Lore Heavy Episode // F**kface Off Season 2 [71]

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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Regulation Podcast.

This is episode 71.

My name is Jeff Ramsey with me, as always.

Eric Bador, Nick Schwartz, Andrew Panton, Gavin Free, save the best for last there.

Hello, everybody.

We have got a very,

very lore-heavy episode ahead of us.

We've got a big one.

It's going to be a meaty one.

We've got something that we've been doing in the background that we are very excited to get into and to talk about.

But before we do, I have to,

I would be remiss in my duties as a podcaster and an entertainer if I didn't share with you a story of something that I experienced over the weekend that I'm afraid might color your opinion of me in the negative to a degree.

But I would be lying if I said that this is one of those few few moments when I'm genuinely embarrassed.

You shit yourself.

No, come on, man.

You think that would embarrass me?

You cabined your eye.

No, come on, man.

You think that would embarrass me?

Listen, you can play the guest game all day long.

You're not going to get there.

When I moved in to my new home, been here for a year and a half.

You know, I moved right around the time that regulation,

right around the time that Rooster Teeth ended and we began regulation.

I recorded the last episode of Face at my old house and the first episode of Regulation at my new house.

I didn't intend it to be that way.

It's just kind of the way it worked out, right?

So the entirety of face existed in that home.

The entirety of regulation has been in this home.

Just trying to cement like where we are in the timeline during the move, right?

So this is it right around it, right around episode one of regulation.

I move into this house and I am moving out of my old house.

We are also moving out of our rooster teeth offices.

So I end up with just a ton of face stuff in my office, my little office that I now have.

And so I've got like all my baseball card stuff.

I've got stuff that I've been buying for the break show.

I've got stuff from Goodwill.

So, you know, which is who knows what's going on in there.

I've got stuff from eBay.

I've just got piles of boxes of stuff that I had planned for, you know, when I was doing the break show, which by the way is coming back.

But when I was doing the break show, I was buying product six months in advance because I wanted to have a cushion and you buy stuff when it's available when you get a good deal.

And so I had all this shit that had to go somewhere, right?

And it had it all ended up in my office and I had a closet.

And so I just started throwing boxes in the closet day one.

Okay.

Day two or three, I start to notice a smell in my office.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Smells a little, it's coming from the closet.

Oh, okay.

Smells a little bit like mildew.

Now, my closet backs up to a bathroom, the upstairs, like Millie's bathroom with a shower and a bathtub and stuff.

And so I go and I look on the other side and I see where, you know, clearly there's been some water that, you know, maybe sloshed out of the tub.

Maybe I'm thinking maybe previous owner, you know, I'm new to the house, so I don't know what happened six weeks ago in this house, let alone a year ago.

So I'm thinking maybe some water has seeped in and it's gotten into the carpet and it's made like a musty, mildewy smell, right?

So I try to clean out the closet as best as I could.

I put a fan in there.

I put air fresheners in there and

I

combat this smell for probably six months.

Jesus.

And then it eventually goes away.

Wait, what?

No, wait, no.

I'm out here getting stick for living in cat piss.

Yeah.

Listen, that's not a strong smell, and I only smell it when I open the closet.

If I open the doors, I get hit with the musty smell and I'm like, I think it's probably like, maybe it's some old cards I got from Goodwill that were mildewy or something.

I don't know that I just never opened that box.

I don't know what it is, but it's not a strong smell after a little while.

And I never open that closet because it's just face stuff that I don't use anymore, right?

It's just old shit from that's going to be turned into the break show.

down the road at some point.

So I just shut the closet and I don't think about it.

And every once in a while I have to open it to get something out.

And every once in a while, I get a whiff of the smell.

I'm like, oh, fuck, that's still around.

Or I'll be like, oh, it's barely noticeable anymore.

Whatever.

But over the last like two months, I've been going through every card I own and trying to just get rid of shit I don't need anymore.

I'm trying to get rid of most of the stuff in my office.

And I'm kind of in preparation for the break show.

I knew it was coming.

And I had to separate what's mine from the break show.

And you get it, right?

Yeah.

And so my closet's been open this entire time.

No smell.

The smell's gone.

I actually thought to myself about a month ago, wow, I can't believe I beat that smell.

It's finally gone.

That's, I wonder what it was.

No big deal.

This weekend, fast forward to this weekend, I'm looking for the

some supplies for the break show.

I'm looking for the mat that I used to, that said face on it, that I used to break the cards on, which by the way is gone.

I can't find it.

But I'm looking in my closet and I think maybe it's in one of the boxes I haven't checked or whatever.

And at the very top, there's a row of boxes.

Most of them are empty.

uh card boxes but in the very back right i see a box that i don't recognize that's just like way in the back.

And I think I have to get a stool to get it.

And as I get the stool and I set it down, I open up the stool and I put my foot on it.

And I go one, one step up, I smell the smell.

And I realize instantly,

the smell is coming from this box.

So I get up all the way to the top.

And at like at box level, it's still pretty intense.

And I'm like, holy shit, I can't believe the smell is still this intense.

What is in this box?

And I pull the box down and I look in it.

And it's, it's like bubble mailers and rubber bands and like packing supplies and tape,

all for when I was mailing out cards, when I was briefly selling cards on eBay to kind of test that out.

And in the middle of all that is a bean and cheese taco.

Oh my God.

Oh

shit.

Oh God.

I

can only guess that I got tacos the morning of the move and I was moving from, I remember the day of the move, I was moving from my old house to my new house like the movers got here like 11 a.m i made like six moves by myself that morning moving stuff i didn't want the movers to move computers and stuff like that i must have got tacos

and had a uh just a

a wrapped up in tinfoil fossilized breakfast taco.

I must have just thrown it in that box in the moon, shuffling in the car and forgot about it.

And then it made its way to the top back of the shelf.

And then it just never left.

And so, when I touched it, it was like touching smell.

I don't know how else to describe it.

I like had to run outside with it.

It was the most wretched thing I've ever smelled.

Story's not quite over yet.

I open up the dumpster, my trash can, I throw it on my trash can.

I go back inside, I wash my hands like intensely, try to get air my house out, try to get rid of the smell.

It's totally gone.

I'm feeling really good about it.

I tell Emily, she's horrified.

Uh, the next day, I go to take the trash out and I open up my trash trash can and a raccoon, because I've caught a raccoon in my trash can like three times in the last month.

I'm assuming the raccoon, it was the raccoon, unwrapped the taco and ate it.

The taco was gone.

Just the tin foil neatly unwrapped.

It was where the taco was.

So something came in the night and ate a year and a half old taco.

I was thinking that, like, that the animal that's killing animals in your place is going to get that and initiate war with you.

They are going to be so upset.

Do you think maybe you poisoned him enough that he will not?

You may have gotten rid of the killer.

I wonder if the animal was even alive when that, when that taco was made.

That's a great question.

