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

This is episode 76, and my name is Jeff Ramsey.

With me, as always, Andrew Panton, Eric Badour, Nick Schwartz, Gavin Free.

Last Saturday,

something happened to me.

What happened?

I broke briefly as a human being.

You know that.

You shouted.

I know.

I didn't shit at all.

It would have been so much fun.

You need to break them at this point.

Yeah, that wouldn't break me.

Not only that, but had I shit, my years of experience self-shitting would have

guided me through the process in a much better way than I was able to navigate on my own in this situation.

Yeah, just completely shit the bed mentally and got lost and didn't know what to do.

Didn't know how to get myself out of the situation.

I can't remember the last time that's happened to me.

What happened?

Well, on the white-tip burger of the car, I feel like that happened a few times.

We were just having a lot of time.

I was going to let it slide, but yeah, I mean, okay, I'm excited to see you doing this again, so go for it.

Good job onioning the reference, though.

Well, you were trying to discuss the whole day.

So last Saturday, Emily and I, you know, it's October in Austin, so it was about 94.

And we wanted to have a nice little fall day, as you do when it's 94 degrees in Austin.

So we were looking for anything to do out of the heat.

And

saw this, there's this new, I think it's called Connecticut style pizza place in Austin called Smalls Pizza.

I don't know what Connecticut pizza is.

Yeah, what is that?

I've never.

I don't know.

It's a style.

Supposedly, the best pizza in the world is Connecticut pizza right now.

You think it's triangles?

Because Detroit is square.

No, no, it's not.

Well, it is.

It is.

I'll be honest with you.

It looks and tastes like regular pizza,

like non-Connecticut pizza.

Regardless, it was fucking good.

And so Emily and I went to this Smalls Pizza Place.

Is that what it's called?

I think it's what it's called.

And it's in this place over on the east side where you go into a, yeah, that looks like it kind of, where you go into like an open air building and there's like a coffee shop on the right and like a, I don't know, like a sushi place or a noodle shop and then the pizza place and a bar and it's all like communal seating, you know, kind of like cafeteria style, which

I'm not crazy about.

But anyway, so we went in and we ordered our pizza and he's like, it's going to be about 20 minutes.

And we're like, yeah, no problem because there's like shops and stuff on the other side.

It's like a big complex of like different little, you know, curio shops and shit.

And he gives us two Diet Cokes immediately in a can, which is cool, except we're not going to sit down.

So then I'm just like, well, I'll just carry this Diet Coke around with me while I shop, I guess.

And I always feel, I always feel,

I always feel like I'm the reason they don't want people to bring sodas into stores.

You know?

Yeah.

I don't like where this is going.

I don't like where this is going.

You know, even when I take a soda into a store, I do think like, I remember there was an episode of King of the Hill many, many years ago where Hank and Bobby were flying and Bobby was like 16 and they were sitting in the airplane exit row and the person came over and asked if Bobby was responsible enough to handle the plane in case of an emergency.

And Hank looked at Bobby and Bobby goes, no, sir, and got up and moved seats.

I feel like that's kind of what I, that's kind of how I feel anytime I go into a store with a soda.

I'm like, if the person at the soda thing at the store said, should you be bringing the soda in, sir?

I'd be like, not really, no.

And I'd go wait outside.

You know, I'm on my best behavior, and I figure, uh, I figure I can handle it.

So we go into a paper store because Emily is

in the junk journaling.

And this isn't as bad, and maybe not going where you think it is, but okay.

Uh, Emily, uh, Emily's into junk journaling right now, so we go into this very expensive paper store where everything is like

incredibly expensive for paper, and you're like, wow, an $11 sticker.

That's exorbitant.

Anyway, but it's a darling store.

And as we're in there, I see a puzzle for

no.

I had previously purchased in a different paper store because by the way, there are two paper stores next to each other.

So we go into the first paper store.

I go into the first paper store,

buy a puzzle, a thousand-piece puzzle, and Emily buys a bunch of stickers.

They give me a little bag.

I forgot this part about the story.

Then I go into the second paper store carrying my bag

in one hand and my soda in the other.

And I'm shopping and I'm looking around and I've got, and I see a cool puzzle, which is like the only thing for me in a paper store, honestly.

Like paper stores over-index in puzzles.

I over-index in puzzle love.

So I don't ever mind going into the paper store because I know there's going to be cool puzzles that I wouldn't find otherwise, you know?

And I always indulge.

And so I see this cool puzzle of like mushrooms, but it's on the bottom shelf of this paper store.

And so I go down to get a better look at it.

And as I go down to get a better look at it, I put the soda in my left hand that's holding my bag.

So I can reach down with my right hand to grab the puzzle.

And I lean my head head down too far i guess as i'm like basically on my knees and my glasses fly off because i had sunglasses on

and wouldn't you know it in improbably immediately to the right at like let's say my five o'clock is another adult man on his knees looking at a different product my glasses fly into that man's lap that man is wearing shorts short shorts my glasses are like resting on his wiener.

And he looks at me and I look at him and I don't know what to do.

And I go, uh,

sorry.

And I'm like trying to get the word sorry out.

He's not helping.

And I just want my glasses back.

I'm thinking the guy's going to hand me his glasses back.

He doesn't.

He just looks at him in his lap.

And I'm like, I guess I'll go retrieve my glasses from your lap.

No, no.

So I'm like, so I reach over to grab my glasses.

And as I do that,

quite unintentionally,

I pour my Diet Coke into

halfway into my bag and halfway onto the ground.

And so I'm like grabbing crotch and glasses and I get those back.

And that whole thing is awkward.

And then I turn back around to see the soda in my hand turned upside down, pouring all over the ground and into my puzzle and sticker bag.

And that's when I broke.

I just didn't know what to do.

And I just,

guys, it wasn't long, but I just watched it until

the, I just froze.

I just was on one knee with glasses like clasped in a claw.

I've maybe touched a guy's dick and I'm just staring at soda and sticky mess.

And I have a bag and I just don't know what to do.

So I eventually I snap out of it and I look into the bag and my puzzle and Emily's stickers are swimming in the bag.

And I go,

and I look up and Emily Emily is on the other side of the store, and she hasn't seen any of this.

And I thought, don't let her know.

I don't know why, but I thought, like, don't let her know.

She can't know.

And I look up to find the employee, and the employee is like helping somebody behind the counter very far away.

And I look back down again and I think, oh, the ground is concrete, at least.

It's like stained concrete.

So I haven't ruined the carpet.

And I just stand up and I'm like, what do I do?

What do I do?

And I'm spinning around.

And as I'm spinning around, there's this, the soda is spraying out of the bottom of the bag where there's a hole, like a little fountain, you know?

So I'm making more of a mess.

And I like, you get that thing where you just like you turn 10 degrees in every direction.

You're like,

and I just go, I gotta leave, I gotta leave.

And so I start to run out the door.

And then Emily is kind of close to the door at that point.

And she sees me.

She goes, what are you doing?

And I go, I gotta go.

I gotta go.

I'll be back.

You stay here.

And she goes, what?

And I go, I gotta go.

And I just left.

And then I'm in the, and she, I'm standing in front of the store now.

And I'm thinking, she can see me, and the employees can see me through the window.

I gotta get away from the storefront.

So I just run into the parking lot, right?

And then I'm at the parking lot, and I see a dumpster.

And I'm like, oh, this, this is something I can do.

And so I run over to the dumpster and I take the bag and I dump all the soda out.

And then I see that my

puzzle is completely soaked in soda and all of Emily's stickers are completely soaked in soda.

