Regulation Podcast - Theater of the Mind // Nokia Phones & Super Soakers [110]

Episode Date: June 17, 2026

Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about what we're into, James Bond animal, hedgehog, Sonic, Don Zimmer, Old Man 1, Talkin Baseball with Grandpa, new sleep position, filming sleep, schoolyard controversy, showering before pool, prepool pool, cattle grid, seeing someone alive, Uno, Flash Flood, Pinball Playlist, Songs about rats, height difference day, a baby is as tall as you can pull it apart, and being That Guy. Sponsored by Factor. Thanks Factor! Head to FACTORMEALS.com/REGULATION50OFF and use code REGULATION50OFF to get 50% off and free daily greens per box, with new subscription only, while supplies last until 09/27/2026. (See website for more details). Also sponsored by Shopify. Sign up for a $1/month trial at shopify.com/regulation 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 episode of the Regulation Podcast. This is episode 110. My name is Jeff Ramsey with me. As always, Andrew Patton, Gavin Free, Nick Schwartz, Eric, but doer. That was a good intro, Jeff. That was one of my favorites by you. I was feeling it.

I wanted to mix it up a little bit. Change some inflections. Were you doing Dougie or just saying hello? That was sort of a Dougie. Yeah. Thank you for catching that, Gavin. I appreciate that. Is that a Twin Peaks thing?

It's definitely a Twin Peaks thing, yes. There's a guy named Dougie, and that's how he says hello. Mr. Jackpots. It's Mr. Jackpots. I'm in a... Hello! I'm in a bit of a David Lynch, Twin Peaks, Rabbit Hole right now in all things in my life. So, yeah.

It's going to be a lot of thinly coated David Lynch-esque stuff. Love it. What are you guys into right now? What's stuff that you've been, like, watching or doing or whatever? Like, what's like the thing that you're about? Ooh. What's the thing that I'm about? Rugrats?

I just finished my Rugrats face. done with that. I'm not all about that first life, that James Bond. What are my loves? What are my first loves? You know what? I've been listening to that first light

song by Lana Del Rey a lot. That's a really good song. I've been playing the game, but I've been enjoying the song. And that made me think of something that I wanted to ask you guys, so maybe this is a good time to do it. To my knowledge, James Bond

has never been officially represented as an animal in any sort of a spoof or animated version. If James Bond were to be a member of the animal kingdom, what animal do you think he would be? Oh, that's great. Is he not a fish and he's James Pond?

Oh. Does that not count? I don't think that's official. It's also a half robocop. But a fish could work. I'm just making sure. I thought about it all night last night, and the best I could come up with is a fox,

but I feel like I'm just ripping off Fox and the, not Fox and the Hound, Robin Hood there, or a husky. like a husky could play James Bond, but what about you guys? I think he's a penguin. What's the most spy-like animal? Is there an animal that spies? Raccoon, fox?

Yeah, what's a sneaky animal? Some kind of, like, what's the most, what's a knocktural? What's a nocturnal? What's a nocturnal sneaky animal? Let's point out. Owl? You think an animal is, you think an owl is sneaky? Yeah. Mm.

Yeah, they fly silently. They do. Octopus is sneaky What about a skunk? Because then he can be Like he's in black and white already That's what I'm saying with a penguin Motai on him right?

Yeah, it sounds like shit Yeah, but when you think of a penguin You think of like Cute and Waddly You don't think of like A Devonair Baccarat player Yeah, I think it needs to

It needs to have four legs And be able to stand on two in a pinch I could see skunk Because Pepey Lapew has got some Swagger to him You know Swagger Yeah, I don't know if I'd describe Pepe Lepewis

as having swagger. What about like a lean wolf? Not like a big burly wolf, like a lean wolf. What's like a lean wolf? Not like a dire wolf, but just like a, yeah, like a, I think it depends on the bond too because Roger Moore and Daniel Craig are certainly not the same animal. Yeah, and

as we learn from Gavin, we know which bonds eat pussy and which don't. That's true. That's really good to know. Also, also your run on who, which doesn't, which doesn't was absolutely right. Yeah, I thought you nailed it. Yeah, absolutely. I thought you did a great job.

Yeah, maybe it does depend on the bond. I think we all need to agree on a bond first, and then we can move on. Which bond are we thinking? All right, well, when you think of James Bond, who's the first James Bond that comes to mind? Sean Connery. Sean Connery. Yeah, yeah. So what animal is like kind of an asshole or is an asshole?

What animal does the male regularly hit the female? It's a good question. Hmm. Or use it as a human shield. Yeah. What would Sean Connery be? What? Do you say a duck?

How about like a hedgehog? I like that. I do. I do. I do. I do see it. Or like a hedgehog or a boar or something a bit, you know, boor.

ofish. It's a lot easier to do the villains of Bond because Jaws is clearly a shark. That's easy. Right. He's a great white. There you go, Eric. I didn't even have to make that.

I just found it. That's our thumb-knit. It's already existed. A hedgehog. Yeah. You found a picture. I found it. Yeah, yeah.

I search hedgehog spy and that's like the third image. The second, the second image? Sonic. Huh. Oh. Yeah. Why didn't even make that sonic connection? Interesting.

Yeah. And then the first image, a hedgehog with a little magnifying glass. Well, that's more of a Sherlock. You know what's sort of interesting is I don't associate Sonic with hedgehogs. Like, I know he is a hedgehog. It's just not what I think. No. That's, that's old.

That's like the, what? But do you associate a different animal more? No, not at all. I just don't think of Sonic as an animal. You think of them as just like a cartoon. Yeah, it's just like a character. You think of them as like your human friend Sonic. I think a hot dog's more.

That'd be a great pick for our upcoming animals with names draft. of Sonic. Did we? Oh yeah, did we write that one down? Hang on, let me check. Let me make sure

that animals, animals with names draft is in there. He eats chili dogs. I know. Let me see. I have written, okay,

I don't see animals with names draft. I do have Andrews Big Aloha, but I don't see. I'll write down animals with names draft. Don't forget to add in pinball wizard as well.

Oh, that's right. Pinball wizard. I started writing animal with names draft. It is apparently on the board. It's just way higher up than I anticipated.

Yes. So. Speaking of names, speaking of games, I have a game called Theater of the Mind. Are you ready to play theater of the mind? Before we play, I need to determine how many contestants we have, and that is based on who here knows what Don Zimmer sounds like. Oh, I don't. I've definitely heard him speak, but I could not tell you. Yeah, I'm in the same boat as Eric.

Same boat as Eric. Okay, well, maybe, what about you, Nick? I've never heard him. I can't hear you if you're talking, Nick. I've never heard him. Never heard him. Okay, well, the fact I can't hear him maybe removes him as a contestant.

But... No, I'm here. Okay. His microphone is so far away from him and he's made zero effort to move it closer as he's speaking. Yeah. What's it?

