Regulation Podcast - I'm All Back // The Bat Fiasco [28]

Episode Date: December 9, 2020

Geoff, Gavin, and Andrew talk about Andrew being the most least prepared, payoff to the ketchup bet, Geoff's bats, and more. Sponsored by ExpressVPN (http://expressvpn.com/face) and Tushy (http://hell...otushy.com/face). Follow F**kface on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fuckfacepod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 and action on the episode hello i don't have it up yet what oh boy are you being what don't you have a what does that mean i don't have anything up yet i gotta i'm not ready no i i i closed everything so i'm making a new thing why would you close it we're about to start a podcast you gotta make it fresh gotta get it fresh you gotta the project rate has to be right jeff was 0.5 of a second there into what sounded like an amazing intro go ahead okay i'm ready we go, and take three, action on the episode. Hello, and welcome to F*** Face. I believe it's episode 28.
Starting point is 00:00:52 I am Geoff Ramsey, and with me as always... I hate doing intros. It sounds so fucking phony. Gavin, and you're... and then Andrew. The problem was, Geoff, is that you were forced to do it three times there, because Andrew didn't have... It's not times there. Yeah, maybe that's it. It's not my fault. I never said I was ready.
Starting point is 00:01:08 You all just kept assuming I was and then jumping into it. That's not my fault. Well, anyway, this is, well, because we were here on time and ready to go. I was here ten minutes early. I was ahead of both of you. If you were here ten minutes early, why didn't you get that shit figured out ten minutes early? Because I was doing the fucking test, Jeff. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:01:24 And it was a whole thing well eric is very a lot of attitude i'll be honest andrew we've had 14 whole days between recordings you couldn't have done a test then i did oh there's so much i did do a test then and then i was 10 minutes early and then they joined and they asked me to do a test again so much so much to cover in the last 14 days of just like just behind madness nonsense so this is interesting because i you know i listen to this podcast it's the only uh production that i'm a part of uh that i that i actually listen to and actually it's the only production i'm a part of now uh but but you know i it's not like i watched a bunch of achievement videos all the time or
Starting point is 00:02:01 anything and or like listen to the rt podcast when I was on it at least, because I hate me. But I listen to this one because I find YouTube to be entertaining, and it's really my only source of friendship right now. And every episode I listen to, I come away with thinking, having a totally different opinion of when I recorded it. And the prevailing thread is always, I get too upset over too little a thing. And I go, I get too hot too fast. And I'm like, I got to work on that.
Starting point is 00:02:29 Because when I hear it, it doesn't sound, it sounds like excessive to me. Like, why did I get that mad in that moment? Like, that seems like my reaction is greater than the moment. But now here I am in the moment, and I'm genuinely annoyed immediately. And I feel justified. But I know next week when I listen to this, I'm going to go, God damn it, Jeff, you did it again.
Starting point is 00:02:48 No, it's justified. Absolutely not. No, no, no, no, it's not. It couldn't be less justified. I was the most prepared. I was asked to do a thing and you both were just like, okay, we're starting now.
Starting point is 00:02:57 Do you think you were more prepared than both of us who were actually ready to go at 3.30 to report? I 100% was more prepared because I showed up 10 minutes early and I was fulfilling a task I was asked to do. If you're 10 minutes early, but you cause us to start recording five minutes late, there's no point of being early.
Starting point is 00:03:15 I'm not the cause of that, though. I was doing a thing I was asked to do. So you can be mad at Nick or Eric. I don't really care which. Not my fault. I'm so loud. I just got a text from my daughter who's on the other side of the house and it's not like a giant house
Starting point is 00:03:30 or anything but it's built it's long and it's like a horseshoe and she just texted to make sure I was okay because she said it sounded like I was dying I'm surprised the shelves don't dampen the sound well I'm not in the library I'm in my bedroom so I couldn't be further
Starting point is 00:03:47 away from millie and still in the same house as her and uh and i was so excessively loud she had to check in on me is your house longer than andrew's back i don't know if that's possible i don't know know either. Honestly, it's like a magic trick. If you see me standing, you're like average height, and then when I sit down, I'm taller than everybody. I'm like fucking Yao Ming in a chair. Out of nowhere comment. Was that last week's one where you said you had a really long back?
Starting point is 00:04:18 I think so. That floored me. I don't remember what the context even was, but it's true. I think it might have been in relation to pillows and stuff, but yeah was a bizarre thing to say it was a very no it's true i have an absurdly long i'm all back not a lot of legs i'm all back when i sit down if you saw me sitting at a table with a bunch of people you would think i was way taller than i actually am because i have a massive height advantage if we're sitting on a chair. That's if the chair hasn't cracked and dropped you a foot. That's true, but I'm good at keeping that afloat.
Starting point is 00:04:49 You're describing a Datsun. Yes, sure. So you're like a little sausage dog, the human version of. I think we need to bring up the fact that our podcast is such a mess that it got uploaded. There's an error in the upload and it ended in the middle. And a lot of people don't even know that that was an error. Like, that's how fucked we are.
Starting point is 00:05:09 A lot of people think that it was some bit we did. What happened? What happened, Nick? Now we don't need to talk. No clue. Suddenly no Nick to be found. Hold on. Because I had people come to me and say, I thought that was a funny ending.
Starting point is 00:05:30 I didn't see it coming, how abrupt it was. And it's like, that wasn't, it wasn't. Where did it end? It ended, I think Jeff said, do the intro, Gavin. And then you're about to speak and it just cuts off. Oh, that's probably better than the intro. No. No, I almost took out my fucking setup
Starting point is 00:05:47 that was the episode where we were trying to convince andrew to knock the glass out of his fridge to hang his yeah so if you missed the end of last week's episode without knowing it make sure you listen to it because andrew it sounds like he's wrestling an alligator but he's really just trying to clip his mic to the fridge or something. He destroyed his bedroom somehow. Let's not get too far away from Nick explaining himself. Yeah, yeah, come back. I was hoping you forgot.
Starting point is 00:06:15 It ended up being something on the upload end. The full episode was there, but for whatever reason, the way their cache works, it had 37 minutes of the hour and one minute that was uploaded and so i had to re-upload it multiple times for it to actually go through and then it took about an hour for that to happen so by that time probably about 9 000 people had listened to it already it's probably most people who are here also people who have downloaded too because like i think it was the whole thing you had to delete it to like get the new it was a it was a disaster in a weird way it
Starting point is 00:06:52 became a collectible the the 35 or whatever minute long yeah do you have the original episode 27 of face oh dude don't get me started on collectibles thanks nick that's i i i think that's an excellent response nick happens for the best of us yeah i have a a thing to also address from last because one of the things we did lose as well in the midst of the chaos was a ketchup conversation it's a payoff to a ketchup bet that we had gavin that i said it was dangerous to have lid down because the ketchup could explode, could shoot everywhere. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:27 You disagreed. I bet that if I left it and I opened it, it would shoot everywhere. It didn't. I lost, but that wasn't good enough for me. So I went to Heinz, and I got Heinz's opinion on this. I reached out to the Heinz company. He loses a bet and takes it up with the conglomerates.
