Rooster Teeth Podcast - Jillass: The All Female Jackass - #614

Episode Date: September 15, 2020

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I think about that. If you were going to name a company after yourself, there's companies that have, there are just people's names. What if I had like Gus Coco or Cerrola Co. Why not? Do it. It just sounds so weird. Like until, like, you say it over and over and it becomes like embedded in your head,

it just sounds weird saying something like that. Gusco is a place you'd have a membership to, for sure. Yeah, it's going to be very exclusive. You got to be kidding. But you can buy anything in bulk. Everything is just a singular item. Gusco has great hot dogs though. You got me and they're like,

35 cents. No, no, but they have a cafeteria and it's got, or they have like a little concession stand and they're hot dogs. Still 35 cents, still like dirt cheap. They're not foot long, so they're 10 inches. We have to cut quarters, go to shrink them a little concession stand and they're hot. They're still 35 cents still like dirt cheap. They're not foot long. So they're 10 inches. We have to cut quarters. Go to shrink them a little bit just to keep the keep the cost down. But the bun is extra big though. The bun is still really big. You've got to eat a lot of bread to get to. It's too long. That's that like that have like delta

airlines that like saved a billion dollars a year by like cutting one cherry tomato out of the salads or whatever that like, you know, lateral thinking move was that's how you save money is by taking an in shop the foot long hot or two inches of a long hot dog. Speaking of Delta Airlines, I didn't read the whole story. I read something weird about Delta Airlines right? But right literally right before we came on to do the podcast, I headed up on my browser here. So I didn't read the

whole story, but it said something like they were going to take $6.5 billion to try, you know, obviously airlines are hurting right now with, you know, less travel going on, but they were gonna take $6.5 billion out of their frequent flyer program and use it to keep the airline operating for now. It's like, are you just moving money

from one pocket to another? No, how does that work? To keep the airline afloat? What, what's the money spent on in the frequent flyer program? I didn't read all the thing. God damn it. Delta. I don't entirely know what the logistics of that are, but it sounds like just a drag and drop between bank accounts.

Okay. We'll use frequent flyer program to back $6.5 billion in debt. I have this amount of my checking account, this amount of my savings. Let me just pop that over there. But it's like Venmo, it's like, do you want it in three days? That's free. But if you want it right now, that'll be $17 billion. I guess they're going to take that over. That's transaction fee.

Convenient fee. A $6.5 billion loans and use their frequent flyer program as collateral. Oh, okay. Wow. I guess I don't understand how there's actual money, specifically in their frequent flyer program. Well, it's tied up, right? It's like there's potential free flights and things that people can redeem.

So it's like it's potential a hit to their bottom line. So I guess you're right. It's like, it's a negative. They're using a negative to borrow more. It's like, it's a negative. They're using a negative to borrow more. It's not a bonus to them, right? It's like a liability for them. It's stuff that you have to eventually pay out. It's like, we have all this money, we have to pay out eventually. We'll use that to secure a loan. Would that be like me trying to like save my mortgage by giving them my student debt. How does that mean?

Obviously, yes, exactly. Obviously none of us are CFOs. We're working to finance department. I'm probably shouldn't be. No idea how that works. Well, here's the thing. That actually leads me to believe that it's actually not complicated. Everyone is just a fraud.

That's what it makes me believe. It doesn't make me believe that we don't know, like understand business. It makes me think that nobody does and that it's all just witchcraft. And that it's all just makes me.. It doesn't make me believe that we don't know, like, understand business. It makes me think that nobody does, and that it's all just witchcraft. And that it's all just a mix of... Life in general, right? It's like fake it till you make it kind of mentality.

It's like nobody actually knows what we're doing. Or would they're doing it? That's like how Enron and like pyramid schemes and made off and all that stuff happens, right? It's like, you just like, we don't know. They don't know either. Even though people sometimes who are committing fraud don't know that they're't know either. Even though people sometimes who are committing fraud don't know that they're

committing it. Yeah. Exactly. But everyone, but no one wants to sound stupid or accusatory. So no one asks. Yeah, there's that there's that episode of the office where they combine the branches and Stanley keeps asking one of the new people. They want to like one of the new people have been to jail for like financial fraud or something. And Stanley keeps asking the new guy, what do you want to prison for? And then there's like that one-on-one interview with Stanley, he goes, I keep asking him because what do you want to prison for like financial fraud or something and Stanley keeps asking the new guy what he went to prison for and then there's like that one-on-one interview with Stanley because I keep asking him because what he went to prison for sounds like what I do every day at my office. It's such a good line. Oh my

God. But also true. So fucking raccoons. They're back. Oh, we do you got an issue? I got raccoons again. Remember we had that RTAA forever ago about raccoons on my backyard eating my grease trap. They're back and they're hanging out. Is that what the kids call it these days? My wet ass grease trap. That's the day of the restaurant. It's W-A-G-T. They're just hanging out. I had to go out and yell at them. Look at them. Those fat fucks. I mean what they do. Who they I was flashing my lights at them. I was like, that is so cute. That is because of the

resolution. It looks like a painting like it looks like from like Norman Rockwell's after dark series or something. I love the feeling and fade out of all the pictures too. A little storybook. I feel like there should be like an narration courtesy of Gus co.

Okay, here we go. It was a Saturday evening and the raccoons had nowhere to go. Lethargic from lack of food and heat. One of them sat up and exclaimed, we should go eat Gus's grease trap. And then then they decided to decide where it was. Oh, I think they're amazing. I think you should name them.

Do you think if you put up a fake record, do you think it would deter the real living records? No, I mean, look at them. They were hanging out together. Well, I mean, they know them. They were hanging out together. Well, I mean, they know each other that. That's a strange. I don't know. I would, I would think that it would deter cats, but there's cats everywhere around

here now. Well, I think I think it's an issue in that I saw a tweet recently that said that animals, the uncanny valley doesn't work on animals. What is that? They don't get creeped out by something that kind of looks like them, which means that there's something in our, my light broke.

There's something in our own evolution that is like hard-coded in our DNA to be suspicious of stuff that looks kind of like us, but it doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. And that's all like no evidence. It's scary. I don't think so. I mean, I just read it in a tweet.

I, this is not backed by any science that I've read apart from this one tweet, but I thought it was an interesting thought that animals will just hang out next to fake versions of themselves as if they're real. It's such a shame that raccoons are so shitty because they're so cute. And I, they're like adorable. They make fun pets, but they're not pretty cute and I they're like adorable they make fun pets but they're not pretty cute I didn't want that I didn't want them around because I didn't want them to be out there like when I take my dogs out or you know to I don't know dig up my yard because which they are

fucking doing nonstop as well the last hole just make your entire yard zero escape. But then I'm right in my light as I turn to it. Did you say striking while you did it? Because if not, I mean, no, I didn't do it. It's your fault. I'm rusty. Yeah, no, I'm just, I'm just over those fucking raccoons and the cats and all the stupid animals going around my goddamn house. That's like, you need a stuffed raccoon out there like with a pack of cigarettes and like a leather jacket

and like a motorcycle, a real bad boy raccoon and then, you know, they'll be scared off. So we're going around there. That's a good idea. I guess that makes sense. Like when some, they sell like, what are they? Like, almost like fake deer that you can put out to make other deer feel more it is you see those.

Yeah, it's kind of like how they're putting people or like fake people in restaurants to make other people feel better like we talked about before. Yeah, but we have uncanny like we're freaked out by the uncanny valley. So it doesn't quite work for us. We just think it's weird. Yeah, or comforting depending on who you talk to. I think that's ever comforting. It's's weird. Yeah, or comforting, depending on who you talk to. I think that's ever comforting. It's just weird.

That, all the mannequins and all the fucking stupid ass cardboard cutouts at baseball games. Yeah, I wonder like if that actually makes a difference for the players, because that's who it's for, essentially, right? It's for the players to feel like there's an audience there and to play to a crowd. It's, but. I think it might also be for the television viewer.

