Regulation Podcast - Stardew Context // Geoff's Week of Troubles [104]

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about Stardew Valley idea, Worms History, Gavin's clip, Geoff's troubles, bugs, AC, diverticulitis, seven baths, foreshadowing, Andrew's Baby Games, Geoff's recording, Celtics, Gurple shoes, uberhaxornova, James Hoffmann, sports starter kits, F**kface Off Season 2, Anniversary, Gurple Jacket, CPAP vs diverticulitis, and bov CPAP. JOIN US for our Second Anniversary Stream on Monday May 11 @ 6:01pm CT on twitch.tv/theregulationpod Sponsored by Ridge Wallet. Upgrade your wallet today! Get 10% Off @Ridge with code REGULATION at https://www.Ridge.com/REGULATION #Ridgepod #sponsored Support us directly at https://www.patreon.com/TheRegulationPod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental content, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Download the Instacart app and shop today. Hello, and welcome to another episode of the regular. podcast. This is episode 104. My name is Jeff Ramsey with me as always. Andrew Gavin, Eric and Nick. Hi, how are you guys doing? Jeff, what's happening? I'm doing great. I'm worried about you, Jeff. You've been struggling. You've been dealing with a lot that you haven't shared with us. You wanted to wait. Going through it. Yeah, I didn't see any point in wasting it not on camera, which is part of the problem with my life is that I can't just have a life. I has to all be on camera. But yeah, I'd love to tell you what I've been up to the last.

a few days. I would love to know before we initiate this, do you want do you want a little bit of a win now or do you want a win later? I'll take a win now. You'll take a win now? Okay. I need to apologize to you. Holy shit. For my silence. Last week.

Starting Valley was Gavin's idea. 100% was 100% Gavin's idea. He pitched it. Now can I take a step back and say, no, it's not? Oh! Tray can, but do you remember I remember it being pitched specifically

and you two were just going at it last week and I was like, I'm just going to let this play out. I just want to hear what's going to happen. But I distinctly remember Gavin pitching it because I don't like Stardue Valley and I remember thinking, well, I don't want to do that internally. I know where Eric's going to go. He's going to go, but there's a thread on the subreddit

where somebody mentions that they gave the idea in one of my streams and I wrote it down and went, oh, that's a great idea. I remember that moment and I remember writing that down, and going, oh, this, I remember this. This is Gavin's idea. Great, I'll write it down so we don't forget. I remember being in the office last week where Gavin pointed out to you where the idea

came from. And you went, oh, shit. That, that happened after Gavin pitched it initially. That happened after I pitched it. This is weeks ago. Andrew, when did he pitch it? A long time ago. There is, there is a large gap.

There is enough of a gap that internally I went, oh, I think that idea is gone. I'm glad. because I don't like to play Stardue Valley. And then you repitched it and then I went, fuck. Ideas come and go. They come and they go around again. And so sometimes it can be hard to get to the beginning because I definitely repitched it based on

the reason we're not going to talk about, a funny joke. We're not going to talk about a camera. But that was definitely something that made me want to do it. But I do think that the original pitch came from Gavin. That's where I got the idea in the first place, many, many, many moons ago. It was 100% a Gavin pitch

initially. I was getting blamed for pitching and getting blamed that it wasn't eight players. I'll take the blame for the eight player thing. Because I googled it and it said eight player, but I guess it only meant PC. I assumed it was a player on Xbox as well and it clearly wasn't.

A.H. Jeff would have done his homework there. Regulation Jeff did not. I apologize. I think the eight player thing for me came from mainly the history of worms. that was for me the funny part of it. The fact that we had, this is the second time

that there would potentially be a player issue thing relating to you. That was the amusement to me. Not that actually it was your fault. I didn't know it was a place. I didn't know anything about Sturdy Valley. I don't like it. I gotta be honest.

We filmed it and I just thought it was an okay video. It was fine. I had fun playing with you guys. Don't see us making a part two. But who knows, maybe we will. Jeff, are pretty faux. on what Jeff was doing in Stardue Valley though, so I don't know if he's the best judge.

Sap real delicious. I learned that. Real tasty. I like it a lot. Anyway, I just wanted to circle back in that. I apologize Jeff for not helping you in... So when was this my idea? I don't remember the specific meaning. I just have a very clear memory, much like when we went to pinballs in the past that you brought it up. And I only, like, am confident in this memory because of how much I dislike Stardew Valley. All right. Well, I've got a clip. Oh. God bless you, Gavin.

God bless you. I'm sending it to Eric. This, I don't actually really know what this proves. This is just the truth of what happened. Eric, can you stream that to us? Because I don't think I can stream with sound. Whatever, whatever the truth of this is, it's going to have happened after Gavin originally pitched it.

This was many months ago. How many months ago? Five. The thing Andrew's talking about is at least six. At least... At least six? Uh-oh. Just trying to give my friend Jeff a win.

All right, hang on. I'm downloading this clip so I can play it. And this is... I'm floored. Also, why can't you stream with sound? Yeah, what's up with that? I don't know. I can't.

I just fix it. Do you want to call Andrew's tech guy? Oh, I'd love to. Oh, just cool, Andrew. I got the bits. I don't know what that would get you, but sure. Okay. All right.

I'll figure it out. Here's the clip. I can stream sound. You guys want to check out my screen. Yeah, I'm watching. Okay. You guys ready? I'm ready.

I'm not watching. Watching. Yeah, sound on. Oh. And just for everyone listening to this, this is in the office. It is Jeff and Gavin sitting at their desks, which are next to each other with the same monitor.

And here you go. Best three-player a lot of games. The first list is all the two-player club games after. Starting valleys up to eight players? Oh, shit. Is it really? That can't be real.

Send someone down to mine. Oh, it wasn't. Send someone to 10 to FOM. Someone can just go out and get laid. Post new farm. Crazy thing about this I read is a, it's a player. Is this a bit? Yeah, I don't know what.

Yes. There you have it. You were right. I didn't have to play it. I'm thrilled with it. Thank you. I feel like that that provides key context of everything that occurred. Yeah, I don't know what that proves.

I feel like that proves everything. I appreciate you, you were Googling games found Starchia and points to it. Yeah, but it popped up on a list. You had pitched it months and months before that. It's triggered in my head when it, when something I recognize comes up and I go, oh, Starter Valley, right? And I'm just leaning down. The idea that was pitched originally was a race to hook up and or marry somebody in the town, which is what Gavin brought up when you talked about it in that conversation.

So maybe you're the one that brought it onto the field, But Gavin definitely pitched it. Well, what happened is after that, I wrote it on the board and then I re- uh, I was like, oh, we should do that because it was written on the board. But that was why it was written on the board. Interesting. I got a clip for next week. Yeah.

All right. There you go. Gavin, I don't know, I don't know what you were thinking with that one. That wasn't, I don't think that clip was doing, that clip wasn't doing anything for you, man. That's rough. Who, me or Jeff? For you. Oh, what?

That doesn't look like I'm pissed. pitch in a series. At all. No. What did it look like? Two guys sitting there going, what games can we play? That didn't seem...

And specifically, Jeff listing a game and then you listing two premises for what could be done in the game as a video. I'm on board. I'm on board with the idea. It's a great idea.

