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GUS: I thought that people would not react well.. to something that was not cut from the podcast because I’m egotistical..
JACK: There’s a..
GUS: But they liked it. It was fine.
JACK: There’s something weird about stuff that you just don’t like, and you don’t get why other people like it. You know, like there’s something about that… Yeah. That’s the video..
BARB: Yup!
JACK: That’s a wonderful video.
GUS: Uhhm..
JOEL: It’s a Caboose shirt.
BARB: Is it really?
JACK: Haha. No, I don’t think it’s a Caboose shirt
BARB: Nah.
GUS: This week’s Animated Adventure, which I haven’t posted yet, is the um, uh, the telling of the story about Sway visiting, uh, our office in Butah.
JACK: Oh, yeah, yeah.
GUS: And, encountering.. Going into the wrong apartment.
JACK: That’s some classics, man.
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: Old stuff.
GUS: Good stuff.
JACK: Is uh, Jayordan is coming out for RTX, right?
GUS: Yeah, he’ll be..
BARB: He sure is..
JACK: Sweet!
BARB: He’s actually doing a panel..
JACK: Oh, nice!
BARB: on the Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures(RTAA).
JACK: Yeah? Cool.
GUS: I.. Think.. I’m.. on that panel.
BARB: You are. You and Burnie are supposed to be on that panel as well.
GUS: Ok.
JACK: Man, I’ll..
JOEL: If he, If he can figure out at way to, uh our animators into his work, … Then we’ve got a video.
GUS: If we can figure out a way to get his animation into Season 10 (RvB)..
BARB: Well, it already was..
JOEL: It already was..
GUS: It already was..
BARB: First episode.
JOEL: Mark that off the list!
BARB: Yup..
GUS: Check!
BARB: Dang.
JACK: Uhm..
BARB: But yeah.. The whole panel schedule is posted on the website.
JACK: Yup.
GUS: Man, so.. you know, now that summer’s here.. “Summer is coming!”
JACK: Brace yourselves.
BARB: “Summer is coming!”
GUS: We, uh, we have this problem all the time, where the fucking air conditioner in the front of the office breaks.
JACK: Oh, God dammit!
BARB: Oh, yeah..
GUS: And it broke yesterday! And I guess, because it’s so, it’s so hot, I called our normal service place, and they’re like, “Yeah, we can’t get out there til Wednesday.” I was like, “What? It’s Monday right now!” They’re like, “yeah, a lot of people calling..” And it’s like, fuck. So, we like literally went down the list and, on, like we did a search on the internet, and like, we just.. we just went down the list calling every AC place, and we’re like, “First one who can get out here and fix it, we’ll pay the first p..pp.. people to show up!”
JACK: “We have money, take my money!”
GUS: Yeah..
JACK: Well, didn’t..
JOEL: Well, it can’t be as bad as the AC breaking at the last office.
GUS: Oh, God..
JOEL: Cause when the AC at the last office.. broke, it was like, you know? When.. when you’re in Minecraft, and you dump a bucket of water.. It’s the same thing that was happening with that old AC. It was like, oh, this is gonna break, water would just start pouring everywhere..
BARB: Oh, really?
JACK: Yeah, right onto the servers, too.
JOEL: On to the servers, yeah.
BARB: Apparently, that’s a big thing here with air conditioning breaking.
JACK: And pouring on the servers?
BARB: No, just air conditioning breaking.. All the time..
GUS: Well, it’s, uh, it’s so hot.
JACK: People, yeah.. you feel like you’re..
GUS: You put such a strain on it..
BARB: It’s constantly running.. That’s true.
JACK: My, my air conditioner broke last summer, and I spent one.. I could not fall asleep. It was so hot in my house.
BARB: Yeah..
JACK: Like I laid in bed, on top of my sheets with three fans on me, and I was like, “Nope, I’m not sleeping tonight”
BARB: You and me talked about this yesterday, how, both Jack and I just cannot sleep if it’s.. hot, like it’s.. it has to be cold..
JACK: Yeah.
BARB: in my bedroom I’m gonna sleep.
JOEL: I’m kinda the same way..
GUS: I.. I like cold. When I.. when I travel to hotels, I love to turn the AC way down, and it’s like.. it’s super cold?
JOEL: That’s like a ritual, right?
GUS: Yeah.
JOEL: Like, go down there, like 68.
GUS: So,….
JOEL: You know, yeah.
GUS: So, I hate these new thermostats they have in a lot of hotels, where they don’t turn on if they don’t have motion? So it’s like, when you go to like go to check in, and no one’s been the room for a while, so it’s like..
JOEL: I hate that!
GUS: So it’s like detects you and turns on..
BARB: Like when you’re sleeping?
GUS: I don’t know..
JOEL: They have this obnoxious feature in other countries too, where it’s like, you go there, and you have to put your key in this thing by the door, to like sort of..
GUS: Yeah..
GUS and JOEL: to turn the power on..
BARB: Are you serious?
GUS: Yeah..
JOEL: Massively annoying.
BARB: Wow!
JACK: I’ve also seen it too, where it’s timers on the ACs there, where you have to put.. where you have to.. where there’s like this little, like an egg timer, where you have to turn the knob, and it’ll go for like two hours, and then it’ll like turn off.
BARB: Oh, my God.
GUS: Really?!
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: I mean that’s, that’s like a drive-a-person-insane device. Is what that is..
BARB: Yeah..
JACK: Man
JOEL: I mean um,..
JACK: But yeah. So yesterday, saaah.. the Achievement Hunter office.. we got one of those, like industrial fans to try and blow some circulation in there, but.. and, and there are four of us in there right now, there’s five when Gavin’s here, and I mean, that room gets hot already, then you kill the AC, it’s just like.. it’s a nightmare.
BARB: Yeah.
JACK: So.. And we also have a giant window next to Geoff and and uh, Ray’s desk, so..
BARB: I know if my AC goes out, I’m gonna die.
JACK: Yeah..
BARB: I’m just gonna, I’m just..
JOEL: Yeah, I had that happen in LA, a lot when my AC went out. And it wasn’t just hot there..
GUS: You died?
JOEL: Well, it was like I had a ritual where I was like, “Ok..”
BARB: Rest in peace Joel..
JOEL: “I’m gonna take a cold shower.. you know, walk into a cold shower, and then just like, “Alright, hurry up and lay down in bed! And like try and fall asleep… Like, before your body temperature rises..”
GUS: You can’t even do that here, cause it gets so hot that the cold water isn’t cold.
BARB: And it evaporates..
GUS: I don’t know if you’ve tried to take a shower, like a cold shower now, but the water’s warm. It doesn’t matter if you only have the cold water on..
BARB: Yup..
JACK: It’s a nightmare.. You know, we should all go down to like, Barton Springs sometimes.. you know, go hit the pool.
BARB: Yeah!
GUS: You know, instead of Hawaii, let’s do that.
BARB: Yeah! Haha
GUS: Our post RTX trip.
JACK: Have you ever.. have you ever been to Barton Springs yet?
BARB: I have not..
JACK: Ok.. So Barton Springs is a natural springs pool here in like downtown Austin, and it’s like, it’s really, really cold..
BARB: Awesome!
JOEL: But you went tubing..
BARB: I did go tubing.
JOEL: Tubing.. is better than going to the.. going to Barton Springs.
BARB: The thing.. The thing about tubing, and I had a really great time tubing.. me, Michael, Lindsay, and Gavin, we all went, and we brought beer, and it was great..
JACK: But?
BARB: but the place we went to, it was a little bit like rapid.. so.. You know how your butt is kinda like hanging out the bottom of the tube?
JACK: Yeah.
BARB: There would be places where there’d be rocks.. and so I scraped, like my butt, my legs, my like, all over because there’s rocks everywhere and it would like.. fuckin throw you all over the place in certain areas.
JACK: Well.. Well that has a lot to do with the fact that we had a drought last summer that’s really lasted until now, so the rivers aren’t nearly as high as they usually are, so that kinda sucks
JOEL: It was like that, when we went last.. was it last year?
JACK: We went last summer..
JOEL: And it was like that, wasn’t it?
JACK: Yeah, it was the same deal.
JOEL: There was just like, no water..
BARB: Yeah. I mean, I was just expecting, just a float down a river for three hours, but here, it’s like, you have to f, like fuckin..
JACK: You have to paddle..
BARB: You have to paddle, and like get away from certain obstacles..
JACK: Have you been to Schlitterbahn yet?
BARB: No.
JACK: Ohh.. You got to go Schlitterbahn.
GUS: One time when I went uh, tubing years ago, uh I saved a girl from drowning.
JACK: Wow!
BARB: My hero!
GUS: She got knocked off her tube, uh, and was like, pinned, uh, in a log under the, uh, water.
BARB: Are you serious?
GUS: The water was much higher back then..
JOEL: So it was like that scene in The Grey? Are you successful?
GUS: I haven’t seen The Grey yet.
BARB: No spoilers.
JOEL: Well.. you lived it!
GUS: Yeah. I lived it, apparently..
JACK: Wait, so what happened?
GUS: Like, so I, uh, I saw her, she was in front of me, and I saw her fall off her tube. Then I didn’t see her come back up, so I jumped off my tube and went down, and like, her foot was caught..
JACK: Oh Jesus!
GUS: like on a log underwater..
BARB: I saw a girl slip and fall into the water.. it was really funny
JOEL: Holy Crap! W,w,wait,wait,wait. You saw, and a girl got trapped, and you went and rescued her?!
GUS: Yeah.
BARB: He saved someone’s life.
GUS: I pulled her out from the log..
JOEL: That’s pretty awesome.
GUS: Yeah. That was.. That was younger Gus, when he had the energy to do stuff like that..
JACK: Older Gus would be like, “Well, that’s one less..”
JOEL: “One less person to communicate with..”
GUS: “Well, sucks for her..”
BARB: Oh well
JACK: God.. I can’t even imagine like the panic of being pinned underwater, like..