You know how the show works? Eric's never heard an episode of regulation. Maybe Gavin and Nick can take the lead on this and then Jeff, you and you and Eric, can do support on this. Okay. Theater of the mind. Here's a photo of Don Zimmer

and all of his glory. I have clipped four different old men speaking. Ooh, nice. Each one and then you will make a determination on who Don Zimmer is.

Are we just typing like A, B, or C or something? How are we guessing? I'll just, uh, I can lead it. We could go through. I'll play Old Man 1. And then you can kind of give a get check. I recorded this. And I tried to make all the recordings sound equally like shit, so you couldn't necessarily tell.

Great. What was what? Cool. Are you ready for Old Man One? Yes. How will we hear it? I'm going to play it through my mic. I can't hear shit.

Is it playing? It's not coming through? Turn the volume up. The volume is all the way up. So I will post it as a audio file. Did that not be the first one? I just don't like... We've been doing this for like hundreds of episodes.

Sometimes it works down the mic hole. Yeah, we've typically done a lot of mic hole. Okay. Okay, everybody hovering over the play button. Old Man One. Well, you're listening to his Old Man One right now. Very much. Right field, Luca, Babe Root,

center field, Earl Colmes. I hear clearly through that. Left field Let me see Left field Bob Usel Why am we hearing it twice? Who's playing it for everybody?

Gavin Gavin, is that you? Is it just listening to my headphones? It is. Gavin, what's your audio track look like? Oh.

Hey Gavin, did you do a test recording like you promised that you do every time we're about to record? Yeah, I did. My track's fine. I think it's just my headphones a lot. Okay.

Weird. Okay. Okay. All right. So that was That was one man one. Any thoughts, any feelings on Old Man One? Could be him.

Good thought, good feeling. Okay, good thought, good feeling. I don't think there's any way that was him. Okay. Wow. This is Old Man 2. Of the new GM as to what happens with the coaching staff,

as to what happens with most things going forward. I'm sure you guys have a bunch of questions and you're going to hear the same answer over and over. The new GM is going to Why is that coming through my discord? I don't know, but it plays pretty well, so I'm just not going to... Yep.

I'm just going to listen to you. Oh, I like that. Somehow I'm playing it. I think that was him. Whenever you're ready, Gavin. You think that's it? Yeah. Old man three.

He used the word retirement. Because my wife thought that that was better, which I agreed with her. When I went home, there was a lot of jobs open. And I can honestly say this, that 55. years, I've never had to ask for a job. In other words, I've been fired.

Huh. That's old been three. Okay. Anything, uh, anything, uh, anything jumping out for you, boys? Two sounds good. I mean, I know, I know which one I think. I think one was a thin of man. But we have, we have one more. Do you have one more?

There is one more. There is one more. And here's old bid four. Five of them. Uh, good horses, a good facility. And once again, the community comes together as a unit and puts this on. And it's a whale of an event. It's a wonderful day.

Whale. That could be him. It's got to be two or four. That's my thought. Two or four. Jeff, do you have an idea about who it is? I think three. Okay.

And what is leaning you towards two or four? Gavin. I was just looking at that massive face and I feel like I could picture those coming out of it. I get that. Does Don Zimmer strike you as a guy that says whale? Oh yeah. What about you, Eric? I have my pick.

I'm going to stay silent. Okay. Do you have your pick Gavin and Nick? You both have things locked in? Yeah. Okay, what are your picks? I'm going to pick two. Four.

I'm going with three. And Jeff is three? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to read. in order what these are sourced from. Okay. The first clip is from a YouTube video called Talking Baseball with Grandpa episode two.

It's not Don Zimmer. It's just an old man in a recliner talking about baseball. And I think there are several episodes. It had like three reviews on YouTube. Whole series. Okay. The second clip was Vancouver Canucks president of operations. Jim Rutherford giving his postseason

Pressor a few weeks ago. Hockey man, not a baseball man. The third clip is Don Zimmer himself. That is the right answer. Number three,

is Don Zimmer. Number four was Wilford Brimbley. Talking about this. Oh! Wilford Brimbley has a whale of a time. That's great. I'm surprised you didn't get

Greg from finance to do an impression of it all, man. I don't have Greg's details anymore, unfortunately. Oh, man. I was the old slack. I'd love to know what percentage of the audience was able to determine Don Zimmer if it lined, if they were able to sync the voices.

I thought you brought up a great point, Gavin, where I'd never heard him speak before. And it's we've closure on that now. We know. Yeah. You know what the main sounds like. Gavin, can you play the third clip one more time so we can definitively hear Don Zimmer and know that? He used the word retirement because my wife thought that that was better, which I agreed with her. When I went home, there was a lot of jobs.

Jowls. And I can hear the chiefs move. Yep. 55 years, I've never had to ask for a job. You can hear the weight of his face. In other words, I've been fired. I don't know if that's just like a factual statement or a deeply insulting statement. I like the other mind, though.

I thought the theater of the mind was a really fun game. Absolutely. Yeah, that's a great game. Speaking of new things, I have a new sleep position. Is it your default resting state? Is it standing up behind a vertical curtain? It's not the vertical curtain. My sleeping position doesn't have a WWE finisher name.

It's also not my natural rest date because I had a great sleep, but I woke up through both my shoulders out from the sleep position. So I don't know if it's a thing that people should. should do. What do you mean? What I did, my new sleep position, and it's, it's taking me out. If I'm having a hard time sleeping, I get in this position out like a light, almost instantly. What do you do?

Can you describe it? I can't. So I'm laying, I'm a back sleeper. I'm laying on my back. I put my hands out, palms down, left, right side. Then I slide them underneath my lower back. And then I lay on top of my hands. Almost in like what you'd see as a traditional, like, perp being handcuffed in a cop show.

You assume the position to go to sleep? So you're like at ease, but lying down? Yeah. With my hands. He is. Yeah. Yeah. What the fuck?

With my hands behind my back. And then you just sleep. You just stay. It's like I feel like I'm cuffing myself into good sleep. You're sleep cuffed. It has been so. effective, but the first night I did it, I woke up both my shoulders were sore through both of them. Well, you probably tried to roll over and your arms wouldn't let you.

No. So you're like that, but the other way. You're like that but facing up. Yes. Eric, can you flip that image 180 degrees? Yeah, let me see what I can do real quick. Hang on, sorry. You're like that. You can hear a cop saying, stop resisting. Yes. The classic laying on your stomach, but with your hands behind your back.

Do that, but flip it. Roll over. it's really hard to find images of people sleeping this way. This might be like a new, unique position I've never, I've like never seen and like never heard of, you know what I mean? That's what I'm saying. Should we all try to sleep that way tonight?

