Regulation Podcast - Sausage Talk 5

Episode Date: May 15, 2026

Celebrating their second anniversary, AN EGG are back with a new Sausage Talk. They talk about what they're looking forward to, repairs, the wheel, Summer Movie League, The Lab, Road Trip, Sloppy Joe's, Regulation Wrestling, keys to the city, falcon questions, MVP, Gurpler, lore, Goof World, Lidler, relegation, and longevity. 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're dusting off the old sausage talk. Oh, man. Oh, it's been a minute since we've done one. I don't even think we've done one in our hamburger era. My name is Jeff Ramsey. With me, as always, Andrew Pant and Gavin Free, Nick Schwartz, Eric Bedoor. If you're not familiar, we're sausage talk.

This is where we give you a pier behind the sausage casing at the sausage inside the tube. If you had to eat a dusty sausage, what would the dust be? What would it be? What would the dust be? Yeah, Cheeto dust. You want to dust with cheetah? Other than dust with Cheetah. How about you?

Paprika. Is paprika dust? No, but I think he's in a bad mood so we have to let him happen. What do you mean? What do you mean? It's not dust. You say it wasn't a dust, why is it Eric? It can be dusted with it.

It's a dust. Paprika? Yeah. Dusted is the cocaine dust. What does the cocaine? What does the cocaine? I never had paprika paste. How is that?

paprika paste. I don't even know it came in a paste. Toothpaste. And by sausage, obviously, we mean the inner workings of the business of the regulation company. It's where we talk about the things that go on behind the scenes. How stuff gets made, why stuff doesn't get made, foibles and difficulties and successes and failures. At the business level, people ask questions from time to time,

and we like to elucidate. And I honestly give a peer behind the curtain, as they say, not just through the lens of the sausage tubing. Curtain talk. Curtain talk. There you go. Sausage dust. So, it's been a minute.

Does anybody know when the last time we did a sausage talk was? I feel like it's got to be at least a year. I have no idea. Was it for the first anniversary? Any guesses? I got it. I have no clue. I just guessed a year.

I would say it last anniversary. Eight months ago. Gavin? 12 months. It was, he's in rival mode today. We haven't even done anything. August 15th, 2025 is when we got together

as Gavin called the last sausage talk. He did? Yeah. Interesting. Yep. Well, it was a Gavin called sausage talk. So now this time we're doing it just, this is coming out right after our anniversary

or two year anniversary. And I think that Andrew had a really good idea of sort of like, there's like the looking back, like the retrospect of like, what we've been in the middle of and everything, but really he wants to sort of like look ahead at what we're maybe looking forward to. Is that right, Andrew?

Kind of think about the stuff we made in the past year and like what we liked and like things maybe we'd like to explore more of and then maybe like things to shoot for content-wise in the next year. I have a question for the group. Was there anything in the last year that we didn't make that you wanted to make? Because I feel like we got to almost everything by the end of it. Oh, so much. So much.

stuff. Yeah, I don't. I mean, we did like the road trip thing. Respectfully, we have so much that we created a barrel for it this year. Yeah. Yeah. And we did face off season two. So at this point, those are coming out. Yeah. So I'm, I'm happy with that. Uh, I don't know that there's anything that we haven't really done. I think the thing about the bit barrel is once an idea goes into it, it gets erased from my memory. Yeah, I feel the same way, dude. So there's probably some stuff in there that I'm, if I saw, I would lament we haven't made yet, but I assume we'll get to it eventually. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what number am I thinking of live stream? Oh, that's a great one.

I saw the audience ask about that the other day. We really should get back to it. Also, the 20,000 things still not done. Yeah, I agree with that. That's still, that's a pending thing on the list. The moon, not moon draft, right? I don't think we can do that. It's curse.

It's curse. It's never going to make that video. It's curse. We can't do it. It's a curse idea. It's a curse idea. It's a curse idea. Yeah.

Still waiting on the Nick and Gavin show. Yeah. In the next year. That's got to be coming soon, right? Yeah, that's... In development. When does Halo drop? The new one?

They haven't dated it, but the rumor is July. Gavin. A little bit lesser. Yeah. I guess I feel like... You can't claim Lasso as the Nick and Gavin show. That's fine. I...

Back to the drawing board. I think we probably should have done a pinball live stream in the office by now. Well, but now the pinball, Eric broke the pinball machine, so. I got the high score and all of a sudden we had to take it apart. Actually,

I mean, by the time this is out, we'll know what we probably hopefully need to do to fix it or whatever. Gavin doesn't look so sure. The guy that's coming to the live switch us for, live switch for us today, Gavin, is one of the guys that fixes pinball machines at pinballs. Yeah, I feel like you found the most convenient guy

ever for this specific week. It's, hey, it seems to be working, so I'm excited. He told me he's going to bring tools. Oh, nice. Oh, wow. I have a feeling whatever's broken on it is not gonna be fixable by him, but we'll see.

I mean, maybe. How many pinball machines have you repaired, Gavin? Oh, good question. Oh, like tiny little repairs, maybe three. You've never done like a big repair on a pinball? I did like a whole flipper rebuild on a Twilight Zone. That's probably my biggest repair. I don't know what that means, but that sounds complex.

Circuit board like we just tried to? Yeah, I've done that before. Okay. Well, like the flippers get a bit gammy over time and they get a bit weak. And sometimes you've got to replace them. If you're gonna get a doctor classification as pinball doctor, the closest you think you could get? I think you'd have to get a wizard classification.

Oh. I don't think they do doctorate to that. Gavin, would you consider yourself a pinball wizard? I think pinball wizard is like the equivalent of Super Bowl. Like we have to, it's like pinball sorcerer. We gotta call it the big game. What is the wizard version of a PhD? Like what a wizard study for a long time before getting there?

Spells? Yeah. Potions. Alchemies. Herbs, yeah, plants. Demonology. Animals. Yeah.

Yeah. A lot of animal husbandry. A lot of making different animals have sex, probably. Looking at like, road. That's classic wizard stuff. Zoo tycoon. Zoo tycoon. You asked the question, Gavin.

Was there something in mind when you asked it? You don't remember the question, do you? No, I thought, I felt like we really got to it. I was worried that we wouldn't get to F-Face off too. Yeah. It just seemed like it was the thing that we would always talk about and never make. And I'm really glad we got to it. So we're coming up for air from that right now.

Yeah. And I would say one, I know we're going to look toward the future, but one lesson learned taking into year three, I think would be not to run three multi-episode high production value for us, at least, concurrent series. Running face off season two, the spring golf league and the Mario Party March in April at the exact same fucking time turns out not ideal. A lot. Probably could have probably could have

probably could have planned that one a little bit better. But we made it work and we've made the best of it and I'm not complaining. Didn't throw in the craziest wrench, which was that Andrew had to leave his own in the middle of all three of them. That's true. Which is why we had to put golf on pull us for a bit. Yep. Golf and Mario Party.

Yeah, and Mario Party. That's why it wasn't in March. Can I suggest one that we drop? Sure. Of course. Can we just never do Wheel of Decades? Let's talk about that. Okay. Hey, can we stop doing Wheel of Decades?

What is it you don't like about Wheel of Decades? Everything we have to watch. You didn't like Charmed? There hasn't been, there hasn't been, there has been, there has been one shining moment in Wheel of Decades. And it's when the guy was in the wheelchair and then stands up. That is, that is the funniest thing I've ever seen in like, a TV setting, like that's so hilarious. But, dude, this is like brutal.

We had some good laughs in the final episode. Here's what I'll say about Wheel of Decades. That was a me idea, and therefore I'm really into it. I feel the entropy of Andrew and Eric at times. And so if the group isn't in the Wheel of Decades, as much as I love doing it, I'm cool with killing it. I like really decades. I don't like doing nine episodes of Quark.

