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BARB: I’ll spend more time doing! Winkey face!
GUS: Wink!
JOEL: Those guys s-s-seamlessly worked in.. like the lyrics to that song.
JACK: Seamlessly! Haha.
JOEL: I mean, that was artfully done.
GUS: That was Paskill on the Rooster Teeth website.
JOEL: That was..
GUS: Thank you Paskill.
JOEL: An exercise in subtlety and artistry.
GUS: Who knew that..
JOEL: Like a tapestry of music and.. and of culture.
GUS: I think that.. I don’t remember now, but I think the Paskill user is in Ireland, so who knew that the Irish were..
BARB: Wow!
GUS: Were, were capable of such musical feats.
JOEL: You know it’s weird. Why are people always losing their accents when they sing?
GUS: You think so? Like say a..
JOEL: Can you tell they are from Ireland?
BARB: I, I notice when British people do that.
GUS: No.
BARB: Like the Spice Girls can’t tell they’re British.
JACK: Adele does that.
BARB: Adele?
JOEL: No you can’t tell with Adele.
GUS: No. You .. the.. There’s something weird about their voice still.
BARB: That.. I guess there’s something that’s weird, but..
GUS: Like, like if you think about the Beatles, it sounds ..off.
BARB: Well with the Beatles, I think.. you, you could tell more.
JOEL: Well, they were.. they were really high, and from England, so that’s different. All the time.
GUS: Were, were they high early on?
JOEL: I..
GUS: What about early Beatles? Like ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’?
JOEL: It’s.. it’s hard to say.
GUS: What about ‘Let’s Smoke this Doobie Together’? Their.. their big hit?
JOEL: I know..
JACK: I love that song!
BARB: Wow!
JOEL: But you always.. I also notice when you say..
BARB: The song of my people!
JOEL: When you say.. when you say ‘Bing’, you said ‘Binguh’.
GUS: Yeah.
JOEL: Like you are working to get the ‘G’
GUS: What’s, what’s
BARB: Bing!
JACK: Binguh.
GUS: What’s funny is when we did the first Bing ad, or before we recorded the podcast with the first Bing ad, and Burnie was like “Oh, this is gonna be great. I can’t wait to hear you say ‘Bing’, cause I know you. You always stress that ‘G’”. I was like “You asshole!”
JOEL: Like.. You just like to punch the ‘G’.
BARB: Wait, how do you say it?
JOEL: Always trying to punch the ‘G’ Gus!
GUS: How do you say it?
BARB: How do you say it?
JOEL: Well, I don’t want to talk about it now.
GUS: Ahhh!
JOEL: Pronounce it.. Buh.. Buh..
BARB: See I’m used to enunci-at-ing everything.
GUS: Yeah, me too.
JACK: So, so you’re saying Bing won? Go ahead and say that. Say it.
GUS: Bing? Huh what?
JACK: What? Could you like say won. Like
GUS: Won?
JACK: Wan?
BARB: Like they won the game.
GUS: Won. Oh won.
BARB: like you and I both say ‘wan’
JACK: Can you say “Bing wan?”
GUS: Yeah, wan. You won the game.
JACK: Binguh. Wan.
BARB: Yeah.
GUS: Wh wh.. wh wh.. why would you not say won? How do you say it?
BARB: I know it’s not..
JACK: Won
BARB: O-N-E?
GUS: One?
JACK: Yeah
JOEL: Won the game. Yeah.
GUS: No they.. if it’s not one
JOEL: That’s what regular.. normal people say
GUS: not the number one.
BARB: No it’s not the one! How do you one?
GUS: How do you one? They won.
JACK: Well that’s true..
BARB: It’s spelled W-O-N
JOEL: No one says..
JACK: Because no words in the English language sound the exact same..
GUS: Thank you!
JACK: not at all..
JOEL: No one says wan.
GUS: I appreciate the concession, Jack.
BARB: Yes. Thank you, Jack.
JACK: Absolutely..
GUS: For the record, Jack conceded that I’m right.
JACK: Clearly..
BARB: Thank you for confirming.
JOEL: I don’t think he did. I think he was being..
JACK: Like I’m, I’m going to the store and I’m going or, I.. you know.. oh, I don’t know.
BARB: Go on...
GUS: Don’t give me bullshit about to. You cannot say shit about to.
JOEL: Like I won the store or I ..
JACK: Or when I count I go one, tu-wwo, three, four
JOEL: Cause you’ve got to hit that ‘W’.
JACK: You’ve got to hit that ‘W’.
GUS: You don’t go wan, tu-wwo, three?
JACK: Wan, twwo..
GUS: So this week if you haven’t been able to tell, we’ve got Jack,
JACK: T-three
GUS: Barbara, Joel and Gus.
BARB: Wussup?
JACK: Hi, Internet!
GUS: Sitting in on the Rooster Teeth Podcast.
JACK: Gus! How amped and excited are you for RTX, next weekend?
BARB: uuuuhhh
GUS: No, no, no, no it’s not.. nu not this weekend, next weekend. Next weekend.
JACK: Yeah, next weekend, in Austin, Texas. July 7th and 8th!
BARB: I just threw up a little bit..
GUS: We, uh sold out. Our tickets sales are now closed.
JACK, JOEL, BARB: Yay!
GUS: We were hoping to have extras sold at the door, but, uh in the last minute rush, we realized we sold.. the perfect
amount, and we can sell no more.
JACK: Yes.
GUS: So there will be no tickets available at the door.
JOEL: So is Stubhub.. Can, can I , can I go in front of the convention center, and like take tickets I have and like..
JACK: Oh dude! We could scalp tickets..
JOEL: Oh. Scalp tickets..
JACK: Dude! How much do you think a VIP badge would be or a, or a staff badge? ooh! how much would a staff badge be?
JOEL:Oh my God. I will totally sell my staff badge to someone. Walk around like, “I’m Joel Haymen”
JACK: Think we could get a grand for that? That’d be enough to fly to Vegas.
GUS: Th.. The badge doesn’t grant you anything. It grants you ..
JACK: Well, no! Don’t tell them that! They don’t know that.
GUS: Staff badge just identifies you.
JOEL: That’s not true. It gives them.. grants them to the special secret room.
JACK: Yes!
BARB: Winkey face...
GUS: Yeah. The special secret room. It’s in the basement.
JOEL: It’s in the basement..
GUS: of the Alamo
JACK: The Alamo
BARB: Yeah. It’s very soon.
GUS: Yeah, it’s uh, its, its uh crazy man. It’s, it’s on top of us.
JACK: We need someone..
JOEL: You doing OK?
GUS: Yeah.?
JOEL: Are you looking for grey hairs right now?
GUS: I, I’ve got ‘em. I feel like I lost years on my life.
JOEL: It’s gonna be, It’s gonna be great.
JACK: It’s pretty cool.
GUS: Yeah, I hope so. I’m like yeah. We’ve, We’ve put a lot of hard work into it, and now it’s just like it’s it’s, you know we
have, now, now,now we’re in the phase where we have these super long logistic meetings.
JACK: Oh.
BARB: Yeah.
GUS: I was just explaining this to someone the other day.
JOEL: See? That’s rough.
GUS: It’s like OK. We’re going to put a table here. OK, where. How many feet from here, how many from there? OK. Where are we gonna run the power cables. We’re gonna drill a hole in the table. OK How big’s the hole? OK. Where do we get the
Drill? Where does the drill plug in? Who’s going to do the drilling? What time is the person going to do this.
JOEL: Ho,ho, Honestly, it’s true
BARB: This is honestly no exaggeration, at all
JOEL: I,I,I,I,I,It’s true.
GUS: Yeah. What color is the table? What color is the drape around the table? What are we gonna do about the sawdust
after we drill. It’s like every single little detail, now..
BARB: You and I
GUS: Being hammered out.
BARB: sat in that uh. logistics meeting on Friday for what? Three hours?
GUS: Yeah. It was, it was really long
BARB: and that was just going over Thursday and Friday.
JACK: I, I was there too….
JOEL: How’s that..
BARB: Oh yeah, and Jack too!
JACK: Thanks! Haha
JOEL: How’s the Achievement Hunter booth looking?
JACK: It’s actually looking pretty good, man. And we, uh we lined it up yesterday.
GUS: That’s the meeting I was talking about, where we were like, we were like, where’s the table gonna go. Where are the
cables gonna go?
BARB: Do you want to explain a little bit about what the Achievement Hunter.. lounge is gonna be..
JACK: Yeah. Sure. We can talk about it! So the Achievement Hunter Lounge is gonna be sort of a laid back area of uh RTX. It’s gonna be a place where you can come play some games.. We’re gonna have setups with uh.. we’re gonna have what?
Well, let’s see.. HORSE,
BARB: Dance..
JACK: Well, we’re gonna have Dance Central. We’re gonna have two Kinects set up for that. Cause..
JOEL: Are you gonna participate in that?
JACK: I will not, but I’m sure Miles will jump up and dance. We know.. We knew people love that crap, so
GUS: That crap!?
