F**kface - Eggs Til the Cows Come Home // Everything Broke [92]

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about did you deserve to live today, Gudge Geoff, the everyman, egg sandwich, chicken sandwich, bottom pillow, Big Mac, top hat, stream starting soon, pleasantries, twitch, doctor, notifications, The Valley of Interest, Andrew's pop filters, thick desk, firmware update, Andrew's chair, food not food draft, plastic covering, thunder nuggets, other wings, Geoff's community interaction, anniversary, Fram, reboot, sitting, and LaZBoy office setup. 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

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So no matter what day of the week, Go's got you covered. Find out more at goadransit.com slash tickets. and welcome to another episode of the regulation podcast. This is episode 92. My name is Jeff Ramsey with me. As always, Andrew Pant and Gavin Free, Nick Schwartz, Eric Badur, or as they like to be known, Trigger Man, Dilly Pop, a little skeddy, babyface.

And, of course, me, well, who am I? Somebody else say it. Oh, it's the Candyman. It's the Candyman. Hey, Candyman. I said all your names, and I was hoping somebody would say mine. Hey, Candyman, before we get into anything, hey, can I ask you a question, Candyman? Yes.

Did you deserve to live today? Well, today's too young to say. Oh, okay. It's got to be an end of the day thing. Not yet. Yeah, no. That question gets answered in bed at night. Typically.

Great way to go to sleep. Andrew, Andrew, this is a real thing he does. This is a real. This is real and it was stunning to me when he explained it to me. I was so surprised, Eric, doesn't do the same thing. You do what? I thought everybody did this. Every night before you go to bed as you're laying in bed and you're about to go to sleep, you evaluate the day and everything that you did, and then you make the determination, did I deserve to live today? Oh my God. Or was I a waste of

fucking space? Did I take oxygen and give nothing back to humanity? Should I have just not woken up this morning or did I do enough throughout the day to deserve my life? And I feel like everybody probably does that. Jeff, I think you need to go back to therapy. I think, Jeff, what do you talk about in therapy if not this thing you brought to me while we were eating breakfast? Oh, I had a way more important stuff to talk about in therapy than that. Yeah, the hard stuff is in therapy.

This is just like a check at the end of the day, you know, did you do enough to exist? Or were you just a fucking, just a waste of flesh and bone? And gore and humanity that just sucked off the teat of human existence. If you did something heroic, how long does that carry for you? Each day is, each day is its own thing, man. Andrew, I don't. I know, I know. This is, we were eating breakfast.

We wouldn't pick up the van for like the delicious. This is a breakfast conversation. Dude, yes. And like, we're eating breakfast. And Jeff is like, yeah, you know how like, yeah. And then like at the end of the day, you sit there and you just go like, yeah, did I deserve to live today? And I went, what?

And he's like, you know, you like sit down for a while and like you just kind of sit there and you think to yourself like, well, what did I do? Did I do enough? Did I deserve to live today? And they went, I go home to my wife and my dog in my house and I don't ever. No, I never thought that before. And he's like, no, I think most people think that. I listen, I get, I get thinking most people think a certain way. But I would feel better about my chicken thing.

I'm trying to think if if the rest of the world did think like that, maybe it'd be a really good world. It might, but then I asked him, well, Jeff, did you think that yesterday? And he said, yeah. And I said, how long did you spend on it? And he went, like an hour and a half. Oh, my God. Okay, that's too much. What the fuck?

I thought you were making it sound like it was like a green tick or red X at the end. Some days it is. Me too. Some days it is. Some days it is. But some days you really got to work through some shit, you know, and you really got to get, listen, listen, I, who's got, I got, I got, there's nobody in charge of me. I got to be in charge of me.

I got to take care of me. I got to keep myself in line. I got to, if I'm not on me, who else is going to be? Nobody, right? So you got to like hold yourself to task. And at the end of the day, I like to, you got to sit down and you got to say like, like, hey, dickhead, what did you do today? Why did you even get out of fucking bed if that's all you were going to accomplish in a day?

Or you go like, hey, you know what? Not bad, buddy. You did a good job. You should be proud of yourself. I feel like overall as a concept, it's not as diet. as it seems, but you cannot be the judge of that. Correct.

That is absolutely, like, Jeff can't judge Jeff. That is not. Who's going to judge Jeff? It's not Jeff. I'm the only one who understands the little bullshit dickhead that he is. Yeah, but you're the least fair judge of Jeff that we know.

Because I know what he's capable of. We need to have other Jeff judges because this isn't, this isn't right. And also, judge should be spelled with a G. Like that. Judge Jeff. Oh, Judge Jeff. Judge Jeff is pretty funny.

I do like that. Gudge. I think if you flip his thinking of like, hey, was I productive today or could I have been more productive? This is such a healthy, fine thing, I guess.

But the concept of like, should I die or not is where it really. I agree. Everything is near making sense. Everything is close to it. That's what it boils down to, though, it at the end of the day, literally and figuratively, though, isn't it?

It's like you got two choices to be alive or to not be alive. That's the binary choice of humanity. So which side of that choice did you fall on today? That's all. Crazy. Every night. I'm not going to be the crazy one in a podcast with Gavins and Andrews and Andrews and Erick's and Nicks, all right?

Why you say my name first? I feel no kind of way about a foot. I've had eggs until the fucking cows come home. I'm fine. I'm not obsessed with rats. I'm just a normal dude. I'm the every man of this podcast. Well, I guess that's Nick.

But yeah, I'm not, there's nothing crazy. There's nothing crazy about being, about being hard, not even being harder in yourself, just holding yourself accountable. Can we call this episode X till the cows come home?

Yeah, no problem. Can I ask so like when you think about it, do you deserve to live today? Are you landing on? no ever? Oh man. Oh no. Oh my

God. Jeff. If I never landed on no, why bother having the conversation? This would be the most depressing Slack channel we could ever have. I deserve. I earn

my oxygen about 70% of the time, I would say. But I'd say about 30% of the time, just a just a useless piece of shit. You gotta give yourself a break sometimes. You're saying three days a week you don't deserve to live. Three?

Probably, well. Okay to have off days? You know what? You know what, Eric? That seems excessive. I would say probably two days. I don't deserve to live. Yeah. I think three's a bit much. I don't think I'm that hard on myself. I'd say two days.

The weekend? Yeah, is it the you give yourself grace on Saturdays and Sundays or is it usually like a Tuesday, Wednesday thing? Grace for what? I don't know. I really don't know. Great. Huh?

Are they less of a day because it's on a, it's later in the week? No, it's still a day. It's still 24 hours of shit's got to be done. Still 24 hours of doing what you're supposed to do to justify living. But you need rest days? Do whatever you want on those days. Yeah. I'm not, not saying I don't rest.

No, but at no point that I say I don't rest. Everybody rests. It's what sleeps for. What? Yeah, you feel real rested when you wake up? Not always. Cool. Depends on how rough the night before was, I guess.

Or the day. I've definitely had days where I'm like, oh, I didn't really do anything of note. I'll just do more tomorrow. But I wouldn't ever phrase it. It's like, that was a waste of life. Yeah. Right. It's just because you're not being honest with yourself.