JOEL: I know a girl, that uh, drowned in a flood, like she was in a car, or she tried to cross a river, um, and the water overtook the car, started filling up inside the car, and she was in the car, and f.. and she was sitting there and she was trapped and she .. and she was describing having that moment where she was just like, “I’m trapped, I’m out of oxygen, I.. there’s nothing I can do, and it’s just like, it’s just like I have to, it’s just like, your body’s like, “I have to breath in now.” “ It’s like she hit that moment where she’s like I have to breath in now, and she breathed in, and it was all water, and it was all water, and she was like, struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle, and she was like, just hit that point where, uh, where I just didn’t care. She said, I just didn’t care, and it was fine, and it was, there was no pain or anything, and uh, she died. And uh. Somebody got her and pulled her out of the car or whatever, and they resuscitated her, resuscitated her on the site, and she came alive..
BARB: Oh my God!
JACK: Jesus Christ!
JOEL: Yeah, yeah… but it was just sort of like, and she was always just a little off, but uh, yeah..
JACK: Before or after?
JOEL: Well, it was weird.. She was always just a little off, and we were having a conversation about this and I was like, “oh, God. I wonder if that’s something, something”
BARB: What I’m most afraid of is drowning..
JOEL: Well, she was…
BARB: That feeling of is just.
JOEL: The way, the way it she described it was just, the way she told the story, she was sort of like, it was fine.. like once you get like past the struggle..
BARB: Well, some people panic, and just..
JOEL: Well, you’re gonna panic.
BARB: Yeah.
JOEL: I mean that’s just part of the problem..
BARB: Well, yeah.. everybody would panics, but that.. it’s just so..
JOEL: Well, but that girl, she was totally fine with it. It’s like, “Whatever..”
BARB: “Well alright..”
JACK: “Stupid.. stupid drowning..”
BARB: “See ya..”
GUS: My Grandfather died in a flash flood..
JOEL: Did he?
GUS: MMHm.. It’s one of those things like in a dry creek bed, and I guess..
JOEL: Yeah.
GUS: It’s like all of a sudden there’s just like a torrent of, uh water came..
JOEL: Yeah..
JACK: It’s so weird, like the idea of people dying in flash floods. It’s like, like, you would imagine you could just swim and like grab onto something, you know, but you know?
GUS: It’s all the debris..
JACK: Yeah. Yeah.. I guess that’s what does it right?
JOEL: It’s just water.. Water, you know, once its on the move.. it’s just incredibly strong..
JACK: Oh yeah..
JOEL: It’s just incredibly strong..
BARB: The fact when I went tubing
JOEL: A-and water j- on the move it is incredibly strong.
GUS: Oh yeah.
JOEL: It’s incredibly strong.
BARB: Imagine if you went tubing, and that much little water is able to push people all over the place.
GUS: So th-th-the creepy thing about my grandpa dying… you know, I’m Gus Sorola the Third, so I’ve been to his grave, I’ve seen Gustavo Sorola’s grave.
JACK: Ohhhohohooo.
JOEL: Are you gonna… be buried next to him?
GUS: Which weird beca- nahh he’s buried in Mexico. Which is really weird because you’re like holy shit, that’s my name…
JACK: Yeah that’s spooky.
GUS: …right there. On the ground.
JOEL: Yeah that is kinda creepy.
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: Why do we always go… to the down…?
BARB: I don’t know.
JACK: I was gonna morbid Google search.
GUS: So after- I-I made a tweet yesterday uhhh, or tweeted yesterday ‘bout uhhh Adam taking over as Director of Technology, and right away I regretted it because I started getting the oh my god, do you not work at Rooster Teeth anymore? D’y’know? Are you leaving Rooster Teeth? Like, nooo, I still fucking work there.
BARB: Still here.
GUS: I just, let someone else handle the tech now, I’m doing other things than- still people are like what are you doing now? Well now I’m focused on y’know RTX or Podcast-
JOEL: Let’s not- let’s not throw the word “work” around.
GUS: Yeah, and they’re like,” oh Lindsay does the podcast now, or RTX will be over next week, so you won’t be doing anything right?”
BARB: Ohh.
GUS: And I was like fuck you. Fuck you. So much.
JACK: You kick off working on next year’s RTX right? Like immediately.
GUS: Yeah, luckily we built that robot. 2013’s gonna be a breeze, thanks to the Pinotron!
BARB: Fail hole here.
JACK: Gus bot 3000.
GUS: Program for fun. Comedy routine broken.. Kill. Kill.
JOEL: Just as long as it doesn’t drop that one Garfield joke.
GUS: Cut that...
JACK: Dude, I forget that. RTX is gonna be awesome, I’m really really looking forward to RTX. Y’know- there’s actually so much cool stuff at RTX, that I’m like- I can’t do it all, and it’s kind of upsetting.
BARB: People have like messaged me, complaining, saying oh you put two panels back to back, or like too close to each other, I can’t go to those. I was like-
JOEL: Why don’t you-
BARB: -why not?
JOEL: Wh-Why do they talk like that?
BARB: ‘Cause that’s my internet voice.
JACK: But there’s things like, I mean, like- the stuff we still haven’t announced yet, uhm, that I-I am gonna be helping with, and then there’s other stuff that are going on at the same time like I wanna check out that panel, but I can’t.
JOEL: I see I already have to apologize for how… tired I’m gonna be. Y’know, just-
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: -Just gonna be-
BARB: Yeah.
JOEL: -a lot of stuff goin’ on.
BARB: I already apologized to everybody for being a total bitch-
GUS: Luckily it’s uhh… Luckily it’s a two day event so. We’ll be super tired two days, and then we can recover, it’s not… one of those super long events like San Diego Comic Con.
BARB: Yeah, we can recover… for that thirty hours we have in between.
JACK: Jeez. Uh…
GUS: San Diego Comic Con is a fucking marathon.
JACK: Yeah it is. I-I-I haven’t worked at comic con so uhm-
GUS: Uhh, it starts Wednesday night. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, five days.
JOEL: That’s… yeah.
BARB: Yup.
JACK: So… Eughh.
BARB: Fuck.
JOEL: You guys go to San Diego Comic Con and try to shoot a short at the same time. See how that works out for ya’.
BARB: Oh yeah.
GUS: I once- I once worked at Comic Con like four five years ago when it was just me and Jason.
JOEL: Oh really?
JACK: Oh god.
GUS: There were two of us for the entire- Uhhh, event.
JOEL: Well that’s… That-uh a- that’s actually not bad. I mean it’s bad, but-
BARB: Well if someone has to go to the bathroom it’s like-
JOEL: -it’s you and one other like- y-you guys are cool. That’s easier than… a lot of other equations I could put together.
GUS: Yeah. That’s true.
BARB: If there’s more than 4 people-
JOEL: If there’s only two people and everyone would work, that’s easier if you have three people and one of them was kind of like…
BARB: Yeah.
JOEL: …a pain.
BARB: I find if you have more than four people at a booth at a convention it just becomes stupid.
GUS: It falls apart.
BARB: Yeah.
GUS: One year, it wasn’t that same year with Jason, it was one or two years after that uhh Luke McKay was in the booth with us, and he was like drawing stuff using my laptop?
BARB: Mmhmm.
GUS: And uh… hehhhehh, we had internet connection for the laptop, it was a wire that they ran and plugged in? And uhh… and uhh… Yeah, fuck it. Cut that. So we had this internet connected through an Ethernet Port they had plugged in and uhm Jo- and uhm Luke was trying to use his Wacom Tablet and uh-
BARB: oh to draw with.
GUS: Yeah, and he got the USB, plugged it in and was like my tablet’s not being recognized, my tablet’s not being recognized. So I was like fine, what’s goin’ on? I go on over and I looked, and he had plugged his USB connection for the laptop into the Ethernet port? Like he just reached into the side and it fit in there? And I learned that they were the exact same width.
BARB: Wow.
JOEL: That’s crazy!
GUS: And I was like,” Ohp! There’s your problem.”
JOEL: It’s funny because when you’re working, and you guys haven’t figured this out yet, but it’s like, when you’re working at an event that’s like five days long, it is sort of like a race for resources?
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: Like towards the where it’s f- “Ahhh it’s fine it’s fine!” It’s like the second day you’re like,” Hey where’s that chair?” and then you realize, oh the chair’s important, I need to like… pin down the chair, it’s like,” Oh bottle of w- I haven’t drank. I need a bottle of water. Where’s the bottle of water.” It’s likea smaller condensed version of the apocalypse.
GUS: Yeah. It’s-It’s-It’s-It’s like playing DayZ.
JOEL: It’s like playing DayZ, yeah, where it’s like you slowly run out of resources-
BARB: I remember last year-
JOEL: -and you- and like when you fear of killin’ y- and you become a dick about that chair a-and someone’s like,” Oh can I borrow your chair?” you’re like,” NO. FUCK YOU. You cannot borrow the chair. Don’t even look at the chair.”
JACK: Y’know the Achievement Hunter Area of RTX we only have- we have a table set up for like autographs and stuff, and I think we have like two chairs. And it’s like-
GUS: Oh did you want two? I only asked for one.
JACK: Okay. W-T- We only have one chair.
BARB: One chair.
JACK: We have one chair.
GUS: See this was part of the Logistics Meeting! It’s like how many chairs do we need? Where do the chairs go?
JOEL: No, at conventions it’s like, it becomes-
JACK: No it’s fine. One chair. Tha-that’s reserved. So. No-No one on that chair, or we’ll knock your ass off.
BARB: Yeap.
JACK: Take our chair.
BARB: We worked at uh, Fan Expo last year, me, Miles, Marshall and Kathleen, and that is a long Expo.
GUS: Yeah.
BARB: It’s open, I think… 8am to 6 or 7pm? Everyday? And it’s also five days long? Fuck. Longest, longest week of my life.
GUS: I feel I-I-I Fan Expo is long, I don’t know what it is. Something about being in Toronto is uhh… It d- it doesn’t seem to last as long as San Diego Comic Con, maybe because it’s not the overwhelming crush of people.
BARB: Yeah. It-it, yeah.
GUS: I think it’s smaller than that.
BARB: I think there’s- I forget how many people.
GUS: I think fifty or sixty thousand, yeah.
