F**kface - Set Sail For Ass//Billy Ripken F**kfaced Himself [2]
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yourself in the foot for a laugh. I am your host Jeff Ramsey and as always thus, my co-hosts are Gavin Free and Andrew Panton, two millennial idiots.
Hello.
Hey, that's not very nice, is it?
How dare you call Canada's greatest gamer a millennial idiot?
What an insult.
How dare someone fart about with their microphone for 15 minutes like a total boomer and then
come at us with millennials?
Dude, if I was a boomer, we still wouldn't be recording right now it's only because of my my gen x sensibilities
that i was able to overcome all of these technical problems which by the way i have every day i like
we go into i go into defensive mode when i get called a millennial but it's like well i am a
millennial well it was meant
that it was uh it was meant as an insult so that's what i do yeah you were correct in being offended
hey so i uh i wanted to talk to you guys about something uh that i found out the other night
uh because i had some insomnia and i couldn't sleep so i was doing some research on facing
and uh i i found something to I found out
something illuminating. I wanted to share it with you guys. So face is a word that's been around for
a long time. Andrew and I started using it in a particular way. But it kind of came back into our
I guess, parlance because Andrew and I started collecting cards together.
Not really because I want to collect cards, but it was just something to do with Andrew.
And it's kind of, it's just like a fun thing we do.
We open basketball cards together.
He's not your son.
No, he's my friend.
I don't know.
All right.
You know what?
Sounds like my least favorite son is jealous of my favorite.
Jealous as shit, dude.
That's what I'm hearing.
Well, you got something that Andrew didn't, and we can talk about that in a little while too. Anyway, through the
course of that, Andrew started and I talked about like, you know, I used to collect baseball cards
when I was a kid. We started talking about like silly sports cards and we got in this discussion
of what is, uh, like the most collectible card of all time. And to me, a lot of people would say
it's probably like a Honus Wagner or Michael michael jordan ricky card or whatever to me it was a 1989 fleer baseball card of the little brother of cal
ripken who's a very famous baltimore oriole uh named billy ripken who uh his his 89 fleer card
is him holding a baseball bat uh smiling and on the the bat it says, F*** Face on the bottom of the bat.
And this went to print, and it was very quickly corrected,
but it became for a while a really funny collectible baseball card
that in 89 was going for like $1,000 for a brief period in time.
Like everybody was clamoring to get their hand on the F*** Face card,
myself included, I was 14, and Andrew and I were talking about it.
I lamented that I never got that **** face card.
So he very sweetly bought me a box of Fleer baseball cards,
bought himself one from 89.
And we opened up packs until we both got the **** face card.
I suspect, by the way,
that Andrew very kindly opened up all the packs,
found that there wasn't one in there,
slipped one in, packaged it back up and sent it to me.
I will go to my grave believing that he did that.
I considered it.
Honestly, what happened was like I sent you the photo and we agreed we're going to do this.
I'm very impatient.
And I opened I said, do you want the left box or the right box?
And you said you didn't reply for a while.
And so I just immediately opened the left box and then had tremendous guilt when I found the face card in the box and prayed there was one in the right box.
Because I wanted the card because it's a dumb, goofy card.
But if I would have pulled that that moment from you because of my patience, I would have felt so bad.
Well, thank you, Andrew.
That's very sweet of you.
I'm looking at the Bill Ripken face card right now. Anyway, the story behind that for years and years and years has been that
Billy Ripken was a young player at the time. And he was on the same team as his older brother,
who was much more famous and successful as a baseball player than him. And Billy got a lot
of good natured ribbing because of that. And the story that Billy propagated was that somebody played a prank on him and wrote f***face on the bat and he had no clue.
But the other night, during my bout of insomnia, I was reading about it and I found out, and this will be particularly interesting to you, I think, Andrew.
Bill Ripken admitted some 20 years later that he wrote f***face on the bat.
He f***faced himself.
That's incredible.
wrote F*** Face on the bat.
He F*** Faced himself.
That's incredible.
So like the pseudo inspiration for the name of this podcast and the fact that we use it as a noun to describe a thing that we do,
he actually did unintentionally in the creating of the card.
He was saying that it was a practice bat
and he liked to use a certain wood grain practice bat
and there were only a few of them
and they would get, after batting practice,
they get thrown into a big,
like a barrel full of bats and it's hard to find the one that you want.
And so he wanted to write something on the bottom of the bat to,
uh,
make it noticeable really easily instead of just writing like BR or whatever.
Uh,
so he wrote face as a joke,
uh,
so that he would always know it was his practice bat.
And then he just forgot about it and took the photo,
didn't even cross his mind that it was the F*** Face bat.
Then when the picture came out and it became this controversy,
he got scared, essentially, and pretended that somebody had played a prank on him,
which everybody would believe.
So the inception of F*** Facing was tied to this card, at least in my mind,
which I found out later billy ripken
faced himself so i think that's that's that was an awesome midnight like late night discovery
that i wanted to share with you guys and you said that he waited 20 years to come clean uh yeah that
well the interview i read where he admitted to it was on like a 20 something years after i bet like
the the day after it came out he he was like, I should really give this
four or five presidential terms
before I admit this.
