April 17, 2025 • 39 mins
Puzzle might’ve woken up to thunder… but the real storm is in Aisle 3.
In Episode 21 of Gamify This, the grocery battle concludes in Gamify Grocery Shopping: Part Two! With Puzzle shaking off a pre-show nap (thanks to a booming thunderstorm), the gang dives back into Cart-partmentalizing—Sean and Samuel’s team effort to turn grocery shopping into a high-stakes organizational game. This time, they put their system to the test: Can timed zones and strategic sorting survive the chaos of a real supermarket run? Meanwhile, Puzzle, still half-dazed from the storm, drops wild commentary and keeps the energy unpredictable. Will teamwork prevail, or will the pressure of the checkout lane split the alliance? Grab your reusable bags and tune in for the final verdict—no fictional twists, just the hilarious (and slightly unhinged) reality of gamified errands!"
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Introduction
06:31 - Welcome back to Grocery Shopping
08:46 - Round 3: Beat the Rush
20:41 - POP QUIZ!
26:46 - Round 4: Dietary Restrictions
28:09 - Horrible Golf Analogies
33:22 - Hazards
37:55 - The Scores and the Winner
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
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(00:00):
Welcome back to Gamify This, thepodcast game show featuring the
artist Samuel the gamer Sean theNerd puzzle.
Join us as we compete to come upwith the best Gamify solutions
(00:20):
to our daily experiences on Gamify This.
Welcome back to Gamify this. This is our first second Part 2
parter of the first Part 2 parter that we've ever done.
So I don't know if we had out, we had the regular intro for we
had a last time on Gamify this or what, but welcome back.
(00:41):
I'm going to hit you. OK, so since last time a lot of
things have happened. Sean lost his camera, Samuel got
a haircut and I put a blanket upin the office.
And it's only been a week. It's only been a week and we're
different colors. I'm pink, John's green, puzzles
purple. Even though Puzzle and I are in
the same room, we have a partition.
(01:02):
Now also, Michael said somethingabout how I have regressed.
Your camera, your camera has regressed.
No, I take. That as a personal insult.
Well you should. You should be using your better
camera. Take it as an insult.
He left it in his car and his dad stole his car and is
shopping with it. Puzzle.
I feel like I'm a little Hilter skilter.
What do you mean? I think your camera is perfectly
(01:24):
balanced, as all things should be.
Well, except I don't know if we want a good balance of terrorism
and peace. I think we should just have
peace. OK, so it's hyperbolic, Sean,
like all things should be. Wait, I don't know about that.
Another note to the audience, ifI look like I just woke up, it's
(01:47):
because I did. I took a very good nap, a very
deep nap, and I woke up after Samuel apparently called me 3
times. Five times.
I said I had three missed calls,Samuel and.
I was going to FaceTime you and discord you.
It took me sending a Thunder. I had to call.
God, and there was a loud rumbleof Thunder right on top of the
(02:11):
house. It sounded like a cannon went
off above the house. Yikes.
There was a there was a shockwave after the Thunder.
It was a boom. Did that wake you up, Michael?
Yeah. Oh wow.
That's why Sam was saying he sent the Thunder to me to wake
me up. OK, no, it I, I think either a
transformer exploded or a tree exploded.
(02:31):
It was an explosion of some kind.
I remember the first time I saw a transformer blow up.
I was like, I see it. You see it first and then you
hear it. So I'm like in the house.
I see a loud flash outside. I'm like, that's going to be
loud. And I was, and I was like, well,
that was weird. Recently I was downtown years
later and I was walking around and I heard.
(02:57):
Yeah, look up just in time because this broad.
Daylight. I've never seen something.
Blow up in broad daylight. Yeah.
And it's just like this, A cloudof smoke above double it.
And yeah. Tough of the and the.
Michael saw a motorcycle explodeone time.
Oh gosh, yeah, you did? Yeah, it was crazy.
(03:18):
I don't know if there was a wreck beforehand, but I was
coming down the exit to our apartment at the time.
It was a traffic light. It was a red light.
The motorcycle was coming to a stop and the guy jumped off the
motorcycle and ran and the motorcycle exploded.
And there was a police car just two or three cars behind.
And they turned on their lights and pulled over and, like, asked
(03:39):
the motorcycle driver if they'reOK, like the motorcycle or the
motorcyclist pulled the motorcycle onto the curb thing.
It's a weird intersection. I can't even begin to describe
it, but pulled it where no traffic would be, which was very
responsible. And he, like, did a Sprint
somersault thing into a into like a squat.
And the motorcycle exploded. And he just sat there.
Like, he just sat there like this.
(04:00):
Yeah. So.
Frustrated because those are. Having a motorcycle.
It's like almost having a horse.It's like.
Almost having a horse but without the emotional
connection. Well, no, that's the only thing
that it that. You mean without the emotional
connection on the side of the motorcycle?
No, stop. You are wrong.
Oh no. The wind of God.
(04:22):
Hey Sean, Puzzle and I were talking about doing some skits.
Yeah, yeah. Like I want to do, yeah.
And the place where we have the most traction, the most views,
the most constant views, even without releasing stuff, is the
family. And so we could come up with
some really dumb stuff, and I'm going to make a live action
(04:43):
Larry Boy all about the origins of Larry A.
Horrible idea. It'll it'll have the vibes.
It'll have the slightly nostalgic but also horrifyingly
creepy vibes of the first Mario movie I feel like.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I, I really just
want to really embrace making fun of how messed up nostalgic
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can be. Well, he's, he's a, he's a, his
day job. He's a plumber, but he's also a
Sunday school teacher, and he tries to use vegetables for his
demonstrations. And his main story is about a
pickle named Goliath and a little asparagus named David.
(05:26):
And the way he like, you know, he goes through a lot of
disappointment and stuff. And then his pickle that he
always wants to use for his demonstrations, it becomes
electrified and he takes on its DNA somehow.
And he becomes, and the problem is, the problem is it's a
cucumber. It's a cucumber that he's trying
to have as galette, but everyone's calling it a pickle.
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And so this cucumber does get pickled in this electric fire.
Larry the cucumber is a cucumber.
Then how is he demonstrating thestory of David and Goliath with
a cucumber? No, no, he's a person.
Why? This is a guy named Lawrence.
It's it's Lawrence, but he becomes Larry Boy.
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It is the origin story about thepower pickle and he starts using
his plumbing skills to save the world and bring back Sunday
school. Bring back Sunday.
School back Sunday school. You know, I think this has the
potential to go somewhere, OK. So welcome back to Gamify
(06:35):
Grocery Shopping. If I want to give you, if I want
to give you, I will give you a brief summary of what was.
Are you OK, Sean? So usually when we start gamify
this, I do like some crazy thingwith my body.
I didn't want to do that this time so I'm just making a weird
face. Gotcha.
OK, So in the first round round,not first round.
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In the first part of this episode, round one, we covered
the psychology of shopping and deciding what to put in your
cart. And the solution to that was
cart mentalizing. The problem was compulsion
buying. And the solution was always put
items in a cart, either the physical cart or the mental cart
in your head, which can be either, you know, however helps
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you putting things into a note, putting things into an app like
the Walmart app, whatever, either putting it in the
physical cart or putting it in amental cart.
But always putting every item that you are considering in a
place so you don't feel it in the back of your mind annoying
you for the rest of the shoppingtrip.
Round 2 was budgeting. The problem was how to know I
have the best deal or how can I afford this.
(07:43):
And the solution was very long and convoluted.
It took about half an hour to 40minutes.
And Sean tried his best to summarize it, but I've written
down here the solution is roundsand hub two games.
Variety or precision? Variety helps the process.
