Regulation Podcast - The Baseball F**kface Fiasco // Dodge the Bov [101]

Episode Date: May 4, 2022

Geoff, Gavin, and Andrew talk about kinks vs cakes, ecomm pleasantries, F**kface Tax Exemptions, Andrew's Popsicle Roulette, Regulation Bagel, and ABBA memories. Want to contribute to bits? Email what you can do to [e-mail] Sponsored by ExpressVPN (http://expressvpn.com/face) and HelloFresh (http://hellofresh.com/face16 + code face16) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a Rooster Teeth production. Previously on F*** Face. Hello and welcome to the 101st episode of the F*** Face podcast. My name is Jeff Ramsey and with me as always, Andrew Panton, way up there in Canada. And everybody's favorite British wanker, Gavin Free, from Oxfordshire via Austin, Texas. How are you? How are you doing, fellas? I'm good.

Andrew was saying lactating women kinks yes yeah not cakes i thought he was saying cakes yeah i mean it was clear after the fact but i also was just i completely botched that it was a mess i don't know if we necessarily need to revisit the lactate that was when you went in the you were in the bunker for half yeah like i just botched that immediately and i was in my own head for the rest of that episode. So I thought you said cakes. And then I'm talking about like using tit milk to make a cake. And then you said your mom was talking about sugar cookies.

So I thought we were still on the same page. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what happened. I think a part of the problem is that we only hear each other over Discord. So it sort of sounds like we're all playing Among Us at the time. But even when I was proofing it, I still didn't understand what you said. That's fair.

I was like, what's he on about? I was trying to remember in the moment what I thought, because cakes make sense to me. I feel like maybe I also thought cakes. Yeah, it wasn't until the comment leavers were like, Gavin's an idiot. I was like, oh. It still doesn't make a ton of sense

yeah that's fair it was from my perspective I started out and I immediately fucked it up in the order I wanted to do it and I'm like I just need anyone who wants to play ball with me right now I'll take it and you going in the dessert category was like being thrown a life preserver

and I'm like I'll just take whatever we can get we'll go in this angle we got to figure a way through this because i've fucked this immediately so so what do you guys want to talk about today i uh i got nothing speaking of fuck this we could we could transition immediately to fuck up that happened. We want to. Oh, yeah. The fucking baseballs. All right. Let's get in to the fucking baseballs.

I'd love to get Eric involved in this as well. What happened? I'll tell you. I'll tell you. I'll break it down what happened. Rooster Teeth is a mini headed monster. We are a company of hundreds and hundreds of people. mini-headed monster. We are a company of hundreds and hundreds of people. And so one of the frustrating things about being an on-camera talent from time to time is that when a mistake is made behind the scenes or there's an issue behind the scenes, the talent wears it. So what happened was

we released about 200 baseballs that we had hit or at least swung at. You know the whole saga. But now they're all gone. Please stop looking for them. Don't go there. It is just a haven for snakes. We've accounted for every baseball. There are zero more baseballs. We've checked serial numbers. They're all accounted for. 100% of them have been recovered. Please do not look for more baseballs.

Okay. So what happened was we wanted to allow people the opportunity to buy them. We knew that there'd be more people wanting to buy them than we had to sell. And so you try to be as precise as possible with that. So we said at 10 a.m. Central Time on whatever day it was, we're going to release the balls. And then everybody who wants one can come in. And it's kind of like a melee, I understand. But people that want it can all go there at the same time and try their luck.

Recognizing that we don't have enough balls for everyone, unfortunately. But there was only so much juice in my arms. There's a physical cost to this item. It makes complete sense that it would be a limited amount of them. A huge physical cost that cost me overall about three weeks of pain. It cost me a tripod. It cost Gavin a tripod. Yeah.

So it cost him some financial pain. So what happens is we're not the ones that actually take the balls and put them up on the store. They have to go to our shipping company, and then they have to onboard them and put them into the inventory system. And then they have to be individually wrapped and all that stuff. And while that's going on, they have to be added into our web store via a backend. And this is something I used to do for the first seven or about the first eight years of the company, I ran the store by myself. So I understand how difficult and how much more work it is behind the scenes than you may realize. It sounds like you just hit a button and you go, but it's really not that simple.

There's a lot of linking and branching and a lot of I's that got to be dotted and T's that got to be crossed. And so we asked them to be put up at 10 a.m. The person who ended up putting them in was not the person we told. Information gets passed down. There's a bit of a game of telephone from time to time you know a little purple monkey dishwasher in there what essentially happened was the process it's it's not an exact process it takes anywhere between 10 and 15 minutes to add them to all the places that they need to be and then publish it to the store uh and so that they go live so the person that does it they typically start about 9 45 uh and because you know that gives them a good 15 minutes to that does it, they typically start about 945. Uh, and cause you know, that gives them a good 15 minutes to work with. And then they just get it as close to,

to, in this instance, to 10 AM as possible. What happened in this instance is it just, the process went faster than normal. And so not realizing, uh, that we had a hard time, that department, uh, they just published them early. Right. Which is like, if you think about it, if you're just a person who's like, whose job is to do that, you're like, wow, I'd put them out five minutes early.

Then people have, you know, then they're just there waiting for you when you show up. I don't think they understood the demand. And so by about nine 50, uh, all of the balls had been sold out. So the people who showed up early were rewarded by getting the balls because

they showed up early and were like spam and refresh. So those people were, were, uh, those early birds early birds they caught those worms they got those little ball worms uh and then the people who dutifully showed up at 10 a.m when we told them to were like what do you mean they're sold out what the fuck and they didn't get it and they were understandably justifiably upset as were we we were upset because people were upset. We wanted to give everybody a fair shot at getting the balls, and we felt like through no intentional fault of anybody's own that we didn't deliver on that.

