Regulation Podcast - Geoff's Gavin Idea // Myasswet [103]

Episode Date: April 29, 2026

Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about Twin Peaks, David Lynch, coffee pot, Titanic, catchphrase, Portal, Stardew, note, Stardew Valley of Interest, PHOGS, Man on Fire, subtitles problems, one cable, TVs vs monitors, burn in, eye mask, burgersphere, Arby's, rat traps, no graphics card, tech support, million dollar bed, Tides of Tomorrow, myasswet, Tomodachi Life, Mario Party March in April Finale, and Anniversary. Sponsored by Mint Mobile. Make the switch! MINTMOBILE.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

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Regulation Podcast. My name is Jeff Ramsey with me. As always, Adrian Pan, Gavin Free, Nick Schwartz, Eric Bador, episode 103. Can I admit something embarrassing? Maybe embarrassing that happened to me this morning to you guys. Yes, please. Kind of the point of the show. Yeah, I'm still not quite sure how to take it and how to, like, how to process it.

But when I was up this morning, just doing my errands, I put a podcast on. I wanted to listen to something. And I decided to listen to a new podcast. It's a podcast about Twin Peaks specifically. And I thought that might be fun because, you know, I just went through my read through or my watchthrough of season three finally. And it has not left my thoughts, as David Lynch tends to do to me for a while. And I thought that would be a fun way to kind of revisit it.

And I turned it on and it was fine. They were talking about David Lynch and they were talking about like the beginnings of the show and how it kind of came together. And as they're telling the story of how David Lynch and Mark Frost decided to create season three of David Lynch. And I got to thinking about David Lynch being dead. And I started crying like fucking fountains of tears. And I had to go sit on my green sofa in my office. And I'm not, it's not hyperbole. I probably cried for 15 straight minutes. Like, I just couldn't stop. And I came out of nowhere. And I didn't, I don't know if maybe I hadn't process the death of David Lynch yet or something. Or it's still just something. Or it's still just

to hear about, but it like, it knocked me on my ass. I haven't cried like that in, I can't remember how long. So you never cried around the time you found out? I did. I did cry when I found out. Yeah, absolutely. But I just, I like, I don't know, it was just weird. Like, nothing else is going on in my life.

Oh. What? Gavin's, oh, is so, like, you didn't mean it that way, but the tone of it was very funny. Once I just went, oh. You went, oh. oh. You're like in your head, it was almost like you thought

that this is a one cry scenario and the L was like, oh, well, then you cried twice. That's weird. You didn't get your cry out then? Oh, you did? Weird. Maybe it was a catalyst

that I needed to process something else. Sure. But nothing's happening. Like, I got no problems. Life's good and easy right now. So I don't know where else it would have come from. But yeah, just out of the blue and just hit me hard.

And I didn't, I couldn't. I couldn't understand why or where it was coming from, but I just couldn't stop crying thinking about David Lynch. It was really weird. Weird thing to do it, 50 years old. And also, like, there was that David Lynch estate sale, which I feel like is the most slap you in the face this person is dead thing possible, especially in a weird way where there's enthusiasm around the items that are available to be bought.

You know, what's weird about that is you and every person I know sent me that auction and I looked at every single item on that auction and we have tons of auctioned items in the company and some that the audience doesn't even know about yet and probably there will be more in the future. I had no desire for any of it. I don't know why. I got no issue. I got no issue buying Whoopi Goldberg's key to the city of Newark, New Jersey. I'm all about that, which by the way, that has not come in yet. But it felt so, I just felt like it would be disrespectful for me to own anything that was David Lynch's. And I don't know why. But like I didn't want any, it's like when I don't want to meet a celebrity. Like I never wanted to meet David Lynch.

I wanted to avoid meeting David Lynch. I don't want any of his, anything that he owned that was important to him. It feels like it's not for me. I don't deserve it. It's not, it wouldn't be, it wouldn't be right for me to possess it. I don't know. It felt in some way, and I have no issue with anybody else doing it. But for me personally, it felt disrespectful where it doesn't feel that way about any other celebrity. I get it and it also fully aligns with a person who every night goes, did I do enough to live today? Do I deserve to live?

The premise of you being like, I don't deserve a David Lynch item. Feels very aligned. That makes total sense. Yeah, I don't. I never connected those two, but those two things. The fact that you need to survey yourself every day of if today was a day worth living

or you earned living makes sense that like, your essential creative hero. That's just my Gen X way of evaluating that I, was I a useful person for a day? Or can I look back on the day and be happy with it? Sure. We just, you know, Gen X, we speak in fatalist terms. That's just how we were raised. But yeah.

I get the mindset of not, or feeling like you don't deserve a piece of some of the stuff he's collected. But I feel like anything of his would be better in your hands than 99% of people bidding on that stuff. Yeah, I don't know. I might touch it too much. At least being pent. I don't know what the flipping market is

for stuff like that. Oh my God, I would never, never fucking flip. Exactly. That's my, but I'm thinking like with trading cards, like so much of the buying and opening a packs is purely investment flipping based for at least the most vocal part of that fan base.

I don't know if that exists in that world. Yeah, I don't know. I did see a TikTok once of a dude who bought David Lynch's coffee pot and he was making coffee out of it. Oh, you... Oh, you bugged... Oh, God. And I...

But that's bugged the shit out of me. I don't know why. Fucking film yourself using David Lynch's espresso machine after he died. I don't know why. The guy bought it, he owned it. But it just really bugged me. That guy does not deserve David Lynch's coffee. He probably does.

He's probably a bigger fan of David Lynch than I am. Like, I don't proclaim some sort of superior fandom over... David Lynch, I don't think I'm even anywhere near close to the biggest David Lynch fan, you know? I just, I don't know. Weird. I feel like you shouldn't use it, though. You should maybe like keep it and preserve it if you want a piece of David Lynch's stuff and I just like drink through his coffee machine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a David Lynch related note. I have a Twin Peaks note. Oh, really? Wow. So, uh, because Jeff, you told me that season three of Twin Peaks was actually good and not the best thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Yeah. And we, we watched, I think like the first

four episodes of that season together back of the day. And it was a weird time, but yes, we did. Yeah, I think I was maybe affected by the fact that you weren't enjoying it. I was like, oh, maybe it's just not what it was. So anyway, I've been watching my way through the original Twin Peaks in hope to then move on to the season three stuff. And this has caused quite a weird coincidence, both caused by you, Jeff, because you recall that you also went to a Titanic thing the other week and Meg went.

You mean when I hung out with your wife this last weekend on two separate occasions without you? Yes, I remember. I spent Saturday and Sunday hanging out with your wife. You were nowhere to be found. Yeah, I was editing. But you went and saw Titanic stuff. And when I came home, we decided we would watch Titanic. It's been a few years since I watched it.

So I was watching Twin Peaks earlier that day. And then I watched Titanic in the evening. There was a line in the episode of Twin Peaks. where Hank is saying to Norma, oh, you're gonna be Ed's whore. And Norma replies, I'll put a little note in the thing. I'd rather be his whore than your wife.

I'd rather be his whore than your wife. And then coincidentally, when I was watching Titanic, David Warner and Billy Zane from Twin Peaks were also in Titanic together. So that was like, oh, I'm just seeing the same people, you know, in similar situations. And then it gets to a point where Billy Zane says, to Kate Winslet, you're going to be, you're going to be a whore to a gutter rat. And Kate Winsler replies, I'd rather be his whore than your wife.

And I'm thinking, what are the chances of someone finding both of those lines in the same day without knowing that both characters say the same line? Do you think that was written? Do you think that was written in the script or do you think Billy Zane pitched it and, like, forgot that it was in this other show? And he was just like, uh-oh. Like years later, like, oh, that's where that idea came from shit. That is interesting.

Billy Zane's not in the Hank Enorma scene. And to my knowledge, he never even interacted with those characters. He was in a different... He wasn't that episode. Okay. And then when did Titanic come out? 94? 95.

