Rooster Teeth Podcast - Rooster Teeth Podcast #130

Episode Date: September 7, 2011

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Twisted metal, streaming now now only on peacock Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. Before we get started, it's Gus here. We have a, it's one that you know we have a special guest. We have E from Microsoft who works for Xbox Live joining us. And I forgot to hit the record button. So you missed about the first 30 seconds of this podcast, but we just started by telling E how Bernie felt he could fight and win against any wild animal. So here we go. How did this start?

How did you decide that you can take any animal? Well, there's always stories of like, you know, somebody that's just story in the news the other day of a lady who punched a bear in the face to save her dog. And the bear, I mean, the bear in the face to save her dog and The bear I mean bears the most for Oji's land animal, right isn't a dog super loy Shouldn't the dog be like taking that one for the team? What's that you mean just throw himself in the path? Yeah, apparently this girl was even more loyal. It was a dog or a you know a purse dog. Yeah You you ask a very interesting question. Are you you buy us to get smaller dogs? I am

I'm not a fan of purse dogs. Sir, you are endearing yourself to me very quickly here. You know, Gus has a very small purse dog. Oh, that's right, you do. If it's perfectly my purse. Didn't know that. I've got a satchel right on a man. I've got a shitsuit.

Oh, can't say that laughing. So here you say it. No, Cthulhu is 85 pounds of solid muscle. See, I've got a picture. 85 pounds is the right size for a dog It's the right size for a gust too. Are you 85? How much do you weigh? I weigh like 170 175 you weigh 175 you want six to yeah That's a dog that's a good dog. See I follow E on what is that a Labrador? Okay, actually I just got his DNA results back a couple of days ago. He is are you the father? Actually, I just got his DNA results back a couple of days ago. He is... How are you the father?

Sadly, I'm not. Sadly. So he is mostly Labrador with a big chunk of Rotweiler and a tiny bit of Schnauser. And I'm not sure how the Schnauser got in there because I can't really picture a Schnauser mating with a Rotweiler. No. So I guess it was the Labrador? Yeah, but the Schnauser was some really good game.

Yeah. That's all I'm saying. The bag of the Labrador. Yeah, my son, the Sinozor was some really good game. Yeah, that's all I'm saying. The bag that Rotweiler. Yeah, I can picture the Sinozor either. I don't understand, but he's here. So it happened. You, I follow you on Twitter also. You love, or you dog loves being taken on long walks.

It doesn't, you have to like actively work with this dog. Yes, you have to tire him out, or he will just, he's not intentionally destructive, but he's got so much energy that he will just tear around the house and things will just go shattering off. So he's gotta go a couple miles a day, whenever I can, I take him to the river, I've got one of those chuckets.

So I take the tennis ball and fling it as far as I possibly can, and he goes gets it, brings it back. Again, daddy, let's go, and I'll do that for like an hour it's ridiculous. Wow I had a pointer once an American pointer that I thought I'm gonna love this dog it's great because it's a sport dog and I was living out in the country and I was gonna train it forget that dude I love that dog a little one time in the house that dog ate through a couch. No joke! You could stand over the couch. Did you remember this? I remember. I remember.

You could stand over the couch and look down at the sea of the couch and see the floor through the couch. It also wasn't a very big dog if I recall properly. That dog might have been 15-20 pounds? Yeah. Wow. So he ate his weight in couch. Yes. And the problem was that it just became the exercise and ripping me down. It's completely apart There was a big piece of that couch in every room of the house. It's required a taste for couch Which we can't problem yeah 80 dog once you go couch you never go back. Yeah, yeah

Yeah, it's a problem waiting every dog is once you get a taste for couch The dog was a dog food no system having some couch I just like what you do. You don't get to bring another couch. The dog was eating dog food. No. The system's having some couch. We'd find it at night like, who's in my furniture store?

This is going to get tough. I wonder whether or not drive through. It just became a problem for it. We couldn't take it anywhere. That dog was also all my dog's had a problem of jumping up. I've never been able to solve that problem with any dog I've ever owned.

And I'd like to think it's just because we have really friendly dogs. When you say jumping up, you mean like, you know, on its back paws, putting, you know, trying to trying to jump up in your face right it like when you come in the door And it jumps up and like James it's front paws into your stomach. Yeah, and it does that with guests and everything else Yeah We're still working on that with Kathalu. He will do that and he's big enough to put you right on your ass I believe it. I have a dog with three legs. It's still a good jump up. Yeah, yeah

It's got the good jump up. Yeah. Yeah. It's got the two important ones for jumping. It has the one like pressure pull. No, it's all of its weight's focus now. It's not spread out across two paws, just like, it's like Bruce Lee just fucking going at you. Like a little point of the tag. One inch punch on you.

But if you're ever choking, just come through my front door and the dog will say real life. Yeah, that's not yeah. That's handy. It is punching the guy. You'll be fine. Just spit out whatever you're ever choking, just come through my front door and the dog will save your life. Yeah, that's not yeah. That's handy. So there's punching the guy. You'll be fine. Just spit out whatever you're choking on. Have you ever been in a situation where you've either had to use the Heimlich or you've

seen someone use the Heimlich? No. Yes. I've seen it. I've never had to use it myself. So you saw somebody choking? Yeah. At a restaurant.

And you couldn't really tell what was going on. It was a table or two away and something's wrong What's happening all of a sudden someone gets up walks over to that table and start using the hindwick on this person get out of here So what were they do you know that they choke on? Oh, I don't remember Years ago the big killer. Yeah, what are you and you've seen ever seen the I used to be really afraid of choking like Like, when I lived alone, like before I got married, it was like my big deal is like, what I, what I, like, the eating dinner one night at home, and then I just like choking.

That's it. Like the neighbors report a bad smell a couple weeks later. They probably, they, they probably, they thought it was the use to them reporting bad smell in the apartment. So they ignored it for a while. Yeah. You know what they say to do if you ever choking by yourself? Do you know what to do? You get a chair, a chair, yeah. I've heard a chair too, but then I've also heard if you just like, I don't know how you would be able to force say to do if you're ever choking by yourself. Do you know what to do? You get a chair. A chair, right? Yeah. I've heard a chair too, but then I've also heard if you just like, I don't know how you would

be able to force yourself to do it, but you do the, I'm going to date myself here a little bit. The messy plunge, you know, or you're just like, and you just, you just fall forward on your chest and it's hard. Yeah, like knock the wind out yourself. What's even like it also knock you out? Oh, if you hit your face. If you face well, it's absolutely.

I'd take a broken nose over death, I think. That's probably a good idea. Yes, but I can just imagine your, your past out, you face well. I take a broken nose over death. I that's probably idea. Yes, but I can just imagine you your passed out unable to help yourself because it didn't work. Just silently choke. They find you're broken. No, we can't from all we can tell some guy got enough fight with a happy state. I think apparently new pressure points. I don't know what's out of our head. He's trying to put... Yeah, I think I killed my father for a pair to die. Yeah. A guy got in a fight with a cow and the guy got hurt,

but he really fucked the cow up. Paul is left as one piece. I think one of those mysteries, like one of those riddles where they find the guy hanging over a puddle of water. Yeah. He's a good guy. Yeah. It's an episode of CSI.

I love you guys can hear it, but in the background, Michael from Rage Quit is recording an episode of Rage Quit. Yeah, he's in the next office over, which is the achievement hunter office, and I can hear him yelling and screaming like a crazy guy. Yeah, I believe the room. I've heard him yell enough last few days. It's a punctuation on our podcast here. Yeah, we heard the other day, last week when we put the podcast out, we heard what I think what I hope was a red versus blue earthquake. What?

