Rooster Teeth Podcast - Rooster Teeth Podcast #16

Episode Date: July 29, 2009

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1 tbc 1 tbc 1 tbc 1 tbc 1 tbc Hey everyone, welcome to the Ristuth drunk tank. That's like the trance theme song. Yeah, that one had a little bit of soul to it. The house music there. Depends on the teeth. That's the oral boros theme song.

That's oral boros? Yeah, oral boros submitted that one. Nice. Yeah. I guess he finally responded. You called him out a couple of weeks ago, see if he would submit a theme song. I didn't call him out. I was just a fan of his prior work and I thought, hey, let's get a RT podcast theme song.

I'll give you a chance. Out of him. Or a drunk tank theme song, excuse me. Do we ever refer to this as the RT podcast? When I post it on the front page, sometimes it calls it the Ristreet Podcast. Yeah. In print, this is only though. It's good that it has like seven names, so nobody's confused,

but what it actually is It's all like you know, you know you go out and mark we are billboards. We put up for our podcasts. We have a confusing branding Rich teeth drunk tank podcast made by the guys about your red versus blue calm I like the sound of it. It's got a ring to it. There you go So I'm sure is a I'm sure everyone's real glad to be back in the office after an exhausting week of San Diego. Yeah, I really am. I really, really am. I don't know. I want to stay in San Diego. I was ready to be done with a convention, but man, I want to stay in San Diego. Well, you like it? I like it. I like any five degree weather. Yeah, I like a little bit better than

the 30 degree jump in temperature than we got when we got back here. It's literally 30 degrees hotter. Last night at 10 pm, it was 90 degrees still. Yeah, you guys will be happy to know this is our 42nd day over 100 this year in Austin. That's fucking crazy. That's ridiculous. That's 42 hundred degrees. Wow. Can we just like the sun? When we were coming in for the landing in Austin, the turbulence was probably the worst

turbulence I felt on a landing in Austin at least. For sure. Of any plane ride ever. And you know, it's just because there's so much heat radiating up from the ground. Jesus, what are you? A scientist or something? You sound super smart.

They'll ask me about bullets in their trajectory. Let's hold a discussion. But it was nuts. I mean, it's like 105 here every day. Every single day. know what to me the worst is when you know it's gonna be bad Is when you step off the plane into the jet way and you're not in the airport yet? Yeah, you know you're walking up the the little portable ramp they have outside Which is obviously not environment controlled and you know it's hot, you know You just feel it you like oh shit. Yep. That's your first experience with the Austin Heat as soon as you step out.

And then once you step out the airport and the sun actually hits your skin, it burns it tingles. Yeah, exactly. It's like, man, we saw that guy walking to the long-term lot on the way out of the airport. We're driving out. We've been driving out of that parking lot because it's so big for like five minutes. It seems like, and we see a guy, this poor guy, and he's like, you know, totally bald. And he's like carrying all this heavy luggage, and he's just sweating it 105 degree heat. And I was like, man, that guy's head is gonna be, like, raspberry colored. By the time he gets back to his car,

he's gonna get a lobster. And he was heavily dressed. And he's heavily dressed. And I think he was looking around like he didn't know where he was parked. He's like looking at all the different laws. That was just walking down the road, like, oh man. He home man. He was wearing a parka. He's dead now You know Becca uploaded a photo the other day from a car where the temperature and a car set 111 degrees

Wow, you know The people in Seattle have been complaining. They're finally getting hit by some serious heat And I've been hearing lots of complaints from them that it's just brutal up there as well What do you think serious heat is to people in Seattle like 85? I'm just about to look at that. I would guess 85, yeah. It's like, oh, this rain is warm. I'm sure they have a lot more humidity up there. I don't know. They might make a lot of noise.

No, no, that's a serious deal because we've had a couple of human days here. And it's not fun. Unless you've lived in Houston or Mississippi or Louisiana. Or Alabama. You don't know what humidity is true I lived in Puerto Rico for a while and I think the hottest it ever got there was like 82 degrees But it felt like 10 times hotter than any temperature recad out here. Dude when I was in Panama back in the day The humidity was actually a hundred percent which you would think you'd be like a wall of water It's not but that was fucking human.

That was like, I don't even want to talk about you can't wear underwear because you should just get gross. You know what I love? You live in the jungle. I love. I love that we actually had a 30 minute meeting yesterday where we planned out the topics for the drunk tank. And then we immediately get to some random conversations.

You can't you can't plan the drum tank. The drum tank just happened. Drum tank plans you. You know Jeff, you told me a really funny story about a weather one time when you were stationed in the Persian Gulf after the Gulf War. And you said that it would be like 140 degrees during the day. Literally like it gets the hottest ever saw. It was like 156 degrees.

156? Yeah, that and fifty six Yeah, that's what the temperature gauges would say that's like But it was like 15 degrees away from chicken being done. Yeah. No, no, it's fucked up Seriously, yeah, no, it's pretty fucking hot. It would be like the guys you were working with What's in a chicken? It it would on average be like 130 though like it'd be like one twenty one 120 130 140 and then you would go back to the bunk at night Which was air conditioned which was air conditioned and I would come in and I was worrying because

The army was cheap when I was in and they gave you winter weight There's two different kinds of clothes you get winter weight in summer weight and they gave us all winter weight to go to So we also had to wear winter weight clothes and we're not all in a row or sleeves up in the field and the whole thing so I would come in in these heavy clothes and Just sweating because even at night it's like 125 degrees and I would walk into the barracks And I would be in within five seconds I'd be freezing and I'd literally be shaking and one that I was like Why would somebody make it 26 degrees in our barracks?

And I walked over to the thermostat and it was like 89 and your season Reasing it was the coldest I'd ever been. Yeah. That's wrong. It's wrong. Talk about a dry heat, too. I would come back to Aunt Colleen, you know, just North of Austin. And for about two months after I got back,

all of the skin on my hands would peel off in layers, over and over again. I had some kind of a disease, because I hit the humidity and like just my skin shed. It was fucking disgusting. That was not good. So if you're listening from Seattle. That's what you're informed. Well, welcome to hell Yeah, and I'll have sinus problems in Austin because it was just too human for me Austin was too human. Yeah, and it's obviously a very dry place. Yeah

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And how much you're walking. like we whenever we go to New York for an event in New York that was like all weekend of walking which is non-stop you get off the plane you start walking and you never stop like while you're watching the the screen your reverse blue you're walking around the theater it seemed like well you yeah you you essentially walk from pizza shop to mr. soft that is weird to have to miss the seats at the theaters in New York there's just all walking it's's all treadin' else. It's weird. Bernie and I used to have a pack whenever we go to New York

for events that if we saw pizza, we had to stop and have a slice. Yep, and we would eat like seven slices of pizza today, but we would still lose weight in New York because we'd walk so much. We would be in a pizza place. We'd see one across the street. We had to finish this slice

because we have to walk across the street and get a slice over there. That was awesome. Now before we had an actual good pizza rea here in Austin. Yeah, how do you all match the stay so fit? It's all the walking baby. Yeah I was the same way in Seattle with the pretzel places Oh, it's a hard to pass in these and you should make up a new diet called like the pizza diet And you can only eat food you can walk to look who's talking

No, I'm saying like I think it's a real thing if you can walk to it and diet and you can only eat food you can walk to. Look who's talking to you. No, I'm saying. I think it's a real thing. If you can walk to it and get it, you can eat it. That's not a bad idea. Every time we sent you guys out to get food, you either went and got in and out burgers, and then one time you brought back a steak sandwich. It was literally a steak on pieces of bread. It was a New York strip steak in between two giant pieces of bread.

