F**kface - A Retraction // Andrew Transformers Panton [44]

Episode Date: March 12, 2025

Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about the nicknames, Bloody Steve, Boss Hogg, CT Scan, bean hole beans, Acclaim, Optional middle name, CPAP story, filling the cup, Way of the Gun, eye masks, night hogs, edge sleeping, bed backstop, handyman, fake names, charcuterie, cursive, everstein, sleep amnesia, unstoppable on another continent, and falling asleep playing games. Sponsored by Shopify. Sign up for a $1/month trial period at shopify.com/face Support us directly at https://www.patreon.com/TheRegulationPod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental content, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome to another episode of the regulation podcast. This is episode 44 My name is Jeff with me as always Eric Andrew Gavin and Nick. I'm going nicknames this week We're gonna go back to we're just doing first names today So what was the point of the nicknames a nickname is there when you want to use it? But you don't always use it. You don't want to overuse it. We didn't point we didn't overuse our nicknames last year That's a great point. I was so pure to use it. You don't want to overuse it. We didn't we didn't overuse our nicknames last year. That's a great point. I was hoping you would use it. So. Well, just to see if you keep calling Nick the mechanic or the mechanic.

Oh, yeah. Some people don't like that. I call him the mechanic and they think that I've got it wrong somehow and that I'm not doing it on purpose. I think the mechanic is so much cooler than mechanic. Mechanic is a dude named Nick who fixes cars Mechanic is a giant robot named Nick who fixes cars That's right. I imagine him as just Nick as he is now normal human man But with one of those wind up things sticking out of his back, you know what though?

Oh, I like that too. But for reason, he has Oakley razor blades on. Yeah, he's got the wind up in his back and then Oakley razor blades on. He's like, that's his I don't know why it's his robot look. Maybe we can get in the lab and make Nick a backpack that looks like one of those wind up keys. Oh, we wear it if he has the boots on. Yeah, he's got to he's got to be wearing the boots. He can't be making cool fashion items before he wears the boots.

Mecha Nick is powered by red boots. Yeah, well, why do I put it just plod around in the boots? He right. It's always a key in the back for some reason. Yeah. Are those what you were picturing, Jeff? Yes. We raise. OK, just make sure. Just make sure we are on the same page. Yeah. Like 80s tough guy glasses. 80s tough guy glasses?

Alright, my serve is off. Oh cool. Right on. Good to have you back. Hey, good to have you back, man. Hey, before we get going too far today, I need to do something I rarely do, and I hate to do it, but I gotta do it. Because, god damn it, I'm a man of integrity.

I need to issue a partial retraction I Did something that I don't do I listened to last week's episode? And now and I realized why I don't do it because there is nothing worse than hearing me fuck up a story This is I fucked up the beginning of that gross story yesterday in in similar ways to how I fucked up the horse down the mountain. And I've been so mad at myself ever since I was just driving in the car yesterday with Emily and I was like, Oh, I'll turn it on, listen to it. Two seconds in, I was like, I'm gonna fucking kill myself. I can't believe I blew it so badly. I start off the story by talking about

Emily's getting nauseous, right? And I'm like, oh, like two in the morning, she wakes up. That didn't happen. I conflated that because I was in a rush to get the story out and I hadn't like worked through the story beats in my head because telling the story takes a little bit of work and preparation.

You wanna get it right, you know? You gotta find the right, I don't know, the right cadence to tell it. And so I was a little rushed into the story and I just short-circuited part of it. She didn't get sick at two in the morning and then get up and throw up. That's what I did.

And I gave that to her as well as to me. What actually happened is we were in line for Space Mountain at like 6 p.m. And she looked at me and she said, I don't think I can be in this line anymore. And I'm like, what does that mean? She's like, I don't think I feel well. And so we left, left Burndog and Vanessa in the line

and we went and sat down on a bench for like 15 minutes. And then she said, we have got to go back to the hotel. So then she's like, I'm gonna be sick. And so she was like holding it in. We walk out of Disneyland. I don't know if you've walked out of Disneyland lately. It's about a half an hour process to get to the Uber stand. And then we get into an Uber.

And this is what I feel the worst about, because this is probably the funniest part of the story. We get into the Uber. Emily just like puts her head against the window because she's like and just as like holding her tummy, you know, like trying to get through this. And it's three miles to the hotel. It's the Westin, but it's 6 p.m. on a Friday. So it takes 36 minutes to get there because of just like literally sitting at stoplights,

not being able to go because of pedestrians just crossing the street constantly, you know, and not paying attention to traffic laws. And so in that fucking Uber, the guy goes, hey, is your first trip to Disney? And we're like, oh man, it's been a long day, not feeling well, my wife's feeling a little sick. He's like, oh yeah, that happens if you, yeah, it's a little bit too much sex, that's right. And he just goes, it's like, oh man, my's been a long day not feeling well. My wife's feeling a little sick He's like, oh, yeah that happens if you yeah, it's a little bit too much sex. That's right

And he just goes it's like I'm at my wife and I moved here last week Just took our daughter to Disney for the first time last week. What was your favorite ride? How long are you here for? And I'm like, we're just here for two days It's like, oh, yeah, a lot of people are here for a week and I'm like, what are you doing for the whole week? How do you and he just keeps going? He won't stop Eventually he dies down but his music is playing and he's playing like, I don't know, something Jeremy would like maybe, like,

not Linkin Park, but something like that. That's so funny. You know, I don't know the bands, like Breaking Benjamin or like Sad Melissa or like Bloody Steve or like, I don't know, something like 2010 like medley rock nonsense that I just don't get and it's fucking blaring. It's just Steve or like, I don't know, something like 2010, like medley rock nonsense that I just don't get. And it's fucking blaring. It's just going constantly.

And this motherfucker to be cool and to be the fun Uber has has installed rows of LEDs on his dashboard and on the side of the car. Like, you know, where you roll the windows down and then under the seats and under the dashboard and they change colors rapidly to the music. So it's like yellow, red, blue, red, red, red, red, green, red, red. Well, the music is blaring and the guy's like,

oh, you gotta try, yeah, you gotta go on Pirates of the Caribbean. My three year old loved it, that was so funny. And Emily's just like whimpering in the corner. And then finally we get there and we pull out and then I She barely makes it to the hotel room before she gets sick But I don't know why I missed that part of the story and I just fucking hate myself for doing it and I got to Go back to not listening because I'd rather not know that I suck than be confronted with my own shittiness

I'm imagining you and Emily just on the one katania media thing where the lights and gene wild is just Chad a bunch of shit. Try not to vomit. I felt so bad for her. And then I felt so bad about me because I fucked that part of the story up. Anyway, that's my retraction. Yeah, that's my retraction. Great. I have a you have a retraction, too. I've got one after you. I don't have a retraction.

I have more of I made a mistake. Not so much a retraction to I go after I don't have a retraction. I have more of I made a mistake and that's so much a retraction. As far as you remind me, us talking about the nicknames also reminded me. We did the nicknames pick thing and in the nicknames pick, I suggested Jeff as your nickname boss dog because boss hog character in Dallas. I felt very strongly. I let it go. I was go proud of myself for that. And I realized maybe four days ago that it is a dukes of hazards character.