No, absolutely. I will not be sleeping that way, no. You just got to try it, yeah. I'm not, no, thank you. I'm not trying. I'm open for, you know, 20thin for the show. Yeah. So are your hands under your butt,

Yes. Or on the smaller your back. So they're... It's sort of like, yeah, small back, I'd say. So would your shoulder just fall asleep then, essentially? My shoulder falls like... Like where your arms just like numb as hell from being slept on in that movement? No. Interesting. Didn't have any of that issue. So like, and it fucked up your shoulders. Yeah, they, they were like strained the next day. Oh. Like, do they feel okay now? Okay. Totally fine now. Eric flipped the image.

Honestly. I just... I did it in a taller format so Jeff can make you the thumbnail if he wanted. Yeah, that's fine. That's a thumbnail. I love it. I just want to hear a result. I'm not saying you have to do it immediately. It looks like she's sleeping on the ceiling.

It looks like she's all the way up floating facing the ceiling. I don't bring, I, sleeping with your arms behind your back. So like, did it just feel good to like have your hands under you that way? Or like, what was nice about it? I think there's a level of. You know, if you can't sleep, and I know you don't really have this problem, Eric, from what you've said, you lay down, you fall,

you just crashed, you're out. Yeah, you go sleep pretty quick. Uh-huh. I think there is a restrictiveness that makes it feel like, ah, I can't even grab my phone if I want to. I'm locked in. I'm locked into the sleep position. All right, you're like,

physically locked in. Physically locked in. I think it, it, like, creates an environment of, well, I'm definitely doing this sleep thing. I'm in sleep jail right now. So are you often finding yourself in bed wanting to sleep but being unable to stop grabbing your phone? No, but just like, oh, I can't sleep. I might as well like look at something on my phone for a few minutes and then try again.

Gotcha, got you. Does that ever work there? That always just makes me more awake. Oh, absolutely. It doesn't work. Oh. It's not effective, but like it's a thing where if you're just laying there, if you're trying to sleep and you can't sleep for like 40 minutes, like eventually convince yourself.

I'll just look at something for a bit. I can understand throwing in the towel for 10 minutes and being like, fuck it, I might as well, if I'm going to be awake, I might as well at least look at a TikTok or whatever. Yeah. Absolutely.

It gets rid of that. I'm having a hard time finding other people who, like, feel this way. Well, as I said, it's a new sleep position. I did find a post,

a post on Facebook. Anyone else like to sleep on their backs with their hands under their bum? And then somebody said, I sleep on my stomach with my hands under my pillow, but my pillow has to be fluffed in a certain way when I lay on it. That doesn't have anything to do with what this first person said. On my stomach with my hands folded under me. Again, not what anyone's been saying.

Somebody finally says, like you've been kidnapped? Um, no. And then one person has agreed, yes, I do. There's one person other than the person who posted. What's interesting is the picture is the hands by the bum. And the person references that, you know, on their backs with their hands by their bum. Andrew, because of your long back, your hands nowhere near your bum. That's what I'm saying.

It's more like the crux of the back, like Jeff said, lower back. So you can't reach your ass? I mean, I could, but like it just, it's the back position. I like kind of lower back. That's what's most comfortable. Yeah, it's the natural position, I'd say. With a long back like yours, it makes sense. Absolutely.

Maybe that won't make sense for you guys. I'm just interested here's results. Although maybe not. Like, as I said, warning. Both shoulders were messed up the following day. First time I did it. So it's like that picture that I just sent, but you're laying in bed.

Yes. And not necessarily working out. Okay. So it's like planking, but not planking. And so you've done this how many times? Just the once? I've done about seven times, I'd say. Holy shit.

Wow. Would you, do you have sore shoulders every time? No, only the first one. But it is a risk, is what I'm saying. But the reward is so high. you must risk it. Yeah, it's a great sleep. You surely only like that

for the first 20 minutes that you're asleep and then you move. No. You wake up like that? Yeah. What the fuck? Once I sleep, I'm in.

I'm in, like, I'm not moving. There's no way that you could even, A, there's no way you could know that. And B, there's no way that's true. People move all around all night. I found out when I woke up and my hands were still under me. Well, mm-hmm.

No, I think maybe you were rolling around in bed and you just, and you got lucky and your hands went back under you right before you woke up. Maybe you just retried it. I think people could stay pretty still at night. Like, I used to sleep like a pencil and I'd wake up like a pencil. Yeah, but you were in the military.

Who says that I'm not? Well, that's it. There wasn't a lot of like regimented military sleep training. It was like we were doing sleep drills. Well, they taught you out to wash your ass. Yeah. They did, they did do that.

Grotty chops. Karate. Hey, you got a karate shop. I just think if we, if we time lapsed you sleep in, I think you'd be surprised at how much you move. I think you would be surprised the other way. You can make that, you know what? When you give me my tuck-in, when we do that,

you can monitor. Oh, I have permission to film you all night. I assumed you'd just watch, but I don't know. Oh. You know why, like, you filming is weirder to me than you're just watching. I agree. I got to go with Andrew on this one. Yeah, Andrew might be.

Right. Well, I would want to, I would want to show my friends of the podcast. I don't, I wouldn't want to just tell them. I could go ahead and say that I don't need to see. I'll just trust your word. Yeah, we'll just trust you. Theater of the mind. Okay. Feeder in, Andrew. And then I'll just watch. Yeah. I'm surfing. Take, take notes. You could draw what you see. You could draw. You can draw if you want to. Yeah. I'm okay with drawing. I don't know why that's less creepy. Why is filming so much more creepy than if he were to draw me sleeping. I don't know, because you're probably because your cock could fall out or you could scratch your assail or something. And you don't know what he's going to do with that video later when you're not around. Yeah, the glow of the camera shining off his eyes while he like watches from a chair in the corner with all the lights off his like... And then I'd give the tape to Nick and you never know what he's going to do watching it. That's true.

Oh man. I'm not touching that. I would become a star of their show. Are your feet under the covers or exposed when you sleep? Stop! Who are you talking to? You. Who else? I'm just making sure I didn't want to jump in.

Who are we talking about sleeping here? It depends. It depends. Yeah. Sometimes they get too hot at night. When you were sleeping recently, the seven times with your hands under your butt, what were your feet doing? Were they just under a blanket or were they kicked out?

I don't know. I don't remember that part. Probably tucked in? It's better we don't let Nick see this video. So what I'll do is I'll tuck you in and I'll draw a little stick figures if the position you're in. and then maybe I'll put them into a flipbook and we can time lapse your movement.

Oh. That's going to be pretty uneventful flip book. Well, it might be. Maybe if nothing moves, I'll just have to draw you every 20 minutes. That's interesting. It's a lot like an episode of Doug. Sometimes I just don't make plans to figure out meals.