The idea you came up with. How do I come up with it? Those two ideas that you pitched, you did? I'm going to be dead by the end of this episode. I thought we were going to get into Jeff's troubles and we're just starting. I was just trying to give him a quick win. Andrew,

Andrew, thank you. That's just trying. Pal, friend, thank you. I feel like you really had my back there with truth and honesty. I'm on your side.

And then Gavin showed up and said, here's a video that refutes what I'm saying. So I appreciate that too. I just say I'm not really sure what it proves. It's just what happens. But that is why it's right on the board because you Googled it on a list. But I do appreciate, like a 4K level of gaslighting.

We're being like, no, I'm right. Here's a, here's, I got a clip of me being wrong at the same time. Which you acknowledge was like, you know, you said, like, that's not what you did, but just as a concept, I think is very funny. My friend Jeff threw out game. I was excited about it. And, you know, I'm on board. I'm ready to collaborate. And now that you got your win, that I'm sure feels like a big win, Jeff.

What's every, what's gone wrong? Yeah, what's up, man? Where do I start? I apologize. My brain's a little mushy. I'm going on about, well, as of this morning, I had a snack pack. I had a banana pudding snack pack. It's the first food I've had.

And so that puts me at about 900 calories since Sunday. Oh, God. So I'm a little foggy, but I'm going to do my best to get timelines and stuff right. I guess I should start from the second I left the live stream on Friday is where it all began. I don't know if you guys remember, but we had a very successful live stream on Friday. I was on top of the world. We did that.

We finally played that Super Battle Golf thing. It was a lot of fun. We had our buddy in switching. It was awesome. Great. And I got into my car to leave on Cloud 9. So exhausted from a long week, as we all were. We discussed how much work it was.

And I'm about halfway home, and there's like a, I feel something on my arm. I look over. and there's like three bugs on my arm. I can't tell if they're like little gnats or flies or something. And I'm like brush them off. I'm like gross. And then I something catches out of the corner of my eye and I look over it.

And my entire passenger seat is covered in them. Like hundreds of bugs jumping and popping and flying around. And I'm like, what the fuck is this? I was in that car. What? You were in that car. You were in that seat four hours prior. Nothing, right?

It was totally fine. What? So I don't know how they got on my car. I don't know if they were in the driveway and they crawled up in. I don't know if a spider called in and laid eggs. I don't know how the fuck it happened. I know that it wasn't president lunch. And then when I got in the car to go home, it was.

And so I pull into my driveway and I get out and I run over to the passenger side and I open up the door. And there's, I don't want to say, if I said a thousand, I think that would be ridiculous. But a couple hundred tiny bugs. I can't tell what they are. Emily thinks they're spiders. I think maybe they're gnats. They're just all over the passenger side. And I just get a rag and I just start smashing them and trying to,

I don't know what else to do, you know? I'm just like fucking... Get the plague in your car. I got the plague in my car. It's the first thing I thought, Andrew. And so I'm just like going to town on them for like 20 minutes. And I think I got them all. I look at the rag.

They're all alive on the rag, just fucking squirming around. And I'm like, what am I going to do? And so I just kill as many as I can. And then I shut it up. And I think, can I bug bomb a car? So I start Googling it and doing some research. And some people say, yes, you can bug bomb a car. Other people say, oh, don't do that.

All the unintended consequences. of bugging a car, you'll ruin your fucking car potentially. It's not worth it. And so I think, like, I probably shouldn't do that. But then I remembered when we had to get the onion smell out of Emily's car, we got this defogging odor, like deodorizer that when I picked it up, it said only handle with mouth, with like face protection and gloves, which, you know, I didn't do, obviously. And I thought, well, that thing, that thing could probably kill anything.

You know, if I'm not allowed to touch it, I doubt the bugs will. so I ordered one. I shut my car down. And I said, that's a fucking Saturday or Sunday problem. Whenever that thing comes in, I'll deal with it. Because I don't know what else to do.

Go inside, have a lovely evening with my wife. We're watching hockey. It's about 9 p.m. And Emily goes, does it feel a little warm in here to you? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it does. It does.

She gets up and she looks. Thermostat's set to 73. It's 78. That's weird. And go upstairs, thermostat up there. it's actually 79 up there and we realize

the ACs having problems. So I go look at it. I try to figure it out. I flip the breaker. Just I don't know what else to do, you know? And then it's like, yeah, it looks like maybe the, you know, it's not my house. I don't know how long it's been since this thing's been service. I know it hasn't been serviced since I've lived here. And so I think like, well, I'm not going to text the landlord at 10.30 p.m. on a Friday night to tell them to fix the AC. So I'll just text them first thing Saturday morning.

we'll see what we're looking like Saturday morning. So we go to bed, we get up, it's in the 80s, it's pretty warm, and so I text him, and I go, hey, AC is not keeping up, it's out, it's like 80 in here, it's pretty rough. And he goes, oh my God, I'm so sorry, I'll get somebody on it immediately,

and he texts me back a few minutes later, and this is why it sucks to rent, this is what I miss about owning. He texts me back, and he goes, the best I can get, the fastest I can get somebody out there's Monday morning. I'm like, it's fucking Saturday morning, and it's going to be hot all weekend. And then I'm like, there's nothing you can do. He's like, I'll call around, but I don't think so.

I have 110% certainty that if I owned this house, I would have had somebody out. I could have got somebody out. But, you know, like emergency HVAT guy. That's the difference between renting and owning. I understand. That's a part of the tradeoff. So I'm not mad at him. I'm not happy with him, but I'm not like mad at him.

I get it. Emily and I put a bunch of fans around the house. It's actually not bad in the house downstairs because the ceilings are tall and there's a lot of shade. and so it's actually kind of pleasant. And so we're like, well, we'll just gut it out for the weekend. If it gets bad on Sunday, maybe we'll go stay at a hotel or something, but we'll be fine. Also Saturday morning, my tummy started to rumble in a way that is kind of a nightmareously familiar to me. I could tell I had a bit of diverticulitis coming on.

And typically when that happens, I say this to you guys from time to time because it's something I deal with, you know, year round. There's a difference between like going, like, oh, my diverticulitis, I can feel it. I got to stop for a little bit. And oh my God, it's a full-blown, you know, outbreak. Outbreak's not the right word, but you get what I mean. And so 99 times out of 100 when I'm telling you guys, oh, I think some diverticulitis is coming on,

I catch it immediately and I shut my, I shut down. I get into bed, I lay down, I don't eat food for 24 hours, and I don't do anything until I feel better. And that works for me all the time. but three times, this being one of those three times. That has worked for me. Does that just help you get through it, or does that actually make it last a short amount of time?

It helps you get through it. It's the, what's happening is there's a polyp in your colon that's gotten aggravated and agitated, and if you keep putting food and stuff in, it furthers the agitation. And if you're moving around and stuff, that furthers the agitation.

So if you're still, it passes, the agitation goes away in theory, and after about a day, you're fine. Maybe you eat light for the next day, soup or something, but then you're usually good with, in like 36 hours, you feel 100% again. And it's annoying because it doesn't like hurt.

