F**kface - Regulation Sausage Talk 3

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

We just hit our 1 year anniversary so AN EGG wanted to get together for another Sausage Talk. They cover robot Andrew, wanting to do more, focus, wearing a lot of hats, twitch, Year 2, best moments, s...couting offices, white powder, Gavin teaches cress, biggest surprise, most anticipated game, rereleasing merch, tandem bike stunt, and Nick & Gavin's show. 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello and welcome to another regulation sausage talk. This is number three, I believe, for the regulation podcast. We did a bunch with the previous podcast, but those don't count because that was in the past. My name is Jeff Ramsey with me as always. Andrew Pant and Gavin Free, Eric Bedour, Nick Schwartz. But you probably know that because if you're watching a sausage talk, you want to know what's going on behind the sausage curtain,
Starting point is 00:00:23 as they say. Pay no attention to the man behind the sausage curtain is what I believe they said. Is the curtain made out of casings? Is it like a casings curtain? It's intestinal lining casings. Yes. Well, I think it should be hanging sausages in a line like those old beaded doorway covers. Exactly. It's 100% what I thought of.
Starting point is 00:00:46 Let's get in for the office. Yeah, like a beaded curtain made out of sausage. I love the beaded. That's awesome. Oh, that's great. Just translucent, drippy. Oh, god. Oh, god.
Starting point is 00:00:58 I love it. It's getting grease everywhere. You walk across the grease line when you pass through it. Anyway, this is the show, if you're new to Sausage Talk, this is the show where we give you a little peer into how the sausage is made, as you were, where we talk about the more mundane and boring aspects of what we do, just for the people that wanna know
Starting point is 00:01:19 how the content is made, as it were. And we even talked about maybe brainstorming some ideas for some new drafts in this as well. Little window into the creative process also potentially. But I think the main reason to do this sausage talk, number three, is because we just hit our one year anniversary. Our little baby is one year old. And happy birthday, little baby, little regulation baby.
Starting point is 00:01:44 One year old regulation baby, we're still worried that it's gonna kill itself at any moment, right? Like it's gonna die in some way? Yeah. We can't leave it at home yet. Is that the first year of the baby? Kids starts walking at about 9-10 months, and then they start running right around a year, and then it's basically like three years of trying to stop them from committing suicide 40 times a day. Is that what it's, is that how it's going, Nick?
Starting point is 00:02:07 Not anymore, but for a long time, oh yeah. Yeah, from one to like three, it's just your kid runs headfirst towards death constantly. And so it's our job to keep regulation from sticking its finger in the light socket for the next few years. But it's, you know, it's been an eventful year, right? We, and everybody knows this at this point, but we started the company the day, essentially the day Rooster Teeth ended,
Starting point is 00:02:33 regulation began, face ended and regulation began, and we have spent the last year ramping up to exactly this point, I guess would be how to describe it. There's been a lot of impetus to run, to run headfirst towards growth and to get back to where we were as face. And we resisted a lot of that knowing
Starting point is 00:02:55 that we wanted to build this company and this production responsibly. And we didn't wanna get out over our skis. And we wanted to take things slowly and do it the right way Which is why it took us a full year to ramp up the store But I think we announced at the one year anniversary we consider the store to be up and running and fully functional It is an operational Death Star and it is it is it is ready to be used and I think I think our content has been fully functional for a while now
Starting point is 00:03:24 And I think I think our context has been fully functional for a while now. Jesus, Star Wars references. Yeah, it just seems a little menacing for a star. The Death Star wasn't the point of that. The blow up planets were operational. We're raising a little death star, but we've got a child proof the office. We're going to blow up competition. Our sites are we don't give a shit about Alderaan. We just care about other podcasts. That's not true either
Starting point is 00:03:45 I don't want to kill anyone any other What is what's going on? Jump in and start talking with me Jesus fucking twisted in the wind here It's just the Death Star was a wild and comparable. I thought you were still doing the intro Comparable. I thought you were still doing the intro. Yeah. Yeah. Well.
Starting point is 00:04:05 Yeah. See nobody else talked. That's kind of what I fucking figured it would go. When I stopped talking. Is Gavin still here? Did my thing cut out? Yeah. Oh. Did you say stuff?
Starting point is 00:04:18 I was going to say it's, it's a, it's super easy to do stuff too fast. Like add stuff like even like 10 or 15 percent more work that we're focusing on could result in like a 30 percent drop in quality of everything else. It's true, which I think is why it's good to never try and get back to the same point we were all at once and just slowly do it. Yeah. And I feel like we've done a pretty solid job with that.
Starting point is 00:04:40 The store is it's humming along. We're not having the same kinds of issues knock on wood that we did at the previous company in terms of well in terms of any of it in that regard and obviously we have our office we were doing that in the background for a while and now I like literally tomorrow we should be fully functional there I would think We just have to set up some audio. Nick's got to set up some audio and we have to plug some external capture cards in. And I think we're ready to go there.
Starting point is 00:05:13 And so I would consider regulation to be pretty fairly well baked in. I think we're a we're a fully functioning product as of. Yeah, I'd say fully baked May 11th. Right. So cut into that cake It's yummy cake is made. Yeah, there's always room to add some icing some decorations to the cake But the cake is secure an address of robot and I'm a robot and I love cake. I'm a cake loving robot One of the things we did in the army after we would do any kind of mission or training exercises You had to have what's called an AAR, an after
Starting point is 00:05:46 action review, where you look back over everything that went wrong and why it went wrong and everything that went right. And I don't think we need to get super granular with the last year of our lives because we just fucking lived it in vivid detail. But are there any things about the last year that you wish had gone differently or that you wish we had done differently? Anything we can work on in year two? It's I want to do more. Yeah, I mean, that's a great point. had gone differently or that you wish we had done differently? Anything we can work on in year two?
Starting point is 00:06:06 I want to do more. Yeah, I mean, that's a great point. I want to do more. It sucks that we only have so many things that we can. There's only so many days that we can release stuff. We record so much and and we have to sort of like hinder ourselves from recording more. I want to do more. There's just nowhere for it to go.
Starting point is 00:06:27 And there's, I don't wanna, my big concern is like just burning out the audience on, I know that people will reply to this and be like, but I want more too. It's like, right. There are people who want more, but dude, it's when you start opening that sort of faucet, it's hard to close it.
Starting point is 00:06:44 Yeah. But boy, I's hard to close it. Yeah. But boy, I want to do so much. I want to just record with you guys all day, every day. When we have days when we aren't doing stuff for regulation, it's just like, we could be recording a video. We could be doing a supplemental. You're thinking about like blueprints and stuff
Starting point is 00:07:00 and how you want to play. I'm not thinking about blueprints. John, I'm thinking about what else we can do. I'm thinking more drafts and getting together and doing more stuff and dressing up robot Andrew and seeing what Gavin and Nick's show is in the room they won't let us go in. Like I want to do more.
Starting point is 00:07:17 And I think that like talking about stuff that I wish went different, I don't know that there's a lot that I wish went different in the first year. I'm very happy with like where we're at and everything. I just wish that we were able to put out two videos a day without being like stomped on by the algorithm and like all that stuff. I just I don't know.
Starting point is 00:07:37 There's just so much I want to do with you guys, like so much more I want to do that we just can't. And it's a bummer. Yeah, I think it's hard to reflect on the first year for me because so much of it was just about survival and figuring out how everything worked like it. It's we're kind of I feel like going into, you know, at the end of year two, looking back, I feel like it'll be a lot easier to be like from a content perspective.