What was it awesome? You're welcome by the way the bread was like butter so yeah It was also the because yeah, it was soaked in butter and I don't know if you all like blue cheese But like they all came there's coming blue cheese on them and it was a giant tub of blue cheese next We just didn't want to give you guys the Cardboard disc pizza that they sell inside the convention center I appreciate that yeah Yeah, the food they sell convention centers is terrible. But San Diego Comic Con

has one good thing going for it in that they have banned booths from selling Pocky, which is nice for me because I won't go into like a Pocky coma by the end of it. Did they I swear I saw one booth of Pocky? I'll Bernie and I spent like an hour walking on looking for it. We can find it. There was one over there like in the low numbers like in in the 200s and 300s that had some. I think that's the only image in centers that's starting to ban anyone from selling food. And I know, I think for a while they didn't know

that boosts were selling food. No, no, I think that's totally legit. I mean, I'm sure this was for permits or health regulations or something involved with selling people food. I guess so. They just want to make more money on their $8 turkey sandwiches. Yeah. I know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't want to buy more money on their $8.30 sandwiches. Yeah. I know. I wouldn't... I wouldn't want to buy pocket out of some dudes pocket.

This was the 40th anniversary of Comic Con, by the way. And I was one point out that they also, for the first 35 years of Comic Con, also missed that people were selling bootleg copies of every movie and every TV show ever. That's something that's really changed. It's been started going to Comic Con. Yeah, for sure. And this is a... There's a whole bootleg DVD set up right next to the the $8 hot dog stand as well. It's like you go over there and get like a $8 hot dog and a $8 copy of Wolverine. All seasons of Futurama. Yeah. It's crazy. I remember I was in one of those bootleg booths. I was thinking how can they like do this out in the open, you know, how can they have this? And then the guy

had the audacity to have the signs up everywhere saying, you are being watched, you are being videotaped. And I prosecute. It's like, well good for fucking you, buddy. What do you want to steal your fucking stolen shows? It seems like what I see now, obviously the bootleg thing has really died down. What I see now is people buying stuff of the convention, then reselling it at their booth for a markup.

At this year's Comic Con we saw, you know, Gryffball figures were being sold by Entertainment Earth for 17 bucks. But then some dudes on the other side of the haul were selling the Gryffball figures for like 22 bucks. Let me tell you something, that five bucks worth it. To not walk across that convention center floor, that's well worth it. By the way, we never introduced ourselves. They probably don't even know who the fuck is talking. Oh, well, they should know me. Who are you?

I'm Gus. Nice. I'm not Gus. Which hot chick are you this week? I'll be Marina or Lovah. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. I'll be Marina or Lovah. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, I'll just be Jeff.

Who is who you? We're a man in here with us. That's what I wanted to point out. I guess I'm just Matt. I want to hold, you know, persona, pseudonym, non-de plume. What do you call it in radio? I don't know.

Handle? Handle, yeah. The dude from Attack of the Show. I'm DJ Helm. We'll slide this motherfucker up. DJH. And this is probably the best description of what the comic con crowd is like He said people a comic con walk like old people fuck

That is exactly right. I mean you are just walking along there and people are just dottering like Duh, duh, you know They're not going anywhere. They're just wandering and then they stop every four feet to look at something or to take a freaking picture of something. The worst of course the stopping is terrible. What my pet peeve is when they're walking at a good clip at a good speed, then all of a sudden they do a 90 degree turn without any warning. Oh they do that all the time. And without looking and you're all of a sudden you're like you fucking smashing into the pervert. Not only are they not looking but they'll look left and walk right. How the fuck do they do that? Well, they look left to make sure there's nothing to walk to over there.

And you're always surprised. That's other things. You're always surprised when they get run into. And it's like, how could you not get run into? It's like 150,000 people in here. Didn't you get run into and roughed up by someone? Bernie? Yeah, we both did.

Oh, I did. I got roughed up by celebrities. Entourage. I was I was walking with Jeff. I'm Jeff. Yes, thanks. I was just a gab. I'm DJ Helen I was walking to Jeff across the floor and like these guys who they're called the elites Which are the security service there I guess and they're a bunch of fucking pricks and they were escorting they were Scorning someone through the crowd you know they go move move move they like make a big production out of it Where they can easily just part the ways that they want to without screaming at the top of the lungs They're escorting someone through the crowd. You know, they go, move, move, move. They make a big production out of it,

where they can easily just part the ways that they want them to without screaming at the top of their lungs, but. But it makes them feel important. Exactly. They want to point out the fact that there's escorting a celebrity, which I sounded about like disenchanted, but I'm about to be

all excited that I ran into celebrity. Anyway, so this guy, he literally stopped me, like he put his hand on my chest to stop me, and he goes, hold on, we're coming through here. Then he stops me. So there's a space clearly in front of me where I was walking that he prevented me from walking into, he stops me, then proceeds to walk right through me, like he stops me in place and then tries to walk around the back of me by walking through my left shoulder.

It was just like the best lead block ever. Yeah, it was, the guy was a moron and then like I was like fucking asshole and whoever he was escorting like like reached out like padded me on the forearm the short guy and he goes sorry about that buddy and it was Danny DeVito so I never saw him you think it would be I didn't know down enough you think it's easier for them to like put Danny DeVito on their shoulders and like I think you're back him through the convention like Homer did with Mark Hamill I was I was thinking Yoda yeah and Luke Skywalker I was like both Mark Hamill and David O'Vito was was a nice guy in this he was he seemed nice and it was just the the handbar who was kind of like yeah

yeah that always the case and then I another another my other celebrity citing that I had on the floor was there was the end of the boot or the end of the con hall down by the video games, which were kind of cordoned off the back wall this time. Yeah, the far left wall. Yeah, and that part of the hall was deadly for traffic. I don't know what it was, but when you got down there past some of the movie stuff, it just became like, you were shoulder to shoulder like, Marty Grau, or a Moshpate, and it was

impossible to navigate down there and Yeah, in the Warner area. Yeah, well, yeah pass that pass that anyway So I was walking along in a pretty said clip pretty happy and then I stopped Dead and I'm sitting there like what is going on? I see those people with cameras over their heads pointing down at something and I'm like oh here clearly There's a celebrity on the floor sitting there dead still smashed in between those people for like two or three minutes Which was an eternity then they finally start moving. And I think, okay, well, at least I'll get to see who this celebrity is. You know, at least I'll get something out of this. It was Gene Simmons. Nice. Did you get his autograph? Yeah. I'm a big fan of his

sex tape. Who is it? Who isn't a huge? Does he have a second? He doesn't have a second. Yeah, he totally. He's totally fucking while I want to know what love is is playing in the background. That's Lord. What is it with celebrities now where they're like as they get older They're just turning into like wax people. I don't know what it is. It's just like he's not aged well No, and they get like this how could he With his lifestyle is that a choice? They're not aging either They're like there was no difference between Gene Simmons and the old Haggard sword swell war.

