Regulation Podcast - It's Not This Episode // Regulation Who Said It? [119]
Episode Date: August 19, 2026Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about Ferris Bueller, countdown, PHOGS, recharge, 207, Pikachu is safe, birthday texts, nothing calls, Bono, Death of Robin Hood, human chin, Blue Velvet, ceiling cave in,... burgers, Geoff's stream, tab check, pelmet, chork, Andrew's package, Miranda, Baby Joey, Break Show, goats are out, office animals, and british inability of whimsy. Sponsored by Factor. Thanks Factor! Go to FACTORMEALS.com/regulation50off and use code regulation50off to get 50% off and 1 free breakfast item per box for 1 year, while supplies last until 10/31/2026. (See website for more details). Also sponsored by Shopify. Turns out you don’t need a real job. Build your own business with a free trial at shopify.com/regulation Support us directly at https://www.patreon.com/TheRegulationPod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental content, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Regulation Podcast.
My name is Jeff Ramsey with me.
As always, Andrew Pat and Gavin Free, Nick Schwartz, Eric Padour, episode 119.
Go.
That's a new number.
That number went up.
Okay.
Every time it goes up.
You ever noticed that?
You don't need a tutorial to know that?
That's good, man.
No.
Well, sometimes it goes from 206 to one.
That's true.
That's true.
One time it did.
Oh, man.
I wish it was like a Ferris Bueller thing where like we had to elevate a car to reset the number.
Which I don't think works in real life.
Does that work?
Didn't work in Ferris Bueller either.
That was the point.
No, I get shot out the back.
But I guess we got shot out of the company because the company died.
Well, it didn't get shot out of the back.
He kicked it down and then it drove backwards.
That's right.
Yeah.
I didn't know Jeff was a Wikipedia for Ferris Bueller's day off.
No, I just remember the, I remember the pivotal point of the film.
Don't listen to Andrewton.
Andrew today is something else, man.
No, I don't, I'm not, don't, don't listen to Andrew today.
That's unfair.
Dude, I don't know.
I, I came in, I came in like two, two minutes ago, and you guys were all yelling at each other.
I didn't say a word.
I just waited until somebody said, record.
I don't even know what you're arguing about.
There was no argument.
None of yet.
I agree with, yeah, I agree with that.
There's definitely no argument.
Yeah, there's definitely no argument.
I asked him about a game he was playing that we're thinking about streaming, and he said he wasn't sure if would stream well.
and then we talked about another game earlier in the week,
and we're running up on the recording time,
so I rushed into the game
that just tried to see what it would look like to show him,
and I missed a prompt on the screen.
Oh, okay.
That's it.
It doesn't seem like a fight.
Why if, when we get to episode 206 again,
what if we just start going back down to one?
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
And then what happens?
It goes 205, 206, 205, 204,
and then when we get to one, that's it.
So you're recommending we just put an end date on the podcast?
Like a hard reset each time?
No, I don't think so.
I think he just wants to really confuse the UI in it.
He said when you get back to one, that's it.
We're done.
I assume when it's over.
Maybe at one, we decide if we're going to go negative or whether we change the name or
whether we stop or it.
Why would we go negative?
Because we never went negative before.
Well, I don't know where you'd go after zero.
I'd back up to one.
Here's an idea.
I'm going to throw this out there.
This might be a little out of school,
a little out of the box,
but what if instead of going backwards,
we continued forward and we went into 2007,
which we've never done before.
And then after that is a 208,
we've never done before.
We're recording podcasts under the blanket
of familiar numbers
for the next 100 or so.
Let's go into the unknown.
Let's become 207.
Yeah, I mean, there'll be a lot of pressure on 207,
but I think we can do it.
Will it?
Should we skip it?
No.
That's an interesting idea, Nick.
Should we skip it?
Yeah, I mean, it's not a bad thought.
You know, the performance anxiety
might make it like an all-time bad episode
and I'd hate to embark on new territory
if it ends up being negative, you know?
Or what about this?
Check this out, right?
Whenever we next do a really good episode,
it's 207.
We hold it.
I feel like that's last.
week. Can we retroactively do it?
Oh, it already came out.
No, that one already came out. Sorry, man.
That one's too late.
We're going to have to get ahead on recordings then.
Okay.
So just next time we record an amazing episode and it ends and I don't say, I think that
could have been better and everybody's happy.
Then you just say we just immediately put that behind glass next to that dogs.
What was that game called?
Fogs?
Fogs.
That's the fogs.
Let's play.
And we just wait to the 200s to crack it open.
Maybe it's like a silent thing, though, where you can submit that you think that should be 207,
but it only becomes 207 if everyone submits on the same episode and we're not allowed to talk about it.
How many submissions do we get?
Well, there's five of us.
No fucking shit.
He's like between that, like, is he allowed to feel that way about more than one episode?
Well, well, you would submit for the episode, right?
if you thought it's really good.
If not everyone does it,
it didn't happen,
so you could just submit for a future one.
Am I,
am I insane with what I asked?
Or, like, what's going on?
No, I think sort of,
so what,
how do we know that everyone's voted on it, Gavin?
Because I guess the mechanism.
Yeah, who's receiving the submissions,
I guess would be the question.
Well,
we'd have to build some sort of form,
some sort of web page form.
Do we or could we just have somebody that we know
how many times can,
I,
Submit. I answered it already.
If not everyone does it, it carries over.
You can just do it on the next one if you want.
I've answered you.
I did.
I disagree.
I don't think that that was an answer.
That was, I want to know, so I can vote for every episode.
Yes.
Yeah, but it's only gonna, it's only gonna take when everyone votes for the same episode.
That's all I wanted to know.
He explained it.
He just didn't like the words he used.
It was longer than you wanted.
Who do we submit to?
Do I have to like text Emily?
That's what we're on.
Are you listening, Eric?
Eric, that's why I'm trying to,
I'm trying to get back.
I'm trying to get back to it.
I want to make sure everyone knows
I will not be submitting
for this episode.
This is an...
You've done all of this.
Episode 119.
I think this is all you.
I think Eric needs to power of his ears.
Behind glass.
You got it.
All right.
I let Emily know.
What if we submitted it to Robert?
Well, we already submitted it to Emily,
but...
What if every part of your body
needed to be recharged?
Like, phone.
That would suck.
What do you mean?
Well, like, you said he needs
to charge his ears up.
Like, what if his ears were
debt, you know, like your phone can die.
Like if every part of your body, I can't go.
My leg. I forgot the church my leg
last night. I'd probably forget on purpose
a lot. Let me ask you guys a question.
Let's say
clearly it's not this episode.
It's not 119. But let's say
119 is the episode that the
podcast is over. Everybody
submits
a
a notice to
Emily or Robert or whoever
saying I think this is an all-time
this is an episode 207
if I've ever experienced one.
And then we all agree
we decide on it. 119 is 207.
That's great. So we set it aside. And then we do
five more podcasts.
And then we're on 124.
Right? And we're like,
holy shit, this one's better.
This is 207.
That other 119-207
doesn't hold a candle to
124-207.
What do we do? Can we all submit
again or we locked in on the 207 we think you're locked in on the 207 I think it elevates
stakes you got to be certain yeah I'm tempted to say that we've we screwed ourselves in that
scenario but maybe if there was oh I do like the idea of everyone unvoting and then having a stack
of potential 207s that have to come out at some point has to work the same right to get a new
207 every person has to unvote on the previous 207 so if one person thinks that
the episode is way better than it would flip.
But then when does that one come out?
When does the hell 207 come out?
208.
Here's an idea.
What if we,
between now and 207,
what if we identify four or five two of sevens?
And then we have 207 week,
where we just released five 207s.
And then the audience gets to pick
on the one that they like
as to that becomes 208, 208, 11, 12.
And then the rest of them just filter it
is 208, 9, 10, 11, 12.
And it comes out at 207 PM on Central Time.
Yeah, whatever that means.
Ooh.
That's interesting.
It comes out on February 7th if it is going to come out that year.