Is the food older than the raccoon?

Yeah.

Or whatever.

It could have been a possum.

I saw a possum the other night, but I'm pretty sure it's a raccoon because he's the one getting definitely getting, he was trapped in the trash can the other day.

I had to let him out.

Idiot.

Yeah, he's a little idiot.

A little fucking idiot.

He jumped in when it it was empty and couldn't figure out how to get out.

So I had to make like a little step of trash for him to climb out.

But

yeah,

I can't imagine anything smelling that smell and then wanting to put it in their mouths because it was like Bernie was asking me that.

I was telling him the story last night and he was asking me if I would lick it for a million dollars.

And I was like, I think I wouldn't.

I don't think I could.

I think my tongue would fall off.

Like, I don't,

it was the worst thing I've ever smelled in my entire life.

And so every episode of the regulation podcast, every gameplay, every supplemental, every draft, every sloppy Joe's that we have done, I have done with a fossilized bean and cheese taco nine feet behind me, just watching.

That's incredible.

I mean, I know we recently had one, but it feels like it might be time for a season change.

I mean,

we might have to because I think Jeff is going to be noticeably different going forward.

Yeah.

I think maybe,

yeah, the mold from the taco has been like maybe infesting your brain, Jeff.

And it's something you need to be like, if you start like breathing easier and having like more energy and like sitting up straighter or whatever, realize that like the taco was your undoing for like the last year or so.

You know what's crazy about you saying that, Eric?

Is the hallucination stopped yesterday.

That's crazy.

That's pretty incredible.

And that's been like forever.

Yeah, no.

All right.

So season three begins in episode 71, I guess.

Taco season.

Yeah, I think it has to.

And then, yeah, it was seasons one and two with a taco era.

That's wild.

I'd like to imagine that that raccoon is just hanging at a taco truck now.

It wants more of that.

Needs more of that in its life.

These are good.

Do you have any that aren't so fresh?

You got any in the back.

They've been hanging out for about nine months.

You got me dry-aged.

Yeah, so anyway, I told you I could get in and out in 10 minutes on that story.

It took 11.

I apologize.

But

that's my story.

That's my genuinely embarrassing realization and moment.

I feel like a little dirt grub.

I feel like a gross, dirty, gross kid who

like the worst.

I feel just disgusting.

And I'm so embarrassed.

And I don't know.

I just can't believe that happened.

I'm imagining the recording somewhere.

just like slapped like maybe like lent on a wall in an alley just drooling just like like Jeremy was on that haunter shoot.

Just like, oh,

just bile.

Oh, man.

I'll let you know if I find a carcass in the next couple of days.

I like to imagine it's like an Anthony Bourdain raccoon, and it's just all about it.

It's like, I'm trying food everywhere, no reservations, trash can style.

He's bringing friends over to show him.

He's like, you never, you've never tasted anything like this, I promise you.

It's the Sir Strumming of Mexico.

It's Sir Strummingo.

Oh, man.

So

we need to get into.

You guys took a trip that I've been eagerly waiting to hear about.

We took a secret surprise trip.

A secret surprise trip to the center of our universe.

How did it go?

You guys drove there.

What was that like?

We, so here's what we did last week.

We are desperate to do season two of fuck face-off, but we figure we cannot in good conscience make a season two of face-off until we make good on the reward and the punishment of season one.

To catch people up at the old company, the old podcast, we did a show called Face Off.

It was a sports league.

The winner got a billboard with their name and face.

listed as deputy's favorite son erected in deputy, Indiana, the center of the f ⁇ face and regulation universe, which is a whole thing I'm I'm not going to get into.

You'll have to look that one up.

I'm not going to dive into that.

The punishment was, and the unique thing about Face Off as a show is it's a five-person show, first to fifth.

You know, we have five contestants.

First place gets the victory, the winner, it gets the billboard in the center of the universe.

Last place isn't the loser.

Second place is the real loser because they were close to winning.

They got as close to winning as possible without winning, which I think is the ultimate lose.

So we decided to punish second place, which in this case was Nick, by making Nick wear the big red boots for one hour in a mall.

We figured, kill two birds with one stone.

We rented a car.

We rented a big ass, like a suburban, I think it was a good idea.

Like a Chevy suburban.

Like a Chevy Silverado, something like that.

She's a big ass, big ass car.

And Gavin, Eric, Nick, and myself hopped in it in Austin, Texas, and we drove non-stop from Austin, Texas to Deputy, Indiana.

Wow.

It was a 16-hour drive.

We left it about 11 a.m.

We got, well, we, we, we stayed in Louisville because there is nowhere to stay in Deputy.

They didn't want, they didn't want you staying in Deputy.

They didn't want you coming to Deputy.

They didn't want you doing anything in Deputy.

If there was a place to stay in Deputy, you couldn't pay me enough to stay there.

Not the center of the regulation universe is not the friendliest place on earth.

I'll say that.

It's no Disneyland.

And so we stayed in Louisville, Kentucky, which was just an under an hour outside of Deputy.

It's like a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky is like a suburb of Deputy Indiana, I guess would be how you would describe it.

Is that how you would describe it?

Louisville, Kentucky, a suburb of Deputy.

Okay.

All right.

Yeah, sure.

This country is so damn big.

We worked out on the way that you could drive from London to Edinburgh and back in less time than driving to Deputy Indiana.

Crazy.

This was the longest road trip you've ever taken, right, Gavin?

Oh, by far.

Yeah.

I was looking at the time going down and I was just, I was like creating little milestones in my head.

I'm like, oh, you know, like halfway will be good.

When there's like a thousand miles left, that'll be good.

But there was something really demoralizing about being excited for it to go into single digits.

I remember looking at the time and celebrating.

Oh, great.

Now there's nine hours and 59 minutes left.

I was like, oh, I just can't.

I could fly to England in less time.

Yeah.

Gavin was excited to have his first American road trip, and then he had his first American road trip.

Yeah, it was, it was a lot.

I think the most demoralizing part to me is when you would be on the road for four and a half hours, and then you'd look at not the time, but the map of the United States

and realize how little you've gone in the drive and how far across the country you still have to go.

That was brutal.

That was tough.

But

really enjoyed it.

Fun as hell.

We had such a good time in that car.

It was a blast.

It honestly, it was 16 hours.

It flew by because

it was so much fun.

Guys, it felt like 11.

Yeah.

It was really, it was really cool, like just road trip style stopping and finding all kinds of cool like things to do and snacks to eat like these chorizo and chipotle fritos that were the worst tasting thing we've ever had but then they taste so good that you can't stop eating them because if you stop you get the initial taste again and that's bad it's like the bell curve of food it's horrific on the way in and then it evens out and you're like oh this is actually quite nice and then the aftertaste is foul so you have to keep eating them yeah it's the i've never had to thread a needle with food quite like these Fritos, but it's like

bad at the beginning and bad at the end, but great in the middle, really bizarre.

