Regulation Podcast - Geoff Watched Bingo // Worth Your Weight In What [82]
Episode Date: December 3, 2025Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about most useless fact, xXx, Vin Diesel, last words, paintball, Bingo, good bad dog movies, The Dog Who Saved Christmas, Jones Crayola, The Little Things, Poppi, biotics,... fruit eating, apple emoji, annoying your parents, multiverse, The Elixir, better movies, copper, fajitas, weird tech, the state of your pikachu, Pokemon, trading, Geoff cards, collectibles, a claw machine, Disco Fever, and Vancouver Goldeneyes. Sponsored by Factor. Thanks Factor! Go to FACTORMEALS.com/REGULATION50OFF and use code REGULATION50OFF to get 50% off your first box plus Free Breakfast for 1 Year. Offer only valid for new Factor customers with code and qualifying auto-renewing subscription purchase. Support us directly at https://www.patreon.com/TheRegulationPod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental content, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Regulation Podcast.
My name is Jeff Ramsey with me, as always, Andrew Patton, Eric Baddor, Nick Schwartz, Gavin Free.
This is episode 82.
Hello.
Hello.
How's everybody doing?
I'm great.
How are you, Jeff?
I'm good.
I was trying to come up with a little enthusiasm to kind of lift this up.
I could tell it.
I felt like the mood in the pleasantries was a little, not bad, just a little low energy.
And so I'm, I'm trying to.
try to raise it up right now.
And also, Andrew, you said you had a, this is going to be an Andrew episode, you had a ton
you wanted to get to.
I sure do.
What's the most, uh, ridiculous piece of knowledge that you have that is useless?
Do you have anything that comes to mind that is, uh, just completely pointless that you
know that probably nobody else does?
Because I had a, a unique experience over the weekend of S&L brought McGruber back for a
sketch.
and at the end of the sketch
the building they're in explodes
and I looked at that
and I went
that is the same explosion
that killed Exender Cage
in the first triple X movie
as a bonus feature
and I saw other people point out
that that is also I guess
the exterior building they use
for shots of Patty's Pub
which is cool now in my mind
like lore wise Zander Cage
lives above Patty's Pub
which is awesome
but I think I'm probably
the only person on the planet that looked at that and went,
oh yeah, that was a bonus feature on the Triple X DVD post.
Sane in the state, not sane, Jesus, state of the union coming out.
It was very weird.
I was thinking about in general, like, it was kind of a weird time
where they tried to resell the Triple X DVD by putting a big sticker on it
that this one contains the death of Xander Cage,
because I guess they wanted to explain why Ice Cube was in the sequel.
So they just blew up a building?
it's so much worse than that it is like four minutes long and they have a vin diesel standing like it's so clearly not vin diesel and it's him and this woman in a convertible and uh they drive somewhere and then zander cage gets suspicious he sees some like reflections and he's like oh i got to go investigate that so he goes and he checks and turns out to just be a homeless guy and then bad guys show up and make it look like they drag the lady into his apart
and he looks at the coat and they pulled the line the things I'm going to do for my country from the movie and just place it over there you never see the front of Vin Diesel's face it's all back shots and then he runs upstairs and the building explodes and then you see the chunk of the back of his face or the head with the triple X tattoo hit the pavement it's four minutes long it's so stupid it's a bonus feature it's horrendous in every way but I recognize the
explosion immediately, and I felt ashamed to myself. So I was curious if you guys have ever had
a specific piece of completely useless knowledge. I'd definitely have something. I'd love to know
what Vin Diesel thinks about that scene, though. Oh, oh, he probably hates it. He seems like a guy
with a big ego probably wasn't a fan. It felt kind of personal in a weird way. It sounds personal,
which got me wondering, why didn't he reprise his role? Was a contract dispute? Did he just not want
were they looking to save money?
Isn't it so weird that he did that
twice with Fast and
Furious and Triple? Like both of them
the sequel, he did not come back for. And then eventually
did come back. He has to sulk a couple
out first and then he'll come back.
Yeah, it's true.
He did the same thing with Iron Giant as well,
I think that's why there's no sequel.
I meant that up. He's still doing it.
He's still doing it.
What if we re-released episode 16
with four minutes of bonus
content.
Can it be the death of
Xander Cage?
Yeah, what would the four minutes
be, I guess?
Eric gets killed.
Ooh.
I'm fine.
I mean, that's fine.
Let's just get it over with.
Absolutely.
Before we kill Eric,
does anybody else have any
specific knowledge that you think
you're unique in having?
Yeah, before I die,
please know that the useless fact that I know
is that three dogs survive the Titanic.
Whoa! Really?
Yeah.
Only three.
Three dogs.
That's amazing.
I think it would be so funny for Eric to be in a
scenario where he's like tied to a chair.
There's like three dudes pacing around him and he's just like,
guys, hurry this up.
Come on.
Like, can we get this over?
Let's just kill me and get this.
It's either we're doing this or let me go because I got places to be.
There's things going on.
So either like, let's just get on the other side of this.
But before, before, they just put a gun.
right to my head, and then right before they pull the trigger, I say,
wait, wait, wait, three dogs survived the Titanic.
Those are my last four years.
I can build a early 90s Milwaukee Bansaw from parts with my eyes closed,
probably still at this day.
Whoa.
I don't imagine there's a lot of people that have the knowledge of that specific,
like 91 to 93 Milwaukee Bandsaw.
like I do, but I used to make them all the time
at the tool repair shop out of spare parts.
Probably not a lot of that knowledge left.
And I imagine the event's changed tremendously since then.
I know that if you move a paintball gun
like an inch closer,
the paintball will hit the target
like 100 microseconds sooner.
So, that is 10 inches.
I mean, it's useful for you.
Probably not more.
There's so many.
people that play bar trivia, they're going to kill it next time now.
They're set.
Also, it's very specific to my paintball gun and the amount of gas that was in it that day.
Can I ask you a question, Gav?
Yeah.
What's a microsecond?
It's a unit of time.
There's a thousand microseconds in a millisecond.
Wow.
Wow.
A thousand micro, how many, how many microseconds were in a second?
Million?
Is that right?
That's what I was asking you.
That's right.
It's a millionth of a second.
Yeah.
So a microsecond is a millionth of a second.
Yeah.
And then you go down to Nano and Pico.
Yeah, I'd heard of, I'd heard of Nano and Mila, but never micro.
Or Pico, for that matter.
Yeah, Micro is written like that weird, that funny looking you with the tail on it.
I'll take your word for it.
Yeah.
My useless knowledge.
Did you learn this from
which video was that
that you learned this on?
Was this where they were trying
to like collide the paintballs?
Yeah, we're trying to collide three
in the same space
and it took us like three months to do it.
So when did slow-mo guys start?
What was these things?
The year was 2010.
Yeah, that one, the second one.
That's awesome.
That's so cool.
Very cool.
Microseconds.
Hey, I did something
about a week ago now
and we need to do it
I sat down and I watched
Bingo the movie
a movie that's bounced around
I talked about it in our periphery
I talked about it
I told this story in the break show
that I was playing video games
with Andrew and I told him I watched it and he was like
okay and I was like you know the thing and he's like
yeah whatever and I was like no the moot
we opened the cards
and he was like oh I thought
I thought you were saying you watched somebody play bingo
and I'm like why the fuck would I watch somebody play bingo?
Bingo.
I do
do that.
Well, true.
But I don't think
I would come in.
If I would come in and I'd go,
I wouldn't come in and go,
hey, guess what I just did?
