Are you Linus? Yeah!
You f*** with me? Linus isn't a f***ing jack.
No, I'm skinny. You're way too strong.
There's a picture of it on social media. All as Linus?
Yeah. It's the Linus multiverse. What's with this jacket? Oh, it's the Duke.
This is the Duke jacket from Scrap Road Wars. But okay, so my problem is,
I went through our like, costume pile. It's all small and medium.
I... No. So... You go as Linus.
I'm trying to figure out... Huh? You go as Linus.
How do I do that? Just wear what I'm wearing. So just wear what I normally wear?
What? Do you wear this? That sweater.
That sweater? I have a 2XL upstairs.
But now if you run, you're gonna be late. I'll tell you Linus, you should appreciate it with me.
Should be me. Is he late? Is he late? Yes.
2.30. Oh. Is that it? Four seconds. Six seconds.
Boom! Let's go! Fashionably on time.
Well, three seconds to spare. This is season three.
Four. Starting today? Yeah.
It was the last season of the blowout. I'm gonna win this season.
No, you're not. I'm totally gonna win. No, you're not. I'm gonna win this season like, salt and pepper.
What does that mean? Because it's seasoning.
That actually just sucked. I know, I know, I don't... If I get the bell, Luke.
No. Suck like salt and pepper.
Oh! Finger lick and suck.
Yeah, that was... That sucked.
That doesn't fit you. What?
He's too swole. No, he's too big. That's why I said that.
Chest, like it fits the arms, but like, does it even close?
Oh, no, it does. Okay, never mind. No, I'm fine. Pretty sure it like actually fits me just fine. What's weird when you were pulling it on?
Never mind. What are you supposed to be? You just wearing a leather jacket?
I'll do. Oh my God.
I went through our costumes. Nothing fits me except for the only costume I have.
You got the hat and then like the sunglasses. Yeah, I was trying to look up what hat and sunglasses it was.
It was a red sunglasses. It was aviators, I think. Yeah, red hats are sort of passe.
That was the point. Was it? Yeah. Is Duke a Trumper?
Well, I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know. It was supposed to be a relatively subtle nod, that subtle nod.
Oh, okay. Yeah. All right, make America great again.
Clip that. No, I legitimately would like America to get great again.
That would be terrific. Get it? Terrific?
Okay, that was pretty good. That was good. I still got it.
I'll apply to that. I still got it, baby. No water. All right, now I'll just wear the one.
I'll wear the one Jamie told me to wear. Whoa.
I'm dressing up as a model for everything. What's the noise?
What's a, what's a, what's the like pH intro?
pH intro? I didn't want to say, what's the cornhub intro? Yeah, what's the, what's the song?
He goes, do you know that? I don't know why I'm asking.
Disgusting. My God. I was going to try to mimic the noise.
You know the cornhub intro? It's good. I know Netflix.
Who knows? I don't think that it's Netflix.
If I hear it, I'll know it, but I don't know how to replicate it like from memory.
Does anyone know what we're replicating from that memory? They're not going to admit it if they do.
Stop. No, he's going to admit it.
Yeah. Yeah, you can afford to pay for it.
Yeah, good call, good call, good call. That is priorities.
Have a great win. Am I actually going to be there for a pre-show?
Sorry? Am I actually going to be selling your seat for a pre-show?
Oh yeah, that's pretty funny. Should we start the real show like that?
I think it'd actually be even funnier if we had one more.
Is Emily still here? I think double checks.
So no, no, no, no. So we'll start the show.
So we'll have Sammy do like, welcome to the WAN Show. We've got a great show lined up for you today.
He'll pick two topics, and then we'll cut to the intro,
and then we'll swap them out during the intro, and then it'll be set in.
And then we'll be like, okay, all right, enough of that.
I'm going to... No, I'm here.
Something like that? Sure. Okay.
Set in looks hilarious. Have you seen it?
