Regulation Podcast - Peanut Butter & X // Smurfing Your Way Through 2026 [87]

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

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My name is Jeff Ramsey. With me as always, Andrew Panton, Gavin Free, Eric Badoor, Nick Schwartz, and Biscuit, who I believe is in the house. Oh, Biscuits in the house. How's it going, Gavin? Good, thanks. Wow, he was not ready. He was not ready for that small talk.

You plan on slicing the streets up later? Because that's what I'm hearing. Traffic like city. Traffic like city. Whoa. Take me down to the traffic light city where the lights are green. And slicing up the roads and the titties. Slice and up the titties.

It rhymes. I don't know. Oh, man. Dark turn. I found a transcription of the weird interaction I had at the ice cream place when the guy just asked me what's wrong with it. I was searching my notes and I guess I wrote down

the whole interaction in the airport. Whoa. Because I found it so interesting. I could read it out. It's from December 23rd, 2012. Maybe it wasn't an Amy's ice cream because I'm ordering milkshake. Do they do milkshakes?

Yeah, they do. I think so. Okay, here's what happened. I said, milk and cookies shake, please. He said, nah. I said, you don't have it? And he said, nah, no shakes.

I said, okay. He said, what do you want? I said, what do you have? He shrugged. I said, do you have Sundays? He said, yeah, we got Sundays. I ordered a Sunday. He said, now we don't have that one.

I said, what about the cookie cookie Sunday? He went and got a tiny bowl. grabs a cookie out of the front, squashes the cookie in the bowl and shows me. He said, what's wrong with it? And tips it towards me. I looked at him and he said, what do I do now? And I said, uh, and he said, what's it missing? I said, I don't know.

What's on the cookie Sunday? He said, chocolate ice cream. I said, I'll take chocolate ice cream. He walks off and yells peanuts. I said, what? He said, want peanuts. on it. I said, sure. He said hot fudge. I said, sure. He walks off. Comes back with a crushed cookie with chocolate ice cream on it and whipped cream. He said, $6.58. I paid. He said, we're out

of spoons and handed me a straw. What? This sucks. Then he handed me my card and receipt covered in chocolate ice cream. sounds like a pretty typical Amy's experience to be honest with you it was like it was like pulling every single tooth I feel like I've had experiences that Amy's where I'm trying to order from the employee who is so high that they forget we're having an interaction halfway through the order and then they're like who are you and I'm like I'm the guy who's been talking to you for 35 seconds oh yeah trying to get my cookie crumble oh I had some

It's just, it's like you were both designed in a lab to have the worst interaction possible with each other. Like the way they communicate and the way you communicate. No, I completely get it. You're in the right 100%, but like you are not the person to deal with that. So it's like the two of you. Yeah, I didn't know how. On a crash course into just the worst ice cream order ever made. And then probably sat just stabbing at my cookie with a straw typing up what just happened.

And they have no memory of it. No, no, no. Who do you guys think, just based on experience, has the highest employee base in Austin? Do you think it's ThunderCloud subs or Amy's ice cream? I think it's got to be Thundercloud, dude. Oh my God. Thundercloud's insane. What's the Thunder Cloud?

Dude, that is like the wildest interaction that you can have with a guy. You have to be so patient when you go to Thunder Cloud subs. You really do. It's an experience, though. It's part of the charm. You gotta lead them through it. It's like, are you having a bad trip? I can help you get through this.

It's okay. First off, we're gonna need an Italian sub. All right, that's, you know. It's, uh, I think it's ThunderCloud as well. Yeah, I, I once, I think it was, I ordered the BLT and I got just tomato and mustard in a sandwich. You really got to stay on top of them. Oh, speaking of a sandwich. I had, that's a great point, Nick.

What was the next point? He said, weren't you right there? No. Okay. What do you mean? Typically when I order a sandwich from a place, they make it in front of you in those types of places. I will say, I wasn't expecting no to be the answer when that was, that really threw me for a loop, man. So where were you?

I was at home. Oh. Oh, yeah. You get that whole Uber Eats thing existing. Well, no, and Meg just picked him up on the way home from somewhere. We're terrible at guessing what he actually did. First, we thought he had no friends and family. Now we didn't even consider that Meg could have picked it up.

Was Meg sandwich correct? Meggs was right. Gavin's was wrong. She did it on purpose. Yeah. I don't remember if this was fine. Sandwich sabotage. That's what it sounds like.

What was your question going to be, Jeff? Oh, I was going to say, speaking of sandwiches, I was trying to segue. I had a sandwich thought this morning. It was my first thought of the day. And I'm wondering if it was related to my evening, because I had kind of a unruly night's sleep. And I wonder if the unruly night's sleep created this idea or if I would have had it regardless. But I stayed up late last night because it was the survivor finale. So I watched Survivor till almost midnight and then went to bed. And then at like 1 a.m. Albert had to go potty,

which, you know, he does sometimes. It sucks. But I took him out to go potty, you know, downstairs outside the whole thing. And then at about 1.45 a.m., Albert had to go potty again. So I took him potty again. And then he just was like walking around and making noise. and not settling, and I couldn't fucking sleep, and I got so mad that I got my, I grabbed my pillow and I just went downstairs and I slept on the sofa for the rest of the night, just so, because it was like 2 a.m. at this point,

I was still awake, and I was terrified of this morning, because the four of you know, the only other four people on Earth that know how fucking scary it is and, you know, like, exhausting and exhilarating and thrilling and nervous you get preparing for this specific podcast and wanting to do the best, And like Gavin says, he doesn't stay up late on school nights, school nights being the podcast, because we take it so seriously.

And so I was watching the clock and getting terrified that I was going to have a terrible night's sleep and then be dog shit today. And so I went and slept on the sofa and I was totally fine, except that I laid down on the sofa and then at 2.30 in the morning, Roomba turned on. And it's not a Roomba. It's a different brand. And this band says, vacuum cleaner initializing sequence. And I was like, ah! And I fucking got up. And I had to turn the vacuum cleaner off. So then I went back to bed and I finally fell asleep and then I got to sleep in a little bit today. So I slept in at eight, I woke up and my first thought when I woke up is, do you think anybody has ever taken a fruit roll up and used that?

Like laid out a fruit roll up and put that on a piece of bread and used that as the jelly in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Oh. But you have to like lick it to get it sticky or is it already sticky? It's not. It's just like a, it's sticky or even like fruit leather or anything that you, roll out and it's like a sheet of fruit. Could you just put it on a piece of toast or bread and then put peanut butter on the other side

and then have essentially a peanut butter and jelly sandwich but the jelly is just a fruit roll-up. Why would it need to be sticky, Gavin? Oh yeah. Like if we would have said no, then what is going to slide out? Because it's between two pieces of bread. I don't know why it matters.