How many trellises is that?
That's like eight trellises
if Jack's making them.
20 years.
If we ever get lucky enough,
maybe we can have the OG f***face
Billy Ripken on our show someday.
But I doubt it.
I don't know if we'll ever
rise to Billy Ripken f***face fame.
It probably depends whether or not he's trademarked f***face.
Could you imagine if that was a prank, though?
If somebody pulled that off on the team, how f***ing excited they would be?
That'd have to be one of the greatest all-time sports pranks, maybe any prank ever.
Well, and the fact that the f***face isn't upside down, it's right side up on the bat too.
Like it couldn't be framed better.
It was perfect.
The whole thing was tremendous.
It was probably, I mean, listen,
it's a big fucking deal to make it into Major League Baseball.
They say it's harder to break into the MLB
than it is to break into the pros in any other sport.
And I'm sure a lot of non-Americans would dispute that.
And you might be correct.
I'm just saying what I've,
what's been thrown around my entire life
is that the hardest professional sport to get playing time in is baseball.
So Billy, living under his brother's shadow,
I got to be honest, I think probably the highlight of his career
might be a 1989 baseball card that says,
That might be the most notable thing he did in his professional career,
which, you know, although he was a hell of a player to even get to the major leagues, he wasn't a standout star like his
brother. I mean, even if he was an all time great player, I feel like the face card is so iconic,
it would be the top. It's almost better that he wasn't an all time great because that'd suck
if that's what you're known for. And you had a Hall of Fame career. You think you could just
never surpass your Ken Griffey Jr.. and F*** Face that would be tough
as far as the other thing Gavin
I'm sorry that I've been playing
or opening baseball and basketball
cards with Andrew and we didn't
include you you know it's fine I've aged
out I get it no
you're in your 30s now you're no longer
young enough for me for my friendship
I would also like to point out that when I turned 40 You're in your 30s now. You're no longer young enough for me, for my friendship.
I would also like to point out that when I turned 40,
Gavin told me he was going to stop being my friend until he turned 30.
I mean, that was like a blanket rule for anyone.
I think I said the same to Bernie.
Yeah, and so there was a couple years there where you just told me we weren't friends.
Yeah, bye.
If my age starts with a 2 and yours starts with a four there's a problem sorry sorry andrew fuck you gavin
aye aye aye uh but gavin i have i have shared things with you as well like recently i started
doing uh something that i'm quite horrified and proud of at the same time in that i've been uh well i've been losing my mind in quarantine
uh sure as we all have uh and so i'm left alone for the most of the day with just me
and my recording equipment and a couple of lazy dogs so i've been recording my farts and uh so i i got i got a text the other day uh it didn't have any sort of body to the
text it just said uh the file name from a voice memo what was the file name new recording 20
which i hope 1 through 19 are actual serious voice memos and not just farts but
sure they're not and i so i got it i played it
uh shall i play it now if you want to sure
so i just replied this is the beginning of something terrible yeah it is so
i don't know man i was just bored so i've been voice voice note recording on my iPhone all of
my farts and what I've learned is that my farts are like fingerprints and snowflakes they're
unique and individual and no two farts are the same at least audibly so uh I've become kind of
fascinated with like the variance in my farts and And so I've started to, I started to think like, well, this is sort of a, this fart kind of reminds me of Gavin.
So what I've been doing is sending farts to the people in my life, unannounced and unrequested, and then just seeing what happens.
It would be interesting on a larger sample, once you've done this several times and I have like 50 farts sent to me, and other people also have 50, it'd be fun to compare the different types and eventually see
if you can filter them into the different buckets without, you know, without you being there.
I'll say, man, this has been, I think it's a fantastic idea. And this has been really
illuminating for a couple of reasons. One, I'm learning a lot about my own body.
It's never too late. It's never too late it's never too late boys and girls to learn about yourself uh but also it's amazing how upset people get a when they receive a fart
my mother was not jazzed uh she she was the first person i sent a fart to uh i feel like a lot of
your just living and existing is to annoy your mother in in ways that are so targeted towards
her like i feel like you made your old aim names kind of just for her yes yes uh i used to
we'll get up on a tangent i used to for aol instant messenger that's how roosterteeth ran for
a few uh many years there yeah uh that's how we
communicated before slack and uh our aim names would always leak out and then you just start
getting aim names like 100 aims a day from strangers and so i'd have to constantly change
them to things that i didn't think anyone would guess or have any uh interest in in aiming and so
uh for the longest time my aim name was set sail for ass and my mom wanted to
start aiming with me and she was offended by the name so she made me change she asked me to change
it so i changed it to delicious boner and then uh made my mom talk to me with that aim name
wasn't there also like my balls your ass my balls your ass was one of them. She would only talk to me through the one.
I don't know.
Different levels of offensive to her, I guess.
I distinctly remember getting my first delicious boner message.
Because I had no concept that you're going to message me.
