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Hello and welcome to another regulation sausage talk.

This is number three, I believe, for the regulation podcast.

We did a bunch with the previous podcast, but those don't count because that was in the past.

My name is Jeff Ramsey with me, as always.

Andrew Panton, Gavin Free, Eric Badour, Nick Schwartz, but you probably know that because if you're watching a sausage talk, you want to know what's going on behind the sausage curtain, as they say.

Pay no attention to the man behind the sausage curtain is what I believe they say.

Is the curtain made out of casings?

Is it like a casings curtain?

It's intestinal lining casings, yes.

Well, I think it should be hanging sausages in a line, like those old beaded doorway covers that old people have.

Exactly.

It's 100% what I thought of.

Let's get it for the office.

Yeah.

Like

a beaded curtain made out of sausage.

Oh, that's great.

Just translucent, drippy.

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

I love it.

It's getting grease everywhere you walk across the grease line when you when you pass through it uh

anyway this is the show if you're new to sausage talk this is the show where we give you uh a little peer into how the sausage is made as you were where we talk about the more mundane and boring aspects of what we do just for the people that want to know how the content is made as it were and uh we even talked about maybe brainstorming some ideas for some new drafts in this as well a little window into the creative process also potentially but i think the main reason to do this sausage talk, number three, is because we just hit our one-year anniversary.

Our little baby is one year old, and happy, happy birthday, little baby, little regulation baby.

One-year-old regulation baby, we're still worried that it's going to kill itself at any moment, right?

Like it's going to die in some way.

Yeah.

We can't leave it at home yet.

Is that the first year of the baby?

Kid starts walking at about nine, 10 months, and then they start running right around a year.

And then it's basically like three years of trying to stop them from committing suicide 40 times a day.

Is that what it's that how it's going, Nick?

Not anymore, but for a long time, oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

From one to like three, it's just your kid runs headfirst towards death constantly.

And so it's our job to keep regulation from sticking its finger in the light socket for the next two years.

But it's, you know, it's been an eventful year, right?

We, uh, we, and everybody knows this at this point, but we started the company the day, essentially the day Rooster Teeth ended, regulation began, f ⁇ face ended and regulation began.

And we have spent the last year ramping up to exactly this point,

I guess would be how to describe it.

We, there's been a lot of impetus to run, to run headfirst towards growth and to get back to where we were as f ⁇ ing face.

And we resisted a lot of that knowing that we wanted to build this company and this production responsibly and we didn't want to get out over our skis and we wanted to take things slowly and do it the right way, which is why it took us a full year to ramp up the store.

But I think we announced at the one-year anniversary we consider the store to be up and running and fully functional.

It is an operational Death Star and

it is ready to be used.

And

I think our content slate has been fully functional for a while now.

Jesus Star Wars references.

Yeah, it just seems a little menacing for our store.

The Death Star?

Wasn't the point of that to blow up planets?

We're operational.

We're raising a little Death Star, but we've got to child proof the office.

We're going to blow up competition.

Our sites are...

We don't give a shit about Alderon.

We just care about other podcasts.

That's not true either.

I don't want to kill anyone, any other podcast.

Michael Pod raises all shit.

What's going on?

I'm waiting for anybody else to jump in and start talking with me.

Jesus, my shit's fucking twisting in the whim here.

It's just the Death Star was a wild comparable.

I thought you were still doing the intro.

Yeah, see, nobody else talked.

That's kind of what I was talking about.

That's kind of how I fucking figured it would go when I stopped talking.

Is Gavin still here?

Did my thing cut up?

Yeah.

Did you say stuff?

I was going to say

it's super easy to do stuff too fast, like add stuff.

Like even like 10 or 15%

more work that we're focusing on could result in like a 30% drop in quality of everything else.

Which I think is why it's good to never try and get back to the same point we were all at once and just slowly do it.

Yeah.

And I feel like we've done a pretty solid job with that.

The store is

humming along.

We're not having the same kinds of issues knock on wood that we did at the previous company in terms of, well, in terms of any of it in that regard.

And obviously, we have our office.

We were doing that in the background for a while.

And

now,

like literally tomorrow, we should be fully functional there.

I would think we just have to set up some audio.

Nick's got to set up some audio and we have to plug some external capture cards in.

And I think we're ready to go there.

And so I would consider regulation to be pretty fairly well baked in.

I think

we're a fully functioning product as of

I'd say fully baked.

May 11th, right?

So cut into that cake.

And the cake is made.

There's always room to add some icing, some decorations to the cake, but the cake is secure.

And I draw as a robot.

And I'm a robot and I love cake.

I'm a cake-loving robot.

One of the things we did in the Army after we would do any kind of mission or training exercise is you had to have what's called an AAR, an after-action review, where you look back over everything that went wrong and why it went wrong and everything that went right.

And I don't think we need to get super granular with the last year of our lives because we just fucking lived it in vivid detail.

But are there any things about the last year that you wish had gone differently or that you wish we had done differently?

Anything we can work on in year two?

I want to do more.

Yeah, I mean, that's a great point.

I want to do more.

It sucks that we only have so many things that we can, we don't, there's only so many days that we can release stuff.

We record so much and we have to sort of like hinder ourselves from recording more.

I want to do more.

There's just nowhere for it to go.

And there's, I don't want to, my big concern is like just burning out the audience on, I know that people will reply to this and be like, but I want more too.

It's like, right, there are people who want more, but dude, it's when you start opening that sort of faucet, it's hard to close it.

Yeah.

But boy, I want to do so much.

I want to just record with you guys all day.

Every day.

When we have days when we aren't doing stuff for regulation, it's just like, we could be recording a video.

We could be doing a supplemental.

You're thinking about like blueprints and stuff and and how you want to.

I'm not thinking about blueprints.

I'm thinking about what else we can do.

I'm thinking more drafts and getting together and doing more stuff and dressing up robot Andrew and seeing what Gavin and Nick's show is in the room they won't let us go in.

Like I want to do more.

And I think that like talking about stuff that I wish went different.

I don't know that there's a lot that I wish went different in the first year.

I'm very happy with like where we're at and everything.

I just wish that we were able to put out two videos a day without being like stomped on by the algorithm and like all that stuff.

I just, I don't know.

I, there's just so much I want to do with you guys, like so much more I want to do that we just can't.

And it's a bummer.

Yeah, I think it's hard to reflect on the first year for me because so much of it was just about survival and figuring out how everything worked.

Like it, it's, we're kind of, I feel like going into, you know, at the end of year two, looking back, I feel like it'll be a lot easier to be like, ah, from a content perspective, we could do this differently or change that.

Where year one was such a scramble in every direction, it's hard to even remember like the granular details of what could have been improved because it was just so much.

I'm afraid you'll find out that year two is exactly as much of a scramble, just in a different way.

We'll all be saying the same thing in a year when we do another sausage talk and look back.