JACK: Well, I’m not a big dancer. Dancing is crap for me, but anyway. Uh, we’re gonna have uh, we’re gonna have a Halo set up. Four Halo machines set up playing um, playing Reach. Playing Horse maps. That I’m working on getting us some cool
HORSE Maps. We’re gonna have a Minecraft pod of four Minecraft machines set up, um. And we’re basically gonna have the
whole game set up just to run for the whole weekend. And we’ll probably make a video showing, uh, showing off what the uh
you know.
JOEL: You should have like competitive Minecraft, where people kill each other.
GUS: You should have..
JACK: That’s our Let’s Plays.
GUS: You should have Gavin show up in disguise, and start fucking up the stuff people are making. Like he shows up with
that giant Jack beard that Burnie bought.
JACK: God! Uh, and then uh
JOEL: I can’t tell if you’re losing weight, or if your beard is just getting bigger.
JACK: It’s getting bigger.
JOEL: Like the perspective is all off. You know, I can’t tell what’s happening anymore.
BARB: Yeah. It makes you look smaller, compared .. in comparison.
JACK: Yeah. That’s good. I need to make this, uh I need to make my beard huge. And what else are we gonna have? We’re
going to have some Trials: Evolution there, so we’re going to have some Trials: Evolution machines to play, and we’re also
having two machines set on the Impossible Game. Cause we love that game.
GUS: Yeah. And you’ll have, um, Achievement Hunter.. personalities there.
JACK: Yup, yeah
GUS: Throughout the weekend?
BARB: Pop in and out
GUS: Talking with people, playing games.
JACK: We’re gonna be rotating in and out, so uh you wanna be looking for us in the Achievement Hunter area, the
Achievement Hunter Lounge area of RTX..
JOEL: So say you go to the Achievement Hunter..
JACK: Go to the Achievement Hunter booth
JOEL: Booth, and there’s a big line of people.
JACK: OK.
JOEL: Wanting to play games.
JACK: OK.
JOEL:And then the people who are playing the games go, “Jack! Jack, Jack. Play the game with us!”
JACK: Mmhmm
JOEL: And then you have that moment where it’s like “OK, am I gonna cut in front of all these people, and like, play the game cause the fans want me to play the game, or am I not gonna cut?”
JACK: See, I usually.. I’ll jump in for a minute or two, but, but I don’t stay.. I don’t play videogames for a long time on show floors like that.
JOEL: See, that’s a real like dilemma for me.
JACK: Oh yeah?
JOEL: I feel genuinely guilty because I don’t want to cut in front of people
JACK: You want to cut.
JOEL: but if the people want me to play..
BARB: I’m sure no one would mind
JACK: You just want to play Halo 4 the whole weekend, don’t you?
JOEL: Haha. Trying to work it in. Well, if I just stand there for three hours, you think that would be cool?
GUS: The staff badge lets you get in early, so technically you could be in the booth when the door opens.
JACK: That’s true.
GUS: So you’d already be playing.
JACK: You’d be first in line.
JOEL: You know what Jack did? He’s committed us to, he’s trying to have us have this thing start off on the right foot for me,
because already, and I’m happy to do this.
JACK: OK
JOEL: But it’s just like, we’ve got to wake up at like seven in the morning.
JACK: No, we’ve gotta be awake earlier than that, probably
JOEL: six in the morning, we’ve got to wake up at like six in the morning on Saturday, because they’re gonna let us on the
radio again.
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: and we’re gonna broadcast from the convention floor.. in the morning!
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: From the convention floor f.. for two hours from like eight to ten? On Saturday
JACK: Yeah, OK, so, Joel
JOEL: and we gotta start setting up. Have you thought about the hole in the table? Who’s gonna come up with the hole in
the table? Jack?
JACK: So, so,
JOEL: Do they? They’re gonna have a crew. They’re gonna have a guy there. Like the radio people are gonna be like “Geoff,
go drill the hole in the table”, and he’s gonna be like “That’s my job!”, and he’s ddd and they’re gonna have all together .
they’re gonna make us look unprofessional.
JACK: So as Joel just said, we’re gonna be on ESPN radio again 104.9, here in Austin, Texas, and we’re gonna be
broadcasting before the show floors open, so if you’re out in the uh line, waiting to get inside, you can listen to Joel and I..
BARB: Cause they have a booth.
JACK: They have a booth. And they’re gonna be on the show floor, and we’re broadcasting from eight until ten, which means
the show floor will open while we’re on the air, so you can come in and watch us.
JOEL: It’s gonna be very different because like, the first hours gonna be like “Hey, blahblahblahblah” and they’re gonna open
the doors, and then people are gonna be just..
BARB: Gonna be “waaaaaaa!”
JOEL: I don’t know what’s gonna happen.
JACK: It’s gonna be chaos.
BARB: It’s gonna be chaos.
JOEL: It’s gonna be chaos, but it’ll be fun.
GUS: They must really like you.. on uh the radio
JOEL: Well, that’s because we..
GUS: because they always have you guys back!
JOEL: we go on there, and they say, “Talk about sports.” And we go, “We’ll fuckin.. We’ll talk about sports. Not only will we
talk about sports, we’ll tell you who’s going to win! And we’re right..
JACK: That’s true. We talked about.. We said the Heat were gonna win the championship.
BARB: You’re all over it
JACK: They ended up winning the championship.
GUS: Oh, really? You predicted that the best team in the NBA was going to win the championship?
JOEL: This was..
JACK: We didn’t know!
JOEL: This was before game seven and.. of the Eastern Conference finals. It was before game seven, when they were taking
on Boston. People like.. People like “Well, I don’t know. Boston could win..” It’s like, Boston’s not gonna win.
GUS: No. Boston’s not gonna win that.
JOEL: It’s like sometimes you need perspective. Where it’s just like, juss.. just step back and look.. It’s like, that’s not
gonna happen.
JACK: No. Anyway, so.. so that’s gonna be a lot of fun. Uh..
BARB: That’s gonna be cool. People could like, listen to you guys on the radio while they’re waiting outside of the
convention center hall.
JACK: Exactly, so if you have your i.. I know they stream. I don’t know if you can stream onto an iPhone or anything like
that, or.. like if you go to ESPNaustin.com, you can find out more information on that.
JOEL: Will Nerf stuff stick to your beard?
JACK: Um..
JOEL: Have you tried?
JACK: I haven’t tried.
GUS: There’s a dart over there, if you want me to.. to throw it at you and try?
JACK: I’m sure I could get one in, if I wedge it in. I don’t know if you could shoot it in, and get it stuck. But I could definitely
place it in.
BARB: I liked the episode of AHWU this week, where you put the water down your beard.
JACK: Oh, yeah? Did you like that?
BARB: That was beautiful!
JOEL: That was fuckin gross.
BARB: it was like a waterfall of glory.
JACK: Dude, those darts are fucking everywhere! We get.. We get yelled at because cameras get knocked around, and then
every.. everyone wondering, like, why are our cameras getting knocked around? And it’s like if you walk..
BARB: The mocap cameras.
JACK: If you walk in the back, to the animators, they immediately start throwing darts at you. It’s like, well shit! The.. There’s
stuff flying around this room. Why.. Why are the cameras hit?
BARB: Yeah.
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: And then we get yelled at.. then everybody gets yelled at.
BARB: Don’t knock the cameras!
JOEL: Those..
BARB: Don’t bother the cameras.
JOEL: I don’t feel bad.. I don’t feel bad.. like the animators can.. throw darts at me, and I don’t feel bad about that, at all. Like
that’s fine.
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: Like you’re invading their space. It’s just nature..
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: It’s like their nest.
JACK: But then.. but then... but why the fuck are there darts in here? Why are there darts in the Achievement Hunter office?
It’s like..
JOEL: Maybe, like.. Like they’re a good throw.
BARB: Yeah. They curve it.
JOEL: They’re like Tomahawk missiles. It’s like “Doooo”.
GUS: It’s like that Wanted movie. Where they curve the bullets.
BARB: Yeah. They curve the bullet.
JOEL: Yeah. You hear about the Tomahawk missile? During the first Gulf War, they were talking about these reporters,
trotting around, and these Tomahawk missile just like following the road. Like above them.
BARB: Oh God!
GUS: Jesus!
JOEL: And that’s gotta be daunting. So that’s pretty impressive that they can do that.
JACK: Yeah. That’s pretty impressive.
BARB: Very impressive. They have great aim with those things.
JACK: Tomahawk Nerf dart.
GUS: I feel like they you used to always hear about the Tomahawk missile, back then, like twenty years ago. Now, you never hear about it anymore.
JOEL: No! You never, and that’s the thing. For... I mean how much was it cost.. I think it was like a million dollars a missile?
GUS: Yeah. I..I.. It was something like.. it was somewhere between half a million and a million dollars.
BARB: In what year?
GUS: Uh.. uh..
JOEL: Early 90’s
GUS: Yeah. Early 90’s
BARB: Oh Jeez.
JOEL: A million dollars a shot.
GUS: They could like fire it from a ship.
BARB: A shot?!
GUS: And it would go hundreds of miles, and precisely hit a target.
BARB: Jesus Christ!
JOEL: I mean, the amount of technology that, it’s like, we’re gonna .. we’re gonna put a bunch of really high end technology in this thing, and this thing’s going to do a bunch of incredible things, then it’s going to explode.
JACK: Wha..