I think we had talked like twice.
And I was watching a movie with my mom on my laptop.
And then top right corner just randomly
delicious boner says sup like pause the movie because I didn't know what it was
as like this doesn't look good I don't know what this is I've no involvement
with this I can imagine you just looking over her and looking back your laptop
closing it and walking away it was a very awkward moment I had to pause the
film and then I realized it was Jeff and it was fine but it's just who who is delicious boner why is this happening right now so so um the farts when when you send
a fart what do you want in return do you want like a comment a little review of the fart or do you
want it to be ignored i don't give a shit the reaction that you're gonna give me back it will
never match the reaction that i've invented in my head like i i sent you that fart
in my head three or four times before i sent it in real life to prepare and to kind of to kind of
like i like to craft i like to craft my own responses to these things especially when i
can't see you so then uh i'll just assume that that that that was the response i got and i'll
be very happy uh so yeah you were horrified in my brain.
And you threw up a little in your mouth when you realized what it was, which made me very happy.
But the thing that's been crazy to me is, yeah, people are offended or grossed out or weirded out.
But people are more upset not to get farted.
Interesting.
People at Rooster Teeth, at our company that we work for, when they find out I've sent farts to some people and not others, they get really mad.
Like, genuinely offended. Like, why didn't
I make the fart list? Do you not like me
enough to send me a personal
fart? How exclusive is this list
currently? I have sent farts to
you, my mom, and
Trevor currently.
And I'll
be, Andrew's on the list, I'll be sending
more, but a,
I don't want to shoot my wad all at once.
I want to drag this out for as long as humanly possible.
Uh,
and then B,
sorry,
just to cut you off for a minute.
I like you open this up with,
I was bored.
Now you have like a plan.
Like there's over 25.
You can't,
this is,
you have a problem.
This isn't an,
I was bored moment.
This has gone way beyond.
Do you have like a spreadsheet going for not yet?
Not yet.
I haven't.
I've considered it.
Yeah.
How else are you going to categorize this stuff?
I will say, Andrew, it's that level of tenacity that helped create Rooster Teeth and why we're all here.
I'd like to think I'd like to think that that with my boredom, I create and categorize and all of my farts and then figure out who those farts apply
to see that's the the grand scheme of things is I'm not gonna send you a fart and plus that fart
to me says you like the fart that Gavin played that's Gavin in a fart 100% the fart that I said
to my mom was my mom in a fart let me let me try and sort of find some adjectives to describe i'm gonna
have to listen to this one more time so it's definitely sort of up and down it's um it's two
ways sort of i would say you pushed in the middle yeah there was there was a build-up on either side
and a little bit wet i don't know what that says about me though here's the deal it's irreverent
it's silly the fart doesn't take itself too seriously.
And the fart presents itself and then says,
no, no, there's more to me than that.
And then comes back with a second wave of fart.
And that's the thing that I love about you, Gav,
is there's always more to the story.
Like, there's never, your fart,
the Gavin Free, like, fart personality,
it never ends.
There's always more to you.
I would like to craft a better fart.
And maybe as I continue down this road,
I'll get to a point where I find one that even more encapsulates you
and your personality.
Because believe me, if I could have made that fart longer
with more surprises, I would have.
I feel like over time, it's like one of those police sketch artists where you're describing someone but you're
using different farts and as I get more farts it'll become more clear what my
personality is through these farts. I think there's also there's some future
to this I feel like if you've record all your farts for say a year you could
potentially find the best fart sound, like the best, most satisfying audible
fart. And I feel like we could potentially take that waveform and print it on a shirt or Andrew
will get it tattooed across his forehead or something. Like there'll be like the fart in
visual format. Maybe that's the culmination of last week's episode, which is we want to,
we want to do some sort of a GoFundMe or find a top line sponsor to tattoo Andrew's face.
Maybe the tattoo is the waveform of the perfect fart.
I think that's perfect.
That's a brilliant idea, Gavin.
Andrew, no need to respond.
I'm going to assume you're on board with this.
I mean, I think the part you're missing is there's a million dollar exchange.
I wasn't just looking to put fucking Tide on my forehead. This is a million dollar exchange. I wasn't just looking to put fucking tide on my forehead.
This is a million dollar deal.
We got step one.
We got profit.
We just need step two.
We'll get there.
How many variations of farts do you have?
Not as many as I want.
That's another thing.
Yeah, I feel like I got like a fastball and like, I don't know, a change up.
There's not a lot of variation in my fart.
I'm working on it. I have, the difficulty with me is
there's a bit of performance anxiety.
When I know a fart is coming,
I got to get my phone together.
I got to get in the right position.
It gets very stressful.
I get a little, it gets a little hectic.
And sometimes the fart that I push out
isn't the fart that I had,
I guess that I'd imagined.
That wasn't the one that was in the chamber?
No, yeah. So that's been a real problem. And I have, I guess that I had imagined. That wasn't the one that was in the chamber? No, yeah, so that's been a real problem.
And I have, I'll be honest,
a lot of my better farts have just slipped out
walking through the hall or whatever
when my phone wasn't around.