97? 97. Twin Peaks came out 91. 991? Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting. Do you think it's intentional?

I don't know. I'm not sure if this is like a popular comeback. for people to say in films like I'm too old for this shit but I don't think I've ever heard that line anywhere apart from in those two things I got I got some heat in the comments for that by the way

that I'm getting too old for this shit as if like that's just something people have been saying forever and I'm like I first heard of it in popular media when I was a kid in the 80s when lethal weapon happened that was the line of the fucking movie and that's what everybody quoted and said and I'm sorry but it wasn't a popular

thing before that moment so when I saw it appear in a movie two years earlier, that was odd to me. And I don't know why the audience seemed to think that that, I don't know, that I misunderstood the popularity of that phrase or something. I think it's got to be intentional. I think it's got to be a nod and homage in some way. Interesting. Even it, well, maybe it could be an osmosis thing, you know. You might have just, it might have just been unintentionally lifted by Mark Frost or whoever that wrote that line, that episode, because it's a great line. I guess, uh, let us know if you've heard of anywhere else.

Yeah, did it appear in any movies two years before Twin Peaks? What if, uh, it'd be interesting to know, like, what was the most common catchphrase of actors? Like, if that was an IMDB stat. Mm. Advanced stat tracking for films would be great. I would love that. The money ball of the cinematic universe.

Yeah, I, I think. It'd be great just to search, search scenarios, search terms, and lines. That'd be a great tool. I wonder who has said their catchphrase the most across all history. Oh, Stone Cold Stevaas. Yeah, wrestlers. It's a great. It's got to be a wrestler, right?

That makes sense. The Rock, because I feel like he said it in interviews and stuff when he had to, like, promote movies. And he was like, I'm not The Rock. I'm Dwayne. and they're like, you're Dwayne the Rock Johnson, and he went, okay, and so he had to do his catchphrases. The Rock says, this is a good movie. Exactly, yes.

Do you think Cal Mitchell still says, oh, here it goes? Probably at conventions. Cameo, big on cameo for him. Yeah, he will if you've got enough. So, Gav, let me ask, before we move off, how are you enjoying your rewatched Twin Peaks? It's quite disturbing that I remember so little of it.

I feel like maybe I skipped some. Maybe you told me not to watch a lot of series two. Well, there's some low points in season two for sure. Yeah. About 10, 12 episodes of low points, but yeah. But last night, I watched Firewalk with me, so now I think I'm ready to start the new. Oh, so you're ready for the return. I am.

Oh, wow, man. How did you enjoy Firewalk with me? Was that the second time you've seen it? Second time I've seen it. I still think that scene where David Bowie comes in on the screen. while he's, I don't know what's happening there. What's going on there? It's one of the weirdest scenes in a movie. It's in the return. Really? Sweet. It's sort of addressed. He was supposed to, I learned in this podcast I cried through today. He was supposed to reprise his role in the film,

but then he died. Oh, man. They meant him to be in series three and kind of resolve that character arc. He is still in it in a different way. I don't want to spoil it. But yeah. It's addressed in a way that like they had to address it because he was you know physically dead that does have spiritually he he lives that's that's that's another thing that canonically alive cry uncontrollably is the end of firewalk with me in the train car is like maybe the saddest thing in film to me just heartbreaking all right we got to get off the day lunch i must start crying again okay yeah go listen to the podcast if you want to do that what the hell uh hey jeff can i ask you a question yeah please earlier when Gavin just said, oh, and

Andrew really clocked that? Did that feel like when he said, yeah, to you earlier this week and you just, he's like hung you out to dry in a meeting? What was that one? I said, yeah. If I had heard it, it would have 100%. 100%. What Eric is referring to is last week Gavin and I were filming

in the office, just the two of us, and we were looking through games to play, which by the way, we found a game. Oh, boy. And then we played it yesterday. I don't know if we, if we want talk about that, Kevin. But we were just talking about, like, ideas for the whole group. And Gavin said, you know, I still really want to do this Stardew Valley idea that I have. I keep bringing it up, but like, you know, it doesn't seem to get any traction.

I said, we should just mention it Monday, say, hey, let's put it on the calendar and film Gavin's Stardue Valley idea this week. Let's just put it on the calendar. And Gavin said, that's a good idea. I'll mention it on Monday. And then we went through the whole meeting on Monday, and it never came up. And so before it was over, I, to do Gavin a solid, I said, Hey, Gab, you wanted to,

didn't you want to schedule that, uh, Star Dew Valley video, right? Didn't you want to say something about that? And Gavin was like, huh? What? I mean, he just, you, you said it and he went, zero interest. Yeah.

Well, I thought you were doing a bit because you are the one who wanted to play Starry Valley. What? Oh my gosh. Wait, hang on. Now this is cut. Now it's coming out. Very interesting.

That's not true. I brought it up because I saw it written on the board because you told me to write it on the board about six months ago. You are the one that originally said we can play six, all five of us can be in Stardue Valley. I quite enjoyed that game. I think it'd be a lot of fun to build a farm together. And I said, put it on the board then.

So then you wrote it on the board because I told you to put it on the board because you told me you wanted to do it. And then you brought it up on Monday and said you were going to, on Wednesday, and said you were going to bring it up on Monday. And then when you didn't, I brought it up for you. And then you looked at me like I was an asshole. Yeah, I thought you'd do it a bit.

It's yours. I think you're doing a bit right now. No, the only thing you asked me was, can you do multiplayer? I said, yeah, I'd do it. And then we wrote it on the board. And then I looked at the board again. I was like, oh, we should still do that Staddy Valley thing, right? And you were like, yeah.

But then somehow it's my idea. I mean, the way you just described that it was your idea. I was just reading the board. I'm making sure we don't, we don't leave stuff on the board. But if something sits on the board long enough, it becomes the scenery and we don't, we don't see it anymore. Can I go on record as saying, I don't personally give a fuck if we ever play Star Doe Valley? I've never really played it.

I only wanted to play it because Gavin wanted to play it because he said we could all get into it and it would be quite fun to build a world together. And I said, that sounds cool to me. I trust Gavin's instincts. Gavin and I've been creative partners now for, I don't know, a decade and a half. So when Gavin has an idea, I stand up. up and I'm the fucking champion of all Gavin ideas because I have so much fucking faith and trust in his ability as a creator.

Yeah, I just thought you were doing that it's Gavin's idea bit. We dropped that a while ago, man. I don't know. That's a draft bit. It was a draft bit and we haven't done it for like the last four drafts. Oh, I don't know. I just thought you'd bring it back. You also thought it was Jeff's idea, right?

Like you never at any point view this as your idea. Right. I was going to say Gavin won. Thanks for the career, too. So is this Jeff's idea or was this your idea? Oh, this was Jeff's idea. That's 100% not true. I never uttered the word Stardew Valley first.

It's not on my fucking radar. I'm not the one that has it on a switch that I take on planes with me. Yeah, I mean, I played it several years ago, for sure. Played on Switch. So this is Jeff's Gavin idea? No. Well, all right, fine. If it's my idea, I rescind the idea.

I don't want anything to do with it. Okay. I wonder if, uh, I wonder if we could go. go back to the tapes, go back to the security camera, see who said it. Just if you were going to put it on a scale, Gavin, what is your personal desire to play Starduk Valley? I've not only done much multiplayer. I mean, I would be interested.

I'd be interested. So he's not giving you a number. I don't understand. I would say once 10, I'd say seven. Seven is very high. For a guy who doesn't care, seven is so high. It's about four higher than I am, which is about two higher than I was before this morning. Yeah, when Jeff suggested it, I thought, yeah, I'd do that.

That's a seven. You motherfucker, I wouldn't suggest it. It's not on my goddamn radar. You were looking through the Xbox store. You were like, does this is a multi-player? I was like, yeah, we could all share the same farm. And you'd be like, right on the board. So it's our idea?