But I am excited for that as opposed to the scramble of year one of just trying to make sure that we are a legal company and how do taxes work and setting up a bank account like all of that stuff having that rolling there is still stuff going on in the background we're still dealing with insurance not not uh well we're still dealing with uh health insurance but we're also dealing with like business insurance right now we're still dealing with bank stuff that believe it or not 13 months in we still are dealing with bank stuff and there's still stuff to figure out and finish and so there is a lot of that incredibly boring stuff going on behind the scenes still to this day.

And I worry that it'll never stop, you know, like that, like it's just a, it's just the annoyance of doing business is that there'll always be some other annoying administrative thing that we have to deal with behind the scenes.

But that is what it is.

I'll say personally, one thing that I noticed is I get so excited in growth mode that when I latch on to an idea or even a line of

business,

I tend to get overly focused with it.

And I need to be better about

looking at the

bigger picture.

Like if I get into drafts and supplementals, then I forget about other kinds of content for a little bit too long.

And then I focus on that.

And then if I get too into gaming, I forget about drafts and supplemental content for a little bit.

And I just personally am going to try to be better in year two about being more balanced in my approach to creating ideas for the for the company, if that makes sense.

I don't want to be too focused in any one direction.

And I think because of the previous company and the previous history with gaming,

it's very easy for me to slip into a gaming mindset and kind of forget about everything else.

So it's something that I have to watch personally.

But I don't think we've done a bad job as a company.

That's just something for me to focus on and worry about

myself and something that I've been acutely aware of, I would say, the last month of how I've been doing stuff.

And so that's, on a personal level.

One area we could be better is figuring out when stuff releases as we're recording.

Like a lot of the time, you know, we're trying to keep the office a secret before the announcement, but that ends up kind of going on too long.

Like we're not talking about it in actual episodes or like the reveal is elsewhere outside of the main episodes and all that stuff.

There was a, I think a fair criticism from some of the audience that they weren't.

If they weren't on top of Patreon, they missed them.

They didn't bother to show up for the, or didn't bother.

They weren't able to, or they had other shit going on in their lives.

They didn't show up for the live stream for the anniversary where we announced the office.

And then we,

the, the VOD didn't come out for another five days.

The office tour didn't come out for another six.

And the podcast that came out three days later, we didn't really announce the office as much as talk about how we bought a TV for an office and we told a funny story about trying to get it in the car.

But yeah,

I wish that I personally had handled that a little bit better and I had thought to thread that needle.

for the audience a little bit better, but it's it's a symptom of what Gavin's talking about.

We're recording so much in so many different directions.

It's kind of hard to put the pieces together and see how they're going to line up and make sure that you're

hitting the story beats as it goes.

Yeah, I think it's just a case of like, oh, something's about to come out.

Like there's going to be a release.

And then we just have to figure out which episode of the regulation podcast.

Do we start talking about it?

Yeah.

And that can be tricky, too, with the people's availability.

If someone's away, like we end up recording three in advance type thing.

And then it just feels like.

It feels like for us in real time, that thing is very far away while recording the thing that releases at that time.

It's easy to forget that, at least for me.

I think it's just going to be maybe occasionally having to fire up the time machine, you know, and

get something in before.

Oh,

I love the time machine.

Nick loves the time machine.

That's another thing, too.

We have a bunch of tools at our disposal we shouldn't forget about.

The time machine is a very important tool.

Not every podcast, not every production company has access to a time machine.

Yeah.

But overall, I would say if I had to give us a grade, I'd give us like an A-min for the last year in terms of getting off the ground and getting everything together.

And like I said, I don't have a lot of criticisms for us individually.

I think it's just, it's always good to take a look back after you've hit a milestone like this and just kind of absorb it and think about it.

And I think it helps inform us going forward.

But another thing that will help inform us going forward is the audience.

And I know, Andrew, you put up a call out for questions over the weekend.

And we got a ton.

I browsed through the

through the list a couple of times yesterday and it seemed like there were some really good questions.

So do we maybe want to start pulling some of those out and answering questions that the actual audience has?

Absolutely.

Yeah.

We do falcon questions for any sausage talk that we do.

So I have a list of those that we can pull from.

I wanted to say before fully diving into the questions, just as a quick question to you, Jeff, this is the second company that you've had go through a first year.

Was there anything in the first year of Rooster Teeth it starting that helped you in the first year of regulation?

Is there anything that carried over as far as like expectation or that you found useful?

I don't know if I could point to one

factoid or thing I learned in 2003 that applies to 2025.

But I will say, honestly, when I look back at Rooster Teeth, it was kind of like a couple of companies in one.

So I really feel like I've done this a few times.

I feel like with the birth of Achievement Hunter and Let's Play, that was essentially like the birth of another company.

So I would say more than anything, the thing that has sustained me and helped me going through this process is just knowing that I've done it before and it's possible.

Nothing is too hard to figure out.

If I could figure it out at 26 when I was real dumb, I should be able to figure it out at 49.

And to be honest with you,

there's five of us here in 2025 doing this.

There were essentially five of us then doing that.

And, you know, just from an IQ standpoint, the five of us today, I think, score higher on the list than the last company.

Thank you.

You idiots.

So I feel like, you know, I feel like as a group, we've got the mental prowess and faculties to pull this off.

But yeah, I think really honestly, Andrew, it's just like knowing not to freak out in the moment when something unexpected happens, knowing to have the patience that we're going to get through this and to deal with stuff.

And just,

just like, it's almost like you're like the repetitions, you know, like I've had the reps.

And so none of it feels scary.

It feels scary in a, my future is nebulous and, you know, I'm older and how am I going to retire way, but not in a, how do I build a company or get it off the ground or introduce it to an audience or get the audience to stick around?

And how do we meet deadlines and how do we turn on lines of business?

Like, I think just the experience and the repetition of doing it over and over and over again at different points through Rooster Teeth.

And having been fortunate enough to wear a lot of different hats in the company, we were talking about this, you and I personally the other day.

You accumulate a lot of knowledge that you don't realize you have until you need it.

And then you're like, it's very much a like a Neo in Matrix, like, I know Kung Fu kind of moment where you're like, oh, I understand how to do this.

Holy shit, I understand.

Did I, when did I learn that?

You know, and you realize you're not fucking stupid.

And that, that, that can come as a big surprise.

But it's the lamest version of that of like, I know that we need to set up a tax thing.

I know, I know that we're going to need a bank.

Like it's, it's all, none of it is cool.

It's just like the foundational pillars that feel so overwhelming without a background in it when you initially start.

And then people are like, okay, figure it out.

I think it's really interesting.

All of the behind the scenes roles that we all just fell into without any real discussion.

Yeah.

We all just do random different tasks and then we just they just kind of become our tasks.

It's like, I don't think we ever have meetings about who's doing what.

For me, it's not even like, if there's something I can do, I I do it.