I've left, unfortunately,
I've left quite a few A plus,
triple star rated,
just absolute honkers on the cutting room floor because i couldn't get
my phone out fast enough or i recorded it poorly or or whatever yeah let's say it's it's a i haven't
perfected the process yet but i'm working on it have you accepted that you're gonna eventually
record yourself shitting yourself i hope so yeah it's a dangerous game you're playing yeah that's
a michael jones i'm gonna send that when i shit myself dangerous game you're playing. Yeah, that's a Michael Jones. I'm going to send that. When I shit myself, I'm going to send that to Michael.
That's definitely a Michael, isn't it?
And I feel like that will be a different sounding fart.
If you gave me 99 farts and one of them was a follow-through,
I bet I could point out which one that was.
I bet you could too.
Well, Gavin, if you follow our other podcasts,
you'll know that Gavin and I, at least, I can't speak to you, Andrew, but Gavin and I have shit our pants a lot around each other.
Oh, boy.
And so you probably are more intimately familiar with that side of me than anybody else on Earth, except maybe my mom.
But for her, it's been a while.
There were times, like, okay, so when we lived together we we always had different rooms occasionally a different
building that we slept in and whenever whenever you were just without warning barge into my room
i knew something had happened like you wouldn't ever just come in and say hi you would always
come in being like hey i bought you a tiny motorbike and you would just leave it in the room
or you would come in with your boxes off and a load of towels and say, I just shit the couch.
Yeah, that's true.
I was drinking back then.
That was before I sobered up.
So, yeah.
How many times did you guys say you shit yourself?
Oh, God.
I think I shit myself probably back in those days,
probably four or five times a year.
Yeah, that's a quarterly shit for you.
Yeah, I was probably one a year.
Andrew, have you ever heard the story
about how Gavin shit himself seven times in one day?
That really messed up my average, to be honest.
Seven times?
In one day.
How?
In one day.
Oh, not only did Gavin,
sorry, I'm not gonna tell your story for you, Gavin,
but not only did Gavin. Sorry. I'm not gonna tell your story for you Gavin But not only did Gavin shit himself seven times almost each shit
Was unique and embarrassing in its own way like he shit himself really impressively in a lot of impressive environments
You know like when you're doing science and you want to change one variable each time and sort of measure the results each
Shit had it had a different factor to do you want to run down the highlights of
some of the places you shit yourself that day yeah i shit myself uh at a restaurant that was
the first one yeah um threw away my underwear the next shit was on a plane because i'd fallen asleep
and uh the muscles sort of clenching my anus closed had relaxed so some poo came out uh shit
the shower i shit the bed i think two were in the bed to be honest
and I just I just stopped changing my underwear eventually I was like I'm just
gonna shit my ass just at this point how but how did like you just like did this
surprise you every time I don't understand how this happens honestly it
was it was food poisoning and it was unlike any experience I've ever had
where if I wasn't actively holding my
ass closed, just shitty liquid would leak out.
And, you know, after like 45 minutes of clenching it all in, eventually, just naturally, you
stop thinking about it and you relax or you think about something else.
And then you just, it seeps out.
And when you're asleep, it's impossible.
I respect your commitment to the bed.
Dude.
Like after you shit yourself four times, you then go to the bed shit yourself in the bed and then decide
to go back to the bed that's yeah i mean i pulled the sheets off but it got it did get to the point
where i just stopped putting new boxes on because it's like this is just gonna keep going wasn't
this also during the courting phase between you and meg and you were visiting her yeah i think it was us
perfect
that was what it that was what it took to seal the deal huh you were women love in my experience
women love vulnerability they like to see a man who's who's comfortable being vulnerable i mean
when i saw her reaction to it, I knew she was the one.
Yeah.
She just found it very funny and drove me home.
I can't even take credit
for sending the farts out
when I was just sitting on the sofa
with my ass in the air
as if I were trying...
You know the position.
It's like when Trevor,
who also works with Rooster Teeth,
when he tries to blow himself.
It was essentially that position
and I was recording a fart
and my girlfriend Emily walked in and she goes, what are a fart. And my girlfriend, Emily, walked in.
She goes, what are you doing?
And I go, oh, I'm just recording my farts.
And she didn't skip a beat.
She goes, you send one to your mom.
And I went, excuse me?
She goes, send it to your mom.
And that's what kicked all this off.
I was like, I should send it to my mom.
That is a great idea.
And then it's like, well, if I'm going to send it to my mom,
I got to send it to my friends and my work family as well.
So it's like, you know,
when you find the right one, you know. Has she started doing hers?
No, she doesn't. There's a game we play in our family here that is, it's impossible that we've
been dating for over two years. And to my knowledge, my girlfriend has never gone number
two or farted. And it's, she insists that she doesn't do it.
I'm not kidding when I say I think that she goes to like a Staples,
well, pre-quarantine, to like a Staples or an Office Max in route
to take care of business.
Because now we live together, and we live together in quarantine.
