Regulation Podcast - Quiddlers // Steven Seagal Runs Weird [7]

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about third person, franchises, Gavin's game, Cemetery Bingo, Still Wakes the Deep, doughnutcool's drawings, drafts, movie auction update https://doctor-reg.vercel.app/ , celebrities who get a pass, Steven Seagal running, Gavin's one word story, and Andrew's spinoff idea. Sponsored by Shopify. Sign up for a $1/month trial period at shopify.com/face. Go to http://regulatreon.com/. Support us directly at patreon.com/theregulationpod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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that's like also also you realize that that's not just games right that's like books you realize that that's not just video games like that's like literature right yeah first person yeah yeah you're right i just am not as much of a book guy. So I don't think about that. Clearly. Yeah. No, a hundred percent. So,

uh, I think there's only, I think hardcore Henry's maybe like the only first person movie. I was trying to do famously had some first person shots and there, there's scenes with the first person in it, but technically is like what perspective are films? Third, third,

third. Okay. Third. So a ground. Yeah. Okay. like what perspective are films third third third okay third so a ground yeah okay all right is it it is yeah well I just I never thought about the camera being attached to the person I guess I don't know

I was thinking about the perspective of the camera to the world okay what about like Blair Witch? Blair Witch. Well, that is first person, right? It has to be. I would think so.

Somewhat. Can you think of a single top-down movie? Anyone made a full top-down? I don't know. Let me know if you think of a top-down book. Man, when are we going to get Gavin? Is he already a minute late? No, I'm here. Whoa, he just didn't say anything.

I was here at three. Just without saying anything. Here we go. All right, I'm going to start it off. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Regulation Podcast. I believe this is episode number seven. I don't see anybody enter it into the Discord. There we go. My name is Jeff Ramsey. With me as always, Andrew

Panton, Gavin Free, Nick Schwartz, Eric Badour. Name a top-down film, Gavin. Planet Earth. Oh, yeah. Planet Earth. Some ants. There you go. Is there a full one, though? There's sequences. John Wick 4 I just watched. Is there a full one, though? Like, there's sequences. Like, John Wick 4 I just watched,

that has a long top-down sequence, which felt like a video game. Contra. That would be fucking awesome if they made a Contra movie and it was just top-down the entire time. That would be real cool. I can get behind that.

Speaking of Contra, did you guys ever play Ikari Warriors? No. It sounds familiar. Yes, with Ralph and Clark, who were folded into the King of Fighters, an SNK franchise. Thank you. Oh, really? Well, I was going to ask, if you played Ikari Warriors, did you ever play the Rambo

top-down Sega Master System game? Yeah, I remember that. That game was fucking awesome. That game is so slept on. I don't know why. It was such a great game. Is Ikari Warriors the one where you're dressed in pink and you get hit and you dance back a little bit?

I don't remember that. That's like pink and purple and shit. Rainbow. Oh, that looks awesome it was akari warriors is a similar sort of this is that what you're thinking of gavin is that pink and purple to you yeah i see the pink and purple yeah well that's it all right great job okay is rambo the most films to worst film ratio? Because I'd argue there's two good Rambo movies, but there's six of them.

Terminator? Two really good Terminators, though. Yeah, and then how many Terminator movies are there? Is the last one good? I didn't see the last one. I felt like some people liked the last Terminator movie. No. No, and let me tell you this. It's the only terminator movie tobin's seen what oh really went with him to the theater to watch like terminator 7 or whatever the fuck it was

and uh he's like i've never seen he's before that's so funny yeah didn't they have Linda Hamilton there to come back yeah I thought people liked that that's a bad one that's disappointing it sucked yeah yeah it sucked man I was excited to watch it Genesis was so bad oh yeah Genesis

Genesis which one was Genesis was that the one with Emilia Clarke Emilia Clarke in it one with Emilia Clarke Emilia Clarke in it? Yeah, Emilia Clarke in it They recreate it, it feels like fan fiction It's a very weird movie It's really bad, Terminator Salvation is

fucking terrible too I forget that that one exists Which one's Terminator 3? Good for you Terminator 3 is the for you. Next one. Terminator 3 is the one that came out in the early 2000s. It's the casket gun one. Oh, yeah.

Claire Danes. Yeah. Right? Claire Danes is in that one? That was okay. Whereas Battery's about to pop, and then they throw it out of the car, and it's like a nuke going off.

Yeah. Fucking terrible. God, the movie sucks. Where the whole thing... Terminator 3 was okay because it ended well it ended like they got tricked into uh going into safety for the nuclear they thought they were stopping the nuclear war but they they weren't they never were yeah they like they turned off they were just being protected yeah yeah and they were done with the movie like that was my favorite part it it's tough to have a good franchise like i feel like vin diesel's trying to do like seven

franchises and one of them has worked but he feels like a real franchise guy to me fast and furious but like riddick didn't really work out uh he wanted the last witch hunter to be a big franchise that didn't work out I mean God is the galaxy I would say worked out I don't think he gets any credit he stood on stilts to record his lines he's definitely fully involved

did he really? yeah I love Vin Diesel you could hear the stilts yeah he had to get into the perspective of a tree even though he's a little Oh, man. He, I love Vin Diesel. You could hear the stilts in his performance. Yeah, he had to get into the perspective of a tree, even though he's a little, he's a tiny tree. Go close to that.

Film. Ah, Eric's supposed to do a photo of him doing the I am Groot thing. Do you think after Groot was small, he, like, shoes on his knees, like, Dorf recorded his lines? He started crawling around on the floor like Rady Boy. Rady Boy crawl. If they were ever to resurrect

the like reboot, reboot the Dorf franchise for 2024, I'm throwing I'm throwing Vin Diesel in as my pick. I want him to be the new Tim Conway in that franchise. I want him to be the new Tim Conway in that franchise. I think he'd be pretty. Oh, I would love it. I've never seen a Dorf. You're not missing out.

Maybe we'll blindside you with one someday. I'd love it. Because I've heard about it a lot, but never. Dorf von Golf, as a small child, I thought was absolutely hilarious. It's one of those things that was definitely family friendly, early 80s comedy that if we watch now might not be family friendly at all in 2024. I don't know. It'd be really interesting to see, you know, I'd be really nervous about it for sure. What was the other little blokes called? Like Quiddlers or something?

Was it Quiddlers? What? Was it Quiddlers? What? What? What the fuck are you talking about? Quiddlers? Quiddlers. Quiddlers. Is that what it's on TV, like, doffing around?

I think that's just a slur. Oh, my God! First part of the title. Quiddlers? Oh, they have a website. I remember seeing the Quiddlers on TV. I don't know. It's like like a baby. Oh, that's not What are the house pretty offensive actually? Oh wow what the village people but small?

But I don't think I think they are on the knees though oh Here here's a heart here. They are is the Blues Brothers oh Oh, here they are. Here they are as the Blues Brothers. Oh, the 90s. So that's your jam, huh, Gavin? You're a Quiddler guy? Apparently I was. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, because it was Michael Jackson. I remember seeing Michael Jackson. Quiddling around. So they just do like, they just do songs then. I remember seeing Michael Jackson. Quiddling around. So they just do like, they just do songs then. They're a musical act. I honestly haven't seen or thought about it in 30 years.

So I don't, I don't entirely remember. I was legitimately a child. Okay. They do have a website. I'm having trouble reading it. It's a physical comedy group based in Las Vegas.

