Regulation Podcast - Nicknames Draft 2026

Episode Date: January 25, 2026

For 2026, Gizmo, The Mechanick, Lil Ricky B, Baby Pepsi, and Gassy Goo pick each other's nicknames draft style but you KNOW we have to leave it up to the wheel to decide our fates. How did these nicknames turn out? Which was your favorite? Which didn't get picked that you liked? What nickname would you choose for AN EGG? Excited to have this one out so we can use them. Support us directly at https://www.patreon.com/TheRegulationPod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental content, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome to another piece of regulation supplemental content. Today, we are entering in to 2026 by shedding our 2025 nicknames. That's right, Gizmo, Mechannick, Lil Ricky B, baby Pepsi, and gassy goo are going by the wayside so that we can make room for the 2026 nickname draft. Are you guys ready? I'm ready. I'm ready. I think that the next.

Nicknames got really good use last year, and I'm excited to see what 2026 holds. Yeah. They got good use? Yeah, you don't think so? Said them a lot. You don't think they got good use, Gavin? Yeah, what do you think, Gavin? I feel like when you occasionally forgot about them for several months and then got back to them.

But yeah. I was thankful the entire time that mine was Gizmo. I really like Gizmo. I feel bad about losing Gizmo. Dude, I gave you Gizmo. I'm so glad you like that. and I am excited to see the new new games, but doubt I enjoy whatever mine is as much as I enjoyed Gizmo.

I really can. Well, you've got pretty lucky to. We dodged some bullets last year. Yeah, we did. Yeah, definitely going to keep dodging bullets this year too. All right, boys. Now, we have to randomize, but we need to figure out how many times we randomize because the order is always an egg order, which is Gizmo.

Yeah, we're going to do, we're really going to do 26, huh? Yeah, we're going to do 26, huh? Yeah, we're going to do. Right, here we go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. That's ten. Little Ricky B, Gizmo, Mechannick, Baby Pepsi and Gassigoo. That's 16, 16, 16, 16, and 20, which is 16.

And that's Gassie goo, Little Ricky B, Gizmo, Mech, and Baby Pepsi. And here comes 25. 25, baby Pepsi, Gassigoo, Gizmo, Mech, and Ricky B. And, guys, here is the final order for the names. little Ricky B, gassy, goo, baby, Pepsi, Gizmo, and Mechonix. So, I believe the way that we did it last time, if I'm not mistaken, was as I'm the first here, I X myself, because I cannot give myself a nickname. And you guys all give me a nickname. And then we go down that list.

So the next one will be us giving a nickname to Gavin and Jeff, Andrew, and then finally Nick. That is the way it will go. After 26 randomizations, we will start with nicknames for Eric. And we start with Gavin. I feel like last year I really looked at the names, the original names, the birth names, and I played off that. Whereas Eric,

you just went for just random words. I don't know that they were random. I felt like they sort of like Andrews don't get. Gizmo. They came from your heart, I assume, or your brain. I just looked at who I was providing a name for and the first thing that came,

the gut feeling, the name from my gut. And what I picked up for Eric... It's Nugs. Whoa, I like that. Is it 1G or two? Now, it's 1G, but I would put it to you and whether you want it to be an S or a Z. Ooh, okay.

Nick immediately answering. I felt like he said. I had to get it in. Yeah, he's, yeah. Don't worry, you won't be done speaking, and Nick will be giving you the answer. Nugs with a Z. Gavin has given me the nickname Nugs.

Will it be, I mean, we'll put it on the wheel when we do this at the end, because they all go on there, we spin it. I like it. Dude, nugs, people would be like, oh, what a big nugs? And then it'd be like,

yeah, what's up? This is nugs? And they're like, oh, this is got to carry him. I'm like, no, man, it's just nugs. I like that. Hell yeah.

See, Gavin's in the spirit of it. This is why last year, I think I tried to give him the nickname of like spooky. It's like, he's getting into this. A little spooky of them. Yeah, I think he was going to be a little spooky.