I just watched Bingo.
I would come in and go,
hey, I just played Bingo
with my wife and her friends.
You know?
That's fair.
Here's, okay.
Well, there are two things.
One, I've decidedly not been watching Bingo
because I thought we're waiting
for like a group watch.
Yeah, I thought it was a group watch.
So I had not been.
brought it up or made it, which hasn't been
discussed in years. I took
matters into my own hands and watched it without you.
That's totally fine. That's just why
my brain went bingo.
I don't think it would be the movie.
Jeff loves bingo.
Probably he's watching some bingo.
And it would be something
you'd come in with a little bit of like,
I'm having a good day. I saw some
bad while I was doing some sloppy joes.
Have they ever televised bingo?
Yes.
You can just watch people play bingo.
Uh, I don't know about people, but definitely games, just like the, the drawing of the ballpark.
I know that they, uh, they, people on TikTok just show rippers, like ladies or dudes just doing rippers over and over again on TikTok, which is insane.
Your wife's really into rippers, Gavin.
But anyway, bingo the movie, we should absolutely do a watch-along for it.
It is, and it is the most unhinged family-friendly movie I think I've ever seen in my entire life.
genuinely amazed at the violence in this film for a family-friendly dog movie.
I want to watch that.
There's some good bad dog movies out there.
There's one.
I don't remember the name of it right now.
But I believe it's essentially the plot of Home Alone and one of the burglars is Joey Diaz.
And it looks...
The comedian?
Yes, the comedian.
I think he's in like the Joe Pesci role.
And I don't remember what it's called.
It's something that I don't think ever even.
got released on like DVD or VHS like it was a home a bone what home alone?
I don't know that somebody said home of bone yeah yeah that's pretty good is this dog
movie I like that bone alone some good bonalize a different movie we also need to watch
virtual weapon at some point yes we did oh yeah yeah is I keep hearing about it the dog who saved
Christmas that sounds right
It has Dean Cain and Joey D.
I'm out.
Well, this, yeah, sorry.
Not a big Dean Cain fan these days.
You were a huge Dean Cain fan before.
Wait, is he a good guy or is he a bad guy?
Is the dog going to attack Dean Cain?
Or is it like Dean Cain the...
I...
Is the dog here legally?
Dean Cain would make sure.
He appears...
Dean Cain appears to be a bad guy.
I would guess.
Okay, well, I'm back in.
I'm back on board.
All right, as long as he gets his just desserts.
Yeah.
There you have a dog.
Dean Kane somehow tricked somebody into being the co-lead and a Denzel Washington movie.
And even Denzel couldn't carry him.
It's bad.
It's one of the worst Denzel movies because of Dean Kane.
It's a terrible.
It's called Out of Time.
Huh.
Should we do like a Falcon event or something where we do a Doggo double feature and we watch the Doggy's Christmas in Bingah?
I'm listen that sounds great to me
I don't know where we'd find a dog saves Christmas but
that sounds to look for it yeah we'll find it
we'll find it I had a insane coincidence
that was like just absurd in it occurring
but also was like the least impactful thing
that could happen that makes that it's a weird balance
of wow that's crazy that all of this lined up the way it did
but also like doesn't really change the world
or make any impact in any way
months ago I bought a special collection
Joan Soda did a branded release
that I thought was cool
where they did a creola bundle
where the box of soda looks like a giant crayon box
Oh, that's cute
and all the sodas are like different colors
of the crayons and I thought that's cool
I proved to that in like August
it finally arrived after months
and it was just kind of in my office for a while
then I eventually decided randomly
one evening recently to crack it open
but before that I started watching a Denzel movie
because I've been watching as established on this show
going through watching all his movies
and the one I was watching that evening was the little thing
starring Jared Leto and Rami Mollick
not good it's a bad one
but I was like halfway through
and then I decided I'll have dinner
I thought oh if I'm having dinner
I'll crack open a soda
so I grabbed just a random there's like
12 of them in the box I just pulled one out
enjoyed it delicious
then I noticed
there was text on the bottom of the bottle cap
and I looked at it
and the little word on it
said enjoy the little things
which coincidentally was the same
movie that I was going back
to you to watch
is that movie is that movie
Is that movie about cops?
Yes, it is a cop.
And then Jared Leto maybe is a criminal or something.
Yes.
And it's basically cops, it's basically like cops protecting cops,
even when they break the lob because it was the right thing to do or something.
Sort of, yeah.
Yeah, I remember it.
I did see that movie.
It's like professional courtesy the movie.
What are the chances that those two things would align?
And the fact that you've had them sat in your office for all that time.
That's absolutely insane.
What do you take away from the experience?
like what do you think it was trying to impart something upon you let's just let's just start with
this did you enjoy the little things no oh bummer yeah i think i saw it on plane yeah that's a
perfect place to watch it it is a movie where they set up like this that there's this crazy serial
killer who's been doing killings for like forever and they decide to end the movie without ever
laying out who the killer is even though that's a large point because they're trying to overall convey
message that you need to let things go sometimes.
Like a killer.
Like a killer that they can't catch.
Or like cops facing accountability for their actions.
Or cops facing accountability for their actions.
I think that's what I remember from the film.
Yeah.
That is, yeah, largely what it's about.
Forget it, Jeff, it's the little things.
It's the little things.
It's little things town.
It's not just like the timing of that.
I had started that movie because it was on Netflix
and then decided, I'm not feeling this tonight.
So, like, I could have watched it
almost a year ago, and I just
didn't. Just the fact that
all of those things lined up
for that moment, insane.
I'm currently
suffering through a soda-based issue
right now. You mentioned the
Jones sodas. Yeah, my wife
is not adventurous when it comes to sodas.
She's a creature of comfort, but
we were at Tosca the other day, and I saw that
Poppy, which I like very much,
had a cranberry fizz
and I thought that sounded awesome
but because it's Costco
it only comes in like a 15 pack
so I threw caution to the wind
she was like I wouldn't
I'm not gonna drink that
yeah I hope you want it and I was like of course I want it
I love cranberry I love fizz
I love poppy
so I bought it it is a
it's so bad and I have
like 13 left to drink and I
gotta get them wait what soda is this
it's a poppy cranberry fizz
bring it's you're not gonna like it but I'll bring
it to the office yeah I mean yeah but at least
can help, we can help you get rid of it.
Yeah, it's, put it in the fridge.
Nick will drink it. I will. I don't like poppy.
Oh, yeah, the can.
Oh, I love Poppy too. Don't, don't get, I love, that's why I bought it.
Poppy's the best. Don't get me wrong. And there's a great guys screaming at each other
about how much they like poppy.
But it's just, Nick, do you think you could do all 13 cans back to back?
Oh, God, no, not Poppy. That'll make you shit your brains out.
Yeah, yeah. That'd be like drinking six doses of
Relax.
Yeah.
Because of the biotics.
Yeah.
So many.
Pre, I think, right?
Pre, pro, anti, just normal.
I don't know.
Could you get post biotics?
Post biotics.
Postbiotic.
You get pro.
Or amateur biotic.
We need.
Amateur biotics.
We need amateur biotics.
We need post biotics.
We're going to design the first amateur biotic, post-biotic soda.
What if we become the first, like, biotics-focused podcast?
Like, we're very into different kinds of biotics.
Like, I found an image just sort of running down prebiotics, probiotics,
synbiotics, interesting, and post-biotics.
Unfortunately, I don't see amateur biotics, so that could be something we create.