Cause we're, we're, there's five of us.

There's not a lot.

Like, it's, I don't even really think of, like, obviously there are things that we fall into, but it's also a thing of like, I, I don't feel like we have necessarily like specific jobs or whatever.

No, yeah, we, we have just a bunch of hats.

Like, I feel like I've, without discussion, just taken on IT and like,

I don't know, stuff that I wouldn't, I would never have done at Rooster Teeth, but it's like, I'm sure what capable.

Nick is laughing at you.

Yeah, dude.

He's laughing at you, dumbass.

no no no

eric was like oh we need to get new computers and i thought to myself i i don't remember how to do that gavin help me do this do this do this all i like all that stuff is

i think a lot of it wearing the hats or whatever is that we're so specific about certain things or whatever whatever i was going to order for computers was going to be wrong like none of it was going to be right i don't know what i'm doing and i'd rather save us all the conversation and the heartache and just have Gavin do it right the first time and have it take a little bit longer.

I completely agree when Gavin said I'll do that I remember feeling such relief because it's like it would have gotten done

but the amount of like educating myself to get up to speed to not you know make a multi-thousand dollar mistake for the company you know was was pretty daunting and so but i do agree gav it's like nothing goes undone everybody is willing to pitch in and uh and do what it is that needs to be done uh when it needs to be done which i really do appreciate there's not a lot of cajoling There's not a lot of like hand-wringing and convincing people to do their job, which I, you know, I can't say has always been the case in my previous companies.

You know,

the only thing that really goes to the group in a way that's like, hey, who wants to do this is the ad reads.

And it's like, who, who does this ad most apply to sort of thing.

And thank you.

Thank you very much for everyone saying, yes, I'll do that.

Like it doesn't even have to be like a conversation.

It just got, it's gotten to a point where people are are like i could jump on that one yeah no problem and it's great also it's not even like we have a ton of ad reads it's like i'm very happy with like where we're at position wise for like yeah do i money wise want a hundred ads sure but like for content and everything it's it's just a couple of ads every week and it's like if if even and i think that's fantastic yeah that there's no there's no like it was definitely the case in the previous company where you'd be like, would you please do the fucking ad read?

I did it last week or whatever.

And there's definitely none of that here.

I did three ad reads reads in a row.

Somebody else could do a goddamn ad read once in a while.

That's never going to be said in regulation, hopefully.

But I don't get that impression.

Yeah, it is very much a feeling of like, I've done two of these.

Someone else can do this one.

We have a rotation.

We have an unspoken rotation, it feels like.

Yeah.

Whenever I feel like I haven't done one in a while, I just try to volunteer.

I'll be like, I can't remember the last time I did an ad read.

I should probably do the next batch.

Yeah, if it's someone I'm using, I'm happy to always.

I don't mind doing a bunch in a row if I'm using that thing.

I think another thing we should talk about is Twitch, because that is something that you guys wanted to talk about prior to, meaning

the premise of wanting to use Twitch more in a way that like what, in what way does that make the most sense?

Because we would like to, as Eric talked about, make more when possible.

But like in a way that's not necessarily overwhelming to us or the audience.

Like what does that look like?

What are your guys' thoughts on Twitch and the channel that we have?

I think there's a lot of unrealized opportunity there that I want to realize in that exact way.

Like I have seen, it it was a refrain I heard a lot in the previous days where people would say that we made more content than they could consume.

And that was upsetting to them in some way because they didn't feel like they could keep up, which I don't want anyone to feel like they have to watch every second of regulation.

Like there are people out there that don't give a shit about video games, but love drafts and supplementals.

There are people out there that don't give a shit about drafts and supplementals, but love video games.

And the beauty of being able to operate a production company like this is you can give

a little bit of what everybody wants to everybody, hopefully.

But I don't want anybody to feel like they have to consume everything that we do.

Twitch seems like a great opportunity for us to do what we're talking about and what Eric was saying earlier about wanting to release more content, wanting to put more stuff out there, and then having it just be ephemeral if it's on Twitch.

You know, like our big Friday streams become VODs.

And funny enough, in the old days days when we would do that at Achievement Hunter, those VODs would always do dog shit.

They were always like barely worth putting out.

But for regulation, they do as well, if not better, than the edited videos, the regular Let's Plays we do.

So there's the people seem to really like that Friday slot.

I don't want to fuck with that, that like our major weekly stream that we do together.

But the idea of like Gavin and I being in the office on a Wednesday and just wanting to load up, I don't know, some fucking co-op game.

and dick around for an hour or two and then just let it entertain whoever's online at the time, get it out of our system, and then let it disappear after the, I guess, the Twitch archive updates in 60 days or whatever.

I think

I like that personally.

I like an experimental slot for sure.

Like it's not necessarily something that needs a ton of thought about how's this going to be delivered later.

It's just like, hey, we want to try this thing.

Yeah.

Are you excited about playing a game?

Let's play a game.

Let's do a thing.

I think it also allows us to be more timely with certain releases.

Like Eric is super into Doom the Dark Ages right now.

Like if that is a thing he wanted to just stream, like we have a video on that.

It's going to take a few weeks to release.

But if we wanted to, we could have some form of coverage on that and just be able to directly deliver it to the audience in a more immediate way.

I think having it not tied to YouTube performance and the algorithm and everything too is like the benefit of just keeping it on Twitch.

Hey, check out the VOD if you want, but we're not going to like, we can't monetize it or whatever.

So it's just going to like live over there.

And you can check it out if you want.

Because if you want, like when Nick was playing Last of Us, it just didn't, you know, it's not like it was doing well on YouTube.

So we just kind of went, oh, okay.

But if this is a thing where we can go, well, let's just put it on Twitch and who cares?

Like this is something we want to do and we don't have to be tied to a result of some kind, then I'm all for that.

I think it, I think it's a really fun idea.

I also really want to watch Nick play that game again.

I really want to play it.

Same.

I think everybody here really wants to finish watching Nick play Last of Us too.

And

if this is a vehicle to do that, I'm all for it.

I also don't want us to get so locked into formats and slots that we lose the ability to innovate or be flexible, you know, which was

something that we're all hyper-aware of.

And we were hyper-aware of going into face and coming into regulation.

So I'm not too concerned about it, but it is always out there in the background.

We just got to make sure that we're not restricting ourselves from innovation.

That was what was more difficult at the previous company where I would often have an idea for a thing or maybe even like the GTA replays, like something like that, just like a one-off.

And it would always be the conversation in the room of like, okay, but what's the show?

Like, what's the name of, like, what's the slot?

What's it going to be?

Where does it fit?

What does it replace?

And it was hard to just say like, oh, it's kind of just a video.

Yeah.

It's a standalone.

It's something we just have to, like, we still, we're always going to have to be mindful of that stuff.

But finding the ways where we can put other stuff out, again, because it just turns overwhelming when it's just like, well, let's just put this out.