Starting point is 00:08:00 We could do this differently or change that where year one was such a scramble in every direction. It's hard to even remember like the granular details of what could have been improved because it was just so much. I'm afraid you'll find out that year two is exactly as much of a scramble just in a different way. We'll all be saying the same thing in a year. We do another Sausage Talk. We'll all be saying the same thing in a year when we do another sausage talk. We go back. But I am excited for that as opposed to the scramble of year one of just trying to make sure that we are a legal company. And how do taxes work and setting up a bank?
Starting point is 00:08:35 Like all of that stuff, having that rolling. There is still stuff going on in the background. We're still dealing with insurance, not not well, we're still dealing with health insurance, but we're also dealing with like business insurance right now. We're still dealing with bank stuff that, believe it or not, 13 months in, we still are dealing with bank stuff and there's still stuff to figure out and finish. And so there is a lot of that incredibly boring stuff going on behind the scenes still to this day. And I worry that it'll never stop, you know, like that.
Starting point is 00:09:06 It's just a it's just the annoyance of doing businesses that they'll always be some other annoying administrative thing that we have to deal with behind the scenes. But that is what it is. I'll say personally, one thing that I noticed is I get so excited in growth mode that when I latch on to an idea or even a line of business, I tend to get overly focused with it and I need to be better about looking at the bigger picture like if I get into drafts and supplementals and I forget about other kinds of content for a little bit too long and then I focus on that and then if I get too into gaming, I forget about drafts and supplemental content for a little bit and I forget about other kinds of content for a little bit too long, and then I focus on that. And then if I get too into gaming, I forget about drafts and supplemental content for a little bit.
Starting point is 00:09:47 And I just personally am going to try to be better in year two about being more balanced in my approach to creating ideas for the company, if that makes sense. I don't wanna be too focused in any one direction. And I think because of the previous company and the previous history with gaming, it's very easy for me to slip into a gaming mindset and kind of forget about everything else.
Starting point is 00:10:09 So it's something that I have to watch personally. But I don't think we've done a bad job as a company. That's just something for me to focus on and worry about myself and something that I've been acutely aware of, I would say the last month of how I've been doing stuff. And so that's on a personal level. One area we could be better is figuring out when stuff releases as we're recording. Like a lot of the time, you know, we're trying to keep the office a secret before the announcement,
Starting point is 00:10:35 but that ends up kind of going on too long. Like we're not talking about it in actual episodes or like the reveal is elsewhere outside of the main episode and stuff. There was a, I think a fair criticism from some of the audience that they weren't, if they weren't on top of Patreon, they missed them. They didn't bother to show up for the, or they didn't bother. They weren't able to, or they had other shit going on in their lives. They didn't show up for the live stream for the anniversary where we announced the office.
Starting point is 00:11:01 And then we, the VOD didn't come out for another five days. The office tour didn't come out for another five days. The office tour didn't come out for another six and the podcast that came out three days later, we didn't really announce the office as much as talk about how we bought a TV for an office. And we told a funny story about trying to get it in the car. But yeah, I wish that I wish that I personally had handled that a little better and I had thought to to thread that needle for the audience a little bit better. But it's it's a symptom of what Gavin's talking about.
Starting point is 00:11:26 We're recording so much in so many different directions. It's kind of hard to put the pieces together and see how they're going to line up and make sure that you're hitting the hitting the story beats as it goes. Yeah, I think it's just a case of like something's about to come out like there's going to be a release and then we just have to figure out which episode of the regulation podcast do we start talking about it. Yeah. And that can be tricky, too, with people's availability. Some is a way like we end up recording three in advance type thing.
Starting point is 00:11:51 And then it just feels like it feels like for us in real time, that thing is very far away while recording the thing that releases at that time. It's easy to forget that, at least for me. I think it's just going to be maybe occasionally having to fire up the time machine, you know, and get in and get something in before. Oh, I love the time machine. Nick loves the time machine.
Starting point is 00:12:11 That's another thing, too. We have a bunch of tools at our disposal. We should we shouldn't forget about the time machine is a very important tool. Not every not every podcast, not every production company has access to a time machine. Yeah. But but overall, I would say if I had to give us a grade, I'd give us like an A minus for the last year in terms of getting it getting off the ground and getting everything together. And like I said, I don't have a lot of criticisms for us individually.
Starting point is 00:12:37 I think it's just it's always good to take a look back after you've hit a milestone like this and just kind of absorb it and think about it. And I think it helps inform us going forward. But another thing that will help inform us going forward is the audience. And I know, Andrew, you put up a call out for questions over the weekend. And we got a ton. I browse through the through the list a couple of times yesterday, and it seemed like there were some really good questions.
Starting point is 00:13:01 So do we maybe want to start pulling some of those out and answering questions that the actual audience has? Absolutely. Yeah, we do Falcon questions for any sausage talk that we do. So I have a list of those that we can pull from. I wanted to say before fully diving into the questions, just as a quick question to you, Jeff, this is the second company that you've had go through a first year. Was there anything in the first year of Rooster Teeth
Starting point is 00:13:25 it's starting that helped you in the first year of regulation? Is there any yeah carried over as far as like expectation or that you found useful? I don't know if I could point to one factoid or thing I learned in 2003 that applies to 2025. But I will say, honestly, when I look back at Rooster Teeth, it was kind of like a couple of companies in one. So I really feel like I've done this a few times.
Starting point is 00:13:53 I feel like with the birth of Achievement Hunter and Let's Play, that was essentially like the birth of another company. So I would say more than anything, the thing that has sustained me and helped me going through this process is just knowing that I've done it before and it's possible. Nothing is too hard to figure out. If I could figure it out at 26 when I was real dumb, I should be able to figure it out at 49. And to be honest with you, there's five of us here in 2025 doing this. There were essentially five of us then doing that. And, you know, just from an IQ standpoint,
Starting point is 00:14:28 the five of us today, I think, score higher on the list than the last company. Thank you. Of idiots. So I feel like, you know, I feel like as a group, we've got the mental prowess and faculties to pull this off. But yeah, I think really honestly, Andrew, it's just like knowing not to freak out in the moment
Starting point is 00:14:46 when something unexpected happens, knowing to have the patience that we're gonna get through this and to deal with stuff. And just like, it's almost like you're, like the repetitions, you know? Like I've had the reps and so none of it feels scary. It feels scary in a my future is nebulous and youulous and I'm older and how am I gonna retire way, but not in a how do I build a company
Starting point is 00:15:10 or get it off the ground or introduce it to an audience or get the audience to stick around and how do we meet deadlines and how do we turn on lines of business. I think just the experience and the repetition of doing it over and over and over again at different points through Rooster Teeth and having been fortunate enough to wear a lot of different hats in the company
Starting point is 00:15:28 You we were talking about this you and I personally the other day you Accumulate a lot of knowledge that you don't realize you have until you need it and then you're like it's very much a like a neo In Matrix like I know kung fu kind of moment really. I understand how to do this. Holy shit, I understand. Did I? What did I learn that? You know, when you realize you're not fucking stupid and that that that can come as a big surprise. But it's the lamest version of that of like, I know that we need to set up
Starting point is 00:15:56 a tax thing. I know I know that we're going to need a bank. Like it's it's all none of it is cool. It's just like the foundational pillars that feel so overwhelming without a background in it when you initially start. And then you're like, OK, figure it out. I think it's really interesting. All of the behind the scenes roles that we all just fell into without any real discussion. Yeah. Oh, we all just do random different tasks.
