Rooster Teeth Podcast - Why Are We Here? - #797
Episode Date: April 15, 2024Let's do it. One last time. The OG crew of Gus, Gavin, and Barbara talk about podcasting, movies, and so much more. Make sure to join us next week for the final episode of the Rooster Teeth Podcas...t.
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Hello everyone, welcome to the Rooster Teeth podcast. As always, I am Gus.
I'm Gavin.
I'm Barbara.
And I'm Gus.
You know, I know we just did one of these last week,
but it really does feel like it's been a while since we've since we've been here doing this.
Yeah, I feel old. Yeah, I feel like something happened and I'm not quite sure what it is.
Time skip. Things feel a little different.
Were we all just in a collective coma? All together?
It was COVID. It was the pandemic. It's 2019. Everything's fine.
I still can't get my head around. It's 2019. Everything's fine.
I still can't get my head around the fact that 2019 was five years ago.
It's nuts.
This seems like three years ago.
Like some stuff I'm like, oh yeah, I just did that a couple of years ago.
Wait, no, that was before the pandemic, so that was five years ago.
Someone was asking me this too. They're like, because Jordan Levin is our GM.
They're like, when did Jordan join Rooster Teeth? Like two, three years ago?
And I was like, 2019. Yeah, summer of 2019.
So literally five years ago.
Five years ago.
Yeah, let's all just give it up.
That watching that intro, I forgot two things.
One, I forgot how long that intro was.
It seems like it held forever at the end.
And two, I forgot how crappy it was. Like I remember loving it at the time and I watched it just now like that's kind of shit
You loved that?
Yeah
I thought it was cool and I watched it and I was like that's kind of crappy, huh?
Can you hear the song in your head?
Yeah
Because it didn't play when we saw it
How does it go?
Bum ba ba da da
Yeah that's it that's exactly it
Use that don't play the actual song. Just use that.
What do you think of this? Is this crap?
That, so,
we made that
10 years ago? No,
longer than 12 years ago.
I remember we built
it together in the annex.
Yes. And we had it,
I think, at first to use at conventions.
First idea, that was the stupid at conventions. So the idea-
First idea, that was the stupidest idea.
It was my idea.
Terrible.
So the idea was-
I was really hoping you'd throw like,
burning under the bus.
No, no, it was me.
The idea was that we would have the set
and you could put it all into a crate
and take it to a convention.
So it was like the traveling show, you know?
Yeah.
It was the whole thing.
And I'm sure I've mentioned it at one point in the past.
The inspiration, like we contracted a company to make it. And I'm sure I've mentioned it at one point in the past. The inspiration... We contracted a company to make it.
And the design direction I gave them was
like the Merv Griffin set that Kramer pulls out of the trash on Seinfeld.
And this is what they came up with.
It cost $40,000.
Wow.
Which bit?
I mean, I would argue you guys got a good...
It also had the glass cases which we threw away and all of that other stuff.
Why?
For conventions.
Again, it also had to be designed to be taken apart and put in a box.
I think that was the hardest part.
Right, compartmentalize it.
I was just about to ask, why not just make a traveling version and keep this one?
But then he said $40,000.
Yeah.
Because it was annoying because a convention would end on Sunday,
and we had to record a podcast on Monday.
So all the time we just wouldn't have it back in time.
I don't think we were doing them on Monday at that point.
I think it was a different day of the week.
Was it Monday by then?
Gavin and I were just before this started,
we were talking about how the podcast used to be recorded
in the morning back in 636.
Like Wednesday morning at 10 a.m.
10 a.m. podcast.
They had good energy, I thought.
I think so, too.
But then you were mentioning
it makes the tequila one even more energy.
It's worse.
Did we do it Wednesday night for a bit?
Because I remember we used to do it at 7.30.
It might have been Wednesday.
Yeah, we did 7.30 on Mondays, too.
But I think we did it on Wednesdays for a while,
and then we moved it to Mondays.
When do we do it on Wednesday night?
I don't know.
I don't think you both.
That was like, it's been 21 years.
I don't know.
This podcast, it's only been...
16 years?
Only.
Yeah, 16 years.
It was 2008?
Yeah, we started this podcast in late 2008.
You started this podcast the same time as Acheema Hunter started then? Yeah, Acheema Hunter at the late 2008. You started this podcast the same time as Achima Hunter started then
Yeah, Achima Hunter started summer 08 and then this podcast started like in December 08
There was a gap though after the first one. Yeah, there was but we can still claim 08 because it came out in December. Yeah, I
The company ends on the 10th of May, right? Yes. I signed up on the website on the 11th of May
2003 well, I'm gonna make it of May, right? Yes. I signed up on the website on the 11th of May, 2003.
So I'm gonna make it exactly. Good news for you, Gavin.
Yeah, there is good news.
The last day here at the office is the 10th,
but officially it ends on the 11th.
Oh, 21 full, if I only knew when I was 14,
that 21 years later, I'd be getting fired by Warner Brothers.
Wow, what a journey.
First of all, you'd Google, what's Warner Brothers?
Because at 14, you probably didn't know.
I just recognized the WB, I guess, on movie.
Right.
Yeah, and you'd probably be like,
whoa, we're owned by them, that's so cool.
I always wanted to do a video where I never got around to it
because there was a bit of work involved and I'm really lazy.
Where I show people like movie studio intros,
but then stop it right before it shows the name.
Yeah.
To see if people recognize like the intros and what it is.
Same thing with video game companies.
People who are big gamers like, do you know what this is?
Because I'm sure most people just like,
A-A-A-A, you skip past all that stuff,
even though it's super relevant to what you're about to do.
I'd probably be better at some of the old ones.
That would be the other thing,
is some of the old throwback stuff, Orion pictures,
things that don't exist.
I feel so out of it right now.
Why is that?
I just feel out of practice, even. Why's that? Like I just feel like out of practice.
Even though we just podcasted last week.
Right.
Thank you.
He'll get better.
Do you not make a podcast anymore?
Yes, but it's a, we're role playing.
Like Gus and I do Tales from the Stinky Dragon,
which is just like, you're in character and they're like,
But this is just talking though.
Don't you do this all the time?
I know, but like like I don't have to
think of we don't have a dungeon master setting up the podcast for us right now
enter a room and there's a box and you're like okay I'll go look at the box
here you're just like well what have I been up with what's been happening you
went to the set and sat on a couch that yes and then I sat next to Gavin, my good old buddy.
Friends for 20 years.
Roll the charisma check.
It's a nat 20.
Yeah, okay, good, yeah, friends.
I actually was looking through some old photos.
Thanks, Cody.
Like in hopes of finding some things to post, like, you know, as we wrap things up.
And I still have a photo of Gavin and I that Bernie took on Congress
when you guys were still in the Congress office.
And for years we've been like,
oh, we'll take this on the 10 year anniversary
of that photo.
I think that was 10 years ago at this point.
Maybe not that long, it was 2009.
So it was 15 years ago.
Oh my God.
So we could do the 15th anniversary.
We were all three of us were in the kitchen here
last week or the week before.
And Gavin had found a video on his phone.
I remember what it was of us a long time ago or something.
And Barbara wanted it.
So he was going to airdrop it to her.
But then he got distracted and sent it to me instead.
He never sent it to Barbara. Well, no.
Then I had to send it to Barbara.
I was like, how did I get involved?
I don't want this video.
And now I've got work to give it to Barbara.
Gavin just like sent it to me and then walked away.
No, it was because Barbara wasn't showing up on my airdrop.
And then we tried to make our phone shag.
You know, you can like put the top
and it goes like, bling, didn't work.
But I made, my phone shagged your phone
and the file went straight onto it.
So I was like, my work is Yeah, and then you shagged Barbara
Don't say it like that
Please don't
What are they gonna do fire us again?
It's a is that going on it's true. Are we talking about that?
What the whole shut down? Oh, it's being shut down. We could tell I mean I talked about it just now
But what's the point?
There's no news?
There's not really much to say.
People know what's going on.
It's weird, it's surreal.
I'm really glad that we got to do one last one of these.
Because I feel like the Art DePacis was like such a staple
of my time here in the last 21 years.
Like, every Monday.
It was weird. It was weird.
It was weird when we stopped doing it.
And that was a year ago.
Was it really?
Almost.
Cause it was the stake off, right?
Yeah, so it was like May.
Was it May?
I think so.
You know what I mean?
God.
Circle dude.
What piece of memorabilia behind us do you want to keep?
I'm thinking I'm taking the Gavin photo
Wow I bought that dramatic hamster painting those laser team action figures did we buy
How many can fit into a landfill because it was that many I want to say we had like
50,000 of them it was was a lot. Seems extreme.
No.
Plastic.
I don't know why.
They're so bad.
I know why.
I think someone who used to work here
really liked action figures like that
and thought that they would do well.
And I think everybody else at the company was like,
no, they're not going to do well.
Yeah.
And we ended up with 50,000 of them.
And I see photos of them in like,
Goodwill all the time now.
Just like, crates of them.
Someday they're going to be worth so much money.
So I'm going to take the Laser Team action figures.
What's that Xbox?
Is that a significant one or just the original Xbox?
I don't know.
The significant ones had silver Sharpie written on the front
explaining what they were.
It's probably just a random one.
Do you ever think about how you were hired
not to be an achievement hunter? Yeah. I was what they were. That's probably just a random one. Do you ever think about how you were hired not to be in Achievement Hunter?
Yeah.
I was hired for this.
And you just put your stuff in Achievement Hunter?
Well, we only did this once a week.
So I needed something to fill my time with.
Yeah, I just walked in there
and waited for one of the interns to leave
and then I stole his desk.
And that's where I remained.
Did you start with your desk chair as the toilet?
No, it got replaced at some point with the toilet.
And I tried to use it,
but it really makes you want to shit all day.
Like something about just your anus being slightly lower
than the rest of your body means you're ready for shitting.
It's just like memory for your body.
It's like, oh, okay, we're going to do this, all right. Do you guys ever have that thing that happens where you're out for aitting. It's just like memory for your body. Yeah. It's like, oh, okay, we're gonna do this, all right.
Do you guys ever have that thing that happens
where you're out for a walk or something like that
and then when you're starting to get closer to home,
the like Bluetooth of your ass connects to the toilet
at home and you're just like, I need to shit right now.