But that's okay. It was just such a, it was like, I want to say it was eye opening while we were breakfast and this happened, but it was sort of like, oh yeah, I guess I could kind of like expect this from Jeff. It was just really, it just took me back to here, I suppose. Like, that was really something. Just trying to eat like a biscuit. And it was like, did I deserve to live? 90 minutes? I'm just trying to eat my hash browns. There were no pounds. Oh, you got to have hash browns for them. They didn't offer them. Wasted opportunity by both of you. Wasted life day. Did you see, Andrew, that we went and got the messy egg sandwich?

I did. And mine was shockingly tidy. All of my egg burst down my gullet. Yeah. As someone who's suspicious of eggs,

I felt warranted watching that. You think you're right to be suspicious of what we went through? It made me feel, yeah, that I was in the right in that regard. They're exploding,

they're shooting everywhere. People are, and looks messy. I don't like any of them. I just, now that I've had two and had a similar experience with both, I just don't think it should exist in that format.

I think it needs to be scrambled or hard-boiled. I don't know why it's an over-medium. Yeah, I agree. I think I agree with that. I think you just got to aim it. So I was wrong about the chicken sandwich, uh, egg thing. Oh, is that right? Yeah, based on audience reaction, apparently, apparently, uh, it was weird to me with the eggs.

Well, I think people were saying that it's, that it is weird overall for you with the eggs. But it is crazy just looking at Nick that he hasn't had that. I think that's fair. That's a grounded thing. Because you have a food podcast, Nick. I'm in the weirder thing, but it is strange that you haven't done that. But that was before I was really on it. Or in it.

Or along. I have another one to float to you guys. And I'm sure the audience will be on board with me as well. I love it when you say this. Somebody is laying on top of two pillows. They sit up. They say, pull the bottom pillow. They say, hey, could you pull one of the, could you pull the bottom pillow?

Could you pull the bottom pillow? What pillow do you grab? The lower one. Yeah, the one that's the legs, maybe. Are they stacked? They're stacked. Okay, so they're laying on two pillows that are stacked. Yes.

How would anything other than the one that's on the bottom be the bottom? Yeah, the one touching the bed. Yeah. This is not looking good for me. Oh, so you've taken the bottom to mean the top one. Yes. Okay. Is the, I, I.

They're both bottom pillows. Bottom one, bottom two. You're so dumb. What do you think a stack? Like, two. If you're laying on top of something, it's below you. But you're not a pillow. But there are two pillows.

Yeah, the first bottom one. The first bottom. Everything's bottom if you're on top of it. No, there's one that's lower. It's the bottom one. Like if I was on three. mattresses, would you say the bottom one was the one under me?

I would view them all as bottom mattresses. So you're telling me when you... When you eat a big mac and the buns in the middle, that's a bottom bun to you. You say there's one top one and two bottom buns. That's interesting. It's not. I swear to God, it's not.

No, I wouldn't. But that, you're right. By my logic of how I viewed this pillow situation, I should. If the Let's say the hamburger is on the ground below you And you're standing above it Are they all bottom buns then?

Yeah And that situation If I'm playing Jenga Are the blocks below the top of the bottom Or is the one on the table the bottom? Are the There are the There are

Well nobody's on top of the Jenga tower Well the top Top Roar blocks are Little bricks I guess it depends on who you're talking to. If the top row of block said pull the bottom one, I would think everything was at play.

You would think the whole game was at play. If someone said, get the bottom one. If the top jingo row talked to me and said pull, pull a bottom one, I would feel comfortable pulling any of them. You, but you don't view the middle bun in a Big Mac as a bottom bun. No, I don't. And you're right. That's weird. I should. That'd be consistent with the logic. So if I was wearing three hats and I said take off the top one, which one would you go for? The top one. But they're all the top one of their own head. They're all the top of my head.

Oh, shit. Huh. Yeah, no, you're right. I mean, this is a situation where I feel like I'm definitely in the wrong, I guess, at this point. But it's odd that my, like, I feel it's still right with the, if contextual, if you're on top of something. This is why you didn't understand extra medium, I think. Oh, yeah. Maybe.

Yeah. I went into the full, so my partner set up, said, pull the bottom pillow. I pulled the top one. Because bottom one. I like that you refer to it as the top one. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, just said, you're, you just, Andrew.

But I think it's in the context of I've now accepted I'm wrong. You're like, you're the architect of your own undoing. It's really, it's just every time. I'm articulating, I've accepted that I was in the wrong on this case. But it almost was disastrous where I pulled the top one. I pulled and then in the midst of doing that, I got a look and I went into panic mode. So then I pulled the bottom one. And there was enough silence for a moment where I considered just pulling every pillow in the general area.

And thankfully I stopped. And then it turned into a debate of what is the bottom pillow. I think everything is bottom if you're on top of it. But surely when you pulled the top one instead of the bottom one, the bottom one became the one left. Like it didn't matter too much, surely. I didn't know. I just heard pull the bottom one.

And I went both bottom. It sounds like you guys are not on board. And based on that, I don't think the audience will be either. No. I don't think you're on board. That's true. I don't know if I'm on board upon the middle bun of a big Mac really gets me. Why was that the eye-opening thing for you?

Like, why was that? Because it's so, like, I so definitely would refer to that as the middle bun. But I shouldn't, based on how I feel about pillow. It's just weird when you have conflicting ideas that go against each, like trying to sort out. how I actually feel about all this. And I think the answer is just, I'm wrong about the pillow thing. Yeah, what if you had, what if you had three bottom pillows stacked on top of each other

and you needed to refer to the middle bottom pillow, how would you? Oh, God. Once again, this, yeah, I would just say the middle pillow? Between what? Between the other two bottoms? Yeah, between the other, yeah, no, you're right. So it goes, body, bottom, middle, bottom,

bottom bed. Oh, Christ. I'm still right about the Twitch waiting screen. No, you're absolutely not. And every time we go live a couple of minutes before, we always say Andrew's going to hate this. It makes no sense. It's pointless.

So Andrew doesn't like the fact that people have like stream starting soon. Yeah. Yeah. When they start a stream. It's pointless. But explain. If I go to a movie and it starts at seven, I don't, the movie doesn't load up and go, hey, let's wait for everybody else to show up. It literally does. It plays trailers. Yeah, there's a lot before the movie. But they don't do it so people can come in. That's how they make money. That's what it's for. Yeah. You, Andrew. Okay. Okay. Let me slow. swap then. Let me swap then. Survivor on at 8 p.m. There's not just a shot of a torch for the first five minutes. We'll we wait for everybody to show up. There's a show before it. It's called a

lead. There's a show that's on before it. And then when Survivor starts, they don't get right into it. They show you a preview of what happened last week. If I'm watching Abbott Elementary and it's on before Survivor, that is not a lead in to Survivor. That's just another show. If I'm watching Survivor at 8 o'clock. I know the episode doesn't really start until 8.01 and 30 seconds because the first 90 seconds is going to be a recap of last week's episode. Also, the channel's already on the air. There's not just nothing. Nobody's sitting there waiting at nothing on the TV for it to start and then they have to click the channel. It's already on. I would argue that, oh, the average wait screen for a Twitch thing and nothing is the same. They're equal nothings.

No, because I've seen it. The reason I started putting him in is because I would sit there for a couple minutes and gather my thoughts and I'd see people in the chat ahead of time going, is Jeff streaming today? I think so. I don't know. I'm not sure. He didn't say yesterday that he wasn't streaming. Maybe he is. I don't know.