Oh yeah, it doesn't. And both peanut butter and jam are sticky. That is true. I see you're coming from. I think fruit roll-ups and fruit leather are sticky by nature in general. Yeah, I agree with that as well. You need a lot, wouldn't you? To get, like, a decent...

I think you could lay out one fruit roll-up. It would cover an entire piece of bread, I would think. You could double it up if you wanted to. Yeah, I guess they're pretty long. Yeah, they're big. I don't think I've had a fruit roll-up since I was like 11. So I'm out of the game. What was the last time you had one, Jeff?

I can't realize I had a fruit roll-up, but I used to eat the little fruit leather bars from Trader Joe's like four or five a day. Those things are awesome. And that's kind of what I was thinking of. It's kind of, it's a little thick, but it's flat. And it's essentially dry jelly, right? So why couldn't we apply it to a sandwich?

I don't know that would make it taste better or worse or whatever, but that was just the first thought I had at 8 a.m. this morning when I woke up after a dog shit night of sleep. Do you want to do a video where we, all sub the jelly for something else? I do. Peanut butter and X?

Peanut butter and X. Make that the title of this. My favorite Denzel Washington movie, Peanut Butter X. I think the bread becomes the issue when I'm thinking about this. Because I think you could have a decent tasting sandwich with fruit leather and like a peanut

granola bar, like a peanut butter flavored bar, but the texture of the bread is where it becomes weird to me. If you never had a fruit, fruit in a... It might be more like a sub. Oh. What do you mean? Sorry, fruit in what? Well, you could have fruit in a sandwich.

Yeah. I'm typically not a fan, but I've had like pear with grilled cheese. What is the most common fruit in a sandwich, do you think? Grape, like grape maybe? Because it's just like the jelly? Outside of jelly. I guess outside of jelly. Well, you can get those, like, Japanese, like, strawberry sandwiches.

Do you have had those? Yeah, but those are, like, so few and far between. I'm not having those, like, all the time. Yeah, I think banana might be. Yeah, banana. Banana might be. Bananas, yeah, yeah, that's a good call. I don't do that personally, but that is popular.

I ordered a pizza recently that had Mandarin orange on it. And I ordered it because it had Mandarin orange on it. And I never considered it or thought, it added nothing. There was no additional. What else was on it? Yeah, yeah. I think it was like bacon and pepperoni and then mandarin orange, I want to say. Was the Mandarin orange cooked on the pizza or was it put on after?

It was cooked with it. So is it like a Hawaiian pizza where they replaced the pineapple with Mandarin orange, kind of? Sort of. Let me, let me find it. I ordered this a while ago and I ordered it specifically because of the Mandarin on it. I kind of want to try that. Do you like a Hawaiian? Yeah, I love a Hawaiian pizza.

I know I'm in the minority, but yeah. I'm also a big Hawaiian guy. I ordered it, Jeff, because I looked at it, I went, I want to try that, and then I tried it, and it was really nothing. I have a feel, and that's how I'm going to feel if I make a peanut butter and fruit leather sandwich. I'm going to go like, oh, we use jelly for a reason. But I got to know, you know? Yeah.

Now, I think that's fair. Would you, do you think like a peanut butter granola bar, Jeff, would be good with a, with a fruit thing on a sandwich? I mean, I just feel like that would be too thick, you know? I don't know. It would be real chewy. Because I feel like the fruit leather is also pretty thick. I mean, a fruit roll-up is not thick. No.

It's annoyingly thin. But a fruit leather could be pretty thick. I think we just got to get in the lab. I think we just got to figure this out. Maybe when we're making dirt bag sodas soon, which by the way, Eric, I had some thoughts in my head. this morning when I was driving around. I'm really excited to get back to that. I had some ideas also,

but I kind of like, I'm afraid to bring them up to you because I think you're not going to want to do it. Oh, I want to do it. Okay. I mean, I like it, but I want to do it. Dirt back soda. Yeah.

You know, like when Meg goes and gets like dirty sodas? Yeah. We want to do that, but with white monster, like just for like day labor guys, you know what I mean? Like if you're like a day labor guy and you're like, I'm ready to mix it up. I'm at the A.m. PM. What can I get with my white monster?

And then me just write down, getting ready to mix it up. Oh, dude, that's a great one. That's a great one. Gavin, honestly, I might start using that. Dude, I'm getting ready to mix it up. Once I fill out this little pocketbook, I'm going to be so excited just to go out and talk to people. You go to EGV. They ask you a question.

You take out your little book, you lick your finger and put on your readers, and then find something and then you go, mm, getting ready to mix it up. And then maybe there'll be like a flowchart section where I can like start with whatever they said and like go down the lines to the best fits. This is good.

This is really good. Getting ready to mix it up is awesome. Every social interaction Gavin has is like a dialogue tree and a fallout game. Just him trying to evaluate the four options. Yeah. I think they took the pizza off their menu. So I guess it was,

either not a cost effective or not a lot of people ordered it, but it was nothing. I don't remember everything that was on it, but the mandarin orange, I remember distinctly being disappointed by like, oh, that really had no additional taste. That's disappointing. Maybe you just got a bad mandarin orange pizza. Maybe. Because I tried a yellow watermelon the other day, and I was really disappointed. And then somebody in, somebody sent me an email that told me I was a fool and the yellow

watermelon is the best. And I probably just got a bad yellow watermelon. I need to try again. So maybe he just got a bad Mandarin pizza. I just figured out my peanut butter and X, though. I'm going to take a box of Jaffa cakes and scrape out all the orange as my jelly. Interesting. The fuck's a Jaffa cake.

That would take a lot of Jaffa cakes. I think one box of Jaffers would do it. Yeah, probably. Oh, I'm looking at it. Yeah. A lot of work, Gavin. And there'd be like little flex of chocolate that I couldn't get and little bits of soft cakey bit. I didn't, couldn't get out.

That'd be good. Maybe I'll just put like six Jaffers in there. Yeah, do that. Nick, Nick just got a bowler. God damn. Jesus Christ, man. What? No, do that.

Dude, do that. Nick'll come. No. I haven't heard that much enthusiasm since he was going to draft pig feet in the pig draft. Oh, he didn't draft that. That's right. He didn't. You did.