That 207 days?
Even less sense because it will never align.
What if it did, though?
It's a random day.
Yeah, let's say we record it on December, whatever.
Then it would come out in February of that, the upcoming year.
If we record it in June, it doesn't get deployed regardless of how old it is,
207 day.
People will know if 207 has occurred
if it shows up on 207 day or not.
But then what comes up to 206?
So you're saying 207 could
207 could potentially come out before
206? Significantly before
it in this year. Yes.
That's interesting.
That's interesting. That's interesting.
Well, I think putting this idea to the group
has made it make a lot less sense.
I don't think it ever made sense.
So I think it's fine.
Am I the only one that sees a certain kind of sense in this?
I like it.
Thanks, Nick.
It's not about liking or disliking it.
It just doesn't make sense to do.
But I'm not opposed.
There's never been a reason to not do anything on the chef.
I've already submitted my note.
Like, I already told Emily, this is 119's locked in.
Having a 207 day that appears on 207.
I like that idea.
Especially if we're only up to podcast 153 or something at that point.
Now, if it's a person instead of a form,
Gavin, do you think that decreases the likelihood of you voting?
Yeah.
I think significantly.
Yeah.
I think it's funny.
It's going to make it count more, I think, because I didn't want to have to...
For you, yeah, you will feel a burden of like, you don't want to make this person have to acknowledge a vote by you, even though it's a very small...
Because you felt like a social gesture that to you weighs an infinite amount where, I think, to at least me, it would be a complete non-thought.
What if you had to submit it in person?
that's that's complex
yeah
so no
all right
all right
all right well
I don't know
sounds like we've gotten somewhere
I don't know where somewhere is
I have a feeling that episode 207
is just going to get recorded
the week after 206 gets recorded
and probably come out like that
but who knows
who knows
certainly
Kevin is your Pikachu safe
what about my Pikachu safe
Is it safe?
Did you do it?
Did you move it?
I mean, he's saved.
He's backed up, but he's not on a modern game yet.
I just, I was trying to find something on the subreddit to bring up for the show.
And I saw a post that says apparently PowerBank is shutting down in February 26 and 2027.
You might want to get on that.
You get a little bit of time, obviously.
What is Power Bank?
I don't know.
It just, it says is Gavin's Pikachu safe.
I assume you need Power Bank to transfer whatever you're doing.
Oh.
So you have a dead.
is the point of the post.
The person is trying to make sure that you do it
before they shut down the service
that I think you need to modernize your picture.
Oh shit, I never even out of that service.
It may not be necessary.
I'm just assuming it's important
because it was there.
It just showed up by my face
and I wanted to check on your Pikachu because of it.
Well, I appreciate it.
I'll look into it.
This may be completely optional.
You may be completely fine,
but the title, the post,
definitely implies that this is an essential
piece of thing that you need.
Any other businesses shutting down
we should be aware of the Gavis.
might use eventually.
I don't know.
You know what?
I just,
I saw is Gabba's
Pikachu safe?
First of all,
I wanted to know
what the status of the
Pikachu was because we
haven't heard in a while.
That's true.
We haven't gotten an update.
And second,
I did not consider the fact
that Gava would not know
what Pokemon.
Oh, it's Pokemon Bank.
It's not Power Bank.
Oh.
Oh.
Yeah.
If we would have done this again
and I would have said
Pokemon Bank is shutting down,
would that have made sense to you?
Yes.
There we go.
Okay.
See?
Shit.
I better get on that then because that's the,
that's like the DS era version of Pokemon Home, I think.
Oh.
See, I don't even know what Pokemon Home is.
How much work will you have to do to get yourself past that point?
Not a lot.
I think I've bought everything I need.
I just need to play some games now.
I was in a real Pokemon phase when I was doing all that,
and I've just put it down at some point.
Your Pokemon is like in that Stephen King Langalear's story,
it's like slowly running and the world is disintegrating behind it
and it's got to stay just ahead of, like, technology dying.
Is that the one with the planes in the mouths and stuff?
Yeah, yeah.
For the world being consumed.
So you're having to play through Pokemon games to get it further?
Like you haven't done all the playing part of this journey?
No.
Oh, that's interesting.
I never realized that in the process of you talking about it.
Oh, you mentioned it.
I got up to the second...
I got up to the remake of the first gen.
Okay.
How many more Pokemon game roughly?
Do you have to go through?
I don't know.
Okay.
It depends which ones are compatible with bank
and all that other stuff.
Got it.
I need to look.
Interesting.
Huh.
Sounds like Gavin's got some homework.
He'll get back to us.
He definitely has some homework.
Some Pokemon homework.
I want the Pikachu to be safe.
Hey, I think we all want the Pokemon to be safe.
You mentioned the subreddit, Andrew,
and seeing a person bring that up.
I saw something in a comment on a video the other day,
and I don't remember where I saw it or who said it,
but it was a great idea.
So thank you, random commenter.
Somebody out there said,
if they're looking for something to do
with the phone numbers and the email addresses
that they have on Andrew's laptop,
why not just record all of the birthdays
of all of those celebrities
and just send them happy birthday texts
whenever it's their birthday?
Just a simple, hey man, thank you of you.
Hope you're having a great birthday.
It's a good test.
And then see what kind of responses you get.
It still feels like, it still feels weird?
Sure does.
That's, no, it's all weird for sure, but that seems like the least offensive way to interact
in a cold call way with that information.
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know if what.
I'm not saying we should ever interact with that information at all.
No, no, I get it.
I get it.
I'm trying to evaluate my head.
Is that less intrusive than if I were to call and say like, hey, I'm looking for, um,
Is Tony there?
Like if I just pick a random name,
because then it feels like a wrong number.
Where I feel like if you just text happy birthday,
then becomes a mystery of who the fuck is this?
We're like, if you call...
I can't imagine an A list to answering a unknown number, though.
That's very fair.
I like that you're...
There's two options.
One, be polite and supportive on a person's day.
Both. Both.
Or be, be duplicitous and lie to that person.
Not be duplicitous.
Be polite.
If you get a text from some number that you don't know that wishes you happy birthday,
it creates a whole journey in your head of who is this person?
How did they get my number?
There's a whole thing.
You would speculate.
You would wonder, it would become a lot more stressful in my mind than if you got a wrong number.
I think, but what do you get out of the wrong number?
What do you get out of somebody replying to with the wrong number?
If somebody just says, okay, thanks, you don't know that that was,
you know.
I don't really care, I guess, if I know if it's the person or not.
I'm just more interested if the number's still alive, personally.
Oh, so you don't care who has the number.
You just want to know if the number works.
Yeah, I think like generally speaking.
I get the number works.
All the numbers work.
They may not belong to those celebrities anymore, but numbers work.
I have a bunch of old numbers that don't work.
A bunch feels weird.
I have like two.
I think if you dialed all of them, like 95%
would never answer.
Oh, I agree.
He was going to answer for sure.
But the numbers go somewhere.
Do you think there's an age range
in which they would answer, though?
I think people about 60
would answer without question.
I think the younger you get,
the less likely you are to get an answer.
But young people are old now, so.
That's what I'm saying.
Like, when I say young, I mean like 30.
On the scale.
Do you mean?
Not actual young.
Yeah, but I think like if you look at DiCaprio,
He's what, like late 50s?
He's about my age, yeah.
Like, probably 55.
I think he's young enough to not answer a phone.
I see what you're saying.
I don't know about that.
Jeff, do you answer the phone?
Yes and no.
What's the...
Great.
Well, I prefer not to answer the phone
because of spam calls.
Sure.
But I'm a dad.
And so I feel an obligation
to answer the phone
because sure enough,
for the one time I don't answer the phone, it's a doctor
or somebody from the college or something,
you know what I mean? And so I feel an obligation
to answer every phone call because it may be related
in some way to my daughter. That makes total sense.
I don't know how I would
view that if I weren't a parent.
So we have to factor in which celebrities have
kids.
And then we have to factor in which celebrities
have kids that still have their last
name as part of their name.