Well, that's the problem is that it's the gabin issue of the whole thing, I think, is maybe like what the issue was. I don't think all five of us have to be in every show. If there's a show you don't like, you don't need to brute force in and then sulk about it. You could just not be in it. I don't think there is any. I think the whole point of the show is suffering now, right? I mean, that's what the point of it is for me is I find beauty and comedy in the suffering. and so

Quark go in nine episodes honestly from producer Jeff that was the best outcome to me I also feel like this is a wild statement from producer

Gavin because most of what Gavin pitches enthusiastically are things of mass inconvenience it's sort of your favorite thing yeah are you agreeing with me

no I'm saying that like it's funny that you want to also introduce an opt out when you're leading the charge on he's not opting out. He's not opting out. No, but no. He was trying to give Eric an opt out there.

That's a lot of, that's fair, I guess. I just think there's a better, I think there's better uses of our time when we're talking about, like, doing these three concurrent things and then dropping the ball on Wheel of Decades for a very long time.

We only dropped the ball on Wheel of Decades because it was so bad. Yeah, because you guys couldn't get your, fucking pull your big boy pants up and spend 30 minutes watching bad television. I keep getting agreed with, and it doesn't. Does it feel like it, Andrew?

I loved it. I'm having a great time. No matter how bad the show. I want to at least go through all the decades. I think we have to. Yeah. I don't think we should ever do a full series thing again. I think appropriate natural ripcords are maybe a thing to keep in the show.

Well, I mean, that's up to the wheel and how we design the wheel. That's up to how we design the wheel. And we could just put on every spot of the wheel three episodes. We can certainly rebalance it. But I feel like there needs to be some real fear there. The fear. I feel like there are certain situations, Andrew, where you want to avoid the wheel a little bit. Oh, I'm all for spinning the wheel.

Well? I'm pro-wheel. What? Love the wheel. I just said we should have the wheel, but fill it with good options. The whole point of the wheel is that sometimes there's terrible shit on there. You don't know what the wheel is going to give you. I would argue most things that have a wheel, generally speaking, it's just positive outcomes.

Tell that to Vegas. Yeah. To Vegas? Vegas known for their wheel. I guess what? Like a wheel of roulette wheel? Yeah, it's a whole thing. Yeah, it is a whole thing.

But like none of those are, it's a whole thing. None of those are inherently bad. It's the choices. I agree. I agree with the same to be said for our wheel. No, I think they're bad. They're just straight up bad options.

Like six isn't inherently bad. Every episode of Quark is bad. It's just bad. If Quark had ended up being a good show, you wouldn't have minded watching nine episodes of it. No, I wouldn't have, but it wasn't. It was terrible. That's just how the cookies crumbled in that particular season. We might end up with a fucking bangor in maybe we just don't make the cookies. If that's how the cookie could crumble. Well, then maybe the wheel of

decades is just Jeff, Gavin, and Nick. I mean, I enjoy watching stuff that I would never usually watch. Yes. And there's something quite funny about sharing the suffering with a bunch of opt-in audience. I completely agree. I think my issue with it is what is what Jeff was saying before this, where it was, we are doing all of like these concurrent series and all of these pieces

and then Andrew also having to be out of the house and it's not necessarily the watching the quark, which was very bad, by the way. It was also that it was like the start-stop of it and then the amount of time we had to put into it was

just like, oh, dude, oh, come on. It ended up landing in the middle of all that other shit we were doing this month. That's our fault. We started that thing a billion years ago, and then we sat on it for three or four months, and then decided to do it in the middle of all the melee and chaos. We didn't need to do that. We never should have stopped filming it in the first place. Yeah, it wasn't an issue with us starting stuff, because we started it all at different times.

It all just converged at the end. I think the convergence was my issue with it. I will say, I was wrong. about the summer movie draft. Before we did the summer movie draft this year, I pitched that we didn't do it. I just went, like, let's just skip it. Let's do something else.

Because I didn't like the way that we handled it last year. We just didn't follow up on it soon enough. And it just felt like a hanging thread for a really long time. But I think we all just had the conversation of let's just really be on top of it. Let's pick these dates and end it at certain time. So that way there's no big question mark. and we can come back to it later so that way people aren't just hanging waiting for us to circle back on something that we forgot about. Yeah.

I'm very okay with that. I think you I think you nailed that, Eric. And the problem there is it's not the content. It's us. And we just have to be better about wrapping up stuff. And I think that it's just we should just put pressure on ourselves to do that in the future. I'm already having regrets about the summary movie league. Oh, really?

Why's that? I, devil's worst prodigy should have went for more. Everything I'm seeing since we did that draft is it's going to make like a billion dollars. It's going to be huge. It's going to run the $6 billion. People are going crazy for the devil versus product too. Interesting. Who won?

Great bye by you. What did I go for like 13? 16. I just pulled it up to look at it. 16. Yeah, but how much was Spider-Man? Like, you know what I? Wasn't it 12?

Yeah. Yeah. It's got a little wacky. Because everybody was broke at the end, though. Yeah. That was just because. That was everyone. had money. It was the first movie.

Okay, well, yeah, I had to confirm. I guess Horizon and American Saga Chapter 2, technically first movie, but the first real movie. Got it again, baby. What do you mean? You know. It could come out. It could.

It could. It could. And that's the fun of it. What I like about doing these things every year, or at least like multiple years, is that it gives you the opportunity to play differently. I couldn't have done this summer league more differently than I did last time.

Yeah. How about you, Nick? I'm following a similar trajectory to previous years. Nick is following the kid to, or dad to small kid ratio of movie selections, and it's working out well for you. Yeah, we'll see. We will see. And I'm excited to see that.

It just, it was a thing. I'm excited this whole summer to see how some of these movies play out. Are some of these movies even real? There's allegedly a cliffhanger reboot at the end of the summer? Is that actually a thing? Is that happening? Yeah. there is, yeah.

It also creates great discussion when there's not any content out. Like if there's a day that goes by where there's nothing released, which is pretty rare, I feel like. But at least there's discussion in the community about who's winning or what's happening at the box office.

Yeah. Yeah, and the fan stuff with that is phenomenal. People doing their own leagues and whatnot. Yeah. Like, people keeping track of it, I think it's regulationfan.com. and being able to do that stuff is so cool. Like staying up to date on the regulation collection for cards

and staying up to date on the regulation girple jacket, the spring golf league and the summer movie auction and all that stuff. And then also being able to like create your own draft board and everything. It's just so cool. Like this community is so awesome. Regulation collection website. I bet I use it personally more than. than everyone.

Do you really? It is up on my laptop and my desktop at home 24 hours a day. I consult it constantly. That's it. Regulationfan.com if you guys want to check it out. I mean, it sort of has a little bit of everything. It's really impressive.

It's very, very, very cool. So check it out. It's a good way to keep track of stuff and stay informed if you don't, if you miss some pieces of content, which that is okay, by the way, if you miss some things and don't get to buy all the merch and all that stuff,

the 100% idea of like, I have to watch all this stuff and buy all this stuff and everything. I worry that people are going to burn out on what we're doing because of the want to consume all. And I do hope that people take breaks where they need and don't feel the need to consume 100% of literally everything we do all the time.

