Rooster Teeth Podcast - Rooster Teeth Podcast #129

Episode Date: August 31, 2011

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Twisted metal, streaming now, only on Peacock. Hello and welcome to the Drunk Tank Podcast, made by Rooster Teeth. Our totally awesome overlords of justice. Like, you should all be bowing down to them and giving them lots of money and stuff. For reals? That dude, Gus Arola beat the man from Mexico la, he's the one who makes this podcast run. And Jeff laser Ramsey is totally awesome I said totally awesome to to to totally awesome yes. Now there's Bernie Burns also known as Church, and he is the one who creates red versus the blues and hates Winhorses crib all up in his grill on his car, I mean. Yo, and then there's Jack Pitt's Smello.

He is Jack. So yeah, this is the podcast. Enjoy. Brought to you by Stephen Hawking. I love when people discover the text-to-speech function on their computer for the first time They're like, I know what I should do make a podcast intro We discovered that what in season two and we used to hell Yeah, we're just a guilty of anyone else as abusing that the thing I learned from that is that you are from a beverage called Mexicola. Yes, is that what I heard on that?

Mexicola. It sounds refreshing. It does. It gives you the right. Oh boy. Before we're going further. Yes. I want to get any interest in people.

Let's do that. Who are you? My name is Marshall River. Who are you? I am Miles Luna. Matt Hollum. And I'm Gus Cirola. I think I only missed one podcast out of all the ones we've done. Really?

That was the you were at a town, right? Yeah, and Griffin was doing it, right? Out of 129. You know, I don't fucking like Lou Gehrig of the podcasting world over here. I don't have to go that. Well, Lou Gehrig never missed a game ever and he had a horrible disease. And they might even have disease after that. That's the name of Sarola disease.

That one that I missed. That just be your jerk. It's my saving grace We get the wrong lineup though after say you think so well just because we figured out last night That we have doppelgangers in the office. Yeah, so Marshall and I are doppelgangers. Yeah, I can totally see that someone at fan xbo asked me because cost playing as Matt holum That's really funny yeah and you said yes I said no I am Matt holm that's all those strange signatures of mine came from on the DVDs on eBay hopefully you're carrying a couple coffee with you all weekend yeah yeah I feel I'm starting off the day wrong because this coffee was made by Chris and Chris it's like

he just opens up a car battery and pours out whatever is in there in a coffee maker I don't think he has any idea. It's like to make coffee. It's like he's seen pictures of coffee I saw he's never actually drank a coffee. I I saw like Cara saw him making the coffee and she started crying You know it's bad. Yeah, but so Marshall I or doppelgangers and We discovered from fan exppo that Miles and Bernie are just about anybody with a beard. I want you to know that Marshall and I could have taken your identities and just gone to town with them.

We got recognized as Joel, Matt, Jack, Bernie. Who got recognized as Jack? This guy over here is Marshall. Some kid goes, are you Jack? And then I said, as soon as I get back to Austin, I'm going on a diet and I am chasing my beard. I see you still have the beard, though. Yeah.

Had you brought tequitos for everyone? I guess I'm not a dying kid. Yeah, on the way. Do I have a double-rigor? Yes, well here's what we figured out. So, Marshall's me, Miles Bernie. Chris is obviously Joel. We've used him as a dude in Joel several times. So Marshall's me Miles Bernie Chris is obviously Joel we used to

do this in Joel several times and Brandon is you no That's racist you're just making a minority The double-gatherer is every time you go right racist said comes in and goes I guess I get to be Monty Racist I was actually mistaken for Bernie racist. I was actually mistaken for Bernie. That's what? That's a pack. I was. But the dude seen I dog not being able to see. It was a yeah that was that was a first to be sure.

Well, I you know I punched that person in the face and then he apologized the most. Well, I brought you guys in to, I'm putting it at Marshall and Miles. To the Miles. Yeah, Marshall Miles and Matt. Matt, three in. I brought you guys in to talk about FanExpo. And I brought Matt in with me to talk about Pax and Halo Fest.

This is, I think this is the 10th Pax we've been to, counting the Pax East, the east the packs all the packs is Wow total two in the east eight out in Seattle Man, and this is I'm exhausted just think about that. I think this was our third or fourth fan Expo Not in a row though, right. Yeah, we that was pointed out several times throughout the throughout the fan Expo Hey, where were you guys last year? Busy we were here. Where were you? That's the correct response.

That could have been, I mean, people would have believed it with our placement at FanEx pro this year. Like that would have been, we had to put up, we had to put up a little cardboard signs all around, uh, all around the convention center. So people could find us because the good people over at Sony, very good people thought it would be a wonderful idea to build a giant uncharted three,

uh, crash site in the middle of the convention floor. And they, which honestly, it is a good idea. It was a wonderful idea to build a giant uncharted 3 crash site in the middle of the convention floor. Which honestly, it is a good idea. It was great idea. There was people all over the place. It is marketing for Sony. But it just so happened now. It was an end to this story.