Yeah, yeah.
We could draw goofy little picture.
COVID or whatever that is and call it antibiotics or...
No, would that exist? Antibiotics.
What was the one we're going to do?
Postbiotics? Amateur biotics?
I think I...
Guys, you got to invent something.
It's anti-biotics.
That's a real one already.
God damn. We'll be rich.
Maybe once we're past that, we can start working on reverse biotics.
I don't really know what that would be, but it sounds like we should...
Yeah.
Try and get back around to the beginning.
Do you think we should get, uh, we should get into reverse osmosis biotics?
Oh, definitely.
Oh, definitely.
We're taking the biotics out of poppy to just make it into water or regular soda, I guess.
Oh, I'd be into that.
It'll be more in a pile of cranberries.
If you could remove the biotics from poppy soda, that's my product.
I'm in.
Get me in there.
Your product is just regular soda.
Yeah, I'd be so much more excited if it was just normal soda.
I've been striking out on trying new things lately.
I went to the grocery store the day, and they had, they had watermelons, which I'm a big watermelon guy.
I don't know if you know this about me.
But they had that yellow watermelon that I keep seeing all over the internet.
And I thought, fuck it.
I'll try a yellow watermelon, right?
Really mediocre.
I don't understand what the yellow watermelon is.
It's just yellow on the inside.
It's just like a watermelon, but instead of pink, a pink rind, it's a yellow rind.
And it's, yeah.
It looks like that.
Is it a different stage of ripe or is it a different melon?
It's a different melon.
It's like a different strain of melon.
But it's got a real bland, boring flavor.
Maybe it was a bad.
It's like it got crossbred with a cucumber or something, like a squash.
It could have been a bad melon.
I'll try one more, but it was real disappointing.
Get it, bring it to the office with the poppy soda, and then we can do that.
We have to go to the store tomorrow to get all of our supplies for the Advent thing.
Oh, yeah, that's right, which we don't have anything for.
Yeah, none of that came in the mail yet, Andrew.
I hope that's not a problem.
Really? Let's see.
Let me all check on that after we finish recording.
That is not ideal.
It's like pineapple.
It does kind of...
It does.
And if you cut in a small piece,
then Gavin could tell you exactly
if it is watermelon or pineapple.
You would be so hard pressed
to say what this was with your eyes closed.
He couldn't even get strawberry, so, I mean...
That's true.
For those who haven't...
That was a Falcon thing,
or an extra medium thing, was it, on Patreon?
Yeah, it was...
It was extra medium.
Okay.
Well, okay, so on extra medium,
we did a video where I was guessing fruit
with my eyes shut, and I'm not that good at some of it.
Come on, don't say yourself short. You did very well.
You did great. It took you a long time, but you were very accurate.
I had to cut a lot of me just standing in silence and Jeff just pacing around.
Also, I guess for some reason, Nick must have been standing under an AC vent or something
because it's just constant wind throughout that video.
Oh, there is one right there. Holy shit.
I can see it from here
I had to edit out so much of like
it was that
and Jeff just not being up to stand still
and constantly cleaning up
and just making a racket all over the kitchen
yeah that's me
but I made a discovery
while I was editing this video
and here's a little screenshot from it
do you see anything weird in the apple
weird in the apple
the apple emoji I put in the bottom
right
there's there's kind of like a haloing around like the top left of it I guess
so I put it on black and I made it big and there's something going on with the
Apple emoji wait it's a tomato is that a tomato it's like there's a tomato
stuck behind yeah or something like they've messed it up and it's on every like it's on
the phone did you just crack something did you just crack something white open that
nobody knew about I think I've I've made a discovery that I didn't see anyone on Google
talking about you crack the
I crack the apple case.
Someone needs to fix the apple emoji
because there's a ghost tomato
stuck behind it or a ghost apple or something.
We really are an Apple podcast.
We really are.
We tried to be a biotics podcast,
but we are truly an Apple podcast.
Okay, Nick has posted a picture of the vet.
Yeah, he was stood directly under that the whole video.
Well, I have a thumbnail for the episode now.
That's great.
He uses apple.
Yeah, with the tomato.
That's crazy.
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I have a question for you guys,
if you don't mind.
Does anybody else have any specific knowledge?
None that I could call out in that way.
I feel the same way with specific knowledge
is that it's so dependent on situations
where you go, oh, unfortunately,
I know something more about this.
Yeah.
Well, let me ask you guys a different question then.
I was on a bike ride this morning
and I got the thinking about
well, actually I was listening to a different podcast
and they were talking about when they were kids
and how exciting it was to go to wrestling events
and that was never something I wanted to do
but that got me thinking about like
what was the thing that when I was a kid
I bugged my parents about and I was like
please buy tickets to this, please take me to this event
and the only thing I could come up with Wyatt too
I had the Hall of Notes concert that they took me to
for my I think 12th birthday
which I begged for like six months to get tickets to that
and they took me and that was cool
but the only other thing I could think of is
when I was a kid I used to I really want to go
to a water park. I lived in Florida for a long time.
And my mom never took me to a
water park. And at one point, I
wanted to go so badly. I wrote a novel
about my mom taking me to a water
park. And then I gave it to her.
As in like, look at the effort I've put in.
You should definitely take me to a wet and wild
now. And she didn't. And so I never,
I don't know that I've, I guess as an adult
I've been to Fluegerville or to
the Schlitterbaum, rather. But, uh,
and then I was thinking like, Millie, I remember
taking her to see Panic at the Disco and her
begging to see Panic at the Disco in Middle
school and her begging to see two dudes named Dan and Phil, who I still don't quite know who they
were. But there were a lot of people there. I think, yeah, there's some kind of YouTube sketch
comedy thing. Yeah, I remember. It was fine. She had the time of her life. But what was it for you
guys when you were kids? Was there something you just annoyed your parents about? I wrote an essay about
why I needed a PSP. You know what? I was wrong about that. You didn't appreciate the PSP
when you got it? No, like I tried. I really tried hard. But no, that was not a great. Great
system. I had a PSP. That thing sucked. Oh, I thought that was, I never had it. I thought
that was always love for the PSP. Or was it there is a lot of love for. I think people love for the
Vita, I think, more so than the first one. Oh. I could be wrong about that. But yeah, it was
essentially a portable movie player for me. I didn't play a lot of games on it. But I did write, I did
like picture art for it and like did a whole pitch kind of similar to you with the water
park of why this is a great device and why I need it and how great it would be to have.
So you enjoyed it more in your piece of fiction than you did when you actually got in real life?
I definitely enjoyed the advertising campaign as to why it was cool significantly more than
the device itself. I love the idea of trying to advertise sneakily to your parents, like putting
up leaflets around the house, just like trying to get in the subconscious.
Yeah. Well, I did a whole pitch and it eventually worked. But yeah, I don't know. Like I, it was a platform that I used to watch the movie Stealth and Triple X. That was about it.
All roads come back to Triple X. Yep, they sure do. On this podcast, they do.
Yeah. Like, was there a, like a football game you always wanted to go to, Gav, or like a, or, I don't know. Were you, what were you, were you into anything as a kid like that? I know you had your dad bring you to America to see.
red versus blue live, but you were a little bit older.
You were like 18 at that point.
Yeah, I got to see, I was 17.
I got to see episode one of season four early ahead of the internet.
It was wicked.
I'm trying to think of, I think a water park was on my list.
There was a place called Aqua Splash that had that, uh, that ride, it's not really
a ride, a slide where you go down into the bowl and you spin around a few times.