JOEL: Well i-i-I you’re in Canada, so everybody’s polite.
GUS: It’s true.
BARB: It’s true.
JACK: How is there not a gaming convention or a comic book show in Vegas? Like I mean like- W-We’ve tal-we’ve talked about-
JOEL: Well y’know Gamestop had their uh conference managers be in there a couple times?
JACK: Yeah, it’s been in there a couple times.
JOEL: oh, god that was- I had a great time.
JACK: It was awesome!
GUS: There’s- th-
JOEL: Y-Yeah, we need to bring more stuff out in Vegas- there’s uhh somethin’- there’s some sort of small convention in Vegas.
GUS: There’s uh-uhhh one of the pro-gaming leagues in Vegas has a tournament in Vegas every now and then.
JACK: But I mean like- I understand why Blizzcon is in Anaheim because it’s close to headquarters, but having Blizzcon in Vegas, or hell, even Comic Con in Vegas just to get more space.
GUS: They may not want to cut- like, they may have a lot of people under twenty one, who uhhh-
JACK: Yeah, but you can still go to conventions, I mean under twenty one there’s just not a whole lot else you can do, but even so, there’s not a whole lot you could do in San Diego. There might be a little bit more.
JOEL: But th- another thing is that if you’re, y’know, an exhibitor or whatever, you probably want people to be focused on your exhibit and being focused on the convention, and it’s like Vegas it’s like oh let’s go, not go, let’s play blackjack all day.
GUS: But th- there’s a lot of big shows in Vegas.
JOEL: True.
JACK: Yeah, there’s a lot of them. Have you ever been to CES?
JOEL: yes I have.
JACK: Dude.
GUS: Oh yeah, we went to uh IWTV which was part of CES.
JACK: Oh dude, CES is-
JOEL: It took me an hour and half to get to my- to go up fifteen flights.
JACK: That’s the one of the most incredible things I’ve seen in my life. I mean like, CES is soo big. Like as big as you think PAX is, or y’know, RTX is, something like that, like CES is… it’s a wonder of the word.
GUS: have you ever seen videos of, and I know we talk about it every now and then, but have you ever seen the line organization for… convention in Tokyo called ComiCat?
JACK: I think so, where it’s like they do chunks at a time-
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: Yeah, I’ve seen like stop motion-
JOEL: Yeah.
BARB: How many people are there.
GUS: Three hundred thousand.
BARB: Holy shit.
GUS: And they have these giant queue sections, like you should watch it, they have these time lapse videos of all these people lining up, and then, like Jack said, in chunks, they move, and they’re like arranging them.
BARB: Oh my god.
JACK: It’s amazing.
JOEL: Three hundred thousand people?
GUS: Yeah.
BARB: Yeah.
JOEL: What’s the venue?
GUS: Uh, some place in Tokyo, I don’t know.
JOEL: I mean… Wh-Wha-
BARB: What venue could that many people?
JOEL: Wh- Yeah. Wh-
GUS: Th-They’re not big exhibits either, it’s a manga convention so it’s essentially a bunch of tables where people sell-
BARB: My god.
GUS: -comic books.
JACK: Well that’s like Tokyo Game Show, I’d love to go to Tokyo Game Show. Like that’d be cool, or uhmm… Wh-What’s what’s the game… game convention in Germany?
GUS: Games Com?
JACK: Games Com. Like I’d love to go to that. Those are both huge, bigger than anything we have in the States.
GUS: I-I-I-I-I jokingly tried to get us-
JOEL: Is it-is it really bigger than, yeah?
BARB: Oh yeah.
GUS: I tried to get us into Games Com-
JACK: Oh yeah?
GUS: - last year, or this year, I forgot when it was. But I couldn’t get in touch with anyone over there who spoke English. Everyone tho-
BARB: Are you serious?
GUS: -ught I was German.
JOEL: It’s funny I uh, I uhh thought everyone spoke English over there.
GUS: Or they were fucking with me because they didn’t want to deal with me.
BARB: That’s very possible.
GUS: Like who the fuck are these people?
JOEL: W-W-We don’t really sell anything over in Germany, right?
GUS: No, not really.
BARB: Not really in comparison to other places.
JOEL: That’d be a fun, convention then. ‘Cause you just sit.
JACK: So why do Australians love us? Wh-wh- I mean-
BARB: Australians and Canadians.
JOEL: You know I don’t know why any fans love us.
JACK: Apparently, Australians are going bonkers like for Burnie and Gavin down there, which is awesome, but I’m just curious as to why.
BARB: It’s like that every year. Rooster Teeth’s really big in Australia, and I think Melbourne’s the biggest city per capita of fans.
JACK: That’s…
GUS: Yeah, Melbourne’s pretty big.
BARB: Yeah, and Sydney as well.
JACK: Man, that’s crazy.
BARB: And then Toronto’s up there, Houston, and I believe London?
JACK: Well, Houston’s just fat, so…
GUS: So the people count double.
JACK: They’re literally the biggest people. The biggest fans we have.
GUS: I’m showing Barbara the Comic Cat line.
BARB: Holy fuck dude.
JACK: Yeah, it’s incredible.
JOEL: It’s like a Tetris game.
BARB: It’s like, Bugs.
GUS: This was dawn by the way, when this video started, it was dark.
JACK: Yeah.
BARB: Holy shit dude.
JACK: HOOooo Man.
BARB: So how many people are in that… one area?
GUS: I-I don’t know.
JACK: It might be in the description.
BARB: Oh my god…
JACK: Th-that sort of looks like a Minecraft thing almost.
BARB: That’s something on the brain.
GUS: We’ll obviously-we’ll obviously put this video in the link dump.
JACK: Yeah. Speaking of- speaking of Minecraft, Joel and I were working on our new Minecraft maps. We now-th –we’ve-we’ve abandoned… If we got that old Minecraft map, back… Like if you took that USB drive, we would’ve talked about a number of times and got repaired, would you go back to the old map? Or are you happy enough with this new map we spent hours and hours and hours working on…
JOEL: That’s like asking to choose between children. I don’t know.
JACK: You don’t know?
JOEL: I don’t know.
JACK: You built a house way on the corner of the map, Barbara, it’s really nice. It’s got a-it’s got a view of the sunset, and the sunrise…
JOEL: H-How many copies of Minecraft has sold.
JACK: I don’t know.
BARB: A lot.
JOEL: A lot right?
BARB: A lot.
JOEL: it was the number one seller…
BARB: It’s gotta be there on Marketplace.
GUS: Yeah, it was- I forget. Th-th-they did announce the number, but I forgot.
JACK: I think Notch announced the numbers. They don’t typical announce, but I think Notch released those numbers.
GUS: I was wrong, Comic Kit has almost five hundred and sixty thousand attendees.
BARB: Fuck. Oh my god. That’s like what, half of Austin?
GUS: Pretty much. Yeah.
BARB: Jesus.
JOEL: What is goin’ on here.
BARB: That’s a lot of people
JOEL: My god that’s crazy.
JACK: Lets go.
GUS: I-I-I wanted to get us into that show too. Just as a joke.
BARB: Just as a joke.
GUS: One year I applied to a whole bunch of crazy shows to see what we’d get into.
BARB: I would never fucking go to that kind of show.
GUS: We wouldn’t sell a single thing there.
BARB: Yeah-
GUS: I guarantee you.
BARB: -It’s true.
JOEL: Well… Half a million people you’d think we’d sell something.
GUS: I-I-It’s a very focused event. It’s very manga focused. I don’t think they’d be interested in anything that wasn’t manga.
BARB: But half a million people…
JACK: Just put giant anime eyes on-on the characters. Just go back and, y’know…
GUS: We sh- no, you know we need to make a manga adaptation. We take the Red vs Blue story, make comics, and then y’know… do them in Japanese, and sell it to the market.
BARB: We have- we have a PSA-
JOEL: I’m your uncle?
BARB: -Red vs Blue going Global, where you do the Japanese version of Red vs Blue.
JACK: Oh that’s right.
BARB: It’s like, “Red and Blue soldiers go!”
GUS: Yeah, right.
BARB: It’s awesome. “Caboose! I love him, he’s so cute!”
JOEL: D-D-D’you know, in Japan they have a version of what the Power Rangers is to us? Because there’s some American made show that we export to Japan-
JACK: And then they redub?
JOEL: -that it’s like terrible, that it’s like got some sort of Power Rangers equivalent? Is-is there anything- I don’t think there’s anything in the US produced, at that port of a level.
JACK: I-I wonder if they like redub like uhm “Saved by the Bell”? It’s like a story about high school…
JOEL: They just place it in like fight scenes or whatever and robots.
JACK: Let’s go you my hero!
JOEL: That’s actually a good idea, Jack.
GUS: Yeah, I w- I w-
JOEL: That’s a genius idea.
GUS: I-I-I could be wrong here, but I know- I-I’m pretty sure, back in the 80s there was that uhh, uhh, cartoon series Robotech-
JACK: Mmhmm.
GUS: -the Robotech they showed in the United States was actually two different cartoons that they cut different stuff from-
JOEL: Yeah.
GUS: And -redubbed- rewrote all the dialogue to match what was happening, so like what you see is like two totally different cartoons over there.
JOEL: It’s like weird production value where it’s just like we’re gonna reapply the same material over again.
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: It’s like you were talking about soccer, right?
JACK: Mmm.
JOEL: It’s like uhm, I have a feeling that someone sort of bought rights for soccer over in Europe, but it’s just like we already have this-
JACK: We’ll already use it.
JOEL: So why should I pay for this.
JACK: Well no, it’s like- that’s like the most extreme challenge at mXc. That was uh-
BARB: I remember that!
JACK: -it was Tekeeshi’s Castle probably was the original one?
GUS: Yeah, Takeshi Castle.
JACK: Ta-tak-ta-Takeshi’s Castle, and then they just redubbed it with the funny voice over stuff. And it’s like, that must be so cheap to produce.
BARB: Yeah.
GUS: It’s like people who make Wipeout now?
JACK: I don’t know.
BARB: It’s gotta-it’s gotta be.