Oh, this is a jog.
Yeah.
The Bluetooth of your ass.
Definitely after like traveling.
Yeah.
When you come back home, you're like,
oh yeah, I'm gonna destroy my own toilet here.
Dude.
Do you have a favorite toilet in your house?
Do you have one that you reserve for like a nice shit
and one that you reserve for destroy?
No, they're the same one.
Oh, okay.
Do they have bidets?
No, I've been meaning to put one on.
So normally you're supposed to disconnect the water,
what, the little pipe that goes into your tank,
and that's where you put the bidet feed,
but on my toilet that part is covered.
The way it's designed is weird, so I would have to plug the bidet in
on the supply side of that.
And I guess it's a slightly different size or something,
you're not supposed to do that,
so you need an adapter.
I was like, I'm not gonna bother with that.
Have you seen those things that you can put in a pond
and it's got a little solar panel
and it just starts like jetting water up
this little solar powered pump?
This is like a solar bidet?
You could just chuck one in the water
and then just shine a light on it
and it would just be a battery.
What?
That's real?
Well, I don't think it would work that way. You have outdoor ones.
It doesn't work. It's solar powered, not moon powered.
Do you have a favorite toilet?
Uh, I like the toilet in my office.
Because it's the only one that's used just by me.
I've only ever... I have been to your place.
Mm-hmm.
And I've used your guest toilet.
That room is the coldest room I've ever been in in my life.
Unless it's winter and the heat is on,
and then it's a sauna.
Which I don't know if I've ever been to your house
in the winter, I think only summertime.
Why don't you close the vent in there then?
Doesn't that mess with the rest of the AC though,
if you have venters closed? I mean, if you close too many of them, yeah, but. What if you close all your vents? I think with the rest of the AC though, if you have vents closed?
I mean, if you close too many of them, yeah, but...
What if you close all your vents?
I think that's bad for the AC.
Your house would explode.
Where does the air come out? Does it just blow the side out of one of the tubes?
It comes out of the...
Like, although, you know, it's not a perfect airtight seal, it comes out of the sides and everything, but it would probably whistle really loudly.
Yeah.
Have your vents disconnected from the server recently?
Dude, it's the dumbest thing.
So I have vents you can control via an app on your phone.
That's cool.
It's really neat because it's like, oh, I
know this room's going to get hot or cold,
so I can open or close the vents and redirect the airflow.
You would think that you could just directly connect
to the vents and control them, but no.
I guess there's like a server or something
that on the backend that they connect to
and then your app connects to and controls them.
So when the server goes down, your app is worthless.
Yeah, and it did, it's happened to me.
It happens about once a year.
And the last time was a couple months ago.
And sometimes it'll go, like sometimes it goes down
for like a day and I'm like, I'll just check again
in a day and it'll be fine.
Yeah.
This most recent time, it was like, I kept checking,
I kept checking, it was like a week.
And I was like, it's still not working.
So like, I emailed support and they're like,
hey, what's going on?
And then like a week later they wrote back
and they were like, yeah, the service fine,
I don't know what's going on with you.
So then like, they were like, oh, we'll look into it,
send us the serial number, or they asked for something.
So I send it to them, and then two weeks later,
they're like, oh yeah, there was a problem, we fixed it.
So just because it's so long communicating with them,
it was like six weeks of them not working.
Can you just manually move them?
Yeah, but the problem is that they're high,
so I have to get a little ladder,
they've gotta get the ladder out I got to adjust them Jesus
Just a real pain in the ass for what should be a simple solution
You guys ever had issues like that where like there are certain aspects in your home that are like smart
But if the internet goes down or the powers out it like completely fucks you over. Yeah
well
Yeah, my toilet
You can't my your toilet. I total one is powered
The flush is powered so I can't flush it can't flush all the shit away
There might be a man I might have to let pry open a panel and let release a manual
You can probably fill the bowl with water and it'll flush on its own. It's still a toilet, right? No, it's like a whole thing
It's like the whole toilet is the total because it's just the seat. Because it's the thing that opens for you
and stuff like that.
Yeah.
The way a toilet flushes is you just fill the bowl with water
and then it gets to a point where the pressure just
makes it go down the pipe.
Is that true?
Yeah, like if you take a bucket of water
and go pour it into the toilet, it flushes.
Can we do this now?
I want to test this out.
We don't have a remote camera or anything.
Do we have a bucket? We don't even have a bucket
Bucket
So so yeah, so this toilet
I think it's similar to yours is that like I also got a toilet as a gift or something
I got I got the like a seat attached as a gift from an ex-boyfriend. The toilet
Opens when I walk up to it and this is terrible for any other toilet I use because this is the only toilet I have that has that I walk up to it it opens this is terrible for any other toilet I use, because this is the only toilet I have that has that.
I walk up to it, it opens.
I sit down, I do a little tinkle,
and then I get up and it closes and flushes.
Do I have to wash my hands?
Well, it doesn't hurt to.
Why?
Why doesn't it hurt to?
But like, why doesn't it hurt to wash my hands now?
Right, it doesn't.
But do I have to?
I don't think you okay good deal
Because you're not touching anything
So oh, this is how you flush your toilet with a bucket
What but I've filled toilets with water before for other purposes don't ask me why and it didn't flush
You have to get you have to get to like a certain point I've filled toilets with water before for other purposes, don't ask me why, and it didn't flush.
You have to get to a certain point.
Like you know how on the back of the toilet,
it goes down and there's that S?
Yeah.
It's because there's water up to a certain point,
and then when the water in the bowl gets so high,
it pushes down and forces it out.
See, this is why I've missed the RT podcast last year,
is learning very little important facts from Gus.
Just pour water in the bowl, you're fine.
I don't know if that will work in mine,
because there's no tank.
But it's...
There's no...
Every toilet works like that.
There's no, like, there's no cistern.
There's no, like, storage of water.
Because it probably brings it in on demand when you hit flush.
And it has a pump.
Where does it bring the water from?
The pipe.
Right.
But it's using a pump pump. It brings what in?
What exactly? Yeah, what do you put in the bucket? Yeah. All right, so I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna fill my
Toilet with water and if it overflows I get 20 bucks. You can build Barbara
Stop it before it overflows
Well, I don't know if it's gonna flush or overflow if you get to a point where it's about overflow
You know not to do it, right?
But then when I flush and it pumps water in to flush it is it then gonna overflow
I might boss pass the point of no return here. I don't know
I can't imagine a toilet that doesn't work that way we I wanted you both come over and we'll do it in my but
You have to do it
So that you feel some of the guilt. All right, and then I'll just walk out when it floods your bathroom
Be like, oh sorry dude, that sucks
Hmm I am gonna test that when I get home. Yeah, it'll work. It'll absolutely work. Science experiment. That's why normally
Your toilet will flush as long as you have water
The thing that I'm dealing with sometimes is if our internet ever goes out
in the middle of the night,
we always have our Alexa playing like a sound,
like rainstorms or like-
Like white noise or something.
Some type of noise like that.
And sometimes it'll stop if the internet goes out.
And then I'll be like,
Alexa, like play rain sounds to like get it together.
Thinking it just stopped. And then she'll go, sorry, I'm play rain sounds to get it to go. Thinking it just stopped, and then she'll,
sorry, I'm having trouble connecting
to the internet right now.
It can't just download a 20 megabyte rain sound file
and just play it local?
Also, you know how if you whisper to the Alexa,
it's supposed to whisper back to you?
She doesn't do that when the internet's.
They don't whisper the error messages?
Nope.
So it's like three in the morning.
You'd think that would be a local setting.
Yeah. The annoying one I have is that, They don't whisper the error messages? Nope. So it's like bring the whole thing. You'd think that would be like a local setting.
The annoying one I have is that if this used to be the case,
then they fixed it, but it started happening again.
Those Hue light bulbs, which are Wi-Fi connected,
it used to be when the power went out when it came back on,
they would come back on full brightness.
But then they software updated it
to where it would revert to the last state.
So if it was off, it would revert to off.
But for some reason, like my power went out briefly
during some of those storms we had the other night,
and every light in my house came back on,
like full intensity brightness,
like at 3.30 in the morning.
It's like watching Dune 2.
I haven't seen it yet, but I imagine it's just...
There's a lot of scenes that are very dark,
and then it immediately cuts to a scene
that's like out in the desert, and you're like...
Listen, yeah, or like shot infrared,
so it's just bright white.
Yeah, that's a great movie though.
Dune was so fucking boring,
I cannot bring myself to watch Dune 2.
The second one's not boring.
I also thought the first one was boring,
second one's not boring.
Okay, it's like, the first one was so boring,
I appreciate it, I acknowledge it's a well-made movie.
It looks gorgeous, it's beautiful,
but it's a fucking snoozer,
so I'm just gonna wait till I can stream it at home. They're both out
I would definitely split the movies in a different spot like the second movie is crammed
Yeah, so much happening in it
The first one could have done with some of that Blaine's so mad at me when I say I don't like I didn't like it
I heard that I'm waiting to stream it at home
well, I think also because like
I'm usually not one of those people to say this but it is really good in the theater
like
Seeing it in all its glory is pretty fun
Do you have a sick home set up there? Do you have like?
It's alright, it's alright setup.
And surround sound and stuff. Yeah, it's I mean, it's nice. It's fine. I'm sure it'll be yeah
Just as fine on your's but but my TV started doing this thing where it's got like dark spots on it
Oh, no, it's annoying the shit out of this thing where it's got like dark spots on it. Oh no.
It's annoying the shit out of me.
At first it was like one little dark spot, I was like, huh, that's weird.
Is it OLED?
No.
Do you just need it in the TV?
Oh, so it's like the backlight's going out somewhere?
Yeah.
And then now it's like, there's like four of them.
And it's really...
How long have you had it?
I think I've had it for three years?
You have TV problems a lot. Didn't you have a problem with the last one?
I did.
It got replaced?
Yes.
What are you guys doing with your TV?
This is the replacement.
Nothing.
Is it on all the time?
I mean, it's on a lot.
Yeah.
So yeah, it's got problems.
I'm afraid it's gonna die
like the other one did here pretty soon.
