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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Regulation Podcast.

This is number 38.

It's got to be closing in on about our 250th episode or so.

If you consider the old failed company we were a part of.

And my name is Jeff Resby with me, as always.

Andrew Panton, Gavin Free, Nick Schwartz, Eric Badour.

I guess if a company does get shut down, it technically is failed, right?

Like I feel like 20, what, 21 years?

That's like saying when someone dies at age 95, they failed.

They do say that.

They do say that.

They say, oh, his heart failed.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I have a friend who says if you don't live to a 100, you don't live a full life.

Like Prince Philip died at 99.

And the first text that I got from my friend Andrew Douglas was, so close to a full life, man.

What a bummer.

Betty White as well.

Almost made it.

I like the idea of Nick having to sync our audio whenever we do a countdown.

The idea is like the second one.

He's got to read the message up.

He's going to try and sync again.

I have a question for you, Gavin.

Okay.

When's a year old?

When is a year old?

When is a year old?

When does a year become old?

You followed me on the blue sky a little while back.

And I went, oh, Gavin, a profile.

And I opened your profile.

You had one post.

It said, Happy New Year.

And it made me wonder, when does the year become old?

If we get a new year every year, at what point is it an old year?

Certainly last year is an old year.

Yeah.

Are you saying like, when is the year itself old or when can you stop saying happy new year?

I'm saying when does the year itself become old?

Are you saying, Jeff, that last year is old year?

Yeah, it's been it's becoming older every day.

That is true.

2023 is old, for sure.

There's some stuff in 2024 that isn't old yet, but I'd say an entire number ago before the last year is old.

But would you say that a movie that came out last year is old?

Like, at what point does the year, like, if something released in that year isn't old, then how is the year old?

I was trying to figure out what is a year old.

It depends on what you're talking about.

Like, like Rooster Teeth was like 85 years old in the internet years.

That's true, but that's a different metric.

We're talking like dog, we're talking internet and human normal years.

When's a year old?

I think when you take the calendar down to replace it with a new calendar, that year becomes old immediately.

Yeah, but three, like three weeks.

It's in the past, man.

Stop living in the past.

What do you care?

That was so long ago.

See, I think at least it's like 10 years at least.

Whether it was three weeks ago or three years ago, it's still in the past.

10 years?

So you think 2016 wasn't a while ago?

That's an old lie.

Fuck.

You don't think pre-pandemic was a long time ago?

That was three lifetimes ago.

Yeah, it does feel that way in time.

I guess this is where it gets dumb.

I feel like it's every 10 years, but it changes per year you're in.

So 2009,

2010,

that's an old year, 2009.

Once you hit a new 10.

But if it's 2001, that year doesn't become old until 2010.

When does a car become a classic?

That's a great question.

20 years or 25 years?

I think it probably just follows that.

because it's like consoles become retro after 20.

when you're when the year ticks over and you can get a special license plate because it's been so long that's when it's old can somebody look up when does a car become a classic and then there there's no agreed upon age because it varies by state unfortunately what about vintage

when does a car become vintage yeah

okay a car is generally considered vintage if it was manufactured between 1919 and 1930.

okay Well, I would say that's more of an antique car.

Yeah.

Do you know what really shit me up about years?

What?

Wizard of Oz, right?

Bloody old movie.

Yeah.

But when I was born, it was a movie as old as if I watched Taxi Driver Now.

Yeah, that's always the reverse math is always bad.

You shouldn't do that math.

It's not good.

It never makes you feel good.

That's sad maths.

In the state of Texas, a car, a passenger, car truck or motorcycle becomes a classic after 25 years you can apply for a classic plate so what was 25 years ago 2000 yep every car every one of us drove with the exception of gavin in the year 2000 is a classic car oh fuck really apparently how many how many of us would drive

driving in 2000

I was not.

I was a freshman in high school.

So I was not driving.

Damn.

Every one of us.

Hey, Jeff, you're just classic, baby.

I was driving to fucking work with Gus in 2000.

Jesus.

Yeah, that sucks on like a bunch of levels.

Anyway, 25 years ago, not that long.

I just looked up wine.

Did you know that vintage wine is any wine that has the year printed on it?

I thought it had to be really old.

Holy shit.

Could we print some 2025 vintage wine?

Yes, you could.

It's literally in the descriptor of wine printed in 2022 would be vintage wine.

It's just the year.

I think wine uses vintage in a different term than you're using vintage i think wine just the year yes i think the vintage of the wine it just means the year of the wine like that's yes that's just what i'm saying i didn't know that that was my point i assume

and i'm not i don't drink wine so like i didn't know that

i can't be the only one when you hear vintage you think i think in a broader way than the specific use that it seems to be used in wine what about neo vintage what is neo Vintage?

What would that be?

I don't know.

You're the one that vintaged it.

It's like if Neo from the Matrix is 25 years old.

I'm wondering.

If he marks it.

Oh, it's a watch thing, Gavin?

Neo vintage is a watch?

Oh, yeah.

I think I've heard it.

People talking about Neo Vintage watches.

When it comes to pre-owned watches, there are different categories that differentiate style.

Neo vintage, vintage there's no clear answer great

this has been the worst trying to differentiate the shit has been all like steampunk is neo like steampunk

what

it sounds like it's a style thing right like the use of neon is the same as steampunk where steampunk represents a style

not a thing that's what i gathered from that statement anyway gavin continue Wait, do you think we're saying Neo or Neon?

Neo.

Neo.

Okay, I'm just making it.

But then you read it and you're like, you said, oh, it sounds like it's like a style.

Like there's a style of watches that are called Neo watches.

And so I was saying, is it like steampunk or that's also a style?

I'm not saying it looks like steampunk, but in the sense that steampunk is a phrase for a specific style.

Neo

just means new.

combining new recent revived or modified new vintage

like neolithic 2025 wine i don't even know what it is.

That just sounds like a scam.

I want a book that gets me at a surface level into the lingo of a bunch of different niches.

You like flip the page to watch.

It's like Neo vintage.

And then you flip the page to like football and it says like roll tide or something.

It just gets you by in conversations with

just random people you meet in an airport.

You know, I played a game when I was in Detroit over Christmas that was kind of like, uh, kind of like that.

It was a game of global catchphrases.

and then you'd read a card and then you'd read like three, what, like, like, uh,

everybody had to like write a fake one down, and then it was one real one, and you had to figure out what the real catchphrase was.

But we played for like two hours.

I'd never heard or recognized a single phrase from that story.

And it was just like places, you know, like this is what they say in Rwanda, and this is what they say in Sweden.

And it was fucking, I felt like I was learning all kinds of culture.

Maybe, maybe we get you that game.

Is there a certain subculture that has a vernacular you like their usage of, or like a word from it?

I like in poker the use of sick, I really enjoy because it means everything.

It could be either like you have something horrible happen to you, and the response would be, that was so sick, or if it is like you do something amazing, it's like that was that was sick.

That was crazy.