Bring a friend intake outtake list to store based on budget.
OK, let me let me explain. This No, no.
(08:07):
So we're just moving on from that round because you did the
OK, let me explain this five or seven times.
And do you know, do you remember?
Do you know what? Do you know what it was?
Do you remember? I just wanted to say I was
trying to summarize everything about the game we know.
I forgot that we were doing a specific problem at this point,
(08:28):
because at this point we were all drunk, dead and tired.
Samuel was snoring. Yeah, he.
Was that happened to me last night too, at the bar with a
bunch of comedians standing around me.
Aw, I noticed he came home pretty early anyway.
OK, so if you guys are ready, we're going to move on to Round
(08:51):
3, which is Beat the Rush. Now, since this episode will be
coming out near Thanksgiving, we're going to talk about the
possibility of crowds, long lines and things being out of
stock. Just the rush, the conflict of
holiday shopping while you're also trying to do your normal
(09:12):
shopping. So I don't remember how we were
doing it. How are we doing in the first
round? Because I wasn't giving guys
time to prepare. You guys were just discussing.
Yeah, we just discussed until wecame up with a simple gamified
solution to the problem. To our daily problems on gamify
this. My first question would be
(09:36):
choose whether you actually wantto beat the rush, because some
people kind of thrive on the excitement and the flexibility.
I think like for instance, a lotof people thrive on the chaos.
Character selection. This would.
Be in the menu in the hub if it's a holiday you get an extra
(09:58):
option about if you want to avoid the chaos or jump right
into it. As far as beating the rush, I
don't have any ideas on how to do that right now, except if you
have like daily schedules and, you know, like I'm going to go
shopping on Thursday. Try to do it earlier or later
(10:20):
than when the normal body of people is going to show up.
OK, so hoping that you have a flexible schedule so you can
shop at not normal hours. Yeah.
Like at 10 AM. But what about so, so one thing
I was trying to do in the first half was make a site,
(10:40):
one-size-fits-all solution. I, I made that point when Sam
was talking about always buying the highest quality foods.
I was like, this won't work for someone with a lower budget.
So this won't work for someone who has a normal work schedule,
which is honestly most people, you know, normal work schedule
is a wide range, but there's, there's a solid range where
people are off of work and that tends to be early morning, late
(11:01):
evening. So how would you help those who
have to go during the rush and they know that they are not a
person who enjoys that? I know, I know, OK.
So let's hear it. So every Thanksgiving I offered
to make the traditional macaroniand cheese, which is a very
(11:22):
traditional part of everyone's Thanksgiving dinner.
Apparently I chose this because I was like this is not going to
be sold out, this is going to beeasy for me to get wrong.
I could not find macaroni and cheese anywhere the first year I
tried this, but I did find this gluten free vegan healthy kind
of noodle that I can make the macaroni and cheese.
(11:44):
With. And I can find that every year
because I always wait till like the week of Thanksgiving to do
my Thanksgiving shop. OK, so your solution is buying
unconventional things. And then continuing to buy the
unconventionally look for what other people aren't looking for.
OK, but I call it sweet. I like the name.
(12:08):
Putting your cart before the source.
Oh nice, and the? Source is the source material of
traditional Thanksgiving dishes or whatever.
Sean, do you have anything to add or take away from that?
I wanted to add that you should understand what you want to buy
ahead of time, especially for holidays, and you want to
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actually go shopping ahead of time.
OK, that's that's those especially the know what you're
getting ahead of time was definitely covered in previous
rounds. So we probably don't need to
dwell on that too much. But what?
What was the second thing you said?
The second thing I said was try to shop ahead of time.
And this you can liken to, you know, the Among Us asteroid game
(12:55):
that you were supposed to do on a ship where you where you see
the asteroids come in and then you shoot them.
So Galaga. Beat Saber, Michael, It's like
Beat Saber. I think he's talking about Fruit
Ninja. Yeah, lightsabers and asteroids.
Fruit Ninja is a good analogy where you see a week ahead of
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time that you're going to need so many ingredients for your
Thanksgiving dinner and you're going to run out of toilet paper
because your house is going to explode because of COVID,
because that's how gas pipelineswork.
OK, so you see crises coming. You see crises coming anyway.
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The quicker you can get out there, the more points you get
every day between when you notice what you're going to need
and when you go to the store to get those things.
The point value decreases for for that accomplishment.
So you're going to get the most points by going the earliest or
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the closest to when you realize you're going to need those
things. So you're saying Samuel's idea
is shop for unconventional things and your idea is shop at
unconventional times? Well, that is.
Part of it, no. I'm I'm wrong?
It's a half baked idea. Ha ha ha ha.
(14:19):
Food pun cooking for Thanksgiving.
Shop at unconventional times if you can afford it, Michael,
that's one thing you can do. Shop early is the more possible
thing. I was trying to say it's
unconventional to shop for Thanksgiving dinner early.
Oh, OK. Well, in that case, yeah.
However many days between when you realize what you need and
(14:45):
when you're actually going to need it, each day is one point.
So like, if you realize it sevendays before you're going to need
it, there's seven possible points you can get for going to
the store and getting those things.
However, the closer you get to the time you're actually going
to need it, you're going to lose1 point per day.
So if you get it three days before Thanksgiving, you only
(15:06):
get 3 points. And this is the one point per
day in advance. Yeah.
So I I put down as a solution. You get one point per day in
advance, so shop early. Also, buy unconventional things
to avoid the rush. Yeah.
Nice, I like it. The article that I found by
howstuffworks.com. A couple of points that I liked
(15:27):
like neither of you brought up was here we are in the age the
technology age 2024. We can shop our groceries from
home. We can get them delivered or go
get them pickup trunk pickup like at Walmart, Target.
We can even deliver fresh produce without Amazon.
That would be giving other people extra work around the
holidays, which like you can have your own moral opinions
(15:48):
about that. But if you are a person, maybe
not us 3, but if you're a personwith extreme anxiety in crowds
and it will be crowded during this time, there are people who
are being paid to fulfill those services.
I'm anxious about someone comingto my house and I do not know.
Not a good solution for you so. So here's the thing.
(16:09):
We can put this in in in level selection.
I was thinking yes. I was thinking yes, absolutely
put that down as level selectionshape to ship.
That's when you really need to know what shipping is like at
that time and plan accordingly. Because come Christmas and
(16:29):
stuff, things are suddenly delayed far beyond what they're
estimated. We're having to, we're having to
really talk about strategies going into the competition and
stuff. At my store, they're talking
about any of these, you know, wood play sets, you know, things
that parents want to buy for their families this time of
year. If you order in November, it
(16:50):
will be there before Christmas. But they have to give that
guarantee, right? Yeah.
They have to get it so far in advance.
OK, sweet. Those are some solid, solid
points, Samuel, and you got somesolid points for that.
Another thing that they brought up, which is very akin to what
(17:10):
you brought up is shopping in unconventional places or
shopping at stores. You don't normally shop at a
more local supermarket. A AI forget I forget the word
for it, but like a a culture. Vendor.
Yes. Or a culture specific market
like the Hispanic market we had near our apartment, stuff like
that. Yeah, that was very
(17:31):
unconventional. They tend not to be very crowded
and they tend to have very high quality stuff, especially the
produce, because it tends to be more naturally grown and it'll
last longer in the fridge. So if you're taking Sean's
method where you're buying farther ahead of time, you can
you can get the more fresh stuffat a more real place compared to
like Walmart or Target or Amazon.
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My Mexican friend will call in sick to work and say you can't
come in. I ate a burrito last night and
I'm still on the toilet and I'm just going to be like dude don't
make me more racist than I already am.