Yeah, boss. Boss Hogg. But this is not Boss Dog either. It's Boss Hogg. He is a he's the I guess like the mayor of Hazard County. I knew it was Boss Hogg, but I thought, oh, Boss Hogg, he's in Dallas. And then I Googled Boss Hogg and he just looks like you should be in Dallas. I mean, look at that man.

That looks like a Dallas ass man to me. That's the Dallas flag, right? I'm pretty sure it's the Dallas flag. You can't be more Dallas than boss, boss hog, boss dog. Shit. Have we ever done a villains draft? Oh, villains draft is good. I'll put it on the uh. I'll put it on the sheet We've done villain deaths. I don't know we've done villain deaths I don't know what draft we need to we it makes sense for Boss Hogg, but we need to put Boss Hogg in a draft

Yeah, he is entertaining. Yeah, that's that's really good and before we get too far away from it I just wanted to make a Bloody Steve logo I thought fit so a big bloody Steve guy. They were huge, like in 2014. Yeah, it's them. I think they were on tour with Bring Me the Horizon. And you could go see Bloody Steve. They didn't have any hits, but good for them.

They were so close to getting the end of Transformers song. They were second. They were right there. Only people could have heard it. Oh, Christ, that looks like bloody Steve. Yeah, bloody. Yeah. Well, that I mean, that that's a pretty light like metal font. You get crazier like metal fonts are so nuts. They go way crazier than that.

One of my favorite things to do is when I'm hanging out with Burndog and we're in public is making him decipher those for me and show me where the letters are. Dude, he like read all of it. He knows all of it. He knows every fucking black metal death metal war metal war corps, dick corps, kill Smith Corps band on Earth. He can he can read it all.

What's that band that's it's like twenty eight thousand letters and it's a big acronym for something. You know what I'm talking about? It's like a really disturbing string of words, but shortened into just letters. I don't even have a clue. How I met your mother. Oh, my little retraction is when I was talking about the CT scan, the venogram thing, I, it sounded like when I listened to it back that they injected

the contrast directly into my brain. That's not the case. It was injected just into my arm. That's so much less cool and freaky. I don't know how you inject something directly. That would they have stabbed me in the temple. I don't know how that worked. I was imagining every movie I've seen where they do brain stuff

where there's a big tarp covering the front and they're in the back and they're going in. No, the contrast was in my arm and then they look at the veins in my brain. But it's done through the arm. Did people really think they stuck like a needle in your brain?

They did apparently. It seemed to be 50-50. I just wanted to clarify that I didn't have a needle in your brain? I did. Apparently, Andrew. It seemed to be 50-50. I just wanted to clarify that I didn't have a needle through my head. That's so much less cool. Oh, man, I don't like that retraction. That's almost lame. If somebody sticks a needle in any of our heads, that's going to be an hour and a half conversation alone, just on the process.

Like, that's an insanity. If you thought that, why wouldn't you? Why don't you have more questions about that bit? Doctor stuff. I don't know. It's above my pay grade. Oh, my God. But you know, it's like you're you're sharing like a medical thing as well. So it's like I don't want to necessarily ask additional questions. I feel like that's kind of in that.

So it's like it's yeah. You you said it. I interpreted it. I really enjoyed it. And now I got to know it was just through your arm. That's that's cool. Yeah. Unfortunate. Well, yeah, I didn't think it was cool. I well, I just thought you going through that was cool. If you're going to have to go through something

where they're like checking your brain or whatever, the idea that you're in like face off and they got the needle in the pot. That that is sort of what I was imagining is like the face scene and face off when they got the needle in the pot. That that is sort of what I was imagining. It's like the face scene and face off when they swap faces. You thought I was going through some like severance procedure? Yes, exactly. It's funny you mentioned getting a CT scan because I just had one about 90 minutes ago. Oh, damn. Yeah. Brain, jaw, face, teeth.

Yeah, I have an impossible to solve or find a Problem in my head that they just they cannot diagnose, but it's not teeth related It is a hundred percent not I don't need a root canal that's been ruled out, but yeah I just just got phantom pain. I might have to get a Botox in my masseter muscle now. Oh, oh, classic masseter. Yeah, I think what would fix your pain? And I'm like 70 percent joking. I think one of you guys, Eric, Gavin, Nick, at some point

should just hit Jeff over the head with a steel chair. And I think that might help. Maybe maybe instead of that, I like where you go with that. The pain is on the left side of my jaw, like above my back molar. What if they hit the right side of my head really, like in roughly the same place? You think it would even it out? I think it could even it out. It has to be by surprise. You can't know it's coming.

It's got to be like a bean hole situation where you look down to open the bean hole and the steel chair side of the head. You instantly feel better that That's good. What will you know? Yeah, this is this is good because Gavin will walk up to you with the steel chair and you're like Oh, I see you and then I tap you on the shoulder you turn around boom I hit you with the steel chair and then me and Gavin raise our steel chairs in the air is new champion How about then when I'm on the ground and incapacitated,

you inject contrast directly into my brain? Now, this is a plan I like. Now we're off chairs. Yeah, you can eat the bean hole beans. And Nick is just going to film all of it and have some bean hole beans. Just enjoying life. I want to have bean hole beans, but good ones, you know, I want to go to that bean hole days this year if we can.

Do you think they're going to be good beans? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think so. Fuck you. Come on with the naysaying. Of course, they're going to be good beans. This is the epicenter of bean hole beaning. These are the people that do it the best. I just I remember Anthony Bourdain saying that like places that are known for specific food are never the best at it.

That that's exactly what I was in my head for. Exactly what I was thinking, Andrew. It just doesn't feel like it's going to be the thing. But that's just me. But not play. I understand what you're saying. Places are known for certain food. But what if it's the only place that's known me. But not play, I understand what you're saying. Places are known for a certain food. But what if it's the only place

that's known for that food? It's not like there's a competing bean hole areas. This is it. This is like, this is the bean hole hole. This is the hole where all the beans come from. There are no other, it's not, it's not like as somebody in Wisconsin has been, has a bean hole and they're like, no, ours is the best.

And somebody else is like, no, ours is the best, like sloppy Joe's or something. This is the only one place that claims beans. I don't know why my brain went here, but why? What if what if beanhole beans are like the Peter Molyneux of food? What if they're just none of them are good? What if none of it is good? Populous was good. Populous was good. No, I'm fabled. Good. I love the fable.

My point is, though, is that Peter Molyneux always talks about how amazing these experiences are going to be. And they'll at best be good. But they're never what he says. Like, what if we're chasing this very specific thing that just isn't ever what we think it is? Maybe we have to come to terms with being whole beans are just OK. What are the best beans outside of the whole? They say baked beans.

These beans come outside of the hole. If you can make if you can make a can of Heinz baked beans in a hole, they would be great beans. Yeah, I think they would be just as good as they were in a different environment, like just standard being made because they're slow roasting with like a ham hog or bacon fat coming out. 24, 48 hours.

They're being prepared in such a way to make them more tender and flavorful. The process is what makes it good. This is not. And by the way, you're also you're allowed to be disappointed by Peter Molyneux because he made such fucking hits that you fell in love with them. Right. It is Peter Molyneux is not some like snake oil salesman going from town to town.

He's a guy who built some of the greatest video game experiences you've had. Right. You he let you down with everything post fable because fable was so fucking great. No, I don't think that I really like. But I think that's all for years. Sort of that populace was a perfect game. Fable one and two were perfect games. Fable three was better than everybody said.