I need to know if you've watched Shogun yet.
No, I'll probably wait till it's all out
and then maybe just binge it all at once.
Fair.
Have you watched it? No. Oh, okay. Shogun yet? No, I'll probably wait till it's all out and then maybe just binge it all at once. Fair, have you watched it?
No.
Okay, Shogun is a phenomenal show, it's on Hulu.
Highly recommend it to anybody watching.
I don't wanna spoil anything about it, just going blind.
It was like a novel from the 70s.
I remember seeing the novel when I was a little kid
and thinking that it looked boring.
Yeah, someone described it as,
if Game of Thrones only followed one family.
Oh.
But obviously very different storylines.
Mind you, my little kid thought about it being boring
was because the fact that it was like super thick.
And as a kid you're like,
oh, there's no way I'm going to ever read something like that.
My teacher once gave me the Three Musketeers to read,
and I just saw the size of it.
I don't think it was that big,
but it was just clearly the biggest book I've ever read.
So you got a candy bar instead?
And I just never opened it.
I was like, I'm just not gonna do that.
Did you have to do a book report?
I had to do a book report of mice and men,
but I don't think that was very long.
Yeah.
Legit question, how do teachers assign homework and projects nowadays
with the internet and AI being so prevalent and everything?
People could just use that so willy-nilly these days
to complete stuff and not actually be learning anything.
Yeah, but wouldn't you be worried
that you'd finish school dumb as shit?
I think. I would be.
But would the...
Yeah, when I was a kid, I wouldn't have worried about everything. Yeah. No, fuck it, I don't wanna do this shit. I think. I would be, but would the. Yeah, when I was a kid I wouldn't have worried
about it, I'd be like, nah fuck it,
I don't wanna do this shit.
I just wanna get through this, yeah.
I'm just suffering to be done with it.
But I think about that a lot.
It could explain a lot of the shit I read online
where everything's misspelled and like,
what is this person trying to say?
It's apparently a problem.
Yeah.
Just not learning how to read.
I'm having a problem with my computer where
on my Windows desktop every time I restart the computer all my icons are in different places
and some of them are like just blank white squares and it happens on every computer I own.
Does it happen to everyone? Is Windows just a piece of, is the desktop just a piece of broken
shit or is everything where you left it every time you turned it on?
Everything's where I left it every time I turned it on.
Yeah.
And all your icons are the icon and not just a blank white square?
Yeah.
You got some problems, dude.
Maybe it's your Microsoft account or something.
Someone's messing with you.
Mac goes in every morning.
Is everything in quotes?
It's so annoying too, because I just put...
That's a real throwback. I put everything on the desktop, like all my games.
Just so that they're like the first thing I can click.
They're just always in a different spot.
Pisses me right off.
Did you play Baldur's Cape, speaking of games?
No.
You played it.
Yeah, I finished it.
It's good.
We still haven't finished it.
There's a lot to it.
We just, yeah, taking a break from it. I I remember like playing it you're like, oh my god
The first act takes forever and then the every subsequent act is longer. It's like oh never mind
That was nothing. I got to like the final act. I thought I'm almost done with the game. That was a long sword of all
It was like I probably spent half my time in the game in the final act Jesus
I don't know what it is about games at the moment, but I can't bring myself to play a new game.
I just want to play old games.
Like, I'm playing GTA IV right now in 8K.
It's amazing.
GTA IV in 8K?
I'm playing New Vegas.
Yeah.
I can't bring myself to play a new game.
I don't know why.
There's a lot that's come out that I haven't played yet.
I'm just like, I want familiarity for some reason.
I like how I'm here laughing, but I'm back home playing The Sims.
I was looking at my Steam Deck the other day,
and a couple weeks ago, I could look for a new game,
or I could play New Vegas on the Steam Deck, because I haven't done that.
Yeah, I think that's what's doing it for me,
is that there are, for me, new ways to play old games.
I can either play them on an 8K TV or on a Steam Deck,
and they're both in scenarios I've never touched before.
It's exciting.
There was a...
I started playing New Vegas because there was a story that came out.
I just looked it up. It was in February, February 19th.
There was a story that came out about New Vegas
that made me think about it and want to play it again.
I'm going to read the headline to you.
out New Vegas that made me think about it and want to play it again,
I'm going to read the headline to you.
Okay.
A mod that adds Fred Durst to Fallout New Vegas,
thought to be lost media has been found.
And I was like, oh, that would be cool
to play New Vegas again.
I didn't install the mod,
but you can install this mod to have Fred Durst
in Fallout New Vegas.
What on earth?
It's not voiced by him though.
No, it's just some dumbass mod.
What game did you guys have a cameo in?
Or was it Jeff?
Jeff and Jack?
Jeff and Jack were in Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red
Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red
You were in Halo?
I was in Halo.
I was in Trials.
Oh, that's cool.
And Worms?
Worms, uh, WMD?
What are you laughing at?
What the goddamn are you laughing at?
What the goddamn are you laughing at?
Just like, Jeff and Jack were in Red Dead, Gus was in Halo, I was in Worms.
Worms is a great game.
I love that game.
Some of my favorite Let's Plays you guys did was in the Worms.
I feel like the Worms series has been around forever.
Yeah.
Yeah, I got everyone to play Worms.
I think the week after I started.
That's one where you would name them all, right?
Yeah. Worm names are...
Well, naming my worms is the most fun I have.
And then came to me...
The first one came out in 95.
Was it on PC or PlayStation?
I remember playing a really shitty PlayStation 1 port, I think.
I think this was PC. PlayStation 1 port, I think.
I think this was PC.
The worms are like four pixels.
There were PC games in 95?
It was rough going.
Oh, Windows 95.
That's like when things made the big turn.
Well, that was,
cause I remember as a kid playing like putt-putt
and like all those games where it was like a menu on the desktop that you just only have games and nothing else.
But I didn't realize Worms was that old. Jesus Christ.
In the pre-Windows 95 days, like when I was a teenager, like on Windows 3.1, there were some games that if I wanted to play, I had to have a special boot disk for my computer for them. It's like the boot disk would tell the computer to use RAM differently.
It's like, I'm not going to use Windows, so I don't need my RAM allocated this way.
I need my RAM allocated this way because I'm going to play a game.
So you'd boot off of like a disk, then I could play like X-Wing or whatever.
And do you have to do it that way?
Yes, because if I tried to play it the other way...
Like Huffing Rat would be gone from...
Well, no, it wouldn't even launch. Because you try to do it that way? Yes, because if I tried to play it the other way... Like, half your RAM would be gone from... Well, no, it wouldn't even launch.
Because you try to launch it in DOS,
and it would be like, not enough EMS RAM to launch this game.
I remember, speaking of worms, they had those CG little cutscenes.
And I remember playing...
Probably like Driver 2 on PlayStation 1.
And I remember the game looked like shit,
just like all really polygonal and all jank looking.
But the cutscenes looked amazing because they were all pre-rendered.
And I just remember thinking,
wow, I can't wait for games to actually look like that.
And then we've totally passed that.
I didn't even notice.
Those cutscenes look like shit now.
My favourite is when people compare the Toy Story characters,
yeah, from Kingdom Hearts to like the first couple of
Toy Story movies. And it's like the ones being rendered in real time in Kingdom Hearts look
better than the ones that were pre-rendered in like the Pixar films.
Do you go back to those first Toy Story movies, you're like, God, this looks like shit. But
at the time it was mind boggling. Early CG is really funny. Like I just watched
The Abyss for the first time
because it came out in 4K.
Oh, it's out?
So is True Lies and Aliens, all came out in 4K.
Oh, that's right. You posted about that.
I need to get those.
Did you see the original Dune?
Oh, with Kyle McCluck.
Exactly.
I never saw it.
So there's a scene in Dune where they have these, I guess, shields on
in the second movie,
where they're fighting and they have like...
It's like a glistening thing that you could see.
They have this in the first movie.
Okay, yeah, I just have forgotten everything about the first movie because it was so boring.
But the original Dune, you should look up what those shields look like.
What year was that movie?
It was like 84?
Wow. But you should look up like the when
they're fighting what the body shields look like. It is clearly like frame by frame. It looks like
I don't know how to describe it. It just looks like shit. I've not been watching that because
I was worried it would spoil the second movie because I don't know where to describe it. It just looks like shit. It's so bad. I've not been watching that because I was worried it would spoil the second movie.
Because I don't know where the...
But I really want to see the David Lynch one.
Is it like these...
Yeah.
Oh my God.
It looks like a...
It looks like TARS from...
Yeah.
Like a render error or something.
Yeah, it looks like I haven't downloaded the textures of Gmod.
Yeah, it's Minecraft, haven't downloaded the textures of Gmod. Yeah, it's Minecraft guys.
It's so bad.
That's so cool, it's a bunch of Steve.
It does look like TARDIS.
Yeah, it does.
Yeah, that's not good.
I saw Ex Machina for the first time.
It's a good movie.
Have you guys seen that?
Yeah.
I was trying to remember when that came out.
I want to say it was like...
2016?
The teens?
16 or 17 would be my guess.
So it's not that old.
I mean, yeah.
2014.
Wow.
10 years ago.
Yeah.
Fuck.
God.
It's a good movie.
For those of you like me who haven't seen Ex Machina, very good.
I saw that at Violet Crown.
Yeah, it was really good.
Very also true to form of the way things are now.
A little bit too real.
Yeah.
I think that was Alex Garland, I think,
who directed that one, if I remember right.
Yeah, he makes some good movies.
I feel like I haven't been to the theater in quite a while.
I can't even think what the last movie,
the last new movie I saw in the theater was.
Might've been like Mission Impossible last summer.
Oh wow.
I surprisingly have been going to the Bob Bullock IMAX
for a few movies, like re-releases of stuff.
Saw Ex Machina there and then saw Interstellar play there,
which was like new found love for that movie.
I think that's like probably my top five movies at this point it's just so good but
yeah we went on the same day didn't we? Different times though right? Yeah we were all
gonna go at the same time but then I couldn't make it so I went early I saw
it right before and as I was coming out you were walking in and I was like hey you guys see this movie?
You're like now we just saw it. Just saw it. Bye.