I didn't realize that was poker.

I feel like that's just outside of poker, too.

I feel like I hear it more so in poker than anywhere else.

Oh, oh, yeah, poker would definitely be a chapter in this in this regulation lingo book.

Wine and coffee would probably have like at least two pages each.

Yeah.

Oh, wine.

I bet you had some snooty ass.

Yeah, there's some snooty feels like.

Yeah, snooty itself feels like it's a wine.

I don't feel like I use snoot enough.

Just in your everyday life?

Yeah, like, could snoot be a nose?

Yeah, you gotta, you gotta get a dog because I say

snout.

Yeah, I say it almost every day to my dog.

I just go, oh, look at that.

Oh, look at his little snoot.

And then I totally,

didn't the Concorde have a snoot?

Like a little droop snoot on the front?

Droop snoot should be Gavin.

And I want to talk about this later, actually.

I'm just going to throw this out there.

Droop snoot could be Gavin's 2025 nickname.

I'll go droop snoot.

I think.

Hang on.

Is this real?

Yeah, the droop snoot.

Why is this?

This plane looks bummed out.

It's why they don't make it anymore.

I think they do that because Gus would know this.

I think a part of it is so the pilots aren't aimed at the sky the whole way on the runway.

So it like snoops, snoots down.

I don't know.

Drop the snoot.

Raise this.

The snoot is jammed.

Yeah, because if you're landing at Concorde, which no one is anymore,

I don't think you'd be able to see the ground if you didn't droop the snoot.

This is this episode.

Where's that slider thing?

I'm up to like a nine right now.

I'm having a

looks almost like a plane that isn't circumcised, is I guess

I describe it.

Like, it looks like there's extra plane.

This plane's got extra stuff all over the front of it.

Yeah, it looks like a plane that somebody's older brother broke, and then the kid just tried to put it back together as best as he could because he still wanted to run around the yard with it.

That's exactly what it is.

Yeah, it's the Droop Snoot.

Yeah.

What is Sid's toys?

Speaking of Gavin's new nickname, Droop Snoot.

I was thinking of it the other day.

It's 2025 now, right?

Fresh year, new start.

We've had a lot of different eras throughout the company, one of which was our nickname era when we went through everybody's getting new nicknames.

And I was thinking, fresh year, fresh start.

My initial thought was maybe we pick new nicknames for everybody that we have that are our 2025 nicknames.

And I was, you know, thinking, I was actually thinking about like, I was actually, I've been thinking a lot about Panama Jack lately, and I want to, I'll talk about him later at some point

because

I want to talk to you guys about a legendary figure I've heard of around these parts called Gerpal Joe.

But that's for another day.

I was thinking it'd be fun if we had nicknames that were associated with locations, like Eric, because he's the president and because he won the contest.

He could be Deputy Eric, right?

Because he's like Deputy Indiana, Panama Jack.

San Antonio.

Nick could be Nick Antonio, right?

Nick is so easy to make nicknames for, by the way.

But then I had another thought.

It evolved from that into what if we did a draft, a nickname draft every year, and then everybody drafts nicknames, and the nicknames you get are the nicknames you're allowed to use in that calendar year.

So, wait, who's drafting a nickname for who?

Yeah, we're all drafting our own nicknames from the global pool.

And then, if you get the nickname you wanted, now,

but you can't pick your own nickname.

Like, Andrew could, like, if Andrew got T-bone before I do, then he gets to be T-bone for a year.

I like the idea, idea, but they're right.

You can't pick your own nickname.

So I think what we have to do, since there's five of us and we would all have four slots, we have to draft nicknames for each other.

So we would have to randomize and then

in each slot, I guess the first one would be like Andrew and then we all give like our Andrew nicknames except Andrew.

And then the next one would be like Gavin and we all give Gavin nicknames except Gavin.

And so everyone would have four nicknames.

Dude, then we spin a wheel and whatever the wheel wheel lands on is what that person's nickname is for the year.

I hate it because I don't want to get stuck with another fucking shitty Gooch Pooch situation.

I forgot about Gucci Pooch.

This is such a good idea, dude.

You could absolutely still get somebody could submit that for you.

I'm putting it.

No, we can't use old nicknames.

You might end up being Droop Snoop for all we know.

Oh, no.

Droop Snoop?

Well, what if, for example, I'm not saying anyone's going to draft this, but what if all four of the others of us drafted piss piss rat for eric would would he would would one be taken well then there would be collusion

we would have to we would have to throw it out we'd have to throw it out so you can't have dupe you can't have dupes no i think it would be like when you would try to get a gamer tag in xbox live someone would just have to put a number on it i think it'd be piss rat 01 piss rat x and then

piss rat 420 x piss rat x

exactly lowercase x capital x

that's that's the title

oh man great this is fucking great.

I like this nickname thing.

All right, so let's do the nickname draft in the way Eric described it.

And then,

yeah, and then we do the wheel to determine.

And then at the end of it, these are our nicknames for the year.

And you stuck with them till 2026.

I'm putting it in the idea bank.

I think we should do this.

Okay.

Speaking of drafts, we're doing some tomorrow.

And speaking of that, I've got a clip.

Clip?

You want to hear a clip?

I would love to.

Are you going to be able to play it?

Let me just double check that it's not going to play through some headphones somewhere.

You just did your whole computer.

I mean.

Yeah, yeah.

yeah but don't worry here we go ready yeah

not hearing it yeah

not working

oh

leave all this in it's

okay i'll tell you what happened it's uh it's just a recording of the youtube video and it has

and the way the apple redid their photos app i couldn't see the play button because it was uh covered up by a bunch of comments here we go these are good we'll talk about all these thoughts and chalk or whatever We want to pitch these ideas later, but like, are we no Stradamus was such a fun?

I just like that name so much.

It's great.

We got to do that soon.

I just watched Interview with the Vampire.

It's a 94 film.

Yeah.

I did.

That was a few weeks ago.

That was the clip, Gavin.

Why, why are we talking about vampires?

Because we were talking about...

It came out previously about doing a Wheel of Years draft where we pick movies that were born or not that like movies came out the year we were born and that came out at that time.

So I remember specifically, I remember that moment that you're playing.

It doesn't fit with what was said, but I had been thinking about it because we had mentioned it like a little prior to that.

And I was just sitting on that.

I just thought that you thought Nostradabas was Nosferatu.

No,

no, no, man.

That would have been awesome.

Oh, man.

I see what you were doing.

You were laying it it out to see if I'd be like, yeah, you know, the guy that knows stuff knows Ferratu.

He's a vampire.

He was laying the trap at your feet.

You were laying the trap at him.

Yeah.

Yeah, I wasn't.

I know the difference.

That's fair.

That feels like a mistake I could make, but no.

Yeah, that was...

Very similar.

It was the transition was a little funky because I was thinking about it prior to you and it was a reference we had earlier.

Wow, that's a rare wriggling out of a clip.

That's an invalid clip.

I took it back.

But I feel like that was worth it.