Yeah, to make it not look so dystopian. To make it not as so much just like. This is better. Can you apply to get yourself in the crowds of games? Can you like send yourself? Yeah, you can do that for the NBA for sure. Yeah, you can like. I like your card for cut it. Yeah, well, no, they put screens up.

And so you basically can broadcast your webcam onto the screens they have in the stands. So like, and I think it creates like a, it's like an animated gif. Like, it, so you can like record like six seconds or something or whatever. And then it just kind of like repeats that on the screens that are in the stands.

So- Six seconds. They should call them a vine. I don't know how long I don't know how long the loop is, but probably not should probably not long enough to get away with anything to like to be like cutting up. Probably couldn't do like do a bit. Make me a crack. That's a bit. I know he's to make vines. We used to script out vines and make a whole series of them before I'm sure you could come up with something clever for it. You could probably do a bit

they were kind of a pain in the dick hole to make. Let him to shoot an order. Yeah, that's before the vine had like editing tools on it whatsoever. Yeah, I feel like we did all those when Vine was not easy to use. And then as soon as we stopped, it got super simple to do that kind of. Yeah, and that was really difficult to use again. Yeah, they made it much harder. Man, I remember when I went to an arts high school in San Antonio for film and San Antonio for film and remember editing on two VCRs.

Like that's where I started my video editing career, I guess you could say is yeah, just having a jog shuttle in two VCRs and doing like the play, play pause, play pause record. And then we finally got nonlinear editors. And I remember it was just like such a boneheaded waste of money because we bought these dedicated, like by the way, editing computers existed. Like you could get premiere. But we bought these dedicated,

they were called Avios, these like Sony Avio dedicated, like nonlinear editing machines that cost like five grand a piece. And they only edited when you could get a computer for half that that had premiere on it. I do not know because school districts love wasting money. And not spending it on the right things.

Just like, no, no, just get us a couple of computers. Yeah, that was an, I remember it and I did, I took like some media course at school and for some of our coursework, we had to like make a, a film at the end. And the only, and like we had like computers all around the room. There was probably like 20 computers in the room, but not they're all computers without any editing. So for the only editing computer was,

it was like, I don't know if it was an iMac. It was whatever Mac it was, where I was probably like 20 computers in the room, but they're all computers without any editing. So for the only editing computer was, it was like, I don't know if it was an iMac. It was whatever Mac it was, whereas like a dome and then a monitor like stuck out of it. Do you remember one that, well that wasn't. Yeah, that was an iMac. It was one of the, I was like, it was one of the Macs. And it had final cut on it.

And no one in the entire school knew how to use it. And it sat there there my entire school career and I didn't ever see anyone touch it because none of the teachers had any access to like teaching materials on that stuff. Maybe one of the school janitors used it late at night. God has degree through that. Yeah, just another like colossal school waste of money

because that part wasn't cheap at the time. It's funny, Andrew, you talk about editing on two VCRs. When I was in high school, I would do the same thing. Like I hated doing school projects. So I would always ask like a sit-off ass writing a paper so I'd be like, can I turn a video on that? Cause I had a VHS camcorder and I could do editing with that MIVCR.

So it'd film still with my friends all the time and then use like the camcorder and I could do editing with that MIVCR. So it would film stuff with my friends all the time and then use the camcorder and the VCR plugged in together to just edit together really stupid things. It would take like an hour or two instead of having to write a paper, but because this is like a 95 and 94 through 96 most is when I did it. But since nobody knew how to do that back then,

everyone thought it took way more time and it was really difficult. Like, no, it's going to bang this out in an hour, it will be done. Oh, no, yeah, you were a magician. You were a magician. You were a scientist in like medieval times. Like all you did was like mix two chemicals together and it like created a puff of smoke and everyone was like, oh, oh, my gosh she's the way? We had a special effect once where we had something disappear in the shot and my friend was holding it then I paused the recording. He didn't move.

Another friend came and took it out of his hands then I kept recording. So it just looked like it just disappeared. It looked like it disappeared out of his hands and afterwards everyone including the teacher was like, how did you do that? That was amazing. I have.

Yeah. It was actually my older brother used to do that all the time with our home camcorder. We used to take it and film home videos all the time. And we'd be like, okay, I got the shot set up. All right, stop recording. All right, now move out of frame. Now start recording again.

And every single video without fail would be maybe behind the camera going, well, Steven, where did you go? I thought that was amazing. Gus, do you remember that time that you showed that video of a train headed right toward the class? And then everyone ran out of the classroom because they were really scared. That's what it feels like, man. That's what it feels like. It was actually really difficult to edit that way.

Like, I had a little, I had like a high-at-video camera with the VCR, but then in between I had this like thing. It was like you would sit in front of your TV and edit it and it had sliders and you could plug music into it. And me and my friends would shoot some stuff and we'd be like 40 minutes into our tape. Like we've got 40 minutes of content which probably took us several hours to do.

And then I would have him like try and queue up the music as I press play on the camcorder as we put on tape, but he would like play the wrong track. I'd be like, no, no, the track and he would try to skip backwards, but it would just restart the wrong track. And then it'd be like double tap and then because we'd be so far into the tape and we want to rewind it like overwrite the previous part of the tape, we would just leave it. So there'd be like, well, he's like, permanent editing errors errors throughout videos. I think I still got those somewhere. I go with those

at some point. Yeah, I wish I could find my old high school, we're just like, going, I'm talking about, I know they've got exist somewhere. I just, I have no idea where I need to go back home and go through all the my old shit and find it. Yeah, I spent so many videos with my friends, like from from the like early 2000s kind of era where we just make these really dumb videos I I would pay good money to be able to find it and watch that stuff because you don't have them anymore I haven't been able to find them every time I go home. I try to look for it And I it's just like it's disappeared from the light of day. I have no idea where it could have gone But they were filmed on like those little mini cassette tapes TV yeah, of day. I have no idea where it could have gone. But they were filmed on those little mini cassette tapes.

A mini TV? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I have a garbage bag. Not a garbage bag. But a huge, huge bag of mini TV tapes. Because yeah, same thing. In high school, at that arts high school, maybe my friend Matt made tons of little videos. We made like three, four and a four feature length movies in high school. One of which was like three hours long. We were so dumb.

We didn't know what the hell we were just making. Those are like our like bigger forays, but then we have smaller, just really, really know, smaller, just really, really silly, like shorter, like I sketches, I guess you could call them, but they, the lore, my god, the lore, just like, and then we just, there was no one to put them or show them or do it for us. They never were going to go anywhere.

Me and my friend Brittany used to make videos all the time. You guys might remember Brittany. She was blondeer on the website when I was blondie. or me and my friend Brittany used to make videos all the time. You guys might remember Brittany. Yeah. She was blondeer on the website when I was blondey. Because she created her account after me. And we essentially wanted to do videos and call it blonde productions. So dumb.

But we had the genius idea to do a series of videos called Jill S instead of Jackass. Because we wanted to do the female Jagass. And it was just us being such idiots around our city, doing stupid things and wearing stupid costumes. And it was like, who the fuck would ever want to see this or why do you think this is a good idea? I want to see it now, dude. Oh, yes, for me. You were making it for us. You just didn't know us yet.

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Like I don't I'm not sure how to go about Playing those back and capturing them. Can you like buy one off of eBay? I mean, I was looking at some like, professional decks, but they're like four grand and stuff still for some reason. Not worth it. Gavin, I still have in my closet, I have a Canon XL one that plays mini DB tapes.

If you want to borrow it to digitize some of your old mini DBs, do you need more? What's your rental fee on that? Oh, gratis. It's you just take it very kind. Yeah, I would love that. I would love that.

Gotta get the fire wire cable and then a converter because like fire wire cable. Well, it goes from like, it goes like for many fire wire to like an eight, like an eight pen. And so you've got to get a converter for an eight pen to goes from like, it goes like from mini fire wire to like an eight, like an eight pen. And so you've got to get a converter for an eight pen to go to like, I don't know what like a USB-C now. I don't even know how you would like go. There was a lot of fire wire 400 back then on those cameras.

