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Hey, it's Andrew. I'm just setting the

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stage for this announcement. First of all,

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it's good. This isn't bad. I know

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seeing a thing just called the announcement

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must be terrifying. This is ridiculous great

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news that you're about to hear. This

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is something that was recorded back

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in December. It has been in the works for

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quite a while, and I'm so

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excited that we could finally talk about it. This

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is, if you remember quite

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a while ago, there's an episode where at the

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end of it, I

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discussed something with everyone, and

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I said that if we couldn't release it, then we'd

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edit it and put it out later. It is now

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a time we can release it. Get ready for an

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announcement that is absurd that I can't

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wait for you to hear. And I will be back

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on the back and just to clarify, because

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I don't remember necessarily the specifics of what

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was talked about, but just to clear up

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the details of what exactly this announcement

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entails. Thank you so much. Love you.

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Bye. You

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know what we can record is your thing that

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you wanted to talk about. Go. Okay. So

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recently talking about Let's Play. We

1:14

recorded a Let's Play and

1:16

none other than the game of

1:18

the year. Ratty boy, ratty boy,

1:21

everyone's favorite tiny little rat, cute

1:23

little guy. Everyone loves him. Great

1:25

character. Great personality. Nick's on

1:27

board. It's changed my way. How

1:29

I view weights whenever I see weights. Now I

1:31

think a ratty boy and his struggle is climbing.

1:35

So obviously that was

1:37

so much fun making that video. It was a

1:40

disaster. I was dying. Nick was dying. Gavin got

1:42

sick. Eric was annoyed. It was perfect. It was

1:44

a perfect video. You can watch it now on

1:46

Let's Play as well. You can. Yes. You can

1:49

watch it on the YouTube channel. You can watch

1:51

it on the first. But I

1:53

was curious because I was like, this is

1:55

such a ridiculous game. Who made this? Like,

1:58

that's one of the things I love about the game. there's

2:00

no credits on it. It's just you see

2:02

like a developer but you can't, I

2:05

couldn't find anyone that had credit

2:07

towards Radie Boy that had it

2:09

that like claimed I made this.

2:11

And so I did some research and I found out it was made by a

2:14

company named 909 Games and

2:17

it was published by a company

2:19

called Weakfish Studios. And

2:21

so I reached out to Weakfish Studios

2:24

and was like, hey, could you could

2:26

you put me in touch with anyone at 909

2:29

Games? I would just I'd love to

2:31

I'd love to talk to them just

2:33

in like any aspect. Like

2:36

I can't find anything on who these people are. And

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they replied 909

2:41

Games is an internal studio within us.

2:44

We're technically 909 Games. It's all the same.

2:47

And I said that's fantastic. I

2:49

would like to buy the Radie Boy IP

2:52

from you and completely own the

2:54

rights of the character Radie

2:56

Boy. And that was that

2:59

was their reply, Eric was what? What

3:02

are you what are you talking

3:05

about? This is unexpected. Why? Like

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what are you offering? And so

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I've been planning this for a few days

3:12

now. I've been going back and forth with

3:14

the guy that owns Weakfish

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trying to secure the right

3:19

to Radie Boy. Now

3:22

originally originally

3:24

was full. Just I own the

3:26

character from this point forward. But

3:28

then that wasn't I couldn't

3:31

offer a lot as a person for

3:33

that. So we're looking at more of

3:35

like a Spider-Man deal situation where we

3:37

would have the rights to Radie Boy

3:39

and every context outside of video games.

3:41

But they continue to make Radie Boy

3:43

games and that's their life. So

3:46

I've been active in negotiations. It's kind of cooled off

3:48

a little bit recently. I was hoping to have this deal closed.

