F**kface - An Announcement

Episode Date: March 6, 2024

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Hey, it's Andrew. I'm just setting the stage for this announcement. First of all, it's good. This isn't bad. I know seeing a thing just called the announcement must be terrifying. This is ridiculous. Great news that you're about to hear. This is something that was recorded back in December. It has been in the works for quite a while, and I'm so excited that we could finally talk about it. This is, if you remember quite a while ago, there was an episode where at the end of it, I discussed something with everyone, and I said that if we couldn't release it, then we'd edit it and put it out later. It is now a time we can release it. Get ready for an announcement that is absurd that I can't wait for you to hear.

And I will be back on the back end just to clarify because I don't remember necessarily the specifics of what's talked about but just to clear up the details of what exactly this announcement entails thank you so much love you bye you know what we can record is your thing that you wanted to talk about go okay so recently talking about let's plays we recorded a let's play and and none other than the game of the year ratty boy ratty boy everyone's Tiny little rat. Cute little guy. Everyone loves him.

Great character. Great personality. Nick's on board. Yeah, yeah. It's changed my way how I view weights. Whenever I see weights now, I think of Ratty boy and his struggle with climbing. So, obviously, that was so much fun making that video. It was a disaster.

I was dying. Nick was dying. Gavin got sick. Eric was annoyed. was perfect it was a perfect video you can watch it now on let's play as well you can't yes you can watch on the youtube channel you watch it first um but I was I was curious because I was like this is such a ridiculous game who made this like that's one of the things I love about the game is there's no credits on it it just you you see like a developer but but you can't, I couldn't find anyone

that had credit towards Rady Boy that had it, that like claimed I made this. And so I did some research and I found out it was made by a company named 909 Games and it was published by a company called Weakfish Studios.

And so I reached out to Weakfish Studios. I was like, hey, could you put me in touch with anyone at 909 Games? I'd love to talk to them just in any aspect. I can't find anything on who these people are. And they replied, 909 Games is an internal studio within us. We're technically 909 Games games it's all the same and i said that's fantastic i would like to buy the rady boy ip from you and completely own

the rights of the character rady boy and that was that was their reply eric was what what are you what are you talking about this is unexpected why like what are you offering and so i've been planning this for a few days now i've been going back and forth with the guy that owns owns weak fish trying to secure the rights to rady boy now originally originally it was full just I own the character from this point forward, but then that wasn't I couldn't offer a lot as a person for that. So we're looking at more of like a Spider-Man

deal situation where we would have the rights to Rady Boy in every context outside of video games. But they continue to make Rady Boy games and that's their life. So I've been active negotiations. It's kind of cooled off.

A little bit recently. I was hoping to have this deal closed. But I. I wrote a press release. For us. To post. On social. To announce.

Our big character acquisition. If it were to take place. And. There is no better way. To celebrate. An acquisition. Than with a t-shirt. So I reached out to our good friend Tony about coordinating a shirt that we could release at launch.

And so it's your, you know, you're a rat, Eric. You love rats. So this is the original design I had mocked up. I gave some instruction. This is what we came up with between one or the other no some great options wonderful art by Tobin

as choices I hate you and I hate writing boy I hate you and I hate writing, boy. I hate you. I hate you. I don't want him. Give him back. Give him back to me.

I don't want him. Very shortly after, I got a finalized version of the shirts. I said which one I wanted. So we have a variety to pick from unfortunately red was not available as a print on demand so these are the two shirts that will

ultimately be available if I am able to close this deal which it has gone a little bit cold well it's the holidays man it is the holidays if we don't get it should we just sell that shirt with, like, redacted over Rated Boy's face? Well, I'd just change him to fucking Bart Simpson.

I hate him. I hate him. So, I mean, I don't know why, because you're number one ratty Rated Boys, clearly. As it says, you guys love each other. You're always hanging out. I don't want him. I hate it.

You have the chance to be friends with an IP, Eric. Look how much you love Ray T-Boy on that t-shirt. I hate Ray T-Boy. I hate him so much. You know what? You know what? We were never able to successfully secure IP for the Smashing Sportsman. Maybe Ray T-boy is our superhero

protector. That was my thought. Radyboy, give him back. Give him back to the studio. I wrote a press release. I emailed Jordan Levin about this to see if he would like to... I wanted to see if he wanted to provide a quote

about our exciting acquisition, if it were to happen. And he very politely declined, which I respect. Yeah, you don't say. An actual businessman? Yeah. Yeah. So this is, well, this is business.

I have a press release. I'm about to read right here. Ratty Boy's news release. It is with great excitement we here at F*** Face announce something truly spectacular. In entertainment, whether we're talking movies, sports, or games, the need for iconic characters has never been more essential.