When did they disband? I can't get it to look i mean all right hold on there we go we got a uh they got a wikipedia currently the latest incarnation of the quiddlers under ebiger's creative direction is a cabaret show in vegas are they still going yes they're still I wonder if they're still doing Smooth Criminal. They're on America's Got Talent Wiki, and it says that they're a puppeteer group from season three that got eliminated in the audition round. And then they returned for season 12,

in which they got cut at the judge cuts. So I guess they never really did well. They have made multiple appearances at NBA halftimes for the Charlotte Hornets, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Rockets, Spacers eat like everybody. The CBA as well. Good Lord. Oh, they've appeared at the they appeared at the 1989 Chicago Auto Show. They really hit the auto circuit

really hard in 1989. North American International Auto Show, Detroit, 1989. Chicago Auto Show, 1989. Cleveland International Auto Show, 1989. New York Auto Show, 1989. Baltimore, 1990. Dallas Auto Show, 1990.

Nothing since. They hit those auto shows hard for a year and a half and then walked away. Nothing brings out decade repressed memories like this podcast. That it quiddled knowing the quiddlers just in your soul is insane. It's like the truest thing you've ever said. Uh huh.

Which part? That nothing brings out repressed memories like this podcast. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm just agreeing with you. Thanks. You don't have to be on your. I have a I have a this podcast. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm just agreeing with you. Thanks. You don't have to be on your... I have a game today. Oh!

I don't know if we want to hop into a game. Let's do it. I would love to hop into a game. It was a long time ago on our previous podcast. It was called F*** Face. And we were talking about people's teeth and would we be able to recognize

the person by their teeth on the Ian face logo. Oh, Jesus. Oh, God. Oh, boy. Okay. All right. Round one.

Okay. Let's see some teeth. Oh, no. I hate this game already. What? It's just very unpleasant. Now, is that going to be one of the five of us? Yeah.

Oh. Oh, sorry, audience. This is a very visual bit. Yeah, it is. On YouTube, this might be better to watch there or look at the Instagram. Yeah, I'll definitely make sure to post all these images on the Instagram

so you suffer along with us. It's like that Conan O'Brien skit where they would just put a picture of Bill Clinton up and then have somebody's mouth behind it. It's really disturbing. How do we give you the answers? Just say who you think it is. Oh, okay.

I think that's Eric. Yeah, I think it's Eric. Really? My teeth look that white? I think, yeah. Maybe. Well, it's definitely not me because they're all real teeth.

Not me. I guess it's thinking Gracie, maybe, from the Kru-Toth. We just said it's one of the five of us, didn't we? Yeah. Okay, so your guess is Gracie. Gracie's

angle up her teeth, though, would be the best perspective for this. People making that into the Jaws poster was really fucking great. It was so good. Yeah. I want to get into the Grutov after this. I guess it is. Yeah.

I guess it's me. I don't think my teeth are that straight. Yeah, that's right. That's Eric. Is it really? I got some nice toppers there, bud. Yeah, that's right. That's Eric. Is it really? I got some nice toppers there, bud. You're not doing too bad, dude. Great job.

You know what? It is me. Do you know how long, like what's the original photo that like the teeth are from? Do you know? Like that was a question. Is that a no?

I suppose, yeah. You can just say no. no yeah it's you doing your I'm small little curled up against the mic oh okay oh wow because if you look all the way on the back I guess right hand side

where like underneath like where the C would be and fuck there's a black gap there it's because I'm missing a tooth all the way in the back I had to get extracted so I guess that is me that makes sense actually it's just you smiling on a couch I had to change that one what

wait it's not that you're small what about this one oh well that's clear I know that's easy that's yeah that's those are the lips of Andrew Pantin I recognize them anywhere toothless fucker Still never seen your teeth. I'm convinced of it. What about this one? That's that has to be Nick Nick's looks like freakishly natural in a way that is very

odd that looks like it should be there it's also old timey and black and white the black and white makes it look like I'm going to eat you I think if we had to pick so far I would say Nick's are the regulation ENT that is a nightmare 100% Gavin.

And that would be me. That's from this picture of me and my granddad. Last but not least. Oh, yeah. There you go. Now, here's the thing. I was with Andrew that nicks look like the

regulation teeth i think the black and white really helps to like really set it in there but something about jeff's big mouth his gob just smack in the middle of that thing really fits for ian to me it's you can feel the joy in the in the in the smile jeff's is hitting me with like annoying orange vibes is the way i feel about it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Jeff, you look like the annoying orange. Yeah, I'll take that. I thought it's, you know, while we're at it, I've always gotten Jenna Marbles vibes from Andrew.

So it's like I can see that. And Eric's really mystery guitar man. Yeah. Oh, big time. Absolutely. mystery guitar man yeah oh big time absolutely the the thing that made me laugh the most while i was doing this aside from these stupid teeth pictures is that i wanted to remove the original teeth from the sketch uh-huh so i used photoshop to i just selected it and then did like a content aware delete thing where it's supposed to just fill it with the surroundings. This is the abomination that it made.

Oh, my God. What the fuck? It made a face. It made an Ian face. Look. It has eyes and nose and a mouth. Holy shit. I'm going to go ahead and make the thumbnail right now for this episode.

That's perfect. Now it's a guy with a lump on his head like Tom and Jerry looking really pissed. Oh, my God. Where did he get that from? That's AI shit with a lump on his head like Tom and Jerry. Looking really pissed. Oh my god. Where did he get that from? That's AI shit right there, dude. That's why we shouldn't use AI. No. That's terrifying.

That's insane. Kill it. I kind of want to get a tattoo. Oh, full back tattoo of just that? It looks like a creepy man who got hit on the head with a like an anvil. Yes. Yeah. And his lump has nostrils.

Yeah. And he's got a nostril lump. And the eyes are almost like eggs. Like they look like hard boiled eggs. I was photoshopping. And I when I did that, I legitimately went, bah! Yeah.

Get the shit out of me. It was so big on my screen. You made a demon. It created hell. It's the fucking funniest thing I've ever seen. That is the end of my game. Wow. That's a good game.

Good game. When I was thinking about this game, I thought at first it was going to be like trying to recognize celebrity teeth or like movie teeth. Doing this made me realize there's no way because in a pool of us, it was still difficult. The first one, especially like it took essentially removing the pool to four to make it more. Right. I don't think I'd be able to recognize celebrity teeth based on this. Well, maybe we should.

Well, I also how much do you look at celebrity teeth, though? Not often. Like, I just think it's a detail you don't register. I'm looking at y'all's teeth constantly. I think about them all the time. Also, celebrity teeth now are all the same. Everyone's veneers or whatever. Like Furiosa.

Yeah, everyone's picked number three out of the catalog. Yeah, Chris Hemsworth just put in like fake teeth and he went, whoa, I look crazy for like the screen tests of Furiosa. It's like, those are just normal teeth. You have normal human teeth. Fucking idiot. This is a regulation Shopify ad. You know, when I started in this online entertainment journey 21 years ago with the very first websites Gus and I put together, the idea of selling merchandise online seemed like science fiction to me. And then as Rooster Teeth was born and we started creating merchandise and we had to figure out how to get it to people, it went from being science fiction to just very, very, very difficult. And I've watched this industry evolve over the years, essentially from its inception to where it is now.

