Bird Not Bird Draft

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Hello, and welcome to another piece of regulation supplemental content.

This is a draft.

This is, I'm excited.

I was before, about three minutes ago, I was excited about this one.

Then we started recording.

This is the bird, not bird draft.

Gavin Joe No cause.

No idea.

I'm sorry.

No cause.

Like a caw!

Like a bird.

I'm saying no birds.

No birds.

Got it.

Got it.

Got it.

Okay.

Birds caught.

There you go.

Well, just cause.

Andrew brings up an excellent point.

Birds do caw.

Some cockadoodle-doo.

Yeah, there you go.

So, um, none of that.

Today we will be drafting birds that are not birds, as I was saying earlier before I got caught.

I genuinely don't know who, Gavin Jokica.

I don't know who came up with this idea, so I can't credit.

I mean, I'm going to credit Gavin for it, but you know.

I think it was you.

Want to say no?

Who wants to go first?

I'm sorry, Gavin.

Figure it out.

Are you?

No.

Is there really carbon monoxide in this real?

I know how it works.

I know how it works.

I'm curious if anybody wants to go first.

Does anybody like have picks that are like burning a hole in their pocket?

Guys, I think what's happening is that Jeff is in a bad mood, and we need to try our hardest to pull him out of his bad mood.

Dude, I was born in a good mood.

Yeah, guys,

I think Jeff's just got, he's in this, oh, he's like, we got here, and he's like, I think I've been sucking a tailpipe or

smoking like

carbon monoxide, and it's like, oh, poor guy.

But now it's time for birds that aren't birds.

And the way we do that is using Sean Bear's website, the way we always do our drafts.

And nobody essentially goes first when they say, hey, I want to go first.

We randomize a certain amount of time.

Of course, that's how we do it but sometimes people want to go first or don't want to go first like i didn't want to go first

see i'm sorry this is jeff i'm sorry i'm sorry

you got it

with a politics level of gaslighting going on in my office right now nonsense well i'm agreeing i'm not in the office so is there a bird that has a number as a part of its name i don't know All I know is regardless of where I draft, I'm flying high in this one.

I'm soaring.

I might not be a bird, but I'm going to fly.

I'm going to hit some peaks in this draft.

I'm ready.

How many times do we want to random it?

I feel like

Andrew keeps stopping the conversation to be like, here's kind of a bird pun.

Is that really a pun?

No, that was just a statement.

I'm ready.

I'm getting in the bird zone.

I don't know where you guys are, but I'm focusing on a top-down view of what these not birds are.

Oh, oh, well,

toucan.

So we'll do it two times.

Okay.

Okay.

Well, we start with Anag Order.

We randomize one time.

It's Andrew, Eric, Jeff, Nick, Gavin.

So that means the second time, two for two can.

Jeff.

Oh, Andrew, Nick, Eric, Gavin.

He's lost twice.

Jeff, you don't want to go first?

I definitely didn't want to go first.

I was wondering if anybody did want to go first.

He summoned it into the universe.

Yeah, you should have said something.

All right, hold on.

Let me look through all of my birds.

Well, they're not birds.

I'm going to pick them up.

They're not Jeff.

Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff.

They're not birds.

Yeah, they're not birds.

You shouldn't be looking through your list of birds.

That doesn't make any sense.

I'm going to go with for my first pick on the bird, not bird draft,

my number one pick,

the Millennium Falcon.

Whoa!

He's going with a spaceship

from Star Wars.

This is going to be a weird one.

See what I mean about Andrew this morning?

No, I'm high energy.

What do you mean?

Came in odd.

People love the falcon.

The millennium one specifically.

I don't know if there are other falcons.

I haven't seen it.

But they like the Millennium Falcon.

That's Han Solo's thing, right?

But that's my pick.

Andrew,

it's your turn.

I'm not done talking about the Millennium Falcon.

That is Han Solo's thing, is it not?

If you want to talk about the Millennium Falcon, next time you can draft it.

I didn't have a chance.

Yeah.

Yeah, Jeff.

Jeff drafted the Millennium Falcon to not talk about it.

I don't want to talk about this fucking spaceship.

Yeah, it's a spaceship from Star Wars.

Yeah.

Okay.

I hadn't seen it.

I was just trying to get get more info.

I like

the spaceship in Star Wars.

It's an iconic ship.

You know, it wasn't on my board.

I didn't even get to zero it, Jeff.

I think it is a great pick.

Fantastic.

Me now going second because I went second on the thing.

We randomized it twice and I ended up second.

What's going on?

I'm going with...

I don't understand what you mean what's going on.

I'm setting up my...

Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm great.

I feel like I'm the only good one here at the moment.

Everyone else?

You do.

Coughing that weird office gas.

I don't know what's happening over there.

With the second overall pick

in this draft, my bird not bird is none other than the one, the only, the great Spike Video Game Award winner, Tony Hawk.

Tony Hawk,

an outstanding bird not bird.

Nickname the Bird Man.

The bird man, yeah.

Huge part of my childhood.

