F**kface - Quiddlers // Steven Seagal Runs Weird [7]

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about third person, franchises, Gavin's game, Cemetery Bingo, Still Wakes the Deep, doughnutcool's drawings, drafts, movie auction update https://doctor-reg.vercel.app/ , celebrities who get a pass, Steven Seagal running, Gavin's one word story, and Andrew's spinoff idea. Sponsored by Shopify. Sign up for a $1/month trial period at shopify.com/face. Go to http://regulatreon.com/. Support us directly at patreon.com/theregulationpod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In what way? Is every movie first person? Is it a first person film? Oh, you're saying like that's like also. Also also you realize that that's not just games, right? That's like books. You realize that that's not just video games like that's like literature, right? Yeah, first first. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. I just am not as much of a book guy, so I don't think about it clearly.

Yeah, no, 100 percent. So I think there's only I think Hardcore Henry is maybe like the only first person movie. Doom famously had some first person shots and there are scenes with first person in it. But technically is like what perspective are films? Third, third, third. OK. Third. So a ground. Yeah. OK. All right. All right. Is it? It is.

Yeah, well, I just I never thought about the camera being attached to the person, I guess. I don't know. I was thinking about the perspective of the camera to the world. OK. What about like Blair Witch? Where? Well, that's that is first person, right? person right? That's right. I would I would think so somewhat uh Can you think of a single top-down movie? Anyone made a full top-down? I don't know let me know if you think of a top-down book

Man what do we have to get Gavin is he already a minute late? No. Yeah, whoa. He just didn't say anything Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Number seven. I don't see anybody enter it into the discord. There we go. My name is Jeff Ramsey with me as always. Andrew Panton, Gavin Free, Nick Schwartz, Eric Badoor. Name a top down film, Gavin. Planet Earth. Oh, yeah. Planet Earth. Some ants. Is there a full one, though, like there's sequences like John Wick 4 I just watched that has a long top-down sequence Which felt like a video game?

Contra That would be fucking awesome if they made a contra movie, and it was just top down the entire time That would be real cool. I can get behind that Speaking of contra do you guys don't play a car you warriors? Speaking of Contra, did you guys ever play Akari Warriors? No, it sounds familiar. Yeah, with Ralph and Clark who were folded into the King of Fighters and SNK franchise. Thank you. Oh really? Well, I was gonna ask if you played Akari Warriors, did you ever play the Rambo top-down Sega Master System game? Yeah, I remember that. That game was fucking awesome. That game is so slept on. I don't know why. It was such game was fucking awesome. That's a yeah that game is so slept on I don't know why

It was such a I it's a car. He worries the one way you're like dressed in pink and you get here And you'd like dance back a little bit I don't remember that but dressed that's a that's that's like pink and purple and shit Rambo Oh, that's awesome. It was a Kari Warriors is a similar sort of this. Is that what you're thinking of, Gavin? Is that pink and purple to you? Yeah. I see the pink and purple. Yeah, well, that's it.

All right. Great job. OK. Is Rambo the most films to like worst film ratio? Does that argue there's like two good Rambo movies, but there's six of them. Terminator. Hmm. Two really good terminators, though. Mm hmm. Yeah.

And then how many Terminator movies are there? Is the last one good? I didn't see the last one. I felt like some people like the last Terminator movie. No, no. And let me tell you this. It's the only Terminator movie Tobin seen. What? Oh, really?

Went with him to the theater to watch like Terminator 7 or whatever the fuck it was. And he's like, I've never seen this before. That's so funny. Yeah, didn't they have Linda Hamilton? Yes. They had a comeback. Yeah. I thought people liked that. That's a bad one. That's disappointing. It sucked. Yeah, that a comeback. Yeah. I thought people liked that.

That's a bad one. That's disappointing. Yeah. Yeah, it sucked. Man, I was excited to watch it. Genesis was so bad. Oh, yeah. Jenny's see ice. You see us. Which one was Jen? Was that the one with? Amelia Clark.

I'm really talking it. Yeah. Yeah, me. Clarke in it. They recreate it, it feels like fan fiction. It's a very weird movie. Yeah, it's really bad. Terminator Salvation is fucking terrible too. Yeah, I forget that that one exists. Which one's Terminator 3? Good for you.

Um, Terminator 3 is the one that came out in the early 2000s. It's the casket gun one. Oh yeah, Claire Danes. Right? Claire Danes is in that one. That was okay. Whereas battery's about to pop and then they throw it out of the car and it's like a nuke going off.

Yeah. Fucking terrible. God, the movie sucks. The whole thing- Terminator 3 was okay because it ended well. It ended like they got tricked into going into safety for the nuclear. They thought they were stopping the nuclear war, but they they weren't. They never were. Yeah, they like they were just protected. Yeah. Yeah. And they were done with the movie. Like that was my favorite part.

It's tough to have a good franchise. I feel like Vin Diesel's trying to do like seven franchises and one of them has worked. But he feels like a real franchise guy to me. Fast and furious, but like Riddick didn't really work out. He wanted the last witch hunter to be a big franchise. That didn't work out. I mean, God is the galaxy, I would say, worked out. He's there. I don't think he gets any.

No, he stood on stilts to record his lines. He's definitely fully involved. Did he really? Yeah. Oh, man. He. I love that you could hear the stilts in his.

Yeah, he had to get into the perspective of a tree, even though he's a little he's a tiny tree. Most of that film. Eric posted a photo of him do the I am Groot thing. Do you think after Groot was small, he like shoes on his knees like Dorff recorded his lines? He started he started crawling around on the floor like Rady Boy. I need to ready book for all if they were ever to resurrect that like

Reboot the door franchise for 2034. I'm throwing I'm throwing at Vin Diesel in as my pick I want him to be the new Tim Conway in that franchise. I Think that one. Oh, I would love it. I've never seen a dwarf. You're not missing out. Maybe we'll blindside you with one someday. I'd love it because because I've heard about it a lot, but never Dorf on Golf as a small child, I thought was absolutely hilarious.

It's one of those things that was definitely family friendly, early 80s comedy that if definitely family friendly, early 80s comedy. That if we watch now, might not be family friendly at all in 2024. I don't know. It'd be really interesting to see, you know, I'd be really nervous about it for sure. What was the other little blokes called like quiddlers or something? Was it quiddlers? What? Buck, are you talking about quiddlers quiddlers TV like don't figure out I think that's just oh my god first part of the title quiddlers oh they have a website I remember seeing

the quiddlers on TV is it now it's like eight maybe. Oh, that's not... What are the... That looks pretty offensive actually. Oh, wow. What the fuck? It's like the village people but small. But I don't think... I think they are on the knees though. Alright. Oh, here...

Here they are. Here they are as the Blues Brothers. Ah! Oh, the monsies. So that's your jam, huh, Gavin? You're a quiddler guy? Apparently I was. Oh yeah, yeah, because it was Michael Jackson. I remember seeing Michael Jackson quiddling around. So they just do like, they just do songs then. They're a musical act. I honestly haven't seen or thought about it in 30 years. So I don't I don't entirely remember.

I was legitimately a child. OK, they do a website. It's a physical comedy group based in Las Vegas. When did they disband? I can't get it to look at me. I hold on. There you go. We got a they got a Wikipedia currently. The latest incarnation of the Quiddlers under Edger's creative direction is a cabaret show in Vegas.

