Regulation Podcast - Dillbot vs Rats // RIP Air Bud & Grif [102]

Episode Date: April 22, 2026

Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about Nick takes Geoff down, rats, jalapeno squirrels, Geoff's fall, I'm getting too old for this, to live and die in LA, LA river, Air Bud, Air Steve, Red vs Blue, Robert Vince, dog knife, Burger count photos, Simpsons, headbutts, haunted house, iphone alarm problem, wakeup quick draw, roman numeral blind, the world's north, He-Man, Summer Movie League, half a wheel, taxes, rugpull, and never learn. Sponsored by Shopify. Sign up for a $1/month trial at shopify.com/regulation 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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SuvW, German engineered for all. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Regulation Podcast. This is episode 102. My name is Jeff Ramsey. With me as always, Andrew Pan, Gavin Free, Nick Schwartz, Eric Bador. I got to say something at the top of the episode. I got to say something. 50 years old.

Grew up in Florida, Alabama, was a Gen X kid riding the streets all day long, doing the dumbest stuff you could imagine, made my own pipe bombs as a kid, did all kinds of nonsense around water. I have done so many drugs and alcohol throughout my life. I've abused myself in so many ways. I had no idea that it would be Nick that would finally take me down. Nick, you have killed me.

I may be speaking right now, but these are the death throes of a corpse, my friend. I am never going to recover from this illness. Yesterday, I thought I was going to die. And today I feel marginally better. What have you infecting me with? I don't know, but get ready. Round two of sore throats coming back.

I'm already in it, man. Is there around three? I don't know, man. I got a sore throat today and yesterday. Do you think it's the rats? I'd better not be the fucking rats. We'll die. Gavin and I are, Gavin and I have taken it upon ourselves to do something about those rats.

We put some, we put a little bit of work in yesterday. Have you considered having someone dress up as ratty bowl? to maybe lure out the rat as like the rat got them thinking rat god is among them wanting them to run out sort of a pied piper type situation it is an idea it is an idea for sure i mean ratty boy is like the decaprio of rats i would assume as far as celebrity guys rat capria rat capria i'm surprised you're not patrolling at night andrew because they're surely nocturnal creatures let me you know what i'm going to do reconnaissance tonight it's i was stuck for so long. A lot of this is on Andrew. A lot of this is on Andrew. You're going to be careful though. I will be.

If I get sucked in. Listen, I played Plagetail 1 and 2. I've dealt with some rats. I know what's up the rat kingdom. Be wary of our Rube Goldberg of rat traps. Oh man, I could get trapped in a whole new way. They're everywhere. You have to be really careful. You walk in the door, you get hit.

When you sit down at your desk, you get hit. When you just want a nice little piece of cheese, get hit. It's terrible. Oh, you that now? Yeah. Did you get caught? Three times. Whoa. Dude you get caught. Those are some serious rat traps. I thought I was going to lose a finger just setting them up yesterday. Oh, God. I got two things for this episode, and that's probably about what my voice can handle. And so, uh, so, uh, you want to, do you want to knock them out now or do you want to like spread out for your voice recovery? What do you want to do? Let's knock it out now. Okay. First, things first. I

I had a fall. I don't know how to describe it. No. What? A gentle ghost? The other day I went for a bike ride, maybe. And as I was pulling my bike out of the garage, my car is parked right in front of the garage. And then immediately to the left is a little porch for my front door is. And on that front porch, we have potted plants. I've had them there the entire time we've lived here, right? But the other day, my wife, she said, you know, it would be fun. I want to grow up.

a jalapeno plant. I want to cook her. I want to grow our own jalapenos. I've had a ton of success grew on jalapenos in the past. So I said, this is a fucking great idea. I love it. We went and we got a jalapeno plant. We put it in a nice planner. We put it on the front porch because it gets a ton of sunlight there. And something weird happened after that. Out of the blue, all of a sudden,

even though I've had like 10 potted plants on my front door the entire time and a bunch in the backyard, the squirrels became transfixed with this jalapeno plant. They don't want the plant. but they want to dig in the dirt. And they keep digging it up. And they have to keep replanting it.

And they keep digging it up. And so, uh, and I don't know why the little fuckers are doing it. And so now, by the way, we'll talk about this later when I have more energy. I am now declaring war on squirrels. I've been,

I've had a cautious alliance with squirrels my entire life. I've always given them the benefit of the doubt. But what they've done to the furniture in my backyard mixed with this fucking jalapeno plant, enough is enough. I'm a fucking sucker. If I, if I just let them roll over me.

again and again and again. So me and the squirrels, we're not good anymore. I don't know if we ever will be again. But we'll talk about the backyard some other time. Right now, I'm dealing with this motherfucking squirrel digging up my plant every day. So I thought, you know, I've put it back together like six times. Since then, by the way, I've taken giant river rocks. Emily and I have them, we've put them around the plant so they can't dig at. They're not that strong. They can't lift up a river rock. They're fucking little weak squirrel arms, a little noodle arms. They need to hit the gym. Anyway, uh, so the problem's hopefully fixed by now. But anyway, at this point it wasn't. And I pull my bike out and it's kind of wedged in between the front porch. And there's like maybe

a three foot lane there between the car and the front porch. And so I push the bike out a little bit and I'm going to check the tires to make sure that, you know, I got good pressure before I go off my ride. And I look over and there's just dirt all over the front porch. And I look and the motherfucker has just gone deep, deeper than ever before into my plant ripping dirt out. And I'm like, how fucking deal with it later. And then I thought, no, no, fuck that. No, that's not, that's not cool. So I park my bike, so it's immediately to the left of my car, and then I turn around and I just squat down and I start putting dirt back into the potted plant and I get it all put in and I'm just kind of like squatted and, you know, flat footed with, and I get it all put back together. And then I get it all put back together. And then I go to stand up from a squat and something in my shirt catches my bike, something on my bike. and it knocks my bike forward onto the ground,

which somehow knocks me backwards into my car. I've moved eight inches vertically maybe at this point, but somehow I get slammed so far, so hard, from just standing up, not even far, like I wasn't even up waist high, just standing, beginning to stand up, something happens where the bike goes one way, I go the other, I hit the car so hard,

it knocks my breath out. I have to recover. I have to like sit in that slump back down And I'm like, okay, what the fuck is that? Like how did that much force get generated Out of that minor movement, right? And I'm like, break the fucking cobwebs off, you know?

And I get up and I look and my car's fine And I go pick up my bike And my bike is thrashed The fall over on my bike Which by the way, this bike, this trek bike has been a workhorse since I've got it. I used to have all those stories about my bike batteries exploding

and tires fall in. off and all that shit was different bikes. That all died the day I bought this bike. It has been perfect since I've had it for like five years now, right? And so I pick my bike up and I see just pieces of my bike on the ground. Just that little fall, it knocked the back light, which is a part of the frame on my bike, knocked it completely off. I had to spend my battery, which is locked in to the bike. And there's something wrong with the mechanism in the lock so I can't unlock it. So the battery's just been permanently locked into the bike for a couple years now. And it's shot across the yard. It's like eight feet away somehow. So I pick my bike up and then I have to spend

a half an hour gluing my light back together and I have to like, it takes me 20 minutes just to get the battery back into the bike because like I said, it's like the lock is weird and I got to like cajigger it and it's kind of broken and I finally get it all back together. And I don't know how like a six or eight inch vertical raise can cause so much damage to a human and a bike in such a short like it made no sense.

