Who Are You? // Regulation Supplemental
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[0:00:15] Andrew: Hello and welcome to another piece of supplemental content. I got a new show, a new idea for you guys. We're going to play a new game. I'm excited to see how this goes. This could be a disaster. This could be great. We'll find out. There's probably going to be adjustments as we do these, if we even do more of them. But I think it has a chance to be a lot of fun. We are playing a thing I'm calling, Who Are You? How are you guys feeling about this? You have no idea. I haven't explained anything to you.
[0:00:44] Eric: I don't feel anything. Hi, it's me, Eric. I'm here with Geoff and Nick and Andrew is hosting. Who are you?
[0:00:51] Andrew: Who are you? So, yesterday, I sent out a series of questions to all of you guys that you would have opinions on. And you sent me answers. And I compiled them. So, how this game works is there are two players. And the players in this episode are going to be Eric and Geoff. You are the players. Okay. Now, there's going to be a third role that you're going to play, Nick, called the interviewer. And this is something that the audience can kind of play along as they listen. So, the goal of the game is, is I am going to read one of the things I asked. So, one of the things was, what is a movie you love? I will read, what is a movie you love? And then I will give an answer that was submitted that somebody picked. And the idea was, these are things you don't necessarily associate or think the other guys know about you. Now, I will say it, and which, once I finish, Eric and Geoff, you will immediately begin trying to convince Nick that this is an opinion you have. Now, maybe it is an opinion you have, but Nick, you need to determine if it is so much of an opinion they have that they would write it as their answer to this question.
[0:01:57] Andrew: Now, you have the ability as the interviewer, Nick, to ask five questions throughout this process. Then, you will have to make a decision. Is this Eric's answer? Is he being truthful? Is it Geoff's answer? Or, is it Gavin or I's? Is it neither of them? They're both pretending.
[0:02:16] Eric: It might not even be one of ours. This is great.
[0:02:19] Andrew: And we're going to keep track of all the points. Everyone's going to cycle through. And at the end of everyone getting a chance to be the interviewer with all the accommodations, we will reveal the final score. We'll do episode-by-episode scoring as well. But this isn't over until everyone's gone through the maximum interview process. Keep track of that. Is there anything I'm missing? You ask questions. Do you guys have any questions? So, Nick is the only person scoring today. You can get... Okay. Thank you. That is what I was going to explain. If Nick... That is game rules. If Nick... Let's say, Geoff, it's not yours, but you convince Nick that it is, you get a point if he incorrectly picks you.
[0:02:58] Geoff: Okay.
[0:02:59] Andrew: Oh! Nick, if you pick correctly, you get a point. And if you're both truthful, if you get truth on the person, you both get points. Got it.
[0:03:11] Geoff: So, if I say my favorite food is pizza and then Nick picks me for pizza, we both get a point.
[0:03:18] Andrew: You both get a point. Yeah. Okay. And Nick, you can also... There will be, as I said, responses that are not either Geoff or Eric or whoever the players are, and you would have to pick a third one. In that case, you would just get a point by yourself. So, that would increase your own score. We'll see. I think it'll be fun by the end of this to see, like, who gets the most as the interviewer. We'll balance it out so the points make sense throughout these episodes. Any questions before we begin? You said five questions. Is that of each of them or all together? All together. You get five questions, so you have to be... And you have to pick who you're asking.
[0:03:51] Geoff: So, he could choose to not... Like, if he thinks he knows right off the bat, he doesn't have to ask a question. He could bank and ask three questions on the same one. Exactly. Okay.
[0:04:00] Andrew: Well, it's every round. Sorry. So, I'll do one. He'll get five. Okay.
[0:04:03] Eric: So, remember when you asked that question and then he gave you an answer? The answer is actually the opposite of what he said.
[0:04:08] Andrew: Yeah. Sorry. Got it. I was compiling something, and then I realized I misheard what you said.
[0:04:14] Eric: Welcome to Regulation Podcast. You almost got the answer you were looking for the first time. Nearly.
[0:04:20] Andrew: Listen, but it was immediately correct, and it wasn't a fight. That was on me. I acknowledged that. No, totally fine. Totally fine. We ready to begin the game of who are you? Yep. I'm nervous. Let's do it. Okay. A movie I love is The Mummy. Eric and Jeff begin. Immediately, that's me.
[0:04:40] Geoff: Do I just let Eric talk, and then I go?
[0:04:42] Eric: No, you can interject as much as you want. Hey, Nick. You have the floor. Hey, Nick. Listen to how Jeff didn't even chime in. Yeah, I just don't know when I'm... I just didn't know what the decorum was. It's because if he tells you that The Mummy is his, he's a liar, because I wrote The Mummy.
[0:04:58] Andrew: Oh. I just know decorum. Jeff, you feel free to interject as much as you want. See, and again, see how he's not jumping in, because The Mummy's not his?
[0:05:06] Geoff: I don't. I just... I have trouble lying to Nick. I have so much respect for him. It feels weird.
[0:05:14] Unidentified: I gotta be honest. I'm not The Mummy. Oh, okay. All right. Well, that is helpful. Yeah. Unless I'm trying to trick him. But why would you... You would get a point.
[0:05:23] Eric: Again, so Nick, we could just save everyone a lot of time.
[0:05:30] Andrew: What? What? Now, here's the thing you need to evaluate, Nick. Is Eric being truthful?
[0:05:35] Nick: Well, yeah. That's... Yeah, that's...
[0:05:38] Geoff: I think I know whose answer that is, and it's not Eric's.
[0:05:42] Eric: I don't understand what... I don't get what Jeff's plan is here. Is it...
[0:05:48] Andrew: Other than he... I have a great plan. Don't worry. I'm on it. Is Jeff... Now, you have to consider, Nick. Is Jeff being honest, or is he trying to prevent Eric from getting a point, if he thinks that that's true?