Like I'm not mad that you tried that because man, what a moment if I would have not known.

Yeah.

You can't be a fried.

Hey, you can't be a fried, you can't be afraid to take a shot.

Absolutely.

I had an recently we talked a couple episodes ago about our issue with glasses in the ocean, how the ocean is undefeated.

A bunch of people in the comments brought up to me the fact that we used to sell the fucking jet ski kit that had the glasses cord on it that we could wrap that we could put on our glasses so that they would never fucking fall off and i have like three of them in my fucking house and it never crossed my mind we used to produce the goddamn things whoa

the solution to your own problem yeah we created a problem by ignoring the solution we'd already invented

invented that we'd already put a logo on i have it's cancun's really funny so i'm not in front of me but i have one in my house i got a couple in my house somewhere setting of two i have them uh like there's like a bund i have a bunch of old like face stuff somewhere in a box.

Is there any Cancun stuff you guys didn't get to?

Was there like a moment where like behind the scenes, you, maybe some texting back and forth of, oh, that was, oh man, that person really did something dumb, and we haven't talked about it publicly.

Any of those?

Eric was eating some sort of

little corn thing.

And he described it as if it was like a cake or something.

And he described it as if someone made creamed corn solid again.

Dude, it was, I got, I, I got, we were at the buffet and I got a cheesecake and then the cheesecake was definitely not cheesecake.

It was creamed corn.

Yeah.

It was, it was like a, it was like more of like a cornbread kind of a thing, but it was like if they re-solidified like imagine

it looks exactly like cheesecake, same consistency and everything, like like a key, like a key limpie or a cheesecake, but it just tasted like fucking like savory-ish, sweetish sweet corn.

It was very

yeah another thing that i remember that i don't think we talked about was one night there was entertainment and we watched it and it was like a a burlesque show thing and um it was really cool like the dancing was really impressive and there was a woman doing like gymnastic stuff like contortionist stuff that was like really cool At one point, there was a pole dancer who was doing a pole dance and climbed to the top and was ultra athletic and it was really impressive.

And then she slid down from the top to the bottom.

And it her

like legs,

what would you say, skidding down the

think about the most painful time you ever went down a slide at a

playground when you were in a dry ass metal slide.

Yeah.

It sounded like that all the way down.

Yeah.

It was like, it was so impressive what she was doing.

And then

That happened and it was an audience full of people looking at each other and going, oh, oh, oh.

It was pretty cool.

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Dude, there was a show, nobody else went but Emily and I, because Emily, half the reason Emily goes to these all-inclusives is for the nightly entertainment.

Like she fucking loves it.

We went to every show.

I think we missed one, but we went to every other show.

We were the only ones to go to the final show, though, which was called Urban, which was just a lot of like...

like

hip-hop dancing.

But there were a couple of segments that were just so off the wall.

The only thing that was cohesive about it was that it was kind of like hip-hop themed, right?

Urban.

But at one point, they had a dance troupe come out and one of the guys, it took me a while to figure it out.

One of the guys was dressed up as Quicksilver from that X-Men movie where I think it's like Jesse Eisenberg or whatever.

He's got like gray hair and he wears like a silver outfit.

And then the other dudes were bullies that were beating people up in the street.

And then he would come and stop time and then beat them all up and then start time again and then beat them all up and then stop time.

And and that was a whole routine that went on forever and it was just suddenly it was a Marvel thing and then we had a bunch of other weird like there was some jump roping stuff that they did and a bunch of neon stuff uh neo neon i think they called it and uh and then we

then the final thing was a performance where it was a bunch of dudes that were

I don't know else to describe it.

It's a bunch of guys that were pretending to drive a car and they were hip-hop dancing while they were driving the car.

And then one of them took out, the driver takes out his invisible phone and they start taking selfies of them dancing and not paying attention to driving and they're all posing and stuff and then it's like

and they fake turn the wheel and then kaboom the fake car explodes because they were they were they were texting and taking photos instead of driving and then all the guys fall down on the ground and then

The V for Vendetta guy shows up, but he's dressed all in white like an angel, but he's got like the fucking Guy Fox mask on and everything.

And he dances around them for a while.

And then he pulls out four Vifa Vendetta masks and he puts them on their chests, and then they come back to life and they all dance together.

And then that was, it was over.

Hell yeah.

It was the most bizarre storytelling I think I've ever seen.

I dropped a couple videos in here.

They are not necessarily of what Jeff is describing, but it is the same show where people are just dribbling basketballs to a middling crowd.

Oh, yeah, a lot of basketball.

It's just people watching it.

That second video is just an astronaut, I think,

dribbling holding a basketball, and then the LA Lakers join him.

And it's pretty special, man.

It's pretty cool.

What if we sold a photorealistic Guy Fawkes bus?

I think that's the best idea I have ever heard.

We just take it,

and it looks kind of like the symbolic quota.

People are like, What's the

when Guy Fawkes was a guy?

Go ahead.

go on.

I know Guy Fox from V for Vendetta.

That's my touch point of Guy Fox.

You don't know him from

Parliament?

No.

I don't know anything about Guy Fox.

I thought he has a dumb hat on.

That photo you posted.

I think he tried to blow up Parliament and his name was Guido.

Oh,

isn't that kind of the plot for V for Vendetta?

Wait, is V for Vendetta just the Guy Fox story told in a...

I've never seen Viva Vendetta.

I just know...

Has Hugo Weaving in it, and I think it's Matrix-E, maybe?

Natalie Portman?

Is she in it?

I feel like for some reason, maybe it's just because Hugo Weaving is in it, and I was a kid when I saw it.

I associate it with the Matrix for some reason.

Does Guy Fawkes get hung, drawn, and cord at the end?

I don't remember anything about it outside of he has these knives he throws and there's something about remembering the 5th of November or December or one of the the birds.

He's got to go get his knives sharpened.

Make it dull.

Remember the 5th of November or December or December.

It's one of the birds.

The birds.

Yeah, in England, we have Guy Fawkes night on the 5th of November, and that's when we do our fireworks.

And we have a bonfire, and we sometimes chuck a Guy Fawkes dummy onto it.

Was Guy Fawkes a knife guy?

Because he was in the comic, and then I feel like he's throwing a lot of knives around.

How do you spell Guy Fox, Andrew?

G-U-I-F-A-W-K-E-S.

Guy Fox.

One day you should learn about the gunpowder plot.

The gunpowder plot?

Yeah.

Do you remember Lord of the Rings?

Not Lord of the Rings.

Do you remember?

Do you remember King's Landing when they had all the dragons fire under all of King's Landing?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

What does that do with anything?

Here, this should be able to catch Gay.

So if you want to.

Eric just posted a fucking gunpowder plot.

Or a brief account of the bloody bloody and

feudal define laid against the king, his lords, and commons in parliament, and a happy deliverance by divine power.

Okay, so guy praying at a window.

Wifter minister.

I don't know.

Then a woman praying.

