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Grey is in conflict with a thermostat, while Myke has finished his assignment on Mood Tracking. Myke discusses the challenge of juggling the workloads of two businesses, and your hosts take you behind the scenes of a Cortex Brand meeting, revealing their concerns about a significant bet they are about to undertake.
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@letopizdetz 10 ай бұрын

How long until Grey gets banned from certain hotels?

@alenasenie6928 10 ай бұрын

Have you seen electroBOOM? He is still accepted in hotels.

@FlexxibleFree 10 ай бұрын

It would make it easier to avoid bad hotels

@Destiny2c0me 10 ай бұрын

To be fair... Grey isn't unreasonable. And a lot of Americans that travel to Europe & stay at the hotel always want the hotel room cold about 16 degrees C. Because in my job, as a cabin crew, a lot of my coworkers cannot sleep in a hot room where the AC temperature is stuck at 25 degrees C, due to this "eco-friendly mode"; we need cold rooms to fall asleep to combat jetlag & prevent fatigue for us when operating flights. They would get very frustrated & order portable fans to be delivered to the room.

@randomviewer3494 4 ай бұрын

@@Destiny2c0methere is a giant difference between 18 and 25c tho. Like my house without ac would barely get 25c in the summer at all.

@pabloenriquegorga4222 10 ай бұрын

00:00 - 13:55 I know is too much to ask, but i really want a cortex animated of "grey vs the hotel thermostat" !

@tobiasjakobi4487 10 ай бұрын

The AC section at the beginning is pure and prime Grey.

@GrantDolanMusic 10 ай бұрын

We had the same issue with the thermostat at a school I worked at. Solution: Hand warmers if you want to get the room really cold quickly. Desk lamp with an incandescent light aimed right at the thermostat for longer times. Works like a charm.

@mrJety89 10 ай бұрын

That is the best one I read so far, and you can pack a light with a long adjustable neck from a dollar store.

@mrJety89 10 ай бұрын

A 40w lightbulb on a long wire for easy access to a connector in a black box for complete shading for when you want to go to sleep. You can attach the box to the thermostat for maximal effect. Bring a 20w lighbulb as well to see which one works best for the thermostat in question. 60w can be a fire hazard. p.s. have a square hole on the side of the box that's the size of the thermostat. Adjust with a knife as needed. This should make mounting "a breeze"

@shadowheartart3898 10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@kenzieduckmoo 10 ай бұрын

14:00 "This episode of Cortex is brought to you by the Cortex thermostat tricking hot water bottle"

@richardcomerford1828 10 ай бұрын

I used to pack my own shower head and a vice grip with me when going to hotels in order to bypass those annoying anemic water restrictor shower heads.

@randomkoreanguy 10 ай бұрын

Ok, so my understanding of it is that in some hotels, the thermostat is mostly fake because the HVAC system is not individual to each room but rather like a whole house system where there's one thermostat that regulates the entire building and they're not turning down the entire hotel for just you. The thermostat in those types of hotels are a placebo. They do literally nothing and replacing it will not fix anything. The hotels you want are the ones with the giant modules sticking out of the wall if you want to be a thousand percent sure you have absolute personal control. Otherwise it's a literal roll of the dice until you get into the actual room.

@ryanpetriello3461 10 ай бұрын

I've never thought Grey was a robot more than this moment because 16˚C (about 62˚F for us 'muricans) is too damn cold for an indoor temperature.

@FlexxibleFree 10 ай бұрын

Maybe, if you have 20-30°C outside, but when you have 40 you'll get it as low as possible since 16 on the screen doesn't always mean it's 16 in the air

@shadowheartart3898 10 ай бұрын

No it isn't. 16 is a great temperature for inside! Nice and cool, but not enough so that I start feeling chilled

@cnixk2097 10 ай бұрын

@@shadowheartart389821 is comfortable

@wesleycanada3675 10 ай бұрын

@@shadowheartart3898 In my city 62 is a chilly December day so that is crazy to me

@shadowheartart3898 10 ай бұрын

@@wesleycanada3675 😅 I think I might be part polar bear

@SiamHossain7 10 ай бұрын

It's actually adorable hearing lifelong iPhone users gush about all these cool features, and going hush hush about those secret interactive widget pages, when these have been enjoyed by Android users for years. No negative feelings here, I'm glad the other side gets all these cool features. Good features *should* be borrowed and implemented well!