You know what I mean? Yeah. I think there's sort of a natural progression too. Of like the stuff I like, I'll be all in for a few months and then I'll probably like drift off for a little bit and then I'll come back around onto it. Sort of just. Oh,

no, just like in the stuff that I have fandoms of. Oh, I'm with Andrew. I don't listen to this shit at all. I skip the fuck out of this stuff, dude. I'll listen to this. I was to say like even like as somebody who often falls into that,

I want to experience everything or whatever I'm engaging with. Like it's a totally, I think natural process to like be all in for a period of time. and then you drift away for a little bit, and then you circle back around on it. Like, it's all good. So we've talked about a few of our series that all kind of converged right now

around the anniversary. And Andrew was mentioning wanting to talk about what we want to do go forward. Let's talk about some of those series going forward. Are we going to do a season three of face off? I think the answer is definitively yes. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

100%. I think before we got to season two and actually sat down to do it, to me it was in question because it was such a like hanging chad for us of like, I don't know, we talked about it for so long, is this worth doing? As soon as we started doing the videos,

I just went, can't wait for next season. Cannot wait for season three. It's so good. A thing to note about season two, it just like technically, so much harder, like I had to make around 200 custom creative characters that are all used.

Like the amount of background work that went into FACE off season two. Like it was very extensive, compared to what we believe face off season three will be it's a thing that I've been doing prep for in the background but like it is going to be so much more

simple when it comes time to actually putting it together. I might want to is it all right if I use the Patreon to do a poll for my team? I want to see who the audience wants from my team on season three. Oh, I'm jumping in and I'm voting. I want the Presbyterian.

Yeah, I was about say Presbyterians a lot. Presbyterian. Hassey. I feel like, yeah, I mean, Shelley Miss Cabbage obviously has to go three. Well, if you can find her, I don't know. You could do, like, a poll that people could vote on, and maybe they could pick, like, three or however many you want.

Yeah, see, if there's, like, a multiple choice thing. That's such a good idea. Really easy to just get averages. So we're a lock there. That's obvious. Yes. Spring Golf League is something that we, that just kind of came out of a conversation

and blossomed into a league. Is that something that you guys see continuing now that we've created a purple jersey? a gerpel jacket, rather, and we've awarded it by the time this comes out. I feel like I don't see it being golf again necessarily. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. I think we could do it in multiple sports, but I think it also has the ability to do,

we have the ability to do golf again. And now that we've also solidified our stream setup, it's also easier to do, like, on a live Friday as opposed to, like, having to do all this stuff. And that's an issue we ran into. We put out one video that was recorded as opposed to when we did a live stream. Yeah. And we kind of had to balance.

the timetable around that so we didn't undo scores here and there just to make sure everything was still above board. Yeah, it was, it was difficult to schedule when you're dealing with pre-recorded and live streams and all that stuff. I think we will do it again. I like it. I think it will be later this year. I don't think it will be spring golf league. I think it might be fall golf league. And I think it will be golf with your friends too, which at the time of this recording, they dropped a trailer, said it's going to be out this fall. they have a revamped level editor. And to me, being able to do eight weeks or whatever of live streams on Fridays

that are just golf focused and using audience created maps. Or as Jeff told me earlier, Jeff and Gavin created maps in this would be a lot of fun and definitely where I would want to go with it. I agree. Because to me, that's more focused. The jumping around at different golf games is fun, but I'm really finding that, like, there are games that I like and games that are conducive to this

and then games that are like, oh, yeah, this is all right. I think it would just be nice to, like, have it more fleshed out before we start it. Where this, I feel like, we started it without building the car, and we've been building the car as it goes down the hilly. 100%, 100%. And I think that if we return to it, we will have a more structured and better laid out plan.

I agree. I'd like to continue that one as well. Fault league. It feels evergreen to me. It feels easy. What other sport would you want to see, Gavin? Or what's like a different thing that you would want to see if it wasn't golf?

I just was thinking it didn't even need to be a sport necessarily. It could just be any game league. Oh. Interesting. Interesting. That is interesting. I didn't have anything specific. I just thought, you know, we rarely do competitive stuff.

Yeah. So if there was something in the future that we're interested in, we could always give that a go. Eldon Ring Night Rain, competitive ball. for regulation. Speaking of competitive gaming, we are,

we just came up for air from doing a month of Mario daily again. And that's the third series I mentioned in this, in this little triangle. Do we see ourselves,

because I want to put it on fucking, I want to get it down on the record right here. Do we see ourselves doing another month of Mario in the year 2027? No. Is that next year?

Not, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Not Mario. No. I think, I'm fine with the timing of it and I'm fine with doing the daily stuff like the content of it.

I love doing it earlier in the day of waking up and then being able to just like do this thing to bang it out so we can get on with our days. I don't love that we had to do it at 10.30 in the morning or whatever, but I do think that we can find a game that we can do a turn

of or something like that, a timed piece of every day and keep coming back to it. Because it's fun. Just when you think you're getting into it, you just go All right, we'll see you tomorrow. I just think Mario Party just happens to be so conducive to it. I don't know what else is like that.

Same. I'd love to hear from the audience and see what it is, like what other things do they think we could do that aren't Mario Party. Yeah, because I don't think any of us wants to play Mario Party again in that way. Especially not Nick. What? Especially not Nick. I'm okay with the idea of like the container around Mario Party that is the daily monthly content.

But I would like to see it. reinvented in another game. Sure. Or, because it's, it's gonna get, it just feels like it's already in danger

getting repetitive. Custom game of Halo, right? You have to leave it on for a month. As soon as there's a kill, everyone puts their controller down until tomorrow.

What if power goes out? The internet's lost. There's a lot of ways to this could go wrong. Can you keep a game on for 30 days? I don't know. Theoretically you could. I think you could, yeah.

Not with other stuff we're going to record. Can you imagine, though, just be like, oh, you need to have second set, up specifically just for that.

There'd be server maintenance at some point in there probably, right? Yeah, probably. Maybe. Every time I load Call of Duty, it's got three updates. Yeah. It's true. It's like Master Chief Collection, right? Would be the only way to play the old ones.

It's not like we could, I don't think any of the old ones exist anymore, right? Like the servers are down for three and four. Yeah, I mean, I like this idea and I'm really excited to like an audience member's idea even more. So let us know in the comments what we should be doing. I think there's, uh, yeah. I have someone that double kill. Would you just not play for two days?

Oh, you guys, please guys, get a, get a fucking quad kill. Like, let me have a weekend off. 30 kills, and however many days it takes to get there. With Mario Party, Saturday for some reason is the hardest one for me to remember. Sunday for me. I just feel like after the, after the stream on Friday, I sort of let my work guard down. And then it's like, oh, we're still going. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's fair. Okay. Well, I'm glad that we, uh, we, I hopefully, definitively answered some of those and then we actually also put a request out to the audience for some better or more clever ideas. Andrew said he wanted to focus on going

forward. What are some things that we want to focus on going forward? Anything that we, you feel like we didn't do enough in the last year that you'd like to put more time or effort into? I have a few but I'd like to open. I have one that I think we haven't done a lot of necessarily in our regulation era that I'd love for us to get back to. And that's more lab work.

I want to see us more in the lab. this upcoming here. I feel like we haven't had. We're doing wrist pockets. We're doing all sorts of like goofy stuff. Thrice to meet you. I feel like... I had a few lab projects that I never got stuck into.

Yeah, I never made the fruit gloves. The fruit gloves. Like that's the thing that's so old that like I sort of in my brain just assumed it came out or you did it at some point. Like I forgot that the fruit gloves are still not done. They're put it together. What are they again? They're gloves that are designed to... to cut and open and do everything you need to do to fruit.

Like, they had, like, they had, like, tahine in it, like, one of the fingers to pour onto the fruit, salt. They had, like, a grater on one hand. They had pairing knives, and it was all just so that you could really just dissect and eat fruit, and you had every tool available in your hands all at once. I just always get excited when we're in the lab doing something, and I think that that's a thing we could get back to you. Do you think the lab remains a part of the episodes, or does it have a,

break out into a very occasional lab show. That's interesting. That's interesting. I think if we find something that is in the lab that is so we have to show people this thing, a lab show would be a lot of fun. Because I feel like what's happened with some of our gauntlets, like the cheese and chocolate and stuff, is that that's lab adjacent in my head. I agree.