Starting point is 00:07:44 I did. I reached out to heinz i uh i sent uh we have a an instagram and there's a great post about the ketchup bottles getting other people's opinions a lot of people agreed with me in that thread and so i sent them the photo from our instagram of the ketchups one upside down, one lid down, one lid up. And I asked them about it. Heinz said, hey there, we're happy to put an end to this great Heinz ketchup debate. When in doubt, follow the label. That being said, for the bottle in the picture, cap face down would be the correct direction. So the label reads correctly.
Starting point is 00:08:19 Hope that helps. That's what they said. So they sided with you. But then I had someone who works at NASA reach out to me about this. NASA engineer. And they. You can't tell me somebody from NASA listens to us. I'm telling you.
Starting point is 00:08:35 That's not true. They do. A janitor at NASA responded to me. No. They're an engineer. NASA has cupboards too. They are an engineer. And cupboards too They are an engineer And they gave me the science behind it
Starting point is 00:08:48 It's a custodial engineer It is a huge post I don't know I don't know if it's worth reading all of it Does it do a temperature Maybe pressure Sort of outside to inside That's essentially the idea
Starting point is 00:08:59 Yeah in summer I'll just read the more abbreviated version of it Gavin was very wrong about the ketchup thing. As a NASA engineer, I can tell you that storing it upside down is very dangerous due to the pressure increase of air inside the bottle due to temperature changes.
Starting point is 00:09:13 I've also experienced ketchup spurts and can scientifically explain why it happens. And there's this huge explanation for the science behind it. Couple things I'd like to address there. Go ahead. One, I think that in matters of the tomato, I think I'll trust the ketchup experts
Starting point is 00:09:30 over the spaceship experts. Can I counter that really quickly? Yeah, go ahead. Well, I appreciate that perspective, Jeff. So then I took his very long scientific explanation and I sent it to Heinz. It was like, well, explain this because this is what NASA is saying. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:09:48 And then they looked at the thing from NASA and they just said, this is beyond our pay grade. It's the social. But they they kind of pulled back. They're like, I think you're both right. We still stand by the label, but I think both sides are correct in this conversation When I store stuff, you know the correct way cap down if the label is that way I never have it spurt all over me and you also didn't know I did the died I have had it happen to me and it happened to me with that bottle previously
Starting point is 00:10:19 But not when it came down to the money I think the larger point at play here to take away from this argument has less to do with ketchup and more to do with the fact that this is what's wrong with NASA. This is why the space shuttle program got shuttered. This is why they're having to catch rides on Tesla rockets or SpaceX rockets
Starting point is 00:10:38 because their space program is in shambles because their engineers or their custodial engineers or whoever these people are are spending all their time listening to dipshit podcasts instead of doing science math to send us to the moon. They've got to be thinking about how to properly store ketchup on the ISS and stuff. It's important stuff. It's the best condiment. Just follow the label. Nah, you've got to figure out ketchup.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Follow the label? Which way up is the label when you're in zero gravity? Andrew, are you asserting that ketchup is the best condiment? Ketchup is easily the best condiment, the best general con without a doubt. You're going on record with that. I'm going on record. Number two for me. Very close.
Starting point is 00:11:18 Honey mustard. Fantastic. The great condiment. But ketchup is number one. Gavin, rank the rank. Give me a three, Andrew. Probably a sweet and sour sauce, I'd say, is the third best. Okay.
Starting point is 00:11:31 Gavin, what are your top three condiments? I would say number one, Coleman's mustard. That's outrageous. Outrageous? What do you mean? Cut a pork pie, nice big pork pie, cut it into quadrants, dip that shit in a bit of Coleman's. It's the deluxe evening snack.
Starting point is 00:11:50 I'm not saying you're wrong. I am saying you're wrong. I'm not saying it's delicious, but you're wrong. You're wrong. You can't. Heinz has to be number one. It's the Coca-Cola of condiments. Well, listen, let's not throw the word Coca-Cola as if they're the best soda or anything.
Starting point is 00:12:05 But they're the number one. They may be the number one, but it doesn as if they're the best soda or anything. But they're the number one. They may be the number one, but it doesn't mean they're the best. No, I'm not. Pepsi's way better. I'll take Heinz baked beans as being number one in breakfast, but I'm not putting ketchup as number one anyway. So Coleman mustard is number one for you, Gavin. Yeah. Two and three.
Starting point is 00:12:19 Two and three? Any mayo would probably be number two. Okay. Hellman's, why not Number three Mayo's a thing I don't enjoy Unless it's sneakily put in I would never put mayo on something But if it has mayo in it and I don't know mayo's gonna be on it
Starting point is 00:12:37 I enjoy it What about salad cream? Salad dressing? Salad What? What are you saying? say salad cream salad cream what the fuck is that what is salad cream are you trying to say sour cream i think you say you're trying to say salad dressing i think i was right the first time no i think it's sour cream. No, it's neither. It's salad cream. What the fuck is that? What is that?
Starting point is 00:13:06 What does it sound like? It sounds disgusting. I don't even know what it is, to be honest. Salad cream? I'm going to guarantee you right now. Dude, I'm going to tell you right now. If you and I, if I drove over to your house, if I got in your car and drove over to your house right now and picked you up, and we went to the grocery store, H-E-B or Randall's or Fresh Plus or whatever,
Starting point is 00:13:25 and I asked them where the salad cream is, they would ask me to leave. Look, Heinz salad cream, I would place above Heinz ketchup. That is insane. And I'd put Heinz baked beans above the both of them. In terms of all my Heinz top three, I would have ketchup as number three
Starting point is 00:13:42 with salad cream and then beans. When do you use salad cream? When? then beans. When do you use salad cream? When did you say when do you use salad cream? Is it just a salad cream? You put it on salad, Andrew. Is that it? That's dressing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:56 What's the flavor? What does it taste like? What's it made of? What's the difference between a cream and a dressing? It looks like it looks like dressing? It looks like somebody... It looks like tainted mayonnaise. If I go to a store, can I find that on a shelf right now? No.
Starting point is 00:14:11 Well, not on this continent, probably. Okay, so it's regional. I just want to make sure that this is some section I've never seen. It's just a little bit more flavorsome than if you have a bland dressing or vinaigrette. If you want a punch, whack on some salad cream. What's it? Is it tangy?
Starting point is 00:14:29 Is it sweet? Is it sour? Is it salty? I'll be honest. It's been about 12 years since I've had it. But I remember enjoying it. You put it in your top three. It's more similar to mayo than anything else.
Starting point is 00:14:40 Well, look, I'm not a big condiment sort of person anyway. Fair enough. But I mean, you can't think of a third. Like a cheese. I'm not a big condiment sort of person anyway. Fair enough, but I mean, you can't think of a third, like a cheese, is a cheese sauce a condiment? I mean, yeah, I guess so. It's like a hot, it's a hot, it's a hot dog condiment. Let me be honest
Starting point is 00:14:57 with you, I've inserted salad cream into my top three. It's probably my top ten. It's not in my top three. I just really wanted to sort of shove it right into the middle of this conversation and uh it provided the correct amount of confusion i think would you say that the the salad cream in that image that eric sent us is uh is stored right side up yeah okay um you've blown my mind on that salad cream i've never heard of salad cream before it looks gross i going to guess it tastes as gross. Jeff, you would hate it.
Starting point is 00:15:28 You would absolutely hate it. It looks like tartar sauce. Similar in color. Can I order salad cream? Andrew is right in that the number one condiment of all time is easily ketchup. I would go with Heinz ketchup because they're the industry standard. Standard, yeah. I'm not a big fan of honey mustard. I certainly don with Heinz ketchup because they're the industry standard. Standard, yeah. I'm not a big fan of honey mustard.