And then he fell off a cliff. But those games. But that's why. But that's why it hurts that he fell off that cliff because those other games were fucking great, man. But even fable was there were things that he's like, you're going to be able to do this. And then it's just it's nowhere close. It's not even reflective of the experience as good as Fable is.

So you're describing every video game developer describing every video game of all time. It's a different you're making a weird argument for Peter Molyneux. That is this is his thing. He states he is very ambitious in his selling of what this thing is. And it's never quite that as good as those experiences are. I love fame, although they are. Sean Murray guy, because I was named no one's guy guy. He did that. But then he's kind of then he worked delivered on it.

Worked to get it. Decades crazy. Yeah, he never stopped. I'm not going to I'm not going to I'm not going unfairly fault Peter Molyneux for over hyping shit when Cliffy B's of the world exist. It's not like Peter Molyneux is the only dude in our space that's doing this. Everyone does this. I think it's a different level of Peter Molyneux. Can you eat beans in Fable? Because I looked up No Man's Sky has beans. So I've just...

Does it really? Yeah, apparently. Should we go through video games and find the best video game beans that might be good let us know in the comments if you're listening to this let us know what games we should be looking at which beans are the best in each game that'll help us I realize I'm arguing for Peter Molinio I don't really want to defend that dude I really don't give a shit about Peter Molinio but I do care about beans and like he's become a bean proxy

I think that the beans at the Pequot Lakes Bean Hole Days are going to be better beans than anything you've ever put in your entire fucking body ever throughout the course of your life. And I'm willing to bet real money on it. Well, what's funny is that Peter Mollin who has a bean connection or his first business was shipping baked beans to the Middle East was his first business endeavor. And he got into video games. Are you? Yes.

Well, I've talked I think I've talked about this on the show. At least I've told you this before. But he was shipping. He's trying to ship baked beans is like, oh, they don't have this. They're going to love it. Wasn't going well. But his company was happened to be named the same as a electronics manufacturer. And Atari mistook him for the electronics manufacturer.

And then he just lied that he was them. And that's how he got his entry into video games is his company became like the distributor in Europe for Atari products. Yeah. Apparently, lying gets you pretty far this world somehow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's a wild character. I love Peter Malinou, but ridiculous. He's going to have an AI connect boy make beanhole beans for you.

It is going to be delicious. I found an article that says Peter Malinou regrets. He says he regrets over promising on his games. What I should have said in every interview is everything I say, take with a pinch of salt, which is a great actual recipe for beans. Yeah, it's salt. So everything is being related. Speaking of like weird like logos to interpret and kind of the game space.

I just learned that a claim is two seas and that fucked me up. Oh, that's not OK. I thought it was. OK, no. What are you talking about? Are you serious? Yeah. If you if I think the K there is a K there. If you look at the right side of the A and the next C, it looks like a K. So maybe you just like.

Yeah, I mean, yeah. Visualize it. Yeah, dude. I agree. If you look at it. Yeah, dude, I agree. If you just like look at stuff wrong, it's wrong. I agree. Yeah. If you give if you make the A a different letter, sure. You could make a K. I guess all we're aware of the case see situation that it sees. Yeah, I've never looked at it and thought these were case.

I've always looked at it. Have you ever read an online article with the word a claim in it? No, I don't think so. I think I've only seen the never gone to joystick or fucking Kotaku or any website at any point. But I don't feel like a claim is like I don't think they're really around all that much anymore. Like the whole thing. Yeah, that's why I learned about the double C's. You went a claim. Who's that?

I'm only I'm only familiar with the claim. They were a big bean importer. I yeah, I'm always slightly scared when I side with Andrew, but yeah, I definitely assumed there was a K involved somewhere there. It's not important, I guess. You just read that. You're like, oh, yeah, you move on with your life. You never really get into it. claim. Move on with your life. You never really get into it. Yeah, that was my big reveal.

When you think about businesses that are selling through the roof, like all birds or skims, you only see the front part of that. You know, like you see the big successful business. And I mean, it's across this and like any industry, you see the results of their success. But what you need to remember is that there's always something or someone in the background that is enabling that success. And that is what Shopify is for businesses. It is the thing that is giving support to those businesses and allowing them

to achieve those goals in the success that they have. Nobody does it better than Shopify. They're number one, they're great. They're associated with so many huge brands. They've got amazing tools to use. It's something that we use. I couldn't recommend them enough. They are the home of the number one

checkout on the planet. How would you not want to have the number one checkout on the planet? I think I double negative there, but that's OK, because Shopify is double positive. So I went on the other side of it. Nothing but great things I could say about Shopify. And the not so secret secret is that with shop pay, it boosts conversions up to 50 percent, which is so important because it's

great to have high volume on your store. But if you're not converting that volume into customers, there's not necessarily a lot of value to it. Like it's just it's great to have the traffic. But to make a profit, you need to have sales, which is huge because it means that with less carts going abandoned, your sales are going to be so much larger. So if you're into growing your business, your commerce platform, be ready to sell

wherever your customers are scrolling or strolling on the web, in your store, in their feed, and everywhere in between. You need to be able to reach the consumer where they are. That's such a key part, and Shopify provides that for you. Businesses that sell more, sell on Shopify. And what I really love about Shopify is regardless

of what your goals are, whether it's to have a giant store or you have a small local business, they have the tools that can support you and enable you to hit that level. So upgrade your business and get the same checkout that we use and sign up for your one dollar per month trial period at Shopify dot com slash face all lowercase. Go to Shopify dot com slash face. The upgrade you're selling today that is once again Shopify dot com

slash face. I have a question, actually, for all of you, speaking of maybe weird things. When you get a form and it says, sign your full name, do you include your middle name? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Always. Yeah. Yes. It's your full name. Yeah, I just realized that I have not been doing that because for reasons that don't necessarily make sense, like they don't hold weight. You don't know how to follow directions.

No, it's what is full mean to you? Well, OK, so full means every part of it. But here's the thing. Whenever you make a profile on any website, it always says optional in the middle name box. And I've just extrapolated that to every form in my life. What's on your possible? That's a good question.

I don't know off the look. I think my full name. But I think I was young enough where somebody else handled that for me on the last passport. I only lost 10 years. How old are you? 10 years ago. I don't think my passport is active at the moment I don't think I need a new one

Your passport's not active. I think it may have expired like a year Such different lives. I'd be freaking out of my possible expiry. I mean I haven't checked. I don't know Andrew's passport was expired during all those trips to Vegas. He was supposed to go to. Oh, my God. I think if my possible expires, I have to leave. Yeah, we have a different situation. I agree. Yeah, I just did. I filled it out in the most recent form I did. I was signing something and I put my full name as my full name.

And then I thought I often don't do this. Like I maybe sometimes will. And then I realized the reason why I don't is because whenever I make a profile, it always says optional in the middle name box, which then made me feel like, people don't like middle names. Who cares? That's like fake name doesn't even count. Do you think do you think anyone's middle name is optional? I view middle names as optional, not essential.

I mean, the name of I got it. Yeah, somebody, somebody for it. Yeah somebody somebody for sure Somebody for sure absolutely They're bullshit. They're fake names a lot of they're like hey wanted to name He doesn't understand your joke. I don't think no he's saying optional as a name the name is yeah I got it my point was that people will name their middle name Transformers like it doesn't matter Have crazy middle names and who?