@nesflaten 10 ай бұрын

I live how Grey spends the first half of the episode complaining about hotels, and then tries to convinces listeners to visit London for the live podcast😂

@benjaminbeard3736 10 ай бұрын

The colder the better. I would keep my place at

@bigtall25 10 ай бұрын

Grey is so unhinged in this episode and it’s hilarious. (I don’t understand how he can find anything below 20 not freezing.)

@shadowheartart3898 10 ай бұрын

Because 20 is a pleasant "summerday outside" temperature? 16 is good for inside 😂 I prefer 15-16 when sleeping. Otherwise I have to throw off the covers and sleep naked to not feel overheated

@ashleysharkey6406 10 ай бұрын

Oh my God you people were raised by Eskimos! 20 is perfect for sleep. At least 18 for work. 22 is too hot for either.

@shadowheartart3898 10 ай бұрын

@@ashleysharkey6406 😂 Eskimos? Not entirely, though my mom *did* work in Greenland for about 9years (before I was born). My sister was born there 😋 I was born and raised in Denmark, so I guess I'm part viking?

@PsychoticusRex 10 ай бұрын

1) Wrap the thermostat in aluminum foil to prevent base station from updating it leaving it to local control. 2) heat the thermostat with some battery powered hand warmer on low so its always running turning the room into a fridge and screw the condensation in the walls as the room becomes a fridge without a defrost cycle. WEEEEEE! XD

@Racrdude24 10 ай бұрын

6:56 This bit killed me 😂 poor Grey

@5ilver42 10 ай бұрын

I'm with Grey on the thermostat problem.

@Alucitary 10 ай бұрын

I really don't understand how you could physically be sweating at 64 F. How did you survive driving through a desert dude?

@michaelchavez5859 10 ай бұрын

Not gonna lie I'm with grey on the thermostat tricking water bottle

@CGPGrey 10 ай бұрын

See @MykeHurley? There's a business to be had here!

@moebest 10 ай бұрын

@@CGPGreya tiny electric blanket perhaps

@shadowheartart3898 10 ай бұрын

Yup. I'm going to steal the idea 😅

@MCPhssthpok 10 ай бұрын

I was thinking more of a Faraday cage to isolate the thermostat from the wi-fi

@OneNvrKnoz 10 ай бұрын

Would a faraday cage work? Wrap the thermostat in aluminum foil to stop the Wi-Fi signal

@mrJety89 10 ай бұрын

Can't block it from the side of the wall though, unless you are prepared to remove the thermo from the wall. So imo it's a 50/50 plan at best. Your best bet is to somehow hack the thermo sensor.

@herrabanani 10 ай бұрын

Faraday cages are hard to make. The bottle method is the most realistic one to me

@OneNvrKnoz 10 ай бұрын

Wrapping something in aluminum foil acts as a faraday cage. Not hard at all

@anewbimproves5622 10 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing but it's probably programmed to remember the last setting until it gets a new instruction. Having said that, the thermostat probably isn't encrypting its communication. If you got a wifi packet sniffer and a raspberry pi, you could probably get it to connect to the pi instead and send it your own instructions. Probably more work than the usb hand warmers though.

@OneNvrKnoz 10 ай бұрын

@@anewbimproves5622 If killing the signal doesn't work, that would be a brilliant next step (and slightly less grey area than replacing the thermostat)!

@maltek1542 10 ай бұрын

I support Grey air conditioning scheme. He has rented that air conditioning unit, he should be allowed to use it.

@CGPGrey 10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@drewcipher896 10 ай бұрын

Rent doesn't mean ownership for a determined period. Grey's request isn't reasonable.

@shadowheartart3898 10 ай бұрын

Agreed

@POVwithRC 10 ай бұрын

@@drewcipher896But it does mean reasonable use of what is being rented. And boy oh boy buddy, the thermostat and its full range is part of the fuckin reasonability envelope.

@PsychoticusRex 10 ай бұрын

"There is no universe when there are no maintenance people here on the weekends"...oh dear sweet summer child.