Those games were iconic.

It brought skate culture to a mainstream in a way that it hadn't been before.

And it is just such a fun culture to experience.

Everything about those games, tech deck dudes at the time, like all of it, I feel like can be traced to influence by Tony Hawk.

Just seems like a genuinely good dude.

So my pick is Tony Hawk.

How do you guys feel about Tony Hawk?

I like that too, because he flies.

He does fly.

I feel like he's been drafted multiple times across our drafts at this point.

You think he's been drafted multiple times?

Yeah.

I wonder what the most drafted entity in across our drafts is.

It might be him.

That's a great, great point, but I wanted to make this special.

I realized that with bird-not-bird, this allows a rare opportunity.

And also, you know, I take these drafts seriously.

I take my position in them seriously.

These are things,

these are important drafts that we do.

It means something to be picked in one of these drafts.

So accepting as a great selection in the bird-not bird draft is none other than one, Tony Hawk.

Allow me to share my screen.

Oh, okay.

He's sharing his screen now.

Sharing my screen.

Here we go.

Okay.

Okay.

Media player?

Well, I have a full screen on this for you guys.

Okay.

I see it.

Good to go.

Yeah.

Here we go.

Tony Hawk making an acceptance speech of being one of the great bird not birds.

Andrew, what's up?

It's Tony Hawk.

Hey, I first of all want to thank you for choosing me as your first pick

in your bird not bird draft.

What would you have done if I

was

the entire concept of it, but I believe that

like I'm a bird because Hawk and but I'm not really a bird.

Is that it?

I mean that's pretty basic and maybe I did get it after all, but

I have always strived to live up to my last name, Hawk.

It didn't seem like the coolest name when I was a kid because

it rhymes with something else, a certain vulgarity for a body part, male.

And Tony Rock.

You can figure that out yourself how I got teased when I was a kid.

And it was the 80s, and people were bullying.

And so there you go.

That's my experience.

I've never made that connection.

I do too.

If I call him Tony Hawk as a kid, you should call him Tony Cock.

That sucks.

It wasn't that funny.

He doesn't deserve deserve that.

And so I still strive to be like a hawk.

Star.

Bird, not bird.

Yet.

Pretty soon.

And if anyone is listening out there, you have a skateboard and you're not a bird, do a kickflip.

And there we go.

Hell yeah.

That was incredible.

Jeff, what else did they call people in the 80s to make fun of them?

You know, it was so long ago.

Who can remember?

Who could know?

Who can?

Who can remember?

I'm sure.

i'm sure i wouldn't know i feel like he picked up on the concept immediately instantly he instantly got it he talked it out it made sense to him he understood he's on top of things he told us about how he was bullied to answer your question jeff i would have been fucked i was very worried

because icemen

I got news for you, Andrew.

It was between Millennium Falcon and Tony Hawk.

Millennium Falcon because

it was further up the list.

When you said who wants to draft first internally I was screaming me

ah see this is why you asked the question yes is this also why we delayed recording this it is well to be fair that's it oh that totally makes sense so that was part of the light but also we were supposed to record like six things that day so I was like we could we could move this

So yes, that was one of the options to have it delayed.

Coming together.

Yep.

Well, Tony Hawk is the second pick, but we go to Nick.

Big Nick's third pick in the

first round of the Bird-Not-Bird draft.

With my first pick, a much simpler pick, a much easier, less.

No cambridge involved.

No, no, I'm afraid not.

And no spaceship either.

I'm going with duck, as in the act of ducking to get down,

to go low.

Stay out of the way.

That's a good pick.

That is truly, that is truly an excellent pick.

I'm really proud of you for picking that one.

Not even on my list.

Didn't even consider it.

That's incredible.

Didn't even think of these.

Amazing.

No.

And a fortunate last word for some.

Last thing they ever heard.

Wow.

Duck is such a good one.

Like, I didn't even think of birds as a verb.

No, that's an interesting thought process.

But I will say.

I thought of birds as a game.

And that's why I'm drafting.

I'm not even waiting.

I'm drafting chicken.

Oh, this is the first time you're going to call it that.

As soon as Nick said duck, I changed my whole order.

Chicken is in.

Chicken's in.

You're going head to head.

You're playing chicken?

Duck.

I thought that you were going with a different game that uses Nick's word.

No, no.

There's a lot of bird-related games I'm learning.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is this is duck and chicken.

I like that if you looked at this, it looks like two guys who got what this was and two guys who didn't.

this is a great first set of four picks.

I feel like there's a lot of pressure on Gavin going in at this point.

Gavin, did you know what this is?

Yeah, no, yeah.

Gavin, you got two picks back to back to figure it out, too.

How do you feel?

My first pick

is

women.

Burt.

This might be an altimer first round.

This might be an all-timer first round.

British slang.

Sort of old-fashioned,

slightly, well, sexist language for a woman.

I feel like drafting it as women and not bird slang is crazy.

I'm fucking crying.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Ashley, you think my pic should just be birds?

Yeah, I do, because that's what it is.