GUS: It’s like.. It’s like a cool firework!
JOEL: That’s a.. That’s America! Right? We’re gonna take technology that it’s too expensive for anyone, then we’re gonna
blow it up.
JACK: Well, it’s actually the missile itself cost about $20,000. But then they stuff it with gold, so that’s what makes it so
expensive.
GUS: Then it makes them heavier,
BARB: Is it gold or double gold?
GUS: and they got to add more fuel.
JACK: There you go.
GUS: It’s a, It’s a vicious cycle.
JOEL:It is a vicious cycle.
BARB: Speaking of America, I get to spend my first Fourth of July in America.
JACK: Hell yeah!
BARB: This coming uh..
JACK: You gonna blow stuff up?
JOEL: I’m surprised you haven’t just.. burst into flames at this point..
BARB: Dude, it’s so hot outside, my God.
JACK: It’s supposed to hit..
BARB: How do you guys do it every summer?
JACK: It’s supposed to hit 106 today.
BARB: Yeah. I saw that.
JACK: Yeah.
BARB: I’m gonna just.. not leave...
GUS: Yeah. It’s the time of year where we’re gonna just bitch about the heat, like relentlessly gonna be like, “oh, you think
this is bad? Remember last year?” or “Remember two years ago?”
BARB: it’s just a funny comparison between..
JOEL: I like it!
BARB: The heat, like this
JOEL: Because..
BARB: And the cold.
JOEL: there’s a strange satisfaction because it’s like watching somebody new come in and suffer.. it’s like “Ahh!”
JACK: it’s true!
BARB: So you’re getting pleasure out of watching us suffer.
JOEL: It’s like going to the DMV, and you have to sit in the line forever, and you wait for three hours, and you get to the head
of the line and you look at that sucker behind you and it’s like “Ha! Look at you, you asshole!”
BARB: It literally
JOEL: “I spent three hours sitting in that line you sucker”
BARB: it literally feels like I’m walking into a.. hairdryer. That’s turned on. Like, you know when your hair.. Well you guys
don’t know..
JOEL: Well, you’re a girl, you like hairdryers. You do. You’re a girl, and you like hairdryers all over the place..
JACK: You like hairdryers. Pshh.
GUS: The worst is when you walk out, and you can feel like the sun hitting your skin.
JACK: Oh. It’s like a punch!
GUS: And you can feel it.
BARB: And you honestly feel , like I’m.. I got tanned already, and that’s just like one minute outside.
JOEL: The wor.. The worst part of it is when you get in your car, like you just sit in your car, and
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: Ohhh
BARB: and it’s like a sauna.
JOEL: Yeah. It’s..
GUS: So, I, my car.. I was in a small wreck last week
JACK: Small wreck.
JOEL: Heeeeeey!
BARB: Awwww.
GUS: So, my car.. took some damage, and it’s getting repaired, so I’ve been having to drive this other car for the last week.
JOEL: Yeah.
BARB: I was wondering who’s that was.
GUS: This other car’s not as nice as my car. My car has these solar powered fans,
JOEL: Oh yeah.
GUS: so that when it’s hot, it vents the inside of my car out so it never gets hot..
BARB: Holy shit!
JOEL: Genius!
GUS: I forgot how hot a real car gets. Holy shit!
JOEL: Yeah. It’s like you get in there, and It’s like you have that conversation with yourself, where it’s like, “Am I gonna start
driving now,
BARB: No.
JOEL: or am I gonna wait for the steering wheel to cool down?”
JACK: Yeah.
GUS: Yeah.
JOEL: And I’m always like, “I’m just gonna go for it.” But then I’m like “Ah! Ah! I can’t touch.. Ow! Turn left. Ow. Ow. Ow.
Ow.”
GUS: My.. my car has the remote AC start. So like, five minutes before I leave, I turn the AC on then I go out and my car is so..
JOEL: You are so
JACK: You are spoiled
BARB: Genius!
JOEL: Spoiled!
GUS: and this car doesn’t do that...
JACK: No. Ok, I saw a video online that showed how to.. uh cool your car off. And what you’re supposed to do is, roll down
your passenger window, and then open your driver’s door like ten times and close it. And what it does is blow air through the
car.
JOEL: Let’s break this down.. Let’s let’s break down this process.
BARB: That would make me hot.
JACK: No! It actually makes sense!
JOEL:You walk up to your car..
JACK: Yes.
JOEL: You’ve rolled down one window..
JACK: Yes.
JOEL: You then walk around to the other side of the car.. Open the door, and close the door repeatedly.
JACK: Or you have a car that has power windows, and you open your driver’s door, roll down the passenger window, and
then open and shut the driver’s door a few times.
JOEL: See, now, wouldn’t that process make you..
BARB: Yeah!
JOEL: Hotter?
BARB: That’s what I said!
JACK: Not really.
BARB: Why don’t you just go in turn on the air conditioning, and wait, like thirty seconds until it cools down?
JOEL: And also..
JACK: In.. Inside the car, or ou..
BARB: Yeah. Inside..
JOEL: And also, you look ridiculous. Like, you’re that guy in the parking lot, like what’s that guy doing?
GUS: He’s trying to make his car fly! Yeah. He’s like flapping the car wings.
JOEL: It’s like, is that how you start those new Japanese.. cars?
GUS: It would be awesome if it was a DeLorean.
BARB: Would you wind it up?
JOEL: Is it the eco-friendly version of the car, or how’s that work?
JACK: Did you see the Will.i.am DeLorean?
GUS: Nooo.
JACK: So Will.i.am is making a new line of cars. And he’s made a car that is basically a future DeLorean. Or even more
future DeLorean, I guess.
JOEL: You know.. I’m not sure that I want the Black.. anyone from the Black Eyed Peas in charge of making any stylistic
choices for anything.
JACK:Well,..
BARB: Are you sure?
JACK: Well, they made an amazing Super Bowl Halftime show.
JOEL: I’m pretty..
BARB: They did.
JOEL: I’m pretty sure. It’s just.. Just stop being.. They just have to stop being weird. They.. Jumpsuits with the things sticking out of it..
BARB: They’re modern.
JOEL: They’re not modern.
JACK: Do you like those crazy future cars like the Nissan Cube like the one that has that window that kinda wraps around the back corner?
GUS: It’s not for me but I appreciate that someone is doing something different with a car.
JACK: Yeah, that’s my philosophy, it’s like we have to go through that in order to get to the cool future cars, you know?
JOEL: But is it different, is it?
JACK: Yeah.
GUS: They, I mean the thing they’re doing with that specifically that I think is interesting is the asymmetrical design. That’s the big thing with that window going across.
JOEL: I always love the idea of Japanese engineers sitting in a room somewhere trying to figure out what the American consumer wants. You know and they just don’t quite understand.
GUS: Yeah
BARB: They’re doing a pretty good job so far.
JOEL: They’re just, “This is the family-fun-mobile”.
BARB: They tell us what we want. They don’t guess.
GUS: It’s like the uh when BMW didn’t have uh were they didn’t put enough cup-holders in their car, and uh Americans bitched. Now you get into a BMW there’s fucking cup-holders everywhere. There’s like cup-holders coming out of the dashboard now.
JOEL: And you know what they used to have in the early nineties they had uh the timing belt was uh they got rid of the belt and had a chain.
GUS: Right.
JOEL: And um apparently that fucking thing worked so good that they got rid of it because a chain doesn’t break. You don’t have to change the timing belt if it’s a chain.
GUS: Yeah that thing would last forever.
JOEL: It’d last forever.
BARB: So why’d they change it?
GUS: It’s cheaper to put a belt in and when it breaks they can sell you a new belt. If you put a chain in, it works forever.
JOEL: It’s a weird thing because like in other countries like or a lot of things it’s like they’re gonna make a product and the product is good. In America you make a company and the company is good.
BARB: Yep
JOEL: Because the company is a machine that makes money.
BARB: They know how to make money. Yeah that’s absolutely true.
JOEL: Where it’s just like an engineered...
GUS: Yes.
JOEL: What’s the term I’m looking for? I’m doing a screwdriver motion.
GUS: You’re pantomiming a screwdriver. This is the company
JOEL: Engineered screwing
GUS: This is the money
JACK: Or you’re starting a car. I Don't know which one you’re doing.
BARB: I know.
JOEL: Engineered screwing. I was doing the door motion.
JACK: Oh
BARB: Oh.
GUS: You’re uh trying to cool your car down. Um so did you uh, I don’t know if you had a chance to take a look at this JACK but uh. I’m, I’m gonna segway here.
JACK: Okay.
GUS: Uh we You know one of our sponsors this week is this Game Minder app which is uh on the iPhone.
JACK: From handelabra.
GUS: Yeah and just came out uh on android as well, and uh it’s a pretty cool app. I saw it for the first time at PAX East, and it is basically a calendar app that lets you know about upcoming release dates for games and lets you specify which platforms you want to be notified of, and then it reminds you when those games are coming up like at one day one week one month intervals.
BARB: That’s awesome.
JOEL: That’s actually like uh that would actually help me with my work.
JACK: That’s pretty cool.
GUS: It’s really fucking handy.
BARB: It’d probably help everyone here with their work.
JOEL: Yeah.
