somehow people are still mad about.

I guess it's one of those things where

it's, it's,

I don't know.

Is it the internet?

I don't, what's the deal?

Do people just like love to hit on Bloomberg Team?

Is that the vibe?

What's going on with that internet?

What's the

why, why, why do people not want Silent Hill 2 to be good?

I don't know.

I don't know either.

I don't know either.

I don't know.

But

either way, people were talking shit on it and then it became good.

And then

Silent Hill 2's original director mentioned that he was like super proud of it.

And so I don't know.

I don't know what's going on there, but

people seem to not be happy with Silent Hill 2 despite it getting the interviews.

People are never happy.

Yeah.

I mean, just people are like,

man, the internet has gotten so much more toxic.

It really hasn't.

It's just there's more people on it.

So there's more toxic people.

And

I know that because I went back and I read my YouTube comments from 14 years years ago.

And I'm going to tell you right now, they're just as bad.

Same.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I have two videos of just YouTube comment reading.

In fact, let me just bring one up right now.

Let me give you something.

Let's go to the clip.

Let's go to the clip.

Roll the clip.

Yeah, roll the clip.

All right, here we go.

Really sad, just sad, Lamau, I do love how you are complaining about an explansion.

have much more that is preceded by the largest major content patch of the game and changing well pretty much everything, but okay.

Then we have

stopped after 50 seconds.

What a waste of 50 seconds.

How much time did you waste doing this?

Get a life, Muppet.

Yo, you've been called a Muppet.

It's a pretty good

Muppet.

That's pretty good.

Honestly, that is pretty good.

That's pretty good.

I don't see the point of saying that each expansion makes the game worse.

With each expansion, more and more are joining to play the game.

Bud, you have to smarten up i have an 80 night elf rogue and your video was a fail

oh my god i love bud you have to smarten up

come over here let me hold your hand when i say the angriest canadian bud you have to smarten up

your first

Your first videos were more awesome.

I'm afraid to say you've peaked.

There it is.

You've peaked.

I peaked 13 years ago, dude.

That was it.

You peaked.

I peaked 13 years.

It's been all downhill since then.

Damn.

You peaked.

I mean, same, right?

Yeah.

So, again, these are this is 13, 14 years ago, all right?

So, all I'm saying is, people have always been toxic on the internet.

Again, it's just there's more of them, so you're getting more of it, and people have more access to it, so it's more constant, and there's more platforms for them to be toxic on.

So, it's just

people suck.

Yep, yep.

Speaking of sucking and

a little like segue from Silent Hill 2.

I saw in chat people mention Konami because of Silent Hill 2.

Maybe that's a reason to hate it.

But hey, speaking of Konami,

have you ever wondered what happened with FIFA after EA and FIFA split?

It looks like the next FIFA game is coming out via Konami.

Oh, interesting.

Let that sink in.

Yep.

FIFA and Konami are joining forces to make a new fifa game so that's a whole thing hot dog yes halo

is getting a full-on rebrand with multiple games coming on unreal engine 5 and while hey that may be good news who knows uh 343 lost a lot of big names from their franchise history uh bonnie ross left uh frank o'connor the franchise director left

massive layoffs happened in microsoft's gaming division You know, who knows what this is actually going to mean, really?

Maybe people will step up and we'll get something good, but I'll believe it when I see it.

We'll see what we'll see what happens with

Halo.

But I remember being very excited as a youngin' for Halo 3.

It was the coolest thing.

I was so hyped for that.

It was a great game.

And then I haven't enjoyed a Halo release since.

So that's maybe,

yeah, maybe hitting the reboot button will be good.

Who knows?

I liked Halo Infinite for like a week.

I mean, I guess reach was awesome, but

nothing got me like

three.

It hasn't been the same.

Kind of went off the rails there.

Also, this week, we learned some things about Ubisoft, which is all sorts of fun.