What? Uh-huh. From the currencies in a red versus blue. Big rumble? Yeah, there's like a big ride. It kind of just started shaking the ceiling in here. We should talk about packs, right? But we already guys talk about packs.

We covered it. I haven't listed the podcast. We can cover it again. That's a great way to start out. I'm an analyst, our podcast. No, let's talk about that on our podcast. Why should I listen to it? What do you want to say about packs?

I had fun, man. Well, I was over the Halo Fest area of packs. So I did you guys talk about that? We go cover it, dude. Fuck it. So, I mean, shit. I mean, people can listen to the same shit all over. All right.

Well, there you go. No, so I was running the horse booth over at Halo Fest. Did you fight the horse Technically, he knew pressure points. I knew pressure points. I said it right in his eye. That should be a bumper sticker I know pressure point. I can take a horse at you What time we're in Hawaii or crib on your skull I have probably horses one time a course bit every panel on my car It's the thing the horses do called tell him just show him the I was sure you a cartoon that talks about it's impressive. It's not

my little pony. No, no, no, no, no, I am not. You've listened to that. I did hear that. So, did you pick that up from our podcast? I was listening to drunk tank episodes the other night bizarrely while playing Deus Ex which was the weirdest cross media ever But I wanted to catch up before I came down covers a wide spectrum right there. Yeah, and I had subtitles on So I knew what was going on in the game, but I couldn't focus on both and I'd be in the middle of a mission I'm like trying to sneak up on someone and kill them and all of a sudden my little pony comes into the earphones I'm like what yeah, I know it's really embarrassing That's invaded our office now. This my little pony. We might have to fire Michael

Might have to just because of that awful anyway one of the new Michael the the guy that's rage quid He's he's a boner for my little ponies and it's it's it's called a booney a booney My little booney just That just sounds so wrong. Anyway, so Halo Fest. Halo Fest was awesome. Wait, I don't really sell my story about horse. Okay. So, Hawaiian horse.

One time we're in Hawaii. And we're riding, we're doing that thing where we ride horses. My wife and I did this. And we were young couple and we're riding along the beach. And we go to put our horses away. And everything's fine. Everything's fine.

I'm actually putting a lot of shell like I'm so they gave me these the gave us these cookies Which are like oh they taste the terrible by the way I even had to try one because it's a cookie That's a cookie, but it's basically just like raw I can buy the cookie and belacus right and so they gave us these cookies and these carrots I need to try the carrots to give to the horses and you know You just put them in your palm and you do it in the horse mush mush mush you know with his lips out here on your palm and eat his treat So my wife Jordan is having such a great time

petting the horses and all this she keeps her hands down there and the horse is like Mushing on her hands more her empty hands and she says look he thinks my hands smell like carrots That's funny. Oh no, And so I walk around with my horse I knew it's something with it like pulling something blanket off it or something and I walk up to her horse up the front Going down the side of the horse towards her to her to the front of the horse and she's very quietly going to the horse Let go. Let go. Please The horse bit one of her fingers. Oh It was not letting go. Oh my god.

And so I saw this and she's like, Oh, please, please, please. So I haul off and punch the horse in the jaw in the pressure point. In the pressure point. Exactly. Like right where the jaw like demandable meets the cranium. So I just instinctively just hit it there and then I grabbed it and pulled and the horse let's go. I'm not kidding the middle digit of her finger was like 50% smaller thinner than the rest of her finger. It was like crunched. It looked smaller than the bone could possibly be I'm amazed that when you punched the horse. He didn't bite through Well, that's where I was going for Now it a better story. I was trying to punch back

And then she's like holding your finger. It says it's too has a too massive indentation I need to start from like, Did it break skin? Or was it just like pushed in the pressure? The horse is big stupid butt in the ocean. And she's going, she's going, let's just go, let's just go, like, this horse is big! You know, we're not going anywhere. We're going to be sure to go back. I was convinced your finger was broken.

Absolutely convinced. Oh, so, but she was fine. So you punched the horse. Are there any other large animals that you've punched that you want to talk about? No, I'm 100% I'm defeating animals with one punch. Okay, you know in darkest of the days that would have been an achievement Horse punching. Yes, they look it's like 125 gamers scores What is it? What what game darkest of days darkest of days you punch a horse? Yes Can't punch horses and red dead can you oh you can kill horses we made unicorns out of horses

Definitely did that was the most Statistics video I've ever seen that one I didn't but I'm imagining it They were they released like this this Indian pack where they had Tomahawk It's like this new weapon you could get so we're like we should make unicorns So Jeff shut the an axe at a horse and a landed right in And maybe like the handles to get a handle made a unicorn and then we made we tried making bearer corns because like the handles stick it through. So they handle made a unicorn and then we made, we tried making bearer corns. Because like the bears were chasing after so we were like, Tomahawk's in these bears.

And then shortly thereafter, was it the, was it the undead nightmare DLC? Were they actually have unicorns in the game now? And so we're thinking that we're the rainbow? Yeah, that's totally because of us. Of course. Because they're viewing your Tomahawk. Absolutely.

Well, just take video. There is a red versus blue achievement and in the, I think undead DLC. Yeah, the cheapa thing. Yeah, so that's kind of cool So maybe it was us. You don't know you don't know if anyone from rock stars listening you know me I just want to say we like animals on the podcast. Well three of us. Yeah, three I talked about punching animals. I've never punched a horse before Jack killed video game horses. Yeah, that was in defense. It's count minor cyber horses. I am I am very clear on the fact that many wild animals could kill me Yep, I'm thankful. We don't may honey badger. We've been playing honey badger I did not see that video until Matt mentioned it in the last podcast that video is fucking hilarious

How did a video get like 16 million views on YouTube and that was the first time I'd ever heard of it? I know yeah, what is it? I don't know. I'm better. I don't care. Look at that tree. That's no. You guys think it's in a tree. I'm gonna have to be able to play the audio jack. It's on last week's link dump. How? Okay. Yeah. I find this really hard to believe. Yeah. You've never seen it.

Jack's never seen it. Oh, Jack. I know. I have. I may have. I don't know. I've seen a lot of crap on the internet. So it all sort of bleeds together. Yeah. It's on anything that's like like over my three or four years now to kind of it does really blend together Like one big wish in your head like we were talking about like old school internet videos like I always throw a two-note to nook Ron or ever seen that one the two-note to nook song where the guys are dancing is like the same guy four times dancing Like this Indian music video. Yeah, that's not never seen that one. No, okay. That's that's another classic one All right, I thought it was classic. Yeah, apparently.

Have you seen the Yata video? Yes. Yeah, yeah. Have you seen Yata? I don't think so. The guys in the diapers. The guys in the diapers with the fang leans over the crotch. It's just now, are we have reached the part of the podcast

where we just ask each other if we've seen certain videos? Yeah. Yeah, but it's just a minute. Anyway, that was cool. That was cool. That was cool. That was cool. That was cool.

That was cool. That was cool. That was cool. That was cool. That was cool. That was a good one. That was a good one. How was Paxtag? Paxtag was great, man. Halo Fest was fantastic. So we had the horse set up over at Halo Fest and we had about 400 people take a shot at it and of those 400, I think, 75 or so actually completed it. So that was actually pretty good numbers. And then we actually made a horse video, I guess this would have been last week, that you will see the video of the horse video we made. And we actually, I had nine people from the office try the map.

And I thought it would be a nice easy day of horse because it's just one map, just super simple. Then I made it probably the most confusing episode of horse ever with like multiple layers and multiple videos and stuff. So the video turned out pretty good, I think. And you know, take a look at the map. You'd be like, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was my favorite man maker of all time.

