Rooster Teeth Podcast - Shark Attacks vs Dog Attacks - #681

Episode Date: December 29, 2021

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Yeah. Yeah. I'm bringing it. No sponsor. Just Gus. The guy who's here six and 81 episodes. Gus. Gus. It's been a lot of them. Yeah. Yeah. It's the final episode of the year. We're all, this is a pre-tapes. So sorry,

apologies. We can't see what you're writing in chat. But that being said, I saw a hilarious comment in last week's episode. I remember who's in the episode or in the post show comments. Might have been in the post show comments on Rooster Teeth. Gavin, for some reason, I forget what the context was. Gavin brought up Tub Girl. Oh, God. Oh, God. There was a comment on the Rupert's site that just says, what is Tub Girl?

And then that same person wrote a follow-up comment, like two seconds later, this is, oh, my God, don't look that up. No, thank you. Don't look that up. That's like old internet. That's old internet. No, thank you. Don't look that up. That's like old internet. That's old internet.

Like real awful or something. Yeah, right. It hasn't been a solid gross video in some time. I think, see, here's the thing. I think that there are per capita more gross videos now. Right. They don't stick out as much. Exactly. And so you're just sort of desensitized because when everything is tub girl, like when

everything constantly, I'm like, your reddit feed that you don't want to see. It's just like by accident. You just see like the most heinous shit. You're like, hey, check this out. It's a lie in bursting through the inside of like a hyena and like a wildebeest comes over and gores it and you're just like, oh, what? But that's like the seventh thing like that you've seen in a day. Well, you know, was that supposed to be comes over and gores it and you're just like, oh, but that's like the seventh thing like that you've seen in a day. Well, you know, was that supposed to be?

Yeah, I'm like a paramedic who can eat a sandwich of the crab. Like my tolerance for scap porn is just boob. It's not like it was in 1996. No, yeah, we're older. We're more jaded. There was a link at every opening was titled. So it was like in the public freak out subredder something where it's like the aftermath of a fight in Chicago. It was like, this seems like a risky click. So I read the comments first. And the top comment was,

that dude is leaking. I was like, nope, I'm not going to watch that video. No, I don't know. That's anybody leak. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Anybody leak. I don't know. Anybody leak. No leak on the internet today, please. Thank you. Yeah. As a former moderator of our Watch People Die, I mean, I've seen it all. You're a maniac. What? Are you kidding me right now?

Are you serious? Just a long time subscriber until we got there. Oh, God. Yeah. So you've just seen a lot of people die. It got to the point where they categorized them So it would be like drone attacks terrorism industrial accidents, you know, it's a kind of new attorney shit And you didn't need the NSFL

categorize because they were all in it was all of them. Yeah, oh, I feel like That's that's really disturbing me right there was a whole subreddit for that because I remember like that's really disturbing me, right? There was a whole subreddit for that, because I remember when I was younger, it's like there were those VHS tapes, what were they? Faces of death. Faces of death, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They were like infamous, it was like, oh, if you watch these videos, it's like unsancerned, unfiltered, like what actually happens to people. And then it was like an underground thing that got traded around. And now it's just like a underground thing that got like traded around. And now it's just like,

oh, watch this for free. Like don't even decide for an account. I was like, do you want to watch some of the most fucked up things in the world? Go for it. Here they are. You don't have to stay the night at your friend's

friend's house where his mom works overnight and his dad's not around to go watch a VHS to see someone die. You could just pull it up on your phone when you're just trying to like do anything else. Is incredible. Right. Just like sitting on the toilet.

Yeah. Okay. Why not? Why you're in line. Why you're in line to the theme park just on the what? Okay. Okay. So what's the worst place where you can look up?

Watch people die and then watch people like where you're the guy who's just by himself watching people die. Like what is a, like, where you're the guy who's just by himself watching people die. Like, what is the worst store? The tire store. Like, you're just waiting for your tires to get put on your car. There's all these other people at the tire store

not doing anything with, and then watch people die with the sound on. That's what it is. Just nearby yourself is very quiet. I'm going to be playing with me two kids. Oh, that's a good one. Okay, okay, that is good. Gus, what are you?

I'm gonna say an electrician here because these workers in China are all about to bite us. There's no blood, but it still is. I'm gonna say like at a wedding, like because you're in a church, but you're not at church, well, like a church wedding, right? But you're like in a church,

but not at a church service. No, everyone's there for something like really nice. And then you're there like a church wedding, right? But you're like in the church, but not at a church service. No, everyone's there for something like really nice. And then you're there like so jaded just watching these awful things. I think that my choice would be only because it's so on the nose, would be a funeral where you pull up, watch people die while people are dead. Or dead. Or sad about it. And then, you know, like, it's not like this guy died.

Like the machine didn't suck him in and then like bail him out haystime. But he's certainly dead. Well, you could all, like, it could, like that could be the meta of it where it's like, you find the watch people die video of the guy who died at the funeral you're at. I feel like that's the peak.

Yeah, I like that. Just like, well, the priest is gonna use the dude just saying like, guys, guys, I found it. I found it. Yeah, I found it here. I'm gonna play it real quick. He just falls right at that meat grinder. He did it.

I'm happy with my, I'm happy with my idiot think cars. That's just like that's as deep as I want to go. I don't want to go to do. I can't even do nature's metal. I can't help. No, not about science fights. What about street fights? That's a good, although that can get pretty brutal. I draw the line at public freak out.

I can't even go actual public freak out. Like a solid Karen yelling at somebody is enough for me. Where I'm just like, cool. Okay, bye. I'm with you. I don't need that. I don't need the, I'm already riled up all the time. Anyway, I don't need to like watch people die also

and then it just gets me like, now I'm riled up and like more potential. Yeah, I don't need that. I don't need that. It's just like that stuff. It's just morbid curiosity. I think I'm just a permanent 13 year old, but it's always just been that morbid curiosity of,

oh shit. And then like just, I don't know in my mind, like that person was here and then one minute and then they decide to get on an escalator and now they're not anymore. And it's just like or you know, they didn't realize there wasn't a car in that elevator shaft. And they're just like no longer I still can't get over that. I still like my fear of death is just so strong that yeah. And like in some of those scenarios you're talking about, it's like you don't,

the person who like goes to it doesn't even know, right? It's like, right. You're one second and then it's just like, Oh, that's it. You're, that's it. You're, you're turned off. You're like, you're probably isn't the worst way to go. Like you probably never even knew it was come, you know, right. Quick. I think that would, I would prefer that over, like, knowing, like seeing it come up in the, like in the, in the coming at ya. Yeah. Cool. Piano fell on me.

I'm good. Hello. I want to die. Looney Tunes style. And I never want to see it coming. Looney Tunes death. Like, you're like a safe, a handful. Yeah.

Piano safe hay baler. That's the three looney tune ones we've covered so far. Faulty rotten shoes. You have to come out of the hay balers looking like a hay bail like, you know, perfect cube. But you have to have straps around you. Yeah. Your eyes are bugging out.

Yeah. I want to get shot with like a rocket launcher and then a big explosion happens, but then it all, my ashes are there and my eyes go blank right. And then it's, and then I want to take six steps too many off of a cliff. That's a lot of time I want to go. Yeah, like having seen multiple videos of people actually falling off a cliff, I did not

use it. And learning that they don't suspend in the air. There's no sign that they don't get to look at the camera and hold the side. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Can you die from an escalator? Oh, don't. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The moment makes right? If your shit gets caught or, or yeah, something, if you're, if you're all about to step off and you step off, but it's into another dimension, the scariest analogy you can think about, like if you think about an escalator, right? Like think like in your mind, picture an escalator that's empty.

And it's turned on and it's going and it's going to constant speed, right? Now, in your mind, picture that escalator with 100 people on it. The speed doesn't change on it at all. It doesn't make a difference how many people are on it. Now, think about the gears that are under that escalator power. And think about what it does, what it encounters. You. It does not stop. gears that are under that escalator power and think about what it does when it encounters you. It does not stop.

So like, right, but like, does that mean like the motors, sorry, this is a physics problem, but the motors required to be like, to go faster when there's more people or is it just, they're just going, it's just continuing at the same speed. Yeah. I guess I had to help, like It's just going at the same speed. Yeah. I guess. I had to help, like when I worked back at the call center, it was like one of those like mom and pop places. And the owner's brother worked at an elevator repair shop here in Austin. And one time, like I guess I knew about computers

I was working at the call center. The owner came up to me and was like, hey, my brother's having a problem with hooking up a computer to the salivator to fix it. Can you go over and help him? And I was like, yeah, sure, why not? It doesn't matter to me, I'm on the clock either way. So I drove over to help out.