And I can't read the bottom part of the text because it is small on my screen.

So it's just a bunch of praying.

I don't know what I was supposed to learn from that.

They're praying?

Yeah, they're praying for gunpowder.

Why do they need gunpowder?

For the plot.

To enact the plot.

Was the Matrix part of the Guy Fox movie?

Can someone look that up?

Was V for Vendetta tied to The Matrix?

Nobody, nobody has to look it up.

No.

Yeah, nobody's looking up.

No, I think the Matrix people, the Wachowskis, I think, were involved.

Were they not?

Was it not produced by the people?

Do you think that's the title?

The Matrix had tied up.

Did you tied into the Matrix?

Well, I feel like in the trailer, you know, like when you saw the greatest showman trailer, they're like, from the lyricist of La La Land.

It's like, it's not related, but like, they're promoting the other works of the people connected in the sense that Hugo Weaving is a big part of both.

It's related.

I wonder if it's just that.

I need to know.

I don't know.

Yes, I'll Google it.

I'll search it up.

Viva Vendetta.

Damn.

Is Lord of the Rings part of the Matrix universe?

No, Peter Jackson has no involvement.

But Hugo Weaving was in both.

Oh, he what?

Oh, yeah, he's the elf guy.

He's Elrond.

Elron, the elf guy.

I was thinking about this recently where I like when characters are way more famous than the actor playing them.

Like this guy.

He could say,

he could genuinely say to people, oh, yeah,

I was in Lord of the Rings.

And you'd be like, huh?

Who do you play?

And then he could just say, the ring.

What?

The ring?

And you'd

cool you're the you know the ring from lord of the rings but an unassuming face

yeah he doesn't look like a ring at all i mean he's in a circle but that's different does he sound like the ring sounds normally is he like whispering i don't know

he's got three voices layered over oh he probably doesn't he's a ghost My mom thought that we were getting our house invaded when I was a kid because I got really into Lord of the Rings action figures.

That was like the thing I collected.

And I had this Sauron one that had a voice box in it.

And I played with them in the tub, all my Lord of the Rings figures.

And

it made the Sauron go off one day.

Like she was cleaning in a room.

And she could just hear this faint, like, the darkness is coming type thing.

And she's like, what?

What?

And then just like a few minutes later, it's like, oh, the death comes closer.

And it freaked her out.

And

that was the end of my Lord of the Rings toys in that room.

They relocated, binned.

Bay Sauron got thrown away.

I don't I don't remember I just remember it was a big deal that Sauron started talking by himself because I got him wet and saying menacing things

Well, he's got an eye made a fire.

I assume Viva Vendetta the film written by the wachowskis I am not insane.

Wow skies related.

Well done.

Thank you.

Don't have anything to do with the matrix.

They made the matrix.

I bet you if we were to watch a trailer for Vifa Vendetta right now, I bet you it says from the people that brought you the Matrix.

David Lynch made Eraserhead and Dune.

Do you think those things had anything to do with each other?

If they promoted them that way, maybe.

Didn't he do Elephant Man as well?

Yeah, of course he did.

But nominated for like eight Academy Awards for Elephant Man.

How did they get the massive Sauron Eye up on that thing?

Hoist?

Like, like, where was the foreman?

Was the tower already there?

And there was some guy still on the roof going like, all right, this is where I'll put the eye.

Like, how did it?

does it explain that in the book have you has it you gotta read the simarillion or whatever it's called

it's not a physical eye what do you mean it's not an eye i felt like it was a projection like it was like a hologram of an eye i think so yeah so where where's where do they put the 4k projector

it's got to be close was it like disney where they just hide projectors all over the i think it's more likely than it was a giant eye i thought it was a giant eye they knocked the building down to kill the eye maybe you're right.

I'm not an expert on Lord of the Rings.

I don't.

They put it up a tower, I think, so it could see.

I think if it was just a hologram of an eye, why didn't they just put it in a room?

Why don't they just project it on a couch?

Because they wanted it to see?

How can a projection see?

I don't know.

I don't know.

There's fucking orcs.

There's elves.

There's bread that you take a little bite of and it fills you up.

So

you're going to use lampus bread and orcs and elks.

I'm going to say that

in a Fantasy World, I think it's just as plausible it was a real giant eye up there as anything else.

Yeah, I thought he just didn't have like a physical form.

I mean, even when he's fighting at the beginning, you can't see Sauron.

You just see his armor.

That's true.

I just assumed it was...

Well, there's a guy in a suit, right?

I don't think there's an actual physical body.

Sauron was never physical.

I thought he was in the suit.

Oh, yeah, I think he was.

Maybe that's what he wants you to think, Andrew.

There are people that have all these answers that are really into this that are pulling their hair out listening to us talk about this.

I mean, to be fair, he was wearing a ring that makes other people invisible.

Maybe it just made him invisible.

That's a good point.

Nick's pretending that he doesn't know the answers to this stuff.

Yeah, Phyllis said,

No, I don't know.

I couldn't tell you.

I think Sauron used to be a physical person and then became some manifestation of evil and then

became an evil.

You can watch the rings of power on Amazon.

They go into the prequel, the before of all this a little bit.

I think it's that slide of shit, though, isn't it?

Isn't it a bunch of made-up shit?

I watched the first couple episodes, and they're pretty good.

I think it was mostly about Saruman, though, not Sarum.

My favorite episode of the Rings of Power show is when they're trying to bring the eye up and the hallway's too narrow, and they just couldn't get it to fit.

This is like six orcs holding it, trying to get it.

Yeah, they're trying to get it up the staircase because it's the new eye.

I don't know,

they gotta hire that guy who comes and saws it in half to fit it up the stairs when he assembles it when it's at the top.

Yeah.

Like sofas in New York City.

I do really like prequel stories where they show the, like, did you like in Better Cool Saw?

There's a whole bit where they're like digging the lab, and it's cool to see like the origin story of a room.

And I would love that for Lord of the Rings.

Just for that tower.

I hope we can give that to you someday, Gavin.

I don't think we can.

Who owns?

Is that Warner or Amazon?

Who owns Lord of the Rings at this point?

Is it Amazon?

Amazon, I think.

Okay.

I think that there's some dispute over who owns what.

I think some people

own it.

I think it's 50%.

Yeah.

I think so.

Hey, can I ask you guys an unrelated to Lord of the Rings question?

Of course, yeah.

I was watching sports last night, right?

As I do.

I was watching my Celtics play the Clippers

in Los Angeles.

And of course, we won.

Almost blew it.

Had to go to overtime.

No fucking reason.

Other than just sloppy play.

But thank Christ we won.

However, I'm watching the game.

and

after about five minutes, there's a guy on the Clippers who is playing out of his mind.

His name is Derek Jones Jr.

And I'm tangentially aware of Derrick Jones Jr.

as a role filler on teams around the NBA for a while.

He's not a superstar.

He's not an all-star in no danger of becoming any of those things.

He's probably a bench player most of the time.