Stop getting your food from Mexican food trucks.
OK. But one concern I would have
with that would be how affordable are local markets?
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They tend to be more affordable.I mean, so it depends on the
stuff. Like, yeah.
So like, if you compare apples to apples, they're a little more
expensive, but they're bigger and they're more nutritious.
They're not pumped full of preservatives and stuff, which
ironically enough, some preservatives make things age
faster, which is just hilarious depending on how you store them
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and stuff. But like we we got massive
avocados, massive mangoes, stufflike that for a couple cents
cheaper per pound. Like better value.
Yeah, we were getting bigger things per pound, so we were
spending more, but we were getting larger items.
So it's about worth it. But then also they have like
smaller companies, more local companies that make like, let's
(18:58):
say chips, tortillas, packaged goods like that that aren't name
brand or common brand that were just cheaper.
Maybe on the topic of thrifting,I'm buying bought some big chunk
of furniture for my bedroom because I'm redecorating it from
Ross. Oh yeah, Ross.
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Which is a good place to go to get a lot of cheaper stuff.
I also bought a pair of tennis shoes that I wasn't sure we're
going to fit me, but we're same quality as the kind of shoes I
like to buy a lot. Bouncier puzzles.
Never seen me in them since because they don't fit me, but
it was really fun for that firstday.
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I thought you were so excited about them fitting you.
Yes. Yeah, man.
I'm in. That was round three beat the
rush. So let me just summarize real
quick. The problem is during holidays
there are more people and thingsare out of stock and the
solution is you get one point per day in advance.
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So shop early by unconventional things to avoid the rush and
there are side points with character selection will
determine when you go shopping and level select will determine
where you do the shopping. Wait, did you say character
select will determine when you go shopping?
Yes, OK, well, it'll also determine if you want to jump
into chaos or not. Yeah, like, are you jumping in
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depending on your character, if you're if you are a person who
can shop at 10:00 or 11:00 AM when everyone is at work or on
lunch break, go for it. But if you're not that
character, you may not have thatoption twice.
So are you guys ready for the pop quiz?
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The. Favorite part of the episode
where the audience can engage? I forgot to mention that in
Ghost Hunting that the audience is supposed to check it out on
Spotify. But hey, you, if you're watching
or listening on Spotify, you cananswer this question before we
do and compare your answer to usand the correct you can compare
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your answer to us and the correct solution.
See if you're smarter than us ornot.
The question, Samuel, are you playing Duolingo or are you
going to be able to answer this question?
The question is how much time does the average American spend
in a grocery shopping trip? A 40 minutes.
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B 60 minutes. C 90 minutes.
I'll give you guys a couple seconds to think about it and
I'll count from 3:00 to 1:00 andthen you'll say the letter, not
number, the letter of your answer.
Do you have your solutions? Yep.
All right, 321. A-40.
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And Sean texted me C All right, so on average, Americans spend
40 minutes in a grocery shopping, 40 minutes in a
grocery store per trip. A survey by Dr. Research found
that the distribution of time spent in a grocery store is 35%
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of people spend less than 30 minutes, 39% of people spend 30
to 44 minutes, and 27% of peoplespend a little over 45 minutes.
Do you know how I knew this? So the median range is 40
minutes, Yeah. Because on average I spend 60
minutes in the store and whoeverI park next to is not the person
there when I go back out to my car.
(22:36):
And on average, I go into the store and the people get changed
out in that 60 minutes. Yeah, I'm normally in and out of
a store in about half an hour, but that's because I'm very
analytical and I have I I createa plan before I.
Go. And that would make it harder
for you to gauge how long other people are because you only have
enough time to think about yourself.
Whoa. Well then, OK, that's definitely
(22:57):
an opinion. And both of us go back to our
car lonely because the girl who parked next to us isn't there.
OK, I was about. To take points away for you for
being mean. But now you're sad, all right.
Same. Like it's the ten extra.
Points take. More points take.
More points take more no? No, Make him sad.
Make him sad. Make him sad.
Make him sad. Make him sad.
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Make him sad. Make him sad.
So Samuel gets 10 points for getting the pop quiz, right.
All right, Samuel, you're reallygood at standing still.
I can't tell if your camera's frozen or if you're doing that.
His eyes are moving. His eyes are moving.
OK. OK.
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I'm working on it that. Was really good.
It was. I was drooling almost.
OK. Do you want me to tell you what
Chad GBT thought that your guys's solutions were going to
be for the time management round?
This is the Samuel is going to incorporate creative strategies
for time efficiency, such as identifying high traffic areas
in the store or using unconventional shopping methods,
(24:00):
which Samuel did. And it assumed that Sean was
going to gamify the store layoutas a map with checkpoints and
obstacles, and the player must optimize their route to get
through the store quickly. That sounds more like a me thing
and less like a Sean thing. I'm going to be honest.
I have done that before though, yeah.
Not with this game, but with different ones.
True, true, true. All right, so.
I've noticed so far, I don't know if you guys have, but I've
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noticed so far season 2 has beena lot different from season 1
because season 1 we were just coming up with games like video
games and then ads. For it, I don't know if it's
better or worse for me. Michael, what's that face mean?
I don't know if it's better or worse.
I mean, I'm going to have like ahuge scar.
(24:42):
Across. My face like this when I is
going to be going outside. You almost always put things in
tautologies or not necessarily, or oh, that's OK and.
There's going to be like stuff floating around.
That's because I'm being funny. That's not because I'm trying to
say something meaningful to you,because I know you won't take it
as anything meaningful because you don't do that.
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Well, it doesn't sound like it now.
And puzzle will up upload himself to the cloud.
The Sean is just going to be an amoeba feelings sitting in a
gamer chair going squish squash and grabbing potato chips from
the. Air Michael, I know you have
feelings. I just got mad because you said
(25:24):
that I know nothing and it's always because of how I speak.
That's my sad face up close. Well, that happens when you
insult people. I didn't insult you, I just
thought it was funny that often times on the podcast while we're
recording, if you disagree with something, you don't outright
state it. You're just like, well, maybe,
maybe not, or Oh yeah or no, like it's better or worse.
(25:48):
That's fair. I think that is particularly
because I'm conflict averse and I get scared of, you know,
beating people. I think Samuel is getting
vacuumed into the camera. The microphone looks tiny next
to you. I.
Noticed that it's weird. Is it because I'm having an
aneurysm? Were you?
(26:09):
Holding your breath. Wow.
OK, so for this for this round, I want you guys to make it as
gamey as possible. Make sure to talk about points,
make sure to talk about things and other stuff.
And Game 5, Boo Boo Boo. Because Samuel thinks that this
episode is no good and that the season is no good and that we
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need to go back to our old ways or else we're going to just
regress until we devolve into just a little shrimp in the
ground and grow into a beautifulshrimp tree.
I think all he said was that it's different and I'm like, I
think it's better or worse. I don't know.
It is and isn't. All right, so round 4 is dietary
restrictions. The problem is navigating
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dietary restrictions while gathering ingredients for
Thanksgiving. Anyone have any immediate
thoughts on that? I say your my diet is based on
my budget, so I cannot afford tobe fire farting forever.
That toilet paper? That stainless steel toilet
paper you're going to need for fire?
(27:13):
Fart. Stainless steel paper.
He's talking about steel wool. Wipe with steel.
Wool. Find the chewiest Turkey.
No one else is going to buy it, but it's OK to eat it.
Find the chewiest chick Turkey so that it is gamey as possible.
No, that's not what. I That was amazing.
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That's. Not what I meant by making.
It put it in your freezer a yearearly, after the after the
Turkey's like gone on sale afterThanksgiving, and it's gonna be
in your freezer for a year and then you bought it.