So I have like a handful of wet shit because I've thrown the bag away and my soda away.

And the only thing I can think of is to go to Emily's car.

And so I go to Emily's car and I open it up.

What are you doing?

And there's one napkin in it.

And so I use the napkin.

I use the napkin to wipe everything off.

Oh, my God.

And I'm on some kind of a dumb autopilot, by the way.

I'm not thinking.

Like, I snapped into some kind of action

when the soda stopped, but I wouldn't say that I'm operating on any intelligent level at this point.

Like, it's all instinct and fear.

And

then I like, I don't know what to do.

So I leave that stuff in the car and I grab the napkin, which is now pretty wet.

And I just run back to the store figuring, I got to unfuck the store because I've spilled soda in this lady's store, and nobody's noticed anything.

And so, I run in and I just use the napkin to clean up as much as I can, which isn't a lot.

And then I ran out of the store again.

And then eventually, I found Emily in another store, and she goes, What the hell was that?

And I was like, Uh, I don't even know how to explain it to her.

And I was like, Explain to her.

She goes, I knew something was wrong because your hands were shaking and you were panicking, but I figured you had it and I don't want to bother you.

You wanted to be away from me, so I figured I'd catch up later to see what happened.

She had no surprise.

course, yeah.

And then we had pizza, it was pretty good.

I feel like it was a valid response from your body because you had so many weird variables happen all at once that it just caused like a full reboot.

Yeah, yeah, it felt like a reboot, yeah.

Yeah, you were running on pure like genetic, like DNA levels of instinct, but DNA doesn't know anything about Diet Coke or puzzles or shops, so you just didn't really know what to do about it.

And when I rebooted, I was in safe mode for a few minutes, so I, you know, I wasn't operating at full capacity.

It's so much worse that you were holding the bag of the rival paper store while this was all occurring.

I did think it was.

It feels like a targeted attack almost.

That like you came in with a soda and a bag of the other company being like, this is who did this.

Yeah, yeah.

I did feel some kind of way about that, actually.

Did you get your sunglasses back?

I did.

I kept my sunglasses.

They were in my...

Grab that guy's dick again?

The McClaw hand.

No, I retrieved him from his cock.

That's like too pretty.

Because I had the thing on the plane where my glasses flew off and wrapped around the guy's leg, and he walked off with them.

And you had it on the guy's dick.

So it's like, what's happening this year with sunglasses?

What's the odds of two dudes crouching next to each other in a paper store, too?

Like, it was so weird to look over to the right and see another guy at my level just as shocked as I was, you know?

I'm imagining him sitting on the ground in this, like full kid style.

He's looking at the puzzles.

He's evaluating.

He, I don't think he was on the ground, and he wasn't looking at puzzles because I was at the only puzzle part.

He was looking at something probably much lamer.

He didn't seem like a cool guy, that's for sure.

He didn't act like one either.

He didn't act like one.

I would have been like, oh, let me get that for you.

So you don't have to touch my dick or whatever if it had happened to me.

But he was.

Yeah, take some, take some cool guy advice from Jeff, the guy who ran out to the gums.

Yeah, there you go.

I uh, I also have a note here, uh, Andrew, that I wanted to something I wanted to ask you about.

Okay.

It is the month of October.

Is that correct?

It is.

Does this mean that your chair survived the entire?

Oh, it did.

Yeah.

I didn't even think about that.

Wow.

Crazy.

Holy shit.

That's a first.

Have we broken the cycle?

I think the cycle may be broken.

The chair is not.

Was that a Nostradamus prediction by Gavin?

Oh, that might have proved me wrong.

Yeah.

I think that might have been one.

I think that's an X in your column.

But was this, this was a slightly late chair, though, wasn't it?

Because the Herman Miller lasted it like a month or something.

I don't know.

I think, though, it was the guideline was September, was the measurement stick.

You might be right.

I just feel like if you started this chair in October or November, I'm still going to be excited if it goes.

Yeah, I guess like we're still, let's get through the end of the year before we pop the champagne.

But yeah, I mean, it's looking good for you, but I feel like we should judge it again at the end of the year.

I think that's fair.

I think it's a fair evaluation.

So far, it seems good.

No indications of breakage.

Yeah, So

technically,

it was actually the very first Nostradamus guest too.

It was Gal who picked first, and it was Andrew breaks a chair.

So far.

Just to think for so good.

Was it Jit?

I wonder if it was specifically my chair.

I'm evaluating, have I broken any other chairs?

Oh, because we've never heard about other chairs you've broken.

I think the only, yeah, I think that's the only other chair.

Yeah, I don't think I have.

I think that's it.

Just my personal chairs and or Jeff's.

Do you have anything else in your life that breaks quite a lot?

Like an unnatural amount?

Like, do you have to replace a normal object quite a lot?

Oh, that's an interesting question.

I'm trying to think.

I feel like

mic cables.

Microphone cables replacing constantly.

I don't know.

How often.

Like headset.

You're scaring Nick.

I don't know that I've ever replaced my mic cables.

No, not those ones.

Headset, like Xbox headset cables constantly.

I've done a few.

To the point where if I'm ordering something from Amazon, I'll throw in a replacement cable because I know I'll eventually need it.

I typically have two or three replacement cables in my desk ready for the swap out.

Are you talking the XLR cable?

No, no, no, no, no.

Like a headphone jack headset cable.

Okay.

I go through a lot of those.

Not a microphone cable there.

Well, it's for my microphone.

I talk into it, right?

Oh, okay.

I thought.

Okay.

Like an Xbox microphone.

Not a podcast microphone.

Headset mic.

I don't know that I've ever heard them describe that way, but you're right, I guess.

The microphone, the...

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, when I take my AirPods out of the case, I don't think I'm going to stick my microphones in.

I feel like that's kind of secondary.

Well, I will say you have a a terrible Xbox microphone setup.

You sound like shit.

So I feel.

Everyone sounds like shit on an Xbox headset.

What do you mean?

I disagree.

I think my microphone sounds really good on Xbox.

I think I sound shit.

Nick, you've never played with me.

I don't want to hear your reaction.

You've never, you've only done.

I heard it.

Let's plays.

Oh, that's true.

I guess, like when I'm doing stream, but that doesn't count.

I'm not properly.

The same.

It's the same mic.

Yeah, but I'm wearing my headset on my headset at that point.

I feel like that's not a fair representation of what the quality.

What's not on his headset at that point?

You think they combine somehow?

Nick is saying that he's heard me use the headset, and that's when we've been making content.

I've streamed and I've plugged a mic in.

And at that point, I'm wearing two different headsets.

I'm wearing my headphones so I can hear you guys.

And then on top of those is the headset so I can talk to the people via Twitch.

Okay, you could talk to them through your normal mic.

No, I can't because I'm streaming through my Xbox at that point.

And my Xbox isn't connected to my normal mic.

Gavin, I appreciate you trying to make heads or tails of this, but it's sort of, it's like a fruitless endeavor.

I'm always getting collateral about the quality of my Xbox mic.

It's just the Xbox mic.

It's just the Xbox headset

mic.

You have a, don't you have a weird setup?

I thought you had like a weird headset thing.

No.

Okay.

Wait, what do you mean?

Well, you just sound like you're always underwater.

I assume that like you're using like AirPods or something.

No,

it's the wired one.

It plugs into the controller and then it has a mic up there, up the head strap that you fold down in front of your face.

Yeah, that mic.

That's what I meant when I said mic, that mic.

Yeah.

Is it like the default Xbox headset that comes with the Xbox?

No, well, not mine.

I don't know about his.