And then like, there's no sort of thought to consequence.

I don't know that that's going to get us anywhere.

But having a thing like Twitch to be able to play like some of these things and just do something different, I think is a lot of fun.

And I think people just kind of have to be okay with sometimes you're not going to be able to catch it.

And maybe you don't watch the VOD, and that's going to be just fine.

That's totally okay too.

Yeah, I agree.

I'm also hoping that the office and just the increased presence around recording because of the office as a place for us to congeal and coalesce will just help us hopefully get to ideas faster.

I was looking at our idea sheet the other day, which is pretty full.

And some of those early ideas, there's been our ideas that I know we were all super into and excited about, but so much time has passed that it's hard to reconnect to them, you know?

And I hate losing ideas like that where they just weren't enough of a priority and they just kept getting pushed and pushed till at some point, you know, like we're never going to do a Moonranker draft probably, right?

That thing was cursed to the beginning.

Delete it forever.

Yes.

But as an example of something that's not going to happen that would have if we had prioritized it or found the time to to record it early.

I'm hoping to get to stuff faster in 2025.

Yeah, me too.

Absolutely.

And we have more slots to do that now.

Like we, that's sort of the thing of like the first year setup of we have a Let's Play slot.

We now have a Friday recording slot for supplemental stuff.

Like we have positioned ourselves to be able to deliver on those in a more reliable way.

Yeah.

And I mean, the office is already paying off dividends in that way, right?

Like we had, we recorded our first three videos in the office on Friday, the Gumpler, and then a Donut Thing and oh, spaghetti, sandwich spaghetti.

And they're not all done.

We got to do some reshoots,

some final shoots for it.

But it felt so good.

And like just being in there,

I just felt the power of the immediacy of being able to create stuff.

in the moment and just build and grow as we do it.

And having Andrew there as the robot just really makes the whole thing feel complete to me in a way.

And by the way, we talked about how getting the office was going to help us and in a lot of ways that we couldn't define yet, but we knew that it would.

We knew that it would create new creative opportunities and it would probably increase our output and it would make it easier for us to film some stuff that was difficult to film.

But creating new opportunities without realizing it, I think that the, I think Andrew Bott is the.

fucking perfect example of that.

Eight days ago, Andrew Bott didn't exist in anybody's mind, you know?

And a week later, he's now integral to the fucking future of our company, I think.

And the audience has a mascot that they've, that they're desperately in love with and that we're also in love with.

And that's a prime example of like, if we didn't have an office, there would be no Andrew bot.

And now it's everybody's favorite thing.

And we talked about like.

He's another camera.

He's like a little roving camera.

And it's like, okay, is this a thing that like we just put the Andrew bot cuts of videos out on Patreon where it's like, here's Andrew, Andrew's perspective is like a little critter scurrying around the office i i don't know how how does it feel being there andrew like what's that like for you it has such a different feel than watching a supplemental just the the edited viewing of it there's something strangely way more personal about it like it feels like a home video at times just from the perspective of it and i think the lower image quality also kind of adds to a more strangely like personal feel to the things it's it's been a lot of fun to experiment and i'm excited to continue to mess with uh the office it's been uh interesting learning how to multicam between like a 4k iphone clip and a four ep dog shit little

yeah

it looks so jagged but it's so perfect for the vibe

It's a lot of fun to see the more edited or like the iPhone angle as well because my

ability, my like spatial awareness is so limited as that robot i can see in front of me but if i impact things that are behind me i have no concept of it or uh recently i i drove through a thing and gavin sent me a photo of the impact of that from the reverse which i just had no perspective of which was so funny i'll put it in the discord yeah it's it's a perfect

My wheels got a little sticky.

I was horrified when you did that.

I was absolutely horrified.

Cleaned up easy, though.

Cleaned up easy.

It did.

Yeah, you did a great job with cleaning all that stuff up.

And I like that we have a system now of if I need cleaned, one of you picks me up and I spin them wheels and we're good to go.

If I need cleaned.

And when you're bad, you go in the freezer.

Yeah.

Oh, God.

Yeah, it was everywhere.

The substance was everywhere.

It's so fun just having you there as well.

Like, I went to the office at the weekend to do some computer stuff and I just came in and I was like, Andrew, you didn't come out, but it was just nice knowing you were there somewhere.

That's so great.

I don't think you were monitoring the feed.

Yeah, there was the other day Nick and I were there, just the two of us, and we were just in the middle of a conversation.

And then in the periphery, I saw a movement.

And Andrew just drove by us.

Like, didn't say anything, didn't announce himself or anything.

He just drove by us doing his own thing.

And I was like, oh, right, Andrew's around.

Hey, man.

I'm just so glad we have have a space i'm glad that it doesn't have to be at jeff's house and i'm glad that we can have things that we can hop in and out of like that like andrew with the robot that's what i was going to say too is that we've already had that payoff where we're kind of halfway through making that gumpler video because we needed time for the the stuff to set and we just left everything exactly where it was like the lights are still there the island's still there we can literally walk back to the spot and keep going as though we don't have to unpack and like reset up anything I even wore the same clothes today because we were supposed to go in and film

just in case

i didn't talk to you guys about it ahead of time but i thought i should wear the same clothes the old holdover from rooster teeth we're not going in because uh we ended up canceling today's recording but uh yeah it's so much fun i got a cold gavin got that gavin's a little under the weather a little summer cold i reckon nick gave it to me probably

no i was i was talking to you at baseball i didn't know maybe it was uh oh yeah yeah yeah there you go that's it um that was hot dog andrew do you want to you want to fire off a couple of these Falcon questions?

I sure do.

And speaking of baseball, will there be a new baseball jersey soon?

That was asked by Mosaic Moth.

Do we have plans on a new baseball jersey?

I hadn't considered doing another one.

Is that something that we should do?

I think they're fun.

I would consider it.

It's one of those things.

It's a higher price item.

So the investment on our end is greater.

You know what I mean?

Just in terms of buying stock.

But

I would certainly be into it if there was enough demand for it.

We'd have to make a regulation jersey because they snow.

Yeah.

Let us know if it's something that you guys would be interested in.

We can work with Tony, maybe get something going or whatever.

For me, it's not even the cost on our end.

It's the cost to, I just don't want to charge people

a lot for a jersey.

You know what I mean?

We've had that a few times in the past with some quite obscure ideas.

I can't remember what it was.

Like maybe it was the waffle line or something, but it was like minimum 50 bucks or something to sell it.

I just felt like, ooh, 50.

Yeah.

And it's that kind of thing where it's like, there's a lot that goes into it.

And there is a cost to get it made.

And there's a cost to like get it out there to you and to customize it and all that stuff.

But like, I just don't want to charge you guys a bunch of money for stuff that we're making.

I love the price point for like the Gerpler and the shirts and the patches that we have coming out and all that stuff because it's like, that's normal to me.