And then that's a whole other tier.
Like Brad Pitt, I don't think is answering
for the same reason.
For the record, I don't think we should contact these people in any way at all.
I'm just saying, out of all the discussions we've had, that seemed like the politest, friendliest, least offensive way to do it.
I think, I agree, and I think at most you're allowed to ring the number, see if they answer it, say nothing, and hang up.
And just you have to determine if it's them by the hello.
I think that's the worst.
I think that's the worst of all of the choices.
But that happens to me almost daily.
To die of what?
And I don't think it ruins my day.
You're getting calls every day of people calling you and then not saying anything?
All the time.
My phone rings.
There's no one there.
It doesn't make me like look over my shoulder.
Well, because it happens to you every day.
I feel like for most people, that would be odd.
You never get a call and it's like the start of a robo call that hasn't loaded yet or like just no one's there.
Well, that's not nothing.
Most celebrities have call services as well, I would imagine.
So you don't know that that phone's actually going to them.
I'm maybe going, maybe dialing into some sort of a bank.
Now I have a question about this, because the way that it was categorized for this person,
a lot of these were listed as homes.
Do you think that celebrities have landlines in like 2013?
I think home is just like the default in Apple if you're not paying attention.
But some of them say sell.
So I don't know if he like sometimes would go sell and sometimes would just default to home.
but I was really like, are celebrities really using landlines in like 2014?
That seems crazy.
We have a line line line.
I would imagine in 2014, absolutely.
If a celebrity has a house with like, you know, security and stuff, I bet you there's still landlines there.
Interesting.
Does our landline work?
Yeah.
Gavin?
I gave you the number for it.
Do you want to Discord me the number and I can call it?
Is anyone there?
I don't know.
Well, I thought you set up an answering machine.
He should mute himself and leave a message.
No, I think you should just not answer if somebody picks up to make it.
There might not be someone on the other end, so.
Make it feel safe.
Don't want to worry you, you know.
Oh, God.
I do get where you're coming from, Gavin, but it is very funny.
Like, in my head, you are the perfect person to be like, yeah, I got a call and they didn't say anything.
It was great.
It's exactly what I want.
out of a phone call.
My point is that it's not bad or great.
It's just nothing.
Oh.
I would think it was something.
I actually kind of agree with Gavin
in the sense that when I get a spam call
and there's nobody on the other line immediately
I feel safe hanging up.
And that's much better.
Because to me when the phone rings,
unless it's spam, it's bad news.
The telephone ringing is never good.
Nobody ever calls me with good news.
So it's like if it's between
getting a call from a doctor
saying, hey, we got the results of your biopsy,
we need you to come in next week, or dead air.
I think the dead air is great.
Okay.
I can't remember last time I got good news
and a phone call. Does that ever happen to you guys?
Does anybody ever call you and be like, dude,
you're not going to believe what just happened. This is awesome.
The closest I can come is I call Gavin
to tell him when I embarrass myself.
I called you when I found out that I had this thing.
That's pretty exciting about that.
That's true. That's true.
And you had to preface this by saying,
When you picked the phone, you said it, there's nothing wrong.
Because you know the person who expects.
Yeah.
Because good news is never transferred via phone anymore.
Yeah, I know.
I'm still, you know, it's a weird spot.
I don't want to bother in these people.
I don't think we ever will reach out in any capacity.
Nope.
I also do see a scenario in which I am on my deathbed going.
I wonder if that Bono number was active.
Dude, that's the second time you've brought up being on your deathbed.
Because Bono.
About calling these people.
I just think,
I think you need to do it privately and just, just try it.
I think you gotta just maybe make one phone call.
No one ever has to know if you did.
Yeah.
You don't have to even share it with us.
You don't even have to share it with us.
You can just do it on your time, you know?
Yeah, I'm still, I don't think I ever will know is the problem.
Of course.
And you could keep telling us that forever and we'll believe you.
Yeah.
If that's what you want us to believe.
Yeah.
There's certain people, like James Woods.
Of course.
I'd open if I called James Woods.
I wouldn't feel that about that.
that.
I think if
anyone's
answering is him.
Oh yeah,
he's definitely
in the category
of would answer
in a phone call,
I think.
It is great.
I saw somebody
on Reddit.
Okay,
here's another line of this.
Less celebrity
scenario,
still celebrity.
Somebody tracked down
the two people
that would have been
involved with
writing the fish and magician.
If their contacts
are in there,
is that,
is that,
ethical to reach out and so even if it's like an email not a phone call
to just be like hey I the fish magician sounds incredible I think an email you can
I think an email you can do email acceptable I think you need a handle an email also
somebody else in that in that thread or another thread pointed out the similarities between
that script and a brief history of violence and I wonder if maybe they were I know there's
that I also saw that and I couldn't disagree more with I haven't seen that movie since it came
out, I have very little memory
of it. It is incredibly graphic and
gory and nothing about the fish and
magician reads as
violent thriller.
Speaking of graphic and gory, I watched
the death of Robin Hood the other day. Fucking
hell. That is a gross movie.
It's just gross.
Just dude's getting their eyeballs popped.
Fucking chin's getting
ripped off. It's fucking
I don't like eyeball stuff.
One of the grossest movies I've seen in a while.
I'd be so disturbed if I found a
chin? Yeah.
Oh, oh yeah.
You'd have so many questions.
Whoa.
Whose chin is this?
And where's the rest of them?
That's how the movie Blue Velvet starts.
Kyle McClaughtland and Laura Derner
just walking through an empty lot and they find a
human ear on the ground.
Oh, I thought you're going to say they found a chin.
Not close.
Wasn't a chin, but an ear is
so close to it's chin adjacent.
It is like in proximity, but I don't
think in meaning.
You think it's a different message?
I think if you find a piece of a head,
I think it's equally jarring to find a human ear,
a nose, a chin, a tongue, an eyeball.
I think it's all the same.
I think an ear carries the same message as a finger.
As you can, like, said all of those things, Jeff,
I was grossed out equally by all of them but ear,
and I think it's because I've seen stuff with ears happen in movies.
You're desensitized to ears?
I think so, like I've seen reservoir dogs.
It's the Van Gogh.
There's ear stuff.
I've seen Mike Tyson attack
Holyfield.
I can wrap my head around that, I guess,
in a way that I can't wrap my head around
any of the other parts of the face
that you just listed.
What's more disturbing to you? A chin or a throat?
I don't even know...
What would a throat look like?
Like, are we talking like the interior of it?
Like, roadhouse style.
Are you able to identify it as a human throat?
Yeah.
It'd be pretty gross.
It would be gross.
A chin is just wild.
I think a chin would really get me.
It takes a lot of effort.
That's a lot of impact.
Because I feel like no one's just losing the chin.
They've lost a lot if they've lost the chin.
Yeah, I agree.
Yes.
A lot of questions when you see just a chin.
Where's the rest?
Why just the chin?
I feel like if you find, if you find an arm or an ear, chances are,
someone might still be alive.
I don't think anyone's surviving a de-chining.
No.
People survive de-chinnings.
Sure.
People have had their lower jaw ripped off before and still live.
I guess, yeah.
That's true.
I'm not saying it's a, you know,
a fun way to live,
but I didn't just to live.
We've all been there.
I'm living there.
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Speaking of mystery,
somebody in the community made an amazing game
that I wanted to play with you guys.
Regulation, who said it?
Oh, love it.
I played this game the other day and did terrible.
I did not play it because I didn't want to spoil anything,
so I just, I've looked at it.
So we got to watch you play it?
Yeah, let's watch Andrew play.
Okay, hang on. Let me get this screen.
Typically, Eric is the one who plays.
I'm sharing the screen. There it is.
Even if the questions are the same, I bet I still do bad.
Regulation Who Said It? Made by community member Michael Booth.
Start the regulation quiz.
And this is it Regulation Who Said It.C.A.
Which I think is Canadian.
And sure is.
There you go. Okay, here we go.
