Regulation Podcast - Lore Heavy Episode // F**kface Off Season 2 [71]

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about Geoff's embarrassing story, The Smell, touching smell, poisoning nature, Season 3 begins, Deputy, Chorizo and Chipotle Fritos, billboard, Gavin's frustration, gettin...g the video, autographed baseball, rat race, surprise red boots, Mission BBQ, in the mall, Bit Barrel, The Fudgery, oversleeping, F**kface Off Season 2, freezing M&M's, chair status, fully clothed, and different cats. *NOTE: The baseball has already been found by Phallus_O_Malice. Sponsored by Factor. Thanks Factor! Go to FACTORMEALS.com/REGULATION50OFF and use code REGULATION50OFF to get 50% off your first box plus Free Breakfast for 1 Year. Offer only valid for new Factor customers with code and qualifying auto-renewing subscription purchase. Support us directly at https://www.patreon.com/TheRegulationPod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental content, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 When you're with Amex Platinum, you get access to exclusive dining experiences and an annual travel credit. So the best tapas in town might be in a new town altogether. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more at Amex.ca. Hello and welcome to another episode of the regulation podcast. This is episode 71. My name is Jeff Ramsey with me as always. Eric Bador, Nick Schwartz, Andrew Patton, Gavin, Free, save the best for last
Starting point is 00:00:41 there. Hello, everybody. We have got a very, very lore heavy episode ahead of us. We've got a big one. It's going to be a meaty one. We've got something that we've been doing in the background that we are very excited to get into and to talk about. But before we do, I have to, I would be remiss in my duties as a podcaster and an entertainer if I didn't share with you a story of something that I experienced over the weekend that I'm afraid might color your opinion of me in the negative to a degree. But I would be lying if I said that this is one of those few moments when I'm genuinely embarrassed. You shit yourself.
Starting point is 00:01:25 No, come on, man. You think that would embarrass me? You came in your eye. No, come on, man. You think that would embarrass me? Listen, you can play the guessing game all day long. You're not going to get there. When I moved in to my new home,
Starting point is 00:01:39 been here for a year and a half, you know, I moved right around the time that regulation, right around the time that rooster teeth ended and we began regulation. I recorded the last episode of F***'s at my old house and the first episode of regulation at my new house. I didn't intend it to be that way. It's just kind of the way it worked out, right?
Starting point is 00:01:58 So the entirety of F-Face existed in that home, the entirety of regulation has been in this home. I'm just trying to submit like where we are in the timeline during the move, right? So this is it right around episode one of regulation. I move into this house. And I am moving out of my old house. We are also moving out of our rooster-teeth offices.
Starting point is 00:02:16 So I end up with just a ton of F***er-Face stuff in my office, my little office that I now have. And so I've got like all my baseball card stuff. I've got stuff that I've been buying for the break show. I've got stuff from Goodwill, so, you know, which is who knows what's going on in there. I've got stuff from eBay. I've just got piles of boxes of stuff that I had planned for, you know, when I was doing the break show, which by the way is coming back, but when I was doing the break show, I was buying product six months in advance because I wanted to have a cushion and you buy stuff when it's available when you get a good deal. And so I had all this shit that had to go somewhere, right? And it had
Starting point is 00:02:48 it all ended up in my office. And I had a closet. And so I just started throwing boxes in the closet day one. Okay? Mm-hmm. Day two or three, I start to notice a smell in my office. Oh, no. Oh, no. Smells a little, it's coming from the closet. Smells a little bit like mildew. Now, my closet backs up to a bathroom at the upstairs, like Millie's bathroom with a shower and a bathtub and stuff. And so I go and I look on the other side, and I see where, you know, clearly there's been some water that, you know, maybe sloshed out of the tub, maybe I'm thinking maybe previous owner, you know,
Starting point is 00:03:25 I'm new to the house, so I don't know what happened six weeks ago in this house, let alone a year ago. So I'm thinking maybe some water has seeped in and it's gotten into the carpet and it's made like a musty, mildewy smell, right? So I try to clean out the closet as best as I could. I put a fan in there. I put air fresheners in there. And I combat this smell for probably six months. Jesus. It eventually goes away. Wait.
Starting point is 00:03:51 What? No. Wait. I'm out here getting stick for limited cat piss. Yeah. Listen, that's not a strong smell
Starting point is 00:03:59 and I only smell it when I open the closet. If I open the doors, I get hit with the musty smell and I'm like, I think it's probably like maybe it's some old cards I got from Goodwill
Starting point is 00:04:08 that were mildewy or something. I don't know that I just never opened that box. I don't know what it is. But it's not a strong smell after a little while. And I never opened that closet because it's just
Starting point is 00:04:18 fuck-face stuff that I don't use anymore, right? It's just old shit from, that's going to be turned into the break show down the road at some point. So I just shut the closet and I don't think about it. And every once in a while I have to open it to get something out.
Starting point is 00:04:30 And every once in a while I get a whiff of the smell, I'm like, oh, fuck, that's still around. Or I'll be like, oh, it's barely noticeable anymore, whatever. But over the last, like, two months, I've been going through every card I own and trying to just get rid of shit, I don't need anymore.
Starting point is 00:04:44 I'm trying to get rid of most of the stuff in my office. And I'm, it kind of in preparation for the break show. I knew it was coming, and I had to separate what's mine from the break show. And you get it, right? Yeah. Yeah. And so my closet's been open this entire time.
Starting point is 00:04:55 No smell. The smell's gone. I actually thought to myself about a month ago, well, I can't believe I beat that smell. It's finally gone. That's, I wonder what it was. No big deal. This weekend, fast forward to this weekend, I'm looking for the, uh, some supplies for the break show.
Starting point is 00:05:11 I'm looking for the mat that I used to, that said, that I used to break the cards on, which, by the way, is gone. I can't find it. but I'm looking in my closet and I think maybe it's in one of the boxes I haven't checked or whatever and at the very top there's a row of boxes most of them are empty card boxes
Starting point is 00:05:25 but in the very back right I see a box that I don't recognize that's just like way in the back and I think I have to get a stool to get it and as I get the stool and I set it down I open up the stool and I put my foot on it and I go one step up
Starting point is 00:05:38 I smell the smell and I realize instantly the smell is coming from this box so I get up all the way to the top And at, like, at box level, it's still pretty intense. And I'm like, holy shit. I can't believe the smell is still this intense. What is in this box?
Starting point is 00:05:54 And I pull the box down and I look in it and it's, uh, it's like bubble mailers and rubber bands and, like, packing supplies and tape, uh, all for when I was mailing out cards, when I was briefly selling cards on eBay to kind of test that out. And in the middle of all that is a bean and cheese taco. Oh, my God. Oh, shit. Oh, God. I can only guess that I got tacos the morning of the move
Starting point is 00:06:26 and I was moving from, I remember the day of the move, I was moving from my old house to my new house. Like, the movers got here at like 11 a.m. I made like six moves by myself that morning moving stuff. I didn't want the movers to move. Oh, computers and stuff like that. I must have got tacos and had a, uh, just a, uh, uh, a wrapped up in tinfoil fossilized breakfast taco.
Starting point is 00:06:50 I must have just thrown it in that box in the move shuffling in the car and forgot about it. And then it made its way to the top back of the shelf and then it just never left. And so when I touched it, it was like touching smell. I don't know how I was to describe it.
