Rooster Teeth Podcast - Geoff Burns Animal Crossing to the Ground - #590

Episode Date: March 31, 2020

Join Gus Sorola, Gavin Free, Barbara Dunkelman, and Geoff Ramsey as they discuss broadcasting from home, Geoff’s Animal Crossing problem, 17 years of Rooster Teeth, and more on this week's RT Podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're going to make it work. I got a good feeling about this. We're all seasoned professionals. Been doing this a long time. What is your seasoning? If you had to pick a seasoning, what would it be? Probably like cumin. Rosemary.

I was going to say cumin because it starts to come. Good one, good one. I would probably say garlic powder. Yeah, not garlic salt, garlic powder. You're softer than salt. Yeah, you're not as salty as salt. I get it. What about you?

You haven't said one, Jeff. I think I'm probably, uh, I, to rep a local business. I think I am the tears of joy boot jelokia, uh, habanero, uh, steak mix that I have. You couldn't just pick an off cell phone that everyone else is identifying. It's had to be an ad read. Yeah. You got to support local business man times the tough. Are you getting paid by big boot to Lokia? Are you in their pocket? I'm a part of the pepper. What's up? Do you have Tony's seasoning? Like Tony's shisharries or shisharries or whatever?

It's just called Tony's. I didn't know what it was until this year. And like everyone in Rooster Teeth was like, how do you not know Tony's? Tony's is like a staple seasoning. It's like a mix of like four or five different seasonings. Like salt and pepper. Yeah, it's very popular.

I think it's like salt and pepper, garlic, something else, three other things maybe. Oh, the classics. No idea. I think it's like something else, three other things maybe. Oh, the classics. No idea. I don't think, I'm sure if I saw it, I'm sure if you're putting in front of me, like, oh yeah, that thing that I've never purchased in my life.

I mean, I can go to my kitchen and get some and bring it back. I don't know if I'm gonna let the lead. I think you should, all right, I'll do it. No, go get it, you should go show us. So, I feel like, I'm in front of a brick wall. I feel like I should be getting ready to do like a tight five. Like I've got a stand up. I go to spotlight on me standing in front of a brick wall. It's like I'm at the improv. I like how you chose the material that echoes the most to stand behind or to stand from. Well, technically I'm in front of it if you want to get, you know, specific. Is that real break or a picture of a break?

It's real. Oh, I don't think the knocking on it told me anything. Wouldn't have been surprised if Gus broke his knuckles just. He's got weak tiny knuckles too. They're not strong. They can't withstand the weight of a punch. You guys are using a seasoning show at tell shows your seasoning. First off, here's

I was talking about as seen in every grocery store in America. Here's what I was talking about. Tears of joy, powdered fire. When you're in Austin, stop on it. Put it in frame so we can see it, dude. It's like half cut off. There you go. There you go, you're good.

I can see it probably. I can see as much. And while I'm at it, I recently discovered, through my girlfriend, Emily, Trader Joe's everything, but the bagel seasoning. I'm just throwing, I recently discovered through my girlfriend Emily Trader Joe's everything but the bagel seasoning I'm just throwing that in as a bonus nobody asked about that one, but it's good That's a really good one. It is that way There you go. I don't know how we ended up on that topic. I don't know But you're just on can we then can we invoice those three companies?

I made the weirdest concoction. I have that everything but the bagel seasoning too. And try this if you're into it. It's a tortilla with peanut butter spread on it and then you put that bagel seasoning on it and it's surprisingly tasty. Is the tortilla cooked or is it like just room temperature? Just like a regular, yeah, room temperature flour tortilla. Spare on it. I just full it in half. That sounds, that weeks of the ingenuity of someone

who is starving at three in the morning and has four things to work with. I mean. I'm like, I'm good at that. I just wanna point out that any tortilla is probably cooked if you're eating it. Otherwise, it's just like a ball of raw dough.

Yeah, but you don't wanna like,, you know, when you eat a tortilla, you want to, you want to hit it on the stove for a couple seconds, warm it up a bit. Yeah, 10 seconds at each side. Mm-hmm. Please, please explain tortillas to me. I would love to hear your answer. No, if you would like, hold on, I'll go to my kitchen.

Well, there's corn tortillas, there's flour tortillas. I what you guys and tortillas now, what you guys missing the most like what can you not get hold of that you miss? Toilet paper human, human hugs from anybody but my boyfriend. You want hugs from anybody but your boyfriend? Yeah, let's clip that. Listen to that. Trevor. Are you a lot to hug people if you're in a big bag? If I wrap myself in cell phone, can I come and hug you? We should try it. Yeah. Yeah. If you guys do that, I need to be there to film it because there's I'm not gonna put a plastic bag over your head because it might be like a choking hazard, but as you get older, you're like, what if I cover my entire body in plastic pack? Yeah.

What have everything about my head is in plastic? It's, it's, Kevin, it's really strange that you mentioned that naked gun reference, because the episode of Always Open that Jeff and I are on just came out today. And I think we reference that same scene in that episode of Always Open as well. Didn't we talk about that the other day? Really? It's possible. I don't remember.

I mean, we're talking about the coronavirus. Yeah, it was just I mean, it's pretty. Yeah, yeah, classic scene. I don't think I quite understood that scene when I was a little kid and watched that movie for the first time. You know, sad. I think we're doing the sad. A little confused. What's that? What's that? Is because I just watched it recently with Millie, like maybe a year ago, is how fucking good and funny and how much of a scene stealer O.J. Simpson is in every shot of that movie. He's fucking hilarious.

I'm looking around. Mary ship. Yeah. I know this is completely out topic, but Gavin, your camera looks really, really good. I'll be honest, right? So I joke last week that I was going to do this on the fan. You did the actual art? No, I'm using the Phantom.

Give up on $150,000 web camera. Yeah, with like a $10,000 lens on the front. It honestly was not worth the joke. It took me like 45 minutes to set it up Movie camera it doesn't have like HDMI and stuff so I'm like SDI out and some of it's powered by a battery and some of it is And I had no one is even gonna tell It looks really good though. I think it's worth it Should I should I send a picture of myself? I'm going to slack it to broadcast and see if they can see.

And that's a Patrick and say, hey, this is working really well for Gav. Can we get this set up for everybody also? Yeah, my equipment requirements, please. One phantom. God. Yeah, so you said it took like 45 minutes to get it all set up. Yeah, it's, I mean, it's just, and he needs so much light. Like I'm sweating my tits off because I got all these lights on.

It's funny because it does seem a little dark and you always complain about the fan of me so much. Yeah, I mean, I'm not even, I mean, I'm not shuing in high speed, but like I have a black office. So it's extra difficult. So if you compared your setup to my setup, it would be stark difference. I have literally a normal log check webcam,

and then behind it, I have a ring light that I bought years ago, balanced in an empty tissue box on top of a wicker basket. The most unprofessional set. Yeah, I wish, I could show you what I have. I have my laptop balanced on top of a Colman cooler and in my light is hung on like a closed drying rack right across from my desk Yeah, I'm using my girlfriend's

That's my So right in that photo Is that how white it is in the room? And you can see there's a cable coming down out of the camera to a monitor that's behind is like on the bottom of the screen that's showing the image with the light in front of it. So I can output HDMI from that monitor to the cam link. It's a, it sucks.

I can't do that. Jesus. Well, maybe something to do. It did. Yeah. It gave me a lot of strength. I can't do that. I can't do that. I can't my god, Jesus. Well, maybe something to do.

It did. Yeah, it gave me a lot of stress. That's mine. I'll be back on a webcam next week. I thought about buying one. I looked online. I was like, oh, maybe I should pick one up. That way, you know, it would be higher quality. I don't have to balance my laptop on a on a ice chest anymore, but they're all sold out. It's a surprise. It's a big it's very sorry real fast. Can you guys send those pictures of your setup to social so we can post those. Thank you. I'll send mine to.

Is that the sound board Yeah, I don't think we have the sound board anymore, right? That's a just back to the studio You can a That sold out Gus remind me a little bit later in this podcast whenever it comes up to tell you my story about this fucking Nintendo switch Oh, that's right right now. Are we talking about animal crossing? Let's just have an Animal Crossing podcast. All right, I'm not going to be much help. Sit here and drink my wine and listen to you guys for the next hour. Talk about Animal Crossing because I haven't played it yet. I so Animal Crossing, I consider myself a fan of. I didn't play a new leaf, but I played the original one that we played on the GameCube Gus back on the day.

