So... Alright - Smile, We're On Camera

Episode Date: February 25, 2025

Geoff answers some viewer questions, talks about not talking about basketball, and dives into just how often we are being filmed, photographed, and recorded throughout our lives. It's a lot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It is a highly contentious thing in the NBA. Oh, I'd say for the last 10 years or so, but really the last three or four, it is a broken element of the league that they are trying very hard to figure out how to fix. The problem being that the NBA players just don't give a shit about being a part of it. And the fans don't give a shit about watching people not give a shit, you know?

And so it hasn't made the most enthralling product for the last decade or so. Really, really getting weird lately. They did a lot of stuff to try to fix it. If you guys want me to, I can cover that in a future episode. I'm really just hopping in this one just to say that there's really, outside of that, there's no games being played.

So Luca is not doing anything. AD is not doing anything other than convalescing and nothing to report on that front. However, I will say, I continue to be overwhelmed by the amount of emails and correspondence I received from you thanking me for that episode or telling me that it was more interesting than I would have anticipated. People from as far away as Finland have reached out to me to tell me that they are going to try to start following the NBA now and I really do. That's humbling and that is

NBA now and I really do that's humbling and that is That's really gratifying to hear and it warms my heart to know that my enthusiasm for something Could potentially turn it on to other people it's honestly it's part of why we do this kind of stuff because they you find something that you really love that you that gives you so much joy and Entertainment and you just want to share that with the world at large that gives you so much joy and entertainment. And you just want to share that with the world at large so that other people can find and receive that same kind of entertainment from it. Right. Even as far away as Finland. I will say one interesting thing about that email I got from the guy from Finland.

Let me see if I can find it. This is actually from from. Emily, I hope I'm saying that right. Emily, please let me know how badly I butchered your name. But anyway, this person reached out all the way from Finland to say that they're going to start watching the NBA now, which I think is fucking awesome. And they're going to watch the Celtics, which is even more gratifying. I'll speak more on that in a second.

But the thing that I thought was most interesting about the emails, they said on a side note, it's been fascinating to watch American TV for the first time. The ads, the tempo, animations, everything really is so different from anything I've watched before. I don't think we take that into consideration enough. How similar but wildly different, even something as simple as just turning on a TV

can be from country to country. One of, I think maybe when Millie and I went to Tokyo for that brief vacation we took, which we had the most amazing time, I would have very happily stayed in the hotel and just watched random television channels in Japan because it was so different from anything we were used to here.

It was so cool to see how stark and wild and just opposite they are. I don't know, it's hard to explain unless you've seen it, but it's really, it's really fucking cool. And it's it's an awesome way to see and experience and get a sense of other cultures, if that makes sense. But it wasn't just Finland, people from all over the US, people from as far as the UK and even some Canadians reached out to me to say that they were now in the market for an NBA team.

A couple of people said, well, we're just going to follow the Celtics because you watch Celtics, which I think is awesome. And, you know, obviously it's hard to go wrong with the most successful, most storied, winningest, more championships than any other team in the history of the league. Boston Celtics with Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown and Chris Stapps Porzingis and Drew Holliday and Derek White and coach Joe Missoula and Peyton Pritchard and Al Horford and Sam Houser and I could go on forever, but you get the point There's a lot of reasons to like the Celtics not the least of which they're winning record their depth how fucking cool They are awesome logo, cool color, most insane place in the NBA to play. I don't know if you guys

know that, but TD Garden is the loudest, craziest place in the NBA to play because the fans are fucking lunatics. Not in always a good way. But I do encourage everybody out there to find the team that connects with them, just because this Boston Celtics connected with me at 11 years old in 1986, because that's I don't know, that's Dennis Johnson is what appealed to me as an 11 year old. But that doesn't mean they have to be your favorite team. You might find yourself a Houston Rockets fan. That's a great time to be a Rockets fan. Or you might find yourself an Oklahoma City Thunder fan.