Starting point is 00:07:05 I like had to run outside with it. It was the most wretched thing I've ever smelled. Story's not quite over yet. I open up the dumpster. My trash can. I throw it on my trash can. I go back inside. wash my hands, like, intensely, try to air my house out, try to get rid of the smell.
Starting point is 00:07:21 It's totally gone. I'm feeling really good about it. I tell Emily, she's horrified. The next day, I go to take the trash out, and I open up my trash can and a raccoon, because I've caught a raccoon in my trash can, like, three times in the last month, I'm assuming the raccoon, it was the raccoon, unwrapped the taco and ate it. The taco was gone, just the tinfoil, what neatly unwrapped, it was where the taco was. Something came in the night and ate a year and a half old taco.
Starting point is 00:07:50 I was thinking that, like, that the animal that's killing animals in your place is going to get that and initiate war with you. They are going to be so upset. Do you think maybe you poisoned him enough that he will not go back? You may have gotten rid of the killer. I wonder if the animal was it even alive when that when that taco is made? That's a great question. Is the food older than the raccoon? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:15 or whatever. It could have been a possum. I saw a possum the other night, but I'm pretty sure it's a raccoon, because he's the one getting, definitely getting, he was trapped in the trash can the other day. I had to let him out. Uh, idiot. Yeah, he was a little idiot. A little fucking idiot. He jumped in when it was empty and couldn't figure out how to get out. Uh, so I had to make like a little step of trash for him to climb out. But, um, yeah, I can't imagine anything smelling that smell and then wanting to put it in their mouths because it was like, Bernie was asking me, I was telling him the story last night. And he was asking me, if I would lick it for a million dollars and I was like I think I wouldn't I don't think I could
Starting point is 00:08:49 I think my tongue would fall off like I don't it was the worst thing I've ever smelled in my entire life and so every episode of the regulation podcast every gameplay every supplemental every draft every sloppy joes that we have done I have done with a fossilized bean and cheese taco nine feet behind me just watching that's incredible I mean, I know we recently had one, but it feels like it might be time for a season change. I mean, we might have to because I think Jeff is going to be noticeably different going forward. Yeah, I think maybe, yeah, the mold from the taco has been like maybe infesting your brain, Jeff. And it's something you need to be like, if you start like breathing easier and having like more energy and like sitting up straighter or whatever, realize that like the taco was your undoing for like the last year or so.
Starting point is 00:09:45 You know what's crazy about you saying that, Eric? Is the hallucination stopped yesterday? That's pretty incredible. And that's been like forever. Yeah, no. All right. So season three begins in episode 71, I guess. Taco season.
Starting point is 00:10:03 Yeah, I think it has to. And then, yeah, seasons one and two with a taco era. That's wild. I'd like to imagine that that raccoon is just hanging at a taco truck now. It wants more of that. It needs more of that in its life. these are good do you have any that aren't so fresh you got to be in the back
Starting point is 00:10:20 they've been hanging out for about nine months you got to be dry aged yeah so anyway I told you I could get in and out in 10 minutes on that story it took 11 I apologize but that that's my story that's my my genuinely embarrassing
Starting point is 00:10:34 realization and moment I feel I feel like a little dirt grub I feel like a gross dirty gross kid who like I just, I feel the, I like the worst. I feel just disgusting, and I'm so embarrassed, and I don't know. I just can't believe that happened.
Starting point is 00:10:52 I'm imagining the raccoon somewhere, just like slap, like maybe like lent on a wall in an alley, just drool in, just like, like, which Jeremy was on that horner shoot. Just like, oh, just bile. Oh, man, I'll let you know if I find a carcass in the last couple days. I like to imagine it's like an Anthony Bourdain. raccoon and it's just all about it. It's like I'm trying food everywhere. No reservations, trash can't style. He's bringing friends over to show him. He's like, you've never,
Starting point is 00:11:22 you've never tasted anything like this, I promise you. It's the Sir Strumming of Mexico. It's Sir Strumingo. Oh, man. We need to get into, you guys took a trip that I've been eagerly waiting to hear about. We took a secret surprise trip. A secret surprise trip. to the center of our universe. How did it go? You guys drove there. What was that like? So here's what we did last week.
Starting point is 00:11:54 We are desperate to do season two of fuck face off. But we figure we cannot in good conscience make a season two of face off until we make good on the reward and the punishment of season one. To catch people up at the old company,
Starting point is 00:12:11 the old podcast, we did a show called Face Off. It was a show. sports league. The winner got a billboard with their name and face listed as deputy's favorite son erected in deputy Indiana, the center of the face and regulation universe, which is a whole thing I'm not going to get into. You'll have to look that one up. I'm not going to dive into that. The punishment was, and the unique thing about face off as a show, is it's a five-person show, first to fifth, you know, we have five contestants. First place gets
Starting point is 00:12:44 the victory, the winner. It gets the billboard in the center of the universe. Last place isn't the loser. Second place is the real loser because they were close to winning. They got as close to winning as possible without winning, which I think is the ultimate lose. So we decided to punish second place, which in this case was Nick, by making Nick wear the big red boots for one hour in a mall. We figured kill two birds with one stone. We rented a car, rented a big ass like a suburban, I think. Like a Chevy Silverado, something like that? Something like that, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:21 Big ass car. And Gavin, Eric, Nick, and myself hopped in it in Austin, Texas, and we drove nonstop from Austin, Texas, to Deputy Indiana. It was a 16-hour drive. We left at about 11 a.m. We got, well, we stayed in Louisville
Starting point is 00:13:40 because there is nowhere to stay in Deputy. They didn't want, they didn't want, you staying in deputy. They didn't want you coming to deputy. They didn't want you doing anything in deputy. If there was a place to stay in deputy, you couldn't pay me enough to stay there. Not the center of the regulation universe is not the friendliest place on earth. I'll say that. It's no Disneyland. And so we stayed in Louisville, Kentucky, which was just under an hour outside of deputy. It's like a suburb of, Louisville, Kentucky's like a suburb of deputy, Indiana, I guess, would be how you Is that how you would describe it?
Starting point is 00:14:13 In Louisville, Kentucky, his suburb of deputy? Okay. All right. Yeah, sure. This country is so damn big. We worked out on the way that you could drive from London to Edinburgh and back in less time than driving to deputy Indiana. This was the longest road trip you've ever taken, right, Gavin? Oh, by far.
Starting point is 00:14:35 Yeah. I was looking at the time going down, and I was just, I was like creating a little milestone. in my head are like, oh, you know, like halfway will be good. When there's like a thousand miles left, that'll be good. But there was something really demoralizing about being excited for it to go into single digits. I remember looking at the time and celebrating. Oh, great. Now there's nine hours and 59 minutes.