I think you remember many, many impassioned evenings of you and I, you know, fishing for sealant cans and hitting trees and shit. And passion's a weird word there, but okay. I felt, I think you remember the passion. I know I did. So I was like, it's a fucking coronavirus. We're all recorrentined. I said fuck it. My girlfriend expressed an interest in playing Animal Crossing because all of her friends are playing it and I thought, you know, I screw it. I'll buy a Nintendo Switch and I will buy Animal Crossing and I'll play it. I had no intention of buying any current gen console other than the Xbox.

Still don't have a PlayStation, but I was like, fuck it. I'll throw in some money and I'll buy the Nintendo Switch. First off, it's not available anywhere. It's at a stock and best buy, at a stock and target, at a stock, it's stock at GameStop, at a stock at Walmart. The only place I was able to find it is through a reseller on Amazon who charged me 150 bucks over market value to get the animal crossing switch.

It's got animal crossing on the cover. Wait, wait, wait. So when you say the switch was sold out, you mean like the regular switch or you mean just specifically the animal crossing switch? The regular switch. Like you couldn't buy a regular switch anywhere. You had to back order them. And they were selling, it may not be the case now, do you mean just specifically the animal crossing switch? The regular switch. Like, you couldn't buy a regular switch anywhere.

You had to back order them, and they were selling, it may not be the case now, but this is two weeks ago. So, anyway, I found that on Amazon, and I was like, if I'm gonna buy it, and I gotta get the game too, I might as well just buy the Animal Crossing one. It's cute, and it's the only reason I want it. And so I got the Animal Crossing one.

It finally came in today, and I was trying to set it up right before this. And first thing I learned was it doesn't come with Animal Crossing. Oh, of course. Yeah. Yeah. You can buy that digital, you can kind of look at.

Yeah, yeah, you can. So that was a point of frustration for me to have Animal Crossing logos on my goddamn switch, but no animal crossing in my switch Finally got all set up a purpose of it. Yeah, so did I and I guess buyer beware right? I could have read it like I'm sure they were probably It said it somewhere that there was no Animal Crossing included in the animal crossing switch, but it was not overt I'll tell you that and it it's not even over the,

oh my god, the inbox. You're like 450 bucks in the hole on this and you have no answer. I am 400 and that's you nailed it. I am $450 in the hole. And so I loaded up, I get the whole thing turned on. It immediately has to go through like two or three updates, get through all that, all that normal bullshit.

I won't ding him for that because Xbox isn't placed at the same way. Then I go through the rig and roll of discovering whether I have a Nintendo account or not, which apparently I do was not aware of. So it took me a while to get that unpacked, got that figured out, and download, finally get my accounts linked, download Animal Crossing,

then I have to come get ready for the podcast, and I can just hear my girlfriend in the back go, ah, damn it! And I'm like, oh no. So I go out there. She creates an account. You are apparently on the Nintendo Switch, you have to own a copy of the game no matter how many, like, per account. So even though my Xbox is my home Xbox, and if I bought the Xbox Animal Crossing, I could set it to my home Xbox and everybody on Earth that wanted to come sit on my Xbox and play it and play it.

Not the case, so Emily had to buy it as well, so now we're $120 on top of the movie. So 570. Just so she can play Animal Crossing. I no longer want to play now. Now I hate Animal Crossing and I would like to burn Animal Crossing to play now. Now I would, I hate animal crossing. And I would like to burn animal crossing to the ground. But see, you're letting them win if you don't play at this point. You're going to spend so much money. You got to, you got to double down. Yeah, I guess so. Um, so anyway, so that's where we are. She, she finally bought it and now there's no sound. And it's just connected HDMI to the TV. And I haven't had chance to troubleshoot that

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No, I spend not not even close. I have gems of war. I have a not even close. I have gems of war Many many many thousands in the whole How many aftermarket switches have I bought? You yeah, probably yeah But is it a game are you enjoying it? Yeah, I love it. So to answer Barbara's question, it's not farming necessarily. It's just about like living in a town and I guess like meeting your neighbors

and doing jobs for them. You can like catch insects or collect fruit from trees or go fishing. I guess it was like the big, I have a conspiracy theory. Okay. Conspiracy theory. What if the makers of animal crossing

unleashed the coronavirus at the perfect time for everyone to stay home and play Animal Crossing and buy a switch and play the game and buy their game because it's like social interaction and everybody is wanting that right now. Honestly, I don't think that they need the help. I think everyone's been clamoring for this game for so long. No, I know.

Obviously it was. I've been slow. It's a fun game. It's chill. It's a I feel like it's a good game for these times because you couldn't just pick it up whenever, put it down whenever, do some shit, walk around, nice music. I've been building out my bathroom and tweeting photos of my bathroom to a day. No, I don't have a day, but I there it is. I've added another toilet since this photo was taken. So I need to send you a few photos. Or is it just an automatic toilet? It's a, it's a squatting toilet. So what's your face? Yeah, who came on your chin?

What's the cheese stuff? It's sticky rice. What, yeah, I sure it is. It's sticky. It's sticky rice. What, yeah, I sure it is. It's sticky, oh. That's the bathroom where Gus works. Why do you... Oh, it's sticky. Oh. But that's really what the game's all about. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, of it. Like I bought a scooter thinking, ah, get around this island a little faster.

Nope, just sits there on the drive, doesn't do anything. I had this coy that I caught, and I was like, oh, you know what people do with coy's in real life, they put them in ponds. So I had this coy in my inventory, and I went over to the store and they were selling a pond. I was like, oh, I could buy this pond,

put it in my front yard, and then I could put my coy in the pond. No, no, absolutely not. But you cannot. The pond sits there, and you can put the coin next to it in a fish tank, but you can't put the coin in the pond. So the dog's... Yeah, I'm not very good at it, because I refuse to read about the game, like, there's all these things you can do. But I'm just trying to learn on my own and today I made a video with Fiona where I was just playing animal crossing and she was just watching me play at making fun of me and yeah I'm not very good at all she's got all kinds of shit and I've I've got like just a small

house with a bunch of shit stuffed in the corner would you say your jack playing the new doom bad or just normal bad I'm not okay, just normal bad Okay, is there like an animal crossing and like the only game I played similar to this I guess would be the Sims is there stuff like cheat codes you could use to get cooler stuff and More money or is it just like completely in game? That really it's all pretty much just in game. I mean, you can time skip that kind of ruins the, I guess the aspect to pick it up every day and having someone new to come to.

Yeah, so it's tied to the real world time and date. So you have to wait, like the days in the game pass as days in real life pass. So if something's gonna be done tomorrow, you literally have to wait until tomorrow. So sometimes I'll just be playing the game like, well, there's nothing more to do today. Like, I really wanna keep playing,

but I'm just gonna put it down because I need to wait till tomorrow morning for something to be done. Interesting. Yeah, because like, It's like seasonal. Like, some of the things. Like, something I love doing is just like,

creating really cool houses and like Architecture and stuff like that in the Sims and a lot of that involves having to do that money cheat code Just so you could have like unlimited money to buy all the cool stuff and make your place look really cool But do you know the satisfaction out of having a getting a job as the Sims and working up the job ranks until you can actually afford that for real Fuck no dude I'm lazy as shit. This also has an extra layer of complexity or frustration where you don't even get access to everything up front. It's like over time, it's like you can find

more kinds of furniture or different things you can customize with, but you just have to wait. You don't have access to like a catalog of stuff. Yeah. I also hear about people getting like different, like their, what is it? Their city or what is it? Well, islands, their village, the village island has like different fruits,

like some people are like, oh, sweet, I got oranges or apples or whatever. Is there a difference between those two? I'm sorry, I'm asking a lot of questions. I just never played. No, so whatever your native fruit on your island is, you can sell, but you get only a little bit of money for it. If you can get other food from other islands and plant trees

for that, you can sell that fruit for a lot more money. Because it's not native food. Right. Right. And I think there's six different ones. If I'm remembering right off the top of my head, what do you have? I got, I got apples. I got past. Oh, good pairs are the best. I made a pebbet. I have, I made an apple television. There's no apple computer? No, there's no apple computer, but I made an,

I made a juicy apple TV. That's, that's what's going on. So, not Animal Crossing related. Oh, wait, wait, one more animal crossing thing before we wrap that up. So the other day, there's like this ongoing joke. So there's a shopkeeper there. He's a raccoon called Tom Nook. There's like an ongoing joke that people like to make that he's evil and secretly does all these bad things. And I tweeted a joke in those lines, along those lines a couple of days ago, and someone got really mad in my replies. They were replying, like, as if I was slandering a real human being.