So, you took a shot at it, right? I did. My son did, my son actually finished it. Yeah, he did not. He got through in a minute 42. I don't think I made it past the first turn. Like I got up at the top of the turn and I kept falling off. That's around. That's pretty good.

I played about 10 times, I never finished it. Yeah, I said, fuck that. I'm very embarrassed in my Halo skills, my Mongoose skills. Now, the people who were playing, that was for charity, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So what it was is you had to donate three bucks and you had a receipt and you brought that over to us and those three dollars would go to Childs Play.

So we ended up raising just over a thousand dollars for Childs Play. Cool, so that's pretty awesome. So, yeah. Yes. Huh? Actually it's now. I'll bring it back.

Gus is going to troubleshoot a technical problem. But I'll tell you what, bringing up Halo fast in front front of evil. First of all, Halo fast was awesome. Halo fast was awesome. 30,000 square feet. And it's it was huge. Like we walked in and it was like I remember and Gus showed it to me. It's like holy crap. This is this is a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be. They had like the warthog from like the way to warthog was actually there. This is what I don't

want to talk about. I don't want to talk about the the and for a hog. Okay, that's right. And I've seen a picture of a certain someone in this room who got to get into the Wardhog and take a photo of himself on the tour and behind the wheel of the wall. Yeah, that was kind of awesome. So which I'm pretty sure was expressly forbidden

by every sign hanging all over the ward. No, the sign I believe said do not climb. So if you left into it, you were fine. As long as you didn't climb on the vehicle, if you had someone get inside with that actually walking on it, you'd be okay. That's how I did it. Yeah, that was it.

You held X to enter, basically, that was it? Uh-huh, to climb up in. No, that was, I was actually offered the chance to take a photo inside of it, but just as we were going over there, Allison from 343, she said, yeah, if you want to take a photo, be great. And as we were going over, they opened it up to the press and she's like, okay, we'll do it later. And I never got back there. So, Allison, if you're listening, feel free to bring the, the way to Warthog down to the office in Austin. Sadly, we'll do it later. And I never got back there. So, Alisson, if you're listening,

feel free to bring the way to Warthog down to the office in Austin. Sadly, I think it's already on the way back to New Zealand. Because everyone was wanting to do something with it. Who gets to drive that thing? Like, who, I'm assuming they threw in a trailer, right? And took it to the airport or wherever. Yeah, it's not street legal.

So you can basically drive it off the trailer or onto the trailer, that's about it. Okay, so. But now it's still be awesome. Yeah, it's not it's not street legal. Oh, so you can basically drive it off the trailer onto the trailer That's about it. Okay, so blood damage will be awesome. Yeah I mean, I think well somebody needs to drive the warhog into the trailer any volunteers Everybody within like five blocker ideas wants to drive everyone gets go forward a little bit and then back up a little bit And let the next person take over. Yeah, I know at least one person who did get to drive it I'm not gonna out them on the podcast. Please do a little jealous. Is it gas power?

It's electric. Is it? Yeah. Oh man. Because you know, hybrid, you want to be, you know, you don't want to use combustibles. You don't want to have stuff pouring out the back. So of course it's a hybrid. Sure. Well, this is, you know, technology from the year 2552. Yeah.

They've beaten fossil fuels by that point. Well, the new war hog that the one that's going to be inza, or whatever, it's said it was hydrogen powered, right? So that was the one thing. So we went to this media event on Thursday night, as they were opening a payload fest. And the Forza guy came up on stage, and he was showing this new car and stuff, showing this auto-vista mode in a new Forza game. He was like, what the hell is this guy doing here? He was like, you're probably wondering, what the hell am I doing here?

And I was like, oh, yeah, okay. And then cut to the Warthog, it's in the auto-vista mode in the next Forza game. What the hell is this guy doing here? He's like, you're probably wondering what the hell am I doing here? And I was like, oh yeah, okay. And then cut to the Warthog is in, it's in the auto vista mode in the next fours of the game. And it's awesome. And all the Warthog sound effects are in there done by Jen Taylor, Cortana. Yeah. So it sounds exactly like it should.

It's amazing. There was a video that came out with Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear actually talking about the Warthog too. Which is pretty funny because he clearly doesn't know what it is. He's just reading off the script and he's like, yep, whatever that means. Yeah. But yeah, so it's not playable in the game. It's just in this auto-vista mode.

And I will say, the tires are not Puma tires, Bernie. I don't know if you caught that or not. I did catch that. Which is, that was the first thing I did. When they opened it up and you could go look at it, you could look at the tires and it's like, didn't say Puma. Which the Halo 3 and the Halo reach tires, I'd both say Puma on the tires. Oops. Oh well. Canonically incorrect. What can you do? I mean just wet out. They can't get

everything right. No that's not wet out. That's that's forza. What's that? That's forza. Oh no I'll tell you how about the the all-sure. No no no no no no no no real warhog is also not Puma. Oh yeah the real warhog is you know a tire that actually exists. Yeah. Well no I mean mean actually might have bolded those tires. Who do you what do you know that that is true? It's possible. So you know we found out on the strip as well. What do we found out we found out that the voice actor who plays captain keys from Halo. Yes, it's also the guy who does the real American heroes You know, yeah, yeah, so I'm saying which is for like the blood bliger commercial. Oh, oh, oh, I was thinking them. I think the GI Joe thing Oh, yeah, I said real American here, but what's the real men of real men of real men of genius?

That's what it is. That's what it is real men of you. You see me real American heroes than they changed it Did they yeah, it was something else something like yeah, or yeah, I think it was real American heroes matter fact But here's to you yeah, fuck shop sandwich guy One of them on the pork chop sandwich. That's a G.I.J.O thing. Oh right, that's the Fensler films. Well, fuck shop sandwich, but the, uh, there's a lot of them. So has everyone taken down?

I don't think so. That's bro, right? Yeah. Yeah. There's a guy, uh, it's Fensler films. They did this, uh, series where they took the old G.I.J.O. PSAs and they overdubbed all of them. Now that's a classic internet

video series. That's a old school internet. Yeah. Who wants a bottom of silence? I'm a computer. So there's, there's, we'll have to look at every one of these videos now. We talked about it. But yeah, I always wonder what happened with those like the, uh, I mean, when a student

has bro would have made them take them down at some point, but I guess they didn't. Those kind of videos like those older ones are ones, you know, before anyone knew what the internet was really. And so it was like no one really thought to go. Oh, that's bad. You know take that down But now it's kind of like oh, well that's classic, you know taking it down and be like well. Why is has we're being a dick? Yeah, anyone it's up there with millions of views It's kind of hard to yank it at some point no matter what what the content is you know publicity is publicity You know whether or not it's bad but in the same sense though Rick roll finally went down Well, they brought back I thought did they I think now want to perform brought back but I think it went down for good

Well, I think what's his name actually took it down himself when he he Rick rolled the Thanksgiving day parade Yes, yeah, pretty much when you do something on you know primetime TV is like all right that thing's it's dead So I think it gets you know it goes up and down is it like we're back at black Friday back yet Well, you'd a pay to watch it, right? Yeah, it was moved over to YouTube's rental service for a while. But they may have put it back, who knows? Do you know what the new sort of meme is right now? That's the best thing about the internet.

You only remember the outrage and you never, the solution, never, and nobody cares about the solution. There's always something else. There's a new cat video or something. Right, it's why retractions don't work. Right. Because one tenth of the people who read the error would then read the retraction the following day or following week.

Yeah. No. Do you know what the newest internet meme is at the moment? No. It's called stocking. We heard this. So stocking is the, you take a stock, a stock photography image and try to replicate it. So instead of using the original stock image, you make your own stock image that matches that one. And that's like the new meme thing. And actually, it started here in Austin by some like design company here in Austin. You believe that or you think just just trying to save money?