GUS: Yeah um.
JACK: It sends you reminders and stuff like. It’s pretty cool and then it has like upcoming games you can click on your search and it shows within a week, within a month, a year, all upcoming games.
GUS: You can even sort by like developer, genre, publisher. It’s
JOEL: That’s awesome.
GUS: It’s super neat. It’s
BARB: It’s called Game Minder?
GUS: Game Minder uh
JACK: It’s game dot minder(GAME.minder)
JOEL: Hopefully there’s something in that that will help explain the Arma II titling.
GUS: The “Arma II” titling?
JOEL: Like what was the first one titled?
GUS: Oh, right, yeah yeah “Arma” I missed
JOEL: “Arma I” the fire
GUS: No that was Operation Flashpoint.
JOEL: Operation Flashpoint. Did it have the word Arma in it at all? See, now we need the app to help us.
GUS: I’m looking it up actually.
BARB: So, Handelabra’s gonna be at RTX, right?
GUS: Yes, they will be. So I see Arma III on here, I guess this the app tracks games that are coming out, and it says Arma III TBA Summer of 2012...So
BARB: TBA
GUS: They don’t have a release date yet.
JOEL: So is Arma III just gonna be Dayz?
GUS: Well, I heard that they’re incorporating it but uh last plug, if you have an iPhone or starting this week an Android device, you should check it out uh it’s pretty cool. Uh but yeah I heard that they the the devs of Arma hired the Dayz modders to work internally.
JOEL: Oh that’s awesome.
GUS: So now they’re building the Arma III engine with better capabilities to accommodate Dayz.
JOEL: That’s that’s awesome.
GUS: Yeah so it’s pretty neat uhm the one of the one of the guys who works on the mod who uh was one of the creators sent me a tweet the other day. It was like, “Oh just heard the podcast you know love that you guys are plugging the game.” I was like that’s so weird.
JOEL: That is very that is very very weird.
JACK: Now how many modders are working on the game do you know?
GUS: Oh I don’t know. I think the most like the guy I talked to was like named Michael and I know there’s another one like the most high profile one is name I think his name is Rocket is what he goes by on the internet. Uhm but yeah I mean it’s that game is so much fun. We have four servers now that we play on that are constantly full.
JACK: Yeah
GUS: It’s it’s really really a blast.
JOEL: I still haven’t gotten a chance to play. Should we change our names to something more like there’s like Notch and then there’s Rocket. And it’s you’re just like GUS. You need to change it to like.
GUS: Well you know I feel like that’s a holdover on the internet from like the old days when everyone used pseudonyms.
JACK: Yeah
GUS: Uhm, even when we used to do Ugly Internet and Drunkgamers we did. That’s why Burnie used to be Buzz B.
BARB: Weren’t you just GUS with a capital s?
GUS: And Geoff was G-Funk. Yeah, and I was always just GUS.
JOEL: So you were ahead of your time.
GUS: Yeah
JACK: Joel, did you ever have a pseudonym?
JOEL: Uh, yeah it’s terrible.
JACK: What is it?
JOEL: It’s just my gamer tag.
GUS: What uh what about you JACK did you ever have uh a handle?
JACK: I, my first handle back when I was my dial-up data
JOEL: Was “The Beard”
JACK: Yeah back when I was in eighth grade with my giant beard
JOEL: It was the beard you knew you were gonna
JACK: No my first nickname I went by was “Crash”.
GUS: Uhmhmn
JACK: Because I loved Hackers and I you know Crash Override is one of the main characters in the movie and so I shortened it to Crash, and uhm what else have I gone by? I went by “Trivia DJ” for a while which was
BARB: Trivia DJ?
GUS: Trivia DJ.
JACK: There was an IRC chat channel I would go to and uhm we would do like trivia stuff like trivia nights like movie trivia and I would usually just like change my name to “Trivia DJ” and I would ask questions to people and people would send me messages of questions and I’d ask them for the whole room.
JOEL: Now if you didn’t know the answer to the question were you allowed to ask it?
JACK: No
GUS: So you had to know all of them.
JOEL: So you were like a legitimate trivia guy.
JACK: Yeah yeah I love trivia. I’m a big trivia guy man.
BARB: He came to us with uh Geeks Who Drink
JACK: Yeah Geeks Who Drink
BARB: And JACK kicked ass.
GUS: Who will also be doing an event at RTX.
JACK: Yeah we’re throwing that event at RTX it’s gonna be Saturday night eight till something
BARB: Those guys put on a great show.
JOEL: Where’s it at?
JACK: At the convention center.
JOEL: Oh it is?
JACK: Yeah.
BARB: Yeah.
JACK: You should come.
JOEL: How many people are allowed?
GUS: I think
BARB: Two hundred
GUS: the uh I think the Geeks Who Drink wanted to keep it at about two hundred so I think there’s gonna be two hundred twelve people that will be allowed to compete there.
JACK: Yeah, tables of six I believe.
GUS: Yeah
BARB: Tables of six.
JACK: So uh the way it’s gonna work is basically its going to be a first come first serve type deal. We’re not we’re thinking about doing teams where like you sign up in advance, but I don’t like that because I don’t like the idea of people not showing up.
GUS: Right
JOEL: It could cause a lot of chaos.
JACK: If you wanna play you get there and you get there early and get your team together and grab a table and then boom we’ll fill up the room.
GUS: And if you don’t have a team you can just show up and get a group of random people.
BARB: Just join.
JACK: Exactly
GUS: Hold up an LFG sign.
BARB: But yeah those guys put on a great show.
JACK: Yeah, it’s gonna be a lot of fun.
BARB: It’s gonna be internet and Roosterteeth themed based trivia.
JOEL: Oh Jesus.
JACK: Yeah I mean it’s gonna be across the board but it’s gonna be a Roosterteeth whole category and some other stuff.
JOEL: I might have a chance at winning this.
JACK: You should come yeah.
BARB: You might.
JACK: I’m gonna be there.
JOEL: I mean we can’t participate if it’s based on Roosterteeth.
JACK: Well no I mean you can come with me I’m gonna be there I’m helping out with the show and stuff.
JOEL: What are you gonna do?
JACK: Well I
JOEL: They’re gonna ask the question you’re gonna shout out the answer aren’t you?
GUS: Be like I know that I know that I know it.
JOEL: Don’t be that guy.
JACK: There’s like quiz masters so I’m gonna be help out with that see what I can do. It’d be kinda fun and like it’s my kinda stuff so.
JOEL: Is there a prize associated?
JACK: Uhm I think so I don’t know if we really talked about that but we can we can we’ll figure out something.
GUS: Yeah
JACK: We’ll get prizes for
GUS: A Five dollar gift certificate for the Roosterteeth Store.
BARB: If anything it’s like bragging rights like, “Hey we were the winning team at RTX.”
JACK: Maybe I’ll buy drinks for the winning team if you’re of age.
JOEL: Now is there a secondary, like a secondary contest for who drinks the most?
JACK: No
JOEL: Do they get second place?
BARB: People have been asking about age limits for that. I believe there are no age limits but again you have to be twenty-one to buy alcohol.
GUS: If you’re under twenty-one you’re a geek who drinks soda.
JACK: Yeah and obviously no under-age drinking at the convention center or your ass will be booted out as quick as possible.
GUS: That is illegal and against the rules.
JACK: Yes
BARB: Yep
JACK: And, we should also, speaking of rule type stuff, so we mentioned this last week, we should probably mention it again. Roosterteeth, our office is closed the week before and after RTX.
BARB: Closed.
GUS: We’ll be spending too much time at the convention center. This is actually the last week I’ll actually be in the office.
JACK: Oh yeah?
GUS: Almost all of next week I’ll be at the convention center.
JOEL: Can I come hang out with you?
GUS: Yeah you can hang out. I’ll show you like all the secret passages, the secret innards of the convention center. I know everything about the convention center now.
JACK: Wow.
GUS: I know where every door goes. I’ve been everywhere in that fucking building.
JOEL: This is good now you have advantages for other conventions that take place there. You know all the backways and all that stuff.
JACK: Can you get into the catwalks? Are there catwalks?
GUS: No there are not any catwalks in this convention center. The cool thing about this convention center and this is probably only people who are exhibitors that would care about this is that there are no support pillars on the exhibit floor.
JACK: Oh wow.
GUS: Like it’s all unobstructed which is awesome.
JOEL: How do they run like electricity on there is it like a sub-floor?
GUS: Yeah there’s
JOEL: This is gonna be really boring.
GUS: Yeah there’s like pockets cut into the floor and all the power and data is run through the pockets in the floor.
JOEL: Oh awesome.
GUS: Yeah.
JOEL: So that’s good. Well I mean, you would think they would think that one through wouldn’t they?
BARB: It’s a nice convention center.
GUS: Yeah, there’s also like plumbing and water run through those pockets as well so if you wanted a water fountain in your booth you could get if you wanted a toilet in your booth you could probably get that.
JOEL: Wow.
GUS: Wait it might be too small for a toilet. You could probably get a sink.
BARB: I want next year I want a booth that just has a toilet, and it’s gonna be my booth.
GUS: It might be a number one toilet only. It might not be able to accommodate the deuces.