And you just got to try to make it's like, it's back when I was an alcoholic and I was trying to maintain a level of drunk, you know, you're like trying to maintain that middle Frito flavor without dipping into aftertaste.

It's like that water in the tuxeda that makes you thirsty.

You just have to keep drinking.

So it was a lot of fun.

You can go and watch the video of us that's out by now when this episode comes out.

The video will be out.

At the time of this recording, it has not been edited, so we can't see what it is and what it ultimately came out to be.

But it was a lot of fun to make.

It's the longest video we've ever made.

Is it really?

Yeah.

Well, it's the longest live-action anything we've made.

Wow.

Yeah, that's awesome.

Yeah, that's great.

So ultimately, there were two things that we did on this trip.

And

the first was go to Deputy and put erect the billboard that put the sign-up.

Should I post a picture?

Yeah, I'm yeah, you can do that.

Look at look at these.

Look at these.

Here's the deal.

So, so

the

we we

created the reward, which is to have your face on a billboard in Deputy Indiana, before we bothered to check if Deputy Indiana is a big enough place to have billboards.

It's not.

Yeah, it doesn't.

There's not a billboard billboard within 20 miles of Deputy Indiana, I don't think.

So I

spent a couple of months on the internet searching and finding, and then eventually I found a place that sells, that sells mini billboards, like mini metallic, like built-to-scale,

accurate billboards.

They were out of stock.

I had to wait for them to come back in stock.

I bought them.

We put it together.

I made the billboard graphic, stuck it on.

Did all this two days before we left for the trip, By the way, I was really racing the gun there.

And that's what you're seeing in the image there.

That's the billboard.

I think it's so funny that we expected or hoped that there'd be a billboard there when they don't even have a hotel where there's no place for you to even stay.

The idea that they'd have a promotional piece for you to see, we couldn't have been further off.

But that billboard

mini billboard is so funny.

I kind of want to turn this part over to Gavin and have him explain what it it was to get the shot because it was maybe the most frustrated I've ever seen him.

And I felt so bad.

Can I just say real fast, I've been performing with Gavin for over a decade, 15 years.

It might be in the top 10 Gavin meltdowns I've ever seen.

I melted all the time.

I've worked on films, like actual movies that went to the theaters, and it was not as stressful as this.

It took, I want to say, six attempts to get this forced perspective shot.

I could run through each one.

The first one, right?

I set it all up.

You got to make sure it's all right and the focus goes to the right place.

And I spent ages doing it.

And then you kind of have to let go of everything and hope it doesn't all fall over and blow over in the wind.

So I did that.

I get everyone there.

I give everyone the eye line.

I'm like, all right.

And then we'll start talking.

And then Eric was like, oh, it's a video.

I was like,

yeah, we're making a video, aren't we?

He's like, oh, I just needed to know it was a video.

So I was like,

you want to do a photo?

So on my watch, I stopped recording and I flipped over to photo.

And then I got yelled at a bunch.

And then we decided, in fact, to do a video.

So

on my watch, because I was like, I can just take a still frame.

We might as well just do it as the whole, you know, part of the video.

So I flipped on my watch.

I flipped the camera back to video.

And when you do that, it forgets what you focused on and it focused like directly on the pole of the sign.

So we were completely out of focus.

So I got back to it.

I was like, oh, and it was, and it sucked too, because we'd already been kind of run out of that area by a curious guy who was like, oh, what are you guys doing?

And very

friendly.

Get away from here.

They were doing like a pincer maneuver.

It was him and one other guy coming from another area to like tweet on what they're doing.

So we flee.

We got the hell out of there.

Exactly.

We went somewhere else.

Location two.

Will you talk to us?

Jeff scared him off by overloading him with information and words he's never heard before.

The guy just like stopped approaching and was like, I'm out of here.

Yeah, I kill him with kindness and verbosity.

The guy walks up and goes, what y'all doing?

And I go, I'm going to tell you exactly what we're doing.

So we run a podcast, and the four of us are from four different locations on the planet.

We triangulated the center point of the universe from all of our.

And the guy's just like, his eyeballs were spinning by the time I was done with the explanation and then i had to explain it again because he goes he goes oh yeah huh so i said i'll do it again he said so you're from here

yeah and then we were just we just got in the car i was already in the car i filmed this from the car because i was like oh god give me you filmed it that's awesome yeah

so we scrambled away to location two and we parked up at the side of the road at this point we're kind of scared about being seen by anyone because no one is enjoying what we're doing we waved at a couple and they mean mugged us so hard.

They were sitting on their front porch and Eric gave them a big old wave.

And I've never seen somebody flip the bird without actually flipping the bird that hard.

Yeah, that their face flipped us off.

And we weren't doing anything.

What it was, it was four guys stood in the field or on the edge of the road, basically, and one guy lying down fumbling over a camera.

Attempt two, right?

Put it down.

Get it all set up.

Halfway through doing a little bit of video, Wind blows it over.

Blows the camera over.

Go back to it.

I set it up again.

By this point, Eric is losing it.

Like every time we have to stop, Eric is just like staring at Jeff or like staring at the car or like storming away.

And I'm feeling even more stressed because I just like,

anytime we're doing something that isn't scripted, which is most stuff, you don't want to keep doing it because all the stuff that we laugh at the first time is not funny the second time.

You want it to be as real as possible and at this point we're on take three

i i go back we do it all do the whole thing i go back to my phone i've got a four second clip

someone i realized afterwards someone phoned me four seconds into the recording and ended the video

and at this point i i don't know what to do i'm just like why can't i do this why why do i suck so much i'm like blowing everyone's time i'm blowing everyone's funny.

We're losing all the good stuff.

So I just take a breather.

I'm just like, all right, calm down.

I want to take the same amount of time again, make sure the shot's right.

Get it all focused up again.

We do it all again.

I go back to my phone

and it's overheated.

I can't use this phone because it's too hot.

I have to wait for it to cool down.

And we didn't even get halfway through the video.

So at this point,

I just don't know what to do.

I'm just like,

I can't do it.

We've come all the way here and I can't film this freaking video.

I'm freaking out.

Eric wants to, I don't know, kick something or my head or something.

He is fuming.

I just take, I ended up taking Jeff's phone.

And I think on take five, I think we got it.

I can confirm it was take five because my experience with all of this was the only update I had gotten since the trip began was that you guys went to a McDonald's which I was very excited about because I had McDonald's the same day I felt unified with you guys just coincidentally then there was a drive that was posted a Google drive of a bunch of files four files to be specific and I was like oh I don't know anything about this trip I'm trying to avoid info on it but I'll listen to whatever this is I just I don't know I'm not sure what I'm listening to and so I start the first one and you guys are doing the thing.

And I'm like, oh, wow, this is they're doing the billboard thing.

This is great.

And then it wraps up.