I got laid down.

Okay.

I know it means.

I know what you're saying is what it means, but it just

speaking of not getting it, looking at the board, it looked crazy.

Yeah, but then all of this, all of my picks will be bird, and then in brackets, my actual pick.

They're different things.

I like how Eric just had it.

I think that.

Yeah, I think that's fine.

I want Gavin to have what Gavin wants.

That's true.

It should be what he wants.

I just think it looks crazy.

I just assumed he said women because women can be birds or chicks or like there's multiple bird names

associated.

So he was like encompassing all of them.

I would like to just change it to woman

singular yeah it's bird not bird not birds not birds what

i think that came out actually correct but it sounded yeah it sounded crazy but i think you got insane

that's awesome Oh, fuck.

Oh, shit, dude.

This is Millennium Falk and Tony Hawk duck chicken woman.

Sounds like a Donald Trump like Alzheimer's test that he repeats back in public.

I haste it, Millennium Falcon, Tony Hawk, duck chicken woman.

I get the highest score they've ever had.

Oh, fuck, Gavin.

How are you going to top that going into our next round?

Well, my next pick is pink.

It's got a giant mouth blowhole for eggs.

It's Birdo.

It's a great one.

I don't really understand Birdo.

He was like a bad guy at first, and now I don't know.

Yeah, and now they play tennis and golf and stuff with like Luigi and everyone.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I also don't know what Birdo is.

Birdo?

Yeah, it's not like a Yoshi, but it feels like it's in the same lineage.

It feels like Yoshi and Birdo are boyfriend, girlfriend, but I have nothing to back that up.

It feels like that in the same way where dogs are boys and cats are girls.

Oh, yeah.

You know what I mean?

I get it.

Yeah.

It's just like a gut feeling.

I remember I looked into this before.

Who's Birdo dating?

One second.

There is a whole thing,

rule 34.

Who is Birdo dating?

Careful.

Yeah, I guess it's Yoshi.

I guess the two of them got a son.

All right.

Oh, is that right?

Apparently.

Oh.

All right.

Well, hey, congratulations on your relationship.

Well, I mean, he lays the eggs and then Birdo sucks them down.

There we go.

Oh, I don't.

I just don't like that.

Terrific.

Yeah, I just don't like that.

That's why I never had an egg.

Don't want to deal with that.

That's why you never had an egg?

You thought it might be a Yoshi?

Guys, guys, guys.

I don't know where this could be from.

It might be a Yoshi.

This could be a Yoshi.

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Well,

good to meet my next pick in the second round.

I got to give a shout out to

our friend Blaine for throwing a bunch of ideas around when I told him about this.

He got really excited about the Bird Not Bird draft.

Monium Falcon was on his list, but this is one that was eye-opening to me, and I really liked it.

It's Robin Williams.

Oh,

he got really excited, hit me with Robin Williams, and I went, that's going on my list.

That is such a good one.

Yeah, Robin Williams is such a good pick for this.

Definitely not what you think of.

Until he said that, I never thought about Robin Williams' name being Robin.

Sure.

Like, people just call, hey, what's up, Robin?

Like, that's weird.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't like that.

He is a full name guy.

Yeah.

Oh, big time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's a Matt Damon, Fred Durst kind of where you got to say the whole thing.

You have to.

Oh, it's Matt.

It's Matt, Fred, and Robin.

Oh, God.

I hate that.

It's George Clooney's name is George.

Fuck.

You have a favorite Robin Williams movie, Eric?

Does anything new to mind?

No, I think the one that I think of with him is probably Goodwill Hunting, but also like close second is Jack, which is very weird that that's like the movie that I jump on him with.

It's I don't.

Yeah, very strange.

Very weird premise, but good for him, I guess.

Do you have a favorite, Andrew?

No, not really.

Like, what immediately comes to mind is Hook for me, but I don't love that movie.

But that's like, it's good, but oh, I don't like that movie at all.

Yeah.

Oh, really?

Yeah, I really don't like that movie.

If you've never seen The World According to Garp, I recommend it.

Add it to my list.

Robin Williams on the board, but we go to Nick with his second round pick.

Well, I like to be consistent.

and with my second pick, I'm going with ducking,

which is in escape, the act or means of getting or keeping away from something undesirable.

Now, you said, Eric, in the first round, that it looked like half the people that got it and half that didn't.

Is it safe to say that part of that half has lost the plot by the second round?

I don't understand.

You picked the same.

Is this an espresso, espresso with tea situation?

This is different.

You can argue the coffee thing all you want.

It's the same word, but it's also not a bird.

And it's another act of something.

Duck and ducking.

Isn't it the same act?

It's the same act.

It's the same verb origin word.

Sure.

You duck up there, and down here you're ducking.

Yeah, well, the duck get low is my first one.

This is the different definition of it, which is to avoid something.

Shooting for next thirty four picks.

Ducked and ducks.

That's undesirable.

Like the disgraceful ducking of your duties to your family to escape.

But that's what duck is.

