Regulation Podcast - I'm All Back // The Bat Fiasco [28]
Episode Date: December 9, 2020Geoff, 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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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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,
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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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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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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,
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,
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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...
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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?
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
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?
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
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.
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?
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
And thanks for listening to another episode
of F*** Face. I believe this was episode
28, The Bat Fiasco.
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Oh, I know what I want to talk about. I want to talk about
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episode to be continued.
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
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.
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.
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!