It's my buddy. It just so happened that they erected a giant wall directly in front of our booth. I don't know. Two story, two and a half stories high, three stories high. And we were the only booth setup on that little row. So it was like this dark alleyway. Like there were little, you know, British kids wearing hoodies, like just waiting to like rob people. And the guy that was setting up the Sony thing was like, oh guys we're so sorry. We thought we were going to be up against a wall. So we, you know, we had this giant backdrop. We, you know, we apologize. We'll give you some free games. Never saw the free games. Oh, yeah

You get like the original crash band And we had these in the trunk of our car and you know me being the the nice guy and I'm like, okay Whatever, you know that you know, sorry. That's whatever. That's fine. That's fine And then and then they start putting up this giant playstation logo on the back of their wall And I'm like, okay, wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait You said you're gonna be against a wall, right? Well, yeah, yeah, okay, so you guys were we're planning to Advertise against the wall like it makes no sense They're gonna market to the wall

It was a business to wall event Making those because important contact we didn't have much better placement at at packs. No, we didn't have a giant wall, but We had a wall of booth babes. We had an energy drink company right across from us and they They were wearing really short skirts dresses. I don't know what to call them and they had They had a Barker. I want to say we're like the car say were like there's always a cartoon character like you know Yogi bear or somebody's like doesn't have pants you know it's like they were those cartoons yeah yeah their dresses ended at the collar like Yogi bearer's collar with this time you all sounds way better than our world but the

problem is they I mean that was great no but they had a Barker who was like this over the hill Juiced up steroid guy who had like giant biceps and triceps and look like he could crush a can but he also had like his big gut as well And he had like a microphone and a loud speaker and the loud speaker like this amp was pointed directly at our booth like where we were sitting and He was you know doing that stupid radio voice, like, come to our booth, we have the hottest girls in the event. Blah blah blah. Monday Monday, Monday, hot,

babe, you should do it. You're pretty good at it. Oh, yeah. Marshall, I could have a morning show. Yeah, yeah. We just need a whole bunch of really bad, like sound effects. Okay, J 99.9, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, I'm coming at you live! Double M! K! When I put it in the... Oh, this is an awful show You don't even need real words, you just... Just make noises? Yeah, noises and then like you need the classic like, rate like the...

A brine for a family guy, I think slides in there But yeah, brine for a... Oh man, I'm not, I'm never gonna do this... What are you talking about? We have to do radiation. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr into that. I did that first. You know that annoying 20 second intro that everyone hates? That was me. 20 second. You're being caught in that. It's like fucking 90 second. I need to find your radio station. You're really good at that. I think I'm gonna quit the podcast. I'm gonna give it over to miles now. Next I'll start moving it on on achievement. What's up, everybody? It's Jack. Yeah, for my job. I think my was gonna take over everyone's job. Here you should be

drinking that coffee. Yeah, I handed over Hannah with's job. You should be drinking that coffee. Yeah, I handed over Hannah with a coffee. You really don't want that. No, I'm not waiting for this Chris coffee. I'll take it back. Yeah, so the guy was just yelling, like I had a headache from seeing and listening to this guy. He was acting like he was a strip club DJ.

He's like, we've got the hottest girls in the expo. They're falling out of their dresses. I was like, really? This is how you're marketing your product. There was a girl who's even named Candy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You was like, oh, next on the main stage, Candy. It was like, what?

What, the main stage. I'm pretty convinced. It's just a hallway. I'm pretty convinced that marketing is the most despicable, respectful occupation. Yeah, pretty much. And aren't you a marketing major? I do have a marketing degree. So that explains a lot. And communications or something? Marketing and film. Film. Okay. Oh, look at you. Yeah. Maybe it's the worst part of having that booth next to ours

is that we were constantly out of change, you know, making same actions because everybody wanted one dollar bills. Oh, okay, I see what's going on. Well, a funny story about Canada, right, actually. They don't have ones. So apparently the strippers get paid a whole lot more because the lowest bill they have is only five. You can't do that with dollar coins. Yeah, they have dollar coins too. And they have two dollar coins.

That's American, and I would just throw quarters at them. Two furs and fufurs. No, no. They're called loonies and two loonies, which I thought would be hysterical. You think maybe to get around it, like they would have invented some kind of G-string, like that little change making the vibes. You can just like put the dollar in two dollar coins in it. So my first thought was they cover the strippers in like maple syrup and then everybody just

like throws hands at the end and then at the end they just scrape them all off in a bucket and see, you know, how they've been killing it. They made that nice. Man, it's disgusting. Have you been looking through my internet history? Like, how would you know that? I mean, it's a little in call for. You know how they've been killing that they made that nice. That's disgusting. Have you been looking through my internet history? Like how would you know that? I mean it's a little in call for So what you could they call them loonies and two loonies and two knees? Why did they call the ones loonies? I don't know man. I never I never like understand why

Candida has different names for things because it's like it's right It's not like we're a continent away. Yeah, we're right there And the first time I noticed is when we went to a fan expo and we were selling what we call beanies. Oh, yeah, they call them two, two. Which I thought was an ethnic slur. Yeah, yeah, it sounds really bad. It sounds really bad.