I was taken away by how much catastrophe arose from just me going from a, trying to go from a crouch to a stand. Sounds like an explosion. Was anyone walking by to watch you get basically run over by a parked car? No, thank God.

I'm sure the squirrel saw it. Do you think they had a hand in it? fuck dude maybe I hadn't considered that but you know what it didn't make sense like when I was standing up and suddenly I was attached to my bike I was like what the fuck is you know you have the time you like that's not right and then the next thing you know it's just all hell's broken loose it's like fucking Vietnam War for 18 seconds yeah no I know it's an annoyance but you're kind of lucky to have had the bike break in the way it did because it validates your force like if it was just you feeling this I don't know if I necessarily believe it was as impactful you know your heart hurt you're dealing with. Nick is killing you with your disease. Like you're in a weak in general state so I'd be like I don't know to what extent if Jeff was fully healthy

what does this impact actually feel like? But the fact that your bite got ruined is like well there is some real force that happened here. That's a real good point Andrew and I appreciate you elucidating it because I hadn't gotten there on my own. I definitely was in the throes of this catastrophic

illness Nick has wrought upon me. I love the idea of you climbing off your car looking at your exploded bike and being like, well, at least my force has been validated. Nick, Nick just asked if it was on my doorbell footage. You know what, Nick? I'll have to check. It might be. Oh. Even if it's just part of it. It might be just off the doorbell. Like, I might be just out of frame, but maybe you'll see like the battery shoot in. Or yeah, audio. Or if it's anything like my missing key, it'll just be me and then it'll just cut to everything being on the ground.

That's so funny. The only other thing I really have is, I wanted to ask you guys, you know that phrase, I'm getting too old for this shit? Mm-hmm. Where do you think it originates from? I mean, I definitely is associated with Danny Glover in...

Yeah, is it not lethal weapon? Immediately. A hundred percent. That's what I would associate it with as well. That movie came out in 1987. I was watching a movie over the weekend. You know, Emily was out of town, and I went on a movie watching.

Tara. I watched like 11 movies over the weekend. One of them I watched was a 1985 film that I've always wanted to see. Because I remember it when I was a kid, but it was like a grown-up movie and I wasn't allowed to watch it and I never was able to sneak it. Called to live and die in L.A. Which is

it's about like, it's a cop-thriller. And it's actually a pretty good movie. And I'm not going to talk about the virtues of the film. But it was a good film and it was worth watching. And two things happened in it that I thought are worth note. But the first thing is, within five minutes of the film starting, a cop unironically turns to another one and says, I'm getting too old for

this shit. And I was like, what the fuck? This movie came out two years before Danny Glover. So then I thought, have I just misattributed this to Danny Glover my entire life? So I Google it. He's like the first 20 results for it. Yeah. But I look, it's been around a lot longer. It's even been around longer than 1985s to live and die in L.A. The first instance I can find of somebody saying I'm getting too old for this shit is Steve McCr, in the 1980 film The Hunter. And then it was set again in 1981 in Stripes by Sergeant Holka. So apparently, it's been set a bunch and I had no idea.

I just thought that was interesting and that I would share it with you guys. I wonder who the first person was to become too old for something. I was going to say there's a long history of people becoming too old for shit. Yeah. I think it must be Steve McQueen. He must be the originator. I couldn't find any reference older than that. That one at least kind of makes sense.

It would be really funny to find like a movie before die hard where somebody says yippy Kaii motherfucker. Yeah, right. What are those like weirdly specific? It would be funny if someone at some point had something happen to them in a movie and they said, I'm the perfect age for this. I just got on with it. Now is the time for me!

I'm in the demographic. I'm the exact age for this shit. Thank God this is happening to me today. That's awesome. The other thing about to live in a die in L.A. Then I'll get off of it and I'll relinquish the mic. Is there as a car chase scene in it through downtown Los Angeles that is the most Grand Theft Auto 5 car chase you will ever see.

It is big sedans that oversteer covered in bullet holes going up and down freeways and jumping underpasses going. one through the LA River. It is, I challenge you to watch it and not go, oh, I did that last week in GTA. It is, I've never seen something, genuinely never seen something in real life translate so identically to the video game. Like it is, you recognize all the sets, all the streets, because you've done it in Los Santos a thousand times. And it's the exact same cars. Like, it is fucking crazy. And it lasts a long time. And the entire time I was watching it, I was like, I can't believe this is picture perfect, a GTA car chase scene in every way.

What I remember from it is that it's like down in the L.A. River and then like they're up in like the bridges and everything. And it's a lot of bridges. Yeah. It's it's where we just spend all of our time in GTA. Like 100% of it. It's crazy. It's crazy how it is exactly like Grand Theft Auto. It's nuts. It like they just took all this inspiration from this movie. If we match the cars from the movie into Grand Theft Auto as close as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if we did a GTA let's play and we cut a couple of shots of the movie in to a chase scene of us.

I bet we could trick the audience. Should we just do a whole scene shot for short at GTA? We can try it. We really should try it. I think we could, yeah. I want it on the record that what Jeff is requesting for everybody, I just want it noted, is that we make machinima.

Yeah, no, it just is an important thing. I thought he was saying put the movie clip in the thing. No, I wasn't requesting Machinima. at all. I was saying we should intercut, movie cut. Oh, just the film? I thought you wanted us to recreate it within the... I was with Andrew. I was with Andrew. Gavin recommended Machinima immediately after

I said it. We should recreate a shot for shot. That was me. I said that. And I'm fucking I'm totally okay with flexing the machinima muscles every once in a great while. It's not a problem. Is the L.A. River ever more than six inches deep? Yeah. Have you not seen it full? Does it get full?

Oh, dude. It's crazy. Like, it fills up pretty fast, too. And it like, I've been there when it get like, you know, it's raining and whatever. Dude, it gets, it gets, it gets, that doesn't happen in GTA? It moves, the water moves so fast and comes up so close to where you can walk along the side of it. It is like, it's dangerous how full it gets. That's cool. It is loud and all of it just dumps out into like the ocean or whatever.

So it's not like anything stops it. It just. goes. What river doesn't dump out into the ocean? Well, this one appears to be a little bit more man-made, so I was just kind of pointing out that that's what this is doing. Fucking dunce. No laughter.

On the topic of movies, there's some event going on right now where it's like E3 of movies from what I can gather and like all the new stories coming out related to it. we need to talk about what's happening with Air Bud. I'm very upset. I'm very, uh, it's baffling.