And I went there and I freaking whacked my head on the bowl as I went in, never went on
it again.
Went in, learned my lesson.
Yeah.
Came out.
And I think I bang my knee on the, on like the rim of the ball as I fell into the water at the bottom, too.
I think I just got beat up.
I wasn't ready to like clench up.
I think I was too loose in the ball.
Too loose in the ball.
I have that problem.
Every fucking noise.
Oh, Christ.
Did you, like, did you get to see wrestling events when you were a kid, Eric?
Uh, some, but they were more just kind of like.
like the bigger WWF stuff and everything
when I was younger
I remember like really wanting to see Spider-Man
1 when it came out but I was like
right around like high school or whatever
so it was like well somebody has to take me because
that's like a whole thing but then I wanted to go with my friends
so that was a whole thing
no like there wasn't a lot of stuff
that I was like dying
to go do
I remember really wanting like
a Nintendo 64
like that was a whole thing but that like
yeah that was just like so much
want and want and want uh eventually getting it i think probably for christmas but man that like
never really going anywhere i feel like we always went places like i went to a lot of baseball games
when i was a kid uh my dad had tickets through his work that nobody used because the padres were
so bad for so long so we would just go to a lot of baseball games so we never really wanted for
like oh we got to go to this thing yeah yeah yeah for me it was always like a video game thing
that i wanted that that's really it anything for you nick
You know, I remember my dad was a big adopter for Net Zero, which was a not-pay dial-up service.
And I just remember being like, I just, can we please get, even AOL, I don't care.
I just, because I used to play StarCraft and like Diablo 2.
And so the little bar that was across the screen, whenever you clicked on it, it would take you out of the game and like open up an ad for you.
so I was always just getting my ass kicked in all these games
I was like please please please get internet
and then on a random trip that my mom took us on
we came back and he had surprised us
with not only high speed internet blown away by that
he also got cable which we did not have
and never had when I was growing up until I was
I think 12 so he finally was like
here you go you get all this stuff
but I just remember begging for that over and over
I remember getting a cable box
for the first time as a kid
and how exciting that was
that wasn't a thing I was begging for
because I didn't know
it was a thing I was missing in life
but having like
it would just so many more channels
and like the little pop-ups
on the screen
and it was crazy
what the pop-ups
just like a thing that would indicate
what channel you were on
and what the program was
I like the guide and all that
yeah like the guide
and like having a UI
and all that
it was like well this is
we're in the future
I will say I think
we all pretty much always had cable
growing up but I was always jealous
of kids with satellite because we would have like
40 channels on cable and they would have like
a thousand on satellite
they were not real channels and it was always
bullshit but it sounded so cool
and the satellite dude shit with like NASA
was in your backyard
yeah I feel like England went more down the satellite
route than the cable route
everyone had a dish
did you see the post
there's someone I don't know if it was on Reddit
or Patreon or somewhere
but we apparently
completely messed up the worst day's draft
and what did what does that mean
two different draft ideas I think
was it okay
I think the the draft
we had discussed an idea
for a worst days draft initially
previously well far before we did
the best days worst days draft but that idea
I think was picking who was having
the worst day in like a movie or something
yeah like characters who are just
characters are just going through it yeah
oh that's like that's a fun idea
Michael Douglas and falling down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's a, oh yeah, I didn't even, dude,
I don't remember having that discussion at all.
That's a great idea.
Oh, me either.
That's, if that's an us idea, we should do that.
That's fantastic.
I think it was a Jeff idea, but then,
didn't you pitch that and then I think you just read it
and then decided to do best days and worst days?
Probably.
I'm going to write, you think,
the best days, worst days was driven purely by thinking it was funny
to do them back to back.
Yeah, yeah.
That's what I thought.
I'm going to write fiction.
a worst day's draft.
I like that.
Like who had the worst days?
It's probably one of those things
where like in the moment
the new idea sounded like a funnier direction
in my head or we got two videos at it
instead of one so you just pivot
and modify it, you know?
I was thinking about fluid like water
with your ideas.
Sort of multiverse idea
of there being an alternate timeline
where everything that could happen
does happen.
I was thinking about fictional characters.
Does that mean there's a universe
where John McLean is
real. The plot of Die Hard
just happens. What do you mean?
If every
if there is a like a different
timeline in which every
scenario that could
theoretically happen does happen
does John McLean exist
as we know him in some
timeline. But why go to John
you might as well say if everything
if every possible timeline has happened
did you get hit in the forehead by a
horse cock when you were younger?
That's less interesting to me than John McClain.
Not severe, isn't?
Well, that's you.
Why are you bringing the horsecocks into this?
Why is he all excited about a horsecock?
Get him, like, juiced in this conversation,
so he started thinking about horsecocks.
Well, I just don't know why.
If you open up the pool to infinity, why go die hard?
Yeah, you could have gotten Thanos.
Well, one, because he's fictional and two,
because I feel like just the idea of a real-life John McLean
having to go through all the things that he goes through
is funny to me.
So skyscraper terrorism.
airport terrorism he goes to russia he does a lot of things he does i think he jumps a motorcycle
onto a jet right new york terrorism doesn't he back a police car into a helicopter or something as
well he launches one yeah oh so you're saying there's a there's a universe where not it's i just i guess
i thought just the first diehard happened but you're saying all of the diehards occurred in one
universe it's like a real guy that just but then i guess in the scenario in which john mclean
real, there's scenarios where he doesn't do any of that, which is also funny to me.
There's, there's fucking some, there's a scenario, there's a universe where he says,
yippy kaye, motherfucker, and then stubs his toe and falters, and they shoot him.
Yeah, I wonder, like, who is closest to a John McLean, it must be like a Navy SEAL or something
who just did crazy missions back to back. I'm trying to think of another line of work where you
could end up in all those situations. Do you think in one of the John McLean,
There's a movie that they all watch about a guy named Andrew Panton who does John McLean's type stuff
Oh that would have to exist too right like they have to watch movies that's true
McLean's universe they have to be entertained that's good point I like that Gavin was trying
to find a job where it would make sense a different job as if John McLean's job made sense as to why he
was doing all those things well wasn't he a cop yeah he's a cop like none of the scenarios he was in
aligned with
yeah if he was a roofer
I assume he wouldn't have gotten involved
what was
what was the job involving horse cocks
that Gavin was trying to come up with
what are you talking about what job
vet
that jockey
well yeah
that could be a friend
you know there's just a universe
where it's exactly the same as what it is here
but just one of them
a horse cock just knocked out a jockey
like
oh wait so it's not even
This universe. Maybe it's happened here. Who knows?
I think if one of us was knocked out by a horse cock, we wouldn't be in this situation
we're in now. I think that would have steered the life off in a completely different path.
Really? Yeah. You think if Eric took a horse cock to the face, age 11, he would be...
I don't think it changes his life in the way that you're disgusting.
He'd probably, yeah, he probably still be an intensive therapy at a home somewhere.
Or he might be dead. Yeah. It's true.
We'll have some, like, big
conkin print on his head. Or he might be, he might be
really into horse cocks.
Yeah, I'll do a gavit style.
Yeah.
Could be rich from the settlement.
I had a follow up to the mundane
coincidences in the movie thing.
I got weird.