It's gonna be more gamey than you can comprehend.
Then you can gobble, gobble, gobble, and it'll take several
(27:58):
swallows. Did I do it right?
Do I get 10 points? I give you 5 points for being
hilarious but. OK, Michael.
This is a category I. Have an idea?
This approach is going to take into account both dieting and
budget, and the way you're goingto do this is you're going to
(28:19):
think of it like golf every time.
Give me a second. Oh.
No give. Me a second.
If you need to research or get an AI to summarize your ideas,
you may do those things. We do have tools that can help
us. OK, Michael, I'm ready to try my
(28:40):
idea again. Yeah.
So every time you get a less healthy item because of budget
reasons, that's like doing 1 stroke in golf.
And so you're trying to get to the end with as little strokes
as possible. OK, sorry, don't think about
that sign in the resort, just don't do.
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It I was just thinking without very much, yeah.
Dude this is going to be a very short episode if we cut all the
inappropriate stuff after. 4:00 Grab a.
After four. Pick up the give a penalty.
Stop. That sign was horrible anyway.
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We're cutting that out. Act like none of that was said.
Continue. You have a par bar on the top as
you're going grocery shopping and you're trying to hit like
however many strokes for this hole, every however many putts
for this stroke and. And you're going to want to.
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I have such a good idea. I just can't words.
You set a goal for yourself, a par bar, OK.
Par bar, par bar, par bar. I love par.
Bar We love the par bar. OK.
And much. Fun.
And you set as many strokes as you think you can have on the
par bar. You're going to want to try and
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hit par or lower. When you get to the end of the
course, that's when you leave the store.
You want to leave the store withas many healthy items as
possible with the least amount of compromise.
But you're going to need to do some compromises to get you a
little further. So the uh huh.
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Remember, this is about allergies and dietary dietary
restrictions, not about expensive things.
Allergies, yeah. Go ahead, Michael.
Oh, I forgot, I'm the host. Yeah.
So you can keep that par bar idea.
I like the par bar idea, but youtake a massive stroke, you take
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a massive panel penalty if you you take a massive penalty if
you're bringing a food that is adetriment to someone else's
health or, you know, a food thatthey're just going to have to
avoid, you know, either way, it's a bad day for them.
They're going to eat a food that's bad for them or they're
going to not be able to partake in eating it like.
If you have a wife and you kill her with a peanut.
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No, stop. No.
If you, if you have a wife and you kill her with a peanut, oh,
if you bring foods that people can't eat, they're going to be
unhappy and or in gastrointestinal distress like I
have been for the past week and a half because the
refrigerator's broken and I'm eating spoiled food all the
time. Sean.
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Samuel, I need you to talk. Samuel.
Some people will have spiritual distress over certain things.
OK, you know somebody there who is really opposed to alcohol?
Well, sparkling grape juice. Really good.
OK, I like to pretend it is. After I've had a few drugs, I
can enjoy it. Huh.
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And then there's regular cider that I mean, special cider.
That's not hard. You can, you got to know, like,
OK, I got to make something. You got to get creative.
So buy a Turkey that's vegan friendly.
What? Buy a Turkey that's gluten free
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and it is also healthy. So ChatGPT, your whole your
whole plan. Is so ChatGPT.
Well, my whole plan is figure out what all those things are,
realize you have to make it yourself, and then you're going
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to have to buy the ingredients for it, and then explain that to
ChatGPT so she can put it together for you to do.
That OK, Michael, I have an idea.
One more thing. I wasn't done.
OK, The dinner bell rings, and every time the bell rings, a
vegan gets his beans because they're going to have to eat
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that. What?
The fuck? That's so stupid.
I love it. Do I get points for being
stupid? Michael, yeah, I have an idea.
Yeah. So you are going to be going
through this scary environment with all of these obstacles that
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you need to avoid. The obstacles being like sharp
rocks, weird rivers, snakes, whatever.
Those are the things that you orthe person you're living with do
not like or it's going to kill. Them hazards, OK.
Hazards and you get a point every time you were tempted to
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buy something and you didn't because one of you wouldn't like
it. And you get an extra five points
at the start for talking to the person and an extra five points
for talking to yourself. Actually figuring out what these
obstacles are where they are charting them loose.
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Sorry you're. Just.
Microphone yourself. You mute.
Give me a second. Can you see this?
No, hang on hold. It still hold it still.
Let me show it, Sean. It's literally a blank page.
Look at the screenshot. It's literally a blank page.
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Oh, no. The audience will see it,
though. Explain it to them all, right?
So I've drawn a circle with dotson it.
This is the simple thing. You have a map before you go
into the store and when you talkto yourself and write down the
write down or remember the things that you don't like or
are going to kill you and talk to your, you know, the people
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you live with. Every time you do that, every
specific thing you want to avoidis charted out as an obstacle so
that it's a lot easier to avoid them.
So this way you get extra pointsfor preparing like just five
points flat out, and you are more likely to get points when
you're in the store because you're more likely to avoid
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these obstacles. Perfect.
I want to tell you guys something really funny.
ChatGPT suggested that Samuel's approach would be developing a
visual safe zone map marking aisles with products that you
need to avoid, and Sean's approach would be finding
ingredient substitutes while sticking to the original meal
concept. I was the other way.
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Around You had those exact ideas.
We did the opposite. Sean came up with a map and
Samuel was talking about the substitutes.
Have you given it information about us?
No. Does it know where I live?
No. Where does Samuel live?
Oh no. What does it say?
I'm really curious what. It was OK.
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So this was the final round, thedietary restrictions round.
I wonder where I live. I'm scared to know where I live
now. I hope it's not scary.
Look out the window. Puzzle puzzle, said the prayer
that the the the experts had to say.
And then a face showed up in my window.
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But it wasn't true. All right, so I'm going to tell
you up the points. So I had a few more levels to
this. There's a lively list that's
something that you can make to help you really have a concise
list. There's preliminary pricing,
that's where, you know, way ahead of the holiday season what
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there's going to be. There's build to budget.
That means you've already figured out how much you're
going to buy and then how much you're going to make for
yourself. And that's because the Internet
thought that I meant it thought that I was looking for a
solution for Christmas specifically meaning like
Christmas presents and that sortof thing, which we didn't say.
We were exclusively talking about food.
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Nobody would say grocery shopping.
This is Gamify Grocery shopping Part 2.
And then the last one was shape to ship.
That means you understand what the shipping schedule is going
to be like and you have sort of a plan about that stuff.
I see Sean, your solution has actual backing on on online.
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So this article supports both the idea of going earlier and
the idea of going with the knot stereotypical stuff.
So I can suggest, you know, getting a ham for Thanksgiving
or something, which is is a lot closer to Samuel's idea and also
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says, yeah, go early, like a fewdays before the rush is going to
happen. Oh my gosh, guys, you're not
going to believe it. We're going to have to do a
round 3 because. The final scores have been
tallied up and it looks like there's a one point difference.
Sean ended this game with 49 points and Samuel ended this
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game with 48 points. Sean was this game's winner.
Sean's battle cry, apparently. He was about to quit the whole
game and find this experience. No, no.
He was bracing himself. No, I I was ready for you to be
like, it looks like Sean's goingto win, but no.
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Samuel got 50. Did that last article get me
points? Yes.
Oh, how many? Five, I told you there's a 5
point research bonus. You were going to lose with 44
points in Samuel's 48, but you actually backed up yours with
research. Oh my gosh, that was a split
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second decision 5 seconds beforewe ended.
Anyway, TuneIn next episode to hear Sean post an episode for
the first time in a very long time.