And so we were gutted and frustrated, and as I know the e-com department that runs this on the back end, they were also disappointed. Now, my solution to this going forward, and I have talked about this a little bit with actually a link with Eric. You, by the way, you guys want to see a producer producing in action.

Eric was on the ball that day. He was all over this all day long. Shout out and major kudos to Eric for doing a hell of a job trying to get to the bottom of this and get it all worked out and get figured out what happened and how to make sure it doesn't happen again. My solution would be just to never announce an exact time again, because we fucked it up twice

and I don't want to do that again. Can't do it. No, here's the thing. Here's the thing. When things like this happen, I don't really care why these things happen. It's upsetting, but what are you going to do? Belabor the point, you know what I mean?

All I want to know is, are we capable of doing the thing that we initially set out to do going forward? So I had a lot of conversations with a lot of people in the e-comm team, and I was assured that going forward, when we have these down-to-the-minute drops, we can do them. I found out what the limitations are. I found out what the problems or what the hiccups would be. But I was assured that when we go, going forward, if we wanted to do this stuff for down to the minute stuff, what happened this time won't happen again. And we can do it to a precise minute the way that we want it. To me, it sounds like Ecom went in for pleasantries.

They went in early. You know I'm not a fan of that. Hey, listen. I think there's a lot of people that feel like your stance on pleasantries is 100% validated by this whole ordeal. I saw a lot of that sentiment.

As a fan of pleasantries, there's a line of pleasantries. You's a line of pleasantries. You can have too much pleasantries. They were too early on the pleasantries. You can't be 20 minutes early on the pleasantries. A five-minute pleasantry? That's a different story. So I know that there's a lot of audience members

out there who are frustrated. We are also frustrated. Eric has put a lot of work into making sure that the next time we do this, it'll work without a hitch. And I'll tell you right now, if we fuck it a third time i'm i'm just going to eliminate the opportunity for us to release to the minute i'm just like it'll be out sometime on this day best of luck check you know like i'll give you like we'll give you like a window like more like it'll

be like when you have to get your internet fixed and you call AT&T or or Spectrum or whoever you have in it with. And they go, yeah, we'll be there between 8 a.m. and noon. That'll be the new window. We'll be like, why would we want to drop the balls? Why? Why would we want to operate in the worst way? Oh, Matt, your idea. We can't operate in that in the accurate way.

The way to fix this going forward is for us to operate like spectrum internet. That's not a great comparable. But to Jeff's defense, I went through a phase where I was super into trying to collect like Mondo posters many years ago. And they do not put specific times out. They're like, it'll release on this day.

At least they didn't back then. But they would always put them into the system at around 10 a.m., but they were never definitive. So I think there's room for that. There's a history of companies doing that. I'm just saying, if we blow it again, if we strike out, if we're 0 for 3 on

this, I think that we've got to reevaluate. I'm willing to give it another shot. Absolutely. If we get three strikes on our baseballs. Yeah, but I'm absolutely willing to give it another shot. I appreciate the work that Eric did. I trust the Ecom team can get it right. I'm just saying, if we don't, we got to cut our losses.

Totally. If it happens again, I won't talk about it. You guys can talk about it on the show. I won't talk about it on the show because I won't have anything that we could air. Nothing that I would say would be usable. So I'm guaranteeing that it will not happen again. Alright, there we go.

So, to that end, we want to do a make good. We want to make it up to the audience members who followed the letter of the law and showed up at 9.59 to wait for the clock to tick over to 10 and try to buy the balls and find out they were not there.

I've already asked Ecom to buy us more balls. I'm prepared to go out and do it all over again. Now, my initial idea, my initial idea, and there's a counter-argument to that, and I'd love to, and I think the counter-argument is probably ultimately correct, but I'd like to at least hit with, my initial idea was to mix it up a little bit,

to make it a little different, to share some of the burden on me. Maybe I hit 100, maybe Gavin hits 50 maybe eric does 20 and then maybe we mail a couple to andrew and he can do whatever weird shit andrew does with stuff and then we just kind of mix it all up and then you're getting like the potential of maybe you get a gavin ball in in blue or you get a eric ball in orange or a jeff ball in black yeah different paints for different people uh andrew's counterpoint was we can't make a new product that's different because that's just going to make the people who already bought the black hit balls want the new product

as well. We should there should be parity between the product so that everybody gets the same potential ball. And I think as much as it pains me to say it, I think he's probably right. Man, this is deep. I think it's also a conversation that the audience could respond to, like in the comments of this.

Like, would they rather us just do the exact same thing as like a pure make good, so people who already have one don't feel obligated to buy this one? Or do you want, would you prefer what Jeff just said of like us all having our own takes on the balls and then doing like a second release, essentially that way, larger volume of them we'll let the audience decide we'll kind of go by audience sentiment after this airs uh either way we're going to in some fashion either

create an identical product or a newer altered product and release another, I guess, two or three hundred balls out into the wild. So if you didn't get one, you'll be able to to try again just because we want to make it up to you, because I there were I there were there was a lot of anger out there in the world. And and I get it. I get it. And I want to make it up. I want to make it up to every comment lever and every regulation listener out there. Like when you get beat out for something, like if it drops on time that's just how it goes like it's yeah it sucks

like you live with that but like when the system fails like when you feel like a bunch of bots bought it or whatever like something went against it that sucks like that's that's like

an understandable frustration so yeah it sounds like we've been able to figure stuff out hopefully and we will we will do make it on this and depending on what the audience wants i think just to say sincerest apologies absolutely showed up and felt slighted we are gonna do our absolute damnedest to make it up to you it was very us though it's

very face it was very face but you know uh yeah yeah uh we don't have to be so true to the letter of the show all the time. Andrew, you you wanted to see you wanted to roll into something. So speaking, I have a little like story to tell those. That's very funny. That happened to me recently. Speaking of like show expenses, I filed my taxes last week. And typically, whenever I have done things for this show, because it's work, but it's weird, it's a, but it's weird. It's a weird category of thing.