Like they got really defensive, like trying to defend him and explain why I was wrong. He's actually a good, you know, everything that he does is worthwhile. And then I should be ashamed of myself for talking about him like that. I'm just I'm just making a joke about a cartoon raccoon man. I mean can we not take everything that seriously? Have you paid your house off yet? Yeah I've paid my house off and I have three room additions at this point. Okay. I think that's the complaint I hear is that it takes us long to pay off your house and animal crossing as it does in the real world. See, I've paid off this much of my house. That's why I can show this part. This is this is the extent that's paid for.

Turns out you're on the outside too. Yeah. It's really I hear it's really nice on the inside. Is that real or faux brick behind you? It's real. Nice. That's what he was knocking on when you went. Was that there when I when I toured your place? No, I remodeled since then. Oh, okay.

That's nice, dude. Have we talked about? I'm like, Monty, huh? Nancy. Have we ever talked about how Jeff whenever we make plans? You us three to hang out, you mean Gus, the Gus never goes. We had not had a match.

I went. I went. I went, even at what time when you weren't there. I went there, I've been there several times. Don't even try to pull that with me. The last two times he has not shown up. The last two I have missed. All the times before that I attended,

which was far more than two. But you miss it in a weird way you're not like I'm not gonna make it you just but just go no no the way I the way I don't make it is I never say I'm going it's like you Gavin I don't say no but I just never say yes yes you see how that is that exactly what you do Gavin so don't even try because this is exactly the same thing You do I say I don't I just don't reply. I don't say yes, and I don't say no. Doesn't that sound familiar? I think we've had this conversation before if I'm saying if I'm not saying no, but if I'm saying no by not saying no I'm just not going I have nothing to do with the event. I'm not chiming in about days and times and stuff and then

Not going because you do that. Where you say, oh, Wednesday's good for me. I can't do Thursday. We don't move us to to Wednesday. Suddenly, there's no gas. Why do we move it? I never say it's good. I say it would be better. Well, that's the same thing. This time, you have to go to the event. When I go to an event, I don't affect the event in any way. You affect the event in the end. You have to be an event with everyone's ad. I also know you don't fucking laundry anyway.

That's true. Pretty much. That's fair. So Gavin was talking about earlier, he was talking about his camera that he set up to do this. He's having to go through all that trouble to set up the phantom. And it made me think, so this week, this Wednesday is a 17th anniversary for Rooster Cheese. So congratulations.

17 years, they've been doing it. But it made me think about some of the... You can call this from some sites. It's in Texas, maybe. Hawaii. a back about some of the sites. Yeah, it's in Texas. Maybe. Hawaii. So if anything back about some of the, like the stuff we used to do back then and maybe think Jeff, do you remember back in 2001, we rigged up a camera and live streamed ourselves

playing video games for 24 hours straight? If what was the joke? If was it Burger King? What oh, oh, oh, what was it Jack in the box? I don't remember. Jack in the box, like if Jack in the box, when was it Dan said we forgot about that around the same time they did and the guy said if they made hamburger,

you wouldn't have forgotten. It's a good joke. It was good because it upset him so much. Dan, I wanted to point out to the funniest people on Earth with the thinnest skin. Yeah, so we were livestreaming our Suss-Playing video games for 24 hours. And just, I guess, kind of like this,

we had a chat going and we're talking with people. This is before Ruestri's teeth. And it was a really weird time, especially now when you think about people who livestreamed themselves playing video games, you know, it was kind of a one-off thing. And I don't think we didn't even have a way to digitize the video game. We had to point the camera at the TV if you wanted to see the game that we were playing. It was so fucking long ago when it came to like dealing with that kind

of technology. Yeah, we live streamed, live streamed, let's place, did way before it was cool Before it was possible That was 17 years ago 2001 that was like right before we started rooster teeth Yeah, that would have been before rooster teeth and I remember now We were playing a bunch of games and we switched over to the game cube and the guy goes Why don't you guys somebody on line goes? Why don't you guys play Dreamcast? And Dan Godwin said, we gave up on the Dreamcast around the same time that Sega did. And he said, I bet if Sega

made hamburgers, you wouldn't have forgotten about it. And that ruined it. That was it. That was it. That ruined his night. And I will never forget that for as long as I live. Man, I'm surprised he came back to do a donut's voice after that, geez. Well, it didn't exist here. When he did. Yeah, that was crazy to think about how much has changed. I mean, obviously that was a little before 17 years ago,

but even in the 17 years that we've been doing this, how much stuff has changed on the internet, you know, even doing video was still weird back then. Did we only do that that one time? Yeah, it ended up being a huge pain in the ass to try to set up. Remember, I didn't own that camera we use, I had to borrow it, and it was just like a huge pain

in the ass to deal with. So it was like, we just did that one time as a one off and never did it again. So who is watching? We were all, we were for an old website, we used to do. I think we had like 30 people watching. I don't know if I remember in that right, Jeff? It wasn't like a ton of people.

I thought it was more, like under 100, but more like 70 or something if I remembered. But it was like, it was enough to keep us busy talking and chatting with people all evening. And I think we went for, you know, four, five hours, six hours, something like that. No, we went 24 hours. We went from one day to the next. 24 hours? We did 24 hours of that. We're going to add in your apartment.

Yeah, it's my old apartment over there by Barton Creek Mall. For the mall. Did you guys switch off? Or was it like both of you the whole time? It was us. John was there. Dan was there. And then I could a couple other people would like rotate and out and let's stop by every now and then.

April and Mara Grit was out of name. Yeah, they were also there for a while. Some friends from our old job. Yeah. You had friends before this. How rude. Yeah. Before Rucheteenth killed all of our friendships. Yes, absolutely. You mean made your best ones yet, right, Jeff? Before we reached your teeth turned all of our friendships into co-workers. Why be friends when you can be employees? So what were you guys doing? I'm curious, I know what Jeff was doing in April to 2003, but Gavin and Barbara, what were you guys doing in April to 2003, but you know, Gavin and Barbara, what were you guys doing in April of 2003? I was waiting a month to discover Red Vest's blue. I was just waiting for that to happen.

Yeah. That's not right. You're you're doing the nature of parents. You weren't a lesbian, right? Yeah, I had my, uh, I had my lesbian post us up. Uh, I had my beer poster up because, you know, drinking is cool. When you're 14, um, I didn't drink, but I thought, you know, people will like me more if I've got a bunch of beer on a poster. Any work. Yeah, I, I was in, uh, yeah, I was in school. It was 14. Yeah, I was about to turn 14 members is July so I would have been still 13 at the time

I Think I was probably I think I did a lot of chatting on ICQ. Do you guys remember that chat service? Oh, yeah Yeah, I remember ICQ that was like my life and I remember there was this really creepy guy who was like a family friend's brother who Started messaging me on creepy guy who was like a family friend's brother who started messaging me on ICQ and was like kind of creepy towards me and then I remember not ever wanting to chat online ever again. And obviously that worked out for me clearly. But yeah, it was a... Yeah, it's hard to remember what I was doing before Ruchery Teeth honestly, it's been more than half my life that I've been part of the community and then part of the company too so it's strange to think a

BRT and a RT Wait, we first started talking in 2004 or five I want to say it was like maybe end of 2004. I Don't know I'd have to go back and see if there's like an archive of one. But that makes sense. We'd launched the community site. I want to say in like October 1st, 2004. I still think of that as the new site.

That's like the most hipster thing you could possibly say. Yeah. Like it actually plays videos. You don't have to download them off some server. Yeah, before the, what was it like a computer? PHPB, what was it? PHPB, it was e-d-p-r-b. Yeah.