And he's playing because on the bench is Kawhi Leonard and James Harden.

And they're sitting on the bench in their street clothes and just watching the game, you know, just

fucking courtside in the street clothes because they're not playing.

And I got to thinking about how much money those two seats were taking up.

And so I looked it up.

James Harden and Kawhi Leonard, I think combined to make about $94 million this year for the Clippers.

And I looked up that guy, Derrick Jones Jr., who scored 17 points in the first quarter, which is huge.

He only went on to score 20 in the game,

but he scored 17 points in the first quarter.

He makes about $3 million a year.

My question to you guys is, oh, also, not only were Kawhi and James Harden in street clothes on the bench, they were sitting next to the coach.

They took the good seats on the bench.

The players who were playing the game were further down the bench, further away.

Like, and I got me just thinking, Does a guy like Derrick Jones fucking hate Kawhi Leonard and James Harden for like getting to basically show up at work in street clothes and eat popcorn and watch him bust his ass while they make a hundred times a year more than he makes.

I feel like you're describing every business ever.

From like the CEO to like the people working down.

Well, I mean, that's not even, I mean, if we're going to talk about every business there, then when the owner is fucking laughing at James Harden and Kawhi Leonard right now because he's making hundreds of millions of dollars an hour.

But it's just like, it's so crazy to see the disparity where they do the same job.

They're on the same court at the same time in theory.

But the not only is the disparity, because I understand that the talent dictates where money goes, but it's just crazy to me that you can be, you can make that much more with, and have zero availability.

Like you're just like, I'm Kawai Leonard.

I played 20 games in the last three years, but I'm still going to go to every game in my street clothes, get my free sodas, and make like $50 million a year for being like a vibes dude, I guess, at this point.

It's just,

I know it exists.

It's just like a legacy.

He doesn't really have a legacy in that arena or with that team because he's been hurt since he got signed to them.

He has a legacy from two previous teams, but that didn't.

That legacy doesn't travel to the new team where he's done nothing for them.

I just like it's just crazy to see it on display.

And it makes me wonder: is like Derek Jones happy that they're proud of him because he's balling out and they're like rooting him on, or is he like, then fuck you, man?

I'm out here sweating my fucking ass off, and you're making more money watching me play than I'm making playing right now because you can't be bothered to put the fucking uniform on.

Is that why they're not playing?

Uh,

I mean,

yeah, right?

Is that right?

Kawhi Leonard should retire if he can't play basketball.

Kawhi Leonard should retire.

I agree.

I don't know that they're out there doing the same job.

I also think Derrick Jones Jones Jones Jones.

No, one of them is doing a job and the other one isn't doing a jerk.

Derrick Jones Jr., I think Derrick Jones Jr.

is probably stoked to be on a team with Kawhi Leonard and James Harden.

Why?

He's never going to play with Kawhi Jr.

Two guys who are going to sit.

And so he gets minutes because he's not

somewhere else.

If he's going to play somewhere, it's here or the G League.

By the way, James Harden was out with groin soreness.

Is he

cranking off too hard?

Or what happened?

Yeah, he pulled a muscle banging somebody until he can't play.

You're going to need to have somebody sub in for me next week on the podcast.

I understand people get worse.

I understand injuries are a thing.

It's just crazy.

I just wonder if I'm Derrick Jones Jr.

in that moment.

I'm just like, man, fuck these guys.

Don't root for me.

Think about, though, in the context of like coaches or like even hockey, they have buyouts.

The premise of like, you're so not wanted that we will pay you to leave.

Like, we'll just pay out the rest of your contract to go.

Yeah, that's a great way to make money in the NBA.

And now, here's two things, and here's why, like, I get the point that you're making.

There's a reason when you go to awards for Kawhi Leonard and you see a fourth in rookie of the year, defensive player of the year twice, all-star, and then you look at Derrick Jones Jr.

and his award sections real blank all the way down.

I think that's why.

When was the last time Kawhi Leonard won one of those awards?

Why don't you pop up the last year that was?

It's like two seasons ago.

So what I'm saying is that I think Derrick Jones Jr.

is just fine being the role player that he is on that team.

I think he's totally fine with it.

I think he's so fine with making $3 million to go out there and put a lot of stuff.

Yeah, I guess.

And unless you're in a situation like the Clippers are going to be in where they're going to have to move parts to try to compete in some way, and they're not going to move Kawhi or James Harden.

So everybody on that team who's busting their ass right now becomes trade fodder.

It's what the Lakers have done the last five years in a row, and they can't build any kind of cohesion or team loyalty because everybody's expendable but two people.

And those two people want to win today and so they don't they just don't give a fuck about the other people around them i just i don't it's just it's just weird to me it's just weird to me that i haven't seen kawhi leonard play suit up and play basketball more than three games in the last however many years but he's still he's taken up a 50 million dollar spot on a bench it's just wild it is a like a weird thing to think about like money not money spent not being used in the way it's intended but i also feel like that's sports like i feel like the ideal trajectory of an athlete is having...

That's sports now.

It didn't used to be that way.

Sure.

Yeah,

I had this conversation with friends the other day where they were like, why are there TV shows like ballers and Arless in like the 2000s?

And it's like, oh, because money came into sports in the 80s, in the 90s.

I just feel like we just throw our arms up and say, oh, that's just the way things are now.

But that does, they don't, I mean, I'm not.

going to change anything.

I don't know what I would change.

I just, it's just wild to me to see it and to think about it from those terms.

Like these dudes are not that different in terms of ability.

Sure.

Like when you're at when you're at the point where you're an NBA player, the difference between the best NBA player on the court and the worst NBA player is fractional.

It really is.

Like once you're like one of the top four or 500 people in the world at doing this thing, it's like...

I think the scale is the notches on the scale are so minute.

And it's just crazy to think that those dudes both are almost exactly as good at basketball as each other, but one of them is playing and making a hundredth of what the other guy is.

Do you think when we do the drafts for sports improvements, you can bring something to the table that would fix that problem?

I think I didn't think of the sports drafts in that way, but I'm going to go back and re-evaluate.

I've been in the lab.

Had a little bit of lab time today.

You want to see?

Yeah.

Yes.

An unassuming folder.

Files for jobs number one and two.

What is this?

Do you know what that is?

No.

I know.

It's a bog roll folder.

It's a freaking folder.

You've got to be.

I thought it was files for this and for slow-mo guys.

Wow.

I crammed a whole bog roll in there.

Do you have any other photos?

Oh, wow.

That's pretty.

Now, how many sheets

is it?

How big is each

individual portion?

I don't know.

I just kind of bogrolled it and split it into quarters.

And unfortunately, it's intended purpose.

An entire bog roll will not fit under the door.

Oh, no.

To my bog.

So I think it's going to be good for maybe a quarter of a bog roll.

It's like an emergency single wipe or single session.

Have you thought about doing a filing cabinet of bog roll folders?

Uh, well, a whole cabinet was just full of them.

Yeah.