No. I didn't even know this was happening. I just saw him come around the corner,
and I started laughing. This wasn't planned lines. It was also surprised.
Yeah. Well, it wasn't planned. He just all did it.
Or like, it was planned, but like, he didn't know. Oh, I didn't know about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So yeah, let's... Let me see set in here.
Don't need to do it for pre-show, but I think we could do it for the actual show.
Does that kind of make sense to everyone?
What? Why is that? What?
Not late. Yeah. What?
Besides, Luke already messaged.
I'm officially ahead this season. I didn't even want to win.
Because he can't make it till, what do you say, 5.30 or something like that?
I probably can't make it till 5.30. Yeah, this shoot was supposed to start at 3 o'clock
from where I saw. Yeah, you know what else was supposed to start at 3 o'clock?
What?
After school. Specials on TV.
The shoot was supposed to start at 1 o'clock.
Is Dan here, though? No. Why?
No way, hoodie. Wow! It's red.
It's for me? No, that's for mine. No.
Did you see the pictures that I took? No.
Here, let me show you the pictures that I took.
Is that on the thing? Yeah, once it launches, it's official.
Oh my goodness.
Why aren't they shooting yet? I don't know, man.
Reese, why aren't they shooting? There's a lot of build-up.
There's a lot of things going on. We're getting there now, though. I think we're going to finish strong, you know?
But we also have to start strong, so we'll see how that goes.
You shot the intro already? Yeah, intro.
This is the meat. Where's the meat?
This is the meat and taters. We just did the appetizer, you know?
I want my meat.
Stick around.
How does WAN late work? Oh, this season is about rigging it for you.
Can I go in there and tag up? No, you won the season already. And then I won?
What do you mean I won the season already? Just get there before 5.15. What are you even talking about?
I can be there before 5.15.
I mean, you'd be surprised how often I have... Wait, what? No!
Yeah, when you make me film it myself? Okay, that was for like one month.
For a whole month? Okay, sorry.
I was taking advantage of the company initiative. The company initiative?
It was just like f***ing off halfway through that day? That's true.
Yeah, that's what... Yeah, yeah, that's what he did. He did that.
It is 5.08.
Does that mean WAN will be late?
What? Luke's not ready. Sammy!
Go over there, he's not even ready.
You want me to show you? I can show you. I'll show you he's not ready.
He's not ready. He's not ready. He's not ready.
We're going to go and see if he's not ready together. I came down for something else. I came down for something.
Look here.
Boom. I'm first.
See? I'm going to put my butt in the chair.
No. I win.
Victory is mine. Sorry.
This season I'm rigging it for Linus, so Linus wins. You don't have to rig nothing.
I'm just going to win. I'm going to rig it and then we'll see if you can win this season.
No, you can't say you're going to rig it. Because then when I win, it will be worth nothing.
I'm openly fraud. Open fraud this season, you know? No.
5.40. Will he be done? 5.40. Will he be done?
5.40. 5.40. 5.40.
5.40. Hi.
He's done. Who's done?
Linus. Well, Luke's done with everything.
But Linus is done shooting. Empty.
Empty. Who will get here first is Linus.
I feel like every time the new season starts, Luke just doesn't try hard.
Just pieces. He's a scaler, you know?
Update. Update. Luke.
There he is. He's here. He's here.
I see him. I see Luke. There he is.
There he is. Oh my gosh. Oh my heck.
Now you can start working. You can start working. No.
No. I was already working.
But the question, is he here or is he...
He's not early, is he? I mean, he's...
Because his audio is not ready, right? 40 minutes late.
I mean, Linus hasn't read the doc. When he sits down, it doesn't matter if his audio is ready.
The fact that he's here is good enough. Look, he's wearing a badge.
Linus Tech Tips. That's so adorable.
Are you gonna wear that the entire time? Be better.
No one can hear you, so I'm assuming you're saying yes.
Yeah, he's agreeing. Absolutely. Try to find Linus.
But he's not there either.