We were sitting outside of our booths. The mother fucker. That guy was the... I didn't want that guy around. No. That was messed up. You know, the most frustrating part about that is, well, I guess I should explain everyone. We had... behind our booth was the spike in Mike animation festival booths, which I don't understand how they're still around with the internet being around. But I guess... It was hard on day. Yeah, I guess to get people to come to their booth on the final day. They had a sword swallower

So in their booth they had this dude who would you know obviously put a sword in his mouth and swallow it and a huge crowds would Would appear people be taking pictures and screaming and they had like a megaphone and Yet going back to those elite people those elite people did nothing to disperse that crowd yet they came by our booth once to tell us to turn our monitors off because people weren't dispersing. They were gathering around our monitors and we're blocking the aisle. We have kind of a history at Comic Con of them giving us a hard time about traffic which makes no sense whatsoever. We had that first booth, that first year, it was the end of that hallway,

and it was just, we stay in our booth the entire time signing, which they tried to move us out and try to move us in the autograph area, and we just won't do it. I just, it's like, that's what we're here to do. It doesn't make sense. No, it makes no fucking sense. Especially when you can walk over to the Mattel booth

and there's like human dominoes, and a big circle going around the entire booth, it's like fucking 12 rows deep. And nobody cares about that. You go down the other end of the booth, the con hall, and there's endless traffic. I mean, you can't even move. And like we have a collection of people who crowded around,

we were showing the red versus blue animated piece on our monitors about what, once every 15 minutes. Yeah, it was like a 15 minute reel. So crowd would build up for every 15 minutes, crowd would build up to watch it, and it would last four minutes, and then they would disperse them. So guy comes back and goes,

you need to turn off your monitors because these crowds are not dispersing. And we said, no, we're not gonna, you know? I'm sure they went over to fucking Lucasfilm or Warner and told him to turn their monitors off because people were watching Star Wars or whatever Warner has. Now I was in there when they were showing the old

Republic trailer on the big screen over there, and it was ridiculous. I mean, it was like, you could not move. I mean, it was like Marty Groud times 10, or in the same. I bet they almost had as many people watching that old Republic trailer as we had watching Red versus Blue Animated.

I was almost. I bet almost. It was close. It was close, but. Well, like a factor of. But the idea they did not have was, you know, the Comic-con guys coming around and going Hey, this is versus crap

By the way comic-con how much longer can they call it comic-con? Oh, man I went to a party where we talked about that. Yeah, it is not a comic book convention at all like every year There's like don't say that well every year. There's like 15% less comic related stuff and places that sell comic books And it's like the video game sections Three times the size it wasn't we first started going now Yeah, I don't think there was a video game section And now I think so either and now there's like it's all like it's all Star Wars and video games and movies Yeah, and that video game section I mean like that Xbox booth was a nightmare. You can you can anywhere near it

It was probably what a 20 to 20 booth and it only opened one direction So it was impossible to get in and out of that thing. And of course they made a stage. How do you make a stage in a booth? Let's lay out like that. They're not the candidates. They're not the candidates.

They're not the candidates. So the stage took up even more of the traffic flow and it was just, man, it was impossible to get through that thing. You know, I'm really jealous that you had to see big celebrities like Tene de Vito and Jean Seine. Yeah. I think the only celebrity I saw was Marina or Lova. Did you?

Yeah. And we, we, we stalked her silently from afar. Is that the hot for words lady? Yeah. Yeah. Dude, she was so hot. Her, her and her friend. Wait. I saw, I saw a couple, oh, super hot dudes.

They were signing out of guys. Mr. Brent Spiner and Leonard Nimoy. I saw. And I was just kidding. You guys. That was, that was pretty funny. I kind of geeked out for a second when I thought you're like oh they're together One of the giving each other hand The half-for-word chick God damn guess on us of the funniest thing we were sitting at the bar in our hotel where she had like a hot-for-words meetup

We kind of went down there just to just to see what was going on and see if she was this hot and person that she was and she was and Her friend that buys her drinks is even hotter by the way, but you know, it would have been awesome It's a thought about it ahead of time Get her to sign a dictionary That's what you guys do funny. She has like a book she was signing But anyway, so Gus and I were sitting at the bar and there was a big big fat guy next to us Who must have been like 400 pounds and he kept And there was a big big fat guy next to us who must have been like 400 pounds and he kept I don't know guys that big

He was like this at three yeah Yeah, and he kept bumping into Gus and Gus got annoyed so we went and sat somewhere else and we watched that guy sit at the bar Pounding drinks for about 45 minutes until he built up enough courage to walk over and ask to take a picture with her Wow, and he would just like he was just staring at her and then he'd order another drink stared or a drink and then he's eventually like Lumbered on over and took a photo. And of course put his arm around. Yeah, like as soon as he sits down, he pulls the old like, oh, he totally did it. He totally did it.

He totally did it. Around back. Really? Yeah, it was totally awesome. So where's your picture of it? If he would have had a box of popcorn, his dick would have been in it. I really wanted to get a picture of it. I don't know, I just feel weird going up to people.

Yeah, I don't. I think we have a weird perspective on it, I think, after working in the booth all day, so let me give you an outsideers perspective here There's three lame dudes at the bar only one of them worked up Actually over that's a lot of lame dudes There were probably as many dudes at the bar staring at Reno or LovA as there were dudes actually in the meetup area Talking with her so there was the meetup and then nearby was the drink up I guess yeah the warrior group and you guys were part of that we were part of the Warrior group. Yes, she's a hot chikita man Speaking of other hot chicks did anybody get to see Megan Fox or a Jennifer Lefue. They were both causing a star

I saw a livie a month pictures since we got back where she was like in every Comic-Con appropriate costume ever made. Yeah, she changed clothes like every four minutes. It's awesome. I saw her walk, she was being escorted by a group of elites as well. And I didn't. You didn't get the way that. You got to see a celebrity ass, right, Bernie?

I did. Well, I mean, I didn't get to see her ass ass, but I was invited to go along and sit in with a interview with John Favreaux because he was there to He was there to publicize Iron Man 2 and the guy who was doing the interview said I know your huge Iron Man fan John Favreaux likes Halo so once you come along and I said I said okay sure and so You know, I got to meet John Favreaux and talk to them for like 10 minutes before his interview But while we were waiting in the green room for John Favreau was all the Iron Man cast and crew who were there and they were doing various interviews.

So while we were waiting for John Favreau, I think I stared at Scarlett Johansson's butt for about 10 minutes. So I do not think I will be invited back. Did you pretend to talk to somebody on text on your phone and you just took a photo after photo after photo? I know. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. Did. I did. I did. Did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I would have just pretended like I was retarded. And in that moment, aren't you? I mean, you've been reduced to your... You've been reduced to your... You're staring at the sun.

Let's get on this. If you're in the room with Scarlett Johansson's butt, you're not going to be noticed by anybody else anyway. You just can't, you can't be seen. You could steal wallets and watches all day long and be able to never notice a car. It's like, that's why me years hit Jupiter and not Earth. It's because... There's more important things for them to hit. it's like that's why meteors hit Jupiter and not earth. There's more important

things for them to hit. You know, that's why. And then I also got to see like see Sam Rockwell, who was just the cool dude. Yeah, just like just like just cool dude, you know, wandering around. And I was just wondering around. Yeah, he was like walking back and forth getting dreams and stuff like that. I don't know if I don't know if I want to be reporting on the Cummings and goings of these guys, but yeah, how was his butt? Yeah, I didn't see I didn't see it You know, we almost bumped into each other because we're both looking in the direction as was everybody in the direction of Scarlett Johansson It was a Sam Raquil in the new Iron Man movie apparently so if you're like celebrity like Sam Raquil you get to go into those green room things too Are you thinking man? I'm gonna look at Scarlett Janssen's butt too for 10 minutes or whatever No. So like when does that wear off? I don't think it ever does. I'm sure it's like oh Scarlett your head's in the butt again

Yeah, no dude that doesn't wear off Never wears off. I wouldn't be I'm sure it does. I don't think so. And didn't she didn't she marry that guy Ryan Reynolds and he's gonna be in the green night. He gonna be Greenlander, right? Are y'all playing Mad Libs? No, I'm just thinking so she'll be back at Comic-Con next year. Of course. Absolutely. Who the fuck are you kidding? Why would she go back next year?