Do you think if you filled a cabinet with bog roll folders you could only pull from the cabinet for a year oh yeah you think you can make it a year how many sessions is one bog roll i don't know i think it depends on you like 10 maybe yeah i guess it comes down to how much paper you use per bathroom usage and then how many folders could fit into a cabinet I feel like this would be a more efficient way to store toilet paper, though.

It's not more convenient, but you don't have the air gap.

Hmm.

I really like it,

it's more efficient.

It's not more convenient.

You know, the nice thing about it, too, is a lot of people have magazine racks in their bathroom, you know, or they have like books or magazines for people.

You can just slap it in there, and it's super unassuming.

You know, this also sets up for like a wacky sitcom world where you go to your big business meeting and oh no, you grab the bog roll folder instead of the pitch deck.

And somebody's taking a man with your TPS report.

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Someone's wiping print a toner all over their anus.

I love it, Gavin.

I'd love to see the slimmed down version.

The

bog slim.

Yeah, I'll try and work on a version that will slip under the door.

That's a great product.

Maybe you can just flatten it more.

Stomp on it.

You got any other lab work?

No.

Do you?

Funny you should ask.

I've also been in the lab.

Jeff is in the lab.

I was in the lab.

Let me here.

Let me

share my camera with you guys, right?

What the fuck?

We're gonna camera?

Shit.

We're truly in the lab.

Let me.

Hang on, is Nick.

Nick is frantically.

I mean, I'm with him.

Yeah, 100%.

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Yeah, so I have also been in the lab.

I don't know if you remember, but last week we were talking about the idea of turduckening fruit a little bit.

Oh, yeah.

And so

I went to HEB, which by the way, got voted, I just read, the best grocery store in America in 2020.

Really?

Wow.

Good for hell.

Yeah, I was going to bring that up on a slightly different subject down the road.

But I went ahead and I got a bunch of the fruits we discussed and then some additional fruits.

And I made some combinations.

I don't know which one we should do.

The only one I remember was chapes,

which is what, a cherry and a grape together?

I believe that's what that burlesque lady did down the pole.

Chapes.

I present to you the chapel.

One half cherry, one half grape.

It's like got a little hat.

It looks like toad from Mario or something.

I hollowed that out.

But it's still the cherry standard.

Oh, it's got like a little locking system.

Yeah.

Locked together.

I'm going to try it.

See how it is.

I haven't eaten anything.

It was a review chain.

Be careful with the seed in there.

Yeah.

You got rid of it.

Oh, wow.

What's the thought?

Interesting.

It's almost as if the two flavors cancel each other.

I was going to say,

they're so sweet or so tart that you're kind of getting like neither very big.

But I'm not done.

There's a lot of things that you can turduck in.

For instance, what if you hollowed out a grape and stuck blueberries in it?

Almost like a tiny cocktail.

This is a whiteberry.

Oh.

That's good?

That's better.

That's the best one yet.

Okay.

But not to be undone.

I've also got a cherry and a grape.

This way.

Oh, no.

I'm sorry.

This is a cranberry.

This is a cranberry.

It's not cherry.

I'm sure.

What's the name of that?

This would be good.

This is

cranberry.

But, like, there's one is so astringent, and then the other one's a grape.

Don't recommend that, okay.

If you're just listening, uh, Jeff leaned away after he took a bite of that one.

Here we have a blueberry cranberry combo.

No,

it's not gonna be any good.

Oh, it was so loud.

Oh, that was a crunch.

Not good.

I think it's the cranberry that's really making things spot.

Here we have a raspberry cranberry.

Oh!

Oh!

Why?

So many cranberries.

Oh, it's going to be good.

That's not good.

That was not.

Craspberry is not good.

Oh, yeah.

Let's try this.

Let's move away from grapes for a minute.

You don't even have a palette cleanser.

How about a.

There you go.

There.

How about a blueberry cherry combo?

That's pretty good.

I bet that one's good.

Yeah, that's probably good.

Second best so far.

Not the best.

Okay.

Going back to grapes

just for a minute.

These are green grapes, for those listening.

These are green grapes, yeah.

Yeah, I wonder if the red grapes are video version available on Patreon and YouTube.

What about a grape and a strawberry?

That looks real dumb.

There's something so disturbing about how they're just sat and wiggling each other.

No, that's actually pretty good.

Strawberry grape, it might be the best one so far.

Okay, straight.

Then I wanted to move bananas into the mix, and I had this whole idea of hollowing a banana out and filling it with blueberries, like grapevines.

But my bananas are too crooked and weren't big enough, so I was only able to make this.

A banana with a strawberry hat.

Come on.

You made a red rooket fruit.

Yeah.

That looks like if you uncircumcise the droop snoot.

It's a fruit snoot.

Oh, it's an STD and a droop snoot.

I see why people drink banana strawberry.

That's good.

That's real good.

That'd be good pairing.

I'd like to see that with the blueberry on the tip of the strawberry.

Oh,

then I made.

I thought, while we're doing this, having little finger foods, what if we made an actual sandwich?

So, what I've done is I took and I made the bread, two slices of strawberry, and then on top of it, I sliced as the meat and the cheese, cherry, grape, so good, cranberry, and blueberry, and we'll hold it all together, like sort of a fruit big Mac.

Oh, no, it's a little great

flip-blue

that just a lot of flavors that like a hawaiian punch like a fruit punch like yeah there's an explosion of flavors in your mouth yeah and then last but not least the official the one that started it all the cherry to the grape to the raspberry to the blueberry the full deal

the fruit traducking that looks like it'd give you extra agility in a shooter

oh

oh he struck he doesn't like it no good Not a fan.

By far the worst one.

The fruits and pole was the worst one.

That was not great.

That was not great.

All right.

So there we have.

There's our lab results.

Whatever, whatever, whatever the second thing I had was the best thing.

What do you think made that stack at the end not any good?

Cranberry didn't.

No, there was no cranberry in it.

Raspberry didn't help.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, I feel like raspberries.

Raspberry conflicted with a lot of those other flavors.

I want to get into the same lab.

I might come up with some stuff for next week.

You should.

You should.

It's a lot of fun.

You know what else is a lot of fun?

Drinking stuff out of a Gerpler.

Oh.

We got GURP news.

Bring on the GURP news.

There's some GURP news.

GURP news.

Jeff Eric, do you want to lead?

Oh, you're doing such a good job right now, Andrew.

Yeah, I am.

So I'm passing the torch before I fumble it.

Thanks for passing the torch to me.

I'll pick that torch up.

I'll...

Shine it high into the darkness to light the world, to let them know that the GURPLER is coming.

Yes, that's right.

The month of February, there will be additional Gerplers.

Hold on, let me hold the light.

I'm gonna shine it a little bit higher.

Hold on, so we can get a little bit a few more people in the back and see.

That's okay.

Can you see the game?

Can you see the date?

It's right there.

It's February.

It's two.

It's two digits.

That's right.

You can see the date.

It's definitely two digits first.

