Regulation Podcast - Andrew's Goof World // 4 Ways to Make an Egg [60]

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about what is eating, M&Ms, ball knuckler, rich guy jobs, house selling, Gavin life hacks are back, Regulation Time Zone, what time it currently is, Sigma Derby, winning in Vegas, Nick's wife's baked potato, Potato Flag, potato autopsy, mashed potato colors, potainting vs paintato, deviled eggs, mushroom parm, flipping a coin, a gold coin, The Bit Barrell, & emails. Sponsored by ZocDoc. Go to Zocdoc.com/regulation and download the Zocdoc app to sign-up for FREE and book a top-rated doctor. 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

Did you say, I said you're eating and you said you're not chewing? I'm not chewing. But now I am. I wasn't chewing then. What? Do you think eating is only when you chew? Yeah. Oh, he might have a point.

I do. You're not eating gum. So if you have food in your mouth and you're not chewing it, you're not eating. No. It wasn't in my mouth at that point, though. But it's the act of eating. But what about gazpacho? What are you eating?

A piece of chocolate? Like you don't chew soup? That was so loud for chocolate. It was from the freezer? Oh, freeze your chocolate? Well, it depends. Yeah, it depends. There are certain things that like...

Yeah, it's frozen chocolate's pretty good. What kind of chocolate are we talking about here? Dark chocolate. I bought it from one of the Vegas airport chocolate places. Hmm. What brand? What percent? The Vegas airport chocolate places.

I don't know what it is. We need to overcome our poor roots, Nick, and you don't have to freeze your chocolate. You can just eat it. You can eat however much you want and then buy more. But it's to slow me down. I understand. I totally. I mean, I get it.

It's not a money thing, Eric. It's a calorie thing. So you're just trying, you're trying to prolong it and have nice chocolate for as long as you can. Yeah. Got it. It's just to make me take longer to eat it. Got it. Well, eat it only when you're chewing.

Yeah. Is it harder to eat frozen chocolate? Yeah. It takes longer to get through it. Of course it's harder. Apply, yeah. Hey, is it harder to eat frozen spaghetti, Gavin? It's harder to drink frozen water.

Chocolate's already hard. Yeah, but it gets harder. Is this the beginning of the episode? Is this in the episode? Is that what is this? If I timed myself eating chocolate from the fridge versus chocolate from the freezer, I assume they'd be very similar.

Can you write that down for us, Jeff? Yeah, hold on. Let me get in the notes. Yeah, it's different. It's different. Gavin eats. Gavin's self-choclet race. Daw and frozen chocolate self-race to see how.

Well, there needs to be a room-templem, too, right? You need all three. Oh, yeah. We need a baseline. Room 10. Gavin, I freeze before I fly because I don't like flying. I freeze a bag of dark chocolate M&Ms, and that way by the time I'm on the plane, they haven't melted.

I think Eminems don't melt. Isn't that like their thing? Yeah. Have you been in the Vegas heat? They melt. Melt's in your mouth, not in your hands, I believe was the whole catchphrase. Yeah, they melt on the inside of the shell. You can't melt so quick.

They were designed for the U.S. military in World War I, isn't that right? World War I don't know. Is that what the M stands for? To give the soldiers, yeah, it's military and might. No, I think it was just like to give the soldiers something that they could eat without getting chocolate all over their hands while they need to kill people. Jesus. Is this the episode? Are we in this episode?

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Regulation Podcast. This is episode 60. You'll notice we switched it up a little bit and we did some talking before the intro. Now we're like just, we're just like, you know, easing on into the intro. It's a bit of a throwback to our old face days. Nick, go ahead and bleep that one to make sure that we do it right. My name is Jeff Ramsey with me. As always, Andrew Patton, Gavin Fri, Eric Bador, Nick Schwartz.

This is part two of Las Vegas. Spee shot on my Nintendo Switch. first one or the second one I had my switch two for three days and he shuts on the screen oh no yeah really

what kind of hatred must that cat have towards you to shit on your switch screen and you think it's a jealousy thing like you spend too much time with your Nintendo No, not enough time was me. He actually just shot on the,

on a blanket on the couch, but then he always tries to bury the shit, and my switch was on the blanket, so he just kicked the shit out of the switch until it was face down in his turd. Man, no matter who you are in life, no matter where you are on terms of the success ladder, up or down,

we all have to deal with shit. always it never goes away if you pulled that airport guy he would not think that that'd be a Gavin problem does anyone not have to deal with shit like can is anyone so rich that they just shit and walk away and then a bunch of people wipe their ass and clear it up and stuff

uh babies I assume so babies babies and old people yeah yeah I mean, I'm just, I'm thinking about how rich Gavin would be to have a ball knuckler. What? Is that Bezos?

Because you, you knuckle the balls or whatever. You punch the, you do something. The pee better. Oh, yeah. You had like six episodes about how you, like, pressed your balls or something. No, it wasn't about me knuckling my, I was talking about if there was going to be a bidet attachment. Yeah. I'm not there knuckling my, the back of my balls.

I just think it would help get the drips out. Oh, you've never done that? I'm a ball lifter and a ball sort of compressor, but I've never knuckled the back. I'm pretty sure you've given the impression that you've knuckled the back because people keep talking about how there was a great tip you gave them and how they're doing it just like you now.

No, but I do it with like a thumb. I've never been able to... There's no angle that works for knuckle in the back of my balls. How did I get back there? I don't know. You surely have to do it from behind and there's not enough room to get my whole fist down. into the toilet

and my elbow goes the wrong way but you do your thumb on the list of rich guy weird jobs you have for them ball knuckle or would not

be high on the list that's not a fun one like if someone wanted that job like I feel like you hear about super wealthy people paying for someone to just always be

their catty like how Snoop Dog has somebody who rolls joints for them yeah exactly like there are fun rich guy jobs where the person

just has an absurd job because of they're being paid by someone who has an absurd amount of money. Ball knuckler would not be one of those jobs. That would be low on the ladder. It probably comes with full benefits, though, right? Like, if you get a 401K health and dental, you could stomach some balls.

What if you were so rich that it carried on down? Like, what if the bull knuckler had a hand sanitizer? The ball knuckleer. The way that you said that was like it's a profession. Like it's like the executor or whatever. Yeah. That's just a long line of ball knucklers. There's a ball knuckle next to him

is a guy that sanitizes the hands of the ball knuckler. Oh, there's a sanitizer. It's a whole different job. So it's like you're going skin to skin. You're not wearing like a blue glove or anything. And then as soon as it's over, then somebody cleans your hands for you. And that's like, that's like reclaiming your bit of dignity.

You have to touch a rich guy's balls. But now a guy who's a little bit lower on the totem pole has to clean your hands from those. balls. This is a horrific thing to imagine, but it is funny to picture it like it is a NASCAR pit stop every time you leave the bathroom. Like there's just a team of people rushing you to do specific thing. That would feel crazy. So you just get up off the toilet. Two people lift you up and like kind of hike your legs up as if they carry you. But the dress going, you don't even know what they're for. They whip off the underwear. They put on your underwear. They knuckle the balls. Maybe flip the shaft

to get all the drips off. Flip the shaft. Like flick it. Yeah. It's like Bopit. Every time you talk about your Peeing situation, it sounds like a game of Bopit. You got to twist the balls. You got to flick them. You got to reverse it.