Starting point is 00:14:57 I was like, oh, God. You could fly to England in less time. Yeah. Oof. Gavin was excited to have his first American road trip and then he had his first American road trip. Yeah, it was, it was a lot. I think the most demoralizing part. part to me is when you would be on the road for four and a half hours and then you'd look at not
Starting point is 00:15:17 the time, but the map of the United States and realize how little you've gone in the drive and how far across the country you still have to go. That was brutal. That was tough. I've got to say, though, really enjoyed it. Fun as hell. We had such a good time in that car. It was a blast. It, honestly, it was 16 hours. It flew by because it was so much fun. It felt, guys, it felt like 11. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:52 It was really, it was really cool, like just road trip style stop and, and finding all kinds of cool, like, things to do and snacks to eat, like these chorizo and Chipotle Fritos that were the worst tasting thing we've never had. But then they taste so good that you can't. Stop eating them because if you stop, you get the initial taste again, then that's bad. It's like the bell curve of food. It's horrific on the way in, and then it evens out. And you're like, oh, this is actually quite nice.
Starting point is 00:16:23 And then the aftertaste is foul, so you have to keep eating them. Yeah, I've never had to thread a needle with food quite like these Fritos. But it's like bad at the beginning and bad at the end, but great in the middle, really bizarre. And you just got to try to make, it's like, it's back when I was an alcoholic and I was trying to maintain a level of drunk. You know, you're like trying to maintain that middle fetal flavor without dipping into aftertaste. It's like that water in the tuxedo that makes you thirsty. You just have to keep drinking. So it was a lot of fun.
Starting point is 00:16:52 You can go and watch the video of us that's out by now when this episode comes out. The video will be out. At the time of this recording, it has not been edited. So we can't see what it is and what it ultimately came out to be. But it was a lot of fun to make. it's the longest video we've ever made. Is it really? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:13 Well, it's the longest live action anything we've made. Wow. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, that's great. So ultimately, there were two things that we did on this trip. And the first was go to deputy and put, erect the billboard, then put the sign up. Should I post a picture?
Starting point is 00:17:30 Yeah, I'm, yeah, you can do that. Look at it. Look at these. So, look at these. Here's the deal. So, so, so the, we, we, we created the reward, which is to have your face on a billboard in Deputy Indiana. Before we bothered to check if Deputy Indiana is a big enough place to have billboards. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:17:57 It's not. Yeah. It doesn't. There's not a billboard within 20 miles of Deputy Indiana, I don't think. So I spent a couple of months on the internet searching and. finding, and then eventually I found a place that sells, that sells many billboards, like mini metallic, like built to scale, uh, accurate billboards. They were out of stock. I had to wait from the comeback in stock. I bought them. We put it together. I made the
Starting point is 00:18:25 billboard graphic, stuck it on. Did all this two days before we left for the trip. By the way, I was really racing the gun there. And that's what you're seeing in the image there. That's the billboard. I think it's so funny that we expected or hoped that there'd be a billboard there when they don't even have a hotel where there's no place for you to even stay. The idea that they'd have a promotional piece for you to see. We couldn't have been further off. But that billboard, many billboard is so funny. I kind of want to turn this part over to Gavin and have him explain what it was to get the shot because it was maybe the most frustrated I've ever seen him, and I felt so bad.
Starting point is 00:19:08 Can I just say real fast? I've been performing with Gavin for over a decade, 15 years. It might be in the top 10 Gavin meltdowns I've ever seen. I've worked on films, like actual movies that went to the theaters, and it was not as stressful as this. I want to say six attempts to get this forced perspective shot. I can run through each one. The first one, right?
Starting point is 00:19:35 I set it all up. You got to like make sure it's all right and the focus goes to the right place. And I spent ages doing it. And then and then you kind of have to let go of everything and I hope it doesn't all fall over and blow over in the wind. So I did that. I get everyone there. I give everyone the eye line. I'm like, all right.
Starting point is 00:19:52 And then we'll start talking. And then Eric was like, oh, it's a video. I was like, yeah, we're making a video, aren't we? It's like, oh, I just need to know it's a video. So you want to do a photo? So on my watch, I stop recording. And I flipped it over to photo. And then I got yelled at a bunch.
Starting point is 00:20:10 And then we decided, in fact, to do a video. So on my watch, because I was like, I could just take a still frame. We might as well just do it as the whole, you know, part of the video. So I flipped on my watch, I flipped the camera back to video. And when you do that, it forgets what you focused on. And it focused, like, directly on the pole of the sign. So we were completely out of focus. So I got back to it.
Starting point is 00:20:31 I was like, oh. And it sucked, too, because we'd already. been kind of run out of that area by a curious guy who was like, oh, what are you guys doing? And what he was really saying was get away from here. They were doing like a pincer maneuver. It was him and one other guy coming from another area to like, take time of what they're doing. So we flee. We got the hell out of there.
Starting point is 00:20:54 Exactly. We went somewhere else. Location two. Jeff, Jeff, Jeff scared him off by overloading him with information and words he's never heard. before the guy just like stopped approaching and was like I'm out of here yeah I kill him with kindness and verbosity the guy walks up goes what y'all doing and I go I'm gonna tell you exactly what we're doing so we run a podcast and the four of us are from four different locations on the planet we triangulated the center point of the universe from all of our and the guy's just like
Starting point is 00:21:26 his eyeballs were spinning by the time I was done with the explanation and then I had to explain it again because he goes he goes huh so I said all it again. He said, so you're from here? Yeah, and then we were just, we just got in the car. I was already in the car. I filmed this from the car because I was like, oh, God, give me it. You filmed it? That's awesome. Yeah. So we scrambled away to location two. We parked up at the side of the road. At this point, we're kind of scared about being seen by anyone, because no one is enjoying what we're doing. We waved at a couple, and they mean mugged us so hard. They were sitting on their front porch,
Starting point is 00:22:03 and Eric gave him a big old wave and I've never seen somebody flip the bird without actually flipping the bird that hard. Yeah, that their face flipped us off. And we weren't doing anything. We were, what it was, it was four guys stood in the field or on the edge of the road, basically, and one guy lying down, fumbling over a camera.
Starting point is 00:22:22 Attempt two, right? Put it down, get it all set up. Halfway through doing the little bit of video, wind blows it over. blows the camera over go back to it I set it up again by this point Eric is
Starting point is 00:22:38 losing it like every time we have to stop Eric is just like staring at Jeff or like staring at the car or like storming away and I'm feeling even more stress because I'm just like
Starting point is 00:22:49 anytime we're doing something that isn't scripted which is most stuff you don't want to keep doing it because all the stuff that we laugh at the first time is not funny the second time you want it to be as real as possible and at this point we're on take three
Starting point is 00:23:03 I go back we do it all do the whole thing I go back to my phone I've got a four second clip someone I realized afterwards someone phoned me
Starting point is 00:23:15 four seconds into the recording and ended the video and at this point I don't know what to do I'm just like why can't I do this why do I suck so but I'm like blowing everyone's time I'm blowing everyone's funny
Starting point is 00:23:30 We're losing all the good stuff. So I just take a breather. I'm just like, all right, calm down. I want to take the same amount of time again. Make sure the shot's right. Get it all focused up again. We do it all again. I go back to my phone.
Starting point is 00:23:48 And it's overheated. I can't use this phone because it's too hot. I have to wait for it to cool down. And we didn't even get halfway through the video. So at this point, I don't, I just don't know what to do. I'm just like, I can't, I can't do it. We've come all the way here, and I can't film this freaking video.