@levismith7003 10 ай бұрын

I would 100% buy the waterbottle thing to trick the thermostat lol

@kirkleadbetter1093 10 ай бұрын

I would have said, "bodies start to smell over 16" while smiling politely.

@KantankerousKliff 10 ай бұрын

I, unfortunately fail to understand the need of a mood tracker all together.

@anewbimproves5622 10 ай бұрын

It looks like the live show is almost sold out in 24 hours. If you were thinking about getting a ticket, don't think too long

@SecretSquirrelFun 10 ай бұрын

Perhaps, if you could not find a suitable word to explain how you are feeling, you could physically write down words of your own choosing yourself, in your journal. Just an idea.

@alenasenie6928 10 ай бұрын

18 is hot, I set it to 15.

@caseybeach360 10 ай бұрын

Electric heating pad and some tape ;)

@mastring1966 10 ай бұрын

there is a hack where you can press the buttons in the right order on the unit itself, and put it in a different mode so you can change it to whatever you want. It's a maintenance mode so you can make it constantly blow. youtube can tell you how.

@omnijack 10 ай бұрын

...so, Grey's a villain...

@thomaswalma 10 ай бұрын

This is only peripherally related to the topic of this video, but I had a smart thermostat, and I liked to keep my apartment in the northern US cold when I was at work during the day, so it'd be freezing cold when I got home from work, so I could sit in front of the heat vent for an hour or two as the house warmed. Also, I'd crank the heat up higher if I wanted to sit there longer, or any other time I was home and I wanted the warm relaxing bliss of the heat vent, including during the day on weekends. After a while, this caused the smart thermostat to lose it's mind and see-saw the temperature up and down with sheer insanity

@SenorHomeslice 6 ай бұрын

You are having the 10 Year Anniversary show in Hackney but didn’t choose to have it at the Antepavillion? But… SHARKS!

@NortonTech 10 ай бұрын

I’m with Grey, I’ve thought about bringing a Nest thermostat with me to hotels to trick the AC or heating

@EducatedNation2 6 ай бұрын

16 degrees is reasonable. I wish I could set my thermostat to that but I fear the people whom I live with would strike me down if I did.

@hartyewh1 10 ай бұрын

Most aircon systems in Europe don't go lower than 18C° by design.

@scottczesak1638 10 ай бұрын

So back at college in the 80s, we used to just light a candle under the thermostat. Now a days I would take a USB hand warmer and just hang it under the thermostat... BTW- put a bag of ice on top to make it hotter...

@K-o-R 10 ай бұрын

I'm like Grey but with the hotel TV. Don't you dare disable the picture mode options or anything else! I will look up the TV model and how to get into service mode.

@Mr_NB628 8 ай бұрын

Can we get a T-shirt that says “team indifferent“? The more I listen to this podcast the more I think grey is the spirit animal of mine

@Mr_NB628 8 ай бұрын

Couldn’t you just make a makeshift Faraday cage to go around the thermostat so that it cannot connect to Wi-Fi?

@rationalagent6927 10 ай бұрын

Heating the therrmostat temp sensor sounds like the vest solution

@mrJety89 10 ай бұрын

If you want them to centrally lower it to 16 just take off your cloths, and go to the front desk at the busiest time possible to embarrass them into compliance.

@txxxx100 8 ай бұрын

I think the mental health app can be helpful to some like Mike, but even for those who're more like Mike than Grey, an app like this may not always be what they need and I see a problem with that. It can give people false hope or false sense of mental health care when it's not doing anything for them. I relate to Grey where a journaling or mental health app would make it worse for me so I may be biased

@namuzed 10 ай бұрын

Use a sheet of Mylar foil with a waterbottle and a 3d printed bracket.

@deegee424 10 ай бұрын

First potential problem with replacing the thermostat in the room that I see? You have no way to shut off the breaker to the electricity running the HVAC or thermostat, and would therefore be switching out a thermostat which has live electrical running to it. Not the safest situation in the best of cases. LOL Good luck, tho. I'm with you on wanting a room cooler than they typically want me to set it. My advice would be rather to try a nicer chain of hotels? Somewhere like a Ritz Carlton or Four Seasons may have either a) more range they allow on their thermostats (because you're paying for it) or b) better concierge service that will actually accommodate a solution to the problem (because you're paying for it).