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That's Shopify.com slash regulation. I have another note. but I'm excited to hear if you guys have versions of this Were there any schoolyard controversies That you had to deal with amongst your friends of like somebody just telling a blatant lie But like it became like a thing so for my example Was I had a friend who claimed that they were the smartest amongst all of us Because they had a 10 pound brain

Now when you say your friend do you mean you? No Not me at all I reported this to my mom, and my mom Googled and read to me that that is not a factual thing that could occur. They claimed that they were the smartest, and we were like, well, how did you have your brain weighed? They're like, I was so smart that they felt the need to weigh it. Apparently you're born with a one pound brain, and it can be as much as three when you're older. But it was a big scandal.

I heard about this one kid who had 10. He's smart as hell. I watched a movie where Denzel Washington's son had a heart three times the size of a normal heart. Like Grinch? John Kier. He got a Grinch heart? He did.

Well, he almost got Denzel Washington's heart. It was a whole thing. It is a whole thing in John Keele. But I was just curious, did you guys have the equivalent of that of like somebody told a lie and like it became a thing? And it's like an absurd lie. Like a kid lie. We're like, it's not even possible.

I mean, literally every kid I knew had a girlfriend in Canada. that's like a real thing yeah like that is like everybody had oh yeah I had a girlfriend over the summer yeah she was at my grandma's house whatever yeah I was up in Minnesota or whatever that was but other than that I can't I can think of stuff that I thought

was true that was wrong but not that was like a lie somebody that somebody like presented spread yeah like I remember I remember I watched kickboxer or blood sport once when I was a kid and somebody was bleeding from their head and the blood looked black to me And I remember thinking that's brain blood. Brain blood is black.

It's probably more dangerous than regular blood. And then I told everybody I knew about brain blood. That was a thing, you know? So maybe I was the liar. But dog blood is bad though, isn't it? It means you got like an autry or something. Yeah, I don't know. I thought brain, the blood in your head was legitimately black like oil.

I mean, I feel like the only thing that I really heard much of or whatever was like, you know, Uncle works at Nintendo type thing. You know what I mean? That was the one that I feel like. You know, you'd hear that stuff. Uncle works at Nintendo. Yeah, one of my friends said that their dad can get any car

that he wants. I mean, what? I mean, I guess he could. Apparently he worked at a place where it's like, he just picks whatever car he wants to drive and that's his car. And I was like, how does he do that?

You're jogging a memory. There was a kid I knew whose older sister dated a guy who supposedly worked at Super Soaker and could get any Super Sokers. Wow. Yeah. That's pretty cool. That is so cool.

I think that might have been a lie now that I'm saying. It's a way that was true. It might not have been true. It might have been a 19 year old kid with like three Super Sokers that he would let the kid use. Yeah.

That is such a great kid lie. Yeah. Such a great kid lie and I feel like such a cool job as a kid. Like that's a job that I would strive to get. And now if it's like, oh, we're offering you a job at Super Soaker, I'd be like, oh, having meetings about Super Sokers, it's going to suck. You think having meetings about Super Sok would suck?

Yeah. You think Super Soaker meetings would be cool? I promise you're not. I mean, if I was like R&D, like big style, maybe it'd be fun. That's what, that's exactly, like in my head, we're talking about how to get maximum super soakage. But in reality, it's probably like, logistics and warehousing and... It's some scientists going, no, we can increase the reservoir so that we can increase

the pressure and somebody going, or we could reduce costs by thinning out the plastic and making it 80% smaller and save 18% and everybody goes, do that one. Yeah, exactly. It's going to be dystopian as shit. Do you think they still make TV commercials for like Super Soaker for like the new line of Super Soakers? Probably, I don't know. You see like, do you ever see like YouTube ads for them? Because I feel like that would just be... I don't, but like the ads I get at YouTube are not at all catered to what I watch. I wonder if they make, they probably make more commercials than ever because there's more

channels and more ways to view them than ever. But I wonder if they make less of certain kinds of commercials as times have changed, you know, like is it just more car commercials and insurance commercials? Because that's, I feel like mostly I see. Is there a less variety of commercial in 2026 than there was when we were growing up? Yeah. Variety? Maybe. I mean, I think you're on to something.

I think you're probably right. Because I'm with Andrew. I don't think you see a lot of Super Sokker commercials. Yeah. I mean, I'm also not watching Nickelodeon. Yeah, yeah. You're watching sports. I used to get so many commercials for board games and like ring pops and shit.

I don't think anyone's trying to sell a ring pop anymore. Hey, you got to start watching cartoons again, dude. Like, I looked up Super Sokered 2026, and I'm looking at videos for it. And almost all of the official ones look like they were made. the early 2000s. Oh, no. Did anyone have a friend who had like the backpack Super Soaker? And they were kind of like a try hard at Super Sokhan.

Absolutely. They were a try hard at Super Sok. I think I may have had the backpack. Oh, you know. Andrew's the try hard. Andrew's the tryhard at Super Soaker. Oh, I always assumed that it was never us. It was always like a friend who had the backpack.

Well, I mean, I would be the friend, I guess. Let's see. Andrew's your friend. It's true. The super soaker I most remember having is the one where you could pull the top of it and it would deploy the whole tank, the one shot. What? What?

I had to pump mine like a chump. Well, you could also pump, but like there was a line. I wish I knew the name of it, but there were like three distinct super soakers, and they each had their own, like, special ability. And I think one was like multi-nauzled. One, the whole gimmick was that, like, you could freeze. part of it so your water was extra cold, but it was a super lame thing. Did you dream these? No. What are you talking about? No. And the third one was that it had a little, uh, like,

pull thing on the top so you could pump it and shoot normally or you could pull the top part. It would like deploy the whole tank in one shot. That's great. That's unbelievable. Yeah. They were all part in my memory of the same release line. It was like, pick your weapon of choice. It's one of these three type things. It may have been the best. Bag was part of that one, maybe. Maybe that was the one, because I don't really remember what the third ability was. But I remember one of them being that your tank could be super cold, but it was pointless because you could just put ice cubes in the tanks if you wanted to.

Like any gun technically could have. Yeah, if you wanted to though. But like, you'd have to like, well, because you had to freeze the thing before you put it in the tank. So like, regardless, you're using a freezer to do this. So where my functionality of the full tank was part of the weapon. I feel like if someone came to the birth. They party with a chill tank.

I wouldn't want them to come back next year. Yeah, it's like, I'm doing that. I'm also freezing my paintball so they hurt you more. Like, what? I'm surprised that you guys don't know about anything. Super Soaker. I'm trying to like look it up to see if I can find it.

I can't find the one that you're talking about. We are much older though. This could have been newer technology. That's true. Yeah. After we hung up our pump action guns. Yeah, entire tank in one pole. Let's see.

I just feel like if we wanted to get Super Soakers now we could, but like the Super Soaker technology would be so different. There wouldn't be any like pump action stuff. It would all be like battery operated like hold the trigger down. And it goes weep, weep, weep, weep, weep. And it like shoots like a little blast of water. Weep, weep, weep, weep. That's how it would go.