And I was like, oh, that was a funny, that was a funny little video right there.

And then Gavin just goes, wasn't recording.

And then the sigh.

And then I go to the next one, part two.

And I realize, oh, they're doing the billboard again because he wasn't recording.

And then each one, I just heard the different failure at the end of it and all of the different variations of takes, and the building defeat that was accumulating with each one.

It was a real joy to listen to each one, knowing that something went wrong for each one.

It was so bizarre because it still wasn't a big deal, but something about how unfriendly we felt in Deputy made us want to get the fuck out of there quickly, which is weird because it's the center of our universe, not theirs.

So, if anything, they should feel uncomfortable, not us.

But we felt uncomfortable.

And also, it was somehow, it was 84 degrees, but it was somehow 120 degrees where we were.

Like it was hot enough at 84 degrees to overheat Gavin's phone.

We felt like we were under, like we were being, like we were ants, you know, under a magnifying glass.

And then I've never felt worse for Gavin than I did because he was struggling so hard and I genuinely could see it and I wanted to help him.

But, and I'm not being silly, there was nothing for me to do because everything, all he was doing, he was doing stuff that was very easy it just could just wouldn't go right but so there was like no way to assist other than with moral support and i just like it was it was we were in deputy indiana for 30 minutes but it felt like four hours it was really wild none of my frustration none of my frustration with what was being filmed was at gavin it was all at being like

you our hands are tied like this is the thing that he is doing and then it's like oh we definitely got it that time nope and it's like i don't what what crazy i wanted to make sure the force perspective was was perfect each time so it was taking me like multiple minutes to set it up and then i had to take like a little test recording because i can't i'm lying on the floor with the sun pulverizing my face the screen is so dark so i'm doing little test shots and then i'm taking the camera i'm watching back the test just to make sure it's working i'm putting back so each attempt because at the end of each take we we move the camera like we had eric pick up the camera or like i kick the camera or like there was some like little little gag about the force perspective.

So, each time, we must have been, I don't know, I felt like I was lying down for like half an hour total

on the side of the rock.

It was brutal.

It was really, really brutal.

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But we eventually got it and we were really happy about getting it.

Like when we finally did it, it was awesome.

I was really happy to have my billboard erected in Deputy.

And it was really cool.

When you watch the video, you'll see it's really fantastic.

And then to celebrate, we also

signed the official face-off season one baseball.

And I know that this is something that Jeff kind of wanted to talk about because we hit the baseball.

Yeah.

Right under this sign that says Deputy Indiana.

So what, a really funny thing,

we decided we wanted to leave a souvenir, right?

A little Easter egg in the form of an autographed baseball.

So for anybody that may come along and find it, so we all autographed it, wrote like congratulations, Eric, season one, face-off winner, whatever.

We wrapped it back up in the plastic that it comes in and we stuck it at the base of this deputy sign just in case.

Somebody comes by over the next year, whenever, and finds it and

happens to be a regulation listener.

What a neat little surprise for them, right?

The thing that I found that was incredibly funny is that on the subreddit, the regulation subreddit today is a thread from this guy who goes to deputy with his golden Gerbler to take a photo in front of the deputy sign.

However, he took a photo in front of the other deputy sign.

There are two signs.

There's one on there's one like going east in and then there's one on the other side coming west in.

He, you know, we saw guys when we were driving in

in the periphery, we could see a dollar general.

I think I mentioned it.

I was like, oh, look, they actually have a dollar general.

That's actually a store.

He was there.

The other deputy sign is over by that dollar general.

So he came, he drove all the way in, took a photo in front of the deputy sign, was less than probably two miles away from the other deputy sign with the autographed baseball that was just sitting there waiting for him.

That's such a bummer.

Couldn't believe it when I saw that Reddit.

It's one of the most unintentionally funny photos I've ever seen.

Like, they don't understand how hilarious this photo is when they're taking it.

That sucks that they missed it.

They were.

They were so close.

And also,

when we say they're so close,

you can see all of Deputy Indiana

from Deputy Indiana.

Like, there's no, you're just looking at the whole thing.

There's nothing to it, man.

It's crazy.

If there wasn't a bend in the road, you might be able to see deputy sign to deputy sign.

Yep.

Yeah,

there's Eric at the other deputy sign drop a note.

Yep.

Put it in there.

It's,

yeah, it's such a, dude.

We hit it right there.

So I guess if you're listening to this and you're near deputy, see if it's there.

Go get it.

Unless it got mowed.

That's what I love about this is we have now created a rat race-like scenario for people that naturally live around deputy.

And this poor guy may be eight hours late into listening to this and realizing what had occurred.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you do get it, make sure to post it in the subretrose.

Please,

you got to let us know.

You got to let us know.

Some people don't go forever.

It wasn't all about.

Also, on the way out of Deputy, we stopped at a baseball card shop and Jeff had to buy baseball cards.

It wasn't just about putting a billboard up for me because it was

also

a punishment that was sprung on Nick because he had no idea that we were going to do it while we were in deputy.

Yeah.

So, one of the big challenges on the road trip was that I had to bring the comically large giant red rubber boots with me and not have Nick see it.

So, I have a giant suitcase for an overnight trip while everybody else just has a backpack.

And I'm like, oh, you know, I just travel heavy.

I don't know what to say.

I feel like a fucking asshole the entire time wheeling my suitcase around while everybody else essentially has like a fucking like a mcdonald's bag with underwear in it as their luggage uh

so we had it hidden in the back of the suburban and we drive now back to louisville but Eric creates this scenario where we can't drive straight into Louisville because of traffic for an international food festival that they're having.

And so we have to skirt the city and go around, which just happens to take us by the mall.

When we get close to the mall, I remind everybody that I forgot to bring pants and I'm scared it's going to be cold at night.

And maybe, yeah, there's my suitcase because you chose this dude.

And

so

Jeff is talking.

We're like, oh, let's go get lunch.

And then, oh, hey, Jeff's like, I want to get pants.

It's going to be cold.

And also, maybe we can go get steak for dinner, which that's all Nick needed to hear to not ask questions and to go along with whatever this is going to be so he can get steak.

So I take us to a barbecue restaurant.

We eat there.

And then Jeff's like, oh, there's like a

C Penny right across the street.

By the way, good barbecue restaurant.

Pretty good.

I don't remember what it was called.

Mission barbecue, I think.

It was like for a Louis, you know, we're Texans, so we have barbecue opinions.

And I got to say, it was really good.

And I appreciated that it was like a veteran-run, veteran-supported place.

It was neat.

It was the only meal I had in Louisville that wasn't cold.

Yeah.

Gavin Hatch.

Gavin Hatch.

Even Gavin's McDonald's was cold.

Even my Big Mac was cold.

Everything arrived cold there.

So we were across the street from JC Penny, and Jeff's like, I just want to run and get pants so we can do steak.

And Nick's all in.

And so we go across the street.