This elevator repair guy, fix an elevator. I have no experience with the elevator. I just had to help him get the elevator talking to this laptop. Anyway, we're just like talking to the ship while I'm getting it all set up. And I asked him, I was like, oh, so, you know, you fix elevators. Do you ever get scared getting on an elevator?

He was like, no, elevators are fine. They got breaks on them. If you fall, like, it's not a big deal. I think it's like people get a real afraid of elevators, but really, it's actually really safe. He said, escalators, though, I never get on an escalator. Whoa! I was like, really? He was, yeah, I would, he's like, if I'm giving the option, I will always take the stairs

or an elevator. He's like, I will not sit put? Yeah, I would be like, if I'm giving the option, I will always take the stairs or an elevator. He's like, I will not sit put on an escalator. Wow. They just seem like the hubris of man. Like it seems like some leftover like early 1900s, Coney Island, relic. Where she's like, how do you get from A to B? Just, oh, these automatic stairs full of sharp gears.

It's like, just walk up the fucking stairs. Like, come on. Like, I was in need an escalator. I was at an airport in Mississippi over the weekend because we were starting family. It's okay. Yeah, it was a nightmare. But we flew in. This was at the airport in Jackson, Mississippi and the escalators were out of service. And not only were they out of service, but the stair part was gone. So it was like flat?

Yeah, you just know it was like, you could see underneath the stair. Oh, something you should never see. Right, exactly. And I thought two things, I was like, I can totally see how people die on these because these giant gears would just eat them up. And then the second thing I thought was,

did they close this escalator down rather than integrate it? Like that, I felt like close to those. Like has this not worked since 1965? This is where we make our stand. Yeah. And it was also, the airport was named the Medgar Evers airport in Jacksonville,

who was a civil rights icon, but it's weird to name an airport after a guy that you as a state murder. Like shot and it's dry. Don't kill them, it's too late now. They're trying their best. No, they're not. That's very true. Yeah, it's 100% true. Yeah, I read a story the other day about the origin of the, of the name for the Austin airport. You know, it's Bergstrom Airport. Yeah. And I'd never even thought to it. I read a story the other day a couple of weeks ago about why it's named Bergstrom Airport.

It was named after the first World War II casualty who was from the Austin area. Oh, what? Why would you name an airport after that? I guess he was in the Austin area. Oh, what? Why would you name an airport after that? I guess he was in an airport business. Well, yeah, he was in, it was like an army airfield, I think, at the time I think. He was, he was the worst soldier in Travis County. That's crazy.

That's like, that's like naming, not hang on. Now, this is like naming a baseball stadium after the first guy who was up to bat in the new stadium. It doesn't like, that doesn't make any sense. That's just, that's just the name. That's just, yeah. That's crazy. You know better than most of,

it's better than most of UT, which if you dig two into the statues, he was the biggest slave owner in this. Oh my God. Oh Jesus. Good was the biggest slave owner. Oh my God. Oh Jesus. Good old Clyde Littlefield. Right. So I guess the Bergstrom name for the airport predates the airport.

It used to be Bergstrom Air Force Base. So it's probably named the Air Force Base after him. And then it just got the name transition when it became the airport. But anyway, he got killed December 8th, 1941. We're like, immediately when the war started. We did. We did. We're the airport. That guy got shot.

Did he see action and die? Or was it like, he was a miss ship and fell. Yeah. Was he, he gone an escalator in 1941? Oh, no. What were escalators invented? No, he was in the Philippines and escalator in 1941? Oh, no, what were escalators invented now he was in the Philippines and the Japanese attacked it. Oh Escalate, but that's like name it.

I was looking up while you're talking sorry. Name me an airport after that guy doesn't still doesn't make any sense to me. It doesn't. What's the Air Force base? I understand that it's an Air Force base. It doesn't make any sense to me to name it after the first guy who died in a war. No, it was an Air Force base. I hope that he's, I hope that there's an afterlife so he can brag to the other ghosts. You know, I got a whole lot of air force. Still flying into me.

Crazy. I just doesn't make any sense. It doesn't, the naming convention doesn't make any sense. Most, I think most historical things in Austin don't make a ton of sense. Nor do they like, there isn't for a city whose capital has been around for a while. There's just not a lot of like accessible history. Like you go to San Antonio, you go to the Alamo, you can go see like cultural, culturally significant historical things. Those, those don't, they've all been bulldozed here in Austin. I feel like any of its old culture,

even including all the music stuff, it's just gone. Like, yeah, it's just constantly getting torn down and rebuilt, yeah. My favorite was, oh, sorry, go ahead. No, no, you go for it, go for it. My favorite was in Round Rock. There's a Sam Bass Road and Sam Bass is a famous bank robber who really

Yeah, and so they named it after Sam Bass, but then the cops in Round Rock got mad And so they named another road AW Grimes after a cop that Sam Bass killed so there's like competing roadways Competing no idea. What the fuck? That's awesome. That's what I learned from being a reporter in Round Rock for 13 months. Yeah, that was pretty much it. Man.

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So I know that. Yeah. I did that. So that to. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No hesitation. Gus, you sent us a picture of an escalator. Look closer. That escalator is made out of wood. Wow. Okay. Okay. escalators were invented in the late 1890s. It's Coney. What? Some of that early Coney Island and Nicola Tesla bullshit. Wow. Drew was right. This wooden escalator in particular, I sent you a photo of was in the London

underground at the Greenford station. It was removed in 2013. So they still had a wooden staircase eight years ago at the London Underground. Is Brian, is that what the rest of the escalators and Jackson Mississippi look like? I can't find this picture. Where is this? It's in the RT podcast. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. It's on screen. It's crazy. Stand up. That's way nicer than I have to say. I like the no smoking sign that's with it because if you drop your

Lit cigarette on those stairs you thought that you're gonna get grinded by gears, but it's just gonna all catch fire Yeah, and then suck you in. Yes, exactly. How does how does one so like I've always heard like don't leave your shoes untied on an escalator right it'll suck your foot in and then you you'll wind up in the gears Because that what it is you just get your leg not off, you just bleed out. No, it's not your leg. It pulls your leg and it doesn't stop pulling. It pulls you all the way. It's like a big spreader.

You're all the way. Yes. Wow. And you're the paper and you're the document with the CIA names. Why? Why do escalators exist at all? They're terrifying. Yeah. Yeah, how many, I feel like escalators, what is it?

Like, vending machines cause more accidents than shark bites, is that terrifying. Yeah. I feel like escalators, what is that like vending machines cause more accidents than shark bites? Is that right? Yeah, it's like something like that. People tipping vending machines over. But then I feel like escalators probably cause way more accidents than shark bites, lightning and vending machines combined.

So why do we still have, why has there not been design updates? I think it's, I guess in an airport, it's to move large numbers of people around. But yeah, it's most peak of dog. Exactly. But they have moving sidewalks too and nobody moves on that.

You could still just walk. It's making you walk 15% faster. I guess so. So I looked it up. Well, the elevator repair guy that I worked with said that if you ever did have to get on an escalator that he put each of his feet on two different steps. Wow. On the corner on the edge, that way his weight was distributed and that if the plate fell down, he wouldn't be sucked into the gears.

Oh, Jesus, oh fuck. This podcast is insane. This is crazy. I'm learning so much. Do you want to take a guess as to how many people get injured every year in the United States on escalators in the United States? 11,000? Is it 11?

11, I think it's 11. Anybody else want to take a guess? I'm going to say like 54. Brian? Brian? 2000. What? 17,000.

What? What? I was really lost. I feel like I on, I was really I feel like I feel like I feel like if that number you would know somebody who's been injured that's provided by the US

Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. You can find it all time. No, that has to be all time. That has to be an all time number. That cannot be nearly from these. It's here. No, no, each year in the United States. I guess that's the other thing is how do you count an injury? Like if I got a little paper cut, like if somebody like, yeah, it like if it's going up and I fall down, but then I'm falling down endlessly

because it keeps going up. Does that count as one injury or multiple injuries? Oh, hold on. I'm reading the report on the CDC website and this is actually combined elevators and escalators. The Center for Disease Control? It's, I don't know, that's where they put it. The Center for Disease Control? I mean, that's, yeah, I'm sure that's where all the accidents statistics are.

I suppose if I got injured in an escalator, I would be in dis-e ease, but that's not how I would use that word. Well, people put their feet on those steps. Those are dirty. I mean, those are going to, and you got an open cut around those. You're going to get something. So I found, I found, I found a breakdown.

Okay. The consumer product safety commission says that 6,000 people per year are entered in escalators and elevators account for 10's account for 10,200, entry a year. I'm gonna say that the elevator, like, because if you look at the diagram of how elevators work, it's not like elevators falling down shafts and shit.