Or buy? I think it was like as a joke, like they wanted to use an image and like we can just make this ourselves and they end up doing it. Like why don't we do this for everything? And so they started getting like wackier and wackier stock images and trying to replicate them. Okay. And so that's the new thing.

That's what the kids are doing nowadays. For a while it was planking now stalking which I completely don't get planking Yeah, last night at dinner my son was showing me pictures of himself planking I'm like what what no, what he's doing it Is he doing it dangerously? No, someone has died while planking really these were not this was not bad This was like on garbage cans at playgrounds and things. But still, it's like, I don't understand why. Now who died planking? Like if it was something like like parkour or something like that, I get how you could die, but how can you die planking? This comes to you from the Asia Pacific Division of MSNBC.com. A 20-year-old

man plunged to his death after quote, planking on a seventh story balcony in Brisbane, Australia. The Brisbane Times reported Sunday. Please tell the Times the man fell from a unit block on Main Street in Kangaroo Point. That's made up. Shortly before 4.30 AM, local time paramedics do not provide the man despite working on him for 20 minutes. He was pronounced dead a short time later.

You know there's another word for that? Stupidity. Evolution. Ah. Inaction? Yep. Young man who probably didn't have any kids. And hope not.

Was, I guess, playing, planking is where you just lay perfectly flat on something, right? I'm guessing there was alcohol involved. I'm gonna guess. 4.30 in the morning, planking on a seventh story balcony. You would hope alcohol is involved. You're so...

All right, this is the portion where we also talked about, was it talking about internet videos? Yeah. Of people doing stupid stuff, it seems like college students fall off balconies a lot. Like I've heard that before. Didn't you fall off one? Uh, no. I thought you told me like something about like you were leaning up against the second floor balconies fell off.

Maybe there was someone in the office. I could have sworn it's talking about that. I was talking about a photo when I was in college. It was time I had this day of day where about that. I was talking about a photo when I was in college, I was talking about this the other day where it was two rows of people taking a photo and the guys got up behind some other guys on a table and just they sent the photo to the table collapsed. So there's a photo of us all in midair,

like trying to test ourselves. It's one of the best photos ever. It's not my photo, I don't know where it is. I don't know who has it, you know? I've always tried to find out Facebook or something from people I knew at that time. Somebody's got that photo. Yeah, absolutely.

The amazing things that you find, like the great one, this happened two or three weeks ago. Someone that Major Nelson went to college with, had a video of him dressed up as a clown on a replica of David Letterman set. From a, so he was in the communications track at Syracuse. And that's a very prestigious broadcast college. Yes.

And he went to school with Mike Toreco and a whole bunch of people. Right. And part of it was. Everyone at EASPN went to Syracuse, essentially. Basically. And they had to make like a 30 minute video as a senior project. So everyone was in each other's video. And this one guy, his senior video,

was doing a David Letterman ripoff. And one of his guests was Larry in a clown suit. And it hit YouTube. Someone had it on VHS, got it off the VHS, put it up, and sent him the link, oh, by the way, you might want to know this is on YouTube publicly. That's the scariest thing ever, man. It's like doing stuff when you were kids and like coming back to haunch you now. Like I can only think of this stupid shit I did when I was young, and I'm like, I know that exists somewhere on this planet. Right.

And someone's gonna find it. Like someone's gonna be digging through VHS's someday or like old like digital eight tapes and be like, hey wait a minute, isn't that? And then boom, it hits the internet. Yeah. That's it. It would be a very lucrative career to be someone

who can erase you from the internet. Like they can go find all your Facebook profile photos, you know, use facial recognition and just delete you from the internet. That sounds like a really bad movie coming soon. Right. Because there will be somewhere in the movie a delete button. If I push this button, you will vanish from the internet and everyone will be like, wait, no, doesn't work like that. And then the guy he hired like assumes his life for something like that, clicks all of his data. Sounds like a bad Philip K. Dick novel in a way. Hmm. Yeah. Well, most movies originally were Philip K. Dick. Yeah, pretty much. Some former fashion.

You know, they're making a prequel to Blade Runner. Do you know about that? Yeah, I don't want them to do really. Make them stop. Oh, what a bold statement. I agree with you. Don't make the prequel to Blade Runner, please. This is Gus and I'm back. I didn't realize it was a prequel. I knew they were making another movie and that it was set in the same universe. I didn't realize it. I want to say it's prequel to Blade Runner. I'll give you a minute. I just can't see it. Stay away from it. Blade Runner is such a classic. Just no. Have a new idea. I've already bought all the different versions. They've released on DVD.

Me too. The HD DVD collector edition of this gorgeous. Oh. How many versions of Evil Dead 2 have been released on DVD? You might be right, yes. Anyone know this? A lot. It's something like 300 at this point. And no, seriously, like, is it Anchor Bay, I think, does those? I don't know, anyway.

That's what those movies you always see. Like, oh, here's the Boomstick version. Here's the Ash version. Speaking of that, please, somebody, I don't want the Star Wars Blu-rays to be changed again. What are they doing? Too late. Now Darth Vader says no, so it's better. Yeah, a little bit of a spoiler.

Because you wear whatever. That's Return of the Jedi. If you haven't seen Return of the Jedi, that's... It's not Return of the Jedi. It's not Return of the Jedi. Oh yeah. It's Return of the Jedi. It's Return of Lucas.

Man, so we haven't... We haven't... Return of the Cash Flow. We have a friend. So we haven't returned of the cash flow. We have a friend who has got in quince, he writes for in cool news, and he owns a print, a 16-millimeter print of Empire Strikes Back. And we watched it for his birthday at the album. I was like, he's friends of the guys there, and they were able to screen it.

And it's seeing that original print with like nothing mess with, still, you know, grain, and you know, the frames, the messed-up things, things like that. Yeah. It was, it was it was amazing I was like you forget how amazing that movie is if that ever happens again. Let me know off I'll ask him not everything they do is bad though not everything like have you seen the changes they've made to the Yoda from Episode one they were they replaced the puppet Yoda with the CGI Yoda in episode one correct It looks better doesn't he walks blink now

Yes, that's it spooky they added blinking an episode one. Correct. It looks better. Does it? Ewoks blink now. Do they? Yes. That's a spooky. They added blinking. Does it make it be blinking noise? Like a gross. Last you should never fully remove your camera. That was disgusting. I know it'd be awesome. That's why they should do it. No. No. A suction noise. Yeah. It's space. You know, the pressure is different. Well, even when they release 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, 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,. I was art Vader, he's like, oh, I'm young. I hear a rationale behind that. That's all written. I was gonna go buy the Blu-rays, but not now. They've gone too far.

They've jumped. Jump the shark, nuke the fridge, whatever the new one is. What if you- Now, I'm gonna hit the shark and hit it in a pressure point. Ha ha ha. Will it, it's the gills by the way? Yes, you know, I know, it's on the end of the day. I was in the nausea. Would you, are you really not gonna buy them? Are you sick? You're seriously not gonna buy them. Really? It's the gills by the way. Yeah, I know. No, it's on the nose. It's on the nose, yeah.

Would you, are you really not going to buy them? I'm not going to buy them. You're seriously not going to buy them. I'm not going to buy them. Okay. I have enough versions already. I, it was like, hey, some of my all time favorite movies, okay, but that's, they have now gone too far for me.