In your mind and in your heart. Can we do the British chocolate gauntlet soon? Yes. Yeah. Do that in the office? British chocolate gauntlet. Yeah, I just bring in all the best stuff from, because you know I did,

I bought funny stuff for the crisps. Yeah. I want to bring good stuff for the chocolate. Do you want help like ordering that stuff or what do you want to do? I might just bring it. Okay. Because I don't know, I don't know British chocolate, but I would love to do the British chocolate gauntlet.

You should definitely bring it back with you. I totally agree. Andrew, you want to, you want to participate? Uh, I don't, I mean, I can't. I don't feel like I need to because I feel like I've had a lot of British chocolate. That's fair. What are we talking here? What are you thinking?

What's like an immediate go-to you think you got to get them on? Well, I'm bringing a twirl for sure. That's coming. Okay. I will say that Cadbury just put out mini-eggs that are the size of mini-M&Ms, and it is delicious. So much better. What are they like mini, mini-egs? They're mini-mini eggs.

Oh, that looks good. A twirl. Twirl is great. Flake. Flake is good. So I'm trying to parse what a mini mini egg is. So imagine the size of a mini M&M, but it's a mini egg. But if he doesn't know what a mini egg is.

Oh, he doesn't even know what a mini egg is. Mini M&Ms are like insanely tiny though. Yeah, yeah, so are the mini eight mini eggs. Yeah, like the size of those little smarties that aren't smarties. Yeah, yeah. Wait, do they not, do you guys not know what a mini egg is? A Cadbury mini egg? No!

That's crazy. I know what a Cadbury egg is. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. It's like a crunchy shell. They have the shell on the outside, right? Yeah, of different colors.

Yeah, those are like the best. Those are... Quality chocolate. Yeah, those are the best. Hang on. The base size is sort of like a size of an M&M. But the mini-meas. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Those things. Oh, Hershey's make them as eggies? Yeah, terrible. I've never had that. I've only had the Cadbury mini eggs. I've only had that. But they recently put out. mini mini eggs and they're so good.

I think also we should do a blindfolded mini egg or eggies challenge. Oh no, that'd be easy. That'd be so easy. I can't find a picture of mini mini eggs. Are they called micro mini eggs? Maybe. Oh, wow.

Micro SD mini eggs? It's a new Cadbury product. Whoa. They're so small. They're so small. Yeah, look at those. Yeah. I wonder if that messes the ratio up.

No, that's good. It's real good. I wonder if that'd be good in a peanut butter sandwich. Oh, it's crunchy. Oh, honestly, if you put peanut butter and then those in, yeah, yeah. I'm going to sum a micro mini egg into my Jaffers. Dude, you can put so many mini eggs in your butt. What?

Why? I'm just thinking arc raters. I'm always archerating. You're shoving in your ass. If you're going to extract with mini, you could have so many mini eggs. Hey, Andrew? Yes. I'm ready for another movie, by the way.

Okay. You told me to watch Fire Flight and I did. You told me to watch Jiminy Glick goes to La La Wood and I did, which by the way, not a great recommendation. No, no, okay. You're characterizing this as wrong. I never said it was good.

You told me to watch it. I told you to watch Revenge of the Ninja. Have you watched it yet? No, because I keep, I wasn't sure. You said like three ninja things. I was pretty clear. Revenge of the Ninja is the one I want to watch. I'll watch that tonight.

I've been catching up on summer movies. I want to go back to our text chain. No, because I don't, I don't think I ever said. It's weird. The Jimny Glick movie is weird. You told me I should watch it just for the David Lynch impression. I maybe would have recommended that you saw the David Lynch scenes, but I don't imagine I would ever suggest anyone watched the entirety of that movie.

You did. You said all the jokes hold up really well. It's not probably much. It ages amazingly. It made ages amazingly. You said you laughed at every single joke. Every single thing. It's an interesting movie because it's the perfect premise and then they just ruin it.

Like it's Jiminy Glick going to his first movie festival. It's like that's what you want from that. Yeah. But then everything is super scripted and like he clearly had like essentially no time with any actors where it should be more Borat style and it's not. And it's it walked so Borat could run. I will say his wife being played by Jan Hooks. I thought she was one of the best parts of the movie. She made me laugh a lot.

She was. Yeah, I would agree with that. There's an interaction. I think the only thing I laughed at out loud in that movie is he keeps saying something in a dream and she keeps hitting him about it. And even that goes too long, but there is like a point in which it's very funny. Yeah, it goes too long and then it comes back around and then it's too long again. You are right.

When she keeps smacking him? Yeah, exactly. he keeps he's telling his wife I think it's like he he slept with this celebrity actress and then he murdered her in his dream and every time he gets to the part where he's in bed with her

she just hits him so he's unable to finish the story so he has to keep restarting and then every time he gets there she hits him again and then she's like I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I told you was a dream and she's like I'm sorry I'm sorry you're right I'm sorry

and then she hits him again it's uh Willem Defoe from the back is in it you get a side shot of Willem foe who is not credited in that movie it's not great you don't have to watch it I was excited

I was most excited about because I saw a clip of there's an extended scene of his he interviews Kurt Russell in it and the deleted scene of his Kurt Russell

interview is the funniest thing in that movie and it's not in the movie at all where it's just Kurt Russell breaking for like four minutes straight and he just can't stop laughing

and he starts to break Martin short because of how hard he's laughing they play some of that in the post credits. They do. Kurt Russell's pretty charming

in it too, by the way. Oh, he's great. Yeah. Great in everything. Anyway, I'm awaiting your next film. You don't have to give it to me today or anything, but just keep it, keep it in mind. I'll tell you what it won't be is the 2025 Smurfs. Watch that as part of the summer movie.

Catching up on stuff. It has like Rihanna in it? Rihanna's in it. Kurt Russell is in it. Oh, my God. Yeah, so I was real happy because I'm watching Kurt Russell movies. So it was like knocking out two things at once. But oh boy.

I guess I'll get more into it when we do that summer movie recap of the league. But probably the worst movie I've seen ever this year. Oh. Oh, okay. Is that bad, huh? Yeah. It's, uh, what's the plus? It's joyless?

It's joyless. Oh my God. The plot of it, uh, there, there are four, What is the plot? There's like a bunch of plots that don't, none of them matter. One of the plots is James Corden is a smurf who doesn't know who he is yet, and he's trying to figure that out. The other subplot is there's a book that can destroy all the joy in the universe,

and they've captured that. And they captured Papa Smurf. And then they used it to make a script for this movie? Does he finally realize in the last scene that he is Fame Horse Smurf? he does yeah he's uh he's uh carot karaoke smurf is i believe what he

uh he ends up with um it is a movie where i was I was so mad while watching it I looked up what countries enjoy it the most so I knew who to be mad at and so I looked at the box office mojo for it and uh the US biggest market

individually but then I was looking at they have breakdowns of worldwide because it made like, I want to say, 35 million or something like that, domestic, and then like 75 million worldwide. And it's like Paris and Germany and Australia was a big market. And as I'm looking at this,

and then the movie plays out, they happen to go to Paris, which was one of the number one markets. They happened to go to Germany. They happen to go to Australia. And I was like, oh, I know what you fucks are doing. You guys know where the Smurfs are popping on. and you're sending them there.