GUS: It’s like the same show.
BARB: It’s the same show.
JACK: Yeah.
BARB: Essentially. It’s Americanized.
JACK: Do you wa- do you watch uh Ninja Warrior?
GUS: No.
JACK: Which is a uh… s- not sa-
JOEL: See I was gonna say a real funny Iron Chef joke here, but we’ve moved on. This happens to me all the time where it’s like I’m trying to find the opening but there’s-
JACK: Do you know what Ninja Warrior is though?
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: Yeah, so basically it’s like a serious version of like Wipeout.
GUS: Serious.
JOEL: Well a serious version of like w-wipeout, what’s-
GUS: Hey, hey, hey, hey. N- Serious.This is s-
JOEL: Do they slice people in half or…
GUS: No joking. This is a serious version.
JOEL: What does that- what does that mean?
JACK: So, it’s-
GUS: Seriously!
JACK: W-Wipeout you know, they’re being goofy, and knocking people off and getting muddy and stuff and just keep going? An-and Ninja Warrior-
JOEL: In the serious version…
JACK: -It’s-
JOEL: It’s like if you don’t make it across this trap… we kill your firstborn.
BARB: pretty much.
JACK: So N-Ninja Warrior Is basically Ameri- Ima- Imagine like American gladiators like obstacles courses, except y’know, if you don’t complete the obstacle course, you’re out. So they have a hundred people and the whole thing there’s four stages, and the last stage is literally a- an a hundred foot rope climb to the very top, and if you get to the top, you win.
GUS: You can’t smile the entire time. ‘Cause it is serious.
JOEL: I think they need to-
JACK: I think th-they’ve done it li-like 25 times, and only 4 people actually completed the whole thing.
BARB: If I see that corner of your mouth curl up, it’s over.
GUS: Serious.
JOEL: They could incorporate this into American Idol.
JACK: I-it’s a giant-
JOEL: Climb over the giant-
JACK: You have to stutter stuff.
JOEL: -and then sing a song after.
GUS: How many fucking-
BARB: Ninja Idol.
GUS: -singing… TV shows are there now?
BARB: Too many.
JACK: Did you see the Choice?
BARB: I was just gonna-
JACK: Holy shit!
GUS: That was what I was going to segway into.
JACK: FUCK that show man!
BARB: That’s so fucking funny.
JOEL: Oh-wh-wh-wh-what’s that…?
JACK: Okay, so you-
GUS: You know- you know the Voice?
JOEL: Uhh… Yes.
BARB: Do you know the concept of the Voice?
JOEL: That’s right.
BARB: They have someone-
JACK: They have a chair, they like it, they push a button, it spins them around?
JOEL: Uh-huh?
JACK: They-
JOEL: Now?
JACK: -They took that- they took that same god damn set, and basically they turned it into a dating show where they have like shitty-
JOEL: They took like-
JACK: - Z-list celebrities.
JOEL: - Ohhh we got these four swinging chairs and put the entire budget into ‘em, and we have to justify them somehow.
GUS: Th-th-the Voice, sounds like “The Choice”. Let’s go with that.
BARB: Yup.
JACK: I’m-that’s the same network, right?
GUS: No.
JOEL: We can’t afford anymore letter people, we can’t afford…
GUS: The Voice is NBC, the Choice is Fox.
JACK: Oh really?
GUS: So then they have people come out and describe themselves, and if the Z-List celebrity sounds like they’re hot or interested, they hit the button and spin around and…
JACK: EUuughhhh.
GUS: …I don’t know, awkwardly hit on them?
JACK: And humanity dies a little bit.
BARB: If I was ever on that show, I would purposely go on there and go,” Hello, my name iss Jackie!”
GUS: You should be Jackie.
BARB: “Howssit going guysz? I just want a date. Why are you ignoring me? Oh my god bookssz!”
GUS: BURNT. Did you see that picture of that girl, like the real picture or her?
BARB: Yeah, we talked about it last week.
GUS: Oh we did? DAMNOkay. Why am I recycling all my shit.
BARB: Earn me good books.
JACK: So what’s on Reddit now, anything interesting yet?
GUS: God, have we gotten to the Reddit portion of the podcast? I think that’s where I stop, Reddit. Sorry Joel, I can’t give you my power. ‘Cause then…
JOEL: No, it’s okay.
GUS: … the podcast will stop recording.
JACK: Yeah, Joel’s laptop is dead. You look very sad.
GUS: Y-Y-Speaking of resources, like we were talking about this… Y…One of the most, one of the most sought after resources in this office is the power supply for our laptops-
JACK: We all have a power brick.
BARB: Meh.
GUS: -max, but some asshole took the part that plugs into the wall.
JACK: Bum, bum buhhhhh.
BARB: Whaaat?
GUS: They only left the part that plugs into the laptop.
BARB: Who the fuck would do that?
GUS: Thi-this would power your laptop right now, Joel, but some asshole came in here and took the power- the wall part.
BARB: I think Joel…
JOEL: That’s just like a- just a taunt.
GUS: This was here, last week when we recorded! I saw it plugged into the wall. So sometime last week someone took this- Why the fuck would they even need that?
JOEL: That’s the thing. You and I… well, I don’t know about you, w- we travel, so this thing never- that stays together. Forever.
GUS: Yeah. As far as I’m concerned, this does not happen. This doesn’t exist-
JOEL: Th-that doesn’t happen.
GUS: -this is one unit.
JOEL: That doesn’t happen, yeah.
JACK: Now do you like th-the one, the single plug that goes into the wall or do you like the cable that plugs into the wall?
GUS: I have the cable. Good for extra length.
JACK: Yeah, with the extra length, it’s also a little more secure.
GUS: Yeah.
BARB: It’s good to have extra length.
GUS: Yeah, when it’s the other way, I feel like it’s-it’s like barely in the wall, we-we’ll pull it out.
JOEL: Y-You’re-
JACK: Yours is barely in, and then it gets pulled out?
GUS: Yes.
JACK: I was looking around lookin’ for this plug.
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: and Barbara’s giggling like a schoolgirl.
GUS: I hope I don’t do this again.
JACK: And Gus has his cable on his mouth again.
GUS: Alright, I think we’ve went to the loopy part of the podcast.
JACK: Yeah.
GUS: We should probably wrap things up.
JACK: W-W-What’s for lunch today?
GUS: Uhhhh, I don’t know. We uhhh… Oh man, we went to… We went to Friday’s yesterday, y’know t-
BARB: We did.
GUS: -and that was disappoint- I haven’t been there in years, and they no longer have that fried cheese cheeseburger.
JACK: Ohh, man.
GUS: I talked it up to Jack.
JACK: I had never heard of this thing, if I had known about this- now I’m disappointed.
GUS: Years ago when our office was still in Beuda, I went to that Friday’s once and they had a fried cheese cheeseburger? So it was a cheeseburger with a fried cheese patty on it-
BARB: Oh. Oh my god.
GUS: -basically like a-a mozzarella stick disk? And then… it was covered in queso.
JACK: Euuughhh. Sounds sooo good.
BARB: Amerrricccaaaaaaa.
JACK: SO good.
BARB: Well I was confused by the fact that there was chicken fried chicken. Like…
JOEL: Yeah, there’s nothing confusing about that.
GUS: Chicken fried is the preparation. So you c-
JOEL: It’s like a-
GUS: -can add a chicken fried steak. That’s chicken fried.
JOEL: Once you-once you eat it, it’s like you understand…
GUS: And then the chicken is the protein.
BARB: I just- I remembered the f- the first time I ever heard that was here in Texas.
JACK: You can have a chicken fried pickle.
GUS: Yeah, you can chicken fried stuff.
JACK: Can you- can you-
JOEL: Who-who…?
JACK: - pickle a chicken fried chicken?
GUS: You probably could, that’d be super gross though.
JOEL: H-ho-how-
BARB: So what’s the difference between?…
JOEL: -do you fry cheese? How does that work? You just get a stick of cheese and jst stick it in the deep fryer and fry it?
GUS: I’ve never thought about this.
JOEL: I mean like how does that work?
BARB: Y-you probably coat it with the powder stuff they use.
JOEL: H-how does it keep its structural integrity, while being fried?
BARB: How do they fry Kool-Aid?
GUS: How do they fry ice cream? You ever had fried ice cream?
JACK: They flash fry that stuff.
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: They batter it and flash fry it.
JOEL: I thought they just picked up a piece of poop, and gave it to you. That’s pretty much the process of fried ice cream, but-
BARB: Close enough. SO what’s the difference between chicken fried, and fried?
GUS: I don’t know, I don’t know how to cook.
BARB: Kay.
JOEL: Well-
BARB: Well I just thought maybe you would know.
JOEL: I guess it’s the batter right?
GUS: Yeah.
JACK Yeah I think so.
JOEL: Is it the type of batter?
BARB: I guess so…
JACK: We-we should go to uh-
JOEL: We should def-
BARB: Someone should just fry stuff-
JOEL: - cook-
BARB: -and go Chicken!
JOEL: Did y- did you meet the Epic, uh Meal Time Guys?
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: … I fuckin’ love those guys.
BARB: They’re awesome.
JOEL” Y-You’re the one who introduced me to them one time actually, Barbara…
BARB: I did.
GUS: I love that Valentine’s Day episode.
BARB: Th-they’re…
JOEL: God jus-
BARB: … They’re from my hometown. Montreal.
JOEL: Those guys are great.
JACK: Yeah. H-Harley’s a nice dude, he was pretty cool.
JOEL: How do I get on that show?
JACK: Uh, ask? I’m sure?
JOEL: I sure want to stick my face in some food…
BARB: I sure we could arrange something.
JOEL: They should make- I just love what they do. I don’t know.
GUS: Okay, well that’s enough.
JOEL: They should make clothes out of food and wear it.
BARB: Wrap it up.
JACK: Bacon suit.
JOEL: Just- th- uh- they should make a bacon suit!
BARB: Byeee everyoneee.
JOEL: Who wouldn’t watch that?
GUS: BACON STRIPS, ‘N BACONS STRIPS, ‘N BACON STRIPS.