Oh, hi. Hi. I'll tell you for you.
What's up? We're ready. Oh, okay.
Great. Yeah, you don't have to wear them, but they are going to be a level of TV store thing.
Cool. So... Yeah, that's fine.
I figured you could put them on.
All right. Pardon me.
Keep on rolling, baby. The level of them might be slightly different.
So let me know if you want it to go up or down at all.
Okay, bye.
I can't believe you let it happen. I blame you.
We both know he's a child. It's so simple.
His signature is completely unrecognizable. But this video proved him doing it.
To get a little SD card or something, I put the video from signing it.
Embed it in the sign or something. I can give you the video clip of it, yeah?
Yeah, that's sick. I feel bad now because I think I probably could have told you about two weeks sooner.
That probably would have been better.
Yeah, it was locked in a long time ago.
But it was one of those things that I never knew if it was going to change.
And then after I did script review, I was like, it literally cannot change now.
Because Linus somehow couldn't postpone it. And I was like, okay, now I feel comfortable telling people,
I 100% could have told you probably three or four weeks before.
I think I knew before you. That's okay.
Do you want to sign this? Oh yeah, I do want to sign this. Oh my god.
Well, I was part of the shoot, so it's important. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, Rhys was part of the shoot, too. Oh yeah, Rhys and Andrew would sign this.
Yeah, I'll sign it, too. I was there.
The audacity to sign it from Linus is ridiculous.
I don't know when he was doing it. I was like, man, if I was Luke, I'd be pissed.
I'm probably going to try and find a way to clean it off.
He sent me a message. He's like, yeah, you just asked for Linus' signature.
I looked back at our messages just to make sure.
No, I didn't. I didn't even say Linus.
I didn't even put that as a first name. I just said Torvalds.
I think it was my fault. I think in the video, I said, can you get Linus' signature?
That might be my fault. Listen, I'm ESL.
It's not my fault.
Are you talking to us? Yeah. Oh, that's a 530.
Yeah, 530. What's 530? When is it 530?
Yeah.
Okay, it was commented and then no reply. So I thought Luke saw the tag.
What now? Oh God, what now? Why are there tools here?
Well, we were supposed to do a little demonstration on this guy right here.
Are we launching that?
We would love to. But?
What? Some inventory issues. Again?
Not in the US again? Yeah. Should I be recording this?
How does that keep happening? It's a long story.
It's a long life. Everyone says life is short.
That is a goddamn lie. Life is long and arduous.
I don't know if this happens every week. Life could be short.
Life is so emo. You can tell what generation it grew up in.
Trailing in my skin.
It will be the night. Life is so long.
Every day is the worst day ever.
We're not on YouTube so this won't get copyrighted. Yeah.
We are going to go ahead with this.
It's not looking likely though. We can still probably go ahead with all the GD stuff though.
Look at this though. Whoa.
If we were D-brand, we'd include like a little pocket like...
Oh yeah. A little heat. If we were that smart.
Well, we'll be that smart someday. At least you're going to ride a pin or something like that.
I was trying. The resolution is low.
You do it again.
Let's see if we can drop these. This is a professional company.
We'll go sideways. Oh. Oh.
Oh. Yeah, it really doesn't. It's missing one test label.
Yeah, well... Here, I'll get the second one in profile at the back there.
Oh, it's a side profile. I get it. Side profile.
Oh. If we were smart, we'd use the larger canvas on the back.
This is not what this is meant for.
This is 100% what this is meant for.
Just carry around a heat gun on you so you can draw penises on your back?
Like what? Well, no, it's more about the like...
Modern day kick me signs.
Okay, my hands aren't that warm. My hands are warm. Your hands are warm?
They're kind of 22, so I don't know.
There you go. There you go. Water resistant.
Exactly, you can't tell.
Let's go on, though. All right, Dan, are we ready to do this thing?
All right, cool. Bye. This is the best one.
Enjoy the win.