[0:06:00] Eric: It sounds like he's trying to prevent Eric from getting a point, and saying, hey, it's
[0:06:04] Andrew: The Mummy, so that way we both get a point. Or is Jeff actually helping you, Nick, and trying to get you a point by not picking Eric? Yeah, it's not...
[0:06:13] Geoff: It's definitely not Eric, and it's not a movie he would have picked. It's not an Eric-style movie.
[0:06:17] Eric: Is it The Mummy? An Indiana Jones... Like, it is an Indiana Jones adventure with Brendan Fraser that scares me, and I think about to this day with the scarabs. Oh, my God. Are you kidding me?
[0:06:28] Geoff: Brendan Fraser.
[0:06:29] Eric: Eric watches... Who else is in it?
[0:06:31] Geoff: Eric watches Speed over and over again. He's not watching The Mummy over and over again.
[0:06:33] Eric: I watch... I think I watch Speed. So, what's going... Are you Meg, where you think that, like, somebody saw Speed one time three months ago, and you watch Speed every day. Were you insane?
[0:06:43] Geoff: You said every time it's on TV, you stop and watch it. So, Eric, name some of the other cast.
[0:06:49] Eric: Oh, Rachel Weisz is in it. Okay. Uh, you have a guy who looks like Billy Zane, but he's not. That's not Billy Zane. You think it is, and pretty much almost my whole life I thought it was, and then when I was probably, like, 22, I was like, people... I'm like, yeah, dude, Billy Zane in The Mummy, and they're like, he's not in The Mummy. I'm like, yeah, he's The Mummy. And they went, no, he's not. And, uh, it's, uh, a guy that looks just like him. I don't know his name.
[0:07:19] Nick: Okay.
[0:07:20] Geoff: Guy who looks like The Mummy.
[0:07:22] Nick: I'm kidding. It's me. I like The Mummy.
[0:07:24] Eric: This is ridiculous.
[0:07:25] Nick: That's just... Okay, well, Jeff, I'm gonna direct my questions towards Eric. I'm sorry. Um, uh, Eric, do you remember the name of the little squirrely guy who gets stuck on the other side of the river?
[0:07:36] Eric: Uh, is it... Oh, was that John? See, you don't... You don't know because you didn't put The Mummy.
[0:07:43] Geoff: John's a fucking fake-ass name.
[0:07:45] Andrew: No, I will say, Nick, you don't have to ask all five questions. If you make a decision beforehand, you can just lock it in, but you have three more.
[0:07:53] Nick: I'm leaning a certain way. Eric, how many objects had to be obtained before he got his full power? Four.
[0:08:02] Eric: You're interesting. Nick, Nick, I don't, Nick, I don't want to sack you on what you're doing or whatever. You should, should ask questions that you know the answer to.
[0:08:12] Nick: Why? I know the answer. That's why I'm, I'm humming to myself. Let me see. I've decided, Andrew, that it was not Eric or Jeff.
[0:08:22] Andrew: Okay. I will note that and then I will reveal at the end of the episode who was right and what was wrong.
[0:08:29] Nick: Oh, I'm feeling very confident in my decision right now. I'm so confident. This game's great. This is burger confidence, baby. But I'm not putting a pencil in the line, that's for sure. Is that good? No, I don't know.
[0:08:44] Andrew: Now I'm scared. We're doing this category again. Okay. Another movie. Okay. A movie I love, Mission Impossible 3.
[0:08:52] Geoff: It's my movie. My favorite fucking action movie, Mission Impossible 3. The movie I lost my car to Gavin over because I got Kerry Russell wrong. This is the movie that has two or three of the best moments. And no, actually three of the best moments in the history of film. When they break into the Vatican and Ving Ring pops up and he sees Mission Impossible there, Tom Cruise, and he goes, what's up with you? And he goes, nothing. What's up with you? And he goes, nothing. And then when they go to break into the Burj Khalifa or whatever, and they're like, all right, here's the plan. We're going to go in. And then the next scene, it cuts to just hear him on the walkie-talkie going, I'm not going to make the extraction point. I'm not going to make the extraction point. And he jumps out the fucking building and you have no idea what happened inside of that building. We still don't get to know. My mind has been wondering what that, I want a movie just out of what happened in that building. And I bet you it'd be two hours of fucking kick-ass Tom Cruise action. And then at the end, when his wife, the Monaghan lady, when he's there, like sitting there after the long running scene, and he's like, if you don't, he needs to her to fucking shock him to death. And he's like, if you don't kill me, I'm going to die, which is the coolest thing I've
[0:09:55] Geoff: ever heard anybody say. That's why I picked that movie.
[0:09:57] Eric: Hey, Nick, let me make this easy for you. That's Andrew's favorite movie. Huh?
[0:10:02] Nick: That's an interesting strategy that you've employed there, Eric.
[0:10:05] Eric: I'm letting you know, Jeff simply remembers it because of the Gavin bet. It's not his favorite movie. It's a movie he remembers, kind of. It is Andrew's favorite movie.
[0:10:17] Nick: So the category is definitely favorite movie, not a movie that you love.
[0:10:20] Geoff: No, it was a movie that other people might not associate with you, is what I was told. Okay. Otherwise, I would have picked Harold and Maude or Empire Strikes Back, but I feel like I've said both of those many times in content.
[0:10:32] Eric: I will say he said he's talked about Mission Impossible 3 so much in content.
[0:10:37] Nick: Jeff, how could you have such a warm memory and make it your favorite movie when it's something that cost you your car? Because Gavin and I have fake bets all day long. And he doesn't have a driver's license, so he can't use it. That's a fair point. Could he repo it? That's not a question. I'm not asking that. Jeff, what was the item that Philip Seymour Hoffman's character was after in the movie?