And that's, you know, mixing it up. But that's on the list. Jeff, What's your nickname for Eric? I'm glad it's my turn, and I'm glad to be able to unveil this nickname. I thought a lot about it long and hard. I spent a year thinking about what it is to be Eric, what it means to be Eric.

And I got to be honest with you, I love the Lil and Lil Ricky B, so I'm going to co-opt that and continue with it. But I wanted to pick something that I think exemplifies the natural tension within Eric, you know, the two wolves that live inside Eric. And so I'm going to go with Lil Skeddy S-K-E-T-I L-K-E-T-I. L-S-K-E-T-I, Lil-S-K-E-T-I. Because Eric has complicated feelings about spaghetti. It's true. They're not super complicated.

I don't like it. It's the worst one. But, dude, dude, straight up. I'm fine with angel hair, but here's the thing. Here's the thing. People coming up and being like, oh, shit, Lil-Skedy. Yeah, I'm about that. Because if you think about it, what is angel hair, but little skinny?

But little skeddy. That is crazy. Jeff, you're absolutely on it, man. I like it. I like this. Solid. I'm excited. Yeah.

Eric, how do you think that compares with Jeff's pick from you in 2025? I really was worried that I was going to have to do the thing where, because if it was that again, I was going to have to do the thing where I go, hey, I'm not comfortable doing this draft. Do you know what is it? My initial, my first thought, you didn't like Lil Trump last time. So I thought about medium twump, T-W-U-M-P, but then ultimately I decided instead of medium twump to go with Lil Skeddy. Little Skeddy.

Like Lil Skeddy. I like it. Honestly, Lil Skeddy, I hope it gets picked. I know there's two more, but I hope it gets picked because I like saying it

the same way I like saying Rizzler. So this all really works. This is good. But we go to Andrew Gizmo. What is your nickname for me? My nickname for you gave me a great nickname. I wanted to make sure I returned the favor, went into the lab,

made sure, get all my due diligence, my proposed nickname for Eric. is Big Smooth. What big smooth on the board. Oh, my God. Eric is big smooth. Dude, Big Smooth is sick. That's a good one.

You know, when people look at me, they just go, there's Big Smooth. That's, oh, hell, yeah. Eric can't fail this, this, this is a great list so far. Well, hang on because it's Nick's turn. So, Nick, what's your nickname for Eric? Well, you may know that on this show, Eric is a bit of a guy who's able to go around and chat with everybody.

And on the other show, you may know that he and I have a bit of an antagonistic relationship where I call him short and small. So I'm going with Lil Small Talk. Oh! Hey, I like Little Small Talk's pretty good. These all feel good. These are good. These are good nicknames, boys. That's crazy how similar.

Because my original pick for Eric was Lil Yappy. Oh, wow. You guys were right there. I love that one. Wow, you guys were right there. Lil Yappy. But then Nugs just took over for me. I don't know what.

Yeah. Did you guys have any other honorable mentions for Eric? Any other nicknames that you wrote down? You heard mine. Shorty. No, I felt really good with mine. So I just... Okay.

I like it. Dude, this is exciting. So those are my four nugs, a little skeddy, big smooth, and a little small talk. But now we go to Gavin. Gavin, who's Gassiegoo, had some very interesting picks last year. But this year, hmm, I'm really...

I'm going to give you your first nickname. And I do, there's something about this that resonates with me. I was thinking about it. I wrote some others and then I deleted them. And then I rewrote them. And then I kept coming back to this one. Gavin for 2026, I want your nickname to be Trigger Man. Something about, something about Gavin where I'm just like,

oh, dude, he's fingers on the Trigger Man. This is the Trigger Man right there. Like that's, you can always count on him. In trouble? Here comes the Trigger Man. That's, oh, quick to it. I like Trigger Man. Gavin, how do you feel about Trigger Man?

I love that. I'd be happy if the wheel landed on that. Oh, great, great, great, great. Well, Trigger Man is the first one. But Gavin, you don't give yourself a nickname. So, Jeff, we go to you. What is Gavin's nickname? If there's one thing that defined Gavin in the year 2025,

I think it would be his inability, complete and utter, inability to promote his own podcast at any point in time, whether he's on an Australian morning show or whether he's taking photos in front of his own billboard at Times Square, not in regulation clothing. Gavin has an amazing ability not to try to assist or help this podcast succeed in any way whatsoever.