The next night, after I watched the little
things, as just looking at stuff
on Netflix to watch, and I got
recommended a
zombie movie, like a
foreign zombie movie called the
Elixir, which is all about,
like herbal company like a herbal drink company putting out a new like essentially
live longer type beverage but it turns everybody into zombies and things go
wrong I watched about half of it then went to bed woke up the next day got the
mail and waiting for me was a package from a company that I'm assuming potentially
wants to be a sponsor of the podcast that is
a herbal remedy
for like just general
things like general alertness
and a vervent type thing
and I could not believe it
following up I was like I need to stop watching movies
this is yeah how are you getting
this coincidental stuff with it you gotta start watching
it was within 48 hours
yeah what movies what movie was this
it was called the elixir
and then the next day
plot of eye zombie the TV show
maybe and the video game
Sunset Overdrive, I think.
No idea about that.
Sunset Overdrive was like, yeah, drinking a drink
and everyone turned into like monsters or whatever.
Yeah.
Weird.
Yeah, watch movies where people find gold and stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah, watch movies where people find gold.
Watch city slickers the legend of Curly's gold.
Oh.
You know what people say like,
oh, this person's worth their weight in gold?
Mm-hmm.
I would have to, I've just put it in Google.
I would have to be worth 13,400,000.
And it made me wonder, what am I worth my weight in?
Like, am I worth my weight in coal?
Or, like, something shitty?
Like, copper.
I'm trying to think.
What will be worth your weight in?
Like, in terms of what I potentially generate for a company.
It'd be interesting to see what elements were worth.
What elements were worth?
Yeah, sure is shit, not gold for me.
Maybe salt?
What if instead of like, that's how raises work, they change your element as opposed
to like 2% more of that element, like, oh, I've upgraded, like it's a fucking multiplayer
rank.
I'm diamond this year.
That'd be so cool though, to have a, like a video game-esque rank for you, to mark
your performance at work.
Kind of dystopian, actually.
It is.
That was a draft idea I had, by the way, was dystopian business practices draft because I was just inventing them in my head.
I came up with, imagine if DoorDash and Uber Eats started having like exclusive menu items for different restaurants and how dog shit that would be.
And I think it's absolutely something that could happen in our 2025 reality.
What are you talking about?
Oh, do they?
Yeah, there's stuff you can get that's exclusively on DoorDashire.
Dash or Uber Eats.
For real?
Well, yeah, for chain restaurants.
Oh.
Okay.
Well, yeah, I'm really good at this then.
Not only that, they did, like recently, Wendy's had, like, a barbecue burger, and the only way to get it initially was through Uber Eats.
It was, like, an early exclusive.
Taco Bell does some, like, app-only stuff, too, or, like, you can only get a chili cheese video through the app or whatever.
Not right now, but, yeah.
Yeah.
A lot online exclusives.
Yep.
Yeah, I think I'd only heard of like entire restaurants being exclusive to a delivery service,
but not like a single menu item.
Not an item on the menu.
Yeah, that was just extra level shitty.
But yeah, I guess that is where we are.
If you can dream of it being shitty, it's probably already a shitty reality.
That would be an interest.
I'm thinking about worth the weight of.
and obviously that doesn't mean
as literal as you're interpreting it
but it would be interesting to find
like to look at
what a person like
whoever's listening
your yearly salary
and then applying that to like
how many burgers you could get
worth your weight in burgers
how many burgers is that
or I guess hot dogs or like
whatever you want it is a fun
I do like the idea of a burger
being a unit of measurement
yeah a unit of value
It does become complicated
because there's a range of burger values.
You get the value menu,
you got a double burger,
you got a bacon cheese.
I think you just pick a burger
and it becomes the regulation
default burger that you choose by.
Like a McDonald's cheeseburger or something,
you know?
I've looked up copper
160 pounds.
I've just rounded my weight to 160 pounds.
160 pounds of copper is worth
$803.
Okay.
How much are you worth?
How much are you worth?
How much are you worth in palladium?
Ooh, palladium?
160 pounds.
How do you spell palladium?
I think I've only dealt with that.
P-A-L-L-A-B-I-U-M, I think.
160 pounds of copper is only 800 bucks?
Why is everyone ripping it out of walls and shit?
Yeah, no kidding.
What the fuck?
I thought it would be way more than that.
Bies a lot of cigarettes and beer, I guess so.
Damn.
It's probably pretty heavy.
If you just get like a big bundle of wire,
there's probably a lot of copper in it.
Dude, my uncle, he used to work as an electrician
and he would take all scrap copper and stuff
from the week and throw it in his truck
and come over to my grandparents' house
in the weekend and just drink beer
and listen to country music
and just strip fucking copper wire
in the backyard all night long.
Really?
A lot of my child.
Whoa.
Whoa.
And then he'd go make an extra 80 bucks or whatever.
My people hustled.
We made money where we could.
Palladium is $1,400 for what, though?
Is that a pound?
Is that a grand?
It's $1,400.
Palladium is harder to figure out for me.
I think one palladium, please.
Here's $1,400.
Just give me one palladium.
What's the Troy ounce?
Is that, what's a Troy pound?
We only found out that microseconds exist, so I don't know, man.
What's a Troy second?
That ends every clicker game experience for me
Or like you're generating money in these games
And then it gets to a level of value
That I don't understand
And I just I stop every time
That's the end of the game for me
The number gets too big and you go
Yeah, I don't recognize these symbols
And it's like I can't even like imagine this
So it's not even fun
What's an example?
I don't like it
I feel like I've seen like a QC before
Quality Control
Yeah
But dollar wise
you get millions and billions and hundreds of billions
and then once you get past that
it becomes hard for me to imagine
and that's sort of the fun of being like
oh every time this guy does this thing
and every 10 seconds it's a million dollars in the game
once it gets to a currency level
that is hard for me to comprehend Bezos money
I guess some could say
on how much a Bezos fart is worth
like how much money does he make while farting
we can figure that out
Probably kid.
Average person farts 20 times a day.
Probably takes one second to fart, maybe two seconds.
You think that's high?
No, I don't, I don't fart that much.
What if we'll do, we do, like, farting into a bag day
and see who inflates the bag the most?
Oh, my God.
Like that Mario Party mini-game where they inflate the, uh, the Bowser?
Yeah.
Who's going to have the biggest fart back?
I feel like I go through farting phases.
I hope it, I'll have to catch it at the right time.
Because they're phases.
I may fart like three times on a Wednesday, you know?
But then like 40 times on a Thursday.
You just never know.
What are you eating Wednesday nights?
That's a good question.
The last night I had the worst fajitas.
I made him.
It sucked.
Oh, no.
Yeah, I was real bummed, man.
I decided I wanted to cook fajitas.
I thought that'd be a nice little thing for Emily to come home to
because this is the bad time of the year for her and she's exhausted.
and plus she broke her toe the other day
and she's just like working through it
and it's been a whole thing.
Her toe's like, it looks like it's blo.
Oh, God, it's gross.
It's fucking black.
She calls it her zombie toe.
Anyway, she like sticks it in my face a lot.
It's really disgusting.
Anyway, so I decided to make her fajitas.
I thought that'd be a nice little surprise
and I went to the store to buy fajita meat
and it was all turkeys for Thanksgiving.
And I thought, of course it is.
Why would I, why would I buy fajitas in November?
Why would I expect to find fajita's meat in November?
But also I live in Texas and it's 86 degrees outside
and I rode my bike in shorts
and it came home too sweaty.
So I feel like grilling is probably still on the table.
So I went to three grocery stores
before I found fajita meat and then it wasn't very good.
What is fajita meat?
Just like shitty meat?
Yeah.
Well, it's like cut up skirt steak.