It's like, you could stuck for a while. Here's what it is, I'm gonna guess with elevators. You could stuck for a little bit, somebody has a little bit of freak out, and they try to climb out of the top and do something stupid, and that's when you get hurt in an elevator. It's when you try to fuck around and climb out. But it says, yeah, half of the top and do something stupid. That's when you get hurt in an elevator. Yes.

Yes. Fuck around and climb out. Half of the deaths are people working near elevators and elevator shafts and falling in. Incidents where workers were caught in between moving parts of the elevator and escalator. Boba or elevators are also numerous. Those are the two top two. Now, I think it's in Germany. There's like a combo, it's an elevator escalator, it's like an elevator that you can,

it's a never ending belt. Oh, yeah. You use a never ending belt that goes up and you just like as the stair comes up, as your little platform comes over, you just step on and it just never stops moving. You're so in use rotation. There's like some college campuses like older college campuses that still have that and I saw videos of it where students were like and this is how I get

to the third floor. Yeah. And it's just people walking on. I mean, it really is like the app like how an escalator just goes. There's an up and a down and everybody waits in line and gets on like a little steppe plaque. It doesn't stop. You just hop on and then it goes up and then there's one that comes down and you jump off and it's horrifying. It's like everybody has to get hurt on it constantly. It's like a ski lift.

Yes. Yes. So it's directly up and down. But see, I feel like ski lifts are way less dangerous because if you fall, you're just going to get like, you might break a leg or like fall in the snow. Like there's still like a good, like amount of snow beneath you. Like I've never been too scared in a ski lift. We should put snow at the bottom of escalators.

Oh, like that's my platform. Thank you. Eric Badoor for Congress. Snow in every escalator. I'm so honored. You're gonna turn it and there's snow. All right, here's another guessing one. And this is kind of related to a stand up that I'm working on.

Like, how many? Okay, how many how many? How many dog attack fatalities? Do you think we average a year in the US? Oh, God. Boy, wait, what was the escalator elevator number? Was 17,000? Yeah.

No, but these are fatalities. These are, okay, this is people dying from the pressure. It's got eaten by a pit bull. Yeah. 35. I'm, boy, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say an even hundred.

250, Bob. Okay. Gusslaus Closus, an average of 32 fatalities every year. My point is we would put up with that from no other animal. We, fucking, two can killed 32 people. We, like, whoops, I thought you were the first single. I'm not a single. If you're talking about a single individual,

like a single two-can killing 32 people, that's a psychopath you can't put it down. Ferret, we would be drug dealers without to find a new pet after that. I agree. I would not law the breed. I wanna know what the, I feel like there are also the same,

like a similar amount of cat fa- he tells though. Like I bet you there's maybe not similar. Maybe like a third. No. No. I'm gonna guess guess that at least 10 people a year. You deserve to die. Don't get murdered. Get them out by that cat.

Oh man. How did you, how did you die? Well, the escalator sucked me in. How do you die? Cat attack. All the black bites are very, uh, can get infected very easily. I had that happen. That hurt really bad. Oh. To Brian's point, just for reference, between in the last 60 years, between 1958 and 2018,

36 people have died from shark attacks in the United States. Wow, that's as many as one dog year. It took 60 years for sharks to get to the level of one year for dogs. Yeah, and sharks have a million movies made about It took 60 years for sharks to get to the level of one year for dogs. Yeah. And sharks have a million movies made about a dog said what? One? One, two, one, two.

There's a kooja. Yeah. And that's why my second platform is that she keeps sharks as pets. Why not? Why not? Oh, that doesn't keep his pets. That doesn't keep his pets. Great whites do not keep his pets.

You can't that doesn't it whites great whites do not keep his pets You can't they don't live like it's a weird aquatic problem for The places where they keep the fish what the fuck is it called? An aquarium and aquarium God are you okay? That was the last time I was on this show The the 36 figure does that include Hawaii for some reason, which they break out in a separate line item. Another 11, 47, 47 total. And X, get them out. Hawaii, you're done. Get a Puerto Rico. You're in. What? That's

my next question. What state are we getting rid of or combining with another state so we can get Puerto Rico in and make it into the North and South Dakota. Absolutely. Absolutely. We agree. 100% guess. Well, North Dakota, North Dakota doesn't exist. And then second of all, uh, uh, Washington DC, statehood, Washington DC and Puerto Rico at the same time and then you said, shit, we got to get rid of another one. No, no, because it has to be 50. It has said, there's no. The only reason we haven't added more states is because everyone is married to 50. That's the only reason.

Well, no, the reason, the reason is that nobody wants to add more senators. Like nobody wants to disturb, disturb the balance of power that's in the Senate, right? For you to keep it even. Right. Great. Republicans, sure as shit do not want another senator, any more Senate seats available. So you combined anything that has the same name as somewhere else, North and South Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia.

Right. No, keep those separate, keep those separate. The North and South Carolina now just become a mega. Yeah, Carolina. Vermont and you have sure. I don't like the shapes. Oh, true. That's a nice little square. And then states here just state shouldn't be 69ing. It looks obscene on the map. Totally jettison Delaware. Nobody's been to Delaware.

Nobody's true. Yeah. Road Island. Sorry, Bob. Road Island is so small. What can it just get folded into? What is it? Border? Oh, Massachusetts. Massachusetts. What are you? Yeah. Well, no, you can't give them more power. Not Massachusetts. It has to be something else. Then it's Delaware. It's the Delaware. I think it's tough too much suck.

I vote for two completely different states. I like a Louisiana and Maine to be combined. And then it's just a buddy comedy for the like, two cities. They've never even seen each other. They've never visited there too far apart. You all are the the same state now and just watch the high jinks and so. Can we annex a single interstate that connects the two? It's like, yes. This long little, yeah, this tricky piece is also a part of your very man-adored piece of property in the entire country.

It'll be our equivalent of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Yeah, like, yeah, y'all are part of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Yeah. Like, yeah, y'all are part of the same state. Yeah. It's, there's one highway and it's not technically interstate from Louisiana up to Maine. It's just the highway. And only they can use it because it's their state. Otherwise, you just told to shit.

It's just the most expensive toll in the nation. Yeah. It's a good idea. We got it just told to shit. It's just most expensive toll in the nation. Yeah. It's a good idea. We got it. This is good. Now we can get Puerto Rico in here. So it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so. This is good. Go for me. What's your, what Congress or representative? What are you running on? Yeah, whatever. Yeah. What has the least responsibility, but I get paid the most just with underhanded money. Elon Musk.

Vice President, you're running for new Elon Musk. Brian gave a real answer. Very sorrowfully. Yeah. What was your real answer. Well, vice president, although she's casting all these tie-breaking votes, so there actually is a big role for it. But if we had a new state, then she wouldn't have to.

Yeah. Think about it. Well, I wanted to pull this crowd. I was going to write the tweet, eat Joe Manchin, like eat the rich, but I feel like I was gonna get flagged on Twitter. Do you guys think I'll get flagged for? Flagged for what?

I don't know. I just, Emily, you can be like, I'm weird about that kind of stuff. Yeah, who cares? I, I, I don't know. I don't know how any of this shit works. I got, I got started in the social media game way late, so I'm always worried that I'm gonna get like an FBI knock. Being like, sir, are you a cannibal?

I like, I don't, I get spooked. I'm easily spooked. They're not gonna, they're not gonna arrest you for that. They're gonna arrest you for starting a hashtag in 2021. Yeah. Yeah. Sir, I'm so sorry. The FBI comes over and kicks your ass.

Right. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to tweet right now. I'm hitting send. So if you see this tweet, you know that this is the time that we are pre-recording. I just said I just tweeted don't text us my California. So we'll see what happens. Oh, so deep. Yeah, I did it backwards.

We see end of my main. Wow. All right, that's hang on. I'm going to reply to my own tweet. Oh, there we go. All right. Thank you. tweet. There we go. All right. Thank you. All that's going to end up with all that new state would end up with is a lot of lobster gumbo recipe. And dudes in Maine and dudes in Maine flying the Confederate flag. Yeah, that's it. They probably probably do. They probably do. I think he's the thing. Here's the thing about red nooks. They are everywhere. Yeah. There's not a state thatknucks. They are everywhere. Yeah. There's not a state that does not have redknucks, which I thought was weird, but it's right. No, it means that it, right, it doesn't mean you're from a particular region.

It means that you dropped out of school and it means that you're dumb and very proud of it. That's what that, that's what being a redknuck means. Man. Yeah. Well, I mean, when you're right, you're right. It's, you know, you've been to first love. That's where they taught, taught us all that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, when you're right, you're right. It's, you know, well, that's where they taught it taught us all that. Yeah. Yeah. Um,

being I heard a rumor that Bill Invol died, but it's just like an internet rumor. Do you know about this? I don't think so. He was like, he was like the rango with the blue comedy. Yes. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. He was more of like the John or the George, but okay, I'll give it to you Brian I don't know Brian's right Brian's right Ron what Ron white was was is pretty big I mean he's not the biggest but Larry the cable guy was the breakout star and Jeff Foxworthy was like the star Yeah coming into that okay. Yeah, all those dudes started already had a career before the blue collar comedy. Like, being involved in Jeff Foxworthy, we grew up with that in Oklahoma, like consistent, like, they were already. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Top notch. So yeah, I get it. Okay.