Yeah, I think the first time I saw it in Stellar,
I was in the front row of the IMAX.
And the scene when they went into the black hole
melted my eyes down my face.
So it was nice to see it from a little bit further back.
But that place still doesn't do reserve seating, and that sucks.
Yeah, that's why I don't like going there.
I don't want to queue up in the heat.
I didn't like that either. It's stressful.
They also have no actual food. They have like candy and popcorn, which is great.
Wasn't that most movie theaters though?
You're spoiled by it.
I think I've just gotten spoiled by it.
Like even an AMC has like hot dogs or nachos or like something.
You don't want a movie theater hot dog, do you?
That's the best kind of hot dog.
I had a Costco hot dog the other day for the first time.
Is it good? Yeah. It's like it was a buck 50, it was a hot dog. I had a Costco hot dog the other day for the first time. Is it good?
Yeah.
It was like, it was a buck 50, it was a hot dog and a soda.
I was like, I don't even want this, I just want the hot dog.
Did you need a membership to get that?
They didn't check for it.
I walked in like the exit and just walked straight
to the hot dog thing.
You didn't even talk to anyone, it's like a tablet.
Have you seen that emergency hot dog thing?
No.
It's like a little test tube looking thing
with water and a hot dog inside
and you can press the thing that starts a chemical reaction to boil the water and cooks the hot dog.
I want it. I want to get one.
You guys should see if you could keep DHD hot dogs.
Ah, delicious hot dogs.
What was it?
Was it delicious hot dogs?
I think it was delicious hot dogs, hot dogs.
Yeah.
This is the hot dog.
It looks like a vial.
So you just turn it on.
And then it cooks your dog.
That's...
Stupid, yeah.
Very unappetizing looking.
I don't know if it's a real thing.
For dinner use only?
I don't think this is real.
Or if someone made it.
That's like a funny joke.
For dinner use only might see the dead giveaway.
I mean, it looks like it would work.
Yeah, I mean, hot water.
Cause you just really need to boil them.
See, that's the best.
Are you ever, what situation are you in
where you need an emergency hot dog though?
Walking?
Couldn't be bothered to stop and camp
and boil water and that?
If you want, if you're just hiking
and you want a dog on the go and you've got a bun.
So it's a camping hot dog, it's not an emergency hot dog
Well if you're starving to death it's gonna be emergency
I don't think you're gonna care if it's hot or not
You would just eat a cold soggy dog
I'll eat a dog, wait
You'll eat a- jeez
Um
You guys haven't been camping have you?
Yeah, I used to go camping a lot when I was a kid
I've camped, it's not for me anymore
No Yeah, you get to an age where you're I was a kid. I've camped. It's not for me anymore. No.
Yeah, you get to an age where you're like,
yeah, I need something between me and the ground.
Yeah, just a little bit.
Just a little padding.
Why, are you a big camper?
No, but I'm like, would it be fun to maybe do that more?
Just like be out in nature more?
I think, I'm playing off a hunch here, Barbara.
You might have a little free time coming up.
I think so.
You might be a little more free if you wanna go camping.
I keep making jokes about that
because people have been like,
oh, we should get lunch or something or like grab coffee.
And I'm like, I'll have a lot of free time very soon.
It's been hectic.
Yeah.
The last couple of weeks, just wrapping things up
and it's been like.
Yeah, I feel like people are still working really hard.
Everyone's like trying to finish, like get to a point where
they're happy with like stuff being done.
Yeah, I'm really grateful that we did have like the two months.
It would have sucked if it was just like instant.
I've heard of places that yeah, they've gotten shut down like the doors are locked that day.
Most places are like that.
Yeah.
I think it was, it's good that we're able to try to figure out
like a way to end things and land it.
Yeah, definitely.
Have you stolen anything?
Yeah, I stole a ton of stuff.
Yeah, I really did.
I loaded up my baseball card suitcase
and I was like, eh, it's just baseball cards.
I was talking to Michael about it and he's like,
there's just so much stuff at the office
that's legitimately just mine. Yeah. That like, I don't wanna be about it and he's like there's just so much stuff at the office that's legitimately just mine
Yeah
That like I don't want to be taking it out of the building and someone thinking that I'm stealing something when it's just my stuff
That I've brought. Yeah, like I think I said it earlier that hamster painting. That's mine. I bought that on South Congress
Like an old one. I look around and like there is a ton of stuff. That's mine. This little plane is mine
That Goldegus is not mine
That plane over there is mine. What talk about that's your baby. No son
Yeah, there are a lot of things that is just like stuff that I've bought over the years and it's like yeah
I really I really don't need that. It's fine. If yeah that gets
If someone else takes that or some if that finds a new home or a new life somewhere else. I had someone ask me, someone who I met in town
who was aware of Rooster Teeth and stuff like that.
And they're like, so I heard the news about Rooster Teeth.
So does that mean there's gonna be no RTX this year?
That's their takeaway?
And they weren't legitimately asking me that.
And I was like, well, there wasn't gonna be anyways,
but now definitely not.
I think I'm being told we have a surprise guest
who just dropped in.
Patrick!
Hey guys.
Hey.
Hey, so true story, when I first started here,
one of the first jobs I had,
I got hired for this podcast.
Did.
And so one of the first jobs I had that when got hired for this podcast. Did. And so one of the first jobs I had
that when Kara was training me.
Which is a weird sentence to say.
I know, right?
I know.
Was that I had to go buy the beer
for the podcast every Monday.
Kara said Patrick got a beer run.
And we had to put the set together as well.
You guys had way more experience than everyone, right?
You had run all these operations before.
Patrick came from like a television,
like a broadcast background.
Yeah, and I was buying beer,
and I was just telling the guys that every Monday
she would test me on how I put the set together,
and if I put everything in the right place and just right.
Wow.
So, very detailed, and I appreciate her for that.
But what y'all didn't know is that like after every show
we would collect all the bottle caps from the beers
and I would just throw them in a bin.
And when we moved here to stage five
I found the bin of bottle caps.
And so I kept keeping bottle caps.
And so I made a memento for each of you
that has bottle caps from back at 636.
What the heck?
Cause I remember, I remember Kara telling me very distinctly
Gavin and Barbara like Stella Artois,
Gus is a Shiner person and so is Bernie.
And Gus would take anything.
That was a Garf.
Those sec keys or anything like that.
But anyway, I made one of these for each of you.
I'd forgotten I had these until a while back.
And then I thought, well, I'll make something with them.
That's so cool.
But I have one for each one of you.
Thank you, Patrick.
Oh my God.
I'm putting that up in my office.
That is so cool. Thank you. How many of these were also beers that spilled all over Gavin? Thank you, Patrick. Oh my God. I'm putting that up in my office. That is so cool.
How many of these were also beers that spilled all over Gavin?
Thank you so much. Yeah, I probably spilled all of these.
Thank you.
Oh my God.
Oh, this is the Shiner Ruby Red. That's so good.
How many years was the podcast?
Uh, we started late 08, so 15 and a half. Almost 16 years.
16. So cool.
Oh yeah.
Wait, what? 16. Thank cool. Wait, that's 12. Oh yeah.
Well, it's 16.
Full time for a number.
Thank you, Patrick.
This is awesome.
This is really cool.
Thank you.
Wow.
I genuinely love this.
Oh, it's even the 20 years one.
That's cool.
What's it like at the end of the company being just everyone's favorite person to work for?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Legit.
A very nice feeling.
Cause what's weird is that when I came into the company,
you guys were so tight already that it was really like,
it was really hard to like feel like,
am I gonna fit in here?
Cause everybody was just on the same wavelength
and trying to get into that same wavelength
was difficult sometimes.
But I remember Lindsay was one of the first people
who was really sweet to me.
And Brandon Barmahini would always
try to include me in things and stuff like that.
And so I remember it was actually
Kyle who invited me to a movie we were all going together with. include me in things and stuff like that. And so I remember it was actually Kyle
who invited me to a movie we were all going together with.
And I sat next to Monty and we sat there,
we didn't know each other.
And we sat there the whole time,
didn't say a single word to each other.
But yeah, it was just, I loved working on the show every, you know, every Monday.
And it was just so funny that people would recognize me just from my laughter.
And I remember Gus saying that, like, if I made Patrick laugh, then I know I made a good joke.
Like, legitimately, though, that was, like, one of the driving factors for trying to be funny, is hearing you laugh.
Yeah, I think there were different levels of laughter.
I feel like Nick Schwartz you could get pretty easily,
but if you got Patrick, it was a really good one.
Nick's like the free space on a finger card.
Then the other difficulty is how socially awkward I am.
I don't want to project that on anybody else.
I don't know if you remember when Lindsay first started,
no one ever introduced me to them.
So if I was in a room and Lindsay walked in,
I would walk out.
Oh my God.
Or like, if I saw Lindsay walking down the hall,
I would turn around and go the other way
or like find a different room to go into.
Just cause I was like, I don't know this person
and I don't know what to say. Do you do that with anyone now? No, no, no. And then it got to a point room to go into, just because I was like, I don't know this person and I don't know what to say.
Do you do that with anyone now?
No, no, no.
And then it got to a point where it's like,
this is just super awkward.
Yeah, no, I remember when I interviewed,
like you didn't even show me the studio.
Like the only thing I ever saw was the conference room.
Yeah, cause I think it was like,
it was fucked up at the time.
And I remember, like it was all the shambles.
Do we just not have the annex?
Well, we had the annex at that point
when Patrick came on.
Yeah, Fisher, I gave you a photo of the 636.
It's the set with the concrete in front of it.
Oh yeah, if we could pull up that picture, that'd be cool.
Yeah. Yeah.
That was a garage
that was in between a welder and a plumber.
Yes.
How did we do it in there?
Yeah.
And I think the welder went away and it became like a glass water pipe place, if I remember right.
Yeah.
And it was really shitty because nothing worked.
Yep.
There was no climate control.
It was cold as hell in the winter.
In the winter it was super cold.
And the roof was loud when it was raining.
When it would rain, yeah.
We'd have to stop because it would be so loud.
And there'd be leaks and stuff.
And yeah, and whenever we wanted,
we had a computer to show images on, like in stream,
so we could call it up, but it was so rigged, there was like a 10 step paper
for how to connect the laptop to the system.