I agree with that. But it's not like we're inventing. We're just in the lab testing. We're in the kitchen. Like all the lab talk stays in like podcasts. and stuff, and then we do a thing called, like, field work. It's field testing. Yeah.

Off of the lab. I don't... Final product. I don't like the idea of taking stuff that used to be heavily featured in the podcast and removing it from the podcast, you know? So I like the idea of field testing. I think that's great. Yeah.

I think that's a great way to do it, yeah. Focus it in... That's a good way to handle it. That's a great, and that's a great when, Andrew. I wasn't on my list, and I hadn't even thought about it, to be honest with you. And I think you're dead on with that. Anybody else? For upcoming stuff?

Yeah, just things you want to focus on in 2026 and 27. Yeah, we talked about it yesterday. I want to go on this road trip. I want to get back on my notes. Big time. I want to, we've talked about it. And me and Jeff went to lunch yesterday and talked about like,

what would it be and where we go or whatever? And to me, it's, it's Route 66. Like, I think it's the 100th anniversary. I think it's the 100th anniversary. It's the ultimate American road trip. Yeah.

It's iconic. I've never done it. I don't think it's, of us have? No. I think it would be really, no. I think it would be really fun.

It's long. I mean, it's long, but it is like, I would love to do it. I think it would be so much fun to get in the car, find these things,

could have a couple ideas about where we could stop, but to just kind of like do this stretch of road that I've never done but heard about since Bugs Bunny, I think would be really cool. If we do it, can we all make mixtapes for the trip?

Oh, that's great. Road trip playlist? Yeah. That is a good. Yep. When you go to the website, it gives you top 10 cities and stops along Route 66, and I think that would be fun to see if that's a stop. Unfortunately, one of those stops is Amarillo, Texas,

which is maybe the worst American city I've ever been to in my life. I want to go to. We can see Cadillac Ranch again. I love Cadillac Ranch. It is legitimately the worst city. It's like, Gavin, it's like if they built a prison in the desert and then they forgot about it. The prisoners escaped and they're like, we're free!

And they settled. And they just got right outside the prison gates and went, and this is our city, Amarillo. It is, it's miserable. But we can do the steak challenge. We can go to Paladuro Canyon. Paladuro Canyon is so fucking cool. It's so beautiful.

And I went there one time. It was 114 degrees. And I went to the little checkout, the check-in area where the, you know, the park ranger. And he was like, listen, two things. One, it's too hot to go down. It wouldn't be safe. And also love a f***-face. I was like, thank you so much.

It was awesome. I think a road trip this year would be a blast. Not long. Does Roe 66 go anywhere near that point where all the states meet? Those full states? Four corners? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I dropped a photo, but it doesn't look like it does. I don't think so. That could be a future

trip, though, a future trip idea. I know that somebody when I was doing Saul Wright mentioned to me that there is a festival, like a music festival in their town in Oklahoma, I believe, on Route 66 that they have every year where they shut down Route 66 and have bands play on Route 66. Oh, wow, that's cool. So maybe it would line up where we could attend, I think it's probably country music, but maybe we could attend something like that even. I feel like there's a lot. And to commemorate it on the 100th year of its existence, I think is very cool. Yeah, that's fun. I just think it'd be interesting to make a video where we're all in a different state.

Oh, yeah. That would be cool. Also, pretty easy to do in the summer when we're all on vacation. In addition to road trips. What vacation? What's that? When we're all in vacation. Like, we're all on vacations. Like when Gavin's in England and I'm in, I don't know. Oh, yeah, but we can't see each other.

Oh, I know. I was just making a joke that it's pretty often that we're all in different places. That's true. I agree. It's not a rarity that we're not all in different places. Gavin mentioned to me yesterday in a way that makes me scared to bring it up because he's going to deny it

or say that it was my idea and that I told him it'll get all jumbled but he mentioned I swear yesterday the day before because I wrote it down he mentioned wanting to go back to Vegas for some reason,

finding a reason to go back to Vegas. Why's that? I don't know? I was just there. It was just a good place to hang out, wouldn't it? He was saying? He had a lot of fun.

Was it? And we had fun last time and he was like we should come up with a reason to go back someday. You threw a first pitch. It was pretty fun. That was fun.

Do you think, do you think the, was the thing with that, or was it the group? Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it definitely makes sense. I think it's both just good.

Vegas is just so weird. It's just such a freak show. Yeah. It is. And no one's going right now anyway, so we could have the whole city to our city. That is true. We had such a weird,

like we had such a weird variety of things we did on that trip too that was kind of cool. Vegas offers that. But I would much rather go to Route 66 this year. What if you did reverse Vegas and went to like Dolly World? Dude, don't, don't say that out loud.

My wife is going to be here in 30 seconds. Let's go to Branson. Her ears just perked up. I would rather go to Dollywood than Branson just because I just went to Branson. Oh. But I think both of those are solid ideas and that we could do either. And that's a fucking slice of Americana for Gavin right there. Oh, Gavin.

You're going to be set. But that's the thing I'm looking forward to is just a road trip. Just getting out there with you guys again after we did the last one. I'd love to do that again. Is there any other stuff you guys are looking forward to? Yeah. I have a couple I'd like to throw in. And this could be road trip adjacent as well.

I would love to, in 2020, later in 226 and 2027, I'd love to recommit in some larger way to sloppy Joe's. I miss doing sloppy Joe's bingo. I feel like we don't do it enough. And I would like to, and it may just be one of those things where it's just me and nobody else is really into it still. But I would love to do a more, occasionally more sloppy Joe's. And if we ever found our way back to Key West, that'd be a fun road trip too.

You know, Jeff, piggybacking off of that, I was going to say live streams in general. Like, I know we do our Friday one. It's a big one. But we've talked about in the past doing like random streams here and there and then making like a playlist on YouTube. So it's just unlisted. It doesn't affect the algorithm, all that stuff. And just having like a video available just there for folks later. Right.

And I think we didn't really utilize that. And since we've talked about it on the last one. So I think I think that's something we could do more of and I'd like to do too. I think it could be even, you know, like when we think about how things worked at the previous place, we worked at the joy of what we do now. If you feel like Jeff at like a random 9 p.m., you could just hop on Twitch and deal with sloppy jet. Like, you could just, it's true. The community would go fucking crazy for that. It is true.

And I should utilize that more often. But I love any kind of live event we do that has lots of community interaction. Yes. And we're all playing along together and enjoying it at the same time. Those are my favorite things that we do, and I feel like Sloppy Joe's gets at that better than any other live thing we do. But in addition to that,

I would also like to see us expand wrestling more. I've really into the idea of us doing the wrestling, the few wrestling videos we've done already, where Eric lets them sim, and we watch characters from our universe fight. And I just feel like characters come up kind of often, and we can just constantly be,

throwing new stuff in. And I would, like, if we did, it could even be a live stream, Nick, but if we did a more regular wrestling event, maybe our own like SummerSlam or whatever, that we kind of event-tize, I think that could be a lot of fun there because, you know, you're expecting Greg from finance to show up. But then when Belvis shows up, you're like, holy fuck, he's only three weeks old. That's a brand new joke, you know? And I like, I think there's a lot of power for us to use current day, like up to the minute jokes and bits in the podcast in something like that. So I was talking to Joseph D about this who did a lot of our regulation wrestling creation stuff. And he's created some stuff. And then I talked to him about like, oh,

you know, if we have ideas like to keep it current or whatever. He's like, I'm so down for this. I would love to create these things that are so sudden and then have them be in like this regulation wrestling. I think it's such a fun idea. As long as you guys are into, I, absolutely. I never approach it because I never know how into it you guys are. Because it's your thing, right? That's how I feel about sloppy Joe's. Yeah. Yeah. It's like I just never know how into it everyone is and I don't want to force this wrestling thing that not everyone's into into content. Very into it. Because it's like, you know, it could go either way for me. Yeah. The worst part about those games is playing the games when people ask like, why don't you guys play them? Because they're not fun. They're not, they're not fun. They're not engaging. When you watch it and everything, all hell can break loose or whatever and you don't know what's coming and somebody runs in and it's all, it's the fruit demon and Wilford Brimley in a parking lot brawl. That to me is. is worth more than let's just pick some guys.