@POVwithRC 10 ай бұрын

It's low voltage. Nbd.

@deegee424 10 ай бұрын

@@POVwithRC 🤣

@HandSolitude 10 ай бұрын

The reason why he asked "why?". Is because 16 Celsius is too cold for a healthy human environment, and it's a waste of power. Normal human operating temperature is 21-24 Celsius. They don't want your room freezing neighbouring rooms either, creating an AC system that battles itself between rooms.

@poisontango 10 ай бұрын

Yo, I'm moving from the US to the UK next week. I'm 100% buying a ticket for the live show!

@felipevitorino7745 10 ай бұрын

I can’t believe we don’t have a grey review of the magic lord of the rings cards. This is absolutely a Grey top 01 interest

@Lantalia 10 ай бұрын

I wonder what they would do if presented with a 'why' they were legally required to honor? [ADA in the US, for example]

@drewcipher896 10 ай бұрын

The why is because the request is ridiculous. No thermostat should be set to 60° F for AC.

@shadowheartart3898 10 ай бұрын

@@drewcipher896that's kinda judgy

@POVwithRC 10 ай бұрын

@@drewcipher896 Nonsense

@POVwithRC 10 ай бұрын

@@drewcipher896 you: "Regulate me harder daddy"

@MichaelBennett1 10 ай бұрын

16 is cold to me too, I’m shivering if it’s that cold indoors. p.s. pocket warmer on the thermostat?

@herrabanani 10 ай бұрын

Wouldn't it be better for grey to rent an apartment instead of a hotel room? Or is there some downside about that that i haven't tought about

@mrJety89 10 ай бұрын

Airbnb sounds mouch safer and you can ask the owner if they have air conditioning. but hacking a thermostat is way more hilarious.

@orterves 10 ай бұрын

Consider hacking the wifi is probably easier than hacking at the wall (but probably more illegal)

@demonac 10 ай бұрын

I had no idea Mission Impossible: Cold Protocol was coming from CGPgrey

@rikrikonius1301 10 ай бұрын

R's SO, I worked in retail for many years. Guys, I'm sorry to tell you that this particular hell will never end. Every year it's like this. :/

@Roseknight888 10 ай бұрын

Im going to be the silly American in the room Fellow Americans, 18c is ~ 64F I am from Maine, a state half surrounded by Canada with areas approaching tundra climates If my room was 18C, i would need to wear a hoodie all of the time

@pearceburns2787 10 ай бұрын

13:20 Could you use a vape coil to create an electric heater to place right next to the thermostat?

@mrJety89 10 ай бұрын

not powerful enough.

@codpyry 10 ай бұрын

My first thought on tricking the thermostat was lighting a candle right next to it. Might be tricky to prop it up next to it

@Drew672 10 ай бұрын

What if Grey brought a small space heater and plugged it in next to the thermostat?

@mrJety89 10 ай бұрын

That would heat up the room as well.

@Kierfnen 10 ай бұрын

Grey I recommend a sock filled with rice instead of a water bottle for a thermostat tricker. It also works great as a heating pad for sore muscles. Just throw it in the microwave for a few minutes.

@mrJety89 10 ай бұрын

The micro won't heat it up unless it has water in it. And a sock filled with wet rice does not sound very appetizing, or safe. Plus I imagine that most hotel rooms won't have a microwave.

@VerySexyDouchebag 10 ай бұрын

God I resonate with Greys tenacity. I refuse to let a hotel tell ME what's the optimum room temperature.

@Nicht_Danny 10 ай бұрын

Is there not a reddit thread (or equivalent) for cortex podcasts? I wanted to lurk through more splutions to the Grey thermostat problem.

@clouddweller 10 ай бұрын

I believe they’re all on r/CGPGrey

@Mr_NB628 8 ай бұрын

Come back to America Grey turn down the AC as low as you want

@user-ed7dy1mq9u 10 ай бұрын

Grey, why not just attach hand warmers to the thermostat?