And I feel fine about that.

Yeah, I, uh, there are, there are some ideas in the past.

I can't, nothing jumps to mind right now, but there are some ideas we had in the past that we were pretty into that fell apart in the sourcing because it was just going to be to make it was going to we were going to have to sell it at a price that none of us felt comfortable selling it at like we don't want to sell something to you that if it's not worth it you know what i mean and so we'd rather not make it than overcharge for it we can look at what jerseys might be and and how much like the cost would be and all that stuff i can talk with with natalie and alfamoso and see um what they think because maybe there's you know maybe we find a happy medium and make a new jersey i think that would be i think it would be cool we just have to figure it out the right way to do it yeah totally next question is from Variam, and it is, is there anything you would like to change from your approach to regulation content in year two that you've learned from year one?

Keep up the awesome stuff, guys.

Can't wait for more.

I have an answer to this where it's not so much like a shift of like, we did this and I think it would be better if we did that.

Doing the consecutive, like the Advent calendar and Mario Party March, like having.

releases come out every day of a month and realizing we're able to do that and having gone through that experience and having an idea what it's like, enabling us to do more stuff like that, if there are ideas that align with that type of release, I'm very excited about going into year two.

Just the knowledge of we can do this, what can the doors that opens up of like, if we want to do more stuff in that way, we know that we're able to do this and have an expectation of what that workload would look like.

Similarly, you know, Face Off season two is shaping up to be produced

in a way that's different than we did in season one that I'm very excited about and without like tipping our hat too much.

But I would like to do more production like that in the future going forward and be more experimental with live recording in front of audiences.

I think there's a lot of power there.

Absolutely.

Next question is Giles Russo.

For each person, what has been the funniest project you have worked on so far?

Any standouts to you guys of like, wow, that was.

Yeah, I have mine.

Easy.

It's the the podcast where Andrew hammers Gavin about being on the Australian TV show.

It's the best.

It's the best episode we've ever made.

It's the funniest.

It's the funniest thing we've ever done.

It is legitimately my favorite thing that we've recorded.

It's so relentless and it is so fun.

I know that we do like a lot of crazy projects and here's Mario Party March.

The podcast is probably always going to be my favorite thing that we make.

And that episode is just, it's flying a banner about everything that I love about making this podcast.

it's so good i love it i love it i love it i love it it's something that didn't register me enough to even make one of my notes yet somehow it's half that an entire podcast

you were on tv andrew can't wrap his head around it it's half the episode it's like it's stellar it's stellar i love it Yeah, I'm kind of, not to steal Eric's answer, but I got to agree.

That was one of the highlights of the last five years to me or however long we've been doing this together.

It's weird to be like, oh, you know, I'm in a room, I'm in a room of friends, and then suddenly it's like, oh, my back's to a wall.

I didn't even see.

What do you mean?

No, your back's not to the wall.

Andrew's on your side.

Andrew's advocating for you.

I do feel I articulated that with aggression towards you.

My issue is always more with the news than you.

Wasn't the news.

Whatever.

Australian morning.

My issue is with the news

oh crap

i this isn't

i'm trying to think of like and this is eric's gonna hate this answer and it's not even a regulation thing necessarily but when i think of like unexpectedly joyous recordings it's the first ratty boy video we did that just broke all of us

But it is like largely, there are so many times where we record something on the podcast where and then we wrap up, and I'm just so happy thinking about it later.

Or still, it makes me laugh so hard just being like, ah, Jeff did this thing, or Gavin had this ridiculous error happen, or whatever.

Like, it's, it's generally podcast moments, I would say, that are the things that I will think about later in that day.

It's like, that was so funny.

I'll tell you what I think about a lot is stuff that we haven't done yet that I know we're going to do and that I know is going to be good.

Like, I think about the Philly cheese steakout a couple times a day.

Yeah.

I keep bringing it up because I don't want to forget it.

I've already played that through in its entirety in my head

60 times.

And I am so excited for it when it happens because I know how funny it's going to be.

And I know how we're going to do it.

And I know all the props and stuff that we're going to end up accumulating.

And, and it's like, just, just the joy of knowing.

Like, I've already, I've already, I've already played the scenario out in my head so many times and I just know it's going to pay off and it's going to, it's going to be even funnier than I'm daydreaming it will be and I'm so there's a couple ideas like that that are hanging out there that I just am so excited to film because I know they're gonna I know they're gonna rise to the bar uh in my head yeah I got so much joy on that on the stream we just did when I think it was while I was I had the phone on the gimbal and I was just doing the little office tour in the middle of the stream and something about Andrew like driving around in the background and Nick laughing from the other room I just felt like, I was like, I don't think anyone's got this vibe right now of just this like weird jank chaos.

And you could keep the vibe in the same room or whether it's remote.

I just really like that it felt, it just felt really good while we were doing that.

And I loved that Jeff kept saying the wrong address and the wrong name of the company.

And Eric's reaction to that was so freaking funny.

God, what is, dude, you got to stop, please.

God.

I would say, conversely, the thing I wasn't there for that I wish I was was when Jeff turned off the game and turned 29 and I just stepped away to the bathroom.

watched i've watched that moment in the triple digits at this point i i should say 100 but that might be underestimating it's watching nick the whole time is so funny in that and then watching gavin the whole time is so funny in that watching jeff the whole time is so funny it's so good in in fairness to jeff though did you see the controller icon in the bottom of the the screen it's like flipping all over the place it doesn't know what orientation is why did nintendo do that it's like taking the feed from everyone's different controller and everyone's holding that controller a different way.

So it's like, what do you want?

What is the, what does the Switch want?

Yeah, I agree.

I was real disappointed in Nintendo in that moment.

I have forgiven them, but I'm glad that it was captured on video and everybody can see that I made the best decision based on the information and the data that was displayed to me by Nintendo.

Next question is from Swammer.

Hey.

All right.

What's been the hardest thing to deal with being an independent company?

The hardest thing?

The hardest thing.

It's all the stuff that goes into not making the show.

It's all the stuff.

It's all the banking, the taxes, the meetings to go over stuff.

It's all of the pieces and parts that I just don't want to ever do again.

And you have to because you don't have a choice because that's the only way the company runs.

That to me is the hardest part.

I'd say to summarize in one word, it's uncertainty.

It's sending in these forms.

You're doing these things.

You don't really know how any of it works, but it feels very important and official.

And just trying to stumble through that process is so stressful.

And ways of like, I'm stressed because I don't know what I should be stressed about in regards to this thing.

It's so

like if you knew everything, you would.

Yeah.

I'm surprised at how expensive it is to.

set everything up and have health insurance and like make sure you're paying all the right taxes and payroll tax and all this other stuff.

Like the monthly outgoings, as soon as you start doing everything properly, it gets pretty extreme.

And that's that's kind of scary when you first set that up.