No, I joined a October 24th, 2004. I remember the date specifically. So sometimes I thought that we started talking. You caused a storm among the male members. I'm like, I'm a woman and I'm 15. Well, you were, and also you appeared to be real, most of the women on the community site, back then were dudes. Do you remember the names of the fake accounts?

I do. Yeah, I don't want to say I remember two specifically right now. I just don't want to say him. Yeah. Yeah. Bernie said that he almost deleted my account a couple times thinking it was a fake account because he's like, why would girls be on our website? It's like the ultimate like tree house mentality. He like, he should have written no girls and put a sign out. Bernie was the president of the team and woman haters club

But it's it's been it's been a good 17 years. It's hard. It's I I still remember I don't remember what we did for the first anniversary but I remember making the Front Page post for the second anniversary from the apartment in Buda in April of 05 when we were celebrating and that's when Anna on a holum brought us those cakes on her if you remember that Jeff who I think she brought us up a con pie and a cake with like two Spartans on it that would be a blue Spartan on it that she had done right yeah yeah yeah I do remember that there's there's pictures of that somewhere yeah I've got some pictures of that I think we may may have posted them at some point during the 15th anniversary or something. Well, what was that?

She's going to have to make a lot of cakes for the 17th. There's way more people to feed now. When you picture that apartment in Buda, what's your primary memory that you get? I think about, I don't know if you remember this, I think about that wall next to my desk where I would, you know, I eat back the night to answer all of the email that was sent to the company and I would print out the stupidest emails and taped into the wall right next to my desk.

So I had like a wall to my right that was just filled with really stupid emails. I think I remember the first thing that comes to mind is I remember Bernie and Matt fighting in the kitchen once and you and I being like, oh, we can't fighting in the kitchen once and you and I've been like, oh, we can't get to the door to get out. And uh, I guess there was no escape. Yeah. And I remember Nathan Zellner sitting on the very edge of his seat because of that cat.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Ben, yeah. He was, he was too nice to ever move the cat. So every day he just sat on a sat on like one inch of chair. I remember Glossos, that's my memory that place. Was that there? That wasn't my congress office. No, it was at the bar right there.

I'm like, the kitchen, right? Yeah, yeah, that's right. That's when you were, that like shock video, right? Where that guy shoves Glossos up his ass. Okay. I was like was this a Rooch or teeth inside? I have it's I have it's we're talking about we're talking about the other glass ass. I Have a memory from yeah that the Christian glass ass

I have a memory about the mono in that office that I don't know if I should share Was he sticking glass up his ass? It's a funny thing, but we had a bin where we would get like, people would return t-shirts and stuff like wrong size or whatever. We didn't want to turn around and resell it, so we would just use them as giveaways for family members or friends or, you know, your teacher's kid wanted a DVD or whatever. And so it was just like a rubber-made trash can. They had a bunch of shirts and shit in it.

And Domo no was visiting. We used to have a lot of visitors. We'd people come by all the time. Gavin, did you, I think Ben King visited that office. I don't, I guess you must have too. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, that's why I was talking about the class, that's the thing. Yeah, yeah. And then, but anyway, so, D'Amano was there one time, and I think we were having a work late, we were supposed to go out to dinner with him, and I felt bad,

because we were taking too long making RVB, and I said, hey, dude, I'm sorry, it's gonna be a few more minutes, but if you wanna grab any free shit from that box, it's yours, and he said, okay, and he went down to his car, and he came back up with a suitcase,

and he opened it up, and he just turned to the trash can into the suitcase, and he tried to get up, and I went, okay, I guess. And did you guys do that? Is. Yeah, he did. I did.

I'm not. It's okay. I forgot about that. It was just I was surprised that it took Gavin and I so long to meet in person because we started talking again. Yeah, I think in 2004, but it wasn't until, so 2009 when I came to visit Austin for the first time when you were staying with the Ranzis. Yeah. Gavin, is that it? Yeah. And I just remember coming into their house and you were sitting on the couch playing video games, and I was just like,

hi. And it're like, stop. Weird to look at you in real life. I couldn't, it took me like a whole night to get used to. I was like, this is so freaking bizarre. I think you poked me on the face a few times. Yeah, I had to check you were real. You know what's fucking really weird to me?

Is that you guys are, my daughter is the same age as you both were when I met you. Well, is that you guys are my daughter is the same age as you both were when I met you. So which, uh, she can tell me that. It's fucking weird, right? It just popped into my head when I realized she's close to 15. Yeah, you guys are, that is the, god damn, that's a lot of time. Yeah, she was, how was she in 2009? She was born in, I guess, she was four in 2009. Yeah, that's, I guess, when I met her, she was how would she and 2009 she was born in I guess she was for 2009. Yeah, that's I guess when I met her She was so small. Yeah, she was still terrified of me back then do you remember that she wouldn't look at me I think for the first seven years of her life smart kid She didn't want to be traumatized

Like she would run away and like high and close her eyes. What do you think it was about you? Do you think it was about you? Do you think it was just for the eyebrow? It's just, it's right, it's personality, demeanor, you know, but it's just like you cut out a little bit, so all I heard was eyebrow. Yeah, eyebrow. You heard it, I didn't cut out, you heard the entire thing. This episode of The Steath Podcast is brought to you by us.

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exclusively for first members. So if you're first, you get to see who's last. Get it? If I made you laugh, you have to leave now. Alright, well, let me continue along this memory lane. Let me ask you guys this. Gus, what's your favorite memory in the last 17 years of in related to rooster teeth. It's probably messing up the RTX 2011 on sale tickets

and selling too many of them. I think that was a very good exhilarating day. Yeah, just I guess messing it up and then realizing that people wanted to take part in it. But it was a lot of work, but it was also really satisfying to go through. I have no idea where, but a video exists of you and I dealing with that crisis as it happened. Like somebody filmed it when the, what's it? Was it a galvan or a jab?

It's a galvan or jab. A hooky on me. I don't think it was me. I don't think it was me. I don't think Gavin. Maybe Bernie. It was Adam Bayer, Jack or Bernie. I don't remember what. No, I think it was Adam.

It was Adam. 200, right? And he sold 535, right? Something like that. It's supposed to be 200. Yeah, somewhere around there. Yeah. Damn.

It was a huge pain in the ass, but it was worth it. Why Jeff, what do you, just something stand out for you? You know, I realize when I ask you guys that it's kind of an unfair question because there are so many memories and so many things have happened, but currently the thing that pops out, they just jumped into my head when I asked it, is probably not even close to my favorite memory, but it is a sweet, fun memory that pops out that just jumped into my head when I asked it is probably not even close to my favorite memory But it is a sweet fun memory that I really that it is really kind of precious to me and it's when you and I went to San Jose To go put red versus blue on the IMAX and we saw it on an IMAX theater for the first time and just How we had seen it it at the Alamo draft

at that point, we'd seen it at the Kennedy Center. So we'd been on a screen before, but seeing it like, I don't know, 75 feet tall or however fucking big that I'm X was, that was unbelievable. That was really... Do you remember? That was also a strange experience because if I remember right, I think the projectionist came and picked us up at the airport.

Do you remember that? He, he, I don't remember his name. I don't remember his name. He was, he was really, really nice. And he was the press secretary for Burning Man at the time. I remember that. He kept talking about Burning Man a lot. And he was like the head of press for Burning Man.

And then he was in some way related to that showing, whatever it was, whatever art foundation, or whatever it was. And I remember that he lost his parking pass and we couldn't leave till he found it, the airport. Oh, really? I forgot about that. Yeah, and I was like, it's like eight bucks. I'll pay. I have no problem paying

but it was like the principal of it. And he eventually found it and we got out. But he somehow lost his parking pass in his car for like 30 minutes. And we just like started to park a lot. We figured it out. There's a lot of old strange memories like that. Like I forgot about the parking pass.

I'm sure like if we all all of us set down and like tried to piece together all these stories, we'd all be telling each other things like individual sides of it that we all forgot and are like lost to time. Like I don't know if you remember that night, but that's also where we discovered that place, the Cinebar in San Jose. I remember. And that's also that same night we saw, or the day after we saw Ralphie May live

because we walked by in a comedy club and he was playing and we just walked in. That's also the same day at Cinebar that day. That's the time when the guy stopped me on the way to the bathroom and asked me if I was half black half Korean. Yeah. Is CineBarr related to CineBun? No. No. Not at all. The Dive Dive Bar in San Jose. The last time we went there I don't know if you remember but a homeless guy had been beaten up or stabbed or something in front of it and we had to walk through all of his blood to get into the bar. Do you remember that?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. What the fuck did it? It was a flood to get into a pool of blood. Well, I'm still drinking, man. When we... I actually remembered something else. When we went to that Ralphie May show, it was at a comedy club and the table sat for people and Jeff and I were by ourselves.