To tag a long promotion for Greenlanders? Absolutely. No, I really doubt that. Okay, I guess she's not going back. Thanks for keeping us up today. Well, why would she go back to that? Scarlett Johansson'sest manager spoke in the story what can probably be another big movie to promote

that's not like she's not a career is going down hill you're burning oh that's right it's all it's all over her no i had a moment in the sun i'm not sure to be able to go back to common con she doesn't have to go to common con she hang out with her husband no no no i don't see that like i I didn't see, you know, a bunch of wives like I didn't run into real Pearlman when Danny the Vito bumped into me. Oh man, that would have been the one thing that distracted you from Charlottes Joe Hanson, but that would

have been a great moment. Maybe she was cosplaying Yoda and I didn't notice her or something, you know, but oh man. Dude, if you're married to Charlottes Joe Hanson, you can't let her out of your sight. He's got to probably, he's probably going to make her go. Okay, here's a great example. I can prove this Scarlett James something that hasn't happened to my Yes, because I was in the room with Scarlett James's butt and I think she rindled anywhere and I would have noticed him because God damn it He's dreamy. He's looking dude Dude Jesus and Gandhi could have been in the room

Also for that he's married to trail James and why the hell is in there pre-helping her promote Iron Man too? Cuz he gets people don't do that. He was too busy promoting Green Lantern. Yeah, but really I mean look let's look at this Let's look at this from a promotional perspective if you're like a PR guy You're like okay, I have this Ryan Reynolds movie if you awesome over you get scarlet dancing your handsome to help promote it You don't go. I've got this scarlet your handsome movie. Geez, I really wish I could get Ryan Reynolds on board to promote it. Because that guy's dreamy, like Bernie said.

She'll be back next year to promote Iron Man 3. True. Or whatever, you know, Woody Allen movie, she's an extra. That's those are the kids that come on the con. Did that Larry David Woody Allen movie come out? No, that looks pretty funny, I'd just say. I think it is.

I think it is out. Yeah, I think it is out. Oh is it? Yeah, I saw Larry David on the tonight show like two weeks ago promoting it. How was that? Those guys they seem interchangeable. Yeah, man. I don't know if Larry David is in debt. You know Larry David and Woody Allen are interchangeable. Yeah, I feel like they are. I mean, I don't know if Larry David's into young Asian chicks, but I mean it seems like they have got the almost the exact same sense of humor in timing. Did Larry David really do anything before Seinfeld?

He did stand up, didn't he? Yeah, that's what it is. What, how he came to me, Jerry Seinfeld, and getting that whole thing. And does he just look older, or is he really much older than Jerry Seinfeld? Well, Jerry Seinfeld has no spring chicken now. Larry David looks like he's got a decade or two odd Jerry Signfield I agree with that. I bet if you I bet if you looked up Larry David on I'm to be you'd see a long list of writing credits You think so? Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. What was that movie?

He made was it a Steve Martin movie that was like so a business. They'll just pan mix none Mixer. That's right. Jesus. I saw that. The thing was terrible. Yeah, he makes fun of that I think in that Adam sailor in it too I think. Oh did it really? Yeah. Wow early Adam sailor Larry David was born in 47 so he's over 60 years old. Yeah, 62 Yeah, wow I second happy birthday recently to Larry David happy birthday. We know you're listening. That was good counting then because Math is the worst as we found out a comment

Yeah, we we met an artist named Scott Campbell We have the thing that we do now is we walk around the last day of the con and try to find cool art If you've seen some of the short you've seen our rock them sock them robot Yeah, I think we bought that from the first year with the comic con was it the first year? First or second. Yeah, yeah, so now we're determined every year from now on we're gonna go around and get some cool art And on the last day We found this dude Scott Campbell Scott C. Yeah, who did uh? We we had no idea. Yeah, we used it's apparently done lots of stuff and it was cool to find a guy

It was really super nice guy and we super nice guy very Artisty and just super chill and laid back. Hey man. I'm confused and We just loved his art because he had like, he had paintings of like Michael Jackson on roller skates, dancing in a disco with zombies. And he had like one of he man and a skeleton on a slip-in slide. That at Space Invaders, Devo.

Devo is one. Yeah. Like the Space Invaders drop in the missiles down on like Devo's hats. So we bought a bunch of this stuff for the office and while we were talking to him We found out that he was the creative director on brutal legend. Yeah art director Our director on brutal legend. He has little patches there on the on the table Like what's the brutal legend patch for is that? Did you do the like the cover art do some art for them? He's like oh, it's not director man

He was at that happy like disconnection that a lot of us have. Was it thick? No, it was thick. No, no, no. We ordered like four, I got bought four or five of his prints and they were different prices. And you could see him like regretting the folly and pricing these things differently.

He's like, okay, okay, this one's 20 and this one's 30 and that's fit. Oh man, math is the worst. That's great. It's the and that's fit. Oh man. Math is the worst. That's great. That's the best quote of Comic Con. Math is the worst should we add to he shirt. But I look that dude up after Comic Con. Pretty fucking famous guy. But I'm gonna play this. I'll probably post the whole thing or an edit version of this,

but Matt spread up a great point where great reunion at Comic Con on a personal level where Matt and I met Vic who is our friend Victor who is the inspiration for the character Vic in Red versus Blue. When's the last time you had seen that dude? It's been a long time man it's been like I want to say 10 years. It's been about four Red versus Blue so I have been for me probably seven or eight years because I was crazy. Wow it's crazy. I saw him just before we started Red vs. Blue. But he wasn't really like that anymore.

He wasn't that kind of like, he didn't do all those voices and silly stuff. Bernie, Vic and I had known each other from our early days in working on production. We worked on a bunch of commercials and some short films and movies together, Ascender Bullock, Bing and some short films and movies together as Andrew Bullock thing and some other stuff and Vic moved out to LA and then

Vic and I pulled a switcheroo on Bernie. We're Bernie and I were living together in Austin and I needed to go out to LA for a while to work on a movie and Vic wanted to come back to Austin for some reason So we're just like hey, let's just trade places. You can have my apartment. I'll have yours And so I went I was you know, I guess I wouldn't think it about it. I just moved into VIX. He had a solo place in, you know, in like in Venice Beach in California.

It was awesome. And Bernie doesn't know Vic. And then one day he gets the knock on the door. And the guy says, hey, David, I'm Vic. I'm here to live with you. I'm taking Mads place. And I was like, okay, come on in. And then they were living together. And I was like six months or something. Yeah. And that was, and then they were living together.

So that was like six months or something? Yeah, I lived with Vick for like six months. And then Vick moved back. Vick didn't tell me. He just one day just moved back to LA. And then me and Vick and Joel too, were all living together in this tiny one bedroom apartment in Venice Beach, California.

That sounds hot. It was, it was sexy as Leonard Nimoy and Brent Spiner sent an autograph together So I'm gonna try to play this as best I can but this is me Recording on my iPhone. I thought it would be fun to have the guy who inspired the character Vic read Vic lines and so I'll have to like scrub to destroy He didn't want to actually read the line in doing the actual lines though. No, he did the Ed leader I'll strip the end of it or he's going to be the lines we're testing one two three this is where the birds and the microphone cladding sound all right now we're going to have a screen test for

vick playing vick all right here we go so okay so what's the scene so the scene is is that vick is trying to give orders to dock and the radio keeps cutting out and vick is you know hello hello trying to get hold of a dock all right let's go over here they're in here Jonathan hi there's something underneath your feet below you there's some dirty business afl. What about my favorite man? Maybe I should use his term with the lines and I'll say. Give me some mic, give me a good line.

No solo me, oh yeah dude. What? Say no solo me, oh dude. Damn, no solo me, oh, dude. Damn, no soul of me, oh, come on! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha students knew about Red versus Blue and he said it's come up more than once they've asked if they could do a paper or talk about it you know in classes reference to something they were working on and you know he so he was aware of it this whole time but never knew it was us never knew there was a character named Vic that was you know inspired by him or anything like that. And he had a weird thing when I saw him last before Musem, like it was after... It's a graph?