Yeah, it's Jeff's Gavin idea. It's our idea, then I'll take 50% of the idea. I didn't sound like my idea. That sounded like me asking you, the guy who played it, if it had multiplayer, and you saying, yeah, it could be quite fun. But I see, I see what Gavin's saying. He would have never suggested it is his point, I think. I also think that the time he's mentioning, it's come up before that from him in the past. I probably only mentioned it going through that because I remember him saying that he wanted to do something with it in the past. He's talked about it to me multiple times in the past.

I'm flummoxed by this. Okay, so if we had to vote, if we all had to put in a number on how excited we are, if it's above 25, right? Zero. Total. Zero. Does that mean to do it? Andrew already came to me earlier this week and said,

don't tell anybody, here I am breaking your trust, but I don't like Star Doe Valley. And I was like, cool, then we're definitely going to play it because I want to see you miserable. But listen, the full message was, I don't like Stardue Valley, but I'm excited to see like what this is. I don't think it's anything, Andrew,

because Gavin forgot his idea. Sturdo Valley is a weird thing where I really wanted to like it, but I found it stressful because I felt like there is a way to optimize the farm and I just wasn't figuring that out. That's the game though. And also, everybody I know who loves it gets to a point where they're having spreadsheets and like fully maximize it. It was just like, that's too much.

I really enjoyed cleaning up the farm and then that was sort of my process of it. That's the game. I'll be honest, though. Hearing basically a zero come from both Jeff and Andrew, it kind of makes you want to submit a 10. I would have been a fucking 10 in your corner just because I love you and I trust you

and because I want to make what you want to make. That's what the point of the stupid company is. But now I want to I want to burn Stardu Valley to the ground all of a sudden. Nick? I'm like, a two on a 10 scale. Okay.

So that's a 12 at a 50. Yeah, and that's not quite what we were looking for. Doesn't make it through. 25%. 20%. I want to fuck around in it, though. What?

It's two different scales of how much do I want to film it? How much would I personally want to play Star Doe Valley right now? On a personal Star Doe Valley right now, it's probably like a one or a two, but on a on a one to film it, it's like a 10. Nick said two out of 10 is 25%. That for sure. I did say that. Yeah.

That was wrong. It's the first time I've heard him say that this week And boy, he had a lot of opportunities You'll ever hear me say it because I'm never wrong I want to build a valley interest with you guys Stodgy Valley of Interest Stardue Valley of Interest Oh fuck now it's got a name

That's up to do it Alright I'm gonna Here's the deal I'll be a five I can't go higher than that because I'm so annoyed But I will be a five so that gives you 17 You gotta get seven more between Eric and Andrew Andrew said he was higher for filming I even 10

Yeah I give it a 10 I mean, I'm still I'm still at zero. I don't I'm zero. I'm zero. You're zero? Yeah,

you already locked in 20% you already locked in your 2 out of 10. You already locked in your 20% Nick. Let's just do it and it could end up like the Jeff and Gavin thing of it was a disaster in some way.

Right, but do, but do what? Because it seems like there's not an idea here other than Jeff said Gavin wants to do this thing that Gavin said that Jeff wants to do. What is the thing? Yeah, what's the game? What do we do?

Stas, sick fom. You think, you think this is a malformed idea. Wait do you see the other thing that Gavin and I are working on? Jesus Christ. You told us that you're going to put an edited video on a USB and then put it in the glass in the office? That's not even what I was talking about.

That's the other thing. Gavin and I filmed three things yesterday. One, we can't talk about. and then two that were unsuccessful, I would guess. Oh, no. Oh, no. First off, we tried to fix the pinball machine, so we replaced the circuit board.

Oh, I was going to ask about that. Oh, no. I see that it's still apart in pieces. Found out that the circuit board was slightly different, I guess, Gav, but you still managed to make it work. Oh. Yeah, we just basically eliminated all of those connections is the problem. So it still doesn't work, but we've, I guess, yeah,

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I'm sorry, I don't want to say Gavin. I don't give Gavin any credit here. Don't lump him into this. Let me break it down exactly how it happened. I was looking through game store for co-op games for Gavin and I to play. Now the portal is over. We want to have a game together that we can come in and play on Wednesdays or whatever. And so I was looking for two player co-op games and a game popped up called Fogs, F-H-O-G-S,

which the name alone made me laugh. And it's like two dogheads attached to each other. Like I push me, pull you in Dr. do-little. It's like two dogs sandwich together with no, you know, where their butts would be. And you kind of like puzzle your navigate your way through this world. And so we were like,

boom, fogs. We're going to be fog boys. We're playing that. And we sat down to play that game yesterday. That might be the most boring, uneventful, uninteresting, unsatisfying co-op game of my experience. We were 20 minutes in and we

knew that the only way to make a video out of it was to do another 20 minutes and at the end, Gavin had the idea. You want to give us your idea, Gavin? My idea was to put all the files on the NAS, have it edited, and then when it gets delivered back to us, I'm going to put it on a memory stick, and I'm going to delete it entirely from the NAS and all the raw footage, and I'm just going to place it behind glass in the office with like a breaking case of emergency writ on it. And the hope is that we never need to put that video out. If that video comes out, something's gone wrong. Now, which of the two of you

disliked it more, would you say? Because I feel like this could be a real David Lynch Twin Peaks scenario. Oh. Because there's absolutely the sort of regulation factor of as someone dislikes it visibly more.

The enjoyment comes out of it in a different way. I think we were starting to enjoy how much we hated it. Yeah, I think Gavin expressed Gavin expressed, well, it's because it's not good. Gavin and I, Gavin expressed some early misery and that definitely buoyed me.

That gave me a little bit of oomph to go through another like 10 minutes but then it wore me down and then it was sort of a who's unhappier well you know who's on first kind of situation and yeah it's like a week game of chicken. Yeah and it was both of us just like

trying to grind out the enough levels to make a video and just laughing about it all the way. I have two notes. One is about movies. One is about games. Should I continue with the games thing or do we go back to movies? Let's mix it up. Let's go to movies for a bit. Let's go to movies.

I had a mistake, a huge error in watching experience that I don't feel is my fault. I watched Man on Fire. It's definitely going to be your fault. No. I think you're going to swap opinions during this. I watch Man on Fire. It's a movie that takes place in Mexico. And there are a variety of scenes which characters are speaking.

in a different language. Most of them are, it's like, uh, Denzel Washington in a bed and like reporters talking kind of around him. And, uh, they're clearly talking about like the situation that happened. And, uh, he's just laying there, not doing well. And there are no subtitles for them speaking in Spanish. It's just them talking. And I was like, okay, I guess whatever, like kind of, denzil. as the Washington is the narrative lead.

He's out of it. Maybe there's just no something. Like maybe it doesn't really matter. It's being said. The kind of point the scene is trying to convey is that he's fucked up. And they're probably like, I don't know, three or four scenes like that.

I just watched through it. Like I have subtitles. Like I turn subtitles on and off just to make sure that like, I don't know. Because when I watch movies, I always have subtitles on. I'm a subtitles guy. Yeah, regardless of even if it's just in English.

Love me some subtitles. got all the way to the end of the movie in which there felt like a very critical scene where two characters are speaking back and forth. And none of it is coming through. I have no idea what they're saying. There are no subtitles. And to that point, I was like creative intent, maybe,

but no, this feels at this stage, there is something wrong happening here. And the only thing I can think of is are somehow turning on subtitles, overriding the subtitles in the film? so I turned off the subtitles and I rewound and then the Spanish to English subtitles

came up in the movie. By me turning on English subtitles it removed the subtitles that were baked in the film. But I didn't realize this until like 85% of the movie so there are sections of Man on Fire

where people were speaking in a different language and I just didn't understand any of it and went creative intent I guess. until the end Andrew the exact same thing happened to be last night

with Firewalk with me No way I had subtitles on and that caused the backward speech subtitles to not be on for some reason and there's a whole scene

in a nightclub where you can't hear what anyone says for like eight minutes I had to rewind it and watch the whole thing again wow but now

did you did you gather that from the experience of it or did you know that you were missing out on stuff? It took me like a minute to realize like, oh, this has been going on so long. I should definitely be able to hear what they're saying. That's interesting because with David Lynch especially, I would go creative intent. I would be unfazed, I think.