Yeah, maybe. Man, I found out there's an advanced so much. I found that aviose system that Andrew was talking about. It looks like a piece of junk, dude. It wasn't piece of junk. I found that aviose system that Andrew was talking about. It looks like a piece of junk, dude. It wasn't piece of junk. Could you show a picture? I put it in the Discord chat.

It looks like it. It looks like it had, there it is. Oh, so it's like a... It's like a... It's like a... It's like a... It's a video in this video. That's the firewire point on it.

That's like many firewires, no? Yeah, yeah. They were definitely like they could do analog and digital and you had to like real time digitize everything. So it was still, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Kasa Blanca. God damn, that takes me way back.

How big is that thing? Like, oh it's huge. Oh, it's like, it's like two extra large pizza boxes stacked on top. Like three extra large pizza boxes stacked on top of each other. It's huge. It costs like five grand. And like a user interface that was maddening.

Like you almost longed for two VCRs after using it. And it was like, oh, they crashed all the time. My God. Dude, stuff was a pain in the ass. Like, I always think of James Cameron when he was trying to cut down aliens to make it shorter. He didn't really want to cut any scenes after he'd already made like his final selection.

So apparently he just went through each cut, he'll eat shot and like just just trim two or three frames off. But to have to do that manually on film, I'd have blown my freaking head off if I was added to that. That sounds awful. I thought it would have taken longer than filming the episode. I'm just slicing film. Yeah, I mean, you know, you're paying a guy to do it.

Yeah. No, that's absolutely torture. It's crazy. Do you think it's no coincidence? Right? That all four of us used to like we all make content for a living and we all used to do it as kids basically. I think that's just how that's just the natural flow of isn't it? I just find it funny that I actually applied to a film program going into college and I got denied entry And now I'm going into college and I got denied entry. And now I'm working in film.

Kind of. Yeah, I'm going to drop out. Yeah, yeah, I wanted to go to our BNRTF major at UT, but I didn't get in. So I got an English degree instead. Yeah, I got a marketing degree instead. It was at the university I went to. It specializes in business and in film, but the film program, they only accept like 60 students a semester or something crazy like that. And part of

the application process was that you had to make a short film or something to submit to show your skill or your creativity. I didn't have any friends that wanted to participate in anything, I didn't have any friends that wanted to participate in anything. I didn't have anybody. So I just filmed people around my high school, unbeknownst to them, and edited it together to some CIA music, and then submitted it, because I was like, this is artsy. Cinema Verite. God. Because I wasn't going gonna submit Jilless.

Jilless. Now you would have been a shun. You had something, God, that fucking master pancake tweet about any film being a Wes Anderson film. If you add Paul Simon to it, I mean, that whole bit was fucking amazing, dude. Yeah, I don't think I've talked to you about that since I saw that. God, that was so important. From the goonies. Yeah. Yeah, but opening scene of the goonies

going to break you out of jail. It's too good. It's absolutely a Wes Anderson film. I'm just putting Paul Simon on it. It's crazy. I was just thinking about flashing back to that, that, that, that, that, that Casablanca audio and that, like,

if those still exist anywhere right now, if there's still, can you imagine, if those still exist anywhere right now, if there's still, can you imagine how yellow that gray plastic is right now? I found, I found this image on eBay. I can buy you one if you want that. I can buy you that one on eBay right now. How much? It won't power on.

It's for parts. It's for parts. It's for parts. It's for parts. It's for parts. It's for parts. It's for parts. It's for part. So it's for part. It's actually been a super interesting hard mode or something or like a some like core show if you just have to make a video but using tech from at least 30 years ago.

That's that's a 20. A good idea. Yeah, I have to edit non-linearly and all that stuff. Oh, literally. $255. Two. Too bad. It's not like for grand. At the appreciation to bitch. That's a depreciation. It's not like for grand. A depreciation. That's a depreciation.

That's a steep fall off. It is interesting looking at devices from a few decades ago and watching like which parts of them always fail. Like you were saying the plastic, if it's been like out in light, it's going to be all gammie and yellow. Like pretty much any machine that has like a rubber belt inside it, that probably is dissolved, and like I'm just disintegrated at this point.

You always have to like replace the belts and all this stuff, even in like new old stock, it's all very, very unlikely to turn on. I think I found you working one Andrew. I found you a working one for $500. Uh huh. Why don't we know? Why don't we all chip in and we could all take turns using it? The person selling $500 knows that like other technology exists. Like in my mind, it's like take this out of my closet, take this out of my guest room.

I want to put a treadmill in there, which I will also be giving away two years from now when I don't use that. That is. Those just become closed hanging devices at some point. Yeah, exactly. All those cardio machines. Exactly.

I'm always being so amazed. Like when you make the leap from digitizing stuff and editing with files, I remember being so blown away at the time that you could capture your footage like faster than real time. Oh yeah. And you didn't have to just like press play on it and record it somewhere.

You could just like drag and drop it. It's like wow, that was like a few seconds to copy a few minutes. Like that was the biggest step up in my brain of like how easy things have got. Yeah. These kids nowadays, they don't appreciate it. They don't appreciate the like, actually like,

going over to a friend's house and in real time, just like logging footage, just like playing that, like playing Mario Kart while footage dumped into a computer in real time, because that's how you have to do it. Just like, oh no, the camera on the battery's gonna die. God, dick, like, look at it, and die! Yeah. Good times.

And then it was a miracle. That was the thing. You always have that window of a new technology. It's like, we started on two VCRs, and that was like, you know, a pain in the ass, but we didn't know any better. And then you get like nonlinear editing. And it was a miracle, but it was also a different kind of pain in the ass. And then you, there's always that like, advent of new technology where it's like, this is a revolution, but also introduces its own other host of like picadillos and problems and shit. And then you eventually find like a

couple years after that, like the technology kind of finds its groove. And then it's like, oh yeah, like nonlinear digital computer editing, like that makes a lot more sense. I'm like, you know, as we still do things. So it's so- I still remember when Gus had to teach us how to use a pager for that connected doc we did a couple of years ago,

where Blaine and I lost all technology for a week and had to go back to like 1980s technology. And that both mean blame Or like what do you do with this like how do I communicate with this thing? I I never I never once interacted with a pager or anyone who had one You're on a podcast with a former pager repairman This is the guy for you right here.

So they just, well, they just a phone without the phone parts. It's sent to you. It had like a phone number that could receive a message, but then that was it. Right. It was just like, it was the whole, it was sent, right?

Right. I mean, the beeper you couldn't, it was just like basically a cell phone, but without the speaker or the, what do you call it? Where you, where the mic. And that was it. That was it.

It had a little, the place where you talk. And it had a little, it had a little weight, like a little haptic thing that spun, that made it buzz. Buzz, yeah. It is a, it's the same revolutionary technology

that's available on your local chiles when your table's ready. It was the exact same. It was the same revolutionary technology that's available at your local chiles when your table's ready. It was the exact same My dad definitely had my dad definitely had pages Back at like how much how much cocaine did he do? You know, mountains, but then, you know, I mean, when a bunch of guys with machine guns infiltrated that tacky, gaudy mansion in Miami, maybe that was a movie I might be confused. I just glanced at the chat. A Scoopy 5 says, we still use pages at my job.

I'd love to know what job that is and And whether it's just like a hipster thing or whether you actually need a page. I'm still big. Huh. Or is it like it's like dangerous to use a phone or something because it's- Someone explosions maybe. Someone who said that they're still

common at hospitals. Who is this matmo par 440? Says they're still common at hospitals. Okay. I don't know if they would have been like an internal system at this point and not like a cellular page. Yeah Shrugged

So is this eat crab? It's great name by the way eat crab says it's Twitter without reply I don't know either It's just a weird step. It's like they already had mobile telephone technology and then just made half a phone. Like why not just make the whole phone? Was it a span with issue? It was cheaper and the service plan for the page was also because back then service plans for cell phones were super expensive. So it's like the page was a stopgap.