[0:11:01] Geoff: He was after the football or the briefcase or whatever the fuck they call it. You never really know what it is for most of the movie, but I think it was some sort of a nerve agent in a canister.
[0:11:13] Nick: Andrew? Yes. I've made my decision.
[0:11:16] Andrew: You've made your decision? Okay. I've made my decision.
[0:11:19] Nick: Or Nick? It was neither of these two.
[0:11:22] Andrew: Neither of them? Okay.
[0:11:23] Nick: Mm-hmm.
[0:11:24] Andrew: We are moving on to the next category. Movie I hate. Now, this is an interesting one. Now, the movie that Nick picked for his hated movie was picked by somebody else as well. Oh! Wow. So, Nick, you're going to have to determine who hates this to the point in which they'd list it as much as you do. My hated movie is Napoleon Dynamite.
[0:11:52] Geoff: That's my pick. Fucking Napoleon Dynamite is a Jack Petillo special. I was working with him when that movie came out. I love Jack to death, but much like he did with Breaking Bad, he just talked it to death. He was obsessed with that Uncle Rico dude because he was in a movie called Pinballs from the early 80s, and for a brief period of time when he was in, like, not interning, but working with Rooster Teeth before he worked with us full-time. He acquired the license to that film and was trying to get a remake made, and he supposedly had that guy, Uncle Rico or Johnny Rico, whatever the fuck his name was, the guy that threw the football, to agree to be in the movie already, and he was just trying to find funding for it. And so there was, like, a year and a half where all I heard about was Napoleon Dynamite, and I didn't like the movie to begin with, but it really wore me down. So that's why.
[0:12:42] Eric: Nick, we're around the same age, and I did not know that you hated Napoleon Dynamite the same way that I do. It was, you couldn't escape it in high school. Everyone wearing the stupid fucking t-shirt and quoting every stupid line from that movie, genuinely, this is my most despised film of all time. I have tried to watch it two times, and both times I'm going, I can't believe that anyone fucking made this. I can't believe anybody's watching this. Is this a low-budget joke being pulled on me? I genuinely despise Napoleon Dynamite, and I hate what it, I hate what it did for movies after it, because it just became, dude, if you put on a vote for Pedro shirt, that's a reference. And then this fucking John Hedder guy, never in anything else that was, like, worthwhile, he, he's, what, in Blades of Glory? Get real. And Benchormers. Napoleon Dynamite sucks shit. I agree with Jeff, if it's a Jack Fatillo special, that really, that really adds another layer for me, but dude, I cannot stand, genuinely, despise that movie.
[0:13:52] Eric: I'm, honestly, I'm so excited to talk to you next week about how we both hate that movie when we record 100% Heat, because I didn't know you hated this movie also, and this fucking rules. Yes, I'm very excited, I'm so excited, as a hater, as a hater, I'm so excited to talk to you about this.
[0:14:08] Geoff: I can't believe, Nick, I'm not particularly excited to talk to you about how much I hate Napoleon Dynamite, because we just did it, and I don't want to give it any more oxygen, but I will say it was a tough decision between that movie and anything Edgar Wright has directed.
[0:14:20] Eric: Oh, I get that. Oh, interesting. Nick, I want you to know that as a hater, all I want to do is use oxygen on talking about how much I hate this fucking movie.
[0:14:28] Nick: God, this one, this is so much tougher than the other two, let me tell you, because... Oh, talk about something you love versus talk about something you hate, you got it. So believable, because one, you're both in on it, two, totally believable about Jack, I heard him talk about Breaking Bad, I know how you felt, and then, on the other side, Eric, you are my age, I know how you feel about things like this, and the question basically is, I believe you both do not like that movie, I do not know that if it's obviously one of your... Most hated movie.
[0:15:00] Eric: Yeah, it is my most hated movie. It is genuinely my most... I'm so excited that you listed it also, this fucking rocks. I'm so excited.
[0:15:08] Geoff: The only reason I picked it, Nick, is because I hate that driving movie he did, Edgar Wright, equally as much as the stupid ex-girlfriend movie, and I couldn't... If he had only directed one of those, I probably would have picked it, but because they kind of canceled each other out, which is why I picked Napoleon Dynamite.
[0:15:26] Nick: Interesting, interesting. Actually, Eric, what would you, if you couldn't have picked this, what would you have picked as your least or your most hated movie?
[0:15:34] Eric: I don't, I genuinely don't know, because it, this was the movie that when I read it, and it said, what's a movie you hate? Napoleon Dynamite was the only thing that came to mind. I don't know that I have another movie that is on this level or even approaching it.
[0:15:51] Nick: I do believe it's the one of the two of you, because I think that, I think Andrew is ambivalent to it, and I'll bet Gavin enjoyed it.
[0:15:58] Eric: I think, I bet, see, here's the thing. Age-wise, I bet Gavin saw it, and it was sort of like, whatever. I think Andrew probably enjoyed it, and I don't fault him for that, because he's not wearing a Pedro shirt. But, um, man.
[0:16:13] Nick: Or he never saw it.
[0:16:14] Eric: You don't think so?
[0:16:15] Nick: From Pedro. I don't, I don't think he did, no. It is an election year. How many times, how many times have you tried to watch it? Two times. Right? And I've never finished it. I've never finished it.
[0:16:25] Eric: Dude, you just, you get to a point where you go, hey, enough's enough of this.
[0:16:30] Nick: God, I, I don't even know what to ask, because this is like, I feel, I feel like a real camaraderie with you two right now. Like, a real kill. So I'm gonna go off of brain power here, okay? I'm putting it out in the universe, and I'm sorry, Jeff, but I'm picking Eric. I think this is Eric's least favorite.
[0:16:47] Geoff: Hey, man, it's your, it's your mistake.