Yeah.
Like surely if you couldn't find fajita meat,
you could you just hack up a steak?
I could have hacked up a skirt steak myself
but it was already marinated
and cut up, and I'm not looking to put that much work into this thing.
I don't have all the time in the world.
If I'm going to marinate meat, I want to do it for a while,
and I had this idea at like 4 p.m.
It was more just like, oh, I'll just run over to Whole Foods
and get some, nope, all right, I'll just run to eat you beat.
Nope, I'll just go to the, okay.
I don't even know why we're talking about.
Oh, because that, because that, but it didn't result in farts.
Oh, okay.
Oh, right. Okay.
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I've just realized in the,
between people talking in this podcast,
I'm so distracted because I bought new headphones
and when there's silence,
I can hear my earblood.
What?
I can like hear my heartbeat.
What the fuck?
Okay.
That's just a crazy way to say heartbeat.
Well, I can't hear my heart, I can't hear my, I can't hear my, I can't hear my heart, I can feel, I can hear it, I can hear like the blood in my ear veins, I guess, I can hear plugs, I can hear my heart when you do it, that I'm not a fan.
Could you really?
Yeah, I feel like you can.
I feel like, uh, your body looks for sound and that's internal, so.
Yeah.
You can hear it.
It'd be cool if you could just tell your body, like I'm not interested in any sounds right now.
You don't have to, you don't have to, you don't have to give me all the information.
Like I assume my blood's moving
That's fair
I might have to return these headphones
They're like too
Too good
Yeah
Too sealed
Do you think you'll get used to it?
Like sometimes when I've swabbed headphones
Before and I couldn't hear myself
In them
There's definitely a phase of like
Oh this is terrible
Then you get used to it and then
you lose it
Maybe you need that
Maybe after a while you'll be like
I can't believe I lived without this
without hearing my heartbeat
yeah
do you think you'll miss it? You might not even notice it
you might be like oh fuck am I still alive
I don't have that comforting heartbeat to listen to
maybe
maybe I should stick
a
stick a microphone in my ear and record it or something
and then I'll listen to it and see if that's
why I'm hearing
yeah
sure go for it I think you have a microphone
that you can put in your ear currently
yeah
really interesting
well I mean a laugh mic would fit
down my earhole.
Sure.
Okay.
So what's...
It's you really surprised?
Then you're like, oh.
Oh, I didn't know you had one.
So how about that?
I've also got one of those, like, contact, what they called?
The mics that you actually, like, stick to something?
Like, you, like, suction them on?
Section cut?
No, they pick up, like, the low frequency of materials.
Oh.
Remember.
Well, and then we're not going to get it.
Nick's the only chance we had in that one.
Yeah, we struck out.
Yeah, we struck out.
It's like a mic that you stick on something?
Oh, yeah.
Huh.
Is it like the thing we did and does it do?
Yeah, is it like a magic ear?
Oh, well, yeah.
What was the, that was the thing you yelled in?
Almost blew up my eardrum.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, that is funny.
That was so funny.
You must have some weird,
specific like recording and or tech stuff for what you do with slow mo guys Gavin what's
one of the weirder items you have that like you just don't get to pull out often
I don't listen like weird probe lenses at funny angles and yeah I guess that like contact
mic is kind of weird you don't use that all the time is there any greater joy than when
someone says like oh I need this incredibly specific thing and you get to go I got it I'm
ready yeah isn't that so satisfying where you're like I've got this I had something that
someone needed recently. It was like
a screwdriver that only Nintendo
uses. Yes.
I was like, yeah, I got it. Whoa.
That's crazy.
If you need to open up like an old
retro console or like a virtual boy
or something, I've got you covered.
You were going to
try something, Gavin, that you texted
me about.
And I was curious, what's the state of your
Pikachu at the moment?
So the thing I'm going to try, I was reading a thing that, you know,
it's getting to the point where a lot of my childhood is dying.
Like VHS tapes are going all gammy and you've got to like back them up
because like the magnetic shit's coming off them.
And like Game Boy games, the batteries are dying around now.
So I was thinking, I need to save my Pikachu.
I need to get my Pokemon yellow Pikachu off that cartridge
and get him through the generations up into a modern Pokemon game.
But it's very difficult to get them off like a geniechew.
one and two
cartridge.
There's some weird
like hackery
to be done
but I think it's possible.
So when you say
hackery you're gonna have
to go beyond
the maybe initial designs
of what Nintendo allows
to have this happen?
Yeah,
I'm potentially gonna have
to dump the
ROM off my cartridge
to a PC
and then potentially
try and use a different hack
to trade him
onto a Gen 3
and then just keep trading
him up.
Eventually get him
into Pokemon Bank
which is like
a delisted DS thing
that you can still get
And then into an app called Pokemon Home on the Switch
where all of your current Pokemon can just live in a box
But I think it'd be so cool to be like
Oh yeah, I met this Pikachu in 1998 or something
That is cool
This is fascinating
I would love to see you chronicle that process
That sounds really neat
I think I'm going to try and document it
Because I think it's going to be weird to be able to say
This Pikachu is older than all my real pets
And it could actually outlive all of
pets, all of my pets and me.
Yeah.
It's like buying a bird.
Because I am always sad that as a kid,
I was always selling my last thing to buy like a secondhand new thing.
So I don't have my original Super Nintendo or my original N64 with like my original
Donkey Kong 64 save on it.
But for some reason, never sold the Game Boys.
The game, like my Game Boy games are the oldest, the oldest game saves I have.
And I kind of love that.
That's so cool.
You should go in and check the batteries on this and replace them.
You need to.
Yeah, I checked my Pokemon yellow cartridge and a Pikachu lives.
So I need to back him up as soon as possible and then try this.
It's just weird jank.
Pikachu lives.
I want to meet this Pikachu on a modern day console at some point.
That's what I was going to ask is if, let's say you get him to home, which sounds like the end goal.
Is there any, like, modern game you're able to use him on?
I think potentially I could trade him into Pokemon Scarlet or maybe Pokemon A, Z, or whatever
the new one is, and he could just be in my...
Really?
I think he's like a level 71 Pikachu or something.
He definitely smashed the Elite 4 in Pokemon Yellow.
That's so cool.
I was very excited.
Pokemon Yellow, the first of the Pokemon games?
No, it's the first one I had.
The first one that came out in Europe was the, I think the same ones as the US, which was
red and blue. Oh, so it went red, blue, and then yellow. Yeah, and in Japan it was like red, green and then
blue. Okay. But yeah, it's just like, it's Gen 1. They did the color thing, from what I
understand, to try to compete with Mario sales. Oh. Oh, is that true? I heard they made it
red and blue in North America because of the flag colors. Oh. Really? Maybe. Maybe no one really
nice. Well, I don't think the color is
the reason as to why
they sold two different versions of it
was to try to compete with Mario S
did I assume it works? Is red and are they different games
like blue a different game from red? Yeah, like
slightly
it's just the
because you can't get all 150
if you just play blue
you have to have red
because it has a few
Pokemon in that specific
versus blue
specific and there's Pokemon that evolved by trading that was the thing that they wanted you to do was
like you get this one and then your friend gets the other one and then you trade the Pokemon or
whatever to fill up your Pocodex. So you wouldn't buy red and blue. You'd just buy red and then
have a friend with blue and then there's a trade to get it that way. I had blue when I was a kid.