I think it would make that sound. And then you will go weep, weep, weep. Do you know what you never see anymore? You never see those little like tiny little pools before the main swimming pool that you have to walk through. tiny little pools like between the changing rooms and the pool they used to be like

either a shower or a little like foot pool or was that just the pool I used to go to I just don't even know what you're talking you never had to walk

pictures please you never had to walk through like six inches of water to get to the pool uh what not that like

it was an independent pool like the pools you know like slowly get deeper hmm so it's like Like a pool to like rinse off in before you get in the pool? Like a pre-pool. But it was tiny.

You just like just kick, you splash through it. And then you just back out onto the side of the next pool. Is this like a neighborhood pool? Do you have neighborhood pools in England? No, it's just public pool. Public pool. I'm trying to look it up, dude. I'm like, I'm, I'm like that.

No, it was like in a corridor that you have to walk. Like you can't get into the main pool area. What are you? Like in a Turkish bath? It's a corridor? Yeah. Well, it's an indoor pool. It's England, for Christ's sake.

That's true. So, yeah, okay, I think I know what you're talking about. And no. So it's a corridor pool before the main pool is what I'm looking for. Imagine you put your stuff in your locker. There's showers in there. They're like, oh, you got a shower before you get the pool. And then you have to walk through.

about a six inch deep square of water. Were you in like the back rooms? Like what are you explaining to me? Like what are you explaining to me? Is showering before the pool like not a thing in America? No. I don't know that I've ever done that ever, but there, I see a lot of signs. I just search.

Yeah. I search shower before the pool and I found like a lot of signs. It's a thing at like YMCA's and hotel pools and stuff. They'll definitely have signs to tell you to shower before the pool. Yeah, but you only have to listen to those signs because they tell you that like you're not supposed to get in if you have diarrhea, but no one can stop you, no one's checking. They also tell you not to

dive, it's only three feet, but fuck them. Tell me not to dive. Be and Jeffers shit and crazy style doing cool vibes. I'm getting in dirty, shitty, and headfirst. I'm gonna find a picture this little pre-pool footpool. I can't find it. I don't know what to search for. Maybe he can look up the specific pool.

Tiny pool before. I search. That. I got, dude, I've been looking for everything. British pool. British pool? British public pool. England.

So it's like, okay, so I found like a shower. I can't see any. It's outside of a pool. No, none of this is right. It was like a forced... A forced corridor where you have to get wet before going to go swimming? I can't believe this. I thought this was everywhere, but it might have just been the one pool I went to.

You said it and it was met with just like resounding silence too. It was really something. Yeah.

I searched for British public pre pool and there aren't any. Oh, I got a fucking, I got a photo for Nick though.

Oh, yeah, buddy, you're going to love this. Pre foot pool. Oh my God. For main pool.

Where'd it go? Right there. Man, I can't find anything. So I found somebody's blog posts that said like going. I already posted. Yeah.

Look, I, okay. I found a blog post. How do you use a swimming pool in Iceland? And this is from January of 2025. You go in, you scan like a barcode, you go to your changing room. You go to, you go in the shower because this uses clean spring water for its pools. So it wants you to be cleaner before. before you go into the water, I guess?

Like, I don't know, like they're gonna fucking drink it later. I don't know. There's changing rooms, and the changing rooms are a shoe-free zone, Nick. That's cool. Doing nothing to beat those allegations, man. That's cool. I mean, that was the most sarcastic.

That's cool. I don't know that it came across as such. That's cool. Maybe if you had to go swimming, for school in the midnighties in England. Let me know if you ever had to walk through a little trough of water before the main pool. I lived there. I didn't see any of that.

There's going to be eight people that went to the same pool as Gavin and are like, yeah, what the fuck? Everybody's an idiot. What are you talking about? It's going to be a guy who writes six paragraphs about this and how everyone does it and then has to delete it all and go, I was actually wrong. I'm sorry. It's going to be,

I'm really excited about it. This is like a pre-pool to get Into the pool. Pre-pool pool. I don't know. Yeah, they funneled you through it. You keep talking about it like your cattle? Like, it's so weird the way you keep describing it.

It's so strange. Yeah, it kind of was like, like, cattle. Do you ever fall down a cow grid? What? What? No. The bars in the ground that stop cows? No.

You're asking if I've fallen through one? Have you? Well, I've had my leg fall through. How? You're not cow. Walking on it. Yeah, one of those. You're, you're dumber than cows? Yeah.

Well, they know not to go that way. It's a cow and Gavin grid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got off my bike and my foot went straight down one. Oh, man. There you go. They're just, they're looking to see where Gavin fell in. Just like that, but Gavin.

Oh, no, hang on. We lost another one. Should we get one for our office? No, because you get trapped. There's Gavin the cow getting stuck. Gavin off his bike. So do the cows just know not to mess with it? Or do they fall in regularly enough to like...

I think sometimes they fall in and they got to get helped out. Oh, God. A Jurassic Park. They had to lift them up. A little airlift. Where were you when this happened? Was this in England? That's pretty cold.

Do you think you have ever unintentionally been the last person to see someone alive? Oh. Oh, wow. like you're walking down the street and you pass somebody and then they take a left and walk up their driveway into their house and have a heart attack and die right there. Oh. Or like they get a car crash or like whatever, but...

I mean like, no, but... Maybe. Now I might. Probably, right? Like, think about all the people you've interacted with in your life. Probably bordering on millions at this point. Definitely in the hundreds of thousands. Certainly one of those people took.

immediately after seeing you died. You're saying by the numbers, it has to have happened. Yeah, I would think so. Probably more often than you would think. Do you take any consideration that every human being you've ever interacted with will or did die, chances are pretty good. We've also met quite a lot more people than the average person, I assume.

Yeah, but they're mostly in places where they're not going to die immediately. Safe zones. Conventions are safe zones. Yeah, yeah. It's like Disneyland. No one's ever died at a convention. What made you think of that? I don't know.

I was just riding my bike yesterday, and I was passing people, and I was like, I wonder if any of these people are going to die today. And then I got me thinking, I'd bet I pass somebody who did die, you know? You ever just look at people and think, like, how much time do they have left?

They seem young and healthy, you know, but we don't know. You know, it's not a given. I remember when I was about eight, I went to one of my parents' friends' house, and they had a cat that was 21 or something. And I was really worried it was going to die that day. Genuinely, like, I just couldn't believe how old it was.

And I was really scared that it would die while I was there. Oh, God. It was fine, though. Good. It'd just be weird to have that importance, that outsized importance in someone else's life and not even know it, you know? Sure. Is that importance in somebody else's life, though?

I mean, it's significant. If it's the last human being they ever interacted with, saw in their life. I'm sure they didn't intend it to be. I'm sure they didn't want necessarily you to be the last person they ever saw live, Eric, no offense. But, you know, it happened. Yeah, I'm trying to think how I would feel if Eric was the last person to see me alive. Depends on how Maddie is. I'd make up stories about you. It depends on how Maddie was. It depends on why he's the last person to see you last. I just feel the knife going in. I'm like, oh, this, that explains it.