And if you didn't follow each step correctly,
no signal would come through.
I never remember that, like I had to cut out a piece
of paper and I put it with the laptop
off to the side of the set.
And I was like, these are the 10 steps to make sure
that we have images available for the podcast.
It was a fucking nightmare.
Yeah, I remember the laptop that used to be behind
Bernie's chair.
And if we lost connection, I'd have to crawl on my hands
and knees and Brandon had showed me a very distinct way
of how to unplug and then count to 10 and then replug it.
And I had to do everything in a certain order
because of the HDMI.
That was it.
That was it.
Yeah.
It was so bad.
Yeah, it was.
So that's why you didn't see it.
Cause it would suck.
I was like, I want this guy to work here.
I don't want it to be like, no, this is too much.
I just want to point out, Michael still does all of that.
Michael still does.
Michael goes through unplugging and plugging things back in.
It's crazy.
It is crazy to think about though,
because like obviously doing the RT podcast for this long,
to me it's like obviously there's a certain group of people
who we did it with a lot,
but I also think of the podcast like synonymously with you Patrick
and like your time here and like the whole crew
and everyone involved in making the show like it is they go hand in hand of
The joy that came with making the podcast for that long and just like having you guys with us and the camaraderie of everybody
And how hard you guys work to you to make it such a great show. I would just show up. I
Didn't even have something to talk about
You just have to sit here.
Yeah, exactly.
What's going on?
What's the Dungeon Master telling us to do?
Yeah, thank you so much for this and for building all of this
and having all of these people do such a great job.
Thank y'all. This was amazing.
It really was.
Can't wait for the TR podcast.
Oh, the Trodcast?
Are you idiots going to keep making stuff together?
I don't know who you're referring to, Gavin.
There's no idiots here on set.
It's the same thing we keep telling everyone.
We have no idea.
There's no news.
We want to.
We would like to. What's funny is that we can all just make this's no news. We want to. We would like to.
What's funny is that we can all just make this whatever we want
if we wanted to.
Yeah.
So on the 21st anniversary, which, you know,
we're recording this, the 21st anniversary,
which is a couple days ago from the time we're recording this,
Jordan had asked Matt, Jeff, myself, and Bernie
if any of us wanted to write something to put on the website for the 21st anniversary.
And I thought nobody else was gonna do it
so I wrote something,
but at the last second Bernie wrote something
and that's what we ended up putting out.
But the thing that I wrote at the very end,
I talked about how 21 years ago,
the tools to make content were very limited
and very expensive.
There were a lot of barriers to entry,
like doing anything was very difficult,
but now like the tools are way cheaper,
access to the software, everything,
like you can do everything on your phone now, right?
Like it's all, everyone has the power
to do it in their pocket.
So anyone can do it, and I look forward to someone doing it.
I said, you know, we lasted 21 years.
I think someone watching this can do better.
And I know that they can.
And so I look forward to seeing whoever's
on the other side of the camera starting their own podcast
and doing their own thing.
And try to beat our high score, because our score was 21 years.
And see if you can do better.
Well, you know what bums me out about all this
is that Mega64 beat us.
Not yet.
They will.
You got one more year?
They're a couple months behind us.
So by late summer, they will beat us.
I talked about that in Ananima a couple of weeks ago.
Talked about the longevity of content creation
and people on the internet.
And I said, I'm glad that they're going to take our spot.
Oh, no, I am too.
On the leaderboard.
Totally just a joke.
If it's going to be anyone, I'm 100% happy that it's them.
I can finally listen to Emma.
Oh, yeah.
I've been saving it.
Why couldn't you listen to Emma before?
He's waiting for all of them to be out.
Yeah, I'm waiting for me to not work her anymore
so I can still get my fix.
Oh, oh.
Well, we just recorded the last one on Monday.
On the last episode of ANMA, we, a couple of weeks ago,
I mentioned how Star Wars Episode I, The Phantom Menace,
is re-releasing in theaters for its 25th anniversary.
Oh, wow.
I think like May 3rd or May 4th, it's going to be in theaters for its 25th anniversary. Oh, wow. I think like May 3rd or May 4th,
it's gonna be in theaters again.
And I said, it would be funny if we did an Anima episode,
this was before we knew we were closing up.
So we did this for the last episode.
If we went down to the theater where Jeff and I camped out
for Star Wars episode one tickets,
and acted like we were camping out again
for the 25th anniversary ticket.
So we went down and we did the final anima at the theater
where we camped out 25 years ago.
We went around to the back.
I wanted to do it from the spot where we camped,
but there were like some sketchy looking cars back there.
I was like, oh, I think people might be living in these cars.
So we went around to the front of the theater
and recorded the final episode by the box office.
Do you have like a little tent or like those?
Cause there's no video or anything.
So we just sat down on the benches by the front.
Is it a rougher area now than it used to be?
Um, no, probably not.
It's about the same.
But I think back then there weren't...
Like, back then that was a new development.
Now there's houses and everything in that area.
Back then, there had been nothing there,
and they carved out a little bit of an empty lot to build a theatre.
Did you see that collection of news clippings
of people complaining about how much Austin has changed?
No.
It'd be like from 2008, it's like, that's ridiculous.
And then there'd be one from like 1982,
and then it would keep going all the way back until it was like 1912,
and people are like, Austin's not the same.
It's just different.
People have just been constantly doing that over time.
Even in the short time I've been here, it's changed so much.
What blows my mind is I was looking through some old content
because for the anniversary I did Rooster Teeth trivia,
so I was watching through a bunch of old stuff
and looking for things I could have questions about.
And I went to watch the immersion we did with Mario Kart,
where you guys were trying to slip on the bananas.
That was out there, like in this lot, before there's like any houses out there,
there was like no other buildings. I think stage seven was also like completely different.
Like the blue starlight was out there, the drive-in movie theater.
It was like desolate and now it's like houses, schools,
other buildings, other businesses.
It's just like insane how quickly that all sprung up.
It's the same thing with that first immersion,
the third person truck driving.
Yeah.
Like that was over there.
Like you had to drive out the back of here,
like, and it was all like...
That was here?
Yeah, it was all off road and dirt.
It was an old unused parking lot
from when the old airport used to be here.
Oh my God.
It's fun to look on Google Earth or Google Maps and watch them clear the site
and how the runway just, you can tell when it stopped being used
because it just started getting overgrown.
The floor would disappear and stuff.
I shot a video with Dan, like a slow-mo, where I was shooting chocolate pudding
out of some sort of air cannon.
And I looked on the map where that was. I was shooting chocolate pudding out of some sort of air cannon.
And I looked on the map where that was.
It ended up being... We were stood on the spot
where I eventually lived when I rented a house over there.
Really?
In the exact same footprint of where a house eventually got built
and then I eventually lived in.
What?
That's so fucking weird.
Are you sitting in the house and you looked at the phone and you're like, wait a minute.
On the dot. I was like, oh my god.
It was like in the house and a little bit of the neighbor's house.
Yeah, you definitely died a few years ago.
Yeah.
Yep.
It's weird.
Which version of you is this?
Yeah, but like you look at the skyline and everything.
Even now, every time I feel like I drive down 35,
I'm like, what the fuck happened?
It's so different.
I remember moving here and it was just like,
I don't know, a couple of buildings,
like nothing even really that tall.
And then all of a sudden everything built up like crazy.
I feel like Brooks in Shawshank Redemption,
like everyone got themselves in a hurry.
That's a great movie. I want to watch that again.
Shawshank Redemption.
Yeah, so good.
I don't know if I've seen that one.
It's so, it's really good.
You don't know if you've seen it?
I don't think I have.
I might have to go watch that, the Bob Bullock IMAX.
I don't know if I've seen Godfather.
Don't worry, they show Shawshank Redemption
on cable television at least 20 times a day.
So probably on now.
It's one of those movies where they figured out that the amount of money it costs to license
it to play it versus the amount of money you can get for commercials on it is like the
greatest return.
So it's just on television constantly.
Okay, I'll probably find it.
I've got some free time coming up.
What was the age you originally said you were going to blow your own head off for the show?
I think people say I said 40.
I think I said 50 initially.
I think you said 40. I think that's what everyone remembers. I think I said 50 initially. I think you said 40.
I think that's what everyone remembers.
I think I actually said 50 the first time.
Roll the tapes.
How many you got left?
I got four more years.
Jesus.
I'm always blown away that I'm older now
than like when I first met you.
I think you were 28 maybe.
Was that?
It was 2005 is when I first met you. I think you were 28, maybe? Probably, was that? It was 2005 is when I first met you.
I was 27.
You were 27?
Jesus Christ.
That's weird.
But yeah, we were watching the play.
You're well older, no offense, Barbara.
You passed out quite a while ago.
Yeah, dude, I'll be 35 this summer.
How old are you?
37?
What the fuck are you talking about?
You're 36.
I'm 35.
35.
You'll be 36 in a few.
Yeah, in a month.
Sorry.
What year were you born?
78.
Do you look forward to reaching the age of 78
and thinking, man, this is like the same as living from
1900 to the year I was born?
I had never thought about that until right now.
Yeah, I really want to live till 88, so I can say that.
I don't know who I'll say it to.
They'll be like, okay, Mr. Free, go back to your bed now.
That's a cool milestone.
What, reaching the...
Yeah.
I mean, it's less cool if you were born in 2004.
I'm four.
You did it.
Yeah, for me it'd be 89.
Yeah, tougher.
Tougher number to get to than 88.
I feel like mine's attainable. I don't know about you guys.
78, yeah.
I think 88 is so much harder than 80.
Yeah, for sure.
Those are some... they're gonna be some rough years, those eight years.
What did the queen get? What did she get to? What was her score? Wasn't she like 90... 97? That's nuts. is so much harder than 80. Yeah, for sure. Those are some, they're gonna be some rough years, those eight years.
What did the queen get, what did she get to?
What was her score?
Wasn't she like 97?
That's nuts.
I don't know.
I feel like she was older than that.
I had a great grandmother that lived to be over 100.
Like my great grandmother was around when I was well an adult
and I was like, my great grandma's still alive,
that's fucking crazy.