And then I'm like, oh, look at Dillard's.

And then Nick's like, yeah.

Oh, this looks like a mall.

Oh,

too bad you guys didn't bring the red boots.

And then we went, well, Nick, get a load of this.

Because while we were inside the barbecue restaurant, Jeff ran out to the car, took them out of the bag, put them in the front seat with me, and then I pulled them up and revealed them for Nick, who got to wear the red boots at the mall.

Nick, you look so good.

Yeah, yeah, I felt great.

Dude, you look like you're ready to be the lead in a new Dead Rising game.

That looks awesome.

Oh,

I'm not as mobile as those guys.

when we were at the barbecue restaurant jeff disappeared i ran to the restroom and then gavin also came into the restroom and i went back to the table and jeff wasn't there and i was like oh he must have gone around to the bathroom so it felt all set up perfectly and also before that Jeff unknowingly set the stage by walking past the steakhouse, which is by the hotel, and saying, ah, we probably need pants for that.

He's like, and I didn't bring any.

So he had unintentionally set me up for this moment

by making me think, well, he really needs pants.

So when I stepped out of here i was very disappointed but i did keep the hope alive that while walking with these he would go and buy pants so we could actually go and have steak

the whole time he's walking he's like so when is jeff getting pants so we can have steak and we're like we're not doing that he's like we're still doing the steak right like that was real that part of this was real it's like no the steak's not real man we're like doing steak no what are you talking about i'm not gonna go buy pants he's like but but i really wanted the steak I really wanted the steak.

I was also frustrated because we had just eaten.

And so I was full, but I was like, we could get Annie Ann's, but I'm still full.

There's desserts here.

I was like, this is such a waste.

And then, and then all of this occurred.

Nick was

the most popular person at the Louisville Mall.

He made friends with the lady at Dillard that could not get enough of him.

I was just walking around watching other people's faces.

It literally caught everyone's eye.

Like no one could ignore them.

It was crazy.

There was like a nine-year-old who thought he was really cool.

Eric and Gavin wouldn't walk with Nick.

They were like 10 feet behind, like, they don't know him.

So I had to walk with Nick.

I might as well have been wearing the boots because I had to walk around with Nick so we didn't feel like ostracized.

I kept eyeing Gavin the whole time because he had the camera and I just kept looking at him and just staring at him.

Nick kept taking off his hat and hiding his face.

Yeah, he was trying to be British for a bit.

He was hiding from his look.

He kept saying that he was cool, Gavin.

And then during that pose at the end, he was just like, take the picture.

Take the picture.

Literally losing it at the end.

Really lost steam at the end there.

Just on camera as a family waiting to cross by this photo that is occurring.

And they're just waiting for this.

I'm like, take the picture, take the picture.

So we were at the mall.

We walked up and down it.

We walked everywhere.

We looked around it.

We went into stores.

Nick didn't even try to get.

food or snack.

There was Cinnabon.

There was the cookies.

He didn't try to get anything.

He was like

full on, get me out of here.

But don't worry, it was also destroying his shins the whole time.

Every step he took.

He was bleeding by the end of it.

I got a couple scabs, but they're healing up now.

Oh, I'm so sorry, Nick.

That's not.

It was worth it.

It was worth it.

The thing I kept saying to them and thinking to myself was, I have a son.

And then I was thinking, and my wife, if she sees this, she may not be my wife anymore.

This is the last straw.

I'm doing the last straw.

So it was a really eventful trip to pay off both

things for

season one.

So I hope everyone gives us some grace and we appreciate the patience everyone had with paying this off.

Over the last year, we had a lot of other things that were a slightly higher priority, like

starting this show and other shows and continuing the show and paying our bills, getting health insurance.

It was funny.

We were doing that stream with the Falcons because once a month we have like a Falcon tier exclusive event on Patreon.

So we were just on Discord and they were helping us fill the bit barrel.

And so many suggestions were like, go and do the red boots.

go and put up the billboard.

And we had to, we'd already, we'd just come back, I think.

So we were just like, well, stay tuned.

It was, it was a lot of fun.

Louisville is

a bit, it's like 600,000 people, I think.

Yeah, 680,000.

Yeah, it's like it's big and small at the same time.

There was like no one really out and about, but then there was like this food festival next to the hotel that was pretty cool.

And I don't know, there was like stuff and we kind of hopped around or whatever.

My favorite part, one of my favorite parts was

going to the fudgery and trying to get fudge.

The fudgery closed.

This guy, I I don't know who this guy is, but all of their advertising

man.

I'm a big fudgery guy now.

Really like it.

Nick says fudgery like a slur.

It's kind of weird.

That was weird.

Yeah.

Oh, also, speaking of Nick, I'm looking at my notes.

Nick wanted to join the SS.

I don't know if you guys remember that.

That was a big deal.

Oh, you talking about the squeegee squad?

Squeegee squad.

Yeah, yeah.

Not the other thing.

Yeah, the squeegee squad.

There was a business we saw, Andrew, called the squeegee squad.

Just window clean skyscrapers.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

It was a really good time.

And then we

flew home like the next day and it was good.

It was a great little turnaround trip that to me, we learned like, oh, we can do this kind of thing.

Like we can, we can go and do like these fun trips that are.

really

different and kind of like out of nowhere

and like make something out of it.

It was a lot of fun.

So, uh, there was also another first on this trip.

I don't know if you remember Eric.

What was that?

But Eric, uh-huh.

Yeah, he overslept.

Oh my God.

I forgot about this.

I totally forgot.

He was late.

So

we had a whole thing where it's like, okay, we're going to meet.

Was it meet in the car at eight downstairs?

Yeah, to go home.

Okay.

So I set an alarm and the alarm,

this was to fly back on Saturday.

So I set my alarm and I set it to weekdays only.

So I woke up to a text from Jeff at 8.06 that just said, I'm in the car.

And I went, what?

And then I've never packed and gotten out of a room faster than that.

It's, I've never done that before.

I've never overslept like that.

I've never had to like run down and get in the car.

I felt so

bad.

It sucked so much.

It was ridiculous.

I couldn't believe believe it.

I've never had that happen before.

Also, moving around that hotel was almost impossible.

It was comically large.

It was across two streets.

So you had to take, you had to take like walkways, gang, like gang planks across.

And it was the St.

Vincent de Paul convention.

And so we were the youngest people in the hotel by 20 years.

Absolutely.

And so it was just

wall-to-wall wigs and gray hair.

And

it was just everybody shuffling.

It was so hard to get anywhere.

I was coming.

I had to run up to get Eric because

we didn't see a response yet from him.

So I booked it across the lobby, like that whole area because there's this walkway in between.

I got to the elevator.

There's a bunch of people waiting there.

I go up.

Gavin calls me while Eric texts, I'm coming down.

And I was like, oh no, because everybody had just hit like 10th floor.