I think the last one he hosted was Anger, which was 4 episodes
ago. Sean's going to come back with
full fury and rage and host an episode.
For us. Oh yeah.
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Follow Puzzle on Puzzle MTM on YouTube and Twitch and
everywhere, everywhere else I'm follow Sean.
Oh, I'm going. To take turns around circle.
Follow Sean sometime Tomato. Potatoes.com.
And follow Samuel on Moser Meadows records on YouTube,
Samuel Claus Tuner on Instagram,and as we always say at the end
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of these episodes. I have to say that thank you for
saying those socials, Mr. Moser,and as we always say at the end
of these episodes. Game.
Over.
Welcome back to Gamify This, thepodcast game show featuring the
artist Samuel the gamer Sean theNerd puzzle.
Join us as we compete to come upwith the best Gamify solutions
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to our daily experiences on Gamify This.
Welcome back to Gamify this. This is our first second Part 2
parter of the first Part 2 parter that we've ever done.
So I don't know if we had out, we had the regular intro for we
had a last time on Gamify this or what, but welcome back.
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I'm going to hit you. OK, so since last time a lot of
things have happened. Sean lost his camera, Samuel got
a haircut and I put a blanket upin the office.
And it's only been a week. It's only been a week and we're
different colors. I'm pink, John's green, puzzles
purple. Even though Puzzle and I are in
the same room, we have a partition.
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Now also, Michael said somethingabout how I have regressed.
Your camera, your camera has regressed.
No, I take. That as a personal insult.
Well you should. You should be using your better
camera. Take it as an insult.
He left it in his car and his dad stole his car and is
shopping with it. Puzzle.
I feel like I'm a little Hilter skilter.
What do you mean? I think your camera is perfectly
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balanced, as all things should be.
Well, except I don't know if we want a good balance of terrorism
and peace. I think we should just have
peace. OK, so it's hyperbolic, Sean,
like all things should be. Wait, I don't know about that.
Another note to the audience, ifI look like I just woke up, it's
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because I did. I took a very good nap, a very
deep nap, and I woke up after Samuel apparently called me 3
times. Five times.
I said I had three missed calls,Samuel and.
I was going to FaceTime you and discord you.
It took me sending a Thunder. I had to call.
God, and there was a loud rumbleof Thunder right on top of the
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house. It sounded like a cannon went
off above the house. Yikes.
There was a there was a shockwave after the Thunder.
It was a boom. Did that wake you up, Michael?
Yeah. Oh wow.
That's why Sam was saying he sent the Thunder to me to wake
me up. OK, no, it I, I think either a
transformer exploded or a tree exploded.
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It was an explosion of some kind.
I remember the first time I saw a transformer blow up.
I was like, I see it. You see it first and then you
hear it. So I'm like in the house.
I see a loud flash outside. I'm like, that's going to be
loud. And I was, and I was like, well,
that was weird. Recently I was downtown years
later and I was walking around and I heard.
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Yeah, look up just in time because this broad.
Daylight. I've never seen something.
Blow up in broad daylight. Yeah.
And it's just like this, A cloudof smoke above double it.
And yeah. Tough of the and the.
Michael saw a motorcycle explodeone time.
Oh gosh, yeah, you did? Yeah, it was crazy.
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I don't know if there was a wreck beforehand, but I was
coming down the exit to our apartment at the time.
It was a traffic light. It was a red light.
The motorcycle was coming to a stop and the guy jumped off the
motorcycle and ran and the motorcycle exploded.
And there was a police car just two or three cars behind.
And they turned on their lights and pulled over and, like, asked
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the motorcycle driver if they'reOK, like the motorcycle or the
motorcyclist pulled the motorcycle onto the curb thing.
It's a weird intersection. I can't even begin to describe
it, but pulled it where no traffic would be, which was very
responsible. And he, like, did a Sprint
somersault thing into a into like a squat.
And the motorcycle exploded. And he just sat there.
Like, he just sat there like this.
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Yeah. So.
Frustrated because those are. Having a motorcycle.
It's like almost having a horse.It's like.
Almost having a horse but without the emotional
connection. Well, no, that's the only thing
that it that. You mean without the emotional
connection on the side of the motorcycle?
No, stop. You are wrong.
Oh no. The wind of God.
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Hey Sean, Puzzle and I were talking about doing some skits.
Yeah, yeah. Like I want to do, yeah.
And the place where we have the most traction, the most views,
the most constant views, even without releasing stuff, is the
family. And so we could come up with
some really dumb stuff, and I'm going to make a live action
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Larry Boy all about the origins of Larry A.
Horrible idea. It'll it'll have the vibes.
It'll have the slightly nostalgic but also horrifyingly
creepy vibes of the first Mario movie I feel like.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I, I really just
want to really embrace making fun of how messed up nostalgic
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can be. Well, he's, he's a, he's a, his
day job. He's a plumber, but he's also a
Sunday school teacher, and he tries to use vegetables for his
demonstrations. And his main story is about a
pickle named Goliath and a little asparagus named David.
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And the way he like, you know, he goes through a lot of
disappointment and stuff. And then his pickle that he
always wants to use for his demonstrations, it becomes
electrified and he takes on its DNA somehow.
And he becomes, and the problem is, the problem is it's a
cucumber. It's a cucumber that he's trying
to have as galette, but everyone's calling it a pickle.
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And so this cucumber does get pickled in this electric fire.
Larry the cucumber is a cucumber.
Then how is he demonstrating thestory of David and Goliath with
a cucumber? No, no, he's a person.
Why? This is a guy named Lawrence.
It's it's Lawrence, but he becomes Larry Boy.
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It is the origin story about thepower pickle and he starts using
his plumbing skills to save the world and bring back Sunday
school. Bring back Sunday.
School back Sunday school. You know, I think this has the
potential to go somewhere, OK. So welcome back to Gamify
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Grocery Shopping. If I want to give you, if I want
to give you, I will give you a brief summary of what was.
Are you OK, Sean? So usually when we start gamify
this, I do like some crazy thingwith my body.
I didn't want to do that this time so I'm just making a weird
face. Gotcha.
OK, So in the first round round,not first round.
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In the first part of this episode, round one, we covered
the psychology of shopping and deciding what to put in your
cart. And the solution to that was
cart mentalizing. The problem was compulsion
buying. And the solution was always put
items in a cart, either the physical cart or the mental cart
in your head, which can be either, you know, however helps
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you putting things into a note, putting things into an app like
the Walmart app, whatever, either putting it in the
physical cart or putting it in amental cart.
But always putting every item that you are considering in a
place so you don't feel it in the back of your mind annoying
you for the rest of the shoppingtrip.
Round 2 was budgeting. The problem was how to know I
have the best deal or how can I afford this.
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And the solution was very long and convoluted.
It took about half an hour to 40minutes.
And Sean tried his best to summarize it, but I've written
down here the solution is roundsand hub two games.
Variety or precision? Variety helps the process.
Bring a friend intake outtake list to store based on budget.
OK, let me let me explain. This No, no.
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So we're just moving on from that round because you did the
OK, let me explain this five or seven times.
And do you know, do you remember?
Do you know what? Do you know what it was?
Do you remember? I just wanted to say I was
trying to summarize everything about the game we know.
I forgot that we were doing a specific problem at this point,
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because at this point we were all drunk, dead and tired.
Samuel was snoring. Yeah, he.
Was that happened to me last night too, at the bar with a
bunch of comedians standing around me.
Aw, I noticed he came home pretty early anyway.