It was a cheaper way to stay in contact. Alright, that way. Yeah, it was a small market. Well, it had a very, like a small window in time where it was viable, because then, you know, cell phones became much cheaper. They're still not cheap, but it's not much cheaper than they used to be. They used to be, you have to pay by the minute. I think the first cell phone my family had, it was a weird deal where it's like, the first four minutes of a call were free, but then after that every minute was $5 a minute. It was like $90, yeah.

Yeah, so if I ever wanted to use the family cell phone, which was bolted into the car by the way. Yeah. You had to. My dad had a car phone too. Yeah, you have to be done in the first four minutes. Otherwise, he would start charging you. Yeah, there was like a literal stopwatch. Just like.

Yeah. Okay. For the internet. I, my dial up was paid by the minute or whatever. So weird. So I would try and talk to all my friends on MSN and then get off as quickly as possible. It's long distance still like a big thing with phone calls because I feel like that's not, I never hear plans talk about like long distance calling in the

cost of that and adding it onto a plan. I feel like that's not even a big thing. I guess there's another going through a switchboard that has to be manually patched to a different system. Yeah, and now it's the same system now, and it's FaceTime and whatnot. You could go through Wi-Fi and all that stuff. I don't know. I feel like it's not an aspect of calling anymore. Yeah, it's weird. I mean, do you, I don't ever call internationally, but do you have to pay, I assume you still

have to pay extra for international calls, right? Yeah, it's still a shitload. If you don calls, right? Yeah, it's still a shitload. If you don't have an international plan, it's still a ballake to like a lot of the time I have to dial into a an English conference call. And it's so frickin expensive. I can't believe it actually. What do they do that? I mean, we have like all this other like IP based technology now.

Just meet on Google meet or discord or whistlewuzzle or whatever the fucking new one. That's how I talk to my family. We just use either Zoom or FaceTime at this point to talk to each other. I don't think I call my parents on the phone ever. Yeah, I tell it to family on the internet, Wi-Fi and such. This episode of the receipt podcast is brought to you by G Fuel. Let us tell you a little bit about our awesome partners

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Yeah, they do. They do. I have videos of there was a raccoon in my backyard that I used to feed grapes. Anyway, keep going. Uh, Rx like grapes. RTX is kicking off this week. What are we officially? Wednesday, but we have first night coming up. Is that tomorrow? Yeah, there it is tomorrow night at five o'clock tomorrow night or five, five o'clock, uh, central time in Texas.

Uh, you know, little known fact, which surprised me that people don't know about this. which surprised me that P more people don't know about this. First night is not first exclusive. It's available to everyone to watch. Some things that RTX are first exclusive and it says so on the schedule that the RTX event, Twitter handle tweeted out and on the site. In the title, isn't.

Right. So first night is not first only. It's available publicly. So everyone could watch it here on RTTV at 5 o'clock central. Just wanted to clear that up. And 5 o'clock central, it's the same time that the podcast normally starts, just if you're in a different time, so.

But on a different day. We'll page you when it starts. Yeah, it's, there'll be a lot of announcements at first night. It's kind of like the whole kick off. It's like a keynote for the whole event. So if you want to see all of the different announcements and stuff that's coming up, first night's a place to go. And that's tomorrow, less than 24 hours now, just under 24 hours from this very moment.

You can, you can be taking part in first night. You boy, there's also a, you know, for those of you watching who don't know too much about RTX, there's all the information is on RTX event.com, but we're also doing virtual meet and greets and happy hours and signings and stuff like that. So you could get individual peoples, meet and greets and all that stuff on the RTX event site. But I've done a bunch of those for conventions in the past

and they're really, really fun. I would, if you are doing them, come with a question or two, if you want, or if you just want to come and hang out and chat with us, that's totally fine too. But they're super chill, super fun, don't be stressed about doing them. I think you guys will have a great time. It's really a nice way for us to actually get to interact with you guys and meet you guys since you can't do that in person this year unfortunately.

Yeah. In chat, Bain09 says, guys, I just realized this will be the first RTX that my cats can attend. Bring your cats. Bring your dogs. All cats. Well, all cats welcome. Show us your pets.

No raccoons. I will not talk to you if you're holding a raccoon. We should have done me ups where we would just put our own pets on camera and other people could put their pets on camera and they just cycle them through. That'd be even better. That's better than talking to one of us. I'll bring Benjamin. If you come to one of my meet and greets, I'll have Benjamin there. He'll be here with me. That's a hard sell right there. I mean, an easy sell. Not hard to do. Come check it out. It's a, what do we say, September 15 through 25. So we've got 10 days. We're going to have panels for just about everything. It's a what do you say September 15 through 25 so got 10 days

We're gonna panels for just about everything. We have a black box down panel We're gonna be doing a live episode of black box down and we're gonna be taking we're already we're currently taking questions for the black box down Panel so that we can play them or we can answer them during the panel So submit them and I'm sure other panels are doing very similar things again go to our techs event.com You get all the information about it. I personally am very excited for the good morning from Hell panel. So much more. But Andrew, you're also excited about it. Me too. Also excited for it. Yeah. For reason, but also for reason for it. Because it might be a cluster. For me, it's for it because it might be a cluster. Welcome to the best ones. So come watch it live.

Eric points out that we're going to have a live receipt podcast at this time next week. But it's the RTX version. Hey, just tuning for the podcast again next week. We also, so there's one more point that I want to mention. This is important. Last minute coupon for people who want to sign up for first for an extended time to watch all of RTX. There's a special coupon code which is RTX trial, all one word, all capital.

Yeah, you could use that for first, I guess, for a limited time just to experience RTX. So if you're not already first, remember that's a great way to sign up and get to experience all the panels and all the events happening during the week. RTX trial. Yeah. Do it. I bet you won't. I dare you. I dare you to do it. it. Coward. That's how we like we like coercion when we get people to do things. Yeah. I'm starting to feel slightly overwhelmed by all of the tech. I feel like there's a ton of new cool PC stuff happening, and there's all the consoles. And I feel like it's never been, there's never been a clash this big between consoles and PC gaming, I feel like. It's almost the point where it's like,

where's it gonna, well, I just feel like there's so many good options on both sites. There's now like a huge draw to go to PC gaming with the new video cards, which seem obscene compared to the last generation. Yeah, of course, of course, I just got a fucking 2080, like last month, of course, the fucking 3080s are out now. You have no idea how fucking pissed I was when the announced the 3080.

I was like, God damn it, I waited five years for my new computer, I finally got it, and instantly within a fucking month it's out of it's it's it's old now Are you gonna you gonna replace it with a 39 EOS? I mean God what does that like 1500 bucks for the 30 90? Well how much is a 20 ATI? It was part of the whole computer. I don't know I think it's like over a grand wasn't it? That's even worse I just I don't know I think it's like over a grand wasn't it? That's even worse You could just sell it now I'm sure you could get a good price. I'm still on eBay. I can just sit without a video

I'll sell it I'll make you a deal a throw it an aviocistum I was waiting for that call back Yeah, many many. I'm also slightly confused by the new Xbox lineup, the series X and S, because I've read today in an IGN tweet that the Xbox series S, the white one, can't play enhanced games that one, the Xbox one X. Correct. I think it doesn't do the 4k. It can only do HD from the 1080. So it's a console that's less powerful than the current gen.

The Xbox one X. I think that the it's less powerful than the one X, but it's more powerful than the one. I guess I don't know why you would get that over a one X then say series X comes out. There might be like new series games for it that aren't playable on the old Xbox, but it seems to be like that right now it just seems like they're just trying to make games accessible everywhere, no matter what you have Yeah, I just feel like if you're if you're on a budget and you want 4k gaming

I assume it will be cheaper to get a 1x than a series S I don't know that for sure, but that's what I would do But the the series S is 200 bucks, right? And the one X is four? Oh, okay. So it's actually, yeah, it is. I guess if the if the one X doesn't drop that much in price, yeah, just just get the strangely overlapping lineup at the moment, I guess. Hmm, this is the RTX thing, right? This is like, so we're talking about the Xbox right now. Okay. But before you're talking about the RTX to the 3080, was it? Yes. Yeah. They totally not a confusing name at all. It was our first.