To be fair, aren't Smurfs German originally? Isn't that a German property? I don't think it started in the States, did it? Or Belgium? Is that it? They might be. They feel Smurfs feel French to me. And I don't think they necessarily are, but... Originated in Belgium in 1957.

Wow. They do feel French. I agree, Eric. And it was making me go like, okay, so this is the wrong end of the Expedition 33 French Spectrum. Well, that was all weird French stuff that I really liked. And this is, but it's not French. Belgium and France are very similar. I didn't realize French was a spectrum. Oh, I definitely think.

I think French is a spectrum for sure. I can't believe you never thought of that. I definitely agree. A hundred percent French is a spectrum. There's like appetizer French and main course French. You can ease in. Yeah, but I feel the same way about like American culture. There's absolutely like an American culture spectrum.

For media, you got... Yeah. I feel like, ironically, Arnold Schwarzenegger, well, I guess probably Stallone would be the better representative of what I feel like is the most American America for media. You almost gave it to Arnold Schwarzenegger. I did, because he's like the face of like the guns and the muscles and like... He's a citizen.

The American dream. That's right. He's a governor of California. It doesn't get more American dream than Arnold Schwarzenegger. He achieved everything he ever wanted to in this country. It's pretty cool.

Very cool success story. Which I'd argue the Kennedy family is like the most American family. I feel like the Kennedys are the Lady Die of America. Yes. Yeah, I agree with that. I think that's close. Yeah, that's pretty good comp.

Yep. But they weren't in the Smurfs 2025, Friedan Ellis. No, are you sure? There was a, there's a line of dialogue in that movie where somebody says like, I'm smurfing tired of these smurfing guys and the smurf, like, they just kept doing that and I was, it was a long watch. You were getting pretty smurfing tired of that bit.

I was, oh man, I was smurfing mad. So, have you seen every one of the summer movies now from the summer movie draft? No, I'm working on it. I think I got nine left that I want to watch. Okay. If you had to smurf your way through 2026, you can, you can. could only smurf instead of swear. How far could you, how far would you get, do you think, into the year?

I just wouldn't swear. Wouldn't make it past this podcast. I just would not swear in any capacity. I'd rather, I'd rather not than have to say smurf. It would be terrible. How far would you get? Yeah, I think I would do the same. Just avoid it.

There's no more swearing. So you think you could avoid swearing for a year? Who me? I know Gavin could. I definitely could. Yeah. Easily. Absolutely.

I only swear here. I pocketed my life, no swearing. Wow. You do? Yeah, absolutely. I probably swear more to myself than I do in any other way. Yep. If I'm at like a family dinner or I'm around family, no swearing.

Well, I mean, you could, but you could smurf. Well, the problem with the smurf thing is, If you encompass every word as one word, then I don't think I want to say any of them. Well, it's blanket for many words, though, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, but that's the problem. It could be interpreted as whatever you want at that point. Like, you could say, Mom, pass the smurf and potatoes, please, and that could be a tremendous compliment to those potatoes.

Yeah, but it also could be absolutely horrendous. Like, it's dangerous. Like, you could say, like, you were finger blasting her smurf. What? What? What? Finger smurfing her smurf. Well, blasting's not a swear I would.

I think blasting in that context is going to get you more in more trouble. So you should just go if you should default to the smurfing. Yeah, because if you said that you could smurf blast or smurf, that's pretty, hmm, I like that. The interpretation's wide open again. That's yeah, I feel like this is almost an integrity test where if you put things in front of people and ask what does this word actually represent, you can learn a lot about that person. What is the statement? I like that you can still replace the swear word with Smurf, but it's still like too extreme for kids in some scenarios.

Like, you probably couldn't say like, I had my thumb up my Smurf in that kid's movie. Uh, I don't, you know what? I don't know. And also, I don't want to,

I don't want to be in authority on that subject. So, so Andrew, I was a child of the 80s, right? Smurts were big in the 80s. That's when the cartoon hit. That's when they,

like happening. And I was a big smurf guy. It was really, really big in the smirfs. And I remember being horrified when I was in like the seventh grade. I think I might have talked about this on this podcast before at some point. But there was a church by my house in Alabama that had a smurf burning party where they just, which by the way, imagine the chemicals coming off that fire. But they had like, just everybody brought their, because smurfs were demonic and everybody brought their smurfs and they burned them. So now, would you say in 2025 after watching the smurfs in 3D, or whatever. Were they right? Were they on to something?

They were right to get rid of the Smurfs. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. I'm just imagining a heat map, a heat map of the most toxic places in the world and it's Chernobyl and then this place in Alabama that's doing their Smurf brooding. You just stop in Alabama, yeah. Just the whole state. That's fair.

So what is Smurf law? Like, where does a smurf come from? Well, you know what? They actually kind of get into that in the movie and it's like, you don't care. they're the guardians of good they're technically like protectors of all the things that are good in the world

and that's their job is to they're superheroes I guess it's good work if you can get it John Goodman's in it he's fine the guardian of Goodman the guardian of Goodman you get Kurt Russell

who's Ron who's the smurf that has good hair like Captain Ron so I wish oh I wish there was a Captain Ron Smurf. I want to watch Captain Ron now. Yeah. Fantastic.

What does Smurf? Are they like smurf pigs? Uh, they, uh, smurf pigs. Okay, well, there's a scene where one of the smurfs eats a bunch of fries, but they're technically not a smurf, I don't think. So I don't know how to answer that, because it's the only eating, I think, that happens in the movie. Rihanna's like a fake smurf.

What? Uh, uh, I don't even, Smurfette, Lady Smurf, whatever her fucking name is. Lady Smurf. I got Lady Die on the brain, so it says,

Lady Smurf and Lady Die. I googled it, and it said, in the fictional world of the smirfs, Gargamel often tries to catch them to use in potions, but some fan discussions and media suggest that they could be eaten. And then somebody else says,

they could be marinated in smurfberry juice, and they would taste smurf-alicious. Yeah. enough said. I hate this. This sucks. Smurfs are technically vegetarian because they only consume

dairy and fatty products. Rihanna could not put the fries down in this movie. She eats a whole thing of fries. And it's a big deal. Do you think watching all the summer movies made you dumber this year? Oh, I don't think it made me dumber.