Well, I guess I'll stick around to find out. I started putting the starting soon thing and then people are like, oh, cool, he is streaming today. Cool, I'll just hang out and wait. Maybe gather your thoughts prior to when you're scheduled to go live. Right, but if you press start streaming and then start talking. There's no one there yet.

There might be one person you're talking to. Well, if you're explaining what you're about to do, wouldn't you want to wait until like a few hundred people there? There's going to be. What percent of the audience shows up at the start? Well, zero, apparently. You'd want a high percent is what you're looking for. So you're trying to get people in. So there's a lead in and something for them to watch before you get into it.

Yeah. Surely you want to be saying hello to like a few hundred people instead of zero people. What, it's pleasant trees. Show up on time. Yeah, so what are you, so what are you talking about? This is pleasant trees. It's pleasant trees. No, I love pleasant trees because it's,

No, you don't. You don't want there to be pleasant trees. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And that's all it is. The chat's getting in, everything's getting warm, you can talk to the chat in your chat. It's pleasant trees, Andrew. It's all it is.

The difference between pleasant trees and what we do is it's active, like it's a participatory thing. And I guess for me, I can understand, I guess, the wait screen for people that like to interact in, like, the chat, that could be pleasantries for them. For me specifically, I would never really engage in that way. Well, we spiced it up by putting the burger board up and all that. I think that's great. I think if you're going to do a wait screen, there should be something that fills some point of info. I just, I hate the idea of, I'm told a thing is on at seven.

I show up at seven and then I just have to wait for some unknown amount of time Yeah but I don't think that's I don't think that's happening That's not how I do it If my thing starts at seven The starting soon's window goes up at 655

And then at 7 it rolls over Like we go live at like Nobody's starting late 350 or 35 You're pleasantering into the on time start Exactly Just like the how we just like we did today Before the podcast started

I guess I guess I never think about it that way because I don't know people's Twitch schedules generally. Then what are you talking about? Okay, well then let me, okay, let me pivot. Let me pivot because I do feel I'm in the right here. Okay.

We're just working through it. Yeah. I think when it says they're live and you get the push notification, that's when the stream should start. Not in the preamble. The push notification requires time for people to like act on. Like if they see the notification, they need like...

So you'd rather miss it. So you'd rather miss... I'm never missing it. That's my problem. You are... To get everything to load and everything, you're fine with missing 30 seconds of the start. First of all, I'm absolutely fine missing the first 30 seconds. The bulk of my issue is I follow these people on Twitch and I'll get a notification my phone.

and I go, oh, cool, they're streaming. And then I'll click it. And then I'm taken to a wait screen. And I'm just, I never, I never end up watching any of the people I like on Twitch. Because I'm not waiting around for some unknown amount of time for this thing to start. So I just leave. But why not? You don't care about missing the first 30 seconds anyway.

Because I, I don't want to just wait. I don't want to virtually wait. I was told that this thing was starting. I showed up for it. and it is not starting. It is, in fact, on pause for some unknown amount of time. You sound like Gavin and Fripe's in the first 180 episodes of Pleasantries. Yep.

I love Pleasantries. There's something happening in Pleasantries. I don't agree with you, Andrew. I don't think you like Pleasantries. I think there's a lot happening in the chat before I see people checking in on each other, sharing stories, recipes, saying hi. So this is, I think, partially a thing of, I generally don't just watch. like Twitch content just to watch.

These are typically people that I either know personally. Yeah, I'd say most of the time it's people that I know. So you're annoyed at your friends. I'm annoyed, not at them, because I feel like they are doing what the standard practice is. I'm annoyed with the standard practice. You must hate waiting rooms. It's like, ah, you've arrived at the doctor, your appointment's at six.

But you know, you've got to probably wait until 620. See, that's a bad example because there's more value to the doctor waiting room and there is the street. What? Because there's like, I could learn I need to have some thing

done, like there is real life consequence to going to the doctor that is valuable and important. Okay. I would argue that all I do in the waiting room at the doctor is go over the exact same fucking forums that I went over the last time and say the exact same shit.

even though it's already filled out and on record. No, but the end result is more important than a stream, is my argument. Yeah. There's no stream that is more important than a doctor's visit. Well, you could have a virtual... I did a virtual doctor appointment, and the frickin guy was 45 minutes late. Oh my God! Which is away?

And it's harder to wait for a virtual, because you're in your own environment. You can, like, get up and do stuff, and then... then you might be late because he was late. See, I find the at-home wait to be a lot more... For something important like that, I don't mind it. The Twitch thing, it's just I want to see my friend play fucking Crock 2 or something, and I'm not waiting for that. I was told this stream is popping off, let's get going,

and I show up, and it's just people saying hi. I'm being excited for it, which is wonderful. But I'm not... I'm here to watch them play for a little bit, and you're not excited. I just, it drives me crazy. And I think if I was on my phone unless it wouldn't bother me as much.

But I feel like I see every go live notification as they happen. Well, why don't you bung it, like minimize the video and just do other stuff? Yeah. And then you'll see it in the corner or hear it when it's life. What's the longest you've had to wait

with one of those screens? I've waited at one minute. I'll give you one minute. Wait, the longest you waited was one minute. So you've never in your life waited longer for one than one minute at one of those? I just don't have to, I get annoyed. I'm just looking at some graphic

and I have no idea when you'll be here. I have other things I could be doing. I was, I stopped doing what I was doing because I wanted to see your content. There's no content here. I don't think you're a live guy. Yeah, think of all the, think of everything you didn't do with that one minute

you could and probably would have done that was more productive. Are you gonna be interacting in chat when you watch the? No. Well, then watch the VOD. I feel like you're not deciding for life. Yeah, why do you have to watch it live? Okay, well, here, you know what?

Turn off notifications. I love yourself in post problems. You know what it is? Because if I turn off notifications, my brain then goes, what if I miss something? But I'm not missing anything. I'm getting actively annoyed by the lack of missing. You just said you don't care if you miss it, though.

You don't, especially in the beginning, you don't care if you miss any of it. And I think the problem is on the other end of things, I, as somebody who like is a YouTube watcher, a weird way to phrase that, but I don't subscribe to channels really. So it's not like I'm getting the notification for the Vod.

I'm just never going to see the Vod. Because there's a different line. There's a, there's a, like a valley of interest where I don't necessarily want to know every single thing that a person is posting but if I know someone

and they're streaming I go oh that's fun look they're streaming I wonder what they're doing and then I'll load up and nothing could you graph out the Valley of Interest

oh I would love to know that I think that's such a great day that rocks I'd like to see a visual representation of the Valley of interest yeah I guess yeah I could I could go into the lab on that that'd be fantastic

you just want to know you want the visual representation of yeah of the valley of interest just keep saying it like do you remember when you brilliantly designed

your mind table for us oh that's just that yeah yeah I mean I'll provide the value of interest I just think it's going to be a lot emptier than maybe I want to set the expectations low on the valley of interest

but I think that's that in itself is fascinating if it's if the valley is just like tumble weeds and not a lot in there. I think that says a lot too. Yeah, say you're drawing the valley on a, on a friend that you know, and you're interested in watching them stream. I guess it's, I don't really care about what they've done. I'm interested in what they're doing. What have you done for me lately? Yeah. Not even what you've done for me lately. If, if you played Star Fox three days ago, I'm not interested necessarily. But what if I play Star Fox right now? I'm in. Let me watch it. But not if I'm about to do it in three minutes.