I know. I was like, just get the RTX 2020. It's only five bucks for everything. I just sent a, I just dropped a video and drew. Yeah. I can't believe what I'm seeing this video What are you doing you lunatic? Let's let's let's show the people here what Andrew does on his weekends. Oh my god, dude Oh my god He what you want to lie in It was sideways. It was flipped sideways, but yeah, that was from like six years ago.

It was like from 2015 or, yeah, that was 2015, five years ago. Yeah, in my old place, I had a very bold recoon that slowly but surely got comfortable enough to come up and take grapes for my hand. But what you apparently don't recommend doing because recu, I mean, it was very sweet and very nice, but apparently recons transmit or the number one transmitter of rabies to human beings in the United States. So be careful. They are cute and it was very sweet just taking it very, very gingerly from my hand. Thank you. I remember how last year at RTX, there was a story of people who were here for RTX

finding a bat in the street, and touching the bat, and potentially how they could have gotten ratings. And we're like, oh man, I really hope this wasn't someone who was attending RTX. Luckily, you know what you don't have to worry about from RTX at home? A bat.

Unless you have bats in your home, your home is bat free. There will be no bats in your house. That's a Gus prom. That's a Gus co-promise. Okay, the chat is, let me know that Series S has ray tracing and the Xbox One X is discontinued. Yes. And I guess the price is like, that's an excellent price for a new console.

It's just weird that if it's better in some ways, it's worse in other ways. I'm curious to see Sony's having their press conference. So, so, so, look, two days from today, I think, hopefully, it'll finally announce a release date and pricing. What they're doing for the PS5. at least date and pricing with the doing for the PS5. So I mean, we'll see. I'm so far, I'm really interested in everything that I've seen with the Xbox and I think Microsoft has a lot going on with making gaming accessible. So I'm curious to see how Sony answers.

Sony just has killer first party titles, you know. Accessible in what way? Like mainly affordability. Affordability, I mean, I think having Project X Cloud work, which X Cloud debuts tomorrow, by the way, on Android devices. I think X Cloud is really interesting. I think some of the pricing structures that Microsoft has for the series X and for the way that that works. It's really interesting where you can pay on monthly installments and get, you know, game pass, a console and Xbox Live, all bundled in like one monthly payment.

Yeah, that's badass. Yeah, I think just, you know, for people who maybe who is, you know, buying a gaming PC is very expensive. Buying a console is not as expensive, but it's still a lot of money. You know, if you can try to reduce that barrier to entry, you just end up with a lot more people playing games. You probably could have bought two Xbox Series X's for the price of your obsolete graphics. Why are you rubbing salt in my wound, Gavin?

Gus, the 20 ATI is still a very good graphics card. It's excellent. I bought it to play Cyberpunk 2077, and now when I'm playing Cyberpunk, I'm gonna know it could look better You know you know what a 3090 would really help you out with the flight simulator flight simulator That's the other thing I'm gonna say I can maybe finally put like all the ultra max settings on a flight simulator I'm I'm excited to see a ton of videos of people getting a 3090 and having to like cut holes in their case. Like people who refuse to get a new case just want to shove it in there. I want to see more of that.

Because it's a great. It's huge. They have a sizing guide. I was looking at the video website the other day. They said like they have system requirements and the system requirements includes physical specifications for how big of a space you need in your computer and your case in order to fit it. Crazy. Yes. It's big. How many gigabytes is that flight simulator game? How much? How much? How much? You have to download 100. It's 120 gigs. Holy shit. Yeah. Yeah, it's 120 gigs holy shit. Yeah Jesus that's like the entire disk space of my Fucking it's fucking massive and it's it's also constantly streaming data from the internet as well So yeah, you need a lot of space for it. You almost needed like its own machine for it Like it's what I got here

for it. You almost needed like its own machine for it. Like it's like a whole sever PC to do. I just happened to be podcasting on it right now. Wait, weren't you going to play something with Chris or someone who had to have that game installed and like they were going to install it right before the recording and then realized it was 120 something kicks. Yeah, we were supposed to film something with Chris and he showed up to the recording with I think the trial version or the demo version install Is I know I can still play it that he tried to launch it and he's like, oh no way to get Yeah, we did a filming something else. I Don't know what the status of that video is. I'll talk about it anyway. So since Chris didn't have the game, we're like, well, let's film something

and flight simulator anyway. So then everyone else involved. We just had everyone suggest places that they wanted to visit since we're all stuck at home and no one's able to travel. So we just went and did like sightseeing around the world, like places that we like and trying to find spots since it has like all the being map data.

And I think it ended up pretty good. I don't know. I haven't seen an edit. I haven't seen a cut of it. I don't know what I don't know what the end product looked like. It was fun to fly around and look at things that we can't see. Yeah. I miss that. I miss those days. This episode of the Received Podcast is is brought to you by Hello Fresh.

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like the best first class there are. Like these like crazy first class suites that people could take on these like really long flights. And it's just like I'm addicted to these now. I'll never experience it. Did you see the Emirates A380 apartment? Yep, yep, that was one of them. I love that YouTube exists for stuff like that because I see back in the day It would have been a lot of effort to get like a TV series commissioned

But now you could just live by carelessly through other people who have Like a shit like blowing a salary on a flight To the point where it's like now I feel like I don't have to do that I mean, it's nice as it would be to fly in a small apartment It's not it's not you don't need to do that But to see what it's like I feel like I don't have to do that. I mean, it's nice as it would be to fly in a small apartment. It's not, it's not, you don't need to do that. But to see what it's like, I feel like that's the interesting part. Yeah, that Emirates one that I was talking about with Barbara. Like there's a living room, a bathroom with its own shower and a separate bedroom.

I'm not sure which video, I'm not sure which video specifically you watched, uh, Barbara, but I've seen a couple of them like that. And it's like, it's absolutely ridiculous where the person in the video I've seen will be asleep in the bed and then like the fight attendant will come in and offer them food, you know, while they're in the fucking bed laying down. I feel like when the flight to end, I know. It's probably better than some people's living spaces. I mean, probably much better than a lot of people's living spaces. I think of those like closet apartments people have in our area.

I would just feel like I was wasting it if I was asleep. And because I did that, like I've never bought first class. I've just, I've sometimes get the upgrade if I've, you know, flown enough miles that's the only time I've done it. Or sometimes if a company, like offers it to you to like fly and do a job, like they did that. Well now it's being used as bailout money.

Yeah. But I once got put in a business class to Austria. And I was so tired on the way back. I fell asleep. Like there, the seats that like fully reclined into like a bed shape. And I just, I fell asleep before the plane took off. Just bolt upright.

And I woke up with like an hour left on the flight. And I'd like wasted all of the comfort of business class because I was just slumped over upright. This is like, that is easily the biggest first world problem. And I've like, I've been lucky enough to have been upgraded before because we do fly a lot. And you do get upgrades through frequent flyer programs

and whatnot. I flown business class once on an international flight and I was like, I can't sleep on this because I'm going to waste. I don't want to waste a second of this because it's an experience that I'll never get again. It makes it better and more exciting. When you don't grow up with that stuff and then you get to have a little taste of it through work or whatever. So you're just like, I woke up with like an hour left in the play. I was like, oh no, no! I was like immediately reclined. I was like, it's like we will be landing in 45 minutes. It's like no!

Quick! The best part of the thing, so you know you're in luxury when they bring you an actual like plate and real like metal silverware to eat where you're just like, oh my god. What is this? Oh, Hanapai? Yeah. I always thought they give you plastic silverware because they don't need stabbing people, but I guess it's just like a weight thing because they give it to business class, proper

like stabbies. But they sound like they have a sharp tip or those knives are sharp at all? No, but you know you could shove it hard enough it'll go in. They can barely cut this for lemon, y'all. I say. I do so. Why, I'm taking please. The I've flown upgraded class. It was like I think business.