And they still still going. Yes, they're still I wonder if they're still doing smooth criminal. They're on America's Got Talent Wiki, And it says that their puppeteer group from season three that got eliminated in the audition round Turned for season 12 in which they got cut at the judge cuts They never really did well They have made multiple appearances at NBA halftimes for the Charlotte Hornets, Chicago Bulls Oh my god rocket, Heat, like everybody. The CBA as well.

Good Lord. Oh, they've appeared at the they appeared at the 1989 Chicago Auto Show. They really did. Dude, they hit the auto circuit really hard in 1989. North American International Auto Show Detroit Detroit, 1989, Chicago Auto Show, 1989, Cleveland International Auto Show, 1989, New York Auto Show, 1989, Baltimore, 1990, Dallas Auto Show, 1990. Nothing since they hit those auto shows hard for a year and a half

and then walked away. Nothing brings out decade repressed memories like this podcast Nothing brings out decade repressed memories like this podcast. That it quiddler knowing the quiddlers just in your soul is insane. It's like the truest thing you've ever said. Uh huh. Unbelievable that nothing brings out repressed memories like this podcast. Oh, OK. Yeah, I'm just agreeing with you. Thanks. You don't have to be on your.

I have a I have a game today. Oh, I don't know if we want to hop into a game. Let's do it. I on your... I have a game today. Oh! I don't know if we want to hop into a game. Let's do it. I would love to hop into a game. It was a long time ago, on our previous podcast. It was called F***face. And we were talking about people's teeth, and would we be able to recognize the person by their teeth on the Ian F***face logo?

Oh Jesus. Oh God. Oh boy. Okay. All right. Round one. Okay. Let's let's see some teeth. Oh no. I hate this game already. Why? It's just very unpleasant. Now is that going to be one of the five of us? Yeah. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. This is a very visual bit on YouTube. This might be better to watch there or look at the Instagram. Yeah.

I'll definitely make sure to post all these images on the Instagrams. So you suffer along with this. It's like a, it's like that Conan O'Brien skit where they would just like put a picture of Bill Clinton up and then have the mouth, you know, have somebody's mouth behind it. It's really disturbing. How do we give you the answers? Just say who you think it is. OK, I think that's Eric. Yeah, I think it's Eric.

Really? My teeth look that white. I think. Yeah. Maybe. Well, it's definitely not me because they're all real teeth. Not me. I guess it's thinking Gracie maybe from the crew Toph oh We just said it's one of the five. Oh didn't we yeah, okay? Okay? Gracie's angle up her teeth though would be the best perspective for this People making that into the Jaws

post. Yeah, really fucking great. It was so good. Yeah. I want to get into the group top after this. Is hmm, I guess it is. I yeah, I guess it's me. I don't think I don't think my teeth are that straight.

Yeah, that's right. That's Eric. Is it really? I got some nice toppers there, but you're not doing too bad in. You know really? Wow. I got some nice toppers there, bud. You're not doing too bad, dude. Great job. You know what? It is me.

Do you know? Do you know how long like what's the original photo that like the teeth are from? Do you know? Like that was a question. Is that a no? Yeah. You could just say no. Yeah, it's you doing your I'm small little curled up against the mic. Okay. Oh wow

Okay, because if you look all the way on the back I Guess right hand side where like underneath like where the sea would be in fuck. There's a black gap there It's because I'm missing a tooth all the way in the back So I guess that is me that makes sense actually. It's just you smiling on a couch. I had to change that one What wait it's not that you're small. What about this one? Oh? That's clearly I know that's easy and that's yeah, that's that was the lips of Andrew Panton I recognize them anywhere toothless fucker Still never seen your teeth. I'm convinced of it

What about this one? Oh? That's Nick that's got to be Nick That's Nick's looks like freakishly natural in a way that is very odd That looks like it should be there. It's also old timey in black and white. The black and white makes it look like I'm going to eat you. Oh, I think if we had to pick so far, I would say Nicks are the regulation. And that is a nightmare.

100 percent, Gavin. Yeah, and that would be me. Yeah, that's from this picture of me and my granddad. Last but not least. Oh, yeah. There you go. Now, here's the thing.

I was with Andrew that nicks look like the regulation teeth. I think the black and white really helps to like really set it in there But something about Jeff's big mouth his gob just smack in the middle of that thing really fits for Ian to me It's you can feel the joy in the in the in the smile Jeff's is hitting me with like annoying orange vibes is the way I feel about it You look like the annoying orange Yeah, I'll take that I thought it's you know while we're at it about it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Jeff, you look like the annoying orange. Yeah, I'll take that. I know it's, you know, while we're at it, I've always gotten Jenna Marbles vibes from Andrew. So it's like, I can see that.

And Eric's really mystery guitar man. Yeah. Big time. Absolutely. The thing that made me laugh the most while I was doing this, aside from these stupid teeth pictures, is that I wanted to remove the original teeth from the sketch. So I used Photoshop to, I just selected it and then did like a content aware delete thing, where it's supposed to just fill it with the surroundings. This is the abomination that it made. Oh my god!

What the fuck? It made a face! It made an Ian face. Look. It made an Ian face. Look at that eye nose and a mouth. Holy shit. I'm going to go ahead and make the thumbnail right now for this episode.

That's perfect. Now it's a guy with a lump on his head like Tom and Jerry looking really pissed. Oh my God. Where did he get that from? That's AI shit right there, dude. Oh, that's why we should use AI That's terrible. That's insane Kind of want to get a tattoo Full back tattoo of just that it looks like a

Creepy man who got hit on the head with a like an anvil. Yes. Yeah. And his lump has nostrils. Yeah, and he's got a nostril lump. And the eyes are almost like eggs. Like they look like hard boiled eggs. I was photoshopping and I, when it did that, I legitimately went, yeah! Yeah. It scared the shit out of me. It was so big on my screen.

You made a demon. It created hell. It's the fucking funniest thing I've ever seen. That is the end of my game. Wow. That's a good game. You, I, when I was thinking about this game, I thought at first it was going to be like trying to recognize celebrity teeth or like movie teeth.

Doing this made me realize there's no way because in a pool of us, it was still difficult. The first one, especially like it took essentially removing the pool to forward to make it more obvious. I don't think I'd be able to recognize celebrity teeth based on this. Well, maybe we should. Well, I also how much do you look at celebrity teeth, though? Not often.

Like, I just think it's a detail you don't register. I'm looking at y'all's teeth constantly I think about them all the time also Celebrity teeth now are all the same everyone's veneers or whatever like Furiosa picked number three of the catalog yeah Chris Chris Hemsworth just put in like three of the catalog. Yeah, Chris, Chris Hemsworth just put in like fake teeth and he went, whoa, I look crazy for like the screen test. Sephirio said it's like, these are just normal teeth. You have normal human teeth.