All right, I'll change it.

I don't think you have to change it.

I'm not fighting against that.

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

It's like, you know what?

It's the audience you're going to have to answer to.

The crow's nest.

I feel like your hand was off the piece there.

Well, it sounds like it was only the move.

So we'll go with the crow's nest.

We like pirates.

Pirates are cool.

get in the crow's nest look out now you know what i like to do in the crow's nest is some classic ducking

like this

two different definitions oh goodness you argued for ducking so much until you just went that's enough man

moved on i'll give up some crow's nest fast

andrew do you have another cameo for us oh man andrew what's your uh what's your next uh pick with my second pick in the bird not draft, there's a lot we could pick from so many great options off the board already, like Crow's Nest or Birdo or Robin Williams.

Those are all second-round picks as well.

I am going with a second-round pick that I would be surprised was on anybody's draft board, but I think it is such a connection to this show, developed long history.

My pick in the second round is none other than the name Cheyenne, which

means falcon.

That's right.

It means falcon.

That is such a crazy name.

But isn't that a bird?

No, it's a name.

It's a person's name, which means...

You could pick the guy.

You want me to pick the guy?

I mean, it makes more sense.

You're just picking a different name for the name, otherwise.

Okay.

Well, then I'll pick the guy because the name, I guess, is a bird, but it's not a bird.

Well, I mean, it's just the word, isn't isn't it?

I feel like you're ducking away from this.

I'm not ducking at all.

I'm standing tall.

You can have the word Cheyenne, I guess, if that's what you want.

It just, it seems strange.

That's what I have on my board, but if you guys would rather it be the person, that's okay, too.

I'm happy with whatever.

That is my pick.

And of course, as I said, these are important awards.

These are important things.

I'll be sharing my screen once again.

For second, acceptance speech by none other.

And the pencil judge, the man himself, Chaeen Davari.

But he knows what this is, right?

Like, he kind of understands what's happening here.

Tony Hawk doesn't know what the fuck it is.

He's just checking a box.

I explained everything the same way to both these people.

And

that seems that seems like the wrong way to do this.

Here we go.

I'm going live.

Okay.

He's speech

from Shaen.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, everybody.

On behalf of all Shawheens for best bird, not bird.

I want to mention our fellow nominees, Rayland Simone.

You could have predicted the future, but you couldn't have predicted this.

Cardinal B, I love your music.

You topped the charts, baby.

But tonight,

we topped you a little bit here, Hans, didn't we?

Didn't we?

Tony Hawk, you soar above us all.

You're one of my own personal heroes, which makes it so much more meaningful that we clipped your wings here tonight.

And of course, I would be remiss if I didn't mention Atticus Finch.

You talk to us about justice.

And I hope he's doing

it.

He is.

He's drafting.

He just made his draft.

No.

I have to remove something from mine.

That I am justice.

And I'm going to use this moment.

And I don't want to make it political, but I'm going to use this moment to plead for justice.

We need Andrew Pantone to please

eat the fucking pencil.

For no other reason than so the regulation podcast listeners will leave me alone about the pencils.

Please.

Thank you.

Incredible.

I love this video.

Incredible.

Wow.

I'm floating.

That was incredible.

Fantastic.

He made like a full draft.

He listed.

He did a whole list.

That's crazy.

Check out his website, chaindevart.com.

Where the hell is he?

What the fuck was that?

I don't know.

He's in the ceremony.

I have no clue where he was for that, but he also streams on TikTok every Monday, 5:30.

Check it out.

Incredible.

Incredible.

That was so good.

Andrew, what a pick and what a cameo

for that pick.

That was just a favor.

I just reached out and asked, and he was down.

Oh, that's awesome.

Waiting.

Wow.

Well, Jeff, you have

something, a high standard to live up to here.

You have two picks in a row.

How do you fucking follow that up, right?

Well, I don't have a cameo for you.

I didn't call in any favors.

I'm going to do a very Jeffy-niche pick for this one.

I went wide.

I cast a wide net with Millennium Falcon.

That was my gift to the audience instead of being

the way I would normally do it,

which is this.

I'm going to pick one of the rarest vehicles on earth.

I am going to pick Elvis' own Stutts Blackhawk.

They only made about 250 of them.

Oh, wow.

He got the very first one ever made.

It's an incredibly rare and expensive car.

It was basically a bespoke car in the 70s.

Only people like Elvis and Al Pacino had them.

And it is

a work of art.

I'm looking at it.

I've never seen one of these.

Whoa, this is cool.

That's a cool body on that car.

I love it.

That looks like such a throwback to what old cars look like, but also like what a Rolls-Royce is.

Like, yeah.

How, how strange.

That's fucking cool.

I've never heard of this brand.

Yeah, I've never heard of that.

Yeah, it wasn't around for very long.

It's like somebody took the Monopoly car and made it cool.

Yes, that's exactly.

Andrew, Andrew, that's exactly what it looks like.

It's exactly what it looks like.

That's awesome.

Elvis was obsessed with that car.

Oh, I bet.