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for yourself. Hey, I have a I also have a game. We can't play it today, but I want to pitch it to y'all as a potential future game and see what you think. I pitched it to Gavin already. He seemed to like it okay, so I wanted to see what y'all thought about it, if that's okay. What's the game? I call it Cemetery Bingo. Okay. We go to a cemetery, and then we play

bingo with the headstones. Here's why I'm thinking. Somebody who has three first names, like James Earl Mike, somebody who died on their birthday, somebody who dies one day before or after their birthday, somebody who was born on Christmas

somebody who has the same name as you a famous name, two people with the same name, maybe somebody whose name was a job, like their last name was Carpenter the oldest tombstone you could find. Like, the first one in.

What else do we have? Longest Liver. Somebody who lived the longest. The person you could find the longest. Somebody with a nickname. Somebody with a quote on their tombstone.

Somebody who was buried at sea. That's what we called it in the car on the way home last night. Longest Liver we came up with. Someone buried at sea? Did they put a gravestone down for this?

Yeah, apparently a lot of people will put gravestones out. Burn Dog was talking about last night. It's his favorite thing to do when he goes to a cemetery is look for buried at sea? Did they put a gravestone down for this? Yeah, apparently a lot of people will put gravestones out. Burndog was talking about last night. It's his favorite thing to do when he goes to a cemetery is look for buried at sea headstones. Okay, why is he going to a cemetery? Why does anybody go to a cemetery?

Probably to look at dead stuff. I mean, you've seen his art. Like, you know what the fuck he does. Of course he goes to the cemetery. I haven't seen his art. You haven't seen his art? No, I just know goes to the cemetery. I haven't seen his art. You haven't seen his art? No, I just know he is an artist. Oh, here.

Fucking his shit is wild. He paints this by hand. Oh, okay. Never mind. Totally get it. That's what he does. That's kind of his deal that makes sense

oil paints too all oil I was because my next question was going to be like why how would you be in a position to want to gamify

a cemetery like how often this all reads I used to I used to live by a cemetery at one point and I would go there

for walks or to ride my bike sometimes because it's just like a big open area space and it's's like it's kind of like going to the park sometimes you know and uh I was just thinking about like how much fun we had with sloppy joe's bingo and making games out of stuff that are that's just kind of sitting there and kind of trying to repurpose it and I thought cemeteries are wonderful places to go and have

some quiet meditation or silence or or go spend a little bit of time with a loved one that you miss. But they could also be something else like a place to have a fun little game that isn't insulting to the dead people at all. And much the same way that sloppy just bingo is not insulting to the people that we're calling bingo on. We're not we're not being derogatory towards them in any way we're just you know finding interesting little things about their lives or what we can glean from the tombstone and you know you try to find uh i don't know little uh just little interesting nuggets to turn into bingo i feel like you need to have somebody in the cemetery that you know to play i feel like that's my that would be my moral hurdle with it i think i would need to have skin in the game what if you only here was a because we were

talking about this last night like is there a game are you being unintentionally uh uh insulting in some way or disrespectful because that would certainly never want to do that and we the solution we came up with in the car on the way home last night is what if you could only play it with people who died before the oldest person playing was born so like you 1975 would be the cutoff for us anybody after 1975 couldn't be considered why and why is that because they're so far dead they never lived in our world so it's not like it's not like we're being insulting to somebody who died last month and you're gonna go that was my that was my aunt you dickhead you were talking about her name it's like no that person's been dead for 50 yeah but that could still be an old guy who comes to see his

wife every week that's that's the issue with the hurdle we're not being insulting in the cemetery to anybody we're just walking around and looking at tombstones so to an outward looker it would just be a bunch of us just going like hmm it would look like anybody at a cemetery ever yeah the problem is gamifying it

yes I agree so here's what I think is where we would cross the line is that it would just be like four or five adult men walking around the cemetery, giggling, laughing and pointing. Oh, God forbid we add a little joy to a sad place like a cemetery. You're saying that we're not being disrespectful. I'm just telling you that from a perception standpoint, it's maybe questionable. Yeah. My point is, is this nothing we're doing is making fun of

anybody in the cemetery no like that is fine i think it would the issue would be the perception of somebody who has a loved one in the cemetery being like i'd rather you not put them into your game they which is why you why you would choose people from, well, I mean, it's a public place, first of all. So there is the that of it. But also, I think that by not using anybody who died in your lifetime, you're really reducing the chances

that somebody is going to see that you mentioned their uncle's name in passing because his name was Carenter or i don't know shipwright or whatever and it happens to be the name of a job didn't you say as well that the human race doesn't give a shit about anything 50 years ago or something that's also true 50 years is when we stop giving a shit about the past or understanding it or trying to understand it and it starts to disappear into the nothingness so if anything maybe we're bringing a little bit of life back

to a bunch of people that died a long time ago that probably aren't getting a lot of attention. Well, that is a way to put it, but that would not be my intent. From a ghost standpoint, they probably fucking love it. I don't necessarily care that this person died or whatever. I'm really pumped about the bingo

and my discovery of them if that makes sense it's not that I don't know I like the idea a lot I just think there's some hurdles to be considered what if we test out this idea by going into a cemetery

in a video game I like that a lot that's a great idea I think that is great. That's a great idea. That is a fictional cemetery. I'm all about it. Red Dead probably has some. Friday the 13th has one. But it's small.

Looking right now to see. Oh, dude, you know who has a cemetery? One of the Mortal Kombat games, you progress through a cemetery as like that's how the game progresses right?

like 9 or 8 maybe? Resident Evil 4 has one is there does Left 4 Dead have a cemetery? it feels like they would have a cemetery yeah it does yeah

that seems like something that Valve would have the like oh yeah we gotta make sure these are all yeah you know unique they would have got each staff member to put in a different thing. Yeah, exactly.

That's how that feels. This is good. We should definitely try this. I'm a big fan of that. Yeah, I love the idea of more bingo, like just as a general thing. Look, all I'm saying is I'm happy to do it in a video game, but cemeteries are just sitting there. I lived by one for a few years a few years ago. They largely empty nobody's ever there they're lonely places i you know i

would go there sometimes and be the only person i saw there for like an hour if i walked through it and i just i just feel like we could give them a little use in a fun way without being disrespectful to anybody interred there or visiting. Redfield, Redfall has a lot of cemetery in it. I haven't played that game. Is that a good game? There are good things about it, but it's confused, and the studio that made it recently got shut down so it'll never sort those things out i'm playing still uh wakes the deep has anyone else tried that it's like game pass i would highly recommend

you especially try it jeff it's uh the thing but on an oil rig it's like the deep it's like the deep sea like you're out in like the middle of the ocean and there's like eldritch horror shit right like what's it called still wakes the deep you're on an oil rig and it's a set in like scotland and uh it is the thing essentially is it multiplayer no it is a single player horror experience but i'm having so much fun with it i played it for like i don't know maybe two hours last night it was so scared and i have a clip it for like, I don't know, maybe two hours last night. It was so scared. And I have a clip that I don't know if it would translate all that well in the podcast. But like the whole thing is you are on this oil rig and you're drilling and then something happens and like this alien thing is taken over and people that come in contact with

it get turned into like crazy people that are trying to kill you type thing. And it's very visually disturbed horror. And I just encountered the very first monster they have to deal with. And the whole time in the game, whenever you see like you'll find coffee cups on the ground that you can pick up and throw. And I thought, oh, I bet you like these aren't weapons. This strikes me as like maybe you can try to throw them to a different corner of the room to distract so you can hide and so I'm I'm so scared it is completely freaked me out and I encounter this first monster and you can like hide in vents and stuff and so I'm in a vent and I find a coffee cup and it says like you can throw it

to distract the monster it'll it'll guide it to another place and when i fucking knew it i called it i knew it would be this so i grabbed the coffee cup and i went to throw it and it was dark and i completely fucked up the throw and instead of throwing it to the other corner of the room i hit the pipe directly above me and it bounced back at me and landed right in front of the grate that I was hiding behind, and that monster sprinted right to the grate in front of me. It's maybe the most scared I've ever been in a game because I didn't, since the first encounter,