OK, so if you guys are ready, we're going to move on to Round
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3, which is Beat the Rush. Now, since this episode will be
coming out near Thanksgiving, we're going to talk about the
possibility of crowds, long lines and things being out of
stock. Just the rush, the conflict of
holiday shopping while you're also trying to do your normal
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shopping. So I don't remember how we were
doing it. How are we doing in the first
round? Because I wasn't giving guys
time to prepare. You guys were just discussing.
Yeah, we just discussed until wecame up with a simple gamified
solution to the problem. To our daily problems on gamify
this. My first question would be
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choose whether you actually wantto beat the rush, because some
people kind of thrive on the excitement and the flexibility.
I think like for instance, a lotof people thrive on the chaos.
Character selection. This would.
Be in the menu in the hub if it's a holiday you get an extra
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option about if you want to avoid the chaos or jump right
into it. As far as beating the rush, I
don't have any ideas on how to do that right now, except if you
have like daily schedules and, you know, like I'm going to go
shopping on Thursday. Try to do it earlier or later
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than when the normal body of people is going to show up.
OK, so hoping that you have a flexible schedule so you can
shop at not normal hours. Yeah.
Like at 10 AM. But what about so, so one thing
I was trying to do in the first half was make a site,
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one-size-fits-all solution. I, I made that point when Sam
was talking about always buying the highest quality foods.
I was like, this won't work for someone with a lower budget.
So this won't work for someone who has a normal work schedule,
which is honestly most people, you know, normal work schedule
is a wide range, but there's, there's a solid range where
people are off of work and that tends to be early morning, late
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evening. So how would you help those who
have to go during the rush and they know that they are not a
person who enjoys that? I know, I know, OK.
So let's hear it. So every Thanksgiving I offered
to make the traditional macaroniand cheese, which is a very
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traditional part of everyone's Thanksgiving dinner.
Apparently I chose this because I was like this is not going to
be sold out, this is going to beeasy for me to get wrong.
I could not find macaroni and cheese anywhere the first year I
tried this, but I did find this gluten free vegan healthy kind
of noodle that I can make the macaroni and cheese.
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With. And I can find that every year
because I always wait till like the week of Thanksgiving to do
my Thanksgiving shop. OK, so your solution is buying
unconventional things. And then continuing to buy the
unconventionally look for what other people aren't looking for.
OK, but I call it sweet. I like the name.
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Putting your cart before the source.
Oh nice, and the? Source is the source material of
traditional Thanksgiving dishes or whatever.
Sean, do you have anything to add or take away from that?
I wanted to add that you should understand what you want to buy
ahead of time, especially for holidays, and you want to
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actually go shopping ahead of time.
OK, that's that's those especially the know what you're
getting ahead of time was definitely covered in previous
rounds. So we probably don't need to
dwell on that too much. But what?
What was the second thing you said?
The second thing I said was try to shop ahead of time.
And this you can liken to, you know, the Among Us asteroid game
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that you were supposed to do on a ship where you where you see
the asteroids come in and then you shoot them.
So Galaga. Beat Saber, Michael, It's like
Beat Saber. I think he's talking about Fruit
Ninja. Yeah, lightsabers and asteroids.
Fruit Ninja is a good analogy where you see a week ahead of
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time that you're going to need so many ingredients for your
Thanksgiving dinner and you're going to run out of toilet paper
because your house is going to explode because of COVID,
because that's how gas pipelineswork.
OK, so you see crises coming. You see crises coming anyway.
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The quicker you can get out there, the more points you get
every day between when you notice what you're going to need
and when you go to the store to get those things.
The point value decreases for for that accomplishment.
So you're going to get the most points by going the earliest or
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the closest to when you realize you're going to need those
things. So you're saying Samuel's idea
is shop for unconventional things and your idea is shop at
unconventional times? Well, that is.
Part of it, no. I'm I'm wrong?
It's a half baked idea. Ha ha ha ha.
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Food pun cooking for Thanksgiving.
Shop at unconventional times if you can afford it, Michael,
that's one thing you can do. Shop early is the more possible
thing. I was trying to say it's
unconventional to shop for Thanksgiving dinner early.
Oh, OK. Well, in that case, yeah.
However many days between when you realize what you need and
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when you're actually going to need it, each day is one point.
So like, if you realize it sevendays before you're going to need
it, there's seven possible points you can get for going to
the store and getting those things.
However, the closer you get to the time you're actually going
to need it, you're going to lose1 point per day.
So if you get it three days before Thanksgiving, you only
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get 3 points. And this is the one point per
day in advance. Yeah.
So I I put down as a solution. You get one point per day in
advance, so shop early. Also, buy unconventional things
to avoid the rush. Yeah.
Nice, I like it. The article that I found by
howstuffworks.com. A couple of points that I liked
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like neither of you brought up was here we are in the age the
technology age 2024. We can shop our groceries from
home. We can get them delivered or go
get them pickup trunk pickup like at Walmart, Target.
We can even deliver fresh produce without Amazon.
That would be giving other people extra work around the
holidays, which like you can have your own moral opinions
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about that. But if you are a person, maybe
not us 3, but if you're a personwith extreme anxiety in crowds
and it will be crowded during this time, there are people who
are being paid to fulfill those services.
I'm anxious about someone comingto my house and I do not know.
Not a good solution for you so. So here's the thing.
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We can put this in in in level selection.
I was thinking yes. I was thinking yes, absolutely
put that down as level selectionshape to ship.
That's when you really need to know what shipping is like at
that time and plan accordingly. Because come Christmas and
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stuff, things are suddenly delayed far beyond what they're
estimated. We're having to, we're having to
really talk about strategies going into the competition and
stuff. At my store, they're talking
about any of these, you know, wood play sets, you know, things
that parents want to buy for their families this time of
year. If you order in November, it
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will be there before Christmas. But they have to give that
guarantee, right? Yeah.
They have to get it so far in advance.
OK, sweet. Those are some solid, solid
points, Samuel, and you got somesolid points for that.
Another thing that they brought up, which is very akin to what
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you brought up is shopping in unconventional places or
shopping at stores. You don't normally shop at a
more local supermarket. A AI forget I forget the word
for it, but like a a culture. Vendor.
Yes. Or a culture specific market
like the Hispanic market we had near our apartment, stuff like
that. Yeah, that was very
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unconventional. They tend not to be very crowded
and they tend to have very high quality stuff, especially the
produce, because it tends to be more naturally grown and it'll
last longer in the fridge. So if you're taking Sean's
method where you're buying farther ahead of time, you can
you can get the more fresh stuffat a more real place compared to
like Walmart or Target or Amazon.
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My Mexican friend will call in sick to work and say you can't
come in. I ate a burrito last night and
I'm still on the toilet and I'm just going to be like dude don't
make me more racist than I already am.
Stop getting your food from Mexican food trucks.
OK. But one concern I would have
with that would be how affordable are local markets?
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They tend to be more affordable.I mean, so it depends on the
stuff. Like, yeah.
So like, if you compare apples to apples, they're a little more
expensive, but they're bigger and they're more nutritious.
They're not pumped full of preservatives and stuff, which
ironically enough, some preservatives make things age
faster, which is just hilarious depending on how you store them
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and stuff. But like we we got massive
avocados, massive mangoes, stufflike that for a couple cents
cheaper per pound. Like better value.
Yeah, we were getting bigger things per pound, so we were
spending more, but we were getting larger items.
So it's about worth it. But then also they have like
smaller companies, more local companies that make like, let's
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say chips, tortillas, packaged goods like that that aren't name
brand or common brand that were just cheaper.
Maybe on the topic of thrifting,I'm buying bought some big chunk
of furniture for my bedroom because I'm redecorating it from
Ross. Oh yeah, Ross.
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Which is a good place to go to get a lot of cheaper stuff.