I've never really tried to claim what would be traditional work expenses. And so this is the first year I attempted to do so, including the porta potty. So I was like, how do I submit this in a way that makes sense, that's not going to be highly questioned? So I thought, oh, I'll fancy up the wording. And I called it production equipment. in like a way that makes sense that's not going to be like highly questioned so i thought i'll fancy up the wording and i called it production equipment i listed the porta potty as production

equipment on my form i put the price amount down i put the bingo wheel down as production equipment and i put some comic books down when we're doing research extensive research i put all of the bts sauce orders as uh production meals i was trying to class up everything as much as possible you should be expensing all this to the company not yeah i don't know how any of this works yeah so talk to the producer so so i put all that in and i brought it to the person that does my taxes and I showed them the form and I'm like so I got these I got this production stuff and they immediately said they pointed at the port-a-potty and said what is this I said what do you mean it's they're like no like I understand it's this production equipment what was the equipment and I had to say port-a-potty and the look of

shock on their like they were like they said they audibly said what and they looked so confused and i had to then explain what it was that it was a porta potty and why it was related to the show and that we made these mugs and it was this whole thing and then i realized oh no she's gonna do this with all of them so then she immediately pointed to the next one what is this production equipment and i had to just go bingo wheel didn't question that one and then we're able to move on but the embarrassment of having to tell somebody port-a-potty and there's just a shocked look on her face was very funny oh my god so i'm i'm almost certainly going to get audited i'm excited for this process and

you could have just got reimbursed I could have just got potentially yeah, I don't know how any of that stuff. Yeah as I said, but we have a form I think do we yeah, it's expensive. Yeah, it's cool Eric I'll introduce you to the wonderful world of concur expense sheet reporting Yeah, so they made those audible noises and then you welcome man enjoy yeah well some of it to be fair like i don't the porta potty was a weird thing where it was just something i wanted to do and i felt like it would be tough to get approval of because it's expensive it was over a thousand dollars uh so i just did it yeah it just feels yeah i don't know yeah it's a lot of money for

you i mean i mean just so you're aware there's no way i would have gotten approval for over a thousand dollars for a porta potty like like they're like it's just it just wouldn't have had like i just would have gotten it sold out on mugs though like it was a valuable it was worth from the 100 worth it we sold 1 000 tiki mugs because of that porta potty you bought us right right and you guys understand the order that these things happened in right okay just making sure okay we didn't sell the tiki mugs before we did the port-a-potty no but i came first listen it it all worked out in the end it was a clear thing it was a great idea i think it's impossible to

deny that it was a great idea ultimately what what you're doing though, what we're doing is we're building a resume of success so that now when we go to, I don't know, the finance department and say, hey, we need to buy this $1,000 piece of nonsense, but we promise it'll turn into content down the road, they'll go, oh yeah, well, you've proven that time and time again. So, signed off.

Wherever you're going, you've proven that time and time again. So, uh, signed off. travel credit squeezing every drop out of the last day how about a 4 p.m late checkout you just need a nice place to settle in enjoy your room upgrade wherever you go we'll go together that's the powerful backing of american express visit amex.ca slash ymx benefits vary by card terms apply i have another thing i need to bring up quickly uh because i should have done this at the beginning of the show but i but I'm an idiot. Last episode, Jeff, you came at me pretty aggressively at the end. You took some shots my way. You just fucking...

I felt I told a good story, and you're like, oh, what about you? You got any fucking content for this episode? So I came up with a few games, Jeff, and one of them... One of them, one of them is sort of time sensitive. Are we

going to start off the next hundred episodes with you being mad at me? No, we're just going to conclude within this one, because I did a thing. I came with the games, Jeff. This is game one. This is an important thing. I should have mentioned earlier for my idea with it. Before you go any further, can I ask you a question?

Absolutely. Did you mail something to me? No. Okay, just making sure because I had a FedEx note on my door. And if it was like for the show, I didn't get it. Okay. No. But speaking of mailing stuff, so this ties in.

We got a Bovril taste test potentially happening today. By the way, I've had Bovril. That's exciting. We can talk about that. I made popsicles. I have six popsicles. I made a tray. Three of them are good things.

No, they're all different things. There's one Bovpop in that mix. Now, I didn't put these together, so I don't know which one is what. There's six of them i will have five of them three of them are good three of them are bad jeff you can pick which ones i eat whenever whenever you want to if you say a number one through six i will then pull that one out front left is the uh the first one so front left and to the right of it is two i'll go up from there um there's six flavors. The three good ones, seven up,

because that was the first soda chug I did. I used seven up. The second good popsicle is Coca-Cola, my cold beverage of choice. Third delicious popsicle, apple juice. A big apple guy. Love apple juice.