So Ubisoft is apparently being sued.

for sharing allegedly, we don't know,

but allegedly sharing Ubisoft store and Ubisoft Plus user data and metadata.

So that's a whole thing.

I guess they were just selling that maybe.

Who knows?

Allegedly, a bunch of alleged things with their

being sued.

But also this week, we learned that Ubisoft was potentially, maybe kind of, we're sort of waiting to find out in talks with Tencent to buy them and make it all private, which I think is their way of trying to make the company more stable.

And, uh, you know, because their stock tanked according to Video Games Chronicle, I guess their market share halved.

And the assumption was that going private would change the structure of how they would make games and what games they would choose to make.

And

I don't know today that matters if the same corporate leadership is there.

You know what I mean?

Like,

you can buy, it isn't private.

The idea that if you buy enough stock, you can make something private.

No, you're just beholden to whoever owns the stock.

So there's no real difference.

It's just now you have a new boss.

I don't know.

Right.

And so I feel like surely Tencent, if they bought Ubisoft, they want something in return for their money.

So I would imagine it's still going to be microtransactions in a single-player game.

Like, I don't know what changes here, but people are like, yeah, maybe this could change.

Like, all right, maybe, who knows?

We'll see.

But that is a whole thing as well.

And that's pretty much the news.

There are some releases coming.

We, of course.

Well, I'm glad.

Obviously, this week we had Silent Hill 2 and Diablo 4 came out.

And literally today, Metaphor Refantacio.

Yep.

Yep.

Gonna play that tonight.

Very excited.

I played the demo after you pitched it real hard and I had a blast with it.

So I'm excited to play that game.

It's fun.

I played Diablo 4.

Yeah.

How's that?

It's pretty fun.

It's Diablo.

Cool.

All right.

Nice selling.

You sold me on it.

It's better than what it was.

They've improved stuff.

That's good.

Some game mechanics actually,

well, some game mechanics actually function now.

So that's pretty good.

What does that mean?

What does that mean?

Well, back when the game launched, I believe resistances or some shit didn't even work.

So they work now.

So that's nice.

Yeah, that's good.

And it's a lot more like polished up.

It's like one of those things where games always get better when they do expansions.

It's like Civ.

Like Civ always got better with expansions.

So

it's pretty neat.

Oh, I also played.

I played the new Zelda.

I've been playing that.

Yeah.

Are you using the bed for everything?

Apparently, you can literally just use the bed.

Yeah, I've used the bed.

I mean, I've used the bed for like 80% of the puzzles.

The best part, though, is you can summon mobs.

So you're essentially Necromancer Zelda.

And so you just like summon shit and you're just like, and you're just like having go kill stuff.

And then you make beds.

And so you're really just a necromancer that also makes beds.

And honestly, it's fantastic.

I'm loving it.

I can't remember if I said this last time, but

I was really curious to see if that game was going to be six-year-old friendly because my kid really wanted to play it.

But she's never played a puzzle game before.

And that game is definitely like,

you know,

yeah, you can make stuff.

So, how do you get past this issue with the stuff you can make?

Right.

I've never felt so smart in my whole life because she'd be like, I just don't know what to do.

And I'd go, Well,

you were just taught how to make trees, and it looks like there's a line of trees there, but there's a space in between the trees.

So, maybe if you put a tree in the gap, you can walk across the trees.

And dead ass, she goes,

Mommy, you are so smart.

And I was like,

thank you.

So,

yeah, playing it with her has been a huge boost to my ego.

I would say the puzzles, if, if, if you have a kiddo in your house that hasn't really like tackled a puzzle game yet like this with like this much option, you need some hand holding, but it's, it's very cute and fun.

It is nice because you can, it has that breath of the wild kind of feel mixed together with like an old style of Zelda.

And so it's like, you get the like, how can I solve this puzzle?

But you have like so many different ways you can do it.

And I'll just, I like, I did a few on stream and people like, oh my God, I didn't know you could do that.