Digits a one.

First digits a one.

It's going to be easy to figure out the second because they're only

you get it.

It's got some sticks on it.

There's going to be a range.

February 14th.

14th.

February 14th.

The Gerpler will launch.

It's happy Gerbaltine's Day.

Real launch.

To you.

Our gift to you is a shot at one of 5,000 Gerplers that will be launching at noon on February 14th.

That's right.

Valentine's Day is now Gerbaltine's Day.

We are co-opting the holiday.

We are taking it over.

Don Valentine better come and talk to me.

I'll set him straight.

It's our day now, motherfuckers.

Celebrate Gerbaltine's Day with us.

We're going to be playing Mario Party Party Jamboree, I believe, over on the

end celebrating the launch of Gerpltine's Day.

Now, to take it back to where this all began, obviously, we sold our first black Gerpler, and we ordered more of those than any other we've had before, and they sold out instantly to our surprise.

People were understandably, I really wanted one.

That's disappointing.

So we immediately ordered 5,000 more.

And the hope is that everyone that wanted one will now be able to get one.

We've been waiting ever since that last stream to get these.

They're finally arriving.

It takes a while for them to be made and then shipped and then get everything all worked out.

But they are going to be here February 14th and we're streaming it.

And if for some reason they sell out, we will buy more.

There's no way, surely.

There's, I mean, zero chance.

Can't we just do a different, can we do a different Gerpler?

Do we have to do the same?

We can do a different Gerpler.

Okay, let's just say this.

This is it for this Gerpler.

9,000 of this design is in.

Maybe, who knows?

We reserve the right to bring back old styles, blah, blah, blah.

I want to move on to a different look.

I think we've had so many cool ideas.

I want to move on to a different look of Gerpler.

I want to see what kind of Gerpler a guy like Gerpl Joe would drink out of.

He seems like Gerple Joe.

A mysterious figure.

That's for sure.

Have you seen Gerpler?

Have we seen?

Where's Gerplow?

I don't know.

Anyway, it'll be out at noon

on

regulationstore.com.

It'll be noon central, but we'll be live on twitch.tv slash the regulation pod a little before noon to celebrate the launch and then playing.

What was the, what did Jeff keep calling Mario Party?

Mario Party Jubilee.

Jubilee.

Jubilee.

He kept calling it Mario Party Jubilee.

Jubilee.

I think it would be sick if we actually had some Gerplers left in the store after this.

It'd be amazing.

Now, are you saying sick good or sick bad?

Because depending on the community, sick good could be good or true.

We saw the poker terms or what?

Olen.

That was so sick, Gavin.

I'm excited about these.

I'm excited about the next Gerblers that we're doing and some more merch that we have coming probably around May.

Maybe a new

revolutionary shirt and

some things that you can wave high and proud.

But we'll see.

That's for future.

But for right now, Valentine's Day, Gerpel, Gerp, Gerpel Tine.

God, Gerpel Tine.

Gerpel Tyne's Day, February 14th at noon central.

Will you

say

Gerpletine?

Like a giant black cup.

I told you we could go with a second idea.

It didn't have to be that still.

I just.

What are some of the other hearts say?

Gerpel.

Gerbalheart.

Well, not Gerple Hearts.

Valentine's Hearts.

Be mine.

Be mine.

Be mine.

Be my girlplete.

Let's see.

Let's workshop this right now.

Okay.

Gerpel me, baby.

Yeah.

You're Gerpel.

Gerpel pie.

gerpler pie.

Uh,

girpies, not herpes.

Uh,

love you, uh,

gurp ya.

Lil, little gurp ya,

girp me.

I don't like when he says that.

I don't like the way he says it.

I don't like what it's in.

I don't like it.

Uh,

be mine.

And then you could flip it on the other side and it says, Gerpler.

Oh,

double-sided heart.

Because most hearts have two sides.

So, are we just going to Photoshop a little Gerpal Love Heart banner thing?

Sure.

I don't know.

Are you?

I am.

Sure.

You're just reading them all out like we're going to use this somewhere.

No, I just go.

I was curious what they're trying to figure out what the best variation would be.

It's tough.

There's not a lot of natural

bunch of X's and O's on it.

I don't know how we.

Yeah, no.

What did it say?

Gerpltine?

So let's go with that.

That was the, that was the best one.

It's the Eric was pretty insistent.

We use Gerpltine, and I want to stick to his initial vision.

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

He's the one that coined the phrase.

Unfortunately, and then I said, That's the first idea.

Let's find a better idea.

And then I guess Andrew went through about 12.

So maybe Gerpeltine says about it.

Yeah, I confirmed that.

And now it is.

The worst idea turned out to be the best.

Yeah, unfortunately.

It's usually how it goes with this show.

But I realized the other day that a lot of the regulation audience views my career as being in a much different phase than it used to be because we put out the Agility Tube video for what was that?

For Box Standard?

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

yeah yeah sorry box standard and uh people people seem to really like it like the video there was just a lot of comments on it it's where people are like guys at your age you should really be warming up first you should really be stretching

and i've never had those comments before yep it's true i was in so much pain after that it was for sorry uh just a correction it was for extra medium and above it's on patreon you can watch it over there and you're right because the thing that when i re-watched it when you get halfway through that tube and you're like you're not even like yelling you're like howling it's

like it's not good it's you're like very hurt by what you're going through it looks like one of those uh beat up tube things you'd have at school that you'd make with what what was that called like you and

a beat up tube it wasn't a tube it was people like you'd have like 20 people like 10 people on each side and they'd be holding arms and then people have to run run under

through the tunnel while while everyone's kicking you did you know what did you not play that

that sounds like you're getting that sounds like you're getting jumped into a gang dude

keep explaining how you got initiated into your violence gang please and you'd come out all kicked and bruised are you okay and then everybody hugs you and they say you're a member of the family for life

something like that

bought those locos yeah uh what was the name of this chicago shootout okay

Don't bring up Chicago Shootout.

My wife's friend was like, oh, yeah, Chicago Shootout.

I remember that.

And I think my wife paid her off.

I don't think.

100%.

Yeah, I think

Michaela, I don't believe you.

I'm just letting you know.

I don't remember what that game was called or whether it had a name.

I remember how it felt.

But if there's anyone in the...

In the audience who also played Run Through the Hurt Tunnel, let me know.

But anyway, that's what I sounded like.

I was like, Jeremy Renner, but I wasn't when I went through the agility issue.

We used to play Red Rover when we were kids.

It sounds like you played Red Dead Rover.

Yeah.

Red Rover was violent too, wasn't it?

You got people got clotheslined and stuff.

Yeah, of course.

Be remiss if we didn't bring it up, but we're getting on towards time, so I do want to hit it now that we've covered some really Gerpler stuff and everything.

Did you guys squinkle or what?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I got my squinks.

Oh, we got my boy.

Squinks.

Squinkle, boys.

We got a lot of swinks.