Starting point is 00:15:47 I certainly don't think I like salad cream. Look, don't knock it until you've tried it. I would go number two would be... I want to try it. Number two would be virtually any barbecue sauce. Don't really care. I don't feel like a barbecue sauce is a condiment because I thought barbecue sauce too,
Starting point is 00:16:02 but it's not... You don't live in Texas. Barbecue sauce is absolutely a condiment. You know what? HP sauce would probably be in my top three if we're talking breakfast. That's a good one. Or maybe daddy's.
Starting point is 00:16:12 A bit of daddy's sauce. That's similar. Number three is A1. A1 sauce is the number three. Does the salad cream make a difference, bottle or plastic? Does it make a taste difference? Yes.
Starting point is 00:16:22 Because it's in plastic? Yeah, well, certain things taste better in different. I'm saying should I go plastic or bottle? You should go bottle. Oh, make a taste difference? Yes. Because it's in plastic? Yeah, well, certain things taste better and different. I'm saying, should I go plastic or bottle? You should go bottle. Oh, are you buying some? Yeah, I'm ordering it right now. Where are you getting it from? Amazon. Am I going bottle or plastic? I'm going bottle, right? Yeah, go bottle, dude.
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Starting point is 00:17:09 Visit amex.ca slash yamx. Benefits vary by card. Terms apply. I had a business idea. Do we want to stay in sauces? No, no, no. I wasn't even trying to get into sauces. We started talking about it, and then you boldly claimed ketchup is the best sauce.
Starting point is 00:17:25 Well, it just, it is. It's the industry standard. Hank's ketchup is like the established one. Dude, you're preaching to the choir. I just wanted to follow that thought exercise out and see what everybody thought. Yeah, no, I think we should go to your business idea. We should talk about why it's been 14 days
Starting point is 00:17:39 since we recorded. We should talk about the fucking baseball bats. All kinds of stuff. Don't you laugh, you little prick. Don't you laugh, you little prick. Why don't you tell us about your fucking business idea, you little shit? Okay. I think this is a great idea.
Starting point is 00:17:55 I'm just going to throw it. Maybe we edit this out because it's such a good idea that I'm scared someone will steal this. I think it's genius. Dude. The company is, okay, it's called called thank me later this is how it works okay you buy something you order something like let's say it's not important things that you'd like need immediately like for me it was sour patch kids it's like you buy some sour patch kids and then we ship them to you at least a minimum four months from now we don't tell you when they're
Starting point is 00:18:23 going to be shipped you're at the earliest you're getting them four months from now we don't tell you when they're going to be shipped you're at the earliest you're getting them four months from now could be a year that's the whole thing you don't know when they're coming it's fantastic what what are you delivering what so let's say let's say it's candy so for me my example is let's say you want you want some sour patch kids right you feel like you're our patch kids you buy the sour patch from Thank Me Later, and then we'll ship them to you in between 4 to 12 months. Eventually. Why would you want that? Because, okay, this is why.
Starting point is 00:18:52 Because I ordered Sour Patch Kids recently online, and they told me I'm either gonna get them December 24th or March. Anywhere in that range. That's my shipping range. And I'm now way more excited about these than I were. I hope they go further out
Starting point is 00:19:08 because I'm going to forget I ordered these by January. That's going to completely leave my mind and I'm going to randomly have a day where I show up and I have Sour Patch Kids in my house. I'm thrilled by this. I think that's a great idea, Andrew. It's like Christmas year round. You're just surprising yourself. You don't know when it's
Starting point is 00:19:24 coming. You know you want it. It's the thing you're going to enjoy. And it's just going to randomly appear there one day. I can't see myself being like, oh yeah, I'll do it through that website though. Like why not? Why would I want to add the delay? If you order it through Amazon, you know when you're going to get it. I'm totally on board with you, Andrew. What's the nicest thing about getting a gift, Gavin? Well, maybe the nicest thing is that somebody cares about you, right? But the second thing is, it's a nice surprise. Typically, if it's not your birthday or whatever,
Starting point is 00:19:51 somebody gives you a little gift. For instance, I sent Emily flowers today. She's not expecting them. She's going to get flowers. She's going to be like, oh, Jeff thought of me. What a special little thing today. That's so nice. You're giving yourself a gift,
Starting point is 00:20:04 and then the discretion is up to thank me later to determine when, within a 12-month window, to send you that, send yourself that gift. And like Andrew said, if I sent myself a box of, I don't know, Panini Prism basketball cards, and I didn't get them until August, what a hell of a surprise. I would have forgotten about it 10 times over.
Starting point is 00:20:24 That's a great idea. It's not that you're waiting for it eagerly it's you forget that you even made the order is the thing and then it just shows up and it's like magic it's like a fucking magic trick just happened and then you're like like for you gavin say uh say you ordered yourself some and this is fucking disgusting to look at daddy's favorite brown sauce which is in the discord and but you said you know what i don't i don't really i was thinking about it but i don't really have a need for it right now what if i just i i'll set the slider that i want to receive at any time between may and june of next year or may may and december of next year and then andrew working for the company decides to send it to you in October
Starting point is 00:21:05 you forgot about it and then you you open up the mail and there's a package to Gavin from Gavin and you're like what did I send brown sauce daddy's brown sauce oh what I'm gonna have a brown sauce event now I'm gonna go eat whatever the fuck goes with this and it'll be a pleasant little surprise from me to me I love it I can kind of see that so I assume it's being just a little surprise from me to me. I love it. I can kind of see that. I assume it's being just dispatched and shipped late. It's not just sat in a box for a year. Uh, yeah. No, I think
Starting point is 00:21:30 that'd be the way to go. Yeah. If it were perishable, yeah. It would probably avoid most perishable things. I feel like you just have to store people's stuff for so long because you don't want something to go out of stock right before it's meant to ship. That's true. I mean, if it's popular items, I don't think you have to worry about it can i ask a
Starting point is 00:21:47 question i'm sorry i was gonna type this out but i really i want to i'm curious absolutely what do you do the first four months in operation uh just make money it's just all profit for the first four months he's got a point so in the first four months you just take orders and then you just sit back no that's pretty good because you would use the money generated in the first four months and then you probably use that money to buy a warehouse to store the stuff that by the time the warehouse is all settled you you're shipping it out yeah you're taking the money up front and if you're really smart you'll send yourself the gift of a subscription and then you can say like i like these eight things send them to me randomly throughout
Starting point is 00:22:23 the year that's interesting i didn't randomly throughout the year. That's interesting. I didn't think about the subscription angle. That's like a birch box or like a nerd box, whatever the fuck those things are called, you know, where you get one every month and you're like, I get one called a boom box for basketball cards where you're like, oh shit, I got a box that I sent myself of basketball cards I can open up and oh, look, they're all trash just like every month. Great. Let me throw them away.
Starting point is 00:22:42 But in this instance, they probably wouldn't be. This is fucking cool. I think I'm ready to invest. It's a great idea, because the joy of Christmas is you don't know what's coming. You get your gifts, you open them. This is like year round. As an adult, you lose that, because you just buy the things you want to buy.