If you want to get on board the hype train, Oklahoma City is your next stop, honestly. Orlando Magic are very fun and cool right now. It's definitely an interesting time to watch the Dallas Mavericks. There's a lot of just like dumpster fires of the NBA that are kind of fun to watch right now. Washington Wizards, I think the Miami Heat are headed for that.

Charlotte Hornets are always a threat. Unfortunately, the New Orleans Pelicans aren't looking so good these days. There's a lot of interesting like flame outs, but then there's the Sacramento Kings. What the hell happened to them? But then there's like these teams that shouldn't be good that are overachieving right now like the Clippers or The Spurs are now suddenly because of their big trade in contention potentially for being a late playoff seed and Don't sleep on the Detroit Pistons by the way, Cade Cunningham is the real deal and they they might have a they're they're further behind

Way further behind obviously like Houston or Orlando, but they're gonna be, they're gonna be interesting to watch over the next few years, for sure. Anyway, we're not talking about basketball. All I'm saying is thank you for all the correspondents of people that told me that they're now gonna check out the NBA or they're in the market for a team or they're gonna jump in and watch the Celtics, which is really gratifying.

But once again, don't like the Celtics just because I like the Celtics. You might find that you are the world's biggest Denver Nugget fan. And that's OK. Every team is the right team for somebody. Right. I got a lovely email from another Gustavo, not my Gustavo, but a different Gustavo. And he had an interesting question. He said, I'll try to keep he said some other really nice stuff. But then he said, I'll try and keep the actual question part short as this email is already getting longer than I intended.

It basically boils down to I guess I didn't need to read that part. It basically boils down to if you and 100 percent eat, I'm assuming negotiations for them with somewhat similarly as they did to you all now own the previous iterations of the shows. Why did the rebrands for regulation 100 percent eat and Good Morning Gustavo I ever thought to ask why they rebranded from face jam to 100% eat. In regards to regulation, which is the one I can't get into, I can only speak for regulation. I can only speak for regulation.

I can only speak for regulation. I can only speak for regulation. I can only speak for regulation, and I honestly don't know that I ever thought to ask why they rebranded from Face Jam to 100% Eat. In regards to regulation, which is the one I can only truly speak with any intelligence about, for us, the process of buying Fuckface, the intellectual property that was Fuckface from Warner Brothers, was

a fine process. I'm not going to complain about it because they made it as easy as possible for us, but it was a slow process. And anytime you're dealing with corporations of that size and you're dealing with intellectual property and you're dealing with teams of lawyers on both ends and you're trying to get negotiations worked out on a thing, there's always the possibility that it'll fall through, that it won't happen, that there will be an unintended roadblock in the 11th hour that derails everything, which by the way, happened a couple times. It didn't derail anything, but there were a couple of like, oh wait, we didn't account for this piece.

Now we have to stop and then account for that and then go back to the table. Those kinds of things do happen. And so it took us months to acquire the fuck face intellectual property from Warner Brothers. Once again, not complaining. These kinds of things take time for a reason. They're very complicated and you're dealing with a lot of,

we're dealing with the entire intellectual property of a 206 episode show, plus all of the other ancillary productions that spun off from it or that were a part of it in its own little universe. And so it was a bit of a mix of a few things. One, we knew that the strength of what we were doing was our momentum and our drive,

and we refused to let the closing of Rooster Teeth be a speed bump that slowed us down in any measurable way. We were bound and determined that if Rooster Teeth ended May 10th, May 11, our new thing would begin, whether it was fuckface or regulation or whatever. We were resolute that we and the audience would not miss one day of content.

There would be no interruption to the flow of entertainment for us and for you. Like, I know this is our job, and so clearly it's important to us, but this is so much more than a job to us. This is, I can't even tell you what it feels like. Rooster Teeth felt like a second child to me, and I didn't expect at 49 years old to have a third child, but here we are. And I love this new baby so much, you know, we all do.

This is so much more to us than just paying the bills. It's just a way of life for us, you know? I have no backup plan. There's nothing behind this for me. I've been doing this for 22 years. This is all I know, but it's all I wanna know. I wanna continue doing this until the wheels fall off of me. So we were gonna continue regardless.