That was a lot better, and that was a markedly better gaming experience
for the compromises of emulation.
So, Sammy's here asking you why Wines Lake, but it's not Lake.
Yeah. So, the thing is right, is that we're a good shoot part of Adam's video.
What do you think? What time is it? Oh, it's 4.20.
Nice. Nice, bro. Let's go.
Bro, bro. I don't think we're going to get very deep into that.
I think we should just do it on Monday then. Yeah, sure.
We have a plan. Okay, yeah, let's do it on Monday then.
You betcha. Okay, I'm going to win, Seth.
Don't tell him. What are you doing in the chat? In the chat, it's going to be on time today.
Don't tell him when we're in the chat.
How you doing, buddy? I don't know.
It's Friday, baby. What are you doing this weekend?
This weekend? I am learning to drive a fire truck.
What? Yeah, I have to do my air brake course.
That's fun. So that I can daily the fire truck for a little bit.
Can I come? You want to go for a ride in the fire truck?
What day? Yeah, I'm down. What day though?
I don't know. If it's Sunday, I come.
No, no, no, I have my class. Oh, I don't know how to drive it yet.
It's a private tutor lesson, you know. No, no, no, I'm doing like a course.
That's fun. Yeah, so that'll be cool. And then I'll know how to drive the fire truck.
And don't let your names be dreams.
After a one-year, finally ready to drive it.
It hasn't been a year. It's been in April. It's been in April.
Yeah, exactly. That's basically a year now. November.
That's basically a year. No, it isn't. In intern time, it's a year.
It's like seven months. No, it's basically a year. You round up, you round up.
No, it's way closer to half a year than it is to...
No, but we round up, though. We round up. We round up.
Yeah, that's right. Then it's 10 years. Exactly.
10 years, a decade into making. Oh, next week, you got to take a shot of lemonade.
Lemon, sorry. A shot of lemon? Yeah.
You lost. You lost while I went. I forgot to tell you that you lost.
What do you mean I lost? I'm right here. No, you lost last season.
Last season? Yeah. You got to do a shot and then you got to do some talking points.
I don't believe you. Well, you got to watch the video then.
By the way, I understand your struggle with changing phones.
I changed my phone. I hate... None of my apps are on my actual phone yet.
It's so... It's such a pain.
It's one of those things that really doesn't feel like it should be that much work anymore.
No. Like it feels like especially going from like an Android to another Android.
It should just like move over.
But like Eli just migrated from Android to iOS.
Yeah. I migrated from iOS to Android and then I migrated again from Android back to iOS.
And it's just every time. Just sucks.
Yeah. Because I also did Android to iOS.
I don't have none of my contacts. When people call me now, I don't know what it is.
And so many things are... Oh, okay. You went Android to iOS?
Yeah. Okay. You know what you need to do?
You need to open up the mail app. The mail? On iOS.
Okay. And then you need to sign in to your Gmail in the mail app.
I did that. You did that? Why didn't you have your contacts?
I don't know. So I think I just didn't hit sync contact to my email.
So I think I'll do that. But it's just a pain to like do that.
And then like I got to do that. And then I got to do other things. And it's like...
Yeah, I know. It's a pain. And like my Pixel 9a is set up as like my pass key device for my work Microsoft account.
Yeah. So like I can't stop carrying it.
And I have never migrated a pass key before.
Yeah. So I'm sure it's not that hard. But I've just never done it before.
So it's not like a thing that I can just do in two seconds.
So I haven't bothered yet. So I just have two phones right now.
Drug dealer style. And it's very annoying.
I like, I carry two phones around at work. But it's because I like, I had the base iPhone 17.
So I need a better camera one. So I had the 16 Pro Max.
It's a pain to me. But I don't want to spend like $1,200 extra for like more cameras.
Oh God. We have so much gear around here, man.
I was wandering around in the warehouse yesterday because we're going to be doing a live stream.