Now, what, what if they released the Blu-Ray set, like the like the $150 Bl $150 blue race set but also on the disc is an Untouched with original transfer. Would you buy it then? Yes me too. I'm almost the exact same boat as that if I could have at least that original copy I wanted to watch it. I would take it But what they should do that. Yeah, but I don't I don't think that's gonna have that'll be coming six months later Yeah, after you've already bought it. Yeah, they were released ever We started monkey and with them to the other did that was the DVDs. Yeah, they really yeah There was a there was a limited edition. I'm using quotes here run of an altered Original movies that came out of the

Around the same time in special edition. I know because I bought them. Yeah. Oh, that's the way to watch them. Yeah Yeah, no, okay. I can say that I'm not gonna buy them. I'll just buy them We've got kids too, so there's been controversy about the Lord of the Rings blue race, too, right? Yeah, because they released the Blu-ray of the original version of the Africa nothing's waiting for the extended And they everyone that was the hubbub. I think you had something like 40,000 one star votes on Amazon before it came out Yeah, and it was I bought the theatrical version. I'm fine. What's that? Yeah, you can't watch them that way It's theatrical. That's how I tell you but there's so much missing. Yeah We always see from the book to it. No, yes, it's the it's the way I saw it and that's my thing

It's like the same thing about Star Wars is like going back and changing the movie that you saw You could point but this is additional awesome footage and I agree it's not changed. It's great I love it. So you're gonna buy it again when the extent is totally by again. I love those movies. Okay I agree it's not changed. It's great. I love it. So you're going to buy it again when the extent. Yeah, I'll tell you buy it again. I love those movies. Okay. But it's still I want the original version, the original experience that I had. Okay. This is how lazy I am. I have the extended version of the DVDs and I don't watch them on a regular basis because it's just too hard to get a lot of cases. I mean, it's like it's like a five step process. It's it looks like books and then you pull the book out. Then you open it up and it's like eight discs and they all look the exact same for every movie.

You're like, which one? I'm thinking, where's the guy? I have a home server with terabytes and terabytes of disc space and stuff on it. It really? See, you've been able to maintain that. I just, yeah. Then you don't get to see Frodo brooding

on the cover of your disc. Bro. He's brooding a little too much. This must be the two towers. I don't have the actual version. But I don't have to get out. That's true. Excellent point. Gus is a big fan of not having to get up to change this. I saw Ben Hick at a... I wanted one of those controllers you so badly. Did you see the dude who bought one? Yes. And one guy, I want to kill him. One of the guys who won one sold it dirt cheap.

I want to stab him for what he did. We're not selling it to you. So, yes. So, for people who don't know, 343 gave Ben Heck some never used Duke Xbox controllers. Those are the giant controllers of Xbox. Yes, the original Xbox One controllers. And then he basically gutted them and put the guts

from a 360 wireless controller inside them. Oh, they were wireless too? Yeah, these were fully functional 360 controllers with the thumb sticks and shell and buttons of a duke. And one of the guys who won one turned around and sold it for $200. I offered the guy $211. I wouldn't tell it. Were you there? I saw the guy who bought it. Not only, I mean, I bet these are amazing. I wouldn't have sold. Were you there? No, I saw the guy who bought it. Not only I mean I bet these are amazing I wouldn't have sold one for any price, but I bet the guy could have gotten a grand on eBay. What an absolute idiot It will be next. Yeah, oh That's what you get when you sell to the first person who offers you money. Yeah, it's still it's still not nothing though

200 bucks, but this thing's amazing. I'm sure there were a lot of people there who would have popped out a lot more than I mean I I wanted one really badly and I asked three, four, three of hey, can I pay to get one made for myself? Right. And when I heard how much Ben was charging, I decided not to. But now I regret that. Now I wish I'd done it because they're so cool. Yeah. Yeah. I picked you up right here. Even had like a little button. I think I tweeted one during during the event, but they have a little button that he added for the jewel and a little button on the back for Sinking it. Oh wow since those weren't on the original. There's no saying amazing. He is so talent. Pretty amazing

The first time I've ever heard about him Gus you interviewed him back in like 2001 Yeah, it was 2000 or 2001. It was right after he did either the entire 26th century portable or the PlayStation portable I think it was a place that you had a disc. Yeah. And we even for the old website that we did, you know, at the time, drunkamers.com, which you eventually led to a receipt, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah.

And I never heard of the guy before, and I thought, I thought he was a friend of Gus' I really did, because he was doing all this crazy, these modding things. And then over the years, he just did progressively crazier and crazier stuff. I remember, my favorite thing I think he's done is he did a one-handed controller for Disabled veteran. Yeah, that was really cool So you could play Xbox with like use up against your leg with one hand my favorite thing he's done is the billpaxton pinball machine

He made it he made a pinball machine from scratch and it's all it's themed around billpaxton Wow pinball machine from scratch and it's all it's themed around Bill Paxton. Wow. Did you make it for Bill Paxton? No, I think you made it for himself actually. Just here's the twister. Here's the exact same thing. It's like twister aliens and then every whatever movies, Bill Paxton. Every single movie ever. Yeah, we're size.

Awesome. I would throw in a couple Bill Pullman movies just because you know, you know, everyone's going to make that mistake. Like why is an independent date here? I come space balls. I almost make that mistake right now. I almost listed in the pen. This is like wait Oh, man, so what are you looking forward to coming out as far as game wise? He oh this you have a sort of a different sort of take on things because when a huge game comes out

That's more pain for you, right? Yeah, it really is a lot of work So there are certain games I try really hard to play a couple of days before they come out because I know I want to have time to play them after they come out and I don't want to have the story spoiled for me. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, this holiday is just ridiculous.

Yeah. I mean, September we've got, so Dead Island, I'm a zombie fan. I'm looking forward to that. Dead Island came on yesterday. Yes. We've got Gears of War three and a big Gears co-op fan. I love good co-op shooters.

We've got Battlefield III. We've got Call of Duty. We've got Halo and a Versaerie. Finally, the chance to play Halo legendary four-player and get achievements for it. Yes. Skyrim, there are some phenomenal games coming out on arcade. Radiant Silver Gun.

Yes. A classic on Saturn that's... So how many? A hundred dollars on eBay is coming out on arcade in September. That's great. There's tons of stuff. I don't know when I'm going to play all this. Radiant Silver Gun was the predecessor to Ikiruga,

which is also available on Xbox Live arcade. Yes, I have a big, uh, Hori fighting stick just to play games like that. Because you can't play it without a good joystick and lots of really, you know, good quality buttons, because you'll kill your controller. Bernie are in the exact same page, so you said Hori fighting stick. Right, don't call it that. What the stick in Radeen? I'm sure that's lovely parents.

H-O-R-I. Yeah, so you should describe what you do exactly. I was about to say. Yeah, because yeah, so we have you here. What exactly do you do at Microsoft? There's a lot of people I work with that would like the answer to that question. I do a couple of things.

I kind of have two jobs that I split time between. On the one hand, I'm working on Xbox Live in the operations team and focused around really the gaming features and making sure they scale. So match making, leaderboards, things like that, and making sure that when all these games come out that they're going to keep working with the load of tens of millions of people all of a sudden starting to play this game in one day. And then the rest of my job is actually working with those game developers so that we understand

before they ship the game exactly what they're doing, how it interacts with Xbox Live, maybe there's something we can do on our side to help them, or maybe I can give them some advice, that hey, I've seen that done before it works better if you do it this way instead. That's cool. And it's awesome because I get to work with some incredibly creative people. It's actually really hard to avoid spoilers though. And I got this job because I'm a gamer, and I want to play all these games, and there's nothing I hate more than looking forward to,

you know, Halo 4, and accidentally finding out something about the story before I can play it. Well, that was the worst thing you found out about it. I thought Halo 4. I don't know what you're talking about. We'll bleep it in the end. Nice try. No, Gus, I have to you and Joel, right? When you were up in you were in Edmonton working on Mass Effect 2. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I like was working on something I turn look someone else in monitor. It's like, Oh, that's the end of the game. Awesome. Yeah. I'm sure you're in Mass Effect 2. Yeah, I'm sure you see it all the time. I can tell you story about either when I went to the Halo Reach launch party this year, we went to, it was held at Bungie's new studio, which by the way is ridiculous. Oh, it's exactly the movie theaters. Oh, right.