On a slightly less morbid note, I had an idea for a thing we can do next year for our 30 days in a row thing. Oh, okay. Please. What if we played, this is just an idea. Feel free to say no. Feel free to hate it. It's okay. Just throwing out ideas.

We set up Uno, the crazy version of Uno that never ends. And then we spin a wheel every day and it's time and rounds. and whatever it lands on, we're like, oh, we have to play Uno for four minutes today, or we have to play it for six rounds today. And then tomorrow we get up when we spin the wheel and it's like, oh, today we only have to play one round of Uno, and you just go until this game is over. It could be 30 rounds. It could be 60 days.

It could be 15 days. It just, it's as long as the game of Uno lasts. So your idea for 30 days of something is for it to maybe go 60 days. Yeah. Or less than 30 days. Yeah, I got to say, like, just on its face, you know, good, thought starter. Like it doesn't, like, we don't have to be,

we don't have to be tied to 30 days exactly. It could be any length of time. I like the idea of not knowing. I like it being a cap of a month. I think there's something fun. Yeah, I think it's, I think it's really strong having a month. All right, well,

maybe if it gets to day 30, we have to finish the game. Oh, I like that. I like that. I've seen the way you guys play Uno. I don't know if that's easy, but that's, that is good thinking. Oh, what if it turns,

what if it culminates in a live stream? Yeah. We also might not make it 30 days. Right. What if it does make it 30 days? Also, I don't like the idea of it ending before 30 days. I don't think it's going to happen. Day 18.

Listen, it's hard to end that fucking game. Trust me. It is hard to end it. I guess what I'm saying is if we do this 30 days thing and then on the last day, let me look at what next March looks like. Because it would be very interesting to have to end it with like a live stream. I just like the idea of the thing. that worked well about the Mario thing was it's one turn structured every day. I like the idea of not

knowing what today is going to bring. Like, is it going to be quick? Is it going to be long? Is it, you know, and just have that being a added wrinkle into the mix. It doesn't have to be, you know, it was just my idea. No, I think that's fun. I like that a lot. The last day of March next year is the 31st, which is a Wednesday. So if we were to do it and it went all the way, That would be interesting to end it with like a live stream of us ending the Uno thing. I think that would be fun. I like the idea of spinning the wheel and stuff. The last day of March is the 31st every year.

Yeah, I was just pointing out that it's the last day and I was just giving you like the date and the day just in case. So there was like no confusion. Thanks, man. That knife, you're never going to see it coming. That rabbit is never going to see it coming. So I don't like the idea of it going longer than. like the month. I also don't like it ending earlier.

I don't anticipate it ending earlier, really. But ending with like a live stream, I think would be really fun. I think that's a really cool idea. So on the last day, we just play till the end? Yeah. Yeah. Who's gonna get sucked off on camera, though?

What? No, no. What do you mean? Yeah, you know, get your dicks out. It's either. Oh, it's a, it's a 360. vision cam. Yeah, we'll have a

live vision camera. We just constantly dudes dicks on Uno back in the day. Yeah, it was. It was, yeah. I was having a dick in it.

A crisis of identity because Eric could not find the Super Soaker and I found it because I was going insane. It was called. I just didn't know what it was called. It was called the Flash Flood.

Was it in your filing cabinet? It wasn't. Flash flood. I just posted a photo of it. You could see it has that little pull tab on the larger nozzle on the top. and you could do that and that would like empty the tank.

Dang. But you'd still have to pump it up for the pressure, surely, wouldn't you? Yeah, absolutely. Oh, okay. That's why I'm saying you would pump it and then you would either fire normal style or dump the whole tank. That was my weapon choice in the Super Super Bowl game. I remember there was like a, they did a whole line of like different abilities, as I was saying. I used to know all the numbers of some like.

Yeah. What did I have like a 3,300 or something? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was that stuff. It was like the 3,500 and I remember all that stuff. I used to know numbers for Nokia phones and Super Soakers. I wanted to share this with Eric. When I was listening to Pimball Wizard to figure out the requirements of us determining our own Pimball Wizard,

I looked if there was a playlist on Spotify that was just all songs about Pimball, because I couldn't think of any other ones. And they didn't have that, but what was a weird listening amongst, the other play. It was like songs that were from the movie that people made. There was a Spotify playlist that was just songs about rats. Wow. Cool. And it was a bunch of ratatooy stuff.

And I just, I love that somebody made that and that it has 377 safe. Not a lot of people looking for songs about rats specifically, I guess. There's a rat band right now that everybody keeps linking us to. Really? Was it rap, Rap boys? Is that what they're called?

Yeah, rat, rat boys is really, I really like rat boys. I think they're really good. But like it on that playlist, Andrew, is there Ben, which is like, I think that Michael Jackson song about a rat? I think, yeah, yeah, it was. Cool. Yeah. I mean, makes sense, right? It does.

Yeah, I didn't know he had a rat song. Yeah. I searched and I found a different playlist called Songs About Rats. So then, but it only has 79 save. So you might have the more popular rat playlist. Pretty good. Damn. Songs about rats.

I looked at a list of the 100 best songs of 2026 so far just to see if I recognized any of them, you know? Not only did I not recognize any of the songs, I don't think I recognize 90 out of 100 artists. I have never felt more out of touch in my life than looking at people that I was thinking about doing some sort of a game to see if you guys knew who any of these people were. But I don't think it's worth it. Because nobody, nobody will. The answer's got to be no. It's fucking crazy how out of touch I am with popular music. Oh, yeah. That's just how it proceeds.

Like, I don't even, like, did you know, I don't even know who Avalon, Emerson, and The Charm are? What? No. I don't even know Callella or Monrovia. No. Or Young Miami. I like that.

Or FFC Uckers. Fuckers. Fuckuckers? Do you guys are the lemon twigs of the 50th most popular song? in the world right now. That could be total bullshit. I could have just made that out. It's not.

It's true, but I like it. I like the name, the lemon twigs. Couldn't be more out of touch. I wonder like what percentage of the audience is like, yeah, yeah, I know them.

I feel like it's a small percent. I bet there's quite a few. I'm sure. I'm sure. Like they're interesting. Yeah, they're popular and they're younger than us. Yeah, sure.

Oh, absolutely. Hey, Jeff, I found this playlist, songs about rats. Yeah. Just so you're aware. I came as a rat, modest mouse. Oh, nice.

It's a great song. Yeah, very nice. Rat Fink by the Misfits. Love it. Also on there. Rat Salad by Black Sabbath made the cut. Caged Rat by Soul Asylum, also on there. I don't see smashing pumpkins where they are just a rat in the cage, but I think that they wanted like... Rats in the title? Yeah, I guess so. But then also, there's an Oscar the Grouch song called I Love Trash, and I don't think that's about rats.