That's just like me and Elijah finding stuff in the warehouse that we don't need anymore.
And putting it into like a giant auction lot.
Looks like. And just like the kind of crap that we have kicking around here these days is nuts.
Like we've had this, not this, this since we worked out of the Langley house.
Oh, is that that is? This is part of the first time that I gave everyone just like $150 budget to just buy stuff on ThinkGeek
because we didn't have any like stuff.
Like we didn't have any set deck at all.
So we would just be in a kitchen, like a plain kitchen.
Like the house had never been lived in. So it looked so unnatural and sterile.
So I was like, we should just get stuff. So just like the answer is human organ.
Yeah, buy some crap on ThinkGeek or whatever. And this was what I think Luke bought it or something.
I can't remember who picked this. But there's like still relics of that sort of shopping spree around the office.
The map of Middle Earth and the bathroom that's right above us is from that too.
You should sell that. Sign it too. Sell that?
That you're up. My A plus? Yeah.
That would go, that goes crazy. That would be pretty cool for like a charity auction or something like that.
Yeah. Maybe we could do, you know what? We could probably do like, I think we could probably add a charity auction element to
Whelan or something like that. Yeah. Find some relics.
As a whole paperweight. So yeah, go for it.
Yeah. It's made of copper. Oh.
I think it was meant to be a cooler at some point. We should put that in the auction. You know what?
I think we should double check to see what it is for us for it being a charity auction.
Yeah, you know, might save a few headaches. I don't know what it is, but we should see if anyone needs it.
We should verify it. I was going to say outside because I thought there would be a Whelan this winter.
This winter? Yeah. There is a Whelan this winter.
Oh, it's February. Yeah. What the f*** season do you think February is?
January. February season. Spring.
Is it? Is it November, December, January, winter?
February, March, April? When is winter?
Am I wrong? Sunday, December 21st.
Oh. Friday, March 20th. Oh, what the f***?
Yeah. Today I learned. February is firmly, firmly in winter.
So what is it? February 22nd or something like that, I think? Yeah.
27th? Yeah. I can't remember.
Sometime in February. Don't take, don't. No, I'm taking your word for it.
No, you can't hold me to that. I can't. But what you can hold Luke to.
Oh my goodness. Is Luke Lafayne late? Ah, here's my steps.
That f***er. He waited until the last second.
He's grabbing snacks. There's no way he's grabbing.
Wait, he's late. This is truly a day of days.
This is rare, man. This rarely happens. Yeah.
This is like. It's like winning an Oscar, you know?
You're like, I like to thank everybody who got me here.
Yeah. I'd like to thank Vance and Reese and the rest of the production department who like
to thank James and Andrew Muir who allowed me to be on set on time.
This is always confusing. Sometimes I lose my phone on here.
Yeah, I was going to say it's kind of hard to say.
Yeah. It's fine. I'll just, I'll put it in my pocket.
It'll be great. So is this usually how it works? You just like keep filming while I wait for the.
Well, we're just, we're just shooting this.
If you're going to work, you work. I can leave a little.
Should we go, should we go find him? Is that, is that a thing? Yeah, we can do that.
Listen, I declare you to winner, you know. Let the record show I am only leaving this set because I'm looking for Luke.
Yeah. So this is not me, you know, not arriving on time.
Okay. No, no, no. I listen, I'm here.
I'll verify, you know. Man, this is such a load of bullshit.
Okay. Like seriously, the marketing of this should be criminal.
Check this out. Check this out. Okay.
Fruit Sations. I actually recently read a book called Salt, Sugar, Fat.
How the food industry giants hooked us or something along those lines.
If you, if you search for a sugar, salt, fat, you'll, you'll come up with the right things.
It's, it's those three things. I just forget the order, but it goes through like a whole bunch of like how marketing of
like ultra processed foods and, and convenience snack foods and stuff tries to like bamboozle
you. So first of all, this is huge plus veggie.
This is like, and when I say huge, I don't mean important like to this product.