I'm talking about Gavin's.

Like, I use an Astro gaming headset personally.

Yeah, I use an Astro too.

Yeah.

So you just don't like the original headset then?

What do you mean?

Which one?

Well, you like your Astro one.

You think it sounds phenomenal.

You don't like my Microsoft one.

Yeah, I don't, I guess.

I don't think anyone does.

You're making it seem like that's a me thing.

I think what happened is there was definitely a time when we played Destiny and we were doing the Prison of Elders or whatever, where I did sound like shit.

And that's because I didn't realize that SME had bitten through my cable and I was actually using the microphone on the Kinect, which was about four meters away from me.

Well, Jeff, you play games online with Gavin.

Gavin doesn't sound great, does he?

Very, very rarely.

I play games online with Gavin about as much as I play games online with you.

But I'll be honest, I haven't noticed.

Interesting.

I haven't noticed an issue.

Okay, why don't you get into an Xbox party with me now and I'll use the mic and tell me how it is.

This is a great idea.

I really like this.

Yeah, is there a way you guys can do this before?

Everyone get in my Xbox party.

Well, here.

No, no, no.

One second.

I can do this in a way.

Here, Gavin, I'm making a party.

Okay.

And I'm inviting you to it.

One sec.

And then you should capture your

thing.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I got it.

I got it.

Yeah, yeah, he's got it.

I don't know.

I don't know who's available.

I'm sending party invites to all you guys.

I don't have my Xbox not on.

What?

What?

Sending invites to everybody just making sure everyone's invited.

Oh, shit.

I need to get the mic.

Hold on.

You go get the mic.

Telling me I'm not prepared.

This is another headset on now.

Okay.

And let me double-headset this.

Like, double it.

Okay.

All right.

Change this.

And this will be a little fun preview for people.

More options.

Include party audio.

I'm going live now.

I only have my Xbox headphones on now.

Hello.

Hello.

This is me talking.

Oh, Jeff, you don't sound good either.

Hey, what's up, bitches?

I don't sound good to you?

Ah, man, maybe.

Gavin sounds great.

You think Gavin sounds great?

Keep talking to him.

Oh, you know, I'm just talking to my normal Xbox headset for Microsoft.

You sound way good.

You know what?

I was wrong.

Yeah.

You sound fine.

I was wrong about this, I guess.

You shout on me for a whole stream when I was using using this.

I think Jeff sounds worse than you do.

It's crazy.

Why am I catching strays here?

No, I'm not giving you strays.

I just, I think.

He's using the same Astro headset you are.

Yeah, you and I.

What gets that are you using, Andrew?

Astro A10.

You sound pretty good.

You do.

See, I think this mic sounds essentially the same.

Eric sounds phenomenal.

You guys all sound the same.

A headset plugged in.

That's the joke.

Well, this was a pointless test.

I thought Gavin sounded way worse than he does.

I apologize.

Let a post in the stream or whatever, who do you think has the worst mic?

Bye.

All right.

Okay, so we just came back from the test.

I was wrong.

I'm just making sure.

Did I record?

I recorded.

Did you?

All right, good.

All right.

Just making sure because I grabbed it too.

Waiting.

I don't have a headset because I don't play games online.

Well, we streamed it live.

So we can just grab.

I'm sorry, what?

We were live streaming when that happened.

I had seen it.

Wait, you went live?

Of course he did.

Of course he always does.

I was wondering why you said goodbye to no one, but it wasn't no one.

No, no, no, it wasn't no one.

It was like 140-ish people.

I named the stream Mike Test.

I wonder if that's the first time we've ever streamed during a podcast recording.

Definitely is.

Anyway, I apologize, Gavin.

Sorry about that.

Hey, no worries.

It sounded way better.

I don't know why.

I guess, you know,

maybe there was that one experience that I just, it has blinded me.

I've had ear blindness.

I think it locked in to your mind as terrible, which it was, because my actual headset wasn't working.

Interesting.

When did you unplug the connect?

When?

Yeah.

When they took away that port.

Okay.

I'm just, I'm thinking about all the times we played Halo Infinite, and I don't know what I was thinking.

I don't know what I was hearing.

Every time, we played Halo Infinite like 45 times.

Yeah, every time.

I sounded like shit each time.

In my head, yeah, you were, you sounded terrible.

Every time.

I don't know.

It's crazy.

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Speaking of us being idiots, I was watching a little bit of the video that came out today, the GTA video, where we were hunting ghosts for Halloween that was recorded in 2024.

Yep.

And I was pissing myself

because

Jeff was never sending the text.

He was never sending the picture of the ghost to the thing.

He was just saving it to his gallery.

And I'd be like, no,

bullshit.

I didn't get that one.

Did I have to send a text?

I might have forgotten to press X and you were pressing A and and you were just saving them to your category.

That might be why I wasn't getting credit.

It was.

And it was also why I didn't really realize at the time.

But when you press X, the ghost vanishes.

Like, you're done with it.

But you kept taking multiple pictures of the ghost and you were like, I think I'm getting it.

And I was like, what are you...

How are you still a CM?

I'm a good pay attention to detail kind of guy.

Yeah.

Big time.

I uh

I appreciate I thought you were going to call out uh our numbers issue, Gavin.

I thought Gavin was gonna kill me over the weekend, and I would have understood it.

I would have respected it.

I don't even remember what you're talking about.

I woke up and I had a number from Gavin.

I checked my Slack.

I had 23.

He sent me like 23 or something.

And then so I just replied 47.

And then some time passed, and then I got another number.

And I realized what was happening was Gavin was trying to sign into a Google account, and the security stuff is tied to me.

And you need to match numbers.

I thought we were just playing a game of guessing, just sending numbers to each other.

He kept writing numbers back, which all he needs to do is press the number that pops up on his phone.

And I kept getting numbers back.

And then he just says, Sorry, I thought we were playing numbers.

So here's the context to that.

I was scrolling through my phone, maybe like two days prior, and I was just looking at text messages that I had, that I hadn't like, I was just seeing like, what's the oldest text message I had?

And I was in a group chat with people, a group text, I guess.

And I picked one of the numbers.

that I didn't know it wasn't it's not saved to my phone I don't know who it is and I was trying to decide between two different restaurants And so I decided that even or odd.

So I texted this number that I don't know who it is.

Pick a number between one and 100.

And it never replied, understandably.

So that was like two days ago.

So then I wake up and I see 26 from Gavin.

And I think, oh, maybe this is like a different, maybe it was a different Gavin number that I texted.

So I thought that you're replying to a two-day-old text initially because my phone didn't give me any notifications that there was a Google sign-in attempt.

So I was convinced that you were replying to that so that I replied with a number.

I want you to go through and tell me when you realized what I was doing.

Okay.

So here's the.

I'm going to post the screenshot because it seems like after you were like, oh, I thought we were just doing numbers, I sent you more and you still.

Yes.

So here is my defense for that.

So.

I said 26, Gavin replied four, and then I got the notification.

And I replied, ha ha ha, sorry.

Never got the notification for the first one.

I thought we were just sending numbers.

So we could blur the email and the phone and all that.

But this is it.

At this point,

where I'm writing the number 40 and showing him a screenshot, he still hasn't logged me in.

Like, look how long this went on for.

I started 101.

By 120, I'm now just instead of writing the number, which I did above, right?

I wrote 40.

He said 51.

Yeah.

so this is

so the context for that

is you sent me four and I clicked four.

So I assumed you were in at that point because I hit it on my end.

And then you said 40 with a bunch of ha's after.

So I thought that was indicating that you were in and now you were doing the bit of we were actually guessing numbers.