We had to continue under a name, right? We couldn't legally continue under Fuckface until we had the rights to Fuckface. We weren't, yeah, we were 95% sure we were gonna get the rights to Fuckface, but we weren't 100% sure. And you can't operate a business in that way. In some ways, that's how Rooster Teeth started,

and I don't ever wanna go through that again. So the cleanest solution was for us to rebrand, taking into consideration that if anything fell through, we'd be ahead of the curve and that, you know, if we were going to ever rebrand, this is the point in time when the most eyeballs in our community are going to be honest, right? Trying to do a rebrand three or four or six months down the road or a year down

the road is a year down the road is a totally different fiasco. Right now, there's articles being written about us, there's online nostalgia and sentiment, and people are posting their, and by right now, I mean, you know, in May of 2024, people are posting their favorite memories of Rooster Teeth and they're asking, where's everybody gonna go? And there's interest and there's chatter and there's commotion and there's communication and there's more communication than there's ever gonna be again, probably.

So for us to miss this heightened window of alertness and awareness would be a huge, in my estimation, huge mistake. And I'll be totally honest with you, every production that didn't do what we did, I think made a huge mistake and I'll be totally honest with you, every production that didn't do what we did, I think made a huge mistake. Warning. I've got this condition where I don't feel pain. You're a superhero. This is how intense Nova Kane sounds. Oh, wow.

Imagine how it looks. Is there more? Yeah, big time. Nova Kane. Forming theaters March 14th. The other element to it though is, yeah, Fuckface was not an easy or sellable name. And I created it to give us a challenge.

When I presented that name, it was sort of a, I mean, the whole purpose of the show is like, shoot yourself in the foot for a laugh, right? Like set yourself up for failure because that'll be funny. And we definitely accomplished that. But I had to go to the sales department. I had to go to all the different department heads at Rooster Teeth and say, hey, I want to create a show that's literally called Fuckface. Can we legally do it? Can you sell it?

Are they going to carry it on the podcast apps? What legal problems do we have? And I had to go through all these hoops to get it approved to get it made so that then we could release an almost unsellable Untellable show with the goal being if we could make that successful Holy shit if you could make a show successful that you can't really tell a If you could make a show successful that you can't really tell a co-worker about or you can't write about in Variety magazine because we very clearly, it was a big, if you weren't

listening to Fuckface back then, when we got left out of the Variety article on Roosterteeth podcasts, we were fuming. But that in itself was kind of funny because that was kind of the whole point of the show is to create a show, make it successful enough that it matters when we get excluded, because we made a show that almost requires it to be excluded. A lot of layers of us fucking ourselves over in humorous and comedic ways. But all that made sense when we were under the

umbrella of Rooster Teeth and Warner Brothers, when we had the infrastructure to help us through any potential lean months and also just support us in the process of trying to make an unsellable name sellable. Didn't really need to have those kind of impediments in front of us going independent. Wasn't that we hated the name Fuckface or anything,

but I will say, Andrew pitched the name Regulation to us and we all as soon as he pitched it, it was honestly like a light bulb moment. Every single one of us went, oh, that's who we are. That's 100 percent who we are. That makes so much more sense to me than where we are. Because you have to understand, too, we created a name for a podcast that didn't exist yet. You know, 206 episodes before regulation was born over 206 episodes, the show evolved

into something I think a lot more wholesome and heartwarming, if I will say, than the name Fuckface. And so for us to be able to make that transition into a name that I think is more aligned with who we are and what we're making, if that makes sense. Do I say if that makes sense too much? I think I do, I think I do. I think I say if that makes sense too much. I think I'm gonna try not to anymore. Well, I was gonna do more emails,

but those were on pretty long, so maybe I should just get to the other part. Do you guys ever think about how much of the world is photographed? This is not a like Big Brother is watching. There's a lot of different directions we could take this conversation.