So yeah, I just, I think you should put your wait time in the notification. If Star Fox has already occurred or is about to occur, I want nothing to do with it. If Star Fox is currently happening, sign me up. Yeah, because it's like a live event. I feel the same way about sports. The whole point of the stream is it's live. What about, what about pregame shows? Yeah, what about the anthem?

The anthem? It takes forever to get to the game. Yeah, I don't like the anthem part. I don't mind the pregame. Do you refuse to watch the game because the anthem happened? Do you care about missing the first 30 seconds of the game? I would argue that all these things are content and that waiting screens aren't content. Well, you know what?

I'll give you that. You're saying, Gavin has just linked us to a church channel that's live right now with Starbucks. After the stream is Starfucks right now. You know what? Oh, man. Which one? We got the first one. It's not in the past.

It's the GameCube one. It's the bad one. The dinosaur one? Yeah, that one sucks. That one sucks. Since we're on an Andrew topic right now, can I continue with an Andrew topic? Please do. Andrew, how many pop filters you currently run it on that microphone?

Oh. Well, this is a V-tuber playing Star Fox. This is crazy. I'm going to have this. this on this is Gavin you've distracted me for the rest of this podcast this is great star fox I was expecting some star fox in my life I've been thinking about these pop filters for a week I have one pop filter on currently oh did you did you remove your second one I removed the second one so we were streaming a game and I was getting criticized for not noticing things on the screen and so I shared

what my general perspective is and I had two pop filters on my mic well not only that your mic um was coming from the other side of your monitor. Across your TV. It was coming across your monitor and on the far side of where it was anchored with two pop fillers. So you were looking basically through like a porthole. Yeah.

Well, it needs to be on that side of the desk. But put the mic on the near side of the stand, on the other side of the monitor. How would I do that? All right. Why don't you show the picture? Do you have the picture you posted the other day? Or can you take a new picture of your view? Are you on an update of view?

Yeah. Yeah. Anything new from the soy phone as well, it's just unbelievable. It's like Christmas Day. And posting. So I was, I took one off. I am going to take both off based on Nick's recommendation. Here's what I got today. Okay, so it's now on the correct side of the monitor,

but the other day, it was on the left. It's a real balance issue, because I think the weight of the pop filters. And it's not attached to my desk because my desk is too thick. It's on the fridge, right? No, it's on some cheap wood. Oh, right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's right. You bought wood specific for this.

I remember now, yes. Yeah, but it's like modeling wood. So it's actually like 10 very thin sheets of wood that I just never took out of the plastic. So it would be like a block. And it bends because of the weight of the mic stand. And I think if I remove the second pop filter, then it might be okay. But you have the same mic as us, right? Yeah.

Yeah, I just feel like it doesn't need one. I think I read one post where it was like you're just popping and so then I put two filters on and you know what I never saw another post you could try putting on

on the thick muff that it came with yeah yeah do that that helps yeah okay that's better that's what I have I have the I have the snowball piece on the actual microphone same oh that'd be a lot easier that'd be way better

yeah yeah and then we can get you a better arm too better arm i don't know if there is a better arm maybe like a different desk or something i mean the desk is insane positive or negative when you say that both i guess it's like it's nice that it's so large but also i dread ever moving it so the the monitor seems so far away from your bike it's like you're playing on a dining room table kind of looks my desk is sort of dining room table

is a big wooden thing I guess that's most desks I had a when we when we designed the first achievement hunter office we had a budget I picked the dining room table from my table just to piss jack off and he had a tiny

he went out and got himself an IKEA table and I went okay cool I love it and then I went and got a giant dining room table your desk was the worst though I didn't have any drawers or anything Oh, it's terrible. It was just big and awkward and it pissed jack off. That was the whole reason I got it.

And my desk could easily be kicked in half. Can't remove the other pop filter. Whoa, you sound great. It looks like a much better setup. You've got to be seeing, well, without that pop filter, you're seeing probably 90% of your screen. Yeah. Did I read correctly, Andrew, that maybe one of my predictions from last year came true this year?

That's right. I'm not, am I back? What happened? What did you do? What did you? Are you on a different microphone? What did you do? What?

You sound really quiet. Why are you so far away? What happened? Everything, everything broke. Oh, God. What is that one of an episode? What does that mean? What does it mean?

I'm having a firmware update. What? What firmware? Recorded audio was lost at the, labeled locations, possible causes. What did you do software-wise?

You were only doing... You pulled off a pop filter. Did you unplug the mic? No. What are you on now? I don't know. It's verifying the update. Of what? Which software?

The mic software. Installing... Why are you doing a mic software update in the middle of using the microphone? I didn't do anything. I took the pop filter off. I put it on my desk and then my GoXLR started flashing. And I couldn't hear anybody.

And then it came back and now it's just doing green lights from the bottom to the top rapidly. Do you have your audio that when it stopped? Do you have everything that was recorded? No, it's as soon as... Like, could you save what's been done? My back? No, that's worse. You were fine a second ago.

You were fine a second ago. You are so much worse now. Am I... Oh, Andrew, you there? Andrew? Andrew? Oh, you there? Other applications are competing with audacity for processor time.

You're saving directly to a slow eternal external storage device. Wait, your scratch drive is an external hard drive? I don't know. firmware update detected? Oh, no. No. It's doing all the things. Just save,

save audacity. Save it. It's paused. It's fine. It's just not rolling anymore. Export that. Yeah. Part one.

For God's sake. Stop recording it. Unreal. See, this is why I had two pop filters. I'm gonna need a nap. This is not why you had two pop filters. This has nothing to do with you having two pop filters. I don't know.

I took the two pop filters off and all of a sudden. You know what? We knew better. We should have had him take the pop filters off after. But why did he take one off during? He took, no, no, no. He took one off during the episode. Why did he do that?

Well, I only had one left and I was like, you know what? Maybe I should do this. I just hadn't thought about it. We kind of did. We kind of did. No, no, we're not. We didn't specifically say do it the second, but we didn't say don't do it this second.

We're not culpable in this. No, absolutely not. No. I'm taking responsibility. I'll take 5% of the blame. Yeah, I'm going to take. I'm going to also take 5% of the blame. Zero.

Okay, I think I'm good. I think I'm back. Eric, take it no blame? For this? You're out of your mind. So what was I saying? The gully of infertility or something.

Valley of the valley of interest. And are you recording right now? Do you need to sing? Yeah, I'm back. I'm back, I'm back, I'm back. So what I was asking you, Andrew, when you vanished, uh,

are you going to talk about how something that I predicted last year potentially happened this year? What was that? Jesus Christ. of chair related. Oh. It was just uneventful. It was just an uneventful thing.

I think I sit weirdly, is what I've come to the conclusion of. I had a chair. The part of the chair, uh, it turns into, uh, sort of like a dunk tank chair.

It's got a trap door. Uh, it just, it swivels all over the place. Here, let me, I'll do it. I'll draw,

I'll submit, uh, What is that? You know how like when they get dunk that drops downward so they can't... Yeah. That's what my...