Oh, hell yeah. Is it Cosmic Crisp juice? It's not. I wish it was. It'd be even better. The bad three, salad cream is one of them. The next bad one is Bovril,

as you know about. And one of them is pancake batter. I was told... Oh, Jesus. I was told that one of these did not freeze at all. And I am not excited about that one. So this is gonna be sort of a Bovril

taste test, but possibly in a true salad cream like fashion you might not pick the Bovril one. I might completely avoid the Bovril So you're going to do five. Yeah, we're going to do five. One of these I will not eat. You can pick. You just say a number one through six at any point in the show

and then I will pull out. Eric has a good point. You should do them blind. Well, I don't know what they are already. They're already blind to me. Don't even look. What I'm saying is that say Jeff says three. You pull out three, but you don't look. Close your eyes. Don't look at what three is.

Pull it out and then put it directly into your mouth because I think don't smell it. Just go for it. That's fair. Your first time having Bovril and it's a frozen Bovpop potentially? your mouth because i think like don't smell it just go no that's fair that's fair so this will be your first time having bovril and it's a frozen bov pop potentially yeah potentially i don't know if that's the one that didn't freeze did you go and find bovril yourself or did my bovril finally your bovril never arrived this is what i'm saying as far as packages go i don't know they they we

should really check on that i'm assuming amazon delivered they might be lost they couldn't find my door they're missing so i had to go and buy my own bovril over the weekend and it was easy to find uh i had to go to three grocery stores so i wouldn't say it's the easiest to find but i was able to get it but it existed in your in your town oh it totally exists in my town yeah it wasn't like every store had it but yeah it exists here i I was looking on Amazon for Bovril, there was like one seller, and it was like next day prime delivery, and on the thing it said imported from Canada. So I thought, oh, if I just turn around and

put a Canadian address, maybe it'll be quicker? But I guess they like pre-imported from Canada to sat in the US, so I guess to send it back to Canada has been a real problem, because that stuff's still not been delivered. That's incredible. Yeah, they're lost. Yeah, it just says

Oh, it says delivered today. Really? Yeah. Oh, fuck. Do I have more Bovril in my mailbox? Oh, no. I hope I like it. Oh, fuck. I can't believe, Jeff, you had you tried Bovril outside of proper face canon.

Well, what else am I going to do? Well, listen. Not have it? It was given to me during... I went to a... All right, so... Well, let's do this first before we get into me. Well, this is on going.

I don't want to take away from Andrew's thing. You could tell a story and then in the middle of the story say four and then I just have to fucking pull one out. Okay, got it. So I went to the UK for a week. I spent like eight days over in London, in your neck of the woods, Gav. By the way, London says hi. They miss you. Hello. That's not true at all.

Nobody, everybody I talked to in England, they'd never heard of you. I'm like, do you want any messages for Gavin? And they're like, what? Who? First off, Bovril? You made it sound like Bovril's everywhere in the UK. It took me six days before I finally encountered Bovril. That's going to Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Tesco,

all the different grocery stores. Talking to people at stores being like, do you know where I can find Bovril? And everybody going, why would you want to find that? Did I say Bovril was everywhere? I said I found it in a vending machine and at a football game. I'm not out there buying it in the supermarket. It's not readily available.

And when I asked people for it, they all universally said, just get Vegemite. It's way better. Or just get Marmite. It's way better. And I'm like, yeah, but that's not what I want. I want Bovril. And they're like, no, you don't. And I had to argue with people. And they're like, listenite. It's way better. And I'm like, yeah, but that's not what I want. I want Barrel. And they're like, no, you don't. And I had to

argue with people. And they're like, listen, you don't want it. And I'm like, I'm telling you, I need it for a thing. And they're like, it must be in the supermarket. Just get Marmite. So I was there for one of the other podcasts I do, the Theme Park podcast, as well as for a Rooster Teeth

community meetup. So during the community meetup, and i was doing this meetup with um a regular fan jack i'm not sure where he is in the hierarchy right now so it's called fan fan jack well he's not minor league fan anymore i think i think i think he's up from minor just regular promotion but uh yeah i think so uh and so i was on a panel and somebody came up and gave it to me and it had a bow on it and they put like a little rooster teeth union Jack logo on it. And they were like, here,

we got this for you and here's some boiling water and here's something to spread it on. Will you eat it in front of everyone? And since it was being filmed, I thought, yeah, it's like, might as well.

Cause also, uh, I wasn't sure I could bring it back to the States because somebody, uh, told me that you can't import it to the U S Like you can't bring it from the UK to the US. So you said it was being filmed. So you're like, yeah, no problem. Do you have that footage?

Can I think I think my girlfriend Emily has. So I can get it to you guys. I don't have it on me. Great. And what were your thoughts? So I had it two ways. Apparently, apparently the boy like making it like beef bouillon, kind of boiling it,

is not the main way. I guess people mostly use it as a spread on toast, kind of like Marmite. So I had it that way first. Oh, by the way, Andrew, go ahead and eat number two. Okay. With your eyes closed, please.

While you're doing that, I'll upload the photo just for reference of me right before. Did he all the the pops behind it behind him i put it in the fridge and my mic stand is covering the fridge door so i had to slide the mic that was an immense chair creek it's sliding okay so i'm pulling the pop out i'm so nervous i should have like a puke bucket this is okay pop two coming out it is okay Pop to you coming out. It is solid Trying to identify it without opening your eyes. Yeah, oh seven up