Would you choose if the option was available to you
in a safe and tested way
to put your subconscious into an AI that looked and acted like you, essentially,
or had your physical body, but it was your mind,
that would essentially live on?
Wait, so it would look like this?
Did it look better?
Sure, probably.
But to live forever.
But I wouldn't know what it did, because I would actually be dead.
Like, I wouldn't just transfer. I would be... it would be a separate entity.
Yeah. But it would be your, like, consciousness. Or subconscious.
Sure, why not?
I would do it. Yeah.
What if you run out of power, though? You have to like, plug in every night, and you're like,
my battery's not as good as... my battery's at 40%?
What if we didn't have the...
That planned obsolescence.
What if we didn't have the CPU power
and they couldn't put your mind in an AI or like robot body,
but they could put your mind's control over your penis
into just a penis on its own,
and it would move and act like your penis?
So it'd be a real dickhead?
No, just you wouldn't have a head.
No. What the fuck are you talking about?
Just put a penis on a wall. It'd be yours.
No.
Why? What? Why?
The whole brain is pretty difficult.
Yeah, but you'd just be a penis on a wall.
Penises are hard too.
They can be.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'm on fire.
This is the kind of humor you're going to be missing from a couple of weeks from now.
This is why we're getting fired.
Thank you.
It's all because of Gus.
Yeah. I mean, 21 years of content, 15 years of podcasting.
I can't imagine how many awful things I wish I could take back.
Or like, the things that I don't think the same way
or things that I think differently about.
If we had planned this out with more time,
I feel like it would have been fun to go back
and retcon certain things that we said or claimed.
I thought you were gonna say cancel ourselves.
Don't worry, the internet's doing that for us.
I still laugh at, there was like a podcast,
we talked about the word selfie,
about how it was the dumbest thing ever
and how like it would never pick up.
In our defense, it's a fucking dumb word.
It's a very dumb word. And I hate it.
Anytime I hear someone say it, I have less respect for them.
People use it now as just like, could I take a photo?
A photo, yeah.
Like, could I take a selfie with you?
I'm like, well then it's not so.
This goes back to the whole people not learning anything
and using AI in school. That's what's wrong with the kids nowadays. Yeah, I'm still blown away
They put the good camera on the back of a phone. Yeah
The one on the front was dogshit for so long. It's finally okay, but just flip them like people use the front one more
I think it's a matter of like the amount of space in there
Could I also put out a PSA to anyone watching this? Yeah, go for it. Turn off HDR on your phone when you're filming a video.
Why?
Have you ever been scrolling on TikTok or Reels or whatever it is,
and one video all of a sudden is super bright and like...
Yeah.
That's because HDR is on.
Yeah.
Turn it off.
I like HDR.
What's wrong with it?
It makes it...
Get a better dynamic range.
It's the worst. It makes everything so bright
Well, it makes the bright stuff bright makes the dark stuff dark. I'm filming stuff. That's too bright. No Jeff has it on his break card
TikToks that he makes let me show you what is Jeff's thing
Daily rips Jeff's daily rips. Is that what it's called? Yes, I can just be in a real old card. Joe right now
Like I was just scrolling through.
Okay, it's not that one.
I mean, I paid for an HDR display.
I want to see HDR video.
Look what it does. It makes, like, everything else...
That's great.
That looks amazing.
Not when you're...
It's the middle of the night and you're, like, trying to fall asleep.
Don't use your phone in the middle of the night.
If you're trying to fall asleep, why are you using your phone?
To distract my brain.
Tell Alexa to tell you a cool, calming story.
Sorry, I'm not connected to the internet right now.
Personally, I like the HDR videos.
Oh, I hate it.
I think it looks good.
And I wish there was more HDR content.
Like I said, I really do genuinely feel like I have an HDR display.
I want everything to be HDR on my phone.
Well, it just needs to be consistent with the brightness.
Yeah, I will say in your defense.
It's based around brightness.
That's an entire like white background.
That's a shitty way to do that.
I will be literally on my phone
with the brightness all the way down
and these fucking things are still like blinding me.
So that's like what it would normally look like.
Kayden is not doing it anymore, but sometimes it does it.
I will say the other night, you know,
we had some bad storms blow through a couple of nights ago
and it was like at two in the morning, I came through
and I remember thinking, oh, I should check the weather
to make sure there's not like a tornado
or a hailstorm or something.
Tornado.
So I grabbed my phone off the nightstand
and I like, I unlocked it.
And even at the lowest brightness, I was like, oh my God, it's so bright.
Yep, that's what it feels like watching those HDR videos.
Yeah, I feel like lowest brightness isn't low enough
and the lowest volume isn't low enough.
Yeah.
Like you can go down to the lowest notch on volume
and it's still too loud for being in bed,
but then you can like tease it down.
Yeah, tease it down.
That's really faffy on my fingers.
Yeah, but no, I agree.
Sometimes if I'm on my phone late at night,
not sleeping as I should be,
and like Trevor's going to sleep,
and I like don't want it to be too loud.
Yeah, the like lowest notch on the volume is still too loud.
So I have to go in it like.
Tease it down.
Tease it.
Okay, everything sucks.
That's the summary of 16 years of podcasting.
Everything sucks.
What is better?
I mean, making content is a lot easier.
I remember you had to get like special hard drives to capture video too.
What is better? What?
What's better now versus then?
Is that the question?
You like mumbled and had your hand in your mouth.
I was like, what the fuck is he saying?
I'm not good at poker.
Yeah, I mean, it's just easier now.
I'm so annoyed.
We had to spend so much money for hard drives
back in the day to like capture HD,
which is fucking stupid.
Yeah.
Like I said, everything's,
there's so much more processing power everywhere.
I can do it, you do it on your phone.
Internet speeds are way better, downloading shit.
Downloading games on Steam at home, I've got a gigabit connection.
Everything downloads so incredibly fast compared to back then.
What do you think is better now?
Yeah, sharing content.
Yeah.
The speed that you can make stuff.
It's great.
I think it's trying to figure out social media has been a struggle.
Like, I feel like you have to play that game now to make content really like...
Yeah.
I think we're...
Just make it. Just make what you like.
You're making shorts now?
Yeah. I don't mind shorts.
Oh, okay.
It's kind of hard with slow mo because they're long by default.
Just play like the real speed version, be like, you want to see that?
And slow, but way slower?
Watch this 60 minute video.
Yeah.
We're jumping into a pool.
I think even social media usage has radically changed and will continue to change where
it's a lot less personal driven and a lot more just like content.
You know, like TikTok for example, or things like that,
or even you making content and posting it
on different socials.
It's not like eating a cheeseburger
or like just the dumb ephemeral stuff
that people used to pass, a post.
I think that's gone.
There was a lot of food content
when I think Instagram first started.
It was all like pictures of people's lunch.
Well, also the weird thing to me is like,
I don't know how many people remember,
when Instagram started, it wasn't a social media thing.
It was just filters for the camera on your phone.
Yeah, it was a camera app.
Yeah, and it didn't even save the original unfiltered photo.
It would just save the filtered Instagram version.
And I thought it was the dumbest thing in the world.
Why would I, why does it not save the original photo too?
It just takes like a dumb filtered version
and that's all you get.
Yep, I remember that.
I was thinking the biggest switcheroo was on Facebook.
I remember making my account and then you could like
type all the things that you liked.
Like, oh, I like the office and I like this movie.
And then that just sat dormant as your little
packet of interest for years.
And then all of a sudden those things started posting on your feed
to advertise that thing to you. I was like, they've used it against me.
They've weaponized this. Cheeky bastards.
Well, they all became pages, right?
But I'm also just like, who's running the official Pirates of the Caribbean?
This guy right here.
I'm going to have a lot more time to dedicate to my Pirates Facebook page.
I don't know if we've ever talked about this, but you know how I used to run the social media route? This guy right here. I'm gonna have a lot more time to dedicate to my Pirates Facebook page.
I don't know if I've ever talked about this,
but you know how I used to run the social media
at Rooster Teeth? Yeah.
That included Facebook.
And for some reason, I don't know how it happened.
We had like certain pages for random things,
including like Matt Hallam and like all our different shows,
Miles Luna.
And for some reason, I had ownership over those pages,
so I would get messages on those pages,
people thinking I was Matt, which was legit.
And just the weirdest messages, and I was like,
I wonder if I should tell these people about these,
or just...
I'd be deceptive if it was people who knew Matt
from high school or something.
Oh.
Hey, Matt, you still owe me 20 bucks, you son of a bitch.
I buy a lot of domains.
And I own a domain that is similar to someone's realty
business.
Oh, god.
So I frequently get email that's very clearly
intended for them.
And it's not a domain I use.
It just gets delivered into a general bucket for that domain.
And I can't even... I don't even know if I can figure to send email out of that domain.
It just sits there like, I don't know what to do with these. These aren't for me.
I know. And then you feel guilty of just like, should I be doing something with these? Or... I don't know.
How many domains do you have?
Oh, I don't know. 40, 50?
What's your annual domain bill?
I don't know.
It doesn't all happen at once, so it's hard to say.
It's spread out over time as I buy them.
Your annual domain bill.
It's a lot cheaper.
Back in the late 90s when we started getting domains,
because it used to be there was a point where
it was difficult to get them, and then they opened it up.
There was only one company you could buy domains from.
It was Internic and it was $70 a year for domains back then.
For all domains?
Yeah, but it was only, it was a lot more limited.
It was only like.com.net.org.
That's it.
It was $70 a year for any domain.
And now it's like 12 bucks or something.
Yeah.
Super affordable.
It's a lot better.
Do you think you guys have a favorite production
or favorite show that you've worked on
in the last 21 years?
It's funny, there's a lot that I'm sure I've forgotten.
Yeah.
I think right now it's definitely Stinky Dragon.
Man, I don't know. It's a weird phenomenon where it's definitely stinky dragon. Man, I don't know.
It's a weird phenomenon where it's like,
you try to think back, but there's like so much
that you're like, oh yeah, that thing.
Completely wiped my memory.
Even so many one-off things or live streams we did
for promotional things.
Like I met Thierry Henry at day of doom.
Oh yeah.
Like how fucking weird and random is that?
Everyone was excited about, like...
Everyone's calling him, like, Thierry Henry.