Yeah, it was a graph, that's where I saw him, yeah. And he was working on an amusement park, a virtual reality amusement park in Kansas that was based on the Wizard of Oz. It's not an incredible. It was all like holographic stuff, it was going to be this like super futuristic amusement park. And you know, as you can imagine, it was probably way ahead of its time and just never the project just kind of you know evaporated one day so but it was gonna seem again yeah he was a nice guy smart funny guy you know we were we were talking about people who were not a Comic-Con the other day and like there's

all these booths one of the booths that we're always very close to is the Penny Arcade booth This time we were right across from them. We actually had a corner booth this year It's very hard to move your way up in the Comic Con ranks to where you can get a bigger booth or a better place booth It's very very hard next one possible. Yeah, and you guys talked about how the comic booths the actual comic-based Yeah, and you guys talked about how the comic booths the actual comic-based vendors those they're shrinking every year Absolutely a little bit of the time We went to a party where I was invited to a party with a bunch of a lot of comic book people There's a lot of comic book artists and writers there. I had to leave because I didn't want to be a fanboy

Really? I really did I was just like I got started to get nervous that I was gonna be like tripping on my words and be like Oh my god I love that issue 68 and ultimate X-Men and like whatever you know, so I was like I bowed out But they were I asked them I said a couple of people in the group. I said do you guys? Is there like where resentment among people from the comics industry that this thing is growing beyond comics and It was unanimously absolutely fuck everybody else if I want to I were to guy said, it's not the subtext, it's the text. We hate this, we can't stand the fact that it's just become this disgusting thing that's still called Comic Con.

The weird thing about Comic Con is that it did actually start from being a comics-centered convention, but now obviously it's movies and just pop culture and culture in general, but there's like a comic version of almost everything. In a way, but a lot of that stuff doesn't come out, you know, like every like major franchise, like Star Wars and stuff that have these enormous boosts to take up so much of the show floor now, like the comic is like an ancillary product that's just a side thing. It's almost like the now it's almost like the comic book is like the incubator for like what project should go to film and video game. No we're so

listening. Yeah. And then next time like next go around it will be for video games you know. Yeah. A lot of video games are like products that came out and it had a comic that came out of the exact same time as the game right? Yeah. So did Dead Space I think. Dead Space is really a... Do you think that they'll ever change the name Comic Con? I don't. I mean, it's so well-known.

It's a great brand. But it is weird because it definitely doesn't seem to be not inclusive to what the convention is about. You know, stuff like that happens all the time and you don't understand what the origin of the word is. You know, that's why we have hot four words. To tell us the exact same thing. But I wonder if. That's why we have hot for words. Tell us the thing. I wonder if kids will understand why we say hang up when we turn off a phone.

What does that mean? That's a good call. I wonder, like if you take a company like Marvel, what the percentage of their revenue is that's comic-based, like actual comic book sales. That's a post-it. It's a post-it. It's a post-it. It's a post-it. It's a post-it. It's a post-it. It's a post-it. that's comic-based, like actual comic book sales. As opposed to licensing for movies and video games. Because they put out, I mean,

their goals put out four movies a year, starting in 2011, I think. I was, sure. I was at the Iron Man booth. Well, they had the suits, which is such an awesome booth by the way. I was like, a Stark Enterprise. Yeah, it's so great.

And they got the four suits, and there was a couple younger kids, you know, maybe like eight to ten-year-old range that were looking at them. And I thought, you know, these kids probably, you know, saw the first movie or looking forward to a big movie, it's like the public mindset about it. This is a movie, it's not a comic book franchise anymore. It's a movie franchise. Yeah, I think there might be a lot of confusion. Not just about comic books like that, but about other things as well.

Like one day I was walking to the convention center, I was walking behind two kids, I must have been 16 years older so. And they were looking at some of the Comic Con promotional banners that were up on the street and it said, like, send you Comic Con. And it had a picture that said Avatar. And it had like, you know, a blue kind of ghostly figure on it.

And they were like, oh wow, I can't wait for the Avatar. One of them was like, I can't wait for Avatar, the last Airbender movie. And the other one was like, no dude, that's not, that's not, you know, the last Airbender. That's some other thing called Avatar. And the first one was like, what? The thing was like, yeah, it's totally different.

It's nothing that all the do with it. The first one was like, that's lame. They shouldn't be allowed to use the same name. They're totally ripping off the last airbender. I was like, these kids probably have no idea. How, I mean, how, these kids were probably six when Titanic came out. Did you watch the, have you seen the short yet?

No, I haven't seen yet. I put that in to the very end. After you told me that story, I thought it was so funny. We dropped that. It's very subtle, but at the very end of the thing, it's like, Joel says, like, what are you going to see at Comic Con this year and see Avatar? It looks pretty cool. I'm like, yeah, that's everything. They're awesome. You know, you could probably actually make a lot of money by marketing to the misunderstanding crowd. Because there's a higher percentage of people who misunderstand almost everything they read. We had people come to the booth and say what do you think about Comic Con ending in 2012? Oh my god. What are you

talking about? And they said yeah there's a sign down at the other end of the convention that says they're not gonna hold Comic Con after 2012. We walked down there. It was a poster for the movie 2012 that said only three comic cons left and joy it while you can and people took that literally that they were ending comic con in 2012 You know what you think the people who run comic con with having oversight on that and be like no you should reward that or Our audience is too stupid for this everyone everyone will misunderstand this I mean, what's the rational thought behind that? I mean, why would a kid think they're gonna end Comic Con in 2008? Because the banner sits so.

And there's no kind of like scrutiny on that or anything at all. It's just that's it's over. It's the same thing. People, you know, just take everything for face values. People see stuff on the internet like, oh, it's gotta be true. Someone wrote it down.

Someone typed it. I like that. That movie too is about the end of the world in 2012. But it's like really the important thing here is the Comic-Con's ending, you know? I mean, they've told, you know, wiping out humanity for as we've known it. Those kids should have been concerned also

that hall-age was for humans only. Yeah, it's right. Exactly right. Because there was a District 9 poster letting, you know, no aliens allowed in hall-age. Well, it's good. Yeah, it's nice to have a sanctuary. In fact, I think those two posters might have been

next to each other. So district nine I've heard I heard really positive things about district nine. Yeah, can't wait to check it out. Yeah, which kind of you know gives me a little bit of heartburn because that was the team that was gonna make the Halo movie, you know, and also another rumor I always heard was that Avatar was this juggernaut that nobody wanted to get in the way of Avatar like James Cameron's camera cameras. Oh, I'm not in that shummelons. I'm not shabbering was this juggernaut that nobody wanted to get in the way of. James Cameron's camera. James Cameron's camera. Oh, I was thinking of the other thing in the other.

Not in that shummelons, I thought. Not shemmelons, I thought. You know, that they were going to be soaking up lots of visual effects houses. In fact, I heard a funny story that Weta Digital, which is the visual effects house at Weta, that of course is famous for making the Lord of the Rings movies, and is partially owned by Peter Jackson, that it's a separate entity and they kind of proved that by when Peter Jackson took District 9 to them to do the visual effects, they said, no, you're

not big enough budget. And we're working on Avatar right now. So they had to go somewhere else to get their visual effects done. It's crazy. It is really crazy. But that man, that Neil Bloomcamp guy, or Bloomcamp, I don't know how to say the name I apologize, but he That's a talented dude man. Yeah, I was I really liked that alive Joe Berg short Just good. I guess you know just you know just nine's just you know a feature based on that Have you seen any of his other stuff? I've seen some of the commercial work he's done I'm looking for that Adidas thing that we were reading about you know talking. No, yeah, I know what you're talking about I don't think I've seen that one though which one was was it? They talked about it in a while. Yeah, he did some viral campaign for Adidas that just sounded crazy and also we just you know

It was like something about a computer or some kind of AI taking over. Yeah something so it sounded pretty cool And like for his perspective with Technology and the way he mixes that old and grungy and dirty kind of looking stuff with you know this super technology like the alien stuff in district nine it's like I bet you did some really interesting stuff there. I see if I can find it for the link dump and put it in there. Yeah he made a car commercial a transforming car commercial. Yeah the Citroen commercial. Yes that's everything you wish the transformers movies were. Oh god yeah. It makes sense and you can tell what's going on and yeah. I remember for a long time people would pass that

Commercial like clip around I don't know you ask and they would cut out the tail where it's you know citron car They'd say it was like a test piece like a former. I don't think that I don't think that commercial head mag and Fox though Is it so it's not everything commercial transformers. Yeah, it's super fucking cool. Yeah, you can tell it's a car It doesn't look like a bunch of metal jutting out in a weird direction. Yeah, the Citroën doesn't turn into iron filings that then shape a dam robot.