JACK
BARB: I’ll spend more time doing! Winkey face!
GUS: Wink!
JOEL: Those guys s-s-seamlessly worked in.. like the lyrics to that song.
JACK: Seamlessly! Haha.
JOEL: I mean, that was artfully done.
GUS: That was Paskill on the Rooster Teeth website.
JOEL: That was..
GUS: Thank you Paskill.
JOEL: An exercise in subtlety and artistry.
GUS: Who knew that..
JOEL: Like a tapestry of music and.. and of culture.
GUS: I think that.. I don’t remember now, but I think the Paskill user is in Ireland, so who knew that the Irish were..
BARB: Wow!
GUS: Were, were capable of such musical feats.
JOEL: You know it’s weird. Why are people always losing their accents when they sing?
GUS: You think so? Like say a..
JOEL: Can you tell they are from Ireland?
BARB: I, I notice when British people do that.
GUS: No.
BARB: Like the Spice Girls can’t tell they’re British.
JACK: Adele does that.
BARB: Adele?
JOEL: No you can’t tell with Adele.
GUS: No. You .. the.. There’s something weird about their voice still.
BARB: That.. I guess there’s something that’s weird, but..
GUS: Like, like if you think about the Beatles, it sounds ..off.
BARB: Well with the Beatles, I think.. you, you could tell more.
JOEL: Well, they were.. they were really high, and from England, so that’s different. All the time.
GUS: Were, were they high early on?
JOEL: I..
GUS: What about early Beatles? Like ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’?
JOEL: It’s.. it’s hard to say.
GUS: What about ‘Let’s Smoke this Doobie Together’? Their.. their big hit?
JOEL: I know..
JACK: I love that song!
BARB: Wow!
JOEL: But you always.. I also notice when you say..
BARB: The song of my people!
JOEL: When you say.. when you say ‘Bing’, you said ‘Binguh’.
GUS: Yeah.
JOEL: Like you are working to get the ‘G’
GUS: What’s, what’s
BARB: Bing!
JACK: Binguh.
GUS: What’s funny is when we did the first Bing ad, or before we recorded the podcast with the first Bing ad, and Burnie was like “Oh, this is gonna be great. I can’t wait to hear you say ‘Bing’, cause I know you. You always stress that ‘G’”. I was like “You asshole!”
JOEL: Like.. You just like to punch the ‘G’.
BARB: Wait, how do you say it?
JOEL: Always trying to punch the ‘G’ Gus!
GUS: How do you say it?
BARB: How do you say it?
JOEL: Well, I don’t want to talk about it now.
GUS: Ahhh!
JOEL: Pronounce it.. Buh.. Buh..
BARB: See I’m used to enunci-at-ing everything.
GUS: Yeah, me too.
JACK: So, so you’re saying Bing won? Go ahead and say that. Say it.
GUS: Bing? Huh what?
JACK: What? Could you like say won. Like
GUS: Won?
JACK: Wan?
BARB: Like they won the game.
GUS: Won. Oh won.
BARB: like you and I both say ‘wan’
JACK: Can you say “Bing wan?”
GUS: Yeah, wan. You won the game.
JACK: Binguh. Wan.
BARB: Yeah.
GUS: Wh wh.. wh wh.. why would you not say won? How do you say it?
BARB: I know it’s not..
JACK: Won
BARB: O-N-E?
GUS: One?
JACK: Yeah
JOEL: Won the game. Yeah.
GUS: No they.. if it’s not one
JOEL: That’s what regular.. normal people say
GUS: not the number one.
BARB: No it’s not the one! How do you one?
GUS: How do you one? They won.
JACK: Well that’s true..
BARB: It’s spelled W-O-N
JOEL: No one says..
JACK: Because no words in the English language sound the exact same..
GUS: Thank you!
JACK: not at all..
JOEL: No one says wan.
GUS: I appreciate the concession, Jack.
BARB: Yes. Thank you, Jack.
JACK: Absolutely..
GUS: For the record, Jack conceded that I’m right.
JACK: Clearly..
BARB: Thank you for confirming.
JOEL: I don’t think he did. I think he was being..
JACK: Like I’m, I’m going to the store and I’m going or, I.. you know.. oh, I don’t know.
BARB: Go on...
GUS: Don’t give me bullshit about to. You cannot say shit about to.
JOEL: Like I won the store or I ..
JACK: Or when I count I go one, tu-wwo, three, four
JOEL: Cause you’ve got to hit that ‘W’.
JACK: You’ve got to hit that ‘W’.
GUS: You don’t go wan, tu-wwo, three?
JACK: Wan, twwo..
GUS: So this week if you haven’t been able to tell, we’ve got Jack,
JACK: T-three
GUS: Barbara, Joel and Gus.
BARB: Wussup?
JACK: Hi, Internet!
GUS: Sitting in on the Rooster Teeth Podcast.
JACK: Gus! How amped and excited are you for RTX, next weekend?
BARB: uuuuhhh
GUS: No, no, no, no it’s not.. nu not this weekend, next weekend. Next weekend.
JACK: Yeah, next weekend, in Austin, Texas. July 7th and 8th!
BARB: I just threw up a little bit..
GUS: We, uh sold out. Our tickets sales are now closed.
JACK, JOEL, BARB: Yay!
GUS: We were hoping to have extras sold at the door, but, uh in the last minute rush, we realized we sold.. the perfect
amount, and we can sell no more.
JACK: Yes.
GUS: So there will be no tickets available at the door.
JOEL: So is Stubhub.. Can, can I , can I go in front of the convention center, and like take tickets I have and like..
JACK: Oh dude! We could scalp tickets..
JOEL: Oh. Scalp tickets..
JACK: Dude! How much do you think a VIP badge would be or a, or a staff badge? ooh! how much would a staff badge be?
JOEL:Oh my God. I will totally sell my staff badge to someone. Walk around like, “I’m Joel Haymen”
JACK: Think we could get a grand for that? That’d be enough to fly to Vegas.
GUS: Th.. The badge doesn’t grant you anything. It grants you ..
JACK: Well, no! Don’t tell them that! They don’t know that.
GUS: Staff badge just identifies you.
JOEL: That’s not true. It gives them.. grants them to the special secret room.
JACK: Yes!
BARB: Winkey face...
GUS: Yeah. The special secret room. It’s in the basement.
JOEL: It’s in the basement..
GUS: of the Alamo
JACK: The Alamo
BARB: Yeah. It’s very soon.
GUS: Yeah, it’s uh, its, its uh crazy man. It’s, it’s on top of us.
JACK: We need someone..
JOEL: You doing OK?
GUS: Yeah.?
JOEL: Are you looking for grey hairs right now?
GUS: I, I’ve got ‘em. I feel like I lost years on my life.
JOEL: It’s gonna be, It’s gonna be great.
JACK: It’s pretty cool.
GUS: Yeah, I hope so. I’m like yeah. We’ve, We’ve put a lot of hard work into it, and now it’s just like it’s it’s, you know we
have, now, now,now we’re in the phase where we have these super long logistic meetings.
JACK: Oh.
BARB: Yeah.
GUS: I was just explaining this to someone the other day.
JOEL: See? That’s rough.
GUS: It’s like OK. We’re going to put a table here. OK, where. How many feet from here, how many from there? OK. Where are we gonna run the power cables. We’re gonna drill a hole in the table. OK How big’s the hole? OK. Where do we get the
Drill? Where does the drill plug in? Who’s going to do the drilling? What time is the person going to do this.
JOEL: Ho,ho, Honestly, it’s true
BARB: This is honestly no exaggeration, at all
JOEL: I,I,I,I,I,It’s true.
GUS: Yeah. What color is the table? What color is the drape around the table? What are we gonna do about the sawdust
after we drill. It’s like every single little detail, now..
BARB: You and I
GUS: Being hammered out.
BARB: sat in that uh. logistics meeting on Friday for what? Three hours?
GUS: Yeah. It was, it was really long
BARB: and that was just going over Thursday and Friday.
JACK: I, I was there too….
JOEL: How’s that..
BARB: Oh yeah, and Jack too!
JACK: Thanks! Haha
JOEL: How’s the Achievement Hunter booth looking?
JACK: It’s actually looking pretty good, man. And we, uh we lined it up yesterday.
GUS: That’s the meeting I was talking about, where we were like, we were like, where’s the table gonna go. Where are the
cables gonna go?
BARB: Do you want to explain a little bit about what the Achievement Hunter.. lounge is gonna be..
JACK: Yeah. Sure. We can talk about it! So the Achievement Hunter Lounge is gonna be sort of a laid back area of uh RTX. It’s gonna be a place where you can come play some games.. We’re gonna have setups with uh.. we’re gonna have what?
Well, let’s see.. HORSE,
BARB: Dance..
JACK: Well, we’re gonna have Dance Central. We’re gonna have two Kinects set up for that. Cause..
JOEL: Are you gonna participate in that?
JACK: I will not, but I’m sure Miles will jump up and dance. We know.. We knew people love that crap, so
GUS: That crap!?