It feels like a lynchian thing. Yeah, that probably made me last a little bit longer because I think there was actually debate with David Lynch on whether he wanted the subtitles or not. Interesting. where for me, like, my acceptance of creative intent is sort of ridiculous when it's a Tony Scott movie. Like, there's no way Tony Scott is doing creative intent seen in a different language. No subtitles. It's like Top Gun Guy isn't doing that.

That's not who Tony Scott is. But I don't like, in a weird way, I'm kind of excited about it because then it gives me a reason to go back and watch a man on fire again at some point and actually know everything that was said in the movie as opposed to. Do you think you will? Probably. Oh, absolutely. I'll definitely watch a band on fire again. I'll let you still go through Denzel Washington. I'm down to my last one. I've saved Man on Fire because I knew I would love it. So I've seen all of them outside of one movie that is not on any streaming platform anywhere. Outside of what I talked about, it's available in French only for me.

So I have a disc, so I got to set up a disc drive to watch it. And then I'm done. I'm going to do that this week. What do you mean you got to set up a disc drive? I don't have any way to play a DVD Oh Gavin can help you with this No problem You don't go a console? I'd have to like my

My console is all run through My capture system So it blocks my ability to watch movies So you'd have to change one cable I'd have to go under my desk And like a judge... Yeah So you're gonna buy a new thing

So you don't have to go under your desk? No, I have a disk drive already Oh I'm an external I just don't have it plugged in We have to plug it under your desk? No, I'll just use the USB on top of the computer. A lot of opinions from a guy that doesn't have anything to do in this.

I don't know that it's opinions. A lot of questions. And I don't fault in for questions. A lot of tone for questions. A lot of tone. A lot of judgment. I would much rather watch a DVD on a DVD player than an optical drive. Is there a difference?

Well, look who has the questions now. Yeah. You're just gonna have to watch it on a computer. Oh, back to you, Andrew I do everything on a computer already Oh, back to you, Gavin You watch TV on a computer? I don't own a TV

Oh In our line of work, you don't own a TV? No, I have monitors I have monitors Back to you, Gavin. I own two computer monitors There's no other TV in the house? No, well, no.

Well, there is one, but it's not like, I never use it. Not my TV. I don't own a TV. I actually got rid of my TV recently because I was never using it. I had no space for it. I bought a 50-inch TV in probably like 2010. It was old enough that it had the component cables on the back of it. And I just got rid of it because, first of all.

I mean, that would still work with a lot of, like a 360 or something? Yeah, no, it still work. I mean, it also had HDMI. My point is, that's how old it was, was that it also had component still on the back of it. The issue, though, with that was, it was a plasma, and I'd burnt in NHL 11,

NHL 11 and 12. From the BGM, though, just staring. What burned in? It's like this silver box that, like, contains all the player information, information on the middle of it. And so I was just staring down players. looking at stats, doing trades, like spending hundreds of hours in NHL 11, NHL 12.

Probably up to 14. But yeah, no, it was Burton. So this was a burn-in from you actually playing it. You didn't just leave it on? No, it was burning because I would play it, and I'd spend so much time in a stationary menu, like trying to adjust trade values and draft picks. And was it a good time overall? Like, you wouldn't take back any of that time?

Oh, great time. I would give more time to it. The problem is you run out of, I ran out of road several times and learn that and be a GM mode. You can only be a GM for up the 30 years forward. So I'd go 30 years. I'd play 30 seasons and then I'd reset and I'd start up a new season. You get to a point where like all of the players are fake in the game

because you're 27 years forward from when the game came out. They like, they do it in Madden 2, or at least they used to. They force you into retirement at some point. Yeah. Yeah. you do 30 years and then they're like you've you've had a great career time to retire but yeah no I burnt in so it's not like it was uh it was an old damage TV that I've had in my closet for a long time and I just recently so do you prefer the experience of watching television through a computer monitor over no I would

love TV I just don't have room do you know this about TVs there you can uh you can stick them on the old wool next to your ceiling internet yeah but I don't own the wall It would be a whole thing. Dude, I don't own my wall either, but I sure as hell put a TV on it immediately. You're allowed to do that when you're in a place. Yeah. You drill in, put a mount on,

and then when you leave, you just either don't take your security deposit back or you fill in the wall. Or you just leave them a cool mount on the wall. You know, when I sold my house, that's a thing. And if you guys sell a house anytime soon, Nick, you may know this. It's now, it's now, well, because you just sold the house. Oh, okay.

God damn, dude. Sorry, I'm a little jumping. Come the fuck down. When I sold my house in 2024, I had really nice wall mounts and I was going to take them off. And the guy goes, oh, my real estate didn't. And said, oh, by the way, this is weird, but don't do that. They're like a thing now. They convey.

Like, it's like they're like furniture now. Once they're in the wall, it's considered standard to leave them. So you should leave them. And so I did. I will say I bought the computer monitor that I bought. Like, I have an older one. And then I bought a new one when I got the new work set up. And I picked, I think, a little bit larger of a screen.

I picked like as large as I could within the space with the thought of this is my TV also. Well, then you could have bought a monitor that is also a TV. Andrew? I'd have to wall mount that, right? No. No? Oh, I could have just, I see what you're saying. I could have bought the same size but a TV.

But I feel like with monitors, isn't there a higher refresh rate typically? Isn't it easier to get like something that's high frames? Yeah, if you want like above 120. Yeah, like I felt like the idea is sort of the primary thought was that this is a gaming PC work PC But also I can watch TV on it. So I want a little extra. I feel like a lot of this can be solved Slashed improved by sending Gavin up to Nanaimo for that week of Andrew's life optimization. Oh, I got I got I got a Gavin friction item. I've quite a few. But we could go over one. Yeah. Okay. Let me second. Let me let me scroll. Okay. Um, I'll be right back. I got to take a photo, I think, to convey this.

Oh, this is great. I'm thrilled. Almost the last time we got a fucking house photo. This is exciting. Yeah. How long do you think it'll take them? Do you think it'll be quick? I think it'll be pretty quick.

You'll be able to understand the photo. No. I'm about to see a ceiling and he's going to tell me it's a floor. Or like the bottom of a hamburger bun. Yeah. Do you think it would blurred? Blurry. Yeah.

Yeah. I think so. Do you not think so? I think so. I think he's going to try really hard to take a very good photo. Maybe. But do you think it's going to be blurry? Yeah.

You know, it is what it is. I think it's going to be tough. I'm excited to see it. Whatever it is. Since we're filling time until we get Andrew back, I have a subtitle story too that I didn't feel was worth adding on to. Oh, okay. I was watching this French movie yesterday called Monsieur Ulaz vacation.

It's like an old French classic from very long ago, like maybe the 30s or the 40s. And I couldn't get the subtitles to work. They kept like, I trigger them on and then they would just keep speaking French and keep speaking French. And I kept trying to flag it. And finally, I said, you know what? I'm just going to watch the fucking movie in French. I don't care. Then I discovered there just aren't any subtitles in that film for the first like 18 minutes.

Oh, no. Yeah, there's just nothing is said of importance. Like, it's all background. And so there's not a lot of dialogue in the film. It's kind of the slapstick funny film. but I just, I just didn't realize that for the first 20 minutes

nobody says anything and I had, I had just been turning subtitles on and off the whole time and they were just fine. I feel like they need to flag that. They need to have like the end brackets like inaudible or like.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is not subtiled. Okay. Here's my Gavin friction. Okay.

I like the, I like the, I'm cozy in bed, got my CPAP on, putting on my eye mask. I don't know what side my eye mask I'm supposed to be wearing.

And it's a constant problem. I have to evaluate during the night. I go back and forth. I'm never fully confident. I have it right. The 50-50 chance. Here's the eye mask. This is one side.