So then I continued on the bit and then you replied with another number, establishing that you still weren't in despite the fact that I clicked four when you clicked four.

No, the four that you clicked didn't do anything.

I clicked it.

So that's what I thought.

It was the Haas that threw me after the next set of numbers because I had verified on my end.

And then you went.

Ha ha ha ha ha.

It turns out I was laughing

before I'd got in.

And then it continues.

He didn't get the 40.

And then

you said, hit me with another.

And then you said, verified 52 without me saying anything.

but then somehow i was logged in so we went through all that and by 1 28 p.m 28 minutes after we started this process i said now we complain of this

i think what's really at fault here and first of all i'm on your side but you did get a new phone so i think this is all ultimately your fault that's why i was logged in i had a new phone that's my point you didn't get the new phone you wouldn't have had to log in

None of that would have happened.

Right.

It's the consequence of a new phone.

You know what?

I apologize.

Here, I'm on your side right now.

That's great.

But I am on your side.

Okay.

Okay.

That was on me.

That was, if I wouldn't have sent the text message like two days prior to a random number asking pick between one and a hundred, I wouldn't have guessed we were playing numbers.

Now, if you're looking at this screenshot

in the audience and you think 25 isn't enough information just to type to someone and press send, I should have said, you know, hit 25 on your two-factor or whatever.

But this was maybe the 10th time I've just, we've done this so many times.

Yeah, it's a pretty common occurrence.

I would say it happens almost once a week between one of us at some point.

Yeah,

we should use pass keys so we don't have to use your sodding phone as a two-factor.

Should you use what?

We'll talk about it later.

I heard car keys.

We'll use car keys.

We'll blip.

We'll hit the

boot button

and log in.

That'd be cool if you could log into all your internet with a car.

Like you log into a car.

It's funny.

You make that noise.

I have a note about this.

I have a question.

I was thinking about, I guess I had this realization.

I brought up that I've been sleeping with a weighted eye mask and then I misplaced it and it's been missing.

And it's been an issue.

I've been having a hard time falling back asleep easily without it.

Well, it's down the back of the bed, surely, with the pillows.

No, it just, just, the problem is, is I'll get up and I'll just, in my, the first thing I do when I wake up is I throw it off and then I'm not really awake and I forget where I put it.

So it just goes missing at times.

And it's become a problem because I realized I, one, I like the feeling of the weight on the face.

That's nice.

But two, I really like not knowing when I'm sleeping.

It just happens.

Because I don't know if my eyes are open or closed when I have the eye mask on.

So I'm either sitting with my eyes eyes open or I'm closing them.

Did you say you like not knowing whether you're asleep?

Yeah, it makes it a little bit more fun, I found.

Because I'll be laying, because if I don't have the mask on, I know I'm just either laying with my eyes open or my eyes closed, but I don't know which I'm doing under the mask.

So I'm either just laying there thinking about stuff or I'm suddenly asleep.

You know, I hate to agree with you on something so insane.

I kind of, I kind of get what you mean.

I really enjoy the mystery of it all of when am I going to fall asleep?

It'll happen eventually.

Maybe my eyes are open.

I don't know.

It doesn't matter.

But

I keep kicking my cats in the middle of the night because they like to hang out.

You don't have any cats.

I have two cats and I keep hitting them and I feel bad about it.

I do.

So then I thought, and I know this is an insane idea.

This is just the thought I had.

What if I slept with night vision goggles on?

Because then I wouldn't have to turn on a light.

and I don't mind the sensation of the weight on my face.

I've never worn night vision goggles.

I don't know how comfortable they would be to sleep in.

Maybe this is an impossibility.

It was just the thought I had.

But then you would know if you were awake.

Yeah, I guess I would, but I would at least still have the weight on my face.

And I do really like that as well.

It is very comic.

But my main issue.

was beyond the comfortability, which I don't know.

Have you guys ever worn night vision goggles?

Are they comfortable?

Oh my sadly.

I wore them constantly in the army and no, they are not comfortable, but that was also in 1995.

They've probably advanced in comfort and quality.

You think that comfort's been so upgraded that it puts you to sleep, makes you sleepy?

No, no, no, no, but I also think that I was probably wearing like military grade NVG.

The military doesn't give a shit about soldiers being comfortable at any point ever.

And so I imagine that there's probably a commercial version that's not so bad.

We could look at it.

I'm glad that you've worn them, both for this insight.

And I've also realized that every time I've seen night vision goggles in media, when they turn them on, they go,

they go,

is that a thing?

Does that actually occur?

I'll be honest.

I don't remember there being a sound.

I don't feel like there should be because I feel like the whole point is you're trying to be sneaky and it always goes

and makes that feel like

the capacitor, the capacitor sound from like a camera flash.

Yeah.

You know, Sam Fisher.

Zero confidence behind that.

Yeah.

The Sam Fisher noise is what I mean.

It's in every like Splinter Cell trailer.

No, you can't.

I know.

I just wanted to clarify.

Here's a picture of Andrew going to bed.

That could be me.

I don't understand why you would want to use stuff

that requires your vision at the only time you don't want to see.

No, because if I okay, so what happens is I get up at like 2 or 3 a.m.

sometimes to pee, and that's when I'm accidentally bumping into my cat because they'll be laying in the bathroom and I can't see them in the dark.

And I don't want to leave a light on because I don't want to disturb my partner.

So I thought, what is a way that I could see better without disturbing anyone?

Dare to listen to the photo of a night vision cat.

So the partner doesn't wear an eye mask?

The what?

Your partner doesn't wear an eye mask.

No, no, no, no, no.

Okay.

No, I don't think they'd find it comfortable.

But I really like it.

See, that's what I wore in the Army, what I just sent you.

You think you would enjoy sleeping in that?

I think I could do it.

Okay.

There's sort of.

I'm a weird sleeper in the sense of I kind of like a little bit of discomfort.

I find the discomfort of it a little bit.

You're a maniac.

You're an insane person.

It's like the one time you ought to be as comfortable as possible.

Like a little agitation

to get me to sleep.

Well, it's like I would,

I'd sleep with my neck against the wall, like kind of bent up.

Like I have the pillow mountain.

I recently have been putting pillows on top of my face when I sleep because I have the CPAP on, so I just sleep.

I breathe through the hose.

That is pretty fun.

It's kind of fun, right?

Yeah.

I fell asleep the other night with my head in the cat tent.

In the cat tent.

I got a little tent for my cats.

And it was...

What?

And you put it where your pillows are?

No, I put it so there's a bunch of holes in it for the entrances for the cat.

And I put my head through one of the holes.

But where's the thing?

What thing?

The cat tent.

On my head.

What do you mean?

Like, imagine like an astronaut helmet.

Yeah.

You just plucked it on.

Yeah.

Well, I was putting it on.

Yeah, because there's three entrances.

Three of it are entrances, three sides.

One side is a solid wall.

So I had the solid wall be behind my head.

And I put my head through the bottom.

I had a hole at the top.

And I had a hole forward so I could watch the football game.

I was watching the Cardinals play.

And then I had my C-Pab hose through the front entrance.

And it was very cozy.

I felt like I was in my own little tent.

I felt contained.

You must have looked like an astronaut.

I must have.

Oh.

You know what?

I'll get in position.

I'll send you a photo of the setup.

Yeah, yeah.

I'll get in position for it.

We'll go for it.

We'll wait.

I can't do it right now.

I'm going to need other people.

It's too much.

Too much of a setup?

It's too much of a setup.

I have to get cozy in bed.

I need to get the tent.