So they sat us with two random people and it was this man and this woman on her first date. So it was me and Jeff and this couple who were there to watch this comic on their first date. I was sharing a table at a comedy club. And what's worse is the table was the way that stairs were set up. They were facing the stage and you and I were in front of them facing them. So we had to turn our chairs around and they had to watch the comedy show through us. Yeah, it was a great layout. This makes me uncomfortable just like hearing about that.

I don't even know what you guys must have been feeling at that point, especially you guys. It was fine by us. It was really awkward for them. Yeah. It doesn't matter where we're blast. Ralphie May, is that the guy who won last comic standing? He lost it actually. He got second place.

Oh, nevermind. Okay. Then I'll do that fan in it. And then nobody ever heard him again as a comedian. Yep. I wasn't that fan of his. You tried a for effort. Any more wine to have. Man, I have no idea why I remember that.

That was like season one of less comedy-slanding. Yeah. Apparently, that fan went to Eric's high school. He just told us that. went to Eric's high school. You just Yeah, I guess he's a that fan of that dude see damn it fucking opportunity Is anybody else watching? I'm gonna I'm gonna change the subject here is anybody else. I feel like nobody else in the world is watching Westworld anymore? Oh, we do. Oh, that's my idea. Oh, that's my idea.

To be fair, who would be watching Westworld when you can be watching Tiger King? Well, Tiger King's only seven episodes that are all are in now. Or in the series. But Westworld's ongoing. But yeah, I started watching. I started watching Tiger King this weekend as well and it made me remember that you know, I grew up in that really small town and there was a there was like one of those exotic wildlife rescue places like just outside the town I grew up in and

Like it would all happen when I was really young so I don't remember all the details about it but I remember like I think federal agents came and like serve papers or shut that place down if something happened when I was a kid I need to look into that I think that they accused the people who ran that place of illegally smuggling animals into Mexico or something So we're like in rewatching tiger, or in watching Tiger King, it's making me think back about that,

that stuff when I was a kid. I'm really nervous. I'm watching the show right now. I'm on episode, I think we just finished episode three. And I'm really nervous for what's gonna happen, especially if there's like more animal cruelty stuff, it's just very uncomfortable. And somehow Trevor and I are always watching that show when we sit down to eat and it's the worst possible timing

I'll say the further in that show goes the less it has to do with animals Okay, God it gets sad like the back off of that show is just tragic You and every episode is more insane than the last one somehow you end up meeting new characters in like episode five It's like where was this guy the whole show and oh my god. It's even crazier somehow The epithode is more insane than the last one somehow. You end up meeting new characters in episode five. It's like, where was this guy the whole show? Oh my God, it's even crazier somehow. Do you, Gav, do you two questions? One, did you end up feeling any kind of compassion

or sadness for Joe Exotic by the end of it? Uh, yeah. Yeah, I felt like it was a kind of redemptive at the end. I'm not redemptive, but you do. I don't know, no spoilers. The human eyes in them a little of redemptive at the end. I'm not redemptive, but you do Humanize them a little bit And I'm no spoiler The other question is do you think that lady whose name I can't remember killed her husband? Carol Carol

Yeah, dude Dude who knows and it's just I don't even know where to start with so much of it. I get all these feelings and then it all gets flipped when you hear the other side of it. It's like, and then at the beginning, I was like, I realize I don't like anyone. I'm not rooting for any person in this.

You wouldn't for the animals. That's pretty much it. It's crazy, it's mental. One of the most uncomfortable moments for me, and I think this is like episode two they show it, is at Joe Exotics place, they do this thing where they hold the little baby tigers by everyone's face and they take a picture.

It just like, it made me so uncomfortable for some reason. It was just like, these people sitting in the crowd as they brought this tiger in and like took a picture and like moved it from face to face. I'm like this poor animal. It's just like, I don't know, it's just maybe super uncomfortable. Yeah, it's a, and they even talk about that about like what a wasted is like how they have a very limited amount of time in which they can maximize their profit off of those animals

and then after that. It's like 10 weeks or something. Something like that. Yeah, there's, there's a lot more we could say about that, but I don't want to spoil anything for you, Barb. But yeah, it's sad. It almost had the same levels of holy shit this keeps getting crazy as the the jinx. It's kind of on a similar level to that. I mean, yeah, the last episode of the jinx is still I think one of my favorite pieces

of content in the world. Like the last episode of the drinks is still, I think one of my favorite pieces of content in the world. Like the last like 10 minutes. Yeah. I was like, It's funny you say that, because I'm still watching Tiger King, probably on the same place at Barbara's, I think I just finished episode three,

but it's also been making me think about the drinks as well. And like it's been making me want to go back and rewatch that. I was just talking to the guys earlier, when we were up, and I said it reminded me of, I don't know if you know, if you know who Harlan Cobin is, he makes those, like, he's a novelist, but he makes those overly complicated Netflix shows like, safe or the, I think the intruder was one. But that's the new one that's out. But it's like a Harlan Coban story on meth

It's just like it's so intertwined and there's so many people double crossing and triple crossing and doing back back yard like behind the back deals and it's just it's insane to keep up with if you if you had a org chart try to explain it all It would look like the that episode of always sunny. Did you guys watch Mcmillan's that documentary on Hulu? I can't get into it. HBO. HBO, sorry. I get mixed up because my Hulu has HBO in it. I paid for the package deal, so I always should get what's on what.

But no, I'm the same as you, Jeff. I started watching. I think we got to episode two or three, and then we're like, I don't really. Yeah. You can see where it's going. You can draw the line on and be like, okay, I got it. I watched the first two episodes,

and I'm gonna watch the first, like, 20 minutes of episode three because people keep telling me I have to watch it and it's so good, but it's really well produced, but it's just not interesting in any way. Yeah, I watched, I watched the whole thing, I think it was six episodes, but I felt like even then it was too long. Like it should have been condensed down. Like in the first episode,

you meet that FBI agent who's like a really big character. And you think that he's going to be a big part of it and maybe carry it. But then it's like, he really isn't in the second episode. And he kind of like takes a backseat and you realize like, oh, there's all these other characters too that you have to follow along with. And it's fine. It was entertaining. But like you said, you already kind of know the outcome of the story. It's like, yeah And it's fine, it was entertaining, but like you said, you already kind of know the outcome of the story. And it's like, yeah. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's kind of lame.

It's like, so the mafia was involved and then they caught him, I guess, right? And then the bad guys got punished. I don't know. Yeah, and then they, they, they, it seems like they intentionally tease out the exact way that they were able to pull off this scam until the very last episode.

Like they keep teasing like, oh, how did they do it? We don't know. We're trying to figure it out. It's like, I mean, just tell us. Like, there's the whole reason I kept watching was to get to the last episode and be like, oh, okay, that's how they did it.

Now, now I get it. It can make sense. Yeah, I just couldn't get into it. It just, it did make me want to eat McDonald's though. So I will say that. I did not have the same thing. It's a positive. Did you guys actually play the monopoly game

when like back in the day? Mm-hmm sure. Yeah. I think it was a big deal. Huge deal. If only I had known, I had no chance of winning whatsoever because of these people. Yeah, you could have won free food, right? Like free fries or free big Macs and stuff.

That's how I played. I played Roll Up the Rim to Win at Tim Hortons in Canada. You got so many free coffees and donuts from that. You got to tell us what that is. Roll up the rim. It sounds like one of those urban dictionary sex acts. Roll up the rim. We're like Canadians in the chat.

They know what I'm talking about. What would you do? What would you have to do to win? It's exactly what it sounds like. Roll up the ring. You had a coffee cup. What do you mean this exactly? What it sounds like?