JACK: There’s a..
GUS: But they liked it. It was fine.
JACK: There’s something weird about stuff that you just don’t like, and you don’t get why other people like it. You know, like there’s something about that… Yeah. That’s the video..
BARB: Yup!
JACK: That’s a wonderful video.
GUS: Uhhm..
JOEL: It’s a Caboose shirt.
BARB: Is it really?
JACK: Haha. No, I don’t think it’s a Caboose shirt
BARB: Nah.
GUS: This week’s Animated Adventure, which I haven’t posted yet, is the um, uh, the telling of the story about Sway visiting, uh, our office in Butah.
JACK: Oh, yeah, yeah.
GUS: And, encountering.. Going into the wrong apartment.
JACK: That’s some classics, man.
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: Old stuff.
GUS: Good stuff.
JACK: Is uh, Jayordan is coming out for RTX, right?
GUS: Yeah, he’ll be..
BARB: He sure is..
JACK: Sweet!
BARB: He’s actually doing a panel..
JACK: Oh, nice!
BARB: on the Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures(RTAA).
JACK: Yeah? Cool.
GUS: I.. Think.. I’m.. on that panel.
BARB: You are. You and Burnie are supposed to be on that panel as well.
GUS: Ok.
JACK: Man, I’ll..
JOEL: If he, If he can figure out at way to, uh our animators into his work, … Then we’ve got a video.
GUS: If we can figure out a way to get his animation into Season 10 (RvB)..
BARB: Well, it already was..
JOEL: It already was..
GUS: It already was..
BARB: First episode.
JOEL: Mark that off the list!
BARB: Yup..
GUS: Check!
BARB: Dang.
JACK: Uhm..
BARB: But yeah.. The whole panel schedule is posted on the website.
JACK: Yup.
GUS: Man, so.. you know, now that summer’s here.. “Summer is coming!”
JACK: Brace yourselves.
BARB: “Summer is coming!”
GUS: We, uh, we have this problem all the time, where the fucking air conditioner in the front of the office breaks.
JACK: Oh, God dammit!
BARB: Oh, yeah..
GUS: And it broke yesterday! And I guess, because it’s so, it’s so hot, I called our normal service place, and they’re like, “Yeah, we can’t get out there til Wednesday.” I was like, “What? It’s Monday right now!” They’re like, “yeah, a lot of people calling..” And it’s like, fuck. So, we like literally went down the list and, on, like we did a search on the internet, and like, we just.. we just went down the list calling every AC place, and we’re like, “First one who can get out here and fix it, we’ll pay the first p..pp.. people to show up!”
JACK: “We have money, take my money!”
GUS: Yeah..
JACK: Well, didn’t..
JOEL: Well, it can’t be as bad as the AC breaking at the last office.
GUS: Oh, God..
JOEL: Cause when the AC at the last office.. broke, it was like, you know? When.. when you’re in Minecraft, and you dump a bucket of water.. It’s the same thing that was happening with that old AC. It was like, oh, this is gonna break, water would just start pouring everywhere..
BARB: Oh, really?
JACK: Yeah, right onto the servers, too.
JOEL: On to the servers, yeah.
BARB: Apparently, that’s a big thing here with air conditioning breaking.
JACK: And pouring on the servers?
BARB: No, just air conditioning breaking.. All the time..
GUS: Well, it’s, uh, it’s so hot.
JACK: People, yeah.. you feel like you’re..
GUS: You put such a strain on it..
BARB: It’s constantly running.. That’s true.
JACK: My, my air conditioner broke last summer, and I spent one.. I could not fall asleep. It was so hot in my house.
BARB: Yeah..
JACK: Like I laid in bed, on top of my sheets with three fans on me, and I was like, “Nope, I’m not sleeping tonight”
BARB: You and me talked about this yesterday, how, both Jack and I just cannot sleep if it’s.. hot, like it’s.. it has to be cold..
JACK: Yeah.
BARB: in my bedroom I’m gonna sleep.
JOEL: I’m kinda the same way..
GUS: I.. I like cold. When I.. when I travel to hotels, I love to turn the AC way down, and it’s like.. it’s super cold?
JOEL: That’s like a ritual, right?
GUS: Yeah.
JOEL: Like, go down there, like 68.
GUS: So,….
JOEL: You know, yeah.
GUS: So, I hate these new thermostats they have in a lot of hotels, where they don’t turn on if they don’t have motion? So it’s like, when you go to like go to check in, and no one’s been the room for a while, so it’s like..
JOEL: I hate that!
GUS: So it’s like detects you and turns on..
BARB: Like when you’re sleeping?
GUS: I don’t know..
JOEL: They have this obnoxious feature in other countries too, where it’s like, you go there, and you have to put your key in this thing by the door, to like sort of..
GUS: Yeah..
GUS and JOEL: to turn the power on..
BARB: Are you serious?
GUS: Yeah..
JOEL: Massively annoying.
BARB: Wow!
JACK: I’ve also seen it too, where it’s timers on the ACs there, where you have to put.. where you have to.. where there’s like this little, like an egg timer, where you have to turn the knob, and it’ll go for like two hours, and then it’ll like turn off.
BARB: Oh, my God.
GUS: Really?!
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: I mean that’s, that’s like a drive-a-person-insane device. Is what that is..
BARB: Yeah..
JACK: Man
JOEL: I mean um,..
JACK: But yeah. So yesterday, saaah.. the Achievement Hunter office.. we got one of those, like industrial fans to try and blow some circulation in there, but.. and, and there are four of us in there right now, there’s five when Gavin’s here, and I mean, that room gets hot already, then you kill the AC, it’s just like.. it’s a nightmare.
BARB: Yeah.
JACK: So.. And we also have a giant window next to Geoff and and uh, Ray’s desk, so..
BARB: I know if my AC goes out, I’m gonna die.
JACK: Yeah..
BARB: I’m just gonna, I’m just..
JOEL: Yeah, I had that happen in LA, a lot when my AC went out. And it wasn’t just hot there..
GUS: You died?
JOEL: Well, it was like I had a ritual where I was like, “Ok..”
BARB: Rest in peace Joel..
JOEL: “I’m gonna take a cold shower.. you know, walk into a cold shower, and then just like, “Alright, hurry up and lay down in bed! And like try and fall asleep… Like, before your body temperature rises..”
GUS: You can’t even do that here, cause it gets so hot that the cold water isn’t cold.
BARB: And it evaporates..
GUS: I don’t know if you’ve tried to take a shower, like a cold shower now, but the water’s warm. It doesn’t matter if you only have the cold water on..
BARB: Yup..
JACK: It’s a nightmare.. You know, we should all go down to like, Barton Springs sometimes.. you know, go hit the pool.
BARB: Yeah!
GUS: You know, instead of Hawaii, let’s do that.
BARB: Yeah! Haha
GUS: Our post RTX trip.
JACK: Have you ever.. have you ever been to Barton Springs yet?
BARB: I have not..
JACK: Ok.. So Barton Springs is a natural springs pool here in like downtown Austin, and it’s like, it’s really, really cold..
BARB: Awesome!
JOEL: But you went tubing..
BARB: I did go tubing.
JOEL: Tubing.. is better than going to the.. going to Barton Springs.
BARB: The thing.. The thing about tubing, and I had a really great time tubing.. me, Michael, Lindsay, and Gavin, we all went, and we brought beer, and it was great..
JACK: But?
BARB: but the place we went to, it was a little bit like rapid.. so.. You know how your butt is kinda like hanging out the bottom of the tube?
JACK: Yeah.
BARB: There would be places where there’d be rocks.. and so I scraped, like my butt, my legs, my like, all over because there’s rocks everywhere and it would like.. fuckin throw you all over the place in certain areas.
JACK: Well.. Well that has a lot to do with the fact that we had a drought last summer that’s really lasted until now, so the rivers aren’t nearly as high as they usually are, so that kinda sucks
JOEL: It was like that, when we went last.. was it last year?
JACK: We went last summer..
JOEL: And it was like that, wasn’t it?
JACK: Yeah, it was the same deal.
JOEL: There was just like, no water..
BARB: Yeah. I mean, I was just expecting, just a float down a river for three hours, but here, it’s like, you have to f, like fuckin..
JACK: You have to paddle..
BARB: You have to paddle, and like get away from certain obstacles..
JACK: Have you been to Schlitterbahn yet?
BARB: No.
JACK: Ohh.. You got to go Schlitterbahn.
GUS: One time when I went uh, tubing years ago, uh I saved a girl from drowning.
JACK: Wow!
BARB: My hero!
GUS: She got knocked off her tube, uh, and was like, pinned, uh, in a log under the, uh, water.
BARB: Are you serious?
GUS: The water was much higher back then..
JOEL: So it was like that scene in The Grey? Are you successful?
GUS: I haven’t seen The Grey yet.
BARB: No spoilers.
JOEL: Well.. you lived it!
GUS: Yeah. I lived it, apparently..
JACK: Wait, so what happened?
GUS: Like, so I, uh, I saw her, she was in front of me, and I saw her fall off her tube. Then I didn’t see her come back up, so I jumped off my tube and went down, and like, her foot was caught..
JACK: Oh Jesus!
GUS: like on a log underwater..
BARB: I saw a girl slip and fall into the water.. it was really funny
JOEL: Holy Crap! W,w,wait,wait,wait. You saw, and a girl got trapped, and you went and rescued her?!
GUS: Yeah.
BARB: He saved someone’s life.
GUS: I pulled her out from the log..
JOEL: That’s pretty awesome.
GUS: Yeah. That was.. That was younger Gus, when he had the energy to do stuff like that..
JACK: Older Gus would be like, “Well, that’s one less..”
JOEL: “One less person to communicate with..”
GUS: “Well, sucks for her..”
BARB: Oh well
JACK: God.. I can’t even imagine like the panic of being pinned underwater, like..