So I'm going to take the work, I'm going to take the onus off of Gavin so that he doesn't have to do the work. I'm going to do it for him. So for the year 2026, I'm lobbying that Gavin's nickname be Gavin, listen to the regulation podcast free. Wow. Takes the pressure off.

So we're doing, it's the whole thing. Yeah. Okay. Wow, that's a long title. Yeah. But is good. Am I putting, is it putting quotes? Yeah.

Like that. Okay, cool. Okay. Okay. Gavin, quote, listen to the regulation podcast, end quote, free. That's it. You know, sometimes, sometimes nicknames are a little bit longer than your regular name. It's true. It can be, that's how it works sometimes.

It was either going to be that or ask me about my small talk. Gavin's defense, it isn't just regulation. He's just bad at promoting everything that he does. I've made my show for, well, 15 years. And I'm pretty sure in every video, I'm wearing an achievement hunter shirt. Yeah, it's dead. Stop promoting it. Yeah, well, it didn't work. You need to promote this now. Did a real solid job, I thought. I guess I would maybe counter that you got a bunch of free shirts and you wore the shirts that you got for free. That's true. Yeah.

And it was less about you making an effort. I just assume your entire closet was achievement hundred shirts. It was. Well, it's because that's what I chose to wear. Because you got them for free. So you're just not choosing not to wear any of ours. You just choose not to read. I mean, I got a free pair of heelies.

You don't see me gliding around on them. Why not? Well, yeah, but you're promoting Healy's now on this thing, so I don't really get that. Yeah. Well, Jeff is taking the mantle over for you promoting this podcast. You don't have to worry about it anymore. I took care of it. Yeah.

Yeah. But Gizmo, Andrew, you get to give Gavin a nickname next. No, you talked about Gavin, going with your gut, and I'm really feeling it. And I did a similar thing for you where I don't have an explanation as to why you would be called this. I don't know why it resonated with me, but it's the first thing that came to mind, and I feel like it fits you well.

For reasons unknown, my nickname for you is Quiznow. I love that. I love that. Quizno from Gizmo? Yeah. Some Quizno from Gizmo.

I don't know why, but I just stared at your name, and it spoke to me. Quizno. Gavin Quizno free Big Quizno man That's Quizno That right there? That right there

That's Quizno baby That's Quizno over there That's Quiznow Oh here comes Quizno Well Gavin how do you feel about Quizno? I kind of like it Okay

It rolls off the tongue A lot easy It's fun to say Yeah it's true It is It conjures up this image That I posted Well yeah

We know Gavin Gavin We do know that you love the subs. We love these subs. So this is good. This really works out. But finally, Nick, you're going to give Gavin a nickname. This was a gut feeling.

It's the only one I wrote down. There were variations I thought of, but this is the one I wrote down. And it's very similar to Jeff's reasoning here. I'm going with the promoter. My favorite promotion-related thing about, of the past year is learning that the slow-mo guys

has a Patreon through our subreddit and not just from knowing him and then seeing the announcement and seeing that you just put it in the back

half of the video instead of putting it front and center I was like this is so Gavin and I love that you know content first yeah

content first and that's what you can that's and that's what you can expect at patreon.com slash the slow-mo guys Is that right? And maybe in 2027, a new nickname, Gavin Content First Free.

Well, there you have it. Gavin's nicknames, Trigger Man, Gavin, listen to the regulation podcast free, Quizno and the promoter. Those are Gavin's nicknames. For great nicknames. Yeah, that's pretty good. Jeff, you were baby Pepsi for a year. How did you feel about baby Pepsi?

I loved it, man. I felt like it exemplified everything about me in two words. That's great. Well, I believe that was a nickname I gave you, so I felt really good about it. I liked it. So I wanted to give you another one that I felt really good about, and this is, this just, it made sense to me. I don't know that anyone else, like, oh, I don't really get it.

That's fine. There's nothing really to get. This just felt like Jeff, and to me, that's Big Stepper. I'll take it. I like it. Yeah, Jeff, Jeff coming through Big Stepper style. Yeah. It just, it feels right.