Starting point is 00:22:57 I find making a Christmas list as an adult impossible. Yeah, I might be on board with this. I think this is actually pretty good. It's a fantastic idea. Thank me later. I think it would make me shop differently. It would make me shop specifically for treats. Like, I wouldn't want to buy
Starting point is 00:23:09 anything that I need on that. No, absolutely not. I don't want toilet paper showing up when I'm, you know, I'm on the bog without anything to wipe with. Right. Or you're like, oh, look, I sent myself another pair of salmon-colored shorts. I'll throw it on the pile. You always need a new pair of them.
Starting point is 00:23:27 That's my business idea. You're brilliant, Andrew. That's a really good business idea. I appreciate it. How were the, speaking of things we need to catch up on, how did the three marathons go? Oh, I haven't started yet. I keep re-rolling my ankle. Come on.
Starting point is 00:23:41 You say it like it's a D&D character. I'm trying to get better endurance. This is okay. So I re-rolled it slightly on Tuesday. My problem is it's been sore. Okay, just don't interrupt me, Gavin. I can already see you trying. What happens is because I'm thinking about it
Starting point is 00:23:59 because it hurts, I'm constantly having dreams where I'm rolling my ankle. And when I do that in my dream, I then physically react and I hurt my ankle further. so I'm constantly react fading it. It's a terrible cycle Get your legs away from the walls and stuff How are you entering it? Okay, it's like I'm laying okay, so like any sharp movement right now any sudden like flinch Gavin hurts my ankle
Starting point is 00:24:23 So I'll just not making anything no i'm dreaming and in my dream i'm rolling my ankle in my dream and so then i like jerk in my sleep and then i actually hurt my ankle in real life i i can't imagine if i if if you laid me on a bed and you said hurt your ankle right now i don't physically do. Well, you need to have it injured already. This is not a healthy... I'm not going to put it into the wool. No, but this is not a healthy ankle, Gavin. This is an ankle
Starting point is 00:24:54 in recovery. You're making it sound like if you look at it funny, it snaps. No, no. The tendons, it's not a good situation, man. I kick it in my sleep. Yeah, I should. Why don't you take two of your 40 pillows and wrap your feet around them
Starting point is 00:25:10 and then duct tape it to your ankles while you sleep? That doesn't sound comfortable at all, and I'm giving up two good pillows for that. I have a feeling you've got extras, and, dude, I'll buy you the pillows, and it sounds more comfortable than spraining your ankle every time you have a dream. No, well, it's specifically ankle rolling dreams. And it's very odd.
Starting point is 00:25:32 I have like two or three a day, I'd say. Every time, like I'll wake up from it and then I'll go back to bed and I'll roll it again. Do you remember the plot of any of these? Yeah, it's literally the plot is the entirety of the role it'll be like i'm in a park and i'm stepping on a rock and then it just rolls and then i jerk and i wake up and i'm in pain i'm an egg so just it just happens to happen in your it's not like you're like stood on a on a bunch of boxes about to jump onto one ankle no there's no no no there's no like lead up it's like as soon as i have awareness of that i'm in a thing or I'm in a place.
Starting point is 00:26:05 It immediately rolls and then I wake up in pain. But I'm like 90% haven't started the marathons. They will happen. I don't think they will. And here's why. OK, you can't sleep safely in your bed, in your home. Two days in a row. How are you going to walk 80 miles?
Starting point is 00:26:27 I might not be able to do it, but I'm try to do it that's the thing and it's for all bets all non-pencil related bets all non-pencil related yeah double or nothing so is that including the one you lost last week with the ketchup yeah yeah i was right about that but i lost it i'm not gonna argue that point here's the thing andrew i think you need your ankle to be 100%. You need to have not rolled it for months before attempting it. No, I don't think I need that much time. I think maybe four or five days. I think somewhere in the middle.
Starting point is 00:26:56 I think probably three weeks would be good, but I don't foresee you going three weeks without hurting your ankle because you can't control your sleep. I went months without hurting my ankle. I said months. You make it sound like it's an accomplishment. Yeah, I know. As soon as I said that, I realized that. But yeah, it was a while. It'd probably been at least a
Starting point is 00:27:14 year since I really rolled my ankle. I don't plan on ordering 70 pounds of pancake mix in the near future. I think I'm going to be okay in the short term. Have you ever broken a bone? I broke my toe once. My big toe. How'd you do that? I just I think I'm gonna be okay in the short term have you ever broken a bone I broke my toe once my big toe how'd you do that I just I think I slammed it I I broke well no I broke two toes I broke one toe here I broke my big toe was a much worse break that was terrible it was like I couldn't even
Starting point is 00:27:36 put a bed sheet on it without it hurting awful just awful it's pretty fun it was like a feather you put a feather on that big tail when it was broken extreme pain it was not fun you must have had so many toe-breaking dreams no i didn't i thankfully had no toe-breaking dreams when i get obsessive about things though or if i'm in i guess constant pain i'll have dreams about it because i don't know if we i know we talked about when you and i were doing that trials competition gavin but whenever i'm in something i'll dream about it i don't remember if i told this but i slammed my head into the wall because i was dreaming i was on the bike yeah in the game yeah you did tell that okay well yeah i get very uh active dreamer i guess so yeah well if i'm thinking about
Starting point is 00:28:20 something i kind of it consumes my mind it's all i think of. Yeah, toe break's not fun. What about you? Anyone break a bone, like a real bone? I don't feel like a toe break is a real break. My nose. It's all smashed in. Broke nose? It's hard to... I fell on it when I was very young, and now it's crooked. And it bled a ton.
Starting point is 00:28:39 Or it bled later. Didn't bleed at the time somehow. I know this is insane. I know this is completely unreasonable. I don't think my nose could be broken. I think I have an unbreakable nose. Andrew. Andrew. Listen to what you're saying.
Starting point is 00:28:55 Listen to the words as they're coming out. No, I know there are scenarios like if a fucking missile hit me in the face, my nose would break. But I don't think... There's so much less than that that would break your nose. No. It's got to be...
Starting point is 00:29:10 What are you, Superman? It's got to be a missile? No, I guess... I don't think anyone... I think it would be extremely difficult to break my nose. Bend over in front of me at the driving range, facing me, I should say, and it'll be gone immediately. I don't think that's close
Starting point is 00:29:25 behind me when i shut a door i'll break your nose i just i think just the structural integrity my nose is very good i think it's sturdy and that's based on what based on like what life experience i've kind of like played around my nose a little bit i put pressure on it. It's very durable. It's resistant. In both shape and size. This is the dumbest thing you've ever said. No. Have you compared that anecdotal tensile strength
Starting point is 00:29:55 to another nose to see how yours holds up? No, no, no. I've never compared noses, but I don't think someone could punch me in the face and break my nose. I just think the shape of my nose and the integrity of it, it would hold. Alright, I've gotta find a picture of your nose. Uh, let's find your slack. Okay, so you've got like a pretty small, uh, slightly upturned nostril.
Starting point is 00:30:15 It's a cute nose. Nose. It's a, it's like a cute little- It's a fine, it's, it's like- It's a nice nose. There's a width, there's a width to it. It's a good nose. It's not too far extended, it's not exposed.