How old are you, Andrew? 30. All right. In about 11 years, you're going to be playing Bop It too. You'll understand. Bop it too. It sounds like once you're done pissing,

you just walk away from the situation. You're doing nothing to the old business. Yeah. You don't even need to give it a shake. Well, I mean, you always do a little bit of shit. shaking, it's fun. It's hip action in there. It's great at hula hooping in the day. Wait, you're shaking your, you're not shaking your penis with your hand, you're shaking your

body? I'm doing a full shake. I'm getting, getting in there. You're like a dog getting out of a pool? No, I'm not shaking that much. No, that would be, you're risking a large splash zone in that scenario. We're talking, I don't know. I don't know how I'd describe it. It's like a 1.2 on the Richter scale. This isn't a full earthquake. It is. You don't You know what? Yeah, that's the way, Jeff, that's the perfect scale. We're talking to 1.2, at most 1.4. Nice. Do you do the tuck when you sit down? The tuck when I sit down? No. So does your, does your penis just like clatter the toilet seat when you sit down on it?

I mean, listen. Thunk. I don't put a lot of thought into it. It can go a lot of ways. And sometimes that's the joy in life. You don't know what's coming. Keep you on your toes. Keep you on your toes. live life to the fullest don't game plan

see what happens do a little 1.2 on the Richter scale nothing wrong with that do you not do a full body body wiggle I'm always worried I'm going to break the toilet seat if I do that you know you just get a new one yeah don't you have a broken toilet seat

not right now I have had one I've had broken toilet seats it's probably from all the wiggling Well, last time I moved, I broke it on the day of the move. That was an ideal. I said to leave money. Wait, you moved your toilet seat? No, I was cleaning stuff in the bathroom and I decided to sit on it, lid down and it was not, I guess, positioned for that.

And I cracked the lid. And it was like they were moving in like three hours from that point. So there's no time to replace it. So I just left, I left cash to replace it. I love the idea of moving into a house And buy every little thing that sucks about the house Is a small pile of cash Yeah, here's 80 bucks

Get that latch fixed That's sort of the process of selling a home, right? We're like they get the inspector to come in And then tell you a bunch of stuff they want done Yeah It's terrible. It's an awful process It truly is awful

And you find out you've been living in a house That should have been condemned years ago somehow Yeah Everything is wrong And to me, the worst feeling is like getting all that stuff back in working order and then being like, I wish I'd done that when I was living here. Yeah.

Keying in with what Andrew said, the worst part about selling that house I just got rid of last year was that I had to get it in such, we had to get it in such pristine shape. It never looked or worked better. You know? The fridge was finally in. The AC was replaced. All the pipes were fixed. I fixed

the fucking foundation. I jacked the house up so it was even. I got the windows that fell out of the wall because of the heat replayed. I was about to say. It was, had the library with the shelving, you know? Like, it was finally just like, mm. And you're like, now somebody can buy it.

Perfect. You had melting windows, right? That was the thing. Yeah, they melted out of the wall. It gets hot in Texas. Maybe the best practice is that after you've lived in a house a year, just pretend you're selling it to yourself. Order a home inspection and then get everything fixed.

That's a great idea. And then you can have a solid next five years without having to do anything. That's a great life tip, Kevin. Life hacks are back. That is, you know what? I would fully endorse that life hack. Hiring a home inspector just for you? That's great.

Evaluate, see what's going on. Yeah. Got stuff to fix. I've been thinking about in terms of, you know, like doing stuff for yourself. Could we just start our own time zone if we wanted? Regulation time? We just make our own time, right? Would we all be in it?

Yeah. Yeah. Like if we all set our clocks to our own time, couldn't we just create our own time zone? Like a non-geographically dependent time zone that only we follow. I love it. Oh. So it would really just be you changing your clocks, Andrew. Yeah, Andrew becomes central time. Or we change ours to him. Or we meet in the middle. Nah. Andrew changes the central time. Nah, that is easier this way. Oh, what happened to before we recorded, Eric? Mr. PST is the only time zone.

It is. Now all of a sudden we change. Yeah, but now I'm here, so you have to change. I think, I was thinking about if I was in a town, if I ran a town, if I was a mayor, as I believe the official title, I would have, I think like the time zone should change yearly. I think there should be a yearly discussion about what time zone you all collectively are in. I think you just adjust the clocks. just for the town? Yeah, I'm not really worried about people outside of it.

I'm the mayor of the town. I'm not worried about the next town over. Yeah, that's their problem. But you could basically just decide that the sun sets at 3 p.m. Yeah. If that's what we feel as optimal as the community, I don't see why not.

I'm trying to think of what that would actually affect. I think you do a poll. Every year, you do a poll in your community and you decide how, far the clocks go forward or back each year. If at all. If at all. Maybe they stay.

Maybe we found it. Maybe we locked in. Everyone's really liking this time. But if the clocks go forwards, if the clocks go back five hours, wouldn't that be like Y2K levels of computers going wrong? In what way? Well, that potentially you would have files that are older that were before the newer ones. What?

I don't know. You're the one trying to convey this to me. I'm listening. Oh, boy. I'm trying to absorb what you're saying. Like, you would be having so many, so many things happening twice that day. Like, you'd look back and be like,

oh, that happened at 2 p.m. on a Sunday. All right, which 2 p.m. You're only paying attention to your town clock, though. You're only locked in on yours. You're not worried about anyone around you. That's the outside world's problem. Yeah. If you can, if you stay contained to your community's time,

they have to adjust to you. If you adjusted five hours, then you're the one who changed. Yeah, we've changed, and now everyone else has to adapt to our change. All right, so, hey, meet me at 10 a.m. on Monday. Yeah, okay. But the clocks went back five hours. Yeah, well, I'm aware, because, you know, it happens once a year on a certain day.

Yeah, but which 10 a.m. are we meeting at? The official one. The new one. The official one of that time, yeah. Whatever the clock is now, whatever is deemed to be the time is the time. And how do we determine the time if the time jumped back five hours? Which time? Because we'd be notified. Yeah, but city time. No, what I was saying is, if the time changed, oh, it's the time changed after 10, right? Right.

But we met a 10 that day. Right. Which 10 are we meeting at? The 10 that it currently is. There's no currently is. It's in the future. All of it's in the future now. Okay, so you're saying that, let's say, on Friday in the clock switch on Saturday.

We're going to meet at 10 on Saturday. Well, I said Monday, but sure. Yeah, okay, now it's Saturday. Yeah, now it's Saturday. I prefer Saturday. I'm not a Monday guy. I'm Garfield. Okay, let's meet a 10 on Saturday, except the clocks will go back five hours at two on Saturday.

Let's meet a 10 on Saturday. What would you say? Yeah, wake up on Saturday when it's 10 will I'll be there. Yeah, which 10? The 10 that currently is, because the clock's flipped over. What? The fuck's changed. What do you mean? Clock's changed. What do you mean? It hasn't changed yet. It's changing on Saturday.

It's Saturday. I thought, wait. Okay. Okay, shut up! I thought. It's Friday, right? Hi, it's Friday. Hi, Andrew. Let's meet a 10 tomorrow.