My brother had red but I had a friend, Jace and we would ride our bikes to an ice cream shop and
trade Pokemon because he had Pokemon red and it was like that's where we would
would meet up and trade Pokemon and be like, hell yeah, dude, now we don't have to bring
this stuff to school because someone might take it.
So, yeah, I only ever traded between current gen.
I, I don't think I fully understood that you could trade Pokemon up generations.
Like, you could wait for three years and then use your Pokemon in the next game.
I think that's so cool.
You don't really get a lot of stuff like that now.
No.
Yeah, that is very cool.
But I also determined, looking through all this Pokemon crap, I don't remember any of the,
any of the games.
Like, I play Pokemon X.
I don't remember that for shit.
So I think I'm just going to play Pokemon Y, the other one of that.
And then I could potentially complete a polka decks, which I've never done.
Is why the most current one?
No, it's from like 2013.
It was just, I think, the last one I played properly.
Talking about Pokemon made me think about it.
I was a perfect age for it.
I loved it.
I had a bunch of the cards.
Everybody, all the kids than I knew were super into Pokemon and getting the cards and
like collecting them.
and we did like a neighborhood trade between me and like four or five of the other kids in the neighborhood and my mom moderated it to make sure like things remained fair
and thinking about the value of those like initial run cards now like at the time it was like whatever just making sure cards in cards out for people but the value of those cards in good condition now it's so funny of thinking back
of how much money probably passed back and forth,
theoretically, with those things.
I bet 160 pounds of Pokemon cards
could be worth their weight in gold.
Oh, yeah.
Depending on the cards.
Absolutely.
And the grading?
Yeah.
Insane.
It's funny to think back of those things
that, like, are worth not nearly as much
as they are currently.
Jeff?
The value expense.
That's me. I'm Jeff.
If you had to take your weight,
in cards you don't get to pick what cards they are you just get a random weight of the cards that
you own like your weight how much do you think they would be worth just a random amount like
let's say you're you're 230 pounds so i'm like 185 pounds so that's you got 185 pounds of
random cards that you had do you think they would be worth your weight in gold or
Or what do you think?
Would they be copper?
What's my weight in gold?
Gavin, look up 185.
Are we talking tops?
We talking Panini?
I think it's just got to be like a random.
Like if you had to guess like a mean amount.
I'd like to put some containers on it in the second,
but I want to hear what this weight is.
I somehow accidentally Googled 1985 golf.
What can you tell me about 1985 golf?
Well, 185 pounds of gold
is $11 million.
How about I get $30 million from...
I mean, I could put together
$11 million in two cards,
but yeah, if it's just a random,
that's the thing, it's like,
is it sport, a multi-sport?
Can I just, can I pick a sport?
Can I say only basketball cards?
Yeah, you can pick a sport.
Is there a potential for Vintage in there as well?
Yeah, I mean, if you...
If you own it, sure.
It would be a random assortment of cards that you have.
Oh, then I own.
Yeah.
So you're asking if I have $11 million in cards?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't bat an eyelid when you're like,
I could work together $11 billion.
That was, I was really impressed.
I'm like, wow, he must have some really cool cards.
I was just thinking of it in general.
No, I mean, you're just asking me what my card collection is worth.
I had nothing.
Oh.
185 pounds of silver is $138,000.
Do you think you can make that?
Oh.
Uh, no.
Okay, 185 pounds of aluminum is 236 bucks.
You think you make that?
Okay.
I'm somewhere in between those two.
Yeah, absolutely.
So I'm between $100,000 and $230.
I'm on the mark of smarts alone.
Yeah, I mean, I have, I mean, I probably have $10,000 with a market of smart cards.
The problem is how you're going to get somebody to buy them, you know?
So out there, there are two cards that would combine to be $11 million.
Sure. That'd be such an easy way of moving money internationally.
It's converting it to those two cards and just sticking them in your pocket.
Yeah.
Going through border control.
Yeah, I'm sure you wouldn't be nervous the whole time or anything.
I'm sure it would be so easy.
Well, I mean, more easy than a briefcase of cash.
Well, here we go. I can do it even easier than that.
The 2007-2008 upper deck exquisite collection, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, dual logo man cards sold for $12.932 million.
What? Like, if you, I get having like a lot of money and then you're spending it on like crazy stuff, whatever, but like one card 12 million? Like, what do you do with it? That's crazy. It's just an investment. I would have zero joy. This is the card. You just, you sit in it, you sit in it like a stock. That's the card I was thinking of that Mickey Mantle. I guess it's just like having a big, big old fat brokerage account except it's one card.
Yeah. And a lot of people are, uh, I've seen this a lot online are recommending a lot of
people are recommending that you put an amount of your investment into collectibles,
not necessarily cards, but maybe like two to five percent of, uh, of your investments into
car, some, some form of collectible, whether it be art or just to get physical and like,
yeah, to diversify to have some sort of, P-proof. Yeah, exactly. Interesting. And if you look at how much
cards have gone up in value, the right cards have gone up in value.
I mean, it's good. We're doing that as a company. We have all these
skateboards. We got Larry King stuff. We have the tuxedo.
We got keys to cities. Yeah, we're diversifying. This is good.
Speaking of a diversifying, I saw something I think maybe we need. I'm going to put
it, post it in the Slack or in the Discord.
Okay, Discord.
Costco.
Oh. Oh, the SpongeBob Claw machine?
Yeah, we could, we could buy a SpongeBob.
claw machine today for six hundred bucks. I don't want our own claw machine. I don't know.
I don't want our own claw machine. I want to take this money, go to a claw machine place,
and fucking bleed them dry. Yes. What if we had a claw machine and it was full of Gurpas?
Okay. Oh. For what? Yeah. Okay. You want to step two?
A drink?
I'm just saying, I feel like we've discussed having one in the past.
I feel like we could find something cool to do.
I'm not saying we should buy this one today.
I'm just saying they're out there and they're affordable.
They're attainable.
Maybe we could hook it up.
So we just stream the claw machine and then people take it in turns to control the machine
and if, you know, they can win gurpers in it.
I do like that idea.
I'm just thinking about it as a child.
Because you're talking about Jeff, like what's the things you were, you would ask for?
on a smaller scale
anytime I saw a claw machine
I was a fucking annoyance
I wanted in
give me a dollar
I could take this whole operation
down with $2 just give it to me
I get so excited
when I was a cat
claw machines came a little bit later
for me it was it was
gumball machines that had
50 cent stickers in them
and then you would just get these two pieces
of cardboard and you'd open it up
and it just have like this fucking
metallic looking sticker that said like
rad dude
or something oh yeah
I'm just thinking about if for like a
birthday or something and I got super spoiled
$650 just for claw machines
oh my god dude this this is the thing
when I go to something like pinball
this is the thing that I spend all my money on
it is called disco fever I love this machine
specifically it's like the only coin pusher that I play
it's my favorite they used to have it at the
real way up north one the
Lake Creek or like whatever it is.
That, but apparently they don't make parts for it anymore.
And I met the guy who worked on it.
And I'm like, oh yeah, you guys bring it back Disco Fever.
And you went, don't ever fucking say that name to me.
And I went, all right on, man.
Cool.
Why?
Apparently, like, it's so fucking hard to repair.
It was always in disrepair, but they have one at regular pinballs, normal pinballs.
And so I go there and I play that.
I love that game.
It can't be harder to repair than that freaking horse racing game.
I think it might be neck and neck with the horse racing game.
Here's a company that sells coin pusher machines.
We can just buy new.
Yeah, that Angry Birds one is fun.
I play that one sometimes.