Starting point is 00:30:24 I think what you're noticing here is that the bridge of your nose Is close to your skull It doesn't stick out too much It sticks out more at the end Which is all cartilage Yeah your bone is back there It's pretty secure it's like when you tuck your chin When you're fighting
Starting point is 00:30:39 It's protected it's naturally protected It'd be very hard to break my nose Right but it's no less difficult than breaking your skull. Like, it's all the same bone. Wait. Is that true? Well, where's your nose bone? Oh, my... Wait a sec. No, I guess... Yeah. No, I guess that's right.
Starting point is 00:31:00 Huh. I never thought about that. Like, your cheekbone and your nose bone, It's the skull. It's all the skull. Well, the cheekbone is clearly the skull, but the nose I never thought about. You're right. The nose is part of the... it is the full pack. Yeah, no, you're right. It's a big bone. Yeah, it doesn't include the jaw though, I think. Really? That's a separate one.
Starting point is 00:31:21 I guess yeah, the bottom, right? Would be? Yeah. I think the skull bottom is like your top row of teeth yeah you know that makes sense i just don't think like i could let me let me take that back my nose obviously could be broken i think my nose would be very hard to break i don't think you could just break my nose by punching me okay i think you're wrong i think you're wrong i don't know about that. I think, uh, dude, I just watched, uh, last weekend I watched Mike Tyson and, uh, Roy
Starting point is 00:31:49 Jones Jr. fight, and, uh, there's a, Mike Tyson's a 54 year old dude who could break your nose in one punch. I guarantee you. I think everything else would break but the nose. The nose stays intact. Everything else is flying away.
Starting point is 00:32:05 I'm not saying I'm invulnerable. Just my nose is very sturdy. So you'd have like a shattered eye socket. Yeah. Teeth knocked out. Teeth flying everywhere. But your nose would break his fist. I'm not worried.
Starting point is 00:32:16 Yeah. The nose is the one thing I never feel I need to additionally protect. It's fine. Hey, you know what we should talk about? What should we talk about? Maybe we should talk about some What should we talk about? Maybe we should talk about some bats. Oh, yeah, that's a great idea.
Starting point is 00:32:31 Instead of that, why don't we talk about why we didn't record the podcast last week? Well, no. Well, okay, sure. I feel like you're blaming me for that, but that's not my fault. Who are you blaming? It's Gavin's fault. Yeah, I had to move it. Because I moved something from an earlier podcast that got moved.
Starting point is 00:32:49 It had to be moved earlier because of just shelves or something, or Andrew's ankle. So I moved my thing to what turned out to be last week. Turns out it worked out well, because I actually had to take my car to the shop that day. And I did not want that covered in the podcast. So when I canceled, you were like, oh, thank God. Yeah, kind of. I was like, oh, that's another bullet there.
Starting point is 00:33:14 What's wrong with it now? Nothing. Nothing's wrong with it. Nothing's wrong. It's perfect. It's amazing. I was driving. It's okay.
Starting point is 00:33:19 You can tell her. There's nothing wrong with it. There's nothing wrong with it. I just had to get that brake thing. I just had to get the brake thing fixed. Okay. It was just the sensor. It was fine. It's totally fine. So the brakes are good. There's nothing wrong with it. I just had to get that brake thing. I just had to get the brake thing fixed. Okay. It was just the sensor. It was fine.
Starting point is 00:33:25 It's totally fine. So the brakes are good. The sensor was bad. Yeah. Sensor was bad. So it got replaced. And everything's wonderful in Jeff's car. Or, sorry, in Gavin's car world.
Starting point is 00:33:35 That's good. Yeah. I'm sorry for moving the podcast. Oh, it's okay. I'd just like to point out now where I would like to, I would just like to say, I think we should consider ourselves all even now. I moved the podcast for a very good shelf reason.
Starting point is 00:33:49 Andrew moved the podcast for some bullshit. Gavin moved the podcast for the weakest of all reasons. But let's just all just say My reason was good. We're all, yeah, sure, whatever. I had robot training. I couldn't sit in a chair. We're even now.
Starting point is 00:34:04 No, I think the shelves is by couldn't sit in a chair. We're even now. No, I think the shells... We've all moved the podcast. The shells is by far the bottom of the pyramid. Fuck you! Fuck you! Without a doubt. You couldn't do the podcast because you couldn't sit down because your ankle hurt? I did the podcast every...
Starting point is 00:34:16 Every podcast we did for 11 weeks, I had root canals while we were doing it. You've moved the podcast several times. I don't want to hear this shit. I couldn't sit. We are even. We are. Every. Even.
Starting point is 00:34:28 Hey, we got to calm down, Jeff. We talked about this at the beginning. Let's calm down. Yeah, that's true. Let's relax. I'm saying we're fucking even. Yeah. No, we're not even.
Starting point is 00:34:34 On the bright side, I got my wallpaper put in yesterday, so I'm that much closer to being back in my office. That's exciting. I think if Andrew and I both cancel one more time in the future, then we'll be even. Because the shelf was like a double cancel. I don't even know what that means. It was just obscene. It was an absurd cancellation.
Starting point is 00:34:53 It's totally incorrect. Totally incorrect. The shelf was exceptionally valid. You saw the photos. You saw the amount of work that was going in. All in the service of giving me an office, a permanent space to record this podcast. If anything, I should be commended.
Starting point is 00:35:08 I should be commended for spending the money and hiring shelf builders to come in and build a set for which I can now be comfortable, in theory, performing this podcast. I was doing it for us. You should expense it to the company. You're right. I should. Did you use
Starting point is 00:35:32 that room to store the bats? No. No, I don't think they ever were in there. Okay. Interesting. Fuck you guys, though. So how do we unravel the bats? I don't talk, Jeff. You just talk about what you want. I think you guys though so how do we what do you mean how do we like unravel the bats yeah go ahead you know i don't talk jeff you just talk about what you i just i just think i think you guys are little shits i think you're little shits and i knew you were being little shits
Starting point is 00:35:52 but i don't trust you enough that i i what happened you you prayed you prayed on my insecurities and i i lost it a bit i'll be honest with you not to mention the fact that the whole bat thing sucked from start to finish. And I hope... But I will say this. The bats are done. Here's what happened. All right, here's what happened.
Starting point is 00:36:13 Give a background on the bats. What were the bats? Okay, okay, okay. I had a brilliant idea. We started... The podcast is named F*** Face because of a funny baseball card. Billy Ripken, Kyle Ripken Jr.'s brother, had a baseball
Starting point is 00:36:26 bat. It had written on the knob, and it was a 1989 Fleer. It was a big deal. They pulled the card from production. It was an error card. They replaced it with three different versions. Then it came out years later that he had always said that one of his teammates
Starting point is 00:36:41 had played a prank on him and written on the bat, and he didn't know it. And then he admitted years later he had written f***face on the bat himself and f***faced himself. And that's kind of where the genesis of the idea of f***facing yourself came from. So I thought it would be funny to make—this was at the height of everybody hating Andrew for the pencil bet. I thought it would be funny to make little souvenir baseball bats that say f***face on them to sell in the store
Starting point is 00:37:08 as like a little collectible. And Andrew was very against that idea because I think he thought the audience was going to buy a bunch of baseball bats and try to break his nose with them. It just seemed like a bad idea to sell a weapon
Starting point is 00:37:18 when the audience was at their most angry. So I jumped on that and I ordered. I had the store order the bats, and we got these little souvenir bats. They're about 18 inches long. They say F*** Face on them, and then on the knob, I was going to write F*** Face on a bunch of them. And I ordered. I had them order 50, and so I thought, well, do something a little, little extra, a little more than that. So I ordered a wood burning kit and like a vice and all this equipment. And then I,
Starting point is 00:37:56 I, uh, got some special attachments for the wood burning kit and I wanted to like hand number each of the bats to, to add to the collectability of them. And so horrible, horrible process, by the way. Eventually the bats come in. I just get a bunch of bats at my front door and I don't, I'm like, okay, cool. I'll fucking, I'll deal with that later. So I put them in a room and I forget about them, not the library. And then I'll be honest with you. I completely forgot about them. I was being lazy about it. And then I think it was Mallory from the merch department slacked me the other day and said, hey, we just got the shipment of baseball bats. Oh my God, the dog
Starting point is 00:38:36 just farted so loud. That was amazing. So she sent a slack that said, hey, I just got a bunch of, saw that a bunch of the baseball bats just arrived at work. Can you come pick them up? And I said, well, how can that be? I already have the bats. They were sent to my house. I've had them for like a week. And she said, can you, she goes, huh, can you send me a picture of them?