I mean, it's utterly irrelevant to the actual nutritional value of this product.
It's just huge physically on the package.
Everyone knows vegetables are nutritious, right?
Okay. So they throw this carrot on here, but what they don't tell you, right?
Is that carrots are actually a super sweet vegetable.
Like there's a lot of sugar in carrots.
What else we got here? Oh, pears and apple.
You know what pears and apples have in common? They can be used to make sugar, essentially.
Like I think it's, is it pectin that's made of pears or no, no pectin is one of the ingredients
that my dad used to have a jam business. I don't think I've ever talked about that.
What is pectin made of? Oh, no, it is. Uh, so most commonly from the peels of citrus fruits and from apple pumice.
Um, I think it can also be made of pears.
Can pectin be made of pears? Okay, cool.
I didn't, I did know what I was talking about. Okay, right.
So what these two fruits have in common is they can be used to make literal sugar, literal sweetener.
Um, like my dad used to make, uh, like my dad used to use as a sweetener for his jam business.
So we've got like the sweetest of vegetables and then we've got literal sugar fruit.
Okay. Fruit is another one.
This was like a huge innovation in junk food marketing.
And I think it was the nineties.
It was either the eighties or the nineties. It was pretty early on basically my entire life fruit has been just kind of tacked on to junk food in order to basically make moms feel less guilty about giving it to their kids.
Um, as long as they like don't look too closely at it.
Look at this. So we've got veggie, fruit, pictures of fruit, assorted fruit.
And then hold on a second. Naturally flavored.
That's even smaller. Fruit flavored snacks.
Flavored. Flavored. Look how much fruit and veggie is on here before we finally get to fruit flavored also.
Oh, look at this. Just 80 calories per 23 grand per 23 grand.
All that tells me is that it's not loaded with that.
Right. Cause that is super calorie heavy.
Sugar is pretty calorie heavy too. But this is not, you don't have context for this number.
If you're just the average person are also 80 calories is a lot for a little like little tiny pack of little tiny gummies.
Okay. No artificial colors. It's like, okay.
You know what? I don't even mind that. I don't object to that.
Gelatin free gluten free. What the f**k would have gluten in it in a fruit snack?
Okay. Next you're going to tell me that it's like. It's like the AI equivalent.
Yeah. Frickin. Uh, what was the, what was that stupid, uh, diet with the no, with the no gluten?
You, you wouldn't know anything. Um, I don't know gluten diet or.
Yeah. The one where people were buying like carb free bread and stuff.
Is it gluten free? Atkins. Yeah.
Atkins friendly. Like you might as well put that on here. Okay.
So now let's actually, uh, I, at various points, there's been talk of legislation to move this to the front of the package, but no one's had the stones to actually move forward with it.
But this is, this is way more important. Okay.
So we know that that 80 calories is for just one of these tiny little pouches.
Look at, look at this tiny pouch.
Okay. Seriously. Go on a treadmill.
Okay. Go on a treadmill. No, I'm, it's, this is not a personal attack.
I just mean like for your own personal curiosity, go on a treadmill and run until it says you've burned 80 calories.
That is, this is insane.
Yeah. So small. This is like, this is like nothing.
It's like one bite. Okay.
I have 23 grams. 19 of them are carbohydrates of which 10 of them are sugar, pure sugar.
I just had 10% of my sugar intake for the day.
10? Mm-hmm. What the?
Also, this percent daily value is like kind of a guess, right?
You might not need that much sugar in a day. Well, it's all stuck in my braces.
So that was 10% of my sugar. And you might think, well, that's okay.
Cause like, I'm not going to eat 10 packs of these.
Like that would feel, that would feel kind of ridiculous.
But you probably don't realize how much sugar is in basically everything that you eat, especially if you eat out at restaurants or if you're like eating prepackaged foods.
Like even things that taste salty or savory, a lot of the time they'll have a ton of sugar in them just to increase their appeal.