I have some other ones written down, some ones that I didn't go with that were four play, but that's what the number four. I was going to go with that. Or my other one was Jeff the Frog. I like Big Steppers, the winner there for sure. I thought so too. I thought so too. But that's my nickname for Jeff.

Gavin, if Jeff has his way, your nickname is Gavin, listen to the regulation podcast free. What's your nickname for Jeff? Jeff? It's just so incredibly similar. I can't believe it. What? I'm so sad. I look to Jeff and I just thought, yeah, it's big time. Big time. Oh really? Just pick time time. Big time. That's also great. Oh, you guys are yeah, these are good. Dude, big stepper or big time. Damn, that's pretty impressive. You can't lose. I'm guessing. I like that. That's awesome. That's pretty good. Big, big time. Did you have any other honorable mentions there for Jeff?

Big money and I think big, big slop was in there too. Big Slop. Whoa, big slop is something, man. I was thinking about Jeff's first Google search or search engine search was, I believe, sloppy pussy. Wasn't my first internet search. It was the guy we were showing the internet to in the army. It was his first search.

And we were horrified and delighted. Oh, man. To be fair, I never searched that. He did. on a girl's computer in front of her. Oh, God. Jesus Christ. Well, baby Pepsi can't give himself a nickname.

So we move on to Gizmo. Andrew, what is your nickname for Jeff? Once again, I did my due diligence on this. I thought about Jeff, sort of like how you talked about representative of Gavin in 2025. I thought about when I think of Jeff, what do I think of as far as the past year goes?

And to me, you firmly established yourself as a hot dog guy. So my nickname for you is poncho Spanish word for hot dog. Like that? P-A-N-C-H-O. P-A-N-C-H-P-A-N-C-H-P-A-N-P-A-N-P-O-P-O-N-C-O. It sounds cool. It's representative of you. I looked at a list of a whole bunch of languages what their version of hot dog is, and that was by far the coolest, and I thought it fit. Thanks. I like Poncho. That's phenomenal. Man, that's cool. That's great.

This is good. This is awesome. What a feel good episode. One more nickname from Nick for Jeff. Nick, what are you naming Jeff this year? I went through a couple of iterations and thoughts on what Jeff could be. And this one stuck with me every time. I kept coming back to it.

Jeff has a sweet tooth. He loves to set people up by putting candy in the office and you'd love to eat that candy. So I'm going to call him the Candyman. Oh. Oh. Candy man. Not like the horror movie, but like a guy who gives candy. Just the guy who loves candy?

Shears the candy. It's the candy man. Good guy. We have to add a row, don't we? We do have to add a row. Hopefully it's with this. Yay. Incredible.

But these are Jeff's nicknames, potentially. Big Stepper, big time. Poncho and the Candy Man. Those are four good names. But we have to go to Gizmo, Andrew. Andrew, I will be the first one to give you a nickname for this year. And high bar from last year. Yeah, it's, look, I don't think you're going to like it nearly as much as Gizmo.

I think Gizmo just had the juice, man. It did. It did. It had the juice. But, but this to me, I was thinking, like, what made me think of Andrew, you know, where you're at, what you do, the things you bring to us. And to me, especially right now, when I think Andrew, I think, man. I think man tracker Yeah Yes

I always like that's a good It's a good way Andrew you could be man tracker For all 2026 How does that make you feel? Just tracking down All the people I guess

I mean he tracked more than men It feels kind of strangely specific But I you know what Deep down I've always wanted to learn how to track See that's interesting Go Thank you the potential

There's a lot of potential there. Andrew the ManTracker Panton? I think that works. Think about it. I think that works. You might have to wear socks for that. We can't tell the ManTracker how to operate. I don't think so.

Because that's how I always differentiate my feet from whatever the print is. No shoe. I see my bare foot in the mud. I know that was he. This shit did this foot used to have a sock on it. I think I saw somewhere in a chat, like on Reddit or in a chat that ManTracker was in Last of Us. Really?