So $400 million iron filings. But it's weird too, because I keep reading all these things that Peter Jackson says about the Halo movie. He'd still like to do it if he could, but then he's kind of saying negative things about the whole Halo movie experience Now you know to promote district nine. He's like he says things like well District nine is an original movie and you don't have any original movies anymore

And it's great to have an original movie is supposed to just knock off and you know like the Halo movie Which would have been just another video game movie release and it's like well, okay? Well, I should do here or not I had not heard that. You know, he, his halo game slash, whatever it was, halo chronicles, I think it was called, is that what they, yeah, it's episodic halo game. They were gonna release on Xbox Live. Yeah, that's shell to know too.

Oh, is it? Yeah, they said it's official. Well, Jackson's camp says it's canceled, and that says it's unhold. So I don't know. Well, I missed you in the community. And that's probably taken to another party. Yeah, they don't need to.

They can go anywhere. I guess, you know, who knows how the deals worked out, you know, maybe if there's a right, right thing, where after a while, it'll expire and then they can, you know, take it somewhere else and do something else with it. Sure. But he even said like he made a comment, specifically saying that it's a valid comment. What he said was that there's no new properties really coming out that everything is just a rehash of either a television show or a comic book property, you know, or just a

remade movie period. That's what's being put out these days. That's most of the movies that are out. We talked about this for the top 10 movies of last year that every one of the 20 movies of the last 20, all of them were adaptations or remakes. Yeah, I think I think we're talked about in the drug take actually It's a fair comment in general, although you can pick apart anything to say though This is just this came from something else. Yeah, Gus and I were talking about district nine is basically alienation

He said he saying they're literally proper. Yeah, it's like the Brady Bunch movie or Iron Man to Harry Potter There's stuff It's a very clear line that this is obviously You know derived or is a sequel to that which is a bold statement from the guy who we made King Kong You know And Lord of the Rings right, but I could stand in the middle of Comic Con and look in a 360 degree Every one of those properties was around when I was a kid. I mean Iron Man Hulk all the DC characters, Star Wars, they're all big. It seems like the only new big franchise out there are video games. I was about to

say that, yeah, I saw the only new stuff I saw was all in the video game section. And one of the things that I saw that seemed like it might be an interesting story, was that Dark Siders game? Yeah, that game looked pretty cool. Who was making that? T HQ? T HQ? Yeah, I got some game looked pretty cool. Who's making that? T-H-Q. T-H-Q? Yeah, I got some chance to play that game. And it looks very wowish, but. Yeah, a lot of wow-inspired art for sure.

The story seemed really cool, like the f-. It's like humans have died off. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse came, and humans are all gone. Then after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse do their job, basically, I guess, heaven tries to kill them, and kills three of the four horsemen and building one left his war and he has to fight both heaven and hell.

That's cool. Yeah, that all gun and foam. It was fun to play too. Yeah, really fun. Here's what Peter Jackson said, he told the LA Times, I think that's one of the most depressing things about the film industry generally today. The writers and directors should be blamed just as much as the studios, studios, dot, dot, dot.

Everything seems to be remake or adapting a 1970s TV show that was never particularly good to begin with. A lot of movies based on 70s shows these days. It's true. Was it not gonna land as a lost? Personally, I thought StarSky and Hutch was awesome. I like that. It's probably why people like Judd Abitown comedies. I mean, their comedies tend to be more original. Yeah, sure like that. It's probably why people like to judge Avatar and comedies, you know, as I mean, their comedies

tend to be more original. Yeah, sure. Funny people. Buddy people's looking pretty good to me. I actually really want to see. I wish the trailer wasn't like 17 minutes long. I don't like the viral marketing. No.

I really don't like it. You don't like ready. They viral marketing. I haven't got a sign in seeing it yet. That's the better version of their viral marketing, like NBC fake sitcom. Yo teach. Yeah, that was terrible That was terrible. I mean it was an exercise in in Terribleness basically, but it really just wore you down. It was almost like too accurate They didn't they didn't think oh, maybe we should stick in jokes while we're making this accurate thing. Yeah

Yeah, it's um and it's it's not really making me want to see funny people But the trailers for funny people are making me want to see fun that's seen with in the doctor's office is awesome pretty damn funny Pretty damn fun. They haven't seen the trailer Gus will do a link dump for it. Yeah You don't you're not my boss don't tell me what I'm doing Gus can you do a link dump for? Gus only links the stuff he talks about I notice they're not he also edits the podcast so that his segways get put in and I I randomly make no sense like the time Two weeks ago I started randomly talking about Christopher walking because you cut out a Christopher walking story that I told But you left in me finishing the story just so you could have your Christopher walk in segway for whatever reason

Guess what? Oh, that's gonna be cut So what else do we talk about let me see if I got everything kid. Kids, I have on my notes, you're stupid kid who thought Comic Con is ending in 2000. Um, I can't, we mentioned being a crush on Penny or Kate. I just want to say something that gave and Tico are amazing. They're animals. They, we watched them in that booth sign for eight hours a day. Now we do that too. We sit the booth, but there's more of us who will sit there and sign so we actually take breaks and like rotate out of the booth In theory in theory. We're also signing and selling though

It's a little that's a little different. We're doing double duties. Yeah, that's that's kind of rough They have a much bigger booth because they've been there a lot longer time They have three booths and we have one booth on the way they get five years on this at Comic-Con Where she got Scott Kurtz's booth from versus player online, he gave up the corner booth because it wasn't worth it to him, but it was perfect for us because we could set up monitors on one side of our booth. Yeah, we basically switched booths. He kind of took our old booth in essence and we got his,

which was very lucky for us. I think it's fantastic. I'm so glad to have that corner booth. Yeah, thank you so much, Scott. Yeah, thank you. That's the only way you can move up and go. We were complaining earlier about the Comic-Con guys coming out and telling us to clear out and stuff, but man, this year's much Scott. Yeah, thank you. That's the only way you can move up and go. We were complaining early about the comic and guys coming on and telling us to clear out and stuff,

but man, this year's Comic Con experience, far and away, better than any of our previous ones. Absolutely. Best booth position, best, like just for the fans, it was the best, you know, because they could see more. Now we were, you know, we're on one of those giant freight aisles that can front of us on if you notice that. Of course that front of us is way bigger

than the typical aisles, and get more people out there, and everything about the placement was a hell of a son, if you notice that, or that friend of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son your big favorite moment from Comic Con? Actually, you know what? Talking to John Favreau, it's going to sound, you know, do she just repeat the conversation, but that was by far the best part. That was really terrible. Yeah, and he gave me this thing, this like, coin, challenge coin from the set of Iron Man 2.

And this also, I'm a huge Iron Man fan. Absolutely huge. You know, I've complained endlessly about the ground punch and stuff like that. So I think that's been the source of a comic joke several different times. Yep, yep. But um... What about everybody else's favorite moments, Gus? Um, I think taking the petty cab back from the yard house.