All of the good things. Now, all I can think about is the get back documentary they're going to make in 20 years about the blue collar comedy. Just like. Now, I was thinking about this running joke. I'm running off you fellas. It's your smoke that you're wedding. No, that's not right. So I'm not watching eight hours

of that. I mean, I'm telling you right now. I'll do it, but you have to upscale everything and do like deep fake faces. So that way it looks better. So it's like I'm watching it through a crystal clear window.

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So it was like, what's billing wall up to? And from like 2017 finding articles about like the real reason we don't hear from Bill Ingvall anymore is Bill Ingvall dead and all that stuff. And apparently he just like, he had some kind of like injury and then retired. But it's like, I don't know, like. Retired from sitting on a stool, like walking, drinking some scotch. You're stuck, you're stuck.

You think that I saw this week. Six fingers every year after that, like for tour, yeah. The thing that made me really sad and made me realize that maybe I'm not as funny as I thought this week was that Jim Brewer is now doing like suit, standing up comedy. And I remember when I first saw like the clip of it, I was like, oh, what happened? That guy used to be funny. And then I realized, no, he wasn't. He was never funny. I have bad taste. Like, oh, no, I just like got released. I was watching

that clip. I was like, oh, no, it's not him who's dumb. It's I'm I'm excited. Let's just go to a single on Brian and he can explain this whole thing to us. Okay. Go ahead. Well, they're actually is. Okay. He's following a long line of sea list SNL stars who have done the exact same thing. Victoria Jackson, who did the did the same thing. John Levitt is like a conservative. Really? Oh, yeah. Although John Levitt was very good on SNL. So I don't mean to bring him down. Even Norm McDonald had some conservative leaning things. But especially if you're washed up, not just SNL, but in the entertainment field, he's

actually making a smart career move. Because when is the last time Jim Brewer performed before many people doing that cockatiel bit, squawking on stage, and it is murdering. Now it's not good, but in it like they don't care. He's sending those old people home happy back to the nursing home or back to their blackjack tables. So, I mean, you might not like it. You might not agree with it, but from his manager is like, happy as a clam because of all this. Yeah, but yeah, he sucked. I mean, he was one of those just one trick like Rob Schneider or something. He did one or two memorable things, but like that was it. He obviously, his career was in the shitter. He looks like he's been, I don't know what like, not man.

He looks like he hasn't slept in the last two decades. Right. That's, so that's my reason why. He looked sleepless prior and now, yeah, age has not helped him. No. He can't swim and the, he can't swim in the liberal end of the pond.

So he's going to a much shallower in terms of celebrity entertainment. If Trump gets real like that, I'm sure he'll perform in the inauguration like much bigger bookings. Yeah. Yeah. Wasn't there a push for a while? Like someone who was it? Someone wanted to start like, there was talk like, let's make our own conservative Saturday

night live and base it out of Omaha, Nebraska. Like do a live comedy show. It's so once a week. Please. Would love to see it. Absolutely. Yeah. Do it like that red eye show on Fox.

Yeah. Oh, so I saw that. Reese, I was on a flight a month or two ago. And there's a show called gut fell. Yeah, kind of like skipping out the channels. Yeah. Yeah. And you land on that and you just go like, it's like the daily. It's like the daily show for foxes. And it's like, it's, it lands flat every time. When they try to, yeah, they've tried it with the Babylon B too. I'm sure you've seen there. Just killer tweets. Yeah. It's, I don't get what is that?

How is it because it's like punching down? Like what is in like a lack of empathy? So there's like, there's no way to, if you're actually doing comedy, you can empathize with the part like you can relate to the people that you're talking to. So I feel like there's a lack of. Oh, interesting. It's just like, you know, it's, it's mean spirited, but also even if you take the mean spirited this out of it,

there's no, there's no joke to any. I was really like watching like, man, hiding my screen. So nobody saw me watching it. And then just going like, what's this? Like what's happening? A fan has a tweet of you somewhere. Of you on the air, so like watching, Oh Eric is watching you.

Eric is watching you. Oh. Eric's at a tire shop watching it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, like why is that? Like why is, why is none of it?

How, how is it so not funny, but across the board? You know what I mean? I don't know what it is. I love it. I'm gonna shout out to the pool. There are some funny comics who are like, right leaning, like Nick De Palo's funny, or at least it used to be. Like, Norm McDonald was not a liberal necessarily.

I mean, he was one of the best ever, but it is a much shallower pool. So I think you have to pull for... And I have friends in the scene who are definitely more conservative than like, he'll be funny, but I don't know what it is. I think if you're just in entertainment, I think it's just more liberal to begin with. Whereas I think if you're a conservative person who's funny, you're just the funniest person at the UPS store. Right. You're, you know, you're just, you have a real job because you're conservative. You're not going to move out to LA or New York and, you know, have to be around the bunch of non-white people all the time to make me. You're just going to stay and, you know, you you're gonna stay in Louisiana and just like make the best of it. Right right right that's that's my guess. I don't know. Okay I'm

gonna say something controversial. Hell yeah close up on Drew. I need help. Yeah why okay and please complain to me because I don't understand it. Why is Norma Donald funny? I've never understood it. I don't really? I don't get it. I don't really, I don't get it. I don't. Yeah, I was not prepared for the level of controversy in this. Wow, are you serious? I don't understand.

The old daily show bits were funny. His jokes on the daily show, not the daily show. We conducted a video. We can update. That was funny. But I'd never got it. And it's not like, I'm not saying like, he's such. I just, every time somebody's like, Norma McDonald's my favorite standard comedian. I'm like, I'd never got it. And it's not like, I'm not saying like, he's sick. I just, every time somebody's like,

Norma McDonald's my favorite standard comedian, I'm like, I must be stupid. I think you have to like, I think you have to like, I mean, it also sucks to try to break comedy down, but like, I think you have to be the kind of person who likes absurdism, first of all, because I think he does a lot of that. He absolutely commits to whatever he's doing.

So, he, even if he's telling, like he did a, there was a roast of Bob Sagitt and he got up there and just told like jokebook jokes, like street let like the corneus shit and it's like, so part of it is, if anybody else did that, it wouldn't work, but the way he did it and the way he sold it was like cryingly funny.

So it's a lot of that. There's like an irreverence about him to where it's just like, he just kind of says like no matter how non-PC it is or whatever, like he'll just say it. He was just like, I think he was just a genius. I think he was sort of, and it's a very non-traditional way to do comedy, like the way he did it.

I understand now. Yeah, it's my anxiety would catch him before I thought anything was funny. Well, I would like clock him be like, I don't know what he's doing. I don't know if it's a bit nuts. I can't fucking tell. Like, this isn't funny. I just want to die. Like, I just, that's every time I see him. You kind of have to go on the ride. You kind of have to go on the ride with him. And nobody's imitated him since. It's like Jackson Pollock with painting.

It's like he was just doing his own thing. Yeah, right. Yeah. Okay. If I remember right in that roast as well, didn't he bring like a newspaper? And he just like didn't pay attention to the roast the entire time.

And we're just sitting on the day is reading a newspaper. Yeah. So bizarre. That's his own personal barometer of what was funny and what, like what was funny to him was so off beat that it's just it's almost like he was doing stuff just to make himself laugh. Oh, yeah And you liked it, that was fine and good, but it wasn't important to him. Like he wasn't going to try to please you. Which I think that's what makes him a more like a, why most stand-up comedians like him,

because it's like an art for art's sake, where it's like, the pure artist, he doesn't. Definitely the comics comic. Big time, big time, big time big time big time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, he's funny. I'd never had anything. I didn't have anything negative to say about. I thought that, you know, he got, he got kind of dealt a bad hand with the SNL stuff in the way they, yeah. Yeah. You know, the way he got canned and stuff and it's just like, damn, he had this career that like, what would it have been if he didn't get canned there if he continued and everything?