[0:16:49] Nick: That's okay.
[0:16:50] Geoff: You don't want a final at the end of this thing, you don't get one.
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[0:17:41] Andrew: Love the way. Next category. Same question type. Different movie. My hated movie is Armageddon.
[0:17:50] Geoff: This is my most hated movie. I don't really even know what to say about it, other than I don't, I didn't like Ben Affleck. I'm not really a big, I don't think I like anybody in the film, actually. Except for Bruce Willis. I thought the premise was dumb. I thought Deep Impact was a better, more cerebral version of it. Everybody liked it. And I'm not even going to really spend a lot of time trying to convince you. I just fucking hated that film. I really did.
[0:18:16] Eric: Nick, I want to save you time here. It's not Jeff's.
[0:18:20] Geoff: It is mine. All right, so. I just, I just spent so much time lying about Napoleon Dynamite because I don't have the energy to be truthful about Armageddon.
[0:18:31] Eric: See, that's why I'm telling you, you can't trust this guy. That's what I'm saying. You gotta, you gotta trust me here. But he's playing the game, I understand. Yeah. I got it. Exactly, he's right. We all know he's playing the game.
[0:18:41] Geoff: The thing where he, like, does the animal cracker across Liv Tyler's stomach with his stupid Australian accent, it makes me, oh, I fucking hate that film. I hate the soundtrack. I hate Aerosmith. I don't know if you guys know that about me. I've never liked Aerosmith. I find them to be really, disgusting is not the right word. That's too mean. But just like, just icky. I don't like them. It bugs me. And they were so imbued with that stupid film. And every asshole, I was in the army when that movie came out, and every asshole in the army was fucking gung-ho about it and thought it was super cool. And so it just plagued me.
[0:19:20] Eric: So, again, I'm just going to be really clear, it's not Jeff's.
[0:19:25] Nick: Well, let me ask you this then, Eric. Whose would it be?
[0:19:28] Eric: I think it's, boy, I want to say it's Gavin's. It wouldn't surprise me if it was Andrew's. But it's definitely not Jeff's.
[0:19:35] Geoff: If you don't pick me here, you're giving Eric a point, I think.
[0:19:40] Eric: No, I don't think he gets anything.
[0:19:41] Geoff: Oh, okay. In that case, no. Yeah. Then I don't know why he would be trying to dissuade you from scoring. It's definitely me.
[0:19:48] Eric: It's definitely not Jeff.
[0:19:49] Geoff: The only reason I was able to bitch so much about Napoleon Dynamite is because I would have picked that movie had it come to my mind. I'm different than Eric. I hate lots of stuff. And I can call 30 movies to mind. Yeah, you know me. I'm a serial liker. Yeah, you know how much I like shit. I'm not a guy who's like, what's a movie you hate? And I'm like, oh, I can only think of one. I can think of volumes of films that I hate. Napoleon Dynamite didn't come to mind, but Armageddon did. And so that's the one I picked.
[0:20:18] Eric: If this was really Jeff's, he wouldn't be able to.
[0:20:20] Geoff: It'd be an Edgar Wright film.
[0:20:22] Eric: If this was really Jeff's, it would be with so much more fervor that he hates it.
[0:20:28] Geoff: I'm just tired. It's 100% mine. I picked Armageddon. Nick, dude, I'm telling you, fucking buddy to buddy, basketball fan to basketball fan. If you pick me here, we're both going to get a point.
[0:20:40] Eric: Jeff likes Armageddon. I think Jeff likes Armageddon.
[0:20:42] Geoff: I get nothing for tricking you, do I? Yeah, you do. You get a point. Oh, well, I'm not trying to trick you. I'm trying to get his book a point.
[0:20:51] Eric: So he's trying to trick you, and I'm telling you, it's like, oh, that was the trick.
[0:20:55] Geoff: Well, why wouldn't Eric get a point? Well, Eric gets a point for tricking him?
[0:20:58] Andrew: Well, no, he's, Eric is not trying to convince him that it's his pick. He's trying to say that it's nobody's.
[0:21:04] Geoff: Oh, right, right, right. Well, I'm trying to convince you that it's my pick because it is. It was not Napoleon Dynamite. Although I wish I'd thought of it because I do hate that movie as much as Armageddon and as much as Edgar Wright films and as much as a bunch of other films I could list. Hurley Burley, I left the theater in. I couldn't get through fucking 20 minutes of that film. But that didn't come to mind either. It was just Armageddon.
[0:21:26] Nick: Now, my concern here, Jeff, is that you mentioned if you hadn't thought of Napoleon Dynamite, you'd have gone with an Edgar Wright film.
[0:21:32] Geoff: Yeah, because I thought I was just trying to come up with shit to convince you. I do hate Edgar Wright. I do hate Edgar Wright, and I wish I would have thought I really hate that Scott Pilgrim movie. And then I couldn't. And I actually thought in my head, I think I hate Scott Pilgrim more than Napoleon Dynamite. So how do I? I had to justify it to myself by saying, well, I hate the baby driver movie as much as I hate Scott Pilgrim. So they cancel each other out so I could pick the Napoleon Dynamite. But that's all subterfuge because I really wrote down Armageddon. Andrew, Andrew, I've made my decision. You've made your choice, Nick. It is neither of these two gentlemen. You are fucking up, dude.
[0:22:06] Eric: Good choice, Nick. Thanks, man.
[0:22:10] Geoff: Nick, you really fucked up.
[0:22:11] Eric: I'm so excited to talk to you about Napoleon Dynamite next week. You have no idea. I'm so fucking thrilled. I'm so excited.
[0:22:17] Geoff: You might have picked right there, but you fucked up on this one. I have no idea if that's Eric or not, but Armageddon was me.