Oh, dude. Probably my favorite part. That was another ass story. Dude, this was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- This was your crazy new- You're crazy. You're going to one track mind in this episode. Yeah, but seriously, that Ukrainian girl

who was driving us back in the Petty Cab, fantastic talented girl. If you don't know what a Petty Cab is, it's basically a bicycle rickshaw, essentially. And if you don't know what a rickshaw is, Comic Con is ending in 2012, that doesn't matter. I don't know. Here's my favorite moment.

And I don't know who you are that I'm gonna tell the story about, but I thank you nonetheless. You know, we've sold a bunch of different products, teachers, and DVDs and stuff over the years, but just recently we had this script ball figure made. Though we didn't make it, McFarlane Toys made it and they did an awesome job, but it's very, very cool to see something that you're associated with, to have an action figure come out. Absolutely.

There was someone that Comic Con, they went really well, and people were bringing them around from entertainment earth where they were someone and we were autographing them. Jeff was doing most of that because he's Griff. And at one point in the con, I left to go get some food or something and I walked and there was a kid leaned up against the wall and he had a Griff Ballffball action figure out and he was looking at it,

he was staring at it like really intently. And he, I kind of like leaned in a little bit of, like I was thinking about, I say a cool Gryffball action figure or something, but he was like staring at the Gryffball figure and he's going, fucking awesome. So cool. So fucking cool.

That was like, that is the best compliment ever, for anything we've ever done. That I can think of. It's like it was making love to that figure. It was so excited about that. It's like, man, I remember how excited I was to get the best coolest Star Wars figure or whatever it was that was in two. Back then, it's like, you have that intensity for it, man. It's like, it was so cool to hear somebody else with that intensity for something we've worked on really really it's very cool I feel like I just take mine back now it's fantastic

my mind is to have more upstanding my favorite moment mine are all about food but the cool the cool thing for that for me is I got one from my daughter Millie you know and I took it home when I let her play with it and now sometimes she'll come up to me and she'll go, do you want to play with daddy? Really? Yes. Yes, I do. Yardhouse though. And the Gus and I found a secret stake house, but I'm never going to say the name.

Oh yeah, that place was really good. It's right by the convention center. You know, it seems like there's a lot of nice restaurants right by the convention center. They're at Comic Con that are always empty 24 hours a day. Yeah, really? the convention center there at Comic Con that are always empty 24 hours a day. Yeah. I guess, you know, kids are looking for, you know, the less expensive food so they could spend more money on merchandise at the exhibit hall. And God bless them for that. Yeah, and then we're huge fans of that. Like, Gus and I were going to eat at Nobu the other day because it's a famous restaurant that Howard Stern frequents a lot in the, well, it's in the Howard Stern show.

And I've always wanted to kind of check it out and I didn't know they had one in San Diego. So we went there at like 12, 15 in the afternoon, like lunch on Saturday, and we were looking at the menu and we don't like seafood, neither of us does, so we decided ultimately not to go there, but we looked inside and there were literally zero people in Nobu. Every server was standing at the window

with their arms crossed, just looking out at the crowds. There was not one customer in the restaurant. Quiznos was packed. Is that the one? Is there no Booth-a-Won with the chef guys on Iron Chef? I don't know. The TV show? I don't know.

It's like today just made a movie or comic book out of Iron Chef. You know what I mean? But oh, my coolest memory was probably, Gus and I got to see a private showing of Splinter Cell Conviction. And that game looks awesome. Did you guys play Lefford Dead as well? Lefford Dead? No, we get to see a private showing of Splinter's Lock Conviction. And that game looks awesome. Did you guys play Left For Dead as well? Left For Dead?

No, we get to see it, but there was a, we had a press invite we were supposed to go to, but we were setting up and we couldn't make it. So we went to the public viewing and we watched people play it and looked super, super, super cool. But we did get to play a. Bad Company II, which was also super cool. Yeah, it seems like they integrated a lot

of the Battlefield 1943 controls and the squad system to a bad company to do. To all the people that Gus and I heckled, I really apologize. We were really drunk. We started calling out the people who were picking up the wait for their team. We stood behind like eight kids and just berated them for half an hour. Speaking of picking up the wait for the team, we should give a special thanks to our helpers this year. Yeah, definitely. Finch Lynch and Count Through D and Jack. What's Jack's username? I forgot. Jack. Jack. They were in the pod guys last week, by the way. Oh, well, there you go.

But, well, let me throw this in that we shot it. We shot a short in C Diego. It was the first time we shot a short outside of Austin. So it was a big challenge and those three guys were there and they just did a phenomenal job and they were super helpful and super on the ball and just jumped right in and did Went way way beyond the call and really appreciate it. You know, the thing, you know, God bless them all. They're all you know Did a lot of work for us. But the thing that amazes me about those guys is, like some of them, we didn't even give a badge to, like they came down to Comic Con on their own,

not expecting to help us. We were just like, hey, come help us with this stuff. That's what happens when your friends with the rooster teeth, you know? They're cruel. It's expected. It's a fine line between exploiting and joining you in the process.

How many times have people come to visit us in the office, they show up unannounced, and they're like, hey, I'm just, you know you in the process. How many times have people come to visit us in the office that show up unannounced and they're like, hey, I'm just, you know, I watch your stuff online and I saw that you guys are here in town without I come by and visit you and we're great. Here's a controller. Here, I'm gonna say it's like Bob's his head.

Take this trash out. I think we appropriately thank them on the last day with the 28 inch pizza we got. Oh, that pizza was terrible, but it was huge. It was so big. It was so big. It was like you can make up for a bad quality, with just a mass quality. With quality?

Yeah. We should post a photo if you have one. Yeah, I'll see how you're gonna find one. We took Matt's advice and drove over that big bridge over the Coronado. It's a cool place, right? Yeah, yeah. It was like a... We decided Jeff said you wanted pizza, so I looked on Urban Spoon and found some pizza

place and they had a 28 inch pizza. It's like right on the water your pictures It looked like you guys were eating a table They dropped it for me on the table They brought the pizza out and like other patrons started coming up to our table with cameras to take pictures of the pizza It's enormous. Also, it took an hour to cook Gross, they were looking for you want the 28th? It could be a right? No, it wasn't great Yeah, but the experience was great. It just gave you an hour to drink and they gave us a free picture of beer and nice They were super nice. Yeah, they really took care of us. Yeah, great staff. I don't remember the name of that pizza place

But it was a village pizzeria mozzarella sticks for fantastic You know, I would think your favorite memories you two shit heads would be when you blew out a fucking stereo in the We didn't do that. They just happened on its own. What does that mean? two shit heads would be when you blew out a fucking stereo in the room. That's what I think. We didn't do that. They just happened on its own. What does that mean? We were in the music radio. The music wasn't even loud.

Like, we were just going through the parking lot. The music was. We had just gone through the drive-through, so the music was turned like super low. Yeah, right. And the speakers just all of a sudden, Gus now was driving five miles an hour through the In-N-Out parking lot, and all of a sudden a shotgun went off. The whole fucking Lincoln navigator we were shook it was crazy like I got my chest yeah they were so loud I thought I got a meteor

I honestly thought for a second a meteor hit our car it was like what the fuck was that and then suddenly the stereo didn't work anymore but we rebooted the car and it's about to work in again yeah great great rebooted the car I'm sure I'm sure the rental car company who will not be named here Rhymes with merch I told them I don't want it. I was like listen something's wrong with the stereo in this car It didn't work for a day then it started working again. I was like Nothing we did it caused that you know that I don't think anyone can have a Stupider experience with rental car companies that Matt and I had in Seattle.

I think they're pretty much take the kick. When we, um, we basically stolen infinity from the company, we thought we'd upgrade the, they told us, hey, it's like $20 and you can upgrade to infinity $20 a day. We're like, hell, we're gonna be here one day. Let's do that. Why not? I don't know. It's the blue infinity. It's right outside here. Right. In Seattle is horrible. All the rental car companies are in the parking garage. So we walked right out the front door. There's a blue infinity sitting right there.