A 10, okay. Sounds good. But tomorrow at 2 p.m. The clocks go back five hours. All right, let's be a 10 tomorrow, all right? Okay, 10 tomorrow? Okay, got it. So when are you showing up?

When the, it says 10 on the clock's changed. Nobody, well, to be fair, nobody's changing the clocks at 2 p.m., Gav. It's going to be done at midnight, just like when we do with Central standard time. Yeah, but what if midnight is lunchtime? It's, it's Lander's goof world. This doesn't make any sense. What no?

So you... And he still went out to the question. Which teddy are you in me at? Okay. I'm meeting you at the time that it currently is. Whatever is the time that it currently is? On that day. It's tomorrow.

You know how your phone, it just updates, how your clock just updates on your phone? Okay. If it's daylight savings, daylight, whatever. Let me run you through it. Okay. It's 9 a.m. on Saturday, right?

Okay. Okay. Nine? Ten. Eleven. Now I'd go. Well, no. No, it would be ten.

Oh, you would go. Okay. Okay. You went at ten? Okay. Eleven. Twelve. Well, wait.

Were we spending two hours together? Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. You went there at ten, right? Okay. Then it's 11. Then it's 12. Are you here yet?

Then it's one. Then it's one. Are we together this whole time? I'm still waiting for you because I was I showed up a 10 now it's one o'clock you ready yeah all right now it's nine now it's 10 that was so let do you see the point no I don't because we met oh god well you met on the day on the day that the clock you meet on the day the clock is the clock was it there was the day yeah but then it changes.

If you and I meet at noon, or midnight, right? And then the clocks go back at two. Yeah. In two hours. We still met at midnight. It's just now midnight's different. Wait, is that again? So if we meet, right, and we spend, let's say

it's one, what time does the, the clocks go back? Is it one? Two to one? It was two in my example, and it was going to go back five hours. Yeah, but I'm just saying in real life that we currently live. I experienced daylight savings, and the clock going forward and the clock going back. What is that? Is that 2 a.m.? Yeah, it happens like 1, 2 in the morning.

Isn't it 2? Yeah. It'll be like 159.1, or it'll be like 159.3. So if we meet at 1, and then it goes to 2, and then it goes back to 1, and we've spent two hours together. Isn't that the same thing is what you're saying? No. Does anyone else

know what I'm saying? Can someone help me? Here's what I can help. I can help. In the unlikely event that for some reason in this town, we do the time flip over in the middle of the fucking day, it could potentially

cause some confusion for people like Gavin who are having difficulty adapting to the new way of doing things. I understand that. It's a very temporary and minor confusion that would be caused on a morning of one day, one day a year. And I would think during that day we would use colloquially, colloquially, we would just say new 10 or old 10. I see. Okay. Is that how it would work in Andrew's goof world? Yeah. You say, so if it's potential that there can be two 10 o'clock on the Saturday, you can say old 10, new 10. Back to me in the I'd say, Gavin, I've heard your, I've heard your complaint.

I've heard your confusion. Yeah? This will only happen at midnight. Right, but like, you've changed, if, if the year before you decided we're eight hours behind, then midnight could be at like, the sun is up, it's like the equivalent of 4pm. So what do you mean? Yeah. Well, midnight.

Okay. The day, I don't know what the sun has to do with midnight. I was just trying to give you the simpler. It's like two people meeting for lunch, right? It's actually going to affect, like, what time's your flight? What about this bank transfer? Like, all that shit. Yeah, you're worried about stuff outside of the town.

I'm, I'm focused on the town day-to-day living. There's no bank in the town? Well, it's a town bank, so it's on town time. So the bank would move back in time five hours? Yeah. In the town. Okay. We're in town time.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what the confusion is. Yeah. I apologize. You just say the time.

You just say the time. Maybe we'll get, you use the regulation clock and it keeps everything updated for you. Look at the clock. You know when the clock says that number, you go there. My point, my point was that it would say that number twice. Yeah, new time, old time. It's fine. It's only going to happen one day a year. Yeah.

Yeah, maybe instead of AM-PM, we do N-T-O-T. I don't think you give the townspeople in Regulation Town enough credit for being able to handle a minor time hiccup. Yeah. I can say based on this conversation, Gavin, I'm not living in Regulation Town. Yeah, I don't seem very opposed. I want nothing to do with your Regulation Town. You don't want to live in Andrews Goof World? Come on.

So you would vote against the yearly time change? Yeah, I mean, I hate daylight savings is now when it's one hour at two in the morning. So you can fix it. Make it nine in the morning. You can take whatever time you want. As long as you can convince a plurality of town folk. My point was just we could all just decide we're living on another time and nobody could stop us. I completely agree with you.

This is the thing you think about. This is the thing to consider. So if it was like, hey, regulation recording at three, we would just know what time that is. Yeah. And you would be there at three and we would be there at three. Yeah, because it's regulation three time. maybe three in the real world is 4 p.m. Maybe it's 6 a.m.

Who knows? It's the joy of regulation time. Let's try it. Let's try it for a week. Oh, no thank you. Yeah, there's no way, Eric. Well, hold on. We can vote on it.

Yeah, I vote, yeah. I think it's, here's the thing. I think it's difficult because Nick has kids. Kid. Kid. That he knows about. Nick has kid. Oh, wait.

Hold on. Nick has kid and kid doesn't live on. on regulation time. We're not in regulation town, so I feel like it would be difficult. But how much is Nick's kid? You really need everybody on board. You can't really accomplish this.

But Nick's kid, I assume, doesn't refer that often to the time. He might be the easiest to adapt to regulation time out of all of us. Well, no, he has a schedule. Nick's kid has things they got to do. That's true. Meeting people, doing stuff.

You're still going to do all that. I'd miss soccer practice if I live, Like, if I was Nick's kid age, I wouldn't want to miss soccer practice, but soccer practice is not aligning with regulation time. I was Nick's kid age. Yeah, I was playing soccer at Nick's kid age. Why he said it like that? Nick's kid age. So anyway, you guys went to pinball or something?

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We did. We took Gavin to... I know Gavin is very quietly a big fan of pinball, which... That was an adult onset addiction, I believe, right? Like, you came into that kind of late in life. Oh, yeah. I'd only ever played Space Cadet Pinball on Windows XP. And how did you feel about Space Cadet Pinball?

Loved it. It intrigued you, made you want to try real pinball? I tried real pinball with Ed Robertson. for the first time. And that you were hooked. Who's that? I like, I mean, maybe it's because I like Slamer,

but I just like really quick moving mechanical shit. We were, we were, on Sunday night, we went to find this gambling machine that Eric wanted to check out. Eric, how old was that thing?

Do you know when it was from? The 60s, I think. It's called Sigma Derby, and it's only at the D in Vegas. It's the very last one. of this stupid 60s horse game. It's so good. I love it.