It kind of opens into a broader conversation. I want to read some of the quotes from this. Uh, they did like a thing of what the new Airbud will be. They showed some clips. And in it, they established that within the world of Airbud, the original Airbud dog is dead.

They've killed the original dog. Well, I don't think they've killed him. I think he probably died of old age. No, they canonically killed. him within the story. Like it's not like, oh, he went off and played with the Harlem Globetrotters. They're like, no, this dog is fucking dead. Well, of course he got shot. I'm just

saying, I think he probably died of natural causes. Respectfully, Jeff, it's a movie about dogs playing elite sports. I don't think like the realm of like, well, I think logically, like that, who cares? You think he got shot in the police chase? No. No, I just think that he could live forever. Why do we have to kill him? Kill him! Well, what's more likely to happen in real life? A dog playing sport or a dog living for 40 years? Not just sport.

Sport at the highest level, the MVP of the league. I want to read some of these quotes about it, because I heard about it and I went, oh, this just feels like a thing they did to get people to talk about that there's a new Airbud movie coming out. The quotes about it are insane. If Airbud was still bawling, he'd have twice the LeBron career. And he, as he should. It's like 40 years.

Director Robert Vince acknowledging the death of his canonical buddy, in quotes, makes total sense for the story he's telling here. These are in quotes. I think that now, more story-wise, I'm always wanting to ground our stories in reality, right? I know it's not reality, but grounded in reality. So that it has a mythical kind of magical whimsicalness to it, but not Fairyland. Vince told me in a chat backstage, for me, families want to have something grounded in reality. And that's super important to our storytelling and how we handle this.

We don't take ourselves seriously, but we take the movie seriously in some ways. We don't try to dumb it down. We can try to make it something they can learn from. And then he goes on about grandkids asking about dogs dying and like explaining that death happens. Nobody wants this. Who wants this? I mean, every Disney movie ever had a parent die in the first five minutes. Absolutely.

a parent or like in the context of it and these are not those movies so is air but just a um is that the name of the dog or the name of the dog is buddy so is this is this like a descendant of buddy no it's a random other golden retriever it's a weird the the lore is deep of like it is the story is of a kid who is the kid of one of the kids in the first movie i think for my understanding. Well, surely got a different name then. It's gonna be like Air Steve or something. Like, why it's, why it's still called Airbutt?

That's a great point. Why is it called Airbutt? That is a great, what is the dog name? Air Steve is real good. Air Steve, yeah. I would watch Air Steve. Oh shit, here comes Air Steve. Oh, fuck.

Nothing in the rulebook that says Steve can't play basketball. I just think it's so, I'm so fascinated by people that create something and are at the heart of it, but have no awareness of what people like about it or like overthink it. Like Ridley Scott? Yeah, exactly like Ridley Scott. Ridley Scott is a great one. Ridley Scott's a great example, Gavin. You're on the money for me.

I was trying to do like a draft in my head of like people that create a thing and are at the heart of it, but just don't understand why anybody else likes it. Kajima is another one for me or I don't think he understands what people like. Yeah. Let's understand their own creations. It's great. Yes. I think it's so fascinating.

Especially when your own creations is dog or animal does sports. thing real good. The concept of like we got to have some reality in these stories to really ground them. It's like, what are you talking about? So it's saying in the continuity of the earlier films, is this made by like the same guy who made original Airbud? Or is this like new team? This is the same guy.

Robert Vince owns all of the airbutt stuff and has done all of like MVP and air buddies and all that. So if it's like his creation and he can kill it in a thing that isn't necessary, like you know, he's like making canon, whatever. Jeff, is there anyone you want to

kill from red versus blue just canonically in the regulation universe? I mean, you can just pick a character and you can just say like they're dead if you want to. You can do it right now. It's fucking Griff. He didn't make it. Who guys? Breaking news. He was, yeah.

He just, his heart popped one day from too many Oreos. Rest in peace, air bud and griff. Rest in peace, guys. Coming to a theater near you. Jeff, in your head, does Griff look like you under the helmet? Wow. Can I tell you, can I answer that completely and totally honestly? Yes, please.

That thought has never crossed my mind. I genuinely, when you asked me, it was just like a blank space in my mind where the answer would be. Because it's never, I've never considered it before, Gaff. I never imagined that I would play Gryth in a live action thing. I figured if we ever did live action anything, it would be cast. That's how those things work, you know? Yeah.

Sure. So, no, I don't think so. Interesting. I don't know. If we ever get the ability to somehow interact with the Airbud God, Robert Vince, we need to pitch him,

Airbud plays griffball. That's the movie we need. How does a dog hold a hammer? You know, how does a dog fucking throw a three-pointer? Can I They'll figure it out Honestly

It's just a big stick Yeah Yeah but for a guy Who doesn't want Airbud to die He sure would die Every time he scored Yeah but they respond in that

Canonically There would be responding So the gravity hammer Would be in his mouth Yeah I think so It's just a big stick The dog in the new

Airbud be dead If we do a Griffball Airbud Can we say canonically We can kill that dog I'm willing to make that trade For a griffball Airbud movie

There's it's so much funnier getting chased by an energy sword that isn't like lunged at you but it's just a dog running full speed with it in its mouth. Just slices your Achilles as he's one of the eye. I wonder if a dog has ever stabbed someone.

Oh absolutely. 100%. Has a dog? I would bet anything of that. Stabs someone. Dogs are like their police dogs. Dog stabs. Colorado woman with knife Denver nine years ago. Dogs...

Oh, that's terrible. Never mind. Not that one. It's a lot of dogs being stabbed. There's only one where the dog stabbed the lady in Colorado is the only one I'm seeing. Interesting. I just feel like it's a common thing. I don't know how Eric finds his unhinged pictures.

The second one were the dogs in the mask holding the knife? I'm really into that. That's my kind of dog right there. This is just what Eric has in the reserves. He's just dropping... I'm just hanging on to these. He just went to his personal photo library. Yeah.

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I'm very, I'm interested, like this is, I've been thinking about this a lot, I've been meaning to bring this up. Okay. You do a thing and you're essentially the only person who does it in this group and something that we all partake in. In fact, infect others. Sorry. And I'm curious if this is a stylistic choice or if this is an enthusiasm issue. We have a burger count chat and people, when they have a burger, they will generally take photo of said burger.

But Nick does something unlike anyone else, where 95% of Nick's burger photos have one bite taken out of them. Remembers after he takes a bite. 100%. There's no style here. He just went,

oh shit, I got to add that. Half of that is Nick seeing us taking photos at the table of our burger and going Oh shit. Yep. Yeah. So that's the world I wanted to live in. I love the idea. You get so excited about the burr, you just got to get in there. You got to get that bite immediately. And the fact that 95% of your photos are that is what made me think that it was not a stylistic decision that

this is just you wanting to get in that burger real bad. Oh, it's style by accident, I think. That counts, right? I mean, sure. I would argue it's a bad style. Have we talked about your 71 and 72 pictures? Like, what was going on there? Oh, my God. I was just having fun. I was just having some fun with some burgers. I found the most interesting part of the burger and I focused in it. I thought it was odd. Might have been the two least appetizing burger photos ever taken. Yeah, I think if I saw those pictures on a menu, I would switch off from burgers and get like a salad. Well, to be fair, you've had six burgers this year. Like, it's not like you're on burgers. I don't think you've ever been on burgers. He's got you there. Yeah, that's second one, man.