It's like, oh God, we're losing all this money every month, and it doesn't even go anywhere near the content.

I think for me, it's, I catch myself at night sometimes.

I just think, like, what am I not thinking about?

Like, what am I missing?

What am I forgetting?

What am I too dumb to plan for?

Like, a lot of like, what would a smarter version of me be preparing for right now?

You know, and just like the fear that I'm missing something obvious that we should all be worried about or taking into consideration.

And we're not going to, I'm not going to recognize it until the damage is done.

But instead, you're thinking, like, what, what would be a good moon that isn't the moon?

Or like, what should this worm name be?

Yeah.

And there was some freedom.

I will say there was some freedom with that in Rooster Teeth when I wasn't worried about payroll taxes and trying to figure out health insurance and all the other stuff.

I could just think about the moon a lot more.

At least in the face days, not in the previous days with Achievement Hunter and Let's Play and all that, but when it was just face, I could, I could just focus on the moon for a couple of days, you know, and that was, that was enough.

But you really, there's, there's always something nagging at you in the back of your mind that's like, no, no, pay attention to the, pay attention to this, pay attention to whatever it is you're not paying attention to right now, idiot.

And you're like, but I don't know what that is.

And it's like, get smarter, figure it out.

It's a constant fight I have with me where I'm just constantly telling myself, you're too dumb right now be smarter and i gotta like i don't know i'm 49 i didn't get smarter yet how do i do it you know

if you thought goldenly breaded mcdonald's chicken couldn't get more golden think golder because new sweet and smoky special edition gold sauce is here made for your chicken favorites at participating in mcdonald's for limited time uh next question is from brian ford regarding your new office what were some of the requirements you were wanting in a workspace What were the main things you guys were looking for when you were scouting offices?

Kitchen island in an air conditioning.

It did.

I feel like the kitchen was pretty essential in the conversations of like what we need.

We ended up doing a lot of cooking stuff, which is sort of surprising.

I will say too,

Blessing in Disguise losing that first place that was perfect in every way, except it had a bad kitchen.

And we were going to have to figure out how to make it work.

And this place is a much better kitchen layout.

It's a better fit for for what we want to do for sure yeah it's also shitty yeah it's like it's like a shitty house and that's great for us it is great for us it's our level we're shitty and the house is shitty yeah i'm not super concerned about like we're not throwing stuff and breaking windows and everything but like i'm not super concerned about like oh no we got this oh no something dropped and we have to clean it up like there's nothing pristine in that house so there's not a lot of concern the only stuff that i wanted to make sure of was that we had rooms that we could separate off and do other shows in, like doing

like Jeff opening stuff and everything.

That can be in a space.

And then our couch co-op room can be in a space.

And then not having to, like Gavin talked about earlier, like not having to break down every time we're done with something and just going, oh, we can leave this up and just use this space, flip a switch and it's ready to go.

That, that was really important to me in the space that we were in.

It's just giving so much extra content too.

Like it's, we open a cupboard and it's, there's white powder everywhere.

dude what the it's everywhere have we talked about it it's like a character of itself like all the floors are creaky and like the toilet won't fill up quick enough for jeff's shits and there's powder in all the cupboards and i got my shoes glued to the floor the other day what

yeah yeah that was that was were you breaking into kevin mcalester's house what is happening

yeah i touched it i touched a doorknob and it was white hot and then a paint can hit me in the face uh We have not talked about the white powder in all the cabinets.

I don't know what it is.

I assume it's baking soda.

Hopefully.

Yeah, or flour or baby powder.

Flour, maybe.

But like it's in, if it was just in the kitchen, I could be like, okay, maybe it's flour.

It's in like the bathrooms.

It's everywhere.

It's everywhere.

I feel like we're doing a family a service by not letting them live in it.

Yeah, I feel like the reason for the powder is going to be a problem for us in the future.

You know what I mean?

And I just, there's also, we haven't talked about this either, but some of the closets, which also have some powder in it sometimes, there's just like plastic sheeting taped up over the walls.

Like, I don't know why.

If you look at the breakroom closet, why is there, why is it, did Dexter kill somebody in the closet?

Because it's taped off like he did.

Insane.

Insane.

What are they trying to keep out?

What are they trying to keep in?

Yeah.

Oh, shit.

What's behind Nick and Gavin's door?

I don't know what's behind Nick and Gavin's door.

I don't, I i don't know

and we may never find out next question is from cameron uley he's got two any word on when we're getting nick in those big red boots oh other question is also about the jersey so they're clearly people excited about baseball jersey potentially i don't know that we have the boot plans yet but that that'll come soon i mean now that we don't have to focus on try dude it's was so much focus trying to get this place ready so that way we could do the anniversary stream and be right like excuse me be like ready to go and have everything set that like it just took up so much brain space now yeah nick might have to wear those boots especially with season two of face-off yeah absolutely we're gonna be in vegas in a couple of weeks it sounds like maybe uh maybe there's a mall in vegas nick could wear them in

interesting something to think about they'll melt

it's too hot

too hot he's like the fucking goosebumps kid who can't take the mask off the boots like melt to his feet and he's stuck with red feet

oh that'd be great uh next question is from richard what piece of content do you enjoy filming the most podcast yeah for me it's podcast and then there is a unique joy to doing the drafts for me because it's a thing where we all have some structure prepared going into them to some extent and seeing where all of your brains went is always a lot of fun.

Anything that fits into the into the idea of theater of the mind, I think is is the best yeah i feel like anytime one of us latches onto something that just sounds slightly out of the ordinary like i i could never have predicted that eric would take such a dislike to cress and just the whole cress i don't understand what it is still and you keep saying it's like grass but you can eat it and it's so it's not water cress what is it it sprouts exactly what i'm talking about see that to me i love that stuff Have we confirmed that it is illegal to bring into the US?

Has there been more research done on that, Gavin?

I don't know.

I'm wondering how much trouble you'd get in for smuggling cress.

But can't we, we don't just have cress here?

There has to be a cress equivalent,

right?

I'm sure I could buy crest seeds.

I see crest seeds.

I do see that we can buy crest seeds.

I don't know what it would grow.

So what we need to do then, we need to get an eggshell.

We need to put some little wet cotton wool in the bottom.

And then we put our crest seeds in.

We grow our cress.

I think we've got to have, I think we need to make a supplemental where Gavin Gavin teaches cress and he does the whole process for us.

And then we have a little kitchen cress garden.

Yeah, we'll have like little faces drawn on our eggs with cress coming out, and then we'll make an egg and crest sandwich at the end.

Sounds good.

What?

Egg and cress sandwich?

Yeah, that's where the whole conversation came from.

Yeah,

from eggs and cress.

Yeah, eggs and cress.

Everyone knows.

Eggs and crest.

It's just it's like it's sprouts right with egg.

Right.

On a sandwich.

Nation of freaks, dude.