I can't it's it's definitely wasn't. I can't remember like it was it was not economy plus, but it was like somewhat nicer and fluid fluid. It's probably yeah, it's probably business, but I flew to Flutal London for our TX London a couple years ago. And it was one of those things where I was like, I mean, it was essentially double the ticket price, but I was like, you know what, I'm doing this for me. This is like the trip. I've never been overseas. I'm like, I'm 33, I've never been overseas. I'm spending. I only spend the money and just do it right.

And man, it's going to be so hard to go back to. That's the problem, yeah. Whenever we can fly again, safely, it's going to be so hard because. That's actually not a bad price. If it was only double, like I sometimes business class is like six to 10 times more expensive than premium economy. The thing you want to do, the little trick you could do, depending on like, I don't know if it has anything to do with status or whatnot, but when you're actually checking in the

day of your flight and you ask if they have upgrades to business or whatever, sometimes it'll be a lot cheaper just to do it that way because I think when I tried to do that, it was only going to be like, I'm saying only because it's the grand scheme of things, but I think it was like four or five hundred dollars to upgrade, which what ticket business class ticket is usually a couple grand, at least. So that in the in the scheme of it is very cheap. But to do it online would be, you know, a few thousand extra. So yeah, yeah, that's got to be, I mean, if you're already flying like, you

know, economy plus or something like that, if you're already flying like you know Economy plus or something like that if you're at the gate and they're like look do you have any business class and like I mean it's Would it's like $400 they wouldn't weren't gonna get anyway, so they like I as well upgrade you for this They want to fill those seats. Yeah, they want to fill it see they want to get that you know You know bring that money. Yeah, you Yeah. That will vanish out of flying soon. Just for like a carbon footprint sort of perspective. Do you think they'll go back to just one class for the entire flight? No, because they make all their money

on the premium cabins. Yeah. And then, well, a fucking, I just saw, I just saw like recently on a, it wasn't Twitter, but recently some flights are converting their main cabin basically into one giant first class. They're kind of getting rid of economy and the flights are like seats are way spread out, fully reclined and stuff like that because they're just like, what are we gonna do? We got to

incentivize people to fly until like spend money on flights. So they're kinda going the opposite way. They're making flights actually more, some flights more luxurious. I still want just a flight, like a plane full of beds, like same massive stack of, stack of free high, super cramped, super cozy, but just so you can lie down.

I think if they had just life flat planes, which you'd be able to fit as many scenes probably not probably. I don't know if I'd want that. Like, I feel like I would love it. I would love it. I like the option of sitting though, because lying down, it's, I don't know if you guys have ever tried reading a book while lying fully horizontal. It's a little difficult and your arms get tired. I would like the ability to sit up on a plane and the ability to lie down, but I think if I had to choose between the two, I'd probably still choose sitting. What if they have like Velcro above you and you could like Velcro your Kindle up there. Yeah.

Oh, that's game changer. Yeah, if there was like Gavin, like you're saying a screen or something and something to like attach something to so you could go hands free on it. Yeah, that's a little different but. Oh, I'm getting tired. By arms getting tired, you mean me getting tired. Yeah, if I'm reading a book lying completely down, this guy's asleep in five minutes. There's like no question about it.

Um, that's the one I was getting old when me holding a book up in my bed. My arms were like, Oh, God, I'm so tired. Like, Oh, This is interesting. P.A.H. in the chat. B.A.1 from London City to JFK is an A318 with 32 business class seats and nothing else. What? Whoa.

I was that efficient. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's it. That sounds like a- I've got a phone from London City, but that's the one that's like right on the Thames, like right by the Excel Center.

I flew from it once. Before we did the first RTX London, we were touring different venues in London. I'm trying to figure out where we're going to hold the event. And the Excel Center was the last venue we looked at. And when we were finishing up the tour, you could see London City Airport from the Excel Center. And I remember also one of the balconies and we were walking around with the people from the Excel Center and I saw the airport.

And I pointed at it and I asked, is that an airport right over there? And they said, yeah, that's London City Airport. And I said, and you can fly to other countries from there and they said, yeah, it's a full-fledged airport, just smaller than the other ones. I was like, huh, okay. So then I went and I looked on my phone and I found a flight to Ireland

for like 75 bucks. I was like, Oh, okay, I'm going to go to Dublin. It's like, you just go over to the airport and it's like, you can just go from right there. It was like, it was faster to get to Dublin than to get in a taxi and go back to the hotel I was staying. Yeah, I love this, like, like London Lutin is also quite like a big airport for like short or whole flights, but it's not in London. Just in Lutin. It's called London Lutin. I don't know. I watched a I watch a lot of aviation videos and I watched an interesting one that like chronicle the history of all of the different airports in London and why there are so many and It was interesting because there are a ton of fucking airports in the little London area and what Luton is one of the ones that they talk about

I guess they talk about how they all started and why there's so many there Interesting as that's I watch way too many videos about things And that story is as follows. Do you still think England sucks, Gus? No, I mean, I did not care for London after the first time I went. I think a lot of that was because the first time I went, the exchange rate was over two to one. I think it was like, everything was just so fucking expensive. Yeah, it was like, it was a fucking nightmare.

I'm not fighting that hilarious, because like I first met you, it was like 2004 in London, and you must have paid like 18 quid, which would probably be close to $40 for like a dog shit meal in this crappy place that we were at. And it was raining and you were tired and I,

and you were like, this country sucks, and I just found that so funny. Yeah. Don't ever this way, do you hate it? Don't ever go in the extreme, it's terrible like that. It was so bad, everything was like, you see the price, like, oh, that's not bad. Oh, wait, that's in pounds.

I have to pay more than double that in US dollars. And it just like some sort of just dry it, it dryish me on a plate with some salad. One of the best things I've ever tasted in my life was in London, one of the best meals I've ever had. What was it? This dishume, it's an Indian restaurant. Oh, Jessica Vassami was talking to me about that place.

Yeah, I went with her and like Daniel and like, a couple of like the like other Haunter like production folks Um, yeah, by the way, Gavin and Jessica was in London She was there on that production and you said that she had a weird haired line I just want to remind you that you said that. Yes, you can never forget didn't say weird said it was cool carry on Yeah, so we went out to dinner. It's like Indian places.

It's big group and they have a a a a chop a like a little lamb chop that or a pork chop. No, it's a lamb chop lamb chop. That is the one of the best things I have ever tasted. I think about it till the, frequently, just like I cannot wait to get back there just to order. And then like they marinate it for, you know, days or something like that, but it is unbelievably good.

I cannot wait till I can travel again and taste that little chop. It's so unbelievable. Indian food in England is actually excellent. It's so good. And I don't know what happened in translation between the UK and the US. Indian food here is just, it's not, I mean, we didn't colonize that subcontinent

for several hundred years. So, I mean, we have that. It's true. We don't have that same connection you do. But if you want melted cheese over meat, you come to the right place. Oh. You definitely have that in the bag over here.

Fried cheesy meat right here, America. Come on down. We got plenty. You want fried cheesy meat? We've got fried cheesy meat at our TX at home. I saw either the greatest or worst thing ever in my life on TikTok the other day where these people put tin foil down on their kitchen table

poured tortilla chips everywhere and then essentially made a table size worth of nachos so they put like a bunch of queso they put cilantro and salsa like everything that would be on nachos essentially, just like cover their entire dining table. And it was like, oh, have a party and bring all these people over and everyone will just eat nachos off the table

like fucking animals. Delicious. Just no hands allowed, just face down into the nacho table. Yeah, I was like, there's nothing more American than this right? Just a table full of nachos for everyone to grab as they enter the room. Okay, how do you feel about this? Because because I, I'm of the school and I like order nachos, I want a unutsetting heaping plate of like chips and cheese and meat and beans.

I'm like, I want it to be like this like This dome that that first as a whole just doesn't work It's full of not just it's deeply full you can cover it in all this goo and like delicious stuff But then to it's it's it's so hit or miss like what kind of one you'll get like whether you get like a Absolutely caked one that might be a bit soggy though or Or you get one that's more crispy, but it has piss all on it. That's why you gotta do layers. You gotta do layers.