Starting point is 00:16:20 And then we just then they just kind of become our tasks. It's like I don't think we ever had meetings about who's doing what. For me, it's not even like, if there's something I can do, I do it. Cause we're, there's five of us. There's not a lot. Like it's, I don't even really think of like, obviously there are things that we fall into, but it's also a thing of like, I don't feel like we have necessarily like specific jobs or whatever. No, yeah. We have just a bunch of hats like I feel like I've without discussion
Starting point is 00:16:48 is taken on I.T. and like, I don't know, stuff that I wouldn't I would never have done a recity, but it's like I'm sure what capable Nick is laughing at you. He's laughing at you, dumbass. No, no, no. Eric was like, oh, we need to get new computers. And I thought to myself, I don't remember how to do that. Gavin, help me. Do this, do this, do this.
Starting point is 00:17:08 All I, like all that stuff is, think a lot of it, wearing the hats or whatever, is that we're so specific about certain things or whatever. Whatever I was going to order for computers was going to be wrong. Like none of it was going to be right. I don't know what I'm doing. And I'd rather save us all the conversation and the heartache
Starting point is 00:17:24 and just have Gavin do it right the first time and have it take going to be right. I don't know what I'm doing. And I'd rather save us all the conversation and the heartache and just have Gavin do it right the first time and have it take a little bit longer. Completely agree. When Gavin said, I'll do that, I remember feeling such relief because it's like it would have gotten done. But the amount of like educating myself to get up to speed, to not, you know, make a multi thousand dollar mistake for the company, you know, was was pretty daunting daunting and so but I do agree Gav. It's like nothing goes undone everybody is willing to pitch in and And do what it is that needs to be done when it needs to be done, which I really do appreciate
Starting point is 00:17:58 There's not a lot of cajoling. There's not a lot of like Hand-wringing and convincing people to do their job, which I, you know, I can't say has always been the case in my previous companies. The only thing that really goes to the group in a way that's like, hey, who wants to do this is the ad reads. Yeah, it's like the and it's and it's like who who does this ad most apply to sort of thing. And thank you. Thank you very much for everyone saying, yes, I'll do that. Like, it doesn't even have to be like a conversation. It just got, it's gotten to a point where people are like,
Starting point is 00:18:30 I could jump on that one. Yeah, no problem. And it's great. Also, it's not even like we have a ton of ad reads. It's like, I'm very happy with like where we're at position wise for like, yeah, do I money wise want a hundred ads? Sure. But like for content and everything, it's just a couple of ads every week. it's like if even and I think that's fantastic Yeah, there's no there's no like it was definitely the case in the previous company where you'd be like
Starting point is 00:18:53 Would you please do the fucking ad read? I did it last week or whatever and there's definitely none of that here I did three ad reads in a row somebody else could do a goddamn ad read once in a while And that's never gonna be said in regulation. Oh, no. But I don't get that impression. Yeah, it is very much a feeling of like I've done two of these. Someone else could do this one. We have a rotation. We have an unspoken rotation, it feels like. Yeah. Whenever I feel like I haven't done one in a while, I just try to volunteer.
Starting point is 00:19:18 I'll be like, I can't remember the last time I did an ad read. I should probably do the next batch. Yeah. If it's something I'm using, I'm happy to always. I don't mind doing a bunch in a row if I'm using that thing. I think another thing we should talk about is Twitch, because that is something that you guys wanted to talk about prior to meaning. It's true. The premise of wanting to use Twitch more in a way that like what in what way does that make the most sense?
Starting point is 00:19:39 Because we would like to, as Eric talked about, make more one possible. But like in a way that's not necessarily overwhelming to us or the audience. Like, what does that look like? What are your guys thoughts on Twitch and the channel that we have? I think there's a lot of unrealized opportunity there that I that I want to realize in that exact way. Like I have seen it was a it was a refrain. I heard a lot in the previous days where people would say that we made more
Starting point is 00:20:06 content than they could consume and that was upsetting to them in some way because it didn't feel like they could keep up, which I don't want anyone to feel like they have to watch every second of regulation. Like there are people out there that don't give a shit about video games, but love drafts and supplementals. There are people out there that don't give a shit about drafts and supplementals, but love video games. And the beauty of being able to operate a production company like this is you can give
Starting point is 00:20:32 a little bit of what everybody wants to everybody, hopefully. But I don't want anybody to feel like they have to consume everything that we do. Twitch seems like a great opportunity for us to do what we're talking about. What Eric was saying earlier about wanting to release more content, wanting to put more stuff out there and then having it just be ephemeral if it's on Twitch, you know, like our big Friday streams become VODs. And funny enough, in the old days, when we would do that at Achievement Hunter, those VODs would always do dog shit. They were always like barely worth putting out but for regulation they do as well If not better than the edited videos the regular let's plays we do so there's that people seem to really like that Friday slot
Starting point is 00:21:13 I don't want to fuck with that that like our major Weekly stream that we do together But the idea of like Gavin and I being in the office on a Wednesday and just wanting to load up I don't know some fucking co-op game and on a Wednesday and just wanting to load up, I don't know, some fucking co-op game and dick around for an hour or two and then just let it entertain whoever's online at the time, get it out of our system and then let it disappear after the, I guess the Twitch archive updates in 60 days or whatever. I think I like that personally.
Starting point is 00:21:40 I like an experimental slot for sure. Like it's not necessarily something that needs a ton of thought about how is this going to be delivered later? It's just like, hey, we want to try this thing. Yeah, are you excited about playing a game? Let's play a game Let's do a thing I think it also allows us to be more timely with certain releases like Eric is Super into doom the dark ages right now Like that is a thing he wanted to just stream like we have a video in that. It's going to take a few weeks to release. But if we wanted to, we could have some form of coverage on that
Starting point is 00:22:10 and just be able to directly deliver it to the audience in a more immediate way. I think having it not tied to YouTube performance and the algorithm and everything, too, is like, yeah, the benefit of just keeping it on Twitch. Hey, check out the VOD if you want. But we're not going to like we can't monetize it or whatever. So it's just going to like live over there. And check out the VOD if you want, but we're not gonna, like, we can't monetize it or whatever. So it's just gonna like live over there and you can check it out if you want. Because if you want, like, when Nick was playing Last of Us,
Starting point is 00:22:32 it just didn't, you know, it's not like it was doing well on YouTube. So we just kind of went, oh, okay. But if this is a thing where we can go, well, let's just put it on Twitch and who cares? Like, this is something we want to do and we don't have to be tied to a result of some kind, then I'm all for that. I think it's a really fun idea. I also really want to watch Nick play that
Starting point is 00:22:50 game again. I really want to play it. Same. I think everybody here really wants to finish watching Nick play Last of Us 2. And if this is a vehicle to do that, I'm all for it. I also don't want us to get so locked into formats and slots that we lose the ability to innovate or be flexible, you know, which was great, you know, something that we're all hyper aware of. And we were hyper aware of going into face and coming into regulation. So I'm not too concerned about it. But you know, it is always out there in the background. We just got to make sure that we're not restricting ourselves from innovation. That was what was more difficult with the previous company where
Starting point is 00:23:25 I would often have an idea for a thing or maybe even like the GTA Replace, like something like that, just like a one-off. And it would always be the conversation in the room of like, okay, but what's the show? Like, what's the name of, like, what's the slot? What's it gonna be? Where does it fit?