The seat does, essentially. Where I'm sitting in a thing and I'm having some support, but really it's just my legs. I'm like kind of in a supported squat. So you're perched on the very front and then the front like tips down. Yeah, it's just always tipping down.

So it acts like a trap door? Sort of. Let me, here, I'll draw... How long has it been doing that? I just started. It was weird. Like, I don't even know if I broke. I don't know what happened.

Just typically in the past, when a chair is broken and has been loud and, like, very obvious. This just, it started tilting. Is this why you didn't... Is this why you did the meeting from your phone? Yeah. I have one chair. Because you're... Why didn't you just stand at your computer?

Why would I stand when I could just sit? This is. the best show ever. He's fucking got you there, dude. Slam. Bitch, checkmate. Why would I choose to do that? Well, it's just such a worse experience for you trying to do the meeting on your phone. Oh, it's not. It's worse for you guys. Yeah. It's better for me, I'd argue.

That is the coziest meaning I've ever had at this couple. Were you under the covers? I think he's gone again. Yeah, I have a, I think he's gone again. Andrew? Andrew, you there? Andrew, you there? Hey, no, Andrew, you there? I got another firmware update.

What do you mean? Stop saying, stop pressing okay on him. Are you printing anything? We're going to find out that all of the problems are just the print queue for the last two years. Have been loaded up with the law? Am I back? We're like 300 podcasts in. Yeah, I got another firmware update.

No, you don't. Stop saying yes. Stop for what? Well, if I keep saying yes, I'll eventually stop having them. Is it actually updating or is it just rebooting and failing? I don't know. It says firmware progress verifying. Devices verify.

I haven't been paying attention to the number. It's like 1.2.4. I just want it. I'm drawing my chair and how I sit. And I think this is what the problem is. I'm doing some wheels. Okay, so, oh, this is not going to be great.

While he's drawn, let me throw out a draft idea real fast that somebody in my stream came up with yesterday. That I thought was pretty good. Ooh. Food, not food draft. Like Kevin Bacon or urinal cakes. Oh, phenomenal.

Isn't that an awesome idea? That's a great one. I'm putting it on the list right now. Thank you. I think it was, I think it might have been C-Rob, but I can't remember who had the idea, but it was a fucking amazing idea.

We can just say, we can just say it was Mark, it's fine. Thanks, Mark. Yeah. We recently, while Andrew's figuring out his drawing, we did a video, we did the chocolate gauntlet

where I made you guys all eat a bunch of chocolate. And I went apes shit. I bought a lot of it. But I didn't realize how apes shit I'd gone. Because when I got home, I discovered the second box. No! Oh my God!

So this is all the stuff that didn't make it into the chocolate. We didn't even eat any of this. We couldn't handle the gav. No, we would have thrown up. We would have been sick. We seriously, that like fucked up the day, dude.

Yeah. It's probably for the best. But if you're wondering why some, when it comes out, why some classics aren't in there, I think in the moment, I didn't notice so much was missing. But all of this stuff was on my list and didn't arrive in the first box.

We can, uh, we can do a round two, though, because we still have the board. We still have the board. We do have the board. And we can use the board for other stuff, too.

We decided. The board is so great. Like you could have done anything with it. It's all in the middle. You'll see it when it comes out. It's not scheduled yet, but Eric had a real problem with the board I drew on a piece of cardboard. It's so big. It's so big.

There's so much room. And he just went, all right. Well, dead center. I wanted to have room to grow. There's no room to grow. It's out of room. Oh, no. What am I just said?

What the fuck? Oh, a GoXLR's not supposed to be doing that. Oh, that's like fresh out of the box, GoXLR. He's still got the plastic on. You still got the cover on. Like there's always additional joy every piece of love. Every revelation is like an admission. It's really something.

I'll be honest, though. I hate to be too far on Andrew's side, but the GoXLR software is utter asshole when it comes to updates. Like half the time it doesn't know. where its own server is and just gives an error for nothing. Am I back? It opens and it's just, oh, Andrew, you're here. Hey. Yeah, cool. Hey, just before we get too deep in everything that you're going to talk about or whatever,

why is the plastic still on your Go XLR? Because if I took the plastic off, then it would get like fingerprints and stuff on it. So you think it looks better this way. That just is clean. I got to rummage through your life. and just have a look at all the stuff. Like, do you have the, do you keep the plastic on your TV? What? I don't have a TV.

Okay. If I did, no. No, on the front, if I'm looking through it, no. If I'm just touching a thing, then I don't mind the plastics and all on it. My great-grandmother had all the plastic on her dining room chairs. Oh, God. Never, never took them off. Yeah, that's an old people thing.

They love that. Yeah. In fact, I think died before taking them off. never even enjoyed the actual fabric that she bought. Okay, well, the firmware updated again. Yeah, but I bet she enjoyed knowing there wasn't a stain to be found. That's true. They should have put the couch with her in passing.

The cremation or burial of the... Oh, he thought he was done with the updates, but I imagine that's not where we're at now. We can't even use this episode. Yeah, it's Craig. We're in Craigtown. It's fine. Craig sounds like shit and you know it.

Who cares? It's better than nothing. It's an audio podcast. What do you mean? Who cares? Who cares? We have a loyal audience that we're trying to give the best product to.

I don't know. Who gives a fuck about this? No, my point is we still have it. Arguably, this is the thing they care about the most. Are you recording right now? Every time it shuts off, it stops the record.

Well, just save it and record. it again. I'd have 60 files, but sure, I'll do it again. That's fine. Do it. That would be better than Craig. Yeah. In all seriousness. Well, this is, I mean, it's a, yeah, okay. It's crazy. Speaking of, of all seriousness, while Andrews definitely solving his center of the bottom. I'm just not going to, because it is the same firmware update every time I'm downloading. I'm just going to let it run orange and then I'll reboot. I was watching the Denver Nuggets in the Oklahoma City Thunder play the other night. And they kept referring to the teams as Thunder. Nuggets.

And I got to thinking, I kind of want to eat a thunder nugget. Oh, what that would be. But I don't know what a thunder nugget would be. But that got me thinking, what would be a bet? What other NBA combinations could you make

to make a better nugget? And I think I landed on Raptor Nuggets sound like the coolest thing you can. That's pretty cool. Oh. Magic Nuggets are good. I figure that's probably like, those would probably get you high.

Buck Nuggets. Wizard Nuggets would be cool. Buck Nuggets. Buck Nuggets. I didn't even think about buck nuggets. Dude, bucknuggets you could probably just go get, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. The thing about Raptor Nuggets is that it feels like a macho guy thing.

It feels like this is all protein. You're Raptor Nuggets. I feel like I'm eating Raptor Nuggets. My mom had to pay $17 for them, and they're six, and I'm getting them outside of the Jurassic Park exhibit at a theme park. Warrior Nuggets. Come out and play. They're just like, those are like protein nuggets, yeah.

Pelican Nuggets. You could probably just get those. Timberwolf Nuggets. You could probably get those. Grizzly Nuggets. Bull Nuggets is probably just Rocky Mountain Oysters, right? That's probably a thing.

Yeah. You know. Something to think about next time you eat a nugget. Can you do wings of other animals? Like, ostrich. Like a dog? Oh. Could you just like a big wing?

Let me. I make. Yeah. Why do we eat giant turkey legs, but not giant turkey wings at the Renaissance Festival. And why don't we eat giant ostrich legs? Big drumstick, like the size of your back? Oh, that'd be interesting.