Let's start. I'll start. We'll do an egg order reading the quote.
and then we can figure out, we can try to speculate who said.
Okay.
The fart doesn't take itself too seriously.
It presents itself and then says, no, no, there's more to me than that.
And then comes back with a second wave of fart.
I have a guess.
I do too.
So do I.
This feels very Jeff to me.
Yeah, I would guess Jeff.
That doesn't sound like me to me.
That sounds like Gavin to me.
I think it's Gavin.
The second wave of fart sounds like that.
Yeah.
I don't think I would evaluate a fart that way.
I think second wave of fart
sounds like me, but I don't
think I say no-no.
I think no-no
is Jeff. That's pretty good.
Maybe.
Unless no is over somebody else.
It could be, yeah, it's about to say maybe the second
no is an interjection.
That is not the split.
I'm so excited for it to be like Andrew,
but this is cool.
I think we have two for Jeff and two for Gavin.
Nick, you got the tiebreaker here.
You're going to go with Gavin?
All right.
I'm going Gavin.
All right, guys.
Gavin's the pick.
I'm always wrong.
Oh, it's Jeff.
Jeff, yeah.
It felt like Jeff to me.
I know my no-n-n-nose.
Yep.
What I really like to is that there's a transcript excerpt that it gives you where it's like, here's a few lines before.
That's awesome.
That's a little bit of context.
This is great.
Yeah.
This looks so good.
Question number two.
To Nick.
Could we call it guitar hero with an egg?
Hmm.
I want to say Gavin.
Yeah, that feels Gavin to me.
Yeah, I'm also going to say Gavin.
It's funny because we filmed a piece of content that hasn't come out in relation to what I believe this subject is about.
It'd be crazy if it wasn't.
Gavin also leads a lot with coulds.
I love a could.
I like egg.
Gavin is a good guy.
I never thought about that, but you're so right, Nick.
Gavin is always saying could.
He's a could be guy.
Could we?
Yeah, that's pretty Gavin.
All right.
Are we going to go with Gavin?
Yeah, yeah, I feel strongly
It was Eric!
Oh, Eric is also a could-be guy.
Wow, we don't know ourselves at all.
No, hey, we're 50-50, I wouldn't go that far yet.
Wow, okay.
We don't want point. Good at this.
Oh, no, we don't have any points, do we?
We don't have any points.
I was on the right side on the first one.
Yeah, don't worry about it.
You're right, you're right, yeah.
Next, uh, mine has two-headed bird tongues.
Two-headed bird tongues.
Definitely not me.
I wonder what percentage of the audience is two for two at this point.
Gavin or Andrew does fantastical animals most.
Yeah, I think it might be Andrew.
You think Andrew?
I could see Andrew.
I could be me.
I'd go, Andrew.
If I've said this, I don't remember saying it.
Oh, I don't remember saying anything about Guitar Hero Egg.
Here we go.
We're going to go with Andrew.
I don't remember anybody saying any of this shit.
Eric again.
Eric again.
It was Eric.
Eric, are you the weirdest bastard on this podcast?
No, only when you take me out of context.
In context, it makes a lot of sense because it appears we're talking about flags.
Where it's like, was it like, Albania or whatever has like the birdhead that goes two ways.
It's like two birds.
These are clever picks because they're deliberately quite mysterious.
Very good.
Okay, O for three.
Here we go.
Which G wants to read this.
Jeff's the first jeff.
It'll be Jeff.
I'll be the first tree.
A quarter pound all beef hot dog with chopped peppers,
onions,
bacon, and brown mustard submerged in a glass of 100% whole goat milk.
This sounds like Eric.
I think this is Jeff.
I thought it's going to be Nick with all the food and bacon and that.
Well,
we can try to pick Nick,
but I don't think we're able to.
Here's what I think this is.
I think this is Eric talking about different hot dogs
available at different baseball stadiums.
Because I would never bring up goat milk on my own.
I think that this is...
I also don't like brown mustard.
I think that this is Jeff going off of a third or fourth riff on something about hot dogs where they also do milk or something.
But...
If you guys think it's me, it's fine.
We can go with me.
No, no.
Because I could have been reading it.
I guarantee you this is a fucking...
This is a hot dog at a baseball stadium.
At a AAA baseball stadium.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so it's either me or Eric.
I think it's you, but I think it might be you because it's, I'm thinking condiments.
And this feels like your condiment recipe.
Like I could see you reading this out.
I'm changing to Eric.
I think it's Eric.
I think it was when we were hearing about the weird stadium dogs.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
100%.
I think it's Jeff.
Sorry about Jeff.
Okay.
So we're going to go, Jeff.
It's Eric.
Eric reading the official description of the float-year goat, a menu item,
designed during a dare.
I fucking remember the moment.
Yeah, I just, I don't, it felt like a Jeff saying thing.
It did.
There you go.
All right, all right, all right.
Oh, we suck at this.
Yeah, Gavin.
But then I thought, if you turned a pizza into a long strip, how long would it be?
That sounds familiar.
That's recent, isn't it?
That was me.
It has to be Gavin.
I see you.
This is the most Gavin thing I've ever read.
We also haven't done that yet.
Can we put that on the, can we put that on the, can we put that on
the calendar or in the bit barrel or something.
Spiralize a pizza.
Yeah.
Pizza spiral.
Yeah, I'll write it down.
I'm in the middle of doing this part right now,
but I'll write it down when I'm done.
Next line.
I want to use to do two things.
Okay.
I'll give it one deer pissing in a river,
one deer piss.
I mean, it's, I mean, obviously,
the suspicion is on me immediately with this.
This is from the tuxedo, yeah?
Is it?
I'll give it one deer pissing in a river, one deer piss.
Yeah, that's, that's Andrew.
It does sound like Andrew.
I feel like this was, maybe not the tuxedo,
but I feel like this was during a movie watch along.
Does a deer piss in a river in the tuxedo?
Does it bad shit in the woods?
Does it dare piss in the river?
I'm willing to go with me just based on your confidence,
and I do agree it does feel like a thing I would have said.
I don't know where, but I think it's,
I may not be the tuxedo,
but I think it's a watchalong
and I think it's Andrew.
Yeah, I think you're right.
It's Jeff Andrew.
Yeah.
I'll vote for me based on that, Jeff.
That seemed very convincing.
I think I'm going to go with Andrew.
I think I'm going to go with Andrew.
All right, here we go.
So we're going with Andrew here, yeah?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sure.
He was Eric.
Eric.
This person really likes Eric quotes.
What up.
It's a tuxedo watch along.
God do you.
Yep.
But it was Eric.
Oh, you nailed it, Jeff.
If it was, where was this moment from?
There was a deer that pissed in the river at the very beginning of the movie, I feel like.
I can't believe you got so close to right and then wrong at the last second.
Wow.
All right.
The next one?
Could you do a baked potato as the bread and mashed potato as the filling?
That was, was that not Andrew?
I have no idea.
I think so.
I feel like this could literally be anybody.
Yeah.
I'm happy to go with Andrew.
Could you do?
By the way, these are 100% different questions than when I played it last time.
So there's a big...
Thank you so much to whoever.
I don't have to say whoever.
It was Michael Booth.
450 episodes digested as wild.
I just noticed in the top writer, it tells you.
I think this might be Gavin.
Yeah, but I wouldn't say baked potato.
I would say jacket potato.
I feel like I've heard you say baked potato.
Maybe I was just saying it because someone else said it.
Yeah.
This is probably when we were inventing the Patagel.
Oh, wow.
Or potato toast.
Potatoist, yeah.
Nick using the could you logic again.
Yeah, and do.
You do things.
You do do do.
This could also be Eric.
This could be Eric.
This could be producer Eric coming in being like,
hey, could you do a...
I feel like it's between Gavin and Andrew.
I'm going to vote Eric, just because,
because he's been all but one of these so far.
I still think it's Andrew.
I don't think Eric has this kind of curiosity.
This, but again, it's the, it's the riff.
It's, I'm just, I'm just repeating something that somebody else has said
and condensing it into one sentence instead of 12.