And unless she's like getting up at 4.30 in the morning
and then going to the other side of the house to shit in the other bathroom, she's like getting up at 4 30 in the morning uh and then going to the other side of
the house to shit in the other bathroom she's not doing it she's never farted and never pooped
and i'm desperate to catch her in the act how's it so one-sided though because usually i feel like
you know once one person's comfortable farting the other person lets their guard down too and
before you know everyone's fine but she has still never done it in front of you never never once uh she's a burper ah that's her that's where she lets loose she she
even told me she's like you'll never experience one of my farts in your never uh and maybe if i
put a ring on her i can i can then witness that but uh but yeah she said like burping is where
i'm gonna just let it go and she's a she's
a massive burper i'm just imagining you walking around your house with like a boom mic trying to
catch sasquatch like this fart like you're trying to capture the rarest creature i hide in her
closet when she goes to the bathroom and then when she comes out i jump at her to try to scare her
to like scare a fart out uh and i've scared the utter shit out of her but i've never
uh i never scared the literal shit out of her unfortunately i can just imagine you popping out
of a laundry basket or something with headphones and like a dish on a stick like picking up sound
waves yeah it's like what are you doing something similar to that yeah we've gotten we've gotten
pretty uh pretty ridiculous with that she she likes to scare the shit out of me.
I like to scare her. We get real pranky. We've had to kind of put a moratorium on it because things are getting out of control towards the beginning of the quarantine. I gotta say I'm
impressed with your fart conversation. I thought you were I didn't know what you're doing. It's a
real art. You've sold me on that. This is an artistic endeavor that you're pursuing.
Well, thank you, Andrew. I'm happy to be
able to bring you into the conversation, finally. And I hope that I'll find the appropriate and
perfect pant and fart, and I'll be able to share that with you soon. I don't know if I need it,
but I'm happy that you're doing this. Are you a good farter, Andrew?
As I think I'm a pretty boring farter i don't think uh very
consistent yeah very average uh like i maybe have two variations i'd assume yeah what do you say
you got a fastball and a change up yeah i think i got like a fastball and change up that's about it
uh not a lot i mean i think i could probably if you put candles on a cake i think i could take
two candles out i think that's the maximum range in my range. That's where I thought you were going to
combine a farting. I thought you were really
getting into an ass game.
I didn't expect it to go art.
But yeah, I think I could probably take
out two candles, but that's my peak.
I don't think I could do one.
Mine are pretty weak, to be honest.
They trail up at the end. They all sound like
questions.
They trail up at the end.
They all sound like questions.
They're very ponderous farts.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
I did not think we were going to go 20, oh, I don't know, 30 minutes or so talking about farts today.
Should we get onto a f*** face?
Yeah, that would caught me off guard.
Yeah, well, Andrew, you had mentioned you referred to yourself as Canada's greatest gamer.
Very well earned.
I'm not saying I'm not refuting it in any way.
I just wanted to make sure I got the phrase right.
Why do you feel comfortable calling yourself Canada's greatest gamer? I think it's a factual statement when you own every Garfield Kart world record on Xbox. I
don't think like I need to sell it in any way. I think that kind of just explains all of it.
What is Garfield Kart? I'm assuming is it's a kart racer similar to Mario Kart, right?
It is. Yeah, it is. Some would say a lesser Mario Kart. Some would say better. I don't know who
those are, but it's like, a yeah it's a mario kart
and how did you become the candidate how did you become the mario the fuck what is it called
garfield cart world tour uh furious racing garfield cart furious racing garfield cart
furious racing they made two jeffs so it's clearly it's a big deal why did you buy it
uh because i really wanted to be good at a game that
nobody was good at and uh i went to the xbox store you know how they have like what's the highest
selling game i clicked that and then i went to the bottom of that and i saw what was the least
selling game and number seven was garfield cart and we we should let the listeners know that you
are incredibly competitive like you if oh it
was one time where i had like one better time in in a trials hd map than you and you spent like
weeks straight trying to beat it until you i spent 100 days beating your every single morning i would
do seven runs of the course and it took me a, on the 100th day, I finally beat it.
This was a track back in the Trials HD days,
which is, I assume, the late 2000s when that came out.
And I did this crazy run on a track where I almost fell off.
And it got to the point where I was like,
I was at the absolute tipping point.
And I just eked under this bit that usually slows you down,
but because I almost fell off, I didn't get slowed down.
And I ended up at, like, 19th in the world or something on that track so I was like no one I know is beating that and like a decade later you cut you come in and beat my time yeah
I'm so delusional I took that as a personal attack I was talking to somebody completely
unrelated to you and we're arguing about who had a higher like who was higher on the leaderboards
and so I downloaded it and you had all the top times on beginner and i was second i was like oh
clearly he tried to beat my times at some point that asshole i'm gonna get all my times back
and then i found out you just like had a game night with your friends that's what you guys did
had nothing to do with trying to beat times yeah we had three friends just got together we did
something called Trials Tuesday
where we all brought our Xboxes and TVs
to the same room and just played Trials.
It happened one time.
I played the best in my entire life.