So

this all started squinkles

because we saw the squinkles chunks at that airport in Cancun.

I went to the Hispanic grocery store down the road just to see if I could get Squinkles Chunks, but they had the exact same Squinkles offering as HEB.

Once again, why HEB is the best.

So I have here Lucas Squink Lote, and then I have Squinkles Salsaghetti.

I got Squinkles Salsaghetti.

What did you get, Gavin?

I have no Squinkles.

What?

Okay, so we have to not squink.

All right, we'll have to wait to squink with Gavin.

Golden off on the squink.

Yep, we will, we will, we will have to future squink.

Sorry.

No, you can squink, and then I'll squink.

Maybe I'll combine some squinks with some fruits.

I think it's a big squink.

I think we do a big squink together.

We already did.

We had two lab sessions in this episode.

We can squink later.

We do stuff.

Oh.

Speaking of stuff related to this podcast.

Hey, speaking of stuff, I owed you guys, Eric and Andrew, vinyls.

I don't remember why, but it's in my notes that I owed you both vinyls.

So, Andrew, I mailed you a vinyl yesterday and Eric got you one.

It's in my house.

I'll give it to you next time I see it.

I'll get to you tomorrow.

I'll get it to you.

Yeah, yeah.

Easy.

Cool.

I'm excited.

Another thing that I'm excited about, actually, is the Falcon tier.

At the time of this recording, a little bit later today, we're doing a Falcon tier watch-along that finally pays off

a mouse hunt.

Yeah, we are doing a mouse hunt watch-along.

If you become a Falcon, you'll be able to watch it later.

At the time this is coming out.

You've missed it by a week.

Sorry.

But you'll be able to watch it later over on Patreon.

So Andrew had all the rest of the four of us pick a movie.

Is that right?

And then what happened?

Then the Falcons voted.

Yep.

And they picked Mouse Hunt.

The second most popular was Snake Eyes.

Of course it was.

I couldn't believe it lost.

Like when you had the Mouse Hunt, crazy.

I like, so I'm going to go in order of

what I think the spirit of, because

I went with Blast, the Eddie Griffin Breckenmeyer action movie that I thought was very cool.

Makes sense.

Then Eric went with Snake Eyes.

Makes sense.

I think also kind of related to the show as a bit.

Gavin went with Mouse Hunt.

That was your pick.

Jeff went with Superfuzz, I believe.

Also makes sense.

I've mentioned it a few times around the time we picked Condor Man.

That was the other movie I wanted to pick.

I'm still going going to make you guys watch it at some point.

And Nick went with Air Force One.

Air Force One?

Nick's like, I just want to watch Air Force One.

When have we talked about Air Force One?

Anytime you're a

huge Air Force One fan.

I draft it all the time.

You draft it all the time?

You've drafted it.

Yeah, I did it twice?

It was in a draft and then the ranker.

Like, we're all kind of picking, like, campy, like kind of group watch movies.

And I just love that Nick's just like, nah, Air Force One, let's get everybody together.

Let's watch some Air Force One.

You asked me what movie I wanted to watch with the Falcons.

Yeah, I know.

I love it.

I think it's a great pick.

So which one you want to watch?

Which one was least voted for?

Blast.

My pick.

Eddie Griffin, Breckenmeyer, Blast had the lowest percentage of votes.

Well, how about that?

That's crazy because I don't realize

talked about the longest ago of all of them.

You know what?

I would argue it would be one of the most fun watches that we could do.

We're playing soccer in the hood now and he bicycle kicks a grenade.

It's great.

Also, just the embarrassment.

There is an action scene in it that I watched later in life that I remember as a child watching it going, that was so fucking cool.

And then watching it as an adult going, it's maybe the most embarrassed I've ever been about anything.

That was a terrible scene.

I think nothing cool about that.

That's the kind of context the audience needs before casting a vote.

It's like, it's like we all need 20 seconds to prevent, uh, to present our choice.

I gave a little bit of context on each pick.

That's, but that's like, whoa, but that's tough because I agree with you, Gavin, but I also think that that's going to sway.

Did you say who picked what?

I don't think I said, maybe, I don't remember, but I definitely put flavor in for all the picks.

Yeah, I think this is why.

I think us, because I want to make an effort of like, here's why we should watch it.

And we each do it, like a little 20-second blurb.

But then I think people won't vote for the movie.

They'll vote for the person who picked it.

And I think voting for the movie, there's a spirit to this thing, Gavin.

And I think that's why we're talking about it.

You just think if you present your movie, no one will pick it.

I think they'll look at me picking a movie versus you picking a movie and pick the movie that you picked versus the movie that I picked.

Yes.

Do I think that?

Yeah, I know that.

Absolutely.

Okay.

Okay.

What if you still don't know?

who picked what and one person

delivers all of the reasoning and context behind the picks.

Sure.

I mean, yeah,

we can do that.

I don't think there's a problem with that.

Keep it anonymous.

Yeah, exactly.

Keeping it anonymous, I think, is very important.

Look at this poster.

V for Vendetta.

An uncompromising vision of the future from the Creators and the Matrix trilogy.

Right.

Of course,

I'm going to see this movie.

Is it good?

I don't think so.

I don't think it was.

I have zero memory.

It sucked.

I think it's like

2008 good.

You know what I mean?

Like, it's like

it wasn't, though.

It was suck.

What a shame.

73% on Rotten Tomatoes.

A lot higher.

8.1 on IMDb.

People seem to like it.

Stupid hat.

Stupid movie.

It was just like a JVC ad.

Everything was like a JVC computer or TV.

It was

a heavy product placement throughout the whole fucking film.

Yeah.

That's what I remember about it.

Oh, I love that clip of David Lynch talking about product placement in movies.

It's so funny.

So

if is Grinch part of the Minions universe?

No, but I was explaining why it makes sense that I affiliate V for Vendetta with the Matrix.

Affiliate or associate?

You know, I think you can pick.

It's, you know, we live in a free country.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, he's wrong either way, so whichever way you want to ascribe that, you go for it.

Well, an affiliate is what you get on Twitch.

You start as an affiliate.

I'm a partner, so I wouldn't know anything about that.

Fucking brag about it.

Yeah, that's what I was just doing.

What a prick.

An associate is someone who sells you something.

Like a sales associate.

That is something.

That is, that's one of the definitions of associate.

Associate is, is, that is that word.

Associate is a different word, but that's, and, you know.

And what does that spell?

Thanks for listening, everybody.

I was just about to say we should wrap up, and I think you're doing a great job, Jeff.

We uh, we did it.

We finished the whole goddamn episode, and we did it right here in front of you.

And you watched the whole fucking thing unwind because, and let's be honest, Nick's not doing too much heavy editing here.

He leaves a lot of the pauses in.

Dennis is the one that makes him snappier.

That's what I learned last week from Gavin.

Uh, Thanks for listening, and we'll see you.

Yep, we'll see you next week.

Bye.

Love you.

Love you, Dennis.

Bye.

Hey, what the fuck?