Ed. What's wrong with you? Why are you so close? The first one is that it's a weird looking bottom situation on that bun. That's a Wendy's burger. You don't typically see that on a Wendy's burger. Is that flour?

Is that the wrapper stuck to it? That's flour. Okay. You don't typically see flour on a Wendy's burger like that. I was captivated by it. Andrew posted both of those pictures and Jeff immediately said, you make me feel like a good photographer.

And then Kevin said the first one looks like an aunt POV. under the burger. Yeah, like the last thing at ants sees. Andrew defended himself by saying, I'm not the worst

burger photographer here. Oh. Yeah, that was a reference to Nick. What? Why are great? You just posted three bags from Nick. His burger shots.

What are you talking about? I like the spirit of Nick's burger shots. I find it strangely disgusting to see a burger that you've been into. I can't see my teeth. No, but it's like your mouth print.

It's the place where your teeth were shreddedness of the bun and that like that's what made me notice it is the first time I went oh that's kind of a disgusting photo of a burger is it I mouth print that's such a great cross section I want police to take burglar's mouth print the hamburger's mouth print just the mouth print is funny to me I like the idea of a CSI episode where like they rule out that is the hamburger because of the mouth bite on the burger like they're getting people to bite into burgers to try to match up the thief? I wonder if Columbo ever solved a crime with a bite print or mouth print.

Ooh, wow, that would be awesome. We should make a new spin-off called Columbite. Whoa! Awesome! And then can we say that the original Colombo is dead in that, canonically? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, canonical dead, yeah. Just one more thing.

Maybe we should call it Chulumbo. Just one more bite. Just one more bite. They could have just said he was flying with the globe train. Broder's. Why we got to kill the dog? But if it's set in present day, he's clearly died. I mean, the little boy, he's not clearly done anything. The little boy from Airblood 1 has got to be in his 50s now.

He's close to retirement. We have very different philosophies on movies. Who've talked about this? If they made a Dunston Checks in, though, in 2025, and it had all the same humans in it, but Dunston was still knocking about. Wouldn't that be weird? No.

I guess that could happen with a chip. They should, the next one they should do should be called Dunston Checks out, and it's about how he's dying. and the whole thing is about how he has to say goodbye to everybody that mattered to him. Bart Simpson has been a kid for 30 years. That's the Simpsons though.

Yeah, it sure is. That is. Andrew, that's the Simpsons. Are there other things you want to name so Nick can name them to you also? You know what? Very specific rule said. For some reason, to me,

it's more acceptable in cartoon than in live action. I don't know why. I agree. Yeah, because there was no real boy called Bart Simpson. It was just a yellow sign. There was no real scenario in which Dunstan checks in occurred. But the chimp was real. It was a real chimp.

But it's a fictional story said in a fictional place. But what I'm saying is if bloody Rupert ever came back at the kid and all that, Jason Alexander came back, wouldn't you want the original chimp to be addressed if it was a different chimp? No, I just like just have a different person play the same role and just say it's that person. That's worse to me. That's fine. Why not just do a reboot of the franchise at that point and start from scratch? Because I don't want to see a reboot.

I want to see new stories. And then just say the other one died. It's fine. Every time. My philosophy of movies is different than your guys. Every time they reboot something, the director of the new one should have to come out and say, we've killed all the old ones. Don't worry about those.

I don't import any real life logic into the world of movies. I only accept what they assume. establishes how the way works. Gravity. Well, gravity is displayed, so you're like, yeah, that works. Do you think they set the stage for the dog to be immortal in the film? I just think it's a thing that didn't need to be addressed. Would you be happy with it in a flashback?

If I... I'd be fine with a flashback, but, like, still, just don't kill the dog. But the dog did die. What, he gets hit by a car? I've been hearing he get shot. I mean, the... bite mark does indicate that there was the mouth print

yeah I just it's unnecessary and it's a thing where I feel like if you are you don't want Marley and me to be Trojan horse into your Airbud movie like this is I don't think that's what's happening that's absolutely what's happening at all here killed the dog I don't go into sequels going there's certain

rules that shouldn't happen like I'm ready for anything to be Trojan did. It's a new movie. I just think the rules are different when it comes to dogs and death. Which I know is an insane, like this is a wildly different opinion than how I feel

about chickens, but I don't want to see any dogs. I think if the creative thread, the creative leadership of the production is consistent from day one to today, then you have to accept that this is the greater

vision of the creator. I don't have to accept shit. Okay. I can respect that they have the right to make that choice, but I don't have to accept it. I can see it if it was on its like ninth production crew and it's been directed by seven different people and there's been no, you know, through line and it's just like a property getting sold from studio to studio, but it's trying to resurrect it. But it seems like this guy's maintained control over it this entire time. This Air Bud is exactly where he wanted Airbud to be. I think you and I agree, but just have a different philosophy on what accept means. Yeah.

Like, I accept and think that he should have the ability to take that story and do whatever he wants with it. My not accepting is that I think it's a terrible decision and is completely unnecessary. You just disagree with the decision. Yes. You might watch the movie, though, and be like, you know what, that works. No.

He won't be allowed to internally. No. He has to hate this film now. It can't be likable. No, it's just structurally, like, when I looked at it, I thought the only way I would accept this as a plot device that I would be so on board with, if it was a movie about a kid who got his ass kicked by Airbud as a child

in a sporting event and is now trying to write a new Airbud movie in which Air Bud is dead and they've had to bring in a different dog. Like just a vengeful child that has never got over the fact that he lost his high school championship. That to me is funny. So there's no way in your head that this guy is going to create a story where Air Bud is dead that doesn't involve what you just described that you will like. No.

So you're going into it with a preconceived notion that you cannot enjoy this film so therefore you'll never be able to know how good it is. Well, you have a preconceived notion when it is a legacy property. There's certain expectations

and rules that the universe itself sets. I don't know. If the guy had entertained me this much this long, I'd probably give him the benefit of the doubt personally. I don't, but the thing is, is that, like,

I don't think he's been entertaining this long. I think 80% of the airbus, universe is not good. Well, then why would you expect this one to be? It's not even that I'm expecting this to be good. It sounds like he's only batten 20%, so it's par for the course. I mean... My argument was that this plot device is completely unnecessary,

and it's amusing to me that he thinks that these stories need to be grounded in some way, when that is not what any of this is about. But if he's been spewing whiffs for 30 years, why are you so invested in this new one? Because I care about Airbud. Do you get this upset? There hasn't been an air, there have been air buddies, there have been Russellmania, there has been MVP. Now, if you really wanted back into my heart, we'd get another MVP going. But I'll take an air bud. Sounds like you won't. I just think it's crazy. And I love, I love, like, despite my annoyance with it, I do genuinely love creators that I think just don't get it. And I'm cheering for that guy. When you mentioned chickens, I was, for some reason, I'm starting to imagine you killing a chicken. And then I thought, I was wondering how you would go about it. And I was wondering, does your long back do you think give you a stronger headbut?