It's just like uncomfortable. And then you go, ah, fuck, I just lost a day of my life, you know? So I was bummed because I have, I have to shut down on a sad, a beautiful Saturday. And I have to do it in a bedroom that's 82 degrees or whatever. So I'm just laying in bed fucking miserable and sweating all day, Saturday. And then I wake up Sunday morning and I feel pretty good. And I go, oh, I'm getting over it. And I get cocky.

I just, I fucking got cocky. It's been too long. It's been too long since. Yeah, I did. It's been too long since I've had a real bad flare up. And I just, I got too cocky. Emily and Meg were going out shopping and I tagged along. By the way, hung out with your wife last weekend.

I tagged along. They got tacos. Well, Emily got tacos. I got tacos. And I wasn't even think, Nick, I can't believe it. I wasn't even thinking about it. I just, like, forgot. It just dropped from my memory.

I got up. I was feeling good. I felt so good Sunday morning. I went for a bike ride. Not a long bike ride, but a little bike ride. And I was like, yeah, okay. And after that, I was like, I'm good.

I just forgot. And even though I was still feeling a little bit, it's just like, I was blind to it somehow. And so I ate two of the worst fucking tacos I've had in a while. This is where I'm fucking stupid. Then we went to a second location that had better tacos. No. And I was like, well, I can't.

I can't just end a day on shit tacos. So I got a smoothie and another taco. Yeah, Meg told me that you had breakfast twice because the first one sucked. It sucks so bad. Oh, Jeff. All just like shopping, hanging around, dicking around with Meg and Emily,

having a time of my life, not even thinking about it, just completely distracted. About three hours later, it hit. Hit me like a fucking, like, somebody, like Brock Lesnar punched me in the stomach, right? And I go, oh, shit, the tacos, I wasn't over it. This was a mistake.

So I immediately go to shut down again. Things go from bad to worse very quickly. I don't, I just go to bed. I can't, I'm uncomfortable. I'm in pain. What was a two is now like a seven, maybe a six. And I'm like, oh, this is going the wrong direction. So I got a hard shutdown.

This sucks. I probably, you know, we'll see how I feel Monday. I can't sleep all night. I'm up and tossing and turn in. Emily can't sleep because it's hot. So it's a combination of being 84 degrees in our bedroom and me being uncomfortable and not being able to find it.

Like when you have this flare up, there's no comfortable position to lay or sit in. It's just misery. And so you just kind of constantly shuffling. I'm taking a... I took like two baths in the middle of the night. I get up Monday morning. I think I should just power through this.

I stream for a little while. I have to cut it short because I'm not doing well. I immediately go back to bed. I think I'm going to throw. up. That's not a good sign with that particularitis. You don't want to be thrown up because I could be a sign that you've gone septic. And so I shut my body down.

By the way, landlord at some point of the weekend called and said they'll be there between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Monday. And I know. So that's fine. So I just lay in bed and I just wait for the guy to show up. He doesn't show up until 4 o'clock. What the fuck? Dude. They're running behind. At this point, the AC's totally done. You know, it's high 80s in the house.

And he looks at it and he goes, I hate to do this to you, man, but the whole thing is frozen solid. Like every, like it's, I can't even diagnose it. We're going to have to unplug it, let it thaw overnight, and then we'll send somebody out tomorrow.

Overnight. Yeah. And so, so I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? And he's like, there's nothing. I couldn't even fix it

if I knew it was wrong with it right now because it's so frozen over. I go, okay. Cool. And so he leaves. And by the way, at one point, he needed to get in the attic and he needed a ladder. And so I'm like, by the way, I'm trying to play it off like I'm not in pain. Sure.

I had to go into the garage and get a ladder and then carry it up the stairs to this guy. And like doing some shit, I know I should not be doing. And anyway, as soon as he leaves, I tell Emily, she's a, I don't know where she is. And I think she might be at work. And we just rent an Airbnb. We rent an Airbnb like three blocks down the road. And we say, fuck it. We'll just stay there.

We can't spend another night. It's too uncomfortable. It's just getting worse. The thing's totally off now. There's like there's no air movement in the house. It's still the fans are not helping at all. And so we rent an Airbnb and we go to the Airbnb. And then, which is in itself a whole thing because we got to take the dog.

We got to take all the dog shit. Emily's got to get ready for work in the morning. She's got to take all of her makeup and her blow dryers and all her shit. I'm taking, you know, all my pitiful medicines and stuff. And so we check into this Airbnb. I lay down in bed. I'm like seeing stars at this point like things have gone really bad from the six I'm like

at eight eight and a half now I can't fucking see straight and so she's trying to fix the internet because it doesn't work in the house I don't care I can't even focus on my phone it's one of those things where you like I you think like I'll just play a video game through it or I'll just watch a movie through it or I'll just scroll on my phone you can't focus

on any of it's just it hurts to look at you know it's distracting and so I'm just like staring at a wall in a bed while she's running around downstairs talking to the Airbnb people for two hours trying to get the internet fixed, which I was never able to use anyway because I was so sick. Anyway, Monday night is maybe the worst night of my life. I'm in so much pain that I have to get up and take a bath.

I can only be in the bath for about 20 minutes, and then I have to get out and I go lay back down for an hour. I sleep maybe 10 minutes, and then I have to go take another bath. From 11 p.m. until 5 a.m. I took 7 baths. Oh, my God. I slept maybe an hour. At 5 a.m., I realize this is bad. not getting better. This is going to go, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to be in serious trouble if I don't do something about it. So I get up and I drive myself to the hospital. I don't want to

bother Emily. She's got to get up and go to work. She's got the dog to look after. So I get up and I drive myself to it like a little ER room thing. And, and they take a look at me. They do a cat scan. They go, wow, it's good that you came in when you did. We caught it early enough. You know, no major damage or anything. We need to get you on antibiotics immediately. You, you know how to deal with this. You've had diverticulitis before. They, you know, tell me all the shit I already know. And they're like, but this is, you know,

fucking stop and lay down and don't do shit and take these antibiotics and you'll be better in a couple days. And I go, that's great. Can I get some pain meds? Because this is too much. I can't take it. The Motrin's not keeping up with it.

And she goes, I'd love to give you some narcotics, but it causes constipation. So I can't because that'll just exacerbate the situation. So you just have to grin and bear it. and I was like, okay, cool. She said, by the time you have your third or fourth antibiotic pill, you'll be feeling better. I'm like, okay, and they give me one there, which is awesome. Then she gives me a prescription.

She calls it into a Walgreens, like, across the street. And I'm like, great. I'm just in a fog still, right? So I get in my car after they discharge me and, like, you know, they've given me fluids and all that stuff. And I got the bandage on me in a little hospital bracelet. And I go across the street to the Walgreens. And of course, it's, I don't know, six in the morning, seven in the morning.

I've been up the hospital. They're not open. Their pharmacy's not open. So I drive home back to the, I drive back to the, to the Airbnb where Emily is getting ready and she is going to take the dog

to daycare, so I don't have to deal with them for the day, which is great. And I basically like lay down in bed and like, okay, fine, I'm going to be okay. And as soon as I lay down, I get a text from the AC guy who's like, hey, I'm on the way out to your house. It's like, fuck. So I get up and I put clothes on. and I go back to my house.

Once again, I shouldn't be out of bed, let alone driving, let alone standing up, talking to dudes. Anyway, so I meet the guy here. It's a totally different dude. I have to explain the whole thing to him again. He spends an hour looking at it. He comes back. He goes, yeah, man, the compressor's toast. It's got a giant leak in it.