Starting point is 00:24:07 I'm freaking out. Eric wants to, I don't know, kick something or my head or something. He is fuming. Uh, I just take, I ended up taking Jeff's phone. And I think on take five, I think we got it. I can confirm it was take five. Because my experience with all this was the only update I had gotten since the trip began
Starting point is 00:24:32 was that you guys went to a McDonald's which I was very excited about because I had McDonald's the same day. I felt unified with you guys just coincidentally. Then there was a drive that was posted, a Google drive of a bunch of files for files to be specific
Starting point is 00:24:48 and I was like, oh, I don't know anything about this trip. I'm trying to avoid info on it but I'll listen to whatever this is. I just, I don't know, I'm not sure what I'm listening to you. And so I start the first one and you guys are doing the thing. And I'm like, oh, wow, this is they're doing the billboard thing. This is great.
Starting point is 00:25:05 And then it wraps up. And I was like, oh, that was a funny, it was a funny little video right there. And then Gavin just goes, wasn't recording. And then the sigh. And then I go to the next one, part two. And I realize, oh, they're doing the billboard again because he wasn't recording.
Starting point is 00:25:23 And then each one, I just heard the different failure at the end of it. And all of the different variations of take. and the building defeat that was accumulating with each one. It was a real joy to listen to each one, knowing that something went wrong for each part of it. It was so bizarre because it so wasn't a big deal,
Starting point is 00:25:44 but something about how unfriendly we felt in deputy made us want to get the fuck out of there quickly, which is weird because it's the center of our universe, not theirs. So if anything, they should feel uncomfortable, not us. But we felt uncomfortable. And also, it was somehow, it was 84 degrees, but it was somehow 120 degrees where we were. Like, it was hot enough at 84 degrees to overheat Gavin's phone.
Starting point is 00:26:07 We felt like we were under, like we were being, like we were ants, you know, under a magnifying glass. And then I've never felt worse for Gavin than I did because I, he was struggling so hard. And I genuinely could see it. And I wanted to help him, but, and I'm not being silly. There was nothing for me to do because everything, all he was doing, he was doing stuff that was very easy. It just couldn't go right. But so there was like no way to assist other than with moral support. And I just like, it was, it was, we were in Deputy Indiana for 30 minutes, but it felt like four hours.
Starting point is 00:26:43 It was really wild. None of my frustration, none of my frustration with what was being filmed was at Gavin. It was all at being like, you, our hands are tied. Like this is the thing that he is doing. And then it's like, oh, we definitely got it at that time. Nope. And it's like, I don't, what? crazy. I wanted to make sure the forced perspective was, was perfect each time. So it's taken me
Starting point is 00:27:05 like multiple minutes to set it up. And then I had to take like a little test recording because I can't, I'm lying on the floor with the sun pulverizing my face. The screen is so dark. So I'm doing little test shots and then I'm taking the camera. I'm watching back the test just to make sure it's working. I'm put it back. So each attempt, because at the end of each take, we move the camera. Like we had Eric pick up the camera or like I kick the camera or like It was something like you'll gag about the force perspective. Sure. We must have been, I don't know, I felt like I was lying down for like half an hour, too.
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Starting point is 00:29:28 I was really happy to have my billboard erected in deputy. And it was really cool. When you watch the video, you'll see it's really fantastic. And then to celebrate, we also signed the official face-off season one baseball. And I know that this is something that Jeff kind of wanted to talk about because we hit the baseball. Yeah. Right under this sign. that says deputy Indiana.
Starting point is 00:29:58 So what, a really funny thing. We decided we wanted to leave a souvenir, right? A little Easter egg in the form of an autographed baseball. So for anybody that may come along and find it. So we all autographed it, wrote like, congratulations Eric, season one, FACE off winner, whatever. We wrapped it back up in the plastic that it comes in and we stuck it at the base of this deputy sign just in case that somebody comes by over the next year, whenever, and finds it
Starting point is 00:30:25 and it happens to be a regulation listener. What a neat little surprise for them, right? The thing that I found that was incredibly funny is that on the subreddit, the regulation subreddit today, is a thread from this guy who goes to deputy with his golden gerpler to take a photo in front of the deputy sign.
Starting point is 00:30:46 However, he took a photo in front of the other deputy sign. No. There are two signs. There's one on, there's one like going east. in and then there's one on the other side coming west in he you know we saw guys when we were driving in out in the periphery we could see a dollar general i think i mentioned it i was like oh look they actually have a dollar general that's actually a store he was there the other deputy
Starting point is 00:31:08 sign is over by that dollar general so he came he drove all the way in took a photo in front of the deputy sign was less than probably two miles away from the other deputy sign with the autographed baseball that was just sitting there waiting for him that's such a bubble Couldn't believe it when I saw that Reddit today. It's one of the most unintentionally funny photos I've ever seen. Like, they don't understand how hilarious this photo is when they're taking it. That sucks that they missed it. They were so close.
Starting point is 00:31:43 And also, when we say they're so close, you can see all of Deputy Indiana from Deputy Indiana. Like there's no, you're just looking at the whole thing. There's nothing to it, man. It's crazy. If there wasn't a bend in the road, you might be able to see deputy sign to deputy sign. Yep.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Yeah, there's Eric at the other deputy sign dropping note. Yep. Put it in there. Oh. Yeah, it's such a, dude, we hit it right there. So I guess if you're listening to this and you're near deputy, see if it's there, go get it, unless it got mowed. That's what I love about this is.
Starting point is 00:32:23 We have now created a rat race-like scenario for people that naturally live around Deputy. Yeah. And this poor guy maybe eight hours late into listening to this and realizing what had occurred. Yeah. Yeah. If you do get it, make sure to post it in the... Post, please. You got to let us know.
Starting point is 00:32:42 You got to let us know. So people don't go forever. It wasn't all about... Also, on the way out of deputy, we stopped at a baseball card shop and Jeff had to buy baseball cards. Oh, cool. But the, it wasn't just about putting a billboard up for me because it was also a punishment that was sprung on Nick because he had no idea that we were going to do it while we were in deputy. Yeah. So one of the big challenges on the road trip was that I had to bring the comically large giant red rubber boots with me and not have Nick see it.
Starting point is 00:33:15 So I have a giant suitcase for an overnight trip while everybody else just has a back. backpack. And I'm like, oh, you know, I just travel heavy. I don't know what to say. I feel like a fucking asshole the entire time wheeling my suitcase around while everybody else essentially has like a fucking like a McDonald's bag with underwear in it as their luggage. Uh, so we had it hidden in the back of the suburban and we drive now back to Louisville. But Eric creates this scenario where we can't drive straight into Louisville because of traffic for. for an international food festival that they're having. And so we have to skirt the city and go around,
Starting point is 00:33:57 which just happens to take us by the mall. When we get close to the mall, I remind everybody that I forgot to bring pants and I'm scared it's going to be cold at night and maybe, yeah, there's my suitcase. It's just a stupid. So Jeff is talking. We're like, oh, let's go get lunch.
Starting point is 00:34:18 And then, oh, hey, Jeff's like, I want to get pants. It's going to be cold. And also, maybe we can go get steak for dinner, which that's all Nick needed to hear to not ask questions and to go along with whatever this is going to be so he can get steak. So I take us to a barbecue restaurant. We eat there. And then Jeff's like, oh, there's like a J.C. Penny right across the street.
Starting point is 00:34:41 By the way, good barbecue restaurant. Pretty good. I don't remember what it was called. Mission. Mission barbecue, I think. It was like for a Louis, you know, we're Texans. So we have barbecue opinions. And I got to say, it was really good.