It's a great car.

Well, Jeff, that's a great car to round out our second round, but you have the first pick in our third round of the Bird-Not-Bird draft.

What do you got?

I am going to go for my third pick.

I was actually going to make it my fourth pick.

I'm a little scared that somebody else is going to get it.

And so I want to get it off the board before anybody else has the opportunity to.

I am going to pick maybe the most important bird in the world to me.

That is the Protected by Falcons tier from our Patreon.

Oh,

you drafted our supporters.

I drafted our audience, our wonderful, heartfelt, supportive audience.

Wow.

That is a great one.

I didn't even think about that.

What an incredible pick.

Good pick.

What an incredible.

The Falcons themselves have made this list.

If you are protected by Falcons on Patreon, you're on this draft.

Yeah.

We do a monthly event for the Falcons, and it's always so much fun doing those.

I mean, the whole community is amazing, but like the interaction with the Falcons during those events is always so much fun.

Yeah,

they're pretty great.

Pretty great Falcons.

They're a great bunch of people to build a playlist with.

That's for sure.

Yeah, great playlist that we tested out, and it was pretty good.

It's pretty good until it gets to the end and we start.

It maybe gets like a little bit thin when it gets to a Tim Curry song.

He's lucky on his time.

Yeah, yes, he is.

Um, well, Andrew, two incredible picks so far.

What's your third in the Bird Not Bird draft?

Third pick in the Bird Not Bird draft

is going to kind of connect to the first pick a little bit in a way.

Tony Hawk, known as the Birdman.

I am drafting in the third round with my third pick, None other than the rapper, Birdman.

Awesome.

Everyone knows my favorite bird-adjacent rapper.

Incredibly talented.

Long career.

And what I think makes this pick even greater is, of course, these honorable,

very,

very prestigious awards that we're going to get as the bird up bird.

as my team filling out my team.

Yeah.

Have a video, of course.

Of course.

Now, unfortunately, Birdman, you know, he's, he's up there.

He's flying around.

It's hard to get a hold of the birdman.

He's unavailable to make this selection acceptance on his behalf.

So, accepting on the behalf of the birdman is none other than the incredibly talented star of the green life himself.

TPG.

Okay.

TPG accepting on behalf of Birdman.

Yeah.

This is the only way to do it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

This might be the only way.

This is the only person fitting for this.

Now, this is as it was

sent to me.

This is as it was presented.

I didn't do anything.

This is just the video he sent.

Fantastic speech.

TPG, take it away.

I'd like to congratulate you for picking Birdman in the draft of bird-related things.

This is your boy TPG, regulation fan, regulation commenter, longtime lurker, and longtime commenter.

Always a huge fan of all the guys.

I've been connected to Birdman since 2013 when I did some rap adjacent projects, which I've never seen right away.

More importantly, Birdman would like to say thank you so much for drafting him.

Birdman is actually a huge birder himself, not to be surprised.

He has a lifelist.

He spent much time in the Everglades and the surrounding area of New Orleans looking for birds of all types.

You know, when he likes to go birding, he says, this is how we do it, where I'm from, studding in the club until we see the sun.

But in this case, the Sun is the relentless pursuit for the pursuit of birds of all types.

So, Birdman, incredible pick.

He's honored.

He's grateful.

He's no way connected to TPG.

I do not want to be in trouble with cash money records.

But, Birdman, incredible choice.

Well done.

Well represented.

And

birds.

You need him.

See you out there, bro.

He's a part of this.

He's the best.

That's all bird man.

Please check out the green light.

He's fucking, dude.

Oh, my God.

What happens when people send videos to your phone?

It's the only one that came up that way, but I thought it was perfect.

Oh, man.

Until the sun comes up, which the sun is the relentless pursuit of birds.

If this is the first piece of concept people watch,

absolutely ridiculous.

Oh,

Three different acceptance speeches.

Oh, man.

Incredible.

Well, Nick, you have the next pick here.

Your third in the bird, not bird draft.

My third pick,

I think that this bird is the most important bird, not bird.

Or this bird, not bird is the most important bird, not bird because it is the bird.

Two middle fingers straight up for flipping the bird.

That's a great pick.

Great to pick.

Great pick.

Yep.

Is that on your board, Gavin?

Yep.

Middle finger.

Yeah.

Should I write?

Do you want me to write the bird?

Do you want me to write middle finger?

What do you want, Nick?

The bird.

The bird it is.

Reading some of these pics back to back are so funny.

Birdman, the bird.

I like that.

What's your bird not bird pick?

It's the bird.

What was the last time you flipped the bird, Nick?

Let's see.

I drove through downtown today.

About 40 minutes ago.

yeah exactly

coming huffing and puffing apparently yeah yeah he was so

sat straight down it it put Jeff in a bad mood um

sorry Jeff yeah it's all right uh but guys I have I have the next pick I have a third pick here uh

or my third round pick and I'm gonna go with the crow oh

yeah thank god you clarified yeah the crow from 1994 an awesome movie that uh gave goth people something to do for 20 plus years.