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but I want to pitch it to y'all as a potential future game and see what you think. I pitched it to Gavin already. He seemed to like it okay. So I wanted to, I wanted to see what y'all thought about it. If that's okay. What's the game? I call it Cemetery Bingo. Okay. We go to a cemetery and then we play bingo with the headstones. Here's why I'm thinking, uh, somebody who has three first names, like James Earl Mike, uh, somebody who died on their

birthday, somebody who dies one day before or after their birthday, somebody who was born on Christmas, somebody who has the same name as you a famous name, two people with the same name. Maybe somebody whose name was a job like their last name was carpenter, the oldest tombstone you could find like the first first one in what else we have longest liver somebody who lived the longest, the person you could find, like the first first one in. What else we have? Longest liver. Somebody who lived the longest, the person you could find along somebody with a nickname, somebody with a quote on their tombstone,

somebody who was buried at sea. That's what we called it in the car on the way home last night. Longest liver we came up with someone buried at sea. Did they put a gravestone down? Yeah, apparently a lot of people will put gravestones out. Burndog was talking about last night. It's his favorite thing to do when he goes to a cemetery is look for Barry to see Okay, why why is he going to a cemetery?

Why does anybody go to the cemetery? Probably look at that look at dead stuff. I mean you've seen his art like you know what the fuck he does of course He goes to the Senate. Yeah, the guy haven't seen the guy paints the guy paint you haven't seen his art No, I just know he is our right. I haven't seen his art. No, I just know he is our private seems are oh hold on here Oh, so Yeah, fucking his shit is wild He just he paints this by hand. Oh, okay. Never mind. Yeah, totally totally get it. Never mind. Yeah No, that's yeah, he does that checks That's kind of his deal

That makes oil paints to all oil. I was because my next question is going to be like, why? How would you be in a position to want to gamify a cemetery? Like how often this all reads? I used to I used to live by a cemetery at one point, and I would go there for walks or to ride my bike sometimes because it's just like a big open area of space. And just like it's like it's kind of like going to the park sometimes, you know.

And I was just thinking about like how much fun we had with Sloppy Joe's Bingo and making games out of stuff that are just kind of sitting there and kind of trying to repurpose it. And I thought cemeteries are wonderful places to go and have some quiet meditation or silence or or go spend a little bit of time with a loved one that you miss. But they could also be something else like a place to have a fun little game that isn't insulting to the dead people at all. And much the same way that sloppy just bingo is not insulting to the people that

we're calling bingo on. We're not we're not being derogatory towards them in any way. We're just, you know, finding interesting little things about their lives or what we can glean from the tombstone. And, you know, you try to find, I don't know, little just little interesting nuggets to turn into bingo. I feel like you need to have somebody in the cemetery that you know to play. I feel like that's my that would be my moral hurdle with it. I think I would need to have skin in the game.

What if you only here was because we were talking about this last night. Like, is there a game? Are you being unintentionally insulting in some way or disrespectful? Because that would certainly never want to do that. And we the solution we came up with in the car on the way home last night is what if you could only play it with people who died before the oldest person playing was born? So like you, 1975 would be the cutoff for us. Anybody after 1975 couldn't be considered.

Why and why is that? Because they're so far dead they never lived in our world. So it's not like it's not like we're being insulting to somebody who died last month and you're going to go, that was my that was my aunt. You dickhead. You were talking about her name. It's like, no, that person's been there for 50. Yeah, but that could still be an old guy who comes to see his wife every week.

That's that's the issue with the hurdle. We're not being insulting in the cemetery to anybody. We're just walking around and looking at tombstones. So it's an outward looker. It would just be a bunch of us just going like, hmm. I mean, it would look like it looked like anybody at a cemetery ever. Yeah. The problem is gamifying it. Yes, I agree.

So here's what I think is where we would cross the line is that it would just be like four or five adult men walking around the cemetery, jiggling, laughing and pointing. Oh, God forbid we had a little joy to a sad place like a cemetery. That we're not being disrespectful. I'm just telling you that from a perception standpoint, it's maybe questionable. Yeah. My point is, is this nothing we're doing is making fun of anybody in the cemetery. No, like that is fine.

I think it would the issue would be the perception of somebody who has a loved one in the cemetery being like, I'd rather you not put them into your game. They just why you would you would choose people from. Well, I mean, it's a public place, first of all. So there is the that of it. But also, I think that by not using anybody who died in your lifetime, you're really reducing the chances that somebody is going to see that you mentioned their uncle's name in passing because his name was carpenter

or, I don't know, shipwright or whatever. And it happens to be the name of a job. Didn't you say as well that the human race doesn't give a shit about anything 50 years ago or something? That's also true. 50 years is when we stop giving a shit about the past or understanding it or trying to understand it, and it starts to disappear into the nothingness. So if anything, maybe we're bringing a little bit of life back

to a bunch of people that died a long time ago that probably aren't getting a lot of attention. I get. Well, that is a long time ago that probably aren't getting a lot of attention. I get well, that is a way to put it, but that would not be my intent from a ghost standpoint. They probably fucking love it. I don't necessarily care that this person died or whatever. I'm really pumped about the bingo and my discovery of them. Yeah, if that makes sense. Like, I don't. It's not that I don't know.

I like the idea a lot. I just think there are some hurdles to be considered. What if we test out this idea by going into a cemetery in a video game? I like that a lot. That's a great idea. I think that I fictional cemetery. Great. I'm all about it. What? Red Dead Friday the 13th has one.

But it's looking looking right now to see. Oh, dude, you know who has a cemetery? One of the one of the Mortal Kombat games. Like you progress through a cemetery as like how the game progresses, right? Like nine or eight, maybe Resident Evil four has one. Is there does Left 4 Dead have a cemetery as like how the game progresses right like nine or eight maybe Resident Evil 4 has one is there does Left 4 Dead have a cemetery it feels like that would have a cemetery yeah yeah yeah that seems like something that Valve would have the like oh yeah we got to make sure these are all yeah you know

unique they would have got each staff member to put in a different thing yeah yeah exactly that's how that feels. This is good. This we should definitely try. I am a big fan of that. Yeah, I love the idea of more bingo, like just as a general thing. Look, all I'm saying is I'm happy to do it in a video game, but cemeteries are just sitting there. I lived by one for a few years a few years ago.

They're largely empty. Nobody's ever there. They're lonely places. I, you know, I would go there sometimes and be the only person I saw there for like an hour if I walked through it. And I just I just feel like we could give them a little use in a fun way without being disrespectful to anybody in terror there or visiting. Redfield, Redfield, Redfall has a lot of cemetery in it. I haven't played that games names. Is that a good game?

And there are good things about it, but it's confused. And the studio that made it recently got shut down, so it'll never sort those things out. I'm playing still wakes the deep. Has anyone else tried that? It's like a pass. I would highly recommend you especially try it, Jeff. It's the thing, but on an oil rig.

It's like the deep. It's like the deep sea, like you're out in like the middle of the ocean. And there's like Eldrick horror shit, right? Like what's it called? Still wakes the deep. You're on an oil rig and it's a set in like Scotland. And it is the thing. Essentially, is it multiplayer?

No, it is a single player horror experience. But I'm having so much fun with it. I played it for like, I don't know, maybe two hours last night. It was so scared. And I have a clip that I don't know. I don't know if it would translate all that well in the podcast, but like the whole thing is you are on this oil rig and you're drilling and then something happens

and like this alien thing is taken over and people that come in contact with it get turned into like crazy people that are trying to kill you type thing. And it's very visually disturbed horror. And I just encountered the very first monster that you have to deal with. And the whole time in the game, whenever you see like, you'll find coffee cups on the ground that you can pick up and throw. And I thought, oh, I bet you like these aren't weapons.