3:51

But I wrote a press release for

3:53

us to post on social to

3:55

announce our big character acquisition. If

3:58

it were to take place. And

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there is no better way to

4:03

celebrate an acquisition than with a

4:05

t-shirt. So I reached out to

4:07

our good friend Tony about coordinating

4:10

a shirt. What? That

4:12

we can, we can release it

4:14

once. And

4:16

so it's your, you know, you're, you're

4:19

a rat, Eric, you love rats. So

4:21

this was the original design I had mocked up.

4:23

I gave some instruction. This is what we came

4:26

up with. I had to pick between

4:29

one or the other. Great

4:37

options. Wonderful art by Tobin.

4:43

I hate you and I hate ratty boy. I

4:48

don't want him. Give him back. Give

4:51

him back. I

4:54

don't want him. Very

4:57

shortly after I got a finalized version of

5:00

the shirts I said, which one I wanted.

5:02

So we have a variety to

5:05

pick from. Unfortunately,

5:09

red was not available as a print

5:11

on demand. So these are the two

5:13

shirts that will ultimately be available

5:16

if I am able to close this deal, which it has

5:18

gone a little bit cold. Well,

5:20

it's the holidays, man. It's the holidays.

5:24

If we don't get it, should we just

5:26

sell that shirt with like redacted over Ray

5:28

T boys face? Well, I just changed him

5:30

to a fucking Bart Simpson. I hate him.

5:33

I hate him. So

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I mean, I don't know why, because you're

5:38

number one ratty, ready boys. Clearly, as it

5:40

says, you guys love each other. You're always

5:42

hanging out. I think I

5:44

hate it. This you

5:46

have the chance to be friends

5:48

with an IP. Eric, look out. Look how

5:50

much you love Ray T boy on that.

5:53

I hate I hate Brady boy. I hate

5:55

him. You know what? You

5:57

know what? We were never able to.

6:00

Exactly secure IP for the smashing

6:02

sportsman. Maybe raidy boy is our

6:05

superhero protector Oh, that was my

6:07

thought raidy boy. Give him back

6:10

Give it back to the studio. We're

6:12

trying to I wrote a press release.

6:15

I emailed Jordan Levin about Wanted

6:22

to see if he wanted to provide a quote about

6:24

our exciting acquisition if it were to happen and he

6:26

very politely declined An

6:31

actual businessman. Yeah. Yeah So

6:33

this is well, it's this is business. I have a

6:35

press release about the rebreak here ratty boy news release

6:38

It is with great excitement. We hear

6:40

it face announced something truly spectacular in Entertainment

6:44

whether we're talking movies sports or games

6:46

the need for iconic characters has never

6:48

been more essential It's very

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rare for an iconic character to be

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available But I'm thrilled to say that

6:54

ain't pain and the amazing team at

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weekfish studio have come to an agreement

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on an industry Changing deal from

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this point onward all IP rights outside

7:03

of video games for everyone's favorite rat

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Raidy boy belonged to Andrew Panton weekfish

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will continue to support known the video

7:10

game side of Creating excellent radical games

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that we are excited to see in

7:15

the future We

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wish them nothing but the best in the future

7:19

and what this means for us at face in

7:21

uniform is the immediate Inclusion of the greatest rat

7:24

ever seen into our family The

7:26

future has never looked brighter for ready boy

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So to celebrate this monumental day allow me

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to reveal this launch reveal shirt It

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features our new hero alongside his number

7:35

one fan Eric Bader We're

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so excited to deepen the ready boy lore

7:39

and hope you're excited as we are for

7:41

the future as it comes Long

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live the number one rat game long live

7:46

the number one rat long live ready boy

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It's a dearly So

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that is what I've been up to I don't know if

7:54

this deal will close by then So I wanted to put this

7:56

at the end of the show so if we

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need to edit it and I'm hoping it It

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will come to you and we'll figure it