I don't know how the rules work and if it could see me because there's just nothing in front of me. I'm just in a little vent, and we're equal to each other, and I just sat there for like 90 seconds as the monster like analyzed the cup and then went back and forth and then went away and i that was it for me i haven't i haven't gone back to that game yet but did you save a clip i do yeah i have a clip let me uh let me see i can pull it up uh it's uh but it was terrifying i'd highly recommend it it has a really cool achievement in it to play through the game in gaelic because it's it's funny where they have english subtitles on by default

and it's not as like a thing of where the dialogue matches it is to translate scottish slang which i don't think i've ever played a game that has a feature like that it is a lot of um ever played a game that has a feature like that. It is a lot of, um, the English text will say fuck and the, the audible dialogue will be FUD. I've never heard so many FUDs dropped. Um,

let me, uh, let me see if I can upload this, but I would highly recommend it as someone who loves the thing, Jeff, uh, like I know you do. I think you'd enjoy it even though it's single player

and not multiplayer. Yeah, I'll check it out. I don't know when because you're right, I don't play a lot of single player anything, but I'll give it a shot. What was the last single player

game you played? I played Far Cry 6 for a day. Was that single player? Yeah, I mean, there's multiplayer in it, but yeah, you can play single player. Before that, I played Cyberpunk. I beat that, so that's single player. I think it's so funny that you are

multiplayer only, essentially, and then Eric is on the other side of that spectrum of like, essentially exclusively single player. I used to be single player only. And I didn't give a shit of multiplayer. And I just kind of flipped because it's become good because games are just, if I'm going to play a game now,

I either want to be hanging out with my friends, like shooting the shit or I want to be working. And so single player games have zero appeal to me at this point in my life. Because I can't, I'm not making anything with them for the most part. Unless I'm like doing backgrounds for Nick or something. Yeah, and then if there's no multiplayer, there's no Xbox Live party with Spotify music going.

I don't, yeah. It just doesn't appeal. I've been doing some editing. Editing some Let's Plays we've been doing, some of the multicams, and I looked and it had been exactly 10 years since my last multicam, which was like a Minecraft video.

So it's fun to dust off all that. But I forgot how much I just hate everyone when I'm editing. What does that mean? Well, I got some examples. Discord. All right, paste. That's my waveform

from Gears of War 5, part one. It's, you know, it's all contained. It's pretty level. Not a lot of dynamic range. Jeff, any thoughts about where this is going here's jeff uh it's all the way down it's all the way up its peak is blowing out like you wouldn't believe it's crazy and then somehow to my ear andrew sounded worse and i looked at his waveform clipped all the way across not at the top of the thing which you don't

I don't see a lot of that it's Nick do you have to is it always like this what's good on there I I don't know I run a D clip on it and it usually takes care of it but when he does gaming for some reason his audio just clips clips out. What can I do to make your life easier, Gavin? I have never heard this issue. What can I do to help? Well, I have a compressor on so I don't blow out that much. That's true. It keeps everything down.

Does my Scarlett have a compressor? I don't know. Not built in, but there might be a program we could use. We could look at it. Also, Andrew, we'll just play with your game. I think that'll take care of it. Okay. Sounds good.

Thanks for showing up, Gavin. Sorry, Gav. Sorry, Gav. I feel so bad. I should have warned you. I'm absolved. None of my audio is this bad, so I rock. Me and Gavin are great.

I'm pretty sure yours was... You're not in this video, which is why I don't have one for you. Yeah, exactly. So I'm good. Yeah, so no rock. Me and Gavin are great. I'm pretty sure yours was... You're not in this video, which is why I don't have one for you. Yeah, exactly. So I'm good. Yeah, so no problem. Your one from GTA was a nightmare. No, no, no.

It was good. Consider that it was good. So how much does a compressor cost and should I buy one? Well, I mean, I think it's... Mine's just in my mixer. It's just like an option. We'll look into it, as Nick said.

Yeah. I'm willing to spend some money to fix the problem. Yeah. I'm willing to spend some money on your problem, too. Save me a lot of time. Trying to make your life easier here. Yeah, well, speaking of the gaming, I have the clip. I can post.

Oh, yes. I want to see. Didn't fucking freeze. What an annoyance. Okay, here we go. Does it have a clipping issue in it with your audio? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's...

We'll find out. I need to get a compressor for my computer. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I fucking... Sorry, go ahead, Eric. You say whatever you want my God. I fucking sorry. Go ahead, Eric. You say whatever I was going to say. Yeah.

Hey, so just before while Andrew wrestles with that, I guess I want to give a shout out to a regulation listener who's I mean, a comment lever, truly. But this is from Donut Cool on the subreddit. They've been doing this weekly. They have been doing regulation drawings of each episode of moments that stick out to them and i just want to shout so cool they are so good they do this every week and i look forward to it every week i wanted to shout them out on the show because i think this is the immunity that's awesome on a necklace is so cool. Key emotional noises. Opera thing is so good.

But Nick as the monkey being lured into a cartoon trap is so well drawn. They draw it by hand like pencil and paper and just shoot a photo of it on their phone. They're not trying to be high quality with it. It is just here's an idea and they scribble it i love that they do this i think it's fantastic thank you donut cool on the subreddit that's exactly how i imagined it can i ask without getting into a whole thing can i ask an immunity bullet question that of course my god i'm not trying to re-litigate the whole thing it's not allowed to say of course this it's just uh it's just a i guess a specific scenario uh that i'd like to get cleared up gavin

if you had the immunity bullet you had your one immunity bullet and you could use it you're immune from any kind of is that uh like say you're christian like you're you're pretty religious and you shoot somebody but you're immune to it so that means you're cool with god right so then uh if you're a christian or let's say God exists, right? Or some form of God exists, and it's still a mortal sin to commit suicide. If you shot yourself with an immunity bullet, would you be good? Yeah, you would. I mean, Eric was going to use the bullet for that last week. And we just, that's what I was hoping. I didn't ask the question. I just, I was going to roll the dice on. I was going to go to heaven for that.

It seems like you'd be okay. I think you would walk it off. Fantastic. Okay, thanks. That's all. There's the clip. Oh, here we go. All right.

