Regulation Podcast - Baseballs Round 2 // Alphabet Food Bet Beginnings [121]

Episode Date: September 21, 2022

Geoff, Gavin, and Andrew talk about the difficulties of the second round of baseballs, Geoff's arm hair, so much sunscreen, the queen, Game of Thrones, the serial chair breaker, groan tubes are in the store, food alphabet bet beginnings, experiencing stuff in the wrong order, our first office day, and sausage talk. Want to contribute to bits? Email what you can do to [e-mail]  Sponsored by Hello Tushy (http://hellotushy.com/face), Hellofresh (http://hellofresh.com/face65 + code face65), and Shopify (http://shopify.com/face). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a Rooster Teeth production. My name is Jeff Ramsey. With me, as always, Andrew Panton and Gavin Free, my two favorite people in the world. Sorry, Millie, but you're not listening to this anyway, so it's okay. What episode are we at? Does anybody have any idea? 121, I believe. See, once I quit chronicling year, volume, et cetera, et cetera, season, I just completely lost it.

I'll be honest. I was a fan of the volumes and the chapters and the years and the volumes and all that. I was too, Gavin. season, I just completely lost it. I'll be honest, I was a fan of the volumes and the chapters and the years and the volumes and all that. I was too, Gavin. I was too. I don't... I feel like we weren't against it as much as I didn't understand the system. I was confused by it. Andrew and Eric

refused. They were very against it. They were very clearly against it. They said, no. No more, Jeff. Fine, you know. We have no Nick and Eric today. We wore those little guys out this morning, Gavin. We went out.

It was baseball's round two. How'd it go? I'm very excited to hear about this. Well, let me, you know what? I mean, I know how I think it went. Let me ask you, Gav, how do you think it went? I think you came out there. You were potentially in worse shape.

You've been recently injured. were potentially in worse shape you've been recently injured easily in worse shape and uh you cracked out more hits than you did last time are you serious he i think you had a streak of about 15 hits at one point jeff that's i uh i had a good morning i'll say gavin is right dude uh i am in worse shape than last time I hit the balls. That is not by design. It is the unfortunate side effect of having the jock itch and the bike falls and the vasectomy. I just haven't been able to get on my bike or do any kind of exercise pretty much all summer. And so I came in about 10 pounds heavier and wayward i came very close to vomiting twice really yeah we i had

i had to take breaks to go sit in the dugout and pour water on my head yeah he had to sit in the breeze and he was just sort of led over trying not to hurt yeah i was i was very close to vomiting very close but i was able to hold it in um yeah and so we went to a different ballpark this one uh the fence was at 315 feet so not the i don't know maybe 200 the other one was i will say i fucking tried my hardest i did not hit one out of the park uh but i got close got close. Yeah, you're playing injured. I was pinging 270 pretty consistently, I think. One of them looked pretty 290-ish from where I was stood. Yeah, and I think I'm like a...

I'll go ahead and say it. I'm 100% sure I can hit one over that fence. And I don't want to make excuses, A, being out of shape, but B um that bat i use the same bat you know because the only one i have it's getting pretty gammy it probably weighs an extra four pounds and it's got like dirt and shit sticking off of it and grass it's probably like an inch wider than it was it's not the best bat in the world to hit the balls with anymore. But, you know, I prize consistency. And then the pitching machine this time was wackadoo.

I would say, like, Andrew, probably one out of every four pitches was a strike over the plate. Really? And that got pretty frustrating because I hit about 200 balls today, maybe 225, somewhere around there was my limit. And that's it. That's it. Like, from this point on, we're going to do it again. We have another 250 balls. That's going to be

where we do the... That's where we're going to... That's where we do the different dips of paint, and Gavin and Nick and Eric can hit, and we can just... Everybody can have their own color signature. You know... Let's get a better pitching machine for that one. Let's get a better pitching... Well, yeah, sure. Now that you guys are going to hit,

we'll get a better pitch. Cause I don't know if it came across in the videos last time, but that pitching machine is, it basically is like a, a leaf blower tube cut in half with a spinning tire inside. And every time you drop a ball in the tire grips, it throws the ball. But what you don't really see is that the tire is now spinning at like 30%

the speed that it was before so you can't immediately dump another ball yeah because it doesn't come out very fast so you have to wait for it to spin up to speed and if it goes too fast and it goes too high it's a nightmare that thing so is it the same machine that you used yeah it's the same and was it as bad the first time or has it just it's gotten worse it's gotten way worse fascinating way worse uh and it's frustrating too because like the first pitch will be uh nine feet high and then the second feet will hit hit the ground three and a half feet before the plate and then the third pitch uh hooks it takes a dog leg right at my crotch and then the fourth pitch will be a strike so i got i started

to get so frustrated and I just like, I stopped trying to hit dingers and I just tried to, cause I was just getting bored of like watching pitches go by. And I, I was having a lot of luck signing him. Like the signatures look way better this time around because I was liberal. I was Bernie Sanders with the paint dude. And,

uh, it was slinging everywhere. And so i just i was like fuck it i'm gonna swing for every single bad pitch and i was able to connect with 99 of them just because i wasn't trying to put it over the fence um it was just so much fun though so much i uh i didn't bring my big camera this time just because i need to use it soon for other work and i don't want it yeah covered in paint or smash so i use my. And now the back of my phone has a nice sort of bumpy house paint job. And there's a little bit of black paint on my green card, which I'm going to try to scratch off at some point.

Because I'm dumb and I left my wallet on the back of it. I've been pulling black paint out of my arm hair all day. Except for the right side. I was like, oh, weird. There's no black paint on this side arm hair all day. Except for the right side. I was like, oh, weird. There's no black paint on this side. I wonder why. And then I remembered over the weekend, or Monday for Labor Day, I grilled a really nice steak for Emily and I.

And I was not paying attention to what I was doing. I was listening to a podcast or something while I was grilling. And I squirted a little bit too much lighter fluid and I set off a bomb that burned all of the hair off of my right arm. Didn't cause any damage to the skin, but I came back inside, and I held it up to Emily, and I was just like, look at this, and she was like, oh my god, do we need to go to the

hospital? And I just like, I just took my hand and brushed my arm hair and it just all hit the ground and like little little burnt nug little nubbins it was that's really clear example of how Emily are different because if you came in like that my first thought would be oh my god are the stakes okay is that the stake on yet fantastic oh I think you're stronger than a machine is what we've established you're better built than the machine used to pitch the ball. You have only improved over time when it has lessened. Here's what pisses me off about it, too.

I hit a rhythm about 100 balls in. When I was like, I was really, really starting to see the ball. I was making contact nine out of every 10 pitches that I swung at. And I was hitting them pretty consistently like to about 250 to 275 dead center field. And that's also like right as I'm dialing in and I'm starting to hit my groove,

that's also when my body starts to shut down for lack of cardio. And so like right as I was like starting to feel it, I started to feel it the other way. And so it was like a constant battle between like, man, it's like the epitome of the mind is willing, but the body is this fucking dickhead. Yeah, I was thinking about on the way home,

I'm actually kind of mad at myself for the alcoholism thing. Because if I hadn't been so distracted by booze in my 30s I could have played so much fucking baseball it is so much fun and I feel so like I don't know maybe it's just like growing up

in America and watching baseball all the time and playing little league and shit but I just feel so connected to it like it just feels like I feel good at it you know like I want to do it more at one point after you came back for a rest after hitting probably 80 balls Like, it just feels like, it just, like, it just feels, I feel good at it, you know? Like, I want to do it more. Yeah. At one point after you came back for a rest, after hitting probably 80 balls, it was after you were slopped over trying not to vomit,

you just leant back and you were like, man, I hate this age. It's easy to forget that I'm the fucking 47- old dude out there doing that you know so are you gonna try to pursue playing baseball recreationally or do you think it's specifically the hitting part of the game you enjoy do you think you'd have fun in an actual game where you're on second base or whatever just wait yeah I would love to play like sandlot baseball uh I love I love playing I like to pitch um i would love to play i'm scared to death of playing infield it's too it's too much math it's too mean it's too mean it's like too much knowing which scenario to throw to so i much prefer to play outfield um but uh we're worst case scenario just throw the ball home you know you can't go wrong yeah uh

because you know it's baseball gets stressful in the moment it's all about making snap decisions and making the right snap decision based on the environment and but I don't think so because I'm just not good at scheduling stuff now

you know I'm at the age where it's like it's hard for me to show up at an appointment or to want to make an appointment and so I just like

life so gets in the way you know every day I just don't think it's a reality but I'll continue to hit these baseballs as long as the audience wants autographed baseballs i'm hence it is so much fun to do and i'm so excited to get gavin and eric and nick involved too there were i think way more

signed balls from this batch so i think if you buy from this slot you're you're more likely to get a a nice paint stain yeah interesting i didn't i didn't i didn't strike out a lot uh today um also uh uh blaine and andrew showed up to help uh not you andrew the eric's friend andrew showed up to uh to help uh catch balls and that was really appreciative too so i want to say thank you to them um sweet yeah that's blaine gave me sunscreen and lent me a hat plain gave gavin uh i thought he was being funny but i don't think he was no he was being what he was doing i don't know he brought a tube of the most viscous sunscreen it was like it came out like toothpaste and he just was squeezing it on my hand and it was like you got enough you need more and he just kept

squeezing it into like a big dog turd on my hand and uh i couldn't rub it all in hand, and it was like, you got enough? You need more? And he just kept squeezing it into a big dog turd on my hand. And I couldn't rub it all in. I was offering it around, and eventually I just smeared it on my shin, and I just kept a mound of sunscreen on my shin for the entire day. And people were using it from my leg and stuff. Did you see him use the sunscreen, Gavin?

Oh. No. I didn't either. Interesting. Colgate makes sunscreen, right? Oh. No. I didn't either. Interesting. Interesting. Colgate makes sunscreen, right? We'll see how you're feeling tomorrow. Man, can I tell you guys, before we get off the baseball thing, I encountered a little bit of friction with my girlfriend over this for like the first time.

Oh, no. Not bad. But like the other day, or it was actually last night, she was like, what do you got going on the rest of the week? And I was like, oh, I'm getting up and I'm hitting the baseballs tomorrow morning.

And she goes, really? And I was like, what do you mean? And she's like, you can barely walk. You just got, you're just now getting over your bike injury. Before that, it was the jock itch and the vasectomy and now getting over your bike injury before that it was the jock itch and the and the vasectomy and then the jock itch before that like you have been you've been a you've been a neutered physical mess for like three months and you're and do

you remember how you felt after the last time you hit the baseballs and i was like i felt pretty bad and she was like you were fucked up you were fucked up for three straight weeks and i was like yeah and she's like and you're gonna do that again tomorrow and i was like i guess were fucked up. You were fucked up for three straight weeks. And I was like, yeah. And she's like, and you're going to do that again tomorrow. And I was like, I guess so. And she's just like, ugh. And then today, I was so excited. I knew I was in worse shape, but I was thinking, I'm going to stretch better. I know what to expect.

So I think I'll probably fare better, right? Physically. And I feel, by the way, I feel fucking great right now. I came home. I immediately ran a hot bath, filled it with Epsom salts, got into the bathtub and thought, I'm just going to sit here and let my muscles relax and I'll be completely okay. I looked at my phone and it said 1219 PM. And I thought, why does that matter to me? I don't have a face till three o'clock. Why would I care that that it's why does 1219 seem bad and I was like so then I like slowly looked at hit my calendar and sure enough I was supposed to be at rooster teeth at one o'clock to do this interview show thing

and I was like god damn it and I had to rush out of the bath and then throw clothes on and then immediately I took a I took a I took a 45 second bath and then immediately go to work. I took a 45-second bath and then immediately went back to work. You now know my pain. When I saw Gavin, when he beat the Halo time, you can now relate to the sadness of realizing you have to get out

immediately as soon as you're getting in. Absolutely, dude. It's crushing. I feel your pain. It sucks. What's kind of interesting about all the baseballs we hit is that I'm pretty sure some of them were hit while the queen was alive

and some of them were hit after she died. Like, that's exactly what we were doing, I think, the moment Queen Elizabeth died. Yeah. My condolences to, like, honest condolences to everybody affected by the queen's death. I was very, very sad of it. Hell of a life.

I read a stat today and I texted to you and Eric. Jeff, the Queen was alive for 30% of all the presidents. She was the Queen. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? She was the Queen during the presidential, I guess, 14 different presidents. It's like 30% of our country, essentially. I mean, it doesn't shake out that way

because of how many terms a president had, but still, it's roughly. And Harry S. Truman, who only exists in history books, distantly exists in history books to me, was the president when she took over the monarchy. That is insane. Yeah, Winston Churchill was the prime minister

when she became queen queen and then she just put in the newest prime minister that just happened this week and those two people were born 101 years apart those two prime ministers that's that's she also she also uh presided over 15 prime ministers if i if i've survived for 30 of the presidencies 15 prime ministers but not the game of thrones books finishing i would be so fucking mad i would be livid be so frustrating she she was still born like 60 years before the first game of thrones book no i understand but it's just is they're taking forever they're taking a long book. If I was a Game of Thrones fan, I don't know if she read the books.

I don't know what she was into from a literary perspective, but I'd be like, what are you doing? I get it's tough, but it'd be so frustrating. I got news for you. I think we're all going to be frustrated. I don't think J.J. or George R.R. Martin. I said J.J. Martin. I don't think George R. george rr martin said jj martin i don't think george rr martin is

in any danger of finishing those last two books anytime soon and he uh let's just say he hasn't he hasn't lived as healthy a life as the queen did i suspect how old is he he's got to be in the 60s or 70s right i'd assume 70s yeah I just don't think there's any need for him to finish. If I was him, I don't know why I would finish. That's a weird thing. It's not going to please everyone. People are going to be annoyed. He's 73. Yeah, he's basically made something so successful that people are annoyed

at him that it's not finished yet. I disagree. I think that it will please, I think that the books will please everybody. Because here's the deal. The people that love Game of Thrones, the TV show, aren't necessarily reading the books. But everybody who reads the books will please everybody. Because here's the deal. The people that love Game of Thrones the TV show aren't necessarily reading the books. But everybody who reads the books I don't know anybody who's read the books who didn't like them.

I wonder how close the ending of the show matches with what he planned on doing. Very different. Interesting. Supposedly very different. Maybe he was thinking of doing it the way the show did it and then just thought It's such a weird scenario yeah it's a great it's it's it's a free ab testing right they throw it out there yeah it's like putting your book in early access

i'll do something different with clagain then all right i have a clip you have oh no not a clip gavin has a clip? Oh, no. What a clip. Gavin has a clip. I was informed of this yesterday, and I've decided to not be concerned. Because last time, I went on the aggressive, and it actually helped me. I don't remember what the clip was, but it's the first time that it wasn't directed at me. So this time, I'm just going to let it happen. I'm not worried about it. I haven't planned anything.

What's your clip, Gavin? This is a clip from an episode two weeks ago, September 2022. Previously, my chair had been broken for months, and I continued to use it out of the hope that it would completely collapse while we were recording at one point. And finally, it hit its last legs last night. recording at one point and finally it hit its last legs last night i ate shit and i was so disappointed that it was not on the show i had been hoping so this was after you talked about it breaking last time this has happened yes this was that was after it was broken but i was still

making it work and now i had to go buy a new chair because i cannot did it dump you off it dumped me yesterday okay um september 2021 uh yesterday my chair broke i've been using a broken desk chair since before this podcast started and my dream was that it would break while we were recording that was the goal i told the same story back to back. And yesterday I dropped something and I went, I bent down to pick it up while in the chair and the chair broke. Finally, it was the end.

Dumped me on the floor. And then obviously we've got... He's like, well, you know, we'll just, we'll figure it out. We'll see what happens. I move like an inch and the chair shatters. It just falls. That last one's from the 4th of July party. I like the fact that you are a serial chair breaker.

Almost once a year now we get a story like the one that you told last week. That surely wasn't the same chair. That was a different chair story. It just happened very similarly. Both in like right't the same chair that was a different chair story just happened very similarly both instant like right around the same time like it's about every september that's september 2022 september 2021 and then in november 2020 you told the uh the fourth of july one but i think you talked recently about how your chair was breaking and you hoped it was going to break it how many chairs have you broken i've broken three chairs you've just documented every all three chairs

that broke so how i don't know if i told the story of the podcast how the last one i had broke why it got broken was that there so it has armrests on it that like go up and down and it was a time in which i'd really hurt like i was dealing with an ankle issue that was really bad and so my bed is level with my chair and so i would roll out of the chair into the bed and then roll out of the bed onto the chair so i'd go back and forth i rolled onto the bed forgetting to raise the armrest and i took the whole chair down with me and that is what initially fucked that chair up because i took it i landed on it on its side and then it was chair three that was chair three yeah so what was the issue with chair two because chair two day before i chair two i

owned for like a decade and it just progressively broke over okay it was just a natural failing of it the the chair three had only a one year lifespan essentially like almost a perfect year and it's ever since that fall it could never fully recover and then i partially broke it a second time sort of in a similar way to the second chair where the front was tilted the entire time uh and then it just it finally gave when i i went into the tony hot grind mode trying to pick something up i that was that was i'm so excited for next year's chair story i can't i don't i wonder what's gonna happen i don't want any more chair stories i have a question here gavin are you saying that you've

been using the same chair this chair the entirety of this podcast? Yeah. Yeah, I got this chair in 2016, I think. How many chairs have you gone through? I'm on my third chair. Jeff's on the third chair. What about you? The others didn't break, but like, well, one of them broke.

The first one was like half. You know how like the hydraulics break on a chair and it won't stay up anymore? like slowly sinks down i got rid of one of those and then i got a second chair and it was just uncomfortable so now i'm on my third maybe my fourth chair honestly i feel like uh i feel like it's a this is a revolving chair podcast it is yeah that was i didn't mention it either that was one of my favorite things that broke on once i went into the tony hot like before that when it was really broken but not fully dead the hydraulics broke on it so every time i'd get off of it it would slowly raise to its highest point and it would shoot down whenever i'd sit on it was fantastic it's a lot of fun sad that

that chair's dead i think we should get you a chair that will last maybe a custom chair uh yeah i'm not opposed to that idea at all i'm fine with this chair right now i'll get a year out of this ideally and then maybe so is this a new one you've got now yes it is well relatively now i guess whenever the last one broke since that point yeah there is something i want to talk about that you just remind me of okay i saw a thing i i saw as it was posted i believe on the subreddit there's a tiktok of a cup that got invented they took some of the gerpler technology what it's a real thing i wish i could find you know how in my design document i pitched the idea of like a deck of

cards when you fan it out like that would be the top that you close there's a cup that does that we see if i can find the post yeah i need to i need visuals i'm confused if this is the thing that i came up with and someone else also came up with and created or if i saw it before i don't remember how i came to that point of designing the gerbler let's see if it's on the subreddit or actually i know where i can find it but it's if you remember like my cup ridiculous design it had the parachute it had the the wings on the side of it but wheels didn't it as well it had wheels yeah just so you want to slide it down uh but the main one of the main points of design was i wanted a top that you could fan to close so

it could be open or close so in the event that you're worried it would it would spill uh one second here um have you ever broken a chair kevin uh oh i must have broken one at work at some point i would imagine you've broken everything breakable at work uh well i mean jeremy broke my desk that's true hey while you're looking for this can i just say uh on a whim i looked on the store just before we started recording do you know what's what we still have more of that's still in stock uh grow tubes grow tubes grown yeah we have done a phenomenally piss poor job of telling you terrible that the grown tubes are in the store. I'm sure by the time you hear this, they'll be gone.

But they've been in the store for like three weeks and nobody has cared or noticed. We haven't posted a single time. I think we might have posted once like right when they hit. But we certainly haven't talked about it and promoted it like we do. But we certainly haven't talked about it and promoted it like we do. Like, if we could sell 1,000 Bat Nobs and 1,000 pink Port-A-Potty Tiki Mugs, I would think we could sell... I think the Grown Tubes are arguably... The Grown Tubes are great.

...were arguably more desired. For sure. And than those other two items. And we just... We've had like 600 of them just like sitting there collecting dust. And I just... I can't believe... I can't believe we've done... I'll take the blame sitting there collecting dust and i just i can't believe uh i can't believe we've done it's i'll take the blame for it it's all my fault i have i fucked up

this uh i in my head because they were at rtx uh and you could buy them at our convention then they had already been out and they had already existed and i just have not been able to flip that switch in my head well it's been it kind of came at an unfortunate time where they were available in our store around the same time we were filming Survive Block Island Meltdown. Yeah, that's so we're all busy doing something else. And then by the time like that was such a an event to get through that by the time we finished that, it just sort of, I think, slipped all of our minds for different reasons. Yeah, I hope I hope we do a better job with this round of baseballs because we put some work into them

today i'm sure we will and it sounds like all of the issues have been sorted out with the store as far as release time goes yes i think so i think so oh cool here we go yeah so here's the the cup so you can see it has a twist oh it's like a sphinx and lid oh yeah you twist it and you seal it and it's the coolest thing i've ever seen though that was part of my design you get the fanning you twist it you could seal it andrew you're brilliant i think i might be a little like maybe 10 cup genius i i don't think the other things are practical if it's oh if it's around the straw you could tighten the straw yeah i mean i didn't even that's an innovation i did not consider but it just it's weird to come up with something and then see it actually executed in a way that is better than

you could have imagined but it's still like the base idea is the same i think you need to do we still have access to online law firms i think that we should hire hire our lawyer to sue the fuck out of tiktok sue tiktok for yeah specifically the whole system what has happened with the gerbler why we have we sold those yet just talking about stuff i'm excited we're getting them we're getting them made they're being made i don't know what the status of them is but uh i feel like it's just the same thing we always say supply chain you know it's like shit's harder to get uh get manufactured um but yeah we're definitely making gerblers and i anticipate the gerbler being hopefully the all-time like best received best best sold item uh the face

has because i i really do think that that's a that's a pretty smart spot that gerbler I think it's too useful we haven't got them in our hands yet Kevin I feel like face nails useless crap like a bat knob oh what do you do with that what if we drill a hole in the bottom of every gerbler

no no I'm excited about using the gerbler you have to pay a monthly subscription for the plug to seal the hole I feel like it will be fucked up in a way that we did not anticipate I think that's locked in like there will be some issue with it

it'll be spelled it'll be like grubble or something. Well, just to round out baseballs, I just want to say I'm impressed, Jeff. You did a great job, it sounds like. I'm excited to see the products released. I honestly thought that you would have had a drop-off because I've never done the baseball things, but as somebody who did burgers multiple times,

every time I did burgers, I felt like I lost a little bit of myself. And each attempt after was a step back or it was more of a struggle, even if I did better. Like it just was a more difficult thing to get through. So the fact that you have only improved in your hitting, even though your body is in a worse state. Oh, it's truly impressive. Well, thanks, man, and I appreciate it. I will admit that I was a bit afraid that I overperformed

because it was in front of my girlfriend and her parents the first time, you know, which a lot of pressure. That could have, like, her parents could have walked away and been like, you gotta dump this dude. He's fucking, he can't hit a 45 mile an hour ball to save his life.

And we had no beans waiting for us this time. Yeah, no beans this time either. So it was affirming to get the feeling that it wasn't beginner's luck. I appreciate that. Wherever you're going, you better believe American Express will be right there with you. Heading for adventure? We'll help you breeze through security. Meeting friends a world away? You can use your travel credit. Squeezing every drop out of the last day? How about a 4 p.m. late checkout?

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I have one small thing, but you can do yours first. No, you do your small thing. Well, okay. I just need to pull something for it, so if you can do yours first. No, you do your small thing. Well, okay. I just need to pull something for it, so if you want to go first. Okay. So I feel like everybody was excited about the NCAP contest. And there was a lot of potential, a lot of possibility. And I thought it was a clever a clever contest and i uh i feel

like it had been a while since we'd had something like that and i think maybe that's part of part of what was so exciting about it uh having a good good old face uh competition going on and then it kind of fell flat because it turns out that canada has wider in caps than aisles right like like it would have been harder yeah to eat off the aisles and ignore the in-cats because all the useful shit is there yeah which also kind of makes sense if you think about it you go into a grocery store your your in-caps are where all the important shit uh is in canada you don't even have to go down the aisles so fuck them uh it's just where all the bad cereal is i guess uh but i want to i want to in the spirit of competition i wanted to come

up with something else that we could do and i was having a conversation with emily and she reminded me of of an actually i was reminded of an old uh rvb bit um that like a joke throwaway joke in rvb about griff eating uh based on the alphabet and then emily was like doesn't andrew have uh has that uh like bingo thing on his desk right do you still have the bingo machine where you can i do here's what i propose what if we did a contest and it could be one of us it could be all three of us i like the idea of it not being me. Where we put 26 balls numbered 1 through 26 into your bingo thing and you pull one out.

And whatever number you pull out, there's a letter associated with that number. A through Z, right? So you pull out the equivalent of the letter L. Now, for the next week, you can only eat food that begins with the letter L.

Oh, God, you could have some bad weeks. You could have a lot of baked ziti. So, what's the... The goal would be to go through all 26, so this would be a 26-week thing? No, the goal would just be...

It's just a random way to pick a letter. So we could just potentially pick three numbers, and we'll each take one, and that's our food for the week. Yeah, potentially. Like, Gavin, you could get B, and you could be like, oh, it's burgers all week for Gavin. And I could get X. Oh, B would be the best.

I could get X and have to re-pull because there's no food that's X. You know, you could get C and be like, I guess I'm eating a lot of coconuts and chicken, you know? Cheese. D, it's like, I hope I like dumplings. But you're confined to anything that starts with that letter. Okay, so let's do an important qualifier here. Okay.

If I pull C, can I have grilled chicken, or is that a G? Yeah, I think C is chicken. Okay, so any variation of it. So if I had teriyaki chicken, that's still just chicken. The T doesn't matter. Yeah. Okay.

Is that too easy there? If you get a C, it's pretty fucking easy. It is pretty easy. C is an easy one. What are you going to do with an N? It's a lot of nigiri. What if... I think this is a fun idea we could almost potatoes there you go you can have yeah sure you can have nugs i don't think you can i don't think i don't think that counts i really like this idea i know you don't you ideally didn't want to be involved

with this jeff but i think it would be fun if we each had the poll. Like now I agree. I agree. And what if we just do it for the weekend this weekend? No weekend is too easy. I think a full week, I think. And this is a thing that we could come back to in the future.

Yeah. I think like the next time we record, we pull our numbers. I love that recording on the next one. We, uh, we show the pictures of all the food we fantastic idea yeah do we want to do a thing where we pick what letters are in the rotation each of us it's got to be all of them you want to put all the letters in i'm just

i like the idea of potentially us picking like oh i really want p pizza i could live off of pizza easily that'd be a great letter to have if i put it in wanting it for myself but then gavin pulls p there's something that's it do you are you're saying that we should have the ability to eliminate letters like all like yeah like rainbow six siege like you're like no nobody nobody can play tachanka this game uh we voted against it like yeah like that kind of idea or it could just be all of them i just think there's a lot of choice we can make as far as how we select these letters and if we want because nobody wants like an x yeah uh apparently there's i've

had a list of 19 foods to start with the letter x oh well there go. What is one of them? Zalapa Punch. Xantham Gum. Oh, my favorite. Oh, Xavier Soup. Oh, I love an Xavier Soup. Soup combines dumplings with chicken stock. That actually doesn't sound bad. Making a hearty and simple meal.

That's great. Xavier Steak. What's that? Dumplings and steak. Steak topped with Worcestershire sauce, asparagus spears, Swiss cheese, and olive oil. That's less appealing, but that might be okay. Xiami?

That sounds like a lot of Chinese food. Dried shrimp that have been sun-dried and shrunk to the size of a thumbnail. These shrimp are added to a variety of Asian dishes. Okay. There's some stuff out there. If we were able to do it, I'm going to let you guys know now I'm banning like B or C.

I'm going to ban the most common letters if we do the banning. Otherwise, I say we just do the 26 letters. Okay. So do we want to do full alphabet or do we want to do a thing where we pick letters to be in the hopper? I think full alphabet.

I don't know. I have no idea. I think full alphabet. Full alphabet? How is this a food? Xylitol is a chemical compound used in many foods, blah, blah, blah. It can be consumed by humans. It's highly toxic to dogs.

You can't just have a cup of xylitol. Well, it sounds like you should. It sounds terrible. Well, let's just fucking pray nobody gets Z. Well, like, I don't even know. Like, foods that begin with U. What can you have? What about...

So it has to be the food name. It can't be a restaurant, right? So if I thought of a U place, I couldn't eat anything from there. Unagi. Unagi's good. I mean... Oh, God, this is brutal.

Does not get a u you get to eat something called ugly fruit i feel like we should have the whole alphabet in there and you get what you get some people might get very lucky yeah now okay so a variation of this, because let's say, as I said, if I get P, I could easily eat pizza every day of every I could go a month on pizza. No problem. Yeah. Can you use is there like a cap on how many days you can use a letter for? Like if you put P down, is it worth two days of the week and then you have to switch to

something else? No, I think that over complicates it. Well, we're drawing drawing I think it's already kind of complicated like we're drawing drawing balls for letters and but that's fair I just I just feel like it'll be because that was the problem with the end caps is that it wasn't

funny because it was easy if we all have one easy letter then I just that makes it funny though if someone gets a B and someone gets a q yeah like if if if gavin gets p for pizza and i get b for burgers and andrew gets q and he's eating quince okay well what about the quail eggs let's simplify you have to eat something that is from each letter you have to use all your letters within the week. What do you mean?

We're pulling three letters each, right? No, I thought we were only pulling one letter. Are we only pulling one letter? We're pulling three letters total. We each get one letter. Because there's three of us. Got it. I thought we were each pulling.

That's where the confusion was. I thought we were each pulling three letters. Because when you said it was already confusing, I was like, I don't think it is. Yeah, no, I had worked this at different. letters because we said it was already confusing I was like I don't think it is yeah no I I had worked this in a different I thought we're gonna pull like three letters each and then you'd have a choice

between those letters each day of what you can use see because I thought it would be like a tension thing where all fuck I pulled a Z in the first round I'm begging for like a B give me a C in round two that's what I thought in my head. Not that we each only have one to work with.

I got it. Okay. I think one is funny. I think one is funny too. I think one is funny too. And by the way, this is so for me because I'm with Gavin.

I'm like, is this complicated? I must be like a rocket scientist. I'm really not having trouble. 26 less? What? No, it was not. I think I heard what you said

created a completely different, more convoluted game in my head and then was continuing off of that premise. It's very straightforward what you're saying. So we just have to apply. So will A be one? One A, two B, three C. Yeah, I think like that, yeah.

Got it. 26 is Z. I'll get that set up for next time we record. And we'll use the English alphabet that'll make the most sense yeah can you guys think of an experience that was cool but was completely lost on you

it would be cool to a lot of other people but you were like the wrong person to experience it oh I've probably had a lot of those yeah I'm trying to think of hmm like impressive are you thinking like you went vacationing somewhere or you saw like some We had a lot of those. Yeah, I'm trying to think of, like, impressive. Are you thinking, like, you went vacationing somewhere? Or you saw, like, some, I feel like it's landmarks.

For me, recently, I was just thinking, I was trying to remember, like, all the stuff I've done in the last 10 years. Because I hit 10 years at Rooster Teeth. I was like, man, we did a lot of stuff in that time. And, like, our MLB 2012 video, which was, I think, the first let's play i was in after i came back was i looked at it and it was you know two million views or something and it just literally said 10 years ago like not nine it was like passed over to 10 i was like jesus i was thinking of some

of the other stuff i did and uh looking back through my phone i was like oh wow yeah i went to uh i went to like a late night talk show and i remember before like after i first moved here i was like oh wow yeah i went to uh i went to like a late night talk show and i remember before like after i first moved here i was watching more like talk show content i'd see it pop up on youtube more i'd be like and i was always confused i always got jimmy fallon and jimmy kimmel mixed up and i just could never picture the right one in my head for for the longest time and then i remembered i went i went to the recording of one, and I don't remember which Jimmy it was. And I know I've been to one. What is it?

What are the names of the shows? The Late Show? What's the other one? I have no idea what their actual titles are. The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, or I don't know, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, I think is what it's called. Yeah, and I just remember thinking like, man, I used to get them mixed Jimmy Kimmel Show, I think it was. Yeah. Yeah.

And I just remember thinking like, man, I used to get them mixed up and now I can picture them in my head better. But I know that I went to see a recording and I have absolutely no idea which one it was. And I'm just thinking like that would that was an experience wasted on me. Like it was a cool experience, but I just took nothing away from it. Like I don't even know who I was seeing. And I was kind of embarrassed that I went. And that's the experience i've come away with just wasted on me i would wager that like half of the video game shit i've been to uh like premieres or like

launch events and stuff it's just like at some point they just kind of like i don't know they just kind of like, I don't know. They just kind of all are the same thing. And then you're like, this would probably be a really cool, like E3, like after the second time you go to E3, you're like,

man, this would be a lot of fun for somebody to come in my place who hasn't been before because it's already like wearing thin pretty quickly with me, you know? Yeah. And there's definitely been some experiences for me where my cool experience was like an introduction to that game or to that genre and i'm not a fan of it at the time and then because of that experience i'll look into it and i'll get really into it and i'll become a fan

of the thing that i was at before i was a fan and i'm like damn now i would ask all these different questions yeah you've experienced stuff in the wrong order sometimes i have that i have that with bands a lot or i used to i don't go to shows anymore but i would like see a band and not know who they were or have heard of them but not be into them like there's this band i really like now one of my favorite bands in my life this band called hot water music and i saw them play live and they the lead singer got well there's two lead singers but one of them got so fucking drunk three songs in that he had to sit on the ground and prop himself up on a pole to continue singing. And I was like, this is fucking dog shit.

And these guys suck. And then six months later, I was the biggest fan of that band ever. And there's been a lot of those. So it's like, I wish I could see them again and know the lyrics to the songs and appreciate them, you know? Yeah. I'm sure I've had a lot of those. Nothing comes to mind. I've had times where maybe I didn't understand the value of the experience necessarily.

Yeah, exactly. So like I had one where it was back when I was just doing Achievement Hunter stuff behind the scenes. I went through a phase where I was trying to get was just doing Achievement Hunter stuff behind the scenes I went through a phase where I was trying to get early game copies for the office and I had developed a contact at Sony and kind of became friends with them like very that's friends is a strong word but we communicated and was friendly and then I got an email randomly saying that I was invited to PlayStation's behind the scenes E3 showcase that year. And I had no plans on going to E3.

It was back when Rooster Teeth would go to E3. And so I forwarded it, forwarded it to Trevor, I believe. I don't remember who I sent. I sent to someone who's like, hey, I got invited to this thing. Do you want like do we want to cover this? Does somebody in the office want to go in my place? Because we have an invite. I just can't. I'm obviously not going and it was like yeah sure well we could

reach out to them so then i emailed the pr person back at sony and the vibe i got was very much like no we don't just give these away we can't just no you can't just give your invite to somebody else like i think they took it as like this very uh prestigious like exciting thing to be part of that you would see these games and so for me to write back cool can i give this to somebody else they were not thrilled with that response and i never got a reply back on it was essentially just yeah we do not like we're gonna have to talk about if we're okay with this and i never heard past that point but that is an experience where i just i thought it was like sort of an an open invite type thing and i think it was more behind closed doors than i realized companies that value themselves very highly are incredibly easy to piss off

that is that is very true i have pissed off a few companies in my day. Yeah, that's definitely true. Hey, I realized something that we didn't talk about yet that we probably should fucking talk about. It just completely slipped my mind. We had our first office day. Oh, yeah. We did. We had an office day.

I forgot to mention that. And it was wildly successful, I thought. I thought it was a lot of fun i didn't really honestly know what to expect going into it i'm excited for the next one because i feel like i have a better idea for it and uh i can plan more accordingly yeah so like the way it worked is we you know i had this idea i presented it to y'all y'all loved it eric took it to face jam another podcast on the network. They did it first and then bragged constantly

about how successful it was and how they came up with a bunch of new shows. And so, but what I thought put a lot of pressure on us. Oh, definitely. 100%.

And I'm sure nobody else on Earth felt the pressure but us, the three of us. And probably Gavin didn't feel it at all, but I certainly did. Like, these motherfuckers

took our idea and they're going to do it better than us now we gotta outperform I just think you're a cooler customer I don't think you're affected by stuff I'm so I'm so nervous about the show did I tell you about the freak out I had a couple of weeks ago no you know like when you

have a little bit of anxiety and you wake up from something that usually you'd be able to fall back asleep to but instead your brain just starts thinking in insane loops i woke up extremely worried about how i couldn't put my finger on the fact that this show i couldn't i couldn't figure out why this show works i was like we're making it and it's good and i don't know how we're doing it. I was just freaking out because I couldn't put it into words.

What's working about it? What are the pitfalls to avoid? When is it going to become shit and people don't like it anymore? I can't believe it's still alright. I was just freaking out. Oh, man. That's terrible. I love how passionate

you are about this show. And I share your trepidation and your fears. I constantly am nervous about F*** Face. It really does feel like somehow we captured lightning in a bottle. And I honestly, it's best just not to think about it. If at all possible. But to go back, I certainly wasn't trying to insult you in any way that you don't care about face. I just feel like you're just a cooler customer.

You're more unflappable. You're harder to get under your skin about this kind of stuff. You know what it felt like to me, Jeff? What's that? The Eric thing in the face. It would be like if we had just invented basketball and he immediately showed us Steph Curry. As to what we had to compete against. just invented basketball and he immediately showed us Steph Curry like we just had this basic idea of how this could work and then it might be

beneficial and immediately like oh yeah no we had amazing we did all these amazing things he's like yeah I really liked it the whole idea where you put the ball in the basket here's a windmill dunk yeah yeah meanwhile we're trying to staple the hoop to the back wheel exactly how do you make a ball out of Meanwhile, we're trying to staple the hoop to the back wheel. Yeah, exactly.

How do you make a ball out of paper? But let's run through it. So we had it, and I felt very good about it. We agreed to be at work at a certain time, and then we Zoomed in Andrew. I got there a little early. I grabbed a whiteboard. And first off, by the way, there was some subtle whiteboard aggression going on that I feel like I got to call out.

Well, you talked about it in Sausage Talk. Oh, yeah. Well, never mind. I won't talk about it because you'll have to listen to Sausage Talk. We should probably talk about what that is. to listen to sausage talk we should probably talk about what that is so uh grab the whiteboard wrote down a bunch of ideas for like merch and thought starters and just like directions we want to go things things that are like like dangling shit that's dangling out there that we need to like tie a bow on and figure out and then everybody came in and we sat around well first off gavin

showed up a little later eric and andrew and i had the funniest conversation i've ever had i don't remember what it was but i just remember like, we got to stop talking because this is immediately content. I remember what it is. I actually have it in my notes for a thing to talk about because it's a topic that I've had. You and Eric unknowingly put a whole different angle on a thought I previously had that I've talked to Gavin about.

I feel like being able to see a place and this kind of sounds counterproductive, but being able to see a place makes me want to visit it more than if we were in a time period in which that thing would just have to be described. And my example of this is, you know, that place in Greece where it's like all the white houses and like the blue roofs. Yeah. Like to see that visually beautiful. If you met somebody who traveled all that way, let's say they had to like take a boat like this is planes maybe

not around in a world in which travel is difficult they went there came back and tried to explain why you needed to go there's no way they could sell me on it yeah white houses and blue i could do that like i could i just paint my house there's nothing impressive about that so i was gonna it made me wonder how far would i be willing to travel for something like that and honestly probably not more than four blocks i wouldn't go further it's gonna take a lot if you just describe a landmark to me it's gonna be very difficult for me to be willing to leave my city to see what about this what about this one? I'm just... There was a... Maybe...

Okay, so when Jeff and I were in Belgium, we went through an alleyway that was the best smelling alleyway we'd ever smelled. Probably some waffles. This is like an old story from the old podcast. How far would you travel to smell the best alleyway that you've ever smelled? I've had some probably my life i've got it no i don't know about that food is definitely more of a needle mover for me 100 but i'm thinking like it smells pretty goddamn good outside my hubby's bagel sometimes

like i don't i don't feel like i'm like you got good you got good smells i feel like i got good smells in my area i'm telling you this would blow it out of the water. Yeah, he's not kidding, dude. Like I think I still think about it sometimes without hyperbole, like that'd be silly. It was like,

it was unreal. And it might've been like, it might've been like the most satisfied I've ever been in my life in a moment was in that alleyway, just looking left and looking right and it smelled just as good in both directions and I can't even put into words the smell of this just like old world mixed with waffle mixed with whatever the fuck else is in Belgium it was like it was it was I would fly there again just to go to that alleyway I feel

like my heart could smell it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you weren't even smelling it with your nose, right? You were smelling it with your... You were smelling it with your spirit. Yeah. I would go... So has that moved the needle beyond four blocks for you? Yeah, I would go to the next town over to smell that alleyway.

I'm not leaving my province or state, but I would go one town over for that. That sounds pretty good. But what I would... You're also a person who doesn't like going downstairs so i feel like that's pretty good well not necessarily i'm open to it i just need an experience that moves me that sounds moving i could go there once the stairs also you're you're like creating an additional hurdle once i get past the stairs i'm willing to go wherever it's just this you need to convince me to go through the stair no i'll go i'll go way beyond that but what

got it changed what i had never considered and this is what was so fucking funny i don't remember what it was called but eric was showing jeff what these there was like a type of long dog it was a dog breed that is so weird especially eric loves those the he's a big fan of the long dogs and it turned into a conversation of like what if your point of reference for animals was was very simplistic and being like seeing a giraffe and being like you would not believe the fucking dog i saw it was so goddamn long believe the neck on this horse i would travel the globe if somebody described to me an animal that they encountered that I could see. If they were like, you will not believe this fucking horse and it's a giraffe.

I'm all in about that. That moves me. Yeah, that's what we're ever for that. That's what it was. Eric just tried to describe like how to describe an elephant to somebody who's never heard of or seen an elephant before. You're like, no, trust me. It's as big as a house. It's big.

And it's nose touches the ground. And its ears are like, its ears are the size of three men standing next to each other. And you'd be like, you're fucking crazy. That doesn't exist. Andrew, how far would you travel to see a chair?

It was an animal that looked exactly like a wooden chair. Imagine like the first, the cheapest chair in The Sims, but it was like a sentient creature. How would you, how far would you go to see that? Walking around, eating. Oh, I'm, we're going on a boat. I don't care if we gotta cross the globe. I'm getting on a boat for that. I will go to a different part of the world to see the chair animal.

A hundred percent. I will be so mad the entire time I'm on the boat. I'll be like, Jim better not have fucking lied about what this animal is. I'm going to be so goddamn mad. I make it to Ireland

and there's no goddamn chair animals. Well, I think that the fear we had on that office day morning that what we were creating was content was founded because this was clearly content uh about i went we just say like a half an hour into the thing we decided just to record uh what we were talking about and in kind of in the spirit of uh eric's eric's job

supplement yeah that we made where it was just eric trying to schedule us for 26 minutes so we recorded about an hour and 15 minutes of us just like office talk. And we called it, we decided that like, this is either going to be episode, the next episode of face, or it's going to be its own show. I think it was different enough to be its own show,

but we, we described it as like a peer behind the veil or like getting to see how the sausage is made. And then Gavin didn't understand that reference so it became sausage talk and so i think we've got a new show coming out at some point called sausage talk that's just us talking about like i guess the behind the scenes shit yeah it's it's a weird thing because i don't think it was necessarily all that funny but i think it's an interesting insight into...

It's also the very first production meeting we've ever had for F*** Face anything. Yes. It's kind of fun that that was recorded. We didn't want it to be an episode of F*** Face just because we got the disadvantage of we're all in the same room except for Andrew. Yeah. I remember going home from that and remembering the name Sausage Talk, and I was trying to remember the phrase that it came from because I kept forgetting

it and I was like, what was it? It's like peek behind the sausage. I just couldn't remember and I was like trying to apply sausage to all these like you'd have to move a sausage to see what was So anyway, I don't know when it's coming out. It may already be out. It may be out before this episode. I don't know.

But there is supplemental content either that just hit or that's coming out, it may already be out. It may be out before this episode. That's actually a great point. Yeah. But there is supplemental content either that just hit or that's coming called Sausage Talk. I guess we'll record one every Office Day. So once a month. So there'll be 12 of those a year.

Unless we're using Office Day for something like the pizza video or... Or hitting baseballs or whatever. Or MVP, which is coming, I think, next week.

Oh, no, it's not because... Nope. It was meant to be tomorrow, but then we realized that big uno stream is tomorrow yeah yeah uh so uh also uh we promised uh at some point in in face that y'all would do a like your recap of your experience of survive black island together and so after we filmed sausage talk episode one volume one year one we filmed uh that and i i'll say no more about that other than it was i think it went about 45 minutes was that interesting at all because i felt very in my own head about that i wasn't sure if i was clear at all i felt very convoluted that day no no i

think it is and i think eric felt it was very interesting. And I think because I asked him the same question, because you and I, like the three of us were like involved in the production. So we were pretty in the weeds with it. And you, it's kind of hard to have a perspective sometimes. We were pretty, we were deep in the sausage. We were knee deep in the sausage weeds. And Eric assured me that it was pretty good. I do think that we wrapped it up at about the right time.

I do feel like if it had gone on much longer, it would have started to drag. I feel like it is one of the few things we've made as this face team where it wouldn't stand alone as a piece of content. You actually need to have seen Survive Block Island, I think. And if you listen to it, every second of that series will be spoiled.

So make sure you watch it first if you have any interest in watching it. Yeah. I only have one regret from that recording. There's one thing I should have brought up that I completely forgot about. But maybe we'll talk about that later. Talk about it next sausage.

You could do an add-on. A little pickup. Nah, I don't think it's worth... It's like a weird... It's weird that we didn't mention it, but not worth it being an add-on. I'll talk to you about it. It's like a weird. It's weird that we didn't mention it, but not worth it being an add-on. I'll talk to you about it after we record. All right.

Speaking of, should we stop? Yeah, I guess we should wrap up. This is fun. This is a really relaxed, nice hour. It was really great catching up with the two of you. Eric got off lightly by not being here because unfortunately it didn't like to happen. Extra Medium was going to come up again based on some stuff I've read because unfortunately, especially if it didn't want it to happen,

Extra Medium was going to come up again based on some stuff I've read in the comments of this podcast. So thanks to all the comment leavers who have filled me in over something he was saying

on Face Jam. And we will be taking that up with him in the next recording. Dude, I'm excited because I have no idea what it is, but I do know that Eric

is fucking over the Extra medium talk, which only makes me want to dive deeper into it. Oh, it's so good. And I guess this will be the last one of these we record for, because we're not doing next week, right? But we'll do the following week? Yeah, I believe that's correct.

I'm going to do two, I imagine. I assume so. Love you both dearly. Gavin, have a fantastic vacation. Thank you. Andrew, I hope you don't have to travel as far as four blocks if you don't want to. And we'll see you guys next time on F*** Face. Bye.

That felt weird. The bye felt weird. That was a weird bye. That was a weird bye. Gavin typically goes bye. And then I think to myself, I should say buy, but I never say anything.

You said buy as if you were just sitting down in a lounger. It sounded guttural to me. It did. It was low. It was guttural. You're right. I was like,

I'm going to just shut up. It's like, here's what that buy was. Your dad goes to work all day long. He works in a factory. He comes home. He's no fucking fun at the end of the day he sits down he's eating his dinner and your and your mom is like i'm gonna

go play bingo or with my friends and he's like bye and he like raises him like i don't give a fuck get out i'm so fucking done with these people and this yeah i would apply that to some like uh remember jeff when we would record an entire let's play and then the power go out we'd lose Every single piece and then we'd have to sit down again to record it immediately It was it was a buy from that sort of mindset yeah, can I try it again? Can I try to do different a proper Gavin by yeah? Let's have a very distinct in the moment redemption. Why are you making this about me because you have a very distinctive by I'm gonna I'm gonna try to hit it okay. You're're very self-conscious this episode buddy you're like it's good if

I well you stepped over Gavin's laugh try it again bye that a little loud was that good be honest why is it discord I'm only hearing I yeah you're cutting you get the beginnings getting cut off okay so I'm gonna talk a little bit and then gonna immediately treat by that sounds like that is like you're crossing the road and a car is like come up the curve a little bit All you can hear is like I Give up I surrender Goodbye stop dude don't do it that way it's weird Goodbye Stop dude don't do it that way it's weird

It's creeping me out Bye bye Now that was a weird one Really? It's fine Hey guys Major League Fan Jack here with a look at next week's episode of F*** Face Once again the guys couldn't be bothered to record an episode

So here are some predictions The hockey teeth are fixed Where did we put the tuxedo? Jeff hurt himself whacking balls be bothered to record an episode, so here are some predictions. The hockey teeth are fixed. Where did we put the tuxedo? Jeff hurt himself whacking balls. Gavin isn't here anymore. Hinton is well on his way to half a million. Eric is flustered. And once again, Andrew does not eat the pencil. All that and more on next week's episode of F*** Face. We'll see you next time.