They kept saying, do you have any tukes A or, you know, what about the tukes, you know? And I was like, is there the tukes, eh? And I was like, how could not figure out what they were talking about? And it does sound like an insult, there's something. I mean, after a while, you know, you guys like, put it on, it's like, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, you got to go to the washroom. The washroom, yeah? The washroom, yeah. And your nap sack? Oh yeah, my nap sack. What I do in there wouldn't be considered washing. Let me tell you. Oh my God.

That's their idea of washing. They're fucking dirty people. I will say though, I've spent about 24 years in my life making fun of Canada. Just because we live in America, that's what you're supposed to do. Right. It's American, too. And then the second I went over there,

I was kind of like looking around, waiting for something to make fun of. And it's just, it's kind of perfect. Yeah, it was really depressing. It was really frustrating. As American nowadays going on all these trips, we've been to Australia and England and Canada and like all the other major English speaking countries, New Zealand.

And it's like every place you go, it's like, this place is totally bad. Why can't America be exactly like this? And when I was in Australia, I thought it was so funny because they complain about things like oh man you take the subway but you know you get to the beach and it takes you two whole minutes. Can you believe it two minutes? I'm like are you crazy? I can't go anywhere in two minutes. I was that our biggest complaint about Canada was that we couldn't find a trash can because everything

there is recycling and it's like that kind of makes you feel bad. I just want to throw away all my crap. I'm just sorry. We reuse and recycle just throw your trash in the recycling. If anyone says anything just claim diplomatic community. I mean, I honestly if somebody would be like, I can't find a really smoggy car. I want a car that produces a lot of pollution. All these cars don't produce enough pollution.

I'm an American. I haven't polluted in 30 minutes. You want to throw a washroom or something like that? I'm going to drop some nasty pollution in there. See, when all that's filthy, just go for the poop jokes. Classic guy, yes, you're a classy guy. It's golden. Is this your first time in Canada, Marshall?

This was my first time in Canada. This is your first time anywhere in the Netherlands. Well, yeah, no. He hasn't flown since pre-9-11. Yeah, the last time I was on a plane was in 1999. How old were you, like, to? I was like nine and and what is two-year-old milestone like doing the radio voice. Let's up guys. It sounds like Vic. You're doing it. Doing the radio voice dude. He's taking everyone's job to

do. No wonder you're Brandon's next. So you haven't been anywhere. No, I was like I felt like such an asshole at the airfield. You should've seen him in the plane. Everything was so exciting to me. Like, the guy was like, OK, we're about to take off here, go into a candidate, so I strap in. And here we go. And I'm like, Marshall, Marshall, the plane's about to go.

The plane's about to go. Move over, move over. We're in the air. We are in the air. We are in the sky it was it was just like I don't know Look it was it was amazing and then on the trip back I was just like okay this is I've gotten enough of this already You were like a fucking season better They get jaded so quickly notice how many how many conventions did we do Gus? Before we had anybody else helping us out. Oh, man

It's like dozens and dozens right it might have been that one that they just went to No seriously a does we probably went through like three summers of Events before we pull someone on the help for the first time. Yeah, so what's it? What does your guys first convention to? Mm-hmm? Mm-hmm, and what was that experience like just on the hole? I first off well first of all before you start What were you expecting like what did it meet your expectations? Or how was that experience like just on the whole I first off well first off before you start What were you expected like what did it meet your expectations or how was that different? Okay, well fan I suppose cool because there's like five different Categories of things up there. Yeah, so it's not the types of people there and the types of booth are not all the same

Yeah, so I feel like if I were at I mean many other conventions after like half a day I'd be like okay, I kind of get it, you know? But this is really cool. You can walk around and there's just like all sorts of crazy everything, everything anything you can imagine. Yeah, because they have like a sci-fi, sci-fi, comedy, comics, gaming,

gaming, or was it, or I thought that was a, like, that one seemed kind of out of place with all the other ones. It was like, oh yeah, internet games, oh yeah, anime. And then it was like, here's some zombies and like bloody stuff and really creepy peaches. Yeah, I was pretty much what I expected. A lot of awesome cosplay and there was a lot of cosplay there. There was a lot of cosplay there. There was a paper Mario.