And similar to Friest off, it's nice to remove all skill from a series. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, I just think it's good for, it's good for the health of us as an entity when we embrace somebody's genuine passion. Like, we've,

embracing Eric's passion for wrestling, like he has enough enthusiasm to carry us through that. Embracing Gavin's passion for pinball has turned into something really awesome, right? And we would have never landed there if it weren't for Gavin and his genuine fandom and love of pinball. And anytime we can leverage those things,

I think we should. It's contagious too, by the way. It is contagious. Raw enthusiasm is just purely contagious. I was feeling the exact same thing yesterday at Stardue Valley. I had so much fun. I was fishing and having a great time.

Jeffrey, having fun fishing? After I got the baby rod, yeah. Don't have to be at every video. Eight player co-op. And eight players. Eric, eight players. Eight players.

Eight incredible players all at once. Wait, who's getting the blame for this? Nobody was blaming anyone. I don't mean there was any blame. There was no blame. Just eight players. If, in addition to that, something that we've started

that I don't even know that I need to bring up, because I think we're already headed down that road. But the fuck, these gauntlets with the food rating system in the back, I think we can only stand the benefit from continuing to do those. And the more we continue it, the more angry Eric gets

of the way I've drawn the grid. It's so, you had all this board. Yeah, but we can expand. It can loop around. I think it was Nick's idea in the cheese video that we should, I don't know if it's in the video or after, but that when it's all done, we should spin a wheel of from S to F.

And whenever we land on, we have to make a charcutory board of those items. Yeah, I think, I think not doing, because you guys are like, yeah, let's do the S tier charcutory board. If fuck that. Let's do the wheel and see what the wheel wants the

charcutory board to be. I love that. I would, so we need to fill it up with a ton of stuff. Like, I was thinking I could do some sort of a blind, make you guys do like a blind soda taste test thing. That would be a lot of fun, right? Interest you. Introduce you to a lot of different drinks and we give drink ratings.

Dangerous. We also need Andrew's follow up on our gauntlet ratings and what he thinks. Oh, that's true. That's true. I do like the idea of each person bringing a gauntlet to the table. So you've done chocolate. Yeah, you've done cheese. Did you pick cheese or did we just assign you cheese?

Is that a mean album? It was a it was a face-off bit. We were talking about cheese. Oh, Christ. And just rolled. I would love to do like probably chips, some kind of chip, because I think we could get pretty weird with chips but not trying to get super, super weird.

I just think that the, uh, the pallets. Someone could do dust. We did a chip variation in, we did do, we did do a chip taste taste taste. That was fun. We could reincorporate that in 2026 into the board, yeah. For sure. Anything else?

Anything else anybody wants to? I have a few things. Oh. I want to follow through on regulation best thing. We've done a few episodes of that and like we're building a board of like potential best things. And I just, that's something I'd really like to see the end of by the time of next year. I really want us to. It's the random Wikipedia thing where we put the things against each other.

and we go back and forth. At the end of the episode, we end up with what is the best thing of that episode. And then we put it to a larger board and eventually we'll do a full graphic or a breakdown of determining what is the best thing of all the best things. Yeah, I do like the idea of building a list

of all the best things and then putting them against you. Yes. Speaking of lists, Andrew, if you will get, or rather when you get your list of 20,000 things completed, I'm going to turn that into a publishable novel, a book. And so I want that, like, that's something I've been wanting to work on in the background for a very long time. I want to, I want to take your 20,000 things and turn it into something. Keep on? That's a piece of merch I would like to focus on in the undefined future. We also have to incorporate the things from the, what's the name of the highest tier? Last great tier? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because they, yeah, one of their benefits, right, is that they can submit one thing. You can submit a thing. That's true. So really, Andrew, you just need to do 19,999. Yeah. Exactly.

I also want us to find the next act in our keys to the city. I feel like we're accumulating these keys. We got the map. I feel like there's another escalation to what we do with these keys in some way. I don't know if that ties into the road trip in some capacity. I just feel like there is mileage there that we haven't found yet. Couldn't agree with you more. And I had actually written something similar down and I missed it when I was going

through my notes. but figuring out what to do with all the shit that we've bought from auctions in a more salient way. I know we're gonna use, I mean, we're saying we're going to because we haven't recorded yet, but it'll have already come out

by the time this episode does, but we're using the guillotine to cut our anniversary cake. Like that, I think that's great. There's a show around smashing stuff with that guillotine, we just have to do it.

For sure. Did we talk about using that to sign stuff, or was that a dream I had? We were gonna sign stuff we were gonna sign stuff years ago with a giant boot print, the VCC boot print.

And I still have that. Tony made that for us and I still have it. Could we just attach that to the guillotine and just slam those remaining basefuls with that? Interesting. We could. I never thought about using that as an attachment. We just tied on.

We talked about a bunch of different goofy ways to like autograph things in the past for sure. That could have been one. I like trying it with the guillotine. The keys is great though. And I do left the idea of just grabbing all the keys. keys before we leave on a road trip of all the places we're going to end up. I'm just having them on a keychain.

Someday. Cities? Yeah. Explain that to TSA on the way back. Maybe that's what we do. When we get enough keys, maybe when we have like 12 keys, 10, 12 keys, we're not four, one, two, three, four, five, we're six. I think we're going on number seven is in the mail. Maybe we put them all on a wheel.

We spin a wheel and then we have to go to that city. Yeah. What if we're not allowed in a state unless we have a key? in that city. Oh, interesting. We can only go where we have keys to enter. How many states

are along Route 66? Like six? Ooh, five. Yeah, a lot. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot. Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, it's like Missouri,

part of Kentucky, maybe. Missouri? Yeah, Missouri and then Illinois. So it's a lot. That's a bunch. Wow. The other kind of like thing I have main thing on my list

before because we also have questions from the community that we need to get through the questions too is I'd like us to do more draft lists we did the determining what the greatest game of all time was via draft format I want us to do more right yeah yeah shows and movies and we did a poll of the audience

submitting their top 20 and so I have all the data for that of the regulation what the audience thinks are the 20 greatest games which I'd love to share in the next one we do but I just expanding more on that and doing the community suggestion, I think would be a lot of fun of instead of starting at 1,

starting at 20 and building 20. It would be interesting to do cross-references of those lists too. Like maybe have the Falcons build a list, and then we do it, and we see if we were of similar mind. I like that. I will say with the community poll I've done of the top 20 games, I don't think so. I wouldn't say similar.

That sounds right. But I think that's a great idea, Andrew. Yeah, absolutely. That was really fun. we should also get to some of these questions. Yeah, let's get to the questions. I had a thing before questions, a brief thing. Please.

I thought it would be fun to find a place to incorporate, like, because a lot of the time on the podcast will tell a story, but some of the time we have footage of it. Yeah. I was thinking the other day about how we were talking about how when I sat down and just started rolling and Jeff gave me the funniest look and I basically forced him to start rolling when he didn't have time. Yeah. But we have footage of that and it was pretty funny from the camera.