And I was like, yeah, whatever.

Yeah, whatever.

Yeah, whatever.

Whatever.

Whatever.

Also.

This past week, we had a brand new Kingdom to Crowns DLC come out.

Yes.

It's Greco-Roman.

Also, the point and click, very stylish game Phoenix Springs came out.

That is one to look up if you like a good point and click, but like with a really interesting art style.

Very cool stuff.

But coming,

first off, if you like demos, if you don't want to buy a game, you just like demos.

Next fest starts, I believe, Monday or Sunday, one of them.

And there's going to be over 3,000 demos in the next fest next week.

So many demos, a lot of horror game demos, if that's your vibe.

A lot of the demos for games that I played at Playdays for Summer Games Fest will be in this version of Nextfest.

So 100%

check out some of the very cool stuff there.

But also in the purchasable side of things, speaking of Play Days, Neva, which is a game that I got to play, I did a whole preview of it on the channel.

A very cool game by the the Grease team.

If you loved Grease, you will love this one even more.

It is

doggo babysitter the game, and it's so much fun.

Absolutely love it.

Also,

hey, do you like dancing?

Because I believe Just Dance 2025 edition comes out this week.

So

just dance is literally like the Madden for people that like dancing at this point.

It's just like there's another one.

I mean, it gives you a reason to dance if you like dancing.

You can learn the dances.

You do all the dances.

I don't know.

I'm here for the lore.

The lore of Just Dance is phenomenal.

It's so crazy.

After this game has been out for a little bit, we got to have Sia back on.

Yeah.

And be like, give us the deets.

What's the lore?

We need the update.

What is the lore update?

What has happened?

Yes, for sure.

If you don't know the Just dance lore you're missing out what is the just dance i feel like i've seen just dance lore is straight up like there's like like the the people that are dancing in the videos the the

it was we were informed that the people that decide like which characters are going to be doing which dances and stuff they create storylines for those

people.

So like certain characters.

Like Rasputin's having an affair, dude.

Yeah, there's like, it's like a a whole thing.

I see.

So like he'll be dancing with like some girl and you're like, that girl.

There's like another girl.

And she's like, what are you doing with my man?

Yeah.

Oh, it's great.

But then there's like a love child.

It's a soap opera.

It's great.

That's pretty great.

I agree.

It is very great.

Hey, Super Mario Party Jamboree is a thing.

Do you want to ruin friendships?

Jamboree, you do.

Guys, we should ruin our friendships.

We should play Mario Party Jamboree.

I'd Jamboree.

I'd Jamboree.

Jessup, will you Jamboree?

I would BG3 more than Jamboree.

Okay, fair enough.

Why don't you want a Jamboree?

Because I want a BG3.

We would do both.

Yeah, but Jamboree would make me not want a BG3.

Why not?

So we should have a BG3 before we Jamboree.

Right, right.

Because if we Jamboree before BG3,

I will not be a friend of thee.

But BG3 before

Jamboree,

that sounds like fun to me.

Oh.

Oh, fun to me.

Let's even better, yeah.

That works better, yeah.

Yeah, that's better.

Yeah, let's do that.

Always under Jamboree.

Let's do that, I believe.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I remember pirates saying that.

The history folks.

It's true.

Yeah.

And then TMNT Mutants Unleashed is getting some releases.

You can play as new mutants.

Oh, yeah.

Mutants.

Oh, yeah.

So that is

a whole thing.

Lots of fun stuff coming out and more on the way.

Like we're getting

pretty soon, we're going to have a new Call of Duty.

We're going to have all sorts of crazy stuff coming.

So get ready.

We're going to have Keanu Reeves will be in a Sonic game for some reason.

That's all coming out of the pipeline.

Get ready.

It's happening.

Let's fall.

This is like the game central right now.

It's a good time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is it.

Very exciting.

Buckle up.

Get ready.