I like, let's separate these questions. No. Well, that's actually interesting. I've never headbutted anyone. I'm like headbutting right now a little bit. Because you've got your long back along with your, you're practicing. I'm like trying to determine if like the length of my back, you generate more. torque, right? It's probably

more in the hips, though, I'd think, right? Well, maybe you pivot the hips, but you've got the long back working as, like, a lot of leverage, and then you've got your big old head with your unbreakable nose on the front, and I was thinking maybe you're the best designed body for headbutton, and maybe you could take out a chicken in one go. Do you want me to headbutt the mic, and you can tell me

which one's better? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I'm going to do two styles. You tell me which one's more powerful. Okay. Style one. Oh. Wait. Unplug my mic.

Okay. Style one. What? What? Didn't unplug my mic. Unplug my headset. The headphones. Okay.

Style one. That was such a dull third. All right. Got that. Style too. Whoa. That was way too hard. That one sounded like it echoed.

Yeah. That hit my switch, knocked my switch dock over. The mic went flying off the arm. Do you want to verify real fast that you are still recording because I know when I just disconnect my headphones, it stops my recording. No, it's fine. Yeah, still gone. Okay, just making sure. You're saying still good?

All good. Anyway, yeah, I wouldn't headbutt. Okay. You could be the real life Kool-Aid man. I could be. You could just bust through shit. I have a question about things dying. Definitely. Dude.

But this is like, I think this is a fun way. Oh, yeah. Let's all live in a world. Let's all pretend. and I'll agree that ghosts are real let's just say ghosts are it's an established thing I already live in that world

ghosts are a thing I know I'm just saying we're all unified in this Gavin and I are professionals we I think feel like we proved beyond a shadow of doubt thanks if a house

had a ghostly presence in it what would you call it haunted how do you describe that house Gavin uh yeah haunted you just say it's haunted I lived in a haunted house

It was very haunted Yeah that's how you would say it You would use haunted house What would you use? Yeah how would you describe it? I would only I think I would never use The term haunted house Is what I realized

What would you say? I'd say the house is haunted I'd go house first I was not expecting you just I just switched the words It's like I man That really fucked me up dude Just, okay, so we're doing...

Oh, that really, really surprised me. To me, it's a very different thing. It's one like a fairground ride and one is a house that you live in. Yes, yes. Okay. When I hear haunted house, I think of like third grade and us having like a haunted house school thing or like a dude in a scream mask popping out at you at a fair. Like I don't...

To describe a real home that is haunted as a haunted house to me. feels very Disney-ish. Like, I feel like it lowers the stakes of the scenario. I was just, I was taking it back by it because I, when I can't sleep, one of my rotational things I'll, I'll do, I'll listen to you to fall sleep is I'll listen to Key West, the radio. And from like, at least midnight until 2 a.m. Pacific,

there is like conspiracy radio playing. And it's just, I want to listen to some like crazy shit. And it cycles. And it was, the topic was somebody, who like wrote a book about crystals. And the host, I love him because he asks like the most insane questions in the most calm way.

And the question was like, so can crystals stop, prevent a house that's haunted? Can it deal with a haunted house scenario? And it was comedic to me just to like phrase haunted house in like a serious tone. Are you listening to coast to coast?

I think so. Yeah, it's, This is some art bell shit. What are you doing? Yeah. I don't think Art Bell does it anymore, does he? I have no idea. Yeah, probably.

I used to listen to that show a lot in high school. A lot. It's an old man asking questions like, so would this crystal deal with Dracula in a way that is like they expect an actual answer? That's a great question. You got to get the practical applications down. What if there's a Dracula problem?

It could be. So when you were asking what we would call it, and I just said haunted without house in either position. Did that just completely throw you? No, in my head, I kind of, to be honest, interpreted that as you agree with me.

Otherwise, you would have just called it a haunted house. But he's... Okay, okay, hang on. You interpreted... Okay, hang on. Because you just leave the... You left the house part out. If you were going to have the house part be

before you would have said it. But it's because you said how would you describe the house? Yeah, but if someone's like, what's haunted, you'd say the house. Yeah. I also like that he's listening to a radio program where somebody's talking about fighting vampires with crystals and he gets hung up on house haunted versus haunted house. He decides to get pedantic about it. That's awesome.

No, it's just like tonally, because it is ridiculous. Like, it means the same thing. But to me, like, it's representative of two completely different things. it just felt it hit different and I realized that like it is a ridiculous thing but it really does make a difference in my brain of the scenario like when they said haunted house

it never occurred to me that they would just mean or at least it initially didn't occur to me that they would mean a serious situation in which a home has a ghost in it that is haunting people so if I went out and I said wow that market is super would that really throw you? No I just think you thought it was cool Oh, okay.

I guess I'd be confused if you're saying it was a supermarket. I would just interpret that as like, what you're describing. It was incredible. I would never connect that you were just calling it a supermarket if you did that. Yeah, I can see that. I just accept it as it. I had something that happened.

You know, probably was it a week ago? I overslept and I missed the, rescheduled Marriottie March turn that I rescheduled. Yeah, I feel like that happened so long

and we've all forgotten about it. I completely forgot. Yeah. Got some good tips from the audience. Apparently a lot of people having that problem and they said you can turn off some features,

like turn off the attention-aware features, make sure the ring is set loud and all that. I slept through my alarm again. What? Did you use the audience tips to fix this stuff or no?

I did. And, uh... It made it worse? It was on Monday, and thankfully nobody noticed. But I totally slept through my 10 o'clock alarm. I woke up a little bit later. And I was trying to figure out what happened. I looked at my phone, and I saw this, right?

Pretty normal. Set my alarm for 10. But as you can see, one of my little widgets there on my phone is that it's the time in London. And you may notice that the time in London was 4.15. Yeah. So it was actually 10.15 when I was taking this picture. That's what I woke up.

What the fuck? My phone just froze time. No way. Everything else on the phone kept running, but the alarm like crashed the time of the phone. That's what? And it was actually 1015. I was like, what has happened now? Dude, I have a recommendation for you that's going to blow your mind.

It's in the chat right now. Yeah, I'm with Jeff. You know what? A wood-paneled digital alarm clock from 1992 will never steer you wrong. With battery backup. My parents had one that had like a capacitive snooze button. It was so cool. I still have my, like, I sleep so much better when I can roll over, see what time it is

immediately and go back to bed. Oh, I have another clock in the bedroom. That was what I was looking at that said 10, 15. And I was like, wait, is that the date? Wait, I was like, no, that's, what's going on? And I was just really confused. I just got slept so good. It's October.