Starting point is 00:34:53 And I appreciated that it was like a veteran-run, veteran-supported place. It was neat. It was the only meal I had in Louisville that wasn't cold. Gavin had. Even Gavin's McDonald's was cold. Yeah. Everything arrived cold there. So we were across the street from J.C. Penny.
Starting point is 00:35:12 And Jeff's like, I just want to run and get pants so we can do steak. And Nick's all in. And so we go across the street. And then I'm like, oh, look at Dillard's. and then Nick's like, yeah. Oh, this looks like a mall. Oh, too bad. Too bad you guys didn't bring the red boots.
Starting point is 00:35:29 And then we went, well, Nick, get a load of this. Because while we were inside the barbecue restaurant, Jeff ran out to the car, took them out of the bag, put them in the front seat with me, and then I pulled them up and revealed them for Nick, who got to wear the red boots at the mall. Nick, you look so good. Yeah, yeah, I felt great.
Starting point is 00:35:52 Dude, you look like you're ready to be the lead in a new Dead Rising game. That looks awesome. Oh, I'm not as mobile as those guys. When we were at the barbecue restaurant, Jeff disappeared. I ran to the restroom and Gavin also came into the restroom and I went back to the table and Jeff wasn't there
Starting point is 00:36:08 and I was like, oh, he must have gone around to the bathroom. So it felt all set up perfectly. And also before that, Jeff unknowingly set the stage by walking past the steakhouse, which is by the hotel and saying, we probably need pants for that. He's like, and I didn't bring any. So he had unintentionally set me up for this moment
Starting point is 00:36:26 by making me think, well, he really needs pants. So when I stepped out of here, I was very disappointed. But I did keep the hope alive that while walking with these, he would go and buy pants so we could actually go and have steak. The whole time. He's walking. He's like, so when is Jeff getting pants so we can have steak? And we're like, we're not doing that.
Starting point is 00:36:44 He's like, we're still doing the steak, right? Like, that was real. That part of this was real. It's like, no, the steak's not real, man. No, what are you talking about? I'm not going to go by pants. He's like, but, but I really wanted the steak. I was also frustrated because we had just eaten.
Starting point is 00:36:58 I was, and so I was full, but I was like, we could get Annie Ann's, but I'm still full. There's desserts here. I was like, this is such a waste. And then, and then all of this occurred. Nick was the most popular person at the Louisville Mall. He made friends with the lady at Dillard that could not get enough of him. I was just walking around watching other people's face. It literally, they caught everyone's eye.
Starting point is 00:37:21 Like, no one could ignore them. It was crazy. There was like a nine-year-old who thought he was really cool. Eric and Gavin wouldn't walk with Nick. They were like 10 feet behind like they don't know him. So I had to walk with Nick. I might as well been wearing the boots because I had to walk around with Nick so we didn't feel like ostracized. I kept eye and Gavin the whole time because he had the camera and I just kept looking at him and just staring at him.
Starting point is 00:37:44 Nick kept taking off his hat and hiding his face. He was trying to be British for a bit. He was hiding for a lot of it. He kept saying that he was called Gavin. And then during that pose at the end, he was just like, take the picture. Take the picture. He literally losing it at the end. Really lost steam at the end there.
Starting point is 00:38:03 Just on camera as a family waiting to cross by this photo that is occurring. And they're just waiting for this. I'm like, take the picture. So we were at the mall. We walked up and down it. We walked everywhere. We looked around it. We went into stores.
Starting point is 00:38:17 Nick didn't even try to get food or snack. There were Cinnabon. There was the cookies. He didn't try to get anything. He was like full on get me out of here. But don't worry. It was also destroying his shins the whole to every step he took. He was bleeding by the end of it.
Starting point is 00:38:38 No. I got a couple scabs, but they're healing up now. Sorry, Nick. That's not. It was worth it. It was worth it. I kept, the thing I kept saying to them and thinking to myself was, I have a son. And then I was thinking, and my wife, if she sees this, she may not be my wife anymore.
Starting point is 00:39:01 This is, this is the last straw. I'm doing the last straw. So it was a really eventful trip to pay off both things for season one. So I hope everyone gives us some grace, and we appreciate the patience everyone had with paying this off. Over the last year, we had a lot of other things that were a slightly higher priority, like starting this show and other shows and continuing the show and paying our bills. Yeah, getting health insurance. It was funny, we were doing that stream with the Falcons.
Starting point is 00:39:39 Once a month we have like a Falcon tier exclusive event on Patreon. so we were just on Discord and they were helping us fill the bit barrel and so many suggestions were like go and do the red boots go and put up the billboard and we had to we'd already
Starting point is 00:39:53 we'd just come back I think so we were just like well stay tuned it was yeah it was a lot of fun Louisville is a bit it's like 600,000 people I think
Starting point is 00:40:05 and yeah 680,000 yeah it's like it's big and small at the same time there was like no one really out and about but then there was like this food festival next to the hotel that was pretty cool and I don't know there was like stuff and we kind of hopped around
Starting point is 00:40:18 or whatever um my favorite part one of my favorite parts was um going to the fudgery and trying to get fudge the fudge the fudgery closed this guy I don't know who this guy is but all of their advertising is this man I'm a big fudgery guy now really like it Nick says fudgery like a slur It's kind of weird. That was weird. Yeah. Also, speaking to Nick, I look at my notes. Nick wanted to join the SS.
Starting point is 00:40:50 I don't know if you guys remember that. That was a big deal. Oh, you're talking about the squeegee squad? Squeezy squad. Yeah, yeah. Not the other thing. Yeah, the squeegee squad. There was a business we saw Andrew
Starting point is 00:41:00 called the squeegee squad. Those window cleaners. Yeah. Oh, man. It was a really good time. And then we flew home. like the next day, and it was good. It was a great little turnaround trip that, to me, we learned, like,
Starting point is 00:41:18 oh, we can do this kind of thing. Like, we can go and do, like, these fun trips that are really different and kind of, like, out of nowhere, and, like, make something out of it. It was a lot of fun, so. There was also another first on this trip. I don't know if you remember Eric. What was that? But Eric, he overslept.
Starting point is 00:41:39 Oh, my God, I forgot about this. I totally forgot about this. He was late. So we had a whole thing where it's like, okay, we're going to meet. Was it meet in the car at eight downstairs? Yeah, to go home. Okay. So I set an alarm and the alarm, this was to fly back on Saturday.
Starting point is 00:41:58 So I set my alarm and I said it to weekdays only. So I woke up to a text from Jeff at 806 that just said, I'm in the car and I went, and then I've never packed. and gotten out of a room faster than that. I've never done that before. I've never overslept like that. I've never had to like run down and get in the car. I felt so bad.