The only one that I will throw in there is, and I was sponsored to play this just as a heads up for everybody, but Amber Isle just came out where you get to

Amber Isle.

You get to make your own little dinosaur.

And it's a cute game where you're running a craft shop as a dinosaur, and all of the characters are cute dinosaurs.

There's lots of exploration and resource gathering.

And the shop that you run, there's a bunch of different like types of items you can make.

So you can be like, I only make

food or i only make carpentry stuff or i only make you know whatever it's very cute i like it a lot i'm having a lot of fun with it if you want to like the dinosaurs yeah if you want to make a cute dinosaur

i do like the dinosaurs they're cute they're cute

oh i played a trading card game simulator.

Oh my god, Sam is obsessed with that game.

Yeah, he's

although I think he calmed down because I think he overplayed it and did it like everything you could do for the most part.

Is his method, yeah.

Are you enjoying it?

Yeah, it's pretty fun because like normally you just, you it's like any type of simulator thing where you're just, I gotta order my product.

I have to stack the shelves.

I have to do it.

But this one adds in the element of card opening.

Right.

So you can like buy packs of cards.

You'd be like, you know what?

I'm going to open the cards.

And then you like open them and they all have values.

And so then you can open a card and be like, oh, I'm going to put this on the shelf to sell because I opened a rare card.

You could sell a rare card for like $2,000, $5,000, like whatever.

And then people just started competing to see how big of a value card they could open.

So just every streamer is like, I'm going to open a $50,000 card.

And they're just like sitting there opening packs.

And that's like the entire stream.

I mean, that was...

Yeah, I was about to say that was a thing people did frequently when it came to Hearthstone and other card games where they just opened.

Crendor, I know you had

streams where all you did was open cards.

Yeah, I literally did entire streams with TV where we did our pack opening off.

That's what I'm saying.

It's popular.

It's like a popular thing.

People love that stuff.

Yeah, people, because it's just, you don't know.

It's just RNG.

You open packs.

You don't know what you're going to get.

And then that's, that's.

I guess the difference here is that there isn't like actual money on the line.

You can open up a bunch of packs and not be like, and now I'm in debt.

Yeah.

But it also adds the element of then you can't stop because you're just like, just keep going.

And then people just keep like trying to open the biggest value.

Like, I just got to keep going.

Just got to keep going.

And I'd see people like Benji, he opened like 8 billion packs and then he ended up having like speed mode on.

Like he turned off VSync.

So the packs would just be like,

it was like going insane.

And he's just like, I need it.

I need it.

He was like, he was role-playing into it real hard, but he loves role-playing anyways.

Like, I knew he was having a blast.

And then he finally got his

$15,000 card.

And he's like, I don't even feel anything.

It's great.

It's like real life.

Yeah, it's like real life.

What do I even work toward now?

Yeah.

Oh, my goodness.

That was fun.

All right, Crendor,

we need you to give chat homework.

You know the drill.

Give chat homework, dude.

Oh, God, homework.

Did you change it now?

It's where you give chat homework.

Like, you don't do the homework anymore?

Yeah, it's not us.

Don't ask questions.

Just give us homework.

It's never been our way.

Listen, I've seen the segment morph like numerous times.

No, no, no.

You ain't seen nothing.

No, no, no, no, no.

It's always been this way.

Yeah.

Oh, maybe I'm in that weird timeline still.

You're in the weird timeline.

Yeah.

Let's see.

What have I been watching,

reading?

doing I believe Sailor Moon was what you told everyone to do last time yep last time was Sailor Moon yeah we actually are

on the final 15 episodes oh my god you've really committed I'm proud of you yeah well we would

every night after like streaming we'll like watch something so me and toaster woman will like sit there and watch whatever but then we're like

we don't know because we were watching every like one one episode a night, and so we started in like February, and now it's like season four, it's like episode 184 or some shit.

So it's like, all right,

what's gonna

happen?

I don't know, word.