It made me think about outside of and I haven't seen it but people seem to really like who frame Roger Rabbit and I was trying to think if there was another good movie that makes live action and animation

Cool World Yeah cool world People like cool world They did when it came out I don't think it's looked back on as a classic or anything like Roger Rabbit but I remember being kind of a big deal

when it hit There's that Rocky Bow Winkle movie right Terrible but I don't think that was good was it good. What was that enchanted movie? Right? Oh yeah.

Yeah. Amy Adams and Cyclops. Bettenops and broomsticks. Yeah. They're just bad. I think generally speaking

they don't work. I would take an elephant in the chipmunks over a Smurfs any day. Smurfs are like they had the smurfs fumbled the bag because the minions are the Smurfs,

but they made it work. People like them. Smurfs fumbled. the bag because the minions are the Smurfs. So you're just declaring Smurfs that's like they didn't work? No, they didn't work. Wants them now. Nobody wants a smurf.

I mean, they worked for they had an era of supremacy where they absolutely worked. I bet you one minion movie has made more than all of Smurfs. Oh, you think a minion movie in the 2020s made more than all the Smurfs made in the 80s? Yeah, I was getting to... With inflation. Is that our barometer?

for success? Yes. Oh, if that's the case, we are not very successful. Absolutely. You think it's artistic intent is the barometer of success between the Smurfs and minions? I think for, I think for animated stuff like that, I think that there's artistic intent at the beginning. Not for the Smurfs or Minions. Get out of here. Like say, G.I. Joe is made with artistic intent. It was money from the beginning. Actually, I disagree. I disagree with myself on that. I bet you the Smurfs guy did. have artistic intent.

You just have to let him run out of steam to come around. No, no, no, I'm thinking about it because the Smurfs are weird. And it's probably like a weird guy that made the Smurfs and it takes them way too seriously. By 2008, by 2008, by 2008, the Smurf franchise had generated more than $4 billion in revenue. So they've had, you know. Yeah, so that's like one minion movie.

$4 billion is one minion movie? I think with merchandise. And that was in 2008. Only six movies have made that much, I think. That's true, that's true. And they were all minions and despicable me. I saw a news article that was Zootopia's

the third movie to cross a billion dollars in 2026, and I was like, oh boy. It's only six of this. Almost doubling it up. That's crazy. That dude is in for the money. I don't know who that is. I don't know if he made the Smurfs, that's a money guy with that smurf.

That dude is dripping smurfy integrity. I disagree completely. How do people from that era get that hair swish to do that. Is there some, it's like a product that makes the little swish bit? Come. Palmade, probably.

Or yeah, like something about Mary. Sorry, Andrew, one more time. What was that? Come. It's like smoking. They didn't know it was bad. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. That's weird.

Oddly, this came up in a video Andrew and I recorded yesterday. There was a lady with cum hair in it. Yeah. I don't come here. No smurfs, though. No. I'd be so smurfing, man.

A lot of raccoons. It must have been a good video too because when it was over, Andrew stayed logged into the voice chat on this Discord server for 18 or 19 more hours. Yeah, saw that. Andrew, what would you prefer

if someone smurfed in your eye or on your back? Oh, back. Absolutely back. Not the eye. That'd be terrible. We make a good show. This is a good show.

Yeah, that's great. Definitely make a show. I have a question about language. What language? What was the first language? What was the first language? Yeah, what was the first language was? Would have been like winking or something?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the first language is winking. Yep. Yeah. Well, people were probably gesturing before saying stuff, would they? Is that language? Sign language. Communicating. I was thinking about language

and I was thinking about dictionaries and my first thought was I wonder how long would take me to use every word in the dictionary across the podcast if I was intentionally trying to use each one how many episodes that would take me to efficiently do it

without like completely swerving the show into directions that make no sense and then I thought about writing a dictionary how annoying it must have been to write a dictionary like the first dictionary Because people are coming up with words all the time, I assume. You won't even write 20,000 things. You think you're going to write a dictionary?

At what part of any of the words did I say? Did it not seem like he was working toward him? What if I write a dictionary or some way? How many words have you written, by the way? Where are we at on that? First of all, I think it's rude to take the direction away from what I was saying, because Eric just dropped the gun. he let us down a road

I'm talking about dictionaries so we can get back to your thing later all right I just how do you verify because there's no obviously internet

for the first dictionary well you would cross-reference it with literary works I assume yeah books but wouldn't there be a situation where like

let's say they walk into a restaurant and they're like hey you wouldn't believe what Kim just came up with bounce you know when you throw something and it hits that's a bounce

yeah and then they got to add it that just seems like a hassle how do they decide that they're done they still add stuff every day add it what do you talk about how they decide they're done they're not they publish a new dictionary every year they have since dictionaries were invented when do you decide that you've done enough

to publish a dictionary i would never publish one a year goes by oh year okay that makes sense a yearly dictionary Do they update it every year? What? Who was I talking to just now?

I don't know. He got mad at me for bringing up the 20,000 things and then he wasn't even paying attention to you, man. You should have stuck with the 20,000 things. I just said everything Nick said and you go, that's stupid and then Nick said and you go, oh, I guess that makes sense. I'm your interpreter.

Yeah, I understood that. Yeah. Well, he, I don't know. He said it good. I like the way he said it. Make a Jeff to Andrew Dictionary for Andrew. Yeah, make sure you make it good. How many words do they add each year?

Is there an average? I feel like we only get like one or two. I feel like it's like a one or two word thing per year. Wait, so you already knew they added one every year or two? Well, no, I feel like I hear stories every once in a while where it's like, ah, this word's getting like Riz is getting added to the dictionary or something. Yeah. Hey, Nick.

So you already knew this. Nick, can you do me a favor? Can you let Andrew know that the Oxford English Dictionary adds roughly a thousand new words annually? Andrew, to answer your question about a thousand a year? Okay. Thanks, Nick. Okay. You're welcome.

I just don't... I guess it just has to get into the popular vernacular. Is there creditation on these words? You just said creditation? Yeah. Are you secretly trying to use all the words? Like, you wouldn't usually say that, would you? What do you mean?

It was the word that represented what I was trying to... Just so we're clear. Creditation is not a... a word. Accreditation is a word. I don't know. You had a... You read the whole dictionary? So if you looked up the dictionary, if you looked up creditation in a dictionary, you would not find it. But if you looked up a creditation, you would find it. Let's look at this. Let's verify. I think it's wild to go for accreditation and get it wrong. Maybe he's a couple dictionaries behind.