I need to get the right amount of uncomfortable.

Yeah.

I'll send it, though, between...

Now and when this comes out.

Set up.

All right.

So have you considered, instead of night vision goggles and all this stuff when you have to get up and pee have you considered uh

like a dim phone light

what do you mean

turn on the light on your phone like the flashlight on my phone yeah

so i know there's a way to dim it i don't know how to do that though specifically okay because you consider forget that forget that have you considered maybe not drinking anything like an hour before you go to sleep i don't think it matters i don't think that part matters I like to drink water.

I probably drink like a gallon of water a day.

That's fine.

Just stop it like an hour before and then you won't pee in the night.

I don't.

I'll test it.

I don't think it'll make a difference, but I'll test it.

If it does make a difference now, it won't by the time you're 40.

That's true.

Oh, yeah, I'm till it's future-proofing.

As the young one.

Might as well get used to figuring out how to get to the bathroom in the middle of the night now because you'll be doing it for the back half of your life.

When do you stop drinking liquids, Jeff, before bed?

It makes no difference to me anymore.

I used to try to stop.

It doesn't, yeah, it doesn't make any difference.

I could go to bed with like my lips cracked and parched and going like, water,

water.

And by about 1.15, I'm going to have to get up to piss.

And then at about 3.45, I'm going to have to get up to piss again.

And then maybe 6.50, I'll get up and piss a third time.

And then I'm just up.

Imagine how good your sleep would be, though, because you've gone to sleep so uncomfortable.

That is true.

But wait, so you have a water cutoff, Gavin, it sounds like.

Yeah, I uh maybe like 90 minutes to an hour before I'm gonna go to sleep, I stop drinking.

Eric and Nick, do you guys have water cutoffs?

No.

Yeah, okay.

Good.

I'm glad.

Well, I mean,

I used to not have a cutoff, and then I got sick of waking up for the night.

If it works for you, man, that's great.

Yeah.

Yeah, good for you.

I just, the way you said it, it made it, I felt felt like I was the odd one out, not having a water restriction for a while.

No, I was just giving you something to try.

I don't know if you're doing it.

But no water restriction.

You have a food restriction?

Yeah,

I try not to eat past 8 p.m.

if I can, unless we like go out to dinner or something.

Yep.

Like if I get hungry and like snacky at like 9, I just try to suffer through it and try not to eat too late.

Is that so you don't get up and like shit in the middle of the night?

Or it's just like, what is that?

Just so that I'm not, just so that I'm not gross digesting food that I I don't need late at night.

Got it.

Got it.

Got it.

Got it.

Got it.

You sleep so good when that happens.

It's not related to turds in any way.

You do.

Yeah.

Have you thought about how it maybe you over if you eat a bunch and then you're uncomfortable and you'll sleep so good as you digest your bad?

Not uncomfortable.

Like from a health perspective, terrible.

Not a great idea.

But from a cozy perspective, oh.

Cozy.

That's why I eat a plate of turkey every night right before I go to bed.

Oh my God.

Put me right there.

That's a great sleep rate.

Let's say 10 p.m., plate of turkey, some mashed potatoes, you're sleeping real good.

Then I just ride the Trick-ToFan waves to sleep, right?

Yeah.

What's the latest you've eaten?

Have you ever fallen asleep eating?

No.

Probably.

I've never fallen asleep eating.

I think it'd be interesting when you're

lying there right before bed, you're uncomfortable, you've got your night vision goggles in, just stuff in like a meatball or something and see what happens.

I don't think I want to do it while in bed.

Why don't you put two meatballs in your mouth, one in each cheek, and then see if you can go to sleep?

So, part of the eating thing before going to bed, it just feels cozy.

I feel like I'm a bear and I'm getting ready for winter.

I just ate my meal, I'm getting in the big covers.

Um, so I have too many blankets.

Well, it's too big of a blanket, but anyway,

hop in, get all cozy.

Meatballs in the bed, I feel like I would,

it wouldn't go well with the CPAP because I got air constantly blown.

That's true.

It might come up.

It'd be awesome if

you were asleep laying on your back and the meatball came out of your mouth and it just floated in the air right above you from the air coming out of your mouth in the CPAP.

Like a multi-pro kind of like one of those ping pong balls or a multi- Yeah.

I think you'll enjoy this detail, Gavin.

I have too much blanket for percentage of bed that i have because my partner and i both have different blankets so we're not fighting over sheets in the middle of the night yeah but my blanket is a king-sized sized blanket so it's huge but i'm i'm in like half of the bed i have a half so i'm using a king-sized amount of bed on probably like a single amount of area.

So are you getting all tangled up?

Is it like a stuck under you and shit?

I'm getting all tangled up and

I have to shove so much blanket to the middle of the bed.

It's essentially a third person if I want to get out of bed.

I create.

So

why are you doing this?

Because it's just what I have.

Like having multiple blankets is just nice.

It's convenient.

Nobody has to fight over space.

I get that part, but why is yours so big?

It just ended up that way.

And you don't have a second, like a smaller one.

No, I got rid of the other small one.

It had a a hole in it so wait you don't have a when you wash your bedding and stuff you just have no bedding until it's all done yeah

what do you mean isn't that what you do i rotate i just get the other one out you rotate because that way i'm not waiting for like a big old chunky thing to dry yeah

nick rotates i don't rotate i just watch watch the sheets in the morning and then they're dry and ready to go to bed ready to put back together by like 3 p.m yeah but but you've never been like, ah, shit, I forgot to put it in the dryer.

And now I'm tired.

And I'm waiting.

Oh, I have like a backup blanket, if that's the case, but

it's more like take it from a closet or something.

It's not like I have a rotation going.

I'm pretty responsible.

I don't, I don't fuck up laundry.

Do you like get up in the morning and go like, ah, this would be good Thursday sheets?

Who are you talking to?

What's the question?

You.

My question's to you.

You rotate sheets.

How many rotations do you have?

Two?

Like, I rotate clothes.

I look in my closet and I go, I'll wear this shirt today.

Do you do that for blankets?

Or do you just have one rotation?

Just every time I think the sheets should be changed, I take them off and I wash them and I put the other ones on.

How often do you wash your sheets?

Like once a week.

Yeah.

Okay, so he's got two sets.

It's every Tuesday at the Ramsey Hatfield house.

Oh, it's exciting.

I'll put that on my calendar.

Yeah, it's good.

Good time.

Text you every Wednesday.

How did the sheets go?

Tuesday.

You asked me Tuesday night.

What's your sheet

rotation situation if you don't have a second pair?

So how often are you washing them?

Probably like once every 10 days.

And you're taking them off

and then you're just waiting for them.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

And then when they're done, they come out.

I don't know why.

I don't know.

I feel like that's normal.

I think it's normal.

I think it's normal.

It's probably normal.

Yeah, I just, I've gotten to the end too many times where I'm just like, oh, it's 11.30 and the freaking

sheets are all wet still that's fair i think that's normal too i have a question for you guys unrelated to this because last episode as eric brought up i discussed squashy's gum flavor thing and that the candy it was with my head i felt validated and that it seemed like you all agree you all saw where i was coming from totally that because you tried

100 100 definitely although through the bag it was discovered that like it was a rat there was rats eating your squashies or some type of animal well there's tiny bite marks and all of it.

There's tiny bite marks.

Have any of you guys gained rodent-like abilities since we last recorded?

I just wanted to check in.

No, none more than I had before.

So, uh, no change.

No change.

I definitely think I ate more of them after the bite marks than before.

And I don't feel,

I don't feel any different.