So you can get all the sugar that you realistically need for the day, like in a single serving of salad with like too much dressing on it.
Like seriously, you'd be amazed how much sugar is in stuff.
Or like, we have a couple cans of soda pop. What did Elijah come down here for?
He came down here for a Red Bull? Yeah. There's a sugar-free one though.
Okay, I don't even think Red Bull's that bad as far as sugar goes.
No, Red Bull's bad. No, yeah. This one's bad.
Yeah, this one's bad. So this is the actual sugar one. So you have one of these.
Boom. There's a quarter of it.
So you pop one of these packs.
Let's say you treat yourself. Say you have two. Grab one of these.
That's half your sugar for the day. That's nuts.
And obviously like nobody is following those rules.
What else we got here?
This is a fun one. So like throwing vitamins into stuff.
I'm actually surprised that they didn't lean heavier into that in the front of box marketing.
Because like cereal, the breakfast cereal industry was like huge into promoting like,
contains this many essential nutrients. Don't mind any of the like other stuff that's in here.
Don't worry about that. Like seriously, at the peak there were breakfast cereals that had like well over 50% sugar.
Like by volume, by mass I think.
I think it's by mass. Oh yeah, it would have to be by mass.
It's cramps. Oh yeah, here you go.
Sugars. Corn syrup. Yeah, I didn't see corn on there, but whatever.
Sugar. I'm not even pretending.
Pear juice. Nah, nah, nah, nah. Which is just sugar.
Apple juice. Which is just sugar.
Modified corn starch. Carrot juice concentrate. Oh yeah, there it is.
There's your other sugar. Ging, ging, ging. Citric acid.
So basically out of the first one, two, three, four, five, six ingredients.
Five of them are sugar.
And pectin's still on here. There's another sugar. There's six sugars.
Black carrot. Radish and sweet potato juice concentrate.
Oh, that's for color. Okay, okay. These are colors.
These are colors. Is Luke still not here?
Because that's stalled for as long as I think they can. This is 14 minutes of lines writing about the snack industry.
They're delicious though.
All this is all this for 14 minutes of bad, bad, bad. But it's good, so it's okay.
But that's the whole thing, right? That's the whole scam is they just make the most delicious thing.
One of the coolest things that I learned, I guess from Salt and Sugar Fat was the way
that they engineer these foods is to target what they call the bliss point.
And that is the like peak satisfaction.
And they would take kids and they would put them in a lab and they would put like a whole
bunch of different formulations of Oreo cookie, for instance, in front of them, and then a
palate cleanser and they would just have them try it and monitor their response to it.
And then they would basically go, okay, and have them try each one.
And then they would find which one lights up the pleasure center of their brain the most.
And that's it. That's the bliss point.
It's a combination of taste, texture, mouth feel.
I thought you were going to say like the ignorance point between how much you need to provide
before a mother feels comfortable buying that snack.
No, no, no. This is just peer. The bliss point is all about taste and appearance.
Appearance is big too. Yeah. We're going to look for Luke before you win that rant.
Oh yeah. I was like, I don't know why you're coming back.
Look, I often forget where I'm going.
I know. I just didn't want to say that.
Oh. Oh my God. Oh, I love these.
Don't ruin them for me. And just because something's not loaded up with sugar does not mean it's good for you.
No, these are my favorite ones. Hot rods are quite literally half fat.
Oh yeah. So think about that.
Think about that for a second. That is basically like taking this hot rod, slicing it down the middle, eating half of
something even maybe useful and literally a stick of butter like this, just going, oh
no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't waste butter.
You're ruining this for me. Stop. You're ruining it for me.
I love hot rods. No. I know it's bad for you.
I know it's fat, but don't say it's butter. 16% of your salt intake.
That's a fun one. Oh yeah. The sodium intake is pretty good.
It's fat. We like naturally because, you know, for years and years and thousands, tens, hundreds of
thousands of years, they were hard to come by. They were a lot of work to get.