Well, I looked up, there are turkey wings. Yeah, tender and flavorful. What wings do you want? Ostrich, ostrich. Okay. Casseurie. I mean, they don't fly. Well, I knew it as a chicken, really.

That's fair. Can you eat ostrich wings? Yes, you can eat ostrich wings. Apparently, yeah, found a YouTube video where a guy's making, he's cooking ostrich wings. Is it just one big wing? Yeah. Does he make him like, is he using buffalo sauce?

Some of them are, yeah, some are using barbecue. Something about an ostrich isn't smart, but given its size, I don't think it would feel good about eating its wing. There's something about the size of it makes it feel too, like I shouldn't be doing that to it. It's also not a huge wing, I guess. Yeah. I don't know. That's how I feel about its egg. Oh, I've eaten the egg.

That is a, no. It's too big. Yeah. Doesn't make sense. Eggs shouldn't be that big. It is huge. Andrew, would you eat an ostrich wing? Yeah, absolutely I would. Okay. Would you eat an ostrich egg? No. Would you, Jeff, eat the same sandwich with a fried ostrich egg in the middle instead of two chicken eggs? Oh my god.

For content, not outside of, not outside of a camera. I'm imagining an ostrich egg sandwich is just like a foot, like it has to be a foot long. It has to be the longest. sandwich you possibly imagine. Yeah, you need a massive loaf. Maybe like you just cut into the side of a thing of faccia. That's the...

Does ostrich egg taste different than chicken egg? It has to. It was like... I mean, when you like scramble it and everything and like you just have it, I didn't think it tasted like too different. It was just like, wait, wait, there was like just so much of it. Then it was like overwhelming. That's kind of like it. Yeah.

That seems like a lot. I'm having an anxiety attack looking at these orange lights go up and down, not a stop. I feel like I'm hitting jet speed. You're about to launch? Life would be so much simpler if you had your two pop filters to hide behind. You would be.

I couldn't see it. I wouldn't know. So based on what happened to your chair, if that had happened in 2025, would that have counted? Yeah, I think so. I never sent the drawing of how I sit. Yeah, I was going to ask for that.

Just now, but... So this is the problem. And this is like... I don't... Together real quick. So I kind of sit, I sit where the chair is at the base of the chair, so it tilts up. And then I lean over the desk. So is the thing on the left, the back of the chair?

Yes. And are your wings touching the floor or not? No. So the dots are wheels. Yeah, they're not connected to the pole. And the line going up is like the pole of the chair. and then I'm I kind of sit I kind of sit at the base of the seat

it looks like you've got no legs and you're sat on a skateboard on top of a backwards chair it looks like an angel in a wheelchair to me well thank you chef so but no it's mainly just I sit at you know the metal part kind of where the chair becomes the back the back of the chair the seat to the back

chair sit all the way in the back? Oh, there he goes again. He's gone. Yeah, he's gone. Well, he hit OK on the firmware. He thought it would be funny this time, so it would be okay. You know what I mean?

Did he put his pop filter down on the mouse on the okay button of a firmware update? Like, how has this started? I like what he said. I like when he said, who cares earlier? We had a productive Monday meeting where we planned out a bunch of fun stuff for the anniversary. That was cool.

Yeah, and we're all going to be there for it. So it'll be good. And Andrew was in bed. Yeah, everybody's going to be there. I don't know why you'd say that, but yeah, everybody's going to be there. Obviously, Andrew, you're back? Nope.

Nope. Nope. Well, while we're waiting for him, do you want to tell us a story about meeting someone, Jeff? I was out running errands yesterday, and I stopped to get lunch at a place. I won't say the place. I don't want a dog support kid.

But a guy working there was like, hey, are you Jeff Ramsey? I said, well, yes, I am. And he said, hey, I just, I really liked to Chew Hunter. I watched a lot of your stuff back when I was younger. I really enjoyed it. And I said, well, I thank you very much. I appreciate it. And then there was an awkward silence.

And then right as I was about to do the old, hey, if you get a chance, you know, check out the new thing, regulation. He goes, I, I tried some of your newer stuff. And I go, oh, yeah? And he goes, yeah, I was, I tried to get into it. It's just a lot different. And I said, oh, okay. He just looked at me and I went, well, thanks for giving it a shot.

That was it. So I guess we just didn't hit it out of the park for that one. I don't know. I think that's just fine. Did you, you didn't ask him why? He could have got some data He didn't seem to want to tell me He was like he was very clear

He was like I gave it a shot It was different And I was like oh If this was exactly like Achievement Hunter I think I'd quit So I think it's probably It's probably better that it's not You know what I mean?

Yeah Man What a shame Do you think it's because Not everyone records the podcast Gavin Gavin I just have one question for you Who cares

Andrew you back. Andrew? The craziest part, just for the people at home, is that he's still in our Discord call. He has not left.

He hasn't disconnected. We just can't, we don't know what's going on with him because this whole time, none of it's ever hung up. It's just been him here the whole time. And it could have been a quick restart, you know, pause for five minutes,

come back. But, uh, well, he's not here. So we would have, There's no one that pose this to, you know what I mean? Yeah, who are you going to pose it to? We can text them. I don't trust that.

I think his phone's doing four more updates too, so I just don't trust it. He just said, if there's a pop-up, he's saying yes to it. So if you want to get this guy, it's pretty easy. I'm excited to hear off Mike what place you went to for lunch. Oh, yeah, I'll let you know. It was pretty funny. Anyway, really excited about the anniversary content that we have coming up and that we're all going to be there for.

Look forward to that in that. Don't forget our anniversary. A lot of people might think our anniversary is in April. It's not, that was the old company. The anniversary is actually point of fact the anniversary is May 11th. Yep. Not April 1st.

So just keep that in mind when you're making plants. Yep. May 11th is the anniversary. It's true. Sometimes. I think most people know that. A fellow could make a mistake and cause himself a lot of, a lot of problems.

A lot of difficult problems to solve. You know, so just make sure when you're thinking about the regulation anniversary, you think about the date May 11th. Do not think of the date April 1st. Explush that date from your memory. Andrew, take it away.

What do you guys think Andrews doing right now? I don't know. He's probably unplugging his GoXLA. Bricking his GoXLA. He might be putting the pop filters back on. This all started with the pop filters.

I have a pitch for a new word. Okay. Okay. Because I was at some appointment and the guy asked me, where are you from? And I get asked that a lot because I sound funny. So I said England. And he's like, you live in England?

I was like, no, I live in Austin. He's like, oh, why did you say England? And I guess I am from Austin. But I've not, you know, I've been in like 14 years or something. So I think there needs to be a different word, like a from, but now, like a present day from. And I'm suggesting Fram. So you're from England, but you're Fram, Austin. Yeah, it's like, I'm from.

Or like, from Am now. From Am now, Fram. Yeah. Not from like an origin. Because there's no good word for it. You know, it could have, oh, Eric's. Oh, that's great. I made that.