Transformers Panton Can that be on your next possible? Can that be the title of this episode I'd have to legally change my name Jeff. How hard is that? Well, I did it a while ago now about 20 years ago at this point, but it's not too hard. Thanks. It takes a morning, cost you about 270 bucks. Although, who knows? I won't change my name for five bucks on Xbox. I'm not paying that. What if your middle name was Transformers in brackets 2007?

Andrew Transformers 2007. I I have no problem that. It's not a terrible movie. It's not my favorite. It's the best one. Why don't you change your name to Gavin optional free? Oh, oh, yeah. Do you give a shit about David? No. That's my point. Anyway, I just wanted to see if I was dealing.

I realized that maybe I shouldn't be applying the same logic to the process of making a fantasy football account that I do all legal documents. So I'm a middle name guy now going forward. Will always include the middle name. Good to know. Andrew Tristram, Panthen. Are you going to include the full middle name or just the middle name good to know Andrew Tantan are you gonna include the full? Middle name or just the middle initial. Oh Can I do that?

Does that allow him options? Middle initial some only has some middle initial though. Oh man Yeah Why not? OK, why not? OK, well, now I that that I think I get a middle initial all the time on forms. I will say I haven't run into trouble with this yet, so I can feel good about that. This is going to be a problem. I feel like it would have occurred by now, but it hasn't. When do you get a new possible?

Uh, I should do that. You're not going to be able to eat any beans if you hasn't. When do you get a new possible? I should do that. You're not going to be able to eat any beans if you don't. That's true. But I yeah, I don't know. Beans. I know. God damn, man. I have a I have a CPAP story.

The other day I learned what happens when you have a CPAP story. Oh, yes! The other day, I learned what happens when you have a power cut on a CPAP. Oh no! I never even considered that! Yeah, uh... Oh shit! I might be investing in a UPS here pretty soon for the old bedroom. Because the, uh, the

the CPAP goes in my nose holes, and, uh, the air the CPAP goes in my nose holes and the air travels like either side of my head up to the hose on the top of my head. It looks really good. I look really good while I'm wearing it. But when, but when the thing turns off, there's no airflow and I just started inhaling the remaining air of the, of the hose and all the stuff around my head and it and it squeezed my head.

You got a head squeeze? I started constricting my own head with my lungs. Oh, man. I was in the middle of a dream. The dream didn't end particularly well. And then I woke up like, did you dream you were being strangled by an anaconda? I definitely was dreaming I couldn't breathe. I thought it was all over pretty quickly.

But yeah, very unpleasant experience. I don't recommend it. Oh, my God. That's crazy. I didn't even consider that that like obviously that could happen. But the effects of that. Yeah. Is there is it how you have the hose? Like if you position it differently, would it have had less of an impact? I don't think so, because you're immediately sucking all the air out of you just creating a vacuum, I guess.

Yeah, just the head squeeze part. But I guess it's the rig probably as well. It's just because the bits on the side are very soft. OK. And the hose is more firm, but the bits around my face are like you got gotta lie on it and stuff. And I assume there's one on each side because if I lie on one side, I crush the pipe and the other side can still be used.

Hmm. Aside from the power outage, how's the CPAP going? Have you dialed it in better? Oh yeah, it's so much better than before. Getting all the way through the night. I'm not waking up full of air. It happens maybe once a month now. Wow, really? So no more like just like intense fart pains.

No, no, it's been it's been great. I'd love to know what the once a month cause has been for you. Like what happens? What why do you experience that? Is it something you eat? Is it a way you sleep? It must be the way I sleep. A certain angle. You got a gassy angle.

Plane in bed and you're like, I can't fall asleep in this position. I'm going to be all gassy. I mean, that must be the case. There surely are some angles that are gassy than others. Oh, for sure. Do you want to see it? Do you want to see a pic of me on the CPAP? Yes, I have it. I have one of you. Yeah, look how good this looks. Oh, that's a different one. Oh my gosh

You look like you're going in for a very serious surgery You kind of I think there's a way you can make it look like you're gonna do an underwater mission in GTA Kind of looks like the rebreather, but for your nose. Yeah. I've got the wetsuit that I grew. Yeah. You're working on it. That's great. Oh, dear. Oh, man. So just a full face squeeze. That makes it so much funnier seeing it.

That feels like a bad place to have the hose at the top of the back. I think I feel like I would prefer it being in the front. You could have them in the front. I just sometimes sleep on my front. Do you move around when you sleep? You sleep on your front. Wow. Sometimes like face down. Yeah. And I don't need it. I don't need like any air now because it comes straight into my nose. That is a life hack. I could tape like three pillows to the front of my face and still breathe. Oh

I'm gonna write that down pillow mountain has a new expansion New wing dude if somebody tried to strangle you with pillows you would totally live Just imagining someone on top of me pushing a pillow into my face. And I'm just like shrugging with my hands. It only makes me stronger. Just pushing the air in. You're getting a better sleep.

Have any of you done sleep studies? Any of the rest of you? No. I think you should all do it. No, I think you should all get the apnea test. No, I've done I've done sleep studies No. Yeah. I think you should go get the apnea test. No. I've done sleep studies, but it was in college just to make money.

It wasn't like personal sleep studies to make me better. What were they looking at? Whatever they needed, I said I had, and then they would just hook me up to a bunch of monitors. So it was really anything. It was anything. It was anything. That was it. Wait, so you would just say, yeah, I have this.

And then they would, they'd be like, okay, let's monitor you to see the results. It's not something I'm exactly proud of, but. Oh, I get it. Yeah, I mean, it were really in college when it was like, I don't have any money. I will do this for money. Hey, we need someone who wakes up a lot in the middle of the night. Yeah, that for money. Hey, we need someone who wakes up a lot

in the middle of the night. Yeah, that's me. Hey, we need someone who stays asleep and like sleeps through alarms. Yeah, that's me. Like it is whatever it takes to get the two free meals and like the $81 at the end of the night. And you didn't care about just skewing all that data.

I did, listen, listen. I don't, again, not something I'm proud of. It just something it was something that happened. It would be so interesting to know what percent of the data is that? What if it's all that? What if every person on the desk? Honestly, it's probably a lot more than most people think. It is not hard to get into a lot of those.

They need to have a third box of I'm just here for the two free. Listen, I'm here for the paycheck. Yeah. Those places contact you for a long time afterward too. Yeah, they were big in Austin in the 90s in the early 2000s they did a lot of like a Getting your molar pulled studies to where kids could go get it for free or get paid like a couple hundred bucks have your motor molars pulled and Are not molar. What is it? What's the other one wisdom wisdom teeth? Yes, okay?

I just I'm sorry. I just had like I just had like 90 I just had like an hour of cat scans on my molars today, so I have molars on the brain Yeah, your wisdom teeth, and then they would give you like medicines and sometimes. They'd be a placebo to determine like you know How long you meds worked if they just took the molars could you just use the wisdoms? more easily? Oh, oh, well, well, you know what? Nick probably knows because his dad is a dentist. So I'm not going to argue this point.