This side I believe is supposed to be face first. Yeah. Here's the other side. They're both essentially very dark shades of blue. So in a dark room, I always struggle with, They look the exact same. I cannot tell what side is what.

How do I solve this? Do they feel the same? There is a slight difference, but pretty similar. Which one's more comfortable? The inside one, the inner one. I like the you're calling it, the inside one. The inner one. Yeah, where the inside one on your eyes?

No, but I can't tell what is what. That's the problem. That's the friction. Can you feel the seam where the elastic? touches the actual face piece? Can you like can you internally feel which side is supposed to be front and back from that?

Like how it sits? That's interesting. Because in the dark you could still do that. That's true. Yeah, you know what? I could do that. Don't even need Gavin. I'm sorry, I need to step on your thing. Oh, sorry Gavin, dude. You're just like not useful here. Sorry, dude.

Yep, that was helpful though. What is that above it on the on the second one is that like a piece of sandwich or something what is that a piece of it you got this piece of sandwich on this some bitch or what oh no it's a piece of uh let's see

it's a piece of fluff isn't it just errant fluff from the blanket yeah it's just errant fluff oh okay it looked a bit bready yeah there's no sandwich here you fool it's a little cardboardy it's because I think I had the cat toy cardboard box on the bed earlier so

probably a remnant of that when was the last time any of you ate a sandwich in bed I eat anything in bed I was gonna say I 10 years ago 15 years ago I can't I don't think I've ever eaten a sandwich

in bed I'm sure I've eaten stuff in bed before but a sandwich seems like a wrong thing probably when I was living in a dump house where like the only furniture in my bedroom was my bed yeah I had a place in Jersey where my bed was also my sofa But yeah, briefly. I mean, like, that's it to me.

Spaghetti on that for sure. Spaghetti. I mean, spaghetti. I guess a year ago. A year ago? I've had one. Is it like a panini sandwich? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it's a sandwich just somehow flatter. It's like a pressed sandwich. It was a pressed sandwich, and that's why I felt confident eating it in bed. Oh, yeah. Sealed sandwich. Sealed sandwich.

Like a beef sandwich. I don't know that it's sealed. It's just flat. Oh, it's pretty sealed. Pretty sealed. Got that cheese on it? Sealed like those fucking terrible burgers we had, Eric. Remember those space?

Oh, I forgot about that place. Burgers we had. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What? We went to a place called UFO burger, and they had, it's like this Korean street food thing. And Jeff was so mad at this hamburger. I was so excited about it, the idea of it. I show you, I show you.

And then I just didn't, they may have just had an off day. I feel like I'm being too, I feel like I'm being too mean to the people. It does look cool. It does look cool. Yeah. And it's not. It's not cool and it's not very good. That does look cool.

I don't know that it's, I don't know that it was dry. It was just kind of like nothing. And it wasn't like a very good burger. It was just kind of like, eh. It was incredibly bland. Yeah, it was just nothing. Was the,

the flavor profile was like just not there. Especially now when it feels like everything is like the biggest loudest hamburger you've ever had. Like, you know what I mean? Like, it, that's kind of, every hamburger now is just like a flavor bomb. And then you go to this place and you go, this is going to be great. Then you have it.

You go, this was not great. No. It should be like a crash landed in a condiment of some kind. Yes, I agree. Get that extra flavor. I agree with you, Andrew. You can see it like, it like. It's sideways on the plate.

It like chisels into the fries. Like, when they slide into the ground and make like the, dig the scar into the earth. Does this mean you could make it totally. spherical burger, burger bowl? Isn't there a meatball? Yeah, it's just a meatball and then you just sort of wrap everything. I mean, I did the pizza,

so I guess you could do a burger sphere too. Yeah, I mean, you tried. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I did it. I did it, and you ate it, and it was pizza in every bite everywhere all the way around. So yeah, I did do it.

You're right. Man, speaking of food, I had such a disappointing dinner last night. It made me sick to my tummy. I had to take anti-nage meds. My whole tummy, yeah. I had to lay in bed and watch hockey and feel bad.

Wait, your disappointment caused it? I don't know, man. I think it was, I've never, I've never regretted Arby's before, but I had craven for it last night. In rush hour, I left and went through rush hour traffic to get Arby's. It was like an hour long trip

there and back, and I got home and found out my big beef and cheddar didn't have cheddar. It was just a beef. Oh, you just got big beef? Big beef. It wasn't the same. And I ate the whole motherfucker, but, and the cheese sticks and the jalapeno poppers and the fries.

But, man, I was not feeling good after. Those are good poppers! Could you have added cheese your own cheese? It's not the same, man. I don't have cheese like that. Have you thought about coming to the office and having one million different cheeses? That is true. We do have one million Nick cheeses.

By the way, I opened the fridge yesterday to get a soda and I got hit with a fucking cold cheese smell that was not great. Oh, no. Nick cheese thought? I can't believe he didn't take the cheese. I can't. He forgot. He wasn't thinking about it. Wasn't it cheese for your family?

Yes, it was. That is, yeah, remember the reason that he was putting it in bags is so he could take it home to his family. No, to me. I didn't say anything about my family. I think it's important to leave a bunch of cheese in a place that has a rat problem. I think that's sealed. It's a sealed fridge. Rats can't get in sealed.

Rat update, by the way. I don't see any rat poop around here. No. I don't know, man. I tried to investigate in the night, but the charge cable wouldn't detach. Oh, now, hang on. Let me detach you real quick. Your charge cable's not going to detach anymore because your little magnetic dongo broke off when you dove off of a table at some point.

And so now you have to be hard plugged in. Yeah, that's what changed. You're little, there was like this cute little magnetic attachment that would do it, but it broke off when you... I have about 10 minutes of footage of me trying to rip myself out of the wall in the evening. And then let's rat just spin behind and see what am I attached to and I couldn't see anything. You're free, by the way. Those rat traps, they are never going to catch a rat, but they are, they have caught every one of us at this point, I think. I got, I got yesterday by the pool table.

Pool table, I'm sorry, the pinball machine. Right by the pool table. Yeah, then we're getting a pool table. Nick, you haven't been Ian yet by the trap? No, I've avoided the traps, but I was very close to one by the pinball machine. Nick, Nick, Nick's never here, so. That's true. Never Nick.

Never Nick. Never Nick. No, I'm saying. Welcome aboard via rail. Please sit and enjoy. Please sit and sit. Play. Post. Taste.

View. And enjoy. Via rail. Love the way. I have a thing I want to shut out while we're still talking about. I guess why I'm going back to games. But, uh, Remember spicy garlic games?

How they made us Tombstone Talley. Remember that? Amazing games. Speaking of awesome, we all would give a 10 to. They have a new game coming out called Legion Bound. And it's out at the time of this recording. I played it. There's a demo if you want to check it out. It is a lot of fun.

I would highly recommend checking that game out. It's called Legion Bound on Steam. What's it about? It is like an auto-battler kind of RPG, uh, pixelated art style thing. The art is really cool. You just, you get a bunch of men and they automatically fight other men and then you get money to upgrade

things. It's if you, it is a, if you like seeing the numbers go up, wow, this is a, this is a watch the numbers go up fest. Dude,

I'm like, I'm watching the video of it right now. I am, I might check this out because this is, the colors and movement is like, this is like a baby watching a mobile. Like this is all, it's great.

It has the accelerate, time button on it that all of these should have and I just I had it cranked to like 4X speed and just watching people fight and getting coins and it made me so happy it's great I just realized earlier I didn't

realize how funny it was that you were talking about a higher refresh rate on a TV than a monitor because we recently discovered that you weren't using your graphics card that just never really sucks man what the fuck We talk about why we couldn't play Super Battle Golf.

Yep. We were trying to get you to use ShadowPlay, whatever it's called now, like just to record the screen using the NVIDIA app. And we couldn't get yours working. And then we realized, because I was like, you should update the driver, maybe. And then you couldn't do that. It just wasn't, yeah.