There was a paper Mario and paper Princess Peach. It was just cardboard cutouts that they were fine. I thought that was clever. That's really funny. And what else do we see? We saw what was your favorite thing that you saw? I think because I didn't expect to see it at all. It was Jesus with a rocket launcher It was just like that wasn't probably it was just Jesus with a rocket launcher There was no context for it now. He's just walk around. It's going to be with you man

With an enormous like eight-foot rocket launcher in his hands The favorite thing that I saw it was actually at the the just dance booth Miles do you care to elaborate what about the just dance booth miles do you care to elaborate what about the just dance mood there was a certain young gentleman there who showed off some dance moves for about four minutes straight by himself as all the all the ladies watched on we didn't send Chris up there okay so we're talking about how PlayStation had this huge enormous like wall in front of us no one could find us and before we had the brilliant idea just to put up cardboard signs we were talking about how PlayStation had this huge, enormous wall in front of us, no one could find us. And before we had the brilliant idea

just to put up cardboard signs, we were sitting around thinking, okay, what are people like? Yeah, how can we get people's attention? And we'd been listening to the same three songs over and over again at the Just Dance booth. And I kind of half jokingly, I was like, hey, we should totally send someone over there, decked out in RVB gear, and just have them dance

and then just shamelessly plug the booth. And I was like, yeah, that sounds great So yeah, so that's how that's how I ended up on the just dance stage You thought you're gonna be stage my My give it up for miles He was he was loonies and two feet Throw your two judges, fellas. I see what it was was I I went over to the booth babes and I asked them, I was like, hey, so is it cool? Are you guys still doing dances? And they're like, well, we've pretty much done all we wanted to do today, but we are trying out this new dance mode called

created dance. And essentially, it's like, like the rules are, it's like, you dance a few moves, and then another team comes in and tries to copy your moves. And I was like, okay, well, yeah, I could do that. And so I put on like a Red versus Blue Hat and went over there and I had my RVB Converse on. And you thought it was gonna be just for like a course. I thought it was gonna be like a course or something. Like I do a few moves and then they come in

and they do a few moves and right before they started up, I was like, okay, so when does the other team come on? They're like, when you're done dancing, like, yeah, I know, but I mean like is it two eight counts? What they go, no, you have to dance the whole song. And then you come in. So you have to make up a dance for the entire I make up a four minute long dance and I knew maybe like I have okay so here's the thing the song I danced to was that party rock anthem by LMFAO

that's like always on the radio I have like maybe five dance moves in my arsenal of dance moves that would be considered appropriate for that song and only one of them's good the Roger I bet the the running man the running man. The running man. And so I knew like maybe like 15 to 30 seconds of material. And the rest of it, I just had to make up on the spot. And I've never been more scared to be judged by a room full of like cosplayers. And like, it was just like, it was horrifying.

But it was a lot of fun. And let's go to the video tape. It's all over the universe. Yeah, we's all over the best dance move though was there was one part where he's going he's dancing around He's jumping up and down he grabs hat and he tosses it to like this little kid on the side and It was adorable, but then by six later you're like Come on, give my hat that is not true. He's reaching over like trying to grab the hat. He didn't ask me if I wanted my hat back. And I was like, sure, a adorable kid. I thought it was going to be like that. Coke commercial.

He was like, hey, kid. But we're only hearing a song. So it just looks like he's trying to take his hat back. This kid, this kid, it's got to toss his back in hat. So the girls that are dancing after him were extremely cutie. So they're dancing. They're doing all their moves.

And then it comes to the part of the song, where they toss their hat. And then they're doing this dance move that they're trying to like get the hat back. So they're like trying to make it into like a dance move with some sort and it was really bizarre strange It was fun I'm sure we'll put the video in the link down for those of you who are curious to see it It's funny just because I was thinking like the first time anybody like knew who I was was a first RTX and the people the reason that

They knew me was because I sang the Pokemon theme song. So I was like, I was like, I was a monster. I was the Pokemon guy. Miles the Pokemon. And now this time, it's not, I'm not Miles the Roozy Teeth. I'm the guy that danced at Just Dance and dropped my hat and it was, I don't know, I got asked to do that dance at the panel the next day. They tweeted it. They tweeted about it.

Yeah, Ubisoft Canada actually tweeted about it and apparently have a hashtag called Just Dance Miles. So if you guys are just, a hashtag called Just Dance Miles. So if you guys are just saying, hashtag Just Dance Miles. I have a hashtag. No wonder since he's been back he's been walking around the office going, you know, I'm being Canada. That explains it.

I understand now. I guess, I think we skipped a step here. We didn't actually tell people what those guys do here at the company. Oh, yeah. Clearly we just said, OK, guess when we were doing Q&A's they didn't actually tell people what those guys do here at the company. Oh yeah, clearly we just said, okay, yes, when we were doing Q&A's they didn't understand. To be honest, I'm looking forward to finding out myself. That's really why I'm asking.