Also, one of my...
I brought...
We all had our TVs
and my TV remote
was controlling one of my friend's TVs.
I was messing with him the whole time.
I kept turning his TV off when he was right near the end.
Oh, dear.
Oh, dear Lord.
So that unhealthy level of competition
and what's maybe the largest chip on a shoulder I've seen
in my 44, almost 45 years,
that led you to get hyper-competitive
in whatever the fuck that game
is called garfield furious car furious racing yeah it wasn't my first the first thing i have
there's a ben-hur xbox one game for some reason like they made that movie that nobody wanted
nobody saw and they made a video game for it that was free and that has a leaderboard but it's dead
shockingly they continued not to support ben-Hur, the video game.
So then I had to go to Garfield Kart.
And let me say, it was a very competitive four hours to become the greatest Garfield Kart player.
What happened after you broke...
Because you texted me and you were like, I now have the world record in every track on this stupid game.
And then 10 minutes later, you were like i have an
enemy yes the problem is it started as a joke but then when you're on top you don't want to
fall off that so now i'm incredibly serious about my garfield kart racing like as soon as i got all
the time someone else started taking times and i had a heated rivalry with someone that i'm pretty
sure was seven well this podcast is surely the death sentence of your top times. Like people are going to go out there. They're going to get the
game. They're going to knock you off the top of the pedestal. If this was back then, Gavin,
I would have been nervous. I've gone through like eight rivals. Okay. I'm the top of lasagna
mountain. I'm not even a little bit worried about it. The game costs like 30 bucks. So that's why
I've been able to hold it partially because nobody's dumb enough to spend 30 on a garfield game i would welcome all challengers though you could try you could try
you're gonna waste your time and money though you're gonna get dethroned before we film the
next one i'm gonna retire by the time we film the next one that's going out on top i think my
favorite part of this saga was the i don't know if he did the same to you, Gavin, but Andrew just kept sending me screenshots of DMs of him talking shit to little kids on Xbox Live and getting into these heated rivalries using Garfield puns to insult people.
It's a serious game.
Do you have any of those exchanges to hand?
It was, yeah.
It's a lot of when you race against me every day is a Monday.
Stuff like that.
Anything called field.
Lasagna mountain.
It got heated.
I've had four or five rivals.
I just don't know where this stuff comes from.
Like what made you, you're always doing the weirdest, most interesting stuff that I feel
like no one could write
what do you mean like what
started it what do you mean like why am I shit talking
just with everything that you do no just like what made
you want to do that
I don't know I just I woke up
I always had a fascination with like
there's gotta be a Michael Jordan of
basket weaving and we just don't know who that is
because nobody cares about basket weaving
I just find it interesting like people that are like insanely talented at something but
also just nobody cares because nobody is aware of it real fast I just like to say to the basket
weaving community that may or may not be listening to this podcast Andrew's views do not represent
the views of myself or possibly Gavin free I have have deep respect for basket weavers.
I have a deep and profound respect for you.
Please do not mobilize the basket weaving lobby against us.
Do you think basket weavers also get into other stuff,
like wicker shoes and stuff?
Is that the same field?
Yeah.
I think we're just speculating.
I would imagine if you're a basket weaver your
house probably looks like a pier one imports like factory store it's just everything is wicker
and just it just brittle old small pieces of wood every time you sit down you get that sort of
wood crushing sound like
but anyway andrew please continue talking
shit about basket weavers i mean nobody like i i don't i have nothing against basket weaving but
i feel like as a society we've decided basket weaving isn't that important do you know anyone
who basket weaves i don't know a single basket weaver i don't but i'm afraid we're about to
as i said i'm i'm on top of lasagna Mountain if they get there, if they dethrone me.
Now, if a basket weaver dethrones me, that'd be a hell of a story.
If any basket weavers out there.
You're still defending your titles.
Is anybody gunning for you right now at the moment?
No, I had a really heated one right when the Jordan documentary was airing,
and that was a real motivator. That was probably the closest I've had to losing a time. There's
one time I don't have, and it was glitched. I've confirmed with the person they can't set the time
that it says they have. I don't know how it happened, but I'm number two and one, but I'm
actually number one. It hurts me every time I see. I've reached out to the company.
To make that official, I think you're going to need to get them to sign something and have it notarized.
Oh, I mean, I have a message from them admitting it.
I made them switch what game they were playing to mail them a form.
Have it have them.
You can eat onerize now.
I learned about that from Gavin.
And yeah, and it's so that we can make take maintain that official status.
Also, do you plan? How long do you plan on being
the king of Lasagna Mountain? I guess until someone takes the throne, which I don't know,
years, maybe never. I think I'm going to hold these records forever. Why would I think otherwise?
God damn, Andrew. So how did you end up in the paper? Oh, that was, that's funny.
Yeah, I don't know.
That was one of those things where you wake up at 1 a.m.
And I was thinking about like, well, I've had rivals.
How do I escalate this further?
Because the bigger it gets, the funnier it is because it's so stupid.
And I thought, I bet you I could get the local paper to write about it.