And I'm like, oh, no, I'm stuck in this elevator until I get up there but somebody had hit open on the second floor so i had hit nine where our floor was yeah and then it opened on the second floor and i just run out so they just think i'm a lunatic probably

and i just book it down the stairs louisville airport's nice though yeah i really enjoyed it so anyway just it's going to be confusing to people we've we drove in and flew out that was the most yeah yeah we just we just left the car well yeah dude driving 16 hours back would have been crazy and it was it was a really fun trip Like, I feel like we did a lot, we accomplished a lot, and we got everything done.

And now I think we're ready for face-off season two.

We're ready.

Not only are we ready for face-off season two, but I am ready for the rewards and the punishments of season two if they bring us back to Deputy because we recognize that we might have to do this again next year.

Interesting.

I didn't even know.

I don't want to go there again.

You got to make your yearly pilgrimage.

Yeah, can we go somewhere else?

Can we figure out a different thing?

Here's what we're going to do.

We're going to buy the church that's for sale in Deputy, and then

that'll be our sanctuary.

Deputy Dog is going to help us?

I was going to ask, what is Deputy Dog?

Oh,

there was one dog roaming the streets.

There was one roving dog in Deputy, and he was the Deputy Dog.

The whole place was a dog, a church, a storage unit, mean people, and corn.

And a post office that's not open at 11 a.m.

on a Saturday.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

That was 11 a.m.

on a Friday.

friday sorry 11 a.m on a friday yeah yeah uh it was really man it was really something the drive out was so much fun the flight back was easy it was a good trip um gavin ate a lot of cold food it was uh i had a good time i think we are now in search of our next trip yeah definitely yeah because we gotta we gotta go somewhere and do something man it was a lot of fun yeah i feel like we got a lot out of that I want to go back to the fudgery for a minute.

Okay.

I want to go back to the fudgery too because but you know what i want to go i want to go i want to go at 11 a.m when they say they open and i want the doors to be open i want to go

fudge at 11 a.m when they say they are open because do not dangle fudge in front of jeff ramsey and then not offer jeff ramsey the ability to grab that fudge i swear we went to the fudgery like four times in the end because the first time we did

Well, Eric took a photo of their advertising on the inside of the fudgery, which is also, it's just weird to advertise the place you're in in the place.

Like you're already there.

I don't know why they need to advertise themselves.

One of the images is like Santa Claus in the sun

holding up some fudge, being like, hey, we got jolly old locations.

Look at us.

We're the fudgery.

The second image is...

A poster that says avoid that sinking feeling with the Titanic in the background.

Because when I think of fudge, I think of the Titanic.

And it's the same Santa Claus guy, but now he's dressed as a boat captain that says Titanic on his jacket.

Oh, Andrew.

Oh, Andrew.

There were so many more, such as

the sweet defenders of fudge and fun, where he is in Captain of our Adventures.

Or how about

Discover the Secret of Survival?

Okay, we're going to get to those.

We need to, I'm not done with Titanic fudge.

You're not no because first of all as i've said i feel like evoking the titanic is just a weird thing for uh selling your fudge my second issue with this is the captain is supposed to go down with the ship can you imagine that you're in a sinking ship and you're in an escape boat and you discover not only has the captain decidedly not gone down with the ship he has brought a tray of fudge and a rose he's not gonna waste all that fudge.

You can't.

You can't waste the fudge.

It's so funny to me the idea that you're in an escape boat and you're on the boat with the captain.

He's just chowing down on some fudge as the ship is snapping in half going into the ocean.

Yeah, I love that in a women and children first situation.

There's a safe man and his fudge.

You know what, though?

If you're on that lifeboat and somebody offers you fudge, you're not saying no.

Oh, definitely not.

You are going to take it.

No.

But it's, oh my God, that's so fun.

Have you been to a fudgery, Andrew?

I can't say that I have.

I've been at places that sell fudge, but exclusive fudge.

I don't think I've had fudge and fun.

What's the fun part of the fudgery?

Eating the fudge.

Eating the fudge, I think.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

So they're the sweet defenders of fudge and fall.

Trying to order when the shitty loud band right outside is playing at insane decibels.

Yeah.

Here's my other issue.

So this is the sweet defenders poster.

Okay.

Yes.

Serving America's favorite fudge,

which

is wonderful.

I love that for them.

I feel like America's favorite fudge probably has more than three locations.

I don't want to make any assumptions, but I would guess if somebody said, what is America's number one fudge spot?

How many locations do they have?

I would guess more than three.

I'm going to look at what is America's biggest fudge chain.

Why or combo by three?

So, why are they?

Oh my God.

So, this, the posters have different years.

The Indiana Jones one is 2001.

Is that from the year?

Is that one that was made?

I think they've expanded, Andrew, because listen to this.

There's no definitive largest fudge chain, but a strong contender for largest chain of fudge is Killwins with 146 locations across the U.S.

Other prominent fudge businesses include the fudgery, known for its entertaining staff and 20-plus locations.

So I think that they've grown.

Entertaining stuff.

She was not, that staff was not entertaining.

Staff was not entertaining.

She had no teeth.

That was noble.

Well, she's eating a lot of fudge.

Yeah.

So these are year.

So I'm guessing they do one each year.

And so in 1998,

they were that was part of the three-chain era.

One was the beach one.

When was Santa?

Does Santa have a year?

I don't think Santa has a year.

Might have been

pre-year.

Wow.

The fudge guy might be dead.

Well, we haven't seen any images of him past like 2003, so it's a pretty good.

You're classic fudge instead of giraffe.

That is just that tiny hand.

It's a hand-grabbing fudge instead of a T-Rex.

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That is his title.

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There were just so many fun story arcs to that trip.

Like there was,

like, Nick was, Nick is just obsessed with freezing MMs.

Yeah.

What?

And he was so excited to get to the hotel and put his MMs

in his hotel room freezer.

And immediately we were all like, What are you talking about?

What hotel room has a freezer in it?

Here's the thing: when Nick is going to fly, he has his routines that he goes into.

And one of the routines is taking MMs and freezing them.

Let me finish.

Freezing them.

So that way when

he gets to the airport,

they're room temperature.

No, they're still chilly.

They're still chilly.

They're cold.

They're still a little cold.

Gavin ate one on the stage.

A skeptical man might say, Aren't they already room temperature?

Would you buy them?

What if we just didn't freeze them?

Wouldn't you achieve the same temperature?

They don't melt this way, though.

It stops the freezing.

They don't melt.

Were they not still cold?

They still melt.

They melt in Texas Heat, Gavin.

You're in Louisville, Kentucky.

It was 80 degrees.

It was good when you gave it to me, but it was.

But we were just blown away at the idea of there being a freezer in a hotel room because we were like, what are you talking about?

This never happened.

Oh, man.

And whoever was wrong had to apologize.

Yeah.

So we all made fun of Nick because there's no way there's a freezer.