Starting point is 00:39:00 So I took a picture and I sent them to her and she just responded with okay which i thought was strange and then you two uh you two took that as an opportunity to torture me no that's not that's not an accurate i think uh what was the torture interesting perspective you know what the torture was the audience doesn't have any idea what happened you can you both convinced me that they weren't real bats that I had received and that I had somehow received fake or joke bats. And something was going to happen to me when I tried to burn them. And then so I didn't want to touch them for like a week. And then eventually, and I knew you were fucking with me
Starting point is 00:39:45 intellectually but emotionally i couldn't get there and i got very i got very upset i got very upset and i demanded to know why there were two sets of bats and i demanded to see photos of the bats at at work and then uh and then there was a lot of backpedaling and then I threatened to burn the bats in my fire pit and I was serious and then, you know, and then cooler heads prevailed. I have a question though. As someone who had the bats, like you were able to pick up and hold the bats, how could the bat be fake?
Starting point is 00:40:19 What does that mean? I don't know. I don't know what it was. I didn't know if it was coated in something. I didn't know if it was like a silly bat. The knob was so incredibly small. I didn't know if you guys bought like a special bat with a tiny knob, knowing it would be impossible for me to do the work on. And then there was a real bat with a big knob at work waiting for me. And then I would spend
Starting point is 00:40:36 countless hours toiling away, hand burning these numbers in with a magnifying glass, a giant magnifying glass so that I could fucking sit here and do it. And then I was going to get through all of them and go, and then, and then Mallory would be like, those aren't the bats. We can't sell those. Those are fake. And then I'd be like, Oh, Andrew.
Starting point is 00:40:53 And, uh, I just didn't trust you. And you guys did a very good job. And Eric, the little shit that Eric is too. All three of you did a really good job of fucking with me to the point where I didn't know what was real and what was fake. And it was all very frustrating. The Slack conversation was fantastic. It's leaked over into the merch channel where you said, are there more bats RT?
Starting point is 00:41:13 Am I in possession of counterfeit bats? Mallory said, these are the right ones. Eric said, I don't know what you're talking about, Jeff. Jeff said, I'll burn these fake bats. Eric said, Jeff, no one would ever give you fake bats jeff said they're going in my fire pit tonight if i don't get any answers this went on for ages i'd like to compare these bats to the bats at rt at this point mallory's like there aren't any bats at RT what's really important to note is that there are gaps of time between these messages too
Starting point is 00:41:49 like this is a day this is a whole day of this bat issue I feel like we should provide Jeff with some context Gavin and then there were a bunch of bats in the like you and the three of us have a text chain and you guys tortured me in that text chain forever about the goddamn bats let okay so
Starting point is 00:42:06 what did we put in the text oh yeah it goes on it goes up for a long time it does they're great it's a great it was a great conversation we have been planning this jeff since they were announced as a thing gavin and i we've been about this. As soon as you put the effort of putting the bats forward, Gavin and I were having a conversation, and I just observed because you said you wanted to sign the bats from the beginning, the knob of the bat. And they were absurdly small, even in the photo.
Starting point is 00:42:36 It's like, there's no way. This is an impossible thing you want to do. And I was talking to Gavin about it, and then I think he came up with the idea of coding the bats and some sort of thing so you couldn't like half of them coating yeah i thought it'd be a great idea to take 50 of the bats and dip them in a hydrophobic coating so that if you had a sharpie it just wouldn't take because this was back when we thought you were writing on them yeah this was right at the start
Starting point is 00:43:01 so we agreed this was a fantastic idea we tried to figure out kind of the logistics and i was like well just eric's the producer i'll get eric i'll tell eric about this maybe he can do it so i tell eric and he's like this that's i'll talk to tony who works in the merchandise department and they'll figure something out that's where we left it then we'd occasionally get updates in the merch merch that was, like Tony was saying, we're just going to send you a card to sign so you don't even have to sign the bats. Which then led me to believe that Eric never actually talked to Tony about the bats and that the bats were not being coded. So then there is this series of texts between Gavin and I throughout, like in between now
Starting point is 00:43:38 and when that started, of do we talk about the bat thing and that it didn't happen? Do we yell at Eric about the bats? He let us down about the bats. But we just kept it going and then the final update with you and the mallory talk and you said that you got a wood engraver to sign them i messaged gavin and i said man i did not see the wood engraver twist coming even if we coded the bats wouldn't have made a difference like even if we did it if it was successful it wouldn't have come through yeah we couldn't pull it off and even if we did wouldn't have it was successful, it wouldn't have come through. Yeah, we couldn't pull it off. And even if we did, wouldn't have mattered. Wouldn't have mattered in the slightest.
Starting point is 00:44:07 But I said, we have such, there's such a paranoia around all the stuff we've done in this show, especially with me. I bet if I just imply that the bats are tampered with, Jeff would then think they were, and it would be like we did the thing we didn't do. And then it's arguably even funny. You just started saying stuff like, Jeff, how are the that was enough it was like inception that was enough to plant the idea within jeff's mind that ate him away from the inside and that coincidentally coincide what that coincided with mallory saying that the bats were at the office when in fact they were at your house which then just
Starting point is 00:44:47 Naturally bled into you thinking yes, there were two sets of bats It was absolutely perfect, and we basically were able to enjoy All of you know if we had pulled it off we got all the enjoyment out of it Even though we didn't do anything we did nothing it was I was laughing constantly, but there's another layer to this that is even more complicated this got really deep this is a whole game of deception i didn't know who to trust i then messaged eric about it and i said how long do you think it'll take for jeff to notice that he has like manipulated bats and eric's response was that they were manipulated so then i was
Starting point is 00:45:21 confused of if the bats were actually tampered with in some capacity or if Eric was just going with it so I'd love to know Eric were the bats tampered with in any capacity or were you just conversationally going with what I was saying Jeff we would never give you messed up bats fascinating we would never do anything that's a fascinating approach we gave you it's gone so deep that throughout this i didn't know anymore whether the bats were actually messed with to the point where i didn't know if i could even trust andrew yeah it was we had a real moment of like i don't know if i can trust you anymore yeah you were talking to me in confidence and to the point where everyone didn't know anything else and i was like
Starting point is 00:46:01 andrew please don't turn on me and you were like we can't turn on each other We're like we're all each other has where all we've got base Yeah, this it was a situation of which I'm almost certain the bats aren't tampered with but I don't know that to be true I'm 99% sure they're not tampered with Nobody and I couldn't tell if Eric knew that they weren't tampered with or if he thought that I had tampered with the bats Because I've done stuff like that. Has anyone tried writing on the bats? Here's the deal with the bats.