So I just sent out this email to, I like submitted a story, a news scoop and called myself that
I was a professional gamer, uh, which from griffball technically true.
I was in the pro league in the griffball league.
Sure.
All I had to do was click a box that said pro to make me a pro, but technically I was
in the pro league.
So I wrote up that email.
I sent it to him.
Didn't really expect to reply. And the next day I got a response saying, I'd love the pro league. So I wrote up that email. I sent it to him. Didn't really expect a reply.
And the next day I got a response saying, I'd love to cover this.
I need to do an interview.
Let's push this further.
Which I did.
Was it over the phone?
No, it was an email interview.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, we did an email interview.
And then it was a weird thing where I didn't tell members of my family this.
This was in a paper that gets delivered to like every house where I live for free and uh I didn't really tell anyone in my family and then
it became this kind of big deal with people that knew me and then not they think like I'm actually
they think this is an accomplishment like I'm the Garfield guy when it was a joke and I don't know
how to break that to them like my grandparents think this is an amazing achievement. I have friends like it's
Ridiculous then I started getting asked to do radio interviews for it. That was fun. Are you serious?
Did you do radio interviews about it? I didn't end up doing any of those but I got
CBC which is like the main network in Canada reached out to me wanting to do a cover story for it
And I got a local like
rock station wanted to cover it too man that's either a testament to how unique and weird and
entertaining you are or how fucking boring Canada is I'm not sure which honestly it's a boring for
where I locally live because i remember like years ago
the reason why i thought it might happen i never thought they'd publish it in a paper
but i checked what's happening on local news and the top story that day was dog carries big stick
at the beach i was like i can get in i can make it into this i don't know if i'm gonna get rid
but there's no way dog carrying big stick on the beach can make the online site
And I can't with these Garfield times. Oh my god
So the island you cuz what you live on an island right I do yeah in your lifetime of living on that island
What is the most interesting thing that's happened there? Oh?
Interesting uh we do bathtub races in the summer. That's kind of like a weird, interesting thing, right?
It's like a unique...
People race bathtubs in the ocean.
And it's very serious.
Like big-ass ceramic or metal bathtubs?
Yeah, like, I think there are rules.
There's pretty strict guidelines for what type of tub you can use.
But yeah, people strap a motor to a tub, and then they elevate it on something,
and then they drive through a course in the ocean. half of them sink it's a big it's a
serious game yeah surely like a tub wouldn't float if a wave goes over it immediately just goes down
yeah they have to attach to some it's not just like they're getting tubs and putting them in
the water and going it's like they're put on top of a structure. I don't know how boats work. So it's just like a boat
it's a boat race where the chair is
a tub. I guess yeah
technically I mean if you really want to ruin it
Gavin it's the boat race
where they lay in a tub.
If we want to get into technicalities.
It's kind of like how they had that Red Bull
fluke tag thing right where you would
create your own flying machines and then crash
them into the water. Except this is
like the flush tag, I guess.
You said that these things
sink. Does that mean that
the coast along your island is riddled
with old, broken,
holy toilet tubs?
Yeah, that's a great question. I've never
seen one, but there must be.
The coral reefs now.
Yeah, that's how they're going to rebuild
the coral reefs around your island from global warming.
Jesus Christ.
Do you email strangers every day of your life?
No.
Why would you think that I do this?
What do you mean, why would I think?
Because every time I talk to you, you're like, well, I contacted a radio station.
Yeah, you reached out to 30 companies last week.
Yeah, I talked to Procter & Gamble.
That's a good point.
I take back what I said. I apologize for being defensive. That was a very good point. I did that last week. Yeah, you got shiter and gamble that's a good point i take back what i said
i apologize for being defensive that's a very good point i did that last week fair point yeah
fair point wasn't an insult uh no i don't do it you need to have a dumb idea or you need to have
a question or something and then you just reach out to people it's not hard have you ever had an
idea that you thought this is too dumb even for me me. My entire, I don't want to say brand,
but my lifestyle is based off of whatever the dumbest thing possible is do.
Like do that.
That's how I was good at griffball.
Honestly, my strategy a lot of the time was
what is the dumbest thing I could do that they would never predict?
And then I do it and then nobody predicts it and it works
and it looks cool, but it was really stupid.
Yeah.
You gotta outdumb people
i feel like i want to start setting you challenges like i know like if i gave you a task how long
until it's complete like if i was to say to you like get scammed today you would have to then be
like contacted by one of those scam phone calls and like give them access to your computer and
stuff but i reckon you you'd be able to get pretty much anything done in like 20 minutes why would i do this here's a challenge it's a challenge
here's a challenge i'd like to building off what gavin said how about i would like to see you scam
a nigerian scammer does that to be today okay well i got you know i got plenty of this my junk mail
is literally filled with this yeah okay every every email to your spam folder is an
opportunity for excellence they're all just adventures waiting to be departed on do you
ever get those scam emails where they claim you have footage you jerking off and you pay them
you get a lot of footage i a decent amount it's in the rotation right now i don't know it seems
to be popular those uh yeah those were all the rage for a while there and they were scaring the shit out of a lot
of gullible people it's a weird like what price would you pay to to not have that zero dollars
yeah i don't i don't think that would work for me i don't care so i'm at war with basket weavers and scammers is what i've gathered from
this well you're you're i think you've brought you drug yourself into a war with the basket
weaving community can it be a war if there's less than 10 you're gonna find out you're gonna find
out there's such a large goddamn basket weaving community you had no clue there's it's probably like a national sport in some country that you're not even aware
of.