Because what do you mean dirty work and stuff like that? He had his own show for a while. He did. I think he had a normal show on ABC. Yeah. I think he was, I don't know if it ever would have changed because I think he was always going to be that person who like was more gonna be that person who was more of the, he was like more of the velvet underground

rather than the bands who came after him that was in spy. Like I don't think he was ever gonna be super mainstream. And there's actors like that too, and comedians who came before him, like Lenny Bruce or somebody who didn't have the kind of mainstream success Bill Hicks, who was not, you know, I think kind of very similar,

although Bill Hicks did a more traditional standup. So I don't know, he might, yeah, if he had done four more seasons on SNL, I think he would have done it, but the culture wasn't ready, I think it shifted much more toward him now with like Tim and Eric and stuff like that, but even they aren't doing the exact same,

nope, nobody did what he did. And nobody still is. It's just, it's its own thing. Uh, with the SNL stuff, do you, it has to be in their contract that whatever, you know, ventures they do after SNL, Lauren Michaels has right of first refusal to, right? Because it is.

Lauren owns them. Like, if you don't want, like if, I don't know if you've seen only murders in the building. to, right? Because it is. Lauren owns them. Like if you don't want, like if I don't know if you've seen only murders in the building. No, I've watched it. It's so good. That's very good. It's very good. Super watchable, but like Steve Martin and Martin Short

are the leads in it. And like you can tell, they just called Lauren Michaels and were like, hey, we need the roster of folks. Like every, like all of the, they just rolled everybody out from previous season of SNL to like come through as cameos on that show. Interesting. Which, which, which sounds bad, but it's actually a really good show.

That's, that's, that sounds terrible. But it's the way that you just said. Right. But like, that's, and that's just the SNL way. Like if you are on SNL, or an owns a piece of everything you do forever until you're dead. Like, that's true. It, I just found out Kyle Mooney, who I really liked on SNL. Yeah. And it's a piece of everything you do forever until you're dead. Like that's true. Yeah.

I just found out Kyle Mooney, who I really liked on SNL. He has a new show that just came out on Netflix that I hadn't heard about. So a friend of like a friend of mine told me about it called Saturday morning All Star hits. And it is a like the way that 90s cartoons have like local hosts for them. Yeah. Like Saturday morning stuff. Drew, you have a twin segment.

It's that. It's that. It's him playing two brothers in band. Like the face, like deep fake technology or whatever they have. Now, you can't tell that it's like, you know, it just looks like it's two actors on the screen together. And it's just him. It's fucking wild. But I watched it and it's produced by Lord Michaels. And it's so not in the vein of anything else that, you know, he's produced or what, you know, SNL typically touches afterwards that I was I was just really curious about like

with those contracts state. Kyle and Kyle and Beck have had like that what that good friend that whatever it was good neighbor. Yeah. Good neighbor. But they're like, you can I realized after watching enough SNL, which I don't know why I'm still watching an SNL, but you can tell who wrote which sketches and Kyle and Beck always do the 10 to one sketch. Like they're always that one and like their 90s stuff is so fucking good where they're like pretending to be on sitcom, the T.J.F sitcoms. Like those are always like super solid and way out there. All of their shit's always been like super bizarre. So I started watching it again like a few seasons ago and it's it, every now and then they'll they'll they'll knock it out of the park still.

Oh yeah. It's like definitely. It's like watching, it's like watching a hitter who like can't quite do it anymore, but like every now and then, he'll, you know, he'll come back and I'm always, I'm always happy for him. Yeah. When that happens. Yeah. I think that that's the way that show is now though, right? Like it's, it's a lot of like,

what can we do to just make sure this gets on the air and then every so often it happens to be, what can we do to get this on the air? the air? And then every so often, it happens to be, what can we do to get this on the air? And also we got one banger idea. That we're talking to. Yeah, yeah, right. It's like, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I feel like watching it every week

is like doing scratch offs. Where you're just like, is there anyone? No, no. It's a, no, no. Shit. It's also, I mean, it's obviously like super cast driven. So if you have a strong cast, you know, I think it, and they go through waves of this where I think it's, you know, sometimes much stronger than others. I also feel like their cast right now has the most star power

that they've ever had where you have like some people on the show who have been there for so long and are now so successful that they really shouldn't be on the show They've outgrown the show like Kate my cannon. Yeah, can't look at and shouldn't be on the show anymore She's like way too famous way too like successful and neat like I just think that It's time for her to move on and then also like even Keenan who's been there for but you can't that guy's gonna be there till he's dead For now, Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And that's it, you know.

It's not a Daryl Hammond without the crack problem. It's a, Oh, yeah, get him, get him, Drew, yeah, get attack, attack, attack. And some trivia about the cast, because one of the, one of of the he's a featured. He's not he's not on the main. This mucous is out of Austin.

Oh, cool. Yeah. Cause he was from the same and was a big rooster teeth fan back in the day. Like went to RTX. What a door. Get him. You two can be just like that door. This somewhere else.

Come on out RTX event.com to get your tickets on sale soon. Just plug out plug RTX now. Well, we got RTX. We also have more. I mean, that's coming up. Take us to coming on sale in a couple of weeks, but more importantly, or more and that more importantly, but more immediate. We also have the very normal podcast tour, which is kicking off on January 15th, with our key podcast here. Our key podcast is here in Austin. Face Jam is up in Chicago.

That's February, what is that? February 11th? I remember when that is. February 11th and more to be announced. Yep. Stickers are on sale now for that. We haven't even announced the podcast lineup for the for the Austin show. I don't remember who's on it. Pretty cool. podcast lineup for the for the Austin show. I don't remember who's on it. Pretty cool. There are many people there. I think Jeff might be there.

I don't remember. I've done what your office is. Nothing will. Yeah, if you go, oh, baby, but tickets are on sale now, but they are going fast. Just so you know, I got an email yesterday that said, at least take it to sell you out.

Just let people know. Ah, and it was yeah, Barbara, Chris, Jeff and me. Wow. What an all star cast. Let people know. And it was yeah, Barbara, Chris, Jeff, and me. Wow. What an all star cast. The most is still waiting on their invite for the podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's, you know, any day, you know, just waiting for that. It's yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Keep refreshing. Just keep hitting five. Because they're numbers.

I assume you'll, I assume you all forgot to give inside gaming a panel last year, but yeah, yeah. Brian, we should start our own. Yes, you are like devolver digital at E3. Yeah, yeah. Back up the truck. We should just go to convention center with a mega mega phone. Yeah, we should just go to Chicago and sit outside the wherever face jam is playing and

do our own version live on the street. You should. February 11th, the weather's gonna be great to do an outside podcast in Chicago. Wait, y'all are outside? They are? No, we would be. You'd be outside the venue.

Oh, I got to be here. I'm gonna do an Alex Jones style with the megaphone and the Tantkart. The content is just gonna be me reading the slacks. It's every. I'm just going to go through. That's cool. Definitely should say that you're going to do stuff.

Alex's Jones style more. Yeah. That's yeah. Really awesome. Yeah. I got the document right here. Gonna do a podcast and get sued for several hundred million dollars in lose. Yeah.

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No one can stop him. The normal Donald of the podcast tour. Right. I think a nice season to assist from Warner Warner media would stop me dead in my tracks. 100% by great. I have no stomach for a legal fight. No. No, I wouldn't even get, I wouldn't even open the email.

I'd be like, cool, okay, let's pack it up. And also just talking about it is too much work. Like, so it already sat like logistically, it's just Jesus Christ. Yeah, that's tough. Hey, can I show you guys something that I made real quick? Is it time, girl? I would never show you, tell me, hang on. Oh, it's something physical.

You're gonna regret something. It's a macaroni necklace. It's a, okay. I was thinking I'd feel later made out of wood. You'll never see who dies. I needed a hobby that wasn't on a computer. So I decided to learn how to sew and I made a make-

I learned how to make these. Oh man. Never sewn before and then figured out how to do this. And that like I did two of them and I'm working on like a third, but. Do you have a machine or hand sewn? Oh no, it's definitely I have a machine. I have like a like a sewing machine. I've just never sewn before. So still very impressive. Well, thank you very much. You went from just cloth to those. Wow. These are, you can

see kind of these are old rooster teeth t-shirts that they leave on the break room table. And they say, hey, take these. So, okay would. I look forward watching you wrestle Chris Jericho on Thursday, thunder. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I'll be wearing this and I'll take them out. Yeah, these are old shirts and like leatherette. So I needed like, did you guys do any like hobby stuff during all this lockdown, whatever? Did you figure out how to like, would work or whatever? I unhobbyed myself.

I used to do quite a bit of, yeah, I used to do quite a bit of leather working. I'm currently only wearing, oh no, I have my bag. Oh, here it is. You did some streams showing off yourself leather work early in the pandemic. Yeah, what? That's nice.

That's like, that's legitimately nice stuff. That's incredible. I'm looking around to see if I made that. Did I? You made that? Yeah, I made that Here's another thing though. I Eric when I said hey, you did a good job in that deadpan voice I meant how you sounded yeah, I just want to let you know like that 100% I can't Yeah, I don't know I don't know say page you should keep doing leather. Why did you stop doing leather stuff? That's awesome

Not just not vibing for me for a little bit. I keep trying to get back into it and then I'm like, nah, I'm good. Is it like you don't care to make the thing that you're making or is it like more like, yeah, this is fucking boring? It's a little tedious. It's all because it's all hands-on. So I don't have a machine. So just a lot of like, why don't you just get a machine? They're very expensive and they're not. A leather sewing machine is very expensive. You steal one. Let's go steal one. Let's go steal leather sewing machine.