I made that really quick. I thought that would be really cool. I thought it would just be really, oh, right, it's auto. filters. Oh, Fram tight. Yeah, it's, you can, it's for oil. Oh, okay. Never mind. No, I think that's fine. I think we can, I think we can still use it. I think we can still use it. Fuck them. Yeah. I don't know why you didn't just say where do you live. Yeah, because if he asked where you're from and you're in a country that where you don't have the accent, that would be like, where's your accent from? Is definitely what that is. Yeah. But I said England. He's like,

you came to this appointment from England? I was like, no. And you should have asked where you're coming from? Nick, where are you from, Nick? When somebody asked you, what do you say? I'm from San Antonio. But how long have you lived in Austin?

20 years. Eric, I would assume you are from San Diego. Absolutely. I hate to say it, but if somebody asked me where I'm from, I got to say Alabama. I get it. I'm not happy about it. I'd love to say, but I've lived in Austin for 31 years. Jeff, where are you from?

I'm Fram, Austin, Texas. Thank you very much. much frown proud proud to be fram austin i like it gab i'm into it i'm into fram i'm kind of into fram how long do you have to be in somewhere before you before it changes from fram to frown or are you always from where you were born even if you never lived there because technically i'm from i was born in london never never really lived there oh i don't think you have to say you're from london i think i think it's like where you grew up could be sort of where you're from and then where your fram is where you're settled.

Okay. I think that makes sense. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. So let's know the comments where you're from and where you're from. Yep. And just like that, here's Andrew.

Andrew? Hey, there we go. Andrew, where are you from? Nana. Where are you from? Canada. Fair enough. I mean, that was pretty good.

It's pretty good answer. Did you do a reboot? I sure did. I just didn't want to let us know. doing a reboot? Well, everything shut off, so I don't know. It's on its own. It just, it, the, the, it disconnected my mic and then it was not coming back, and I waited for like 30 seconds. And then I went to do a hard reboot and then my computer didn't want to reboot. And now it's all fine. And you're recording again? I am recording again.

Yeah. Yeah. I recorded before I joined. Save the other things. That's excellent. So going back to this picture of you in the chair. You say you sit, you see, you closer to the back or the... Yes, you put it on the front. I sit on the back. You sit on the back. I sit on the seat, essentially, the base of the seat. But you're making out let you use chairs differently.

That's where people sit. People put their whole ass on the base of the seat. The... Don't their back typically rest on the back of the chair? Here, let me articulate... Don't... Don't... They're back.

One sec. This would be a good... out of context art episode. Those have been amazing, by the way. The community art that I've seen on the server. It has been unbelievable. I'm going to draw this as three lines because I think that's probably the easiest way to convey.

So this is the chair. I would like to sort of play pictonery sometime. So I'm sitting on the seat more than I am, the actual, or the back more than I am the seat. Yeah, I sit on the seat. instead of the back? Oh, you do? Okay.

Yeah, I never sit on the back. It's... No, I sit on the back. Oh. And somehow this isn't the graph of the valley of... Are you the middle stick? Yes, I'm the middle stick. So you sit with your ass against the back.

Above the seat. That's the opposite of what you said. I think I'm just not doing words good today. Yeah, but at least they're all almost getting recorded. So you sit, pressed against the back of the chair, which part of your body is on the seat? My butt. But, but like... So like the, I guess my thighs is the answer.

And it's tipping backwards towards the chair or it's tipping you off the front? It's tipping backwards. So I'm like hunched over a desk. I think that might be the cause of the problems. And why would you say that's how you, the way you've decided to sit? It's just sort of how I got comfortable, I guess. I don't know. Interesting.

And are there any pillows under you? No pillows. Okay. Would you consider a pillow? Here's the thing. So I got this new chair. And my last chair was fabric-based. This is probably like a fake leather.

situation. And I did sit in the chair completely naked and I will not be doing that again. That was the mistake. Oh, for God's sake. I stood up. I stood up to use the bathroom. And it was like I was a rat that put itself in a sticky trap. The rip.

The entire body rip was bad. What must that have sounded like? Whack. Big piece of Velcro Now is that the chair That's broken Or is this a new chair

You bought to replace This is the new chair So you've replaced The chair that just broke Old chair gone Well not gone But it's in the process Of gone

And the new chair It's leather based Yeah probably like Fake leather I assume And you christened this chair By sitting at it Completely naked Not christened it

But I have sat in it Naked Between getting it And this recording And I got up And it was not good. Did you have to wipe it down? No, it wasn't like remnants of the chair.

It was just it hurt. It physically hurt. Because I was stuck to the chair. And it was like a wax strip almost. But like obviously nothing pulling. But like the chair, me and the chair were one in a way I didn't realize.

And it was an audible noise. Oh, it was so loud. How long did you sit in the chair before you stood up and made that noise. Maybe like an hour? How much do we have to pay you to get you to do it again and record it? Absolutely. I'll record it next time. I think that would be awesome.

That's wild though. I would love to hear that. I would love to hear that too, but I just feel like it's wild to sit completely still. Like I feel like whenever I'm in a chair, I'm re-adjusting, I'm moving a leg up, maybe sitting on a foot, putting it down. Maybe every five minutes I'm shifting around. I might be doing some rocking, but I'm not like moving limbs. I can't sit still for 10 seconds. No, I got restless legs So do I, but only in bed, it's weird

Oh When I sit, I've never thought about this I don't like move limbs really at all I'll rock back and forth But on occasion So is the leather chair The one that tips you back or not Is that the old chair?

And that was the old chair This one I don't think I'll be able to do that with This one has a back longer than mine So you know it's tall Is it a roller chair? Yeah, yeah Okay, yeah And where did you get this chair?

Amazon. But when? When did it arrive? Yesterday. Okay. Wait. So between yesterday and now, you sat in it completely naked. Yeah, last night.

After I built it. But you wouldn't say you christened it. No, it wasn't the first time I sat in it, but... Right. Damn near. Yeah, within the first three sits. Sit three was the naked sit. It was either two or three.

I'll tell you this. It was a close sit, naked sit, never doing naked again outside of when we do this recording where you can hear the rip. That's phenomenal. It's probably honestly an anti-winnie the pooch here because I don't think the back ripped much. I think it was all anal ripage.

Did your balls at all stick to it? I don't know. I'm not sure. Why do you know so little about your ass when it comes to, feel like you thought that might be a shampoo in it you have no idea if your balls are stuck to it i had no awareness of it and then it was shocking the amount of both pain and the sound and it was a surprise i was caught off guard by the entire experience would you say you think you

don't have you just have generally not much ass feel no i i feel like i have ass feel in general it's just he's asking about the balls and i just it was you know you know In a traumatic moment, you don't necessarily remember everything crystal clear. It was sucked. It was unexpected. It sounded like ripping Velcro. Like the... I've never sat on this chair with naked ass.

Me neither. Is this a different chair than when you did Boles Out when we did that in Fri-Face? Yeah, I'm on an Xbox chair at the moment. My dream chair one day, and I just... I can't do it because of my setup is I just want like a lazy boy office chair. If I had an office, I would just have a lazy boy as my desk chair. I mean, you have a bed is, you have a bed in there? In my office?

No, I don't have an office. No, but in the room you're in now on your chair, you have a bed. Yeah, it's my bedroom. So you'd rather go from a bed to a lazy boy? No, I'm saying in the scenario in which I have nothing in my bedroom is just a bedroom. if I had an office space where I had room for things, I would make my office chair a lazy boy. So you said a lazy boy office chair.