So I'm playing this clip. Yeah, do you want to sync up and then three, two, one, play? Okay, so you can see I'm like,'m walking around I get into this vent. It's very dark Whenever there's like purple stuff around the screen that means like you're close to the enemy that Is the guy I want to say oh no okay here? We got flashlight on so I'm trying to navigate I'm really nervous, these little pipes are like vents you can hide in. Anything painted yellow,

so I'm tiptoeing, cause that's him, right there. That's that monster thing. It's like a thing, so I'm like, coffee cup, got it, throw it across the room. Oh fuck! Oh fuck, it bounced back! And it immediately runs right at the cup, and I'm just sweating. I'm like oh my god

Oh fuck and since I've never encountered a monster before I'm like will it see me am I okay in here? Don't move. I'm just not gonna move. We're just not gonna move. Please don't come in here And it's just it goes back and forth and it scans. I'm like okay. I think it's gone I think we're good and then it leaves and then i just went to bed i just shut the game off i can't i can't do this this is too much that could certainly go into a worst throws in video games compilation yeah you have immediately sold me on that game that looks awesome yeah it looks great it's really cool what's wrong with that bloke uh it's i don't know i think it's like uh he's just he's just under the weather

yeah that's he's got shingles yeah i think that's why you wanted that vaccine by a ratty boy video game and it just did it's a reaction to it fuck with that you um it's great what have you guys been up to recently? Jeff, it was your birthday yesterday. We recorded most drafts. How are we feeling about the drafts? I feel like the second and the third one were fucking amazing. I liked all of them.

I'm excited to see the reaction to it. The last draft that we did. I think there's going to be some unhappy people. Should we name the drafts? I think it's a great idea. We had Breakfast Foods. That was the first one. Then we had TV show theme songs. Yes. Not sitcoms

but any TV show theme song. Then we had non-alcoholic beverages which i don't think people can predict the level of chaos that occurred you wouldn't think it was a big topic of discussion at dinner last night yeah you wouldn't have thought that non-alcoholic drinks was the most contentious of all of those. Divisive.

Yeah, I wouldn't say contentious, but definitely divisive. Just interesting picks. And it's fucking Nick with his innocent, yeah, over there. Yeah. Like he's not most of the problem.

No. Most of. All of. Either way. Uh-uh, uh-uh. It is so much fun doing these games with you because i don't think we've talked about on the podcast but we did the the summer movie league supplemental yeah we did the summer movie battle which is in full swing uh and it has been so much fun seeing the community get behind it the way they have and creating the tools that they've made for tracking stuff.

Like there's a website you can go to that just keeps things updated. What's the standings? Yeah, you want to give an update? No, I don't. We should. Someone should pull up. I think Gavin is killing right now, right? Yeah, because you just had a big movie.

I had 15 bucks for a while. Well, you had Bad Boys and Inside Out 2 back to back, I think. So that was... That's your whole summer right there. I mean, Bad Boys, in my opinion, overperformed. I think it was a way bigger hit. I totally agree. I did not think that movie was going to do well.

I mean, have either of you seen it? No. Well, how did it overperform? Because I read that it made a lot of money. It was on the trailer and then it did well. Got the stamp of approval by TPG.

I asked him what his thoughts were because I wouldn't even consider watching it unless he approved it. Said it's way better than 3. 3 was fucking pretty rough. So if it's better than 3, that's encouraging, I guess. Found the website.

Currently in first is Gavin Free with $326 million. Second place is myself with $104,900,000. Third place is Jeff, $104,100,000. Andrew, fourth place 104,100,000. Andrew, fourth place, 94,000. Nick, fifth place, almost there. Almost there. So Nick, I'm sorry, Andrew has 94 million. Nick, almost there, 13 million.

So the difference between first to worst is $313 million. So the difference between first to worst is $313 million. But Nick doesn't have the, I think the only things that he's had that have come out so far are Sight and Back to Black, a movie that is no longer in theaters.

They pulled it. They did pull it. But he has, in June, at late June, Nick has on the 28th, Blue Lock episode, Nagi, and A Quiet Place Day One. Those are both on the 28th. That'll do really good. And then, and then, 4th of July weekend,

opening on July 3rd, Nick has Despicable Me 4. That's going to make so much money. That's going to be a pretty big movie for you. Make sure you check out our summer movie. What? Summer movie auction. Ah, sod it. Ah, sod it.

Shut up, you idiot. You fucking idiot. Mushmouth boron. Fucking hell. But you can check it out as a tutorial on our YouTube channel, The Summer Movie Auction. It's so cool seeing these resources

because this is a thing I did with my friends for years and it was just me checking box office mojo every weekend going one at a time with a calculator. It's like seeing automated stuff. It's like, holy shit. People have figured out. This is amazing.

Why did I spend 11 points on Borderlands? I don't know. Because it's a video game property and it had Kevin Hart in it and you thought maybe. And Harold and the Purple Crown only spent three. Yeah, some of the prices are crazy.

I think Horizon Kevin Costner's Western Fantasy comes out this weekend, right? Yes, it does. Yes, it does. I think it's next week. It's the 28th. Okay. I guess by the time this is out, it will be coming out this weekend. Yes, it'll be that weekend.

Jeff spent 22 points on it, but that's okay. coming yes it'll be that we have spent 22 points on it but that's okay gavin spent six on chapter two it comes out in august gavin doesn't have anything coming out between now and august 16th i'm just chilling man i to to to further help my myself win this contest Millie and I on Father's Day went and saw if yeah because that's where I've been making the bulk of my money yeah okay what a hunk of shit my movie is

oh my lord you didn't like how many how many more movies are we gonna let Ryan Reynolds get away with I think John Krasinski directed that film too like he created it. Yes. It is,

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stars or whatever that for you walk a thin line where you're just going like, you can't get many more chances. Like, ooh, I'm keeping an eye on you. Do you have anyone like that? I felt that way about Russell Brand when Hollywood really

tried to make Russell Brand a thing from like forgetting Sarah Marshall to get him to the Greek to he was in like the Arthur remake there were like three years where I didn't find him enjoyable in anything that he did but he just kept getting huge movies and I did

not get it I liked him in Sarah Marshall that was like the one thing that he was like perfect for but then it was just that in everything he did and it just didn't work the same uh i i feel that way about jake gyllenhaal really that's a good one that's a really good one yeah he had such a good run though and like the he did he did for a while yeah but like remember when he was in zodiac and like that was at the same time when he was in jarhead remember that movie jarhead and like he was such a fucking piece of shit while making zodiac because everyone

kept telling him dude jarhead is gonna huge. And jarhead was fucking nothing. And then he was like, oh yeah, I really did not try on Zodiac. And it's like, why? It's like, it could, uh,

what an asshole. Who else? Um, I have it with Sydney Sweeney right now, which is such a bummer because I think she's cool, but she can't keep getting away with it she can't like she did she did anyone but you and uh madam webb and no one is like going after her and then also the other half of anyone but you the other person

who's on my fucking list is glenn powell the guy who looks like a human capybara like he is that guy runs our wives podcast man yes and i can't oh man it like he he's never gonna escape this tweet for me where somebody said he looks like a capybara who made a wish to become human like that is what glenn palin looks like did you see that thing where his parents held up the signs saying, stop trying to make Glen Pell happen? Glen Pell's not gonna happen. That was really funny. At least he's aware of it. But I also think Dakota Johnson is on that list for me, too. That's a great one, dude.

A great one. If she wasn't Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson's kid, she would not be in movies anymore. Period. After fucking Fifty Shades of Grey gray she was in 50 shades that's crazy like and then madame webb and uh i just don't you know i she'll she'll be in hollywood for our entire lifetimes because of this or whatever and i think she is very affable like as a person i think she's affable but i don't know her as a fucking person i have to see her in the media and in movies and she can't keep getting away with it.