Perfect. Yeah, that's content. Yeah, let's go steal a leather sewing machine. It can't be that hard. There must be very tens of them. I 15. There are as many leather sewing machines as people killed by dogs in America. I knew it.

Nice. You talk like the singer, heavy duty. Yeah, baby. as people killed by dogs in America. I knew it! Nice. You talk like the singer, heavy duty? Yeah, baby. Well, and I have a double needle. It just needs, like, I have to bring a technician into my home to like fix it because it's so robust. So it's like not even something we can get fixed.

Wow. I brought my hobby that I did get into over the pandemic. It's embarrassing. Number one, because I got into it because of Cobra Kai, I got into fucking bonsai, like growing. Oh, really? Really? Yes.

And I tried the first ones I tried to do were from seed, which is the dumbest idea, like because these things take forever to grow. Because you're growing trees. There's a whole tree. Special, they're just regular trees that you intentionally put this after a year. This is a lot of my god. This is a year of work here. Oh, you little tree.

It's the it's four of them. You can't see, but it's like, I don't know the pay. I'm not going to live to see the end of this hobby. And so then I decided to, oh, and they're like, oh, you need to buy some existing things and like bonds, I them. But even if you buy them existing, it still takes like a few years of it. It's not like an immediate hobby at all. Like, it makes gardening look like roller derby. it hobby at all. It makes gardening look like roller derby. Sorry. So yeah, but I do kind of enjoy, I do like watching them grow.

And I've had to learn, I guess patience are just like that you're not going to live to see the end of this. I don't know, it makes me just, I just go back to the watch people I subreddit because that's in my more immediate future than watching this thing like become any kind of recognizable bonsai. But it is kind of fun. I do like a great parrot and a turtle and make that your hub. I will say yeah, I forgot. Cobra Kai sees a force coming back really soon. It's like next week. Oh shit. Yeah. Is this December 31st? Is it still a YouTube show or did it move networks?

Netflix. Netflix got it. It's a fucking great show. It's awesome. It's awesome. Yeah. I feel like Netflix was like, wait, this is way too good for YouTube Red.

We're going to take this now. Yes. Yeah, or it was like, wait, how little are you spending making this show? Yeah. We're just going to look at that. It's not like a big budget show by any stretch of imagination. It's hugely nostalgia and it's pretty well done. And it's fun to watch these guys like in there, against all odds, it's fun to watch these guys. So yeah, I think, yeah, season one was just like perfect nostalgia, like

scratching that nostalgia itch of like that 80s, uh, karate kid fever. Uh, and then like they just continued to build off of that and, uh, just really, really did a great job with it. Yeah. The premise of seeing Johnny like present day, just this total washout and he's like has not matured in the slightest. Right. 86.

He's still listening to poison like still driving like a T-top convertible like still racist like all this, you know, and seeing him try to relate at all to like children is just it's endless entertainment. There's an episode, I think it's the season one where he like

reminisces on the time that Mr. Miyagi attacks them all in the first karate kids. And he's like, yeah, my friend got brain damage after the time. And he's like laughing about it, like laughing it off. God, that's wild. But yeah, it's just we had like, it's like some of those recontextualizing YouTube videos after you've seen in the past where it's like telling the story, you know, but from the other side, like what was his experience,

what was his perspective in that whole thing? I think it was a spin-off of that. Or I think the concept was from that Daniel is the real bully. Yeah. That sort of, it was really well done. And yeah, so yeah, that's fun. This is a pre-record we talked about that earlier.

By the time this is out, and I guess now, it's happening, the matrix is out. Gus, review. I'm not even seeing it yet. I'm gonna watch it tonight. It came out today. Uh-huh, the twins are out.

It came out today at 3 a.m. our time. So I'm gonna chance today to watch it. What are you gonna have there? We assumed you had your arm set for like 301. You like, this morning and we're like, it's matrix time, it's made to time. It's made to time. I'll watch it tonight, but I will say the reviews I've seen

have been middling. That's all I've seen. It looks like a middling movie. Nostalgia grab. Yeah. Something turned 20, so we better make it. Yeah, we better we better renew the property while we can. I'm looking up on Rotten Tomatoes here.

I mean, the thing about. Have you seen it? Did you see it? No, I'm not going to see the matrix. I don't care. The thing about it. I don't care. The people watching this podcast are like, the thing about the matrix is that it was so cutting edge and so like different 20 years ago that 20 years can't do anything to help you be more cutting edge. No, here's the thing, in that first matrix, the bullet time, when it turns into bullet time,

we had never seen anything ever, remotely like that at all. Yep, what could they possibly have in resurrections where you're gonna be like, yep, that's a completely new. Yeah, it was so much about the effects. Right. It's going to be like, yep, that's a completely new. Yeah, it was so much about the effects. Right. It's going to be better CG. That's it.

And it's not going to be anything to write home about because it's going to be like every Marvel movie. And we've hit the incrementalism of CG where it's like, it's also. I loved the first one. I thought it was. Oh, I remember watching the second one and thinking, like, I'm good. Yeah, I don't need the st-like. I need the first story to me was a perfectly contained.

He finds out he's the one. He flies away at the end. He beats the shit out of the eight. And then I can fill in the rest of my mind. Like they go on and beat the bag. The second and third one, watching the second and third one, I reminded me of like, I remember watching it being like, did I not read the books?

Like I feel like this is in the books. But it's like there is no books. It's all, the second one made the same sin that the Phantom Menace did, where it's like there were whole subplots about political intrigue. What is the council doing? It's like, I don't give a buck

about the political backstory going on inside on like just cut all of that. Yeah. Yeah. Let's anytime they weren't in the matrix, I was fucking like get back into the matrix. Right. It was all here's the world where we can fly and do whatever we want. All right. But now we have to come out of that world and everything is like gross and muddy. And everyone lives in a hole in the ground. And you're like, this is the worst fuck this, fuck this. I hate, by the numbers, I'm not a fan of the Matrix, just by the numbers.

It was a really cool superhero origin story. Like the whole thing was sort of his or it, but then after that, I didn't need to see because it was all kind of reveals, but if it wasn't, yeah, if it wasn't the special effects, and if it wasn't them doing karate to each other, I did not care. Yeah, to each action.

Karate, I'm gonna do some karate to you here. You're doing fucking confuenshit, whatever, you know it. I know, but to each other. To each other. Are you excited, guess? I am, and I like the animatrix too, which I feel like gets forgotten a lot at this point. Yeah, so it's like Matrix Animatrix.

Good. Second and third movies, not that great. But I felt like in all, I was excited about this movie because in all the marketing materials and everything they're talking about, it's like they're very focused on like this is the successor to the first movie. Right. It's almost like a, yeah, our bad, we know we're're gonna stick to the stuff that, that we know you guys like. So I'm just, we'll see.

I also haven't seen like a solid home run from the Wakowski's sometime. I like the other concern. Like cloud Atlas was pretty good. I remember thinking that one was solid, but then I haven't seen anything like astonishing from them. People love speed racer. I'm so tired. I'm so tired of the revisionist history of speed racer. That movie came out. It was fucking lambasted by the people who can't tweet fast enough about what a hit what a what a gem it is. The exact same people going to movie fucking sucks are the same people who are going, what a hidden gem, go watch Speed Race

or my favorite movie. It's like, fuck, got it. Ball the decision. I will say they did nail, I feel like it's the only time an anime has come to live action and they nailed it. It is the show verbatim. They did a very good job.

The show originally wasn't very good because it was from the 60s. They just did the one to one of that show. So, I agree. Speeders, look cool. Okay, I looked dope as fuck. Still, I've never seen it, never watched it. Yeah, I don't think you can watch it.

I didn't like fucking cartoon either. Yeah, exactly. Right, I had run dogs, sheeply done. And I know what you're saying though, Eric, or I think I know what you're like. I hate the hype machine that gets behind any of these like comic book type things. And there's this whole layer of tier three press and online outlets who love everything. Yep. You invite them to something they're going to put out a twig.

Totally. Totally known as Ain't It Cool News. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's my first impressions of the Flintstone movie, Unbelieveable. I'm sure the year candided. Yeah, boy, Stephen Baldwin better drink it up. Yeah, everything. They did it for suicide squad. They did it for fucking ever, not the new one. No, old suicide.