Do they take words out? Oh, that's interesting. That's great, Eric. Has a word ever been removed from the dictionary? Yes. Yes. Are words removed from the dictionary? And do they cease being words? Do they cease being words when that happens?

Yeah, you're not allowed to say them anymore. It's illegal. It has to be a thing where it's like, they just don't mean anything now. Top of that list? Creditation. No, that'll be 2028, baby. We're getting it in there.

I can start dropping that a lot. Words fall out of the dictionary when they become obsolete, like a aerodrome instead of airport. Oh. But I feel like you could still refer to an aerodrome. You could, but it's been replaced by airport in the dictionary and removed from the dictionary because nobody uses it anymore. I'm just giving you an example. Friggerific is how we used to say frigid. We replaced Frigorific with frigid.

I do have a problem with that. I think frigorific is an awesome word. Favorite Fergi album. Frigurific. It's hot, hot. Cold, cold. It would be interesting if they source words in the dictionary. I don't feel like it's just the word.

It'd be fun to have your name in the dictionary, not as word, obviously, but it's like a came up with this. You want, oh, like, oh, I see. Like, first coin. Like credit. Accreditation. Yeah, like accreditation type situation. A period creditation.

Yeah. A space creditation. Period. Send. Oh, boy. Now, to answer your previous question, yeah. I'm a dumber. Yeah.

From all the summer movies. The best one you saw was Fight or Flight and the worst one is Smurf so far. Worst movie I've seen this year. Yeah. I'd have to look at a list of movies from previous years to determine how far back I'd need to go to find something worse. I'd rather watch two of the more recent Chipmunk movies than that movie again. Would you rather watch Jiminy Glick in La La World or Smurfs again?

Jiminy Glick. Absolutely. Pretty funny stuff. Plus, you really, once again, you thought the humor aged very well. Yeah, timely. It's a timely movie. What was the last bad thing you've seen, Gavin? Last bad thing?

Yeah. Last movie or show or whatever you watch that, you're like, ugh. I watched the first 40 minutes of my best friend's wedding. My best friend's wedding. And I got really bored and turned it off. That was Julia Roberts. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Why did you, why were you watching that?

I don't know. What? Who was the dude in that movie? What the fuck? Was it Dermit Mulrooney, I think? Dermot Mulroney, yeah. Yeah. She's done movies with both Dylan McDermott dudes or whatever they're called.

Yeah, Dylan McDermott and Dermott Mulroney, right? Yeah. Yeah. Because the other one was in the one where she dies of an illness. What was that one? What? Not pretty woman. Yeah, she's like Sally Field movie and she dies.

You know about Steel Magnolias? Yeah. The other guy's in that. She has diabetes In it, by the way. In Steel Magnolia, that's what she has? That's what she has in Steel Magnolia's. Huh.

I know because she had an insulin reaction and it made me fucking cry because I was going through that with my dad at the time. Oh, no. Oh my God. Yeah. So you don't know what brought on my best friend's wedding.

You just went Best Friend's wedding time? Did you put it on by yourself? No, it's with Meg. I think we're just on a little Robert's kick. Because I didn't think I'd seen any of them. You didn't think you'd seen any Julia Roberts movies? Yeah, you didn't watch like Pretty Woman? Not Ocean's 11 or 12 or 13?

Runaway bride? Never seen that, nope. What? I mean, I'd seen Hook. The Mexican? No. Yeah, what about the Mexican? Oh yeah.

Oh yeah. And then we watched Aaron Brockovich. Oh, that's a good one. The Pelican Brief? I haven't seen it. It's about Pelicans. You know the guy in Aaron? Aaron Brockovich, the lawyer that helps her do that is Tom Girardi, the guy that got busted for stealing from like $50 million from his clients who was married to Erica Jane, the real house wife. And he's, I think he just got sentenced to jail. No way, is that that guy? He's the Aaron Brockovich guy. Yeah. He's going to spend the rest of his life in jail, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know that there's going to be a lot left on the rest of that life, man. There you go. Whoa. Is that the guy for Babe?

Yeah. It looks like James Cromwell and like Ed O'Neill. I think that's his dad and he is not proud. So wait, who is this? Who is this man? It's Tom Girardi, right? Yeah. He was the lawyer in, that helps her out in Aaron Brockovich, the good guy lawyer. Yeah.

The guy that was in James Bond. He got famous from that case and became like a huge success and then defrauded a bunch of people. Yeah. Oh, okay. Whoops. Here's him and his wife. Yeah. She divorced him.

No. She got out. Yeah. You're telling me she divorced that guy. She did before she went to, before she went down with him, yeah. He looks like Mr. House. This is why, by the way,

this is why you watch the real housewives because this is the shit that's going on. Aaron Brockovich lawyer is going to jail for stealing $50 million. He's 86. He was born in 1939. It's a long time ago. Jesus, dude.

Gavin, do we need to end carried away and just swap to Julia Roberts? because I can't get you to watch a Jim Carrey movie, but it sounds like you're on a Julia Roberts kick. Oh, yeah. No, I'll get back to it. Okay. It is trying to get Gavin to watch a movie

by his apparent favorite actor is the most difficult thing I've ever had to do as far as content goes with Gavin in regulation. Just won't do it. And it's his favorite guy. He's hard to track down, I will admit. Well, you weren't write the 20,000 things.

Here we go. But I never, I've never been a podcast. No, I never said writing 20,000 things was my favorite thing to do. Did you say watching Jim Carrey movies is your favorite thing to do? He said it's his favorite actor. Well, I said, growing up, I loved him.

I said, who's your favorite actor? And you said Jim Carrey. It's true. You did make me watch the number 23 once because you were so excited about it. I haven't seen that one because Gavin won't watch any of them so I haven't got there.

Didn't we have a bunch of weird coincidences with that movie? Like we kept seeing 23s everywhere. We did. There's something weird about that. I can't remember now, but... You got number 23? You got number 23.

Gavin did not want to... He was... That was one of the... Was that one of the first times you were disappointed in a Jim Carrey movie? I don't think I even wanted to watch it. I think you did. Yeah.

I like Jim Carrey. I'm not hiding. I'm not hiding. from watching movies by my favorite actor. Is there anyone who's dead who... Yes. Yeah. That you would give up...