Starting point is 00:23:39 What does it replace? And it was hard to just say like, oh, it's kind of just a video. Yeah. Just one video. It's a standalone. It's something we just have to, like we oh, it's kind of just a video. Yeah, one video. It's a standalone. It's something we just have to like we still we're always going to have to be mindful of that stuff, but finding the ways where we can put other stuff out again, because it just turns overwhelming when it's just like, well, let's just put this out.
Starting point is 00:23:56 And then like, there's no sort of thought to consequence. I don't know that that's going to get us anywhere. But having a thing like Twitch to be able to play like some of these things and just do something different, I think is a lot of fun. And I think people just kind of have to be OK with sometimes you're not going to be able to catch it and maybe you don't watch the VOD and that's going to be just fine. That's totally OK, too. Yeah, I agree. I'm also hoping that the office and just the increased presence around recording because of the office is a place for us to congeal and
Starting point is 00:24:25 coalesce will just help us hopefully get to ideas faster. I was looking at our idea sheet the other day, which is pretty full. And some of those early ideas, there's been ideas that I know we were all super into and excited about, but so much time has passed that it's hard to reconnect to them. You know, and I hate losing ideas like that, where they just weren't enough of a priority and they just kept getting pushed and pushed till at some him, you know, and I hate losing ideas like that where they just weren't enough of a priority and they just kept getting pushed and pushed till at some point, you know, like we're never going to do a moon ranker draft, probably.
Starting point is 00:24:50 Right. That thing was cursed to begin with. Delete it forever. Yes. But as an example of something that's not going to happen, that would have if we had prioritized that or found found the time to record it early, I just I'm hoping to get to stuff faster in 2025. Yeah, me too. Absolutely. And we have more slots to do it early. I just I'm hoping to get to stuff faster in 2025. Yeah, me too. Absolutely. And we have more slots to do that now. Like we that's sort of the thing of like the first year set up of we have a let's
Starting point is 00:25:11 play slot. You know, the Friday recording slot for supplemental stuff like we have positioned ourselves to be able to deliver on those in a more reliable way. Yeah. And I mean, the office is already paying off dividends in that way. Right. Like we had we recorded our first three videos in the office on Friday the Gumbler and then a donut thing and Oh spaghetti sandwich spaghetti and they're not all done. We got to do some reshoots some some Final light some final shoots for it, but it felt so Good and like just being in there, it just I just felt the power
Starting point is 00:25:47 of the immediacy of being able to create stuff in the moment and just build and grow as we do it. And having Andrew there as the robot just really makes the whole thing feel complete to me in a way. And and by the way, we talked about how getting the office was going to help us and in a lot of ways that we couldn't define yet, but we knew that it would. We knew that it would create new creative opportunities and it would probably increase our output
Starting point is 00:26:13 and it would make it easier for us to film some stuff that was difficult to film. But creating new opportunities without realizing it, I think AndrewBot is the fucking perfect example of that eight days ago Andrew bot didn't exist in anybody's mind, you know and a week later He's now integral to the fucking future of our company I think and the audience has a mascot that they've that they desperately in love with and that we're also in love with and that's A prime example of like if we didn't have an office there would be no Andrew bot and now it's everybody's favorite thing
Starting point is 00:26:44 And we talked about like he's another camera. He's like a little roving camera. And it's like, OK, is this a thing that like we just put the Andrew bot cuts of videos out on Patreon where it's like, here's Andrew, Andrew's perspective is like a little critter scurrying around the office. How does it feel being there, Andrew? Like, what's that like for you?
Starting point is 00:27:06 It has such a different feel than watching a supplemental. Just the edited viewing of it. There's something strangely way more personal about it. Like it feels like a home video at times, just from the perspective of it. And I think the lower image quality also kind of adds to a more strangely like personal feel to the things. It's been a lot of fun to experiment and I'm excited to continue to mess with the office. It's been interesting learning how to multi cam between like a 4k iPhone clip and a 480 dog shit little... It's great.
Starting point is 00:27:48 It looks so jacket, but it's so perfect for the vibe. It's a lot of fun to see the more edited or like the iPhone angle as well. Cause my, my ability, my like spatial awareness is so limited as that robot I can see in front of me. But if I impact things that are behind me, I have no concept of it. Or recently I drove through a thing and Gavin sent me a photo of the impact of that from the reverse, which I just had no perspective of, which was so funny. I'll put it in the discord. Yeah, it's it's a perfect.
Starting point is 00:28:24 My wheels got a little sticky. Sticky. I was horrified when you did that. I was absolutely horrified. Cleaned up easy, though. Cleaned up easy. It did. Yeah, you did a great job with cleaning all that stuff up. And I like that. We have a system now of if I need cleaned, one of you picks me up and I spin them wheels and we're good to go.
Starting point is 00:28:49 If I need to clean. And when you're bad, you go in the freezer. Oh God. Yeah. It was everywhere. The substance was everywhere. It's so fun just having you there as well. Like I went to the office at the weekend to do some computer stuff, and I just came in and I was like, Andrew, you didn't come out, but it was just nice knowing you were there somewhere. That's so great. I don't think you were monitoring the feed. Yeah, there was a...
Starting point is 00:29:14 The other day, Nick and I were there, just the two of us, and we were just in the middle of a conversation, and then in the periphery, I saw movement, and Andrew just drove by us. Like, didn't say anything, didn't announce himself or anything, he just drove by us doing his own thing. And I was like, oh, right, Andrew's around. Hey, man.
Starting point is 00:29:29 I'm just so glad we have a space. I'm glad that it doesn't have to be at Jeff's house. And I'm glad that we can have things that we can hop in and out of like that, like Andrew with the robot. That's what I was going to say, too, is that we've already had that payoff where we're kind of halfway through making that Gunpla video because we needed time for the stuff to set. And we just left everything exactly where it was Like the lights are still there the island still there
Starting point is 00:29:48 We can literally walk back to the spot and keep going as though we don't have to unpack and like reset up anything I even wore the same clothes today because we were supposed to go in and film Just in case you want I didn't talk to you guys about it ahead of time, but I thought I should wear the same clothes the old holdover from rooster Teeth. We're not going in because we ended up canceling today's recording, but God, it's so much fun. I got cold. Gavin got a little under the weather, a little summer cold. I reckon Nick gave it to me. Probably. I was talking to you at baseball and then maybe it was a...
Starting point is 00:30:22 Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, there you go. That's it. That was hot dog. Andrew, do you want to fire off a couple of these Falcon questions? I sure do. And speaking of baseball, will there be a new baseball jersey soon?
Starting point is 00:30:37 That was asked by Mosaic Moth. Do we have plans on a new baseball jersey? I hadn't considered doing another one. Is that something that we should do? I think they're fun. I would consider it. It's one of those things. It's a higher price item. So the investment on our end is greater.
Starting point is 00:30:52 You know what I mean? Just in terms of buying stock. But I would certainly I would certainly be intuitive if there was enough demand for it. We'd have to make a regulation jersey because based on all. Yeah. Let us know if it's something that you guys would be interested in. We can work with Tony, maybe get something going or whatever. For me, it's not even the cost on our end.
Starting point is 00:31:09 It's the cost. I just don't want to charge people. I know. Yes. A lot for a Jersey. You know what I mean? We've had that a few times in the past with some quite obscure ideas. I can't remember what it was. But maybe it was the the waffle iron or something.