But then I showed you, they showed you photos of it, and it was getting power, like it was working and it was receiving. We went through a whole tech support call, And it just, it couldn't, we couldn't get it to work. The whole tax report call was Gavin going, try to reseed it, try to reseed it. And you go, no. Well, that was the thing is that we went through about 45 minutes of trying to figure out if it was even plugged in.

Because we couldn't get it to show up in Device Manager. No. So I was like, okay, you need to like push on the graphics card. And you were like, I did tech support windows I did. Oh, yeah, because I needed to like get a screwdriver and open it. And like, I had stuff that like it was, we could have filmed other stuff. and I was going to look at it later, which I did, and then confirmed that I couldn't figure it out.

I went beyond my pay grade as a support. And then what was the issue with it? It had to be shoved hard because I guess it was like out of its track. What is your pay grade? Zero, because I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. I told you. Push it. Push on it.

Yeah, but here's the thing. PC component, super expensive. I don't know how much force they could take. I don't want to break this very expensive thing. I put force on it. It did not pop in. I clearly did not use enough force or push it in the right area. Well, I said pull it out and push it back in.

Well, it's a weird thing where there's like a metal gasket type thing over it. So it wasn't like I could fully remove it easily. I had like a metal plate. When when Andrew came back to us and told us that it was fixed, we were so elated. And then when he said the fix was that the guy, I had to wedge him back in. I thought Kevin Sprade was going to explode. It was pretty exciting.

I wanted to be known how courageous that is in me to admit that. I didn't have to. I gave up that information. That's true. That's true. 100% true. You're definitely built for this podcast and for content and we appreciate it. Absolutely.

I wouldn't have had it go any other way. But yeah, no, I tried it. I didn't want to break it. That was the whole point. It was like, could I have gone deeper into the process? Yes, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't want to break this expensive graphics car. So I'll just have somebody look at it and that knows what they're doing and to give like an evaluation and thankfully it was a very easy fix. It could have not been just that. Have you tested PC capture since then? Like now that it's working, have you tested to make sure PC capture works? Have you used shadow play? I don't know how to shadow play. But yeah, I think to get to the point though where we realized it wasn't detecting your graphics card took so long because the first question I asked was is your monitor plugged into your graphics card and you said, yeah. I think to get to the point. I thought, yeah. I think you. I think to get to the point. You know, we realized it was, it was, is your monitor plugged into your graphics card? And you said, yeah. I think you said,

Yeah, and then later, like almost an hour later we realized it was plugged into the motherboard. Yeah, as just as it said, I don't know what I'm looking at. That is true. That is true. It had never been plugged into the graphics card to begin with. Yeah, do you remember when you, when you set it up, did you, did you plug it into the graphics card? Nothing happened. Then you plugged into the motherboard. Or did you just coincidentally go straight into the wrong port? I think it went into the graphics card and I couldn't get it to work and then I changed the port. and then it worked. And then it was like, okay,

I don't understand whatever. If there's an issue, I'll encounter it later. And then we did. Now it's fixed. My fear is that it's fixed, but when we sit down to play Super Battle Golf on Friday,

it doesn't work because we haven't tested it. Oh, we'll make sure that it's all good. Cool. I'm also always around to help you set stuff up. Yeah, and we went through that process. Yeah, he's definitely not hanging out with me. He's just sitting at home.

What do you mean? What? I was referencing the joke earlier about how I hung out with your wife all day, Saturday, and Sunday and not you? I was saying you're definitely at home and available. You're all,

you're my number one tech guy. But we went through it and then I, you and next. Well, we started it. We started it, and then we came to a conclusion that I need somebody to look at it who knows what they're doing.

Before we wrap this podcast up, I feel like I should let you guys know, you know, we talked about those million dollar beds, those Haston's beds. Uh-huh. Yeah. Oh yeah. I stayed on one over the weekend. What? It's not a million dollar one. It's one of the cheaper like entry level ones, but I stayed at a hotel that has them for one night. And I don't know if it's a, I slept very well. I don't know if I slept better than on my Casper mattress, but I slept very fucking well. I don't know if it's worth a tenth of what it costs, but it, I will say that it was a cozy bed.

What is entry level on one of those? Like 10 grand? I think it was like 10 grand. You can get them for something like that maybe. Yeah. But I, you know, there's a, there's a fancy, like, local hotel company that has like, it's the place where Emily and I go swimming sometimes.

We have, like, a membership. And it allows us to stay in their hotel for free for one night a year. And so we took them up on a Sunday night and stayed there. So I got that. Oh, cool. Just because it was fresh in our head talking about those beds and stuff. And I wanted to check it out and report back to you guys. So it was, it was good.

I don't know if it's $10,000 good, but it was good. Did you dream different? Oh. Yeah, I think I did. I definitely, I couldn't tell you what any of my dreams were, but I do think I dreamed different in that room because it was like, it felt like it was in a rainforest almost the way it was positioned

this little bungalow in the trees and stuff. It felt very far away from Austin, Texas. And I think it affected my dreams for sure. I have another game thing. I started playing a very weird game last night called Tides of Tomorrow. Imagine, Waterworld mixed with the rage games,

with the social elements of the death stranding in Eldon Ring games. It's a very odd combination of things where the idea of the game is that it is like a shared universe and you pick essentially somebody else who's gone through things and you can see what they did and their actions impact yours. So like you might go into an environment and because they fucked up with the guards all the guards are on alert when you went through as opposed to how alert

they were when they did it and do you have any relation to these people or is it just randos it's just randos but you can also like the game constantly has a seed so if like when I finish I could give you that code Gavin and then you could play through and have all of my actions impact your game and see like

what I did as well as there are opportunities to be like I encountered a thing where I saw somebody receive a password and then you get the choice do you want that to be the password they see or do you want to like fuck them up essentially and change the password so that when they try to use it it doesn't work but i was immediately sold on this game because when you load in it just feeds you because it's like you're just starting the first thing you encounter is pick pick a person to be tied to

that is just like, I think it just gives you a random list of people that have played the game. Pick someone you want to follow. And I don't think I could have had a better follow option than my ass wet. It's the first option I had. So I've been following this person who has an account called my ass wet. And it just has brought me so much joy in the opening like two hours of this game. Of constantly seeing like characters like reference my ass wet. ass wet as like that was the last person who went through here.

Have you met my ass wet? And I'm just having a wonderful time. I'm getting like flashes of them emoting and seeing like what they did, little little things left for me. It has been a hell of time. Could you, could we potentially do it where we all do individual playthrues after each other? Yes, absolutely. And like whoever goes last is going to have the most messed up world.

Well, I don't, uh, spin the wheel. it is very much like a double a game where like the ambitions are a lot larger than I think the range of things but at least for I'd say two or three of us because there are times where I'm walking into an environment and I'm able to see what my ass went went through and they come in through a completely different door doing completely different things interacting with characters that I didn't necessarily interact with. When you say you see them do you see like a ghost of them like in Mirror's Edge or do you see it's like it's sort of ghost like but like you. you go into a vision mode and then you can see like a essentially a ghost version of them doing the thing. Can you only see my ass wet? You can't see the person before that. So like if we did no, I could only see my ass wet. Okay. So like if Eric went last, he wouldn't be able to see the four of us. He'd only be able to see Gavin. He'd only be able to see the last person who did it. And Gavin would see Nick and I'd see you. So I guess the chain would be three people where I would do

something and then my actions would impact the next person. And then, And then their actions would then impact the third person, but they could see Gavin's. But they would just know that Gavin's actions were dictated by choices I made theoretically. It's a very weird game. That is interesting. And it's fun. And it was the thing that I saw it like Summer Games Fest in like a few conferences and when I don't, trying to like convey that concept in a trailer is difficult.