They have Hallways Jack that are as big as our whole building. Hallways! I mean, it's just like they're massive. It's like a palace, essentially. Anyway, so I went to go, there was a line up outside where we were going to be basically check off on the list kind of a thing before the party started. I run into E and it's girl for another now fiancee. Congratulations. Thank you. On your recent engagement. Hope that's okay to say.

Yep. It's going there. It's going there. It got announced at the podcast panel. We're sitting up there, we're introducing ourselves and someone in the audience in the back stands up and goes, congratulations on getting engaged. And the place kind of went nuts. It was pretty awesome. And they just see you too in R2D2 showdup. Yeah, I got to hug R2D2. That's awesome. That was the best thing ever.

Was it like you dreamed? It was pretty much. I like we were in we were backstage. We're getting ready to set up and we were explaining here. You're gonna come on. You're gonna do this. We'll say this. And R2D2 was just sitting there and I like I got down and I was getting close to him, but I wasn't touching him. And his handler, I guess, was like, it's okay, you can hug him. His publicist. Really? Okay. It's okay, you can hug him. It's like, we know

that's why you're getting down. You want to hug R2D too. It's awesome. Look at that little claw out of shape. So you were three party. So we're outside and lying going to get in. And I ran into E in line. I see a key was further up in the line than I was. And so I just said, hello to them and all this couldn't wait to see him be inside. So we go in and it's a blowout party that bungee through for the launch of reach

and it was awesome. And I realized that for being there for like an hour, I hadn't seen E and I'm like, where are you, I got a little water on here, fine E, where is he? And I keep wandering around, wandering around. And they had cordoned off all the stations because they had basically made the studio clean

so that, you know, nobody could be like, oh, hey, let's punch up and see what, you know, whatever bungee's working on. I kind of computer somewhere. So they had cordoned off all that. But if you go upstairs, you can look out across basically the development area. And so I just ended up back in that part

of the second floor at some point. And I finally found e. In the middle of this entire party, this big rockest event, there's E. Back in this corner with a bunch of other developers, and he's staring intently at this network graph. This is like a RTG graph, you know, and it's like, oh, he's working, right? We're all, you know, he's he's here enjoying the party, but he's working, you know, making sure the reach servers stay up while a billion people decide to log in. Make sure everyone's party.

Was that one of the record breaking days? That was a, uh, yes, we did set some records that day. My girlfriend was having a great time at the party. We have a bunch of friends who work at Bungie, so she was hanging out with them, but I've got a long history of great parties I haven't been at. Nearby. Zero hour. What?

People loved zero hour. I was back home making sure everything worked. I didn't even get a hoodie. So those zero hour hoodies are so cool. We just I still have ours. I still remember marketing and PR forgot to bring me one. I still get some problem about that. You know, days probably we talk about that hoodie every now and then to this day. That hoodie is so comfortable. And it's so well constructed. It looks brand new after now, six years, right?

Just mind that salt in the wounds. Mine has a tear. I think this might be a trash winner coming up. Uh oh, old Faithful is dead. Well, you know, actually Jeff just was like, I don't really like hoodies. Like when we were there, he just turned his down. And he kind of, I think, lamented that over the years.

Yeah. Because guess I would wear ours, you know, in cold bays. We were in a buddy club. But we also had another problem too and that at zero hour we're big achievement junkies, you know And so there was a zero hour achievement Yeah, now this is back in the days when they were gonna use achievements for like live events too as well Yep, and it was more I guess it was more like a gamer pick, but it was no it's an achievement. Yeah, I have it Yeah, and we got our cards transferred at the event Gus

You don't have it either right? No, I never showed up for me for some reason. No, and my achievement never showed up either So it's like and then I know like Frank at 343 has it. Yeah, it's like every time I see him on my friends. It's like damn it. Yeah, I didn't get the hoodie, but I got the achievement So you said we have your digital. I mean you can show off the achievement forever. Yes, that's true The hoodie apparently last six to seven years, which is pretty amazing for a hoodie. I'm telling you, man, this thing is like, it's a workhorse because I've had that thing forever and it looks brand new to this. Well, everyone's got like two or three hoodies that they wear forever, right? Like, is you can rotate through them?

Yeah, I know I've got like, I've got a Nintendo hoodie that I wear has the old school and he has control on it. I think I've got a Red versus Blue hoodie and then that's really the only two I need. I've got a Zelda hoodie that I've had forever. Exactly. It's a black hoodie, and no matter how many times I wash it, it doesn't fade. Wow. I don't get it.

Some kind of triforst magic. It's got some special spell on it or something. Yeah. I'm actually surprised after zero hour that there was not like a class action lawsuit for the organizers of the event. I don't know who your event coordinators were. But we were in up. It was in the Mojave Desert was a massive airplane hangar. That was all white on the inside. And because of the color scheme of the Xbox, somebody

had the bright idea, let's light this entire thing in only green lights. Oh, Jesus. It looks, you go back and look at the pictures of zero hour. It looks awesome. But you forget, we were there six hours for this launch event because it went started early and then it went through midnight and everybody could buy an Xbox there on site. I walked out of there. I literally couldn't see any color, but green. Every other, the color spectrum was gone. Everything was like, it was like looking at a monitor from 1980. It was one of the weirdest feelings. I'm talking about the green lights that were zero hour, and I couldn't see anything that wasn't green after I walked out of that building.

Was that what it was or was it that green? Green was burned out of your eyes. Like red and blue were working fine, but green just like, man, it's indescribable. Because we were there about what, six hours, right? We were there long and that weren't we? It was awful, they were there before the event opened because we had to set up and you know take care of some things and we were there Pretty much to the end of the event. I was telling E at lunch the about the death ray from the Las Vegas hotel Yeah, these unintended consequences of architecture and design

That just come on over like not being able to see green anymore after you leave the zero hour event It's funny too is like I see the frag dolls at all these events that we go to like packs yep and Comic-Con and e3 and You forget those those ladies are showing off a dancing game eight hours a day Oh, yeah for a full weekend and then they do that like two weekends a month sometimes Yeah, like we did the frag dude short and I had to dance for an hour maybe two Yeah, I wanted to die I was like like, how the fuck do you do this? We're like eight hours a day at a trade show.

We saw Brooklyn at PAX this year and she said she'd lost like eight pounds like the second day. She's right. Yeah. We just walked up and she said, yeah, I lost like eight pounds. Some of the connect developers on various connect games, like adventures and dance central. And some of them were like, oh, we lost 30 pounds during

the development of this game because we were playing hours every day. It's like the opposite of what happens to a developer normally. Yes, because I was like, the first couple versions of Xbox Live, I gained like 10 pounds every version. And eventually it was like, okay, I gotta do something about this.