[0:22:25] Andrew: Oh, well. Oh, no, it wasn't. A song I love is any song by Madonna.
[0:22:31] Geoff: That's me as well. I am a Madonna music unapologist. I love all of her music, her entire catalog. I considered getting a Madonna tattoo for the longest time. I thought that would be really funny. And then she got Instagram, and it changed my mind. Instagram Madonna, I'm not as into, but Madonna's music, I absolutely love. I grew up with her. I got one of my first ever boners to the Like A Version live performance that she did at the MTV Music Awards back when I was like the age where I could first start popping boners. I have been enamored with her since Lucky Star, which is the first Madonna song I ever heard. I have the Immaculate Collection. I beat off to the sex book in high school. I've been a Madonna fan my entire life. Oh, God.
[0:23:23] Andrew: I regret asking this question.
[0:23:29] Eric: Eric, what's your response? That's absolutely vile. I listed this because everything before 2003, Madonna is good. American Life is the last album that I think that you could really listen to all the way through and be like, oh, okay, because she started going Confessions on the Dance Floor, and it's too throwback. When you have Ray of Light in 98, here's the thing, Nick. Again, we're around the same age. VH1, gigantic in that time, an adult contemporary with Ray of Light and everything that she did around that time is huge. And so what happens there is you go back and you listen to True Blue, her first album.
[0:24:05] Geoff: He is just making shit up right now to justify. He's just talking Madonna, but he's not talking about why he likes Madonna. I'm telling you why I picked Madonna, because I love Madonna, because I have been in love with Madonna since I was able to be in love with women. And she was like, she was the coolest. She was the Lady Gaga of her era. And my entire life, Madonna has been, up until very recently, has been like at the top of her game. And I have been a fan the entire time. I fucking stayed up to watch the stupid, what was the Pepsi commercial video that caused so much trouble? What was that? Where she kissed Jesus and Jesus was black and everybody got upset. I even stayed up late on a Sunday night to watch that. I've been such a Madonna fan my entire life. I wish I got that tattoo now.
[0:24:55] Eric: Nick, here's some examples. What I'm telling you is that Madonna is someone that has been in the zeitgeist for so long that I'm tweeting about Madonna. I'm telling you that Carly Rae Jepsen is just Madonna for people that never listened to her first album, that don't know physical attraction, holiday, burning up in borderline. I don't think that's right at all. Jeff is going to talk about, oh yeah, Lucky Star. Wow, cool, man. The first song on the first album. Deep cut.
[0:25:26] Geoff: Yeah, since the fucking first day I've been a Madonna fan.
[0:25:28] Eric: Grow up and listen to bedtime stories, stupid ho. You got to get deep on this shit. When I'm saying anything by Madonna, I mean secret human nature for Ben Love Sanctuary.
[0:25:42] Geoff: I'll tell you something right now. Deep cut shit. Eric would have picked a song or an album. I picked a whole catalog. He wouldn't have done that. He's too specific and he's too persnickety about it. Eric would have told you a song. He would have just said, this song by Madonna. I picked her entire catalog because I love Madonna. Anything by Madonna is what I said.
[0:26:01] Nick: Now, I'm not even going to ask a question. And here's why. You're both very passionate. So I believe that it's one of the two of you. However, since the answer was all Madonna songs or like anything by Madonna, I think Eric's saying anything after 2003, not to be as big a fan of. I'm going to go with Jeff on this one. All right. That is your decision? You blew it. That is my decision. All right. I'm glad you guys aren't revealing it to me because it's really making me sweat. Yeah. Well, you should pick right.
[0:26:29] Eric: I don't know what to tell you.
[0:26:30] Geoff: I agree with Eric. You got to start picking right.
[0:26:32] Eric: Dude, Borderline is maybe one of the best songs ever fucking written. And you pick Jeff. Get real.
[0:26:41] Geoff: It's because he knows the right answer.
[0:26:43] Andrew: Next category. A song I hate is Hurt So Good.
[0:26:51] Geoff: I don't even know what that song. Hurt So Good. I can't even lie.
[0:26:57] Eric: Come on, baby. Make it hurt so good. Exactly. John Mellencamp. Hey, we're going to call you John Cougar Mellencamp. What a fucking dipshit. You talk about a guy who's been around for too long and it was only a short amount of time. It's John Cougar Mellencamp. Hurt So Good sucks shit. I fucking hate that song. I think that song. Here's the problem with that song. It's a karaoke staple and it fucking shouldn't be. The problem with karaoke songs is that it's like, oh, yeah, you got to pick stuff that people know and everything. Great. Pick Jack and Diane. Pick anything that isn't. Pick R-O-C-K in the USA. Pick anything that isn't fucking Hurt So Good. John Cougar Mellencamp sucks shit. That's the dirt worst fucking song in the world. It's not me.
[0:27:57] Geoff: I can't pretend not to like that song. I couldn't even call it to my mind when I was thinking of it. So it could be Eric. I don't know. I will say I've never heard anybody sing that song in karaoke and I've heard a lot of karaoke. I don't know why. I don't know why he he brought the karaoke part up.
[0:28:13] Eric: Look at this motherfucker. I hate. I hate this. It's the fakest bullshit. Oh, I hate it. Fuck. Look it.
[0:28:24] Nick: Oh, he sucks. Now, I'm fairly in tune with Eric's music taste because I'm also a big fan of Yacht Rock and, you know, newer stuff I'll give a chance to. But this song I also despise. So I am leaning towards Eric at the moment. But I would like to know, Eric, where, if you had to pick any other song that you hated off the top of your head right now, just without hesitating, what is it?
[0:28:47] Eric: Sweet Caroline.
[0:28:49] Nick: Fuck. That's a good song. It's you.