Yeah.
But I was excited about, like, I think, like,
American football player Gronk was there,
was excited about that. And I was like,
fucking, Thierry Henry is right, he's right there.
Like, that dude passes a statue of himself
going into the stadium to play soccer.
Jesus, he's so famous.
It's weird stuff like that.
That stands out to me.
Where it's like, I was in the same room as this other person,
or I talked to them.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, there's that podcast where we're sat next to Rosario Dawson.
Yeah.
And I was just sat on the couch, just like...
What has happened?
I'm from a small town in England. I don't know why I'm here.
How did I get on this?
I think it was during the PlayStation 3 reveal at E3
when Jeff and I sat next to Steven Spielberg.
I did not know about that.
Yeah, it's like the viewings for the PlayStation 3 demo were by appointment.
And they had a small theater set up with 30 or 40 people at a time.
And Jeff and I showed up at our appointment time
and we sat down, the lights dimmed,
then like right after the lights were dimmed
and right before the presentation started,
Steven Spielberg came in at the last second
and sat like right next to us with like his son
and his son's friend.
Like Steven Spielberg was next to us
and then his son and his son's friend were like
right in the row in front of us.
How did you realize?
Cause I, when someone comes and sits down to me
next to me in the theater, I never look at them.
Well, it's because it was weird
because the lights were already off.
It was about to start, like, who the fuck came in late?
Oh, okay, that's cool.
Or the time we were at a San Diego Comic-Con
and Jeff and I went to the hotel bar,
the hotel we were staying at and sat down.
Then I looked over and JJ Abrams was right there.
Geez, yeah.
It was like right after Star Trek had come out
and I think, I was like, oh Trek had come out. And I think...
I was like, oh, that's weird.
And then the bartender came up and was like,
y'all aren't going to fuck with him, are you?
No, no, no, no, no.
Just want my drink. That's all. I'm going to leave him alone.
Was I with you when we stood right behind Sandra Bullock
in some coffee place?
Oh, yeah. It was on West Sixth.
It was at that Walton's Fancy and Staple.
And then that was the time I played Battlefield
with Terry Crews. Fancy and staple. And then there was the time I played Battlefield with
Terry Crews and Bernie was on the other side next to Snoop Dogg.
Oh, yeah.
That's my favorite story about her.
Passing a joint over Bernie back and forth.
And I can't even see him.
He was just in the cloud at the other end.
That's one of my favorite stories is hearing how Bernie got high from Snoop Dogg
and like went back to the green room and was like,
oh, Twizzlers, hell yeah.
And started eating them.
He got high directly from Snoop's lungs.
Yeah.
I really liked Stinky Dragon,
I think has been one of my favorite things we've ever done here.
But I also had so much fun doing the immersion episodes.
I think about that one we did, was it North Carolina?
Or like... Georgia. The racing one? The racetrack was really fun. Yeah, real fun about that one we did. Was it North Carolina or like... Georgia. Georgia.
The racing one?
The race track was really fun.
Yeah, real fun that one.
Real great.
That was also an anniversary.
That was 10th anniversary.
Yeah.
Yeah, we did a podcast in there.
Yeah, from...
The old view tower.
Yeah.
Yeah, I vomited a lot that day.
You did.
Emotion was really fun almost every time.
Except I caught on fire once, that wasn't as fun.
I really like the Fallout one, we did.
That one was the weirdest one. That was just kind of like improv.
Yeah.
I remember.
You guys are going to go here and get this information from this person and then...
I remember making that and there was like a loose plot that we had to follow,
but pretty much anything else we were just reacting to the stuff.
And I was talking to Tyler Coe who was just being an NPC and I legitimately,
due to like really poor nerf gun trigger discipline, I accidentally shot him.
And he just went with it and died. He like canonically died in the thing.
And I was laughing so much.
I just couldn't believe that that was the take we were using.
I was like, oh, he's dead.
And you were supposed to like get information for him or something?
Yeah, like we got the information.
I just killed him after we got the quest.
And then that's how it turned out on the episode.
And I think that it's just so funny that he, without even thinking,
just went with the death and we just filmed it as it was supposed to happen.
That's one of those playthroughs where you do a quick load from your last save.
I accidentally quick-saved after it.
Oh, that was so good.
There were... I still remember we did...
I think it was one of the first immersions, I think,
me and Lindsay were also on with you and Michael,
where it was the...
You guys had each other's perspectives
and we had paintball guns.
Oh yeah.
Oh my God, Michael in that hole.
Oh my God.
And we were trying to get, it was like this like weird visor
that they rigged with cameras and screens
and like it was really crazy
and trying to get it comfortably on your face.
It's not shown in the video.
It took like 45 minutes.
It sucked.
You had to put like a tissue here.
Patrick was on that as well, right?
You were running all the...
Because we had all that wireless HDMI shit.
There was so much tech on that one.
That was a nightmare.
And Michael just kept falling in the same hole.
He fell in the same hole three times.
And I just couldn't walk because I was laughing so much.
That I remember also that day.
So like we had parked in the parking lot
and then you had to walk like half a mile or so
out to where that setup was.
Yeah.
I remember we were done for the day,
and Bernie looked around and was like,
has anyone seen my car key?
And I was like, no.
He goes, I think I dropped it
somewhere between here and the set.
Oh my God.
And you had to start walking back and forth
that half mile over and over looking for his car key.
He eventually found it.
It was just on the ground somewhere.
Wow.
Immersion was fun as well because a lot of the time we were just in a different location.
Yeah.
There's so much waiting around because a lot of the time we had like eight cameras on it.
And I remember us just playing in that big pipe.
With the trials.
With those Hot Wheels cars trying to get them to rust around the thing.
Well, you kicked them.
I still have that video. It pops up on my phone right now.
And then they went all the way around the pipe
and then like hit each other.
That was amazing.
Yeah, I think that in Million Dollars, But too,
is like some of the most fun I've had like on set.
I think it's because like those were such big,
high budget productions for a bit.
And it was, I don't know,
it was cool to have like such a big crew involved and like...
Do you remember when we did the crowdfunded million dollars buck card game
and it legitimately made a million dollars in one day?
Yeah. That's crazy.
It was a million dollars but then the first laser team movie
are the two things we did crowdfunding for, right?
Yeah.
Gosh.
I think a lot of the most fun I had was actually towards the end.
Like, I really love
Bleep Face.
I look forward to it every day.
You think you guys are going to try
to keep making stuff together?
There'll be something.
OK.
And even like, late
game achievement
hunter, let's play like all the Gmod
stuff, like in the in the Fiona
era, I loved all of that
so much. Survive Block Island. Oh, that in the Fiona era. I loved all of that so much.
Survive Block Island.
Ooh.
Survive Block Island was really fun.
Also so stressful.
That was fun, that was really good.
It was a Survive Block Island bit of trivia
in your trivia contest the other day.
And I knew it because the first person eliminated
in season one was the person I was trying
to make an alliance with.
Yeah.
And I was like, fuck, I'm screwed now.
I had to be very particular with my wording in that question, say eliminated, not voted
off.
Right, because...
He technically wasn't voted off.
Yeah, we ended up on that.
Oh, it went to rocks on the first...
Dude, it got fucked immediately.
It was so fucked up.
It was a tie and then it said, okay, you can only vote for these people that the tie is between.
And then there was another tie, and so then it had to go to Picking Stones with the people who weren't voted for,
because that's survivor rules.
It's basically, if you guys can't come to a conclusion, then the people who were voting now are in jeopardy as a punishment, essentially.
Right.
And I think it was you, BK and Jacob had to pick, right?
I think so.
Some weird stuff happens in those rules.
Like I think on Survivor, it might have been Seree or someone.
Because it was a tie so many times and then it went to rocks
and there was certain immunities, she was just gone by default.
And I think was the only person to never have received a single vote and been eliminated from Survivor. She was so good though.
Seri, she's been on a few seasons now.
Yeah.
It's funny when you really get into the weeds of the rules
and you're like,
and we never thought this would happen, but here we are.
Everyone understands all the rules to a certain extent.
And then it's like, all right,
let's go and get the rule book.
Yeah.
Some scenarios have happened.
The flow chart has gone to this one specific point.
The contingency for the contingency for the contingency.
It's wild.
Yes, I think Survived Block Island is definitely up there.
And then I wasn't in Season 2,
but watching Season 2 was fucking great.
Yeah.
What was your least favourite thing that you made here?
Ooh.
I think least favorite.
Well, I won't count that
because that wasn't like officially
like something we put out.
They're beloved and I like them,
but I hated making them some of the early RT shorts.
Oh. Yeah.
Because it would take fucking forever to film.
It'd be like, we've got it, we've got it.
We don't need to keep doing takes.
Oh my God, we've got it.
How many times have you heard One More for Safety?
Like legitimately.
I remember making the,
cause I was in a few in the, I assume the first season.
The one where I was- Secret Dory I think
is still my favorite R2 short ever
and that's with the Gabby clones.
Cause we had a scene there where I had to like come back at night
to see what was in the closet.
And it just legitimately was night because we'd been filming so long.
And then after that we had to do me changing outfits
and standing in a different spot trying to get that shot.
And I think it was like 2am by the time we finished.
Yeah, it sucked. I hated it.
And then it was like straight back to work the next morning.
Work on RBB and all that.
I love some of those old shorts.
They were great.
But yeah, I imagine they're tedious to make.
I remember the first short I was in was the Siri holiday
horror movie trailer.
It was great.
But it was a very, it took days to film that.
Because especially when you're making a trailer,
it's like we need this shot of this happening
and this little bit in this little bit.
But that's the short where I was covered in blood
and I had texted Bernie to help me.
And then I put my phone down for like four hours
and I came back to like a string of texts being like,
ha ha.
Are you okay though?
Like, what's going on?
Hello, like, do you actually need help?
And I felt very bad.
But I was rewatching that one the other day What's going on? Hello? Do you actually need help? And I felt very bad.
But I was rewatching that one the other day.
And I think that might be my least favorite short that exists online
because I had to scream in that short.
But I was so not confident in myself or comfortable screaming
because when you're not used to performing,
screaming is a very weird thing.