Starting point is 00:42:24 It sucked so much. It was ridiculous. I couldn't believe it. I've never had that happen before. Also, moving around that hotel was almost impossible. It was comically large. It was across two streets so you had to take. take, you had to take like walkways, gang, like gangplanks across. And it was the St. Vincent
Starting point is 00:42:47 DePaul Convention. And so we were the youngest people in the hotel by 20 years. And so it was just wall to wall wigs and gray hair. And it was just everybody shuffling. It was so hard to get anywhere. I was coming. I had to run up to get Eric because we were, we were, we didn't see a response yet from him. So I booked it across the lobby, like that whole area, because there's this walkway in between. I got to the elevator. There's a bunch of people waiting there. I go up. Gavin calls me while Eric texts, I'm coming down. I was like, oh, no, because everybody had just hit like 10th floor. And I'm like, oh, no, I'm stuck in this elevator until I get up there. But somebody had hit open on the second floor. So I had hit 9 where
Starting point is 00:43:35 our floor was. And then it opened on the second floor and I just run out. So they just think I'm a lunatic probably and I just book it down the stairs Louisville airport's nice though yeah I really enjoyed it so anyway just it's gonna be confusing to people we drove in and flew out that was the most efficient way we could do it
Starting point is 00:43:54 well yeah dude driving 16 hours back would have been crazy and it was it was a really fun trip like I feel like we did a lot we accomplished a lot and we got everything done and now I think we're ready for face off season two we're ready not only are we ready for face off season two but I
Starting point is 00:44:10 am ready for the rewards and the punishments of season two if they bring us back to deputy because we recognize that we might have to do this again next year interesting i didn't even consider i don't want to go there again you're going to make a yearly pilgrimage yeah can we go somewhere else can we figure out a different center of something we're going to buy the church that's for sale and deputy and then that'll be our that'll be our sanctuary deputy dog is going to help us that's i was going to ask what is deputy dog there oh there was There was one dog roaming the streets.
Starting point is 00:44:43 There was one roving dog in deputy. And he was the deputy dog. The whole place was a dog, a church, a storage unit, mean people, and corn. And a post office that's not open at 11 a.m. on a Saturday. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was 11 a.m. on a Friday. Friday.
Starting point is 00:45:00 Friday. Yeah. It was really, man, it was really something. The drive out was so much fun. The flight back was easy. It was a good trip. Gavin ate a lot of cold food I had a good time
Starting point is 00:45:14 I think we are now in search of our next trip yeah definitely yeah we gotta go somewhere and do something man it was a lot of fun yeah I feel like we got a lot out of that I want to go back to the fudgery for a minute okay I want to go back to the fudgery too
Starting point is 00:45:30 because but you know what I want to go I want to go at 11 a.m. when they say they open and I want the fucking doors to be open I want to be able to buy a fudge at 11 a.m. when they say they are open. because do not dangle fudge in front of Jeff Ramsey and then not offer Jeff Ramsey the ability to grab that fudge. I swear we went to the fudgery like four times in the end because the first time we did well Eric took a photo of their advertising on the inside of the fudgery which is also it's just weird to advertise the place you're in in the place like you're already there.
Starting point is 00:46:02 I don't know why they need to advertise themselves. One of the images is like Santa Claus in the sun holding up some fudge being like, hey, we got jolly old locations. Look at us. We're in the fudgery. The second image is a poster that says, avoid that sinking feeling with the Titanic in the background. Because when I think of fudge, I think of the Titanic. And it's the same Santa Claus guy,
Starting point is 00:46:30 but now he's dressed as a boat captain that says Titanic on his jacket. Oh, Andrew. Oh, Andrew. There were so many more, such as the sweet. defenders of fudge and fun where he is in the other ventures or how about
Starting point is 00:46:48 discover the secret of survival okay we're going to get to those we need to I'm not done with Titanic Fudge you're not no because first of all as I said I feel like evoking the
Starting point is 00:47:04 Titanic is just a weird thing for selling your fudge my second issue with this is the captain is supposed to go down with the ship. Can you imagine that you're in a sinking ship and you're in an escapeboat and you discover not only has the captain decidedly not gone down with the ship? He has brought a tray of fudge and a rose.
Starting point is 00:47:29 He's not going to waste all that fudge. You can't, he can't waste the fun. It's so funny to be the idea that you're in an escape boat and you're on the boat with the captain and he's just chow it down on some fudge as the ship is snapping in half going into the ocean. Yeah, I love that in a women and children first situation, there's a safe man and his fudge.
Starting point is 00:47:49 You know what, though, if you're on that lifeboat and somebody offers you fudge, you're not saying no. Oh, definitely not. You are going to take it. No. But it's, oh my God, that's so funny. Have you been to a fudgery, Andrew?
Starting point is 00:48:02 I can't say that I have. I've been at places that sell fudge, but I don't think, I don't think I've had fudge and fun what's the fun part of the fudgery eating eating the fudge eating the fudge I think yeah yeah so they're the sweet defenders the fudge and fom trying to order
Starting point is 00:48:22 when the shitty loud band right outside is playing at insane decibels yeah here's my other so this is the sweet defender's poster okay yes serving America's favorite fudge which uh is wonderful I love I love that for them. I feel like America's favorite fudge probably has more than three locations.
Starting point is 00:48:45 I don't want to make any assumptions, but I would guess if somebody said, what is America's number on Fudge Spot? How many locations do they have? I would guess more than three. I'm going to look up. What is America's biggest fudge chain? Why or combo by three? So why are these weird?
Starting point is 00:49:07 So this, the posters I've given. different years. The Indiana Jones one is 2001. Is that from the year? Is that one that was made? I think they've expanded, Andrew, because listen to this. There's no definitive largest fudge chain, but a strong contender for largest chain of fudge is kill wins with 146 locations across the U.S. Other prominent fudge businesses include the fudgery, known for its entertaining staff and 20 plus locations. So I think that they've grown. And to tell you stuff. that staff was not entertaining staff was not entertaining she had no teeth that was
Starting point is 00:49:42 notable well she's eaten a lot of funge yeah these are yeared so i'm guessing they do one each year and so in 1998 they were that was part of the three chain era one was the beach one was santa does santa have a year i don't think santa has a year i don't think pre year Wow The footry guy might be dead Well we haven't seen any images of them Past like 2003 So there's a pretty
Starting point is 00:50:13 Your classic Fudge Instead of Jurassic It's just a tag It's a hand grabbing Fudge instead of a T-Rex CEO of Fudge That is his title
Starting point is 00:50:31 Professor Pops Papa, CEO of Fudd. I'm Fudge CEO. Yeah. There were just so many fun story arcs to that trip. Like, there was, like, Nick was, Nick was just obsessed with freezing Eminem's. Yeah. What?
Starting point is 00:50:47 And he was so excited to get to the hotel and put his Eminem's in his hotel room freezer. And immediately, we were all like, what are you talking about? What hotel room has a freezer in it? They usually do. Here's the thing. When Nick is going to fly, he has his routines that he goes into. And one of the routines is taking M&Ms and freezing them. Let me finish.
Starting point is 00:51:13 Freezing them. So that way, when he gets to the airport, no, they're room temperature. No, they're still chilly. They're still chilly. They're cold. There's still a little cold. Gavin ate one on the plane.
Starting point is 00:51:29 A skeptical man might say, Aren't they already room temperature? Would you buy them? What if we just didn't freeze them? Wouldn't you achieve the same temperature? They won't melt this way, though. It stops them. They don't melt.
Starting point is 00:51:39 That's their whole thing. They still melt. They melt in Texas. You're in Louisville, Kentucky. It was 80 degrees. It was good when you gave it to me, but it was... But we were just blown away at the idea of there being a freezerer in a hotel room because we were like, what you talk about? This never happened.