This strikes me as like maybe you can try to throw them to a different corner of the room to distract so you can hide. And so I'm I'm so scared. It is completely freaked me out. And I encounter this first monster and you can like hide in vents and stuff. And so in a vent and I find a coffee cup and it says like, you can throw it to distract the monster. It'll it'll guide it to another place.

And I when I fucking knew it, I called it. I knew it would be this. So I grabbed the coffee cup and I went to throw it. And it was dark and I completely fucked up the throw. And instead of throwing it to the other corner of the room, I hit the pipe directly above me and it bounced back at me and landed right in front of the grate that I was hiding behind. And that monster sprinted right to the great in front of me.

It's maybe the most scared I've ever been in a game because I didn't since the first encounter. I don't know how the rules work and if you can see me because there's just nothing in front of me. I'm just in a little vent and we're equal to each other. And I just sat there for like 90 seconds as the monster like analyzed the cup and then went back and forth and then went away. And I that was it for me. I haven't I haven't gone back to that game yet. as the monster like analyze the cup and then went back and forth and then went away. And that was it for me. I haven't I haven't gone back to that game yet. But did you save a clip?

I do. Yeah, I have a clip. Let me let me see. I can pull it up. It's but it was terrifying. I'd highly recommend it. It has a really cool achievement in it to play through the game in Gaelic because it's it's funny where they have English subtitles on by default. And it's not as like a thing of where the dialogue matches. It is to translate Scottish slang, which I don't think I've ever played a game that has a feature like that.

It is a lot of the English text will say fuck and the audible dialogue will be Fudd. I've never heard so many fuds dropped. Let me let me see if I can upload this, but I would highly recommend it as someone who loves the thing, Jeff, like I know you do. I think you'd enjoy it, even though it's single player and not multiplayer. Yeah, I'll check it out. I don't know when because I you're right. I don't play a lot of single player anything, but I'll give it a shot. What was the last single player game you played? I played Far Cry 6 for a day.

Yeah, I mean there's multi-player in it, but day. Was that single player? Yeah, I mean, there's multiplayer in it. But yeah, you can play single player. Before that, I played cyberpunk. I beat that. So that single player. I think it's so funny that you are multiplayer only essentially. And then Eric is on the other side of that spectrum of like essentially exclusively single player. I used to be single player only and I didn't give a shit of multiplayer

and I just kind of flipped because it's become because games are just if I'm going to play a game now, I either want to be hanging out with my friends by shooting the shit or I want to be working. And so single player games have zero appeal to me at this point in my life because I can't I'm not making anything with them for the most part unless I'm not making anything with them in the for the most part unless I'm like Doing the backgrounds for for Nick or something Yeah, and then there's no if there's no multiplayer. There's no Xbox live party with Spotify music going

I don't yeah, it just doesn't appeal I've been doing some editing Editing some let's plays we've been doing some of the multicams, and I looked and it had been exactly 10 years since my last multicam which was like a Minecraft video. So it's fun to dust off all that, paste. That's my waveform from Gears of War 5, part one. It's all contained, it's pretty level, not a lot of dynamic range. Jeff, any thoughts about where this is going? Here's Jeff.

It's all the way down. It's all the way up. Its peak is blowing out like you wouldn't believe. It's crazy. And then somehow to my ear, Andrew sounded worse. And I looked at his waveform clipped all the way across, but not actually not at the top of the thing, which you don't, I don't see a lot of that. It's Nick, do you have, is it always like this?

Uh, not always, sometimes. What's going on there? I, I don't know. I run a D clip on it and it usually takes care of it. But when he does gaming for some reason, his audio just clips out. What can I do to make your life easier? Yeah, what can I do? Because I have never heard this issue.

What can I do to help? Well, I have a compressor on so I didn't blow out that much That's it keeps everything down But is that mice does my scarlet have a compressor it not not not built in but there might be a program We could use we can look at it also Andrew. Yeah, we'll just play with your game. I think that'll take care of it. Okay Sounds good. Thanks. Sorry Gavin. Sorry I'm absolved none of my no my audio is this bad. So you're saying rock me and me I'm pretty sure yours was you're not in this video, which is why I don't have yeah. Yeah exactly. So I'm good Yeah, so no problem. Your one from GTA was a nightmare.

No, no, no. It was good. Consider that it was good. So how much does a compressor cost and should I buy one? Well, I mean, I think mine's just in my mixer. It's just like an option. We'll look into you as Nick said. Yeah. I'm willing to spend some money to fix the problem. Mine's just in my mixer. It's just like an option. We'll look into you as Nick said yeah I'm willing to I'm willing to spend some money to fix the problem. That's you know I'm willing to spend somebody on your problem, too

Trying to make your life easier here Okay, well speaking of the gaming I have the clip I can pull yes I want to see didn't fucking freeze What an annoyance okay? Here? We go does it have does it have a clipping issue in it with your audio? Yeah, yeah, I think it's I need to get a compressor for my computer Oh my god Oh my god, I fucking sorry go ahead Eric you say whatever I was gonna say yeah, hey, so

Just before while Andrew wrestles with that, I guess, I want to give a shout out to a regulation listener who's, I mean, a comment leaver, truly. But this is from Donut Cool on the subreddit. They've been doing this weekly. They have been doing regulation drawings of each episode of moments that stick out to them. And I just want to shout them out.

They are so good. They do this every week and I look forward to it every week. I wanted to shout them out on the show because I think this is the immunity bullet on a necklace is so cool. The emotional noises opera thing is so good. But Nick as the monkey being lured into a cartoon trap is so well drawn. They draw it by hand like pencil and paper and just shoot a photo of it on their phone. They're not trying to be high quality with it.

It is just here's an idea and they scribble it. I love that they do this. I think it's fantastic. Thank you. Donut. Cool. On the subreddit. That's exactly how I imagined it. Can I ask without getting into a whole thing? Can I ask an immunity bullet question that, of course, like, oh, no, I'm not trying to relitigate.

It's not allowed to say, of course, this is just a it's just, I guess, a specific scenario that I'd like to get cleared up, Gavin. If you had the immunity bullet, you had your one immunity bullet and you could use it. You're immune from any kind of, is that, uh, like say you're Christian, like you're, you're pretty religious and you shoot somebody, but you're immune to it. So that means you're cool with God, right? So then, uh, if you're a Christian or let's say God exists, right, or some form of God exists and it's still a mortal sin to commit suicide.

If you shot yourself with an immunity bullet, would you be good? Yeah, you would. I mean, Eric was going to use the bullet for that last week. And we was. That's what I was hoping. OK, I didn't ask the question. I just I was going to roll the dice on. I was going to go to heaven for that. It seems like you'd be OK, I think you would walk it off Fantastic okay, thanks. That's all there's a clip. Oh here. We go alright

Yeah, do you want to sync up and then three two one play Okay, so you can see I'm like I'm walking around. I get into this vent. It's very dark. Whenever there's like purple stuff around the screen, that means like you're close to the enemy. That is the guy I want to say. Oh, no. OK, here we go.