Eric, I want you to know, I think you're capable of baked potato curiosity.
I think that's amazing.
I believe in you.
I don't know.
Gavin has this.
curiosity drive and I'm simply reality control.
But this is why it makes me think it's Andrew.
This is scenario logic if I've ever seen it.
I'm going, Eric.
I say Gavin.
I'll stick by it.
What do you think, Jeff?
I think, I think Gavin.
Wow.
I'm over the place.
So we get two Andrews, two Gavin's.
Eric, what do you think?
I mean, I picked Andrew.
Okay.
Well, then vote Andrew.
Okay.
Here's Andrew.
Oh, okay.
Told you.
I'm happy to be wrong.
The goal is potato on potato.
A sandwich freed from the burden of containing a second greet.
Interesting.
Stupid.
Okay.
I love a piss dog that can like piss in the toilet.
This is me.
I think it's me.
That sounds like you.
Just with the like in the middle is what makes me think.
Also, piss dog is cracking me.
somebody who's taking a lot of heat as being piss boy.
I do want to note that Eric has potentially two piss related things in this list.
That's just a drop in the...
Andrew, a couple piss related things.
That's just a drop in the piss bucket, man.
Don't worry about me.
Yeah, but I've had one piss related thing occur in my life.
But that was a heavy stream.
Minor dribbles.
I have no idea.
But you seem to think it's you.
I feel like if somebody thinks of them,
then I'm going to lean there.
It feels like it.
Oh my God, it's Andrew.
It was piss point.
You know what?
Is that your second piss thing?
Really.
Pissed the hole in my defense is what that did.
Man.
The defense was made of ice and someone pissed through it.
I was like, clearly whoever owns this gun is the murderer
and then realized it was my gun after the fact.
That sucks.
Oh man.
I really thought I was side stepping this piss thing, but that's just I double-napped.
This is so good.
Do you stand by your quote, Andrew?
Would you like a piss dog?
No.
I don't.
I guess, yeah, I mean, well, no, you don't know.
Dogs can pee outside.
I don't know why.
No, I don't need that.
That's a funny idea for a bit down the road is we present ourselves with quotes.
we've made like four or five years ago in the podcast and see if we still agree with them.
Oh.
It's pretty good.
It's a really good idea.
I think that's mostly what we're doing here, but that's...
Yeah, essentially.
Yeah.
Jeff, read it.
All right.
What if we have to throw a regulation flag in the middle of a sausage talk?
That seems like a Gavin one.
Oh.
Yeah.
I think it's me because I was the one saying, what if we have to throw a sausage talk flag in
the middle of a regulation?
But I'm thinking maybe Jeff replied with this.
Oh, that is.
great point.
I do flip things around.
I'll go with me.
I don't remember what a regulation flag is.
So I think my vote.
It was,
we started talking about the scenario flag
and then we started talking about
the baked potato flag, right?
So I don't remember what any of these flags represented.
It wasn't specifically a baked potato flag.
It was a potato flag.
Oh, okay.
So it could represent multiple kinds of potato.
Yeah.
And you would raise it at your table
if you were ready for more potatoes.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, okay, yeah.
Got it.
Okay.
I don't think this is anything to do with that.
No, I don't either.
I think this was the beginning of that.
I think it was talking about the flags and then it got to potato flag.
I think a normal episode was getting too sausagesy,
and I was talking about throwing the sausage talk flag.
Got it.
Okay, well, then I'm with Gavin.
Once again, he has a backstory.
He believes it.
It's failed us in the past, but you've persuaded me.
So who are we voting for?
I'm voting for Gavin.
Oh, well, that's not what I'm saying.
Gavin's not voting Gavin.
Gavin's voting Jeff.
He said that this was the other thing.
Okay.
So who are you voting for, Andrew?
I don't know.
Now I'm in a whole blender because I thought Gavin was saying this is his quote.
He's saying it's me responding to his quote.
Got it.
Okay.
Well, then Jeff, because I still found Gavin persuasive.
I just didn't know what I was being persuaded too.
Well, Gavin, I'm on your side with what?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Whatever you said.
All right.
All are you're persuasive.
It's going to be Eric.
It's Gavin.
Fuck.
Andrew was right.
I told you.
I told you.
Shit.
I would be amazed if anyone was flawless through this point.
As we enter the final question.
Gavin.
My shirt somehow fell in front and wrapped around my teeth.
So I remember this.
I remember this.
Oh, is this Jeff?
Jeff pissing himself?
Yeah.
Of course, it was.
Jeff. Jeff, was this you pissing yourself?
You pissed your shirt?
I did. My shirt fell at my dick when I was playing.
It got wrapped on my shirt somehow and I pissed into my shirt.
That's right. This is when Jeff pissed his shirt.
Yeah, and I was like, how do you get to four?
This was a while ago.
So like, how do you get to 50 without having this happen and then have it happened?
Yeah.
Just yeah.
Yeah. That's pretty good, man.
Hey, guys, wait to go.
What a game.
30% seven-poenaization.
Fucking suck.
It sucks.
I suck.
Oh, the worst.
No one accused me at all.
There you go.
Wow.
Yeah.
I'm not bad at this,
but this is awesome.
Thank you so much, Michael Booth.
Yeah, thank you so much, Michael Booth.
Hey, I'm going to send you guys a video
to watch real fast,
and then tell you a quick story.
It's not for the podcast.
I mean, it's for the podcast.
We can talk about it.
We're not going to show the video.
Just don't show the video.
Sorry, I said that wrong.
The video itself is not for the podcast,
Let us know when to hit play.
Okay.
Go ahead and hit play.
Three, two, one play.
What is that?
Well, I've seen this.
Wait, where was, where is that?
That's Millie Ramsey's bathroom.
No.
For ceiling caved in two days ago.
I will say this, Jeff.
Yeah, what?
Just to counter really quick, you're saying like, this isn't for the public.
Oh, she put it on TikTok probably.
I saw this because Millie posted in on TikTok.
Millie's free to do whatever she wants to public with her social media.
I'm not going to.
to inadvertently advertise my
or docs my daughter. She has
posted her location plenty. I'm not going to
do it. It's not my video
to share. But I'm sharing it with my friends.
Yeah, fucking Millie, so she
moved into her first apartment on July 31st.
Like she's lived in dorms up until
this point. She's junior in college
gets her very first apartment. She's been in
it for less than two weeks
and the entire
bathroom ceiling caved in and now she can't
stay in her apartment anymore. She's in a hotel.
Oh my God. God.
Did she like come home to it and find it that way?
She heard she went it.
She took a shower and came out of the shower and it was falling.
She was in a row.
Yeah.
And then it took it took hours for it to do.
Fire department had to come because the landlord was out of town.
It was a whole thing.
Oh my God.
She's been going through it.
But it is such a seminal like first apartment rip off the bandaid.
Congratulations.
You're fucking grown up now thing to happen.
And I was like, she's like, how does this happen?
And I was like, dude, don't forget.
It happened the day we moved into that rental house.
Remember, we turned the washing machine, the, the clothes wash around upstairs, and the ceiling caved in.
Like, it, it just happens.
And it's like such a right of passage.
But, yeah, I thought that was funny one.
That's crazy.
To have been in the room when it started to fall.
Yeah, there's other videos.
She sent me other videos of the process.
That's like after it happened.
I think that's after the fire department came, probably.
That's wild.
That is unreal, dude.