JACK: Well, I’m not a big dancer. Dancing is crap for me, but anyway. Uh, we’re gonna have uh, we’re gonna have a Halo set up. Four Halo machines set up playing um, playing Reach. Playing Horse maps. That I’m working on getting us some cool
HORSE Maps. We’re gonna have a Minecraft pod of four Minecraft machines set up, um. And we’re basically gonna have the
whole game set up just to run for the whole weekend. And we’ll probably make a video showing, uh, showing off what the uh
you know.
JOEL: You should have like competitive Minecraft, where people kill each other.
GUS: You should have..
JACK: That’s our Let’s Plays.
GUS: You should have Gavin show up in disguise, and start fucking up the stuff people are making. Like he shows up with
that giant Jack beard that Burnie bought.
JACK: God! Uh, and then uh
JOEL: I can’t tell if you’re losing weight, or if your beard is just getting bigger.
JACK: It’s getting bigger.
JOEL: Like the perspective is all off. You know, I can’t tell what’s happening anymore.
BARB: Yeah. It makes you look smaller, compared .. in comparison.
JACK: Yeah. That’s good. I need to make this, uh I need to make my beard huge. And what else are we gonna have? We’re
going to have some Trials: Evolution there, so we’re going to have some Trials: Evolution machines to play, and we’re also
having two machines set on the Impossible Game. Cause we love that game.
GUS: Yeah. And you’ll have, um, Achievement Hunter.. personalities there.
JACK: Yup, yeah
GUS: Throughout the weekend?
BARB: Pop in and out
GUS: Talking with people, playing games.
JACK: We’re gonna be rotating in and out, so uh you wanna be looking for us in the Achievement Hunter area, the
Achievement Hunter Lounge area of RTX..
JOEL: So say you go to the Achievement Hunter..
JACK: Go to the Achievement Hunter booth
JOEL: Booth, and there’s a big line of people.
JACK: OK.
JOEL: Wanting to play games.
JACK: OK.
JOEL:And then the people who are playing the games go, “Jack! Jack, Jack. Play the game with us!”
JACK: Mmhmm
JOEL: And then you have that moment where it’s like “OK, am I gonna cut in front of all these people, and like, play the game cause the fans want me to play the game, or am I not gonna cut?”
JACK: See, I usually.. I’ll jump in for a minute or two, but, but I don’t stay.. I don’t play videogames for a long time on show floors like that.
JOEL: See, that’s a real like dilemma for me.
JACK: Oh yeah?
JOEL: I feel genuinely guilty because I don’t want to cut in front of people
JACK: You want to cut.
JOEL: but if the people want me to play..
BARB: I’m sure no one would mind
JACK: You just want to play Halo 4 the whole weekend, don’t you?
JOEL: Haha. Trying to work it in. Well, if I just stand there for three hours, you think that would be cool?
GUS: The staff badge lets you get in early, so technically you could be in the booth when the door opens.
JACK: That’s true.
GUS: So you’d already be playing.
JACK: You’d be first in line.
JOEL: You know what Jack did? He’s committed us to, he’s trying to have us have this thing start off on the right foot for me,
because already, and I’m happy to do this.
JACK: OK
JOEL: But it’s just like, we’ve got to wake up at like seven in the morning.
JACK: No, we’ve gotta be awake earlier than that, probably
JOEL: six in the morning, we’ve got to wake up at like six in the morning on Saturday, because they’re gonna let us on the
radio again.
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: and we’re gonna broadcast from the convention floor.. in the morning!
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: From the convention floor f.. for two hours from like eight to ten? On Saturday
JACK: Yeah, OK, so, Joel
JOEL: and we gotta start setting up. Have you thought about the hole in the table? Who’s gonna come up with the hole in
the table? Jack?
JACK: So, so,
JOEL: Do they? They’re gonna have a crew. They’re gonna have a guy there. Like the radio people are gonna be like “Geoff,
go drill the hole in the table”, and he’s gonna be like “That’s my job!”, and he’s ddd and they’re gonna have all together .
they’re gonna make us look unprofessional.
JACK: So as Joel just said, we’re gonna be on ESPN radio again 104.9, here in Austin, Texas, and we’re gonna be
broadcasting before the show floors open, so if you’re out in the uh line, waiting to get inside, you can listen to Joel and I..
BARB: Cause they have a booth.
JACK: They have a booth. And they’re gonna be on the show floor, and we’re broadcasting from eight until ten, which means
the show floor will open while we’re on the air, so you can come in and watch us.
JOEL: It’s gonna be very different because like, the first hours gonna be like “Hey, blahblahblahblah” and they’re gonna open
the doors, and then people are gonna be just..
BARB: Gonna be “waaaaaaa!”
JOEL: I don’t know what’s gonna happen.
JACK: It’s gonna be chaos.
BARB: It’s gonna be chaos.
JOEL: It’s gonna be chaos, but it’ll be fun.
GUS: They must really like you.. on uh the radio
JOEL: Well, that’s because we..
GUS: because they always have you guys back!
JOEL: we go on there, and they say, “Talk about sports.” And we go, “We’ll fuckin.. We’ll talk about sports. Not only will we
talk about sports, we’ll tell you who’s going to win! And we’re right..
JACK: That’s true. We talked about.. We said the Heat were gonna win the championship.
BARB: You’re all over it
JACK: They ended up winning the championship.
GUS: Oh, really? You predicted that the best team in the NBA was going to win the championship?
JOEL: This was..
JACK: We didn’t know!
JOEL: This was before game seven and.. of the Eastern Conference finals. It was before game seven, when they were taking
on Boston. People like.. People like “Well, I don’t know. Boston could win..” It’s like, Boston’s not gonna win.
GUS: No. Boston’s not gonna win that.
JOEL: It’s like sometimes you need perspective. Where it’s just like, juss.. just step back and look.. It’s like, that’s not
gonna happen.
JACK: No. Anyway, so.. so that’s gonna be a lot of fun. Uh..
BARB: That’s gonna be cool. People could like, listen to you guys on the radio while they’re waiting outside of the
convention center hall.
JACK: Exactly, so if you have your i.. I know they stream. I don’t know if you can stream onto an iPhone or anything like
that, or.. like if you go to ESPNaustin.com, you can find out more information on that.
JOEL: Will Nerf stuff stick to your beard?
JACK: Um..
JOEL: Have you tried?
JACK: I haven’t tried.
GUS: There’s a dart over there, if you want me to.. to throw it at you and try?
JACK: I’m sure I could get one in, if I wedge it in. I don’t know if you could shoot it in, and get it stuck. But I could definitely
place it in.
BARB: I liked the episode of AHWU this week, where you put the water down your beard.
JACK: Oh, yeah? Did you like that?
BARB: That was beautiful!
JOEL: That was fuckin gross.
BARB: it was like a waterfall of glory.
JACK: Dude, those darts are fucking everywhere! We get.. We get yelled at because cameras get knocked around, and then
every.. everyone wondering, like, why are our cameras getting knocked around? And it’s like if you walk..
BARB: The mocap cameras.
JACK: If you walk in the back, to the animators, they immediately start throwing darts at you. It’s like, well shit! The.. There’s
stuff flying around this room. Why.. Why are the cameras hit?
BARB: Yeah.
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: And then we get yelled at.. then everybody gets yelled at.
BARB: Don’t knock the cameras!
JOEL: Those..
BARB: Don’t bother the cameras.
JOEL: I don’t feel bad.. I don’t feel bad.. like the animators can.. throw darts at me, and I don’t feel bad about that, at all. Like
that’s fine.
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: Like you’re invading their space. It’s just nature..
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: It’s like their nest.
JACK: But then.. but then... but why the fuck are there darts in here? Why are there darts in the Achievement Hunter office?
It’s like..
JOEL: Maybe, like.. Like they’re a good throw.
BARB: Yeah. They curve it.
JOEL: They’re like Tomahawk missiles. It’s like “Doooo”.
GUS: It’s like that Wanted movie. Where they curve the bullets.
BARB: Yeah. They curve the bullet.
JOEL: Yeah. You hear about the Tomahawk missile? During the first Gulf War, they were talking about these reporters,
trotting around, and these Tomahawk missile just like following the road. Like above them.
BARB: Oh God!
GUS: Jesus!
JOEL: And that’s gotta be daunting. So that’s pretty impressive that they can do that.
JACK: Yeah. That’s pretty impressive.
BARB: Very impressive. They have great aim with those things.
JACK: Tomahawk Nerf dart.
GUS: I feel like they you used to always hear about the Tomahawk missile, back then, like twenty years ago. Now, you never hear about it anymore.
JOEL: No! You never, and that’s the thing. For... I mean how much was it cost.. I think it was like a million dollars a missile?
GUS: Yeah. I..I.. It was something like.. it was somewhere between half a million and a million dollars.
BARB: In what year?
GUS: Uh.. uh..
JOEL: Early 90’s
GUS: Yeah. Early 90’s
BARB: Oh Jeez.
JOEL: A million dollars a shot.
GUS: They could like fire it from a ship.
BARB: A shot?!
GUS: And it would go hundreds of miles, and precisely hit a target.
BARB: Jesus Christ!
JOEL: I mean, the amount of technology that, it’s like, we’re gonna .. we’re gonna put a bunch of really high end technology in this thing, and this thing’s going to do a bunch of incredible things, then it’s going to explode.
JACK: Wha..