So throughout the short, you hear one scream that I did
that I mustered up the courage to, and it was like, ah!
So many times in that trailer.
And I think they just reused it a few times.
And I was rewatching it the other day, and I was like, this is awful.
Oh.
I think I disliked making Weird Place the most.
Which I think actually turned out good,
and was actually quite an interesting show.
But I remember just having shit sleep,
and we had to film at night, because it was open during the day.
So I was just awake all day when I should have been sleeping,
and then as I was starting to get tired, it would be like,
all right, let's head to set, it's 9pm.
It's like, oh my god.
And all the stuff is like bright flashing lights
And I just remember just being between setups just being like I feel like I'm asleep. Did you all do that Santa Fe?
Yeah, yeah, that was Santa Fe. I
You guys weren't on this shoot, but and I was barely on it
But I know it was a least favorite experience from a lot of people is camp a trail
Apparently that was a nightmare because it was a least favorite experience from a lot of people is camp betrayal. Apparently that was a nightmare
because it was all overnight shoots.
So it was like 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. shoots.
But it was like really cold and like wet and muddy.
I got eliminated the first night,
so I didn't have to come back.
But apparently the second night,
they were having like tech issues or something.
And Fredo was like kneeled in the the mud, had his hands tied behind his back
because they were playing some game they were playing, blindfolded
and he was just sitting there in the mud, I think he said for three hours
while they were trying to get things fixed.
I think that's the worst part that people don't see is the setup and the waiting
and all the stuff that goes wrong, like, oh my god.
Yeah, and I'm like, okay, I'm not so pissed about being eliminated.
Night shoes are extra bad when you're transitioning in or out of them.
Like, if you've been doing nights for like three weeks,
you get kind of in the right schedule.
The swing of it.
And then, but in the winter it's the worst.
Like we did laser team at night in the cold.
That was the worst day.
And I remember just between takes being freezing because I'm wearing a ski suit.
Yeah.
And at one point I wrapped myself in a blanket and stood by one of the lights,
but it was one of the really bright ones, so the blanket caught fire.
And I was finally like the right temperature.
Oh, that's nice as it was like smoke coming off the back.
I was like, I'm finally warm.
Yeah, there was a night, laser team was particularly brutal,
I think because of the time period you guys were filming it,
but we had like a whole scene that was out,
it was supposed to be like a house party.
And Michael gets like tased in the movie
and falls into the pool.
And I'm like, I feel horrible for you.
And then then we had like extras and stuff like that
who were a lot of like volunteers, community members,
all that stuff who participated in the movie,
who had to be in the pool for that whole shoot. And it was like 25, 30 degrees.
It wasn't, it wasn't, was it that cold?
Very cold. And that was also the same time we had to do the cheerleader uniforms out in the cold.
And that was brutal because it was like a football field. So there's like nothing to
catch the wind. That was brutal. So cold.
I'm Canadian, I've never been colder in my life.
It's been, yeah, it's been a lot to look back at.
It's crazy to think about all the different projects.
I still am confused about some stuff.
Like what?
Like John Risinger shot me in the face,
in the mouth with a paintball.
But I was wearing a paintball mask.
How did it get in my mouth?
I still don't know.
I don't understand the physics of it.
It went into my throat through a paintball mask.
You had the visor, right?
Yeah. So there's probably a little, like it probably, you probably had your head,
like you went back for a second and then it went.
We need some slow-mo on that.
I've analyzed the footage. I can't tell how it went in but I remember just spitting out
It was either paint paint and shell or it was blood and teeth and I was hoping for
You're hoping for blood and teeth that would have been is that your worst injury you've had with Rooster Teeth
Max Crumkey knocked me out with a
What was your first impression of Max Krumke? What was your first impression of Max Krumke?
What was your first impression of Max Krumke?
What was your first impression of Max Krumke?
What was your first impression of Max Krumke?
What was your first impression of Max Krumke?
What was your first impression of Max Krumke?
What was your first impression of Max Krumke?
What was your first impression of Max Krumke?
What was your first impression of Max Krumke?
What was your first impression of Max Krumke?
What was your first impression of Max Krumke?
What was your first impression of Max Krumke? What was your first impression of Max Krumke? I was doing the Max is kidding me with the bird. I don't remember that.
That was funny.
I'll tell you about that afterwards.
And I got like a slow-mo injury
that was technically a wrist tooth production.
Stitches.
Oh Jesus.
And I got hit by a piece of exploded spray paint can.
I think I know what Gus's worst injury was here.
What was it?
It's when we were filming that TikTok
of us doing the blindfolded tortilla challenge.
Oh, yeah.
Or we had to hit each other with blindfolds
or with it.
You had blindfolds with tortillas.
And John Risinger, again, just like, I guess, caught one of you.
He was swinging.
And it's swinging at you and like hurt your finger.
Yeah, it was this finger.
Like, he hit it in such a way that it like instantly started ballooning and swelling.
Yeah.
Like he hit it and I had to stop and I was like I need to take my ring off.
I tried to take my ring off immediately.
Yeah.
It just started swelling and like for a month I couldn't bend it.
I was like, oh my god.
Did he break it?
He might have.
I don't know.
Kept in you a fracture or something.
Maybe.
It was either that or when we did, I think we were trying to do like the fifth grade
fitness test.
You were sore for like weeks.
I couldn't move.
I didn't want to lose my desire to not lose my desire to be competitive.
That's my problem is I get super competitive about stuff.
Yeah.
Like I'll hurt myself.
During one of the early immersions also, the side scrolling one, when Jeff and I could
only see ourselves from the third person, like a Mario game,
I think Bernie hit me as a bullet bill,
and that hurt me pretty bad.
Yeah, I was hurt for a while after that.
Did it smash the thing into your face?
It smashed the thing into my face,
and then it knocked me off balance,
and since I couldn't see,
because I had the mask on, I could only see third person,
I couldn't catch myself,
so I ended up tumbling really bad.
Oh yeah, I remember, I also took a football to the face for Extra Life
that hit me so hard that it like skipped frames.
Oh my God, Extra Life.
Yeah, that was like lots of moon balls,
which would be paint balls that would be bruising.
Yeah.
But Brad Stuvart kicked a ball so hard at my head
that I saw the ball on the floor, I saw his leg kicking it.
And then like one frame later in my vision,
I could only see my own leg and the skull.
It was just like this.
And everything in between was missing.
It just came at me so fast.
God.
Rattled me.
Awesome, awesome shot.
Really put our bodies up for.
That's been fun.
There's nothing permanent.
I was younger back then. Yeah. We really put our bodies up for... That's been fun. There's nothing permanent.
We were younger back then.
Yeah.
You see that...
not received related,
but you're talking about interesting reminder,
but do you see that video a couple of days ago
of the guy who almost got hit by that saw?
No.
It was like some guy, I think it was in Oregon,
walks into a convenience store
and there's like security camera footage.
And then like a second or two after he walks in,
this random giant saw, probably the size of, maybe smaller than that,
maybe the size of the gold part here.
This giant saw blade just comes out of nowhere
through the parking lot,
like boom, like embeds itself into the wall.
Sounds like a level of Half-Life 2.
Where he had just been walking.
My God.
I guess it was some wood saw
that had come loose from a construction site.
I've seen stuff like that like tires coming loose from cars
Yeah, bouncing down the road and almost hitting pedestrians and anything with like circular momentum can just store so much energy
They'll just go forever. Yeah, I want to see that. I'm sure I find that is wild. Yeah, I'm caseless
I've never I don't I hate cases. Oh
I'm going caseless
Case guy now your case guy now? When did that happen?
I think like four or five phones ago when I smashed like a week old iPhone.
What case you got?
Oh, it's nice.
Oh, and it has the little wallet on the back.
Yeah, I love the wallet.
That's so smart.
So you drop it and then everything goes flying.
The wallet could be stronger.
Walks into a store.
What?
Oh my god!
God, god, it just sticks in the wall!
Oh my god!
Where did that even come from?
I think it was like a construction site across the street or something.
Can you imagine being the guy operating that sword, it's gone?
You're like, uh.
Or imagine all the little decisions in that guy's life
that put him through the door at that moment.
What if you'd been a second slower?
What if his keys, what if you dropped his keys when you picked him up
and had to bend over and grab him or anything along the way
that would have delayed him just another second?
It's like that truck that lost the wheel right under that other car and it flipped the car.
Do you see that one?
No.
Yeah.
It looks like someone just like in James Bond movie just like fires a tire out and it completely flips the car.
It literally launches it up.
It's amazing how easy it is to look for a car to flip.
Again, like all that momentum you can very easily get them going the other way.
Get them going the wrong way.
So no more ANMA,
but are you and Jeff gonna try to do stuff together still?
Probably, I mean, everything's still so up in the air.
So I was thinking about this the other day,
and you guys have mentioned this a number of times,
of like the podcast and the shows that we've been doing
are like really the only time we see each other
and talk to each other.
And it's like, do we have to continue a podcast?
That's exactly Jeff's argument for doing Animo
or for continuing trying to find something new to do.
Oh, good old Chatsworth.
We're watching it.
Oh God, I still can't believe it.
Here it comes.
Here comes the boop. Oh my God, I still can't believe it. Here it comes. Here comes the boop.
Oh my God.
Can you imagine just being in that?
You got some serious air.
Yeah, you're just driving
and then you know you're like 15 feet in the air.
Yeah, like what happened?
It's like you looking at your foot,
except like they're driving
and then they're looking down at the road.
Weird enough, Brad Stupor was driving that truck.
So Tyler said that the pizza's here.
Should we go have some pizza?
Maybe we should wrap this up and go get some pizza.
Any final words?
I guess thanks for watching.
Whether it was for one week, one year, or 21 years,
it's been a lot of fun.
Yeah, it's been just an absolute honor
being paid to make people laugh. Yeah. I think that's, at the of fun. Yeah, it's been just an absolute honor being paid to make people laugh.
Yeah, I think that's at the end of the day.
That's that's all we wanted to do is make people laugh.
And I'm excited to see what we all do
a few weeks from now in the future.
If you have any ideas, let me know.
All right. Thank you guys.
Bye. We love you.
Did you do jazz hands?
No, like, she said we love them, I was like, I don't know.
We did jazz hands.