And I think that's so kind

of that movie to do because, you know, I said it's a great movie.

It's not.

It's a fun movie.

It's,

you know, you can watch it.

You can make your whole identity it.

And that's kind of, those are kind of like the two options, I think.

Brandon Lee died so their identity could soar.

Yeah, got shot with a real-style gun in that rust style in the filming of the crow.

Crazy.

Terrible.

Crazy.

Crazy.

Insane event.

We recently filmed a Let's Play in Hitman revolving around Bruce Lee.

Bruce Lee was there quite a bit.

I'm curious if Jeff or Gavin, do you guys think about the crow a lot during that?

No, not at all.

Is all I was thinking about.

Not once, I don't think.

I just kept going in my head, like, oh, I got to warn him about the crow.

Oh, God.

I got to warn him about the crow.

Yeah, because of interacting with Bruce Lee in the game.

When did Bruce Lee die?

What, 80s?

Yeah.

I will look it up.

Bruce Lee died in 1973.

Wow.

That's so much earlier than I would have guessed.

Yeah.

Well, I think he had a lot of movies come out posthumously.

Ah.

Interesting.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Does that help your whatever point you're making, Gavin?

Oh, you're warning him about something that happens after he dies?

Well, it's about his son.

He doesn't die in the crow.

He's dead before then.

I'm assuming his son existed at that point.

Yeah.

I just wanted to convey something I thought about.

Grabs his one-year-old son.

Don't do the crow.

It's your kids, Marty.

They're assholes.

Well, there you have it.

The crow 1994 is my pick, but we go to Gavin, who's going to round out the third round and make his final fourth round pick back to back in this bird-not-bird draft.

Gavin, what is your third pick?

Well, this is a good draft so far.

I would say it's slightly above average, maybe like one above average.

And in golf, that's a birdie.

Oh,

that is great.

Wasn't on my list.

It was on mine.

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Could have done a whole, probably a whole draft of just golf terms.

You can, yeah, absolutely.

Right?

You know, there's at least one other one.

We'll see if he has one more.

Gavin.

Golf term draft.

Gavin, this is your chance to do something special or go your own way.

My final pick with Ozempic.

What?

That's the song in the commercial.

Oh, Ozempic.

Yeah, it's that's what that's yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was referencing the Ozempic commercial.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Uh-huh.

My first pick is actually a man.

It's Superman.

Is it a bird?

Is it a plane?

No.

No, it's not a bird.

It's Superman.

You want to take ducking instead?

My fourth pick is ducked.

It's after

Superman.

What about audio ducking, Gavin?

Go for that.

He's a Superman because some asshole thought he was a bird.

He was a bird.

But he's famously thought to be a bird sometimes.

You're wrong.

It's not a bird.

By idiots?

Famously thought to be a bird?

There was some stand-up comedian not too long ago who had a bit about that.

Who was like, yeah, you get the plane or the Superman, but who's the guy who's like, a bird?

Look, guys, it's a bird.

Cool.

It's a parrot.

All right, Jack.

Is it invalid pick, do you think?

I mean...

You go right ahead.

Yeah, you can take it.

I'll give it to you.

I just think the rescue board is so strong.

You can have Superman, sure.

It's not a bird.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, yeah, no, yeah, no.

We all, yeah, we're all.

But he can fly like a bird.

But he's, that's, you're drafting a not-bird, not bird.

That's true.

You are drafting a not bird.

But why do so many people think he's a bird?

No, no, no.

Because you're stupid.

Gavin, you can have it, man.

Take some good, man.

I don't think so many people think it's a bird.

I think it's one person one time.

Yeah.

One person one time?

It was only ever said once?

The check and tea at home.

Absolutely, dude.

Yeah, you got this.

It was pretty, it was a pretty iconic saying, though.

I'll give it to you, Gav.

No, it is an iconic saying, but it's not even, the person isn't even declaring that it's a bird.

It's a question they're asking.

Hmm.

Enjoy your not bird, not bird pic.

Yeah, no.

Hey, Gavin, I think you got it, man.

Yeah, yeah, you, you can have it.

That's fine.

Yeah, it's fine.

Gav, don't listen to him.

You're fine.

Yeah, Gavin is fine.

They'll vote for you anyway.

They're just jealous of your friends.

Oh, wow.

The first bud.

Nick bringing the achievement hunter energy.

Those are my picks.

Oh, man.

Man.

Thanks for the career, Gavin.

We're going to me for my final pick here.

I have Chicken, I have Robin Williams, I have The Crow 1994.

And to round it out, my fourth and final pick is The Crow 2024.

That's 920.

There you go.

Yeah.

The Crow, just a mere year ago, they remade the movie.

It's terrible, but they kept the IP.

And that's what's so important in America today is making something as bad as you can to hang on to that IP until it until it's totally worthless and nobody wants anything to do with it.

And that's why fourth on my list, the Crow 2024, one cool scene where he uses a sword and cuts a guy's face in half.