Congratulations that's the Bob mm-hmm. So I've uploaded a photo. It's on the face Instagram already I think it's of me in it by the way a snazzy new regulation listener t-shirt which i think is uh just uh very nice uh and there's a regular fan jack in the background and i'm holding the bovril that they gave me uh so the first way i had it was as a spread and i have to say it was fucking heinous like absolutely disgusting if you've ever had vegemite if you've ever had marmite this is just as bad if not like five percent worse i mean just dog shit not edible just not edible however then i took a teaspoon and of of this goop and i stuck it in the boiling water and i spun it around a little bit and made like the hot bovril cup like you would have at a football game yeah and i give it a i give it a 5.2 out of 10 okay so and what was the first one dog shit out of 10 and then 5.2 out

of 10 yeah like i found myself throughout the panel still sipping it a little bit i thought probably end up drinking half of a little dixie cup full of of bovril uh yeah it's not great but in that form i can see like on a cold day you like you kind of want a little nourishment and to be warmed up i can see in in much the same way maybe you would drink like hot bone broth or like a bouillon i can see it being a hearty drink utilitarian i've never had it as a spread so i'll probably try that at some point but yeah i don't i don't mind it as a hot bovril also at a glance jack's t-shirt uh in the corner of my eye looked like it said anal passage that's the other podcast i do anal pass can we can we just sell that shirt remade as anal passage

jack knows as a face shirt eric Eric, can you get on that, please? I would wear that. We gotta do that. That's awesome. Jack would think a glance that I'm repping the merch but it's really just you know what would be the ultimate will be the ultimate is if we we work it out with his wife so she switches out the annual pass in his laundry for an annual passage shirt and see if we can get him see if we can get him to wear it without knowing he's wearing an annual passage shirt we're gonna we would have to move fast on that before this episode comes out

yeah which is uh less than a week it's tuesday christ we have to like swap the shirt and put it right at the top of the pile okay but we've kind of this is like the bat paranoia. He now will have to check his annual pass shirt always. He's going to have to constantly double check that shirt. So it kind of works, no matter what.

We've created shirt paranoia. Oh, Eric's already sent it off to the merch team. Okay, so there you go. There's your seven up Bob Pop. Oh, very clear. So you just dodged the top by the looks. So there you go. There's your there's your seven up Bov Pop. Oh, very clear. So you just dodged the top

by the looks of it. I did. I took a bite out of the top of it. Dodge the Bov is a great name for this. I'm just going to steal that, Jeff. That's fantastic.

We're trying to dodge the Bov. How on a scale of one to ten, how do you rate the Sprite Pop? Nine. It was way better than I anticipated. That was delicious.

Damn. I like as well. You've just outright refused to try hot bovril here. You've gone straight for the bov pop I've gone straight for the Bob pop yeah, all right I didn't I guess I could have used the Keurig to heat up the Bob right isn't that a thing I could have done? Yeah, yeah, Bob machine Ramen and Bob exclusively what that Keurig is for Maybe that's... Dude, there should be a Bavro flavored ramen.

Oh my god. That's like the hot new thing. A Bavro cake-up. I saw so many videos of people pouring Bavro down the sink after trying it. It's really, honestly, hot Bavro is not as bad as I thought it would be it is it's drinkable i wouldn't choose it but i i would in much the same way like for people who don't like coffee

but need to be need to be warm on a cold day i could see it yeah absolutely doing the trick that makes sense to me yeah saw a few um comment levers from saint kilda uh saying that they've been on the pier and stuff and it was weird weird to hear the place they live mentioned on fan page. Oh, really? The reach of this podcast. Yeah. It's crazy. Because that's far away.

Yeah. You know what else is interesting? Talking about the reach. So, you know, I did this panel and there were, you know, maybe 100 general Rooster Teeth community members there. And I was surprised how many of them do not listen to this podcast. We got to do a better job of convincing people to listen to this podcast. Oh, so not a lot of regulation listeners?

There were more, I'd say maybe half were regulation listeners. The other half had no idea what we were talking about. They weren't up to date on anal passages? No. Just realized we've got some work to do. We've got work to do within our own larger community to reach out to those people. Eric says sure, it's being

worked on now. Fantastic. Just open up the Photoshop file. Oh dear. Oh dear. How do we get more people to listen to this or is it better that more people don't it's like our little secret podcast exclusive club good question yeah i don't i don't know i mean animated will come out at some point potentially yeah i feel like that'll be a good reach for people it's kind of tough it's a tough thing to jump into it's funny

as i said getting texts from the my hubby's bagels people oh and and speaking that i never said on the show there is a regulation bagel the regulation exists now it is a definitive thing you can order it it's on the menu i did my research i tried a bunch of different combinations the thing the regulation bagel is a bagel i i like it on a cheddar bagel but i guess it could be on any bagel especially dependent on availability of the bagel i would say a cheddar bagel i i like it on a cheddar bagel but i guess it could be on any bagel especially dependent on availability of the bagel but i would say a cheddar bagel is not regulation as a bagel doesn't doesn't matter this is my regulation bagel this is this is how i've worked this out this is regulation for the show um it is half of it is the bacon cream cheese that they have

and the other half is the garlic and black pepper cream cheese half and half as a sandwich incredible so that's really good it's really fucking good now is this a hot bagel this is you get it toasted there it's your choice i i get it toasted i ask for a regulation bagel toasted step to the side get my bagel it's fantastic i'd highly recommend what did it feel like to stand in line and order your own creation for this it's funny you say that jeff they have sold out every day like they've been so popular it's been amazing like the they've gotten so much love from the community and just uh well our community and just the community in which i live in generally um yeah they have so much support they're selling out all the time. They're lines.

So I decided I was going to go there super early. They open at 8 a.m. I left to go there and I was in line at 7 a.m. Like I'm going to be the first person in line. They open early and sell all the bagels to you and then everyone in the line was pissed off. No. pissed off.