Starting point is 00:46:32 I'm pretty sure they were tampered with. Here's why. This all but confirms it for me. I haven't tried to write on the bats with a Sharpie because Tony sent me 50 baseball cards to autograph,
Starting point is 00:46:51 so I signed it so each bat's going to come with a little f*** face baseball card that's autographed by me. But I didn't know, and I guess I still technically don't, I didn't know if the bats came with a protective coating because they're some sort of a clear polyurethane coating because they're're just like a fucking toy bat and that's how they come or not. But there's definitely a coating on the bats that played hell on my engraving.
Starting point is 00:47:18 I had to I had to what I had to do was I had to take each bat and with a pencil in the magnifying glass. I had to, what I had to do was I had to take each bat and with a pencil in the magnifying glass, I had to write like three, like horizontal line, 50. Four slash 50. Five slash 50, right? Really lightly. I assume that just finished with some sort of seal. Whatever the finish is, it's fucking annoying. Then I had to go through at a certain temperature. It took me a while to figure this out with the wood engraver and burn that off
Starting point is 00:47:45 in the so that i could get to the wood to then burn the wood so i don't know if eric's jumping on this to make it seem like they were actually fucked with or if they were actually fucked with or not but if they're just normal bats the process of burning a number into a bat is fucking annoying because you have to do it twice. And it's tiny. The knobs are so tiny. But I definitely had to number every bat two times. And some of them, you can tell.
Starting point is 00:48:15 Why don't you just sand the knobs? I started to. I did. I got about maybe 30 in, and I got one of Emily's nail files, and I sanded down the knobs on every bat from that point on. Nick just brought up a great point in the discord. This paranoia extended because the thought was this was all going to play out and then we're recording the next day and things will be settled. But then Gavin moved the recording.
Starting point is 00:48:39 So it was just free followed this bat paranoia until today, which we can talk about it. I saw because we we moved the recording and jeff said i don't trust any of you fuckers i'm gonna show up at the recording time anyway i think i did a bit i did jeff i missed that but i saw the log of eric queuing in the bot that we used to record audio and i saw the log of that and i got so suspicious that's like then i'm just gonna pretend that i recorded something so suspicious that I was like, then I'm just going to pretend that I recorded something. So then I went in and I summoned the bot and I sat there for like 20 minutes and then I called the bot
Starting point is 00:49:10 off because I didn't know what the audio was. It was very, there was a lot of paranoia. I didn't know what was recorded or what was planned. I showed up just in case and Eric was there waiting for me. And so I had a brief conversation with Eric about the stupid. Should we play that audio in this episode? We should. I don't know if it's interesting. I think we should absolutely, I think it is. I Eric about the stupid. Should we play that audio in this episode?
Starting point is 00:49:25 We should. I don't know. I think we should absolutely. I think it is. I think in the context of the current right now, it's very funny. I would slot in here. There's no podcast today. Yeah, I know.
Starting point is 00:49:38 Why are you hanging out here? Just making sure. Just in case anybody stops by and says what's going on. Okay. Yeah. There's no podcast. I don't trust trust i don't trust anything anybody says anymore what's i i don't know what the i don't know what the issue is there's no podcast there's no podcast okay how are your bats they uh they're fine okay i'm gonna uh deal with them at some point in the future i'm ignoring them right now you're gonna
Starting point is 00:50:02 deal with them yeah i gotta like to personalize them and all. Oh, okay. Have you tried that? No. Okay. Stop saying it like that. Saying like what? Right. I'm just asking you about your bats. I'm leaving. I'm going. Okay, goodbye. He never saw it coming.
Starting point is 00:50:22 Well, alright. That's great. I told you that was not interesting. So that was in the midst was not interesting so that was in the midst of bat confusion it was in the midst of bat paranoia and it even extended to as far as i was trying to get i was trying to gauge where jeff was because jeff had gone quiet and i didn't feel like i could talk to jeff directly so i texted jeff's girlfriend about it the bats trying to get a bat read on jeff and then she gave me an update and then sent me a photo of Jeff and I thought I'm gonna I'm gonna try to mess with Jeff from the inside even more so then I just texted that photo of him at the table engraving the bats with no context
Starting point is 00:50:57 and then there was some conversation that was had and she I don't think was thrilled that I blew up her spot which is completely understandable she's ride or die buddy she's never gonna turn she's true blue well that's the thing of I felt bad once she was like hey you called out my spot I was like I shouldn't have done that I should have approached that differently but then I talked to Gavin about I can't tell her that we don't think the bats are tampered with because at this point I feel like she would tell you but I also feel bad and I don't want to just like ignore that message so I apologize and then I just lied to her and said that the bats were definitely tampered under the expectation she would then tell you the bats were tampered with and then I was concerned
Starting point is 00:51:41 that you're actually going to burn all the bats which would have been amazing but i would feel bad about i've also i found here the original inception moment in our text chain where andrew says let us know how it goes have you noticed anything about the bats jeff replied dot dot dot i wrote yeah how normal are these bats on a scale of one to ten andrew said just let us know how it goes and record whatever happens. Jeff said, I hate you all so much. It's a fantastic time. I was laughing so hard throughout that whole day. It's one of the most fun days I've had in a long time.
Starting point is 00:52:17 I didn't, and those bats, the bats have been, they've been poured over by everybody in my house. My mom was here for a month. She looked over the bats. Emily and I looked over the bats a million times. Millie, for whatever the thing is. I don't know. And I already don't trust anybody.
Starting point is 00:52:35 Like, I don't trust either of you idiots. I definitely don't trust Eric. I trusted Nick. I'm not so sure about him. I definitely don't trust my daughter because she's a shill for you, Andrew. I was so paranoid about these fucking bats for weeks and weeks. It's caused, it's taken
Starting point is 00:52:51 months off of my life the process of receiving and getting these bats out the door. By the way, they are out of my house. I am done with them. Oh, they're done. It was a brutal weekend of sitting there at a table, numbering these bats. And let me tell you,
Starting point is 00:53:06 whatever we charge for these bats when we eventually sell them, it is not enough. If we charged a hundred bucks a bat, that wouldn't be enough because I put a hundred bucks worth of work into every stupid bat. And I even did special stuff.
Starting point is 00:53:21 Like the first one I wrote, I did the face, right? Like the Billy Ripken face. And it didn't look great. And I thought, well, f*** it. We got some extras. I'll just do, I'll shit can that one. And then I'll do 1 through 50.
Starting point is 00:53:31 And then I thought, no, that's the first bat. It's special. That'll be number 1. So then I numbered 2 through 50. And then I thought, you know, it'd be funny because I made that one. What if I made number 51 of 50? So we're actually going to sell 51 bats, 51 of 50. One of them will be number 51 of 50, which is weird. And then one of them will
Starting point is 00:53:51 just say face on it. So if you get that bat, it's going to be random. Congratulations. You got the fucking worst one. Then I thought I Rebecca, uh, who, uh, we all know a member of the community that we love dearly. She was like, I'm so excited about these bats. And then I thought about her buying a bat and having it shipped all the way to England where she lives. And that seemed like way too much money for somebody to spend.