Yeah. What's happened here? I don't think I'm an ex-man, but if I was, my ability would be just having a good sense of time. I have a really high batting ratio of not knowing the time, but being able to guess how much time is passed. How much time has passed on this recording? I just looked at the recording a minute again.

I asked about the, it stopping. Okay. So it wouldn't be fair. I wouldn't want to cheat. Yeah, I got to keep things honest. That's an integrity move right there. Yeah. It is a thing that, like, I feel very confident about my time.

I don't feel confident at all about temperature, gauging. Do you go to bed now extra scared every night, Gavin? Yeah. And I think I'm going to have to start using the alarm on my table clock. Yeah. It's just so loud and it will definitely wait and make up. Oh, yeah. And she'll ring your neck.

So I don't know what you want to do there, but you can try. I wake up every morning from Emily's alarm. I have one set, but it goes off like five minutes after hers, so just in case hers doesn't get me up. I want to maybe start like a drip alarm, like just hang a little tank above my head, and it just drops like three drips of water on my face to wait me up. Completely silent. Well, if it keeps going and I'm chained to the bed probably, but I think just as a wake up, it would be like, okay, I'm up.

I'm awake. I was wondering if they made novelty alarm clocks in the same way that they, like, make novelty phones. So let me share the first thing I found when I went into this. Gavin, this could change your wake up dramatically. It is an alarm clock that has a giant shooting target on the top of it and a gun. You have to shoot it off. I want a week. We get this ready to stop the alarm.

Oh, my God. We've got to get it. The craziest move to sleep with what looks like just a real gun to shoot at your, your alarm. What the, I want one of those for the office that just goes off at odd times and you have to shoot it to stop before a certain amount of time where you get punished. Look at the image I just sent of the alarm setting alarm clock. A guy dressed like a military man holding a gun protecting a baby from the alarm clock, I guess. So it's like a home invasion prepper clock.

Yeah. Yeah, you're going to be ready. Yep. You can wake up and you can bullseye every time. Bang! No problem. I like that. I love the idea of an immediate quick draw the second you wake up.

Yeah, it should have like a timer that starts at the same time so you can see what your fastest wake-up is. Or maybe in three years. seconds, the clock pulls a gun. That's awesome. That's great. And it just lets you know whether you died every morning. Andrew said that his superpower would be the time thing, but he would not

be able to do temperature. Do you guys have stuff like that? Do you have things that you absolutely cannot? Like for the life of you, you can't get it right? You can't do it right? Yeah. Do you have that stuff? Fucking Roman numerals, dude. It's been the plague of my entire life. Is that right? Yeah. I'm Roman numerals.

blind. It's a long. It happened in the third grade. I got moved up to one week. They decided they were going to move me up to advanced math. And so they moved me up to advanced math on a Monday. By Friday, they were like, this has been a grievous error. You are going back to normal math next Monday. You do not belong here. Unfortunately, the week that I was in advanced math struggling mightily, normal math got Roman numerals. And when I came back, it had already happened. And I have been, I've seen them referenced my entire life. There was a period of time. in my early 20s when I kept a laminated card in my wallet of Roman numerals just so I could look at it and not feel stupid.

Wow. So do you only know, like, clock times and Super Bowls? I don't know Super Bowls. I know clock times. He knows like Rocky movies and that's about it. I'm good on like 1 to 12, I think. That's about it. Interesting.

That's, wow. Gavin, do you have anything like that? You have stuff that you absolutely can't do? East and West. Oh, is that right? Oh, real? Real? Yeah, just like in my head for some reason

West should be to the right and I have to always like double check. West is to the left to me. Yeah, well that's because it is to the left. Do you think do you invent, when you stand, do you envision what you're facing as north at all times?

Or do you think about that way? I know that I'm not the world's north. A lot of the time it's like, you know, go west and I'm in my head I'm like right no no it's left if I'm going north damn I just I want to go back to alarm clocks very quickly because I found a scarface talking alarm and I just want to read the side of the box for the scarface talking alarm wake up to the actual soundtrack of scarface the clock doors swing open revealing

Tony Montana clutching his machine gun he screams say hello to my little friend and unloads round after round into rival gangsters. If you're in the middle of a dream about money, power, and women, the automatic snooze function lets you finish what you started. When it's time to go to sleep, press a button to hear Tony say

say goodnight to the bad guy. There's great products out there. Some real innovators. Talking like it's easy just to hop back into the original dream. Oh, it's so hard. Well hard. It's an on-ramp.

Difficult to get on. I wonder if we're about to become an alarm clock podcast. It feels like we're verging into it, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. Let's do some reviews. We'll buy four or five, and we'll each use one. Present our findings. I like that idea.

What if we all have to pick an alarm clock for someone else? It's like Secret Santa alarm clock. Oh, that's fun. That's interesting. I like that. I'm going to put it in the idea. I'm going to put it in the idea bank so we don't leave Secret Santa alarm clock, but hopefully we remember what that means later.

There is a claw machine alarm clock, which I would just be so pissed to have to deal with. Do you have to like pick up the snooze? Yeah, you have to like scoop up the ball and have it drop in the hole, I think, to stop the alarm. It's so infuriate. It's the last thing you want to deal with

when you first wake up. Be smashed so fucking fast. I really like, I'm just finding. I'm finding one's, called this is the guerrilla alarm clock. It shakes and dances. I remember that.

I've seen that before. What I really like is that it's also a blurry photo. Yes. So maybe he's just going off in the box. For those just listening, imagine Funky Kong on top of an alarm clock. You're shaking. That's about right. Oh, that's good.

Can I admit something I think is embarrassing to you guys? Yeah. I think I think I should be embarrassed about it. and I can't sign if I am or not. Over the weekend, I mentioned I watched a billion movies. One of the movies I watched was I saw police story. The old Jackie Chan film was playing at the Alamo. So I went and thought that'd be a fun thing to treat myself to.

So I went and watched police story in the Alamo. It was great. But the previews before the film, they showed a preview for the new He-Man and the Masters of the Universe movie. And I was like, oh, my God. As soon as I started, as soon as it came on, I realized what it was.

And by the end of the trailer, I realized, I think I want to see that movie. I think I liked the trailer. Wow. I think I'm into it. I think I should be really embarrassed about it, but I think it was awesome and I really kind of want to see the movie now.

If it was going to appeal to anyone, though, it should be you. Yes, 100%. You are the target demographic. I look at it and go like, I don't know, like this does nothing for me, but it should do something for you. I think that's not embarrassing because...

I mean, it is my childhood he man. Yeah, like I think that's related to you. Like I really, I really, I really was like, oh, Christ, and this shit again, but they motherfuckers won me over in two minutes. What's his power? He man? Strong? He's strong.