It's just so, I mean, we also watch Hercules for her birthday for Disney.

That's what I was saying.

That Hercules has the two evil little villain characters that are literally me and Jesse.

Yeah, like straight up.

Yeah, they're very cox and credor coded.

Yeah, 100%.

Yeah, very much.

So

pain and panic.

Pain and panic in the morning.

Yeah, pain and panic in the morning.

Which to be fair.

Credor posted an image.

And literally, if you look at that gif,

it is so clearly the two of us.

Pain literally just goes

at one point.

It's real.

I was like, this is.

Roll the clip.

Roll the clip.

Roll the clip.

It just looks exactly like us, and it's really funny.

I've written down as homework, watch Hercules.

Yeah,

I was going to say that.

I would like to change this homework.

Okay.

And not, don't watch the good Hercules.

Watch the 90s

Saturday morning Hercules, the TV show.

The Kevin Sorbo TV show.

Go watch that instead, please.

That shit is a whole thing.

Oh, my God.

Oh, this show.

I remember the shit being on, like,

in between rain delays and baseball games.

And then when they do the

like Xena crossover episode, then you can jump ship and just start watching Xena instead.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

This is a show.

Or watch Young Hercules with Ryan Gosling.

That's true.

That's very true.

That's true.

There we go.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know,

can I tell you something about

what I've realized about myself?

Yes.

When looking back,

Xena was an early indicator of

my problems.

So

in Xena,

there's many,

there's many,

many amazing characters, especially women, beautiful, like Stone, Cold, Killer, like just gorgeous women.

But the one that I was attracted to the most was the crazy one who kept trying to kill Xena.

I was like, yo, yo, that shit's so hot.

She's like, I'm insane.

I'm like, yeah, yeah, you are.

It's good to trace your sexual awakenings back.

It tells you a lot about yourself.

Yeah, I was like, no,

no, she's so evil.

Oh, yeah, I love her.

Right?

Meanwhile, there's plenty.

Zena herself, amazing, but I'm like, no, no, that crazy one, though.

That's the.

Yeah, that's a lot.

It says a lot about me.

Yeah.

But then you're like,

i just gotta meet a nice girl that's crazy just need to meet a nice girl who's crazy sometimes yeah

a nice girl who tries to kill me but not that often but like not but like you know not for real but like she hates me but by love

right you know like like she would kill for me but not kill me

yeah

Right.

Right.

You know, we were because we were bringing up Cox and Crendor story listening or because somebody was like, but you guys watch movies every once in a while, right?

Like on stream.

You'll watch that.

That's like stories and Crendor likes that.

We watch like Medea's Christmas, which we discussed during last Christmas on this show.

We watch like old ass 80 shitty movies.

Like

what was that one?

Reno

Remo Remo Williams.

Yeah, Remo Williams.

We watch Remo Williams.

Like, we watch like weird shit.

We're not watching like actual good movies where you care about the story.

Yeah.

So,

Time Cop.

I care about the story.

Well, yeah.

Great story.

There was time.

We watched

that one Schwarzenger movie where he goes to space.

That was good.

Wasn't that Time Cop?

No.

I already forgot.

He's blurring them together.

Well, he's paid attention.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Time Cop's Van Damn.

Oh, yeah.

That was like.

Time Singer's Total Recall.

Oh, that's what it was.

Total Recall.

And they're like, get him out of the machine.

He's like,

I'm in the machine.

Oh, beautiful.

Yeah.

That was a great one.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

Cause they blurred out the three boobs and then you got mad.

Yeah, we never saw the three boobs and I was mad about that.

Oh my goodness.

All right.

Okay.

On that note, much like the decapitation story,

and then immediately after the clip, Krender, tell everybody what you're up to this next week.

What's your life like?

My life is going to be doing what I do, which is streaming on Twitch TV, Crendor.