How does that sprout?

They're sprouting.

looks like sprouts to me i'm gonna go case close i'm gonna go there you go insane i got food poisoning eating sprouts at uh uh

some restaurant oh starseeds actually in oh wow

that doesn't surprise me at all that's not shocking gotta be real sick yeah that sounds right next question is from kyle volte First, let me thank you for this past year.

What was the biggest surprise for you in the first year?

Day one, the audience support.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, obviously the audience has been so incredibly supportive and kind, and the community that we have created

through them since we started face has always been so incredible in endless ways.

But there is,

at least maybe for us and how we think about things, a complete uncertainty of like what that day one support would look like.

Not in the sense of necessarily like thinking the audience wouldn't be there, but just having doubts about whatever, because it's scary.

It's a new venture.

And the amount of support that we have received in the first year has been just unbelievably touching and humbling in so many ways.

I feel like even if we were confident that people like the show and would want to support us, the logistics of moving an audience or like having them just look in a different direction is much more difficult than it sounds.

And there's still a lot of loss in the transition.

Like there are people who watched the Minecraft video who didn't know that we had our own company.

Sure.

Yeah.

If you can do us a favor and tell people that we're a show and this is where we're at and this is the show and the podcast, that would help us a lot.

I think in year two, it's about spreading the word that we're still doing this.

Here we are.

Please, please let people know.

It's always just very nerve-wracking.

Like, Jeff, you and I have done it before when we moved Minecraft from the Rooster Teeth channel to a Let's Play channel.

It was just so stressful just having to like constantly communicate.

Hey, hey we're over here now hello yeah you just don't know where everyone is you just you just don't know the people who looked for it didn't find it and just thought ah sought it yeah and you don't and you there's no way to talk to those people you know very scary but thankfully uh so many people came over with us and it's great absolutely and from a content perspective the biggest surprise for me as someone who didn't really stream all that much going into the launch of this how much i have grown to love the friday streaming slot it is so much fun and it is a thing i look forward to at at the end of every week.

Absolutely.

It's the best time of the week.

It's over too quick.

It is.

Yeah, it is.

It's so great.

I could have gone on that Pico Park level for at least another two hours.

No, that one was fine.

That one was.

Some of us had places to be.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We could have done it.

We could get 801.

We're so close.

Second best time of the week.

Next question is from Miles Smith.

What are some upcoming games that you're all personally excited about?

I'm really looking forward to Roadcraft, which comes out tomorrow, which is like like Snowrunner, but you're building roads instead of like delivering logs or gear.

You're delivering road?

You're delivering road.

I really like the idea of playing a snowrunner where you're making the terrain actively easier to navigate.

I think that's such a cool idea.

I'm very excited to see what that thing's about.

I'm excited for Mafia the Old Country, I believe, is the subtitle of that one.

New Mafia game.

Tony Hawk Pro Skater Remastered for three and four.

I mean, there's so much.

So many games I'm excited for.

Anything you guys are anticipating?

GTA.

GTA.

Yeah.

Gavin and I were talking about it.

We were texting about it over the weekend, just about like

how much fun we can have in GTA 6 when it launches and all the stuff we could film and do.

And it just, there's a lot of opportunity there if it's good.

And of course, it'll be good.

Yeah.

That's a weird one for me where it feels.

So unbelievable that there would be a new GTA.

Like even though I understand that that is coming, it feels so distant in a way that I know I'm going to be obsessed with when it comes, but I am thankfully not like every day anticipating it because I think that might take a while.

Just knowing that there's a there's going to be a robust multiplayer sandbox game to play in is very exciting.

I mean, I still see GIFs posted of us when we, when GTA 5 first came out, like that GIF of, I can't remember who's in the building and who's on the parachute splatting into the window, like flipping off a person, but I I see that gift constantly.

That's what we were trying to see if you could see us from the yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Those kinds of videos are like if you look out the window, can you see players outside?

And then it turns into slamming, you know, trying to dive bomb into the apartment complex.

Yeah, there's so much opportunity for stuff like that.

It's just going to be so much fun.

It's just one of those games where you, you have one thing happens in a little free-for-all session, and then eight ideas happen from that one moment.

I love that stuff.

I'm excited to learn the game with you guys instead of being level 13 when you guys are level 180.

Like

they like, oh, you didn't know that is very heavy in GTA, especially like when we started this company.

So I'm very excited to learn all this stuff with you guys, do all this weird stuff and like really get into it, like really deep dive in it.

It's going to be fun.

I just really hope they take mugging out.

That's just really not cool.

Shall we do like two more questions?

Yeah, sure.

Next question is from Mr.

Fedora Mustache.

Will you guys release old print-on-demand shirts?

We recently had the Ratty Boy one go up.

I think that's a thing that we consider.

I'm not opposed to re-releasing any old con any old merchant.

We have the rights to all of it, so I'm not opposed to it.

There would just have to be demand, right?

I had an idea

for bringing back an old shirt that I should talk to you guys about at some point.

I'd really

think we could do some fun stuff with

me as the little robo.

And

I have a premise, but yeah, we have the right.

I guess that's the main thing to say, right?

Is that we have the rights to all that stuff.

It's just finding ways in which we want to bring it back.

That makes sense.

I think that's the big thing with the company in general and every move we make is it's okay if it's dumb.

It's probably better if it's dumb, but it just

has to make sense to what we're doing today, you know, like just throwing out old merch that people maybe didn't get an opportunity to buy for no other reason than to have it available.

We could do that, but it would, I would rather like find a way to make it matter again, whatever that merch is, you know, or re-engage with the content in some way to make it make sense.

It also potentially takes up brain space and a slot for getting in the way of new merch ideas that we that we have.

Yeah.

Of which we got a few.

We're still we're cranking out some merch ideas over the last couple of weeks.

I've been pretty jazzed about.

I still want to do group shirt.

Oh, yay.

Yeah, I forgot about group shirt.

I definitely forgot about group shirt.

Which I'm not sure if we talked about on a podcast, but I wanted a hot dog that goes across multiple shirts.

That's funny.

It's three shirts, an end, an end, and a middle.

Yeah, and you can have as many middles as you want, depending on how many friends you've got.

But if you're standing in the right formation, it's just a group hot dog shirt.

I thought you're originally pitching a like human centipede shirt where it's like

three

shirts in one, like they're all sewn together, and that you could technically three people could each wear their own shirt while connected.

Oh, like a shirt triangle, yeah, but like a hot dog, like it'd be length-wise.

Yeah, it'd be like three people stood in a big 90.

Yeah, shirt.

I'm writing this down, triangle.

We could make that.

You just, I like this.

Yeah, we can get into custom multiple.

Like, imagine a shirt that is purely for tandem bike riders.

That's funny.

Oh, yeah.

We should get a tandem bike.

Have you...

When was the last time you've...

I was going to say, have you ridden a tandem bike?