It's very rare for an iconic character to be available, but I'm thrilled to say that Andrew Payton and the amazing team at Weakfish Studios have come to an agreement

on an industry-changing deal. From this point onward, all IP rights outside of video games for everyone's favorite rat, Radyboy, belong to Andrew Panton. Weakfish will continue to support and own the video game side of creating

excellent ratty bogey games that we are excited to see in the future. We wish them nothing but the best in the future, and what this means for us at F*** Face and Uniform is the immediate inclusion of the greatest rat ever seen into our family. The future has never looked brighter for Rady Boy,

so to celebrate this monumental day, allow me to reveal this launch reveal shirt. It features our new hero alongside his number one fan, Eric Badour. We're so excited to deepen the Rady Boy lore and hope you're excited as we are for the future as it comes. Long live the number one rat game. Long live the number one rat game. Long live the number one rat.

Long live Rady Boy. Sincerely, F*** Face. So that is what I've been up to. I don't know if this deal will close by then, so I wanted to put this at the end of the show. So if we need to edit it, and I'm hoping it will come to, and we'll figure it out.

I wonder if the Warner Discovery stock will go up when the, the acquisition hits the news. Andrew, you are just the gift that keeps on giving. What a visionary you're going to, you're you're, it's going to be ideas like this that lead us to success in the future. Thank you so much.

Of course. I like that. He's once again, deploying people all over the company. And also emailing. The general manager? Emailing the head of Rooster Teeth. Who, you know, has tons going on all the time. Hey, can you provide a quote for Ratty Boy Adventures?

We might get him. What? Who? What? Oh, my God. Oh, that shirt. Oh, I want it. I hate him. What? Who? What? Oh, my God. Oh, that shirt. Oh, I hate him. I hate him so much.

I hate him. I'm glad. What have you thought about one of the things you want to like how you want to expand the the radio boy universe? Andrew, I mean, we could do so much because we can do shirts. We could do radio boy technically doesn't have a voice. Eric, we could do voice of radio boy. Yeah, we could do narratives. We could do radio plays. We could do... Radio Boy technically doesn't have a voice. Eric could be the voice of Radio Boy. Yeah, we could do narratives.

We could do radio plays. We could do comics. Like, there's no end of... There's so much we could do. Yeah. He could even show up in our smut. Oh, I wonder what kind of surprises we'll have in the smut. Who knows who will show up in our smut? This sucks.

Insane. I want to see an Ian Radio Boy face is what I want to see. He's countless. Oh, God. Merry Christmas, Eric. Yeah, thanks, man. What a way to end the year and ring in the new one

just with this insane shit that somehow has found its way to me. Jesus Christ. So if you're listening to this and you're not 100% sure what's going on, you should really watch the Rady Boy

Let's Play over on the Let's Play YouTube channel or on the Rooster Teeth channel. It's one of the better ones we've done, and they're all good. Don't get me wrong, but this one's like a good plus. Also plus also buy the shirt it will be available if you're listening to this it is ready to launch look forward to it's gonna be closed by then well if it is it might like it'll be very quick like everything is ready to deploy all of this it's just i need an agreement with them and look forward to the sometime in 2025 the rady boy graphic novel it's just I need an agreement with them. And look forward to the sometime in 2025, the Rady Boy graphic novel.

It's just like Ken Ken, but he's a rat. If you're wondering when all of this is recorded and if we know if there's a deal in the middle of this, I tweeted, I hate Rady Boy. I hate him. So find that. That's where it is being explained to me that I'm on a shirt with this little fuck. This sucks. I'm so excited for the beginning of phase one of the Raity Boy universe. Hey guys, let's not overdo it by phase four like Marvel did. Let's learn from their mistakes.

Absolutely. We gotta treat this IP preciously. We can't just be cranking out Rady boy shit god that shirt just means so little to most of the planet to so many never has a shirt meant so little to so many oh fuck

oh my god I love it so much Oh, fuck. Oh, my God. I love it so much. Yeah, it rules. Well, bye. Well, we already said goodbye, so we can just stop talking. Yeah. All right.

Hey, so just to clarify the finer points of the deal, now that it is done and locked in we acquired the media and merchandising rights for ratty boy well weak fish still has all the video game stuff they're going to continue to make great games with ratty boy that i'm so excited to see what will be next um and we have the ability to implement him into our other content as well as merch and uh it's going to be the greatest mascot that anyone's ever seen. Uh,

so get excited for that. I know I am. I can't believe that this was the thing that came together. I love how much it annoys Eric. It's just all around one of the best things that could have happened. So thank you so much for supporting us and allowing us to do these crazy things that we do. I hope you enjoyed this and I hope you're as excited about all of this as we are.

It's totally ridiculous. Once again, love you. Bye.