This machine's fucked. It's 10 years old. I could replace the coil, but the coil is busted. I can replace the coil, but the coil is going to be about as much as just like, if I can find one, just getting a new machine. And I'm like, well, tell the landlord. I don't give a fuck. And he's like, yeah, it'll be his decision.

So he's like, I'm just like standing there. Well, like, he's talking to a dude at his company who's talking to the landlord, relaying like a fucking telephone back and forth, you know. And eventually it's determined that I think they're going to replace the AC. So they have, because they have to come out. So they're like, we'll be up the next day. We've got to take measurements and stuff for the new AC. I'm like, cool.

In the meantime, he charges up the AC. And he's like, this will last year a while. It's not going to, you know, it's temporary solution, but at least you'll be in comfort. And I guess, and I don't know how long it's supposed to last, but the guy seemed to think it'd be until, at least until we got the AC in. So then he leaves. I'm like, oh, cool, I'll go, I go upstairs. I don't even have the energy to go back to the other house.

I just go upstairs and I fall asleep in my bed and I just lay there. And then about 1 o'clock, I think, oh, it's after lunch. I should get up and go get my medicine. So I get up and I drive to fucking Walgreens. Walgreen, I get there at 135, Walgreens closes, their pharmacy closes from 1.30 to 2 for lunch. Oh my God.

And so I missed it by five minutes. And so I think like, is it one person? Yeah, I don't know. I just think, like, can I sit in my car? Can I sit in my car for 25 minutes? I can't. So I just drive back to the rental and I lay down and I have an actually kind of a nice nap.

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and I don't have the energy to get all this dog stuff and Emily stuff or whatever, but I take my stuff, and I figure all transfer back, home because we don't need the Airbnb this second night if our house is fine. We're way more comfortable in our house. And as I do all that, I get home, I get situated, I go back to bed, I'm in bed, and I'm like, oh, finally, it's like 4.30. I'm like, I feel great. I don't feel great. I'm sorry. I feel happy that I'm laying down and I'm finally done with all my responsibilities. I'm not going to have to get out of bed again unless it's to, you know, pee or puke or whatever.

and then it hits me I gotta get the dog from daycare because daycare closes like two hours before Emily gets off work and so I like motherfucker so I get up and I go to goddamn doggy daycare and I get the dog and I come home

I have to pick him up and put him in the car which hurts like hell anyway and then I'm finally home at like six and I'm ready to watch I just lay down and I'm ready to watch the Celtics play and then they lose which is fucking awesome and then I go to bed

and I have just another terrible night's sleep. At least the AC's fine, but I have to take like three baths in the middle of the night. My pain gets worse. Like I'm on two antibiotics and it's already worse. I'm at like a nine now. I'm pretty defeated morally. I'm like, I'm ready. Like, I'm ready to just end it all. You know, I just like, I can't take anymore. I'm just, I'm so worn out from days of heat and then the pain. And it just, it's unrelenting. And the thing about it is, it's not even just the pain. The pain sucks. It's a sharp pain. I don't know if I've ever explained this to you guys for it. It's a sharp pain in the lower left of my abdomen, right?

Like you would expect me, maybe you would feel from, like, if you had appendicitis. But the real motherfucker is that imagine if somebody had both hands, a big dude, let's say Brock Lesnar, you're laying on your back, and Barack Lesnar has taken both of his hands and he's above you, and he's

pushing down on your stomach with all of his weight. Oh, God. It feels like that, it never stops. And it only gets worse. And that's the real killer of it, right? So I wake up Wednesday morning thinking, today's the day I feel better.

You know, it'll be my third and fourth pill. I'll be doing fine. Everything's okay. I don't have to go anywhere. There is a guy coming to measure the house, but I don't care. It's not going to take long and it didn't. He was done in five minutes.

I'll just have a decent day. So I'm laying in bed waiting to feel better, waiting to feel better. And I'm not. And it's, I'm getting really demoralized. I try to watch a movie. I just fucking at a random. I don't have this list of old movies I want to watch

that I keep hearing about. I pick up, I pick this movie called Elton. Topo, because it was like a surrealist western. I go, yeah, that'd be cool. The most disgusting, violent, offensive movie I've ever seen in my entire life. Never watch that film.

Don't read about that film. Don't get interested in that film. Oh, God. It was, I couldn't believe how horrible it was while I'm going through it, right? And then at about noon, I'm thinking, well, you know, once again, at least I'm in bed.

Things could be worse. I look over at the dog who's hanging out with me, and he has thrown up on all of the sheets. What? Very quietly thrown up on all, his breakfast on all of the sheets, all of the blankets, the duvet, three pillows. And it's just, and he's just looking at me like, I'm so fucking sorry. And I'm like, I know it's not your fault, dude. Hold on. And I pick him up and I'm trying to pull the sheets.

And Emily checks in on me. And I'm like, well, it's been better. You know, I'm cleaning up dog puke. She comes home, she's like at a break, grabs all the laundries like, you're not doing it. She takes it to work with her, so she handles it, which I really appreciate. Makes me a little hobo bed. And I go back to bed, and I'm just laying there waiting to feel better until at about 4 o'clock, I realize, ah, fuck, I would Nick a thumbnail.

I can do that. So I get out of bed and I go and I sit down in this chair and I open up Photoshop and I get an insane stomach cramp. I'm like, oh, fuck, it's one of the worst I've had. It comes out of nowhere. And right at the end of the stomach cramp, it's just. I just shit my pants. Just shit my pants.

Just shit. I'm in the middle of the Andrews Baby Games thumbnail. Usually that channel on our Slack for metadata is literally just titles, descriptions, and thumbnails. There's never any conversation in there. And then you posted that thumbnail and wrote, first thumbnail I've ever shit my pants making in an extremely literal sense. Yeah. And that was maybe the lowest of the low points to me. So then I had to get, take all my clothes off, put them in the washer, take another, my 37th bath of the last five days.

And then just completely defeated. And I'm only drinking, the only thing I'm on is water and apple juice. It's all I can handle. And for, you know, since three tacos at by noon on Sunday. Maybe at 1 p.m. on Sunday. And so I'm just like, you're dealing with like the nausea, the sustained peasant. pain wearing you down mentally and emotionally, but also the hunger, you know, not eating for four days is a lot. Oh, yeah.

And so I'm just kind of miserable through Wednesday night and just laying in bed. And then at like 10 p.m., like somebody flipped a switch. I felt better. Jesus. Just like, I was laying in bed. I just looked over at Emily and I went, I'm back. I'm okay. Was that after the third antibiotic or what antibiotic was that?

That was after the fourth antibiotic. Oh, wow. Okay. So they were pretty close. That's crazy. 6 a.m. 6 p.m. was the cycle I was on. Wow.

And still I'm on because I have like eight more days of them. But I would, and by saying better, don't get me wrong. I'm not 70%. I'm like 40% right now.

You're starting to go back into a positive. But I was at 4% for a while there. And so yeah, so in the span of the last time I saw you guys, I had a plague. I had, I forgot about the plague. I forgot about the AC go out of my house.