Flashlight on. So I'm trying to navigate. I'm really nervous. These little pipes are like vents. You can hide in anything painted yellow. So I'm tiptoeing cuz that's him right there. That's that monster thing It's like a thing so I'm like coffee cup got it throw it across the room. Oh fuck Runs right at the cup, and I'm just sweating. I'm like oh my god Oh fuck and since I've never encountered a monster before, I'm like, will it see me? Am I okay in here? Don't move. I'm just not gonna move.

We're just not gonna move. Please don't come in here. And it just goes back and forth and it scans. I'm like, okay, I think it's gone. I think we're good. And then it leaves. And then I just went to bed. I just shut the game off. I can't do this This is too much that could certainly go into a worst throws in video games compilation Yeah, you have immediately sold me on that game. That looks awesome. Yeah, it looks great. It's really cool What's wrong with that bloke? Uh, it's I don't know. I think it's like a just he's just under the weather Yeah, that's he's got shingles

Yeah, I think that's why you wanted that vaccine by a ratty boy video game. It just did. It's a reaction to it. Fuck with that. You. It's great. What have you guys been up to recently? Jeff was your birthday yesterday.

Recorded drafts. Yeah, we feel about the traps. Uh, I feel like the second and third were fucking amazing. I like all of them. Um, I'm excited to see the reaction to it. The last draft that I think is going to be some unhappy people. Should we name the drafts?

I think it's a great idea. We had. Breakfast, foods, breakfast, the first one, then we had TV show theme songs. Yes, not sitcoms, any TV show theme song. Then we had non alcoholic beverages. Which I Don't think people can predict the level of chaos that occurred

You wouldn't think it was a big topic of discussion at dinner last night. Yeah Non-alcoholic drinks was the most contentious of all of those divisive Yeah, I wouldn't say contentious, but definitely divisive. Just interesting picks. And it's fucking Nick with his innocent, yeah, over there. Like he's not most of the problem. No. Most of?

All of? Either way. It is so much fun doing these games with you, because I don't think we've talked about on the podcast, but we did the the summer movie league supplemental. Yeah, we did the summer movie, which is in full swing. And it has been so much fun seeing the community get behind it the way they have and creating the tools that they've made for tracking stuff like there is a website you can go to that just keeps things updated. What's the standings? Yeah. You want to give an update? No, I don't. We should.

So much. I think Gavin is killing right now, right? I guess, yeah, because you just had a big move. I had 15 bucks for a while. Well, you had bad boys and inside out to back to back, I think. So that was. Oh, that's your whole summer right there I mean bad boys. I in my opinion overperformed. I think it was a way bigger hit I totally agree. I did not think that movie was gonna do well. I mean have either of you seen it now No, well, how did I ever performed?

Cuz I've read that it made a lot of money And then it did well Got the stamp of approval by TPG. I asked him what his thoughts were because I wouldn't even consider watching it unless he said it's way better than three. So, well, three is three was fucking pretty rough. So if it's better, it was not. That's that's encouraging, I guess. Found the website currently in first is Gavin Free with three hundred twenty six million dollars.

Wow. Is myself with one hundred and four million nine hundred thousand. Third place is Jeff one hundred and four million one hundred thousand. Andrew fourth place, 94,000. Nick, fifth place, almost there. So Nick, I'm sorry, Andrew has 94 million. Nick, almost there, 13 million. So the difference between first to worst is $313 million. But Nick doesn't have the,

I think the only things that he's had that have come out so far are Sight and Back to Black, a movie that is no longer in theaters. Yeah, they pulled it. They did pull it. But he has in June, at late June, Nick has on the 28th, Blue Lock episode Nagi and A Quiet Place Day One. Those are has on the 28th blue lock episode Nagi and a quiet place day one on the title you really good and then and then

fourth of July weekend opening on July 3rd Nick has Despicable me for what's gonna make so much money That's that's that's gonna be pretty big big movie for you. Make sure you check out some me some of it what? I saw it shut up you idiot Moshmouth boron But you can check it out as a on our YouTube channel, the Summer Movie Auction.

It's so cool seeing these resources, because this is the thing I did with my friends for years. And it was just me checking box office mojo every weekend, going one at a time with a calculator. It's like seeing automated stuff. It's like, holy shit, people have figured out this is amazing. Why did I spend 11 points on Borderlands? Why? Because it's a video game property

and it had Kevin Hart in it. And you thought maybe. And and Harold and the Purple Crown only spent three. So yes, the prices are crazy. I think Horizon Kevin Costner's Western fantasy comes out this weekend, right? Yes, it does Okay, so okay, well I guess by the time this is out it will be coming yes It'll be that we have spent 22 points on it, but that's okay

Gavin spent six on chapter two. It comes out in August. Gavin doesn't have anything coming out between now and August 16th. I'm just chilling. Let you guys catch up a little bit. Man, to further help myself win this contest, Millie and I on Father's Day went and saw If. Yeah? Because that's where I've been making the bulk of my money.

Yeah. Okay. What a hunk of shit my movie If is. Oh my Lord. You didn't like it? How many more movies are we going to let Ryan Reynolds get away with? I think John Krasinski directed that film too. Like he created it.

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when Hollywood really tried to make Russell Brand a thing From like forgetting Sarah Marshall to get him to the Greek to he was in like the Arthur remake There were like three years where I didn't find him enjoyable in anything that he did But he just kept getting huge movies, and I did not get it. I liked him in Sarah Marshall getting huge movies and I did not get it. I liked him in Sarah Marshall. That was like the one thing that he was like perfect for. But then it was just that in everything he did. And it just didn't work the same.

Uh, I feel that way about Jake Gyllenhaal. No, that's a good one. That's a really good one. Yeah. He had such a good run, though. And like the mid-he did, like he did for a while. Yeah. But like, remember when he was in Zodiac and like that was at the same time when he was in Jarhead, remember that movie Jarhead?

And like he was such a fucking piece of shit while making Zodiac because everyone kept telling him, dude, Jarhead is gonna be huge and Jarhead was fucking nothing. And then he was like, Oh yeah, I really did not try on Zodiac. And it's like, why? It's like it could. What an asshole. Who else? I have it with Sydney Sweeney right now, which is such a bummer because I think she's cool, but she can't keep getting away with it.

She can't, like she did, she did Anyone But You and Madame Webb, and no one is like going after her. And then also the other half of Anyone But You, the other person who's on my fucking list is Glenn Powell, the guy who looks like a human capybara. Like he is... That guy runs our wives podcast, man.

Yes, and I can't, oh man. Like he's never gonna escape this tweet for me where somebody said he looks like a capybara who made a wish to become human. Like that is what Glenn Powell looks like. Did you see that thing where his parents held up the signs saying stop trying to make Glen Pell happen, Glen Pell's not gonna happen.

Awesome! That was really funny. At least he's aware of it, but I also think Dakota Johnson is on that list for me too. That's a great one, dude, a great one. If she wasn't Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson's kid, she would not be in movies anymore, period. After fucking 50 Shades of Grey,

she was in 50 Shades, that's crazy. And like, and then Madame Webb, and I just don't, you know, she'll be in Hollywood for our entire lifetimes because of this or whatever. And I think she is very affable, like as a person, I think she's affable, but I don't know her as a fucking person. I have to see her in the media and in movies, and she can't keep getting away with it.