Starting point is 00:54:13 And then also I didn't know if these bats were tainted in some way. So I was like, I'm going to give you a bat. And then I thought, if I'm going to give Rebecca a bat, I want it to be special. So bat,
Starting point is 00:54:20 I asked her what her favorite number was. Her favorite number is 21. So bat number 21 has a special r written on the other side of the bat that we're going to mail to her specifically and then i thought if i'm going to make a special bat for rebecca we've got to have a special bat for super fan jack so i asked jack what his favorite number is jack's favorite number is 37 so jack got a special bat that's 37 to 50 with on the other end with a j on the other end of it so much fucking work went into these bats and then I made bats for all of you.
Starting point is 00:54:45 I made an Andrew bat and I made a Gavin bat and I made an Eric bat and I made a Nick bat and I hated every second of it. And I'm so fucking done with these bats and I just want them. And then now, now Andrew wants to sell knobs and he's being a knob about the idea of knob. There was this whole knob measuring conversation
Starting point is 00:55:04 that was mind numbing. I don't know how it sounds. I just like at the end of all this, I don't know if I enjoyed it. I don't even know if they got tampered with. I don't know what happened. It got completely away from me. Andrew took it and ran.
Starting point is 00:55:19 I don't know what happened. I had a lot of fun. Either way, you tortured me mentally. And if the bats were physically tampered with, it worked because it was a tremendous pain in the ass. If they weren't physically tampered with, it sucked because it was a tremendous pain in the ass. Either way, I'm not making any more.
Starting point is 00:55:35 I'm not numbering any more bats anytime soon. The worst part about this for me was I broke my phone like three days into this bat controversy. I had no way of communicating or seeing any of the messages that were going on. So I felt like I was a soldier on an island that nobody said the war was over to and it's been like 20 years. I had no idea what was happening. Did you bite even deeper
Starting point is 00:55:56 through the phone? No, I I don't know how to explain how I broke it. I broke it on my bed. It was a bed break. Was it near your ankle? No, it wasn't an ankle thing. You know, like a good knee slapper of a joke? You slap your knee with a good
Starting point is 00:56:11 like the classic knee slap of a joke? Yeah. I did one of those with my phone and I put it into my bed and the screen just shattered. It just broke. So my phone died. Was it eight pillows high because that would bring no no I was it was no pillows at all. I was just laying in bed getting ready to go to oh
Starting point is 00:56:29 I wasn't I was just kind of relaxing. I didn't have my pillow tower tower, so I wasn't gonna sleep I don't know what you sleep what you're sleeping on your ankles get hurt your phone breaks on it What what's your mattress made of it's a nice mattress, so they're like a foamy mattress. It was very weird I just think it was like the perfect blow to the right spot and everything broke And so I just I didn't have any way to communicate with anyone for a week So I'm just eagerly like thinking what's going on and then when I got my new phone I lost all of my text history So the first thing I saw in that group chat was Jeff saying for our number one fan
Starting point is 00:57:02 And it was the video of the jack bat the superfan jack bat but I didn't have any context or knew if I missed anything so I immediately texted Gavin like what does this mean is this related it was great bat paranoia was a lot of fun I'm telling you right now if you buy one of those bats it comes it it comes with a You're buying a piece of my mental torment and misery. We'll call it limited edition. It's imbued in the bat. Limited edition, numbered, potentially counterfeit bat, but no one is 100% sure.
Starting point is 00:57:37 I mean, they're going to go up for sale soon, right? I assume so. I dropped them off at work Monday, actually. So the autographed cards and the bats are all there you put them with the other ones? fuck off and I have y'all's bats here
Starting point is 00:57:53 I'll mail them or give them to you or fucking burn them burn them and mail them to you I fucking was trying to do something fun and clever and unique and different. And, you know, I'm trying to, through face, have like a deeper relationship to the merchandising. And I thought it would be interesting if the stuff that we sell is more than just a logo slap,
Starting point is 00:58:14 but there's like a bit of our personality in it in a way that we haven't done previously with Rooster Teeth. And so I thought like the idea of this like hand lettering and like us actually working on it in some way, it would just way it would it would just it would just make it uh more fun for the audience but you told us about it jeff you i know face yourself i know i face myself hard i feel like the bats are in a way better place than they would have if you just signed them there's a whole lore around these bats a whole history there was stress there was manipulating going on nobody Nobody knew who to trust. It's fantastic. There's lore in these bats now. It's just like the hats.
Starting point is 00:58:46 Yeah. There's a story behind every... Yeah, yeah. You don't sound enthused. There was... B, if you... When they go on sale, if you buy one of these $1,000 bats...
Starting point is 00:59:01 If you buy one of these dumb bats, know that the number on the bottom of it, the very shitt that the number on the bottom of it the very shittily burned number on the bottom of it includes a lot of personal swearing and yelling from me while i'm doing it and my mom looking at me disapprovingly from the sofa solid episode lads yeah we need to uh we need to i guess we need to wrap it up and then we have to record another one because Gavin had a robot. I had a robot. We don't have to. Eric wanted to do two. Well, we probably should.
Starting point is 00:59:32 Let's do another one. There's something else we should talk about. We're doing another episode. What do you mean? Why are we stalling this one? No, we should wrap. I had something for the next episode. Why bring it up now? We're trying to close the episode. Eric says in the chat, we can do two next week.
Starting point is 00:59:48 It's up to you. But you, in all caps, have to end this one. End this one now. Well, why? Because it's going to get uploaded in half. So if we go a few more minutes, then, if we go like 10 more minutes, it'll be like a normal episode. All right.
Starting point is 01:00:04 And thanks for listening to another episode of F*** Face. I believe this was episode 28, The Bat Fiasco. Hope you enjoyed it. Like and subscribe and review and rate and star and print out pictures of the podcast and send them to people
Starting point is 01:00:19 and give them to them and say, hey, look at this flyer for a podcast. Nobody's ever made a flyer for a podcast before, but you should check it out. Oh, I know what I want to talk about. I want to talk about how dumb Andrew is and not understanding what a zine is. So tune in for the next episode to be continued.
Starting point is 01:00:35 I wasn't listening to your outro. I just want to make sure this is said because I see these comments a lot. If you want to see what we're talking about, we post all the photos on our Instagram page. So just so people know. Because we never talk about it. We the photos on our Instagram page so just like what some people know because we never talk about it we just mention these photos never reference where you can see them if you want to see the photos we have an Instagram
Starting point is 01:00:51 what's the Instagram? it's f***facepod f-u-c-k-f-a-c-e-p-o-d and yeah it's all the bats all the Heinz ketchups I'm assuming that the salad toss or what was it called? Salad spread? Oh my god, end it.
Starting point is 01:01:07 End the episode. What's it called? Talk about it on the next fucking episode. You're gonna record another one. Just end this. You want us to talk about salad cream on the next episode? Salad cream! Salad cream will be up there. It's all up there. I forgot that I ordered salad cream. That's like the reverse of my idea. I'm gonna get disappointed in like a month when I get it. No, it's great.
Starting point is 01:01:25 It's great. One month from now, I'll give you get it. No, it's great. I'm gonna look at it like, why'd I do this? It's great. One month from now, I'll give you my opinion. Okay, bye! Bye!

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