Maybe that's why you went to the dumpster.

Oh,

maybe.

It's like my rat and raccoon brain.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know, man.

You got to think about like the timeline and the way that lined up.

Because if that was Friday and then Saturday, you had all that issue with pizza.

And then Monday, you had to go sit in the dark away from everyone like a sick cat before the break show.

Oh, I definitely didn't feel good on Monday.

That's true.

I did have a sick tummy.

I didn't even put that together.

I was nauseous.

Interesting.

Fuck.

My favorite thing about this picture that just reminded me of the picture of the rat bite on the thing.

The table that we have our mic stands on is just some coffee table, and when there's three mics hanging towards the couch, the coffee table tips over towards us.

I was like, Oh, we should get a sandbag for the uh, like just to put under the bottom of the coffee table.

And Jeff, who sat next to me, goes, Oh, oh, I know where there's a sandbag.

Hold on, and he goes, He leaves the room and he walks into the break show room, and all I hear is go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, and there he goes, Jesus Christ, and then Jeff comes in with a sandbag.

I got the sandbag.

Oh, I guess we were using that for something.

I'm the one that put it together.

I just didn't remember.

I thought the sandbag was more just like trying to knock down the shakes.

I didn't realize that I had had it that.

Yeah, it was a load-bearing sandbagbag.

It was definitely a load-bearing sandbag.

Yeah.

But it's okay.

It's okay.

If we didn't want to use that one, Jeff, we have plenty of other sandbags, right?

Right.

We have a ton of sandbags.

We do.

We have a, I think I bought another six sandbags.

So we have those and we can use those whenever you want want to, Nick.

We've got the bags.

Can we use them like literally right now or is there anything we're missing from the sandbags?

Well, you can use them right now if you want to.

I don't know how well they're going to work.

You need to put the sand in them still.

We still need the sand.

They're just the bags.

Six bags.

Here's what in my defense.

In my defense.

In my defense.

In my defense.

When

we bought the camera setup and I bought that C-Clan, the C-stand and everything, we decided we needed a sandbag.

So I went to Amazon and I bought a sandbag and a full sandbag came in.

So then when we decided we needed a few more sandbags for the coffee table, I went to Amazon and I bought what I thought was the same sandbag.

I got six of them and it came empty.

The other one was full of sand.

This one was empty.

I'm going to go to Home Depot though.

I'll buy some real nice sand and I'll fill them up.

You know, you could just use whatever in them.

Like trash.

What would you put in them, Gavin?

I just got a bunch bunch of dirt from the quarry in mine.

Do you think it would be easier for me to drive 45 miles out of town to the quarry?

Like 30 minutes northwest of Austin to get my dirt when I'm going to be able to get it.

I'm going to go to that one.

Are you never in a situation where there's just like a mound of dirt or sand?

No.

No.

You know what?

Fair play.

Are you in a situation where there's a mound of dirt or sand a lot?

Well, yeah, when I'm in the quarry.

I've been to the quarry two times in my life, and both times I went, I thought, Jesus Christ, does it take forever to get to this place?

Oh, it's not great.

I went all the way out there to blow up an apple for a liquid death advert, and a lot of the comments on the advert are regulation listeners asking liquid death if they're cosmic crisp apples.

And let me tell you, yes, they are.

Good.

Hell yeah.

All right.

Better be.

So the sandbag you took from the break show, it was on the C-stand holding the top-down camera, was it?

Yes.

I thought it was still balanced.

I didn't realize how unbalanced it was.

Anyway,

it fell and then we fixed it.

And then we replaced the C-stand with a ceiling-mounted tripod anyway.

Yeah, it works great.

Can I maybe get the audio from the security camera of you taking the sound icon?

Yeah, sure.

We post that.

Yeah, of course.

Are you going to post the videos of everyone tripping over the same cable over and over and over again on the Expo?

Certainly could.

Who ran an Ethernet cable across the entire floor?

That's the closest we could get that Xbox to that because we had to run that Xbox there.

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Speaking of The Office,

last episode.

Last episode of the TV show, The Office, or last episode?

No, I didn't see that one.

I stopped watching before the finale.

Same.

Last episode of our show, we brought up Object to Power and The Office.

Hidden.

Anyone find it yet?

Anyone want to disclose?

I mean, you don't have to.

Nope.

Been looking.

I haven't found it yet.

No luck yet.

I realized that I'm glad that I'm not in the running for this because I the other day Decided, I'm going to have a nice, I'm going to have a soak.

I'm going to play my Switch 2 in the tub.

This is going to be great.

It's gonna be relaxing.

Ran the water, sat down, had my switch in hands, went to play it, realized my left Joy-Con was not attached.

Didn't know where it went, just vanished.

No clue.

And it's a weird thing to lose because they are pretty mounted onto the Switch.

But

the Joy-Con was missing.

Ruined the entire plan.

Then I got up.

I got out of the bath, went to where I charged my Switch.

No Joy-Con.

No clue where it went.

And I thought, how do I find this?

So I started Google.

I was curious if there is anything within the Switch.

And it turns out there is.

If you're missing a controller, there is a button you can hit that will like make it ping and vibrate, which was, I was like, oh, this is great.

This will save me.

So I hit the button and it pinged and I went, oh, it's at my desk.

So I sat at my desk.

And I hit it again and it pinged.

I went, oh, I guess it's at my bed.

So then I went back to the bed and I pinged it and I went, it sounds like it's at my desk.

I went back and forth for a long time.

Then I realized if I held the button down, it would continue to ping, which was very helpful.

Still couldn't find it.

Eventually discovered it in my bathroom.

I guess when I was stepping into the tub, I must have held the button that dismounts it and I launched it into the corner of the bathroom on a towel.

So I was just in the bathroom the whole time.

I would have never found it without the ping.

But as I was going back and forth, as I was getting audio cues to where this small item was that I could find, I still was just completely unable to discover it.

And it made me think about the office and you guys looking for it.

I would never find this thing.

So

if you had to talk about the geography of your room, would the desk be between the bathroom and the bed?

Yes.

How, when you were at your desk, did it sound like it was coming from the bed?

I don't know.

I think I'm just bad at audio cues.

Or weird acoustics, maybe?

Bouncing off the wall?

It could be.

I'm blaming more my ears than the acoustics of the room.

Do you have two functional ears?

I mean, I hear things.

My grandmother was born 90% deaf in one ear, so maybe I have some of that.

I don't think I've ever tested my hearing.

You can test them with...

At any point in your life?

I don't think so.

A hearing test?

You could do it with AirPods.

I've done the social media thing where it's the frequencies that go up.

Social media.

I don't know that's a test.

I think that's just a thing people post on social media.

Yeah,

I never...

One, the validity of it, I've always highly questioned.

Two, I've never trusted it because I feel like when the sound goes away, they could just be removing the sound.

Could be a gotcha situation.

Well, this is the thing where you hit the button.

You hit it every time you hear something.

See, I don't know if I trust that.

the problem, because the thing with the eye test is,

here's the thing with the eye test.

I can see that there are things there, but I can't see them.

Well, how do you know they don't just squiggles?

What do you mean?

So if it's a bunch of squiggles, right?

Yeah.

I can't make out the squiggles, but I can recognize the squiggles are there, and then I can step forward and I can go, oh yeah, they're squiggles.

They say ice.

That's what those squiggles say.

Okay.

But

if I'm doing an ear test, I always feel like someone's trying to get something over on me.

How would you know?

You've never done an ear test.

That's what this is my point.

With what he's describing: you hear a noise and then you say, yeah, I heard that.