It's so weird that she has to deal with all the
adult Ramsey stuff now
Yeah, dude, she's got, like, she's been mad
She's had flight problems every flight all year
Like, she's got the worst flight look
And I've been quietly, just been like, yeah, that really sucks, kiddo
And I know I gave it to her
I know I transferred it to her because my flights are fine now
You know, it was me for years and years
Nobody at rooster teeth wanted to fly with me
Because of my flight luck and then now it's her
Do you think they'll eventually find luck in DNA
genetic luck
Oh, that's interesting
That's interesting
It's entirely possible
Because now that these things are happening to hurt
Like I gotta be honest with you
I just had
The easiest colonoscopy
A human being can have
I barely even shit
You know you have to take the solution
And then shit your brains out
I had been fasting on and off
So much for the last three months
There's nothing in me
I didn't even have bad cramps or any
It was just like I took a nap
I woke up I came home
day's totally fine the house is fine and i it seems to i'm terrified that i have transferred
all of this luck to milly but and is the uh burger you recently took a picture of was that
sat on the pictures of your colon i sent you a guys a two i sent you guys pictures of two hamburgers
right and i framed the pictures of the polyps that were removed from my colon so you guys
could see the inside of my butt i was talking to nick uh like after your colonoscopy
like me and Nick were chatting or whatever,
and I'm like,
ah, I should text Jeff,
see how his colonoscopy point or whatever.
And he went,
well,
didn't he put his hamburgers on it?
And I went,
what?
That's crazy,
are you not looking at the hamburger pictures, Eric?
Oh,
no, I am.
I hadn't seen that one at that point.
That was like a little Easter egg
I threw in there for you guys.
No,
that's not Easter egg.
The middle of the frame is not an Easter egg.
Gavin,
I am looking at the pictures of the hamburgers because I think Nick.
This also cannot go online.
That's fine.
Nick.
It's got my address and stuff on it.
I'll just delete it now.
Nick has posted successfully one hamburger without a bite taken out of it.
I think in the year run that we've been doing this.
So congratulations, Nick.
Well done.
Thanks.
I'm leaning into it now.
You can see my rectum, my orifice, my cessium, and my leococococene.
What's Sessium?
I don't know.
But I got one.
And it looks pink.
Congrats.
Speaking about doxing yourself, I watched Jeff stream the other day.
And it turns out, I'm not the only one tabs.
Jeff had like four or five tabs on his Xbox.
He was doing a little bit of Xbox searching.
I did.
I did have some tabs.
And he kept trying to find, he kept trying to get to the NBA game 82 and O.
And it kept auto-fee.
filling an address in Austin, Texas every time you would search.
Jeff.
Jeff!
It was just like a business.
It wasn't anything personal.
Sure.
Like I'm not saying like you actually docks yourself, but it was like the thing you want to
like the least thing you want to appear when you're filling out of farm.
And you're so little concern because there's,
I've never done anything of importance on Microsoft Edge on my Xbox.
So it's either like a tutorial that I accidentally clicked on in a game that kicks you out of
the game into edge or it's like I was looking up a business address for sending flowers or
something you know sure I was not completely it was just very funny that you did it like three times
in a row you kept oh okay oh I'm gonna do oh fuck okay what we're gonna do oh fuck yeah man I'm not
good at stuff no I get it I can very much relate to that Gavin I'm we got to check your taps
at some point because I bet Jeff didn't think he had taps I bet you have taps I assume I
You assume you have tabs? Gavin, do you assume you have tabs?
On edge on the Xbox?
Yeah.
It's definitely opened when I didn't want it to, but I assume it's just Hitman updates over and over again.
Interesting. Okay. We should do a tab check.
I'm down for doing a tab check.
Yeah. I'd love to do a tab check at some point.
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I want to do a, I want to make a picture book for adults
because I think there's this stuff that would be useful to know the name of that I just don't know.
What do you mean?
Well, I knew this one, but recently someone was telling someone else that their pelmit fell down
and they didn't know what a pelmit was, but it was like a bit above the...
Pelmit?
Do you not know what a pelmit is?
No.
What's a pelmit?
I think it's the top of, like you put it at the top of the window, like the top of curtains
to hide the runner of curtains.
Okay.
I thought it was a penis helmet.
I just don't know...
It's the legendary pelment.
Where...
Plus six-dodge rule.
Oh, hell yeah.
Gavin.
Go on.
I just don't know when people would ever learn...
Pelmit.
We just did.
Other than a situation where you are the only one of the Ruby
Ruby doesn't know what Pelmet is. I thought maybe there could be an adult picture book.
I would love what you think would be examples of that, because I'm struggling to even think of
what is the thing that people don't know the name of that they should know the name of.
Pelmet's. All right. I'd like to jump in and formalize this and say, I think this is a good idea,
and I think we're the people to make the picture book. And I want, let's go ahead and formalize the list,
Pelmet being number one. When we get 50 things on the list, we can photograph them and then
release the book.
But Andrew's not allowed to use the 50 things in his 20,000.
No, absolutely not.
Pelmet off your list.
He can use the book as one thing.
Like, I remember I had a family member who was always mucking around in the shed with their braddle.
I don't know what a braddle is.
Oh.
Yeah.
I've never come across one.
I've never bought one.
I don't know what I would need one for.
They were always jabbing at stuff with their braddle.
What's braddle?
I don't know.
Wait, does it go with the pelmit?
No, I don't think it's anything to do with pelmets.
It doesn't have anything to do with pelmets?
Not even a little bit.
I mean, I didn't even know how to spell it.
Like all, like AA, A-A-W, Brad.
Braddall.
Yeah, that's exactly why I remember.
It's, it looks like a screwdriver with no screwdriver on the end.
What?
It's just like a spike with a handle.
A pick?
A spike with a handle?
I didn't know.
Here's the problem, Gavin, with your idea that you've presented, is it sounds like you seeing it has not provided any additional info of anything.
You're more confused after you're seeing the image.
Yeah, but imagine if I wasn't.
If he's read the book, he won't be.
Yeah, I guess a palmer is something we've all seen at some point and not known the name of.
Sure.
And like the hard bits on the other shoelaces have a funny name that I don't remember.
You know about a Knickerbocker glory?
What's that like a food?
It's like a dessert.
It was like the most British sounding dessert
I'd ever heard of it.
I was like, I wonder if this is like
vernacular for Gavin.
You would just know it.
Nickerbocker glorious.
I've heard of it.
It's like a bunch of stuff
I wouldn't want to eat.
It's just ice cream and berries?
I guess.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's a layered ice cream Sunday
that is served in a large, tall,
conical glass.
That could be in the book.
Yeah?
I've never encountered one.
And the recipe book.
Gavin's Knickerbocker glory.
There's all kinds of words that I don't know what they mean,
that what they are.
It could be things.
Oh, yeah.
Like, do you know what?
You know what chattel is?
Chattel?
I always read it in books,
but I don't,
I've never looked the word up.
I don't know what it means.
I don't know.
I think it's like stuff,
but I don't know what.
Like, C-H-A-T-E-L.
That's just a word that I don't have in my inventory.
But if I could take a picture of it,
we can put it in the book.
That's interesting.
I learned about chorks the other day,
which is,
Chopsticks at the end of a fork.
Oh.
Chopsticks at the end of a fork.
Yeah, it's like a, it's a fork, and then instead of one handle, it's shot.
Let me see if I can find a picture.
It's chopsticks.
This.
Chork.
Oh.
I just found out about him the other day, and I couldn't stop thinking.
It was just one of those words like snork, where it just sort of, or like Laura Keats,
where it gets stuck in my head.
Chork.
You could poke somebody's eyes out
with that thing.
Both of them.
At the same time.
Was this used in death of Robin Hood?
Jeff?
It was, no.
Nothing that colorful.
That's a dark,
gray,
muddy movie.
Just a bunch of dirty dudes
rolling around in the mud,
stabbing him to death
for two and hours.
That's fucking long and dry.
Speaking of adult problems,
I have a very not-adult problem
in my life,
of a very dumb problem.
I got a package earlier in the week that I didn't know what it was.
Someone else's hot drive?
No.
I had a hundred ten dollars duty on it that I need to pay.
And I was like, what is this?
I don't know, I wasn't expecting to order anything.
I open it and it's just a t-shirt.
A t-shirt and an envelope.
I'm like, what?
I didn't order.
This is the, first of all, this is the smallest, like shirt thing I've ever seen.
Second of all, I didn't order this.
Like, is this some sort of scam?
I rip open the envelope.