Starting point is 00:31:21 But it was like minimum 50 bucks or something to sell it. I just felt like, ooh, $50. And it's that kind of thing where it's like, there's a lot that goes into it. And there is a cost to get it made. And there's a cost to like get it out there to you and to customize it and all that stuff. But like, I just don't want to charge you guys
Starting point is 00:31:38 a bunch of money for stuff that we're making. I love the price point for like the Gerpler and the shirts and the patches that we have coming out and all that stuff, because it's like this normal to me. And I feel fine about that. Yeah, I there are there are some ideas in the past. I can't nothing jumps to mind right now. But there are some ideas we had in the past that we were pretty into that fell apart in
Starting point is 00:31:58 the sourcing because it was just going to be to make it was going to we were going to have to sell it at a price that none of us felt comfortable selling it at. Like we don't wanna sell something to you that, if it's not worth it, you know what I mean? And so we'd rather not make it than overcharge for it. We can look at what jerseys might be and how much like the cost would be and all that stuff. I can talk with Natalie and El Famoso
Starting point is 00:32:19 and see what they think. Cause maybe there's, you know, maybe we find a happy medium and make a New Jersey. I think that would be, I think it would be cool. We just have to figure it out the right way to do it. Yeah, totally. Next question is from Varian and it is, is there anything you would like to change from your approach to regulation content in your two that you've learned from your one? Keep up the awesome stuff, guys. Can't wait for more.
Starting point is 00:32:39 I have the answer to this where it's not so much like a shift of of like we did this and I think it would be better if we did that doing the consecutive like the advent calendar and Mario Party March like having releases come out every day of a month and realizing we're able to do that and having gone through that experience and having an idea of what it's like enabling us to do more stuff like that. If there are ideas that align with that type of release, I'm very excited about going into year two. Just the knowledge of we can do this.
Starting point is 00:33:13 What can the doors that opens up of like if we want to do more stuff in that way, we know that we're able to do this and have an expectation of what that workload would look like. Similarly, you know, face off season two is shaping up to be produced in a way in a way that's different than we did in season one that I'm very excited about and without like tipping our hat too much. But I would like to do more production like that in the future, going forward and be more experimental with live recording in front of audiences.
Starting point is 00:33:43 I think there's a lot a lot of power there. Absolutely. Next question is Giles Russo for each person. What has been the funniest project you have worked on so far? Any standouts to you guys of like, wow, that was. Yeah, I have mine easy. It's the podcast where Andrew hammers Gavin about being on the Australian TV show. It's the best. It's the best episode we've ever made. It's the funniest. It's the funniest
Starting point is 00:34:09 thing we've ever done. It is legitimately my favorite thing that we've recorded. It's so relentless. And it is so I know that we do like a lot of crazy projects. And here's Mario Party March. The podcast is probably always going to be my favorite thing that we make. And that episode is just, it's flying a banner about everything that I love about making this podcast. It's so good. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. It's something that didn't register me enough to even make one of my notes yet.
Starting point is 00:34:36 Somehow it's half that an entire podcast. You were on TV. Andrew can't wrap his head around it. It's half the episode. It's like it's stellar It's stellar. I love it. Yeah, I'm not that not the steel Eric's answer But I gotta agree that was one of the highlights of the last five years to me or however great doing this together It's weird to be like oh, you know I've been a room It's weird to be like, oh, you know, I'm in a room, I'm in a room of friends. And then suddenly it's like, oh, my back's to a wall. I didn't even see.
Starting point is 00:35:10 Oh, what do you mean? No, your back's not to the wall. Andrew's on your side. Andrew's advocating for you. I do feel I articulated that with aggression towards you. My issue is always more with the news than you. Wasn't the news. Whatever Australian morning. My issue is more with the news.
Starting point is 00:35:33 Oh, Christ. I this isn't. I'm trying to think of like and this is Eric's going to hate this answer, and it's not even a regulation thing necessarily, but when I think of like unexpectedly joyous recordings, it's the first ratty boy video we did that just broke all of us. But it is like largely there are so many times where we record something on the podcast where and then we wrap up.
Starting point is 00:36:00 And I'm just so happy thinking about it later. Or still it makes me laugh so hard. It's being like, Jeff did this thing or Gavin had this ridiculous error happen or whatever. Like it's it's generally podcast moments, I would say. That are the things that I will think about later in that day. It's like that was so funny. I'll tell you what I think about a lot is stuff that we haven't done yet that I know we're going to do and that I know is gonna be good.
Starting point is 00:36:26 Like I think about the Philly cheese steak out a couple times a day. Yeah, I keep bringing it up because I don't want to forget it. I've already played that through in its entirety in my head 60 times. And I'm so excited for when it happens because I know how funny it's gonna be and I know how we're gonna do it and I know all the props and stuff that we're gonna end up accumulating and and it's like just just the joy of knowing like I've already I've already I've already played the scenario out in my head so many times and I just know it's gonna pay off and it's gonna it's gonna be even funnier than I'm daydreaming it will be and I'm there's a couple ideas like that that are hanging out there that I just am so excited to film because I know they're going to, I know they're going to rise to the bar in my head. Yeah. I got so much joy on that on the stream we just did when I think it was while I was,
Starting point is 00:37:13 I had the phone on the gimbal and I was just doing a little office tour in the middle of the stream and something about Andrew like driving around in the background and Nick laughing from the other room. I just felt like I was like, I don't think anyone's got this vibe right now of just this like weird junk chaos and it's and you can keep the vibe in the same room or whether it's remote. I just really like that. It felt, it just felt really good while we were doing that. And I loved that Jeff kept saying the wrong address and the wrong name and Eric's reactions. That was so fricking funny. God, what is dude, you gotta stop, please.
Starting point is 00:37:48 God, I would say conversely, the thing I wasn't there for that I wish I was was when Jeff turned off the game and turned 29 and I stepped away to the bathroom. I watched that moment in the triple digits at this point. I could say 100, but that might be underestimating. It's watching Nick the whole time is so funny in that. And then watching Gavin the whole time is so funny in that. Watching Jeff the whole time is so funny. It's so good.
Starting point is 00:38:18 In fairness to Jeff though, did you see the controller icon in the bottom of the screen? It's like flipping all over the place. It doesn't know what orientation is. Why did Nintendo do that? It's like taking the feed from everyone's different controller and everyone's holding that controller a different way. So it's like, what do you want?
Starting point is 00:38:33 What does the what does the switch want? Yeah, I agree. I was real disappointed in that moment. I have forgiven them, but I'm glad that it was captured on video and everybody can see that I made the best decision based on the information and the data that was displayed to me by Nintendo Next question is from Bummer hey All right
Starting point is 00:38:56 What's been the hardest thing to deal with being an independent company the hardest thing the hardest thing? It's it's all the it's all the stuff that goes into not making the show. It's all the stuff. It's all the banking, the taxes, the meetings to go over stuff. It's all of the pieces and parts that I just don't wanna ever do again, and you have to,
Starting point is 00:39:20 because you don't have a choice, because that's the only way the company runs. That, to me, is the hardest part. I'd say, to summarize in one word, it's, because that's the only way the company runs. That that to me is the hardest part. I'd say to summarize in one word, it's uncertainty. It's sending in these forms. You're doing these things. You don't really know how any of it works, but it feels very important and official. And just trying to stumble through that process is so stressful and ways of like I'm stressed
Starting point is 00:39:42 because I don't know what I should be stressed about in regards to this thing. It's so... Like if you knew everything, you'd... Yeah. I'm surprised at how expensive it is to set everything up and have health insurance and like make sure you're paying all the right taxes and payroll tax and all this other stuff. Like the monthly outgoings, as soon as you start doing everything properly, gets pretty extreme. And that's kind of scary when you first set that up.