Fair play, because I feel like the thing with wisdom teeth is they can go the wrong way. Yeah. Yeah. Eric, did you ever did you? You did the sleep test one. Did you ever do jizzes and stuff? No, not sleep test one. Did you ever do jizzes and stuff? No, not that one. So the way it would go was the sleep ones, the sleep ones paid the most. The ones that would take your blood would be like,

not as much as the sleep ones, but they were good. And then a lot of them were just like placebo effect. Like I would assume placebo effect, whatever. It's just, you know, it's, I never did ones where I had to come into a cup. I did have to piss into a cup. From my understanding, you need to like a really high level of cum to get paid for it.

I would be shocked if any of us. So how much now, yeah, now let's figure out what exactly you mean by that. You need like a good volume, like you need to fill the cup. I think it's a mix of like what your hereditary data is as far as like different types of things, as well as like sperm count and efficiency, like the effect. You're not talking about like a line on a cup saying, jeez, up to here. No, no, no, I'm not talking literal volume. I'm talking like I think there's a bunch of I think they like test you first to determine if your cum is worth paying for essentially.

I could be wrong about all of this, but that's my understanding. Wait, they test, they test your blood or they test your cum? I don't know. Cause it'd be weird to test blood and they'd be like, okay, give us the cum when they could have just tested the cum. Yeah, but it also feels weird to like you give them cum and they don't need it. It's strange either way. I feel like. But I could. Once again, I've never tried this, but I feel like that's what I've heard. That has been my rough understanding is that it's actually not

easy to sell cum. Well, you must have looked into it, though, if you know this much about it. Could you potentially ask your mom? She knows a lot about medical stuff. I'm not in this field. She's on the she was on the other side. She was once the baby was born. That's when she came into play.

She was not a baby. Gotcha. I just I feel like I've heard people talk about this and that's my I've never personally looked into it. I know there's a scene in the way of the Gun where they explain the pricing of. All these stuff. That was a good movie way the gun. It's a great action scene at the end.

Like top five come movies. Uh, probably. There's a scene in that movie that I think about all the time for a shootout. Or like a character dives over a thing to like take cover. And there's just a whole bunch of broken beer bottles in the thing and he just gets shredded by it. Not fun. Very graphic. That's a pretty graphic movie.

I haven't seen it since it came out, but I remember it being pretty. It's very campy. Yeah. Yeah. That dives over and his arm just gets filled with glass and he has to like slowly pull it out. And it's not for rough. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's a guy that gets shot in the dick in that movie. It's good. Maybe the gun is a better movie that I remember. Um, I was speaking asleep.

I found my I found my eye mask again that I hadn't. I misplaced it and I lost it for about a year. Rediscovered it. And I don't think I can use it. I think I got to like slowly transition into using it. I've somehow I've developed like bird brain. I've learned since getting it back. I will put it on and instantly fall asleep because it's so dark.

And I think it's partially because the blinds where I live don't really work. So it's always like in the day. It's always somewhat bright. Even at night, it's kind of bright. So I put it on and then it's pitch black to an extent I'm not used to. And I instantly fall asleep and then I'll wake up at some point and feel kind of panic because of how dark it is. And I'm having to adjust. But I feel like a bird where like they cover the cage and it tricks it immediately.

Thinking it's a night like that. That is where my brain is at with this thing. I put the mask on like, oh, this is nice. It's dark. Then I fall asleep. Then I wake up going, why, where am I type thing? Have I have I told you my weird thing with I must I've I brought it up and you related to it. I don't know if it's the same point I saw on the show. I have an issue with them because I can't tell if my eyes are closed or not.

Yeah. And you said, yeah. And that made me feel seen in a way that we both, I think, felt a moment of like, oh, this guy gets me. I have a thing that really annoys Meg where I have to put my eye mask on when the lights are off. Otherwise, it feels like the lights are still on. Really? Yeah. So if Meg is like still up and about doing something, I'll make her turn off the lights so I can put the eye mask on.

And my brain kind of saves the dark room as an image. And then she can turn the lights back on again. And even though I can't see the light, it feels like they're off. That's great. So, Andrew, if you if you were in a pitch black room, how would you know if your eyes were open or closed? I think I could feel them. I would be able to feel it. It's the thing with the eye mask is your face. It's just a pressure brunch.

Yeah. It kind of OK. Pushes it on. It is a weighted eye mask specifically. So like there's a weight to it. Yeah. So I think that that would be the difference. Is that good? Like you want that? You want the weight? Sometimes you just want to feel like you're getting squished. That's what Gavin's doing with his machine.

He's just kind of true or whatever. Yeah, but he's he is stale air. If Gavin was getting fresh air while squeezing his face, I think that would be a fine experience. Yeah. Well, yeah, it was more like the breathing, but not getting any air in your lungs. Kind of do that like, sometimes no amount and falls or has in the past.

And it's not the worst feeling in the world. This being toppled by pillars. It's like the softest avalanche ever. I have a new problem of. I got a king size duvet. That's the name, right. It's fancy word for sheep. I mean, she did it like a fluffy insert.

Yeah. Like, so I got that and I have a cover and my partner and I use different, we have separate sheets that like they cross, but like we each have a sheet because we're both like hogs essentially in the night for night hogs night, night, night, night, the mattress sheet or like the top sheet or the top. The duvet. We both have, we have two duvets on the bed. They have their duvet.

I have my duvet. Why did you start by saying I got a duvet, but then we both share different sheets. Like you mean the same thing? I don't know what I'm saying to be honest, but we both have two duvets. We have two duvets and my, the one I just got myself is a king one that I got on sale. And then it has a it has a cover on it. But I split half the bed. So I have way too much the bed. The sheet ratio is a lot.

I'm really struggling with balancing the sheet. It just it's turned into a weighted blanket because it's too much sheet for just my side. It ends up stacking on itself. Why do you buy a king size for half a bed? Well, because it is a king size bed, but I'm only using half of it because it's my sheet. Yeah. You didn't you didn't foresee that.

I'm like, man, this will be a shitload of sheet. Well, here's my previous one was a queen and that was totally fine. And I have upgraded to a king because it was on sale and it has been a problem of too many sheet. Just it's it's everywhere and I have to end up stacking it on them if I'm getting out of bed and they're in bed because there's no space because I'm a side I'm a like edge sleeper. I like being on that corner. And it has been an adjustment. It's the whole sleep thing has been a whole thing. What does edge sleep for me?

I sleep on the edge on right on the edge of the bed. Yeah. Yeah. I do not go into the center. You got all these pillows. They're slowly falling down the back of the bed, which is like pushing the bed out, but you're just on the edge with a king sized two way. You're like, you're like sleeping on the fringes. Like you don't use,

you like, don't use the middle of the mattress. You just use like the very top and the very side. So it was nice before when I was in the bed just by myself, the pillows would fall or they may. I could grab a pillow. I could adjust. I would be more in the central there. But I have a constant fear of like I am taking up too much space or being an annoyance.

So I am an edge sleeper to give as much room as possible. And I don't mind it. Andrew, I agree with you. I do the exact same thing. I don't think it's weird at all. I'm an edge sleeper as well. And I think it becomes weird where there's so many pillow. It's become a problem where the pillow to actual bed space is an issue because they don't want seven pillows. So I either I have to like reassign the pillows. I have

a space between my bedside table and the bed that I just shove pillows into as a whole spot now. So there's pillows down the back and down the side. Well, there's always pillows down the side and they are to fill as more pillows go down the bag. I pull from the side pillows. All right. What about this? What about this? Right. Get one pillow.