Yeah, it's easy to forget about it because of all the other stuff. All the other stuff. My dog threw up all over me. I shit on my, and I almost ended up hospitalized and had to spend a morning in the emergency room because of fucking diverticulitis. And now I'm eating pudding for the next four days until I can move up to bland chicken or

something. How is a plague the least of yours? I didn't even mention that the thing, the fogger came in on Saturday and I set it up Saturday and then opened my car up Sunday and it was fine. Although I did have to drive my car out without properly airing it out. after that to Walgreens three times. So I'm probably going to die from some fucking chemical poison from that.

But the bugs seemed to be gone. Did you have your head out the window like Ace Ventura? I had the window rolled down and yeah, kind of like just my mouth pointed towards the window as I drove trying to breathe in hot outside air and not.

And then also the kicker is after all the AC stuff happens and everything, it essentially gets pseudo-fixed, right? We get a cold front the day after. It's chilly. None of that would have been a problem if it had happened four days later. I mean, all that shit would have been a problem,

but it would have been a much more manageable, mitigatable issue. So my question relating to everything you said is I feel like typically when you need antibiotics, that's an issue that, like, it's not going to naturally go away on its own. Did the tacos create that environment

in which you needed them, or did you realize because of the taco, like, did it kick everything into gear to the point where you got the can you needed. Like in a weird way, was the taco run actually beneficial to you because you needed antibiotics the whole time and you just

didn't know? It's the million dollar question, Andrew. I don't, and I don't know the answer to it. I can tell you that nine, you know, this is the third time I've had to go to a hospital for diverticulitis and I've had a hundred diverticulitis attacks, right? So internally, I feel like

probably had I not eaten the tacos and had I continued to rest in the way that I knew I was supposed to, I would have been fine and none of this would have been a problem by Tuesday I would have probably been a hundred percent but it is possible that you know

it doesn't fucking matter the tacos had nothing to do with it I was going to be headed to the emergency room either way there's no way to know but I definitely short-circuited my recovery on Sunday and was irresponsible and stupid and I just I don't know what was fucking wrong with me there

incredibly you made it to every single Mario Party March nature recording every morning. And one of them, you were like, you were like, as soon as we stopped filming a Friday, my whole life fell apart. And then I was asking, like, do you need help with anything? Should I come over? And you're like,

and this is almost certainly content. Yeah. Yeah. I just This podcast wrecks friendship. Yeah. I could have been, I could have dealt with a ladder. I could have been talking to some random guy. I know. Somebody could have gone and got me Walgreens. I know. I know.

I know, but I am caught in this. Well, first off, I don't like to ask for help, but think it's a, I don't know. But secondly, I'm going to do that. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I don't know what that is. But I don't, I'm not good at that and I'm not comfortable doing it. But also, it's like if I see a story in it and I can't short circuit the story, you know, which is not a healthy way to appreciate it.

But that's part of the problem I had with my career at rooster teeth after all the years was I just, every, my life just became content in the sense that I didn't know what was real, and what was, you know, where it began and ended and it damaged and distorted friendships along the way. And, you know, I don't think it's a healthy way to go about things. And I probably should have reached out to you guys and I would, you would have been more than

lovely and helpful and assistant. And I know, but I just like, you know, it's just something wrong with me. Like even Tuesday morning, I knew Emily would have taken me to the hospital in a second. Why wouldn't she? You know, she's my wife. Absolutely. Let me, but I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I didn't want to inconvenience her day. I know that she was about to be standing up from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

constantly dealing with customers and cutting hair. And it's so, I can't disrupt that for her because it sets off a bomb that she's going to be dealing with for weeks and weeks to come as they're trying to reschedule people. You know what I mean? And so it's like, I just do it myself. And I don't know. I love that you guys. Everybody reached out to me and multiple times to check on me.

And you guys were awesome. and I felt so loved by you throughout the process. I just had to get through it on my own. Sure. And I didn't, it's one of those things too where you don't identify a need

until you have it. And then it's in the moment and then it's like, it's faster to deal with it than to try to elicit the help of somebody to come in to deal with it, you know? Jeez. How are you feeling about tacos?

Generally now. It didn't ruin it, did it? Like, are you on an off taco thing or? This is not a tacos fault. The only problem, the only issue I have with tacos is the fucking trailer that gave me the two shittiest tacos I've had in Austin in about five fucking years. If I could remember the name of it, I would say it loud and proud so that nobody makes the mistake of eating at that dog shit taco place. But I can't remember what it was fucking called. But they were terrible, terrible customer service.

Can you say what tacos? What part of town it was in? You don't have to name me exactly specifically. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was on West Sixth Street. Should we have a de-influencer account where we just tell you what not to buy what not to eat?

Oh yeah, yeah, that's great. There's a guy that I really like on TikTok who lives in L.A. and he just goes to all of the hottest places and he's just like, hey, what's up? I'm a certified hater. Here's everything that sucks about this place. And I'm like, oh, that's good.

This is smart. I do have two things to show you guys. One is not about this, but one is about this. And I'm gonna give you the option, okay? Okay. I thought it, I'm shit and liquid. Like my poop sounds like Pete It's an

I don't know I don't like it I recorded it No No thanks man Okay I'm gonna give you I'm gonna give you guys the option

If you wanted to like Scientifically hear what it sounds like So you can be prepared or whatever 100% no you can text it to Gavin And he can listen because Gavin didn't say anything about not wanting to hear it Well what if we listen to it here but bleep it for the episode No I don't want to hear it I don't give a fuck about the audience

I don't want to hear it. Pretend it's up pouring a drink of water. But we know already. You can text it to Gavin. You can text it to Gavin and Gavin can discern. How about that? Yeah, I'm doing it right now. Thank you.

If I can't see it, I don't think it's going to make me gag. No, it's going to make you gag. I don't know where this confidence is coming from. All right, Gavin, I've sent it to you. You want me to listen to this away from the bike, right? Yes. Probably. Okay.

I'm tempted to mute you in Discord. Word. Kind of open message. Oh. You're having a lot of tech. I think Andrew needs to help you out, dude. I got trying. You try plugging it in, plugging it out.

You can't listen to new recording 244. God, I've recorded a lot of farts. Oh, here we got it. Oh. Oh, oh, oh. Glass of water? I mean, what did he think? Oh, no, no, no.

What did he think? It was gonna be. That doesn't sound like water. It sounds like... It sounds like... It sounds like someone trying to squeeze water out of one of those rubber chicken toys. Oh, God. It's...

Oh. So I'm doing that about 15 times a day right now, Gave. That is rough. Oh, man. Imagine out... Yeah, yeah, it's rough. It's rough to hear. It's rough to feel.

So when you're having these, you're going to the bath constantly, which I understand. Is there a reason why like you're getting in and out pretty frequently? Like is there pain that you experience while you're in the tub that like you have to leave? Or is it just like I've, I need to reset? It's weird. Like getting in the tub provides immediate relief. And then after about, I don't know, a couple of minutes I have to sit up. I can't lay down.

That becomes painful. And then I can only sit up. in the tub for a few minutes before I have to lay back down. And you go through that cycle. Sure. And then it gets cold, so you have to add a little bit more hot water. And then at some point, you just start to feel sick and you can't be there anymore. So then you got to go back in bed.