I love it. It's basically like mechanical horse racing where you hit a button and they go. And then you, yeah, there you go. There's a picture of it. And you bet on who you think is going to win. And that thing required an employee, how many, let's just say six, eight, probably 10 seats you can sit at to bet. Yep. And there were always nine seats full of people betting and one seat full of a 92-year-old man who

was fixing it. And then as soon as he would fix one, then another one across the way would break and he would go over and fix that. He had a taped, like a printed out label that says, uh, uh, you know, not working or whatever. And he would just peel it off the one he's working on and go over and stick it on the new one. And everybody would just play musical chairs. And it wasn't because they were all broken at the same time. It's because one of them broke as soon as one of them got fixed. And it seemed like this never ending cycle of this guy fixing. And then Eric, Eric had to sit. there's Eric plan. I didn't sit.

I stood the whole goddamn time. That's at his second location because the first location he had to wait till it got fixed and then it got fixed and then it broke while he was using it and then it got fixed again and then it broke while he was using it again

so he moved to a different one. But the whole time this guy, this very old man who's probably the only person alive who knows how to repair this machine just keeps going from it and he has to like lift the top up and as soon as he lifts the top up

Gavin's head is in there looking at the wiring trying to understand what's going on and how it works. Gavin wanted it. fascinated by it. He would lift up the flap and there'd be a bunch of wires

that he would move out the way and then you'd hear his hand like shoving coins at this like the coins were piling up so much it was like shorting out the machine and then it was just musical chairs of like Eric getting up

from a thing that just broke the guy sitting where Eric was Eric going to the one the guy just fixed and somehow everyone else was just sat in the same spot the whole time. Yeah there were just a couple of spots

that kept breaking and breaking and breaking and breaking and then it was like I don't know but also one of the guys was a fan so he got to talk to Gavin and I think I think that's Gavin's in for his next career move to just fix these in Vegas. I just think it would be fascinating to be on the inside of that machine,

like right under where the horses are. I want to see how that works. Looks great. It's such a fun game. I love it. There's like a newer version, but like I was talking to Gavin about it. I don't trust like video roulette and stuff.

Sure. It just feels like the physical thing, even though it's controlled by some computer, I guess in this case or whatever, the physical thing is like the important piece. to me because it feels like you have that sense of like I'm involved whatever the newer ones have a lot of it's just it's all computer whatever this is these dumb fucking horses move they're so herky jerky and it's so much fun to bet just quarters like you just bet like a dollar 50 at a

time on like what it's it's you bet like the first two horses to cross the line and you're trying You're like, all right, I'm going to put like 50 cents on one, two, and then like three, five, I'm going to put a full dollar on and you're just trying to play the odds. It's so fun. I even bought a little mechanical one that I have at the office now that does horse races that we can play. Did you finish positive? No, no, no, no. I won hardly ever. I love the long shot bets because I want something to pay out 48 to one.

But you have to bet like the three to one, two to one, like consistently. to get anything. So it's a real bummer. I completely agree with you, Eric. There's something that feels more real or there's like a gravity to a machine like that that's all mechanical and is old

and looks heavy and like it's been patchworked together for like the last 60 years to work. It's kind of like the difference between like it's kind of what I felt when I saw the Star Wars prequels for the first time and everything was smooth and beautiful and nice and you're like

that's not what the everything's cobbled together and it's barely working in there. You know what I mean? Right. Like some analog jank. Yeah. And so I completely agree with you. There's something way, it feels way more special to be at that machine than the fancy new 2015 one on the other side of the casino. And that's what I like about pinball is that even though there are now like massive rule sets and there's missions, there's a lot of like computers inside and there's like big digital screens and stuff, all the stuff on the playfield are still mechanical. That's why I like it. It was so much fun going to that pinball.

Hall of Fame and getting to, A, just browse through all the different pinball machines and realize how many there are, but also how many of them you're familiar with already. Like I saw my childhood pinball machine that I forgot existed. It's called Earthshaker, and I was so fucking excited to get to play it again. But it was even, I think even more fun was watching Gavin have fun, honestly. He was a kid in a candy shop and he could, and he would like go up to a machine and he could tell you facts about certain machines and why this one was rare, less rare than this one, but more rare than another one. And he, I don't know, it was really neat to watch him in his element. I

really enjoyed it. That's fun. That looks so fun. That looks great. Any like old mechanical stuff like that is awesome. I realized the second I set foot in the hotel we're staying at, and all the hotels are like casinos, walked in. And at that point, I was like, oh, I forgot to bring money. I was going to say, did you try your roulette thing? Well, I didn't bring any debit cards or cash. I just brought my credit card. I had my British debit card because I just come from England. I was so jet-lacked that whole trip, by the way, in Vegas.

So I didn't have any of the stuff I needed. You're, dude, that was crazy. Like, oh my God. The first night we're at dinner, and I was just looking at the time in England because that's what we've already felt. And I was like, oh, 5 a.m. We're just getting some stakes put down.

It was rough. But on the very final night, right before we went to bed, Jeff lent me $100 and I went straight to roulette and I thought oh I wonder if my losing streak is over put a hundred on black

$200 baby I'm backing I could very well be at the beginning of a new winning streak what was even funnier about Gavin winning that $200 is that right when he put the bet down a community member came up and started talking to him and he didn't know that he'd won for a second

because he was like shaking a hand or taking a photo or something it was going on in the background Yeah, I was taking a selfie that I went back to my thing. I was like, oh, I guess it landed on black. What a way to learn that your streak is back. What else happened in Vegas that we need to talk about, Eric? Well, that's what I was going to bring up.

Gavin mentioned having stakes at 5 a.m. for him. But we went to, we went to a cool little steakhouse. Like old school. Oscars? It's called Oscars. Like old type. I felt like it was 1972 in there. It was in the plaza and the guy who was like,

the owner used to be the mayor of Vegas and also is like in casino. It's a whole fucking thing. Oh, wow. Okay. Who's a mob lawyer before he was mayor. Crazy. We all got steaks. It was like a really nice time.

Very cool, like little dinner. We all got steaks except Nick's wife who just got a baked potato and was like going nuts about this baked potato. She's all about baked potatoes. What was that? She loves baked potatoes. Sometimes, you know, you go to a steak. house you want a steak but my wife sometimes is very much like I'm not really feeling

the red meat today so she was like I'm just going to get this baked potato and like the way we had ordered everything else was we all kind of ordered sides together and she's like this baked potato is mine this one's me this is my baked potato and I will be getting it and that led to the next portion of our conversation where it's like she's going to stick a flag in it yeah Kind of Andrew Let me pitch you on an idea Okay

Insane Imagine if you will You're yourself You're Andrew Patton Going about life Happy Go lucky Everything's going well for you

And you on occasion Want to eat a baked potato Or maybe you want to eat A plate of French fries With some putine on them Or mash potatoes or whatever But you have a potato desire

It's bubbling up inside of you you recognize it, you acknowledge it, and now you want to do something about it. You want to convey to everyone in the vicinity of Andrew that you're feeling potato-y. I present to you the potato flag. Imagine a potato flag,

a little flag that sits on your desk, and whenever you want to eat a potato of any kind, you raise the flag. You raise your potato flag. Here's the problem, and I love the idea. The issue is the flag's never coming down for me. I'm a big potato guy. Give me potato every day.

Then you fly that flag and you fly it proudly. I'm flying that flag every single day. How's that problem? I guess, I don't know, sometimes people dying. They want you to fly the flag at half-mast and I just couldn't do it with the potato flag. Well, we talked about half-mast potato flags, actually. Did you?