So I was always interested by it, but didn't really understand. mechanically how it would work and I'm having so much fun with it and my ass wet is really carrying those initial experiences. I'm sad because I think whoever my ass wet is has only played one more mission at this point than I have. So I have one last my ass wet path to be guided by and then I've passed them. Will you wait for them to play more? No, I need to finish it because there's so many games. There are so many fucking games. Does my ass wet

what? Huh? Huh? What? What? Are you okay? Do you get lost there? I thought what my question was going to be. He just wanted to say the name again. I was just excited about my ass wet, which I get it. There's no

way for my ass wet to see you or interact with you, though, in the future. No. Like, he's only seeing his version of my ass wet. He's only, he's leaving messages for the person that comes next. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's what, that was my question. So is it only you who sees my ass wet or a bunch of people following him? I think anybody could follow my ass wet if like if I posted I think my seed code or whatever, then anybody could play using my game. And let me say, I mean a generous fucking guy.

You'd want to play so far. Maybe I'm just bluffing. There are so many scenarios where you like, you'll find like a box and like the main. upgrade material is scrap, and it'll be stuff like, do you want to leave 15 scrap for the next person that follows you? And I'm constantly doing that. Or like you encounter broken ladders, and it's like, do you want to spend 25 scrap to improve this? You'll be able to use it as well as the next person that does this using your code. And how generous is my ass weapon? generally pretty generous

except they didn't leave any scraps to get a discount on the like the medicine you need to survive so it kind of fucked up by my ass wet

now is my ass wet a gamer tag or is that an in-game name it is a gamer tag so you could reach out to my ass wet if you wanted to theoretically but they're on a different platform I don't know if they're on Steam

I don't know if they're on PlayStation they are not on Xbox or else I would have absolutely messaged my ass wet. They're about to be a pretty highly followed person in this game, I think. Well, I don't think you could search them manually either, so like it felt extra special that like my number one option. And then it was so good that you didn't try to Google my ass wet. I did after.

I did after. And I did not find anything for Tides of Tomorrow. Just some other stuff? Plenty of other stuff. It was such a good name that I was convinced. that like it was designed by the company or whatever like it was a

I couldn't have been gifted this great my ass wet scenario but I was I love if one of you I think Gavin probably be the most interesting play through after mine

here we go it's on Xbox it's on Xbox yeah it's a budget game it's like very double A is it worth filming like could we do a let's watch style of Gap

having through watching you? I don't think, uh, I think it would be interesting if maybe I did a full playthrough and then seeing Gavin interact with that. It'd be nice having you there while I'm playing though to ask you why you made some Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's yeah. Yeah, 100%. It's pretty short too. I think I'm like two hours in, maybe three at most and I'm like 40% of the way through

the game. So it's a very odd game. It's maybe the weirdest game. Oh, Talmadachi life exists. It's a weird year for games, I guess, and this is like, I've never played anything exactly like this. It is shallow and mechanics. Like I'm essentially only pushing X or like talking to people. Foggs gets crazy later.

Maybe this one will too, but like, I heard that about Super Meat Boy 3D or whatever, man. I don't know. I'm at the first level. I get it. I know what it is. I can't. I have a handheld device that I can play. like PC games on.

And I've been playing Super Meat Boy 3D on that. And I'm at the final, final level, or I guess I've got like five levels left, but like the final area. And it is kicking my ass so much that I don't want to pick up the handheld, even though I have like four games I'd like to play on.

Why don't you play a Super Battle Golf on that? Because I don't know, how would I capture my footage. Can you not just plug it into the capture card? No, I don't know. No, there's no HDMI on it. I looked into that. Okay.

Hey, you mentioned it briefly. I don't know it's been a games heavy episode, but we should probably talk about Tomodoshi Life. Is that what it's called? Tomodachi. Tomodachi Life. And how insane the video we made in that game was. I'm so excited for it to come out.

When does it? Has it come out by the time this episode? It will be out by the time that this podcast comes out. Yes. I hope we can get back in and play that again immediately. Because watching Andrew and Don Zimmer, wax philosophical about piss was one of the funniest video game things I've seen in quite some time. So I pop in, I don't want to get too far ahead of where you guys left off, but I pop in and I like buy new items when they appear and do some basic interaction stuff.

There have been some updates in the Tom and Doodogy Life world. One, I've since unlocked a news station where every day, like every physical day, they recap like the highlight event of the day before. so I've got like six of those for us to watch where it'll just be like today on the news Don Zimmer realizes he's a psychic and then it shows Don Zimmer doing some psychic stuff and then like getting reactions from the other villagers

of us as well as Eric and Gavin moved in together I knew it I knew it Jeff you can be best friends with Nick all you want me and Gavin true homies I guess so that's right baby we're putting tape everywhere

tape. Oh, Andrew, we need to get tape masks. I'm sorry. Seal him in. I'll look into the tape masks. Bag up those cheeses, buddy. We're going to need them in our new house together. You got it, man. We're going to eat good. You guys wish you lived together. It literally, like, I couldn't pack out of it or else I would have loved to have captured the moment,

but like, it locked into you guys moving in together. And then as soon as you guys were like, hell yeah, let's move in together. It said, what is your name? Like, what is the house name essentially? And it is team tape. And you guys are like, hell yeah, team tape, love team tape within. Fuck, yeah.

The world itself. It's awesome. So the world continues outside of our content. The world continues. Like, even if I were to not play it every day, there would be the characters doing stuff that we could then watch on the news feed. Oh my God. And I can lock up to 45 days of this.

So I think we have like seven days saved worth of things that. Maybe like each stream, before we start playing the game, we should get the update. The daily news, the Tomidachi, the Tomidachi daily news report. Yeah, go from the burger board to the news update to the game. Oh, that'd be perfect. We're going to make some more character.

I made a few characters. Ask Gavin some information and he clarified the question and then just never answered beyond clarifying. Wait, what was that? Nice. I said I wanted to add your alter egos should they look like this? And then you're like in Tomidachi life? And I said, yeah. And then you never provided any.

You never forwarded an opinion beyond that. Yeah, I heard that he does that if he text them. Should they look like this? Andrew, maybe ask Eric to ask him. He could probably get it. Yeah, we're roommates, so I could probably get that info. Did you send a picture or something? No, I just said, we should add your alter egos.

Do you think that they should look exactly like you? Like, should they be clones, essentially, or would they have their own style? And then you said, in Tomidachi life? And I said, yeah. And then that was it. There to go, man. Glad it's not just me. But traveling.

Not yesterday. Gavin and I actually, I traveled back in time for a little bit yesterday. Oh, that was good. That was fun. Yeah, that was fun. Okay, cool. So now we're near the end of the episode.

Can we talk about the anniversary in Mario Party March? Please. Cool. So, guys, Mario Party March is coming to a grand finale. At the time this episode's out, tomorrow the 30th will be the final day, the final turn of Mario Party March in April,

and we're going to be doing it live on Patreon. All you need is a free membership. It costs you $0.00. It's just a place that we haven't live streamed before. We want to keep it all in the one place. So we'll live stream it on Patreon, the final turn at 8 p.m. central time. And we are so close to being done with this everyday thing

that gets in the way of whatever else we're doing. But we're so, so, so close to just finally being done with Mario Party March in April. Let me ask you question, Eric. Yeah. What month do you want to do it next year? I don't.

I don't want to, I'm fine with doing something in March again. I don't want to do Mario Party. Bit of a trick question. We all agreed we're never going to do Mario Party month again. Last Mario Party. Yeah, this is definitely the last one we're doing. I don't even hate the Mario Party of it. I just don't want to be the guys that do the exact same thing every year

and get like locked into an idea. I agree. I don't want to become trapped by the idea. I've had that problem in the past. Because I love the idea of doing a thing every day. That's like a lot of fun. I don't love the idea of doing Mario Party again. So I feel like doing this Bowser's Keep One has been really fun. And like the deeper we get into the month, the more fucked it is for the standings.

It is brutal for maybe one person in particular who is not consulting their strategist as they should be. Yeah. Yeah. But, but that is just the live stream on the 30th for Mario Party March. We're doing that on Patreon. Patreon.com slash the regulation pod.