@thewizard8263 10 ай бұрын

For anyone in the position of hotels being to warm, when they ask why, say it's because of accessibilty issues. if they ask more, which is rude and depending on where you are illigal, you can throw in an autism (which is super likely when you 1. listen to this episode, 2. find it hard to talk to hotel personel, 3. and have sensory issues like these), or just a generic "i have sensory issues", which is true. You are having the sensory issue "to warm" which is super valid. If they still don't want to (or possibly can't), you can ask them what they can do instead to make the hotel more accessible to you in terms of temperature. Screw capitalism, get comfy.

@babylonfive 10 ай бұрын

I would love to develop a small battery powered heater that reads the actual temperature and then heats the air just below the thermostat to influence the AC into staying on when the temp is over the preset value, and modulate the thermostats output continuously.

@Reactor89 10 ай бұрын

Quite double (speaking as an electrical engineer) but I would make sure to have an external temp sensor that can be placed else where in the room so the heater has less influence over the room temp.

@williamyt6174 10 ай бұрын

For context 18C is 65F. Grey, you gotta see a doctor

@petrelli231 10 ай бұрын

I can't believe Gray spent fifteen minutes on the thermostat issue and never once thought "I can just wear lighter clothing at the hotel".

@shadowheartart3898 10 ай бұрын

Lighter clothing than tshirt? 🤔

@microfocusenablementvideos4671 10 ай бұрын

i wouldn't bring a thermostat. Just "hard wire" to cool ! if you manage to get cold, disconnect for a while. BUT make sure you hide this from room or maid service :-)

@overkill246 10 ай бұрын

What’s your favourite part of the iOS 17 features

@jimmypatton4982 10 ай бұрын

Faraday cage…

@mrJety89 10 ай бұрын

Hot water and plastic bottles DO NOT go well together. Try one of those leg warmer things. Cardboard boxes are usually easy to fold up, put in your bag while not "in use", and/or modify as needed. Just saying. lol

@anewbimproves5622 10 ай бұрын

I think Grey meant "hot-water bottle" instead of "hot water-bottle"

@mrJety89 10 ай бұрын

@@anewbimproves5622 And here I thought that he was talking about a sexy plastic liquid container

@anewbimproves5622 10 ай бұрын

@@mrJety89 He probably saved that for the Moretex edit.

@benjaminbeard3736 10 ай бұрын

Already had the same problem and I've already dealt with it. Hair dryer is your answer.

@TheNylu 10 ай бұрын

if it's through Wi-Fi, could you not just wrap the thermostat in some aluminum foil and block the Wi-Fi reception that way?

@teddyboragina6437 10 ай бұрын

31:00 just for the record. I stopped the podcast here, to go outside.

@ka9dgx 10 ай бұрын

I don't see how the answer evaded Grey, he taught physics for crying out loud... heat the thermostat, with a USB powered cup warmer. Lightweight, cheap, easy to travel with, not out of the ordinary.

@muriellemermaid 10 ай бұрын

Grey, you should build an ice vest. Like those things that cool down computers but for humans. Or robots.

@deuscain 10 ай бұрын

I'm barely 9 minutes in, and Grey is talking about vandalizing hotel thermostats over a 2 degree (C) temperature difference. My dude...

@TomOfBattlefront 10 ай бұрын

I have a fix to your thermostat problem. Step 1) Get an extension cord capable of reaching the thermostat Step 2) Get a night light with a standard incandescent light bulb. Run the extension cord to the thermostat and blue in the lightbulb. The bulb will create a very small amount of heat capable of tricking the A/C into running. If this is to much you can always use a timer for the outlet to turn it on and off. In total you should be spending no more than $25. This works especially well if they have their thermostat in one of those plastic cases. You’re welcome.

@Reactor89 10 ай бұрын

Grey woke up today and choose violence

@MexCFood 10 ай бұрын

Speaking of messing with hotel electronics, have you guys ever seen ElectroBOOM's vacation videos? :)

@user-el8op5ky1s 10 ай бұрын

Gray... Tinfoil!, Tinfoil shall foil those hotels plans to prevent your thermostat settage! (Wrap the thermostat in tinfoil which will prevent it connecting to the wifi therefore allowing for a more Gray friendly enviroment!)