We did, yeah. And also you can hang it upside down if potato was in distress. But there was a Mexican restaurant in the southwest called Panchos. And it's kind of like Fogo to Chow. When you go to Fogat Chow, you have the card you flip over red or green when you want them to throw meat at you.

At Panchos, if you want more food, you raise the flag, and then they know to come over and do it, give you more food. And I just think it would be awesome. And I was trying to pitch this to Eric. And I think everybody's on board, but maybe Eric,

I think we should sell a potato flag. It does. Like, it doesn't... For the audience. But what do you do? You carry it around and then you go to a restaurant, you raise the potato flag?

If that's how you would. want to use it or you can do it in your own house. Maybe I want to let my wife know we're having potatoes tonight. She comes downstairs. I'm not at home because I'm picking the dog up from the groomer or something, but she sees the potato flag is raised and it's on the counter and she knows, all right, it's a potato kind of evening. I'm going to prepare myself mentally. Like, have you never bought a packet of like cocktail umbrellas? No.

Absolutely, I have. Absolutely I have. Yeah. It's just like little funny little fluff junk, isn't it? Yeah. A little bit of flare on your stuff. But no, but this is like, this is to serve a purpose of wanting potato? Yeah. Potato flag. You raise your potato flag and you, you express your intent to the world. Wait, okay, hang on, hang on, hang on.

I want to find this flag that you're talking about. So, ponchos is a restaurant where you, okay, so this is it. It's raise the flag and then you get refills. Refills another service. Yeah, that's how they know. Okay. Imagine if on that flag, actually, in my head, the flag looks more like the idiot pinnett. It's like a pennant.

But imagine that flag raised and it just has a picture of a baked potato with arms and legs and a happy face. He's smiling because he knows you just got raised. Yes. I was picturing a different type of flag. I was picturing like a challenge flag in the NFL where like if somebody goes to order a different side, you throw it in the middle of the table and then everyone knows. that it's actually, you can't have rice, it's potato. That's a different product altogether, and I like that too. I think maybe we can develop both of these.

I love the idea of being up to veto anything with a flag, just throwing it down in regular conversation. There really should be more uses for challenge flag scenarios. I agree with that. So someone's like, I want mac and cheese, and then you just, you throw that and then like the waiter blows a whistle. Yeah. I think so, or maybe a novel.

Maybe a novelty restaurant where the waiter can challenge your order. You have to change it? Like in the group text in Vegas when Emily suggested we eat it fucking Benihana and I threw my challenge flag down and said we're absolutely not. I have one challenge flag and I veto that. All we got in that group text was Emily saying Jeff said we're not allowed to eat at Benny Hana. No one suggested anything. Nobody did anything. It was just that.

Crazy. I don't want to eat it. The other thing I noticed is the way Nick's wife tackled the baked potato. She kind of like flayed it. Like when Ash is dissecting the facehugger and alien, it's all kind of like spread out flat. It was an amazing approach to a baked potato. Well, wait, how do you do it?

Oh, it's the best way to get the spread. Yeah. What do you do? I guess I just like eat downwards as it is. Yeah. I'm just getting some of like the toppings in with each bite. I thought her way might have opened my eyes. It opened the potato.

Yeah, that's for sure. Oh, wait. It really did. The potato was wide open. It's split down the middle and then like it's almost like both sides are elevating it up, face up. Like the skin was flat down against the table. It was like, it was like an autopsy, like a potato autopsy. Oh.

Getting lightheaded. Yeah, you know, I think I'd like to see it. I like to see an image of it to fully process at some point. Can you get a picture of your wife's baby? baked potatoes next time, Nick? Next time there's a big potato scenario, Nick. I'd love to see the technique. Can I bring up another potato thing that we talked about at that?

Please. Dinner. So we ended up getting the baked potato. Amanda got hers and then we got one for the table. Which is good. We also got mashed potatoes. Oh. Can you ask your question to Andrew, please, Jeff?

Okay. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. He photoshop potato on the end. end of the challenge flag is pretty good. It's pretty good. Potato flag and the potato challenge, I think are both amazing. I don't know that this was my question, Eric.

I think this is Gavin's question. Oh, this was Gavin. Okay. If you get mashed potato and you dyed it blue, right? A bit of food dye in there. Mix it up. It's blue mash. And then you did the same with another bowl of potato.

Diet yellow. If you mix both mashed potatoes together, do you get like a marbled blue and yellow mash? Or do you get green mash? No, I was never good at the color mixing. Well, those are the right colors. Let me tell you right now. Yeah, just... I'm really thinking about it,

and it's a thing where, like, I'm trying to put a lot of thought into it, and it's also a thing where it could be either way, and my reaction is the same of, like, okay, I think it mixes. I think it mixes. Well, that puts you in the vast majority, then. Why wouldn't it mix?

I'm pretty sure it would mix. Why wouldn't it? Yeah, I don't know. I just don't think it does. I don't think so either. Yeah, I just don't think it's going to work. I would say the person who was most confident it would mix was Eric's small wife. Yes.

But I think she talked to me about it later because she was upset about it. Yeah, she was like, why? What do you mean marbled? Why would they marble? They would just mix? Why would they marble? And I agree with her. Why would they marble?

Well, I just didn't know whether the dye would like take fully to the potato and then be unavailable in liquid form to mix. Right, it's already set. Here's my note I left to myself to talk about. Can you mix colors with potatoes? Let's raise that tater flag and find out. So this is what it turned into.

The conversation evolved and we decided that it's something that we have to test out now. So we're going to film a supplemental where we dye mashed potatoes. but then we decided yes if the colors do we need an expert that's what we need

we need a color mixing expert and we only know one color mixing expert and that is our friend Bat Dog the professional painter so I hit up Burn Dog and I asked him he jumped at the opportunity and he expanded it to not only our which by the way

he says the science checks out and that the potato colors will they will mix so he's definitely in the majority. But what he wants to do is come over one day when we do the test and be a part of it

and then he'll take all the mixed colors and he'll paint something with it. So he's gonna, he was saying that he could recreate a Rembrandt with mashed potatoes. Originally you were calling it the patainting,

but then you didn't like that taint was in it. Then it became the Paintator. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah, the paintato I think is better than patainting. Yeah, I think so.

I really like patainting. Well, Nick brought out that you're saying taint. Well, the other one, you're saying pain. I'm okay with pain. You get a point. Okay. Pain is the point.

All right. Pain is the point? But, that's old mill feet over there talking. So anyway, look for that in the near to medium future. We're going to get Byndog over whenever he's free. And then we're going to mix up. I'll make a bunch of mashed potatoes. And then we're going to mix it up.

Maybe I'll do it since I'll be in the kitchen cooking. Maybe we can also do a competition that fell into our lap. between Nick and Gavin where they're going to see who can eat the most deviled eggs. Oh, yeah. How many ways are there to make an egg? Oh, that's right.

That was the conversation is how many ways are there? Gavin, how many ways are there to make an egg? Well, as I said, as I was taught as a kid, there are four different ways to make eggs, but I've come to realize there are way more than four.