And it's a certificate that says,
congratulations, this is a Warner Brothers certified item
from the TV series and just like that.
And so then I had to look it up.
I just got sent.
They had a mistake at the auction shipping place.
And I got shipped
Yeah
Miranda Hobbs
Season 2 episode 6 shirt
You get like
pallets of steam decks
Why is everyone
Sended you extra shit
Well this is annoying
I don't want it
And I had to pay Duni on it
I had to be $100 for the thing I don't want
And I don't know like legally do I have to
I should get a refund
I assume from some point
Well I have to but that will also
cost me money
He's gonna be a couple hundred bucks into his shirt
he doesn't own and he never wanted in the first place.
No, I mean, like, reject the shipment.
No, I didn't.
It's accepted.
He didn't know what it was.
It had my name on it.
It was addressed to me.
I opened it.
So then I reached out to the auction house being like, hey, I didn't order.
Like, somebody spent money for this.
They should get their item.
And last I heard, I need to give them the dimensions of the box that I plan on mailing it back in.
because they're going to make me a shipping label
although I've had issues in the past
where I couldn't get a shipping label
from a US company because of the Canada thing
so it's just it's turned into a headache
I have this stupid shirt from sex in the city
I don't want
well they have the dimensions though
because they already sent it didn't they?
You would think
you would think
they want the weight and the dimensions
and it's like
I don't know
I'll get a little
nervous about the professionalism of this company.
We've spent some money on...
Well, no, it's a specific shipping company.
Okay.
So this is unrelated to the auction house.
This is like the shippers fault.
I didn't bring it up also what the laptop
that had the Rolodex and stuff in it.
Got lost in shipping.
I almost didn't get it at all.
What a great thing to lose.
I got a call and then I had to reach out
and they were like, yeah,
this is, I don't know, we found this.
Do you want us to send it back to you?
And I was like, oh, I'm the person receiving it.
I didn't send it.
I don't know why you think.
So I just said, yeah, send it back to me.
So I had to get it sent back, but it got lost in the shipping warehouse.
So it almost was never discovered at all.
So I've had a wrong.
Sounds like they put your name in the shipping area.
I think so.
I think they must have reversed it.
But yeah, I have this stupid sex in the city shirt.
By the way, a lot of people think that laptop belonged to Whoopie Goldberg.
that was not a part of it would be goldberg.
Nothing to do with her.
Those are different purchases.
So now you just have to figure out
how to get this back to them
because like Miranda Stan 34
is wondering where their shirt is.
Yeah.
Exactly.
I watched the scene.
How is the scene?
No, I can't keep it.
Somebody paid it.
It's like a lesbian fight.
Imagine if somebody was sitting on our guillotine
and going,
I'll just keep it.
Yeah, that would suck.
I'd be so sad.
I want the person who paid for this to get it, obviously.
I guess I didn't contemplate
as someone actually paid for it.
I just thought they shipped the wrong thing from the pie.
I've technically paid more than they have.
So annoying.
And I also feel like legally there's no way I need to,
like I should be the one that is,
because then it just feels like a scammer.
I could just be getting sent stuff from different countries
and then I'm just getting bled financially.
If I just sent you, if I just sent you like a crisp in an envelope, but declared the value
is like 2000, would you have to pay like $200 duty on it?
I don't know.
We should try that.
I don't mind in that scenario.
But they quadrupled the value on the form than what was listed on the website.
So like it doesn't, very annoyed about all of this.
otherwise how would the duty be more than the item?
Well, that's been the case on a couple of things we bought from that auction house.
Sure.
Yeah, because they valued it at a certain amount and it went for under the price.
They valued the shirt at $200 to $300.
It sold for $100.
But the forms said that it's like valued at like $700.
Is what they put in.
Which is, and it's just, I don't know, it's weird.
Like to have a show or a shirt from a show that I've never seen that was worn by a person in the show.
I just don't like having it.
I want the person to have it that wants it.
Also, that, like, covers the entire person.
That would, I'd say, is the only interesting thing about that is understanding how small that actress is.
It's crazy.
You know what you should do is when you send that shirt back, throw an extra, throw one of your extra gaming consoles in with it as an apology.
Like, here.
Oh, that's great.
Pay it forward.
I am stuck with these, the ugliest action figure I've ever seen because it was part of a Whoopi Goldberg lot.
What?
What is it?
One second, let me find it.
I was, so this is what, this is my plan.
I bought this really ugly looking action figure that was owned by Whoopi Goldberg.
And my plan was I was going to mail it to one of you guys as like a prize or like as a joke thing.
And then I mailed you guys something and you guys complain about mailing to Canada.
I had to download an app.
I had to take photos.
It was an insane process that has changed under this administration.
of trying to send you something.
So now I've just been stuck
with this shitty
two of them are fine.
I would never buy them,
but the third one is just fucked up
and I'm just stuck with them and I don't feel like
I can get rid of them because whoopi goldberg on them
and they're like weirdly collectible but
I don't want any of these.
But you knew what, you saw them when you bought them surely.
Well, I put in what was a very low bid
thinking someone will certainly bid more than this
and then they just didn't.
But why do even that?
Because one of them was so bad as like it could be a funny movie winning prize for winning the Summer League.
Baby Joey.
Baby Joey.
The hell is baby Joey.
It's from, it's the little creature from Superman that Superman helps save and then the guy helps him.
That's like, yeah, that thing's ugly as shit.
Yeah, it's real fucked up.
Yeah.
That's like baby.
I didn't know that he had a name.
Yeah.
Discussed.
Do you think he'll just go as Joe as an adult?
Yeah, adult Joe.
I guess the worst part is that's not even the first time this has happened.
The first time it happened.
I've never shared this with any of you guys.
Oh boy.
I have a clapper board for a really bad Jackie Chan movie that I've never seen.
Called Spy Next Door.
What is this?
I don't know.
Spinex door.
But I put like a $25 bid in and then with like the pre-nex door.
it went to 50.
And it was a thing.
What do you?
All your stories start with like, look what crazy shit I ended up with.
How did I even?
Well, obviously, I bid on it.
I bid $25.
Well, here's the thing, Andrew.
All of us bid zero times and we don't have it.
So.
People did zero.
Because in my head, once again, like, it's all stuff that, you know, like when we did face off,
I had a bunch of goofy prizes.
Like when I see something that's really random and I think,
dumb. I will put $25
on it in my head. It's like, you know, at
worst case, it could be in the pool
of prizes for a show. I will
say when browsing, like
I browse eBay like Andrew
browses these celebrity auction sites
and there are times when I'll be like, oh,
is that only $5 and the guy's name is spelled
with a G, Jeff? I'll buy that
for $5 and you put a bid on it and you go about
your day and then later on you're like,
why did I put $5 on that just because
we have the same name? Oh, now I own it.
Great. That was dumb.
Yeah.
Those moments happen to me a lot too.
I appreciate it, Jeff.
Now I have to start a collection of guys named Jeff
in professional sports.
That would be a fun collection.
Well, I'm doing it.
You know when we're on break show
and I say something like,
oh, that would be good for this collection?
Yeah.
Do they just go back in a big pile?
Yeah.
But the goal is to make them into the collection
and then that becomes something that we can, I don't know,
give away or sell or something, yeah.
The break's just going to go through some sort of a transition.
As I figure, we got to declutter in that place.
We got to get rid of all that stuff.
So it's going to all make its way to eBay, I think,
because I don't want to throw it all away.
But we don't need, you know,
we don't need all of the ephemera that we have.
I'll say that.
We want to keep, we don't hold on to some of it.
We're not getting rid of Web, B, Eweb, Bank, obviously.
But yeah, to keep all the Larry King fan art.
Going to keep all the Larry King, anything that comes from Julian's we're keeping,
but I don't know if we need a bunch of autographs from, you know, James Bond movies and
well, maybe some of those.
Yeah.
Maybe not the Jurassic Park stuff, like, as an example.
I think we could sell some of the collections.
Like if we go back through the episodes and put together all of the players that have
body part names to sell the full human body, that would be a new one.