GUS: It’s like.. It’s like a cool firework!
JOEL: That’s a.. That’s America! Right? We’re gonna take technology that it’s too expensive for anyone, then we’re gonna
blow it up.
JACK: Well, it’s actually the missile itself cost about $20,000. But then they stuff it with gold, so that’s what makes it so
expensive.
GUS: Then it makes them heavier,
BARB: Is it gold or double gold?
GUS: and they got to add more fuel.
JACK: There you go.
GUS: It’s a, It’s a vicious cycle.
JOEL:It is a vicious cycle.
BARB: Speaking of America, I get to spend my first Fourth of July in America.
JACK: Hell yeah!
BARB: This coming uh..
JACK: You gonna blow stuff up?
JOEL: I’m surprised you haven’t just.. burst into flames at this point..
BARB: Dude, it’s so hot outside, my God.
JACK: It’s supposed to hit..
BARB: How do you guys do it every summer?
JACK: It’s supposed to hit 106 today.
BARB: Yeah. I saw that.
JACK: Yeah.
BARB: I’m gonna just.. not leave...
GUS: Yeah. It’s the time of year where we’re gonna just bitch about the heat, like relentlessly gonna be like, “oh, you think
this is bad? Remember last year?” or “Remember two years ago?”
BARB: it’s just a funny comparison between..
JOEL: I like it!
BARB: The heat, like this
JOEL: Because..
BARB: And the cold.
JOEL: there’s a strange satisfaction because it’s like watching somebody new come in and suffer.. it’s like “Ahh!”
JACK: it’s true!
BARB: So you’re getting pleasure out of watching us suffer.
JOEL: It’s like going to the DMV, and you have to sit in the line forever, and you wait for three hours, and you get to the head
of the line and you look at that sucker behind you and it’s like “Ha! Look at you, you asshole!”
BARB: It literally
JOEL: “I spent three hours sitting in that line you sucker”
BARB: it literally feels like I’m walking into a.. hairdryer. That’s turned on. Like, you know when your hair.. Well you guys
don’t know..
JOEL: Well, you’re a girl, you like hairdryers. You do. You’re a girl, and you like hairdryers all over the place..
JACK: You like hairdryers. Pshh.
GUS: The worst is when you walk out, and you can feel like the sun hitting your skin.
JACK: Oh. It’s like a punch!
GUS: And you can feel it.
BARB: And you honestly feel , like I’m.. I got tanned already, and that’s just like one minute outside.
JOEL: The wor.. The worst part of it is when you get in your car, like you just sit in your car, and
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: Ohhh
BARB: and it’s like a sauna.
JOEL: Yeah. It’s..
GUS: So, I, my car.. I was in a small wreck last week
JACK: Small wreck.
JOEL: Heeeeeey!
BARB: Awwww.
GUS: So, my car.. took some damage, and it’s getting repaired, so I’ve been having to drive this other car for the last week.
JOEL: Yeah.
BARB: I was wondering who’s that was.
GUS: This other car’s not as nice as my car. My car has these solar powered fans,
JOEL: Oh yeah.
GUS: so that when it’s hot, it vents the inside of my car out so it never gets hot..
BARB: Holy shit!
JOEL: Genius!
GUS: I forgot how hot a real car gets. Holy shit!
JOEL: Yeah. It’s like you get in there, and It’s like you have that conversation with yourself, where it’s like, “Am I gonna start
driving now,
BARB: No.
JOEL: or am I gonna wait for the steering wheel to cool down?”
JACK: Yeah.
GUS: Yeah.
JOEL: And I’m always like, “I’m just gonna go for it.” But then I’m like “Ah! Ah! I can’t touch.. Ow! Turn left. Ow. Ow. Ow.
Ow.”
GUS: My.. my car has the remote AC start. So like, five minutes before I leave, I turn the AC on then I go out and my car is so..
JOEL: You are so
JACK: You are spoiled
BARB: Genius!
JOEL: Spoiled!
GUS: and this car doesn’t do that...
JACK: No. Ok, I saw a video online that showed how to.. uh cool your car off. And what you’re supposed to do is, roll down
your passenger window, and then open your driver’s door like ten times and close it. And what it does is blow air through the
car.
JOEL: Let’s break this down.. Let’s let’s break down this process.
BARB: That would make me hot.
JACK: No! It actually makes sense!
JOEL:You walk up to your car..
JACK: Yes.
JOEL: You’ve rolled down one window..
JACK: Yes.
JOEL: You then walk around to the other side of the car.. Open the door, and close the door repeatedly.
JACK: Or you have a car that has power windows, and you open your driver’s door, roll down the passenger window, and
then open and shut the driver’s door a few times.
JOEL: See, now, wouldn’t that process make you..
BARB: Yeah!
JOEL: Hotter?
BARB: That’s what I said!
JACK: Not really.
BARB: Why don’t you just go in turn on the air conditioning, and wait, like thirty seconds until it cools down?
JOEL: And also..
JACK: In.. Inside the car, or ou..
BARB: Yeah. Inside..
JOEL: And also, you look ridiculous. Like, you’re that guy in the parking lot, like what’s that guy doing?
GUS: He’s trying to make his car fly! Yeah. He’s like flapping the car wings.
JOEL: It’s like, is that how you start those new Japanese.. cars?
GUS: It would be awesome if it was a DeLorean.
BARB: Would you wind it up?
JOEL: Is it the eco-friendly version of the car, or how’s that work?
JACK: Did you see the Will.i.am DeLorean?
GUS: Nooo.
JACK: So Will.i.am is making a new line of cars. And he’s made a car that is basically a future DeLorean. Or even more
future DeLorean, I guess.
JOEL: You know.. I’m not sure that I want the Black.. anyone from the Black Eyed Peas in charge of making any stylistic
choices for anything.
JACK:Well,..
BARB: Are you sure?
JACK: Well, they made an amazing Super Bowl Halftime show.
JOEL: I’m pretty..
BARB: They did.
JOEL: I’m pretty sure. It’s just.. Just stop being.. They just have to stop being weird. They.. Jumpsuits with the things sticking out of it..
BARB: They’re modern.
JOEL: They’re not modern.
JACK: Do you like those crazy future cars like the Nissan Cube like the one that has that window that kinda wraps around the back corner?
GUS: It’s not for me but I appreciate that someone is doing something different with a car.
JACK: Yeah, that’s my philosophy, it’s like we have to go through that in order to get to the cool future cars, you know?
JOEL: But is it different, is it?
JACK: Yeah.
GUS: They, I mean the thing they’re doing with that specifically that I think is interesting is the asymmetrical design. That’s the big thing with that window going across.
JOEL: I always love the idea of Japanese engineers sitting in a room somewhere trying to figure out what the American consumer wants. You know and they just don’t quite understand.
GUS: Yeah
BARB: They’re doing a pretty good job so far.
JOEL: They’re just, “This is the family-fun-mobile”.
BARB: They tell us what we want. They don’t guess.
GUS: It’s like the uh when BMW didn’t have uh were they didn’t put enough cup-holders in their car, and uh Americans bitched. Now you get into a BMW there’s fucking cup-holders everywhere. There’s like cup-holders coming out of the dashboard now.
JOEL: And you know what they used to have in the early nineties they had uh the timing belt was uh they got rid of the belt and had a chain.
GUS: Right.
JOEL: And um apparently that fucking thing worked so good that they got rid of it because a chain doesn’t break. You don’t have to change the timing belt if it’s a chain.
GUS: Yeah that thing would last forever.
JOEL: It’d last forever.
BARB: So why’d they change it?
GUS: It’s cheaper to put a belt in and when it breaks they can sell you a new belt. If you put a chain in, it works forever.
JOEL: It’s a weird thing because like in other countries like or a lot of things it’s like they’re gonna make a product and the product is good. In America you make a company and the company is good.
BARB: Yep
JOEL: Because the company is a machine that makes money.
BARB: They know how to make money. Yeah that’s absolutely true.
JOEL: Where it’s just like an engineered...
GUS: Yes.
JOEL: What’s the term I’m looking for? I’m doing a screwdriver motion.
GUS: You’re pantomiming a screwdriver. This is the company
JOEL: Engineered screwing
GUS: This is the money
JACK: Or you’re starting a car. I Don't know which one you’re doing.
BARB: I know.
JOEL: Engineered screwing. I was doing the door motion.
JACK: Oh
BARB: Oh.
GUS: You’re uh trying to cool your car down. Um so did you uh, I don’t know if you had a chance to take a look at this JACK but uh. I’m, I’m gonna segway here.
JACK: Okay.
GUS: Uh we You know one of our sponsors this week is this Game Minder app which is uh on the iPhone.
JACK: From handelabra.
GUS: Yeah and just came out uh on android as well, and uh it’s a pretty cool app. I saw it for the first time at PAX East, and it is basically a calendar app that lets you know about upcoming release dates for games and lets you specify which platforms you want to be notified of, and then it reminds you when those games are coming up like at one day one week one month intervals.
BARB: That’s awesome.
JOEL: That’s actually like uh that would actually help me with my work.
JACK: That’s pretty cool.
GUS: It’s really fucking handy.
BARB: It’d probably help everyone here with their work.
JOEL: Yeah.