So we could just throw it up on social. Put it on social, maybe. Yeah. But then I was just worried about, is it bad if there's content that's only on social? And away from the main Patreon and all that stuff. That's interesting. Just put it out there. I think it's probably, I would rather have it go out there.

Exactly. And people, people, it's just out there than go, is this the best use of format for this thing? I don't work at Rest your Teeth anymore. So I think I kind of just want to put stuff out there. I kind of, just for like, find ability, we could, easily make a collection that is just that type of footage on the Patreon. And it just all ends up in there. Like we recently did it with the rat trap and we just like stuck it on the end of a podcast.

Yes. This would be a really funny time to let Eric know that rooster teeth purchased us yesterday. And he does in fact work for roosterone. I'm fine with that. Bernie, I'm coming home. Warm up those podcast seats, baby. Let's do this thing. Just for the.

Google or Gavin. Gavin or Google. All right. That's a joke. We're not. That's not. We're not. That is just a joke. Just don't misread that.

That was just a joke. You know what isn't a joke? Heavily expressed that that was just a joke. This question by E. Teddy. Okay. Now that the idol has been found, will there be an anti- Idol hidden at the office? I want Jeff's field on this.

The fuck is an anti-Idle. There are going to cancel it? Yeah. Is that a thing? It's like a nullifier? Yeah. Yeah, there are idle nullifiers. No.

No, I don't think so. Is that a survivor thing? You'd steal. Not in current Survivor. It may have done it in like season 32 or something, but not had. I feel like they have had an idol nullifiers in like the last 10 seasons. No, I don't think in the last 10, but, but maybe. They've got some weird stuff going on this season. This week's episode was crazy. They definitely have things where you could steal an idol. Yeah. If you know somebody has it, like you can say, hey, do you have this? And if they have it, they have to give it to you. Do you have this? I know Gavin has it. So give it to me. But I think we should get through the first implementation.

and use of the idol before we start screwing around with the mechanics? I will say that that's a great question from this fan because it would be the most us thing is to fuck it before we even do it one time. I kind of like going like season 20 Survivor

to season 50 of Survivor where the first go around there's like one idol and the next time of this iteration there's like 16. There are too many idols. There's an excessive amount. That is a funny idea. Like a steel, a reverse steel That's how you end up with somebody going home

at tribal council who nobody voted for Awesome Get a great card if five idols have been played In one area of When they can be deployed Moving on though To Jack McCall's question If you could adopt one real world IP

Into the regulation universe at no cost What would it be and why is it Rattie Boy? Oh, it's smashing sportsmen Sure Yeah, smashing sports Yeah, that's a good one Yeah, being able to get him in a while. Yeah, being able to get him would be really cool.

Really? Condor Man, I'd be into. Oh, Condor Man. Especially if we can get that ice cream back, right, Jeff? Mm, Condor Man Crunch. Yum, yum, yum, yum. If we could get snake eyes, if we could get snake eyes. Yeah, snake eyes.

We could do snake eyes screenings and everyone would watch snake eyes with us. You could come out in the suit. We could wear the suit. I think that'd be cool. Tuxedo. Yep. I don't know. It's a MVP.

Oh. Okay. Now, Andrew. let's talk about it you reboot MVP is the monkey dead no absolutely not

I'm just asking why would the monkey be dead I mean you have you have the ability you just kill the monkey if you want to kill them right now you make that decision Andrew kill the monkey Andrew

no I'm gonna keep the monkey the monkey is in the cage shell monkey's in the cage shell right now he's oversees he's making money what if it took a bullet for someone and that's why it's dead oh like a secret

service agent. For who? You can take a bullet and not die. For the president. What? Well, it's probably Canadian, I'm assuming, because it's Andrew. So maybe Justin Trudeau. Yeah, the current prime minister. He's a very, very relevant.

Currently a prime minister. Well, then he took a bullet for Katie Perry. There you go. I'm trying to think of like the most beloved. MVP died taking a bullet for Katie Perry? Oh my God. Ryan Reynolds? Ryan Reynolds was the bullet.

Yeah. There was a time where like it would be hockey themed and it would be like Wayne Gretzky. Wayne Grassock very much down. Yeah. Oh yeah, way, way, way, way down. MVP, good IP to get, though. Oh, yeah.

BIP. I just want, I want to force Criterion to make an addition of the MVP movies. I want the Criterion collection of MVP. Why not? All the behind the scenes. This sort of ties in to what we talked about before. But Hayden Cole asks, are there any road trips in the works? Are there any you would like to do slash film?

Hey, hey. Route 66. Yeah, Route 66. seems to be a leading contender. Yeah. We're going to get our... This is next question by Michael Fairley is the thing that I met... The Fairley brothers? Yeah. Yeah, he's a big fan

of slapstick comedy and regulation. His question is, do you all plan on taking Dilbot on any more hotspot adventures? We'd love to see him with y'all on mall talkers if any more of these come up. Have you seen it go upslashed out escalators? Imagine how fantastically you could go, you could put a leash on him and everything. We've, we've actually been talking, Andrew, haven't we about doing some months?

Yeah, doing more Dill, making sure that Dill can go in the wild more, maybe some expansions. But I had never considered Dill as part of mall talkers, and I really like that idea. I like that idea. I don't know how we would hear you. That's the, like, yeah, I don't think it would be a thing where I'm talking. I think I'd leave the mall talking to you guys, but I'm Mall walking. Well, you could just have an airport in with Discord open. That's true. I just, like, the mic set up and I guess I'd just be howling. I could have howl.

The house would be good. Houses would be good. I think that'd be a fun thing. Yeah, I think it'd be pretty easy to glue a little hotspot to your back so you could just Wi-Fi to yourself and then be free to go wherever you want. Wi-Fi to yourself. I would be interested to see how far you could get in a single night. Oh, wow.

When there's less people about, like, could we just start you with the capital and just see where you go? That's a great. Trusting of the public. Well, like 3 a.m. He'll be able to dodge most people, probably. Yeah, and we'll be watching. Maybe, yeah, maybe if we're close by.

I think in the morning, I'd rather start early in the morning and see how far I can get. Or we can play Dilbot bingo where we've all got little cards and you have to find stuff. That's a good idea. If we do it in the morning, can we glue a little tie in a like a briefcase on him and it'll just look like he's going to work? Oh, yeah.

Absolutely. The Dilbot commute? I love this idea. Great. Dill goes to work. To the next question. From Bilbo Baggins, Jeff. Billbo Baggins and a Forelli brother.

Fairly. Whatever they're... Wow. He's trying. He's trying, guys. I'm doing great, Andrew. I slept for like one hour last night. I'm...

Dill Bonds on fumes. What happened to the idea? I don't remember the name of this. That's how they read it. Seemed like an alternative to the blind side. What did happen to that? Remember there was the premise where Gavin has it in his hands a gauntlet for over... a year now. Oh, and I was gonna unleash you on Nick. You can unleash on anybody. What? What?

What? You can unleash it on anybody. What was it called? It was an idiot? Something. I de-a-idate or something like that. I think. Oh, this is like, oh, I forgot about that. Idiot. I, I, let me, let me look back and see if we wrote it down. I don't remember how we said it, but yeah, Gavin has a power that he can put on the Nick and then within 24 hours. You have to like do, It's like a reverse point side. He has to come up with a show and present it and we have to film it within 24 hours. That was. That's what it was.

All right. And once it's done, Nick would then hold the power and he could deploy it whenever he wanted to. I think of anybody. Oh, wow. It was called idiot or something like that. But it had it was an acronym or something. But it wasn't that. It was idea idiot, but it was like I did it.