I would be paranoid and I wouldn't trust that they ever played a noise, that they're just messing with me.

Who is they in this situation?

Apple?

The doctor?

Yeah, doctor.

The medical professional?

Well, in the context in which Gavin's saying, yeah, it would be Apple.

I wouldn't trust Apple.

Oh, okay.

The doctor, I think I would trust.

I trust doctors.

I've never not trusted a doctor, so I would trust the doctor.

You get what I'm saying, though, right?

The point I'm trying to convey of that you have to trust somebody, you're failing the test.

It's a weird test.

I know what you're saying, but it's not true.

What's not true about it?

There is a sound there, but you have to trust that there's a sound there.

There is one.

Why would you think Apple would release a tool to trick you, though?

Because it would be kind of funny.

It would be pretty.

I bet it wouldn't be funny to their shareholders.

I don't think people would get that upset about it.

I mean, this is sad.

It's for people with hearing loss.

You don't think they'd get that?

They're being

jabbed with black apple.

It's like how nobody got the whole Elizabeth Holmes joke.

She was kidding.

She was kidding about the blood thing.

There are just not many tests that you can fail without knowing you failed them.

I think that's most tests.

Is that not most tests?

Did you not just describe most tests?

Sometimes you don't know when you failed it.

No, you verify, but you verify that you failed it.

There's a verification to most tests.

I can't see with my ears, so I don't know.

Oh my god.

You can't.

But if there was a test and it was like, I'm going to tap you on the knee with a hammer, let me know when I've tapped you.

Yeah.

I'd feel it.

Right.

But then when you don't feel it, are you going to be like, you didn't tap me?

Can I see it?

Am I allowed to look during the test?

Well, I think that defeats the purpose of the test if it's a test about one of your other senses.

It sounds like the only sense you trust is eyesight.

I just, you know, you could.

Okay.

Here's.

Even if my, let's say, let's say my eyes are closed, right?

We're doing this exercise.

Night vision on or off?

Night vision off.

Okay.

I think we're in an office with lights.

This is a reputable doctor.

Okay.

I have my eyes closed, but I could be filmed and there could be proof

that there was contact that I didn't feel.

You can't verify a thing you can't hear.

Well, what if we were capturing the audio from the phone as it was testing you and then we boosted it after so you could hear the tones?

Okay, now I'm on board.

Now I'm on board.

Right, so like pretend we're about to do that, except we won't, but there is sound there.

I'm i'm not sure about that

could be a joke could be a prank on me yeah some here's a joke that's for sure to yeah to be

to be fair if uh if i'm not trusting anybody in in terms of sound testing it is this group of people i think it's just that yeah i'm in a parent i'm in a constant paranoid era i mean you thought my mic was so i don't trust your hearing anyway You know what?

That's a great point.

I don't either.

And at the point, I don't even trust my own hearing.

I mean, mean,

it's against me.

I think I trust my ears the least out of any part of my body.

I wonder why that is.

I trust my ankles.

What percent of your ear is that?

My ears feel great.

I'd say they're 100% in feel,

but I don't trust them.

So you get 100% ear feel, but 0% ear trust.

Yeah, because sometimes I think I hear the doorbell when I don't.

It's just some other noise.

You know, like when you're anticipating like a package being delivered and you'll go, oh, is that the doorbell?

Oh, no, it was nothing.

No.

Okay, well, that's something that, see, if you did, you would trust your ears less.

That's something I experienced, so I trust my ears less.

If you gave in to whatever the fuck Andrew's talking about, you totally understand what he's saying.

No, people, people are going to listen to this and they're going to understand what I mean.

There are certain sounds I hear that I know like I'm anticipating them, so I hear them, or I think I hear them when I don't.

If you're expecting to record this podcast in like half an hour, do you start hearing us?

I've heard you guys.

Okay.

Well,

not when recording the podcast.

Sometimes when I'm laying in bed and I got my eye mask on and I don't know if I'm asleep or I'm not sleeping, I have heard you guys if I'm thinking about the podcast.

I hear you guys all the time when I fall asleep.

Yeah.

But I think I'm sleeping.

when that happens.

I think it's like I have an awareness of my sleep, not that I'm awake and I'm hearing you guys.

And I gotta say, when those happen, when that happens, I go, Gavin would think this is fucking crazy.

Somebody who doesn't have this dialogue.

I have a whole show going on in my head.

It's very comfortable, comforting when I hear you guys.

It's a good feeling.

I can like white noise instead.

Like, it's soothing.

What's your so, what's your weakest sense, do you think?

Well, sense of least power.

Well, here's the thing:

I trust my eyes,

but they're no good.

Don't see anything at a distance.

You wear glasses or contacts?

I have glasses.

I don't wear them.

Okay.

Well, that'd be a good thing.

It's like the reverse question.

Excellent.

Yeah.

What the fuck, really?

But

you don't wear them?

Well, I'm fine.

Anything that's far away, it's fine.

It's far away.

I don't need to see it.

It was close.

I would wear glasses if I had no close vision, but the fact that I can't see far away things, I go, that's far away.

I don't need to see that.

That's fine.

This is blowing my mind.

So that means you didn't really get a good look at the woman pissing.

It could have been anything.

It could have been like a bag.

If she was writing a word out with piss, I would not have been able to eat it.

That's for certain.

But I could identify.

She might have been pouring a drink out.

No, I mean, that'd be a weird way to pour a drink out.

I mean,

is it laziness that you don't want to wear the glasses?

It's part of the stability of my nose.

You know, I have a very structural, integral nose, and

it's not good for grippage.

What if on your glasses, I took the little nose bridges off and I 3D printed a little nose extension for you?

No, what I really want is the Walton Goggin glasses.

I've talked about this.

The Goggin style glasses.

The Goggins goggles.

Goggins, goggles, glass, glasses, goggles.

Those.

If I could get a prescription for those, I would wear them.

And then I could see far away things.

So are you telling us that your nose is unbreakable, but it's too slippery?

Yeah, it's like

how it's shaped.

There's not a lot of nose there.

It's like a runway that you would make in your backyard.

The plane wouldn't take off.

There's not enough space.

There's not enough land mass.

You can't break boys in there.

What about those rubber straps you can get to go around from one end of your glasses to the other so you can just

secure it to your head?

Oh, like the strap.

It's kind of like his has, but I mean, you can buy those.

We sold them for radio.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Or for face.

I have them.

I don't know.

I just don't.

There's a security.

Yeah, but there's something a lot more stable about a strap.

It's sort of what you're saying, Jeff, is right.

It's the same philosophy I have about the top drawer.

There's just something a little precarious about it, although completely functional.

The strap is the second drawer down.

Do documents slip off your nose?

No.

Never had that happen.

And I'd be able to read them clearly because they were close.

We're probably getting to the end of the podcast here, but I don't want to.

I do need to do an order.

We have some order of business we got to run through first.

And anything else you guys want to cover before we end, but I do need to get to this.

Two weeks ago, we released a picture of the shirt we commissioned Burn Dog to make for us, the metal shirt, regulation metal shirt.

If you haven't seen it, it looks a lot like black metal and death metal band shirts.

It's indecipherable.

text and then a picture of me looking quite dead next to a hole in the ground.

And we did a a little contest to say that if you could figure out what it says, we'll give you some free merch, do something nice for you.

And a bunch of people did.

I think we announced last week that people did and that

it said eat the pencil, right?

Well, I have two things.

One, I have gone through all the comments from all the different social platforms that I could find, and I think I've identified the first person to correctly guess.