That's the perfect height. And then that's it. Oh, we went over this. I just I need a I guess I could talk about that. I I have that bed frame that has a backstop or whatever. Headboard name is headboard. Yeah, that's what I was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Backstop. Yeah. The bed backstop or whatever headboard name is headboard. Yeah, that's what I was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Backstop. Yeah, the bed backstop.

Yeah. So so your pillows are down the side. They touch in the floor. Yeah. No, it's clean. It's clean floor. I just point. There's just no reason for it. No, there's not enough space in the bed.

If I kept them in the bed, I'd have to create a pillow line between me and my partner and that just feels weird like that That feels like we're going through something when we're not so you're storing the pillows under the bed to keep them out of the way Yes, but I'm gonna use them they come into play. Yeah, he needs to be it's a pull from like the quick It's like a quick ride pillars. Yeah, so that's that's the switch like the quickest like a quick, right? Pillows. Yeah. So that's that's the switch for that. But the the backboard bed situation, I called a moving company about it and they were not they were very confused by my situation and what I required. No, no way.

And I've now encountered a problem where I just don't know. So I can hire there are people that get rid of stuff and there are people that move stuff, but there aren't in my area for what I could tell people that both get rid of stuff and move stuff for you. So I'm at a cross. I don't know what to do because I can hire someone to get rid of. So this is the I don't know if I've described this fully, but I have a bed on the top level that I need to get rid of. So this is the I don't know if I've described this fully, but I have a bed on the top level that I need to get rid of.

No, that's wrong. I need to get rid of the bed on the middle level. I have a bed on the middle level that I need to get rid of. And then I want to move the bed on the upper level to the middle level as like a guest room type thing. But they're heavy. level as like a guest room type thing. But. They're they're heavy and like I also have the the bed frame thing I'd like to have brought up that's heavy to the top of the middle,

to the top, so that's going to the top. So I need someone to get rid of the middle thing and then move the top to the middle once the middle is clear. And I just haven't been able to find anyone that is willing to do that at a rate that is reasonable or that makes sense. Does TaskRabbit exist?

Dude, I'm on the website right now looking at what it would be. I heard about that. I don't think it is available where I live. Okay. I think I live in too small. Okay. So I'll Google Task Rabbit Canada equivalent because it's so I called a movie company and I was like, I need this. I need to move this bed. I need to get rid of the bed and I need to have this pulled up.

And they're like, well, wait, you need this. And we went back and forth for a while. And then they told me it would be a $500 minimum because you have to book them for three hours. Well, yeah, I see when they book out the van as well. And yeah, totally. Like, it makes sense. But I just it's not. But then I have somebody else that I've used for like chair removal. I got rid of all the chairs outside of the Herman Miller and

but they don't move furniture. Huh? Has crab rabbit Vancouver, Canada. Well, I did see that as a dot com and went, that's probably just an American thing. Choose a task by price. I bet you could get a task rabbit guy or you could probably just call a regular handyman. Handyman's move things.

I bet you could lay out your situation and then he could a regular handyman. Handyman's move things. I bet you could I bet you could lay out your situation and then he could either say yes or no. Oh, it's removal. Don't do it right now. I'm just looking at what you said. I wonder if there are any any Vancouver Island based listeners. I don't want to have a listener coming in. Andrew, I was about to say the same thing. That's the craziest fucking thing you've ever said, Gavin.

Hey, anyone like this podcast want to come over to my house? Are you out of your fucking mind? A little it's a little much like I did, maybe a coffee shop or like we could start somewhere in the in the in like a meeting phase. I feel like straight to the home. Like I feel like even people you meet at work and then become friends with, I feel like it's rare. It's immediately a home visit.

I feel like there's sort of a build to it. I've had listeners in my home. So have I. You. Hey, I've never been to Gavin's house. Be very careful, Andrew. They turn into Gavin sometimes. I had a guy deliver a Christmas tree once and he was like, oh, shit, can I take a picture? Yeah, can we just do it against like a blank wall or something? Yeah You should have a blank wall just for that scenario a

Little tripod in front of it. There's nothing better than somebody delivering a pizza and going like oh hey Jeff So this is where you live, huh? I've got to remember that apparently Do you guys use fake names for delivery apps? No, I use a fake name on almost everything ever. Really? Yeah, I got like 20 names. What middle name? I don't have any fake middle names.

See, you start not writing. Just start writing optional optional. It's got to be confusing to be you. Yeah, no, no wonder you were never able to figure out how to get your teeth. Do you have certain fake names for certain levels of importance? Oh, interesting. Like, do you have like, oh, this is complete nonsense. Here's the fake name for this.

And this is, oh, you know what? I actually kind of would like to read this. This name is the I would kind of like the read name. Yeah, the more ridiculous the name, the less important it is. If it's like a completely unbelievable name, it's probably not anything important. Interesting. Hmm. Hmm. I don't want to like, I don't want you to have to reveal all of your identities, Bruce Wayne, but it would be fun to play a game in which we have a list of your

fake names and have to guess what level of priority each name is. Are any of them named after your famous characters like Stuart? No, no. OK, OK. Too official. Are you going to bring up the game that you want to play with me, Gavin? We're talking about the screenshots from the insane thing you sent me last night. Yeah, of course.

All right. Copy. OK, so Andrew text me. I've had your cootery on the brain quite a bit recently. Andrew simply text me this out of nowhere. He wrote I spell it right across my three attempts and then it's a picture of him. Oh my God. Right. Yeah, which I immediately wrote.

I feel like I'm having a stroke. Why is it written downwards? It looks like the notebooks in the Kevin space. He wrote it in seven. So that, so that he sent me a screenshot of what it looks like. He's basically dodging the buttons on whatever. Yeah. So the buttons are on the top right. So I couldn't go across.

I had to go down and around the buttons. I said, wild. Are you right handed? He said, yes, I am. I said, I feel like, and don't take offense to this. I feel like I could write a, write a better with a pen in my anus. So I want to pitch the game to you guys, Andrew or anus. Oh, where we both write a word.

That's pretty much it. You have to get any of your letters. I'm like looking at like your H's. Those are insane. I'm looking at your ours. Those are insane. You're is it you just I'm looking at. So what happens is, is I'm a right hand. I'm a right hander.

So to do this, I have to hold the phone in my left hand. And I also have I've always just had a little bit of shaky hands. So it's kind of the screen is shaking probably a little bit. And I'm trying to like I should really be holding it. My left hand is kind of useless, I guess is what I'm saying. So it's an unstable surface. And I'm also trying to make because I went in knowing I wanted three attempts So it's trying to balance that and I also had to try to factor in it curving

So he's that dodging the birds and then he said And then he said to me this one where he's dodging the mind table like just start put a new document Why do you call my god? Why are you constantly dodging the previous thing you used in the app? I you know, I spell it right now. That was the thing is I was, I've been thinking about it a lot and I didn't, I couldn't think of a way to use without spell auto spell or whatever. You put two T's in.

It's almost as if it's a real piece of paper and you just don't want to waste it. Yeah. We're just reusing the same digital image over and over. I don't think you spell it right because I don't think that's two T's. C-H-A-R-C-U-T-T-E-R. Are any of those right? You want me to spell because you probably can't read what I've written. Yeah. Also, people there, there's people that listen.