You know what they did that's cool? They, they, it's, uh, they had the lion and the MGM logo, you know, the Rar. Uh, they, uh, they replaced it with Cringer or Battlecat, I guess, probably. But yeah. And so he did the Rar. I, that, I lot was pretty cool. Yeah, that is for you then. Then, yeah.

The last sentence you just said 100%. Like with that sentence, we understand what you were talking about. Come on. Cringer and Battlecats the fucking coolest. We're going to record the Summer Movie League soon. And I have a concept for it to make it a little bit more interesting

this year to spice things up. I'm going to throw this idea out there. And if you guys want, you can add to it because I guess we're recording tomorrow in real time and it'll come out later. But I want it to Mario Party it a little bit and at the end of the season we spin a wheel and there are all these like different trackable things and if the movie a movie you own applies to that trackable thing

you can either add 50 million or subtract 50 million from somebody else's score what kind of thing like most dead dogs yeah no that's not on my list I'll go through the modifiers I've written and guys feel free to pitch anyone's you'd like added lowest metacritic score lowest boxoff has earned most movies delayed most movies seen meaning out of all of us whoever like if that one lands whoever saw the most summer movies wouldn't then get it most movie theater popcorn eaten outside of a movie theater okay the t bg movie of the summer oh regulation movie of the summer and then i had uh emily's choice which would be during the break show like emily writes uh a single movie into a piece of on a piece of paper

and then puts it in an envelope and it doesn't get open until the end. It could be any of that. I like that. And wait, so someone, and then what? You get to take 50 million off?

So like in Mario Party, how they do the bonus stars and you have all these random, well, not random, but it's like this huge list of preset criteria that it could be. The game randomly selects three.

So I figure we put them all on a wheel, we spin the wheel. Whatever it lands on, whatever movie it correlates to you, let's say it is most movie seen and that went to Gavin. you would then have the choice to either add 50 million to your score or subtract 50 million from anybody else.

Oh, like a cursed dice. Like a cursed dice. Well, I like this idea. I like anything that we can do to plus it up and it to... Because I think we always start strong with this thing and then we don't necessarily follow through with our enthusiasm until the end. And so anything we can do to increase that.

Also, I also feel like maybe some benefits should carry over from year to year for winning. Like you get an extra 10 bucks to spend or something. Or even just one. Or even one. Yeah, like $1 more. Like if you won all three bonus does, you could start with 103 next year. Yeah, we could definitely either

like bring that into this so Gavin would have some form of an advantage or whatever. Well, clearly it starts from this point on. Okay. We're not our grandfather Gavin's benefit. Yeah, no, fuck that. I didn't want anything like anybody saying that. Yeah. Horizon didn't come out again.

I'm just really excited to Well, maybe it will It'll be on the board We'll see if somebody gets it I like your idea, Andrea I'm just excited about the idea Of reaching out the TPG at the end of the summer Being like, what was the movie

And I think I know what it's gonna be But I just, I'm excited to You never know a TPG You're true, you never know You never know Can I ask I just want to ask a little serious question Because you talked about the wheel

I want to pose a very serious question To the group Should we buy half a car? That's not what I thought you were going to say. That's not... I thought he's going to say, should we buy a physical wheel?

Half a car. Like, should we just have half a car parked at the office? And then it just... Someone gets it. I think we have to start small if we're even considering this and go with half a wheel. And then we've got to get half a wheel first.

Half a wheel? You say it like it's any less absurd than half a car. Well, half a wheel is on the wheel. At least half a car is on the wheel. Yeah, it's like I said half of... Now, when you, when you have envisioned half a car, Gavin, how do you see the car cut? It's going to be, in my head, cut...

One way, sideways, or up down. Okay. Hamburger style or hot dog style? You'd have the front tires, the front seats, and it would just be like slumped back on the back of the front seats. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the back of the front seats. the car you'll be leaning forwards in the back seats. I think it needs to be an escalation and a punishment where it's a thing that can occur

and each time it happens to you, it gets worse. So maybe like the first time someone gets half a car, they get half a hot wheel cut in half. And then every time if it, if you get lucky, unlucky like 10 times in a row, you then end up with a full on half a vehicle. Okay. And then it just gets delivered to your house? I think so. Okay

I think that's doable Yeah You can probably Well Everyone sounds super into it It's just the like The logistics of it It's also

Gavin is not gonna end up With this half a car Which is the problem Why not? Because that's not how these things work Because you create The mass of annoyance And it doesn't end up

impacting you 99% of the time I introduced the wheel of dog shit or whatever And you immediately made me play limbo. That's what I said 99% of the time. Limbo, that's what made that so great, was that it actually blew up in your face. You blew it up in my face. Instantly. And that never happens. You know, it's a risk. I think we got to take. It could be my half car. I was going to say it would be my first car, but that's technically not true. Yeah. My first car hit Jeff

earlier this week. I did. I fell into it. Really? I, uh, well, that's actually your car. That's the upgrade car you got. Because we trade it in your old car. Yeah. Which, by the way, we won't be doing again anytime soon because fuck buying a car in 2026. Pretty pricey. God damn, dude.

How much, in your head, how much should a... I'm just going to throw a truck out. How much should a Chevy Blazer cost? 72. I don't have a license. I don't know about cost. Everything's like 120 grand now. Oh, my God. That's insane. That's a fucking house.

I know. Like, I wanted to buy a... The, we test drove that suburban, but test drove, we drove that suburban to Deputy Indiana back last year. The reason I got it was because I was considering getting a Chevy,

a Chevy because Emily wants a three row SUV. Those things are like 90 to 100 grand. For fucking Chevy anything. It's like, in my head, suburban should cost $42,000. And I realize I'm old. But God damn, dude. What is going on?

What are they on the second hand market? Not much better. Anyway, so I'm holding on to my car for the... I'm sorry, I'm holding onto your car for the rest of my life. Until the wheels fall off. Which if I bump into it too many more times, I guess it'll happen.

Before we wrap up, I have one last thing I want to share of things have been very chaotic recently at the living hotel for a while. Just a lot of different, like, stresses and whatnot. I was sitting at home, finally, you know, like got back from the hotel, was watching stuff on YouTube,

got an ad that reminds me. mind of me that it's tax season, April 15th, the deadline, caused a massive panic of like, oh shit, I got to organize, like, oh man, I got to, I thought it was at the end of the month. Oh, boy, I got to get organized. I got to do all this stuff. Scrambled, got everything kind of put together, getting help with like tax stuff. So sent it to that person. They're like, okay, we'll get to it, you know, soon, hopefully.

I'm like, well, it's fucking 15. We got to hurry. It's crazy. Two nights later, like two or three nights after I or three nights after I, organized everything, sent it off, watching YouTube, and I get an ad for the Austin YMCA. And it dawns on me that my initial thought was correct that the Canadian tax deadline is April 30th. What had happened is I had the VPN on that we use for work that makes it think that I'm based out of Austin. And I received a turbo tax ad for the U.S. tax deadline and just went into full panic.

mode thinking that was my deadline. So I am extra prepared this year. I'm getting in early. It was a deception of actual great value. Yeah, what a beneficial self-deception. That's great. Yeah. It's fantastic.