You would give a year of your life to have them be undead. There's so many layers to this. And what condition do they come back in? They just never died. So it's an additional year to what they were... So they would be... No, no. They just... never, so like, for example, if, uh, if Jeff was going to die age 82, he could potentially

trade that in, die at 81, but David Lynch never would have died. So I could, I could die a year early and get the last 16 years with my dad? Yeah, I do it in a second. Are you kidding? Absolutely. I think it has to be someone you didn't know, though. Oh. I don't think we should gloss over that Gavin is killing Jeff off at 82, that he could have picked any fictional age and he chose 82. I'm definitely going out with 82, by the way. I just don't know why you set up the

situation and then said, ah, actually that's wrong. I think it has to be this other way now. It was almost touching, but we can't allow that. Yeah, I would give up a year of my life to get another four or five David Lynch properties probably. Well, that's what I was going to say would be funny, is like

somebody giving up like five years for John Lennon to have five additional years and just hating all of the music that they produced during that five-year stretch. You would be so upset. You'd be writing letters. Like, listen, asshole. I gave up a year of my life so that this is what you're putting

out. Like, go back to the drawn board. Put some fucking effort into it. I think it's cool that there are potentially people whose art you appreciate so much. You would give up some of your one and only life. Absolutely. Yeah. I think it's interesting. It's tough when you don't know

ahead of time what the number is. Yeah. Like if you just, if you agree to it and then suddenly you just died that day. Yeah, that would be rough. Meaning that you only had like less than a year left. Yeah. Oh, that was, oh. That's your monkey's paw right there.

Speaking of death, this got me to look something up. I want to see what you guys think. First off, would you agree that the average regulation podcast is about an hour, we should say? Just for ease of. Yes, it is. Yeah, it's like an hour. How many people on earth do you think die every hour? Jesus

fucking Christ Oh What the fuck Dude No that's a good question Every wait every hour 200 on average every hour 200 people

Oh no That's your number Andrew how many people do you think I think probably I'm gonna say Globally 5,000 Okay

I think I was thinking Minute Every Every hour I don't think I don't think it's more than like I want to say

it's not probably more than 10,000, so I'm going to say 8,500. Okay. I'll say, 5,500. I'm going to say, you already, yes?

No, no, he's, no, he's going again. Because even though I said one hour, and Jeff said, yeah, Gavin then yes, based off it being a minute long,

he just decided that that's what the, the timer was. Yeah, I was, I was thinking 200 a minute. So your answer would be 1,200, 12,000? What is that?

I guess my guess is 12,000. Okay. On average, while we're recording the regulation podcast each week, about 7,200 people die. Oh, wow. Oh, I was really in that ballpark. I felt really good about that. Damn. So every time you listen to a complete episode of the regulation podcast audience,

know that 7,000 people are dying. So can we total up how many people have died if you binge the entire show? You could. Yeah. You totally could. Maybe we should celebrate when we get to a million deaths. I would like to know what the count is. I would point out, I would point out,

to make this a little less depressing, about 15,000 people are born every hour. Okay. So more people are born every hour than die. So for, you know, we're coming out ahead. But yeah. I think a birth count and a death count across the entirety of the show would be interesting.

I could figure it out. I bet you there's a lot of new people since when we first started doing this. Yeah, about 8,000 more per hour than die. The Canucks made a huge trade recently, speaking of like death and young and then like being born again. And there were a bunch of prospects.

And I was talking about in hockey. Traded. And I looked at, I was doing research on like, you know when your team gets like three prospects and you got to figure out, you got to sell yourself on them being good. Like you just know nothing about them.

So I was looking them up. and one of them was born in like 2005 and it just, it's, it hurt. It's the first time that hurt. And that, he fell old. Now you know what it feels like for me every time you guys talk about when you were born. It was 2008, I want to say, actually.

It wasn't even 2005. I think it was 2008. As like, they were born and Halo may not have, like they may have come out, they may have come out after Halo came out, which is crazy. Was that trade to Colorado? Minnesota.

Minnesota, that's right. It was, and I don't know if this was, if this is like actually the first time it ran, but it's the first time I saw this commercial. For context, Quinn Hughes is like a generational defenseman and the Canucks traded him to Minnesota. And the day after this happened, I was watching Sportsnet, which is like Canadian ESPN,

and they're doing a commercial advertising their platform, essentially. And it opened with a, a person walking down a hallway and then they get an alert on their phone of who essentially is the woge of Canada. And they're like, whoa, breaking news. And then it cut to Quinn Hughes in a Canucks jersey. And he says, you got the scoop. And then it's the insider. And he says, yeah, I got the scoop.

The day after the Hughes trade. It was insane. And there were like a whole bunch of other athletes in it. So like the fact that it was Quinn Hughes having this moment with the insider that would break trade. being like, hey, you got the scoop. While in his gear, like, it was related to the trade. It was ridiculous. I had never seen it before.

It just hurt. It was like opening a new wound. Are you pretty upset about the trade? Um, that's difficult. I think I'm numb. I think I should be upset. How old is he?

25, 26. Oh, he's pretty young still. Yeah, he's like in his prime. Good prospects for him, right? Yeah, but it's like, you never, you never feel like you won. and something like that. Why the trade?

Because they sucked. They sucked. They were terrible. They only made the playoffs like twice. They refused to rebuild because of, they want playoff revenue. So they try every year and they're just in the middle every year. And they never get, oh, it's the worst. I don't know anything you just said.

Well. Andrew, I understand everything you just said. I appreciate that, Jeff. Maybe if they would add a hockey section to be in Q, you would get it. right next to the wallpaper tables and the luxury chairs or whatever you said it was. Luxury chairs.

I didn't get that from being here. Vanity chair. Vanity chair. Luxury chair. Is wallpaper a pretty big deal in the UK still? Well, I think it left and came back. Okay. I feel like you see it a lot more than you did 10 years ago,

but not as much as you did 30 years ago. I love that you have an opinion on this in the way that you do. That's wonderful. It left and came back. I would have no idea. It's an observation. I'd have no clue.

Do you have no wallpaper in the house? I don't know if I've lived in a house that had wall. Maybe my grandparents' house. My grandparents had wallpaper that was like 3D texture. And I remember whenever I would shit there, I would like prod at it and make little divvets in it. Wait, hang on. Okay. So it wasn't like an optical illusion?

It was like, it was like genuinely 3D. and the sticky out bit was like spongy and you could like stick a finger What was like the design? Like what did it look like? It was all white I think it was like floral On the flowers

Like the petals? Yeah Would it pop back after you push it in Or were you ruining it slowly And each step? I was ruined Well I could tell where I would Where I'd last done it

From the previous time I was there So I think it was sticking in I can't picture 3D wallpaper Let me try to find Spongy 3D Spongy Spongy? Is it expensive to make wallpaper?