Starting point is 00:51:56 Oh, man. And whoever was wrong had to apologize. Yeah. So we all made fun of Nick because there's no way there's a freezer and then I texted when we got into our rooms I just said excited for that apology tomorrow and then Nick said yeah me too
Starting point is 00:52:11 and it was like what does that mean Nick showed us we all had regular fridges Andrew Nick had a freezer He had a fucking I don't know how it happened The lady handed me four keys And I like shuffled them around on my hands Like I was picking like short straw And then I handed him out
Starting point is 00:52:28 And somehow Nick got the one room with an actual functioning fucking freezer. Wow. I had to apologize. The three of us had nothing. It was crazy. Could not believe it. Blown away.
Starting point is 00:52:41 Blown away. So Nick had his frozen M&Ms that were room temperature. So thanks to that freezer, I got some pretty cold M&Ms in the airport. On the plane? It was on the plane. We were on the plane. Now do you freeze every M&M variation or is it, because I couldn't imagine frozen peanut M&Ms.
Starting point is 00:52:59 Well, that's actually interesting because I was trying to test. I recently got on a plane, and right before I went to the airport, I bought some pretzel M&Ms. Oh, interesting. Kept them in the freezer before I went, sent a little video to Nick when I got to the airport. They just kind of cold pretzels. They were horrible, too. I don't know if the coldness ruined them or they just suck and it's a bad idea for M&Ms, but... Yeah, the pretzell mums aren't great.
Starting point is 00:53:25 Yeah, I just chucked off the back because they were ming. Oh, man. Nick said that he doesn't get the peanut M&Ms on a plane because somebody might have a peanut allergy and that's never occurred to me once in my life ever. I think that's so great. Yeah, I think that's fantastic. I just never thought about it.
Starting point is 00:53:45 Really kind of, Nick. They usually announce if someone has an allergy. Yeah, Gavin mentioned that. So maybe what I'll do from now on is stock up on one regular and one peanut. You only know that once you're in? Yeah, I guess you're going to prepare for it. Fair enough.
Starting point is 00:54:00 You're fucking crazy. If I freeze them both. You're fucking crazy. I still have the second bag from Louisville. To me, it makes, they were only like mildly cold, though. It makes no sense to keep them frozen all night and then not keep them in some kind of cooler. But they don't melt. Andrew, I don't think I can overstate how in three days, how much of the conversation was these M&Ms.
Starting point is 00:54:22 It was probably 40% of the total conversation we had on the trip. Well, I was bummed because I left them. Oh, yeah. I bought them specifically here, and I left my travel M&Ms. So I was like, well, I'll have to buy them while we're there, but I'll have to find a convenience store when we're there and then freeze them. We had to get Nick to a CVS. It was a whole thing.
Starting point is 00:54:43 Yeah. It was great. So wait, you're going to travel with the frozen M&Ms? Yeah. He wants them on the plane. But he wants them cold on the plane because it soothes him. But in the car, yeah, they would have been. frozen in the car. Yeah. But that's, that's so long. They would not be frozen by the time he flew.
Starting point is 00:55:05 Yeah, they'd be room temperature, but you could put it back in the freezer. Then why did it matter that they were frozen before you went? So they don't melt in the Texas heat. Okay. Nick, he keeps saying that he'll be back at room temperature when you buy them at room temperature, for Christ's sake. They sell them at room temperature, Nick. Right, but if they start frozen, they'll stay cold a little longer. Maybe by the time we get to the Texas border. I actually Texarkana.
Starting point is 00:55:31 Getting them frozen and then bringing them into room temperature would make them more frozen than if you just never froze
Starting point is 00:55:36 them at all. Aren't you creating moisture and that scenario by freezing them and then having them heat up?
Starting point is 00:55:44 Maybe a little. They've never run or anything. Oh, runny M&M's would be terrible. Well, he says that's
Starting point is 00:55:53 what he's trying to avoid as if that happens. Yeah. They didn't know. Right. Well, You also decided, I think, in the car, that one of the least satisfying things you could possibly do
Starting point is 00:56:03 would be to eat a bag of M&Ms like pills. Swallowing candy instead of ever chewing it. You're just swallowing candy is like... You get none of the enjoyment at all of the downsides. Yeah, it was really... It was a fun trip that was really centered around making sure somebody apologizes. for something. A lot of apologies.
Starting point is 00:56:33 I'm so glad. I can't wait. It's incredible. I'm excited for you guys to see it because I think people will really like it. Maybe we should put a spoiler warning at the beginning of this episode. Although we've had a lot of time machine recently.
Starting point is 00:56:46 That's true. Yeah. I mean, we can time machine for this. Nick blew my ears out with the last time machine. Yeah. Louder. Turn it up. The time machine is loud and unruly.
Starting point is 00:56:57 What can you do? I also think that the video coming out a couple days before really helps, too. Sure. Yeah. I'm excited. That was a very us heavy, the four of us heavy episode. But I do want to check in with Andrew because we're now deep into September. And I want to check in on the status of the chair.
Starting point is 00:57:16 Oh, chair's great. Chairs still on strong. Yeah. No issues. I think we're going to make it. Wow. What brand are we sitting on these days? I don't even know.
Starting point is 00:57:28 It's just generic Amazon brand. Amazon basics chair. And Amazon type, yeah, I just got it off Amazon. Nothing fancy. And that one outlived the Herman Miller? It out, well, I mean, the Herman Miller technically died within like three hours of owning it. It was immediately an issue. And I just kept repairing it until it can no longer be repaired.
Starting point is 00:57:50 This one's strong then. He still would have replaced it for you. Still probably would, you get that. I've looked into it. and I have everything I need to do it. I just have to, there's not a Herman, I'd have to go to a different city to exchange my Herman Miller.
Starting point is 00:58:06 You don't have to go with the chair. Why wouldn't I have to go with the chair? Because mail was invented. I'm gonna mail a chair, a giant chair? Well, how did it get to you? Somebody mailed it. I mean, if you can mail a skateboard guillotine, you can probably mail a chair.
Starting point is 00:58:25 You definitely can mail it. I just, I don't, I've never mailed anything that big. It's kind of intimidating. I wouldn't know where to begin. Show of a box. Okay, I know where to begin. I don't know where to follow through. I guess like, step four.
Starting point is 00:58:40 I would contact Herman Miller and ask what the process is and then they'll explain it. They have their own process for how to, you know, receive the chair from you. You could probably even say, like, send me a label or like a, you know, RMA or whatever. Well, yeah. Yeah. I'll look into that. I just play it in my head. First of all, this chair isn't broken.
Starting point is 00:59:03 I'm loving this chair. Second of all, I just have been kind of locked into the idea of like, oh, I'm going to have to go to a different city and exchange this chair out. I hadn't considered me. So you want to go to a different city? Not really. Oh. I've been there before.
Starting point is 00:59:18 Are you afraid that if you get the Herman Miller chair repaired, your existing current chair will see you getting another chair repaired and get miffed and break. Could be. Could be a revenge chair scenario. I didn't even think of that.
Starting point is 00:59:32 I guess it would have to be a thing too of I'd have to then find a place for two chairs. I'd need to determine where to put the second chair.