8:02

out. But I wonder if the Warner Discovery stop

8:04

will go up when the Andrew

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you are just the gift that

8:11

keeps on giving what a visionary You're

8:14

gonna you're it's gonna be ideas like this that

8:16

lead us to success in the future. Thank you

8:18

so much Of course, I like that. He's once

8:21

again deploying people all over

8:23

the company And also

8:26

email the general manager

8:30

You know time's going on all

8:32

the time Yeah,

8:36

can you provide a quote from

8:38

ratty boy adventure might get him

8:41

what who what? What

8:52

have you thought about one of the things you want

8:54

to like how you want to expand the the ratty

8:56

boy universe Andrew I mean we can do so much

8:59

Because we can do shirts we could do radio

9:01

boy technically doesn't have a voice Eric. We can

9:03

do voice of radio boy Yeah, we could do

9:05

narratives. We could do radio plays. We could do

9:07

comics like there's no end of and so much

9:09

we could do Yeah, you can even

9:12

show up in our smut. Oh I

9:15

wonder what kind of surprises we'll have in the

9:17

smut who knows who's in our smut I

9:23

Want to see an Ian raty boy face is what

9:25

I want to see Eric

9:34

yeah, thanks, man. What a way to What

9:38

a way to end the year and ring in

9:40

the new one just with this insane shit that

9:42

I found its way to me oh

9:47

Jesus Christ So

9:49

if you're if you're listening to this and

9:51

you're not a hundred percent sure what's going

9:53

on you should really watch the raty boy

9:55

Let's play over on the let's

9:57

play YouTube channel or on the roosterteeth channel

10:00

It's one of the better ones we've done, and they're

10:02

all good, don't get me wrong, but this one's like

10:05

a good plus. Also buy the shirt,

10:07

it will be available if you're listening to this. It

10:09

is ready to launch. You

10:12

think the deal's gonna be closed by then? Well, if

10:15

it is, it might, like, it'll be very quick. Like,

10:17

everything is ready to deploy all of this, it's

10:20

just I need an agreement with them. And

10:23

look forward to the, sometime in 2025, the Raidy Boy

10:25

graphic novel. It's

10:27

just like 10-10, but he's a rat. If

10:32

you're wondering when all of this is recorded, and if we

10:34

know if there's a deal in the middle of this, I

10:36

tweeted, I hate Raidy Boy, I hate him. So

10:42

find that, that's where it is being explained to

10:44

me that I'm on a shirt with this little

10:46

funk. I'm

10:50

so excited for the beginning of Phase 1 of the Raidy

10:52

Boy universe. Hey

10:55

guys, let's not overdo it by Phase 4 like

10:57

Marvel did, let's learn from their mistakes. Absolutely.

11:00

We gotta treat this, we gotta treat this

11:03

IP preciously. We can't just be cranking

11:05

out Raidy Boy shit. God,

11:07

that shirt just means so little to

11:10

most of the planet. To so many. Never

11:12

has a shirt meant so little to so many. Oh

11:23

fuck. Oh my god. I

11:26

love it so much. Yeah, it rules. Well,

11:31

bye. Well, we

11:33

already said goodbye, so we can just stop talking.

11:35

Yeah. Alright. Hey,

11:40

so just to clarify the finer points

11:42

of the deal, now that it is

11:44

done and locked in, we

11:46

acquired the media and merchandising rights for

11:48

Raidy Boy, while Weakfish still has all

11:50

the video game stuff, they're gonna continue

11:53

to make great games with Raidy Boy that

11:55

I'm so excited to see what will be next. And

11:58

we have the ability to implement here. into

12:00

our other content as well as merch

12:02

and It's gonna be

12:04

the greatest mascot that you would ever seen so

12:09

Get excited for that. I know I am I can't believe

12:11

that this is the thing that came together I love

12:13

how much is a noise Eric. It's just all

12:15

around one of the best things

12:18

that could have happened So thank you so much

12:20

for supporting us and allowing us to do these

12:22

crazy things that we do I hope you enjoyed

12:24

this and I hope you're as excited about all

12:26

of this as we are. It's totally ridiculous Once

12:29

again, love you