We get in it and we drive away. And we get to that security booth, which I've never understand why they have that. It seems like such a stupid double check. Now I know why. Because not only did we take the wrong car, we took a car from another rental company. Like, just randomly stole a car,

which dudes we just stole it in infinity. Did the security car draw their gun. Everyone was very confused. The worst or the most bizarre part was when we had to give the car back, and the representatives from two, the two different car companies had to come and meet at the same time with this other security personnel. It was like a Mexican standoff. Yeah.

Like, we're all there together and racist. Racist, that was racist, wasn't that racist? I think it's a appropriate term. I think it's a common term. It's like the end of the good debate in the ugly. There you go, thank you. Yeah. Anyway, so these three different groups,

and they all have to like, we all have to exchange keys at the same time and pass it on, you've ruined the story. Yeah. Yeah. In the end, the bad guy dies. In the end. In the end.

And then the guy's like, you trying to juiced out of a car? We were jipped. That's your favorite. Is that sort for gypsy? Oh, man. Oh, Jesus. Non-stop over there. Just pick it up.

Is there anything else we can talk about before we wrap up here? Well, you guys mentioned Battlefield 1943. I think it deserves a very special call out to note the Battlefield 1943 as an arcade game ended up in the top five Xbox Live games played across all retail games and everything. That's a big milestone dude. That's got to be the first time that's happened. I think that's what I do. Yeah. I mean we watch that list every week and I've never seen an arcade game make it into it. I think it'll be a main stage to us. It's gonna be around for a while I read an EA press blast that said they sold 600,000 copies of that game across Xbox library and PSN I'd also like to point out I was watching the you know, there's that choral c contest When you get when you got 43 global 43 million global kills. It unlocked the choral c map scene that right It took PlayStation a full week longer than it took Xbox to get it

It's crazy Xbox did it like in four days or something. How much you can rub that in as much as I can Are you gonna bring that up like every chance? Like the year end wrap up every podcast. Yeah, but the that that that could end up being both the sales and the popularity of it now in the in the playlist That might end up being at the end of the year of it now in the playlist That might end up being at the end of the year the most influential thing that's happened this year. I wouldn't be surprised Yeah, oh another cool thing. I just read Ghostbusters just broke a million sales really nice a million units million units great game We'll get for them really is they have a hell of a time getting that game out. Yeah, Roodle legend had that same problem where I don't know if I really disagree with why they're being sued at brutal legend I don't know as long as a cool long as game gets come out

What's what's the equivalent in video game industry now for a hundred million dollar movie? 100 million dollar grossing It's a day always like the watermark was a hundred million dollars in sales, right? I would think so too. It's not exactly equivalent in terms of a dollar gross. Right. Well, you figure I think I read that Ghostbusters Game Class 30 million to make. So if you're hitting a million, you made 60 million bucks. That hundred million dollar watermark, which really doesn't mean what it used to. No, no. What do you want to say a million sales in day one? That's a that's huge. That is huge.

Yeah, that is huge. But like that's a that's huge. That is huge. Yeah, that is huge But like that's like that's like Halo 3 and you know call a duty call a duty The biggest launch in entertainment history. They're saying yes, yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's nothing you say over five minutes I'm excited about that the court will see stats What else do we need to talk about Don't don't don't what would you like to change about Conlacom real quick? I'd like I'd like to see a bigger venue. I'd like to see a bigger than you know. I would like to see it change cities. No I'd like it to stay in San Diego, but I don't think they know that you can fix I don't care where it is as long as I'm not fucking

Los San which didn't a 125,000 people they need a bigger venue. Yes Or to spread it maybe spread it out out over more days or something, to lower the number of people in the, well, it's up for us, but I mean, to lower the number of people in the hall at one time, but man, once you walk out of those convention doors and you're into the San Diego air, it's like, man, that's priceless. Because that's why I rather keep it in San Diego. Exactly. Because it's like Vegas.

I can't imagine walking there. I guess you don't have to walk outside in Vegas. It would never, but- That would be terrible. Yeah, it's so much more walk outside in Vegas. It would never, but. That would be terrible. Yeah, it's so much more, especially in July. Yeah. Which with you gigantic pussies that you can't handle weather.

I mean, it's so awesome. It's a great thing. It's a great thing. You can handle weather as though you can appreciate how great it is when you're there for the few fleeting moments we are. I'd like to see you in a fucking room. Also, it's just like the. I want to make out with San Diego.

I mean, San Diego is just a cool place. I mean, it is. It's, you know, the gas lamp district and the beach being right there. And, you know, it's a cool place. I mean, it is. It's, you know, the gas-land district and the beach being right there. And, you know, it's just like scenic. I guess, I guess in Vegas is defensive. If we get like frustrated and stressed out for working all day, we can go shoot guns. That's right. Yeah.

Vegas is way cooler than everything put together. I don't care if it's 1000 degrees. I'd like to see how big it could get though, because it's capped at 125,000 people and they sold out like eight months early this year Yeah, and they get more they get more than twice the amount of vendor Submissions than they can accommodate yes, so it would be interesting to see like how big Comic Con could get if it wasn't limited Let's put that in perspective because people might not be aware like the behind the scene stuff at Comic-Code We paid in full for our booth next year, two

days before the convention ended this year. Gus was the fourth person in line. Yes, I was behind Square Enix. And interestingly enough, what you said was there were a whole bunch of people in line that weren't even vendors, they just showed up at Comic-Con on the last day to fly. Yeah, submit the forum and try to get in for next year. But you know what, they shouldn't get it. If you you should be able to maintain your streak and keep your booth. I really do believe you can. I mean, it looks like it works.

But they got the stamp that was like, what was the stamp? The stamp says wait list list list. Wait, you just feel bad for all those people. It's like wait list, wait list, wait list. How lucky were we to get in that first year we applied it? It's unbelievable. I can't imagine getting in now. I don't know how that one even works. And now grandfather, you know, I mean, there are a ton of booths that you see every year, year after year. They're mostly comic booths, sadly enough, where there's no one there.

You just do the guy sitting there and he's sitting there for hours on end. And I'm just thinking this booth is expensive. A lot of people would want this booth. I mean, I respect a guy for, you know, getting out there and trying to make it work, but I've seen this guy for five years, you know, it's just like, he's starting to like, stir the pot a little bit. It's time to give us your booth. You know, if they went down to a point now

where they said, look, we're gonna wipe this lake clean and we're just gonna auction off spaces. Oh. That would be a ridiculous. It would be a ridiculous land grab. And then here's the most perplexing thing about Comic Con is 125,000 people paying what, 40 bucks a day? It's $100 a day now.

$100 going to $100 a day? It's $100 a day. It's going to $100 a day next year. Wow. I mean, $100 a day for $100,000. People is $12 million a day. Comic Con International is a nonprofit company. You know, if they auctioned off

exhibitors space like that, like you just said, in which they're not gonna do, that would be terrible because they would push people like us out It would only be giant businesses. It would be Warner Bros would take up half the hall You know video games would take up, you know a quarter of the hall and like the the Scott Campbell's other world Scotsies wouldn't be wouldn't be seen. Yeah, all right. We got a wrap this issue. So let's worry about number one

All right, we got a wrap. We should use, well, it's worried about number one here. Yeah, you know, all right. We got to wrap this up. I don't know if you know, I'm gonna see less of it. Comic-Con. I'm getting sick of zombies. I'm getting sick of zombies. Yeah, I agree with that. It's only gonna go up next year.

That zombie stuff is getting so saturated right now. Get your finger off the mouse button. We're not stopping. We're talking about the zombies. Props to Gus for another successful Comic-Con. Yeah, props. Prop made all the administration. Props organize all over stuff

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