It's basically like just changing your environment until you're too sick to stomach it anymore. I don't know how to describe it. It's really weird. And like, it was like a bath at the beginning is like heaven. It's like, oh my God. And then like five minutes later, you're like, oh, you got to get out this fucking bath. I don't know what it is. But yeah.

Interesting. Definitely the most bass I've ever taken. I had a similar thing when my old testicle was trying to David Carody in itself. I found like 20 minutes of peace in the tub because it was like zero G on my balls. And then it just got really paid for when I had to get out. Yeah.

Oh, the other piece of media I had I wanted to share with you guys, this is nothing to do with any of that nonsense. I figured we can move off of all that, unless you guys have more you want to talk about there. I was watching the Celtics game. They lost. They're playing tonight. They're going to close it out tonight. Whatever. But Jalen Brown has been wearing gerpil shoes.

Oh, really? He's been a gurple man? The entire playoffs, he's been wearing one green and one purple shoe. That's awesome. I assume it's a, you know, it's his way of saying, hey, regulation, I love you guys. Yeah, exactly. And they're his shoes. He has his own shoe brand, so it's like they're his own shoes, but that is really cool. Wow.

Does he sell a gurple line? Could you buy a purple green? I think they're called 741 is the brand. I don't know if he sells it as gerbil. I'm finding it right here. Yeah, it's the new 741 Rover Color Way, and they are their gerpil shoes. That is crazy.

That is, that's nuts. I need to get myself a pair. They really truly are gerpil. That's cool. What an amazing coincidence. Speaking of coincidences, did you guys see all the comments? apparently my ass wet is Uber Hax-Ornova James from Couchop. Is it really?

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wow. Very funny. Yeah. One of the odds. People are like, it's got to be a bit. I don't think it is.

No, I'd no idea. That's crazy. How does he keep coming up on this show? What the fuck? Yeah. Wow. And he lives in Austin, I think, too, which is weird. Really?

Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I ran into him at the last RTX and I think he's local to us now. I'm not 100% sure on that, but I think that's true. Andrew. you a big Uber Haxanova guy? Yeah. Did you get matched with him just because he's like a popular gamer tag

and a bunch of people did or do you think it was just one to one? I think, I'm guessing that that game because there are certain I noticed like when you can click that follow somebody, there are certain accounts that have stars and I think it's probably popular seed. So it's probably I probably have like four or five streamers

at the top of my list that I could have followed. Obviously you're going to follow my ass wet in the water game. Also, I guess the guy, it's been mentioned to us a thousand times that the guy who got David Lynch's coffee maker is a famous coffee guy and the coffee guy who, and as soon as everybody found out, they're like, oh, he should have it. It's obviously, it's he, if anybody should have it, it's him. So very happy that that guy got David Lynch's coffee machine.

Oh, on YouTube. Who is it? Is it James Hoffman? Yeah, that's the, oh. Oh, is it really James Hoffman? I didn't know it was him. That is, hey, hey, that is the coffee guy. That's what everybody's telling me.

I get so many coffee recipes from that guy. I love his science breakdowns. I cannot believe that. That's awesome. He's got a great voice. And he like simultaneously looks 30 and 50. I don't know how he does it. Oh, yeah.

Oh, absolutely. It's awesome. I can't believe it's that guy. That's awesome. James Hoffman, congratulations. You deserve it. He was like a, he used to do like a contest, I think, for like the best espresso pour or the best like coffee made.

And he was like a champion at coffee. That's how he got started, was doing like coffee, like barista championships, and he won, and then he, I mean, I think he's probably more charismatic than most people who are pulling coffee shots. So he's like, oh, yeah, I'll give this a try. And he's been just doing this and he's so good. He's awesome. I follow him. I can't believe it's him. Yeah.

So apparently David Lynch's coffee maker is in the best possible hands on earth that could be in. And so I still wouldn't. It doesn't change the fact that I don't feel like I should own those things, but I'm cool. I'm glad he's getting used out of it and making content. It's cool. But if someone could own David Lynch's dieticulitis medication, that should go to you. Absolutely. I still don't think I should have that.

I don't want to. Come on. I love, man. What if it was a polyp? Sometimes there. Well, that would be. weird. Yeah, I might. That might be weird enough to keep.

I just feel like, I don't know. It's funny because I feel like part of what made rooster teeth successful was we were early on in the era where the walls between creators and audiences broke down, you know, and you could

share. Communicate with a creator. You could have a relationship with them in some way. And I, David Lynch, I've always wanted the wall to be a thousand feet tall between he and I. I just, I feel like we don't exist in the same, well, he don't exist in the same plane at all anymore, but like I just felt like there should,

I never wanted, he did, he did a fucking, he did a thing at Whole Foods many, many years ago when he was selling coffee, where he was there, like, selling coffee and signing autographs and taking photos. And I stayed on the other side of town because I didn't want to tempt myself

to be too close to go, you know? It's like, I don't know, but we've talked about that to death. That's enough of Jeff. Jesus, man. Oh my gosh. Processing everything you've gone through. Tacos.

I had an idea related to Gavin that I like to hear everybody's thoughts on. And in like not a negative way at all, Gavin. Like I would, well, maybe, I don't know. Maybe you'll never get it negatively. But we all are big sports fans

in different ways. We all love sports. And Gavin doesn't dislike sports. You just, you've never, you haven't had. a hook into them at all. No, I used to watch Tottenham play when I was in England, but I've, that was 15 years ago. And I feel like we all sort of have different. I'd love to know where Nick would want to lean, but in my head, Jeff is definitely a basketball guy. Oh, 100%. To me,

Eric is a baseball guy. I'm a hockey guy. Nick, where would you, what is your favorite sport? And Eric, do you think, would you say baseball is your leading? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for me, baseball. I'd say college football probably. College football. There we go. That's perfect. My idea was that we each come up with three things related to our sport. Could be anything. Could be a video game. Could be a YouTube video. Could be a movie. Three things as like a starter kit to try to get somebody into that sport. And then Gavin can go through everybody's starter kit and see if he has any interest in actually watching a game of any of the things. So am I just picking one person start a kit?

You can do it one at a time. I feel like you eventually will do the cycle. I mean, that's why it's like three things could be. Is it for the cycle? Baseball. Here's the problem. I've taken Gavin to a baseball game. I've been to baseball games with Gavin.

Oh, yeah. I've also taken him to basketball and hockey games as well. But he hasn't had that necessarily investment in it. Like sometimes you're into a sport isn't the sport itself, I think. And I think this would be an interesting way to like, if he is going to ever get into any of these things even slightly, this is what we think the introduction should be. The thing is, I enjoy all these sports that I've been to see. I enjoy them live. I cannot watch these sports on TV.

There's just so many ads. It's unbelievable. It does my nut. It's so distracting. That's not a problem I have. Yeah. What if we distracted you? Yeah, what if we distracted you?

During the commercial breaks? Yeah. A little like a half-time show, every commercial break? Yeah. What about like, remember when Wow added bejewled to the loading screen or to the Q screen when you couldn't get in?

Maybe we could come up with some sort of the mini-game Gavin Gavit can play during the commercials. See, I feel like this is, you would make a great argument, Jeff, for League Pass. I haven't had league pass in a while, but on league pass, whenever there was a commercial break, you would just get the in arena entertainment.