Still doing Kaizo Ironmon, but I'm doing Subpar Kaizo Ironmon now, which is a variation of Super Kaizo Ironmon invented by Aryx, number one Ryx.

And it's a bit of an easier Super Kaizo, but still.

Have you beaten it still?

I've beaten none of the Kaizos, no.

Fantastic.

Yeah.

It's about the journey.

I'll probably play.

Yeah, it's Mountain Journey.

I'll probably, it's like if I've actually beat it, I'll be like, what now?

Well, then I go play the other version of Kaizo because I got to beat that one too.

So, yeah, doing that.

I also, I'll probably stream some Zelda because I've been having fun with that.

I'll stream WoW because I'm still playing WoW.

Still mountain farming.

Just because you still play it.

I mean, I'm having fun with it.

It's just, you know, I play in ways that you don't care about like mount farming.

Yeah.

Just trying to really like 80 of the reason i love playing is mounts i love mount farming that game and then uh youtube pointless top tens i got those over there that's more wow stuff top 10 list we've already we've discussed it you go watch those also did you know you can purchase a midnight sloth roast you can

with a dodger coffee

you can get

the bundle dude we've got a bundle going you could get the original dodger coffee roast as well as the Midnight Sloth roast,

which was our collaboration roast with Crendor.

You can get both for cheaper than if you bought them both individually.

You're practically losing money if you don't buy it.

Yeah.

You can check it out at dodgercoffeeco.com.

Yeah.

Dabs.

Yep.

And then you can also check out Cox and Crendor podcast, youtube.com/slash cocks and crendor podcast.

It's uh

we're on like episode 8,000.

So 439, I believe.

8,000.

That's practically 8,000.

That's like in podcast years, that's practically 8,000.

We, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What about you, Jesse?

What are you up to this week?

I'm going to be playing

metaphor all weekend long.

Get ready.

I'm going to start tonight and we're going to see how far we can get before the weekend's over.

Hell yeah.

Dame.

Fantastic.

Twitch.tv/slash Jessup Cox.

No, that's not it.

That would not help me at all.

That would not help me at all.

Some other guy about to get all my views.

Is that an actual channel?

Maybe.

It is now.

It is now.

There's a Jessup Cox on Instagram.

Good.

Hey, everybody.

I'm Dodger.

Shout out to Dookie Shed.

No hate to Crendor.

Dookie Shedd was going to be our guest this week, but he's in Florida.

I hope anybody who is

dealing with natural disaster shit, the evacuations, all of this, I hope you're staying safe.

I hope everything's okay for all of you.

Dookie Shudd wanted everybody to know that he is okay, but he has no power currently.

And so he was not able to make it.

Shout out to all of you guys.

I hope you're all doing well.

Thank you so much, Crendor, for joining us and filling in.

Hey, no problem.

I like how you're like, no offense.

I'm like, this is literally what I'm here for.

I've done this for like

15 years.

The hangout guy.

Yeah.

Every time, co-optional dude, TB's like, we need someone.

I guess we'll bring you in.

And I'm like, dude, hell yeah.

I'm here.

Ready to go.

Fired up.

Backup quarterback.

Happy to have you.

There's a good rapport here, you know.

Yeah.

A lovingly aggressive rapport between the three of us, I feel.

Exactly.

Nothing quite like it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

What else?

Is there anything else that I needed to say?

You know what?

I also realized people go to BlizzCon just go to Disneyland.

Sure.

That's the other part of it.

There's a lot of times where you're like, go to BlizzCon, but Disneyland is also right there.

Disneyland is also right there.

Yeah.

Yep.

Yeah.

Thought I'd bring that up.

Thanks so much for watching, everybody.

If you want to watch this VOD or any past VODs of Geekenders, you can find them on youtube.com/slash jessecox.

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it's fine.

I think the only thing you missed this time was that I stuck a bunch of toilet paper up my nose at one point.

So, so there you go.

Now you know what you missed.

That did indeed happen.

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