Who is somebody who's the opposite, who they will like forever have a pass with you no matter what, because they're just so good on screen. Walton Goggins. Oh, yeah. Walton Goggins was a good one. That's like that's a that's a really good one. I feel like if ever I see Idris Elba in something I want to watch it Even though he's been in some real stinkers Clancy Brown

That's a good one Oh, I'm with Nick Timothy Olyphant. I really like Timothy Olyphant a lot. I think he does he does good stuff For me, it's hit man Dreamcatcher. Everything again. But that but that's why we're saying gets past, baby. I think for me, it's probably it's a little bit of an obvious pick, but Denzel Washington, like I will see. OK, Denzel Washington.

But I guess my less obvious pick would be Forest Whitaker. I will forever trust Forest Whitaker in anything I see him in. Even if it's not bad in even if it's not bad Even if it's that bad fucking accent in Rogue One Hold it against him Yeah, it's like actors that you rely on their performances right and not necessarily the movie like I absolutely Force what occur is not to me a stamp of confidence that this will be a good movie But I can rely on him to deliver you know force Whitaker will be good enough that the movie's worth it is how I feel about him. Yeah

Bloodspawn Forgot forgot that he was in that it's a by the way blood sports a great movie fucking awesome I love it was one of the best movies of my childhood bloodsport and kickboxer Before we're fucking awesome. Like there was no kid on earth who didn't like those movies when they came out. Yeah. And also they're like the same movie. It's fucking awesome. It's great. Even better. You get to see the same movie twice. It's like watching the first four.

Fuck, what's his name? Steven Seagal. Steven's got like watching the first four Steven Seagal movies. Those movies are fucking amazing. He just sucks that he sucks. Marked for Death, Out for Justice. I don't remember the others. Those are fucking awesome. Under Siege?

Hard to Kill was the other one? Yeah. Under Siege has Tommy Lee Jones looking all crazy. He does. And Gary Beasley in a dress. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tommy Lee Jones, hang on, Andrew, I gotta show you a picture of Tommy Lee Jones in this fucking movie.

Please. Because it's not what you expect, it's awesome. Tommy Lee Jones has a line in Under Siege about a revolution always coming back around in your face, and I wrote it, I used it in like a sociology class in college. And my professor was like, wow, that's incredible. That's so good. A movement stops, but a revolution keeps coming back around. And I'm like, yeah, fuck, yeah, that's so cool. Yeah, I wouldn't watch anything Steven Seagal made after 1991 or so.

But from under siege back, the dude made good. I mean, it sucks. Don't get me wrong. But he made good movies. Those those were his frickin arms What like they always like fling all about weird have you seen this running arms? He says that he has the perfect running form and that he could train Olympians to run faster Hang on Hang on hang on hang on

Okay, you guys ready yeah, yeah, all right here we go feed He almost has a ratty boy like stride What's he doing with it? He almost has a ratty boy like stride He does The top half of his arms are like a different shape from the bottom half somehow Have you seen that trend where people try to run same arm same leg? It looks like he's doing that, but naturally He's like knocking out everyone he goes

He's like knocking out everyone he goes... And I feel like the directors knew, and they deliberately always frame him so his arms are like front and center. I've heard a bunch of stories about directors working with Steven Seagal who have absolutely let him make an ass of himself on camera because they hated him so much. Or he was so hard to work with or so insufferable that they're like, that's great. Oh Man, that's so Gavin. Holy shit. I've only seen that I'd only seen above the law like for those first few clips I had no idea it was in so many of his movies.

That's wonderful. The number one comment is what you're missing here is that he's throwing a recurring series of right hooks He's not running through the air. He's punching it out of the way so he can run faster And rid of drag You guys still watching you at the part where he's in the he's on the gurney being led out of the hospital with the beard And the he's on the gurney being led out of the hospital with the beard and the It's awesome. I want to see it more Tommy Lee Jones looks cuz I when I think a weird Tommy Lee Jones I think of him and the mechanic too Which oh, yeah, it's just insane and I felt like that was his unique insane role

I think I haven't explored enough as his catalog. I think there's a lot of weird Tommy Lee Jones that I just don't know. I think he's a great actor. I think it was great. Action. A Jim Carrey interview I was listening to recently on Tick Tock where he was telling a story about working with him, I guess probably on Batman. And he he went up to him at a I'm going to butcher the story because I don't remember very well, but he went up to him in a diner or something and he just went to stop and have a conversation with him

I think it was Jim Carrey and and it was like listen. I don't like you. I don't want it was when they were Yeah, and he said I won't condone your buffoonery That was their relationship he's like, okay He just doesn't. I can't imagine Tommy Lee Jones having like a belly laugh, like have it like a deep, genuine laugh. He seems so stoic to me and grumpy all the time, which I know is sort of his his thing. That's what he leads into. But he said, oh, Toro, another one, an actor where it's just always great.

Big Benicio del Toro guy absolutely But you could maybe have your opinions changed Eric with twisters coming out this summer That really looks terrible. Oh It's gonna be great crazy My wife is so fucking excited to see that movie really Why just watch twister she loved it so fucking excited to see that movie. Really? Why? Just watch Twister.

She loved it. She wants to see the new one. It's got Glenn Powell in it. You know, you know how our wives are about them. I know. Yeah, especially. But particularly your wife loves it, loves Glenn Powell. And what are you going to do? I it is a credit. I I'm incredibly against the use of like AI for movies. I feel like it's weird or just like in general in a lot of ways.

It's not great. I think I'd give a pass if they brought back Philip Seymour Hoffman for Twisters just as an AI is dusty. Just having him walking around, yelling about the extreme would make me so happy. It's another actor. What? Phil Seymour Hoffman. So fucking good. Everything he's in.

Have they done that yet? I know like I know they did it on The Sopranos with with Tony's mom when she died before they could record her. And it looked like dog shit because it was 20 years ago. But have they done that recently where they took a deceased person and they

inserted into a film? They did Tarkin, didn't they? Yeah, they did. Grandma Tarkin. Great. grandma talking great grandma talking that's it They did it with him like shit also They already did it with Philip sumore Hoffman and the last Hunger Games. There's a lot of CG Phillips Oh, yeah, I wouldn't know anything about that didn't they do that with Carrie Fisher after she died. Yeah Did they?

Isn't she like in space fucking freezing or whatever? And it's like, well, she's at the end of Rogue One as CG, I think. Oh, they did. Yeah. I don't know if she was dead. I think she was. Yeah. I mean, there's a bit. There's so much de-aging going on that I get, but I just like, you know, I don't I don't get it. It doesn't make the teeth thing and like forehead wrinkles are fine.

I don't understand why we're trying to combat teeth and forehead wrinkles. Let your face scrunch. It's fine. I think I think it more like in those like in flashback scenes in Marvel movies when they make like Michael Douglas Young in Ant-Man or something. I feel like it's it's just such a waste of time like in Furiosa. They start to well, it looked like they were merging the child actor's face with Anya Taylor-Joy as time went on to get them to look closer together. But I feel like the whole world has learned to suspend disbelief when it comes to two

actresses or actors playing the same character at different times in the same movie. Like we understand it. They're going to look different and then it will cut to the next actor. I know why we have to merge their heads together. Looks just it looks way worse. Dude, it's distracting. Speaking of a ship that some of that handles that really well. Have you guys ever watched Our Flag Means Death?