This is bad. Yeah, and then, and then Connect was born. Yes. You know, I should actually thank E and you should as well Jack. Thank you Some people have noticed they've they've given me comments in the videos that we produce recently that they've noticed that I've lost some weight I've actually lost 60 pounds I went from 250 to 190 and I've talked about it before in the podcast about how I did some of it But actually how it's the whole process started because of this little thing, the Fitbit, which I learned by listening to your podcast. I love it. I love it too. It's just a little pedometer, but it's like a for a metric junkie. Yeah, yeah, it's very powerful. You and I

need to get on each other's leaderboards, because for me, that's the power of the Fitbit is the leaderboard. The fact that there are a couple people on my leaderboard who are in the industry and do trade shows and stuff. And so every time one of us is at E3 or PAX, all of a sudden we go from 10,000 steps a day to 20,000. And it becomes a thing and you get back to your hotel and it's 3 a.m. and you're looking, I one more lap around the block. I just, I gotta, yeah.

That's what motivated me. I actually think you made a tweet where you said, I mean my hotel room, I saw it at 9500 steps So I just walked around my hotel room 500 steps and I've done that but hearing you tweet about that reading that I thought okay That's obviously something that I would do too So I got the thing and just started walking for people who are Achievement motivated this totally it's that same brain cell whatever it is

Mm-hmm, but the biggest thing that I did was, I took a, you probably would not want to be in my leaderboard because I use a treadmill or two. And I take a treadmill and I put it up against a wall where I have a TV hung and I play my 360 at two miles an hour. Oh, okay. Or, kind of a game I'm playing like one mile an hour.

I don't do that, but I watch Netflix on the treadmill. See, that's great. And it's a... The thing that has really helped me now, honestly, is having a big active young dog, I've got to take him out for a couple of miles when I get home. And it really looks blue. It turns out that by doing that, you know, I come home, I'm stressed, I'm tired, I'm cranky. I take him out for, you know, 45 minutes or whatever. And I'm relaxed, and I feel better, and I'm sociable, and it's amazing. And I had completely gotten away from anything of that

because I'd come home exhausted, eat and go to bed. Well, I just want to say thank you because you introduced me to it and it really kickstarted a big weight-lost thing for me. Awesome, that's 60 pounds. I'd be thrilled if I could lose 10 or 20 right now. Here's the question of how many of those Fitbits have you lost or washed or destroyed?

This is either my fourth or fifth. Well, here's an interesting point though that I've learned and I was talking to Bernie's wife about this the other night. They sometimes survive the new like efficient washers that don't use much water. Oh, right. I have an old school washing machine

that is death on Fitbit. And it's like, they're like little lemmings trying to get inside the washing machine. Nice. So how many of you lost? I haven't lost any. I've washed three three i think so far c i had bird birdie bought me one for christmas

as like it was a christmas gift and uh... i i think i lost it i lost it in the austin airport i took it off to go through security and then i think i had it and i set it down somewhere in a walk away the the thing i've learned is i wear it on the little uh... the little plastic clip and i wear it inside out so that's actually inside the pocket. Okay. As opposed to being on the outside like you'd expected to be. And I haven't lost one yet.

So that's good at least. Oh, yes. We never take it off. When you say to walk away at the airport, I picture it like literally walking. You're like tracking on the line. It's a pedometer. Yeah. So of course.

Well, it has a thing where I've lost them somewhere in my closet before and it has a thing where it'll sink to a base my closet before and it has a thing where it'll sink to a base within 15 feet. So I've walked around my laptop to where it'll sink and I'm like, okay, I'm within 15 feet. And then I start triangulating to figure out what this thing is. I've done that too. I lost one.

It had, I had put it down instead of where I always put it. I'd put it next to the TV in my bedroom and then unbeknownst to me, the cat had jumped up there and knocked it behind the TV. And I did the exact same triangulation thing walking around with a laptop, waiting to see if it would sink, and I couldn't find it for like a week. And finally, I got behind the TV to plug in like a vacuum or something, and there it was. There is a negative aspect of the fit that though is like you said you didn't have it for a week, and you're triangulating with your laptop. The whole time, if you're like me, you're probably

thinking I'm wasting all these steps. Yes. I don't have it. There's times where it's like, Oh, I forgot my fit bit. And it's like, I'm not walking anywhere. The opposite effect. Nothing makes me angrier than getting to the dog park and realizing I don't have my fit bit. Yeah. It's like, here I am. We're going to walk for a couple of. Oh, no. And then I have to go walk again. You're everything about putting getting one for your dog and seeing how many steps he does. Like, we're gonna walk for a couple of, oh, no! And then I have to go walk again. You're everything about getting one for your dog, and seeing how many steps he does, like having a competition with him?

People have suggested that a bunch, and I've actually had a bunch of people accuse me of just doing that, like get on, put it on the dog. It's like, no, those are all my steps. I'm gonna show you why you don't wanna be on my leaderboard. It is with the treadmill thing, the most I ever walked, total was 150 miles playing fallout That's not obviously that's over a long period of time still so I love the per game leaderboard

72 miles for dead space I think 16 miles to clean up some borderlands achievements But look that's my single day total Said 40,000 steps double my all time my all time high is like twenty one thousand it was a Sunday Yeah, and I think I actually kind of damaged my knee. Yeah, I Did 21,000 at I think it was e3 2010 Yeah, Carrie showed me Carrie has a fit bit as well in here And he had 25,000 around lunchtime at PAX this year on Saturday How much lunch time?

Wow, what a packs. Yeah, he was in, see? Yeah, he was working all that day. Like, how do you get that much, like, a 200 square foot area? He must have attached it to a packs gore inside, come back in time. Oh, it would be way less steps than that. The packs go here. He pinned to a fragdom. Was there rolling involved? So the, the, the totals,

I should give a perspective here. 40,000 steps in a day is 19 miles in one day. Oh my god. Which I mean, still, I mean, that's like... That's most of a marathon. It's a lot, but it's a big chunk of a marathon. Yeah, that's how I put Dead Space. Dead Space was about three marathons to finish.

So. Okay, I'm gonna have to start doing this now, because I, okay. But there's only some games you can play. Like, you'll notice the games I play are like red dead, Dead Space, Borderlands. That's about the most FPS, you can close this to fp. I can get and then vague fallout in Vegas They're those third person like walking games right that helps. I did try to play a reach. I have like three miles playing reach because

No matter how slow you go on the treadmill You're my least my brain can't compensate and when I turn left I physically start to walk left and I stepped off the side of the treadmill Yeah, it was like a video you see on break.com. I busted my ass I landed on my back the treadmill Shot me off back the treadmill into my bookcase No more that's part of down It took me a lot longer than 10 seconds to respond from that I'm gonna try that because I just I throw on

Series on Netflix right now I'm working my way through Star Trek, the next generation on the treadmill. Nice, that's awesome idea. Did you, so we talked earlier about the box sets for Star Wars? Did you ever consider buying the next generation box set? No, just because of how expensive it was and I don't like all the seasons. I love like season two through maybe five or six, but I didn't like the first season, I didn't like all the seasons. I love like season two through maybe five or six, but I didn't like the first season, I didn't like the last couple.

Okay, so. Yeah, the first season is a little rough. Yeah, and I don't buy TV series anymore. I used to specifically, so I could watch them while I was working out. There's so much good TV on Netflix. There's just no point anymore. I mean, that's why.

That's why. That's why we ask. Well, to see that's the thing is that I was going to buy it and I think Griffin was talking about it one time too where she was going to buy the next generation box set and at that point in time they just announced the Netflix deal and say, well, maybe I won't do that. I have a Netflix subscription. Mm-hmm.

$8 a month is a lot cheaper. Yep. Sweet and rich. Those rates go up. Yes. They starting September, I think. So yeah, I haven't checked yet. I don't remember them notifying me.