Let's open to find out. It's like when you meet someone you don't remember, you went to do some to your friend and you find out their name like that. Oh my god, I'm not that good. Yeah, I'm introducing them to the audience. I'll remember them. So, what do you guys do here? Well, I have been doing live action shorts and such for, I'm almost coming up on a year

now actually guys. Yeah, so, well if we go back to before you were full time, you'd be totally ready. That's sure, yeah, yeah. So I do a bunch of the camera work and lighting and kind of the aesthetics of a bunch of that stuff. Work a little bit on the reds and the blues, but not excessively, and that's pretty much it. When we did video podcasts, you were also our cinematographer.

I was, I was heading up the video podcast. Good job. I do a lot of the machinima for Red versus Blue, so I work a lot with Carrie and Brandon and Bernie. And I do a lot of like the post-production stuff, like editing and taking the dialogue. And I'll sit in on the occasional writers meeting, and then it's pretty much anything

that anybody wants me to do. I have like a million bosses in this building. But I write some too. Yeah, you do write. Yeah, you write. I write. Shit, I wasn't paying attention. But do you dance?

I don't, I don't paid attention. But do you dance? I don't I don't. Point Luna. So yeah. Um and you Matt and point looking at Matt now. Yeah. Um you came up to packs just for a day for our table read. That was this was the most exhausting trip for me. You've been you've been like at work non-stop. I've been yeah we've been working like pretty much around the clock. And if you saw episode 10 of Red versus Blue, you know why everyone's been working around the clock. And so on Saturday night, Joel and I got on a flight to Seattle for PAX.

We had to be there on Sunday for a table read. We were doing it Halo Fest. We were reading, during a live stage reading of a new Red versus Blue series that we're doing for Waypoint. That was a very cool experience, which we can talk about more, but we get on this flight, you know Saturday night after we've been working all day, we're both kind of destroyed already, you know, and then we had problems with the flight and had problems. We got there, we didn't have a rental car or anything, and we got a hurts and a long line. The guy gets up there is like, have you seen the honey badger video?

Yeah, honey badger, that's cool. Honey badger's like, ooh, that's nasty. That guy, he was like the guy from that video. It's like, what kind of cod do you want? And we're like, you know, whatever. He's like, toilet to Camry. We're like, yeah, toilet to Camry, that's fine. No, Camry's nasty.

Oh, you're a little Camry. And I was like, okay, well whatever man, That's fine. No, camera is nice Camry and I was like okay, well whatever man, you know, G Patriot. I got a G Patriot and it's like I don't got no G Patriot And it's like it's just like 40 minutes just to get that finally we get that we get away we got to the hotel that was okay and Then the next day was like just non-stop because we had the, we had our usual location of the booth at PAX. But then we also had Halo Fest that we had to go to. So we were running back and forth

and it seemed like no matter where we were, there were people coming up going, hey, I was waiting for you for a tour and the other place was like, that's the best. For a while, we had like a table read and then we were like signing at Halo Fest and signing at our booth at PA at packs proper at the same time So we had like two lines of people going on and people would get in one line

They're like oh I thought Bernie was here. No Bernie's at the other place got over there across the street So it was it was it was a lot of running around. It was a lot of running around but um It was it was fun. I guess to be there for the 15 minutes that it felt like I was there Yeah, so rushed and crazy. But the big event for that was doing the live table read. That was just a lot of fun. Yeah, I'll link that in the link that I get has a full thing on their website. Yeah, cool. Man. It was first time we'd ever done anything like that. And now there's a earthquake happening here. Blood Gold Truth Quakes.

It was weird. I saw I almost saw a fight breath out at the Megast64 panel. Like a towel? Oh, man, that was a crazy story. There, I'd never been to a Megast64 panel, and their panel was after the haul closed. I was like, oh, okay, cool. I'm gonna run over there and check it out. So I went to their panel,

and you know those guys love uncomfortable situation. That's like, that's like their fucking bread and butter. So any, they did their panel, they were showing videos and they opened up Florida, Q and A and they had two microphones set up. And Garrett was at one microphone and Eric was at another one. And they were filming the people who were asking questions.

So like, let's say, Matt's at the microphone and I'm either Garrett or Eric. And they're just like, like in their face. Yeah, like a 5D, like filming them like this, this like super tight if you've seen some of their other videos there They can imagine videos you see you see them doing this a lot, huh? And This one dude was kind of big gets up to the microphone He must have been he was taller than me. He was so much of it like six five maybe six six. He's like a thick dude not like

super cut but like big and He gets up to the microphone and is like, in your Batman Arkham City video, do you, and he starts looking at the camera? He's like, he's really aware of this camera in his face and he's like, can you not film me? And of course, like that just hits air goff air. Just like locked into position, not moving. moving and he's just like don't film me Don't film the breath. Yeah, it's like it was kind of like uncomfortable. No seriously. Don't film me Dude don't film me and then everyone's kind of laughing like oh, this is a bit you know

It's being funny then he's like no seriously get the camera out of my face Seriously dude back off you start yelling that Eric's like back off and he starts doing this number. We's like Like acting like he's gonna hit him. And Eric's not moving. Eric just like gets in the air. He's like, planted in this guy's face. He's like, back off, dude. And he's like, I don't know. It's like watching a wild animal. Like, acting like he's gonna charge. And it was really funny because we thought it was a bit. Then he got super awkward. Then he went on for so long. He got fucking funny. He got fucking funny. And, and someone in the crowd, I admit I'm making 64 reference in the yield.