Yeah, no. There's a character in that show called Jim. It's a woman who's pretending to be a man and you don't know it at first. So in like the first two episodes, the character is played by a dude. And then when they pull the mustache off, it just becomes this woman. And then she's the character for the rest of the time. It's so fucking funny. And I wish more shows would do that.

It like it makes it. It makes such a point of making it funny. Is it like it's, that it's delightful. That's awesome. I decided I'm gonna write a short story, but exclusively in the signature boxes of iPads at checkouts. I'm gonna write it one word at a time and hope that it ends up somewhere.

I don't even know what you're talking about. You know when you sign, you sign for your credit card or whatever. You want your signing stuff to get like hacked or how would it end up somewhere? What do you do? Where does all that go? Where does my where does my signature go?

I assume to the business and then the bank. So the bank will have my story. I don't know. Are you pitching paid DLC right now? We gotta go rob a bank to get your narrative. I'm gonna open up all the safety deposit boxes word by word.

I wonder how much money and how long it will take for me to finish my story. Well, okay. You have something there. Are you gonna write the story ahead of time and then publish it that way? Or are you creating it in the moment as you're checking out? It would suck to have writer's block on a like a fucking Monday at the grocery store with the six people behind me. Yeah, I think I think I can do it on the fly and just keep a mental note of.

Where the story is going, I think it'd be cheating to pre write the story. How many words do you think the story will be? I mean, how how many pages is a good short story? Yeah, 20,000 words, probably for like a. Probably probably a good short story, probably at least a thousand words. OK, let's say a thousand words. OK, let's say a thousand words. So I have to buy a thousand things. I think the beginning will be easy, though.

Once. That's my first word going in. That that's how you're going to start it. Does it does the item in some way have to relate to the word? What do you mean? Like for you to be able to use a word, does way have to relate to the word? What do you mean? Like for you to be able to use a word, does it have to like maybe be somehow incorporated to the product in some way or that you can make? Well, no, because the whole story about groceries. What if you could?

I'm with you, Andrew. Maybe this is a separate idea. But what if you had to write a short story like that, but you could only use words you found in the grocery store on products and then you had to buy that product. So if you wanted to use the word fabulous, you had to go like track down something that says fabulous on it and then buy it. Or I think you have to buy your words for your short story. I think it's a difficult enough handicap as it is. Impossible.

I. Beans, she exclaimed. How about this? Have. How about as a test? We each buy like three items and then have to write a story based off of words that are on that product as a title like that. I like that Give myself a more right so much of an email so we're buying three things and we're putting in three words No, well sure we can do three words, or it could be as long as you want so I for example I have an empty bottle of coke in front of me

Naturally is on the bottle I can have have natural and natural in my reserve. I got flavored. I got cola. I got Quebec. How would you start your story with these words? Naturally, naturally. Naturally, Quebec. Yeah, it's like naturally Quebec. Quebec is caffeine free.

And provide 70 percent the daily recommended niacin or whatever it is. Phosphoric. Quebec. You can you can any any word on the can or on the product should be fine, right? There's like they have. Yeah, OK. So they have like printed or like, you know, packaged in Illinois. And then you have the word in right there.

Trying to think. Oh, I just I like the idea of going or buying something. Go the word. I get the word. I really wanted a spaghetti subplot. And now I I love this because Gavin had an idea to do this at checkout, and now I can tell by the way he's not saying anything, he's not on board with whatever this new idea is. No, not at all.

Not at all, but I feel like we can potentially tackle it from different angles. Well, I think they're two different ideas. Yeah, but I don't want to. I don't want to spot a word I need on a can of like pickles. I'm never going to eat the dab things. What about spaghetti? That's up to you. You're the writer. Are spaghetti is disqualified?

I guess it has to be what's on the can right now. It's in the food because you just unlock the dictionary. If the spaghetti is spell a word on a spoon in a picture on the can, you get that. Oh, so it just spells. Spaghetti Oh spell a word on a spoon in a picture on the can you get that Just spells ooh If that's what it spells you can do yeah, but if it smells yum you got yum, that's a word it's on the can I Don't want to dissuade you Gavin from doing your short story idea in the in the signature line, because I think that's fun and brilliant and I think you should do it.

I think this is a totally separate idea. And I like Andrew's idea of just go to the store. We buy three things that have a lot of words on them, whatever three things. And it just makes three things that you need. It's up to you to be clever with what to do with the words. Right. It could even be a thing where we have to guess what the product is after seeing what we create out of the thing That's fucking brilliant. Dude if you can guess the three items, dude Yeah, like if so, let's say I have a bottle of coca-cola right Gavin, but I don't want you to know

It's coca-cola. So I just use naturally in Quebec from it You're never gonna necessarily guess that I source that from a bottle of coke. Okay so like from it. You're never going to necessarily guess that I sourced that from a bottle of coke. OK. So like you have to try to both convey a story or a sentence that is coherent while also trying to not expose what your item is, I guess. And then we could reveal what we bought. All right. I'll try that too. We'll do this. Everybody. Can everybody have it ready by next week for the next step. Yeah. OK. My my hope overall with the with the short story in the signature box is that if I was to request all my data from the bank, I would just see like hundreds and hundreds of my signature.

And then all of a sudden a story starts. That would be great. Can you do that? Can you request that information from the bank? I was going to say no idea. Absolutely no idea. I'm not even convinced that goes anywhere. I don't I'm not convinced that you just write. You could write gibberish and then it's gone forever. You bring up a great point, Gavin, where I have never.

And maybe this is just me being lucky. I've never been in a scenario in which I have been asked to verify any of my signatures ever completely pointless. I never come pin codes and started coming here with signing for stuff that no one ever checks. There's nothing even written on the back of my signatures ever. Completely pointless. I grew up with pin codes and stuff. Coming here with signing for stuff that no one ever checks. There's nothing even written on the back of my card. I don't know what it's for. I don't know who it's for. Dude, it's the fuck, it's forms.

It's the same thing with forms. I went to the doctor this morning and filled out the same form I fill out every time I go there with the same information that then they look at the form and they ask me the questions on the form and then I give them the same information Verbally and then I know as soon as I leave that form gets thrown the fuck away because why are they keeping it?

It's useless It's like when you do a support chat on a website you have to sometimes fill out a brief form before you can yeah the agent And they ask you the same god damn shit. I just typed ever And you could even say I already typed it and then they go and get it It's like why you asking me that yeah Pissed me off I'm with you. I never thought about that. I where my signatures going who is this helping so Canada still does signatures to For certain things yeah, there are times in which I have to sign for stuff

Madness it is would you consider taking a photo each time you do it so you could have a record yourself? Ooh, that's a good idea. Or is that too weird to take a photo of a... No, I think that's fine. I feel fine with that. What if this is how Gavin realized there's fraudulent activity on his account? I never... Well, listen.

I didn't write that sentence. Yeah, there was not a leprechaun in the story. What? That was like a two year period when I first moved in cause I was still laughing at the whole signature thing where I would just draw a small picture of a house every time for my signature. I drew Whiz Pig one time.