You don't mean a lazy boy. No, I mean a full-on lazy boy, just a normal lazy boy. You want a lazy boy reclassed. Yeah, like your dad had in 1990s. Yeah, like my grandpa had. Yeah. You want a recliner. So when you're a client and your knees-

Are you kidding me? It'd be a great desk chair. It's your knees smash into the other side of your desk every time you're- A terrible desk chair. This is a terrible desk chair. I would have to figure out the desk part as well. I bet you could though. I think I could too.

I don't think it would be that hard. Yeah, you can make something to happen. Well, you do see those like those chairs that have all the monitors on them and like tilt back with the desk. Oh. Maybe you want that. I mean, all I need is a mouse.

You need a keyboard. Oh, hang on. Yeah, okay, hang on. I'm finding some stuff now. I can click the keyboard. Andrew, I'm dropping a couple of of photos in here. They appear to be lazy boy chairs

that have been put on a dolly. Like a truck. That's awful. Like, you're gonna have your arms. You're gonna have your hand on the arm. Slide under the desk and absolutely jam your hand on it. But Andrew, look, it's got wheels so you can move it everywhere.

Yeah, I don't think I want to move it. Oh, okay. This is from lifehacker.com. I figure you might want to do this. It feels like something that would come. So you would rather be reclined. with only a mouse and then clicking a, what, a virtual keyboard? Yeah.

I'm just saying I can make it work. I'm not saying that's the ideal setup, but you only need a mouse. Oh, that's so not true. Well, I guess for like what recording and all that, I'm not, I don't, well, you know, I actually might do better with a virtual keyboard than a physical one in terms of identifying what keys or what. Or dropping pop filters on it or, yeah. Yeah.

You find it easier to read a keyboard on your screen? Well, I've talked about it. I don't really like how my current keyboard is displaying keys. It's on the front of the key. Oh, yeah. The colors constantly change, and I can't see what the keys are in certain colors. Can't turn that off?

You can change that. I don't know how to do that. Well, we're in the middle of recording a podcast, so now's a great time to figure it out, I guess. That's fine. Do the lights on your keyboard ever shoot upwards in orange? Yeah, it's constantly rainbowing. Okay.

And there are only certain colors of the rainbow that I can make out what the keys are, especially at night. This is mainly a night issue. So I have to wait for the cycle to be a color. I can see the thing with it. And in all that time, you never just Googled like, how do I make the light white? No. I've had the thought, I wish I knew this. Or that this is annoying.

But it's fine. you need some friction in life it seems like you have nothing between your ass at the chair I think yeah they're crazy oh yeah that you might have the most self-inflicted friction of anybody I've met yeah and that's coming from Jeff

you generate your own well I don't know what that means but you generate your own friction at an alarming rate like if I came over and sorted your life out I was just like oh you could you could do this you could do that you can peel this plastic off this you blah blah and I just removed 80% of the friction in your life.

Would you enjoy the extra time, or would you be suspicious of all the lubrication? No, no, no, I wouldn't be suspicious at all. I think I'd be very excited, and then that would just become my routine. Because for how my brain works, I have a solution for things. I just do the solution. If I don't have a solution, then I have to find a solution. But if I have a solution, then I'm good. I guess optimizing is a thing I don't really think about.

Like, what's the most frustrating thing about your desk set up right now? Like, what is, like, a misery to use every time? Uh, well, the thickness of the desk itself, and that's not an optimization. That's just a... It's too big. Are you emotionally attached to the desk? Would you consider replacing it with a desk that's better suited for your needs? The problem is, I feel like it's a fancy...

desk. I feel like it's a nice desk. So I feel bad getting rid of it, but functionally. Some cost fallacy here. I think so. Could you make use of it in like the living room? Not really. Like maybe if I got into like pottery or something maybe like this feels like a designer desk.

So the only other use for your computer desk is pottery? Maybe not pottery, but like I feel like this is an architect's desk. I feel like they're drawing. drawing on this desk. That's, by the way, what a lot of people were saying that ruler was from last week. They were saying it was like an architect's... Really? Yeah, and it wasn't Wienuses.

It was some sort of scaled unit of some sort. Well, it's Wieness now. I wish I could... Maybe I'll find... I'll see if I can find this desk online so you guys can fully get the specs of what I'm dealing with. What do you... What's your living room currently used for? Nothing.

So what... What if you made that your office? There's no walls. I need walls for an office. There's no walls. Oh, so it's like open with the kitchen. It's an open space with the kitchen. I would hate that.

What if we bought a cubicle for you to put in your living room that then you can put your desk into? Yeah, just like a, just an office cubicle. I don't think I want that, but I would prefer that. If I had to have

my office in an open space, space like that, I'd rather have a cubicle. And then you could free up some of the bedroom. I'd feel up, the space would be, it would be a huge space exchange. It's a huge desk. It's heavy. It's a nightmare.

You just have this other completely unused room. Well, computers in there, but... Okay. That's where you'd put a table and I don't have one of those. I've said that a lot recently on the show. That's true. We're focusing on the desk, but what would you say in your day-to-day life is the most annoying thing you deal with?

Like, the most frustrating annoyance you have. Joining Twitch streams that aren't live. Okay. All right. Now. Yeah, unfortunately, that one is unsolvable. Now, the most frustrating thing, like, not a real problem, but, like, an annoyance? A daily annoyance?

Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Something that you could. fix, but you've, you know, if you've got to work around for or that you, you just put up with. Like, if Gavin showed up, it'd be the number one thing he would set up, set about. You know, it's been a real annoyance for me? And this isn't a physical space thing. This is a soy phone issue. I used to take screenshots by hitting the power button and the volume thing at the same time. And it just has suddenly stopped doing that. Nothing happens when I do that now.

So whenever I have to take a screenshot, I have to do the drop down on the screen and then click it. I can't just do the button press. That has been annoying me for a while. Search settings for a screenshot or like? No. I just am more baffled that it suddenly stopped working. Hmm. I didn't do anything.

It just one day. Did both the buttons work individually? Yes. Oh, strange. It is strange, right? That is annoying. that is not like obviously I want to be clear

they're more serious issues I know in my day I don't want to present the concept of like oh my life is great outside of this one thing we're just asking for minor annoyances I think this qualifies you don't think it's possible that your phone

updated and it just got disabled or the probably that's the most likely option but it's just a weird thing to turn off I'll think about that though, Jeff. What is, uh, if I could throw float an idea by Gavin to solve an annoyance. Yeah.

He might come up with a creative solution. You never know. I don't know if Gavin, can you, I have a, one of my cats keeps climbing the wall. Does it have a shit to scratch elsewhere? So much stuff. Oh. It's climbing up a scratch thing to do it. Have you tried Vaseline?

You know what I haven't. I could put on my chair too, then I could sit on it naked. Light off. Oh. That would be... Just imagine you sitting down and going straight through the wall at like 30 miles an hour off the Vasily. Coolade main style. Well next episode, I'll have a thing.

I would love to just... Would be... Just follow you for... I've said this multiple times. I think if I followed you for a day, my mind would be blown. My mind is blown that you made it all the way through to the... the end of this episode, episode 92 of the Regulation Podcast. But thank you for doing it. And thank you in advance for tuning in the episode 93, which will be right here next week in the exact

same fucking place next Wednesday, available for your ears to digest. We love you. See you then. Bye. Bye.