I was always taught, and it was always in an order. I was always taught that it was like number one was scrambled, number two was fried, number three was boiled, and number four was poached. I was trying to get something weird out of Gavin and I was like, I just kept asking normal

questions and just trying to get deeper and deeper. I was just trying to find something goofy. And then out of the blue, he goes, well, yeah, I mean, that's what my mom taught me, right? There's only four ways to make an egg when I was a little lad. And I was like, there it is. There is. Go on.

I should start giving more like just one word answers to your questions. It took me a while of peeling back layers until I got to that. But anyway, so yeah, you and Nick think you can out-eat each other in deviled eggs. And I think, unfortunately, the only way to truly eat a deviled egg is to eat it at a restaurant, which would be way too expensive and hard to get or to have it homemade. Because a deviled egg from a store, like the grocery store sucks. so I and I also have made deviled eggs in the past and I absolutely hate doing it so I figure I'll be the one to make the uh make uh the you know 50 deviled eggs or whatever and then we can I don't make a potato while we're at it I've just been held up this entire time on when this conversation was first brought up Eric said something about ordering a baked potato for the table and taking that very literally what an insane

power move, just psycho move. If you're at a group dinner and as soon as everyone sits down, you're like, yeah, I'm gonna, can we just get one baked potato for the table, please? Just one? Just like immediately order

a singular baked potato under the premise of it's for the table. Yeah, I like that. Who touches it? One bag potato, six forks, please. When we went to dinner on the last night, we ordered appetizers and then ate them all and they were very good.

then Jeff thought that that was the whole meal and didn't realize that we had ordered like mains? I went to the bathroom when you guys ordered and spaghetti came out or pasta came out and so I ate a bunch of pasta and I was like and salad and I was like, wow, that's a meal, salad and pasta. And I remember thinking like somebody had mentioned, uh, there's no way we're going to be able to get through all this food. And then I looked at the table and we had eaten the chicken parm and we'd eaten the pasta and we'd eaten all the salad. And I thought, wow, we did a really good job. congratulations we didn't waste anything and then there were 700 more plates

that's crazy I don't blame you for thinking he just he's like we ate the salad we're done here like what and the chicken parm I had and the spaghetti I just didn't realize they would like they kept replenishing chicken parm like when we would finish the chicken parm they'd just bring more chicken parm this sounds like the best place ever

there's like no there's like a mushroom somebody ordered like a mushroom palm thing for the appetizer and then we also ordered chicken parm parm, but it wasn't. Was that mushroom parm I ate? Are you fucking...

Are you fucking... Did I not notice that was mushroom and not chicken? Everarded it, didn't she? Yeah. I just ate chicken parm. I didn't realize

that wasn't chicken. I didn't have any chicken parm because I was full off the mushroom parm. I didn't even realize. Man, you can't tell the difference with mushrooms and chicken. Dude, I'm like stunned.

I'm like stung locked right now. I just don't know. I just don't know, man. Just live your life not knowing you had a mushroom. I mean, I like mushrooms, right? I guess I didn't think about it. It was all the... I mean, it's mostly sauce and cheese, right?

You're just... The mushroom or the chicken is just the thing you've got to chew to get through the sauce and cheese. I fucking... Listen, let me throw this out there to the audience. If you can get a mushroom parm for cheaper than a chicken parm, you won't tell the difference. Yeah, I mean, it was good.

I thought it was fine. I thought it was pretty good. What a trip. Eating mushrooms, not even known about it, going to weird outlines. Yeah. It was magic. It was a lot of fun.

Got a let's play video. We'll cut from the pinball museum. Yeah. Got a couple of supplementals that we'll record. We also came up with another idea for daily, like a month of daily content that I don't know if we want to dive into here or maybe talk about behind the scenes and form up.

I mean, I think we can talk about it. I think if there's like half an idea, maybe we can round it into something it's like a little bit further along. Okay. Whose idea? I genuinely don't remember whose idea this was,

but I know it wasn't mine. I just assume it was Gavin, but I don't know. Heyo. Okay. Well, then you would follow up the hayo with diving in. We were going to see how many days it would take to flip a coin

and get heads five times. In a row. So every morning flip five coins, or I guess if you flip heads and then you flip tails just stop there. But the goal is to flip heads five times in a row. Yeah, definitely like something where it's probably definitely more suited for like social. I mean, you put it on Patreon and stuff, but like put it on TikTok, put it on TikTok.

It definitely feels like trying to flip a coin five times to get heads. I follow a guy who's trying, who's been trying to roll Yotsie every day for 385 days. Oh my God. He has not done it. He is getting desperate. He is getting weird. It's getting weirder. It's really fantastic.

So I don't know. It's, I like the idea of flipping a coin five times. It's Jeff Sox, right? That's fun. I similarly watched a guy who would go to Best Buy every day and he would online gamble on a smart fridge until he made enough money to buy the fridge. Dude. Oh, I love it. Those two guys gambling on a refrigerator to win the money for the refrigerator is fucking awesome.

It has to be fake. I don't care. I love it. They eventually got the money and then the fridge was out of stock so they couldn't buy it. They buy a different fridge from a different store. Oh, that's so tragic. The five times coin thing, though, is I feel like quite doable because it's only, it's not a super high number of, or is it, like one in 120 or something.

It could be any of the five of us. It doesn't have to be Gavin every day. Like, we can rotate it out if he's out of town or whatever. Hey, hey, hey, doesn't even have to be the five of us. You want to hire a flipper? No, we could get, what the fuck? We can, I want Ray to flip a coin five times. Oh, okay.

Yeah, we can get ready to do that. Yeah, well, we should just farm it out and maybe send people. People are regulation coins, and other people can help us. Oh, we should get regulation coins. Right. We should get, because we need something to flip. Not because, you know, what are we going to flip an American quarter? That doesn't do anybody in Europe any good.

It doesn't speak to Europe. It should be an Ian on the head side and a butthole on the tail side. Ian, Ian's an assholes. What's a button? Oh, like the show logo? Oh, like the show logo. Oh, okay. All right, hang on.

I'm writing it down. Hang on. So the face on one side and the butt on the other. Okay. Yeah. I like it. Who, okay, so if we're all doing it, say it's like an individual thing and we're filming like the coin being flipped or whatever, say that Nick gets it.

Say that it's day 410, whatever. But Nick does it. He's flipped five. What's the point just to see who can do it or is there like a thing? He gets to get out of Greg. Whoa. Okay. And that's the incentive for putting your time in with the quarter or with the eating.

Yeah. To get the... Ooh. Okay. Ooh, I like this. I'm writing this down. All of a sudden, Andrew's like real into it now.

Oh, man. Now. I want a second get out of Greg. Andrew with two get out of Greg's is dangerous. That's a dangerous thing. Knowing he still has one. He's going to use that first one like it's on nothing. He's going to invent something to use it on.

Yeah. What if? Because I don't know how. the get out of Greg helps guest flippers. What if the prize was that one of the coins is, uh, 24-carat gold? What? What the fuck are you talking about? That's a terrible idea.

Yeah. They'll be gold-looking coins, right? But one of them will be real. No. What? How much does a 24-carat gold coin cost? That seems incredibly expensive and unnecessary. I want it to be like a really cool prize.