You want me to fight him? I fought guys like this before. And everyone starts laughing again. And then the guy at the microphone was like, I just feel like such an idiot. Like everyone's laughing at me. And then Rock goes like, no, no, no, no, no, we're all friends. We're all friends. Eric, come back to the stage. Eric, come back to the stage. Eric, Eric, Eric, Eric, Eric, Eric've been rocked. I was like, no, no, no, no, we're all friends. We're all friends. Eric come back to the stage. Eric come back to the stage. Eric, as I try to call Eric off.

And then finally gets Eric to come back and the guy asks his question and the answer is question. He goes back down to his seat. And I couldn't see him because he was seated behind me, but some of Kerry's friends were seated by the sky. They said that he sat down and then all of a sudden we're like, let's start flailing his fish around the round high The cool tension they got up and lift the hall It was so fucking comfortable. This guys aren't big on boundaries

It was awesome Probably the best panel I ever been to And I had a weird experience at the airport too in Dallas like you fly out of Austin you got to connect somewhere no matter where you go. And I went up to we connected in Dallas. I was kind of hungry so I grabbed something to eat and I sat down and I was sitting with Michael and Carrie and we was kind of like a long shared bench that a bunch of tables were pushed up against.

So I was sitting down and there was a woman sitting next to me but she was at a different table. So she sat in there with her husband or whatever. And I can see our gate off to my left. So we're eating and I hear that we start boarding and I look over at our gate and I can see that they're letting the elite passengers on. So I turn to... That's when I get on. I used to get on. So I turn to my phone and carry and go, hey, the plane's boarding. And as soon as I say that, the woman next to me goes, they're not boarding. And I look at her and I have this fucking puzzle look on my face and I look back at the gate

And they're obviously boarding and I look at her again that she looks at me and she looks at her husband It's okay, they're boarding now. I was like what? It was so fucking weird. It's like she butted into my conversation To give misinformation for no reason and then It's like, who should butt it into my conversation to give this information for no reason. And then it's like correct it herself. That's Dallas. Yeah, speaking of uncomfortable situations. Exactly.

Well, my most uncomfortable situation on the, as far as flying was that Bernie Stoll, the last first class seat, which is so Bernie, we're like, you know, it it's like, we're totally destroyed and it's super late. Oh, it's just coming back from past. This is coming back to have red eye, you know. And the plane was late taking off for whatever reason. Yeah, you all took off like a midnight. We took off a midnight, you know. By the way, you know, like you try to sleep on the plane because we're back at work Monday

morning. Fly, you know, fly over night. Yeah, you fly out of Seattle like at midnight come back to Austin like at 70 on wood. It's a time to, yeah, it's a 70 and when you get back. So, um, so, Joel and I were like, they had come in one car and Bernie came in another and we hadn't seen him and we were like just kind of like laying there trying to stay awake and they'd made that like announcement like you know we're not releasing anymore seats right now but you know all that you know when we are we're like okay gotta stay awake you know see if we can upgrade the first class you know so we can get a few hours of sleep before we're back at work and uh... and I was like if you seem burnt now I guess there's not here yet or whatever it's like well good thing plane flight and course, I try to keep my eyes open.

And I drift off. And I hear blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, on the intercom. What is that? Is something I gotta wake up? I know, wake up. And I just see this blur. Go right past me. What was that?

It was a tornado. What's going on? And I look up and Burnie is the first in line. I was getting the first glass statement. It it's like oh, there was only one left Sorry guys, and he walks off. So he's all come fiend first class and I'm just I got stuck next to Some guy who was all elbows back in coach. I get no sleep and

I get back here and come into work and Bernie like comes in. He's like all stretching like, whoa, that was a good guy. He's like, oh, man, I think I'm going to hit the hay for a few more hours and you can just take care of everything. I'll see you later. Nice. Yeah, I've given up on the red. I precisely for like that reason. You think like, oh, you know, I'll be able to sleep. I'll get back in.