Oh, God. And are we gonna, well, are we gonna get to a point where this revisionist history on that movie? The first one. Gus. Yes. They're already. They're already. Yep. Oh, yes, there is. There's people who are like, Hey, Jared letta wasn't that bad. He was so bad. It was so bad. He was very in that movie. He's barely in that movie. I would not be the failure. I wouldn't blame

the shittiness of that movie on him. He was like, no, no, but I think that is that's the thing that people are talking about in these like finding like these nuggets that they can like weird hills to die on on like these movies that are so like meaningless and like a femoral and then making that like a personality trait of like, and that's right, I like Suicide Squad. That's insane. That's cool. Someone clicked that. Someone clicked that.

No, yeah, yeah, that's that used to happen. But back in the day, it used to be like, I really like Blade Runner. And it was like 1995. And it's like, oh cool, you're like, I like Buckaroo Bonz, or something. But now it's like Hayden Christiansen was actually really good.

You don't know he fucking wants it. He's horrible. Yes, those movies had lots of other issues. Yes, the writing sucks, but Natalie Portman could at least deliver those shitty lines. Right. For a lot of them, a believability.

He was awful. So put in so wouldn't and now everyone's like, yeah, but go back and watch him. He is that's exactly what that character is supposed to be. No, just because it's been a long time doesn't mean that that's what the character was supposed to be. It just means it's been a long time. Oh, it's bad.

Erick's real bad shit. No, it's all right. Just because you grew up with it. No, it's father's. Right. Just because you grew up with it, doesn't make it good. Exactly. It's this weird revisionist thing where people will like, and you know, and it works. It's because it gets me fired up like this where people will make these tweets because they don't really believe this.

It's just a thing they wrote an article about. And so they need people to click on it. And so it works that way. And that's fine. You know, people tweeting stuff, they don't believe the Ted Cruz effect. Yeah, it's that shit. Just getting just getting people mad. It's people saying things to get a rise out of other people just to get a rise out of them.

Like, just stop California. Yeah, exactly. Stop accessing my California. Well, don't worry, I also tweeted don't Louisiana my main. So we'll see what happens after this podcast. And it also becomes your, it's like you said, but even more than your worry, I also tweeted don't Louisiana my main. So we'll see what happens after this podcast. And it also becomes your, it's like you said, but even more than your personality, I think for some people it becomes their brand

to hate the last Jedi or something. It's like, it's a fucking Star Wars movie. Or to hate, you know, the Marvel, like I'm DC instead of Marvel and like you can't enjoy both. It's like, guess what, there's good and bad ones about the both of them, I promise you can't enjoy both. It's like guess what, there's good and bad ones about them, I promise you. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I feel like that happens in everything, right?

You mean you may as well be saying PlayStation Xbox or Golden Chevy. It's like everyone has to align themselves with like, what kind of consumer are you? Like this, this is off, you know, whatever house. Like no, just fucking enjoy what you enjoy. But don't enjoy stuff that's bad. We're not allowing that. Right, no, don't like no, just fucking enjoy what you enjoy. But don't enjoy stuff that's bad. We're not we're not allowing that.

No, don't like stuff that sucks because then we'll only get more stuff that sucks. But yeah, it's a real triumph of late stage capitalism that like you that you assign your whole identity to for profit companies that I'm a Disney fan. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Yes. Why I think it's about that. No, that's great. Yes. I think it's all about that. Go ahead, go ahead.

I saw the other day I was driving to the studio and over there off of like 51st, which runs right in front of the studio. And I saw, there was a mini van in front of me. They had a bumper sticker. And I think the bumper sticker, if I remember right, said Disney life, Disney wife. And it makes you think about what you're saying, Brian, where it's like your identity becomes

so wrapped up in like a this, a for profit company. Like that, like I can't imagine buying a bumper sticker like that and putting it on my car. Anyway, I'm not I'm not I'm not ragging on Disney. I'm not ragging on this person. It's like, no, just for anything, anything in general. Yes. There's not a single, I mean, I have all these posters behind me,

but there's not a single property that I like endorse, but a single like consumer item that I'm all in on. Like there's not a, not a thing that is. Yeah, I think that it's a generational thing and my generation of millennial is really hooked into nostalgia and very much like franchises and properties and not necessarily like, and I don't think it's anyone's fault necessarily. I mean, I mean, the people who are pushing it, I think it's their fault. But just generationally, like fun copops shouldn't exist. Yeah, they shouldn't. But because you put it South Park pro wrestlers,

like you brought you remember that from like the late 90s where it was like your Stone Cold Sea Boston, but it's like South Park Stone Cold Sea Boston. But it looks like Eric Hartman. It's that. That's fun copops because it's just a thing that you recognize on top of another, like they risk into thing to look like a different thing. That to me, some's up sort of like, or my generation sort of like blinders. It's just like, I love this thing.

And you put it on this other thing, I have to buy it. Here's the thing. Right. I think our generation millennials, were the first generation to have PR that was psychologically driven. Like every previous iteration of like PR, they were still trying to figure out how to like trick your brain into purchasing things. If you look at the 90s and 80s, we were getting there, but we hadn't refined it. And so like when we were coming up, it became like a refined machine where it's like,

if I color this poster, orange and blue, you're going to go watch that movie because we've done enough case studies to go make a duet. And so that's true. So you become integrated into those brands because the PR team just tricked you into doing it. And now you're basically brainwashed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. By by consumer by consumer. And I think what consumer and there's so much of the stuff that's just like marketing creations to or but but not just products like the term gamer did not exist. Yeah. I was a kid. It wasn't an identity to be a gamer. It was just something you did like ride a bike or something. But also I just think that I also think it's a it's a it's a sad sad conclusion to the fact that people are in debt, people can't buy houses, people can't get their

adult lives started as easily as they once could. So I think people look at themselves in a different way now as a collection of fandoms almost you see it in their bios. But that's also explained this, this, this, and this, these five things are what I like. That's who I am. That also explains the nostalgia grab where it's just like we don't, there's, there's a sense of arrest the development. And so we're not allowed to do anything new. So we just look at the past and be like, man, remember, remember the Ninja Turtles? Hell yeah, I love the Ninja Turtles. Ninja Turtles, fuck a pop for me. If Gen X was very much like that too, in fairness,

I think at some point we just got two fucking old. I was like, well, you're in your 40s and 50s now shut the fuck up about the G1 Transformers. But no one wants to hear it. And we're going to call the police if you're staying the toy section any longer. I wanted to piggyback on something you said a little while ago, Brian. It's like when we, Brian, we're close to the same age. We grew up in the same generation.

We're both genetics. When we were younger, you said the term gamer didn't exist, but it's because it was encompassed by the broader term loser. Because only, it's only losers played video games. Yeah, it was like, something you did in secret. You don't tell anyone you knew that you played video games because it was like, oh, you're a weirdo. You had your buddy that you met in secret and talked about, yeah, but yeah, it wasn't something like guys on the football team didn't fucking play Mega Man. Like there wasn't, or if they, they might, but like it wasn't like, it wasn't something that like everybody, even computers were looked at.

You remember this Gus? I feel like not everybody knew what a computer users reviewed. I was like, what, what you know about the shit? All right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, even when like computers were first, like, what, what, you know about the shit? All right, loser. Yeah. Well, even when computers were first, like when home computers were first being marketed or in fees first being developed to market it, like I think even computer manufacturers didn't know how to sell them to consumers.

It was like, you can put your recipes in here. It's like, well, what is the value proposition where you can sell someone a $5,000 piece of hardware that they've never had before? It's like, what can it do for me? Like pre-internet? Like, I don't know, you can type, it's a typewriter with rest of pieces in it. That was a big sell. I remember my dad being like, I can do all this with a book. This is a book. I can be like, I remember him very distinctly. We're not spending $2,000, but it was a book. It's, yes, it's such a weird time to think back about. It's like, we're not spending $2,000, but it was the book. It's yes, it's such a weird time to think back about it's like we, we had these machines, but really couldn't do shit with them. I mean, you could play some games,

but I mean, it was all pretty worthless until the internet came along really. Yeah. Yeah. And the sort of late and the 80s internet was very different from the internet of today. And like in early 90s, it was a very sort of hardcore user base that was not mainstream at all. Like I would have a vague inkling, or sort of use it just a little bit. Yeah, it was extremely different to say the least, much creepier.

Yeah, for sure. Do you feel like when you see nostalgia for, I'm a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a head, a They're all bad. Gen X is the only cool term. Yeah, that's the only thing we got. That's all we got. Yeah. And that's where I was going to ask like for these younger generations and even for like, I guess if you're doing money on or whatever, do you see that like nostalgia that they have and you're just like, what the fuck is this like or? Well, nostalgia is subjective for everyone.

Like the time keeps moving. Like what's nostalgic for Brian and I is different than what's nostalgic for Drew and Eric because we grew up at a different time. And then it's just gonna keep happening. Like whatever Gen Z's nostalgic for, like that shit, I mean like millennials, love Pokemon. I was a college when Pokemon came out.