I don't think they would think that was a real, really cool prize you wouldn't want a gold coin here's what i would oh not a regulation fake gold coin no well you can melt it to whatever you want is gold oh yeah oh yeah i'm melting stuff all the time oh yeah if you sell gold to someone they don't care what shape it's in it's the only thing i've melted gavin is a dinner roll i don't know what you're talking about hmm oh man all right we'll keep gold out of it it it might no no hold on you i think you're on to something here oh Uh, it might, we might be able to get one made for a couple hundred to maybe a thousand or so dollars. That's, no, that's way too much.

That's insane. I'm with Andrew. That's nuts, but what if we, all right, well, listen, and feel free to say no, you can, you can outvote me here, but, but what if following a long gab with idea, I don't like the idea of any of us getting this gold coin. That doesn't make sense to me. No, that's why we get the Greg and they get the gold. Yeah, we, yeah, or who's they, the person, the other person that flips it?

A guest, I guess, a, maybe a, maybe a falcon can have a flip. Here's how you do it. If we manufacture these coins, kind of like, like, do you remember a long time ago when Bernie got a bunch of like bronze coins, big bronze coins made and his face was on it? Oh, like those challenge coins or whatever? Yeah, challenge coins.

And then when he would meet somebody and they'd go, hey, Bernie, it's nice to meet you. He'd go, it sure is. Here's my face. You can have that forever. And then you'd be like, oh, cool, I have Bernie's face forever now on this heavy coin. Like essentially make that and we sell those to the audience,

but one of them in the 5,000 we make or a thousand will make is the 24,000, 24 karat gold coin. So it goes to the audience. I'm sure there's no way that's legal because I assume it's gambling. I also think whoever wins that is going to like wreck their tax return for that year. Is that gambling? It's absolutely gambling. No, it's like a parallel.

It's just the gold parallel. That's gambling, Jeff. Baseball cards are gambling? Yes. Oh. Mechanically. Shut up. Cut that out.

I'm saying No! Stop saying it! Because there's a difference between a cup that's like there's personal value to items and there's actual value to items and there's a difference between gold and a golden gerpler. I'm sorry, audience. I tried to get you guys a gold coin.

Clearly I have been downvoted by the misers in the group who don't want you to have this wonderful piece of merchandise. But I get it. I'll back off. Why don't we bring it to the regulation lawyer and see how we can do it? I just feel like this is a lot of work for a thing that you actually aren't that passionate about. We're about to flip a coin for 144 days in a row. The coin we're all on board with flipping the coin. It's this Gavin just introduced a gold coin for her guest. I was trying to think of a prize for people who don't see any use and it get out of Greg card. You want to

give Jack a gold coin? Like that's what you're suggesting. He doesn't deserve it, but the audience does so bizarre then what does okay but your solution Jeff doesn't solve Gavin's problem that he's trying to solve

you're just creating two you're trying to solve what prize the guest should get and Jeff's response is let's give it to the audience which is great I love that but that goes against the whole point

of making the coin in the first place as it was pitched. We'll buy him a lunch. Jack loves lunch. Lunch coin. I'm on board for lunch coin. Yeah, lunch coin. We'll give him a free potato flag.

What about a potato coin? Potato of your choice? The chances that a guest flipper is going to be the one to pull it are pretty slim anyway, I would say. I think it's equal across all flippers. I agree. Yeah. Well, if it's mainly us flipping and rarely a guest, then it's not. Yeah.

Right, but if they have the same odds. as we do. They have the same odds though. Yeah, but if we're flipping 18 times before it happens and they're flipping once. They could do it on the first one. We could all go. And then the guest flipper could do it on the first one or we could do it on day one. The odds are the same.

I'm not saying the odds are different for two people flipping. I'm saying if I flip 18 times this one flips one, I've got a better chance. I get what you're saying. But what I'm saying is to have to get to the 18 is an absurd way of looking at it. What? Fuck off. Crazy. Andrew, unfortunately I'm with you.

Yeah, moving to Mayor Crazy Town with me, Regulation Town. It's fucking 7 p.m. right now. We're having a great time in Goof Town. Either way, I want to flip coins and do this, do this everyday thing. Andrew, could your official title within the company be Mayor of Goof Town? Uh, well, I'm secretary currently, but I don't mind, I don't mind flip it off the mayor of Gooftown. No, you used to be secretary comma, mayor of Goof Town. It's pretty good.

Oh, I like that. Yeah. I feel like it, I don't know if I want to do that to the, I feel like it lessens the mayor title. What if it's like a side project? That's the thing. I feel like the mayor feels like a side project when really it should be my main gig. That would hurt your constituents too, because they'd be really upset. They'd be like, this is the name of these passionate about.

Yeah, they'd be really upset. They'd be pretty furious with you. It's tough to spin. Yeah, it's a tough... Yeah, I agree. And that's why we're flipping. While we're throwing ideas out that we had in Vegas, allow me to add one more to the pile.

Okay. Andrew, you know one of the frustrating things about being in the regulation universe is how many great ideas that we come up with throughout the years that we don't ever get around to, you know? I think calling them grade is strong, but I'm with you.

No, I think that I think... I'm not talking about my ideas. I'm talking about y'all's ideas. Like, there's some, there's some creative people that work in this company. And I think a lot of ideas come out that are really fantastic. And for whatever reason, they just fall by the wayside. They get forgotten about. We steamroll ahead at the new thing.

And the reality is, and I think we would all acknowledge this, we have more ideas to produce than we have time to produce the ideas. And so at the end of the day, stuff's just going to fall by the wayside. It's, it's, it's, there's just no way around it, unfortunately. Yeah. However, I landed on an idea when we were in Vegas. I was thinking to myself, what if those ideas went somewhere? What if there was some sort of a container for those ideas?

What if there was some sort of place to coalesce those ideas? What if there was a bit barrel? Imagine a 55-gallon red drum like you see in a video game. You look at it, you know, if you shoot that, it's going to explode. Well, our barrel will explode with ideas because we've written down every idea. and put it in the bit barrel, the audience can tell us, hey, Dickhead, F-Face number 62, you said you were going to do this,

you were going to cook this, you never did. Thanks for reminding us, we put it in the bit barrel, and then at some point, for some reason, throughout the year, there is a mechanism that requires us to pull an idea out of the bit barrel and then do that idea. It could be on the third wheel. Yeah, could be on the third wheel.

Here's the thing. I love the idea. I think that's a lot of fun. I think the hurdle, though, isn't the idea pull necessarily. It's us all being available. That's the thing. We've got to lock in on that. What? What?

Confused by that. We're all available right now. Yeah, here we are. Gavin just took three weeks and that's not an indictment. My point is that we haven't done a draft in three weeks because he's gone. So I love the bit barrel, but I think the inhibitor isn't necessarily the idea, it's availability. How about this? It's the same for anything.

It's, once you put, pull it from the bit barrel, it's on the schedule. It's on the schedule, just like the podcast and the weekly gameplays or whatever. Like, whatever the idea is, we have to produce it. If the, I am fully on board, if the premises, you pull the thing from the bit barrel, it goes on the schedule and you have to adjust your life around the bit barrel. Then I, I see nothing wrong. Not that there is anything wrong with the bit barrel. I've never seen an, an idea for a show get pitched. And then the complication being, oh, but we would all have to be there. Well, no, the premise

No, time out, time out. Mr. Mr. Listen, I'm the mayor. This is the point of Jeff's idea. The entire structure of it is that we have things and then we aren't able to make them. And it's like, oh, we forgot.