You take what I mean. What do you think that is, Gus? I don't know. You take an anist and you roll it on a toe as far as you can. You try to get your ass in your ass. How much of a ass you can put in your ass? Yeah, exactly. You would take a fucking coffee cup, you piece of the shit,

and you would literally roll up the rim of the coffee cup, and it would say if you want something. You still want, like, just the coffee cup. Go in your ass. If you win something. Because you get so excited that you need to. Did you ever win? What was the biggest prize you won

by rolling up the rim, Barbara? I think I've won coffees and donuts and stuff before nothing exciting never money or anything like that. No, there was money involved. I think there's a cards and stuff. He was playing roll up the rim. You can't play roll up the rim during coronavirus. No, we learned that last week. I can't play Roll Up the Rim during coronavirus, my feed. We learned that last week.

Yeah. Oh, right. Have you guys noticed how much you touch your fucking faces on a daily basis? Absolutely. Oh, I can't stop myself. I'm just watching Gavin touch his chin. And I like wanting to yell at him.

But I realize I'm touching my face. I'll 475 times in this podcast alone. Yeah, well, this cable keeps rubbing my beard, I'm making it itch. I read this story earlier. There was this astrophysicist in Australia who wanted to make a device that would buzz any time you got your hand near your face,

he was using like those real strong neo-denium magnets and he couldn't get it to work. So he got bored with it and gave up and he decided to start playing with the magnets and he put them in his nose and had to go to the hospital to get them removed because they like clamped shut on the inside of his nose and he couldn't get them out.

He said that he tried to get it out by putting more magnets to get it strong enough to pull out but the more magnets went in also got And that when you got to the hospital they could like pull a hole in your skin They said that when he went to the hospital they had to spray like a Numbing agent on his nose and they pulled like the three on one side out but the one on the other side went back into his nasal passage and Down his throat, but luckily he leaned forward fast enough and spit it out instead of it going down into his stomach.

Oh, dude. That sounds fucking horrible. Yes, don't put those magnets in your nose or in your mouth. Or in your butt. Or in your butt. I also, I've been here. I've been here on those magnets. I've also been hearing that,

and you guys probably know this too, but the test for coronavirus, they do a nasal swab where they have to go like way the fuck back. I don't know. I was a little of people getting it. Yeah, I saw a journalist did a video of her like doing a drive through one in New Jersey and she was fucking crying from how much it hurt. Apparently everyone cries from it. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's apparently in the same, like if you've ever seen the magic trick

where magicians like hammer a nail into their nose, like just into the front of their face, and it actually isn't a trick. You can just, there's this massive cavity there where stuff just fits. Yeah, they have to swab the back of that. Ugh, that's more important. Yeah, as if there was enough motivation

to not wanna get it to begin with, that's even more motivation to avoid it. That sounds terrible. Man, the most motivation I've heard, is that on the daily Emily? That story? That was, yeah. Yeah, if you listen to the daily,

there's a New York Times reporter whose husband has it and she's been giving a very honest like daily video like or like audio diary of what the process for her and their 16 year old daughter and their husband who's in his 50s going through it have to go through like the steps of the whole dragon's breath. Yeah and it is there's still going through it so there's she's still updating it and it first off it'll make you cry the entire time you're listening to it but secondly if you don't take this thing seriously after that You are not human because it is terrifying what a reasonably healthy 55-year-old man has is going through and enduring and the kind of

work and exhaustion and effort that goes into keeping him Healthy or as healthy you know tending to him while keeping the rest of the house and the other family members clean and safe. Man, it's like, it's scary. You guys talked about it. If you guys talked about it with your significant others,

like what if and or when it happens, if one of you gets you what plan is? Yeah. I'm gonna pull the plug immediately on anybody. But no, I mean like if let's Jeff, like let's say you get it, are you gonna try to like isolate yourself in a place in your house and not have her interact with you? Yes. I think I think by that point it's probably too late. Like by the time you're showing symptoms, the other person probably

already has received it for that. That's what about yeah yeah yeah yeah you should still try but that was like a mass spreading event you read about the choir practice no in Washington yeah yeah it was like something like 25 or something people got it because they were all singing near each other. They still were doing six feet of distance and all that stuff and they weren't touching things, but because they were all like projecting their voice, I think the idea was that they thought it was like aerosolizing the virus, so it was hanging in the air a lot more than typically it would just like in respiratory drops just fall onto a surface, but it was just lingering in the air, I guess, because of the singing,

or something. Did you read that? I did, and I think it was actually like 40 something people. I think it was more than 20. Gee, so how many people actually had it who gave it, like where there are a couple people in that choir who had it, originally? They don't know.

This choir was also like three weeks ago. It was, I think, before any kind of mandatory lockdowns, if I remember correctly. But yeah, I mean, I'm like wildfire through them. It could have just been one person, just hanging in the air and everyone's taking deep breaths and breathing in and breathing out. Yeah, it's true, it seems like the perfect storm

for that kind of stuff. It's just a really worst-case scenario. The other one is the red one. The chat is saying, 60 people in the practice, 45 contracted it, two of them died. Yeah. Oh my god.

Nice to see you. Thanks, please. Yeah, shout out. There's so many frustrating stories like that because they're so avoidable with, I mean, I don't remember exactly when that happened. I don't know that it was so, it was that clear at that time. Maybe it was.

It's hard. The day is all kind of running together now. But like reading that one about the, that story about how 12 students at Liberty University are now showing signs because follow-over, if you close the school, it's like, that's the stuff that you're just like, you're like, oh, oh, why can't people take this seriously?

Why can't people be safe? Why can't people act? I mean, there's still no country-wide lockdown. Yeah. Just stay at home stuff, right? Which is kind of loose still. Through April 30th, I think, the Trumps, I guess, for the... Yeah, Jeff, I don't know if you read about this,

Jeff, since you're a reality TV fan like myself, but Colton, the bachelor got COVID-19. I think now, like over a month ago, and I think he's already recovered, but yeah, his girlfriend Cassie, the girl he picked on the bachelor, was like essentially documenting that whole process. They luckily had like three floors in the house that they're in, so he was on the

top floor isolating. But he was saying that he was so weak, and he's like, I think 28 and super healthy, but he had to crawl to the bathroom because he was so weak and tired. And like, he had zero energy and felt awful and just like, the sickest he's ever felt apparently. So, like, he wouldn't to put him on pretty bad. When they want to put him on the first floor, since gravity takes the germs down.

Shop, guess. I think they had like a bedroom in a bathroom that they like left food outside the door and stuff like that. The first one I had the kitchen and living room and stuff like that. Just saying, it's science. It's really simple gravity. The dream's down. Gus, the scientist.

How are you guys handling? Are you guys getting cabin fever? Are you getting out of the house at all? Are you going for walks or you going to like to supply runs or are you just trying to go on walks every day? I honestly just feel very lucky in the situation that I'm in a place where I feel comfortable and I'm with someone who I don't hate. Does Meg Leiker? I was waiting for it.

I don't know, I just feel so much lucky the most because of the situation I just happened to currently be in. Yeah, I feel like I'm really lucky to. I only really go out once a week to get groceries and beyond that, it's just all staying in here. But like Gavin, you know, I feel really fortunate to have kind of have the same things. Are you guys noticing? I'm sorry Barbara, go ahead. I'm okay. People often forget about me, so it's all good. I'm doing it. It's okay. We, uh, the same as Kevin Gus.

Luckily, I feel very fortunate to be in the place I'm in with the person I'm with. We try to go and walk at least once a day, sometimes a little more. Luckily, the weather in Austin has been pretty good up until this week where I think it's going to start storming soon. But it's been pretty okay. We've had a lot of things delivered to the house instead of actually going out. That's good. Are you guys cooking every day or are you ordering food? It's like a mix of both.

Yeah, there's been, I've been very impressed with what the local restaurants are doing. They'll have like a reduced menu or like they'll just have like a three-course meal prep that you just picked from. And you can just go and pick it up and they, they just, you just open the trunk of the car and they dump it in the back and then you drive away. So you don't interact with them in any way. And a lot of places are doing cool things like we went to, we went, we ate at home but we had like a steak dinner with like a little martini kit from Jeffries. And it was just like a cute little date night style thing that you can still do at home.