I just, I can't believe, like, if, if I wouldn't have got that YMCA ad, it never would have occurred to me that I was two weeks early for when I had to submit stuff. This is why ads work. This is why ads work. Did you guys see that, before we wrap up, did you, you know that shoe company, Allbirds? Did you see the news yesterday that they have decided to refocus and no longer be a shoe company? They're going to be an AI company.

How do you go for being a shoe company to an AI company? I don't know. Let's find out. Let's do it with this. Let's stop doing this and start doing AI. Their stock went up like fucking 180% because of it too. It was fucking crazy. Sort of like making warm childhood films and then deciding you're going to kill the character off in it.

That's a fictional world. Well, apparently that works because their stock closed up 582% after they did it. Fucking ridiculous. Yeah, I don't think it's like killing the dog. It's like turning air butt into a restaurant. Yeah. Yeah, it'd be way more into that than what they did. It's a weird fucking world we're living in in 2026.

Yeah, it makes no sense. People just say stuff. Like, yeah, blockchain, AI, and then it's just like... Yeah, it's all you have to do. You just have to say it. You don't have to mean it or have anything for it. You just have to say it. It's all a Ponzi scheme.

You're not invested in shoes. You're invested in something that someone said about the name of a company. Apparently our passion for high quality, inexpensive shoes was a lie. What we really care about is renting out AI equipment and servers to other companies or some shit. How do we get in on a... I want to do a rug pull. How do we rug pull something? I don't know how I got snapped up by rat traps today.

How do I rug pull someone? I think we should just stop Rugpole coin. Oh, we got to do like a coin? We make coins. Nobody's buying them. No, a rugpole coin. I have a follow-up from last week. I don't do with any of that.

No, I mean, what you? So we have to keep doing this? We got to do this. This is all we're good at. Oh, man. All right. I mean, I guess that's fine. I was that we're good at it.

This is all we're acceptable at. Yeah, there you go. My follow up from last week? Because we're talking about million dollar beds and I was thinking like what, you know, people who are really into sleeper called. That's not what somnophile means. Nope. Nope. Some people in the audience have let me know that is not what that is.

I think we all learned a lesson. I wasn't aware of what that meant either until I read the comments. Whoops. It's an educational podcast. Crypto. everybody got into crypto. They did a whole NFT thing. Everybody did an NFT thing.

They tried NFT for kids. That's why he died? Yeah, his heart gave out. Just trying stuff over there. The only company I'm aware of that was like openly like NFT for kids. Let's do it. Same to me.

Well, I guess that's probably it. Nope. No? No. You don't want me to end it? Oh. What's that? What's that? What do you have there?

What's that? What's that? Tell you guys a funny story. What's that, Jeff? I'm going to tell you a funny story, Eric. What is it, Jack? It's a black t-shirt that says, Never Learn in white letters on it.

And yes, it's for sale in our store. Why? Because I'm funny. But also, it's impossible to plan anything in this fucking company. Here's what happened. Gavin and I filmed Portal 4. In Portal 4, we were joking around about the shirt in Portal 3.

And we talked about how we never learn. And then one of us said, you know what? Never learn is actually a funnier shirt than the other one. And I was like, maybe we should make it. And Gavin's like, I think we did that joke into the ground. I don't think we need to do it again. And I thought, absolutely, you're right. The only way to make this funny is to do it against you now

and have me be the only one in on the joke. So then as soon as we were done filming, I went to, and I submitted to Elfamoso the Never Learned shirt. You're fucking nuts. You're an insane person. I put it into production and I timed it up so that the day before the portal four video came out, the shirt would quietly hit the store just like last time. I set this up on April 4th.

However, I realized yesterday too late to do anything, well, too late to care enough to do anything about it, I realized somehow that portal video never came out it got rescheduled for Ethergolf and so I don't know when Portal 4 is coming out

you suck it's on the calendar portal 4 comes out hey if you're listening to this on the day it comes out the shirts on sale

now the video comes out tomorrow so lock in here's me here's me on Monday April 6 texting

Andrew. Has the final portal video been edited or put on the calendar yet? No reason. Andrew said yes to both April 16th. And I said, okay, thank you. And so that's when I scheduled it for. So, but you were surely in the meeting when we moved it. Yeah. Absolutely. Because it was scheduled for that day. And then you guys were having so much fun with roadside research and you wanted to do like a roadside research week. It got pushed for that. Dude, also, I did this so long ago and then forgot about it. I set it up, I prepared it, I locked it away, it was good, and then I forgot it, but then I moved on mentally. It probably just didn't pop into my head, or I might have been not listening because I was sick or I don't know.

Who knows? There's a lot going on. Sure. Lots going on. Absolutely. You could have been mid replying to the email about this shirt while we was moving the video. It's entirely possible that happened to, yeah. I had no idea. I know, that was the point.

Yeah, that's great. But nobody had any idea because the video doesn't. exist yet. When does it come out? Comes out. If you're listening to this, the day, yep, the day you're listening to this, it comes out tomorrow. Has anyone bought one yet? Oh, uh, I don't know. Can you look

real quick? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm looking, hold on. Give me a second. I feel like I believe the I believe the opposite of this shirt, but I still want this shirt. I also feel like that launching a never learned shirt where the launch

gets fucked up based off the previous don't learn shirt where the launch got fucked up is kind of thematically perfect. I did appreciate Jeff that when you reached out and you asked me if it has been scheduled yet, I interpreted it as you had a scheme going, but that you wouldn't want to have to reschedule the video again for the scheme after you had already done it before. A hundred percent. I appreciated that you're like, okay, I have a framework for a thing, but I can't get them to change the video schedule again, even though it did end up getting changed after that interaction.

Yes, it did. I guess when Jeff and I make a video it's the easiest move to video the easiest to bump I think it was more of a reflection of how much you guys are enjoying roadside research yeah definitely are enjoying it all right sorry I'm getting this answer

for you it just takes me a second okay we've sold one we sold hell yeah there you go I will say I do like it I do like the shirt well sold one

Well, thanks for listening to this podcast. Check out that video that comes out tomorrow. On that note, let's fucking, let's end this. This has been episode 102 of the regulation podcast. If you enjoyed it, tell a friend. And obviously, come back here next Wednesday, where we'll all be here or everybody but me will be here. If that's the case,

it's because Nick finally threw the last bit of dirt on my grave. But some form of us will be here. to entertain you for episode 103. It's only seven days away. Bye. We're back. Gavin has some of them. Hell yeah.

Bonus clip. The traps. Can everyone see it? Yeah. Oh yeah. All right. I'm going to play. Here we go.

Uh-huh. This is in the morning this morning. Went to go get a cup of coffee. Coffee shop had the line too long. Frustrated, upset. Seeing if there's rats. immediately to the camera knew it was going to happen

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