F**kface - Regulation Sausage Talk 3
Episode Date: May 30, 2025We 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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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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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,
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
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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,
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
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.
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
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,
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
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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...
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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?
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
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,
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
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.
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?
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
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.
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?
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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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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?
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?
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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,
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.
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?
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
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
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.
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,
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.
Bye.
Bye.
Sausage door, bye.
Sausage door.