Probably not. I don't think rats love trash. I think that's just sort of, like what's available. Yeah, right? I think that's just what they, I think they would love birthday cake if you just like left birthday cake out. You know what I mean? Yeah, rats also love five star restaurants.

They just don't have access to them as easily. Yeah. Nick, Nick just said, I know that feeling after I said they love birthday cake if birthday cake is left out. Yeah. You ever been to a party?

I have been. Several. What's wrong with you? I had such a delightful moment the other day where I you know because I'm just me I'm just living my life I very rarely I don't get to interact with me in the way that you guys do in the podcast but I get that experience with my mom which is fantastic and it's like an insight to me how I feel you guys must feel as being on the other end of it what I just imagine it feels like my mom and I were out and we're at we went to Wendy's and she was looking at the board and she said, huh, the son of Baconator is cheaper than the Baconator.

And I was perplexed by this. And I said, well, yeah, well, it's the, I mean, son of Bacon Inter implies it's smaller. And she thought that that made no sense because genetically, kids are often bigger than their parents, which I don't think is true, but also just. So she thinks it's the, she believes it's the adult son of Baconator. Yes. I think it's maybe her perception of what the word son means that her current age and my current age.

Yeah. But it was just the most wild journey to go through to like have the thought that son of Baconator should be the bigger burger because of genetics, I guess. There was surely so much time in her life, though, where you were smaller than her. Absolutely. But I think it's been a while since that occurred.

Yes. So I think there's like a recency by, Probably been bigger longer than he was smaller at this point. Bigger, longer, smaller. Right? It's a DAF Punk song? Yeah. I've definitely been bigger than my mom longer than I was smaller than my mom.

For sure. That's a 50 year old, yeah. She's like 5'2. I've been bigger than my mom since I was like 14. Do you think it's weird, though, that there was probably a day where you left her smaller and came back? Yeah, yeah. You think it happened just in a day? That quick?

Well, it must happen at some point. It must be like on and off. It probably was a day you went to bed smaller and woke up a little bigger maybe. Do a lot of growing in your sleep. I would love to know what was the day where I had the largest height difference. Like the day you grew the most in your life.

Yeah, the most I grew. What amount of time had the most amount of growth? What is? Yeah, what's the most growing you can do in a 24-hour period? Yeah, like, has there ever been anybody that, like, grew a foot taller overnight? A foot. Ow. Ouch.

Like, just having the concept of, like, you and your friend are, like, at summer camp and you go to bed, and then you wake up, and your friend is suddenly a foot taller than they were the day before would be so jarring. That's the most, like, kid-brain thing. also where it's like it happened over a summer, but in your head it happened just overnight. It's like you woke up and everyone was taller or whatever. Yeah.

Like, damn. Five-eighths of an inch. Five. Oh, wow. That's a lot. Yeah. Clinical research shows maximum growth of baby or child has been recorded to achieve in a single 24-hour period is five-eighths of an inch.

That can't be true. That's got to be a gammy ruler or something or a sheet. That's fucked up. Five-eighths of an inch? Babies grow fast. That'll make you sick. That's surely a difference between a baby like, scrunch it up but just stretch it out.

How do they know the baby's the same amount of stretched? I think it's probably the clinical research. I don't know. So you think that you think that a baby is essentially kind of like knotted up and the first parts of baby growth are just the stretching. A baby is just as tall as you can pull it apart.

A baby is as tall as you can pull it apart. The way you're describing it. It's like, babies are like the Christmas lights that you pull out of the box. And it's like, yeah, we got to untangle it before. A baby's like a natural slinky. It's got a lot of pull. You can't measure a slinky that is in use.

Someone being like saying how large their baby is and just Gavin going like tangled or untangled. What are we talking? If I measure a baby 10 times in a day, it'll be all over the graph. It would be crazy different. You gotta pull it apart Jeff style. I don't want to pull anyone's... Pull the baby apart now. I just don't think there's a great way to measure children.

Yet somehow we've managed to do it for all these years. I just don't think it's accurate. I don't think it's accurate down to within five-eighths of an inch. You don't trust child measurement. No. I don't think people should bother. Like you don't think anywhere, you know, like the little marks you do on the wall as you're growing in that? You don't think anyone has ever been shorter than the last time they were measured?

No. They die. As they get older, yeah. That, like, I'm probably not as tall as I was when I was 18. Should we start doing you on the door frame of the office? Yeah, we should. We should try to catch it on the way out. Go the other way with it, yeah.

Yeah. That would be so cool to have because, like, the ability to have lived in one house, your entire life is incredibly rare. I like it being like a roller coaster where it's going up and then going down as you get older. Yeah. God, man. Having like the full arc.

I just like the idea of someone get in our office after we've moved out. I'm thinking that a bunch of kids lived there, but it was just us. One of the saddest things that ever happened to me is I used to record Millie's height in the door jam in her bedroom, her entire fucking childhood.

Every like three to three months early and then six months. than yearly. And so I had a tree of her going up to like, I don't know, seven or eight years old, maybe a little bit older. And when we had that renovation done, Gavin, you remember we had to go live in the other house for a year and we moved back? They, uh, they painted over it. The, I didn't specifically tell them not to. I didn't think about that one spot and they didn't look at that and think like maybe this is important to these people or even ask. They just completely painted over the whole thing and I lost it. I tried to remove the paint.

Damn, that sucks. Yeah, wiped away her entire childhood in like, uh, 30 minutes. Really, really sucked. I've got one of those in the pantry of my house. I've got some lines from the previous owners. And I'm not even, I'm leaving it. Like, what if they want it back one day? What if they need to reference it? What if that person comes back and they want to be like,

yeah, my mom used to measure me. Oh my God, it's still there. And you make somebody's whole fucking year. Yeah, be like, come here. It's next to my beans. That would be the craziest thing to pull out of a card. A relic height card, Al Capone's height wall. Like a scrap.

Well, like you mentioned himself. Yeah, like somebody cut out that piece of the wall and put it like in a card. He was four foot seven in 1932. Yeah, that is four foot seven. They were shorter back then. I mean, Al Capone was pretty short, right? I don't think he was tall. Four foot seven?

I think he was pretty short. I don't think he was four foot seven. I bet you was five. He was five, he was five, ten. No way. Al Capone was not five. I don't trust this. This is my version of baby measurements.

Well, you know, I mean, typically children are taller than their parents. By the way, how can you not love and trust that face? Oh, my God. Shit. How close lips? That's a face with five foot, 10-inch band. He has like a, he's like a baby face, but like he's like an adult mate. Like, that's so strange.

Yeah, he's got a killer's smile. Is that like a big ass scar on his face? Looks like it. Where? Did Al Capone have a bigger score? Like a Chelsea smile? Yeah. How tall?