[0:28:50] Eric: See? Like, Nick, these are songs that are drunk karaoke staples that suck shit. These are. Well, they sucked when they started. Exactly. That's the problem. And Hurt So Good is the type of song.
[0:29:06] Geoff: I still have never heard anybody sing that in karaoke.
[0:29:09] Eric: Hurt So Good is a drunk mom karaoke song where she knows the chorus and none of the verse.
[0:29:16] Nick: Yep. Uh-huh. That's it. I'm going with Eric, Andrew. I'm going with Eric.
[0:29:21] Andrew: Your choice is Eric.
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[0:30:08] Andrew: Love the way. Next category, TV show I love. Ooh.
[0:30:14] Unidentified: Interesting.
[0:30:15] Andrew: Friends. This is me. I picked this because I-
[0:30:19] Eric: I'm just going to let Jeff wear himself out so that way I can actually talk about this. Go ahead.
[0:30:23] Geoff: I picked this. I'm just going to be honest with you. I'll just get out of the way real quick and then Eric can yell and scream and talk for a long time and say very little. But what I'm going to say is, once again, Andrew asked me to pick a show that I like that people don't think I like. And I have a bit of an embarrassing admission. I have always considered myself a Seinfeld guy. And I have always kind of shit on Friends. But it's because I never really watched it until I met Emily. And she is kind of quietly a big Friends fan. And so it's always kind of been on in the background. And I discovered begrudgingly over the past seven years that it was a pretty good show. And I don't like to talk about it because I don't want Bernie and Matt and Gavin specifically to make fun of me for all the years I shit-talked it to them. So I wrote that down. It is me. And that's all I'm going to say. I'll answer any questions you want. But I wouldn't say I'm like the biggest fan in the world of it or anything. I just- I'm embarrassed. But I feel like if we're going to be embarrassed, we should admit it on camera.
[0:31:24] Geoff: That's kind of what we do here. So I am a late-in-life Friends fan thanks to my wife, Emily.
[0:31:30] Eric: I own the cassette. From Marcel the Monkey to Ms. Chanandler Bong, Friends is probably one of my favorite TV shows. And I don't really care that people know or not. I loved watching Friends when it first aired. Again, again, around the same age, Nick. Way too young to be watching Friends. Still watched it all the time. I love Friends. Again, I own the cassette. Has a- Has, I think, a Bare Naked Ladies song on it. Or maybe two. And it is. Shouldn't have owned it. Shouldn't have watched the show at the tender age of probably nine. I don't think that the last season is very good. I guess the last two with Paul Rudd. Those suck shit. But the rest of it, I think it's great. I think through the first five seasons, Friends is such a strong TV show. It's great. It is me. I really wish I still had this cassette.
[0:32:29] Geoff: Just remember, Nick, it can't be Eric every time. There are four other answers out there.
[0:32:33] Eric: It's true. But you also have to think about how Andrew is gaming this thing to kind of screw with your head.
[0:32:39] Nick: Oh, yeah. It is. Let me tell you. It is.
[0:32:41] Eric: So, how many seasons did the show run, Eric? Ten. Remember the last season where they're all making over a million because they weren't going to do it? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[0:32:51] Nick: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[0:32:52] Eric: What was your favorite arc, Eric? Remember when it's the end of season, boy, is it the end of season two or the end of season three, where Ben Stiller's wife is in it as Bonnie, and then she's dating Ross, and they go to the beach, and then Rachel convinces her to shave her head. It's the sort of like Ross, Rachel, oh, he's her lobster, like that kind of thing. I think that's probably like my favorite end of the season, beginning of the season moment with that. Also, I like when Ross had the pants.
[0:33:23] Nick: Oh, yeah.
[0:33:24] Eric: The leather pants, and he tries to pull them up, and he hits himself in the face. That's funny.
[0:33:28] Nick: Jeff, what was your favorite, outside of that one, so you can't pick that one, if you could, what is your next favorite arc in the show?
[0:33:35] Geoff: Oh, dude, I can't sit. I couldn't name you an arc for Seinfeld or Friends right now. It's a TV show that's on in the background that when I look at, I enjoy, and I get like dumb laughs at. I guess I, yeah, I don't really know. I don't, like, I'll be honest, I didn't even know that Paul Rudd was in the show. I may not have seen those seasons, so it's just kind of like, it's just kind of like a background show for me. She watches Veep, and she watches Friends, and so it's always one of those two shows. I like Veep a lot. I also probably couldn't tell you any Veep storylines, because it's not something I, like, sit down and focus on. I definitely didn't own a tape like Eric or anything, but it's just a show that I told people I hated, and I hated it because I'd never seen it, and then I watched it, you know, begrudgingly, and I like it. I don't like it enough to remember fucking whole seasons or anything, though.
[0:34:22] Eric: Hey, remember when Chandler was in the ATM vestibule with Jill Goodacre?
[0:34:26] Nick: Oh, yeah. I was going to ask you what your favorite cameo is, but I don't think I'm going to ask you that. It's probably that. It's that or it's Janice. You also mentioned Paul Rudd. Yeah. Oh, Janice.
[0:34:33] Eric: I think Janice coming back over and over again. That's pretty good. Tag. Tag sucked. I hated Tag. He was boring. Oh, he was the worst. Yeah, he was boring. Too young. Yeah.
[0:34:41] Nick: Big time. Yeah. Yeah. Now, here's my issue. I know, I believe, didn't Gavin have, like, DVDs of this or something? He's a huge Friends fan. Huge Friends fan. But he's, but he, so I don't think he would say, I'm a friend of this, I'm a fan of this show on a question that says secretly, right? Yeah, I agree. He wouldn't just.
[0:35:04] Geoff: It's too obvious. It's the first show that comes to mind when you think, Gavin.
[0:35:08] Nick: And I don't, I don't, and I don't remember Andrew ever talking about it. He may have been probably too young for it because, like Eric said, you and I were too young for it at the time.