Starting point is 00:40:07 It's like, oh, God, we're losing all this money every month. And it doesn't even go anywhere near the content. I think for me, it's I catch myself at night. Sometimes I just think like, what am I not thinking about? Like, what am I missing? What am I forgetting? What am I too dumb to plan for? Like a lot of like, what would a smarter version of me be preparing for right now?
Starting point is 00:40:30 You know, and just like the fear that I'm missing something obvious that we should all be worried about or taking into consideration. And we're not going to I'm not going to recognize it until the damage is done. But instead, you're thinking like what what would be a good moon that isn't the moon or like what should this worm name be? Yeah, and there was some freedom. I will say there was some freedom with that in Rooster Teeth when I wasn't worried about payroll taxes and trying to figure out health insurance
Starting point is 00:40:57 and all the other stuff. I could just think about the moon a lot more. At least in the face days, not in the previous days with Ach hunter and let's play and all that But when it was just face I could I could just focus on the moon for a couple of days You know and that was that was enough, but you really there's there's always something nagging at you in the back of your mind That's like no no pay attention to the page into this pay attention to whatever it is You're not paying attention to right now idiot, and you're like, but I don't know what that is. And it's like, get smarter, figure it out.
Starting point is 00:41:26 It's a constant fight I have with me where I'm just constantly telling myself, you're too dumb right now. Be smarter. And I got to like, I don't know. I'm 49. I didn't get smarter yet. How do I do it? Spring is here and you can now get almost anything you need delivered with Uber Eats.
Starting point is 00:41:41 What do we mean by almost? You can't get a well groomed lawn delivered, but you can get chicken Parmesan delivered. Sunshine? No. Some wine? Yes. Get almost almost anything delivered with Uber Eats. Order now. Alcohol in select markets. See after details. Next question is from Brian Ford. Regarding your new office, what were some of the requirements you were wanting in a workspace or the main things you guys were looking for when you were scouting offices?
Starting point is 00:42:04 Kitchen island and an air conditioning. It did. I feel like the kitchen was pretty essential in the conversations of like what we need. We end up doing a lot of cooking stuff, which is sort of surprising. I will say to blessing and disguise losing that first place that was perfect in every way, except it had a bad kitchen and we were going to have to figure out how to make it work. And this place is a much better kitchen layout. It's a better fit for what we want to do for sure.
Starting point is 00:42:31 Yeah. It's also shitty. Yeah. So it's like a shitty house. And that's great for us. It is great for us. It's our level. We're shitty and the house is shitty. Yeah, I'm not super concerned about like we're not throwing stuff and breaking windows and everything, but like I'm not super concerned about like we're not throwing stuff and breaking windows and everything But like I'm not super concerned about like oh, no we got this Oh, no something dropped and we have to clean it up like there's nothing pristine in that house
Starting point is 00:42:52 So there's not a lot of concern the only stuff that I wanted to make sure of was that we had rooms that we could separate off and do other shows in like doing Like Jeff opening stuff and everything that can be in a space and then our stuff and everything, that can be in a space. And then our couch co-op room can be in a space. And then not having to, like Gavin talked about earlier, like not having to break down every time we're done with something and just going, oh, we can leave this up and just use the space, flip a switch and it's ready to go. That was really important to me in the space that we were in. It's just giving so much extra content too.
Starting point is 00:43:25 Like it's we open a cupboard and there's white powder everywhere. Dude, what the fuck? It's everywhere. Have we talked about it? It's like a character of itself. Like all the floors are creaky and like the toilet won't fill up quick enough for Jeff's shits and there's powder in all the cupboards and I got my shoes glued to the floor the other day.
Starting point is 00:43:45 What? What was that? Yeah, yeah, that was crazy. Were you breaking into Kevin McAllister's house? What is happening? Yeah, I touched a doorknob and it was white hot and then a paint can hit me in the face. We have not talked about the white powder
Starting point is 00:44:02 in all the cabinets. I don't know what it is. I assume it's baking soda. Hopefully. Yeah, or flour or baby flour. Flour maybe. But like, it's in... If it was just in the kitchen, I could be like, okay, maybe it's flour.
Starting point is 00:44:14 It's in like the bathrooms. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. I feel like we're doing a family a service by not letting them live at it. Yeah, I feel like the reason for the powder is going to be a problem for us in the future. You know what I mean? And I just there's also we haven't talked about this either, but some of the closets, which also have some powder in it
Starting point is 00:44:36 sometimes, there's just like plastic sheeting taped up over the walls. Like, I don't know why. You look at the break in closet. Why is there why is it the Dexter kill somebody in the closet? Because it's taped off like he did. Insane. Insane. What are they trying to keep out?
Starting point is 00:44:52 What are they trying to keep in? Yeah. Oh shit. What's behind Nick and Gavin's door? Wait, I don't know what's behind Nick and Gavin's door. I don't, I don't know. And we may never find out. Next question is from Cameron Yuley.
Starting point is 00:45:07 He's got to any word on when we're getting Nick in those big red boots. Oh, other question is also about the jersey. So there are clearly people excited about baseball jersey, potentially. I don't know that we have the boot plans yet, but that'll come soon. I mean, now that we don't have to focus on trot, dude, it was so much focus trying to get this place ready so that way we could do the anniversary stream and be right Excuse me be like ready to go And have everything set that like it just took up so much brain space now
Starting point is 00:45:36 Yeah, Nick might have to wear those boots season 2 of face off yeah, we're gonna be in Vegas in a couple of weeks it sounds like maybe Maybe there's a mall in Vegas and they could wear them He's like the fucking goosebumps kid who can't take the mask off the boots like melt to his feet he's stuck with red feet. Oh That'd be great Next question is from Richard. What piece of content do you enjoy filming the most podcast? Yeah, for me, it's podcast.
Starting point is 00:46:12 And then there is a unique joy to doing the drafts for me because it's a thing where we all have some structure prepared going into them to some extent and seeing where all of your brains went is always a lot of fun. Anything that fits into the into the idea of theater of the mind, I think is is the best. Yeah, I feel like any time one of us latches onto something that just sounds slightly out of view, like I could never have predicted that Eric would take such a dislike to Cress and just the whole Cress. I don't understand what it is still.
Starting point is 00:46:44 And you keep saying it's like grass, but you can eat it. And so it's not watercress. What is it? It sprouts. Exactly what I'm talking about. See that to me. I love that stuff. Have we confirmed that it is illegal to bring into the U.S.? Has there been more research done on that, Gavin? I don't know. I wonder how much trouble you'd get in for smuggling Cress.
Starting point is 00:47:02 But can't we? We don't just have Cress here. There has to be a Cress equivalent. Right. I'm sure I could buy Cress seeds. I see Cress seeds. I do see that we can buy Cress seeds. I don't know what it would grow. So what we need to do then, we need to get an eggshell.