JOEL: I know a girl, that uh, drowned in a flood, like she was in a car, or she tried to cross a river, um, and the water overtook the car, started filling up inside the car, and she was in the car, and f.. and she was sitting there and she was trapped and she .. and she was describing having that moment where she was just like, “I’m trapped, I’m out of oxygen, I.. there’s nothing I can do, and it’s just like, it’s just like I have to, it’s just like, your body’s like, “I have to breath in now.” “ It’s like she hit that moment where she’s like I have to breath in now, and she breathed in, and it was all water, and it was all water, and she was like, struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle, and she was like, just hit that point where, uh, where I just didn’t care. She said, I just didn’t care, and it was fine, and it was, there was no pain or anything, and uh, she died. And uh. Somebody got her and pulled her out of the car or whatever, and they resuscitated her, resuscitated her on the site, and she came alive..
BARB: Oh my God!
JACK: Jesus Christ!
JOEL: Yeah, yeah… but it was just sort of like, and she was always just a little off, but uh, yeah..
JACK: Before or after?
JOEL: Well, it was weird.. She was always just a little off, and we were having a conversation about this and I was like, “oh, God. I wonder if that’s something, something”
BARB: What I’m most afraid of is drowning..
JOEL: Well, she was…
BARB: That feeling of is just.
JOEL: The way, the way it she described it was just, the way she told the story, she was sort of like, it was fine.. like once you get like past the struggle..
BARB: Well, some people panic, and just..
JOEL: Well, you’re gonna panic.
BARB: Yeah.
JOEL: I mean that’s just part of the problem..
BARB: Well, yeah.. everybody would panics, but that.. it’s just so..
JOEL: Well, but that girl, she was totally fine with it. It’s like, “Whatever..”
BARB: “Well alright..”
JACK: “Stupid.. stupid drowning..”
BARB: “See ya..”
GUS: My Grandfather died in a flash flood..
JOEL: Did he?
GUS: MMHm.. It’s one of those things like in a dry creek bed, and I guess..
JOEL: Yeah.
GUS: It’s like all of a sudden there’s just like a torrent of, uh water came..
JOEL: Yeah..
JACK: It’s so weird, like the idea of people dying in flash floods. It’s like, like, you would imagine you could just swim and like grab onto something, you know, but you know?
GUS: It’s all the debris..
JACK: Yeah. Yeah.. I guess that’s what does it right?
JOEL: It’s just water.. Water, you know, once its on the move.. it’s just incredibly strong..
JACK: Oh yeah..
JOEL: It’s just incredibly strong..
BARB: The fact when I went tubing
JOEL: A-and water j- on the move it is incredibly strong.
GUS: Oh yeah.
JOEL: It’s incredibly strong.
BARB: Imagine if you went tubing, and that much little water is able to push people all over the place.
GUS: So th-th-the creepy thing about my grandpa dying… you know, I’m Gus Sorola the Third, so I’ve been to his grave, I’ve seen Gustavo Sorola’s grave.
JACK: Ohhhohohooo.
JOEL: Are you gonna… be buried next to him?
GUS: Which weird beca- nahh he’s buried in Mexico. Which is really weird because you’re like holy shit, that’s my name…
JACK: Yeah that’s spooky.
GUS: …right there. On the ground.
JOEL: Yeah that is kinda creepy.
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: Why do we always go… to the down…?
BARB: I don’t know.
JACK: I was gonna morbid Google search.
GUS: So after- I-I made a tweet yesterday uhhh, or tweeted yesterday ‘bout uhhh Adam taking over as Director of Technology, and right away I regretted it because I started getting the oh my god, do you not work at Rooster Teeth anymore? D’y’know? Are you leaving Rooster Teeth? Like, nooo, I still fucking work there.
BARB: Still here.
GUS: I just, let someone else handle the tech now, I’m doing other things than- still people are like what are you doing now? Well now I’m focused on y’know RTX or Podcast-
JOEL: Let’s not- let’s not throw the word “work” around.
GUS: Yeah, and they’re like,” oh Lindsay does the podcast now, or RTX will be over next week, so you won’t be doing anything right?”
BARB: Ohh.
GUS: And I was like fuck you. Fuck you. So much.
JACK: You kick off working on next year’s RTX right? Like immediately.
GUS: Yeah, luckily we built that robot. 2013’s gonna be a breeze, thanks to the Pinotron!
BARB: Fail hole here.
JACK: Gus bot 3000.
GUS: Program for fun. Comedy routine broken.. Kill. Kill.
JOEL: Just as long as it doesn’t drop that one Garfield joke.
GUS: Cut that...
JACK: Dude, I forget that. RTX is gonna be awesome, I’m really really looking forward to RTX. Y’know- there’s actually so much cool stuff at RTX, that I’m like- I can’t do it all, and it’s kind of upsetting.
BARB: People have like messaged me, complaining, saying oh you put two panels back to back, or like too close to each other, I can’t go to those. I was like-
JOEL: Why don’t you-
BARB: -why not?
JOEL: Wh-Why do they talk like that?
BARB: ‘Cause that’s my internet voice.
JACK: But there’s things like, I mean, like- the stuff we still haven’t announced yet, uhm, that I-I am gonna be helping with, and then there’s other stuff that are going on at the same time like I wanna check out that panel, but I can’t.
JOEL: I see I already have to apologize for how… tired I’m gonna be. Y’know, just-
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: -Just gonna be-
BARB: Yeah.
JOEL: -a lot of stuff goin’ on.
BARB: I already apologized to everybody for being a total bitch-
GUS: Luckily it’s uhh… Luckily it’s a two day event so. We’ll be super tired two days, and then we can recover, it’s not… one of those super long events like San Diego Comic Con.
BARB: Yeah, we can recover… for that thirty hours we have in between.
JACK: Jeez. Uh…
GUS: San Diego Comic Con is a fucking marathon.
JACK: Yeah it is. I-I-I haven’t worked at comic con so uhm-
GUS: Uhh, it starts Wednesday night. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, five days.
JOEL: That’s… yeah.
BARB: Yup.
JACK: So… Eughh.
BARB: Fuck.
JOEL: You guys go to San Diego Comic Con and try to shoot a short at the same time. See how that works out for ya’.
BARB: Oh yeah.
GUS: I once- I once worked at Comic Con like four five years ago when it was just me and Jason.
JOEL: Oh really?
JACK: Oh god.
GUS: There were two of us for the entire- Uhhh, event.
JOEL: Well that’s… That-uh a- that’s actually not bad. I mean it’s bad, but-
BARB: Well if someone has to go to the bathroom it’s like-
JOEL: -it’s you and one other like- y-you guys are cool. That’s easier than… a lot of other equations I could put together.
GUS: Yeah. That’s true.
BARB: If there’s more than 4 people-
JOEL: If there’s only two people and everyone would work, that’s easier if you have three people and one of them was kind of like…
BARB: Yeah.
JOEL: …a pain.
BARB: I find if you have more than four people at a booth at a convention it just becomes stupid.
GUS: It falls apart.
BARB: Yeah.
GUS: One year, it wasn’t that same year with Jason, it was one or two years after that uhh Luke McKay was in the booth with us, and he was like drawing stuff using my laptop?
BARB: Mmhmm.
GUS: And uh… hehhhehh, we had internet connection for the laptop, it was a wire that they ran and plugged in? And uhh… and uhh… Yeah, fuck it. Cut that. So we had this internet connected through an Ethernet Port they had plugged in and uhm Jo- and uhm Luke was trying to use his Wacom Tablet and uh-
BARB: oh to draw with.
GUS: Yeah, and he got the USB, plugged it in and was like my tablet’s not being recognized, my tablet’s not being recognized. So I was like fine, what’s goin’ on? I go on over and I looked, and he had plugged his USB connection for the laptop into the Ethernet port? Like he just reached into the side and it fit in there? And I learned that they were the exact same width.
BARB: Wow.
JOEL: That’s crazy!
GUS: And I was like,” Ohp! There’s your problem.”
JOEL: It’s funny because when you’re working, and you guys haven’t figured this out yet, but it’s like, when you’re working at an event that’s like five days long, it is sort of like a race for resources?
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: Like towards the where it’s f- “Ahhh it’s fine it’s fine!” It’s like the second day you’re like,” Hey where’s that chair?” and then you realize, oh the chair’s important, I need to like… pin down the chair, it’s like,” Oh bottle of w- I haven’t drank. I need a bottle of water. Where’s the bottle of water.” It’s likea smaller condensed version of the apocalypse.
GUS: Yeah. It’s-It’s-It’s-It’s like playing DayZ.
JOEL: It’s like playing DayZ, yeah, where it’s like you slowly run out of resources-
BARB: I remember last year-
JOEL: -and you- and like when you fear of killin’ y- and you become a dick about that chair a-and someone’s like,” Oh can I borrow your chair?” you’re like,” NO. FUCK YOU. You cannot borrow the chair. Don’t even look at the chair.”
JACK: Y’know the Achievement Hunter Area of RTX we only have- we have a table set up for like autographs and stuff, and I think we have like two chairs. And it’s like-
GUS: Oh did you want two? I only asked for one.
JACK: Okay. W-T- We only have one chair.
BARB: One chair.
JACK: We have one chair.
GUS: See this was part of the Logistics Meeting! It’s like how many chairs do we need? Where do the chairs go?
JOEL: No, at conventions it’s like, it becomes-
JACK: No it’s fine. One chair. Tha-that’s reserved. So. No-No one on that chair, or we’ll knock your ass off.
BARB: Yeap.
JACK: Take our chair.
BARB: We worked at uh, Fan Expo last year, me, Miles, Marshall and Kathleen, and that is a long Expo.
GUS: Yeah.
BARB: It’s open, I think… 8am to 6 or 7pm? Everyday? And it’s also five days long? Fuck. Longest, longest week of my life.
GUS: I feel I-I-I Fan Expo is long, I don’t know what it is. Something about being in Toronto is uhh… It d- it doesn’t seem to last as long as San Diego Comic Con, maybe because it’s not the overwhelming crush of people.
BARB: Yeah. It-it, yeah.
GUS: I think it’s smaller than that.
BARB: I think there’s- I forget how many people.
GUS: I think fifty or sixty thousand, yeah.
JOEL: Well i-i-I you’re in Canada, so everybody’s polite.