So you actually feel like, go ahead. Did you have the mashed potatoes? Yeah, for sure. It's an important question. Those are the best mashed potatoes on Earth. Yeah. And it honestly, it was a very nice meal, but by far the most expensive takeout I've ever had in my life

every time I've got $200 steak that plays a fucking crazy but those mashed potatoes are more butter than potato they're really good yeah it's just nice to do something that feels normal when when nothing else is normal have you guys noticed that you've been in a way socializing more with people who you typically wouldn't socialize? Like, I had a group Zoom call with my dad's side of the family. It was like all my cousins, my aunts, and uncles, and everybody. And I only see them at family gatherings,

like maybe twice a year in person. And we've never video chat before, but because of all this going on we did like a whole family Zoom call and I was like this is different never done this before. I mean I'm checking in more with people. Yeah I face timed with my mom for the first time ever this weekend. So I guess similarly and my girlfriend face times with her family and I sit in on that as well. But yeah, it's a, I've talked to almost no one outside of work.

I've noticed, I've just really bunkered down. I want to talk to all of my neighbors and yell at them to fucking social distance, that everybody in my neighborhood, not everybody, but a large, a lot of people in my neighborhood are having these like outdoor yard parties where you're supposed to have your chairs like six feet apart But nobody adheres to it and it's like 45 people all in one yard Six inch in the heart. Yeah, I've uh, well, I mean based on that Quiet practice two of them will die. Yeah, that's what I want to tell I just Yeah, what do you do in that situation like?

Can you call the cops? Do you call me? Okay, APD I read an article that said APD had received like over 200 calls from concerned citizens reporting violations of social distancing since last Tuesday. So I guess people are calling and reporting it. But I mean, will they do anything or is there any penalty to that?

I mean, if you can call, but is there any follow up to it? Yeah, who knows? It is a very interesting, I don't know if you guys experienced this on your walks, but whenever you're out and you see other people walking around, there's like this unspoken rule of like, if someone else is coming down the same sidewalk,

one of you switches over to the other side, or like avoids people somehow. For some reason, I don't know why I like joggers. Some of them think they're immune if they're going a certain speed. Like they'll just jog right past you. And it's like fucking move. And that breathing a lot more than than everyone else. So they're probably transmitting it faster than someone walking.

Yeah, but they're running. So they're they're outrunning it. You know, they're going. They're already in the future. And it is. By the time Karate looks up to get them and they're long gone. Yeah, as long as they don't stop, they're fine. They're good.

You, you're screwed, though. Karona's like on your body watching joggers go by and it's like, I'm going to, my guys, you're so small. Missed. You tired. I'm too fatigued to catch on. Have you guys played Half-Life Alex? No. I've been playing Animal Crossing still too much.

I had a weird thing happen. I guess because I played Half-Life 1. I played it when Half-Life 2 came out. I went back to play it. And I played Episode 1 and 2. And I've also been kind of extremely excited for there ever to be a Half Life 3. And without spoiling anything, the end of Half Life Alex was like the most bizarre experience. Like I pulled off the headset

and my eyes were just full of tears. I think I was crying. I was gonna say did the headset hurt you or were you actually sad? No, it's just like a very overwhelming cool ending. I can't talk about it. It's too recently come out. Didn't you once say you didn't understand getting emotional at cartoons because they weren't real they were just drawn? I don't remember saying that. It sounds exactly like something I would say. Honestly, I pulled the headset off at the end.

Like, there's, I really want to talk about it. I pulled the headset off and I just like sat on the floor with tears running down my face. And it wasn't happy, it wasn't sad. It was just incredibly overwhelming. It's an emotional release. Yeah, it was release. I bet. Yeah, it was, it was bizarre. I never felt anything like that.

Someone has a bigger system. Is someone. Someone really recently update your system. I think it's like a firmware update. I gained a new emotion. It's like animal cr. Checker patch notes. You have somebody enabled cry. It's also the saddest thing I've ever heard you say, Gavin, where you're like, I think I was crying. To me, to me crying is like, I know what emotion is with

it. Like I'm sad or I'm happy. This was crying without either of that. I was just like this. There's a type of cry that you experience. I've experienced a lot in my life, and maybe now that you're fur more as updated, you will be experiencing as well. It's when something is so like affected you so much much or it's so beautiful or moving in such a way

where it's like you're not happy or sad but it's just like a I don't know how to describe it's like an overwhelming feeling of just like I that was just affected me in a way where I just like I have to cry. You just need a lift. Because it it was VR, I was, I mean, like, I feel like you're in there. You feel like you're in the room, you're in the moment. And I felt a part of something that I hadn't experienced since my childhood, which was, you know, the last time I played a, not I was a child, but the last time I played Half Life was episode two, which is 2007, was ages ago. It was like a teenager still. Oh, so you had the nostalgic cry. It was powerful. Yeah. Well, yeah. I guess, sir. Is it like a teenager still? Oh, so you had the nostalgic cry.

It was powerful. Oh yeah, I guess, sir. And there's a nostalgic cry. Does that happen to me? I don't want to fucking admit to it, but there's a fucking TikTok where people are like, if you were born before this year, listen to the sound.

And it was that intro to like every single Disney commercial that you used to see in like the like mid to late 90s and it just like made me really emotional because it's like an nostalgic feeling and it just like overwhelms you in that way. Yeah, it's such a weird. I had a similar thing when Super Mario Odyssey came out and I you gained control of Mario and to me it felt exactly like Mario controls in Mario 64 which I think I was like 11 or 10 when I played that and I felt like not as much but I felt like a little like my eyes were watering up because I was like oh my god this is like new old. This is with new old. Welcome to the rest of your life for everything is new old. Barbara, I want to have you outline all the different kinds of crying for us that we can

all learn like the nostalgia cry and all the different ones. Because my phone has been updated, I don't know how to file these emotions yet. I am up to the challenge. Basically, just spend a day with me and you'll probably experience them all. We'll do that as soon as we can in a couple of months. We were talking recently, we have like a couple of check-ins a week with the RT Core group. And for some reason, this got brought up about how Chris hasn't cried in years.

And we started talking about like, when the last time we cried was. And for me, it was like earlier that day. Really? Once last time you guys cried? Yesterday. I cried in better-call stall yesterday, I think. Which episode?

Uh, I can't remember. I watched a few to catch up. I'm all caught up now. I cry all the time. I can say that if I think about Millie from more than 30 seconds, I'll cry. Guess what about you? Uh, I want to say it. I will. it's definitely been a long time. I wanna say maybe it was like the end of Return of the King. Oh yeah. Or maybe the beginning of up. Oh, even thinking about that's gonna make me cry, dude.

Oh, fuck. You can get up the hill. Oh my God, no. Can I be the title for this podcast? Gus makes everyone cry. Happy 17th anniversary. So we do have a few things that I feel we should talk about that we've announced that are coming up here pretty soon. First one of course is a passionate project of mine. We have a black box down is premiering April 16th. Look at that. We have lower thirds. Wow. Wow. Because of 16th on a... Yeah, we got you. Where we get podcasts, you can go and actually you can already look for it and

subscribe now. That way as soon as the first episode comes out you'll get it. And we're really, really excited about that. I think it's turned out really well so far. And you can follow them on social too. And the other thing we just, I guess we could finally start talking about it today is last laugh. The trailer for that is coming out on Wednesday the first. So if you're watching this on YouTube, it's probably already out. Oh, there it is.

We got a lot worth of for that too. And the show actually premieres April 20th on Restief.com or on Restief. And that's a suit. I just did the VO for that trailer like an hour ago. It's very funny. I can't wait to see it. I'm really excited to see how that show turned out.

It was a really interesting experiment. It's been a real big fear of. It's been a real big fear of mine since we filmed this and Minigolf so far in advance that somebody's gonna fuck up and spoil the winners. And so every time somebody mentions that I get scared, it's not totally good. You don't have to worry about me. I'm a professional.

I've been doing this for a long time. I've never spoiled anything. I'm not. I worry about myself. Have we ever professional. I've been doing this for a long time. I've never spoiled anything. I'm not I worry about myself Have we ever spoiled anything before on the podcast or like another show's? I can't remember I think Bernie did once I don't remember what it was But I want to say that at one point he definitely announced something way too soon and marketing with freaking out, but Yeah Last month or 20 huh. Yeah. Last level 20, huh? Yeah. Yep.