We talked about it. We all were like, this is fun. And then there was a sense of, well, since Gavin has to initiate it, this is, we're not, This is it happening. And I just wanted to resurface it. All right, it's become a new note in the top of my phone. Okay, I'm putting it into the...

And I can do this at any point like a blindside, right? Yeah. I believe so, yeah. I think it's a idea. I mean, if you do it on a Saturday, then we all have to get together and film on Sunday, so just keep that in mind.

But yeah. Interesting. All right, it's in progress. Idiot. Next question by Will Holly. What's the latest Gerpler update? Last of you remember the Gerpo color way. Green purple was due for spring summer.

Just came out. You just missed it. You just missed it, buddy. We'll see again in like the next quarter maybe, maybe like later in like the fall, but you just missed it. This is a great point though. It did just come out,

but we have to plan these things three to four to five months in advance. And that's a good reminder that we should probably figure out what the next Gerpler is if we're going to make another one. Because if we want it by September, we need to order it now. Great point. Yeah. Have to get in the lab.

We need to get in the Gerpel lab. Purple Lab. Next question by Joint King. Andrew's computer course slash walkthrough coming when we need it. I added this because Gavin and I, it's possible soon. I'm looking at a situation. Yeah, potentially. I felt like you didn't want to do it anymore.

We talked to you. I messaged you about a scenario in which I might have a computer that I would like to go through a setup with you. Optimizing it. So we'll see. It's a possibility. A computer that you have that you possibly want. to optimize maybe? Yeah.

It's not definitive if I'll get it or not, but there is a scenario in which I end up with a goofy computer and I think I would love to go through with Gavin and have him try to help me set it up in a current context. Is this a computer you're getting from a celebrity or a famous person? Uh, potentially. Okay. This is insane. This is crazy.

He's been a little minison. This is crazy. He's been a little minison, fucking cameo trying to convince celebrities to give him Game Boy and stuff. This is also, I want to say, I guess putting Andrew on blast, this is the best way where Andrew can get this thing done so he's off the hook for it without actually having to do the thing that was originally pitched. Because I feel like we would get a four-part series from me just watching you use your computer for 10 minutes. But now we're going to go through like Jean-Luc Picard's like 486. Yeah, right?

I mean, congratulations, Andrew, you figured it out. Yeah, oh, I mean, you know, to be honest, the evolution of the problem of the idea originally was realizing that I have, like, all of my personal information on my computer, just blindly looking around felt like a data and or security risk for multiple reasons. You have all your personal stuff on the work computer?

This was before, it was just, I was using the computer I had. This was the Mac I had from like 2012. Oh, I see. So now I don't, on my current computer. work computer, but the one that we wanted to do on, I absolutely did. I don't even, I don't know if I've ever opened a browser on my work computer at home. Next question is from Will of all the lore the show has created, which is your favorite?

I really like the time machine. I'm a big fan of the time machine. Yeah, but we still don't use it right. What do you mean? No, but I still, I just, I really like the idea that we have it. I think there's so many other uses we could have with it. Like, I think we could expand on it. a lot of interesting ways.

I just get a lot of joy out of the time machine. And I think as even though maybe we haven't used it to its fullest, it has a lot of possibility. That makes me excited. What about you guys? I can't believe somebody likes the time machine that much. Yeah, I can't say of all the lore.

It could be, we talked about doing like a fun thing of like a 1960s style regulation episode like going in the past. I think if we wanted to sell old merch, that would be a fun like way to do it. Like it just leads to so many things. For me, I think it's got to be Deputy Indiana and triangulating the center of the regulation universe.

And I still would like to at some point, just ideas for the undefined future, have a concrete obelisk made and then buy a plot of land and erect it there. The dog's going to piss on it. I know. That's what I'm hoping that. The point? Maybe that's the thing. People will come from around the world to piss on our statue. I think one of my favorite parts of that trip to deputy in the video was when Eric put the ball down by the... sign and then he gets in the car and goes, get me out here.

Yeah. It was an absolutely terrifying little place. Yeah, it's just, you know, we're just not from like small towns, and it's been a long time since I've been in a small town. You know what I mean? Yeah, I get you. Jeff, you might be from a small town, but you're not Fram a small town. Yeah, I'm not Fram a small town.

You're right about that. Like, that's what I mean. I'm of a small town. Yeah, I'm not Fram one. Yeah. To me, that's the thing that I just like, I just don't need to be there anymore. There is nothing more dangerous than small town people. They're curious and you're in their space.

It's not a good combination. Curious is a positive spin on it. Yes, it is. 100%. They all lost. I think my favorite, some of my favorite, some of my favorite, pieces of the regulation I'm thinking

about it and it makes me laugh. Is Andrew's fucking Umi Ditchie? Yes. And then when he gets fucked up internet, he tells about his bits. And I don't it's been years of

doing the show. I still don't fully understand what it means, but I just have to like go along with bits. Yeah, I'm out of bits. I'm low on bits. I'm using my bits.

What are your bits? Is it just data? Yeah, it's data. It's the bits. It's BTS, right? BTS. BTS. Oh, no.

I just got a text yesterday saying I was out of bits. What's the current situation? How did they send it to if you didn't have any bits? You know what was crazy is I was on Wi-Fi. It was like 1 a.m. And they said, hey, you're out of bits. And I was like, what? Are you on that?

Yeah. What's the status of the BTS sauce? I had to get rid of it. It's gone. Oh, no. It's gone. It's gone. That is sad.

No, that's a shame. I think my favorite law is the stuff that ends up in discussion in the community where people are trying to use it with each other. So they're like, oh, does this thing mean he's like from here, but fram here? And then there's a whole argument about it. Yeah. And then the audience starts to look to us as the authority. And even we don't truly know what is correct.

Especially, I think the hardest part of that is when we, have to batch record episodes so we're two weeks out from something and I don't remember a conversation. I'm just like, what are these people talking about about what we're talking about? Like I, dude, so removed from it. It's so hard. Oh, another great

one is somehow, goof world existed, but somehow Andrew mentioning the phrase valley of interest. Yeah. I feel like turned goof world into a tangible navigatable place in my mind. Yeah. Yeah. Like because of that one phrase it forced a flushing out of goof world into something so much greater than it started as.

It added like four physical walls to a 3D space. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I'm a big fan of the lore of technical difficulties. And it used to, I feel like, apply to Andrew in particular, I always loved his setup and like figuring that out and like how to work certain things. But it's happened with all of us now,

especially in episode 100. And so I just love that it's kind of, again, contagious and has spread to the rest of us on some level at some point. and it's just like a funny thing that we can turn into amusement at least and not lose a video or an audio piece. This is more of a behind the scenes lore, but I'm a big fan of the starter pistol. Oh, the starter pistol has been really good, Jeff. That's a great, that's a great purchase. It's a good purchase, man.

It's a good smell every time you fire it. Nick did have it this morning, which is... Well, I used it. It's for everybody. It's not my gun. Why are you so concerned about Nick having the starter pistol? It's not loaded. It's 100% loaded with caps.

Gavin's just so worried about it Gavin, why don't you do the next one? No, it just made me jealous and I feel like maybe we should all have our own sinking gun. Can we all, can we pick one? Because I think I just picked mine. I just looked and I think I want it. Yeah, they're about 40 bucks each, but they go...

That's what you think. But you can spend more. This one's 400. I think. I found one that is a rifle and it's a mini cap gun from Cabella. It's a little carbine repeater.

It's eight bucks. Oh, hell yeah. You're bought to Cabellas. What's the legality of firing a blank. I don't know that you can. Okay. Good to know. Are you thinking like a Yosemite Sam situation or like what's

the context of you firing these blanks? I just wanted a sinking gun that was loud of the Jeffs. Oh. That would be louder. That would definitely be louder. Definitely be louder. Hold on. Let me put my earplugs in. We got to sink. Next question from Richard. Any ideas of merch you would like to do in the future?