I'll start working 18 every day. No, you're so fucking tough. You're just like a zombie. Yeah you are less than half a person that day that you come back. I'm already less than half a person. So you're like a quarter person. Yeah. Yeah that's a it was a it was a whirlwind trip for you. It was a whirlwind trip. I got set next to some interesting characters on the on the flights there and back. On the way there uh I ended up sitting next to a guy who turned out to be the lead singer of the spinners uh which is like they're like uh some oldschool like. Oh, yeah, like from the platters and all that kind of era. Yeah, like, you know, Boogie Wonderland type kind of stuff. And, you know, we kind of

started talking while we were coming into Canada and I told, you know, he told me he's like, oh, yeah, I'm from spinners. And like, he could tell like, he kept telling me he's like, trust me, we're a big deal. We're a big deal. I was like okay cool. He's a really nice guy But like he had to interrupt every story with and you probably I mean I'm sure you've heard our songs, but because we're pretty big And I was like okay, yeah sure did you sure and and then I thought he's like so what do you want to do kid? I was like well, I'm I make funny videos for the internet and he's like oh that's cool man. It's cool I was like yeah, I'm studying film. I'm in my last semester of college at UT. He says, oh okay, so you're doing film? Oh okay, so you want to be like a director. I'm like, well, I mean not really, I mean, I'm pretty happy what

I'm doing right now. I was like, all right, but you're going to be getting Academy Awards one day. I'm like, I mean, a lot of people, yeah, they kind of want to do that, but for me, it's, I mean, not really. And then he proceeded to like, talk to me for the next like 20 minutes about what I need to do in order to get an academy. Well, I hope you'd listen to him. I'm first time experienced because he's kind of a big deal. He's, I mean, he's pretty big. You've probably heard of him. You know, but no, he was actually, he was a really, really nice guy.

And then on the plane right back, I thought I was going to get a seat to myself and then they sat like, oh, you look like a pilot of one of the other plans that he was just coming into Austin. And he just, he's always like, hey, man, if you just give me the window seat, I'm just going to crash out. I'm just gonna crash out I'm gonna be straight up honest with you. I'm like, um, sure. I mean, I guess like, you know, I'm trying to be polite and stuff And he then takes up like as much like elbow room and all the things possible What would you trade a middle seat for a window seat? I know I wanted the windows because I wanted to lean against up the window

And just like fallacy. I was exhausted, but you had a window. I had a window. You gave it to him What seat did you get when you gave him the window seat? I'll see. I'll see. I'll tell him. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. I thought if you traded for a middle, you're fucking You know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no guess like flying over for whatever reason and she is texting and playing on her iPad the entire time. Well, it's like, please turn off electronic devices. And I'm sitting there and I'm like trying to give her eyes, but I don't want to like come off as that guy, you know, and it's just uncomfortable because it's like, hey, you're the one making the rules, right?

Yeah, yeah. What's going on? When I was taxing on my flight leaving Seattle, like we were taxing moving game ready to take off. I heard a phone ring and it had like that classic ring sound like the bell Like the ring ring ring ring ring, you know what you expect and I was like What the fuck Like it's just that's just insulting the pilot though

He really had me a little concern when we were coming back in cuz like there's a bit of turbulence There was a bit of turbulence I wasn't really like I didn't mind flying a game a bit of headache, but I wasn't like oh god We're gonna die every time the plane shakes But what he did kept doing was once he woke up we were coming into Austin and we were hitting turbulence and every time We would do that he would kind of lean out and he would look out the plane and like we could see like the wing And he it looked like he was just inspecting the wing and every now and then he would give this like it wasn't a very reassuring Look like you're gonna shake his head It doesn't look good. It does not good. We get a lot of turbulence coming into the Austin airport

Just because it's so hot during summer and then you get like the hot air rising't work out. We get a lot of turbulence coming into the Austin Airport just because it's so hot during summer and then you get like the hot air rising and it creates a lot of turbulence coming for a landing. One time I was seated at the wind. I think I've told the start and the podcast before. Jeff and I had an early morning flight at a South Carolina coming back to Texas and we looked out at the wind before we took off and looked like the wing had like gaffers and electrical tape around it. it like around the whole thing

holding it by the side and it was just like, it was just so tired like fuck it. But yeah, I mean we've we've all definitely been there. I wanted to say something else. I know last week when I posted the podcast on the front page I asked people if they prefer longer or shorter format. This has been kind of playing with doing something a little shorter and that I don't know if it's not that you've posted over 1200 comments on it. Jesus. Overwhelmingly people want the longer one. So what does that mean? We're stuck here for...

It means we're doing it. It means we're doing a short one. We're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we a short one. We're gonna we'll return to longer for them in a couple weeks. We'll probably have a short We're gonna have a short one this week. We'll probably have a short one next week But the week after that will most likely return to the long hour and a half format. I'm really surprised. I thought Reducing the length of time would make it more accessible and people would like that more. Yeah people hate it It's kind of like for film. It's like three minute videos, five minute videos are great. Two hour long videos are great. You know, we call them movies. Anywhere in between.