No. I did not have a whole line of people mad at me. This is a great face on me though. This is a classic. So I show up at 7 a.m. When do you think the next person showed up to join this line that I'd created? 7.58. 7.58? 7.43

was the next I spent 43 minutes in a line of one 43 minutes just by myself then a couple showed up at 7.43 they were behind me and then one other group showed up at 7.52

when we were let in a little bit early they opened up at 7.52 they typically open up at 8 I got there an hour early for a three-person line. But I got all my stuff. I ordered all the bagels. I ordered the challah bread. I got the regulation bagel.

I was so happy. It was a great experience. Ever since they've opened, they have sold out every single day by noon. The only day they haven't sold out was the day that I showed up at 7 a.m. I think they may have sold out before it closed, but it was like they went the whole day with bagels.

It was just a quiet day. The one day that I showed up an hour early, it wouldn't have mattered. I could have come later in the day. How were the line pleasantries? There was really a non-existent line. There were not great line pleasantries. You didn't talk to the other couple?

You didn't try to... I would have tried to push the regulation bagel. You'd be like, hey, have you guys been here before? I hear there's this thing called the regulation bagel that everybody's trying. Yeah, like a secret. I love when you order it in,

it comes in on the menu as secret regulation bagel is how it's categorized. It's fantastic. It's been awesome seeing people take photos with their regulation bagels. It's delicious. And yeah, it's great.

Not great line pleasantries, though. It was cold. I'd been there for like 40, 42 minutes just with shorts. It was just freezing. I was so cold. How'd the ankles hold up? You know, I got a little I kind of pulled I pulled something a little bit, but we were OK. We're fine.

I was worried. I was sitting in front like you kind of walk up to the store a little bit, but we were okay. We were fine. I was worried. I was sitting in front. Like you kind of walk up to the store and a person walked by with their dog and I thought they were going to go into the line. So I was like, fuck, I need to be in line. I want to be the first one in. And so I immediately shot up and twisted and I felt like a little tightness in the Achilles and I was like, I'm a fucking idiot, but I'm good.

I'm good. No issues. We're all fine. 100%. Push the marathon another six months. Andrew got up too fast to get a bagel I did not even to get a bagel to hold the line to maintain my status

in line is the first person that would go in oh Eric's got a good point uh Gabby pick uh five ooh one two three four okay here we go okay this one's still this is frozen as well no she uh fuck I'm so nervous We got the buff! We got the buff! The buff! Yes!

The buff! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh! Oh! I just feel like I won a I won a game of battleship You sank our panting Oh my god Andrew did not dodge the bomb Oh my god

That sucks so much Direct hit You did not dodge the ball. Oh my god. That sucks so much. Direct hit. That was a direct fucking hit, Gavin. Face brush and roulette. I'm going to take another bite. I drooled. I drooled on myself.

Fucking criminals. Who likes this? Nobody has it like that, you fool. Describe the taste. It's beefy. It's very beefy. It's very beefy. I'm going to put that on the pocket. jesus christ oh my god

i can taste it in my mouth that's what you taste things. No, but like it still is poignant. Oh my god. It's the taste hasn't left. It's still there. Nine out of ten for seven. What was this one? Negative six. That's, you can't.

No, it was bad. I just did. There's no way that's worse than frozen salad cream. We'll find out potentially. Oh, Jesus Christ. I think Nick's onto something. We should call it the, he put

it in chat, Freezy Beefy. We should call it the Freezy Beefy Bob Pop. Oh. Oh, my God. We should make a bunch and give them to kids at Halloween. No. I them to kids at Halloween. No! I need to see the picture.

I'm sending it right now. Yeah, please, please. Jesus Christ. It looks fizzy. I could have believed that would be the frozen soda. Yeah, it looks like a Coke. That's what I kind of thought when I could see it. I wasn't sure if it would be the frozen soda yeah it looks like a coke that's what i kind of thought when i could see it i wasn't sure if it would be frozen coke or bovril and i would probably

assume that that was the coke like a 50 50 draw oh oh god that was so bad oh if you need to be warmed up i know of a good drink you can have yeah maybe next time. Next episode. Stick that in the Keurig. Oh, my God. Well, that was amazing. Oh, Jesus. We still got four more to go. Yeah, I'll tell you what. I feel bad for you. Let me go ahead and...

Why don't you go ahead and eat number six? And then that'll wash the taste out of your mouth. Okay. This one's also frozen. Oh, that's a good one. That's gonna be refreshing. Mm-hmm. Oh, this is great.

There you go. That's cool. how the fuck what a great game I love dodge the boat so you had a good time in Europe Jeff I did I had a great time in the UK I did all the it was Emily's first time going so we did all the tourist stuff

and I did oh my god have you guys ever seen a musical oh they're pretty cool all the it was emily's first time going so we did all the tourist stuff and uh and i did uh saw oh my god have you guys ever seen a musical oh they're pretty cool um yeah i saw great i saw phantom of the opera uh because i found out that even though my girlfriend i've been dating for almost five years she had been harboring a secret uh that she had never had never admitted to me, and that secret was, she is the world's largest Andrew Lloyd Webber fan. And she can sing every song from every Andrew Lloyd Webber

musical. So the second she found out we were going to London, she got us tickets to see Phantom of the Opera, which I knew nothing about. Wow. Zero, zero about. And so now I know everything about it, i saw it was it about burn victim yeah it's about a burn victim in a hospital ward yeah and they uh no it's about a phantom who lives

in an opera house uh and haunts a play but there's this giant uh chandelier whole thing's about a chandelier basically uh and that's a big moment but at this theater which is the theater that originally it's like the i don't know what it's called like moment but at this theater which is the theater that originally it's like the i don't know what it's called like the queen victoria theater or some shit and it was uh it's played there every day since like 1984 uh she bought this like 60 vip experience and because we were the only people who got that experience probably because the play's been out for 106 years uh they gave us an upgrade and there's a little room off to the side's been out for 106 years. They gave us an upgrade, and there's a little room off to the side

that was built for Queen Victoria when she would go to plays. And then Lady Di apparently was a huge Phantom fan, and so that was the room she would hang out in. So we got to hang out in a little room off to the side by ourselves where it was like real gold on the walls and shit. And I got to use the same

toilet that Lady Diana used when she would go see Phantom of the Opera. Did you poo? No, I just peed. I want to be disrespectful to the crown so I just tinkered. Yeah, I have hung out in similar circles as