And then I texted when we got into our rooms.

I just said, excited for that apology tomorrow.

And then Nick said, yeah, me too.

And it was like, what does that mean?

Nick showed us, we all had regular fridges.

Andrew, Nick had a freezer.

Yeah.

He had a fucking.

I don't know how it happened.

The lady handed me four keys and I like shuffled them around in my hands like I was picking like short straw and then I handed them out.

And somehow Nick got the one room with an actual functioning fucking freezer.

Wow.

And so I had to apologize.

I had to apologize.

The three of us had nothing.

It was crazy.

Could not believe it.

Blown away.

Blown away.

So Nick had his frozen M ⁇ Ms that were room temperature.

So thanks to that freezer, I got some pretty cold M ⁇ Ms in the airport.

On the plane, it was on the plane.

We were on the plane.

Now, do you freeze every M ⁇ M variation or is it because I couldn't imagine frozen peanut M ⁇ Ms?

Well, that's actually interesting because I was trying to test.

I recently got on a plane and

right before I went to the airport, I bought some pretzel MMs.

Oh, interesting.

Kept them in the freezer before I went, sent a little video to Nick.

When I got to the airport, they're just kind of cold pretzels.

They're horrible, too.

I don't know if the coldness ruined them or they're just so it's a bad idea for MMs.

But yeah, the pretzel MMs aren't great.

Yeah, I just chucked off the bat because they're me.

Oh, man.

Nick said that he doesn't get the peanut M ⁇ Ms on a plane because somebody might have a peanut allergy.

And that's never occurred to me once in my life ever.

I think that's so great.

Yeah, I think that's fantastic.

I just never thought about it.

Really kind of Nick.

They usually announce if someone has an allergy.

Yeah.

Gavin mentioned that.

So maybe what I'll do from now on is stock up on one regular and one peanut.

But wouldn't you only know that once you're in?

Yeah, I guess you're going to prepare for it.

Fair enough.

Freeze them fucking crazy.

If I freeze them both, you're fucking crazy.

I still have the second bag from Louisville.

To me, it makes they were only like mildly cold, though.

It makes no sense to keep them frozen all night and then not keep them in some kind of cooler.

But they don't melt.

melt andrew i don't think i can overstate how in three days how much of the conversation was these mms that was probably 40 of the total conversation we had on the trip well i was bummed because i left them oh yeah

i bought them specifically here and i left my travel min m's so i was like well i'll have to buy them while we're there but i'll have to find a convenience store when we're there and then freeze them we had to get nick to a cvs it was a whole thing yeah

it was great so wait you're gonna travel with the frozen ms yeah he wants them on the plane but he wants them cold on the plane because it soothes him but in the car yeah they would have been frozen in the car yeah then

but that's that's so long they would not be frozen by the time you flew yeah they'd be room temperature but you could put it back in the freezer Then why did it matter that they were frozen before you went?

So they don't melt in the Texas heat.

Okay.

Nick, he keeps saying that you'll be back at room temperature when you buy them at room temperature.

For Christ's sake.

They sell them at room temperature, Nick.

Yeah.

Right.

But if they start frozen, they'll stay cold a little longer.

Maybe by the time we get to the Texas border, actually, Texas, Arlena.

Getting them frozen and then bringing them to room temperature would make them more frozen than if you just never froze them at all.

Aren't you creating moisture in that scenario by freezing them and then having them heat up?

Maybe a little.

They'd never run or anything.

Oh, running MMs would be terrible.

Well, he says that's what he's trying to avoid, as if that happens.

Yeah, I didn't know.

Right.

We also decided in, I think, in the car, that one of the least satisfying things you could possibly do would be to eat a bag of MMs like pills.

Swallowing candy instead of ever chewing it, you're just swallowing candy is like

none of the enjoyment at all of the downsides of the whole EMS.

Yeah,

it was really, it was a fun trip

that was

really centered around making sure somebody apologizes for something.

A lot of apologies.

I'm so glad.

I can't wait listening to it.

It's incredible.

It was incredible.

I'm excited for you guys to see it because I think people will really like it.

Maybe we should put a spoiler warning at the beginning of this episode.

Although we've had a lot of time machine recently, that's true.

Yeah.

I mean, we can time machine for this.

Nick blew my ears out with the last time machine.

Louder.

Turn it up.

We, the time machine is loud and unruly.

What can you do?

I also think that the video coming out a couple days before really helps too.

So sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm excited.

That was a that was a very us heavy, the four of us heavy

episode, but I do want to check in with Andrew because we're now deep into September and I want to check in on the status of the chair.

Oh, chair's great.

Chair's still on.

Strong.

Yeah.

No issues.

I think we're going to make it.

Wow.

What brand are we sitting on these days?

I don't know.

I don't even know.

I just generic Amazon brand.

Amazon Basics chair, kind of.

An Amazon type.

Yeah, I just got it off Amazon.

Nothing fancy.

And that one outlived the Herman Miller?

It out.

Well, I mean, the Herman Miller technically died within like three hours of owning it.

It was immediately an issue.

And I just kept repairing it until it can no longer be repaired.

This one's holding strong though.

He still would have replaced it for you.

Still, still probably would get that.

I've looked into it and I have everything I need to do it.

I just have to, there's not a Herman.

I'd have to go to a different city to exchange my Herman Miller.

You don't have to go with the chair.

Why wouldn't I have to go with the chair?

Because mail was invented.

I'm going to mail a chair?

A giant chair?

Well, how did it get to you?

Somebody mailed it.

I mean, if you can mail a skateboard guillotine, you can probably mail a chair.

You definitely can mail it.

I just, I don't, I've never mailed anything that big.

It's kind of intimidating.

I wouldn't know where to begin.

Show a box.

Okay.

I know where to begin.

I don't know where to follow through.

I guess like...

Step four.

I would contact Herman Miller and ask what the process is, and then they'll explain explain it.

They have their own process for how to, you know, receive this stuff from you.

You could probably even say, like, send me a label or like, you know,

RMA or whatever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'll look into that.

Yeah, I will.

I just played in my head.

First of all, this chair isn't broken.

I'm loving this chair.

Second of all, I just have been kind of locked into the idea of like, oh, I'm going to have to go to a different city and exchange this chair out.

I hadn't considered me.

So you want to go to a different city?

Not really.

Oh.

I've been there before.

Are you afraid that if you get the Herman Miller chair repaired, your existing current chair will see you getting another chair repaired and get miffed and break?

It could be.

Could be a revenge chair scenario.

I didn't even think of that.

I guess it would have to be a thing too of I'd have to then find a place for two chairs.

I'd need to determine where to put the second chair.

If I have two functional chairs.

Where is the Herman Miller chair right now?

It's in a storage room.

Ah, so just take the chair you're in right now and put it where that chair is.

And then take the Herman Miller chair and put it in front of your desk.

I think I might like this chair more than the Herman Miller is also the other.