Obviously, you have.

When's the last time?

Probably in the.

I rode one in the army in journalism school.

So maybe when I was 18, 19.

I would love to see a revisit of your little bike stunt, but on a tandem bike.

I would love to take Kavan on.

Oh, if we get a tandem bike, I will definitely do the bike stunt with Gavin on back.

I would love to in front.

pads there yeah absolutely yeah safety first yeah yeah we'll do one more question but before reading i just want to say thank you to all of the falcons that submitted questions there are so many of them uh just because we didn't talk about them here doesn't mean they weren't great i'm gonna mark a lot of these and i have a little question folder that i've built so thank you so much for both supporting us as well as submitting these wonderful questions.

Last question from Kyle Dube.

What are the biggest goals, if any, that Regulation Crew is looking forward to accomplishing by the end of year two?

I am excited about doing more 30-day things when it makes sense.

I think I've really enjoyed creating these sort of tentpole content events throughout the year and in year one and finding ways that fit naturally because I think that's such a key part is everything we did in that regard in our first year was because it made sense.

The idea fit that format really well.

So seeing what we come up with in that regard and and what we will be able to accomplish in that way reflecting back on year two at the end of it i'm very excited to see i can't believe we did it twice in the first year yeah it's kind of like if we'd said up front that's what we were aiming to do we would all have been like that's impossible

i agree i think that but i think gavin i think you touched on something that's like really big where that was a lot of like the last company it was like okay so what's the anticipation like what's the thing and we couldn't move sort of as like swiftly or on like an idea or whatever we would kind of have to roadmap it out a little bit and that's such an undertaking it would have just been such a hassle to be able to just sort of do it i think is what i'm really looking forward to in this next year of just having the idea and then doing the idea again because man it worked out so well and i had such a blast with both things and it's such a face too of being like all right nobody can leave town for a month yep yep are you saying you'd rather be doing that than sitting in a meeting right now, trying to brainstorm what our tent pole show in Q3 of 2026 is going to be so we can project far enough in advance?

Somebody just pitching me the most dog shit names for the dumbest videos I've ever heard of.

And I go, yeah, I mean, I'll, yeah, I'll talk to the guys about that.

Yeah, great.

Thank you.

Sometimes I would walk into conference rooms and I'd see like the remnants of a brainstorm meeting.

And anytime I'd see my name on like some just turd thing, I would just wipe my name off the board.

Good.

It was always like, I've got a great idea how to get your f ⁇ ing face guys to help me meet my KPI.

Absolutely what it is.

Yeah.

That happened with 100% Eat with Trucked Up, a show that somehow is called Face Jams Trucked Up that we don't own.

Yeah, what the fuck?

Figure that out.

I don't know.

Crazy.

Anyway, we don't have that problem anymore.

I'm really looking forward to doing more stuff with you guys all the time, constantly.

Yeah, I think I'm, I'm most looking forward to the idea, the home run that we haven't hit yet, that we haven't even thought of yet, that a year from now, we're going to look back on and be like, can you imagine, can you believe that we didn't do Sloppy Joe's bingo for a period of time?

Like it didn't exist yet, or like whatever that idea is.

And we look at it and we're so jet, like, but like when drafts happened, like whatever that new thing is that we haven't come up with yet, that we're going to look back on and it's going to be integral to what we do.

And it's going to be everybody's favorite or one of everybody's favorite things and we're like man i can't believe there was a time when we didn't do this i'm excited for whatever that is going to be i hope three years from now we look back on this year and be like remember when andrew only had wheels like before

exactly

that's great nick nick what are you looking forward to this year oh man there's so much i'm looking forward to doing more stuff in the office and i'm really looking forward to gavin and i coming up with our show what what do you mean coming up with

You guys don't have it already?

Coming up with Gavin and I doing...

Well, we have one show that we're definitely doing, but while we're in that show, we're going to come up with another show.

Yeah,

we're not going to have meetings about our show.

We're going to make content first and then come up with the show.

So you're saying the show will have a spin-off or the show is you guys coming up with another show in the middle of the show?

Oh, I like this.

Gavin, write this down.

Yeah, right, right.

Just seriously, don't go in our room.

Yeah, don't touch it.

Yeah, nobody wants to.

Yeah.

I mean, like...

Oh, I'm working my way in.

Don't know what's behind the door.

Won't let us in.

Fantastic.

I think Andrew's trying to burrow his way in.

Yeah, I'm Andy defraining my way into their fucking room slowly.

I noticed there was a spoon missing.

Yeah, exactly.

If you see a tiny poster hung up on a lower section of the wall, check it right away.

It's just going to be a bunch of little mouse holes in the wall, but just for Andrew.

I'm worried you guys are going to find my powder stash.

I'm excited for the stuff that is almost certainly going to get made that literally no one else has ever done.

Like, I don't think anyone else has ever streamed de-riveting a porter potty, dragging it into a house and re-riveting it together.

But that's possibly something we'll have to do.

That is possible.

I'm very excited.

Yeah, thanks, man.

Andrew, maybe you could have a bowl of rivet nuts on your head.

Yeah.

Make sure that we've got access to them.

You know what?

I'll keep track of where the nuts are.

I'll make sure none go missing.

I'll keep my eye on those nuts.

Andrew's the new Rosie, the riveter.

This is great.

I feel like this is a really fun sausage talk.

I did too.

I had a real good time.

Some really insightful and interesting questions from the audience of stuff that I wouldn't have thought

to bring up.

And

man, what a year.

It's crazy.

I know we already had our anniversary, but we are past it now.

It's been a hell of a year.

I can't, even though we went through the AAR earlier, I really do feel like the year couldn't have gone much better.

And I just am so excited to sit down with you guys a year-ish from now and look back on everything that 2025 and the first part of 2026 was for us.

You know,

it's been such an exciting adventure already.

And I guess I'm just, I just can't wait to see what the next year of adventures looks like.

Absolutely.

Same.

It's a great way to put it.

Well, thank you so much for listening.

Thank you so much for supporting us.

Anything else anyone wants to say?

Can we make a sausage bead kitchen door curtain?

I'm already starting to sort of like source what that would be and i don't i'm so i have like beaded curtain and then sausage beads and i don't like i just have to show like it's like this but with these i guess maybe i'll uh 3d print up a prototype oh wow

wow okay we will uh we'll see how it goes but here comes andrew with a great outro thank you so much for listening uh i hope you're as excited as we are to see where things go across this next year.

We couldn't do this without you.

Thank you so much.

Hope you have a wonderful day.

Goodbye.

Love you.

Love you.

Love you.

What if instead of made out of sausages, it makes a big sausage picture?

Oh, interesting.

Yeah.

I don't know something to think on.

I feel like it could definitely make an image, but maybe with sausages.

Interesting.

All right.

We'll see you next time.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Sausage door.

Bye.

Sausage door.