Who is somebody, who's the opposite, who they will forever have a pass with you no matter what because they're just so good on screen? Walton Goggins. Oh yeah, Walton Goggins. That's a good one.

That's a really good one. I feel like if ever I see Idris Elba in something, I want to watch it, even though he's been in some real stinkers. Clancy Brown. That's a good one. Oh, I'm with Nick. Timothy Olyphant.

I really like Timothy Olyphant a lot. I think he does good stuff. For me, it's... Like Hitman? Dream Catcher? Again, but that's why we're saying gets a pass baby I think for me it's probably it's a little bit of an obvious pick but

Denzel Washington like I will see okay yeah but I guess my less obvious pick would be Forrest Whitaker I will forever trust Forrest Whitaker in anything I see him in even if it's not bad even if it's that bad fucking accent in Rogue One. I still not holding it against him.

Yeah, it's like actors that you rely on their performances, right? And not necessarily the movie. Absolutely. Forest Whitaker is not to me a stamp of confidence that this will be a good movie, but I can rely on him to deliver. You know Forest Whitaker will be good enough that the movie's worth it, is how

I feel about him. Yeah. Bloodsport. Forgot that he was in that. By the way, Bloodsport's a great movie. Fucking awesome. I love it. It was one of the best movies of my childhood. Bloodsport and Kickboxer were fucking awesome. Like, there was no kid on

Earth who didn't like those movies when they came out yeah yeah and also they're like the same movie it's fucking awesome it's great even better you can see the same movie twice it's like watching the first four uh fuck what's his name uh steven seagal steven seagal it's like watching the first four steven seagal movies those movies are fucking amazing he it just sucks that he sucks. Mark for Death, Out for Justice. I don't remember the others. Those are fucking awesome. Under Siege?

Hard to Kill was the other one. Under Siege has Tommy Lee Jones looking all crazy. He does. And Gary Busey in a dress. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tommy Lee Jones. Hang on, Andrew, I got to show you a picture of Tommy Lee Jones in this fucking movie. Please.

Because it's not what you expect. It awesome tommy lee jones has oh he has a line he has a line in under siege about a revolution always coming back around in your face and i wrote it i used it in like a sociology class in college and my professor was like wow that's incredible that's so good a movement stops but a revolution keeps coming back around and i'm like yeah fuck yeah that's so cool yeah i wouldn't watch anything steven seagal made after 1991 or so but from under siege back the dude made good i mean the dude sucks don't get me wrong but he made good movies those those were his freaking arms. What?

They always fling all about weird. Have you seen his running arms? He says that he has the perfect running form and that he can train Olympians to run faster. He was a big Anderson Silva trainer. Hang on. Is this a compilation?

Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Okay, it's the compilation. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on Okay, you guys ready yeah, yeah, all right here we go feed He almost has a ratty boy like stride The top does. He really does. The top half of his arms are like a different take from the bottom half somehow. Have you seen that trend where people try to run same arm, same leg? It looks like he's doing that, but naturally. He's like knocking out everyone he goes.

And I feel like the director's new and they deliberately always frame him. So his arms are like front and center. I've heard a bunch of stories about directors working with Steven Seagal who have absolutely let him make an ass of himself on camera because they hated him so much. Or he was so hard to work with or so insufferable that they're like, that's great. Oh man. That's so Gavin. Holy shit.

I've only seen that. I'd only seen above the law, like for those first few clips. I had no idea it was in so many of his movies. That's wonderful. The number one comment is what you're missing here is that he's throwing a recurring series of right hooks. He's not running through the air. He's punching it out of the way

so he can run faster. He's getting rid of drag. Are you guys still watching? Are you at the part where he's on the gurney being let out of the hospital with the beard and the... Oh, that's awesome. I want to see more Tommy Lee Jones looks because I when I think of weird Tommy Lee Jones I think of him and the

mechanic too which oh yeah it's just insane and I felt like that was his unique insane role I think I haven't explored enough as his catalog I think there's a lot of weird Tommy Lee Jones that I just don't know. I think he was a great actor. I think it was

great. A Jim Carrey interview I was listening to recently on TikTok where he was telling a story about working with him, I guess probably on Batman. And he went up to him at a I'm going to butcher the story because I don't remember very well, but he went up to him in a diner or something and he just went to stop and

have a conversation with him. I think it was Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones was like, listen, I don't like you. I don't want to talk to you. It was when they were working on Batman. Yeah. And he said, I won't condone your buffoonery.

That's what it was, yeah. That was their relationship. And he's like, okay. He just doesn't, I can't imagine Tommy Lee Jones having like a belly laugh, like have it like a deep, genuine laugh.

He seems so stoic to me and grumpy all the time, which I know is sort of his, his thing. That's what he leans into. But you see a del Toro, another one, an actor where it's just always great. Big Benicio del Toro guy.

Absolutely. But you could maybe have your opinions changed, is always great. Big Benicio Del Toro guy. Absolutely. But you could maybe have your opinions changed, Eric, with Twisters coming out this summer. That movie looks terrible. Oh, it's going to be great. You're fucking crazy. My wife is so fucking excited

to see that movie. Really? Why? Just watch Twister. She loved it. She wants to see the new one it's got glenn powell in it you know those you know how our wives are about glenn i know yeah especially but particularly your wife loves it loves glenn powell yeah what are you gonna do i that is what it is i i'm incredibly against the use of like ai for movies i feel like it's weird or just like in general in a lot of ways. It's not great.

I think I'd give a pass if they brought back Philip Seymour Hoffman for Twisters just as an AI as Dusty. Just having him walking around yelling about the extreme would make me so happy. It's another actor. What? Philip Seymour Hoffman. So fucking good. Everything he's in. Have they done that yet?

I know they did it on The Sopranos with Tony's mom when she died before they could record her. And it looked like dog shit because it was 20 years ago. But have they done that recently where they took a deceased person and inserted them into a film?

They did Tarkin, didn't they? Yeah, Grand Moff Tarkin. Grand Moff Tarkin. Great, Grand Moff Tarkin. That's it. They did it with him? They already did? Yeah, Grand Moff Tarkin. Grand Moff Tarkin. Great, Grand Moff Tarkin. That's it. They did it with him. They also, they already did it with Philip Seymour Hoffman in the last Hunger Games.

There's a lot of CG Philip Seymour Hoffman in that. Oh, well, I wouldn't know anything about that. Didn't they do that with Carrie Fisher after she died? Yeah. Did they? They did. Isn't she like in space fucking freezing or whatever? And it's like.

Well, she's at the end of Rogue One as CG, I think. Or they de-aged her. I don't know if she was already dead. I think she was. Yeah, I mean, there's a bit. There's so much de-aging going on. That I get. But I just like, you know.

Grandma fucking's a good one. I don't get it. It doesn't make. The teeth thing and like forehead wrinkles are fine. I don't understand why we're trying to combat teeth and forehead wrinkles let your face scrunch it's fine i think i think it more like in those like in flashback scenes in marvel movies when they make like michael douglas young in ant-man or something i i feel like it's it's just such a waste of time like in furiosa they start to well it looked like

they were merging the child actor's face with anya Taylor-Joy as time went on to get them to look closer together. But I feel like the whole world has learned to suspend disbelief when it comes to two actresses or actors playing the same character at different times in the same movie. Like, we understand it. They're going to look different, and then it will cut to the next actor. I don't know why we have to merge their heads together. It looks just... It looks way worse. Dude.