Starting point is 00:47:18 We need to put some little bit of wet cotton wool in the bottom and then we put our Cress seeds in and we grow our Cress. I think we've got to, I think we need to make a supplemental where Gavin, Gavin teaches cress and he goes through the whole process for us and then we have a little kitchen cress garden. Yeah, we'll have like little faces drawn on our eggs with cress coming out and then we'll make an egg and cress sandwich at the end. Sounds good. What? Egg and cress sandwich? Yeah, that's where the whole conversation came from. Yeah, it came from eggs and cress. Yeah, eggs and cress sandwich? Yeah, that's where the whole conversation came from. Oh
Starting point is 00:47:54 Yeah eggs and cress everyone knows eggs and cress. It's just it's like it's sprouts right with egg, right? On a sandwich nation of freaks dude. How's that so out there sprouting? Case closed I got'm going to go insane. I got food poisoning, eating sprouts at some restaurant of star seeds, actually. And that doesn't surprise me at all. That's not shocking. Got me real sick.
Starting point is 00:48:18 Yeah, that sounds right. Next question is from Kyle Volte. First, let me thank you for this past year. What was the biggest surprise for you in the first year? They won the audience support. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, obviously the audience has been so incredibly supportive and kind in the community that we have created through them
Starting point is 00:48:39 since we started face has always been so incredible and endless ways. But there is at least maybe for us and how we think about things, a complete uncertainty of like what that day one support would look like not in the sense of necessarily like thinking the audience wouldn't be there, but just having doubts about whatever because it's scary. It's a new venture. And the amount of support that we have received in the first year has been just unbelievably touching and humbling in so many ways. I feel like even if we were confident that people like the show and would want to
Starting point is 00:49:16 support us, the logistics of moving an audience or having them just look in a different direction is much more difficult than it sounds. And there's still a lot of loss in the transition. Like there are people who watch the Minecraft video who didn't know that we had our own company. Sure. Yeah. If you can do us a favor and tell people that we're a show and this is where we're at. And this is the show in the podcast, that would help us a lot. I think in year two, it's about spreading the word that we're still doing this. Here we are. Please, please let people know. It's always just very nerve wracking. Like Jeff, you and I have done it before. When we moved Minecraft from the Rooster Teeth channel to a let's play channel, it was just so stressful just being having to like constantly communicate. Hey,
Starting point is 00:49:59 we're over here now. Hello? Yeah. You just don't know where everyone is. You just, you just don't know the people who looked for it, didn't find it and just thought, I saw it. Yeah. And you don't. There's no way to talk to those people. Yeah. Very scary. But thankfully, so many people came over with us and it's great. Absolutely. And from a content perspective, the biggest surprise for me
Starting point is 00:50:18 as someone who didn't really stream all that much going into the launch of this, how much I have grown to love the Friday streaming slot It is so much fun, and it is a thing I look forward to at the end of every week Absolutely, it's the best time of the week. It's over too quick. It is. Yeah, it is so great I could have gone on that pico park level for at least another two hours Now that was fine. That's some of us had places to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We could have done it. We could have done it. You're so close. Second best time of the week.
Starting point is 00:50:50 Next question is from Miles Smith. What are some upcoming games that you're all personally excited about? I'm really looking forward to Roadcraft, which comes out tomorrow, which is like SnowRunner, but you're building roads instead of like delivering logs or gear delivering road. You're delivering road. I really like the idea of playing a snow runner where you're making the terrain actively easier to navigate.
Starting point is 00:51:14 I think that's such a cool idea. I'm very excited to see what that thing's about. I'm excited for Mafia, the old country. Leave is the title of that one. A mafia game. Tony Hawk Pro Skater remastered for three and four. And there's so much so many games I'm excited for. Anything you guys are anticipating? GTA. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:34 Gavin and I were talking about it. We were texting about it over the weekend, just about like how much how much fun we can have in GTA six when it launches and all the stuff we could film and do. And it just there's a lot of opportunity there if it's good. And of course, it'll be good. Yeah. That's a weird one for me, where it feels so unbelievable that there would be a new GTA, like even though I understand that that is coming.
Starting point is 00:51:58 It feels so distant in a way that I know I'm going to be obsessed with when it comes. But I am thankfully not like every day anticipating it, because I think that might take a while. Just knowing that there's a there's going to be a robust multiplayer sandbox game to play in is very exciting. I mean, I still see GIFs posted of us when we when GTA 5 first came out, like that GIF of I can't remember who was in the building and who was in the parachute,
Starting point is 00:52:27 spying into the window, like flipping off a person. But I see that GIF constantly. That's what we're trying to see, if you can see us from the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those kinds of videos are like, if you look out the window, can you see players outside? And then it turns into slamminy, you know, trying to dive bomb into the apartment complex.
Starting point is 00:52:44 Yeah, there's so much opportunity for stuff like that. It's going to be so much fun. It's just one of those games where you use one thing happens in a little free for all session and then eight ideas happen from that one moment. I love that stuff. I'm excited to learn the game with you guys instead of being level 13 when you guys are level 180. Like it would be like, oh, you didn't know that?
Starting point is 00:53:06 Is very heavy in GTA, especially like when we started this company. So I'm very excited to learn all this stuff with you guys. Do all this weird stuff and like really get into it, like really deep dive in it. It's going to be fun. I just really hope they take Mucking out. That's just really not cool. Shall we do like two more questions? Yeah. take mugging out. That's just really not cool. Shall we do like two more questions?
Starting point is 00:53:30 Yeah. Next question is from Mr. Fedora Mustache. Will you guys release old print on demand shirts? We recently had the Ratty Boy one go up. I think that's a thing that we consider. I'm not opposed to rerelease any old any old. We have the rights to all of it. So I'm not opposed to it. old any old. We have the rights to all of it. So I'm not opposed to it. They would just have to be demand, right? I had an idea for bringing back an old shirt
Starting point is 00:53:52 that I should talk to you guys about at some point. I really I think we could do some fun stuff with me as the little robo. And I have a premise. But yeah, we have the right. I guess that's the main thing to say, right, is that we have the rights to all that stuff. It's just finding ways in which we want to bring it back. That makes sense.
Starting point is 00:54:14 I think that's the big thing with with the company in general. And every move we make is it's OK if it's dumb. It's probably better if it's dumb. But it just it just has to make sense to what we're doing today You know like just throwing out old merch that people maybe didn't get an opportunity to buy for no other reason than to have it available We could do that, but it would I would rather like find a way to make it matter again Whatever that merch is you know or re-engage with the content in some way to make it make sense It also potentially takes up brain space and a slot for getting in the way of new much ideas that we have
Starting point is 00:54:49 Yeah, of which we got a few we're still we're cranking out some merch ideas over the last couple weeks I've been pretty jazzed about I still want to do group shirt. Oh Yeah Forgot about group shirt well, which I'm not sure if we talked about on a podcast, but I wanted to. I wanted a hot dog that goes across multiple shirts. That's funny. It's three shirts and end and end in a middle. Yeah. And you can have as many middles as you want,
Starting point is 00:55:15 depending on how many friends you've got. But if you'll stand in the right formation, it's just a hot dog shirt. I thought you're originally pitching a like human centipede shirt where it's like three shirts in one. Like they're all sewn together and that you can technically three people could each wear their own shirt while connected. Oh, like a shirt triangle.
Starting point is 00:55:38 Yeah. But like a hot dog. I like that idea. I feel like three people stood in a big nightie. Yeah. Sure. I'm writing three people stood in a big nightie. Yeah. Sure. I'm writing this down. Triangle. We could make that you just I like this. Yeah, we can get into custom. Like imagine a shirt that is purely for tandem bike riders.