And then he gets stabbed with the sword and then falls backwards into a guy shooting him.

Really, really cool scene.

The rest of the movie, crazy, crazy bad.

You know, what's crazy about the Superman pick is that he wouldn't understand why he's on this board.

Yeah.

Like, is it because I fly?

Like, what?

Uh-huh.

Well, he probably did hear that guy with his super hearing.

Yeah,

he can hear him.

I'd be terrible.

He can hear him.

There you go.

Those are my picks.

We go to Nick with his final pick.

Oh, you have a lot to live up to in the worst final round we've ever done.

Yeah.

It's all right, though.

You know, here we go.

So,

I've been bouncing back and forth.

Originally, I was going to go with a duck theme, but that died pretty quick.

So I've decided

Your theme was just a lame duck.

Your duck pick, your second duck pick was the same as your first duck hit.

No, it was different.

Could have been duck hunt.

I don't know.

It was the alternate.

Anyway.

Duck.

Abandoning that.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, that's also on there.

It's too late.

We've abandoned the clock.

So that's gone.

So I'm going with

the bird, not bird that you think of when it strikes midnight, the cuckoo clock.

Oh,

ducky from 16 candles.

The cuckoo clock.

The cuckoo clock.

Is that how you spell it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think so.

Is that really how you spell cuckoo clock?

Yeah, like cuck.

You spell it's cuckoo clock

clock.

It's spelled cuckoo clock.

That's where the word comes from.

That's where cuck is from.

That's what time it is, Eric.

That's what.

Wait, that's where the word comes from?

For real?

Yeah, because cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests and watch the...

Well, I don't think they watch necessarily, but the other birds will lay.

They lay a bird in another nest.

They pull up a big armchair in the dark.

They have a look.

Let's smoke a cigarette and watch.

Slower.

Slower.

Well, the cuckoo clock is on the board.

That is a bird, though.

The clock isn't.

Okay.

It's way,

way too late into the draft for you not to understand it.

from the man that brought you superman

there's only two pics left and he's like rethinking what we're doing

from the boy who brought you superman what are you doing

i'm not i'm not sure if you know this gavin but a falcon is also a bird

in tony hawk

crow is a bird in crow's nest

yeah but there's no crow in the crow's nest is my point there's no but like it's not an actual it's not an actual cuckoo cuckoo it's it's the clock

all right

there's like no it's so weird because you're like pushing back but i don't know that there's any like backbone to it and it's really confusing no no i understand i on his second drive-through i understood his point of that it is an actual bird in the clock yeah but you're not But it's not a lot.

You're drafting the bird in the clock.

You're drafting the clock.

It's a similar argument he made about horse armor when I drafted the DLC.

Oh, we can't get into that again, can't we?

To be honest, I was just so ready to argue with Nick that I had to never came out.

Well, I enjoyed it.

Thank you, Kevin.

The clock is locked in.

I suppose we go to Andrew with his fourth and final pick.

My fourth and final pick, I'm continuing a theme, sort of like Nick planned on doing.

My pick is NBA Superstar Chris Anderson, also known as the Birdman.

Oh, yeah.

Dude.

Hell yeah.

Does he have a cameo or something?

One of three bird men.

Go ahead, Jeff.

Sorry.

One of the most famously catfished athletes of all time.

Yeah, he's running Manta Teo.

It's like him and Mantaita.

That's it.

That's awesome.

Hell yeah.

Chris Anderson, the bird man.

Two-time NBA champion with Miami Heat, I imagine.

Two-time NBA champion.

Yes.

And Eric, you asked if he had a cameo.

He does not have a cameo.

Surprisingly.

Not a lot of NBA players do have a cameo.

Chris Anderson, not available to accept this

award, unfortunately.

This great ruling.

So I had to go in and get a replacement.

I'm sure Chris Anderson actually would have picked this person themselves.

None other than the very talented James Buckley accepting on behalf of the game.

I thought you were going to say TPG again.

Gavin, are you aware of this?

Did anybody know that Andrew knew James?

This was a cameo.

Gavin could have just called in the favor.

This is so good.

Gavin could have just shot like a text.

Hey, can you record this real fast?

This is awesome.

Here's the acceptance speech.

James Buckley absolutely fascinated with Andrew.

Here we go.

In real life.

Acceptance speech.

Oh, really?

Oh, I'm so excited.

I'm so stoked.

He did.

This is the worst looking video.

Oh, God.

He didn't even bother to get out of fucking bed.

Okay, take the stage, James.

Hi, Andrew.

How's it going, mate?

I hope you're well.

And thank you for your request here.

I'm just going to have to read it.

It says here, hey, my name is Andrew, and I'm part of a podcast called The Regulation Podcast.

I'm pretty sure that you know

that I know who you are.

I know we've never met, but

I'm good pals with Gavin and I can tolerate Jeff.

We are doing a bird-not-bird draft, and I wanted you to make an acceptance-style speech on behalf of NBA Star because Allison to Birdman.

I don't know what any folks will do.

So there you go, Chris Anderson.