Distracting. Speaking of a show that... Someone that handles that really well. Have you guys ever watched Our Flag Means Death? Yeah. No. There's a character in that show called Jim. It's a woman who's pretending to be a man,

and you don't know it at first. So in the first two episodes the character is played by a dude and then when they pull the mustache off it just becomes this woman and then she's the character for the rest of the time. It's so fucking funny and I wish more shows would do that. It makes

such a point of making it funny that it's delightful. That's awesome. I decided I'm going to write a short story but exclusively in the signature boxes of ipads at checkouts i'm gonna write it one word at a time and hope that it ends up somewhere what i don't even know what you're talking about you know when you sign you sign for your credit card or whatever? You want your signing stuff to get hacked?

Or how would it end up somewhere? What do you mean by that? Where does all that go? Where does my signature go? I assume to the business and then the bank? So the bank will have my story. I don't know. Are you pitching payday DLC right now? We got to go rob a bank to get your narrative.

Kind of open up all the safety deposit boxes word by word. I wonder how much money and how long it would take for me to finish my story. Well, okay. You have something there. Are you going to write the story ahead of time and then publish it that way or are you? Creating it in the moment as you're checking out Suck to have writer's block on a like a fucking Monday at the grocery store with about six people behind me yeah, I think I think I could do it on the fly and

Just keep a mental note of Where the stories going? I think it'd be cheating to pre-write the story. How many words do you think this story will be? I mean, how many pages is a good short story? Yeah, 20,000 words, probably. For a good short story, probably at least 1,000 words. Okay, let's say 1,000 words. So I have to buy a thousand things

i i think the beginning will be easy though once that's my first word going in that that's how you're gonna start it does it does the item in some way have to relate to the word what do you mean like for you to be able to use a word does it have to like maybe be somehow incorporated to the product in some way or that you can make well no because then the whole story would be about groceries what if you could i'm with you andrew maybe this is a separate idea but what if you had to write a short story like that but you could only use words you found in the grocery store on products and then you had to buy that product so if you had to write a short story like that but you could only use words you found in the grocery store on products and then you had to buy that product

so if you wanted to use the word fabulous you had to go like track down something that says fabulous on it and then buy it you have to buy your words for your short story I think it's a difficult enough handicap as it is it would be impossible

beans she exclaimed how about this how about as a test we each buy like three items and then have to write a story based off of words that are on that product as a test I like that i like that

give myself i'm gonna write send myself an email so wait we're buying three things and we're putting in three words no well sure we could do three words or it could be as long as you want so i for example i have an empty bottle of coke in front of me naturally is on the bottle i can have natural i now have natural in my reserve. I got flavored. I got cola. I got Quebec. How would you start your story with these words? Naturally.

Naturally. Naturally Quebec. Yeah, it's like naturally Quebec. Quebec is caffeine free and provides 70% the daily recommended niacin, or whatever it is. Phosphoric.

Quebec. You can, any word on the can or on the product should be fine, right? There's, like, they have. Yeah, okay. So they'll have, like, printed in, or, like, you know, packaged in Illinois, and then you have the word in right there trying to think i just i like the idea of going of buying something going oh the word i get the word i really wanted a spaghetti subplot and now i i love this because gavin had an idea

to do this at checkout and now i can tell by the way he's not saying anything, he's not on board with whatever this new idea is. No, not at all. Not at all, but I feel like we can potentially tackle it from different angles. Well, I think they're two different ideas. Yeah. But I don't want to spot a word that I need on a can of, like, pickles. I'm never going to eat the damn things.

What about SpaghettiOs? Well, that's up to you. You're the writer. Are spaghetti is disqualified. I guess it has to be what's on the can right now. It's in the food because you just unlock the dictionary. If the spaghetti spell a word on a spoon in a picture on the can, you get that.

So it just spells. All right. If that's what it can, you get that one. This is so specific. It just spells, ooh. All right. If that's what it spells, you can do it. But if it spells yum, you got yum. That's a word. It's on the can. I don't want to dissuade you, Gavin, from doing your short story idea

in the signature line because I think that's fun and brilliant and I think you should do it uh i think this is a totally separate idea and i like andrew's idea of just go to the store we buy three things that have a lot of words on them whatever three things and then just make three things that you need it's up to you to be clever with what to do with the words right it could even be a thing where we have to guess what the product is after seeing what we create out of the thing to guess what the product is after seeing what we create out of the thing.

That's fucking brilliant, dude. If you can guess the three items, dude. So let's say I have a bottle of Coca-Cola, right Gavin? But I don't want you to know it's Coca-Cola, so I just use naturally and Quebec from it. You're never going to necessarily guess

that I sourced that from a bottle of Coke. Okay. So like, you have to try to both convey a story or a sentence that is coherent while also trying to not expose what your item is, I guess, and then we could reveal what we bought. All right. I'll try that, too.

We'll do this. Can everybody have it ready by next week for the next episode? Okay. My hope overall with the with the short story in the signature box is that if i was to request all my data from the bank i would just see like hundreds and hundreds of my signature and then all of a sudden a story starts that would be great can you do that can you request that information from the bank i

was gonna say no idea absolutely no idea i don't i'm not even convinced that goes anywhere i don't i'm not convinced that you just write you could write gibberish and then it's gone forever you bring up a great point gavin where i have never and maybe this is just me being lucky i've never been in a scenario in which i have been asked to verify any of my signatures ever completely pointless i never come pin codes and stuff come in here with signing for stuff that no one ever checks there's nothing even written on the back of my card i don't know what it's for i don't know who it's for dude it's the fuck it's it's forms it's the same thing with forms i went to the doctor this morning and filled out the same form i fill out every time i go there with the same information that then they look at the form and they ask me the questions on the form and then i

give them the same information verbally and then I know as soon as I leave that form gets thrown the fuck away because why are they keeping it? It's useless. It's like when you do a support chat on a website, you have to sometimes fill out a brief form before you can talk to the agent and they ask you the same goddamn shit I just typed. Yeah, I never. And you could even say

I already typed it and then they go and get it. It's like, why are you asking me that? Yeah. Pissing me off. I'm with you. I never thought about that. Where are my signatures going? Who is this helping?

So Canada still does signatures too? For certain things. Yeah. There are times in which I have to sign for stuff. Madness. It is. Would you consider taking a photo

each time you do it so you could have a record yourself? Oh, that's a good idea. Or is that too weird to taking a photo each time you do it so you could have a record yourself oh that's a good idea or is that too weird to take a photo of a no i think that's fine i feel fine with that okay what if this is how gavin realized there's fraudulent activity on his account i never well listen i didn't write that sentence yeah there was not a leprechaun in the story what that was that was like a two-chaun in the story. What? That was like a two year period when I first moved here, because I was still laughing at the whole signature thing,

where I would just draw a small picture of a house every time for my signature. I drew Wizpig one time. Here's Wizpig from... How long did you spend on that? It was a little while. How long did you spend on that? It was a little while. I thought Whiz Pig would be a pretty cool signature for a second.