British royalty now. I've not seen a lot of musicals. I saw Cats, and it was a boring piece of shit. Mamma Mia was better. A movie? Are we talking movies? No, the musical. Okay, I'm just asking.

Mamma Mia was better because it had ABBA songs, but that was about it. I can't do ABBA. Not an ABBA fan? What's wrong with ABBA? I have a childhood memory associated to abba and i just can't i can't consume abba i've avoided abba my whole life it's just i think what that could be go ahead yeah would you uh would you like to i'm willing

to talk about it for sure if you want to do you want to guess uh you were at a wedding uh dancing queen came on no oh no it was is but uh there is a kid who threw a birthday party uh at school like he had his birthday party during class hours and he was very musical i don't know but he pulled it off and he was very musical he loved he loved singing and he decided to do a rendition of abba's golden or what was it eyes the eye song pretty eyes golden eyes what's the ABBA song golden eyes angel eyes that's what I was looking at is that there I just they say angel eyes a lot that's all I remember about it but but they did a performance of angel eyes in front of the entire class and it did not go well it was one of the most awkward uncomfortable

things i've ever had the witness that i felt terrible about and because of that whenever i hear abba i immediately just go to that memory and i just did awkward and uncomfortable so i've not been able to enjoy mamma mia might be tough for me i've avoided mamma mia because of that i don't know angel eyes by abba I think somebody, was Nick just posted a link to Angel Eyes? Yeah. I don't know if it's a hit. I'm not familiar really with their catalog because of that experience, but whenever I hear ABBA,

I get taken back to grade four? Grade four or five? Watching this rendition of Angel Eyes and just cringing. It did not go well. We gotta get you back into ABBA. We got to get an ABBA redemption for you.

If you give me an ABBA, I'm willing to try. Fernando is like a top 10 all time song. What is? Oh, Fernando? Yeah. Fernando. Yeah. Even that has been tainted.

It's unfortunate that ABBA has been tainted for me, but it's just I can't I can't get around it, or at least I haven't been able to yet. Great band, though. Just I can't can't do it. it or at least I haven't been able to yet great band though just I can't can't do it I don't think I've ever seen does it count if you watch like a streamed musical like I went to the theater and watched a streamed version of company when Colbert was I think the lead at that time but I've never been to like a proper musical like in the in in the place have you ever been to a musical jeff is this your first in-person music uh i've been to a lot of theater in my life but i don't think i've ever been to a musical before yeah i can't imagine the circumstances that would

have led me to see a musical by choice up until this moment so yeah i uh, this was my first time. I quite enjoyed it, though. That's great. So you're now open to going to more musicals? You're going to become a musical guy, potentially? No. No, for instance,

regular fan Jack found out we were going to see Phantom of the Opera and he said, oh, that's great. I'm going to go see the Back to the Future musical tomorrow. You should come with me. And I was like, it's not

going to happen. So no, I don't think so. I think it would be very specific to share the experience with my girlfriend and only a musical that she has vetted. I don't want to see Popcorn. That is, yeah, that's fair. I also feel like it's a different thing. I'm more interested

in seeing a musical that was crafted as a musical as opposed to anything that was adapted from a movie into a musical. It may be amazing, but it's just it's that I'm if I'm getting into musicals, I want to hit like the musical part first instead of. Yeah, well, to be fair, I think Phantom is a was a rendition of the old early 1900s movie that was based off a book. But it's I mean, I think that when you think of Phantom of the Opera, you think of this play. There are this. Yes. This Andrew Lloyd Webber. Absolutely. It's synonymous with it. So I think he kind of owns that story at this point. But I'll probably see like Les Mis. Like apparently

my my girlfriend's big on that one. So I'll probably have to have to sit through that at some point. That's not a bad one. I've only seen the movie but it was enjoyable yeah I've seen none of it so it'll be fresh for me I saw the first half of the Gerard Butler Phantom of the Opera I didn't finish it though I don't remember anything about it I walked out halfway through and went into Fat Albert that was playing at the time that was much more my speed and I had a much better time at fat albert keenan thompson's live action fat albert keenan thompson's gonna be the most mentioned person on this podcast i didn't even think about that i would imagine so yeah uh i wonder if somebody could go do and do a person count it'd be him coolio gets mentioned a lot oh we need to uh we need to

guess another for the previously on guy. That's a great point. I had that in my notes. Do you two have any questions you would like to ask before making your guess? Seeing a lot of comment leavers say it's like Caleb or Drew Saplin. It's neither of them. Neither of those. I don't think I've ever heard this voice before.

It sounds like someone from the West Coast. Okay. I mean, are you just stating that? Is that a question for me? Okay, you're speaking out loud. I sort of have forgotten the questions I've already asked about it. Yeah, it's rough doing this every couple weeks. All right, Gav, you go first.