[0:35:16] Geoff: I've definitely heard Andrew talk about Friends before, for sure.
[0:35:19] Eric: Is that right? I think so. I think so. Andrew, who's your favorite Friends character? I like Ross, but I'm not part of this game. Hell yeah.
[0:35:27] Nick: I mean, you are, in a way, part of this game.
[0:35:29] Eric: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, think about it, Nick. Everyone's favorite character, Ross.
[0:35:35] Nick: Yeah, Ross. Yeah, everybody. David Schwimmer. Hey, he was good in Band of Brothers.
[0:35:42] Eric: Remember when Padgett Brewster was in it, and that's when Joey and Chandler stopped being friends? And then Chandler had to be inside the box?
[0:35:48] Geoff: He's just going to wear you down reciting shit that he's remembering or Googling right now.
[0:35:53] Nick: Well, here's the other thing. I'm also worried that it's a TikTok trend that he went through at a certain point.
[0:35:58] Eric: No, that's Mad Men.
[0:35:59] Nick: I know Mad Men popped through, and I also know that The Sopranos did as well. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. No, that's the new one.
[0:36:07] Geoff: I will say we haven't watched Friends in a while because Emily's been watching Sopranos so much, but we're past that. Now it's West Wing.
[0:36:13] Nick: Oh, walk and talk, baby. Jeff, I don't think it's you.
[0:36:21] Eric: Okay. I also don't think it's Jeff.
[0:36:24] Nick: I don't think Gavin would put that unless he was just phoning it in. So I'm going to go with Eric. I think it's Eric. Hell yeah. Good pick. I think you're picking Eric.
[0:36:36] Eric: Yeah. The only thing I didn't watch was The Reunion. I didn't feel like we needed to watch The Reunion.
[0:36:41] Geoff: You fucked up on a lot of these, par for the course.
[0:36:43] Eric: Oh, all right.
[0:36:43] Andrew: Thanks, man. The last question before we start revealing these results. A TV show that I hate? Friends.
[0:36:53] Geoff: Goddamn, you're picking me every time. It is me. I can't fucking stand Friends. I've never seen it. I don't like it. Bernie and Gavin and Matt fucking were so up its ass for so long. I'm a Seinfeld guy. I made up everything I said before this. Can't stand that fucking show. Couldn't name you five characters from it. I did know Paul Rudd was in it, pretended like I didn't earlier, had nothing positive to say about Friends, and I don't know. Jeff, I'm going to stop you right there. It's you. Yeah, it's me.
[0:37:23] Eric: I'm not even going to bother to make an argument. I was going to try to go for something like, oh, no, it's Andrew. Probably it's Andrew. Yeah, we could just get this over with.
[0:37:34] Geoff: Yeah, it's absolutely me. I can't fucking stand Friends. It was hard to pretend to like it there for a bit. Emily's not a Friends person. She doesn't watch Friends. All the other TV shows I mentioned she is. I just threw Friends in there. Yeah, well, I like Friends to Veep. That's where I was like, oh, it's not.
[0:37:48] Nick: She doesn't watch Friends in the background.
[0:37:51] Andrew: We've gone through all the categories for now. Let's now go through the actual results of this game. The first question was a movie that I love, and I said, The Mummy. Nick, you said that that was neither Eric nor Jeff. How do you feel about that at this stage?
[0:38:07] Nick: I'm feeling worse now that you're asking me that. No, I'm just going through.
[0:38:10] Andrew: I'm just curious. Now that we've gone through the whole game, do you still hold that opinion? I think I do. I think I do, honestly. Well, you're correct about that. That was my pick for a movie that I love. Oh, wow, really? I love The Mummy. I thought it was Gavin. It's such a fun, as you said. I weirdly am not a big Indiana Jones guy, which you'd probably expect as a Mummy fan, as you said, Eric, kind of adjacent. Benny is the answer you're looking for, Nick, for the power across the river. Can't forget Benny. And everybody remembers that. They do. The next one was another movie I love, which is Mission Impossible 3. That's Jeff, isn't it? You said that that was nobody. Cool, as well. Nick. All right. Yeah. It's Jeff. Yeah, it's Jeff. Damn.
[0:38:55] Geoff: I explained the entire fucking movie to you in 30 seconds. I gave you the highlights.
[0:39:01] Eric: It's the only thing I've ever heard him remember.
[0:39:04] Nick: Yeah. I think the fact that you didn't say rabbit's foot is the thing, though. I just couldn't remember that part. I couldn't remember that part. One thing.
[0:39:11] Andrew: Yeah, when he didn't say rabbit's foot, I was like, oh, no. Yeah. Oh, man.
[0:39:18] Geoff: Well, it was me. You fucked up. Well, I did fuck up.
[0:39:21] Andrew: The next one was a movie I hate, which is Napoleon Dynamite was the thing. You said that it was Eric. You were correct on that. I hate that movie.
[0:39:33] Eric: I'm so stoked. I didn't know you hated that movie, too. This is awesome. That movie fucking sucks. Yeah, it's a terrible film. Fuck, I hate that movie so much. It sucks shit.
[0:39:42] Geoff: It's so stupid. Nothing redeemable in that film.
[0:39:44] Andrew: Yep. No. Yep. The next was Armageddon as a movie that I hate. Oh, Nick. You said that that was nobody, I believe. What was your locked in on that one?
[0:40:01] Nick: Oh, at this point, man, it's all just up in the air. That's so cool.
[0:40:05] Andrew: Nobody. Thank you for not writing it down, Andrew. This rocks. No, I did. No, I wrote it down. What? I was just seeing if he remembered nobody. You were wrong, Nick. It was Jeff. It's definitely Jeff.
[0:40:19] Geoff: Yeah.