Here's Whiz Pig from- How long did you spend on that? It was a little while. I thought Whiz Pig would be a pretty cool signature for a second. Then you kind of... When you get through like the 13th little line that you got to draw for his head and for his teeth, you just kind of go, I don't want to do this anymore. I just love the idea of that being stored on some server somewhere on a bank or a or the servers of the place you you type that.

I think Wizpig is somewhere saying like, I didn't buy this. What? Like, like they track him down because it's his face. Yeah. I wish to God now that we're having the discussion, I wish it went somewhere and that it was findable by someone someday. But I really don't think so. I don't think anybody ever looks at it ever. Ever. You could admit to do. You could admit, Gavin, you could admit to committing a murder one word at a time on those things and no one would ever catch you or find out.

Oh, can you imagine wanting to enter someplace and them saying, OK, wait a second, we need you to sign your signature and they're holding up one of your old ones to like verify it matches like what what is the value? It's mad. I imagine it like that in the Mr. Bean movie where they hold up his passport next to his face and he has to make the same face. movie where they hold up his passport next to his face and he has to make the same face. Oh, man, I never thought about signatures in that way. I never questioned them. What a pointless system. Yeah.

I mean, most of the time when you're filling out anything or using a pen or type and stuff in, it's it's useless. I feel like in twenty twenty four, like all these things are just designed to slow. It's just just to slow us down. Gavin just posted a photo of the face that is great. Well, I want to get out for the. You got a lot to pick from on the. I know some. I think I'm still going with the creepy fucking Ian, but man, You had a lot to pick from on the sun there.

I think I'm still going with the creepy fucking Ian, but man, there's the creepy Ian is just hideous. Maybe we put it to the audience on what to name Ian's evil twin. Ian's evil twin. Oh, yeah, what would be a good name for an evil twin named Ian? You can't do like the backwards name thing. Twien. Actually, the audience is coming with something better than we could.

Oh, man. What? Oh, I'm excited. Hi, I'm Ian. Here's my twin twin. Yeah, he's the evil one. You know how it is. I'm good. We have very different signatures. So, you know, I want to I want to pitch some into Eric. Oh, because I found out I found out something about Eric.

Oh, you found out something about Eric. Yeah, that's you. By the way, I found out that you don't that you don't like being squeezed by the blood pressure. Oh yeah, have I never talked about that? No, I don't think so. I don't have a fear of like needles and I'll get like, you know, surgery

and like none of that bothers me or whatever. When I get my blood pressure taken, I tell them beforehand. It's the thing where it goes around like your bicep and then it's squeezed to like get your blood pressure. Before they do it, I tell them, hey, you're about to get a reading that you're gonna look at and be like, oh, that's a little high.

It's not high blood pressure. These things I hate so desperately and like wish that you never had to do this. It makes me so anxious. Yes. It makes me so anxious. It makes my heart race. I hate them.

So I want to pitch to you. I get like 10 of them and we put them all over you and inflate them all at the same time. Oh, like immersion therapy. We get like an average reading across all your limbs. Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, I mean, I mean, we're not going to do that. So I mean, you can, I mean, you can keep pitching it as far as you want to. Yeah. Hey, hey, Jeff, we're going to put you in a bucket full of snakes. Like, what are you talking about? Oh, is this like a snake level thing for you? Yeah, I hate it. So I genuinely, I can't, I can't look at it while they do it. I have to like, I tense up and won't move while it's on me.

I hate it. Could you watch it get done to me? Yeah, it doesn't bother me for other people. I just know how it makes me feel. If we put like 10 on me. Yeah, it doesn't matter. I don't give a shit. Yeah, let's put 10 on you.

I don't care. Let's put 10 on you and then put you in a bucket of snakes. I don't give a shit. Yeah. In the interest of never doing a Jeff is scared of snakes bit, I'm full support of you here, Eric. Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

Does that have like a history for you? Or is it just something that's always so interesting? No, I don't know. It's just the thing. I don't like when I can feel my heartbeat like in my hand. Like that's, you know what I mean? Like when you can like feel your pulse like that, that makes you alive. That yes. And it makes me want to curl up and die. So I don't like it. What if, what if, okay, what if we put 10 on you, right?

No, they're still loose. You said, all right, we didn't get that far. The answer is no. At this point, they're just like Velcro fabrics, loose, nice and loose. And then I'll just squeeze one puff of air into each one. No, I don't understand. But I don't know. Okay. You said all right. And I said no.

Let's step back for a moment. I still don't know what the goal is for what you're doing. I thought I'd be able to get first. I will be. I just want to see if his head goes already Okay, if you wouldn't need to put 10 on one you can put one on me The like yeah, you don't need that What if we make a giant slice of bread and Gavin you can lay on top of it? Just imagine the bread is like a pool float and you ride it into a pool. Like, what are we talking about? I just imagine the bread is like a pool float

and you ride it into the water. Like, all right, that's not funny, guys. What if like French loaves were pool noodles? If I was next to Eric watching him get all puffed up and I was slowly getting lowered into a wet bread pool, I'd be there for support. A wet bread pool! That's happening at the same time Jeff is rolling around in a pile of snakes.

See the snakes are going to kill me. Nothing you guys are doing is going to harm you. Nick, what are you most scared of that we can exploit? I don't like needles a lot right now or blood draws Yeah, oh yeah I had a rough blood draw today You brought some stuff flooding back

on that one Wait, hang on, hang on How did you learn this about me? Gavin? How did you learn this about me? The most the most bullshit I've ever heard in my life. Everybody.

What the fuck is this? I'm not saying that we should do this. Just in my head, It's very funny. The idea of all of us like sitting in a row with our triggers in front of us that seem like like ridiculous and just feigning and passing out and stressed out. It's like just Derek getting his blood pressure done. Gavin's puking with wet bread.

I'm fainting seeing a surgery scene in a movie. Just the most like isn't actually impacting us, but completely destroying us. I feel like everyone's passing out except I'm just gonna be throwing up. Well. I'm just gonna be all that's gonna happen with me Is I'm gonna vomit everything out and I'll just be hanging there. Yeah All right, well go subscribe to our patreon while I really get to the bottom of where the fuck's Gavin learned this about me What the fuck happened? I can't find out Do you have a lot of stuff Gavin do you have any others We do what can we do one a week at this point? I'm gonna keep my source private

Okay, so I can get more information out of it potentially. Have you been releasing it, Eric, word by word on the signatures? When you text Alyssa about Left 4 Dead 2, can you just let her know to stop giving her s- giving you secrets about me? Thank you. This sucks. It wasn't her. It wasn't Alyssa. I can't believe that.

It would just be the only person that my wife talks to about this stuff. It's terrible. By the way, I was kind of disappointed that we don't really have a good URL to push people to other than, you know, Patreon slash regulation pod. It's a bit of a mouthful. So I was hoping we had like a much shorter URL. We don't. Someone else took all those. So I registered Regulatreon.com.

You did it. Yeah. And it forwards to our Patreon. Wait, it's what? Regulatreon.com. Wait, it's what? Regulatrion.com How do you spell that? That's the issue, isn't it? R-E-G-U-L-A-T-R-I-O-N

There it is, so go to Regulatrion.com Insane. E-O-N Regulatrion? Much harder to remember or spell than just going to Patreon. But I felt like it was worth it. Hey, the link works. It's good. Oh, I put it in the show notes so you guys

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