Do they have to? You probably don't need it. I've got yeah, I haven't checked yet. I don't remember them notify me. Do they have to? You probably got an email to my registered Netflix account. I got a filter all my Netflix emails I got an email and then I canceled my account Cuz I was like cuz I realized I hadn't used Netflix in like four months and I'm like why am I paying for this? I don't I don't get it to streaming because I had disks that I'd had for like a year and a half Oh, I was amazed the other day a couple of co-workers were like I've had this disc a year and a half. I was amazed the other day, a couple of coworkers were like, I've had this disc for two and a half years because all I watch is streaming.

And on my Twitter feed all of a sudden, there was a competition. And someone was like, I've had this one for two years and eight months. And it's insane. It's funny to think about like how much of your Netflix subscription went towards paying for you not returning that disc.

And how much cheaper it would be just to have bought the disc. All right. Oh, absolutely. Immediately, yeah, what's the longest movie that you own? Like do you remember the title of the one that you just like I can't return this because I have to watch it Oh, it was um to be able to a bridge too far bridge too far. It's always something like You know artsy movie typically, you know that you just can't bring yourself to watch it But you can't bring yourself to return to the show there's list something like that Hotel Rwanda was Jason's I remember he kept he was on his coffee table for like eight months He's like I just can't return it without watching

I have to sit down and watch the dawn shield movie. Yeah, he never ended up watching it Did you catch his his captain planet video that is put on funnier die the other day? I see it linked everywhere. I saw it on reddit, but I haven't watched the same thing Yeah, it's done shield as captain planet with a bunch of other people like much other like you know Celebrities from like I think the girl from community and like I saw it on Reddit, but I haven't watched it. Same thing. Yeah. It's done as Captain Planet with a bunch of other people. Like, a bunch of other like, you know, celebrities from like, I think the girl from community and like... Oh, I got celebrities on FunnierDine? Yeah, imagine that. But anyway, it's kind of a funny video. That's the only guess. Okay, cool, if you want to. I'm sure I can find it again. I'm sure it'll pop up on Reddit as a repost and...

In the order too. But it'll be new for those people. Yeah, so nice. I just like on Reddit to see what's going on there. And somebody did one of the probably one of the funniest experiments I've ever heard of in my life. What's that? I'll just read you the title of it. So my wife and I got a codec pulse picture frame. It lets you email photos directly to it Oh, no, I've added and here's the email address. Oh, no So some guy has He's got a repository He's got a goat sea lemon party exactly a picture frame That's a horrible idea pretty much. Wow. You just don't invite company over

He'll turn it off pretty quickly. Yeah, I'm pretty sure to set it to like an allowed senders list or something that I mean it would be really interesting to set up a webcam and stream it on you know some streaming site Just so people could see but that's just got to be horrible. Yeah My my in-laws. I you know my my in-laws are very technically challenged and like in-laws are yeah, and I had to go down like we had to For other business my wife would receive emails and we have to print them out and take them down to them But we bought them one of those HP printers that connects directly to a Wi-Fi access point and you can just email documents directly to the printer nice And just print some fucking savings so much time. Yeah. I love that thing.

Like if it doesn't work, it's like, OK, go reboot your router. Yeah, unplug it. Plug it back in. OK, great work. Although now people are going to start driving around just trying to print randomly. Yeah, but it hasn't allowed senders. That's just something we think about. It's the only thing.

It only prints jobs from like two email addresses. OK. Remote desktop saved my life when I was able to install that on my dad's computer, eventually. Yeah. Yeah. I did it through a a Mac program like back to my Mac on his and gosh just saved so much time. Yeah. When you can see it first time. Yeah. My dad at one point I don't have ever talked about this before but he had office for the Mac. This make up. Yeah absolutely. So he had office for the Mac which he didn't use all that much because he was retired.

So I come to find out that every time he went to use an office product, he installed office. He installed office 40 times on his computer. 40 times. And it's like, that was taken hour. Every time you go to use word, and he was like, yeah, put it in the disk. To use it to use it. Oh, the memory. Single times. word and he was like, yeah, you know, put in the disc to use it. It's probably a single time.

Oh my God. And then try to explain that. You don't have to do that. What? What I want to use the program, I got to put the disc in. Yeah. I mean, first of all, he's probably violating the Yula, you know. Right?

Right up the fast. First of all, now you're criminal. Secondly, this is not the way to do this. That's incredible. You're using 90% of your hard drive. You should be using four percent. You have a bigger hard drive. For more incredible. You're using 90% of your hard drive. You should be using 4%. You have a bigger hard drive. For more often.

You need to run off this more often. Yeah, how often do you want to use office in the next year? Let's get you a 10-terabyte per rating so that you can write letters. You need to have 20-bit running out of office space again. Yeah. Room shot. Yeah. You're using a soundboard in here.

We do. You have one right? I have a soundboard, but we turn it off because people got annoyed by my soundboard. Yeah. You're me. It's soundboard in here. We do you have one right? I have a sound board, but we turn it off because people got annoyed by my soundboard. Yeah, my people You mean everyone else in the room pretty much yeah, watch out. I will turn it back on any second. I bet it right here That's okay. I'm not in the podcast very often so you've been on a lot more lately. Yeah, well It's up to Gus. I think Gus is just tired of going upstairs the other people I'm joking off and on and just across the hall. We've also been in crunch time. Like, that's true. We don't want to mess with you guys upstairs.

People do not want to step away from their discs. I feel guilty going home at like 6.30 at night now. I don't. You guys are upstairs. It's like, I think Brian was here for like five days in a row or something like that. Yeah. Brian's our art guys, one of our new art guys.

He's more like on some CGI stuff. But before Carrie went to Pax, he'd been sleeping on the couches here. Yeah. And anytime before he goes to sleep, he lays down the couch, he says, wake me if you need me. One of the things I have learned after years and years of occasional crunch is when you personally aren't in crunch, enjoy it. Go on vacation, stop reading email, get as far as you can because your next crunch is coming. Well, see, honestly, right now,

the achievement hundred crunch is about to hit. Cause like that list of games you rattled off, yeah, that's what I get to go through for the next three months. Yep, so it's what? I'm gonna be working. I gotta play Dead Island, the Dead Island, the Dead Island. Oh, God.

It's already in the reverse edition. Shut up. It began this week already. We had Madden come out this week. We've got some other stuff in early that we're working on now. So I'm gonna punch you in the reverse edition. Shut up. It began this week already. We had madden come out this week and we've got some other stuff in early that we're working on now. So I'm going to punch you in the crotch. It's so sad. I can't help but crotch. Is that Gus' pressure point?

Oh yeah, that's a pretty universal pressure point. Yeah, just the need of the growing and that'll drop pretty much any human man. Yeah. All right, well I don't know how much longer you guys want to go, but I was thinking about wrapping this thing up. You were thinking about it. Yeah. Then anybody have any objections to that?

Uh, no. Okay. I got a shout out to Austin, Texas. And I guess Lockhart. Lockhart Texas. Lockhart. Home of the greatest barbecue I have ever had. I was playing the novel.

No, it lived up to the hype. Yes. Absolutely. We went to Christ's and smitties market today. The some people, there's barbecuing is different things to different people. Yes. And to me, barbecuing is brisket. And I feel like the brisket at crisis is second and none. I am, honestly, I'm more of a pork person.

Cold pork sandwiches are my favorite barbecuing in the world, but I also really like brisket. And that brisket was Unbelievably good. It was great All right, it's back. All right, well on that note now that the sound boards back up. Let's wrap this up All right that fast. Yeah, thanks for joining us man. Yeah, thank you so much. Thanks for having me. This was great. All right. Bye-bye Describe the show between newcomer and a more familiar way. Do you like apples? Example together in trepid hosts Characombs Characombs are free to do is have nothing to do with this podcast analyze various unsolved

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