Starting point is 00:59:41 If I have two functional chair. Where is the Herman Miller chair right now? It's in a storage room. Oh, so just
Starting point is 00:59:47 take the chair you're in right now and put it where that chair is and then take the Herman Miller chair and put it in front of your desk.
Starting point is 00:59:55 I think I might like this chair more than the Herman Miller is also the other man fuck Herman Miller who cares anyway the Herman Miller was broken there well yeah but just like it's a comfy this is a comfy your chair than the Herman Miller was for me people love those Herman Millers I mean it's you know I'm not saying this is a thing that would apply to everybody but for me personally I'm liking this chair sturdy that's olden up no sign of breakage it's good this is also a new era you brought up Jeff your Taco era
Starting point is 01:00:26 you know, every episode of regulation tacoed. I guess not every episode of regulation I've been naked, but I'm recording fully clothed. I'm switching it up. Whoa. Whoa. What does that mean fully clothed? Like, take me through your wardrobe. What are we
Starting point is 01:00:42 wearing? Shorts, underwear, shirt, that's it. Wow. And how does it feel? Do you feel like you're still on top of your game here? Or do you think that you're like added disadvantage? It feels zero difference at all. No different in the The slightest, I guess I would be more prepared if I had to suddenly flee this room. But outside of that, no difference.
Starting point is 01:01:05 But I'm going to keep at it. I want to keep going. I want to see, who knows? Maybe I will feel more on top of my game, more ready to fly if I need to. I don't know. Maybe try adding an article of clothing every recording. Oh, I like that. Until it gets to a point where you feel like you're impeded.
Starting point is 01:01:24 Are you still a chain guy, Jeff? Nah, I haven't worn chains in a while. Off the chain, okay. Yeah, I'm off the chain right now. Off the hook, off the chain. I have a question for Andrew. Yeah, go ahead. How many cats do you have?
Starting point is 01:01:40 I have two cats. But you sent us a picture of two cats. Uh-huh. There's a ginger cat and a gray cat. And then you sent a video of two black cats. You finally noticed. every time I've talked about my cats I've just kept sending different cats
Starting point is 01:01:59 and I wanted to see how long it would take for anyone to say anything but the two black cats were in the were in your tub those are your cats right those are cats that's not your tub it looked exactly like your tub those aren't your cats
Starting point is 01:02:14 the first cats I posted I pulled from the discord of our pets thread and I was waiting to see if they would notice or if you guys would notice. And I was just going to keep pulling cats until... You're a maniac. You're such a weird bastard. You said their names and everything.
Starting point is 01:02:35 Those are, I mean, those are names. They're not even your names? They're names. What I say? Like, Finn and Marley or something? Yeah. Because you showed those cats. I was like, oh, that's nice that he's got some, like, quite, you know, some older cats. And then you told a story about tripping or something or like tripping on one of them
Starting point is 01:02:55 and you've referred to them as black cats and I just couldn't remember the images very well in my head and then after that I went back to your images I was like black cats maybe wait what maybe I misheard him say black cats and then you set a video of two black cats
Starting point is 01:03:07 and I was like what is going on are you trying to just gaslight my cat area of my brain I just was curious how long it would take for anyone to notice I kept sending you different cats I got somebody sent me thing on Twitter the other day saying,
Starting point is 01:03:24 these are my cats. Show me a photo your cats. And I was like, oh, I'm just going to steal these cats. Next time I tell a cat thing, these are going to be a photo of my cats. I'm just going to take their cat. So how many cats do you have? How many cats do you have? I have two cats. Okay, have we seen those cats? No.
Starting point is 01:03:40 You're a maniac. This is, I feel like I was talking to someone the other day going like, I wonder what the next weird Andrew thing is going to be. And I don't think anything could have prepared me for this. I was really hoping the community would have noticed first, and then you guys would have been like, what is happening?
Starting point is 01:03:59 But I appreciate that you noticed, Gavin. You're on top of your cat game. I try and pay attention. I remember in the past, I didn't even know you had a cat, and it was like a big revelation that you had this, like, 21-year-old cat or something. So I want to know your cats. I think you like cats, and I think it's an important part of you. So you have two cats, and we don't know their actual names.
Starting point is 01:04:18 No. Or what they look like. Or what they look like now. But I got cats. I got two cats. Are they black cats? They're cats. This is insane.
Starting point is 01:04:30 This is so crazy. I don't know that he does have cats. Like this is going to be. We took the robot. Why did we do that? I hate this. I hate it. I'm mad.
Starting point is 01:04:48 I'm mad at you. This sucks. I'm gonna show my... I could show my real cats if you want me to show my cat. I don't want you to want to show us. I want you to want to show us the cats. I want to show you guys the cats. I'm not going to believe it.
Starting point is 01:05:05 I don't think I'm going to believe it. Gavin, are we going to believe this? No, what would be the point I believe in this? You're my real cats. This is my first cat. Its name's Jimmy. That's just so. This sucks.
Starting point is 01:05:17 It's my second cat. this is awful this is the worst this is so insane you motherfucker I got two cats you schmuck
Starting point is 01:05:28 you motherfucker oh well that's an adorable cat and dog two cats somewhere in the community you would talk like they were listening to the podcast
Starting point is 01:05:43 and you were talking about their cats yeah I would the first one I showed the cats before I just pulled them from our Discord pets thread. That must have been so confusing for that person.
Starting point is 01:05:54 I have to say anything. Well, they're probably like, I don't want to spoil some sort of a bit, you know? Or maybe they were just listening. Yeah, maybe they only listened. Yeah, maybe. So I was just going to keep doing it
Starting point is 01:06:05 every few weeks until. Maybe when they posted the images, they were full of shit too. Maybe they were just cats. They felt different discord. They just wanted to fit in. I don't even know the names of those animals that I just posted.
Starting point is 01:06:18 That's crazy. By the way, did you know, Andrew, that you were in Deputy? No, I didn't know that. Yeah, we took you. We brought your robot body. I'm so glad. I wish I could have connected to like the Wi-Fi thing, was there? Although I don't imagine Deputy had Wi-Fi.
Starting point is 01:06:36 We were going to try and hotspot you, but in the end, I was so stressed and sweaty that I didn't even think of it. It was the furthest thing from our minds at that point. The locals were assembling the pitchfork mob. We had a limited amount of time. And Jeff was so friendly to that guy, too. I was trying really hard. I know how to, listen, I'm from small town white trash. I know how to deal with him.
Starting point is 01:06:58 You switched on the southern. It's my DNA. Yeah. Killin with kindness. But speaking of killing with kindness, I'm going to be kind to the audience and let this episode end so that people can go about their day
Starting point is 01:07:11 and to do all the important tasks they have ahead of them. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Regulation Podcast. Thank you for supporting us in our travels and journeys like to Deputy Indiana. Andrew is sending pictures of other people's cats. I don't think anyone believes that those cats belong to him.
Starting point is 01:07:30 Do you have a cat? Have you ever owned a cat? Have you seen a cat? If you do, if you have, if you're aware that cats are a thing, why don't you go ahead and send a picture over to Andrew on social media? He'd love to see all of your cats. I would.
Starting point is 01:07:42 Well, find him anywhere. Twitter, Blue Sky, Reddit, Instagram. he's on all of it and he loves cats and we love you thanks for listening we'll see you next week bye
Starting point is 01:07:53 bye lion stop sending fake ass cats fake cats

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