Nice. We also have a lot of holiday or holiday, birthday related content coming out this week, right? Like the animation jam and Oh, right. Yeah, that just started today on Monday. Yeah. I think that special always open came out today, right? Yeah, on the site. It'll be out tomorrow for the public. And I feel like there was more and I'm drawing a blank. always open came out today right? Yeah on the site it'll be out tomorrow for the public. And I feel like there was more and I'm drawing a blank. We have a special RT life coming out on Wednesday as well on the anniversary. I think we're also, we just are putting it live. We have

some Trump is live. Yeah. Live Wednesday too. We, I think we're also going to do a livestream on RTTV on Wednesday morning with the RT group, just going over some of our favorite shorts and productions that we've worked on in the last couple of years just to celebrate. But I think we're still putting the final details on that, but link down below. Everyone can watch. Yeah, I think it's important to remind everyone, no matter what platform they're watching, after watching this on YouTube, or, however, that they can go to Rst.com to watch our TV live and interact with us.

That's what we're looking at chat. So like when Gavin called out someone in chat earlier and that's where they can, that's where we're interacting with people. And our TV is normally something that is only for our first members, but it's available for everyone right now. And they're gonna give, of course,

after all these years still a big thank you to everyone who's a first member who supports us that helps us make all this awesome content that we can put out for everyone. So thank you first members for being so awesome, for being first. Yes, we know. Go ahead.

I was gonna say, I'm blown away by the people working in the background of all of our at home productions. Like all of our cheap and hunting stuff, I guess how freighters just been like working everything in the background, it's weird to not see that person, but everything just magically working. Everyone's just doing such a good job.

Yeah, like Gus and I did, or Gus and I, Jack and I did that, keeping the lights on podcasts. Yeah. I don't know, like talk show on Saturday, and that was an idea that he had on Monday or Tuesday, and Michael Lindblad and Jordan Battle and a couple other people just like fucking pushed rocks

uphill for four days, and then suddenly we had a virtual set and we were able to pull this thing off, and it's just like, it's crazy how many talented people we have at Rooster Teeth and who are able to do so much given the circumstance. In general, but just given the circumstances of what we're all, the reality that we're all dealing with. And like, it's fucking not only are we able

to produce content, but we're averaging six to seven hours of variety streams, variety live streams every day. Well, Monday through Saturday and then a little bit on Sunday right now Which is fucking crazy considering I was at the office last Monday, you know, we hadn't core Indeed yet. Yeah, yeah, after we get into this podcast, I pressed I clicked link That's not easy to work for me. I mean obviously I have to piss about with this shit, but that was my own doing Yeah, after we left the podcast last Monday It was the last one we did on the set.

Gavin and I were walking out at the same time and we kind of turned to each other at the same moment. I think we both had the exact same thought. It was like, this is going to be the last time for a while that we're going to be walking out of that building. Like, it's going to be weeks, maybe weeks until we set foot back in there and do. Yeah, you're like, oh, I should get some, I should get some shit from my desk. I'm not gonna be here I It feels like like the last day we were in the office. It almost felt like a Video game where we were scrounging for goods essentially like all right like what could I take home with me like I'll grab these cables

I'll grab this like a Extra hand sanitizer that we have lying around. I'll grab these snacks. Like, it seemed like a weird scavenge for supplies as we were leaving the office for the last time because we knew it wouldn't be back there for a while. It's like you wanted, you needed to craft something and you're like picking up all the supplies

you needed in order to do that. Like, it could be needed. Yeah, it's like some zombie apocalypse video game where you're like, are in a room and you're trying to grab supplies as fast as you can. Like loadout. Have you guys enjoyed doing the at home streaming and kind of the I found it to be fun just to

to work with the challenges presented to us and being able to like still create content and overcome those challenges. I find it's actually it's been almost like creatively inspiring to have these new constraints on how we do production. It's almost, it reminds me of the early days, Gus, when we were like, well, we got a skull and a ward hog and a sword. What can we do with that? Yeah, I got this thing that I've been working with. I got a tenuous assistant. He's doing all right. I think he's probably sick of me.

He wants me to totally even go to work. Yeah, your animals all weirded out by the fact that you guys are home all day every day. I think they love it. Anyway, bye. Yeah, it's nice having a bunch of challenges to successfully have a come. Yeah.

It's weird because the computer that I'm primarily using for most of my work now is like the PC that I have for playing video games. So it's like, all it's done for years is play video games. And I was like, oh, well, now I have to use it to get work done. And it's been interesting to try to figure out new ways to get things done that I used to do at the opposite much easier. I mean, my office here is very is a lot hotter than the office at work, which is unfortunate.

Maybe it's because you have a fucking phantom filming you. Well, yeah, but also like when I've got like if I'm editing a slumber guys over there and I'm doing like conversions here and also then trying to go into a video. So all the fans are on it because it's just pushing up so much heat and it just gets, it's like 10 degrees hotter in here

than the rest of the house. I bet you could sanitize the virus in there, so hot. Yeah, maybe. Have you thought about, did not being so hot? Like try not to be hot? Yeah, just try not to be hot. Is the state of my life in here? Let me try that out. Yeah, just try not to be hot. This is state of my life. Let me try that out.

Yeah, hold on. You're doing it. You're great at it. Not bad. Barb, you should send Mary all over with that toilet meter. She can check the hotspots. Right. It's true. It's funny that you mentioned that because Mary actually just came by my place today.

Trevor and Chief Hunter were nice enough to lend us some webcam that they weren't using for Richard Heath to use. And so I had a webcam from Achimhan that she was gonna take home for her to use. And so I just like left it in a ziplog bag outside my front door and she came by and picked it up and I like had the window open and I was like waving at her from outside the window.

And I was like, this is the first time I've seen a friend in weeks and seems like. I had a funny thing where like three days ago, I was on a walk or I was on a bike ride and I ran into Andrew Rohos walking around. What? Yeah, I guess we live near each other. That's really funny.

Yeah, we stayed a respectful distance, but it was nice to catch up with somebody that I work with in person again. That's a weird way to find out. Yeah, just randomly walking around because of this. Yeah, everybody's out walking around like zombies. They don't know what else to do with their lives in Austin. And everybody's walking six feet apart.

Everybody's like, it bits are super happy about everyone. Getting all their walking done now. There was some, I've been reading a lot of stuff online about how we should be calling it physical distancing instead of social distancing, because people don't. Because it could be social online. Or you could be social and you could still

have social interactions. So I feel like maybe people are taking it as like, I need to shelter myself and like hide from the entire world essentially, whereas like you just have to be physically distancing yourself from people. Well, the problem I have with the term is I feel like social distancing still sounds like it's encouraging the socializing aspect. It like it's, the sense still has social in it. I feel like physical distancing is clearer about nice, really nice, really nice. I feel like a really nice, really nice, really nice.

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But I noticed that by the way, thank you. That's a weed butter. Was it, I was gonna ask if it was an intentional thing to make it look like this guy had a huge Oh god. Oh god. I'm really good. I'm like, it's what it looks like. No, that's just a surprise. Yeah, I need to get your eyes. That's just, oh, it's a, it's a, it's Roberice. No, I don't think it's, but it's

it's an awesome. That's an Easter egg. Because like, literally every time I wear this shirt, people are like, I had to do a double take. Cause I think I was holding a giant gummy dick. Come in, I'm gonna. God damn. Someone in the chat was asking me what this stuff is behind me,

and it's just a blanket's under my desk for if Tony wants to come and sit in here. Cause I don't have a room for a couch, so I just put a bunch of comfy blankets on the floor. Didn't you push before? Say what? Isn't it super hot in there though? Why would you need blankets?

When the door's open it's a lot cooler. Didn't you post a photo on Instagram on that the other day? I felt like that. I just saw that recently. Yeah, it looks familiar. Yeah. Usually the desk is higher up because it's like a standing desk. Okay, well, I think it's about time that we should wrap this up. I think this went pretty well. This went better than I expected for our first remote podcast. So I want to thank everyone for

joining me. I want to thank everyone for supporting us for 17 years, even if you haven't been here for 17 years. And again, a big thank you to our first members for continuing to support us. And we'll see you guys again next week. Can I use the lead camera next week? Sure. No, this is it. I would agree. Do you like apples? Describe the show to a newcomer in a more familiar way. Do you like apples?

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