GUS: It’s true.
BARB: It’s true.
JACK: How is there not a gaming convention or a comic book show in Vegas? Like I mean like- W-We’ve tal-we’ve talked about-
JOEL: Well y’know Gamestop had their uh conference managers be in there a couple times?
JACK: Yeah, it’s been in there a couple times.
JOEL: oh, god that was- I had a great time.
JACK: It was awesome!
GUS: There’s- th-
JOEL: Y-Yeah, we need to bring more stuff out in Vegas- there’s uhh somethin’- there’s some sort of small convention in Vegas.
GUS: There’s uh-uhhh one of the pro-gaming leagues in Vegas has a tournament in Vegas every now and then.
JACK: But I mean like- I understand why Blizzcon is in Anaheim because it’s close to headquarters, but having Blizzcon in Vegas, or hell, even Comic Con in Vegas just to get more space.
GUS: They may not want to cut- like, they may have a lot of people under twenty one, who uhhh-
JACK: Yeah, but you can still go to conventions, I mean under twenty one there’s just not a whole lot else you can do, but even so, there’s not a whole lot you could do in San Diego. There might be a little bit more.
JOEL: But th- another thing is that if you’re, y’know, an exhibitor or whatever, you probably want people to be focused on your exhibit and being focused on the convention, and it’s like Vegas it’s like oh let’s go, not go, let’s play blackjack all day.
GUS: But th- there’s a lot of big shows in Vegas.
JOEL: True.
JACK: Yeah, there’s a lot of them. Have you ever been to CES?
JOEL: yes I have.
JACK: Dude.
GUS: Oh yeah, we went to uh IWTV which was part of CES.
JACK: Oh dude, CES is-
JOEL: It took me an hour and half to get to my- to go up fifteen flights.
JACK: That’s the one of the most incredible things I’ve seen in my life. I mean like, CES is soo big. Like as big as you think PAX is, or y’know, RTX is, something like that, like CES is… it’s a wonder of the word.
GUS: have you ever seen videos of, and I know we talk about it every now and then, but have you ever seen the line organization for… convention in Tokyo called ComiCat?
JACK: I think so, where it’s like they do chunks at a time-
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: Yeah, I’ve seen like stop motion-
JOEL: Yeah.
BARB: How many people are there.
GUS: Three hundred thousand.
BARB: Holy shit.
GUS: And they have these giant queue sections, like you should watch it, they have these time lapse videos of all these people lining up, and then, like Jack said, in chunks, they move, and they’re like arranging them.
BARB: Oh my god.
JACK: It’s amazing.
JOEL: Three hundred thousand people?
GUS: Yeah.
BARB: Yeah.
JOEL: What’s the venue?
GUS: Uh, some place in Tokyo, I don’t know.
JOEL: I mean… Wh-Wha-
BARB: What venue could that many people?
JOEL: Wh- Yeah. Wh-
GUS: Th-They’re not big exhibits either, it’s a manga convention so it’s essentially a bunch of tables where people sell-
BARB: My god.
GUS: -comic books.
JACK: Well that’s like Tokyo Game Show, I’d love to go to Tokyo Game Show. Like that’d be cool, or uhmm… Wh-What’s what’s the game… game convention in Germany?
GUS: Games Com?
JACK: Games Com. Like I’d love to go to that. Those are both huge, bigger than anything we have in the States.
GUS: I-I-I-I-I jokingly tried to get us-
JOEL: Is it-is it really bigger than, yeah?
BARB: Oh yeah.
GUS: I tried to get us into Games Com-
JACK: Oh yeah?
GUS: - last year, or this year, I forgot when it was. But I couldn’t get in touch with anyone over there who spoke English. Everyone tho-
BARB: Are you serious?
GUS: -ught I was German.
JOEL: It’s funny I uh, I uhh thought everyone spoke English over there.
GUS: Or they were fucking with me because they didn’t want to deal with me.
BARB: That’s very possible.
GUS: Like who the fuck are these people?
JOEL: W-W-We don’t really sell anything over in Germany, right?
GUS: No, not really.
BARB: Not really in comparison to other places.
JOEL: That’d be a fun, convention then. ‘Cause you just sit.
JACK: So why do Australians love us? Wh-wh- I mean-
BARB: Australians and Canadians.
JOEL: You know I don’t know why any fans love us.
JACK: Apparently, Australians are going bonkers like for Burnie and Gavin down there, which is awesome, but I’m just curious as to why.
BARB: It’s like that every year. Rooster Teeth’s really big in Australia, and I think Melbourne’s the biggest city per capita of fans.
JACK: That’s…
GUS: Yeah, Melbourne’s pretty big.
BARB: Yeah, and Sydney as well.
JACK: Man, that’s crazy.
BARB: And then Toronto’s up there, Houston, and I believe London?
JACK: Well, Houston’s just fat, so…
GUS: So the people count double.
JACK: They’re literally the biggest people. The biggest fans we have.
GUS: I’m showing Barbara the Comic Cat line.
BARB: Holy fuck dude.
JACK: Yeah, it’s incredible.
JOEL: It’s like a Tetris game.
BARB: It’s like, Bugs.
GUS: This was dawn by the way, when this video started, it was dark.
JACK: Yeah.
BARB: Holy shit dude.
JACK: HOOooo Man.
BARB: So how many people are in that… one area?
GUS: I-I don’t know.
JACK: It might be in the description.
BARB: Oh my god…
JACK: Th-that sort of looks like a Minecraft thing almost.
BARB: That’s something on the brain.
GUS: We’ll obviously-we’ll obviously put this video in the link dump.
JACK: Yeah. Speaking of- speaking of Minecraft, Joel and I were working on our new Minecraft maps. We now-th –we’ve-we’ve abandoned… If we got that old Minecraft map, back… Like if you took that USB drive, we would’ve talked about a number of times and got repaired, would you go back to the old map? Or are you happy enough with this new map we spent hours and hours and hours working on…
JOEL: That’s like asking to choose between children. I don’t know.
JACK: You don’t know?
JOEL: I don’t know.
JACK: You built a house way on the corner of the map, Barbara, it’s really nice. It’s got a-it’s got a view of the sunset, and the sunrise…
JOEL: H-How many copies of Minecraft has sold.
JACK: I don’t know.
BARB: A lot.
JOEL: A lot right?
BARB: A lot.
JOEL: it was the number one seller…
BARB: It’s gotta be there on Marketplace.
GUS: Yeah, it was- I forget. Th-th-they did announce the number, but I forgot.
JACK: I think Notch announced the numbers. They don’t typical announce, but I think Notch released those numbers.
GUS: I was wrong, Comic Kit has almost five hundred and sixty thousand attendees.
BARB: Fuck. Oh my god. That’s like what, half of Austin?
GUS: Pretty much. Yeah.
BARB: Jesus.
JOEL: What is goin’ on here.
BARB: That’s a lot of people
JOEL: My god that’s crazy.
JACK: Lets go.
GUS: I-I-I wanted to get us into that show too. Just as a joke.
BARB: Just as a joke.
GUS: One year I applied to a whole bunch of crazy shows to see what we’d get into.
BARB: I would never fucking go to that kind of show.
GUS: We wouldn’t sell a single thing there.
BARB: Yeah-
GUS: I guarantee you.
BARB: -It’s true.
JOEL: Well… Half a million people you’d think we’d sell something.
GUS: I-I-It’s a very focused event. It’s very manga focused. I don’t think they’d be interested in anything that wasn’t manga.
BARB: But half a million people…
JACK: Just put giant anime eyes on-on the characters. Just go back and, y’know…
GUS: We sh- no, you know we need to make a manga adaptation. We take the Red vs Blue story, make comics, and then y’know… do them in Japanese, and sell it to the market.
BARB: We have- we have a PSA-
JOEL: I’m your uncle?
BARB: -Red vs Blue going Global, where you do the Japanese version of Red vs Blue.
JACK: Oh that’s right.
BARB: It’s like, “Red and Blue soldiers go!”
GUS: Yeah, right.
BARB: It’s awesome. “Caboose! I love him, he’s so cute!”
JOEL: D-D-D’you know, in Japan they have a version of what the Power Rangers is to us? Because there’s some American made show that we export to Japan-
JACK: And then they redub?
JOEL: -that it’s like terrible, that it’s like got some sort of Power Rangers equivalent? Is-is there anything- I don’t think there’s anything in the US produced, at that port of a level.
JACK: I-I wonder if they like redub like uhm “Saved by the Bell”? It’s like a story about high school…
JOEL: They just place it in like fight scenes or whatever and robots.
JACK: Let’s go you my hero!
JOEL: That’s actually a good idea, Jack.
GUS: Yeah, I w- I w-
JOEL: That’s a genius idea.
GUS: I-I-I could be wrong here, but I know- I-I’m pretty sure, back in the 80s there was that uhh, uhh, cartoon series Robotech-
JACK: Mmhmm.
GUS: -the Robotech they showed in the United States was actually two different cartoons that they cut different stuff from-
JOEL: Yeah.
GUS: And -redubbed- rewrote all the dialogue to match what was happening, so like what you see is like two totally different cartoons over there.
JOEL: It’s like weird production value where it’s just like we’re gonna reapply the same material over again.
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: It’s like you were talking about soccer, right?
JACK: Mmm.
JOEL: It’s like uhm, I have a feeling that someone sort of bought rights for soccer over in Europe, but it’s just like we already have this-
JACK: We’ll already use it.
JOEL: So why should I pay for this.
JACK: Well no, it’s like- that’s like the most extreme challenge at mXc. That was uh-
BARB: I remember that!
JACK: -it was Tekeeshi’s Castle probably was the original one?
GUS: Yeah, Takeshi Castle.
JACK: Ta-tak-ta-Takeshi’s Castle, and then they just redubbed it with the funny voice over stuff. And it’s like, that must be so cheap to produce.
BARB: Yeah.
GUS: It’s like people who make Wipeout now?
JACK: I don’t know.
BARB: It’s gotta-it’s gotta be.
GUS: It’s like the same show.
BARB: It’s the same show.