Uh, still the same. Yeah, no commercial is a league pass. It's like you're there. But he's been there. But he's home now. You get to see,

yeah, but you get to see a mascot dunk from at home or a mascot go like, uh, mad at this guy, or some silly player trivia. Or just shots of the crowd over and over again. I just think there's never been a game

of watched on TV. that was more fun than watching face off. I get that. I understand that. Do you think, though, that's because it's... Typically, you're just watching a game at home with one or two people, and when it's face off, it's you with your four best friends on Earth hanging out? Like, maybe if we were all five of us watched a game...

Maybe if all five of us were in person to watch the game together on TV, you'd feel very different about it. I got one for you, Gavin, a more fun face off, because this is a very specific scenario. But there was a time in the NHL. The NHL had this weird rule where emergency backup goalies existed, where teams had people that would be their emergency backup in the like scenario in which all of their goalies got hurt. Yeah. It didn't really come into play. And those emergency goalie backups were just sort of normal people because it's like you can just fill that.

slot. Wait, they didn't put in another player. They put in just to some guy. No, let me, it expands. Carolina Hurricanes versus the Toronto Maple Leafs. Carolina loses all their goalies. They go to their emergency goalie, which is a guy that was the Zamboone driver for the minor league team of the Toronto Maple Leafs. And he played, I think, at least one full period. And they ended up winning the game. So Toronto, lost a game to their own Zamboni driver. And it became this big new story of like that it's wild that the NHL has a rule

where technically just a guy can enter the game. That's phenomenal. I think since kind of killed that rule. Did they have to be hockey adjacent like the Zamboni driver? Yeah, I think like typically you would have some experience. Like I think these are people that probably played like hockey or goalie, whatever to

a certain level, but definitely not pro. Definitely not like this is a thing that they ever expect to actually have to be part of. It's sort of like, I feel like when you get on the plane and they're like, do you feel comfortable being the emergency exit person? It's like, yeah, it's fine. It doesn't really back. It's never going to happen. Yeah.

Whatever. But it did play out. That to me is like, I think the wackiest thing I've seen in modern sports in recent times. Yeah. And that would definitely be worth watching. And I feel like that would be, that becomes such a big part of the game. It was definitely a game I wasn't watching.

And then I heard about it and like it became must watch TV of this random middle of the season, Carolina Hurricanes Toronto Maple Leafs game. Did they keep like cutting the camera to him and stuff? I mean, he was in net. I think his goalie equipment may have had the logo of the Toronto Minor League team on it. It was a while ago.

I don't remember specifically the details. And also, Carolina just locked it down. Like nobody, they got like no shots on net on this guy, essentially. Like he just had to stand there. They did great.

But so for the whole period, there were no shots on net? No, there was just probably like three or four. It was very minimal. Like they locked it down defensively in front of this guy. But,

uh, I like the sports where essentially somebody who is in the arena can suddenly be injected into the game. I think are great. So then is this. The idea of this then, since Gavin's been to a lot of these things in person, how to get him three ways to, three things to turn him on to watching it on television, not specifically to, because like a live baseball can be like hot dogs.

Interesting. But he doesn't. That's an interesting point. He doesn't get that advantage if he's watching it at home. And he's already been to a baseball game experience of that part of it, you know? So it feels like if we're trying to turn him into a fan, it would be like, how do we get Gavin to enjoy? Like league pass, you were saying.

is a great one and I'm definitely going to use that. Commercial free sports that would be a big I think would be a big notch in the plus column for basketball for Gavin in that way. I wonder if we should do like a craziest moment in sports draft and just use clips.

I think it's a great idea. I think that's a really great idea Gavin. I'm going to put that on the list. I used to love that as a kid where it'd be like oh these two football players collided and the ball exploded. Yeah. It's just like funny stuff that never happens.

Yeah. Craziest moment in sports draft. I don't put that. Okay. I think what you're saying, Jeff, is like a great point of like, he's,

he's identified that ads are currently like a major barrier to his enjoyment. And then I guess there's a level of wonder of if he had a larger investment, would he be willing to tolerate? Oh, interesting. Great point.

Would that change his dynamic in wanting to view it? Can I, can I pause at something? Absolutely. Everyone should finish this episode and then go over to the Patreon where we are doing FACE off season two. Gavin mentioned face off. That's true.

If you want to get into sports, it is. If you want to get into sports, the first two episodes are out by the time this episode is out. We premiered episode one on the last turn of Mario Party March in April. Boom, surprise, there it was. Blindside! And then we, hey, we blindsided you. That's how it feels. It feels bad, right?

Right. And then we put that out on YouTube. You got that. We put that out on YouTube for everyone to watch. But that was just to wet your beak so you can head on over to Patreon.com slash the Regulation Pod. Become a bog standard and above member. Check out. I think we have seven episodes of FACE off Season 2, which is in hockey. It's NHL 25.

NHL 25. NHL 25. Andrew did a great job of setting this up. And if you're a listener, or your comment, lever, you are actually very involved in this and you need to be watching this

because a lot is on the line for you potentially. And then we're going to go and do a live finale and a date to be determined later of when we're going to do the live finale for the championship of FACE off season two. But it's out right now. So go check it out. The first two episodes are out now on Patreon.

Hell yeah, Detroit Icehogs. Oink, oink, oink. Oink. Let's go rats. I got the best jerseys, I think, in the whole thing. I think the rats are so awesome. What are you talking about? What?

I think they look awesome. The rat the bats out there, rat the bats out there. He's beating a drum or whatever. I don't know what you don't, what are you talking about? I don't think your episode has come out, you though, is it? No, no, that's what people got to go, ooh, what your beak, you got to wait for it. And then, well, episode two, I think I'm probably in one of these. Either way, I'm sure we've seen a look at the Presbyterian, and that's really all

I'll just say that I was watching a hockey game last night that went into double overtime and I noticed that the shot count in a double overtime game was lower than the shot count of one of the games that occurred in faceoff. It's some real, a lot of swings in roundabouts. It's a really something. This face off season two. It was a long time coming. Andrew did a great job putting it together.

we started recording it and it's like are we gonna capture what we what i was excited about like what i loved about the first season as soon as we started watching it i was like i'm all in i love this so much i love this is i think season two so much better than season one even i got so into it yeah me too did we ever make the first season free anywhere yeah i'm pretty sure we did okay it's free on patreon there you go yeah free on so i guess if you if you don't want to if you don't want to if you don't want to join the patreon for this one it'll this season will probably be free in two years or something. Yeah.

But we will have, we'll have a live finale later at some time. But at the time of this recording, guys, it's almost our second anniversary, which is on May the 11th. Just a day after Mother's Day. Celebrate with Mom on the 10th. And then you celebrate regulation.

Well, on the 11th, what? And you celebrate Eric. Oh, yeah. You don't have to celebrate. It's also Eric's birthday. is right is they don't don't just give it up for mother's day get up for eric's day as well give it give it give it up for mother's day Eric how old 40? Woohoo.

I was talking we were talking about it earlier this week where he's like I don't even give a fuck about turning 40 and I said I have not given a fuck about turning 40 in six years like it has not mattered to me I've I felt 28 for 12 years at this point so it doesn't matter he's kind of keep going I I just remember looking at grown up when I was a child. Oh, yeah. Everyone's so old and responsible. And those people were probably in their 20s a lot.