Like if you're going to buy wallpaper is wallpaper expensive? I bet it's not cheap. I bet it's like made with something specific. I bet it's not just paper. You know what I mean? Man, I bought some wallpaper for the old house and it was crazy expensive. Wasn't really?

Yeah. Yeah. That feels like a thing that would have a range to me though of you could get fancies or expensive or just complete bullshit terrible wallpaper. I was buying crazy expensive wallpaper.

Yeah, it was just for my office. Oh, I love that wallpaper. Yeah, with the little lions on it. Yeah, I thought that wallpaper was so cool. I would love to see it. No, not anymore, but it was

in the library back in the day. I thought you found a picture of the spongy wallpaper. Oh, yeah. No, I'm looking at Google, I guess Google's images is just mostly AI. It's utter shit that I'm looking at.

Just big stupid eyesores. I can't find it. I can never find anything I'm looking for anymore. Piece of shit. If you could have 3D wallpaper of anything, what would you want it to be? For me, first thing that came to mind,

bowling alley, and the pins are 3D. Ooh. I think for me it's probably Smurfs. Papa Smurf's beard is feelable? Yeah. A little smurfy hats are like felt and feelable. Oh, is this? Can you just, you know how, like,

Like they can photo print stuff on a cake. Could you just photo print wallpaper? Uh-huh. Yeah. My cousin, as a matter of fact, I was just in my cousin's house for a Christmas party last Saturday, and he was showing me his office, which he had redesigned. And the wallpaper, I commented on it. He had like a wallpaper behind a bunch of bookshelves.

And I was like, oh, Chris, that's a really cool wallpaper. I really like that. And he said, thanks. I made it myself in Illustrator. And I went, what? Cool. And he goes, yeah, it took me about four hours. I had to figure out how to do it.

And I had to figure out how to make the repeating pattern. And it was a nightmare, but I did it. And then I got to print it up. And the wallpaper in his house he fucking made. So it's totally doable. And it looked awesome. What? We should do that in the office.

We could get Ian's. Okay. Okay. Hold on. Let me write the stone. It was kind of like this, but more floral. And you could, you could sort of stick a, oh, that's terrible.

It's like a. Looks like a wall full of doilies. That's a great descriptor. And you would just take a shit and punch at it? Yeah, just like squashed little bits of it. With your hand? Yeah, well, yeah, what else with? Do they still have that place?

No, they've died. Oh, okay. Well, would you trade a year? Different grandparents, got to try a year. But he knew them. He knew them. It doesn't count. Oh, that's right.

Yeah, sorry, man. You actually knew them. so it doesn't count. When Jeff's away, could we wallpaper his whole wall to just be that? Yeah. Oh my God. Tim Allen with Botox and Chris with the Cranks.

Is Chris with the Cranks? Yeah. Dude, I was looking at this. I think I would, I think I'd get a flaming skull motorcycle. Yeah. That's pretty cool.

That'd be pretty sick, huh? A ghost rider type shirt. Yeah. With a skull and a motorbike. Oh. Dude, me and Nick watched Ghost Rider 2 the other day. Yeah, it was terrible. it's so bad.

I didn't know they made a second Ghost Rider movie. Yeah, they did. It's so, the crank guys. It's like, Idris Elba's in it. Ghost, dude, it looks awful. It's so bad. I couldn't believe it. Yeah, it was, ugh.

I do want to watch it because I like crank and even, I expected to be terrible, but I kind of want that. The action is terrible. It's bad. It's just all, yeah. Yeah, the whole thing. It just, it looks like a YouTube video.

It looks so bad. I'm aware of four movies that they made and it's such a weird collection of Crank 1, Crank 2, Ghost Rider 2, and Gamer. Yeah. I don't know anything else that they made. We also watched Hardcore Henry.

Oh, that's a good... I remember that movie. That's the first person movie, right? Yeah, I wouldn't call it a good movie, but it is a movie, yeah. I enjoyed it. We did stuff with him, didn't we? Yeah.

We did. Something at the Alamo with him. Yeah. I like him in it. I think he's fun in it. I like, him a lot. That's the only part I liked about it. Charlton Copely or whatever his name? Yeah. Yes. Yeah, I think he's great. Everything else in that

movie is just like, it's like, man, why did they make this? That's crazy. It's really crazy. I like that guy. He's, he's like a top tier character actor for me. I really enjoy him in everything I see him in. The A team? I like him in the A team. I like him in Free Fire. He's in a movie with Idris Elbow where they fight a lion. He's good in that. Matt? Oh yeah where he's a they go to like I think his family or whatever yeah it's like

they he Edrit's Alba goes back to Africa with his family and Charlton Copley is like a guy that manages like preservation in Africa and this wild lion shows up and it's like a horror slasher type film but

it's more of a thriller I guess this lion is trying to stalk them essentially it's good, but he's good. I like him in everything that I've seen him in. Underrated actor. Did you like, what was that sci-fi, the Blom Kemp movie, District 9?

Yeah, District 9, yeah. He's good in that. That's a movie that, like, I have no interest in re-watching, but enjoyed it at the time. I don't remember particularly liking it that much, but I remember everybody loving it. I remember not liking his, like, fingers, fingernails falling off and all that.

That's a fair thing to not like. Yeah. It's true. Before we wrap this up. episode up because we're nearing that hour, people dying, people being born. I guess we're past it. Uh, you don't like small talk, Gavin. What is your favorite level of talk? Are you a mid-talk guy? Oh, that's a great question. Are you a high talk guy? That's fantastic, man. What's high talk? Are you, do you like large talk? Yeah, like a big talkman or what?

I don't know what anyone's saying. What do you mean? So I think on the scale of small talk, represents like nothing conversation. I imagine big talk is very serious talk. And mid-talk is like a bunch of bullshit that no one's gonna follow through with. No. Oh yeah, I guess, yeah. I see what you mean. No, I just, I just assumed it would be like,

yeah, that's great, Nick, that's tall talk. Big talk, I think would just be like substantive conversation. Yeah, I agree. So what's your favorite level? Now that you know the scale. Yeah. Deep. No way.

Get out of here. Deep talk. Deep talk. Shut up. I think you like small talk more than deep talk. How are you? How am I? See, he's completely unprepared.

I'm ready to wrap this up and slice them streets up. You know what I'm saying? I'm slicing streets of cutting sheets. Slicing them titties, as they say. So let's get these tities out of here. and thank you for listening to another episode of the Regulation Podcast. Keep on slicing.

We'll see you next time. Happy 2026, everybody. Jeff's got Claws out.