Oh, the show. Really? Yeah. Yeah, the TV show in season one. Yeah. Cool. That's crazy. Way to go ManTracker.

Tracking his way on a TV. But next, Gavin, you have to give a nickname to Andrew for 2026. What's it going to be? Well, this one, it's actually my only one that kind of features a part of the name. And I've gone with, I've gone with droopy, but spelled with the last half of Andrew. So So it's like Like

Hey yeah Yeah So here I don't even want to put Here's the thing This is something I actually Already encounter Oh

Okay Where when there are times We're like I'll go to write my name And then my last initial Or something And I always write it And then I read it True P

And I go Oh my God Holy shit What I don't want to be droopy. So then I'll rewrite it. So I've encountered droopy. You know what?

It feels like, and I think it's really the P part of it, I feel like I'm like a distant relative of Snoopy with it. So I do like that. Oh wow. I kind of like that. With Drewie. Yeah, dude, I kind of like that. That's pretty cool. Wow.

I'm a fan. Wow, that's great. Well, Drew P. You've put a positive spin on me for droopy. Hell yeah. And then, uh, We have Jeff. What are you going to be calling Andrew?

So I'm actually very excited. I think this is my best nickname and the one that I'm nervous. I feel the best about. I wanted, Andrew means a lot to me. He means a lot to all of us. And I wanted to do something to combine two of his biggest loves in a way that, you know, greater than the sum of our parts kind of moment. Clearly, Andrew has been on his health journey over the last year.

And he also has an intense love of film. and so I've combined that into the nickname C-Papa Smurf exactly like that, yes, thank you. Got it. Yeah, no problem. Wow. Yeah.

C-Pap of Smurf is on the board now. Andrew, it's kind of a departure from Gizmo, I guess. Not that far. It is. I appreciate it, though, and I never thought I would say that about something with Smurf in the title. So this is a whole new,

door that has been opened. Pretty interesting. For pre-repevaluation. That was great, Jeff. It's pretty good. C-Papa Swurf is on the board. That's great. Andrew, you can't give yourself a nickname because those are the rules. But Nick can give you a nickname in 2026.

Nick, what would that nickname be? We've talked a lot about Dill Kong. We've talked about the Dill Bot. But this past year, we also learned that Andrew is a big movie theater popcorn guy. So I'm going with Dillipop. Whoa. Dillipop Dillie Pop

Dillie Pop Dillie Pop Dillie Pop Dillie Pop We should make that a drink Yeah What is a pop Isn't a Dillie Bar a thing at Dairy Queen?

Isn't a Dillie Bar is a Dairy Queen thing Yeah Dillie Pop Great I'm gonna get in the lab on a Dillie Pop I'll get back to you Yeah smart Well Andrews four

NICNames ManTracker droopy, seepapa, sepumpf, and dilly pop. Any other honorable mentions for Andrew you guys want to throw out there? Let me look at my notes.

I had the eagle. Oh, it's cool. Yeah, the eagle felt very cool. But ManTracker ultimately won out for me. I like ManTracker. That was my initial thought. You know, we should, what we should do is after we settle on everybody's

individual nickname, we should then each person should create their own official dirtbag soda or that name. Oh, that's a fun idea. And then we can write down the recipes and show them with the audience and stuff. Yeah. It's a great idea. Way to go.

And now finally, the last nickname for 2026. This will be for the mechonik for Nick. I will be giving you a nickname first. And look, we are adversarial on a different show. But on this show, I respect what you do and the way you get it all together. And that's why, to me, you're a little scrappy. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, wow. Cobbling it together, making it happen on the ones and twos, putting it all together no matter the, no matter what happens, a little scrappy gets it done. Oh, wow. I love that.

Yeah, little scrappy. A little scrappy. A little scrappy. See, even when Gavin says it, it sounds cool. Wow. Yeah. Yep. Yep.

Scrapping their life, maybe. Yeah, there you go. Hey, dude, little scrappy's on the board. That would be my nickname for Nick. But it's not just up to me because Gavin, you could give Nick a nickname. What would that? be? Well, I've been trialling a few nicknames for Nick, um, using them here and there.