Oh my god.

That was so fucking funny.

I'm pretty sure I know.

You know,

he was at my wedding.

We,

me, my wife, and our friend Alyssa, like Americans who did not know who he was or the ones that were sat next to him.

So he was left alone.

Everyone else was like, oh my God, is James Buckley?

And Alyssa kept leaning over going, who is this guy?

Yeah, we put Alyssa next to James because I know that Alyssa wouldn't bug him.

She had no idea.

It was so awesome.

Every other person at my wedding was talking to me like,

who knows James Buckley?

Dude, all of like, all of the staff was like, oh, holy shit, James Buckley's here.

That's fucking crazy.

And Alyssa's like, who is this?

This is great.

He worked hard that night.

Bless him.

Oh, fuck, man.

Oh, Andrew, what an incredible draft.

I'm like, I'm losing my mind, dude.

Wow.

That's so crazy.

Holy shit.

Way to go.

Thank you.

Woo.

Oh, man.

Well, Jeff, here's your last pick.

What you got?

Hold on a second.

9, 10.

Okay.

12, 13.

Are you trying to get a cameo right now?

You know what I mean?

I was just counting.

I'm down to my final 22 picks.

So

I got to whittle it down to one.

They call Gus like Big Hawk or anything like that?

Get a phone call from him real fast.

So I just need to pick one from the last 22.

I'm amazed.

My heart tells me that I should maybe pick Larry Bird or maybe even four-time WNBA champion Sue Bird.

But since Chris Anderson's already on the board, we've already dealt with the athletes.

I think I'm going to finish it out in fourth round style it feels like it'll be appropriate to everything else you guys have picked i'm gonna take it up i'm amazed it's still on the board so i'm gonna i'm gonna pick it let's end the draft on bird flu

yeah you've been in one of these moves because you picked covet 19 recently

name a more iconic bird knot bird than bird flu yeah i mean jeff and diseases man hand in hand way to go oh god wow well guys that's the bird, not bird draft.

Let's go through, and you guys can let us know who won.

Jeff has picked Millennium Falcon, who he did not want to talk about at all.

Students Blackhawk, protected by Falcons tier on Patreon and Bird Flew.

Andrew picked Tony Hawk,

Sheen,

Birdman, and Chris Anderson.

The birdman.

Nick picked Duck.

Crow's Nest, The Bird, and Cuckoo Clock.

I picked Chicken, Robin Williams, The Crow, 1994, and the crow, 2024.

Gavin picked woman, birdo, birdie, superman.

Uh-huh.

And there you have it.

The bird, not bird draft, the strongest draft we've ever done, and the most insane looking if you just glance at the board.

Wow.

What in you?

You never know how things are going to shake out in a draft.

Didn't see it going this way.

Nope.

Wow.

Buckley's cameo just

most of it

in bewilderment that andrew didn't just

i've had so many text conversations with buckley specifically about andrew

i guess i should say i was on the fence about disclosing this His cameo that he sent me was actually like three and a half minutes long.

Okay.

I just thought that was the funniest place to end it.

Yeah, no, no, that's right.

That's great.

You did the right thing.

Maybe on the Patreon, throw up the entire video or something.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's cool.

This might be the most expensive production we've had so far.

I want to be clear.

No company money spent.

Why?

Why would you not spend company money on that?

It was for the company.

I didn't want to tip it off, and I wasn't sure about the approval of it.

So, like, that was

an approval.

Okay.

So, yeah, it's no company money.

You have approval power.

Can you reimburse?

Can you, yeah, can you reimburse yourself, please?

Like, what the fuck?

Yeah, come on, man.

God damn.

Andrew, those were incredible.

Tony Hawk seemed to get it right away.

Instantly.

Watch the dodge while going through the same exercise.

Wow.

They did the same thing, and Tony Hawk got it.

Tony Hawk was outside.

He was showing you beautiful Carlsbad, California.

James Buckley was in his bed.

Hey, guys,

I have a goal for regulation to achieve.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That I've just landed on.

Imagine a future where we're able to finagle four people to do a draft that we give them.

And those four people are Tony Hawk, Shahid,

DPG,

and James Buckley.

We give them a draft, celebrity draft, and we have them draft.

And we just filmed it.

incredible we just we just edited it where it's like my first tony hawk saying my first draft pick is this and then we can discuss it and then

it's shaheen going my first draft pic is this

and we go through a whole draft

i just love the idea of looking down andrew's list and replacing those names at the top and then a drop goes it's incredible

Oh my God.

Well, guys, that's the Bird Not Bird draft.

Incredible stuff.

Go to patreon.com slash the regulation pod.

You can go to uh regulation store.store uh to grab some stuff.

Check us out on YouTube, the podcast or gameplay videos, and so much more.

Oh boy, let us know who won this one.

Um,

I am just like beside myself.

This one was crazy.

Uh, guys, any parting thoughts for the folks at home listening to this and what birds we maybe missed?

No,

there you have it.

All right, we'll see you guys next time.

Bye,

duck.