I also bought a pair of tennis shoes that I wasn't sure we're
going to fit me, but we're same quality as the kind of shoes I
like to buy a lot. Bouncier puzzles.
Never seen me in them since because they don't fit me, but
it was really fun for that firstday.
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I thought you were so excited about them fitting you.
Yes. Yeah, man.
I'm in. That was round three beat the
rush. So let me just summarize real
quick. The problem is during holidays
there are more people and thingsare out of stock and the
solution is you get one point per day in advance.
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So shop early by unconventional things to avoid the rush and
there are side points with character selection will
determine when you go shopping and level select will determine
where you do the shopping. Wait, did you say character
select will determine when you go shopping?
Yes, OK, well, it'll also determine if you want to jump
into chaos or not. Yeah, like, are you jumping in
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depending on your character, if you're if you are a person who
can shop at 10:00 or 11:00 AM when everyone is at work or on
lunch break, go for it. But if you're not that
character, you may not have thatoption twice.
So are you guys ready for the pop quiz?
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The. Favorite part of the episode
where the audience can engage? I forgot to mention that in
Ghost Hunting that the audience is supposed to check it out on
Spotify. But hey, you, if you're watching
or listening on Spotify, you cananswer this question before we
do and compare your answer to usand the correct you can compare
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your answer to us and the correct solution.
See if you're smarter than us ornot.
The question, Samuel, are you playing Duolingo or are you
going to be able to answer this question?
The question is how much time does the average American spend
in a grocery shopping trip? A 40 minutes.
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B 60 minutes. C 90 minutes.
I'll give you guys a couple seconds to think about it and
I'll count from 3:00 to 1:00 andthen you'll say the letter, not
number, the letter of your answer.
Do you have your solutions? Yep.
All right, 321. A-40.
(21:52):
And Sean texted me C All right, so on average, Americans spend
40 minutes in a grocery shopping, 40 minutes in a
grocery store per trip. A survey by Dr. Research found
that the distribution of time spent in a grocery store is 35%
(22:14):
of people spend less than 30 minutes, 39% of people spend 30
to 44 minutes, and 27% of peoplespend a little over 45 minutes.
Do you know how I knew this? So the median range is 40
minutes, Yeah. Because on average I spend 60
minutes in the store and whoeverI park next to is not the person
there when I go back out to my car.
(22:36):
And on average, I go into the store and the people get changed
out in that 60 minutes. Yeah, I'm normally in and out of
a store in about half an hour, but that's because I'm very
analytical and I have I I createa plan before I.
Go. And that would make it harder
for you to gauge how long other people are because you only have
enough time to think about yourself.
Whoa. Well then, OK, that's definitely
(22:57):
an opinion. And both of us go back to our
car lonely because the girl who parked next to us isn't there.
OK, I was about. To take points away for you for
being mean. But now you're sad, all right.
Same. Like it's the ten extra.
Points take. More points take.
More points take more no? No, Make him sad.
Make him sad. Make him sad.
Make him sad. Make him sad.
(23:18):
Make him sad. Make him sad.
So Samuel gets 10 points for getting the pop quiz, right.
All right, Samuel, you're reallygood at standing still.
I can't tell if your camera's frozen or if you're doing that.
His eyes are moving. His eyes are moving.
OK. OK.
(23:38):
I'm working on it that. Was really good.
It was. I was drooling almost.
OK. Do you want me to tell you what
Chad GBT thought that your guys's solutions were going to
be for the time management round?
This is the Samuel is going to incorporate creative strategies
for time efficiency, such as identifying high traffic areas
in the store or using unconventional shopping methods,
(24:00):
which Samuel did. And it assumed that Sean was
going to gamify the store layoutas a map with checkpoints and
obstacles, and the player must optimize their route to get
through the store quickly. That sounds more like a me thing
and less like a Sean thing. I'm going to be honest.
I have done that before though, yeah.
Not with this game, but with different ones.
True, true, true. All right, so.
I've noticed so far, I don't know if you guys have, but I've
(24:21):
noticed so far season 2 has beena lot different from season 1
because season 1 we were just coming up with games like video
games and then ads. For it, I don't know if it's
better or worse for me. Michael, what's that face mean?
I don't know if it's better or worse.
I mean, I'm going to have like ahuge scar.
(24:42):
Across. My face like this when I is
going to be going outside. You almost always put things in
tautologies or not necessarily, or oh, that's OK and.
There's going to be like stuff floating around.
That's because I'm being funny. That's not because I'm trying to
say something meaningful to you,because I know you won't take it
as anything meaningful because you don't do that.
(25:03):
Well, it doesn't sound like it now.
And puzzle will up upload himself to the cloud.
The Sean is just going to be an amoeba feelings sitting in a
gamer chair going squish squash and grabbing potato chips from
the. Air Michael, I know you have
feelings. I just got mad because you said
(25:24):
that I know nothing and it's always because of how I speak.
That's my sad face up close. Well, that happens when you
insult people. I didn't insult you, I just
thought it was funny that often times on the podcast while we're
recording, if you disagree with something, you don't outright
state it. You're just like, well, maybe,
maybe not, or Oh yeah or no, like it's better or worse.
(25:48):
That's fair. I think that is particularly
because I'm conflict averse and I get scared of, you know,
beating people. I think Samuel is getting
vacuumed into the camera. The microphone looks tiny next
to you. I.
Noticed that it's weird. Is it because I'm having an
aneurysm? Were you?
(26:09):
Holding your breath. Wow.
OK, so for this for this round, I want you guys to make it as
gamey as possible. Make sure to talk about points,
make sure to talk about things and other stuff.
And Game 5, Boo Boo Boo. Because Samuel thinks that this
episode is no good and that the season is no good and that we
(26:30):
need to go back to our old ways or else we're going to just
regress until we devolve into just a little shrimp in the
ground and grow into a beautifulshrimp tree.
I think all he said was that it's different and I'm like, I
think it's better or worse. I don't know.
It is and isn't. All right, so round 4 is dietary
restrictions. The problem is navigating
(26:51):
dietary restrictions while gathering ingredients for
Thanksgiving. Anyone have any immediate
thoughts on that? I say your my diet is based on
my budget, so I cannot afford tobe fire farting forever.
That toilet paper? That stainless steel toilet
paper you're going to need for fire?
(27:13):
Fart. Stainless steel paper.
He's talking about steel wool. Wipe with steel.
Wool. Find the chewiest Turkey.
No one else is going to buy it, but it's OK to eat it.
Find the chewiest chick Turkey so that it is gamey as possible.
No, that's not what. I That was amazing.
(27:36):
That's. Not what I meant by making.
It put it in your freezer a yearearly, after the after the
Turkey's like gone on sale afterThanksgiving, and it's gonna be
in your freezer for a year and then you bought it.
It's gonna be more gamey than you can comprehend.
Then you can gobble, gobble, gobble, and it'll take several
(27:58):
swallows. Did I do it right?
Do I get 10 points? I give you 5 points for being
hilarious but. OK, Michael.
This is a category I. Have an idea?
This approach is going to take into account both dieting and
budget, and the way you're goingto do this is you're going to
(28:19):
think of it like golf every time.
Give me a second. Oh.
No give. Me a second.
If you need to research or get an AI to summarize your ideas,
you may do those things. We do have tools that can help
us. OK, Michael, I'm ready to try my
(28:40):
idea again. Yeah.
So every time you get a less healthy item because of budget
reasons, that's like doing 1 stroke in golf.
And so you're trying to get to the end with as little strokes
as possible. OK, sorry, don't think about
that sign in the resort, just don't do.
(29:02):
It I was just thinking without very much, yeah.
Dude this is going to be a very short episode if we cut all the
inappropriate stuff after. 4:00 Grab a.