That's my point.
I'd love to know if you're the Michael Jordan of basket weaving.
Please let me know.
If you're the Michael Jordan of basket weaving, the Michael Jordan of Garfield cart racing
has a word for you.
We should call this the Michael Jordan podcast.
Oh, if only we could wonder if michael
jordan ever faced himself yeah he fucking he gave up two championships by going to play baseball
that's a pretty big face right there it's a good point oh well is there anything else we need to
cover today boys or have we fucked our faces enough yeah i feel like we covered a lot
we covered we covered farting and Garfield.
That was a lot of farts.
Andrew started a war with a community that's as old as sheep herding and prostitution, probably.
That'll be interesting.
What's the minimum number you need for a community?
Two.
Okay, so it is a community.
I feel like the basket weavers are going to go.
They'll be gone soon.
People will 3D print their baskets, I think. And I don't think I like the basket weavers are gonna go they'll be gone soon it'll be people will 3d print their baskets i think and i don't think i'd call them weavers yeah that's a
that's a good point gavin uh it sounds like you're uh you're doubling down on on the andrew side of
this thing you're looking to uh create some strife with the basket weavers yourself i'd like to point
out i have no beef with baskets or weavers or any combination of the two.
I love all of my fellow men and women or however you identify across this globe.
And if weaving baskets is your thing, I support it wholeheartedly.
Unlike these two heathens who don't think you should be allowed to breathe the same air as them.
I don't think I said that.
I just don't think there are any of them.
100% they said it.
You may not have heard it earlier in the podcast.
We might have had to cut it out,
but they did say it.
I say get in, get out.
Time is limited.
All right, well, I'm gonna get out then.
I'm gonna do other shit.
I'll see you guys in a week.
Hey, who are you?
My name is Jeff Ramsey,
and this was this fucking show we do.
What's it called?
F*** Face.
You are... That was where you say
I was Gavin Free.
Oh.
Oh.
You asked who I was
and I fucking instantly
jumped to attention.
I asked who you are
and you're like,
die on the...
I was reading what Eric wrote
and I was throwing
because I don't want to do
what Eric told me to do.
I want you to do it.
So I said, you know,
throw it to you
and then you threw it back to me and Eric told me to do. I want you to do it. So I said, you know, throw it to you. And then you threw it back to me.
I wasn't expecting it.
I'm Gavin.
I'm Andrew.
If you enjoyed this podcast, or maybe if you hated it,
but there's somebody in your life who you hate more than the podcast
and you want to spread misery their way,
tell them about our podcast.
Tell them they'll like it.
Tell a friend or an enemy.
Like and subscribe leave us a review on itunes or spotify or any of that nonsense i feel a bit
like a heel saying all this stuff uh i usually make fun of other podcasters for doing it but
unfortunately it is uh i'm gonna cut all this i don't know i'm tired it's been a long week
it's been a long week it has been a very long week. It has been a very long week.
I got a bloody mental day tomorrow.
Do you have a mental day?
Yeah.
A lot of recordings?
All down day.
How about you, Andrew?
I'm in the process of a move.
I might not have a desk, so I'm figuring that out.
Do you wake up every day and then like,
the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning
is I check the turnip prices, obviously, in Animal Crossing.
Is this still the podcast? Yeah, I think so think so I think so we're ending in a second the set is the first thing you
do check your Garfield times I just think this is the shittiest ending ever it didn't end it's not
it Eric's Eric's losing his mind in the chat all right this is how I feel about turnips right
there's no middle ground at the beginning of the week, this is how I feel about turnips, right?
There's no middle ground.
At the beginning of the week, I'm like, I got plenty of time.
There's no day where I'm like, I should get my shit together. It goes from like, I got plenty of time to shit.
I'm running out of time to sell these turnips.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
I start to get scared on Tuesday night.
Really?
Yeah.
Shit.
I got to shift some turnips tonight.
Dude, I sold at $6.04 this week.
Did you really? Yeah, one of Emily's
friends, her island in the southern
hemisphere was $6.04. Damn.
Shit. Like and subscribe.
Yeah, do that.
F*** face. Love you guys.
What an ending.
That's gotta be... That's be you just started talking about turnips
you did could you imagine
could you imagine if you were listening to a podcast
and they were ending and they're like yeah like and subscribe
yeah so what do you do in the morning
do you turn up
it trailed off then you were like like, I'm going to cut this.
And then we just had a chat.
I was so confused.
Is this still the podcast?
No.
Oh, okay.
Got it.
All right.
Let's stop.