Starting point is 00:55:57 That's funny. Oh, yeah. We should get a tandem bike. Have you was the last time you've I was gonna say have you ridden a tandem bag? Obviously you have what was the last time probably in the I rode one in the army in in journalism school So maybe when I was 18 19, I would love to see a revisit of Your little bike stunt but on a tandem bike you would I I would love to take Cavanaugh Oh, if we get a tandem bike, I will definitely do the bike stunt with Gavin on back. I would love that in front of my pads there.
Starting point is 00:56:31 Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Safety first. Yeah. Yeah. We'll do one more question. But before reading, I just want to say thank you to all of the Falcons that submitted questions. There are so many of them just because we didn't talk about them here doesn't mean they weren't great. I'm going to mark a lot of these and I have a little question folder that I've built. So thank you so much for both supporting us as well as submitting these wonderful questions.
Starting point is 00:56:55 Last question from Kyle Dubay. What are the biggest goals, if any, that regulation crew is looking forward to accomplishing by the end of year two? I am excited about doing more 30 day things when it makes sense. I think I've really enjoyed creating these sort of tentpole content events throughout the year and in year one and finding ways that fit naturally, because I think that's such a key part is everything we did in that regard in our first year was because it made sense
Starting point is 00:57:26 The idea fit that format really well So seeing what we come up with in that regard and and what we will be able to accomplish in that way Reflecting back on year two at the end of it. I'm very excited to see I can't believe we did it twice in the first year Yeah, it's kind of yeah, like if we'd set up front, that's what we were aiming to do. We would all been like, that's impossible. I agree. I think that, but I think Gavin, I think you touched on something that's like really big where that was a lot of like the last company.
Starting point is 00:57:55 It was like, okay, so what's the anticipation? Like what's the thing? And we couldn't move sort of as like swiftly or on like an idea or whatever. We would kind of have to map it out a little bit. And that's such an undertaking. It would have just been such a hassle to be able to just sort of do it. I think is what I'm really looking forward to
Starting point is 00:58:13 in this next year of just having the idea and then doing the idea again, because man, it worked out so well. And I had such a blast with both things. And it's such a face too, being like, all right, nobody can leave town for a month. Yep. Yep. Are you saying you'd rather be doing that than sitting in a meeting right now
Starting point is 00:58:31 trying to brainstorm what our tent pole show in Q3 of twenty twenty six is going to be so we can project far enough in advance? Somebody just pitching me the most dog shit names for the dumbest videos I've ever heard of. And I go, yeah, I mean, I'll, uh, yeah, I'll talk to the guys about that. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Sometimes I would walk into conference rooms and I'd see like the remnants of a brainstorm meeting. And anytime I'd see my name on like some just turd thing, I would just wipe my name off the board. Good. It was always like, I've got a great idea how to get your face guys to help me meet my KPI
Starting point is 00:59:07 Absolutely what it is. Yeah, that happened with a 100% eat with Trucked up a show that somehow is called face jams trucked up that we don't own Figure that out. I don't know crazy. Anyway, we don't have that problem anymore I'm really looking forward to doing more stuff with you guys all the time, constantly. Yeah, I think I'm most looking forward to the idea, the home run that we haven't hit yet, that we haven't even thought of yet,
Starting point is 00:59:38 that a year from now we're gonna look back on and be like, can you imagine, can you believe that we didn't do Sloppy Joe's Bingo for a period of time? Like it didn't exist yet. Or like, can you imagine, can you believe that we didn't do sloppy just bingo for a period of time? Like it didn't exist yet or like whatever that idea is. And we look back and we're so jet like, but like when drafts happened, like whatever that new thing is that we haven't come up with yet that we're going to look back on. And it's going to be integral to what we do. And it's going to be everybody's favorite or one of everybody's favorite things.
Starting point is 01:00:01 And we're like, man, I can't believe there was a time when we didn't do this. I'm excited for whatever that is gonna be. I hope three years from now, we look back on this year and be like, remember when Andrew only had wheels, like before he had a fully functioning robot body that could walk around? Exactly. Ah, that was great. Nick, Nick, what are you looking forward to this year?
Starting point is 01:00:20 Oh, man, they're so... I'm looking forward to doing more stuff in the office. And I'm really looking forward to Gavin and I coming up with our show. What do you mean coming up with? You guys don't have it already? Coming out with our show. Well, we have one show that we're definitely doing,
Starting point is 01:00:36 but while we're in that show, we're gonna come up with another show. Yeah, we're not gonna have meetings about our show. We're gonna make content first and then come up with the show. So you're saying the show will have a spin off or the show is you guys coming up with another show in the middle of the show. Oh, I like this, Gavin, write this down.
Starting point is 01:00:52 Yeah, right. Just seriously, don't go in our room. Yeah, don't touch it. Yeah, nobody wants to. Yeah. I mean, like, I'm working my way in. Don't know what's behind the door. Won't let us in. Fantastic. Andrew's trying to burrow his way in. Yeah. I mean, he's defrauding my way in don't know what's behind the door won't let us in fantastic answers trying to burrow his way Yeah, I mean you do framing my way into their fucking room slowly that I noticed there was a spoon missing
Starting point is 01:01:12 Do you see a tiny poster hung up on a lower section of the wall check it right away This is gonna be a bunch of little mouse holes in the wall, but just for add I'm worried you guys are gonna find my powder stash I'm worried you guys are going to find my powder stash. I'm excited for the stuff that is almost certainly going to get made that literally no one else has ever done. Like, I don't think anyone else has ever streamed de riveting a porta potty, dragging it into a house and re riveting it together. But that's possibly something we'll have to do.
Starting point is 01:01:41 That is possible. I'm very excited. Yeah, thanks, man. Andrew, maybe you could have a bowl of rivet nuts on your head. Yeah. Make sure we've got access to it. You know what? I'll keep track of where the nuts are. I'll make sure none go missing. I'll keep my eye on those nuts. Andrew's the new Rosie the Riveter.
Starting point is 01:01:59 This is great. I feel like this is really fun sausage talk. I do, too. I had a really good time. Some really insightful and interesting questions from the audience of stuff that I wouldn't have thought to bring up and man, what a year, it's crazy. I know we already had our anniversary, but we're past it now, it's been a hell of a year. I can't, even though we went through the AAR earlier,
Starting point is 01:02:20 I really do feel like the year couldn't have gone much better and I just am so excited to sit down with you guys a yearish from now and look back on everything that 2025 and the first part of 2026 was for us. You know, it's been such an exciting adventure already. And I guess I'm just I just can't wait to see what the next year of adventures looks like absolutely same It's a great way to put it. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much for supporting us Anything else anyone wants to say can we make a sausage bead kitchen door curtain? I'm I'm already starting to sort of like source what that would be and I don't
Starting point is 01:03:03 so I have like beaded curtain and then sausage beads And I don't. So I have like beaded curtain and then sausage beads. And I don't like I just have to show like it's like this. But with these, I guess. Maybe I'll 3D print up a prototype. Oh, I love to see that. Wow. OK, we will. We'll see how it goes.
Starting point is 01:03:22 But here comes Andrew with a great outro. Thank you so much for listening. I hope you're as excited as we are to see where things go across this next year. We couldn't do this without you. Thank you so much. We have a wonderful day. Goodbye. Love you. Love you. Love you. What if what if instead of made out of sausages,
Starting point is 01:03:46 it makes a big sausage picture? Oh, interesting. Yeah. I don't know something to think on. I feel like it could definitely make an image, but maybe with sausages. Interesting. All right, we'll see you next time.
Starting point is 01:03:57 Bye. Bye. Sausage door, bye. Sausage door.

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