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Regulation Podcast, formerly called F**kface, is a weekly comedy podcast hosted by Geoff Ramsey, Gavin Free, and Andrew Panton, alongside producer Eric Baudour and sound engineer Nick Schwartz. It was part of the Rooster Teeth podcast network before going independent when the company went under.

The podcast began in 2020, originally with the intent of sharing Andrew Panton, frequent Achievement Hunter collaborator and "Rooster Teeth's best kept secret", with the world. It's since became a place for the hosts to chat about misadventures in their lives, pitch stupid ideas, prank each other, make dumb challenges and bets, and generally get f**kfaced — shooting themselves in the foot for a laugh. The show is notable for its high number of Running Gags, which can make later episodes nigh-on impenetrable.

F**kface ran for 206^note Technically 205 — episode 196 is a Missing Episode as a gag episodes, stopping when Rooster Teeth closed in May 2024. It was resumed from episode 1 under the new name Regulation Podcast without missing a beat, and has continued to be released weekly since.

The podcast has had a number of supplemental spinoff shows:

• Does It Do?, a show where Geoff and Gavin would test the efficacy of various As Seen on TV products as well as if they could be used for unintended purposes. Ran for two seasons, and ended when Rooster Teeth closed as they no longer had the studio space.
• The Break Show, formerly F**kface Breaks Sh*t, a weekly series featuring Geoff, Eric, and rotating guests opening trading cards and other collectables. After a hiatus, The Break Show has since returned in the same format under Regulation.
• Draft, an irregular series where they draft random things in a snake draft format, everything from best falls, childhood commercials, and hot dog/ice cream pairings. Some episodes are Patreon exclusives.
• Sausage Talk, a behind-the-scenes discussion of the logistics for new merch and video ideas.
• Sloppy Joe's Bingo, playing bingo with the live feed of a security camera outside of Sloppy Joe's, a bar in Key West, Florida.
• BLINDSIDE, an impromptu show done at any host's request. Each host can call one blindside per year, which means everyone has to stop whatever they're doing and instead record whatever the blindsider requests.
• Summer Movie League, roleplaying as studio execs as they have limited points to spend in an auction for all of the movies coming out over the summer. Whoever's studio made the most money by the end of the summer wins.
• Regulation Takes, where the hosts each bring some of their hot takes for everyone to discuss.
• The Regulators, looking at a selection of things as they debate over what the most regulation version of that thing is.
• Regulation Best Thing (Patreon exclusive), where they pitch random Wikipedia pages against each other in a single-elimination tournament to eventually visit every page and determine what the best thing is.
• Wheel of Decades (Patreon exclusive), where they spin a wheel to determine a decade, find as many TV series that they've never heard of and put them on another wheel, then spin it to choose what show to make a watch-along series of. Probably not coming back after they suffered through Quark.

Regulation Podcast can be found on most podcast services as well as on YouTube (including bonus supplemental content) here. They also have a secondary channel for gaming videos and stream VODs called Regulation Gameplay.

Regulation Tropes

• all lowercase letters: Regulation Podcast is stylized with lowercase letters in the logo, although it's capitalized everywhere else.
• Ascended Extra: Eric and Nick started out in a largely production role, only appearing when talked to (or Eric popping in to make them hurry up and end the show). They started getting progressively more involved in the show and supplemental material, and by the time of Regulation they're the full-on fourth and fifth hosts.
• Censored for Comedy: Every mention of F**kface needs a bleep, whether its the show name or the noun. No other profanity in the show is censored. This was theoretically weaponized but never successfully used by Andrew, who realised he could yell "f**face" to bleep out anything anyone else was saying. The magazine V*riety was later added to the bleeped words when they very pointedly left F**kface out of an article on the Rooster Teeth podcast network.
• Either/Or Title: Every episode has two titles separated by a //, both being memorable quotes from the episode. Typically the first title comes from before the ad break and the second comes from after, although there's plenty of episodes where both come from one half.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: Andrew has a tendency to describe himself as "A ____ guy" or "Not a ____ guy" when talking about things he likes or dislikes. Reading out all the things he is and is not has become the subject of a couple bits over the years.
• On the Next: Major League Fan Jack did "Next time on" segments for F**kface by reading the Discord messages sent during the next recording and guessing what the episode would be about, without any other context. They were often surprisingly on-point. These were dropped for Regulation Podcast since Jack isn't their coworker anymore.
• Previously on…: One of the running bits for a while was each episode started with a voice saying "Previously on", as if the entire episode was just a previously on segment. This was part of a guessing game that Andrew set up, where Gavin and Geoff had to figure out who the "previously on" guy was.
• Running Gag: Too many to individually list out. Not only did they take the tagline "Deep lore about nothing" as a nod to their convoluted and stupid bits, there are entire YouTube channels and websites dedicated to documenting all of their lore.
• The "The" Title Confusion: There was some debate over whether the show would be renamed to The Regulation Podcast or just Regulation Podcast. Officially, the version without The won, although they do still call it The Regulation Podcast quite often.
• Unfortunate Names: F**kface was a deliberately awful name that did nothing but inconvenience the hosts. The profanity made it awkward to talk about, made it hard to find sponsors early on, and meant that it got excluded from articles — memorably one from V*riety. It also led to Andrew being contacted by an adult toy store for a sponsor. The asterisks in the show's name also made it nearly impossible to search for unless you went out of the way to add the asterisks, and also meant that any attempt to hashtag the show would be displayed as #F since the asterisks broke it. All of this was part of the joke, of course.