Oh. You might recall that during a recent Mario party, this one was censored in a slightly unfortunate way. But, uh, it was, it was Milfer. Like that? Yeah. Yeah, it was. That was very unfortunate. I'm curious to see if we get more milf-related nicknames. Could be. Could be. Could be little scrappy.

I really like scrapping. Yeah. Yep. Or it could be something that baby Pepsi is picking here. Jeff, what's your nickname for Nick in 2026? Man, I wish I could say I was on the milf side of the spectrum with his nickname,

but I went more actually very similar to Eric in an Eric style direction. I was thinking about Nick and I was thinking about how, once again, how scrappy he is, how capable he is. I was thinking about him running through that dog course that we created. Oh, that's right. And what a dog he was in that moment. Then I was also thinking about how adventurous he is with food and how he's always up to try new things.

And anytime we throw any kind of a weird combination of, he pipes up in the background from his slumber or wherever he is. And he goes, he wants it, right? And he makes his little weird noises. And so I came up with Scrapple Dog. Whoa. Whoa. Oh,

Scrapple dog. Is it like that dog? D-A-W-G? Yeah, DOG, I thought. But either way, because he wants to eat scrapple. And so, you know, little scrappy and scrapple dog. Very similar. There's a lot here.

There's a very scrap heavy for Nick. But Nick, it's not just these three nicknames that you have to contend on. It will be Gizmo's nickname as well. Andrew, what's your nickname for Nick? My nickname for Nick has layers to it. I think it's representative of Nick in several ways. Nick, just all around. Always, always a great guy.

Always so pleasant, awesome. It's a good person. When I think a Nick, if you were to put it in wrestling terms, there's no doubt that he is a baby face. But he also loves milfs. He's a big milf guy. And you can't be a milf without having a baby. So my nickname for Nick is,

Babyface. Oh, I thought you were going to say baby milf. I thought that was going to be baby milf so bad. I thought so bad. 100% going baby milf is about to be named. So scary. Babyface Schwartz. Yeah, no, no, I like it.

I think baby face is good. So Nick's nicknames, potentially, little scrappy, Milfer, Scrapple Dog, and Babyface, were there any other honorable mentions for Nick? My original pick was Milford, but I thought that was a bit too on the nose. Yeah, it's a little on the nose.

I get that. I had in honor of Gracie's dog, I was going to go with Mingus. But yeah, I decided to go a little scrappy instead, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. Well, boys, I think it's time.

Shall we pick these? And we go to the wheel? Are you guys ready to see what could be for 2026? And I guess I'll be up first, as I'm the first one here that was given nicknames. We go to the randomizer. And we put in nugs. We put in, hang on, Lil Skeddy.

I want to make sure I have this right. We're going to put in Big Smooth and Lil Small Talk. These are the names for me. We're a bunch of idiots. We have to randomize, but how many times do we randomize? Is it four? Yeah, sure. Let's do it.

One, two, three, four. And here it comes my nickname for 2026. Will be. Oh, it's spinning. Lil Skeddy. Oh, we'll stop. Little Skittie. Little Skettie.

Lil Skettie. Lil Skettie. Your new name is Lil Skettie. That's the best outcome, I think. Congratulations. I think Lil' Steadie. Dude, I think if I was Big Smooth, they'd be going crazy. I think that'd be too much for me.

I think Lil Skettie. I think Lil Skettie. I think Lil Skeddy's good. I feel good about Lil Skeddy. So that is, I will now be on the books. Lil Skeddy, I've updated it my nickname on the board. Gavin, are you ready to see what your nickname will be? Yeah.

You nervous? Are there any that you don't want? That long one's kind of a mouthful. That's everyone else's problem if you think about it. Yeah. That is true. Yeah. I mean, got to have to buy a bigger business card.

Oh, true. Gavin's nicknames, trigger man. Gavin listened to the regulation podcast free. Quizno and the promoter. We're going to randomize four times. One, two, three, four. Gavin, are you ready?

Ready? Here we go. What could it be? Where could it land? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Oh, Gavin. Oh, Gavin.