I have one. Okay. This is a Gavin annoying, or not Gavin, is Andrew Friction. I was going to talk to Gavin about. I have a problem with my Gerpler. I love my Gerplers, my main cup, but it's so big. And I want to get the maximum amount of water every time I use it. But I also have shaky hands.

And so I'll refill it up in the bathroom. And by the time I get back to my desk, it feels like I've dropped the liter of water on the floor. and like the six feet. But then I'll look at the cup and like barely any water has come out. I'd love a Gerpler lid of some kind. So it's been discussed in the past. It would be called a Liddler.

And I think you could do it. I also hear that like a lot of the like a fast food. Just a large Wendy's car goes on top. Yeah, we'll go on. We could we could do that if there's genuine demand for it. But I don't know.

I worry like the Gerpler. I think it's great. I worry that selling a lid is maybe a little bit too much like what the fuck are we doing here? Little cash grabby? Yeah. Because we're selling the lid.

Because I'm filling water all the time. I would like have a legitimate use for it. Yeah, I mean, it just makes me kind of like, I don't really know, man. If enough people honestly wanted it, I'd be okay with it. But it does feel a little, I don't know, like people making backpacks for a Stanley. You know, I understand it has a personal,

it has an absolute use. I agree. But it just feels like, I don't know, it's like trying to resell the corporate people in some way. What if the lid? was also a coaster. I don't need a coaster. I just need something that prevents me

from spilling water when I'm trying to walk with my gurpler. In that vein, a piece of merchandise that I would someday like to revisit, but I don't think there's any traction or any desire on anyone else. And I don't think any of you even know this, maybe. But we made a straw many years ago at Frippace. And it was a F***a Silly straw, right?

Oh, yeah. The initial idea when I pitched it, and somehow it got twisted, but I wanted it to be called the slurpler and I wanted it to just say slurp or slurple not f***-face and somehow that got contorted into being a f***ed straw

and I thought that was funny enough that I didn't say anything about it but I would love to someday still make a slurpler yeah I think it should be a wide a straw could do a wider straw what if the straw is almost as white as the cup has anybody ever made a straw that just fits in the cup

the mouth of a cup so how would you drink just get your mouth at Carefully. Carefully. Fat straw. What about a regulation alarm clock? Well, we've done clocks once before. And nobody bought them.

When they were gone, everyone wanted them. So I don't really know how I feel about it. But if you guys are into it, I could do it. What if it's a pinball game that's an alarm clock? You have to score a thousand. You have to score a threshold to go back to sleep. Yeah. I'm never snoozing.

Neither will Gavin. But there's nothing that comes to mind outside of that. that's like a burning desire. I feel like we do a good amount of merch without overdoing it. I do worry that we're going to get, again, it's the thing of like the 100% like completion that people have. I just worry about them specifically. Yeah.

When it comes to the merch and we've talked about this a lot in the past, but it has to make sense within the context of what we're doing or there's no point in making it. And it has to, I think, enhance what we're doing in some way. So that's why you don't see a bunch of just regulation T-shirts with different color ways or, you know what I mean? That kind of stuff. Yeah.

And so I just want to continue to be intentional. And there's nothing that's presented itself as an idea in the last few months, at least to me, that is screaming to be turned into some sort of clever piece of merchandise. I guess I'm slightly curious as to what happens with the next coin. Because obviously, once we sell out, we have to flip the coins again. I mean, honestly, at this rate, we may never know. We probably flipped the coin already this week because I'm assuming. it's sold out in the, hopefully during the anniversary.

Yeah, maybe people stuck them in with their bigger orders. I think it's quite difficult to sell a coin on its own because shipping will be more than the coin. Oh yeah. Yeah. Which again, I want to make clear, we don't control. Just letting you know, just, I'm just saying it. Also, Jeff's Never Learn shirt is totally sold out.

That's ridiculous. Yeah. Plenty of Rattie Boy shirts still in the store. If you get any size you want, literally any size on the Rattie Boy shirts, any size, any of them, any size that you want, grab it now. Never Learns a great example. Give them a try was a funny joke. Never Learn was stretching that funny joke as far as I thought I could.

And now we're done. There's not going to be another shirt behind it to get you to buy a third shirt. We're not going to do that. Yeah. And the last question. Bye. For Harderis. This is a serious sports question for Gavin, of all people.

Oh, shit. I'm excited about it. I just want to ask Gavin what he thinks of his spurs getting relegated. I had a feeling someone was going to ask this. Oh, wow. Yeah, I watched them play, they play, like, Bournemouth or something. They lost.

Or they were winning. It happens a lot to the teams that are relegating. It was like a 95th minute tie, which would have got them out of relegation or something, but then they didn't. It's tragic. What's happened to the team, Gavin? Well, I don't know.

I've not really been to a Spurs game since, like, 2012, so it's evolved a lot. I had a picture that I took of me watching, actually. Does it become more affordable to get games if they get relegated? I don't know what happens It's such a big team I can't imagine how you operate a team

With so much less money Do you also do you buy season tickets At a price And then your team gets relegated And you're like well I'd like a partial Fucking discount Like half the wait list disappears I don't know

I don't know how it works I've never seen such a big team Get relegated And I don't think they've ever not been In the top league Well hopefully they can fight back And get back to it next year You know one day

Yeah Good luck to them And uh A good saucer talk by us, I'd say. We dusted it off. I feel really good. We covered a lot. Dusty sausage.

These sausage talks are coming at you less frequently as the company continues to grow. And that's just a function of, I think, us figuring stuff out and having less to discuss. Because believe it or not, I feel like here, too, we were close to a well-oiled machine in a lot of ways. It's surprising. I don't know that I'd say that, but I do think that we've been more on top of things. I don't know that I, listen, I don't think I'd call us a well-oil. It's getting closer. You know, but hey, we are getting closer.

You're right. I will agree with that, Nick. I feel like we're going fast enough now that the car is no longer on fire, but it's still, the vehicle's still figuring it out. Yeah. That's kind of roof. There's air conditioning. Yeah.

We might not have doors yet, but I feel safe. We're in a Jeep. We're in a Jeep, boys. I do like where we're at. And I'm excited to keep doing this. for, you know. The rest of your life? Yeah, hopefully.

I mean, ideally. Yeah, fingers crossed. That's what I'm hoping for. But it is, it's been a lot of fun. I'm excited to keep doing it. And I do hope we can get to more sausage shocks again because the, absolutely. Sausage shocks have been good. Totally.

It is a lot of fun. Yeah. If instead of counting up each year, we were counting down, what do you think, what would you hope the number is? Jeff. 72. Okay. Next year will be 71.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Nice. Easy as that. So I'm going to keep counting up, but if you guys want to count down from there, go for it. What do you think you're, what do you think you're counting down from, Geph? Oh, at least nine. That's defeatist.

That'd be a great run, wouldn't it? No. I would want to do at least as long as rooster teeth. I'll try to beat that. So 19 left. No kidding. Isn't 72 past all of our life? We know that Archie can do let's plays.

He's better than you are. You can get on there and he's going to get fired up, dude. He's better at the game. He's not. well thanks for thanks for listening guys thank you for another great anniversary thank you so much for year too

this has been a lot of fun thanks y'all can do without you Gavin is going to leave us with words of wisdom that we're going to hang on to for the next year nice

go toddy he fired the gun I fired the gun oh you feel better I've never done that before that was fun oh we don't have to do a tail sink you can just get it down for Andrew

yeah bye meeting bye bye