We're not taking it any of them. We're basically approaching it from purely from a data standpoint and just a an interest standpoint, not a dark Big Brother or deep state. Nefarious, they're capturing your likeness and they're watching you at all times and monitoring you kind of angle.

Just to, it's just something to think about. Have you thought about how many times a day you were photographed or filmed in your life? I was thinking about it the other day and so I did some research. I'm just gonna kind of blow through it. Like I said, we're not gonna turn this, we're not gonna go any particular direction. I think it's just fascinating how prevalent this is.

Did you know there's more than 1 billion surveillance cameras in the world active right now? About a 100 million households use smart home surveillance cameras, whether it be a ring doorbell or you know, your cameras in your corners, watching the inside and outside of your house. That's how Gavin gets a lot of this hilarious footage of his cats doing shit in his home or him tripping over stuff. China has more than 200 million CCTVs.

I think they have more than the US, but we have more per capita if that's, yeah, we have the highest per capita number of CCTVs with Think about this and this is by the way this data is from 2021. So it's gonna be four years old as of 2021 we had 15 and a half cameras for every hundred people I want to say Number three is the UK They have I don't know 600,000 cameras, which is nothing compared to, but they're a much smaller country.

According to statistics from Deep Sentinel, this is the answer to the one question I had that started all this research, and I'm going to get to it right here. But according to statistics from Deep Sentinel, the average working American is caught on CCTV cameras 238 times a week or about 38 times a day. That could be dash cam, it could be traffic surveillance cameras, it could be infrastructure cameras, public CCTVs, neighborhood home securities. But if you leave your like if you just going out about the normal course of the day, say you don't work from home. So you go someplace to work Monday through Friday or whatever whatever your five days a week are doesn't have to be those days

You're gonna get captured on camera approximately 238 times every week or 38 times a day. So you're captured on camera about 40 times a day Whether you realize it or not. That's just crazy to think about. You're constantly being filmed or captured in some way. And it's not just that, and we're doing it to ourselves too. There are 1.81 trillion photos taken worldwide every year. That is 57,000 photos are taken every second on planet Earth. That is five billion new photos a day.

They say that by 2030, there will be 2.3 trillion photos taken every year. Interestingly enough, the global pandemic, which I guess makes sense, reduced the number of images taken by 25% in 2020 and 20% in 2021. I guess the lens cap is off now though when we're back to it.

The average person takes 20 photos a day. Obviously that number skews towards young people, it's higher towards young people, which means old people are taking far less photos a day and young people are taking far more. I definitely do not take 20 photos a day. I maybe take, I don't know, one photo of the dog to send to my wife if she's even at work. Or honestly, if I take a lot of photos a day. I maybe take, I don't know, one photo of the dog

to send to my wife if she's even at work. Or honestly, if I take a photo, it's, I take, that was embarrassing. I take a lot of photos at like 9.30 at night in my kitchen when the lights aren't bright enough and I can't read the directions on how to cook something or the ingredients, I'll take a photo and then zoom in because I'm above an age where I have to do that now.

Those are the kind of photos I'm taking. By region, the number of photos taken by a smartphone is obviously the US leading the way, followed by Asia and then Latin America. How many images are on the internet? There are 750 billion images on the internet. But that's only about 6% of the photos that are taken because we don't share most of the photos we take.

How many images are on Google Images? I have an answer for you. 136 billion on Google Images. By 2030, they say they will be 382 billion images on Google. And it's like you take a step back for a second and think about that. That is just so much data. How many photos does the average person have in their phone?

I can tell you 2100 as of 2023. Here's a good one. Do you know how many photos have been taken throughout all of history? one, do you know how many photos have been taken throughout all of history? They say by 2030, the number will be 28.6 trillion. So six years from now, there will have been 28.6 trillion photos taken throughout history, since we've been taking photos.

Crazy to think that in Austin, Texas, I can go visit the first photograph ever taken. It's at the, what is it, the Harry Ransom Museum? Let me make sure that's right. Yeah, view from a window. The oldest surviving photograph is view from the window at Le Gras taken by Joseph Nipsey in 1826 or 1827. by Joseph Nipsey in 1826 or 1827.