Like you had to like hunt and stuff in order to get them.
And they're super calorie dense. So they give us energy.
So our body is designed to go, oh, you found the right thing.
You like that. Go get more of it. That'll keep your body fueled.
Right. But salt's a funny one. So they did this experiment with a salt group of very, very, very young children, babies,
who are just like eating whatever their parents eat.
And then a control group that ate only like infant food that had no salt added.
And they, after a while, they brought them all back and they did some taste testing.
And the kids who just ate whatever their parents ate, they loved salt.
They would like lick salt off of stuff. You know, like people are apt to do.
Anyone ever lick the potato chip just to get that sweet, delicious salt?
No. Really? Did you bow?
No. You've never licked a potato chip?
I usually chew them. Okay. How about lick your fingers after you've eaten a bunch of potato chips?
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Okay.
So that's what I'm talking about. That like, oh, it's like, it's so salty. It's so good.
You know, like Dorito, licking Dorito dust off of your fingers, right?
Yeah. So those kids would do that.
The other ones, like straight up didn't like it.
They like, like hated it. So salt is not a natural thing for us to like.
It's something that we've been conditioned to like. Oh really?
So salt does a lot more for food than just alter the taste.
Apparently it's a big part of what makes pastries like fluffier.
It helps to preserve it. So it gives it a longer shelf life.
Because it has all these benefits in the, in the production, transport and storage of food.
And so we've been kind of conditioned to really enjoy it.
The good thing about it is that unlike sugar and fat, which we naturally like and we, and
we just want, we just like crave at a biological level.
Salt we can wean ourselves off of and we can get back to the point where we don't actually
like it as much and we don't crave it as much because a little bit is good.
We actually do need salt. But too much is not great.
It's linked to all kinds of health complications.
So yeah, hot rods. But hey, you got four grams of protein, one quarter protein.
So one quarter useful, one quarter filler, one quarter basically like ingesting butter.
I've seen other people popping the hot rods.
Popping. Little fat will build up. Yeah.
Make little bubbles like a pimple. You can squeeze and it squirts out like a pimple because I don't know that is white, clear kind of.
Yeah. It's gross. Yeah, buddy.
And you can eat it just like you eat pimples. Yeah. But what?
All right, let's go find Luca. Let's go.
Right, right, right, right, right, right. Oh, these are so good.
Don't, don't stop. She's one of the trash, but she's one of the trash, but she's one of the trash.
Oh. Hi. We found them.
We didn't have to go that far. Yeah. Because you took freaking forever, bro.
What? We're here. Let me shoot a ShortCircuit and then you guys can't have a meeting or talk on the WAN set
because my ShortCircuit sets right beside WAN set.
Is he, is he seriously trying to turn this around on me?
Yeah, it's obviously your fault. Oh my God.
Listen, you guys were there.
You guys were there. You saw everything.
No. No. I was not going to get away with this.
Show the clock when he was done filming ShortCircuit.
It was 420. It was actually 420. It was WAN, sorry?
It was at 420. Oh, that's so interesting. It's like we could have been ready on time if he wasn't filming four feet away from the
WAN set. Any rebuttal? He didn't hear.
What is he even talking about? It's been half an hour since then and I've been waiting on WAN set the whole time.
Oh. He just said, oh. There's no message in the chat.
I said we're ready whenever and I tagged you. I'm filming.
You're full. It's Sammy's fault. Nope.
It's Sammy's fault. I'm closing the door. I'm closing the door.
So anyways. Did he really tag you and say that he was like standing by and ready?
I guess. But I'll record inside. I didn't look at my phone.
You know what? I'm still going to take the W.
No, it's okay. You got the W. I got the W.
All right. Anyways. I got the dub.
Enjoy WAN. I will enjoy WAN. Bye.
It'll be great. Have a wonderful weekend, sir. Careful.
I almost died. Not at work. No, no, no.
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