Then you kind of, when you get through like the 13th little line that you got to draw for his head and for his teeth, you just kind of go, I don't want to do this anymore. I just love the idea of that being stored on some server somewhere, on a bank or the servers of the place you type that. I think Wizpig is somewhere saying, like, I didn't buy this. What?

Like, they track him down because it's his face. Yeah. I wish to God, now that we're having the discussion, I wish it went somewhere and that it was findable by someone someday, but I really don't think so. I don't think anybody ever looks at it ever.

Ever. You could admit to, dude, you could admit, Gavin, you could admit to committing a murder one word at a time on those things and no one would ever catch you or find out. Can you imagine wanting to enter someplace and them saying, okay, wait a second, we need you to sign your signature and they're holding up one of your old ones

to like verify it matches. Like what, what is the value? It's madness. I'm imagining it like that in the Mr. Bean movie where they hold up his passport next to his face and he has to make the same face on his passport. Oh man, I never thought about signatures in that way. and he has to make the same face on his passport. Oh, man. I never thought about signatures in that way.

I never questioned them. What a pointless system. Yeah. Most of the time when you're filling out anything or using a pen or typing stuff in, it's useless. I feel like in 2024. Like all these things are just designed to slow

it's just to slow us down Gavin just posted a photo of the Mr. Bean face that is great you got a lot to pick from I think I'm still going with the creepy fucking Ian, but man, there's so much stuff.

The creepy Ian is just hideous. Maybe we put it to the audience on what to name Ian's evil twin. Ian's evil twin! Oh. Yeah, what would be a good name for an evil twin named Ian? You can't do, like, the backwards name thing.

Tween. Ian. Actually, the audience will come up with something better than we could. Oh man. What a, oh I'm excited. Hi I'm Ian, here's my twin Tween. He's the evil one. You know how it is. We have very different

signatures, just so you know. I'm gonna pitch something to Eric oh because I found out something about Eric you found out something about Eric yeah that's you by the way I found out

that you don't that you don't like being squeezed by the blood pressure have I never talked about that no I don't like being squeezed by the blood pressure. Oh yeah. Have I never talked about that? No,

I don't think so. No, I don't have a fear of like needles and I'll get like, you know, surgery and like none of that bothers me or whatever. When I get my blood pressure taken, I tell them beforehand. It's the thing where it goes around like your bicep and then it's squeezed to like get your your blood pressure. I before they do it, I tell them, hey, you're about to get a reading that you're going to look at and be like, oh, that's a little high.

It's not high blood pressure. These things I hate so desperately and like wish that you never had to do this. It's so anxious. Yes this it makes me so anxious yes it makes me so anxious it makes my heart race i hate them so i want to pitch to you i get like 10 of them and we put them all over you and inflate them all at the same time oh like immersion therapy we get like an average reading across all your limbs yeah no i mean yeah i mean i mean we're not going to do that. So, I mean, you can keep pitching it as far as you want to. Yeah.

Hey, Jeff, we're going to put you in a bucket full of snakes. Like, what are you talking about? Oh, is this like a snake level thing for you? Yeah, I hate it. So, it's like an actual phobia. I can't look at it while they do it. I have to like, I tense up and won't move while it's on me. I hate it.

Could you watch it get done to me? Yeah, it doesn't bother me for other people. I just know how it makes me feel. Yeah, it doesn't matter. I don't give a shit. Yeah, let's put 10 on you. I don't care. Let's put 10 on you

and put you in a bucket of snakes. I don't give a shit. Yeah. In the interest of never doing a Jeff is scared of snakes bit uh i'm i'm so full support of you here eric thank you very much i appreciate that um does that have like a history for you or is it just no i don't know it's just the thing i don't like when i can feel my heartbeat like in my hand like that's you know what i mean like when you can like feel your pulse like that that

makes your life no that yes and it makes me want to curl up and die so i don't like it what i hate it what okay what if we put 10 on you right no they're still loose you said all right we didn't get that far the answer is no that at this point they're just like Velcro fabrics, loose, nice and loose. And then I'll just squeeze one puff of air into each one. No. I don't understand. But what? I don't know. Okay.

You said all right, and I said no. Let's step back for a moment. I still don't know what the goal is for what you're doing. I thought I'd be able to get foot. I just want to see if his head goes all red. Oh, okay. You wouldn't need to put ten on me. Yeah, you just need one.

You can put one on me. Like, yeah, you don't need that. What if we make a giant slice of bread, and Gavin, you can lay on top of it, and then slowly lower it into a pool? Like, what are we talking about? Just imagine the bread is like a pool float, and you ride it into the water.

All right, that's not funny, guys. What if, like, French loaves were pool noodles? If I was next to Eric, watching him get all puffed up, and I was slowly getting lowered into a wet bread pool, I'd be there for support. I would do it. A wet bread pool. That's happening at the same time Jeff is rolling around in a pile of snakes?

No. See, the snakes are going to kill me. Nothing you guys are doing is going to harm you. Nick, what are you most scared of that we can exploit? I don't like needles a lot right now. Or blood draws. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had a rough blood right now. Or blood draws. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

I had a rough blood draw today. You've brought some stuff flooding back on that one. Sorry. Sorry about that. Wait, hang on. Wait, hang on. Hang on. How did you learn this about me, Gavin?

Huh? How did you learn this about me? The most bullshit huh I've ever heard in my life. That's ballistic, everybody. What the fuck is this? I'm not saying that we should do this. Just in my head, it's very funny. The idea of all of us like sitting in a row with

our triggers in front of us that seem like like ridiculous and just fainting and passing out stressed out it's like just garrett getting his blood pressure done david's puking with wet bread i'm fainting seeing a surgery scene in a movie like just the most like isn't actually impacting us but completely destroying us. I feel like everyone's passing out except I'm just going to be throwing up. All that's going to happen to me is I'm going to vomit everything out and I'll just be hanging there.

Yeah. Alright well go subscribe to our Patreon while I really get to the bottom of where the fuck Gavin learned this about me. What the fuck happened? I can't find out. Do you have a lot of stuff, Gavin? Do you have any others? A lot of stuff.

Can we do one a week? At this point I'm going to keep my source private so I can get more information out of it, potentially. Have you been releasing it, Eric, word by word on signatures? When you text Alyssa about Left 4 Dead 2,

can you just let her know to stop giving you secrets about me? Thank you. It wasn't her. It wasn't Alyssa. I can't believe that. It would just be the only person that my wife talks to about this stuff. It's terrible. By the way, I was kind of disappointed that we don't really have a good URL to push people to other than Patreon you know, Patreon slash regulation pod.

It's a bit of a mouthful. So I was hoping we had like a much shorter URL. We don't. Someone else took all those. So I registered Regulatrion.com. You did it. Yeah. And it forwards to our Patreon.

Wait, it's what? Regulatrion.com. How do you spell that that sounds probably R-E-G-U-L-A-T-R-I there it is so go to Regulatrion.com insane

Regulatrion much harder to remember or spell than just go to Patreon. But I felt like it was worth it. Hey, the link works. It's good.

Yeah. Oh, I put it. I put it in the show notes so you guys can go scroll down and check out Regulatrion.com. It's about as effective

as I thought it would be. Yep. Uh-huh. All right. Well, thanks for listening go to regularly regulate subscribe now thank you guys so much for listening check out regulation gameplay appreciate you listening this was episode seven of the regulation podcast and we'll see you next time bye