C-H-A-R-C-U-T-T-E-R-I-E. Wrong. C-H-A-R-C-U-T-E-R-I-E. Right. That's it. C-H-A-R-C-U-T-E-R-Y. Also wrong. You already had it right. So you know that. Yeah. Chuck Q. Terry. I've been thinking about it a lot. I feel like it's a word I very rarely see, but here often. I just wanted to try also.

That's pretty legible, right? That's not bad. Was that your anus? No, unfortunately, it was a finger on Instagram. So next time I'll try it with anus. Are you right handed or left handed? I am right handed. Yeah. Does that make it? Does that does that help her in your? Anus. Are you right handed or left handed? I am right handed. Yeah. Does that make it? Does that does that help her in your

You send me that black space you're using and I can it is a photo of my desk. Oh, black space. I is that what you're talking about? Like the background. I just took a picture very close of my desk. Now, now everything draws and writes a picture very close of my desk. Now everything he draws and writes is gonna be on your desk. Excuse me, please. I didn't send it, so I just had to take one of my laptop. Okay. It's gonna be him writing on your desk

with your original writing scribbled out next time. Yeah. I just wanted to see if it would fit up and down, if my lettering made sense. I think the only thing I'm gonna really lock in here. Everything else is cool. I don't know. I'm gonna actually try.

Okay. I need to find a way to hold a pen without actually putting it in my ass. I have a way to do that. Oh, your hand. Hand. In a second. I'm spelling. Hand. Oh, shit. In a second, I'm spelling and.

Yeah, yeah, shit. Throwing it out there. E R I. Very excited about this. Couldn't save image. Why not? Here we go. OK, my idea, Gavin. Yeah. Not a pen, but you plunge your butt and then you dip the wooden part

in ink. Plunge my butt. Oh, oh, like I suction my off. You suction your ass with the plunger and then you dip the wooden part. This Homer Simpson ass way of like you're going to you're going to try this. It's going to seem all fine to you. Try to pull the plunger off and you prolapse your own asshole. That's not my problem.

I was just trying to think of how Gavin could accomplish this without shoving something in his ass. So maybe maybe I'll get in the lab and I'll I'll craft some writable underwear. OK, I have a I've been avoiding asking a very obvious question, Andrew, and I feel like maybe I should just ask it. Why don't you turn the phone sideways? You do that? Oh, my God. I'm about to fucking lose it.

Hey, wait a second. Is that how you did it, Eric? No, his portrait. I'm just no. What? It's up and down. I did it like you did to prove that somebody could do it, not make it look like a monkey made it. Just so just turn it sideways so you'd write like a well, normal. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it doesn't make this is actually worse. I'm not used to this at all.

How's it different? You just got more travel. Oh, no. Now I'm running actually worse. I'm not used to this at all. How's it different? You just got more travel. Oh, no. Now I'm running up against the colors at the bottom. Surely you could just tap those away or something. You can't. Why are you right at the bottom, though? Are you mean like the right show you? I screen shot it and then we can move on.

See, I ran into the colors at the bottom. How did you write so much bigger? Also, why didn't you start at the top? Yeah, you started like an inch below the top. Well, yeah, I did. I started where the light began, and I guess that was my problem. Well, yeah, yeah, I did. I started where the light began and I guess that was my problem. Anyway, I think people would struggle. What? We all have skills.

This one isn't one of mine. So, OK, did you learn? Did you learn handwriting at school? Yeah, I'm great at that. Are you sure? Yeah, I can only do cursive. Then why haven't you been doing it in cursive? Can you write charcuterie in cursive for us real fast? I don't know how to. I mean, this is I feel like don't know how to do.

Curse. No, I'm great at doing cursive. I've never done it with just a finger before. Oh, I've I've only ever I only know how to do it in cursive. Can you write in cursive? Oh, shit, they called my bluff. But the perfect plan falling apart. All the next time I'll do it. I'll reveal. I feel like the next time.

Why is this too visual? I'm worried about it being too visual. We're a pod. I don't care at all. Do it. OK, OK, I'll do it. OK, I'll do it. Shelby's going to post all these pictures and it's so people will be able to see on our Instagram or wherever they'll also be in the video. But I need people to see like this has to be seen. It must be seen. I don't want to wait. I can't continue on in living my life

without seeing Andrew writing cursive. I agree. Are you cursiving on the soy phone or what is it? Yeah, I'm cursing. Oh man, soy phone, slippery fucking phone. Headphone. Headphone. Falls off my end table three times a night.

I did dip it in lube before I mailed it. What? Are you holding the phone just up in the air? Like, would it be more stable if you did it on the desk? Probably. I'm not running charcuterie for 70 more times. This is my last charcuterie. Now, don't say that. Yeah, we're not sure. Let's see how you do.

That was a quick that was just a quick run through. That's better. Is where's this? Where's the sea? Hey, see, it looks like it says Everstein. Yeah, it does look like it says it does. Like it says every style is my favorite rock punk group ever. Well, I think it's the new Peter Mullin new game. I believe it's the new Steve's

blood or whatever that was. Steve's blood and eversteiner going on to her bloody Steve. This is Everstein. Summer 2026. You guys get sleep amnesia? What's sleep? That's like you don't remember

your dreams? No, it's like I, I have like a small window of time where I don't remember anything. If I get woken up out of it, probably like five minutes on either side. Wait, wait, wait. So you just don't know who or where you are for five minutes? No, no, no, no. Like somebody if I'm in a deep sleep. That was my life every day. Every day he wakes up and he's terrified.

Not again. Not again. Just like side of corner with your arms around your knees. Every day. I'm just looking around like where the fuck am I? Is it a 50 first dates? It's five terrifying fucking minutes. I have a thing where like if I'm in a deep sleep and somebody wakes me up,

they can have a conversation with me. If I go back to sleep, that's gone. I've erased that. That doesn't exist. OK, so you like partially asleep still, probably. Probably. Yeah, but I've always been like this. I just I'll clear that thing. I have developed a new habit, which I don't know how this has happened, but it's caused great issue. It started. that thing. I have developed a new habit, which I don't know how this has happened, but it's caused great issue. It started well, it didn't start, but it impacted the first night of Mario Party March where I am bringing my phone into the bed to use it and not remembering

I'm doing that. And then falling asleep. And it's just somewhere in the bed, which with my blanket situation has become a real problem trying to rediscover the phone. I keep going to reach for my phone to check something on the end table at my bed, bedside table. Not end table. Is it an end table? Doesn't matter. Anyway, it's not there. You're the head of the table. So whatever you want it to be. Yeah. Head of the night stand. It's not there.