Oh, I got a flightily there. Gavin, it looks like you're number one with a bullet. But Gavin for 2026 will be known as Trigger Man. I love that. How you feeling about that one, Trigger Man? I got real lucky there. I'm a lot more excited to try Trigger Man than I am a little Skeddy as far as the drinks go. Yeah, I hear that.

I hear that. You call me TIG-Man? Yeah, I wrote it, but then I fixed it. Here's Lil Skeddy and Trigger Man. But Baby Pepsi, that's so outdated. We got to see what you're up to now. So we got big stepper big time Pancho in the Candy Man.

That's great. So good. Really not a bad one, Jeff. No, no, you got some good names here. We're going to randomize one, two, three, four times. And Jeff, are you ready to figure out what you're going to be known as in 2026? No whamies. Let's go.

Here we go, boys. And the wheel spins. Half a car. Baby Pepsi is out. And in 2026. Oh, the candy man. Jeff will be known as the candy man.

Wow. Hey, hey, congratulations. Do you think Emily, do you think Emily's gonna call you the candy man? Yeah, dude. And she knows what's good for her. If she wants candy, she will.

Looking at these nicknames, it looks like we're forming the suicide squad. These all read like D-level hero names. Oh, shit. Oh, fuck. It's, oh, Trigger Man's putting together a team and he's got the candy man a little skinny. Well, Gizmo's out because now, Andrew, are you ready to figure out what you're going to be? So it's Man Tracker.

It's Drew. It's just droopy, got it. Boy, see Papa Smurf. That's a good one. It's so good. Yeah. And finally, Dilly Pop. Very curious about Dillipop going into the new year.

I like Dilly Pop. Well, boys, we got to randomize one, two, three, four times. From a soda perspective, I think C-Papa Smurf would force me to be the most creative. Very, very, very interesting. But now we figure it out. 2026, Gizmo is no more. And he will be replaced with. Oh, my God.

It's happening for him. Ladies and gentlemen, Gizmo's out. Dillipop is in incredible. The unbelievable has happened. And now, Nick, we're so tired. The mech and Nick, oh, boring, boring. We're out. So last year.

Yeah, it is. It is. We gotta get some 2026 names for you. So we got little scrappy, we got Milfer, we got Scrapple Dog. And we got, and we got No, please don't. Baby face. We gotta randomize four times.

Here we go. One, two, three, four. All right. Oh, if he gets Milfer. What if he gets Milfer? Milfer. All right, here we go. Nick, the Mech and Nick is out.

The wheel is spun. It's up to fame. Mom, Milfer. Oh. Oh. Hang on, it's on the line. Oh, it looks on. Oh, just barely.

Mechonik is out and baby face is in. Ladies and gentlemen. Could have been baby milk. I appreciate it, Andrew. You're welcome. And here we have our nicknames. The League of Bullshit superheroes. I will be known as Lil Skeddy.

Gavin will be the Trigger Man. Jeff Ramsey will now be known as the Candy Man. Andrew, no longer Gizmo, now known as Dilly Pop. And Nick is Babyface Boys. How are you feeling about your nicknames? I'm ready to fight crime. I'm ready to be a delicious. drink. Yeah. Yeah, I'm ready for the

heist and I've already changed my name on Slack. Have you really? Oh, really? Oh, I got to do the same. Yeah, I guess I'll do that also. Oh, boys, this was really special stuff. Very excited to see what comes through the rest of this year. Do you think your nicknames are going to influence you in any way, shape, or form? I don't think so. I think Dillipop is sort of already reflective of

of my day to day. Is that right? I think so. I might be quicker to kick things off in video games. Whoa. I'm going to push candy on everybody all the time. Yeah. Yeah.

Nick is ready for that. I am. I've made the change as well. I am now known as Lil Skeddy. Guys, this has been this has been baby this crazy.

Guys, we've done it. The nicknames that you are allowed to use are here. Those are our nicknames for 2026. Which nicknames would you have wanted to see? What nicknames should we have gone with? And what's your nickname for 2026? Leave a comment.

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Any wise words to wrap this up as we kick off 2026, boys? I don't know if I've ever said anything wise in my life. I'm not going to start now. There you have it. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye.