Regulation Podcast - Emotional Noises // Achieving the Ultimate Nap [5]

Episode Date: June 12, 2024

Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about how Andrew gets water now, the opera, trail mix debate, toss your candy salad, Euros bet, Craigslist, Geoff breaking gas pumps, Geoff blindsides Geoff via mosquitios, pantry app, naps, hand pies, lawn guy, Clipped, and number 1 songs. COOKBOOK is out now in PDF on Patreon.com/theregulationpod Support us directly at patreon.com/theregulationpod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah, I agree. I don't know why that was a weird reaction. Yeah, Jeff. What was weird about my reaction? I just laughed. You guys are comedians being funny. Shouldn't I laugh? Wait, who's being weird?

Me or Jeff? I think he's saying I'm being weird because I laughed because I think that you guys are in a bad mood. There was a tone of Gavin's in a bad mood by Jeff with that laugh. I don't think Gavin's in a bad mood at all. I just spent like two hours playing video games with him. Gavin was great. What are you talking about?

Perfect afternoon so far. Yeah. I'm just saying that that's what the tone that was delivered. That was intentional, but that is how it kind of came across to me. I feel like if anybody's in a bad mood, it's probably the one who's pointing fingers at other people for being in a bad mood.

Oh, I'm in a great mood. Just being honest with you. I had a 20-minute nap between our gear session. I was in the Discord the whole time for it. Is it a bad mood finger pointer? No, I don't think so. I'm just happy. We haven't even started a podcast yet, and Andrew's already put it in.

We'll start it. All right, should we get to it? I think Nick's in a bad mood. What? No, we fed him this morning for 100% eat. He's in a great mood. Yeah. All right, here we go.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Regulation Podcast. My name is Jeff Ramsey, and with me, as always, Andrew Panton, Gavin Free, Nick Schwartz, and Eric Badour. This is episode five, which is- I know a lot more about water. I get it. Episode 209 or something, maybe? I don't know.

Who can tell? I've learned this thing too yeah do you want to go into it do you want to tell us everything you learned well it's i i figured it out i mean you guys gave a good helping hand last episode i i really pieced it together later myself when i i equated it to electricity just because like the electricity it's always going if i flip the switch then it i use it but it's always there. If I flip the switch, then it, I use it, but it's always there. It's not like I'm creating electricity when I flip the switch. Much like water. Water's always going.

It's always, it's always on the move. Just because I have the thing twisted doesn't mean I'm creating water. It's just, I'm pulling from a resource. You thought you were inventing water out of thin air water like alchemy well no just like i thought you know if i had the thing twisted i was pulling from the water supply that wasn't like i was initiating water being created essentially i i guess yeah not that i was creating water but like i was initiating a pull for water like you were requesting water and it was being sent over.

Yes, exactly. Okay, so you were like, you requisitioned water and then they delivered it. Yeah, but that's not how that worked. It's a bunch of doors and it's always actually moving, much like electricity.

It's always going. I just flip the switch to tap into what's already there. Not that I am actually creating electricity you know what as well what gas i don't even i don't i can't see it so i don't want to even get into that you know you know what we are creating is magic with this bit it's not even a bit that's not a bit because andrew genuinely doesn't know i learned a lot about water last week and i just wanted to give an update

that I feel like I got my brain around it. And I think we all don't drink the hot tap. Certainly not if you're in the UK. I guess you're kind of right about that from what I've seen from people posting and stuff in reaction to that episode. Apparently in a lot of places, you're drinking rust, dust, and rat shit.

Yeah, those places are third world countries called the United Kingdom, unfortunately. What do you guys want to talk about today? I mean, I have all sorts of things I could talk about. I need to. I have notes. I learned something. Can I extend? I'm learning all sorts of things.

I learned that opera music, they're actually saying stuff, and that blew my mind. I had no idea. Yes, you't do you think it was fucking sounds you think it was like i thought that it was a visual storytelling medium and then they were just like making emotional noises as sort of i've never really thought about opera everyone mimicked exactly i listen i didn't pursue opera okay so i don't i don't have a large breadth of knowledge when it comes to it i think my biggest exposure to mostly italian i think was hitman blood money there's an opera level and but whenever you hear opera in a thing they're just always going like and i just thought that those were noises i didn't know that that's that

you could translate that just a foreign language dude it's crazy yeah man they sound like this what happened to italy they were just like oh blah blah blah pizza i have well i've never seen an english opera i it fucking i wish you could see my face when i was watching philadelphia for the first time and there's that's how i learned this there's a scene in that movie where tom hanks is playing opera for denzel washington and he starts saying what is being sung in english what the meaning is and i, it fucking blew my mind. Couldn't believe it. You know what?

It made me want to get more into opera. Because it seemed like there was quite a bit going on there as far as the story. Like a story. Yeah. Yeah, but why is there English? Is there English opera? Sure. Really?

Why is it always always just Italian people? I think they invented it and that's where it's most popular. Okay. Can I just say thank you, Andrew? That's opera. Thank you, man. I don't think you could be closer to racism without going all the way in. No. I just thought it was...

I didn't know because it's so loud. I wasn't going to say anything, but you're totally right, Gavin. No, not at all. Anyway, I'm not stereotyping that. I just didn't know. You just keep doing an impression. It's not helping your case.

Does it not sound like opera it no what it sounds like sort of like five rows back from me a football game oh yeah you know what that last one did i'll agree is this what it sounds like to hang out with your grandpa gavin this is the deleted scenes of that skype commercial it's the real shit they kept them together to stop singing so anyway that's i'm sure there are other people out there like me that didn't know that opera was words all right let's get a poll going yeah how many minds did andrew just blow in the way that he thinks he blew them we should just put up a poll that says what language is opera italian or blah blah blah blah is Italian look it's opera language or noise that

Implies that I had an understanding it was language at all as I said I thought it was just supposed to be like emotional noises What is the most what's the most emotional noise you've Bomb noise you've heard. That sounds like you're singing La Bamba. You're my favorite. Yeah. I mean, that's pretty special, man. That's pretty... I know it's special. I just learned that there's a whole

fucking story to all these songs. I can go back. I can figure it out. I can learn what these are. I want to that there's a whole fucking story to all these songs. I can go back. I can figure it out. I can learn what these are. I want to know what's happening in the Hitman blood money level. I want to know what those words are. When you swap the gun and he shoots the guy? You could, yeah. It's like a World War II thing or something where you can swap the pistol

and have them accidentally kill him on stage while they're performing. And then you can drop the chandelier on the guy when he's running over to like be, oh my God, to like react to it. I'd never even crossed my mind that there was a thing to translate there, but I need to go do that. And that's what I learned. I don't think I learned anything else. I had a question.

When does the trail cease to be a trail when do you just have a nut mix what is the requirement of the trail for the trail mix so so when you don't lead off with you're talking about trail mix it sounds like you're talking about a trail oh like how wide does a trail get before it's a road right that, that's what I thought he was getting at. And then he said, no, no, no. And he went, wait, what if it's just nuts? Well, I think that's got to be what it's from. It's got to be from people on trails.

Well, yeah, that's how it was invented. It's like safe hand food to take with you on the trail that you can eat to get boosts of energy. But trail mix, it's like saying, when is ice cream not ice cream? As long as it exists, it's trail mix. But there's nut mixes that are certainly not trail mix, or is it all trail mix it's like saying when is ice cream not ice cream it's as long as it exists it's trail mix but there's nut mixes that are certainly not trail mix or is it all trail mix oh i see so like if it's just a bowl of nuts that's that's not trail mix there has to be other stuff like like if you take out croutons is it still a caesar salad yeah just lettuce and

is it just lettuce well like yeah i feel just lettuce. Well, like, yeah. I feel like the dressing probably plays a big role there, but I was eating just the M&M's out of my trail mix the other day, and I devoured them. I don't think M&M's were originally a part of trail mix. Also, if you're just eating the M&M's out of your trail mix,

you're just eating M&M's. That's the dilemma, but there were, like, I wasn't,'s out of your trail mix. You're just eating M&M's. That's the dilemma. But there were like, I wasn't though. It was trail mix. I don't think there's any hard and fast rule. It just says as long as you're adding equal parts of nuts, seeds and dried fruit, you're probably good. And then maybe a half part of chocolate chips.

It's kind of like whatever you make it, I guess. That's fair. I was just curious if you guys had opinions because I wasn't sure what I was eating at that point. Once I finished all the chocolate, I was like, is this just a nut mix? We got raisins in the blend. Is that enough? No, it's just what's left of the trail mix. What's a better mix, trail or Bombay?

What's a Bombay mix? Yeah, I don't know what that is. Oh, man. It's so good, the Bombay mix yeah i don't know what that is oh man it's so good the bombay mix i don't trust it if i don't know what it is and you're saying it's good you don't trust the freaking shotgun and gears of war i don't trust a lot of things oh this is like the this is like the weird trail mix where it's got like got like the other i got you i got you i've seen i don't think you're allowed to call bombay Mix weird trail mix either. This is just so culturally offensive.

That's being offensive. I like that. That's good. Oh, yeah. I mean, this is good in a totally different way. Like, I wouldn't have said. I'd rather have trail mix than that, but it is good. Yeah.

Like, there's no M&Ms in this, so what's the point, you know? Oh, Nick just said it's fine. What does that mean? Oof. What do you mean fine? I don't think he likes it. It's fine. It's not as good as regular trail mix. It's like spicy trail mix. It's amazing.

It's incredible. Yeah, I'm on the trail though. It's gonna be hot. I don't see any raisins. Yeah. I don't see any chocolate. Yeah. Where's my sugar? Like, I don't want raisins in anything, to be honest. Really? You're not a raisin guy at all? It's a big part of trail mix though. Is it? I a big part of trail mix, though.

I guess this is savory trail mix and I could get behind that. Seems weird to have something hot and spicy when you're on a hike. Bits and Bites is probably my preferred savory trail mix. Yeah. Is that a Canadian thing? You're going to have to post it.

We're like six bags away from having a trail off. Bits and bites is you got the squares, you got the pretzel sticks, you got the Cheerios, and you got little cheese sticks. Thank you, Nick. Bits and bites. Yeah, there's different variations of it.

There's breakfast in there. Oh my God. It's a cereal. It's just like, probably the stuff that fell off the conveyor belt of the cereal factory. No, it's, the move is,

it's a bag of leftovers. Well, delicious leftovers. First of all, leftovers are great. I just wanted to say that. I feel like that was said in a negative tone. It's, you can go, you can do a lot of good things leftovers but the move with the bits and bites is you get the pretzel stick

and then you you cover it in the cheerios you you fill it you circle it so it's end to end cheerio and then you bite in that and that's that's the spot that's the move i can't believe y'all don't have bits and bytes i wonder if it's called mumbai mix now you think they rebranded i don't know it's not bombay anymore is it this is the this is the culturally insensitive episode. I have found something called Mumbai mix, but it's not prevalent. Huh. Yeah. The most ever Bombay mix.

Sorry. I wonder if you're ahead of the curve on that, Gavin, or if it's just never going to be. Yeah. I was just asking a genuine question. Andrew, you were saying, what's the candy equivalent to the trail mix? Is that right?

I was curious if there is a candy trail mix. Have you seen candy salad? Oh, yeah, I've seen those. Yeah, people making those. Oh, it's like half of my worms in dirt. I don't understand what... So, you make the candy salad. How do you then distribute the candy salad?

Salad tongs. Like this? Big spoon. But it's... First of all, I hate that. I hate that so much. Would you prefer like a chocolate tong? I just don't want your fingers in my...

The fingers are on the bowl. There's no fingers in the in the candy look at that thumb anyone who can conceive the image of the show touching candy that that thumb is on the inside and they are scooping that way you cannot tell me that thumb is not getting in the mix i mean that they should be using another spoon yeah but i think that's fine my issue is not necessarily what i meant is whenever i see these there's 50 pounds of candy that they put into an open dish and then it's like what are you going to do with it also it's just layered in a way that you're not going to enjoy a mix of everybody's thing you're just doing one section at a time it is not like a variety where

i feel like the joy of a trail mix is you get a little bit of peanut get a little bit of cashew well that's just depending on how it's mixed i'm just telling you that if you toss your candy salad it's probably fine do you toss your candy salad gavin you're complaining about this with all the same issues that a regular salad has that we've solved hundreds of years ago by tossing it. It's no different than a salad. Use the same

salad tongs and just mix it up. Not even salad, just mixing. It's the concept of mixing. Okay, first of all, I'm dealing with a bunch of candy amateurs over here is what it sounds like you try mixing that gummy bowl good luck give me that bowl i'll i'll mix that tongs easily easily oh my god yeah i'll cut you it could have mixed no it is you do not it is hard to mix a bowl of

heavy gummy i think you're greatly you're insane it's gonna stick to each other it's not gonna want like a salad you can just throw that lettuce around and it bounces and different things in it gummies have weight to them and they're hard to mix around i could mix that so well. No, you couldn't. Next episode, bring the clip. You love bringing clips? Bring me a clip of you mixing a big bowl of candy. I don't want to buy all that junk.

I hate eating it. It's just going to be wasted. Oh, yeah. If I toss it, I give it to Jeff. I can't eat any of that shit anymore. I'm not. I'm not. I got to take care of these teeth.

Yeah. Nick, Eric, you wanna eat my tossed salad? Nick's, okay, there's got, we have to stop saying that.

Nick has a kid. No, I didn't make sense. What? Nick's gotta think of his future. You have a kid, your kid would love this.

Come on, a kid would love a candy salad? Yeah, and he must be protected from this. Yeah, defomination.

Exactly. Yeah, if Nick's kid, if Nick's kid has this, he'll become nick and nick has to wake up tomorrow morning with monkey ears i never thought about nick being like a fucking werewolf like something happened to him at some point and this he's been cursed by this is that not the the canon of 100% eat like nick eats the food and becomes the monkey or is he just showing up as i i assume it's some sort of

transformation like barbecue fueled monkeyism no that's literally nick is just a man in a mask that's all it is yeah yeah that's why we always made sure when we made merch, you always have to be able to see his human eyes because you have to remember there's a man in there. Yeah. Yeah. Somewhere. A weird man. Yeah.

Oh, definitely. So, Jeff, you tossing any salads or what's going on? Yeah. I want to know Jeff's favorite trail mix. What do we got in there? Oh, I don't give a shit. I don't. I'll be.

I'll be honest with you. I don't really care that much one way or the other about trail mix. It's hard for me to muster up even to the pretend enthusiasm. I don't really give a shit about chocolate chips. So I guess I'd go butter scotch because I like that a little bit better. I like raisins, any kind of raisin. I'd actually over index on raisins. I take the raisins nobody else wants.

Sunflower seeds, maybe some pumpkin seeds, and then any form of nut. I don't like cashews, any other nut. Definitely peanuts. People fuck up and don't put enough peanuts. You don't like cashews? Nah, cashews are boring to me. It's a bottom tier nut.

What about a pistachio? I like pistachios. I like all nuts but cashews. Cashews are a treat to me. They are. They're delicious. Cashews is like... I'm not into it. I like your trail mix. They're like a creamy nut. They are a creamy

nut. Yeah, it's like what you get on American Airlines flights when you want real nuts. I hate it. You're gonna have your creamy nut salad toss, Gavin? Is that what we're getting at? We're getting some smut? Okay. Alright. Can we get some smut in here? There's a certain era that we're heading back towards that I don't want to. Hey, you know what we're getting at? We're getting some smut? Okay. All right. Can we get some smut in here? There's a certain era that we're heading back towards that I don't want to.

Hey, you know what might happen this month or next month? What? It might be coming home. Oh! Do you really? It's coming home? Are we going to?

Here's the thing. I want to ask you to do a stream of that again, but also I want you to be able to enjoy the thing that you want to enjoy and not have to monetize everything that we do. We could all watch it together. I want you to be able to enjoy the thing that you want to enjoy and not have to monetize everything that we do. We could all watch it together.

I would love to watch it with you. I would love to watch that with you. When is it? I think the final's going to be in July. That's a bad month for me. What does that mean? I'll get him to move it. Yeah,

I hope it comes home, I hope it comes home, and I hope it comes home for the Celtics, too, who I'm going to go see play this weekend. That's crazy, dude. That's so cool. Yeah, I'm very excited. When I was in England just now, I promised my family if England won the Euros, I'd move back to England.

You're insane. What are you doing? Okay no here here is there a stature the statue what stature statue uh limitations on that when you have to do that uh like you can do it 50 years from now right like and you're still fulfilling the obligation i wasn't specific on timeline i guess but yeah well that's fine it did I feel like that changes nothing. I did shake on it Legally binding now, who did you make this bet with what's the other half of the bed? He's not allowed to visit again

Kind of out this the wrong way. It just made a bet with my siblings and my family. What's their team again? How about this you tell your brother you'll move back to England when he does I just made a bet with my siblings and my family. What's their team again? How about this? You tell your brother you'll move back to England when he does. Yeah. I'm just imagining you and your family dining room cutting a Chael Sonnen promo against England. England, you absolutely suck. You win.

I move back here. You lose. I'll never visit again. Apparently the odds are pretty good, though. It's a really strong team. I don't think it matters based on what you've said. I'm going to have to record this at 9 p.m. every Thursday. Oh, my God.

We have to find another British person. Eric, can you put an ad in the... I don't know. Do we put Craigslist, I guess? Do people still do that? Is that where you want me to put it? You want me to put an ad for a British person in Craigslist? Or like Indeed? Do people use Indeed? Is that what we do?

Monster.com? How do you do it? Why don't we just shoot Toad in the hole first, and then you'll get some contact. Oh, okay. We'll have to try some different British people on, and then whoever Gavin hates the most for being British will have as our new British person.

What's James Buckley up to? Can we get him? He's a busy guy. Do people still use Craigslist? I think so. If you need to buy a used car or some shitty furniture, I think that's it. I've been on a Denzel Washington movie kick

where I just have been putting his name into streaming services and then watching whatever pops up and the end I had never seen any of the equalizer films and the end of the first equalizer sets up him becoming a crime fighter through Craigslist

and I thought that was fucking insane like the I just I feel like and I could be completely wrong that Craigslist is not nearly as like a known thing anymore is used and I may be feeling that way because of how shitty the ui and just design of that website is but he was like he made an ad on craigslist that was like hey you need help and the purist was like yeah I need help and it ends with him replying like I got you bro and then and then they wrap it up.

And they never address it again. It doesn't come up. He has a new system in the second film. But when did that movie come out? That's a great question. Maybe like 2010-ish? Well, there you go. That's the age of Craigslist.

Really? I thought the age of Craigslist was like 2000. No. Really? No. Okay. I found the first house that i moved out to on craigslist the car that i bought on craigslist the other car that i bought on craigslist in

okay in 2014 we were just starting to switch from like alt dot binaries dot austin dot for sale or whatever on news groups over to craigslist we were just we were just making the transition i think i thought that because craigslist looks like all of those websites it looks like it was made at that time like it looks like the guy that made uh ask jeeves then immediately went on to make the craigslist site like is this there's no thrill frills frills it's a no frills kind of site there are plenty of thrills though

you don't have to go that far you could get Tim So Washington to fuck up a dude on that site it's crazy well 14 years ago you could oh yeah 10 years ago 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? Just need a nice place to settle in? Enjoy a room upgrade. Wherever you go, we'll go together. What have you been up to, Jeff? Uh, man, I, uh, I had a bunch of stuff.

I had a new idea that I think is going to revolutionize, uh, the world. Um, I had a cute little thing that I discovered recently that I want to go back to. Hang on. We have to keep going because there's even stuff that Jeff said you'll never believe what I did again. And I don't know what that is either. Well, I had two

very embarrassing things happen to me. Well, I shouldn't say happen to me. I had two very embarrassing things happen to me. Well, I shouldn't say happen to me. I did two very embarrassing things to myself recently. So those are two different stories I could tell.

I don't know that we need to, though. We already had one really embarrassing story with Andrew admitting that he's racist against Italians in the opera.

And so I just, I don't want to over-index on embarrassing. So maybe we'll shelve those and save them for down the road or something. Mario's pretty cool I want to

know what you put it in the slack I want to know what you did yeah you told us you put it in the slack you teed it up because here are things that have happened before you've shit yourself yeah no I don't think I don't think you'd be embarrassed about sharing you've broken a tooth here I'm going to put a

video up that Emily took this is yesterday oh my god oh no no you've got to be kidding me dude come on how so if you've watched the video at home, you probably haven't seen the video. So you're reattaching a gas hose. Dropping it. Gas all over your head. Oh my God.

I got covered in gas. You gotta stop doing it. You gotta stop driving away. So yesterday... How is this happening? What do you do? What's your problem? How?

So yesterday I stopped at a gas station with my wife and daughter and we started filling up Emily's car. I'm proud to say this has never happened in my car. I'm always driving her car. We were filling up Emily's car. I'm proud to say this has never happened in my car. I'm always driving her car. We were filling up Emily's car and we decided to go in for Slurpees and then it just took a long time inside.

We were getting snacks and when we came all out, we all just jumped in the car and drove away and then I heard a ka-thunk and then Emily and Millie said, oh my God, no. And I stopped and I backed up and I looked and I had driven away with the gas hose in the car.

And this time stuck around to see that I ripped it out of the out of the gas pump, shot gas all over myself, tried to put it back together. But the pressure from all the gas coming out just shot it back out at me. put it back together uh but the pressure from all the gas coming out just shot it back out at me and then i went inside and i had to stand in line while the lady looked at me stinking of gas and then she said she didn't even say anything to me i said um i made a mistake and she just pointed to a little dude who had a bucket uh like a trash can full of cat litter and he just like shrugged for me to follow him and he just walked up and he threw some cat litter down and he stuck it back in, uh,

and twisted it. I, and then it reconnected and he said, okay, you're good. And I went, this happens a lot, huh?

And he said, no. And then, that's so good. I want to give you the benefit of the doubt because this can happen to anyone. It does happen. It sucks. It does happen.

And that's okay. Jeff, you're parked at the gas pump. Like you're like, Oh yeah, this took a long time for us to get Slurpees. You, I'll go one further.

I didn't do it at the same gas station, but I was next door to the same gas station I did it at last time. Like the gas stations share a parking lot in an L. I've got to ask, what's changed? It's not a new car? No, here's what I think it is, because there was a lot of discussion dissecting it for the rest of the day. the day um i the the the prevailing uh idea is that i have been so stressed out by roosterteeth closing and starting up regulation and my daughter graduating high school and my

daughter going off to college and the other thing that we had that has been going on behind the scenes that we haven't ever talked about yet which is that I moved in the process of this. I didn't want to talk about it until my house sold because I don't want to jinx myself. But the day after I found out Rooster Teeth was closing, I put my house on the market, not in a desperation move. I explained it all in Soul All Right this week. It was a very tactical and smart move to try to create some flexibility in my life so that we could, you know, if we found a house in Michigan someday, we could find it. But so in the process of Ruchief closing down and starting all this, I was moving, I was showing my house off to people and living in like a model home and throwing away half of everything I have and then trying to find a new home. And then the day that

we were set to sign the lease on the new home uh we lost it to somebody else and then so uh there was a period we didn't have a place to live and we had to find a place to live and then we did and then we had to move and that was excruciating and i'm still dealing with selling the house and it's just been so much going on in my head i think i'm just over i think i'm just overtaxed mentally i think yeah or i'm losing my fucking mind i think it completely explains the first instance of this occurring like i fully agree that one i think this was just a simple case of slurpy enthusiasm i'm not done with all this stuff though i was we were we were leaving the other house after getting the air conditioner fixed because in the process of selling my other house while it's under contract the fucking ac went out and i had to go over and

spend 48 hours getting it fixed so it's like i'm still dealing with that stuff i think i'm just but i was also having a fun conversation with emily and millie and they forgot yeah so how is it 2024 and there's no like buzzer when your car is penetrated that's a good question i don't know. I don't know. You shouldn't be able to drive away with that in at this point. I just, I'm going to never, I've never, I didn't, I've never done it in my life.

And then suddenly I've done it twice in the span of about three weeks. How many times do you think you'll do it? I hope never again. Never fucking again. So that's one embarrassing thing I did. I will say, by the way, something we wanted to talk about. Way back in the day when I got, some people thought, inordinately annoyed with Andrew for sending a thousand clocks to my house, the day they were supposed to arrive was the

day my house went on sale. Oh. I had an open house that day at like 11 a.m. And they were supposed to show up in the driveway a pallet full of clock. That's why I was freaking out. And I was like, please don't send it to my house right now because it was going to ruin my life.

Yeah, I started it. First, I wish we had those clocks now. That's the first thing I'll say. Second thing I'll say is that I didn't know that you were doing that. I learned in the act of that conversation that you were moving. Or else I wouldn't have considered it but I had the missiles already been

I think sent yeah the missiles were already fired yeah it was fine a crisis was averted it was all it was all good it was just it was just very very very funny timing that's why in the episode you can hear Gavin go Andrew you know why he can't have them right now

I should have sent them to Gavin. I should have never put you in the line of fire. No, no, no. It's fine. I love being in the line of fire. It was just the fucking perfect timing. That's all. I think we need to create something or you need to establish a rule that

you are not allowed to leave until your car is filled. Because I think that's the problem. If you just stayed there through the whole act, then you're freed up. Like, I don't know how you screw up at that point. Oh, I see, I see. I can't walk away from the pump until it's returned.

Yeah, I should, you know what, that's a good, I'll take that, I'll take that note. There needs to be like, you made the wrist pocket like a gas pocket where like you have to cuff yourself to the thing. So if you physically leave, it's getting pulled out with you at least. I to the thing so if you physically leave it's getting pulled out with you at least i'm gonna endeavor just not to physically leave but if i can't adhere to that then that's i'll invent something but i think you're right i think that's the

that's the solution i shouldn't trust myself to walk inside of a gas station while it's still pumping outside because something there's a breakdown in communication in my brain that happens on the way out and it uh it's yeah i view it as like a borderlands game and i'm just making the numbers go up and then i realize i have to pay what that number is and the game becomes a lot less fun but watching the numbers go up is always good i i'm imagining it like every time you enter or exit a building it's like memento and you don't know what's just happened. So it's like, am I chasing this guy? Or is he chasing me? Kind of, yeah. I was like, what was I doing?

I'm a bit of a guy, Pierce. Better drive off. The other embarrassing thing I did to myself, I actually did last week and I fucked it up in the episode. When we were recording Regulation. Right before we recorded last week, I went through, I had some spare time, and I've just been having fun making thumbnails lately.

It's just been really kind of rewarding and insane for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you. But I've really been embracing it. And I always enjoyed it when we were doing F*** Face as well, but it was always like a last-minute thing. And so when we found out we were shutting down, we didn't make thumbnails for the last like 12 episodes. Didn't see the point.

And it's been bugging me on YouTube anytime I go to our channel and I see all those last few episodes with no thumbs. So I went back the other day, like last Wednesday or something, and I just created thumbnails for the final like three months of fuck face episodes and put them all up just so it looks

intentional it looks like it's supposed to right and after that I was kind of bummed because I was like on such a roll I was like man I wish I could record the next episode of regulation I like I wish I could do the next episode of regulations thumbnail now but I can't because we haven't recorded the episode yet that's impossible

and I thought is it is it impossible Is it impossible? Like, what if I just figured out what we're going to talk about and then I just try to create a thumbnail based around that? And then I thought, well, that's too hard to nail because we go in so many different directions. But what I can control is what I talk about.

So I was like, why don't I just come up with something to talk about that's thumbnail worthy and then I can make the thumbnail now and then in the episode when it's over, I can be like, oh, by the way,

I already have the thumbnail for this and if I'm going to do this, I should record the whole process and I'll make a piece of supplemental content where I'm creating,

coming up with a subject to talk about, then creating the thumbnail for it and then giving myself the goal of, in the episode, naturally bringing this subject up so that then I can transition into it

and then the thumbnail's done, and then I can talk about it at the end of the episode or never talk about it and just release the supplemental content, right? So I was like, well, what am I going to fucking talk about? So I thought, here's what I'll do. I'll go to random.org and I'll put in all the subjects from Trivial Pursuit.

The main five subjects from Trivial Pursuit. And then I'll randomize it and whatever comes up with, then I'll do research on that topic. So here I am hoping I get like entertainment or sports or something, right? And I get fucking... I'm so confused. Why won't you just make a thumbnail about a gas pump?

Well, that hadn't happened yet. No, but I also feel like it's bound to happen. Why wouldn't you just make a thumbnail about a gas pump? Well, that hadn't happened yet. Oh. No, but I also feel like it's bound to happen. That's what I thought you were going to get, Gavin. It's going to happen again. Just get that gas pump ready. The gas pump thing happened yesterday, dude. This is last week.

It was less than 24 hours ago the gas pump thing happened. So anyway, I start doing research. I landed on science, unfortunately. uh fucking the guy was less than 24 hours ago the gas pump thing happened uh so anyway i start doing research in i landed on science unfortunately so i was like oh i gotta come up with a funny science thumbnail so i started doing research on the wildest things to happen in science in 2024 and the best i could come up with is that there's uh they just are about to release four billion mosquitoes into the wild that are genetically altered so that any lady mosquitoes they have sex with, they make eggs, but the eggs don't ever hatch and it's supposed to kill out all the mosquitoes, right? Or control the population. The genophage.

Yeah. And I thought, like, that's kind of funny. that's kind of funny. Maybe I could talk about how unintended consequences, like they release four billion mosquitoes out that when they have sex, they basically create,

they ruin society. And I was like, you know, unintended, like what if it transfers to humans? We just have a bunch of dudes that every time they fuck,

now nobody else can have kids. Or I thought, like maybe I could go this way and think about, like is it enough to just make the mosquitoes? Should they also be hot? Like did they have to make hot like george clooney mosquitoes that all the lady mosquitoes mosquitoes would be into right and

then they would want to bang these dudes right mosquito i don't know why i keep saying it like that and uh so anyway i was like that's funny i can i can i can work that out and so i i'm recording all this live going through the random.org figuring it all out it's like a 20 minute video i make the thumbnail for episode four which is like a mosquito with a knife and a fork and i'm like perfect now all i gotta do is talk about it in the episode and then after we record the episode i was eating dinner and i thought oh shit i never talked about it that is totally fucking wasted now there's no point in ever releasing any of this content so i made a whole fucking supplemental thing and then just completely slipped my mind when we were recording last week and i just forgot about it you do realize we do this every week yeah yeah

but it's not the same thing it's not the same it's not the same it's ruined it's ruined i would know it's fine but we wouldn't i feel like the point is we don't know i don't see how it would have been any different if you hadn't been any different at all i would have known but you would always have known you knew anyway you always know yeah but if i hadn't fucked it up i could be excited about it and proud of them be like yeah here's an idea but i fucked it up and so now I just like, I can't even lie to you guys. I can't like try to pull it off.

I'm too honest with you. It's probably funnier that I botched it. You know, that I fucking put my foot in my own asshole instead of just releasing a piece of content that I... Can we please release the supplemental anyway? Because I feel like you're probably really excited about it. Oh yeah, i'm so into my idea and i think it's so clever

so we are gonna release the mosquitio content or no i think we have to i record i think we must i don't know when yeah we should do that is it like is it like you blindsided yourself kind of it sounds like kind of exactly like i blindsided yourself? Kind of. It sounds like it. Kind of exactly like I blindsided myself, yeah. It's like those mosquitoes are going to get blindsided when the kids are back. I was so fucking excited to do this. Talk about the mosquitoes.

Yeah. Yeah, I really was. I thought you were just going to drop this week's thumbnail into the Discord. Yeah, I thought me too. A hundred percent. Yeah, I thought it was about to happen and we were all going to go, oh. I was excited. I'm looking forward.

And then you just told us how you fucked yourself. I can't find it. Oh, no. No, he can't even find it. It's not like a great thumbnail. Could the Moschidio thumbnail be this week's thumbnail? I mean, now I guess it could, but it'd be better if it was...

Yeah, but it sounds like you don't want it to be. Probably funnier if it was the gas pump. I like the idea of the thumbnail for this being a subject we didn't talk about. The thumbnail for this being that says episode four when it's episode five, too. Oh. Well, I can't find it.

It's in my Photoshop file. Anyway, that's's how i'm dumb i'm dumb in those two ways i'm surprised that you didn't just bank a story that you were happy with i i love that you pursued it the way you did no it's just such an interesting approach the the exploration of the idea was the was the interesting part to me not creating a thumbnail ahead of time to save time like it was more of like it would be funny if I could make this happen and then I thought it was a clever idea and then I couldn't

make it happen because I'm stupid and I'm my own worst enemy and then like that's kind of par for the course and so instead of trying to re-kajigger it in the future to make it work in some way I'd rather just be honest and be like, hey, look at this. Look how fucking stupid Jeff is.

Thought he was smart for about seven minutes, but it turns out he's dumber than ever. You know, that kind of thing. See, to me, the intense, scary moment of the bit that you're saying is the story not landing as hoped. Like, if it just doesn't deliver the way that you thought it would,

that would be my concern. More so than, like, the discovery of it and the searchability. More, you are really putting your flag down that this is going to be a memorable part of this episode. And if it doesn't land, it just doesn't work. Now, see, that's not a problem for me because I have enough of an ego that I'm confident in my ability to land the story.

Unless it's about a horse. Right. I may not land the story. Like, they don't all land. I definitely botched the horse down the mountain, but I had confidence going in that I would do it. You know, like, I'm like, I'm like a 85 to 90 percent free throw shooter.

I'm you know, chances are I'm going to hit the. Part of this show is you just talking about like you're just burying yourself with things. Yeah, I haven't thought about in years or never would have known. He brought it up. He brought the thing I like about Jeff's confidence is I feel like a lot of the times the miss isn't as present to us as

it is you. Oh yeah. Hill story. We were totally happy with and yeah, no, no, no. I'm my own worst enemy, but I do feel

like most of the time my my misplaced confidence works out like remember when I hit a fight. I hit all the home runs like nobody thought I'd do that,

but then like no, you believed in myself and then it worked. So just tend to believe in myself i just shouldn't always and i recognize that but it's easier to believe in yourself than not believe in yourself so you know i hadn't hit a baseball in 20 years when we fucking did that day i just assumed it would work and it did i wonder did you play a lot of baseball growing up uh like backyard baseball every day but never like on a team or anything okay never mind then i was gonna say i wonder like in your overall all-time life hitting ball stats how much like if you looked at it on a chart just did you did you hit more in that time period than you had as a kid? No, no, but it was a lot.

It was a consolidated amount of hits. Let me tell you guys about a good idea I had, though, that is a good idea, I think, that I won't fuck up. All right. Last night, I was doing that thing where I was going through my pantry and I was looking for something to eat, a snack.

And, you know, somewhere after 8 p.m., going through my pantry and I was looking for something to eat, a snack. And you know, somewhere after 8pm everything in your house looks like dog shit. Even if you were really excited about it at 6pm when you bought it. But from 8pm to whenever you go to bed, suddenly you're like, I don't want this. Why the fuck do I have this? There's nothing

in my house to eat. I don't like anything, right? And it's only because it's your shit, right? What if you were able to flag something on an app that said, like, I'm available? And then, like, whenever you get up for a snack, like, let's say it's 9 p.m., you go to your pantry and your fridge, nothing looks good. You toggle your app. It says, I'm available.

You get a ding. Somebody else toggled their app. It then says, hey, for the next 30 minutes, you and this stranger can switch kitchens. And then you drive to his house and he drives to your house and you can raid his kitchen for 30 minutes and he can raid your kitchen for 30 minutes. Whatever the fuck you want. And then when the timer's off, you just go home because you do because you want stuff to eat. You just don't want your stuff. But somebody else's stuff is fucking great.

And your stuff has value just else's stuff is fucking great. And your stuff has value just to everybody but you. So why not? Let's just do it with our neighbors. Why not just go over to your neighbor's house at 9.30 tomorrow night, knock on the door and say, go to my house. I'm going to hang out in your kitchen. I'll meet you back here in 30 minutes. And we'll both be happier.

I feel like I wouldn't even necessarily need to raid the other pantries. I just want inspiration sometimes. Yeah. I would just want to look through them and just take notes and be like, ooh, I get order some of this I'm gonna go and get some of that now are we talking like you're binge you have 30 minutes or whatever and you you can consume as much as you want or is it like you gotta you're not you're not trying to I assume you're not trying to take advantage of somebody's kitchen. I think you just really want a snack, but all you have are, I don't know, goldfish crackers and pretzel sticks and some string cheese. And you don't want any of those things.

But your neighbor might have some peanut butter crackers that you're like, I wish I had those. So now you don't want any of those things. But your neighbor might have some peanut butter crackers. You're like, I wish I had those. So now you can't. My my brain immediately goes to survivor when they sometimes have these challenges where if you win, you get to go to the other tribe's beach and steal one of their items. But you tell them what you're taking. And it's like a thing where they're like, I hope they don't take this. The idea of like,

you get to go to your neighbor's house and have to decide, are you going to eat the steak that they just made and leave them with like nothing? I think it's so funny. The idea of like- To be fair, your neighbor toggled that it was available. Yeah.

If they don't want to share that steak, they shouldn't hit that on the app. That's fair. It would always be a consensual steak. The doors are open on both sides not it's not a thing where like you get one toggle a year and you get to decide when that is and the other person who's opted in as well doesn't get to choose when that one hit happens no i don't think so i think it's just like you just flag yourself as available for anybody that's looking to snack

swap i think it would make streets less wasteful too. I agree. I totally agree. More stuff would get eaten. I like this idea. Snack swap. What if we all just did it with each other? We would just be hanging out all the time. Which I'm totally okay with.

We should just put all our names in a bowl and then you pick out whose pantry you're going for and then we'll just take it evening why can't i find this stupid mosquito oh there i uh your idea jeff remind it's it's sort of similar to an idea i had that i i don't know how to make work but the best naps are always naps when you've agreed to do something but you just don't feel like like you you're obligated to go do this thing but you're comfy and you could have a nap and just oh man i would so love to have a nap right now if there was a way to convince yourself that you could sleep through like one of those instances without any consequences and that it was actually

all okay that that this isn't real but you think it is i would pay so much for that like a fake meeting type thing that i'm skipping by having this nap i don't know what you just said have you ever okay let me let me let me translate have you ever like him bad and you see the cheese coming down the hill? He's doing a round of accents today. Does everyone else here know what Andrew just said? No. That's a no from me.

Okay. I have no idea. I do not understand. I figured it was just, okay, Jeff found the stupid thumbnail. I like that thumbnail. It's just a cute little mosquito. Let's say it is, uh,

1 PM to 1 PM. And you're, you agreed previously that you were going to go do something at 2 PM and you're relaxed. You're laying down and you're cozy and it's like oh man you know what i made this obligation beforehand but in a world in which i had no plans a nap would be so good right now this would be so great i feel like the best naps are always in those instances where you have to you can't nap because you have an obligation you

need to fulfill so you can't do it so you have to go to the thing like a pre-commitment nap pre-commitment nap i want a service that makes me believe that i have one of those that i can sleep through but i there's no actual consequence. How would this service manifest itself? That is the problem that I've had. You just want a feeling. Well, I want I want like something to feed me

fake meetings but the issue is is I know they're fake. I need to somehow not know that these are fake. I mean, if you want, I could... We could just go about our lives the next month, and one of the things I put in your calendar will be fake. No, because I won't know which one it is,

and that will just make me more anxious. Like, that's the problem. I need to somehow... Wait, so you need to know... I need to feel it's real for the nap, but it's because I don't want to miss the meeting. I want to spend time with you. That would take priority,

but that a nap is absolutely enhanced by these situations. Like it is more appealing, at least to me. And that is the problem is there's not a world in which i can both believe i'm actually skipping this meeting while also like knowing that it's fake i don't get the joy of like you know what i actually don't have anything i have to do i can sleep because then i feel bad because i'm missing the get together so So you want it to be fake, but you want to feel like it's real. Yes, I need it to be fake,

but I need to simultaneously feel it's real. I think it would be funnier just to sign you up for a bunch of different appointments and consultations. Not telling you that at a time. That, Jeff, you may have cracked the code. If it's stuff I don't care about for things that I have zero interest in with people I don't know, that might be the move. But if it's stuff i don't care about for things that i have zero interest in with people i don't know that might be the move but if it's low stakes why would you even worry about it

because i feel like uh i'm like if it's uh you and i are supposed to hang out and then i slept through it i'd feel like i let you down just for how i am and i'd be like oh man i wish i would have been able to hang out with gavin well just give me a PS5 and it will be forgiven. I'd rather just show up. And that wouldn't solve my guilt. I wouldn't be able to buy my guilt away like that. I don't, that is not how my feelings work. I like Jeff's idea a lot.

I'm going to, oh, I'm going to sign up for so many things that I'm not going to show up to. Like, we could have like a carpet cleaner consultation, window blind yeah you're gonna get like all the quotes in the world but never pay no i can't i don't want to waste sierra club so it has to be like group i'm just like a yoga class i don't understand what is going on for the last it must be 10 minutes of the show. So wait, when he explained, you want a feeling that you know is real,

both a Schrodinger's feeling of real and fake at the same time. Andrew, Andrew, so you can take up what you think is a pretty good nap. Well, it enhances the map. Okay. It's like the sequel to inception it's like i see hotting your

nap have you never been in that scenario where you're like man this would be such a great fucking nap right now but i can't because i have an obligation i've never felt no no never in my life you're describing a feeling that i can't chase because i don't know that it exists. Here's the thing. If we were to also do a poll about that, there are more people that feel that way than didn't know that opera head works. I gotta say, just because the people who listen to this feel that way does not mean I'm listening to them for advice on anything at all.

Are you saying that regulation listeners are a poor barometer well what i mean one of the hosts of this show didn't know what italian was so i don't know i mean i think the the hosts are a poor barometer so you know what i mean yeah so what's up jeff you're gonna take a nap or not i, I don't want to get in trouble. So after all that, Andrew, what would be a suitable appointment that you could nap before and potentially miss? I think like...

A group activity that you think is real, but no, isn't real. No, it is... Here's the problem, is that in all these contexts, these are i care about well no let me explain i'm trying to explain this this this thought process it's always if i have a meeting or i'm supposed to hang out with someone i care about them i don't want to disappoint them if it is a group of people i don't know or care about, I'm okay disappointing this random group activity. Who don't you like?

Well, let's schedule some group activities with people you don't care about. Yeah, get us a list of people you hate and we'll put it on the calendar. Yeah. I want to help you out here. I want to help you achieve your ultimate now. Say you were about to guest on a podcast

that you didn't care about. Okay. Yeah. Well, I'm trying to think. Just think of a podcast you don't care about. Well, that's not true because sometimes I care about the people even if I don't care about the show.

Yeah, but these are people you don't care about. I don't know anyone who has a podcast. I be disappointing them when you don't show up for bowling or whatever activity it is you're set to appear on on how it's done in an hour no that would be a problem nobody didn't know that's that's you wouldn't take a nap with my i feel like i'm a guest in that scenario and that like there's some expectation where if i sign up for like bowling Sundays nobody's

gonna care if I don't show up I don't know any of these people these people don't know me you don't think they miss you from the bowling team no because I'm not I've never been there I think that's what I need to do is start signing up for like group activities that don't matter that will continue and happily exist

regardless of my presence. And to them, there's not even a face to the name. There's not even a face to the name. It's not like I'm failing on them. I got it. This is... Okay. I got it.

You need to go down to your local library or your local bookstore, and you need to join a book club. Oh! Oh, that's the move, Jeff. Yeah. I should have consulted with you earlier you need to join a book club that meets every tuesday at 6 p.m or 8 p.m or whatever and then you start you start that you plan your naps right before that oh what if you signed up online for one of those like seminars

at the apple store you could learn you could learn like final cut. The thing about, here's the thing I like about signing up for the book club is I can get multiple. It's not even just, I'm missing the meeting. I could be in bed and be like, oh, I'm supposed to read this book. But, uh, you can procrastinate. You've got a week of procrastination. You can dole out whenever you feel like, oh, this is good. I'm going to Google one right now. Book clubs. I don't even the one right now book clubs I

Don't even need them to be my area. I'm not showing up Because you know so much the area you would never even intend to go it's so pointless I don't understand this until I'm back with Eric I'm back with Eric. I mean, I am so... It should be in your area. There needs to be local stakes. Okay, June book club meeting, three spots left. I'm signing up right now.

There you go, you're set. Dude, you're gonna sleep like a baby. No, he's gonna feel so guilty that he's gonna end up reading the damn book and go it. Oh, 100%. I don't think I'm actually allowed to go to this book

club, so I gotta pick a different one. Why not? Are you banned from that one? It's named gender specifically in a way that does not fit me. Is it an Italian book club? Because you are no longer

on good terms with them. No, I love Italy. I'm a big chicken parmesan probably my favorite food Parmesan she wants to go in there and say that you can't read books, and then you had to leave No, I can read Throw some words at me right now fucking prove it whatever you want you want me to say a word and see if you read it go ahead put in the chat read that shit all day mosquitoes damn it i was copying i was copying and pasting that right now. You fucking got me. God damn it. Oh, God. Oh, fucking hell. You guys like...

You know the little apple pies, the little hot apple pies you get at fast food restaurants? No. Like at McDonald's or... Well, Top Notch has them. They're fucking great. They're like... What do you call those? Are they called hand pies? Is that what they are? I think so. Like when I was a kid

they were Dolly Madison made them and they were the ones that had the peanuts characters on them. You know what I mean? Like you get a little cherry pie and it had like Charlie Brown on it or Lucy or whatever. I mean, I know what you're talking about, but then you started talking about Snoopy on it or whatever and I don't know what you're talking about anymore. Oh, you don't know those? They might be before your time. Hold on.

Snoopy hand pies? What? Oh before your time. Hold on. Snoopy hand pies? What? Oh. There you go. It was my whole childhood. Yeah. Oh, snack pies.

What the hell? I know the pies. I know what you're talking about. I've just never seen them with Snoopy guys or whatever. Also, Snoopy is not on these enough. This is ridiculous. That's like... They were really highlighting the human kids back in the day. But yeah, the cherry one with Charlie.

Charlie Brown was the. They were all good. I'll be honest. Pineapple. The cherry. Yeah, that was good, too. Oh, interesting. I don't understand why peppermint patty would be on a strawberry.

It doesn't make any sense. Well, they're not anymore. Right. So clearly it didn't. They decided to sunset it. But anyway, i've been thinking about those specifically a lot lately i don't know why just because i loved them when i was a kid and they popped into my head and so anytime i go to a fast food restaurant i've been endeavoring to get

the little apple pie or whatever pie they have and i gotta be honest with you guys i think the world is sleeping on these fucking little fruit pies. I think that they are rife for a comeback. And we should be on the ground floor. We should start getting into hand pies in a big way because they are fucking delicious and they're easy.

Oh, the hostess TMNT. That's what I remember. That's another great one. Yeah. That is great. I do agree that people are sleeping on them. I think that the problem is they haven't changed in such a long time that you know that, like,

you know what you're getting, and you know what you're getting is kind of like whack. Like, it's great when you're a kid, and then you have one as an adult, and you go, where did all the filling go? What is this? Because I got one not too long ago, and I enjoyed it, but not as much as when I was child. Is it because the child versions would be illegal now just because of too much sugar or something? I bet. I bet they're pretty close to the same.

I bet the sugar is like a little different. But also when you're a kid, you're like brain isn't formed. So, you know, this tastes like brain isn't formed so you know this tastes like magic because you've had seven flavors in your life so i i think that has a lot to do with it and most most things when you're a kid you're having it for the first time or maybe the second time you know uh so everything is new and exciting i had i had it i well like i said i've been eating them a lot lately right so i had one at mcdonald's the other day that wasn't great but i had one at that same m that same McDonald's like a week later that knocked my dick off of my body.

It was so good. So I think it's a bit of hit or miss, but there are still some... I'm just saying, I just want to put this out there because I want everybody to have it in the back of your head. Don't sleep on these things. Maybe give one a try sometime soon. I really do think that as a society,

we're missing the boat right now. How do you how do you feel about savory ones i need an example all right like meat and peas and all that is there a teenage mutant intro on it still sure i'm into it i'd be i'd be willing to give it a try i'd be willing to give it a try but it's definitely like a dessert in my head but i'm like i'm you know I'm okay with giving a meat pie a try. You got two hands. It's true. Very good point. It is a great point.

Could stuff a salad in one, have an appetizer one too. Have a whole meal. Salad pie. It's the worst. I'm a, I'm becoming a new kind of guy, by the way.

Oh, I'm going to new kind of guy by the way I'm gonna become a lawn guy you're gonna become a lawn guy? Howard what are you doing with your lawn? I'm excited I'm gonna mow it okay I'm less excited what do you mean? why would that be an exciting thing?

I've been mowing my lawn for 49 years yeah it's like yeah hey dude it sucks? I've been mowing my lawn for 49 years. Yeah, it's like, yeah, hey, dude, it sucks. It fucking sucks to mow your lawn. Really? I just suddenly, I suddenly was looking at my lawn. I thought, I want to mow that. I want to buy a lawn mower and mow it.

Do you want to come over and mow my lawn? You can mow my lawn. God, no. I want to mow my lawn. I immediately fired the guy who's been mowing it for the last nine years. What? I ordered a mower. Just on a whim.

Wait, what? What? I could have given you a lawnmower. Oh, really? Because I just sold my house. I don't need mine. Oh. I gave it to the movers.

Have you done it yet? No. It's fine. Are you sure that you're a lawn guy? Well, I don't. I'm going to become one. Wait, have I jumped into this too soon? No, you're fine lawn guy well i don't i'm gonna become one should i wait have i jumped into this too soon no you're fine here yeah think about this eric he he finds manual labor not like charming and he loves the sun and he loves to be out in the sun so that's like a perfect activity

i love uh like power washing and like painting walls. I love like finishing the square. I understand. I mean, I get that. I don't mind mowing. The act of mowing my lawn is fine. It's not the act that is the bothersome thing. It is the, all right, well, it's Friday and I have some time. Is this what I'm doing with my time?

I'll put it off for a day. Uh-oh, it's Saturday. I got to do this doing with my time? I'll put it off for a day. Oh, it's Saturday. I got to do this thing. Oh shit. I put it off for another day. Oh, it's Sunday.

It's only getting longer. And this is forever. I don't think I would procrastinate that. I think I would use that as my procrastination. Really? Yeah. You'll learn not to procrastinate pretty fast because once it gets out of control,

it's like three times the work. Oh, shit. We are on completely different ends of this spectrum, which I love. I'm loading up procrastination. I'm throwing it on. I'm putting the weights on the procrastination scale. I'm excited when I have

laundry to fold or something. Because it's like, oh, I'm going to sit down and fold laundry and watch an episode or something instead of it's like, Ooh, I'm going to sit down and fold laundry and like watch, watch, uh, an episode or something instead of edit. What are you guys watching right now? Uh, every Denzel movie available. Oh,

right, right. So Roman J. Israel. I, uh, he got game. I watched. That's a good movie.

The mighty Quinn. He got game is Ray Allen, right? Isn't he the one that plays? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, what's another one I watch? Antoine Fisher. good movie the mighty Quinn he got game is Ray Allen right isn't he the one that plays yeah yeah yeah another one I watch Antoine Fisher that

movie's a real bummer when you realize it's a true story that was unfortunate I didn't realize it was a real thing until it ended Survivor just ended it was one of the best

seasons in a long time I thought that was really good I don't watch any of it I need to watch it I watched have you guys seen that show expedition from hell on hbo no no it's uh it's a documentary about this israeli special forces dude who in his 60s to fight to raise money for cancer awareness for kids that have cancer because he's a cancer survivor he decides he's going to cross the entirety of the Amazon from one coast to the other

5,000 straight miles nobody's ever done it in the history of humanity and it's just a documentary about him being a lunatic and probably a charlatan and stealing money and all kinds of nonsense

that goes along with it it's pretty insane I liked it that's awesome can I propose that we I want to watch something with some of you guys? Because I don't know that...

Okay. I want to watch it by myself, but I mean, Gavin's going to have no interest, but Jeff, I think maybe you do. Is it Eraserhead? I'll watch it with you. I'll watch it with Gavin. Oh, the Clippers?

Yeah. Are you watching Clipped? I haven't watched it yet, but I'm going to. Is it good? Me neither. I want to watch it also just because I keep seeing the comparisons of the players to the people who play them

and it is it has been like it makes me want to watch it so bad i want to i really want to watch it because it looks goofy as shit i I think this is supposed to be JJ Reddick. Oh my god. And Chris Paul. Oh, well, let's have a watch party when I get back, when I get home from Boston. I really do. Like, if you want to watch that, I will

sit down. We can stream it together and watch it. I would love to. Lawrence Crispin looks so much like Doc Rivers there. You're going to Boston to watch the game? I'm going to Boston to the game. They're playing Dallas. What are you doing? I'm going to see him.

Oh, yeah. I'm going to see him. Did not cross my mind. That's insane. Here's why. Allow me to retort. First off, it's a birthday present to me from my wife. Secondly,

I have the opportunity to see Boston play in the finals at the Garden, and you think I'm going to pass that up? Like, there's no way in hell I'm going to pass it up. Make no mistake about it, I'm going to Dallas to see a second finals game. I will go to

two finals games, and if it goes to seven game i will go to two finals game and if it goes to seven i'll go to three and sell some blood or something but i didn't have any say so over the first game that was my wife uh booking a trip for me for my birthday it just it just never occurred to me that you were leaving the state of texas oh yeah i'm doing more than that dude we're doing way more than that we're going to chic Chicago and then Boston because my wife's sister is going to Chicago to surprise her best friend and her husband who are going to Chicago for the weekend. And they're going to do like an architectural tour on a boat. So my wife's sister decided that she's just going to get tickets and show up on the boat and just run into them and be like, oh, what a surprise.

We're both here. And then so Emily thought it would be funny if we also show up on the boat and surprise all of them. So I'm getting up at four in the morning tomorrow to fly to Chicago so I can get on a 9 a.m. boat so I can surprise people. That's so awesome. Then I can turn around and go to Boston the next day to go see the Celtics

play at home for game two of the finals, and then I'll turn around and come right back to close on my house. It's like when we all woke up at five to surprise you in vegas oh yeah i'm returning the favor but to different people you know exciting stuff you know what i'm not doing i guess what i'm not doing what a walking group and a sketched group i blocked in i booked booked it, and I did it on our company email. So you guys know I'm busy at that time.

Those are nap hours. Nap time. So that's going to be in our company calendar? Yeah, it's on the calendar. At least I tried to. So am I going to get a lot for this? I think you should. Saturday, you're going to see it. I got it booked from 9 until noon. That'll be the time for us all to start

calling Andrew's umidigi and try to wake him up I never thought I would have to interact with that umidigi so much yeah I have to interact with it later because I have to log into stuff so I got a umidigi

fucking codes after this so let's wrap up so we can do a umidigi fucking codes after this so let's let's wrap up so we can do some umidigi codes yep that's the plan so that's forever huh this freaking umidigi situation no you're gonna send me a phone oh yeah remember how that was supposed to happen

one last thing as we wrap up and Gavin gets the phone ready when we were first starting, I asked everybody what year they were born in because I was putting something together for So Alright and I had so much fun with it, I thought I would try it with y'all and do it with y'all too. Do you guys know

what the number one song in Billboard was the year you were born? Just off the top of your head. Oh. No. I looked it up for everybody. Okay. Mine, 1975, the Billboardboard number one year-end song, or the song for the year, is unfortunately Love Will Keep Us Together

by Captain and Tennille, which is an absolute dog shit song. How does that go? Love will keep us together. Love will keep us together. Love will keep us together. It's so fucking stupid. It's like Andrew doing opera. Did you know?

Hey, Jeff, did you know in that song they're singing words? Did you know songs are words? So my top three are so brutal. It's Love Will Keep Us Together, Rhinestone, Cowboy, and Philadelphia Freedom, which is like the only bad Elton John song. Wow. That's rough trade, bud. Real rough trade.

Real bummer. But for Eric, you were born in 1986. I knew yours because it's the same year as my wife. The number one song of the year. It's a good one. That's What Friends Are For by Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, Elton John, and Stevie Wonder. So solid, solid song. That's cool.

I don't love that song, but you know, it's like, it's not Captain, it Stevie Wonder. So solid, solid song. That's cool. I don't love that song, but you know, it's like, it's not Captain, it's an eel, so that's fine. It's good. It's a great song. Nick, I think, might have my favorite of all the songs, even though I guess it hasn't aged well. Nick, you were born in 1987. The number one song

in 1987 was Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles. Oh, awesome. Good song. Well, great fucking song. Great video. in 1987 was Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles. Awesome. Great fucking song. Great video. 1988 is the year that Gavin Free was born, and I gotta say this is maybe yeah, this is maybe

the most apropos song. Even the top five, top four for Gavin are insane. Gavin, do you off the top of your head know what the number one song was the year you were born I don't by a fellow Brit George Michael

it was Faith oh wow the little biscuit song that's awesome number two was Need You Tonight by NXS number three was

Got My Mind Set On You by George Harrison number four was Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley it was a very Brit heavy year I would say that's full of bangers

that's pretty that was pretty fucking good man and I would associate you with most of the songs except for need you tonight uh i'm pretty sure i've listened to all those songs every year since i've been born yeah i bet you have and then pulling up the rear is andrew one song in 1994 was Ace of Base, The Sign. Yeah. That is your birth song. So I think out of everybody, I think Nick probably won,

and I feel like I lost. I definitely have the shittiest song. But it was fun. You should go through and look at the list of top 100 because there's all kinds of stuff in there that you'll be like, oh, fuck, that's crazy.

That was the year I was born. That is all I'm going to think about the rest of the day. I'll do that. Like, I'm the only one about the rest of the day. I'll do that. Like, I'm the only one by Melissa Etheridge was on your birth year, Andrew. Crazy. I'm the only one.

Any opera in the top 100? Do you want to sing us out, Andrew, with some of your opera? Yeah. All right, here we go. Guys, patreon.com slash theregulationpod. Follow us at regulationpod, theregulationpod everywhere. Thank you so much forPod. Follow us at TheRegulationPod everywhere. Thank you so much for listening. Check out our gaming channel at Regulation Gameplay.

All right, Andrew, take us out with your beautiful Italian. Well, we lost one country today.