You can sign up 8 p.m. Central time. It's free. It's not a paid Patreon membership. No, no, no, no, no. Any free membership can watch it. But our anniversary is coming up as well. And, Jeff, what's that day? May 11th.

That's great, Jeff. Way to go. May 11th. is our anniversary. We're turning two, boys. It's our second anniversary. Unbelievable. And we're going to be doing a live stream on Twitch starting at 601 PM Central Time.

We're going to be doing a lot of cool stuff. I kind of don't want to spoil it, but do know that the final spring golf game will be played and we will present the Gerpler jacket as well. So that's going to be part of that stream on Twitch at 601 p.m. but earlier in that day, because we don't want to make everyone wait until later in the day for this stuff, we're gonna have a big merch drop

that's gonna be coming up. And we have a lot of stuff coming out. We have photos that'll be coming soon, so hopefully by the time this episode's out, I can throw these photos in. But we do have some stuff. And if I can run some of that stuff down, some of the stuff I'm really excited about.

We have the new Gerpler, which is the Gerpler we thought we had originally, but now we have, we have, We ended up with the Mordler, but now we have the Gerpler, the green and purple color-changing Gerpler. That will be in the store. That's going to be,

did we say noon central is what we're going to? I believe we're going to shoot for noon central for all this stuff. Okay, okay. So noon central time is when we're going to have that stuff go live on RegulationStore.com or Regulationstore. That's where you can grab the Gerpler. There's also going to be a Kuzler, a new Kuzler.

I don't think it's a new Kuzler. I think it's just the old Kuzler. I think it's a black Kuzel. Looks a lot like the old. It does. It does. We are also going to have, this was out of Jeff's brain and I'm very into it. I'm curious to see how it sells because it's sort of the opposite of what we've done

previous. It literally the opposite. It's the reverse metal shirt. Oh, yeah. It's really cool. It's the metal death shirt. Yeah. And this, I don't think I can take credit for this.

I think this came from one of my life. I think maybe Mark the Frog pitch the idea. Whoa, this is a Frog idea? I think it might be a frog. Yeah. Damn. Mark the brain. This is the white shirt with black lettering, but it is the death metal shirt, but in this reverse.

So hopefully you're into wearing a white shirt as some people aren't. There will be a surprise anniversary patch as well that we'll have more information on and photos on. As we get closer to the day, we just can't reveal it yet. We will also have, so with the Kuzler, there will also be, how do we want to do the Gerpler keychain? Because that's just a thing. Are we just throwing that in as bonus with some people? Are we going to try to put them on sale? I think we're just going to give them away with each Gerpler.

So there's a Gerpler mini keychain that sort of came our way. And they're like, hey, we just think this is a cool thing. And it is such a cool thing. It's really awesome. Yeah, our partner gave them, made these for us as like a thank you for being, I don't know, a good and consistent cup purchaser. And so we didn't feel right about charging for them. So we thought it'd be, instead of like the little sticker we usually do,

we're just going to throw in a free Gerpler keychain with hopefully every order, but at least a lot of orders. Until they run out. So if you don't get one, very sorry. But we're going to try to get them to everyone who orders one. We also have, oh, boy, we're doing pencils. No. Yeah, but why?

It makes sense. It's our second anniversary. It's our second anniversary. If you're ever going to do a number two pencil, now is the time to do it. Yeah. And so it is a regulation number two pencil. Let me get a little photo here.

This is just the mock-up art. This is what the pencil will look like on the side. Imagine it with an eraser on one side and a sharpen end on the other. Stupid. Regulation podcast. And it's the number two. That went into some revisions. but that is what we landed on

and I'm very happy with it. It almost got printed without the number two which was the reason that we did it in the first place. So that next year we can release a number three pencil because that's the real joke. We will also have a reprint of the Ian Falcon and no scrumping patch set. So we'll have a thousand of those, I believe.

and then patch hats should be out. If not with this drop, then very soon on the back. I just know they arrive later in like beginning of June. I don't think the patch hats are going to make it, but they will be in the store as soon as they come in. They will be out very, very soon on the back of this anniversary stuff. Jeff, do we want to talk about the box we need to deliver to them so we can put these things on sale?

Yeah, yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. There is an old item is going to make a brief comeback. A brief, very brief comeback. And we're going to have to limit them to one per order, I think. I don't think we can do more than that. We can show you the cool little box that they come in because they come in a very cool little box. This little regulation box will contain a baseball.

We found a box of face baseballs. Nick, don't forget to bleep that. We have these baseballs unhit, still in package, and we wanted to get them out to you guys. I don't think that there's more than 250. I think there's about 150. Yeah, there's a very low number of these baseballs. It's got to be first come for a serve.

We're very sorry. We don't like doing this with like a hyper-limited thing, but we want to get this out. Yeah. Because who knows who still wants one, who didn't get one, that kind of a thing. And we had them. We also, they're taking up space in the office.

150 baseballs is a lot of baseballs. And we're not going to, like, we all have kind of internally agreed, like we're probably done with the baseball bits. So we don't see ourselves going and whacking them or anything like that. So there's no reason to hold on to them. We might as well give them to people that may want them with the understanding that, like, there won't be more. This is just, we had them left over and they're just collecting dust.

And we'd rather get them to people that didn't get them initially and that wanted one. Yep. So I believe that that's where we stand on that stuff. I'm really excited for everyone to see the anniversary patch. That's going to be. It's really cool. Also, there's going to be, I think there's a small order of the 501 Gerpler and Don Pedro.

Oh, hell yeah. Patch pack, I think it's a smaller order, but that's there. And then Gavin, don't forget, you can still get one or the other or both of the Rattie boy shirts. and the idiot pendant that are still on sale in the regulation store. It might even be a coin or two available. There might still be some coins available. God, I hope we sell out of those.

But that's what we have coming for the anniversary on May the 11th. 601 p.m. is when we go live on Twitch. But noon central time is when all this stuff goes on sale at Regulations Store.com. You know what won't be on sale during the anniversary? What? What's that? The Never Learned shirt because it's sold out all. already? Whoa. That's insane. Thank you so much.

Yeah, no one learned shit. No, they learned not to learn. Yeah. That's the lesson. I can't wait for this stream. The stuff we have planned for it, I think, is going to be so much fun. Yeah. At the time we're recording this, the Never Learn shirt only has medium left. Yeah, there's only like 10 shirt, 10 medium shirts left. Holy shit. Thank you so much for supporting us. Thank you so much. So it almost sold out before the portal video came up. Yeah. We had 50 left when the poll video hit. I was tracking it. So thank you, everybody.

So thank you, everybody. We'll have images for this stuff. We have a lot coming out. We're really excited. It's our two-year anniversary. Didn't even know if we were going to make it one year. A two-year anniversary, big blowout extravaganza. Really excited to celebrate with you guys on Twitch with a big live stream.

The Gerpler jacket. Gerpel jacket presentation. I cannot wait to don that thing because I have played one time. And other surprises. And other surprises. And other surprises. There's a lot happening on that. day. So stay tuned. Thank you guys very much for being a part of this for like the last two years.

Oh, we also have a, we'll have a sausage talk coming out in very soon in the, in the near future. We have yet to record it. I think we have it set for our recording will be tomorrow. And then we will have it out very soon for the anniversary. We want to catch up with you guys, what's been going on, what we're looking forward to. Answer some of your questions. Yeah. I look through some of the questions on Patreon already. There's some fantastic ones on there. That's great. I'm really excited, guys. This is going to be a lot of fun. So don't forget Mario Party March and April live finale on the 30th on Patreon at 8 p.m. Central time.

And then on May the 11th, 601 Central time on Twitch is when we'll go live. And noon central is when the merch will go on sale. Gavin thoughts? It's great. There you go. Yeah. You heard it here first from Gavin. That's great. It's great. Great. Just like this episode was, episode 103 of the Regulation Podcast.

Early reviews from Gavin R.N. It's great. We'll see you next week. Thanks so much. Bye. Bye. It's great.