Just searching for pictures of Al Capone. It does not look 5'10. Yeah, these heights are like. This is like Tom Cruise's exaggerated heights. It's also, my point of reference, I realize, for Al Capone's boardwalk empire. It's played by Stephen Graham, and Stephen Graham's 5 foot 6. So I think that's probably highly influencing. I wonder how to how Robert De Niro is.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. That's my reference for Al-Copone. Same. Five-10, same height. Interesting. I wonder if they took that in consideration. Yeah, they're exaggerated, though. What was Al-Short for?

Alvin Capone. Was it? His name was Alvin? I don't know. Oh. That's cool that it, like, if it was Allen. Or Aloisious. Al-Fond.

Gabriel Capone. Alphons, yeah. Interesting. He was born in 1899. Wow. That's crazy. I'm learning a lot about Al Capone. Well, we're a history podcast now.

They said other names, Scarface, Big Al, Big Boy, Public Enemy Number One, and Snorky. Snorkey. Snorkey. Snorkey. Why?

I don't know. Maybe he invented the snorks. Maybe he invented the snorks. No, because here's the thing. When you're thinking, snorks, I mean, you're thinking of snorkees. Snorke is one of the banana splits. Oh. Maybe he invented the banana splits.

You think so? Do you see any resemblance between Al Capone and that elephant? No. Yeah, I don't think he has a big scar on his face. How tall is that elephant? Snorkey. Alphets are pretty dull. do you uh do you think you've ever been how do i say this do you think you've ever been that guy to

somebody else like let me give you an example back when i lived in my old house i felt like every time i looked at the window i would see this one dude walking his dog and the dog was ancient and he was like always hunched over and looked unhappy and he had a hat on that was too big and it made him look like a bobblehead kind of and i felt like anytime i looked at the window i would see that dude walking his dog to the point where it was almost like comical. And then the other day, last weekend, Emily and I were driving around and we were near the old house and we thought we'd drive into the neighborhood and see how things were looking. And we turned into the neighborhood and I immediately saw that guy. And I was like, I can't believe it's been two years. And this guy's,

I'm still running into this guy. And then I got me thinking, I'm probably that guy to somebody else and I have no idea how or why. Yeah, you'll probably like that guy on the bike. You're that guy to that guy. What do you mean? Yeah, I'm that guy. He never does never seem to see me. I'm that guy. I'm that guy on a bicycle for sure. There's somebody who's like, oh, there's that fucking guy again.

Yeah, this guy's always out on his bike, like every single day. I wish I was. I wonder how many times in your life you're that guy to somebody and what it is you're that guy doing, you know? I don't know if I've ever been that guy. For a minute, every time I go into,

like, Los Angeles for, like, a comedy show or a concert or something, I would see Jonah Hill. It was like... Are you sick of him? Yes, it was to a point where it was like, Jonah Hill was that guy for me, where it was just like, fucking, here's Jonah Hill again.

Fuck. And it's not like there was like an interaction or whatever. Like, it was just, you would just see him all the time everywhere. I seen Jonah Hill in person probably more than like any other celebrity. Now, is it at the events that you're going to? Yes. And then like on the street outside of the events and like just everywhere you would be,

you'd like lose track of them. And then you'd see him again half an hour later and you're just like fucking Jesus Christ. And that would happen over and over. To be filled, Jonah Hill was a big fun house and mega 64 fans. So I'd seem like a lot of like it was like Tim and Eric stuff and UCB stuff and like just concerts around or whatever. But it was just it was just so constant that it was like are like me and Jonah Hill are just into the same things.

But I just got tired to seeing Jonah Hill. I would find that upsetting. Did it make you want to be friends with him? No, I never once thought about being friends with Jonah Hill. Didn't make you want to move to Hawaii and become a surfer. Dude, it never, ever, ever crossed my mind until you brought it up right now. I'd be bummed. Like, oh.

Do you want to Hill and I are into the same thing? What if he came over and tried to make friends, though? Would you be like, okay, I guess I can get into this? I mean, I guess. I think the conversation was starting with like, man, we just keep seeing each other everywhere, huh? Like, I think that would have been, like, it would have been fine. But, like, I don't think Jonah Hill was going to approach me. a random guy that he probably kept seeing.

I wonder if I was that guy. Dude, do you think I was that guy to Jonah Hill? There's no way. He's talked to his security about you a few times. It's that fucking little guy again. Go talk to him. Go talk to him. Find out what his deal is.

This little right. He's 64. Just like, man, I don't know. That's who, that was my that guy, though. I'm going to, I just know, I'm going to leave my house as soon as this podcast is over to go run some errands. And I'm going to be that guy somewhere in town to somebody. And I don't even, I won't even know it.

You know? My guy was also somebody on the bike, on a bike I would see all the time, just constantly. I felt like every time I looked at my window, I'd see this person riding down the hill on a bike. Did you see the woman pissing more than once? Or was that a one-off? That was a one-off. Yeah, unfortunately, it was one and done. It was a one-up, but it hasn't stopped them for the reasons you reply.

I'd love to hear what other people's... My guys are. I didn't think, Andrew, you've been anyone's guy. No, I definitely haven't. You don't think you've been like on your deck or looking out your window and somebody's like, that same dude's looking out his window again. No, I don't think so. Or it's like, I always see that guy getting mail. He's always getting his mail.

How many times a day does he have to check his mail? Yeah, I don't think unreasonable. Like an unreasonable, like I don't, I think everything, I guess the bike isn't unreasonable. I'm trying to think of like, I don't think I do anything memorable. constantly. I mean, to be fair, I don't think this guy walking his dog is unreasonable either.

I just happened to catch him every time he walked his dog for some reason. Yeah. But is it the dog that is why you remember him? I just remember him because of his hunched over posture

wearing a hat that's too big and I always think of like a cartoon when I would see him. Definitely not mean that. I've never had a hat be too big. Is it unreasonable to get annoyed when you keep seeing people

though? A little. Because sometimes I'm like, if I'm a passenger in a car, I'm often looking out the window, and I just recognize a specific house. So there's always people out on the driveway doing stuff. They're always just on their drive. And I think my first reaction to

it, after noticing, these people are always like doing something on their driveway. I think my first emotion is anger about it. Really? I don't know why. That is odd. I don't know why it annoys me. But I'm like, why am I always seeing these people. I'm annoyed that I've noticed you yet again.

It seems, yeah, it seems unreasonable. But I don't know why that was my go-to. Maybe we can all go home tonight and sleep on our hands. And as we fall asleep tonight, think about how we could possibly be that guy for somebody else out there in the world. It's good thinking, Jeff. I like it. All right. Well, let's get to it. This is the end of the episode. 110. Get your butt in those hands ready. It's time to go to sleep. We'll see you next week for another episode of the

Regulation Podcast. Love you. Bye. Bye. Bye.