In the business. It's just like what do you do with a 40 minute movie. Yeah. Get out of your asshole. Oh, that's a spin of the guy says. Get me an asshole. You know what I'm doing? Go make an academy award. Man, you know the the the con thing that reminds me, and I know we probably talked about this in the past too, but I don't know how much of this a taste of this you

guys got at your first con, but it's always just a funny experience to see all these older stars who are I don't want to say has been, you know, but they're just like not in the limelight. Yeah, currently, so they have time to go to a lot of conventions you know and up you know I mean we're there too so I mean I'm not like there's not like it's not an insult. Not an insult. But like I remember that like one of the first times we were at Comic Con we had an autograph signing table and the cast from Superman 2 was at the autographs so they were using the

table before us. And I was like, wow, first I was like, wow, that's really cool. But then they wouldn't leave. And we had this big line that was waiting for us. And I had to get back someplace. Everybody had stuff to do. And it's like, man, they just weren't going. And then they looked up and they were like,

but we had this big line. We can't leave now. And it's like, I felt that genuinely the bad bad because like everyone the line had a red versus blue DVD I couldn't say Um, they're not here for you. Yeah, like their purposes had to go up and yeah, and but then Margo Kitter The who played low slane. Mm-hmm. She was a spherical and she she gets up and she's like She's kind of like like older hippie kind of vibe to her and she's like What are you guys doing here? What's all this stuff? What are these DVDs and all this jazz you guys got going on

And we're like oh, you know, just this little web show and you know, you know, we're just in here at Comic Con for the first time It's kind of fun. She's like that's great great. Now, once you get there and you go get them. And by swear to God, she pulls a 10-speed bike out of nowhere. She gets on it, rings the bell, bring, bring, and rides away through the convention center, through Comic Con. Yeah. The only way it would have been more perfect is if she was like jumping on a giant cigar at the same time. That same year, like, I had one of, I thought one of the saddest things ever, that same year. I think when we were walking up to that signing, we passed by a booth that was manned by Virgil.

The old wrestler. Oh, God. And, uh, he was like the million dollar man sidekick back in, like what, the late 80s, early 90s. So Virgil standing there, and he's got his big science as, you know, wrestling superstar Virgil. And there's no line. He's just kind of standing there. And this one guy's walking by big science as you know wrestling superstar virtual and there's no line He's just kind of standing there and this one guy's walking by and kind of like does a double-taken stops and walks up to Virgil and goes

Like points a finger at him goes I remember you you used to be famous That's hard break we got asked in our booth is anyone famous gonna be here. Oh, yeah, I can't look! Oh, who's that? That's hard for me. We got asked in our booth, is anyone famous gonna be here? Oh yeah, that was... Kathleen got that question, you know? What was so awkward? And you said, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.

I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.

I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. And nothing, you know? And then they're like, oh, I just spent $80 getting William Shatter's signature. And you're like, what? It's a pen on a paper, like $80? I feel really guilty,

charging for my signature. I couldn't do that. I started playing a fun game. I was like, I would feel bad. The other part of that story is that it just shows like the niceness of Canadians and people in Toronto. Because that's what I remember from being there. It's like everybody's super nice. Like they ask you, do I need pay for your...

There's people that gave us change back that we forgot to ask for change and stuff like that. Yeah, they're incredibly nice. And then like the worst you know, cons you go to like they say nothing other than where's your free stuff? What can I have it's free? Yeah, free stuff. Wow. Yeah, for sure I was gonna say something. What was it? I don't remember something about autographs. Oh, yeah, no Did you see my autograph? Oh, injury? What is that my journal? So I was so busy like signing and

You know opening DVDs or whatever and shaking hands and stuff. I have like an actual injury. Like I got a blister on my thumb. Wow. I've never had that before. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah. I remember what I was going to say. I started playing a fun game. This event because normally it's like well, you know, we said a lot of stuff and we'll sign it for people. But sometimes people will bring us things that have already been signed by other people at other booths. So when I get an item like that, I go, oh, awesome, man. Who's that? And I point out a signature. And I was like, I don't know. Oh, okay, cool. Who's that?

I don't remember. Oh, okay, cool. Who's that? There's no idea who any of the signatures are. I saw that. I would be asking people, it's like, okay, do you want the poster? As is or do you want it signed? And then they would just go, yeah, I guess I want it signed. And I'm just thinking, do you know any of the people here? Yeah, what would you do?

Yeah, yeah. I think lots of times they just, they see other people getting things signed, and they just want to get something signed too. They just will be worth something on eBay. Yeah. Make it up to my friend eBay. Okay, well, it's popular name today. Well, we should popular name today.

We should wrap things up. I don't want to go too long. I know you guys are really busy. So overall, great, positive experience this past weekend at FanExpo and Pax. And Halo Fest. And Halo Fest. I mean, I feel like those two were hand in hand pretty much. Yeah, but great, great events.

Yeah. I'm sure we'll be talking more about it. We'll link the table read and and some of the others Miles just dance miles. I'm never gonna be able to be away from that I'm gonna get some silly behind the scenes Yeah, we have some great videos from our hotel at least you weren't in a blonde wig With like a tie tied off shirt. It's a good point short shorts. Well, at least I'm just getting started here So they still love time. I was just glad for you that the hashtag wasn't just give me my god damn hat.

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