And I need to how do I train myself out of this? It's something I've been meaning to ask you guys. Do you have any approaches or techniques? I keep grabbing to remember better. Why don't I don't I can't. Maybe I need to like tape the phone down. Take Echinacea. Why don't you leave it plugged in and then you'll know where it is

because it's just follow the wire. Yeah, that's actually a really good point. That's what I do. That's smart. The problem is my wire is like 20 feet long. It's really long. That's great. It's perfect. Even better. It is. Yeah. I'm not going to pull it out. I have a request. Okay. We do a little segment called a five minute interview with Andrew and it starts the second you wake up. I like this. And we have to see if you remember it afterwards. I like this. Yeah, that's great. How will he know to get on if for five minutes he just doesn't have to list his partner? Yeah. And maybe we'll

start at like 4 30 a.m. You just get shoved awake. The mic's already recording and your headphones already on and we just go. This could be interesting. I think it would have to you have to it would have to be through them. I can't know about it. It can't be a thing that I'm waiting for because then I'll be like just kind of alert for it. Yeah. You'll be freaking out just waiting for 430 if you do it in like three months from now

where I've forgotten about this premise. I think I'm going to write down because I think, yeah, I'm going to write it down. I because I I'm like, apparently I'm getting into conversations. I'm putting on the idea bank right now. It's probably like talking to you at your purest, most base level, deep, deep subconscious. Well, sometimes it can be terrifying because I what did I do? I did something that I apologized for. And they said, I thought you're going to apologize for when you hit my phone.

I say, what hit your phone? And I guess I slapped the phone out of their hands in my. Whoa. Well, I was not in like I did like I swung my. I wasn't aiming at the phone. I wasn't aiming at anything. My arm just swung. Oh, I swing in my sleep, I guess sometimes like like I jolt, not so much swing, but like I jolt and I knock the phone out and then I commented about like I apologized at the time, but I just had no memory of it.

How do you swing on the edge? Dangerous. Oh, yeah. Well, it could be a problem or sometimes like maybe I'll like fall asleep holding their arm and then as I'll jolt and or my hand will, I guess, progressively go higher up the hand to the point where I'm pushing the phone out. I'm a menace. I guess.

I don't understand. Yeah. I guess. I don't know. This sleep in general, just all around, it's bad for me. Sounds like a nightmare. Absolute nightmare. Sleeping gets more difficult, I think, as you get older. Yeah. Really? Really? Yes.

Does it get easier for you? I yeah, it really has gotten easier as I've gotten older. I don't have issues. I mean, I get up to pee more, but sleep is I sleep. I go to sleep easier. I wake up happier, better. I sleep through the night better. Yeah, I don't have.

Hmm. I know for you, Jeff. Do you think sleep has gotten easier or everything around it has gotten harder? Is there some people in in her place everywhere? You're on the floor. Like, I just feel like everything around the sleep got a lot more difficult. Honestly, my sleep got instantly better the day I got sober, and then it just has continued to improve since then. Oh, that's great.

So I think it's probably, you know, I'm pretty sure that drunken sleep is almost worthless. It's like, yeah, not regenerative. But yeah, like I used to have bad insomnia and stuff and I don't need more. I just go to sleep immediately. I never have. I can't remember the last time I like laid awake, not able to fall asleep. That hasn't happened to me in years. Well, I'm trying to CPAP set up, so I'll give an update. Maybe these things will change. Maybe things will shift.

I'm so fascinated to see how you get on with it. Yeah, so am I. It's the worst. My advice is stick with it. I got I hated it so much that I just didn't use it for like a year. But I should have. Yeah, I don't think I'll have that problem. God, can you imagine how much better you could have been last year if you'd used it?

I used to think about if I lived in a different continent that I would be unstoppable You say shit out of nowhere that is like so mind blowing to me It's related to what he's saying where there was a time in my life where I would be at peak energy from like 3 a.m through like 10 a.m. And it was useless because everyone else is sleeping where I'm at like there's no I'm not utilizing that well But if I lived in a different part of the world, I'm just I'm just I'm being held back by where I'm living Well people do have different but genetic circadian rhythms, I think. Really? Yeah. I just think I had a bad sleep schedule.

I don't think I could blame the circadias for that. I can kind of see what you're saying. You think it's like cicadas? Do you think it's like an animal? Whatever. My life goes on. Just not as well as it would if you were in Australia. Exactly. I always felt like I was held back by being born in Alabama.

I agree. I mean, we all agree with you on that there, buddy. Yeah, that always seemed like unnecessarily unfair. How old are you when you looked around for the first time and just went... Who, me? Yeah. Oh, pretty young, man. Pretty fucking young. I shit my pants in the mud and I went, this is it, huh? I went and lived in Florida for a little while where like everybody was into skating and surfing

and shit and it was like that culture very like bones brigade early 80s and then I had to move back to Alabama and like fifth or sixth grade and that's when I knew that's when I went oh my god I've moved back in time I live in a different time now and this time hates me. That was pretty much the rest of my childhood. God I laughed my ass off this episode. This is definitely a good one. It's pretty fucking funny.

This is like old face. This is just getting charcuterie so many different fucking times. There's like five images of it. It's so funny. It's so insane. Speaking of old face, before we end, I want to let you guys know I've been playing trucks and it works. What? Yeah, I think it might be time to go back to trucks. Burn Dog and Antonio and I started playing trucks again, and it's been working.

We got a new truck team coming out. Yeah, was it like a change or like what happened? I mean, the game's constantly updated and there's I've checked the the the subreddit and nobody's complaining about getting dropped anymore. I can't find any like threads where where people are actively bitching about it. And it just seems to be working. So just throwing that out there. We could maybe play Trucks again.

We should get back into Trucks. That's crazy because I played COD with you guys the other night with all the Truck boys and all four of us got dropped. From COD. Or crashed from COD. It's true. It's true. Oh man. Did I tell you guys last week about how I've started to fall asleep in video games again?

Dude, we were talking about it off mic. I was fucking playing Warzone with Bernie and Antonio the other night, and we were looting a house, and then the next thing I knew, I woke up, and I was halfway across the map from them, just running through, down the side of a mountain had no idea how I got there they Didn't even notice because they were arguing with each other about something and I just like I fucking I felt like it was

2010 and you were carrying me across the finish line again in crackdown again Did you maybe while you were looking the house? Did you look at the bed in there? I just made Did you look at the bed in there? I just made you. Maybe I did. I just want to play so bad, but we can play so late at night. It's so yeah, don't play so late because because of Mario Party March. Every night is a school night. I know it sucks.

Even even Saturday and Sunday. I know there's no escape. There is zero escape. But I get so excited 30 minutes before, though, like once once it's like, oh, the turn is coming up. This is going to be big. I got big things planned for this turn. I'm having so much fun with Mario.

Yeah. So we're in at the time of this record. We just did part seven day seven day seven. Yeah, we recorded it. It's it's really it's really heated up. And to those who haven't been watching it, it's posted every day on our Patreon. For free. I went back and I can confirm that I just don't read. Just don't read in that game.

Oh, Christ. Yeah, that game. Yeah. We we should probably wrap this up or I'm going to start launching into new prompts and then that's got to piss Eric off. Yeah, no, we need to wrap up. Cause I, I'm, yeah, cause I, yeah, cause I want to. Save it. Save it. Wrap it up.

Save it for next week. All right. Thanks for listening to another episode of the Regulation Podcast. This was episode 44. Jesus Christ, we hope you liked it. We sure did. Laughed our little dicks off. They're on the ground somewhere.

Everybody's, as soon as we stop recording, we stop down as we call it in the industry, everybody's gonna get on their hands and knees and start searching for their little dicks again because they always roll under something and they, they caught up in dust bunnies and stuff, then you gotta go take and wash your little dick off before you put it back on, that's the whole thing. Anyway, we'll see you next week!