And that photo is in Austin, Texas for some reason at the Harry Ransom Center, which is the museum at the University of Texas. I have been there to see it three different times. It is deteriorating and it's getting harder and harder to see. They have a little room built around it where you have to go in to see it. But you know, this photo is 200 years old.

Jesus Christ, that photo is almost 200 years old. It's 100, what, 199, 198, 199 years old, depending on when it was taken. And you can go fucking see it in Austin, Texas. Wild, but anyway, crazy to think that since 1826 or 1827, we've taken trillions and trillions of photos, but because the technology is so new, you can go back and still see the very first one, or at least the first surviving one. That's fucking awesome. I wonder how many times I've been photographed in my life. I recognize that I am a typical because I've had a career that has afforded me a bit of

I guess a public-facing career and I've done like events and stuff where I've Taking photos with people as kind of part of it But I wonder how many times the average person is photographed in their life. Let me see if I don't think I have that Well, I don't know but but it's a fucking lot. How about that? As of 2024, this is pretty crazy, and I think I'll leave this with this stat. As of 2024, the total amount of data in the world,

because this is a lot of data to think about. Every photo is data, every video is data. It's gotta be stored somewhere. It takes up digital space, right? So as of 2024, the total amount of data in the world is estimated to be 149 zettabytes. The number is expected to increase to 181 zettabytes by 2025.

So that's now 2025. What is a zettabyte? A zettabyte is a unit of measurement, obviously, used to describe the storage capacity of a device or a computer. It is equal to. It is equal to one trillion gigabytes, one billion terabytes or one thousand exabytes. So. It's a trillion gigs. thousand exabytes. So, it's a trillion gigs.

It's a trillion gigs. So one, one zettabyte is a trillion gigs. Is that right? Yeah, it is. So 149 zettabytes would be 149 trillion gigabytes. Is that right? It's so much. It's ridiculous. You guys need a song with the episode though. Oh, by the way, somebody mentioned in an email, they asked, is there a place where they can listen

to all the songs of the episodes? I don't maintain a playlist I used to earlier in the show, but I have fallen off of that. However, someone from the community makes one. I would see it on Reddit and it is called if you wanted to search for it. It's just called Jeff's Song of the Day on Spotify. It was created by the better devil. So thank you to the better devil for creating it.

So it's already about an hour and a half long. I was looking at it this morning, trying to figure out what I wanted to pick as my song of the episode. And I think I'm going to pick, I think I'm gonna pick another Zamrock band. This is one of my favorites. This is actually kind of funny. This is a religious song, a pretty Christian song,

which would normally be a bit of a turnoff for me, but it is so fucking good. It's impossible not to be a fan of it. It is Day of Judgment by Ngozi family. And it's gotta be from the mid to late 70s. I'm not sure when it exactly came out, but that's kind of when they were, you know, their most prominent.

And it is, it's long and awesome and droning. And you just will, it'll take you on a ride. You just get into it and enjoy it. I love it so much. And hey, you know what? I also, I love you. So thank you for tuning in and listening to another episode of this podcast.

Thank you for supporting the Regulation Podcast. Thank you for supporting Good Morning Gustavo. Thank you for checking me out over on Twitch at Fake Jeff. And thank you for all of the cameos you guys send me to Jeff L. Ramsey. Thank you for everything, for the years and years and years of support. And I'm just so grateful and excited to be able to sit down

and have these conversations with you and to get the wonderful feedback that I do. So please do not hesitate to email me at ericatjeffsboss.com. That is a real email address. That is really my email address, at least for this show. I'd love to hear from you. I always love to hear from you.

I won't be able to get back to hear from you. I always love to hear from you. I won't be able to get back to everybody because you guys are overwhelming in your support, but I read every single one and they mean the world to me. You mean the world to me. This means the world to me. And I'll see you next week, all right? La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la.

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