And so I'd like to congratulate Sir Fries Fried on the Patreon who said, it It was like maybe the seventh comment on the video, eighth comment on the video said, Is it eat the pencil?

I feel like it says etha on the left side and pencil on the right.

And they didn't draw it out or anything, but that's okay.

I don't know that anybody got the tracing perfectly correct, but I did get Burndog to send it to us so that you can see and so that, you know, we can

solve the mystery.

So, this is how it says eat the pencil.

I don't think anybody got the idea that the crosses were the T's for T, for eating the.

that's great oh that's so impressive even his signature at the bottom is cool

but there you go so that's awesome that is how it says eat the pencil sir fries fried got it if you also if you think you beat him to the punch and you can show me i'll throw you some stuff too but i think i i'm pretty sure he was the first person or they were the first person to mention it so congratulations to surface fried i'll try to get in touch with you or you try to get in touch with you or yeah just message the patreon yeah we'll send you

We'll send you a bunch of stuff.

Thanks for playing along.

Thanks to everybody who made their guesses.

Yeah, it was so cool seeing all the guesses and the tracing.

It was so much fun.

Mark the Frog is mad at me right now because he nailed it in a stream that I was doing and he kept repeating it over and over again.

And I kept ignoring him because it hadn't been announced yet.

But he was still way late to the party in terms of guests.

I like that.

In terms of guesses,

I like that it used the little tails of the bottom of the shape, like the little wings.

Yeah, it's so cool.

Before we end,

can I

just pick a bone with Nick about something?

Sure.

Eric, I'm going to send you a little clip here.

Could you stream it?

Gavin?

100%.

I got it.

All right, boys, here we go.

It's pretty fucking horrible.

This is so, Jeff, keep working.

Let's go, Gavin.

We're watching the Slago party.

All right, so stop it, pause it.

Yeah, you got it.

Nick was yelling at me this whole game that I wasn't jumping.

Yes.

Can you was Nick?

You see that little two, that two little nub blue brick?

Yeah, right, yeah, yeah, I see that.

That's the one he wanted me to jump on.

Could you please time how long passed between the placement of that brick and when he said jump, you idiot, or whatever he's saying?

Okay, so it looks like it's placed at six seconds.

Okay, so it's there.

Okay, nine seconds.

Yeah, it's there.

He's locked in.

He's standing on it.

Yeah.

What do you mean?

You weren't on it for a minute.

Right, you weren't there yet.

Before, when I had initially said it, you hadn't gotten there.

Can you play a little bit tie, Barrick?

Absolutely.

Let me jog in that.

Here, I'm going to go for five so you can see it placed.

Ready?

And I'll kind of stop it along the way.

Here it is.

So it's placed at six.

Shot out.

It's placed at six.

Go where, Nick?

He immediately says go, Gavin, go right at the eight second mark which means that maybe one and a half seconds has passed yeah gavin is in the air as he says it that's good

and now he is telling him to go again no other plate no other piece has been placed

for the block to be placed

oh jump I see what Nick says.

Your head's out of the way.

Your body is out of the way.

He's saying he wants you to jump because you're currently blocking the placement of

the brick because you're physically in front of it.

So, he's saying if you jump, he could get through you.

God damn, the freaking bit right above where I'm stood goes all the way to the right of the screen.

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

But he could move it a hair to the right and it would still fit if you had jumped.

Oh, yeah.

And if you jumped, you land on it once it's there.

So, really, you're hurting your cause and Jeff's.

If, if I'm if I cross over his ghost block, he can't place it,

jump above it.

I think Nick is right, but he said the wrong things to you.

Boy, that sounds like the story of Nick's life.

Right?

Yeah.

I think Nick is making a valid point that if you weren't physically in that position, he could place the brick.

He could have placed it.

But instead, he's yelling at you to go to the next brick, which is impossible because there's no brick.

But if he would say, like, move so I can place the brick, I think you both would have been on the same page.

All right, let's try this again.

Eric, can you mute the clip and play all the way from the beginning?

You got it.

All right.

Call me Nick.

Say what you should have said and go.

Okay.

All right.

I won't be Nick.

Okay.

Go right.

Jump.

Okay.

Jump again.

Jump again.

Get out of the way.

All right.

That's there.

Now jump.

You got to jump so you land on it.

Now jump again so he can drop the spot.

All right.

You haven't jumped.

Keep jumping.

I haven't jumped.

You still haven't jumped.

You didn't.

Why are you jumping?

You're just saying jump.

What are you jumping

about?

I think I'm on Nick's side on this.

You're still on Nick's side?

I think I'm on Nick's side here, too.

I think he just communicated it poorly in the moment.

In the moment,

in the clip?

Yeah, I'm on your side 100%, Gavin.

Yeah, but the point, I think, is valid.

It just is communicated poorly.

So, what's the point?

Because he can't place a block between you and the wall.

Hey, watch.

Watch the raccoon and the llama on the right.

Yeah, this is long.

This is Next point.

Take some notes.

Yeah, take some fucking notes.

Jump, place it.

Well,

that's what he was trying to get you to do.

Yeah, but I was also just trying to make you screw up.

With a delay, there was every chance that Jeff would be placing on my body.

How did Andrew host that game?

I don't know.

I don't know what you're talking about.

And I think it was a skill issue on the three of you.

We tripped over the Ethernet cable a lot, so it might have defaulted.

That is true.

But I don't think we ever hooked up to the Wi-Fi.

So I don't really, I don't know either way.

But

if you want to see more of that stuff, you can check out our live streams on Twitch Friday at 4 at twitch.tv slash regulation pod.

Or you can join us on October 31st at 9 p.m.

Central Time, where we'll be having our next Sloppy Joe's bingo.

Thanks for picking up that ball and running with it, guys.

Appreciate it.

He's going to get spooked.

Yeah, what more do you want?

I was fucking into it.

I thought you did great, Jeff.

If there's one person I can count on on that, it's you.

Honestly, Eric, I was thinking about all of the potential nudity we're going to have to skirt around.

Well, that's why, yeah, I mean, that's why it'll be a Patreon-only one, right?

Or is it going to be public?

Well, even Patreon is not safe for that, if anything.

Can you?

What if,

Nick, can you make like a blur circle that you can move around freely on the screen?

Yeah, blurkle.

Yeah.

Like, can you make a blurkle?

Blurkel.

Nick,

we don't need we don't need a blurkle we had that thing that you had before gavin that the yeah the bbc thing the bbc thing

we used that before yeah

there was a like a screen that they pop up whenever there was a difficulty behind the test and we would throw to that screen we did this before that's true i forgot about that

like a kid in front of a tv or something i vaguely remember it yes it is it's the test

yeah the clown that's right i forgot about that i forgot about that

So stupid.

That's awesome.

If you're Andrew and you lived in England and you get up to piss in the night and you turn the TV on, that's what you'd see.

Oh, my God.

In the night in the middle of the night.

That would keep me from getting up to piss in the night.

And it goes, and it goes, be.

We definitely should be ending this episode at this point.

I think Eric already did the outro, but I do want to leave you guys with an idea for a new show that I had.

Just to think on it, to ruminate.

I think this is going to be one of those ideas that I love and that Eric hates, but we will see.

Burndog was telling me when he was getting that image to me and we were talking about the Eat the Pencil stuff, he said that he had watched our Onioning the Car video.

He said he thought it was one of the funniest things we'd ever done.

And he said, and I quote, I could listen to you dudes argue in a car for hours.

And

that got me thinking, you know how, you know how Gavin's friend James Corden does Carpool karaoke?

What if we had a show called Carguing?

All right, we'll see you next time.

Bye-bye.

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