GUS: Yeah um.
JACK: It sends you reminders and stuff like. It’s pretty cool and then it has like upcoming games you can click on your search and it shows within a week, within a month, a year, all upcoming games.
GUS: You can even sort by like developer, genre, publisher. It’s
JOEL: That’s awesome.
GUS: It’s super neat. It’s
BARB: It’s called Game Minder?
GUS: Game Minder uh
JACK: It’s game dot minder(GAME.minder)
JOEL: Hopefully there’s something in that that will help explain the Arma II titling.
GUS: The “Arma II” titling?
JOEL: Like what was the first one titled?
GUS: Oh, right, yeah yeah “Arma” I missed
JOEL: “Arma I” the fire
GUS: No that was Operation Flashpoint.
JOEL: Operation Flashpoint. Did it have the word Arma in it at all? See, now we need the app to help us.
GUS: I’m looking it up actually.
BARB: So, Handelabra’s gonna be at RTX, right?
GUS: Yes, they will be. So I see Arma III on here, I guess this the app tracks games that are coming out, and it says Arma III TBA Summer of 2012...So
BARB: TBA
GUS: They don’t have a release date yet.
JOEL: So is Arma III just gonna be Dayz?
GUS: Well, I heard that they’re incorporating it but uh last plug, if you have an iPhone or starting this week an Android device, you should check it out uh it’s pretty cool. Uh but yeah I heard that they the the devs of Arma hired the Dayz modders to work internally.
JOEL: Oh that’s awesome.
GUS: So now they’re building the Arma III engine with better capabilities to accommodate Dayz.
JOEL: That’s that’s awesome.
GUS: Yeah so it’s pretty neat uhm the one of the one of the guys who works on the mod who uh was one of the creators sent me a tweet the other day. It was like, “Oh just heard the podcast you know love that you guys are plugging the game.” I was like that’s so weird.
JOEL: That is very that is very very weird.
JACK: Now how many modders are working on the game do you know?
GUS: Oh I don’t know. I think the most like the guy I talked to was like named Michael and I know there’s another one like the most high profile one is name I think his name is Rocket is what he goes by on the internet. Uhm but yeah I mean it’s that game is so much fun. We have four servers now that we play on that are constantly full.
JACK: Yeah
GUS: It’s it’s really really a blast.
JOEL: I still haven’t gotten a chance to play. Should we change our names to something more like there’s like Notch and then there’s Rocket. And it’s you’re just like GUS. You need to change it to like.
GUS: Well you know I feel like that’s a holdover on the internet from like the old days when everyone used pseudonyms.
JACK: Yeah
GUS: Uhm, even when we used to do Ugly Internet and Drunkgamers we did. That’s why Burnie used to be Buzz B.
BARB: Weren’t you just GUS with a capital s?
GUS: And Geoff was G-Funk. Yeah, and I was always just GUS.
JOEL: So you were ahead of your time.
GUS: Yeah
JACK: Joel, did you ever have a pseudonym?
JOEL: Uh, yeah it’s terrible.
JACK: What is it?
JOEL: It’s just my gamer tag.
GUS: What uh what about you JACK did you ever have uh a handle?
JACK: I, my first handle back when I was my dial-up data
JOEL: Was “The Beard”
JACK: Yeah back when I was in eighth grade with my giant beard
JOEL: It was the beard you knew you were gonna
JACK: No my first nickname I went by was “Crash”.
GUS: Uhmhmn
JACK: Because I loved Hackers and I you know Crash Override is one of the main characters in the movie and so I shortened it to Crash, and uhm what else have I gone by? I went by “Trivia DJ” for a while which was
BARB: Trivia DJ?
GUS: Trivia DJ.
JACK: There was an IRC chat channel I would go to and uhm we would do like trivia stuff like trivia nights like movie trivia and I would usually just like change my name to “Trivia DJ” and I would ask questions to people and people would send me messages of questions and I’d ask them for the whole room.
JOEL: Now if you didn’t know the answer to the question were you allowed to ask it?
JACK: No
GUS: So you had to know all of them.
JOEL: So you were like a legitimate trivia guy.
JACK: Yeah yeah I love trivia. I’m a big trivia guy man.
BARB: He came to us with uh Geeks Who Drink
JACK: Yeah Geeks Who Drink
BARB: And JACK kicked ass.
GUS: Who will also be doing an event at RTX.
JACK: Yeah we’re throwing that event at RTX it’s gonna be Saturday night eight till something
BARB: Those guys put on a great show.
JOEL: Where’s it at?
JACK: At the convention center.
JOEL: Oh it is?
JACK: Yeah.
BARB: Yeah.
JACK: You should come.
JOEL: How many people are allowed?
GUS: I think
BARB: Two hundred
GUS: the uh I think the Geeks Who Drink wanted to keep it at about two hundred so I think there’s gonna be two hundred twelve people that will be allowed to compete there.
JACK: Yeah, tables of six I believe.
GUS: Yeah
BARB: Tables of six.
JACK: So uh the way it’s gonna work is basically its going to be a first come first serve type deal. We’re not we’re thinking about doing teams where like you sign up in advance, but I don’t like that because I don’t like the idea of people not showing up.
GUS: Right
JOEL: It could cause a lot of chaos.
JACK: If you wanna play you get there and you get there early and get your team together and grab a table and then boom we’ll fill up the room.
GUS: And if you don’t have a team you can just show up and get a group of random people.
BARB: Just join.
JACK: Exactly
GUS: Hold up an LFG sign.
BARB: But yeah those guys put on a great show.
JACK: Yeah, it’s gonna be a lot of fun.
BARB: It’s gonna be internet and Roosterteeth themed based trivia.
JOEL: Oh Jesus.
JACK: Yeah I mean it’s gonna be across the board but it’s gonna be a Roosterteeth whole category and some other stuff.
JOEL: I might have a chance at winning this.
JACK: You should come yeah.
BARB: You might.
JACK: I’m gonna be there.
JOEL: I mean we can’t participate if it’s based on Roosterteeth.
JACK: Well no I mean you can come with me I’m gonna be there I’m helping out with the show and stuff.
JOEL: What are you gonna do?
JACK: Well I
JOEL: They’re gonna ask the question you’re gonna shout out the answer aren’t you?
GUS: Be like I know that I know that I know it.
JOEL: Don’t be that guy.
JACK: There’s like quiz masters so I’m gonna be help out with that see what I can do. It’d be kinda fun and like it’s my kinda stuff so.
JOEL: Is there a prize associated?
JACK: Uhm I think so I don’t know if we really talked about that but we can we can we’ll figure out something.
GUS: Yeah
JACK: We’ll get prizes for
GUS: A Five dollar gift certificate for the Roosterteeth Store.
BARB: If anything it’s like bragging rights like, “Hey we were the winning team at RTX.”
JACK: Maybe I’ll buy drinks for the winning team if you’re of age.
JOEL: Now is there a secondary, like a secondary contest for who drinks the most?
JACK: No
JOEL: Do they get second place?
BARB: People have been asking about age limits for that. I believe there are no age limits but again you have to be twenty-one to buy alcohol.
GUS: If you’re under twenty-one you’re a geek who drinks soda.
JACK: Yeah and obviously no under-age drinking at the convention center or your ass will be booted out as quick as possible.
GUS: That is illegal and against the rules.
JACK: Yes
BARB: Yep
JACK: And, we should also, speaking of rule type stuff, so we mentioned this last week, we should probably mention it again. Roosterteeth, our office is closed the week before and after RTX.
BARB: Closed.
GUS: We’ll be spending too much time at the convention center. This is actually the last week I’ll actually be in the office.
JACK: Oh yeah?
GUS: Almost all of next week I’ll be at the convention center.
JOEL: Can I come hang out with you?
GUS: Yeah you can hang out. I’ll show you like all the secret passages, the secret innards of the convention center. I know everything about the convention center now.
JACK: Wow.
GUS: I know where every door goes. I’ve been everywhere in that fucking building.
JOEL: This is good now you have advantages for other conventions that take place there. You know all the backways and all that stuff.
JACK: Can you get into the catwalks? Are there catwalks?
GUS: No there are not any catwalks in this convention center. The cool thing about this convention center and this is probably only people who are exhibitors that would care about this is that there are no support pillars on the exhibit floor.
JACK: Oh wow.
GUS: Like it’s all unobstructed which is awesome.
JOEL: How do they run like electricity on there is it like a sub-floor?
GUS: Yeah there’s
JOEL: This is gonna be really boring.
GUS: Yeah there’s like pockets cut into the floor and all the power and data is run through the pockets in the floor.
JOEL: Oh awesome.
GUS: Yeah.
JOEL: So that’s good. Well I mean, you would think they would think that one through wouldn’t they?
BARB: It’s a nice convention center.
GUS: Yeah, there’s also like plumbing and water run through those pockets as well so if you wanted a water fountain in your booth you could get if you wanted a toilet in your booth you could probably get that.
JOEL: Wow.
GUS: Wait it might be too small for a toilet. You could probably get a sink.
BARB: I want next year I want a booth that just has a toilet, and it’s gonna be my booth.
GUS: It might be a number one toilet only. It might not be able to accommodate the deuces.
JACK