I'm saying I don't think that the issues, at least in my mind, forgetting, it's being the availability is I think the bigger hurdle for us. But the barrel is full of forgotten ideas. I think we forget stuff constantly. See, here's the thing. Because we record two in a row and then we take two weeks off and we don't remember what thread the pull from two weeks ago.

The two weeks off is what I'm focusing on. But also, if they are forgotten ideas, then I don't know about them. So maybe when I see the bit barrel, I'll change my stance. What? So we have to do the bit barrel in order for you to understand the bit barrel? No, I get the bit barrel. but I'm saying that when I hear the bit barrel I don't feel like under the premise of

oh there's content that we haven't made it's because we are forgetting to do it it's largely I think the stuff we make and don't make is based around availability and when we get to it because of availability but we didn't not do these ideas because we weren't available to do them we just forgot to do them

but that's the thing if it's a forgotten idea then I don't remember so I don't know what my point is how can I remember a forgotten idea Gavin That's what the barrel's for That's what I'm saying So when I see the barrel Maybe I'll be like

Oh no totally This is I completely get it So in order for you to understand The bit barrel We have to do the bit barrel And I guess yeah Because I get it I get the premise of it

I think it's great Yes I do You're the one that's not getting it I get it I really just want to spray paint yellow letters that say bit barrel on a big red drum. I love it. That's great. It was just a reason to get me to do that.

He left out all the interesting ways we could get the ideas out of the bit barrel. The first suggestion was that you would do it, uh, bacon bit nightmare style by just flinging down to the barrel and all the ideas go flinging into the air and you have to catch one. Well, yeah, their ideas are definitely. And then Eric, Eric modified it, I think is a really interesting way too, which even if we don't do it for bit barrel, we definitely need to do it something, which is we claw machine it. Yeah. I know what we should do is we should take one of the bits and encase it in 24 karat gold

How could we do that? We would all have to be there. I, uh, guys, I hate to do this. I know we're running long and it's time to wrap up. But I have to read two emails to you before we get in the episode. Oh my God. Wow, this is going to be a long episode. Jesus, dude.

I know. I'm sorry, but I, uh, I've been, sitting on these for a while and I don't want them to end up in the bit barrel because I'm not good at maintaining my email archive. Yeah, and if they go in there, it's just a black box for Andrew. He'd never think of it again. We'll never get together. From time to time, you know, I do another podcast that's just my own personal musings called So All Right. And I have an email address set up where people can email me. And they do a lot. And recently I got two emails that I thought were relevant to and pertaining to regulation. So if you would allow me, I'd like to read them.

to you now. This first one is from a guy named Z. He says, Hello, Jeff. I've been a longtime listener. Don't know if this will break my streak of becoming a comment lever. It absolutely does, by the way.

But just listen to the recent episode of the Regulation podcast and how you guys were talking about how if Eric would change his name to Zeric. And it made my day due to my first name being Z and my middle name being Eric.

For a short time when I was born, I was Zerick due to the fact that the nurse didn't understand my father's sense of humor by naming me just Z. And for the longest time, I didn't know Eric was my middle name. I thought my name was Z dash Eric. So what? I thought it was funny when Gavin asked Eric if he would change his name to Zerick. That's great. That's wild. That's wild. I thought that was the single most

delightful email I've ever seen. That's crazy. Wow. There is a Zerick out there, Eric, and you could be the other Zerick. You could be the two Xericks. Wow, Zericks. Wow. I'm I'm floored. I'm floored. Wow. This next email I'll read to you. I don't know what to do with. I'm just reading it because I think it's insane.

And I don't know if I believe it, but there's something at the end that kind of makes me believe it. But here, I'll read this to you. Okay. This is from a guy named Leland. I can't believe I'm losing regulation listener status for this. I thought you'd be interested to know

that the regulation podcast is an absolute wrecking ball on Amazon's metrics. Every product item or random thing talked about on the pod ends up being ordered in massive amounts from Amazon. I work for an Amazon fulfillment center and every week ever listening to the newest episode, I see a huge influx of whatever you talked

about thanks to regulation listeners going crazy. I'm tired of all these damn serials. It is absolutely hilarious how your podcast skews Amazon's metrics and watching Amazon purchase huge amounts of these things thinking they're hot right now only for it to die off in about a week

leaving us with a huge amount of inventory that we end up having to put on sale. This guy me thinking how far it's just like how far could you push it? How confused could you make everything? And I don't want to fuck with anybody's, I don't want to fuck with anybody's business. I don't want to do anything to get sued. But I thought that that was pretty funny. And he said, love you all

except Nick, which I appreciated. And then he said, nah, Nick, I love you too, but you got to pay for it. I don't know what that means, but that's funny. But then he signed his name, and this is why makes me feel like this is a real email. And I don't know why, but it does. He signed his name, Leland, comment lever, 38 hot dogs. He put

his hot dog count in his signature. That's great. All correspondents should have that from now and I think. I completely agree. I think the only way to have a regulation correspondence is to list your hot dog count. I might just start putting that in all my emails, just at the bottom, Gavin Free, eight hot dogs. Are you up to eight? I thought you were at seven.

All right. Don't you flip your hot dog number to make us think you're cool. It's my hot dog number seven, holder. Yeah. I think it is. Yeah. Oh, shit. I'm sorry, buddy.

As we sign off here, want to thank the Las Vegas Aviators one more time for Jeff's first pitch and say that they have the best idea that I've ever seen at a ballpark where they have their own hot dog that is their specialty hot dog. But every time they have an opposing team come in,

they also have an opponent dog that they change every series. And this one had like tater tots and fry sauce and all like this different stuff. Bacon bits. It was so good. Yeah, it was my first tot dog. Yeah, it was really, really cool.

So way to go. Las Vegas Aviators, best idea in the business to have an opponent dog. Absolutely. Also, they have an opponent hamburger as well. And I did an interview with RJ, if anybody's interested in it, you can listen to it on Saul, right?

In the next two or three weeks, it'll take me a minute to edit that because that's more complicated than I'm used to editing. And that'll do it for another episode of the Regulation Podcast, I guess. Thanks for listening to us. Sorry, this one ran a little long.

I know you guys hate it when we ramble. They're going to hate that. Yeah, they're going to be mad. But we'll be back next week. We'll be more succinct. We'll be full of fun facts and fun non-facts, fiction and non-fiction, as we like to say. And hopefully you'll check out our Patreon. Andrew, what is that Patreon address off top of your head? The Regulation Pod.

Jesus Christ. Fucking nailed it. Thank you very much. How did you nail it? In what world was that nailed? Are you out of your fucking mind? I'm sorry. understand sarcasm? Oh.

Was that sarcastic? What I said? Nailed it. All right. Thank you very much. Moving on. W. W.W. HTTPS double dot slash slash.

The HTTP is before the W's. I don't know. I'm just saying stuff. You Google the Regulation Pod, Patreon, and then you find it. And Regulatron. Do you think Andrew Googles Google? We'll see you next week. Yep.

Good guess. love it. Bye. Bye now.