Man, fuck Herman Miller.

Who cares anyway?

The Herman Miller was broken there.

But just like it's a comf.

This is a comfier chair than the Herman Miller was for me.

People love those Herman Millers.

I mean, it's, you know, I'm not saying this is a thing that would apply to everybody, but for me personally i'm liking this chair sturdy holding up no sign of breakage it's good

this is also a new era you brought up jeff your taco era you know every episode of regulation tacoed i guess not every episode of regulation i've been naked but i'm recording fully clothed i'm switching it up

What does that mean, fully clothed?

Like, take me through your wardrobe.

What are we wearing?

Shorts, underwear, shirt.

That's it.

Wow.

And how does it feel?

Do you feel like you're still on top of your game here, or do you think that you're like at a disadvantage?

Zero difference at all.

No different in the slightest.

I guess I would be more prepared if I had to suddenly flee this room.

But outside of that, no difference.

I'm going to keep at it.

I want to keep going.

I want to see, who knows?

Maybe I will feel more on top of my game, more ready to fly if I need to.

I don't know.

Maybe try adding an article of clothing every recording.

Oh, I like that.

Until it gets to a point where you feel like you're impeded.

Are you still a chain guy, Jeff?

Nah, I haven't.

I haven't worn chains in a while.

Ah, off the chain.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm off the chain right now.

Off the hook, off the chain.

I have a question for Andrew.

Yeah, go ahead.

How

many cats do you have?

I have two cats.

But

you sent us a picture of two cats.

Uh-huh.

There's a ginger cat and a gray cat.

And then you sent a video of two black cats.

You finally noticed.

Every time I've talked about my cats, I've just kept sending different cats.

And I wanted to see how long it would take for anyone to say anything.

But the two black cats

were in your tub.

Those are your cats, right?

Those are cats.

That's not your tub?

It looked exactly like your tub.

Those are cats.

Cats?

the first cats i posted i pulled from the discord of our pets thread and i was waiting to see if they would notice or if you guys would notice and i was just gonna keep pulling cats until you're a maniac you're such a weird bastard

you said their names and everything those are i mean those are names they're not even your names

They're names.

What do I say?

Like Finn and Marley or something?

Yeah.

Because you showed those cats.

I was like, oh, that's nice.

He's got some like quite, you know, some older cats.

And then you told a story about

tripping or something.

I was like tripping on one of them.

And you've referred to them as black cats.

And I just couldn't remember the images very well in my head.

And then after that, I went back to your images.

I was like,

black cats.

Maybe, wait, what?

Maybe I misheard him say black cats.

And then you said a video of two black cats.

I was like, what is going on?

Are you trying to just gaslight my cat area of my brain?

I just was curious how long it would take for anyone to notice.

I kept sending you different cats.

I got somebody sent me a thing on Twitter the other day saying, these are my cats.

Show me a photo of your cats.

And I was like, oh, I'm just going to steal these cats.

Next time I tell a cat thing, these are going to be a photo of my cats.

I'm just going to take their cats.

So how many cats do you have?

How many cats do you have?

I have two cats.

Okay, have we seen those cats?

No.

You're a maniac.

This is this.

I feel like I was talking to someone the other day going like, I wonder what the next weird Andrew thing is going to be.

And

I don't think anything could have prepared me for this.

I was really hoping the community would have noticed first.

And then you guys would have been like, what is happening?

But I appreciate that you noticed, Gavin.

You're on top of your cat game.

I try and pay attention.

I remember in the past, I didn't even know you had a cat.

And it was like a big revelation.

You had this like 21-year-old cat or something.

So I want to know your cats.

I think you like cats, and I think it's an important part of you.

So, you have two cats, and we don't know their actual names.

No, or what they look like, or what they look like.

No, but I got cats.

I got two cats.

Are they black cats?

They're cats.

This is insane.

This is so crazy.

I don't know that he does.

Like, this is gonna be.

We took

the robot.

Why did we do that?

I hate this.

I hate it.

I'm mad.

I'm mad at you.

This sucks.

You want me to show my.

I get to show my real cats if you want me to show my cats.

I don't want to.

Oh, I don't know.

I want you to want to show us.

I want you to want to show us the cats.

I want to show you guys the cats.

I'm not going to believe it.

I don't think I'm going to believe it.

Gavin, are we going to believe this?

No, what would be the point in believing this?

Here are my real cats.

This is my first cat.

Its name's Jimmy.

That's just bullshit.

This sucks.

It's my second cat, Felix.

This is awful.

This is the worst.

This is so insane.

You

fucker.

I got two cats.

You schmuck.

You motherfucker.

Oh.

Well,

that's an adorable cat and dog.

Two cats.

Somewhere in the community, you would talk like

they were listening to the podcast and you were talking about their cats.

Yeah,

the first one I showed the cats before, I just pulled them from our Discord pets thread.

That was a good thing.

Must have been so confusing for that person.

But not enough to say anything.

Well, they're probably like, I don't want to spoil some sort of a bit, you know?

Or maybe they were just listening.

Yeah, maybe they only listened.

Maybe.

So I was just going to keep doing it every few weeks until.

Maybe when they posted the images, they were full of shit too.

Maybe they were just cats they felt different to store.

They just wanted to fit in.

I don't even know the names of those animals that I just posted.

That's crazy.

By the way, did you know, Andrew, that you were in deputy?

No, I didn't know that.

Yeah, we did.

We brought your robot body.

I'm so glad.

I wish I could have connected to like the Wi-Fi, to like a Wi-Fi thing.

Was there?

Although I don't imagine Deputy had Wi-Fi.

We were going to try and hotspot you, but in the end, I was so stressed and sweaty that I didn't.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, the phones that were meeting.

It was the furthest thing from our minds at that point the locals were assembling the pitchfork mobs and

we were had a limited amount of time and Jeff was so friendly to that guy too I was trying really hard I know how to listen I'm from small town white trash I know I know how to deal with him and switched on the sub that's my DNA yeah

get kill them with kindness but uh

speaking of killing with kindness I'm gonna be kind to the audience and let this episode end so that they can people can go about their day and to do all the important tasks they have ahead of them thank you for listening to another episode of the Regulation Podcast.

Thank you for supporting us in our travels and journeys, like to deputy Indiana.

Andrew is sending pictures of other people's cats.

I don't think anyone believes that those cats belong to him.

Do you have a cat?

Have you ever owned a cat?

Have you seen a cat?

If you do, if you have, if you're aware that cats are a thing, why don't you go ahead and send a picture over to Andrew on social media?

He'd love to see all of your cats.

Look him up at, well, find him anywhere, Twitter, Blue Sky, Reddit, Instagram.

He's on all of it.

And he loves cats.

And we love you.

Thanks for listening.

We'll see you next week.

Bye.

Bye.

Lions.

Stop sending fake-ass cats.

Fake cats.