[0:40:20] Andrew: I hate that fucking movie.
[0:40:21] Geoff: Jeff, I'm sorry. That's okay. I was honest with you. I tried to connect with you. I tried to tell you, but like, buddy, you gotta pick it.
[0:40:26] Eric: Was it really bad? Like, being in the army when that movie came out, did it fucking suck?
[0:40:30] Geoff: Yeah, it fucking, just in every way. I hated that film. I was serious. I said I like Deep Impact better. I thought it was a way version of that story. I just, ugh, fucking, it was gross. Deep Impact was better.
[0:40:42] Andrew: The next was Loved Song, Madonna. Oh, God. Oh, God. He said it was Jeff.
[0:40:50] Nick: I'm gonna be wrong, alright.
[0:40:51] Andrew: Did you say it was me? Did he not? Did it, what? That's how I have it for scoring.
[0:40:56] Geoff: I don't remember him saying that. I remember him saying it was neither of us. Oh, I thought I said it was you. Oh, I'm sorry. Maybe you did.
[0:41:02] Nick: I wrote it down. You did. You wrote it down. Yeah, I said Jeff. That's right. I absolutely said Jeff. Okay. Because you were very emphatic about it.
[0:41:10] Eric: I'm starting to think that Nick said me, actually. I'm starting to think that you should shut the fuck up. Nick and Jeff, you get a point. It was Jeff. Thank you. As all Madonna. Crazy. I had no idea. That's crazy. I love Madonna. I think her first album is so fucking good.
[0:41:26] Nick: I agree. Eric gave you a run for your money there, though. Holy shit.
[0:41:30] Eric: Oh, yeah. That was a great run by you, Eric. I really like Madonna through, like, that early, that VH1 era of Madonna is fucking brutal. But, like, she did that Austin Powers song, and it's like, that's kind of like the last time you could probably listen to Madonna and be like, this is pretty good.
[0:41:46] Geoff: I wouldn't have told beat-off stories if it wasn't true.
[0:41:50] Eric: Well, no, here's the thing. I don't agree with that. But, I don't think, I think that's a lie. Give me a point.
[0:41:56] Andrew: That's a, I think. The next was Hated Song. Hurt So Good. Nick, you said that that was Eric. I did. You are incorrect. That is a point for Eric and only Eric. That was mine. I fucking hate Hurt So Good. I didn't feel like Eric at all. No, I like that song. I can't stand it. Oh, I hate it so much.
[0:42:18] Eric: I think that song's totally fine. I also think that's when he's John Mellencamp. I don't even think he's John Cougar at that point. I think he's just John Mellencamp.
[0:42:25] Andrew: He rotates around. I just, I hate everything about John Mellencamp. Can't stand him. I think he's so cringy. I don't like it. Is he Canadian? I don't think so. I think he's from Indiana. Oh, yeah.
[0:42:51] Nick: Oh, my God.
[0:42:52] Eric: Yeah. It's like, oh, I can list Sopranos and all this stuff. It is, in my heart of hearts, I know what it is. And then the last one asked, hated show?
[0:43:02] Nick: I appreciate your honesty.
[0:43:03] Eric: You said, Jeff? That, Andrew, that's so funny. Back to back. That's such a funny, I had to do it. That's such a funny structure, dude. That's so good. That's twice. It's great.
[0:43:15] Geoff: It's so funny. I hope you do it to some other people.
[0:43:17] Andrew: I wanted, well, you were right, first of all. It was Jeff's listed to hated show. Of course. I thought it was so funny that you guys had a show that was your favorite and a hated. I thought that was great. It's very funny. I also wanted to, like, create a problem in the strategy you used, Eric, of posting the cassette. Where that really helps if there's nobody else that lists that they hated. It then becomes your proof is difficult evidence. Yeah. So to add, to total up the game. Nick, you ended up scoring, I believe, five points. Hell yeah. Eric scored three points. Nice. Jeff scored two points.
[0:43:56] Unidentified: Wow.
[0:43:57] Andrew: And two points went to no one. They were wasted. Nice. Great job, fellas. Trash pile. Feels good. Feels good.
[0:44:03] Eric: Trash points. I gotta find that Friends cassette again. It has clips from the show where it's, like, some talking parts and stuff from, like, the early seasons. God. Gross. Yeah. I gotta find that again, man. It's pretty good. It's got Hootie and the Blowfish on it.
[0:44:16] Geoff: Yeah, but you don't like cassettes, remember? You went on a whole...
[0:44:19] Eric: I definitely don't like cassettes. I got... No, that's why I'm just gonna... I'm gonna see if I can find it on, like, Apple Music. Like, I'm not gonna... I'm not gonna buy the... I'm not gonna actually get the cassette. It's just the idea of the music I gotta get. Cassettes are terrible, though. Yeah.
[0:44:33] Andrew: We conclude the first episode of Who Are You? We'll be back with another one with different people, different positions, different questions, potentially. That was a lot of fun. I am glad we did this. I'm gonna, like, think about it, maybe adjust a few things for next time. I think when we do it, when there's all five of us, it could be a fun thing where, like, you could ask the person who's listening on the side if they have an opinion. I don't know. A lot of elements to add. Oh, that's a really good idea. Like, a son-a-friend type thing. Yeah. I like that. But until then, let me know how you did in the comments of you guessing who was telling the truth and who was lying and all that, how your score was. I'd be fascinated to know that. Make sure you check out... I nailed it! You did really good, Nick, for the most part. Thank you! Make sure to check out our Patreon, The Regulation Pod. We got a YouTube channel, Regulatron.com as well, which leads to our Patreon. It's a dumb website we have. Don't worry about it. Just go to the Patreon. Regulation Pod. Thank you so much for listening. Have a great day. Bye! Bye! Bye!
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