Human body collection.
I want to sell the A to Z collection when it's done, which,
is a game we've been playing on the side. And then we've got like we've got the royal collection as well
with like someone king and all that stuff. That's true. Name is a food. We got the full we can
we've got a like a full meal collection we could do. There's all kinds of stuff. We just got
just got to make it happen. Yeah. Be going to making it happen. I know we're probably about
to wrap up and Eric's going to tell me to wrap up soon. But I was riding my bike yesterday on
the trail and the goats are out again. Every year in the summer when the train, we're
trail gets overgrown, they bring
like 40 or 50 goats out for
about two weeks and they'll set up these
fences, chain link fences,
and then the goats will destroy the underbrush
and then move and every day they'll do a new section
and they completely clean the trail out.
And the first time I saw it,
I thought, that's kind of a cute novelty,
but, you know, they do it every year and I've been
seeing it for three or four years now and I realize
it's not a novelty. They do it because the goats are
genuinely better at that job
than we are as humans with tools.
and that got me thinking, well, why wouldn't they be?
Animals are super useful, just look at a farm,
and I got to thinking about how all the,
this isn't like a uniform thing,
uniform combined of the five of a farm uniform.
This isn't, it isn't that,
but this is just there are a lot of animals,
like every animal on a farm does a job,
and it probably does a job just as well as a human could do that job,
which got me wondering,
why did we stop at farms?
Why didn't animals make the transition with us
into other career fields.
Why aren't there
office animals?
Why don't we have retail animals?
Like, surely there are other jobs
out there in the universe
that animals are uniquely suited for.
Like, a goat, one goat in an office
could do all the shredding on Earth.
They do yoga.
They do yoga, right?
They, like, there are examples of it happening.
You know, debatably very close
to the regulation universe.
I feel like falconers are another example.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you're saying, like, at an office, like, what if there was a copy cat?
Like, the cat was running the Xerox machine?
100%, dude.
100%.
Or, like, what if in a meeting, you know how sometimes, like, a lot of people now are using
AI to transcribe notes in meetings?
What if instead of that, you just had, like, an African parent that just transcribed
all the notes and then repeated them back later?
And they live so long that they can remember, like, every meeting going back years
and years for your company.
Yeah, that's true too.
And you hire a parrot,
you're hiring a parrot for Eric's right,
probably 35, 40 years.
They're gonna maintain,
they're gonna become a historical record
of everything important in that,
in that company.
That's like, basically all I did at Roosteat
was the last three or 40 years
was be the guy who remembered
the way shit worked before
when people had a question.
How do you know something's gone in a parrot?
Well, they're at every meeting.
You have to assume everything goes in.
Well, a parrot, like,
how does a parrot decide what it's gonna say, though?
And remember.
Brain?
You should ask one.
Yeah, I gotta go with Nick on this one, brain.
Yeah, but it's not gonna remember the whole meet, it is it?
I don't know, is it?
What if we train them from the 1600s to now?
What if they had 500 more years of training and evolution
to become even smarter?
I think it's gonna be more like a timeline.
I think you're gonna have to have a convey about of parrots
going through the meeting.
maybe 800 parrots.
And if you want to remember something
that was towards the beginning of the meeting,
you have to go to the beginning of the parrots
and see what they're all saying.
I mean, I think 800 parents is ridiculous.
Maybe you'd want some sort of parrot redundancy,
but I think you could train a parrot to have a longer memory.
We've just never needed to.
And we're creating jobs.
Somebody has to take care of these office parrots.
Yeah, parrot handler.
Parrot handler.
Sure, you've got five office parrots.
That leaves you like two in any meeting
in any one time.
you can have two meetings at once,
and then if a parrot calls in sick,
you've got a bonus parent.
Like,
I think you can do it with much less than 800 parrots.
And I bet, honestly,
I bet,
what,
five parrots costs about a third of an employee?
This is like the new AI.
Just get five parrots.
Animal,
the A and AI is animal now.
Animal instincts.
Animal instincts.
New AI.
Animal intelligence.
Oh.
That's like,
like saying whenever we bring Robert in to do switching, that's like saying that we could have
three parrots instead of him for a third of the price. We have to buy so much stuff to look
after the parrot. Well, and you're going to have to have employees who take care of the parents
as well. Also, I'm not saying a parrot could do Robert's job. Yeah. Robert's job isn't to
take notes in a meeting. Robert's job is to do live switching. I don't think there's a, like, listen,
I'm a fan of birds. I love them. I love Falcons. Feel protected by them. But,
But love an exotic bird the most, but I don't think a parent, no matter how much training you gave it, is going to be able to do live switching.
Do you think that this would have been the funniest subplot to succession that never happened where Tom has to kill the company bird because they're getting investigated?
That would have been great.
Like they're shredding all the papers, they're twighting all the birds in the head.
Fly away! Fly away!
Go, shoe!
All these birds sat out on some questionable meetings, kill them.
Yeah.
I'm just thinking.
I think we got, I mean, you can debate the efficacy of a parrot and parent redundancy as a transcriber in a meeting.
You know, it probably works in, I wouldn't say I'd use it in a court of law.
You know, I wouldn't replace the transcriber in a court of law with a parent, maybe.
Maybe that stays human, you know.
You can, I guess, debate the individual roles.
How good would a copycat actually be?
Probably pretty fucking good.
But I just think it's weird that we just, we got,
we got the animals up to speed on the farm,
and then we're like, all right, that's enough.
We'll take it from here.
But in the farm, they just do what they already did.
They didn't have to teach,
you didn't teach a farm animal how to be a farm animal.
You don't know that. You weren't around.
You weren't there at the first farm.
What about herding dogs?
Well, like all the milkers,
they were making milk before that anyway.
What about herding animals?
What about plows and yule?
yolks and stuff.
Like, those animals aren't doing that on their own.
We need to circle back for a minute.
What do you mean by milkers?
You mean like all the animals that produce milk?
Okay.
Yeah.
I wasn't sure if you meant animals as a category of milkable animals or if you didn't know
udders and it just came out as milkers.
Like, I was, there are a lot of ways that that could have went.
Put it in the picture book.
To birds do milk.
Ooh.
Well, isn't that what?
they drank an always sunny crow milk.
Oh, that was the thing, but I don't know if I'd base
reality on, it's always sunny.
I'm not sure if a parrot has nipples.
But it doesn't seem like it.
Is it just mammals with the nips?
Is it just?
Yes, I think it's just mammals with the nipples, but I do think parrots have some kind of
like secretion milk thing that they have going on.
Anyway, Jeff, we should probably start wrapping this
episode. Yeah, yeah, we should probably wrap it up. I'd just like to say, I'd like to point out
one of my favorite things is Gavin's British inability to participate in whimsy. When you
have a conversation about like, what would it be like if there were farm animals in an
office? And he's like, well, that technically couldn't happen. They don't have the, there's no
opposable thumbs. They don't have the brain power. You're the best. I hope you never change. I said,
we should have more than two. I love you because of who you are. You really were like, well,
who's going to pay for all the cost of the age?
They have to be maintained.
You reacted exactly as I thought you would in my head when I came up with this idea on my bike ride yesterday, looking at the goats.
And hopefully audience...
What did you say?
Similar to my reaction of Andrew's amazing superpower.
I came up with my own, by the way.
What's your superpower?
I can grip stuff really hard, right?
And I sit behind someone in a car.
And if they're about to have a car crash, I just...
Grip them, and I'm like their seatbelt
in case they forgot to put it on.
I'll be...
I'd be careful talking about gripage.
People will also get very mad at you about that.
About gripage?
Yeah, grip strength.
I may want to avoid that one, too.
Listen, just don't keep your results secret, all right?
People want to know.
And speaking to people, that's you.
You just listen to the entire episode of 119 of the Regulation Podcast.
Can you believe it?
I have some doubts.
Hopefully we'll see you next week.
Bye bye.
I submitted for this one to be 207.
Yeah, why if it's 207?
I'm not texting Emily.