So you put some chips down and then do some cover and then more chips down and then I've never had that. That sounds perfect. Yeah. Exactly. That's because most places, most places don't do it right. They don't do the layers because it takes time and this is like we're in a volume business here, but yeah, doing layers and then like doing it really high heat really

fast keeps it crispy and keeps from you getting soggy most people don't do it that way. But then that's my that's my preferred like nacho method. But then I hate I hate when you go to a place and it's like they're charging big heaping plate nacho prices for individual nacho like where it's like a plate of like eight chips that are like daintily dressed as nachos, like it's got everything. It's like what you gotta do. You gotta find a place. You gotta find a place that has nachos available as an appetizer for the table and get that

for yourself. That's what you do because that'll be a heaping amount because it's not from multiple people. Yeah. True. That Taco Cabana started selling nachos with like a vegan meat substitute on them, but it still has all the cheese and all the other non-vegan stuff. It's like I don't understand why they would sell nachos like that.

They should be vegetarian, maybe, not vegan. I guess. I guess maybe that's the concession, but it's just weird to me that they would take out one ingredient, but not the rest of them. Are you still vegan, by the way? Mostly. I have cheat meals on the weekend,

but during the week, I'm planning based. I mean, there's a short answer is no. You're sharing. So no. Yeah. So no. Yeah. I'm a week, David. I had the the talker, Kibana, beyond me, like beef taco. Oh, did you?

Yeah. It's really good. Like for a, like when you want that, like, because it's a very distinct, like, kind of fast food crumbly beef, kind of catheteria style taco that only those kind of tacos taste like, but occasionally that's all you want in the world, it knocks it out of the park with that flavor.

So if you want like a crispy beef taco that tastes like beef and doesn't have any beef in it, I'd say it's a pretty close facsimile. But what I'm gonna make a guilty confession to you, Andrew. Yeah. I've wondered that flavor sometimes. That you're talking about like that greasy, almost like caveteria style beef taco.

Yeah. You can buy like to make your own taco bell at home kits where it's like, it gives you the taco shell, it gives you the salsa, and it gives you the spices you just supply like cheese lettuce and beef yourself So I'll buy those and I'll buy like impossible beef or like impossible burger stuff Yeah, HB and I'll just make tacos like that. It's like yeah, it's like I'm making Taco Bell at home But it's like sometimes that's just what you want you just want that that cheap You know, yeah, Taco tip flavor and yeah, yeah, it's good. It absolutely slaps. No, it's it's incredible

Like sometimes that's all that will do like it's it's not good. It's not good Person like it just it goes hard and that's exactly what you want. Nothing else the hottest trash or like fast food that to replicate at home like Is it extremely difficult to make a Big Mac from just ingredient? No, no, not at all. We've actually done that before. I mean, yeah, but how good would like, I know you can get like the same stuff,

but did it taste like a Big Mac or was it like, where's it? It did. I actually also think Eric Bedur, if you're listening, I think, did we do that at your place? Didn't Barbara make a big max one time? Or we had like some burger that she recreated, that tasted just like the fast food burger.

No, I don't think that was me. Yeah, you don't think that was you? I'm pretty sure that was Barbara. Unless I just made some, oh, I made some hamburger's one time. And then I guess people you're just saying they were very good It's possible. I'm confusing it with someone else. No, I think I wasn't trying to recreate anything I think I just made some hamburgers that were very good. So okay That's I'm excited for all this to be over some more people to come over to eat hamburgers

Can I come right? Yeah, come on over and eat some hamburgers. Can I bring some raccoons? You can bring some raccoons. You can bring some raccoons and they can eat hamburgers also. No, like wow, look at them. They can't wait to eat raccoons out of my grease trap. Yes, of, baby eggs are actually pretty easy to recreate because it's just like you need the sauce to be right, but then it's just essentially pickles and lettuce and cheese. Yeah, it's pretty easy. I feel like anything fried to a very specific degree is a little bit harder to do because you need a deep fryer and air fryer. Even an air fryer can't quite do what a a deep fryer will do, just in terms of like really imbuing something with the like, really crispy flavor.

Like I made a couple of like chick filet sandwich fximlies at my place using an air fryer and it's calm like, it's been hit or miss like, it's delicious but it definitely doesn't like, definitely doesn't hit that like specific flavor. I'm gonna need to heat up Andrew about this air fryer because I just bought an air fryer to try out some cooking via that. And if you have bad times, bad times, is it good?

F fry. It's great. I love it. I've made one meal with it though. So it's not a whole lot to base off of. I made salmon and vegetables in it and it turned out delicious, so I would recommend so far. Salmon, salmon definitely really good in there.

I would say also you can do nachos in there pretty well too because it's a hot air and that circulation will like crisp up and chips. It keeps them getting soggy, will crisp up and chips a little bit more. And melt things a little. And melt things a little, yeah. And that thing's a little, yeah. Yeah, can do that. Soakiness is just the worst thing that can happen to any food. Serial, like tuna sandwich. No, it just goes disgraceful when it gets so quick. I'm okay with soggy pasta.

How does it taste to soggy, though? It's because that's the way you're supposed to eat it, is what it's what? It's not thegy though. It's because that's the way you're supposed to eat it. It's wet. It's not the hard cracked pasta. It's cooked and technically soggy. I was making a stupid joke. I would. I was.

I was always, what about we to fix? We to fix should be soggy. We to fix need to be, they need to start absorbing, but then you want to really use that big spoon to scarf them down because if it gets too soggy, they just disintegrate into like milky, porridgey crap. Is this, is this, is, is, is Wootabix like, like grape nuts, like where it's, what? People like grape nuts. Grape nuts is also a cereal that's like, like, grape nuts is a cereal that when dry, could be used as like, Grape nuts is a cereal that wind dry could be used as like musket ammunition and then

when soaked in milk for for a time turns into overnight oats like it just like and there's like a window You have to eat grape nuts in where you know like you know like the big shredded wheat like this big Yeah, wheat to mix is similar in size. It's not like a shredded wheat. It's more of a bicks. That's the same shit. Nailed it. Yeah, okay, that big fat you could fit like two and a bowl, three if you're feeling pretty hungry.

What happens if you put them in the air fryer though, than what? Maybe you can unsoggy a wheat put them in the air fryer though? Then what? Maybe you can unsoggy a wita biggs in an air fryer. Bring it back to life. I'm excited that we did a podcast without talking about spoons. That would have been a whole month of spoons and I'm glad we avoided it. No, it's funny about that actually Gavin. I brought these just in case the conversation came up, but I brought an actual teaspoon and tablespoon measurement just to show how fucking insane you guys are for wanting to eat out of this amount of food.

I'm not eating out of a measuring teaspoon. But this is a teaspoon. This is where you're looking at. Look how small that is. That's insane. You know, I'm looking at those two things. Oh, good God. I'm looking at those two measuring spins. And I cook a lot and I make stuff with, you know, that require like precise measurements.

But if like, honestly, I don't think I've ever made anything that like had I thrown in one of those and not the other would have ruined the entire thing. How much how much fucking difference are those two spoons from each other that like it's gonna kill whatever you're vanilla extract. Okay, maybe point conceded you're absolutely right. Never mind. I step away from this. I see the photo you are. That all I've got I can't think of any other food where that Sult-spice oil Yeah, that's true. I mean like I would say anything that's got like I would say extract just because it's such a

Unbelievably powerful. Yeah, it's like so concentrated so Down with spoons out of context you sitting there holding all those spoons you're looking What the spoon Crazy no spoon. Well everyone was just saying that my big spoon was like fucking massive And I think it's because it's it's really shallow like it's wide, but it's shallow But this is essentially the same. Yeah, you know The volume I know we're not talking about spoons necessarily, but could we get the recipe? And would you use intro just one time? Just once? Just once. What kind of spoon would you use? I love that song so much. Oh, I love that song so much.