Can I have an official question first? I don't know what that means. Yeah, of course, you can ask a question, and then you can make your guess. What season face are they a part of oh jesus christ you expect me to remember the catalog our absurd season system um we're in season four right now correct yeah uh-huh i would assume that they were in season two okay okay pretty early on but i feel like season two went on a long time i feel like that's covering a lot of ground season three was what three episodes so i don't even think it yeah uh

is it um roadmaster 74 i don't even... Who is Roadmaster74? I don't know. I remember Jeff saying it. No, it is not Roadmaster74. Jeff, do you have any questions? I mean, I would like to know who Roadmaster74 even fucking is and why I would have said that name.

I only know that name because you were saying... You were like, I'm going to say Roadmaster74. I'm going to keep saying his name, Roadmaster74 74 and then you immediately got his name wrong and like the next time you mentioned uh is it is it somebody who appeared on the uh the face christmas album no okay oh were they in fluke face can Can't ask two questions. You already asked. You asked earlier. Remind me to ask that next time.

Is it the person who, because I can now ask, so that was my question. Now can I make my guess? You can make your guess. I guess it's the person who played Gavin in the Fluke Face recording. That was a female voice?

That was a Welsh woman. Yeah, so that's a no. That's a no no I appreciate your shot damn I think you could argue that was the worst guess by far like as well I don't I don't think there's who's arguing

I was gonna say I feel like you asked the same question back to back or Gavin wasn't there's something we're one you guys you asked the same question back to back or Gavin wasn't. There's something where you guys both asked the same question. I think that was worse than that. No, that was one when Nick asked the same. Okay, that's what it was. Yeah. Because Nick missed it.

I have a question. But while Gavin's asking that question, why don't you go ahead and eat the fourth pop? Oh, yeah. Number four. Okay. Yeah. Jeff, while Andrew's eating that, you were a game of thrones fan right you read the books uh yeah no how do you how do you pronounce this name hold on

oh no that's anus targaryen okay no i don't remember that character from the show i don't either but that's i'm pretty sure that's anus yeah george r might have taken the piss yeah yeah well uh anus targaryen first of his name only of his name yeah it went uh according to this, went Aegon Targaryen, Anus Targaryen, and then back to Aegon Targaryen. This family tree's a mess. Oh, okay.

Isn't it non-frozen? I pulled it. That looks like sour cream. Oh, the smell. I just got hit with the smell. Oh, it's sour. Scoop it out. You're gonna have to spoon it.

I fucking hate you, Gavin. You're two for two on bad. No, Jeff picked that. Yeah, I picked that one. You did? I don't even... Okay, I apologize. I apologize.

You can still hate Gavin. That's fine. Okay, I guess I'll try to scoop it out. Yeah, yeah. Oh's fine. Okay. I guess I'll try to scoop it out. Yeah, yeah. Oh, God. Okay. It's like soft-serve salad cream. Is that Bats or a salad cream?

Oh, is that batter? It could be batter, but I think it's salad cream. It's pancake batter. Pancake batter. That's probably quite yummy then. Whoa. Whoa. Look, probably quite yummy then. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

The noises are different. Oh. This is gross, but it's not bad. Okay, where would you rate it? A one. Nine, negative six, and one. This is

gross, but it's not bad. Well, I would... The idea, once you mentally get past what you're doing, it's not the worst. So Jeff, still pick your good ones, then. Okay, that's a lot. You're welcome. We're not good.

Never mind. I retract everything I said. This is horrible. Oh. Is this the non-Frozen one? No. Oh, that's the Frozen one? So you have one and three left,

or your final two. Okay. Gav, why don't you take a guess? One. Okay. I fucking hate you so much this is the one that isn't this isn't frozen this has to be this has to be pulling one oh it's so gross it's so gross two for two baby thank you you're a good man oh okay i'm gonna i'm gonna take a photo

of on the bright side it'll get that batter out of your mouth. Oh, I don't know if that's a positive. I think I'd rather have the batter. Oh! Oh! Oh! It looks like tapioca pudding. Oh, that's so bad. It's so translucent at the edges.

Oh, it's horrendous. That's the salad cream. That's hideous. Oh. When were these frozen? Uh, yesterday. So this has been... That's been frozen all night? That's been frozen all night? And it looks like that?

All night. Oh god. Okay, well I guess I'm just gonna have some salad cream. Oh god. Without your salad. I gotta go. Should we end the process with him retching in the back? I don't think anyone's ever eaten those things in that order.

No, that's a world first, right? Andrew Patton is the first person in the history of the planet Earth to eat those ingredients in that state, in that order. Congratulations. That deserves to be in the Guinness Book of Gross Ass Records. And thank you

for listening to another episode of the face podcast uh hopefully as we outro you can continue to hear the dulcet sounds of andrew retching all over his bedroom uh if you want to go ahead and leave us a review or a rating believe it or not that shit matters and it helps. As I found out in the UK, there's a little over 7 billion people on Earth, Gavin. Most of them don't listen

to F*** Face, so if you have access to those 7 billion people, give them a gentle nudge. Let them know. We got salad cream frozen bomb pops. We got Bovril hot and cold. We got apples. We got salad cream frozen bomb pops. We got bovril hot and cold. We got apples. We got baseballs.

We got whatever you want. We make content out of it. And, yeah, Andrew, why don't you go ahead and play us out? Hey, guys. Minor League fan Jack here with a look at next week's episode of F*** Face. We still don't know who the previously on guy is. Let's talk about being John Malkovich. This podcast needs more shirts.

Patton goes on a rant about people dying in movies. Will we find out the fate of Jeff's Cosmic Crisp? And once again, Andrew does not eat the pencil. All that and more on next week's episode of F*** Face.