After four. Pick up the give a penalty.
Stop. That sign was horrible anyway.
(29:23):
We're cutting that out. Act like none of that was said.
Continue. You have a par bar on the top as
you're going grocery shopping and you're trying to hit like
however many strokes for this hole, every however many putts
for this stroke and. And you're going to want to.
(29:53):
I have such a good idea. I just can't words.
You set a goal for yourself, a par bar, OK.
Par bar, par bar, par bar. I love par.
Bar We love the par bar. OK.
And much. Fun.
And you set as many strokes as you think you can have on the
par bar. You're going to want to try and
(30:15):
hit par or lower. When you get to the end of the
course, that's when you leave the store.
You want to leave the store withas many healthy items as
possible with the least amount of compromise.
But you're going to need to do some compromises to get you a
little further. So the uh huh.
(30:40):
Remember, this is about allergies and dietary dietary
restrictions, not about expensive things.
Allergies, yeah. Go ahead, Michael.
Oh, I forgot, I'm the host. Yeah.
So you can keep that par bar idea.
I like the par bar idea, but youtake a massive stroke, you take
(31:03):
a massive panel penalty if you you take a massive penalty if
you're bringing a food that is adetriment to someone else's
health or, you know, a food thatthey're just going to have to
avoid, you know, either way, it's a bad day for them.
They're going to eat a food that's bad for them or they're
going to not be able to partake in eating it like.
If you have a wife and you kill her with a peanut.
(31:24):
No, stop. No.
If you, if you have a wife and you kill her with a peanut, oh,
if you bring foods that people can't eat, they're going to be
unhappy and or in gastrointestinal distress like I
have been for the past week and a half because the
refrigerator's broken and I'm eating spoiled food all the
time. Sean.
(31:45):
Samuel, I need you to talk. Samuel.
Some people will have spiritual distress over certain things.
OK, you know somebody there who is really opposed to alcohol?
Well, sparkling grape juice. Really good.
OK, I like to pretend it is. After I've had a few drugs, I
can enjoy it. Huh.
(32:06):
And then there's regular cider that I mean, special cider.
That's not hard. You can, you got to know, like,
OK, I got to make something. You got to get creative.
So buy a Turkey that's vegan friendly.
What? Buy a Turkey that's gluten free
(32:28):
and it is also healthy. So ChatGPT, your whole your
whole plan. Is so ChatGPT.
Well, my whole plan is figure out what all those things are,
realize you have to make it yourself, and then you're going
(32:49):
to have to buy the ingredients for it, and then explain that to
ChatGPT so she can put it together for you to do.
That OK, Michael, I have an idea.
One more thing. I wasn't done.
OK, The dinner bell rings, and every time the bell rings, a
vegan gets his beans because they're going to have to eat
(33:11):
that. What?
The fuck? That's so stupid.
I love it. Do I get points for being
stupid? Michael, yeah, I have an idea.
Yeah. So you are going to be going
through this scary environment with all of these obstacles that
(33:35):
you need to avoid. The obstacles being like sharp
rocks, weird rivers, snakes, whatever.
Those are the things that you orthe person you're living with do
not like or it's going to kill. Them hazards, OK.
Hazards and you get a point every time you were tempted to
(33:56):
buy something and you didn't because one of you wouldn't like
it. And you get an extra five points
at the start for talking to the person and an extra five points
for talking to yourself. Actually figuring out what these
obstacles are where they are charting them loose.
(34:18):
Sorry you're. Just.
Microphone yourself. You mute.
Give me a second. Can you see this?
No, hang on hold. It still hold it still.
Let me show it, Sean. It's literally a blank page.
Look at the screenshot. It's literally a blank page.
(34:42):
Oh, no. The audience will see it,
though. Explain it to them all, right?
So I've drawn a circle with dotson it.
This is the simple thing. You have a map before you go
into the store and when you talkto yourself and write down the
write down or remember the things that you don't like or
are going to kill you and talk to your, you know, the people
(35:03):
you live with. Every time you do that, every
specific thing you want to avoidis charted out as an obstacle so
that it's a lot easier to avoid them.
So this way you get extra pointsfor preparing like just five
points flat out, and you are more likely to get points when
you're in the store because you're more likely to avoid
(35:25):
these obstacles. Perfect.
I want to tell you guys something really funny.
ChatGPT suggested that Samuel's approach would be developing a
visual safe zone map marking aisles with products that you
need to avoid, and Sean's approach would be finding
ingredient substitutes while sticking to the original meal
concept. I was the other way.
(35:45):
Around You had those exact ideas.
We did the opposite. Sean came up with a map and
Samuel was talking about the substitutes.
Have you given it information about us?
No. Does it know where I live?
No. Where does Samuel live?
Oh no. What does it say?
I'm really curious what. It was OK.
(36:05):
So this was the final round, thedietary restrictions round.
I wonder where I live. I'm scared to know where I live
now. I hope it's not scary.
Look out the window. Puzzle puzzle, said the prayer
that the the the experts had to say.
And then a face showed up in my window.
(36:26):
But it wasn't true. All right, so I'm going to tell
you up the points. So I had a few more levels to
this. There's a lively list that's
something that you can make to help you really have a concise
list. There's preliminary pricing,
that's where, you know, way ahead of the holiday season what
(36:47):
there's going to be. There's build to budget.
That means you've already figured out how much you're
going to buy and then how much you're going to make for
yourself. And that's because the Internet
thought that I meant it thought that I was looking for a
solution for Christmas specifically meaning like
Christmas presents and that sortof thing, which we didn't say.
We were exclusively talking about food.
(37:09):
Nobody would say grocery shopping.
This is Gamify Grocery shopping Part 2.
And then the last one was shape to ship.
That means you understand what the shipping schedule is going
to be like and you have sort of a plan about that stuff.
I see Sean, your solution has actual backing on on online.
(37:29):
So this article supports both the idea of going earlier and
the idea of going with the knot stereotypical stuff.
So I can suggest, you know, getting a ham for Thanksgiving
or something, which is is a lot closer to Samuel's idea and also
(37:50):
says, yeah, go early, like a fewdays before the rush is going to
happen. Oh my gosh, guys, you're not
going to believe it. We're going to have to do a
round 3 because. The final scores have been
tallied up and it looks like there's a one point difference.
Sean ended this game with 49 points and Samuel ended this
(38:11):
game with 48 points. Sean was this game's winner.
Sean's battle cry, apparently. He was about to quit the whole
game and find this experience. No, no.
He was bracing himself. No, I I was ready for you to be
like, it looks like Sean's goingto win, but no.
(38:34):
Samuel got 50. Did that last article get me
points? Yes.
Oh, how many? Five, I told you there's a 5
point research bonus. You were going to lose with 44
points in Samuel's 48, but you actually backed up yours with
research. Oh my gosh, that was a split
(38:57):
second decision 5 seconds beforewe ended.
Anyway, TuneIn next episode to hear Sean post an episode for
the first time in a very long time.
I think the last one he hosted was Anger, which was 4 episodes
ago. Sean's going to come back with
full fury and rage and host an episode.
For us. Oh yeah.
(39:18):
Follow Puzzle on Puzzle MTM on YouTube and Twitch and
everywhere, everywhere else I'm follow Sean.
Oh, I'm going. To take turns around circle.
Follow Sean sometime Tomato. Potatoes.com.
And follow Samuel on Moser Meadows records on YouTube,
Samuel Claus Tuner on Instagram,and as we always say at the end
(39:39):
of these episodes. I have to say that thank you for
saying those socials, Mr. Moser,and as we always say at the end
of these episodes. Game.
Over.
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