Well, it hasn't. It's good. It has a very like grunge kind of 90s like down. I don't know. Yeah, it's got that feel like an unplugged electric guitar. Yeah Thank you I'm speaking of kitchen stuff my kettle broke the other day. I have an electric kettle to boil water and It boiled the water. I left it on the counter. Then I went back to get more. And when I picked it up, like water just started pouring out of the bottom of it. Like, oh shit. Yeah, I was like, what the hell? That's like run over to the sink and dump it in the sink. So I had to, I've had that thing I think for eight years. It finally went out. Damn. So, so I started trying to shop for a new one. I was like, okay, I'm gonna start reading reviews.

And I found one review from this person on Amazon. I'm saying find a hero fast. This person, I, reading Amazon reviews is... It's a window into the insanity of people, right? It's like, everyone looks human, but then you read a review on Amazon. You're like, this person only physically appears human. So you know the way reviews work on Amazon, right?

It's like you rate things on a scale of one to five stars. Yep. So I'm just gonna read the first, like three sentences of this review. The title is Heatswater Quickly. It's a four star review, by the way. I really like this kettle. I wish I could give this 4.8 stars,

but we're only allowed whole numbers. I would have given it five stars, except for one small detail. I wish the kettle temperature would start lower than 170 as I like my hot cocoa around 150, but it does have a digital display so I can catch lower temperatures if I stand and watch it. I was like, Jesus Christ.

What's up with this four point? Same person. Eight tangent. Then why not just give it the five stars? Why What's up with this four point? Same person. Eat tangent. Then why not just give it the five stars. Why don't you give it four stars? And then I mean, I can understand wanting more precise temperature control, but in that case, just get a kettle with different temperatures. Right.

Which exists. I was just so baffled. I was like, this person must be really fun to hang out with at a party. Yes, seriously. I always hate when people review things about products that have nothing to do with the products functionality or quality or anything like that. Well, I get arrived broken.

Or like, or yeah, or like, oh, it had something, I guess I could understand the justification people like, oh, it arrived and it was like ripped or something like that. But it's also like, well, that was just your case. And you should probably take it up with the actual vendor itself rather than write an actual product that exists poorly because of a shipping malfunction or whatever it was, you know?

No, absolutely. Go ahead, Andrew. I was gonna say, the Amazon reviews, and I would say also the questions and answers about products is just the absolute, it is an island of misfit toys, it is where like humanities just most depred psychos go to interact with each other. Because they'll be stuff like, they'll be questions for products like, huh, like, does this come in silver? And then somewhere we'll have answered it. I don't know. I didn't buy it. But yeah, yeah, what the fuck is going on?

Like, remember what happened? Sorry, go for it. No, it's just like, well, the first of all, does it come in silver? You can look, just scroll. Yeah, a little bit and you'll find it becomes so, but then you had, well, the first of all, does it come in silver? You can look just scroll. Yeah. And you'll find it. It comes with it. But you had you had to pass that information to get to the question asking.

Maybe some people think that if you see a question, it's rude not to answer it. Like you, you just have to ask, but if you don't know the answer, like you're being asked in real life, yeah, like you're being asked in real life. Yeah, directed at them. It kind of reminds me of like a lot of the times in the past when we would be going somewhere or hosting some event in some city and we would post about on the Ruchis site or on Twitter. And we'd get people responding being like, I don't live there. Or, or, oh, I can't come because I don't live there. It's like, okay, I'm sorry. Like, I don't really understand the response that people are looking to receive for that.

I'm just like, oh, you could travel for it. Like, I don't know what people are expecting. It's always interesting to me for that kind of thing. I'm just on a somewhat related note to that bar, bro. I remember years ago, I used to answer all of the email that we would get it received, all the email from viewers and from people who are in the community. And we had just done an event. I think we had just gone to RTEX.

No, we had just gone to RVBTO. And like a week or two after we came back, I got an email from someone that was like, hey, are you ever going to do an event in Toronto? And I wrote back like, Hey, we were actually just there. Oh, no, it was it was fan expo. It was fan expo. We had gone. Okay. So we were actually just there. Yeah, we're at fan expo. Uh, telling it, telling where it was. It's like, what we will probably be there again next year. Uh, sorry, you missed us. And then that person wrote back like, yeah, but that's really far from me. I live in the suburbs. I want you to do something closer to me.

Yeah. I mean, I went to another country already. I went 99.9% of the way there. You could meet, I mean, we're not going to do something in your neighborhood. You can meet me in the last point 1%. I will never forget one of my favorite emails we've ever gotten. This is back in the day when Gus, you and I used to co-direct RTX together. And so we would also get all the questions of people with email in. And I think this was RTX 2012 or 2013. We got an email from someone saying, hey, I'm coming from Florida. Does the ticket price for RTX include airfare and hotel?

And I didn't know how to respond to that in a way where I wasn't being mean about it to say maybe your $60 RTX ticket does not include the cost of a flight and hotel for a weekend. I didn't know how to say that without coming across as a complete bitch. I mean, the only way that that could ever be possible is if every single attendee lived in the same place. Just shut a lot of there. What? Luckily, you don't have to worry about airfare and hotel this year at RGX. Already have your own home or wherever you're staying to sleep in.

You don't have to pay someone else. It's kicking off tomorrow with first night. It's gonna be September 15th to 25th and we have a free trial You know, so tomorrow first night is available for everyone Some panels are for first members only if you'd like a trial. What was that code again? Was it RTX trial? RTX trial RTX trial you can get get a trial first membership if you want to check it out. That's a limited time offer and doesn't have to be a new account. It can be an existing Rt account. You could even have had first at one point if you just want to get it again just for temporary

trial just for Rtx. Check it out. Anyway, Rtx coming up at home, September 15 to 25th. We're kicking it off for tonight tomorrow evening. What's up up going to be? I'm sure you guys will hear this many times throughout the event, but hot damn we have some fucking cool ass merch dropping throughout the next few weeks for RTX some stuff is RTX exclusive some stuff will be available until it's sold out. But you definitely want to keep an eye on what's going on in the store. We also just dropped a link to a very cool thing for coop. Coop.roosterteats.com. I think it's a link. There's oh my god. There's some cool fucking shit happening in the next two weeks. I got bummed out today because like some of our social media accounts and people at

the company were tweeting about like the cool stuff that's like being teased. And I think it's you've been hunted to posted a gif of me being like, eh? Yeah. Like, you know, we know what I said, you don't. And so I don't know. Like, I'm looking at myself. Be like, eh? But it's like, I don't know what the, I don't know what they're talking about.

I'm bummed out now. It's like, I'm making fun of myself. You're mocking yourself. Yeah. Also, going back, why is it, Gus, that you were in charge of all the email when you are the most anti-social person who has ever left the company? Because when I was, uh, when that started, that division of labor started when I was in Puerto Rico. So I couldn't help with, uh, filming.

So I tried to help with all the other non-filming stuff. Uh, so that's why I, I handled all of our email for years because of that. I don't remember. All of my apartment in Budah had all of my favorite emails on the wall printed out. Next to me, you'd remember I had that wall of emails just off my right.

I feel like that was like a different level of dumb back then. I don't know if that... It was like, you've got people being confused to just about things in general, but also like, people were new at the internet as a whole. So they were like turbo extra dumb. Turbo extra dumb. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, good times. Yeah, there's some, there's some hot stuff dropping. I'm excited. Hot stuff. Yeah, and like we mentioned first night, which is tomorrow. That's where a lot of the announcements will be. So you definitely want to check it out. It's like the first thing, big kick off, big keynote, check it out September 15th at 5 p.m. Central time. And yes, I've seen in chat a couple times. People asking about the stuff we're wearing. This hat, this shirt, Gus' shirt, they're all going to be, they said drop for RTX. This is a corduroy hat with a leather strap in the back. Very nice, very comfortable.

There's also some stuff. Oh, coily behind me. Oops, who put that there? What? What? What? Why does this burst drop? Why does it got drop?

Because it's falling from the heavens Gavin That's an excellent reply That was quick that's very fast. Yeah, I was locked and loaded But no, I don't know actually. I don't know where the merch drop kind of lingo came from Gus, you got a sponsor RTX at home as a whole or just this podcast? Gusco is still in last minute negotiations. So I can't discuss it at the moment. But speaking of locked and loaded, it's about time to wrap this up.

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