Yep. Yep. Oh, absolutely. 100%. Yep. Is it crazy? It's nuts. And my head, every teacher I had was 60.

And that certainly wasn't true. Yeah. And I don't have any like self-consciousness of like, oh, my job is podcasts and playing video games or whatever. I'm turning 40 and that's going to be like the job. I think I would be self-conscious about it if Jeff hadn't already been doing it for as long as he had and still doing it. So I have an example of live up to.

Paving the way. Yeah, yeah. So that's the 10th. But the 11th is the anniversary. We're turning terrible twos here at regulation. Two years old on May the 11th. And you can celebrate with us at 6.01 p.m. That's right.

601 p.m. We will be live on Twitch. You're not going to want to miss it on the 11th. Because we are going to be doing the final round of the spring golf league and we will do the gerpel jacket presentation. Nick, who do you think is taking the gerpil jacket? I feel like I'm making a real big push here, but I don't know if Gavin has it locked up or not. I think Nick, you got four fives back to back last week.

Yeah, yeah. Between the last two weeks, yeah. It's weird on, it's a game that he put a lot of time into. He's really good at. It's really nuts. And so he, uh, so the gerpel jacket presentation, uh, are, uh, Our friend of the show, Robert, got a look at the gerpel jacket early, and he was stunned when he saw it.

Jeff did an incredible job on the gerpal jacket. Cannot wait to show everyone. Jeff did such a good job. I thought it was professionally done or bought. Yep. I didn't register that that was the one that he made. Yep. It was pretty great.

And we're going to have other surprises and stuff that will be happening that evening from 601 p.m. until question mark is how we're going to be doing that second anniversary stream over on Twitch. So join us there. Really excited to be doing our second anniversary. We couldn't be doing it without you guys. Thank you very much for being a part of this also. It's so funny because in some ways it feels like we started yesterday.

But in a lot of, I would say more ways, most ways, it feels like we've been doing this forever. And it's crazy to think we're only two. And I guess it's because we have the lineage of face or whatever. but even still in the, you know, since the doors shut on rooster teeth and the doors opened, the rat infested doors opened up on regulation. It's just this, it's hard, it's crazy to believe it's only been two years. Do you think this is our year of infestation? We're off to a good start, man.

No, I think, I think that the year of infestation is probably over. I think that when we get to the 11th, the infestation is over and we have to figure out what our next year is. So these are like the death throws. the shit in my car and the rats are like the death throes of infestation. Yes, I agree. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Or speed running infestation.

How did the bugs not get on Eric, though? Or did Eric bring the bugs into the car? I don't think they were in the car. I don't think they were in there. I don't know what happened. Crazy. I think I'm not going to park in our driveway anymore, maybe. I don't know. You can see that that. Like, I still don't know what they were.

Emily said spiders. I don't know. I can't see shit with my eyes. But maybe a spider crawled in and had babies. Maybe it was that right after lunch. I don't know. But they definitely weren't in the car. You would have known...

Gavin... What? Eric, you'd have been fucking covered in them. Oh, my God. Dude, that was like the most my mom thing you've ever done. That was crazy. Just call, just say in the name

of everyone you can see. That was my entire childhood with my grandmother. Just being called like the dog's name when I need to go do something in the kitchen. And I just like, what? She'd get some flushes. She'd be like, Adam, Jacob,

you know what your name is. Go do it. Yes, ma'am. I'm really excited for our second anniversary. Jeff, I do hope you start feeling better because this... Oh, man, I'm already much better. I appreciate it. Thank you. That's great.

I'm definitely on the Mint. Wow. I'm glad I got it out of the way so we don't think of the way. Oh, shit. Okay, hang on. Would you trade this is going to be hard, Jeff? I think this is going to be hard. Would you trade the diverticulitis for having you use a CPAP?

Oh, take the CPAP. CEPs every day, though. CEP is every day. C-P, here's the thing. You have Dever, you, Diverticulitis, you have Diverticulitis for the rest of your life. Or you have to use CPAP for the rest of your life. Diverticulitis is all going to have the flare-ups and all that stuff.

C-PAP every day. And I know that we have the pact, but put that aside. If you could swap one for the other, would you make the trade? Any other week, you asked me this question. That's same thing. I'm rolling with diverticulitis. This week, I would take seven C-Paps. Yeah, I bet.

And also, a C-Pep's not going to turn you septic and kill you. Absolutely. When you need a CPAP and you have one, your quality of sleep becomes so much better that it's not in any way in annoyance. It's like, oh, this is awesome. I love my CPAP. Do you have to put liquid,

is it like liquid in like a little basin or something that like, or is it just air? It's a plastic thing that, yeah, it's like it has a container you need to fill that is terribly designed. It's distilled water. It's distilled water. Could you put anything in it?

No, you're not allowed to. If you could. Oh boy, would I be having fun? I think about that all the time. I think about putting Dr. Pepper in it. Distilled Baja blast? Oh, my God. Yeah, I would probably put an apple tizer.

I asked Gavin if you put Bavril in it. Would you wake up feeling full? I think the Bavril, I think the vaporized beef would be too thick and start coating my lungs. Ew, that would be bad. Yeah, I didn't think about that. Okay, so let me ask this then. You can't put any cool liquid.

I'm trying to find the positive here, so Jeff feels good about his decision. Yeah, I'm just, I'm just gonna, like, run down a couple of ideas. What if you wanted to be, like, a performance athlete?

Could you use the CPAP to, like, get more oxygen in you? Oh. That's interesting. Well, I don't know. Liquid oxygen in it. But I don't, I don't know.

Yes. What is that? Tell us. Yeah. You're the fucking expert here. Be like Ed Harris in the abyss. Yeah, could you do that? So what is it?

So is that a no or what I like if there's ever a scenario in which my machine is on its last legs and I need to get a new one I will absolutely send it off with some like Dr. Pepper CPAP and I'll get back yeah I'll get back to you all I think that the Dr. Pepper might be too much but I would be interested if if a CPAP offered like a winter green or you know you put your distilled water in and then like shoot some Mio and do it or whatever yeah it's if it offered some sort of, you know, like, you know, those boring gum flavors. Yeah, I bet if you had to have a bet

to see who could get pneumonia the fastest, that would be the way. Oh. I bet beef vapor would do it pretty quick. Yeah, pretty good. Beef vapor. I would, I would, I guess it's like, huffing a bovrel's nice.

I just think taking it directly into the lungs is. Huffing a bovril. Yeah, like when you make a cup of hot bovroarle, just give it away. Oh, sure. It's great. You know, ironically, I'm at a period where

Bobroll's about what I can eat. I'm gonna move up to chicken chicken stock today. I'm very excited about. Which is essentially, you know, not that different from Barrel, honestly.

We got some of the office. No, that's chicken. Or some ginger ale in it. What? I'm not doing that. Because of the last time. Might be better.

Might not. Might be way worse. That's how I want to reintroduce food into my system. Man. We should wrap this up so Jeff could get go take 100 baths and leave.

Let's, yeah. Let's, let's, let's, 10 baths salute. I think my baths are over, but I, I, I can definitely lay down for a minute. In that case, I guess this is, this is the bow we're putting on episode 104. It is done. Thank you for listening

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