JACK: Yeah.
BARB: Essentially. It’s Americanized.
JACK: Do you wa- do you watch uh Ninja Warrior?
GUS: No.
JACK: Which is a uh… s- not sa-
JOEL: See I was gonna say a real funny Iron Chef joke here, but we’ve moved on. This happens to me all the time where it’s like I’m trying to find the opening but there’s-
JACK: Do you know what Ninja Warrior is though?
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: Yeah, so basically it’s like a serious version of like Wipeout.
GUS: Serious.
JOEL: Well a serious version of like w-wipeout, what’s-
GUS: Hey, hey, hey, hey. N- Serious.This is s-
JOEL: Do they slice people in half or…
GUS: No joking. This is a serious version.
JOEL: What does that- what does that mean?
JACK: So, it’s-
GUS: Seriously!
JACK: W-Wipeout you know, they’re being goofy, and knocking people off and getting muddy and stuff and just keep going? An-and Ninja Warrior-
JOEL: In the serious version…
JACK: -It’s-
JOEL: It’s like if you don’t make it across this trap… we kill your firstborn.
BARB: pretty much.
JACK: So N-Ninja Warrior Is basically Ameri- Ima- Imagine like American gladiators like obstacles courses, except y’know, if you don’t complete the obstacle course, you’re out. So they have a hundred people and the whole thing there’s four stages, and the last stage is literally a- an a hundred foot rope climb to the very top, and if you get to the top, you win.
GUS: You can’t smile the entire time. ‘Cause it is serious.
JOEL: I think they need to-
JACK: I think th-they’ve done it li-like 25 times, and only 4 people actually completed the whole thing.
BARB: If I see that corner of your mouth curl up, it’s over.
GUS: Serious.
JOEL: They could incorporate this into American Idol.
JACK: I-it’s a giant-
JOEL: Climb over the giant-
JACK: You have to stutter stuff.
JOEL: -and then sing a song after.
GUS: How many fucking-
BARB: Ninja Idol.
GUS: -singing… TV shows are there now?
BARB: Too many.
JACK: Did you see the Choice?
BARB: I was just gonna-
JACK: Holy shit!
GUS: That was what I was going to segway into.
JACK: FUCK that show man!
BARB: That’s so fucking funny.
JOEL: Oh-wh-wh-wh-what’s that…?
JACK: Okay, so you-
GUS: You know- you know the Voice?
JOEL: Uhh… Yes.
BARB: Do you know the concept of the Voice?
JOEL: That’s right.
BARB: They have someone-
JACK: They have a chair, they like it, they push a button, it spins them around?
JOEL: Uh-huh?
JACK: They-
JOEL: Now?
JACK: -They took that- they took that same god damn set, and basically they turned it into a dating show where they have like shitty-
JOEL: They took like-
JACK: - Z-list celebrities.
JOEL: - Ohhh we got these four swinging chairs and put the entire budget into ‘em, and we have to justify them somehow.
GUS: Th-th-the Voice, sounds like “The Choice”. Let’s go with that.
BARB: Yup.
JACK: I’m-that’s the same network, right?
GUS: No.
JOEL: We can’t afford anymore letter people, we can’t afford…
GUS: The Voice is NBC, the Choice is Fox.
JACK: Oh really?
GUS: So then they have people come out and describe themselves, and if the Z-List celebrity sounds like they’re hot or interested, they hit the button and spin around and…
JACK: EUuughhhh.
GUS: …I don’t know, awkwardly hit on them?
JACK: And humanity dies a little bit.
BARB: If I was ever on that show, I would purposely go on there and go,” Hello, my name iss Jackie!”
GUS: You should be Jackie.
BARB: “Howssit going guysz? I just want a date. Why are you ignoring me? Oh my god bookssz!”
GUS: BURNT. Did you see that picture of that girl, like the real picture or her?
BARB: Yeah, we talked about it last week.
GUS: Oh we did? DAMNOkay. Why am I recycling all my shit.
BARB: Earn me good books.
JACK: So what’s on Reddit now, anything interesting yet?
GUS: God, have we gotten to the Reddit portion of the podcast? I think that’s where I stop, Reddit. Sorry Joel, I can’t give you my power. ‘Cause then…
JOEL: No, it’s okay.
GUS: … the podcast will stop recording.
JACK: Yeah, Joel’s laptop is dead. You look very sad.
GUS: Y-Y-Speaking of resources, like we were talking about this… Y…One of the most, one of the most sought after resources in this office is the power supply for our laptops-
JACK: We all have a power brick.
BARB: Meh.
GUS: -max, but some asshole took the part that plugs into the wall.
JACK: Bum, bum buhhhhh.
BARB: Whaaat?
GUS: They only left the part that plugs into the laptop.
BARB: Who the fuck would do that?
GUS: Thi-this would power your laptop right now, Joel, but some asshole came in here and took the power- the wall part.
BARB: I think Joel…
JOEL: That’s just like a- just a taunt.
GUS: This was here, last week when we recorded! I saw it plugged into the wall. So sometime last week someone took this- Why the fuck would they even need that?
JOEL: That’s the thing. You and I… well, I don’t know about you, w- we travel, so this thing never- that stays together. Forever.
GUS: Yeah. As far as I’m concerned, this does not happen. This doesn’t exist-
JOEL: Th-that doesn’t happen.
GUS: -this is one unit.
JOEL: That doesn’t happen, yeah.
JACK: Now do you like th-the one, the single plug that goes into the wall or do you like the cable that plugs into the wall?
GUS: I have the cable. Good for extra length.
JACK: Yeah, with the extra length, it’s also a little more secure.
GUS: Yeah.
BARB: It’s good to have extra length.
GUS: Yeah, when it’s the other way, I feel like it’s-it’s like barely in the wall, we-we’ll pull it out.
JOEL: Y-You’re-
JACK: Yours is barely in, and then it gets pulled out?
GUS: Yes.
JACK: I was looking around lookin’ for this plug.
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: and Barbara’s giggling like a schoolgirl.
GUS: I hope I don’t do this again.
JACK: And Gus has his cable on his mouth again.
GUS: Alright, I think we’ve went to the loopy part of the podcast.
JACK: Yeah.
GUS: We should probably wrap things up.
JACK: W-W-What’s for lunch today?
GUS: Uhhhh, I don’t know. We uhhh… Oh man, we went to… We went to Friday’s yesterday, y’know t-
BARB: We did.
GUS: -and that was disappoint- I haven’t been there in years, and they no longer have that fried cheese cheeseburger.
JACK: Ohh, man.
GUS: I talked it up to Jack.
JACK: I had never heard of this thing, if I had known about this- now I’m disappointed.
GUS: Years ago when our office was still in Beuda, I went to that Friday’s once and they had a fried cheese cheeseburger? So it was a cheeseburger with a fried cheese patty on it-
BARB: Oh. Oh my god.
GUS: -basically like a-a mozzarella stick disk? And then… it was covered in queso.
JACK: Euuughhh. Sounds sooo good.
BARB: Amerrricccaaaaaaa.
JACK: SO good.
BARB: Well I was confused by the fact that there was chicken fried chicken. Like…
JOEL: Yeah, there’s nothing confusing about that.
GUS: Chicken fried is the preparation. So you c-
JOEL: It’s like a-
GUS: -can add a chicken fried steak. That’s chicken fried.
JOEL: Once you-once you eat it, it’s like you understand…
GUS: And then the chicken is the protein.
BARB: I just- I remembered the f- the first time I ever heard that was here in Texas.
JACK: You can have a chicken fried pickle.
GUS: Yeah, you can chicken fried stuff.
JACK: Can you- can you-
JOEL: Who-who…?
JACK: - pickle a chicken fried chicken?
GUS: You probably could, that’d be super gross though.
JOEL: H-ho-how-
BARB: So what’s the difference between?…
JOEL: -do you fry cheese? How does that work? You just get a stick of cheese and jst stick it in the deep fryer and fry it?
GUS: I’ve never thought about this.
JOEL: I mean like how does that work?
BARB: Y-you probably coat it with the powder stuff they use.
JOEL: H-how does it keep its structural integrity, while being fried?
BARB: How do they fry Kool-Aid?
GUS: How do they fry ice cream? You ever had fried ice cream?
JACK: They flash fry that stuff.
GUS: Yeah.
JACK: They batter it and flash fry it.
JOEL: I thought they just picked up a piece of poop, and gave it to you. That’s pretty much the process of fried ice cream, but-
BARB: Close enough. SO what’s the difference between chicken fried, and fried?
GUS: I don’t know, I don’t know how to cook.
BARB: Kay.
JOEL: Well-
BARB: Well I just thought maybe you would know.
JOEL: I guess it’s the batter right?
GUS: Yeah.
JACK Yeah I think so.
JOEL: Is it the type of batter?
BARB: I guess so…
JACK: We-we should go to uh-
JOEL: We should def-
BARB: Someone should just fry stuff-
JOEL: - cook-
BARB: -and go Chicken!
JOEL: Did y- did you meet the Epic, uh Meal Time Guys?
JACK: Yeah.
JOEL: … I fuckin’ love those guys.
BARB: They’re awesome.
JOEL” Y-You’re the one who introduced me to them one time actually, Barbara…
BARB: I did.
GUS: I love that Valentine’s Day episode.
BARB: Th-they’re…
JOEL: God jus-
BARB: … They’re from my hometown. Montreal.
JOEL: Those guys are great.
JACK: Yeah. H-Harley’s a nice dude, he was pretty cool.
JOEL: How do I get on that show?
JACK: Uh, ask? I’m sure?
JOEL: I sure want to stick my face in some food…
BARB: I sure we could arrange something.
JOEL: They should make- I just love what they do. I don’t know.
GUS: Okay, well that’s enough.
JOEL: They should make clothes out of food and wear it.
BARB: Wrap it up.
JACK: Bacon suit.
JOEL: Just- th- uh- they should make a bacon suit!
BARB: Byeee everyoneee.
JOEL: Who wouldn’t watch that?
GUS: BACON STRIPS, ‘N BACONS STRIPS, ‘N BACON STRIPS.