They look on tornado on page two that looks pretty cool.
Oh, cool.
Sometimes it's a shame we don't have like an RTX to do stuff at anymore.
I imagine if we sold the fuckface coin.
But then at RTX we had like an exclusive new coin.
But the only way you could get it was to put your fuckface coin in a coin pusher and hope that it came out.
crazy.
That would be so
nuts.
Wow.
We should do that.
Well, I like,
yeah.
We'll start selling our
fuckface coin now and just say
like one day in the future, you may
be able to use it for a chance
at a new coin that we made.
And a different coin, but you'll probably
just give the coin you bought from us back to us.
Yeah, and we're going to resell it.
You're going to hate it.
It's unfortunately way too scammy, but I do like the idea of like a maybe for something in the future.
Like buying something that you might be able to use one day.
It's like buying a coin for a subscription service for a coin.
You just keep trading it back and forth.
They did a collector's edition, I believe was I am 8 bit for blueprints that I bought because it's one of my favorite games of all time.
I bought that too.
And in it, it has a coupon for future blueprints merchandise.
So it's like, I don't know what this is for, but.
wait did you arrive
no I just ordered it
he was so
he was about to get up
Gavin was so
he was mine
it's the only
I want it
I want it now
I'm kidding
what up
Gavin it's in a coin
pusher and you need to use a
fuckface coin to possibly push it out
it's the only way
now would you buy
a gift
a piece of
I don't know a collectible
or ephemeral like this, Gavin.
Do you buy three of them
like every Bo Burnham album or you just get the one?
Okay.
Yeah, I don't want three of anything useless.
Like, I have been known to buy multiples of stuff.
I like that you got this, Gavin,
because there's collectible keys in that thing.
You and I are going to have to talk.
We're going to have to exchange what you got.
We got to get, Andrew, we got to get your mom involved
to make sure it's on the up and up.
We'll just do this trade in front of your mom.
It's so funny too
Because she had no idea what she was doing
She was just an adult
But like in terms of value
Or like how rare cards were
She'd have no clue
But I bet she was able to hold the whole thing together
Definitely
It orchestrated it
But it's not
She was not an authority on it
But you don't need to know about the cards
To know which kid is being a wretched little shit
That's true
And to see that it's your kid
no i would have been the one i was the smallest i would have been very non-confrontational and the
tiniest little little person on the street was that back when you could fit hats oh yeah i could
definitely fit hats i think and there's a small period of time a post baby baby couldn't fit
hats then i got into hat mode for a few years and then out of hat mode baby couldn't fit
hats oh you saw a photo of me as a baby couldn't fit hats do you remember the last hat you
Yeah, what age do you grow out of a whole genre of clothing?
You know what?
The last hat I could fit, which was a miracle, I was able to buy it at the store, I was able
to buy it from a lids, it was a BC lion's hat, and it barely fit, but it was during their
worst season in like recent years.
They had like one win the entire season.
Do you think potentially if you kept the hat on, you could still be wearing it, or would
you have busted through the hat?
Oh.
Or would you've just stifled your head enough that you still?
Busted through the hat.
I feel like my head is probably like my nose and ears.
I feel like it's all growing constant.
That's the way you would have ripped through.
I don't think ripped through a hat with your head.
It would be discomfort.
Not good.
It would have been like when a ring gets stuck on a finger and you have to have it cut off.
Yes.
Yeah.
Fabric saw.
We still need to make a hat that would fit your cranium.
Yeah, we did.
We failed so badly last.
Yeah, I just don't even know how we like, I don't know how you approach something.
Like, I don't know how to make new garments.
Like, we just tell them make hat bigger.
Well, we still don't know Andrew's head size
because you still haven't scanned it.
Oh, right.
I need to print your head
and then do some drapery on it or something.
Yeah.
Someone in the community made me a beanie once,
and I think they took two of, like,
what the circumferences was to make it work.
Did it fit?
Yeah, it fit.
Comfortably?
Yeah, it was nice.
But they had to take, like,
They literally doubled, I think, the normal size.
I've met you several times, and I never once thought,
bloody hell, your head's big.
It's just like you had a normal head to me.
I think it's sneaky.
I think it's sneaky big.
Can't we just get you like, like one of these things that you just cut the hole so it fits you?
You like Bremel it out?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We just like, you get that.
That's like the base and you go, well, it's not big enough.
And then you go, oh, don't worry, I'll just carve this out.
And then, yeah, that should make your head look really small as well.
Yeah, you can, you can look like, you can look like this beautiful woman with her giant.
It's the J.C. Penny sports fan shop.
Really?
J.C. Penny sells a giant hat.
These, dude, when you search oversized hats, these big.
These pictures are fucking killing me.
I've already used these as a thumbnail, but I've got to do it again.
Like, surely, you're just going to ruin whoever's behind you.
Just going to ruin that day at the game.
Yeah.
Nick, look, look, you can get the Longhorns one.
Sweet, they're doing great.
Andrew, it seemed like we gave you a suggestion for a hat solution,
and you're being pretty quiet about it.
He's looking.
I'm just the value, I'm thinking about it.
I like to imagine that their head will eventually fit that hat.
That it's small, but that it's like getting shoes when you're a kid.
It's like, oh, you got like a little bit of room to grow.
Yeah.
How about this question, Andrew?
Let's say we found a hat that fit you perfectly.
Okay.
It's not a comically large hat.
It's just a hat that's double the circumference of a normal hat.
So it fits your head snugly and perfectly.
Okay.
So you have your choice of any sports team that you represent with your very first
adult-sized hat.
What team do you pick?
That's easy.
I'm a big
Vancouver Golden Ice fan
this season.
First game on Friday
of this week.
Cannot wait.
They got a fucking sick logo.
Vancouver Golden Ice
would be the team.
PWHL.
Is that a hockey?
That's a hockey team?
Female hockey league.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Their first season
is on this Friday.
It's an awesome logo.
So GoldenEye is a bird?
It's, yeah, I guess, like a duck.
Which I learned from that.
I'd only heard GoldenEye in the context of Bond movies.
Yeah.
Ian Fleming's house.
That's an animal? It's crazy.
I really like this hat that looks like you can get it at the airport.
Just a hat.
It says Vancouver.
Vancouver.
What time's the game?
I don't know.
I need to check that.
I'll have to look at that later.
I just know it's on Friday.
And I'm very excited.
Are you going to be watching it?
No, I'll just be watching from home.
Okay.
But I'm excited.
I'll leave in the team.
It's fun to have like a new team to cheer for your area.
Yeah.
That's what the Blackhawks, uh, I mean, that's what the red wings are for me.
I'm gonna, I'm cutting that out, sending it to Burn Dog.
I'm sending that to Burn Dog.
He's gonna post it on the, he's going to post it on the Red Wing subreddit.
Dude, he's going to get you.
He's going to slag me.
He's going to get got.
They're going to get me good.
I said the wrong one.
But it is.
It's fun.
You don't know anything about them
and you're learning
and you don't know who all the players are yet
and you're starting to figure it out
and then you're starting to recognize names.
And then, yeah, you start to discover the storylines
and who hates who.
Yeah, discovery is always fun.
It's like a whole other level
when the team didn't exist.
And this is like the first game of the team
and being able to follow their history
from the beginning.
What do you think
this podcast
has been worth its weight in?
Hot dogs.
Like Costco hot dogs,
$1.50.
Gavin Pikachu's.
Priceless.
Well, there you have it.
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worth its weight in Pikachu's.
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