I don't give a fuck about Pokemon. I don't think it's not about the what, it's about the how. So like what we're nostalgic about, sure that changes no matter what, how we're nostalgic seems really different to, how the millennials are nostalgic about things seems very different than how Gen X is nostalgic,

or even Gen Z is like coming. I feel like Gen Z's nostalgia comes from, just remember, they have the ability to grab clips of the things that they're nostalgia about. So there's no product associated with. And you're right. And I have all these friends who collect shit.

All these friends who collect like they are like, like they're, they're. Millennials hoard. Yeah. Millennials hoard shit. And did you guys have that? Did you like? Yeah. It is.

I don't like how. I see it and I, I, they're like, oh, I get that. Like, I don't get that specific. Like, I don't care about Harry Potter, but I get why you would. It's become a lot more professionalized now than when Gus and I, because like,

clerks was the first movie I remember that had people just sitting around in a movie talking about Star Wars. Right. Or talking about like, oh, that just didn't happen before. And now it's everywhere. But, but also just the, the, the, uh, very attractive streamer with all the, with all the, you know, bobbles in the background and all the, you know, with their Pokemon. And just, it's like, they all have the same shelf of just pop culture stuff. And it's just, I don't like how that's just become like,

it's just the professional nostalgia person now. Because I think it, not that it was more pure, it's always existed, but it has gotten to be very refined and targeted now, where it's for, it was just, people just sitting around bullshitting about he-man. Well, it might go hand in hand with a druiseig about how markings become so much more precise than dissecting your brain.

It's like it's tested to perfection. Yeah, I feel like. Yeah, and you don't see the streamers agent or manager at all this and you just sort of think they're just in their bedroom or whatever. So stuff like that, it doesn't annoys me, but it just sort of, yeah, it doesn't annoy me. Fuck him up.

It went like when Drake played Ninja in Fortnite, and I remember people, I was talking to people at Rooster teeth and they were like, oh, that's so cool. How they just did that. It's like they didn't just work and do that. That didn't just happen. Two giant stars in their field don't just, they didn't just text each other.

What used to really annoy me in the same vein we were talking about Brian was when Conan O'Brien would do his video games segments. Oh, yes. And they're like the clueless gamer. It's like, if you were like, oh, it's so great. And it's like, he's insulting people who play video games, not stop. Like, and like, it's obviously like these companies have this, this is a, you're watching a commercial. And you're excited about a commercial. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

exact. Or the South Park World of Warcraft episode, where they remember that one, there was a man to add all these new servers because people were flocking to World of War. That episode did nothing but make fun of people who played that game. Yeah, right. It's true from start to play. It was very funny.

But yeah, it was, you know, who knows? And that was probably commercial too. I don't know, it's in product placement. Yeah, right. It's got to be something. It was just, uh, no, come on. Oh, come on. Hell yeah.

My word. The Warcraft server. I don't get a very, a very opportunity very often to show it off. Cause it is a whole server. I don't, I still don't understand what that is. I, it's so, it's a server. You play the game on it. Yeah. This was one of the original World of Warcraft launch servers. This is a blood scout. So if you ever played World of Warcraft, when it launched and you were on the blood scalp server, I have your dude. Oh. It's on, Drew, it's on blood scalp. You know, blood scalp.

Oh, yeah, blood scalp. Yeah, blood scalp, you know. Right there. You know how we're, you know, that, you know, the term, I just blood scalp. You know, not the sickness. Not a disease. Not the sickness.

Are you down with the sickness? I'm not down. Wow. Here's the thing. All of my friends in high school had an Xbox and they would do land parties and play Halo. I had a PlayStation 2, so I was never invited and so I missed the whole playing with your buddies and then moving that to the online realm.

So I've never gotten into, I've never figured it out. I've never been. I don't, I don't, I'm like online gaming. I don't the online realm. So I've never gotten into I've never figured it out. I've never been I don't I don't I like online gaming I don't like online gaming. It's not it's not how I play games It's I get tired of it play games for like an hour and then I get done. Can I can I don't know if I've talked about this on another podcast Can I say something? What? I've never beaten a halo game. I think I've played halo one For two hours and then tried to play Halo four for about an hour

And those are the only Halo games I've ever played and I work on Oh, thank God, I'm not the only one. Thank God me too I played through one just out of guilt. Yeah, it's like it's fine. I mean, it's never never played one Really cool. I played one. Wow Gus and you started a whole company on the back of that Hey, we do other things now Really cool. Never played one. Wow. Gus, and you started a whole company on the back of that. Can you believe that? Hey, we do other things now. But it's funny you say that, like to bring it back full circle, in a way, the entire company

was started by fandom and by being enthusiastic and fans of something, you know, back then, you know, when we first started, it was, you know, it wasn't as screaming at this recording right now. Yeah, definitely. It's like, it was, it was, it was comments coming out. But it was like, at that time, you know, we weren't paid to make those videos. Like it was a lot more organic. It was a genuine expression of, you know, love of a property and love of a time, you know, it was, you know, it was a game when it came out that we were excited about for years before it came out We used to watch all the trailers like not so long ago, right? And you know, we're looking for bits of pieces of information

But it was weird because it was at such a strange time in the internet where you couldn't play that first game online So it's like like I said, we had to have a LAN party We had to like drag all our shit together and you know, it's just like that was the the thing that we did for fun back then And it is funny to that was the thing that we did for fun back then. And it is funny to this day, and I'm not even a huge FPS person, but my favorite gaming memories, maybe these are land parties, like playing Duke Newcomme or something like that. Oh, sure.

Just because you're in a room with, you know, four or five other smelly guys and you're just having, and it's like, it goes all night, and it feels like it lasts an hour, but you played 12 hours and it's glass. And yeah, it's just that the culture has changed so much to like, encompassed nerd culture whereas before it was like something. Yeah, like us to say, like you were kind of ostracized for, or, you know, even bullied, like I remember, not bullied,

but like kind of picked on a little bit. So it's funny to see it become very much the mainstream thing now. And I'm not mad about it, but it's just weird in a way too. Like, oh, girls play the shit now, cool. Cool. I have a tough red versus blue question, Gus.

Okay. Okay. Okay. So as a dude who's grown up playing video games with their friends, who hasn't sat down and messed with the characters and pretended that they were make like a little, like some machinima, before machinima was machinima, you would just get on and dick around for a minute

and fuck around with each other. It was funny, you'd make little jokes with each other. Everybody's done that. How did you guys know that you were funny enough to start a company with it? It wasn't a company, right? Like it was a hobby. I think the thing was that we'd already been making websites,

like writing God, but we thought was funny, like writing comedy on the internet, but it was all text-based and photo-based. And then it was just like, oh, well, let's try it, but with video, right? It was like the next, the next step, you know, it was like, oh, this is probably going to be big, I think. So why not? And just like, you know, still working our, our other jobs, you know, our day jobs and just like, when we would get together to land part, instead of land partings, we were making these videos. So it wasn't all in all at once. It was like, you're just doing it as a, what made you, what kept, what kept your brain functioning?

And then yeah, like on it, hearing you talk about that and say like, yeah, this was just like a, like a, like a side hobby thing or whatever. Dude, I remember downloading the new episodes, like when they would come out, like, I was a red versus blue fan, like at the very beginning, like when that I remember finding it going like, this is fucking awesome. Like this is so funny.

And remember, like when the new ones would come out and downloading them and everything, and thinking about that because I was about 10 years younger than you somewhere like right around there. And so I would be watching these and going like, this is the funniest fucking thing I've ever seen. And thinking about you guys just going, well, I'm done with my day job and I have to go do my hobby thing now.

Fucking nuts. Dude, that stuff sucked because we were trying to teach people, we couldn't pay for service to download. So it's like we had to teach people how to use BitTorrent. So it's like, the video would be done. Then we'd each take a copy home tour, like home internet, and then seed the torrent from home. So it would kill my internet, like for a day.

You're like, I've got to seed the torrent so that anyone can download the new episode. Yeah, dude, it was the best. Like, and then I had friends at school, and we'd talk about it, and then you'd be like, what's next we're coming out? And then it was, it was just like a lot of that. And now thinking about it where it was like season one

and it was just, you're like, well, don't, don't at the call center. Fuck a lot. That's wild. Yeah, what a ride. Yep. And then now we've done a podcast for over a thousand hours. Yeah.

Hey, that's crazy. That's crazy. 41 days of talking. Wait, wait, wait's crazy. Four to one days of talking, wait too many. Yeah, in that spirit, let's go ahead and end this one. All right, well, thanks for watching. Everybody, we will see you guys with a new episode here next week in the new year. So in a space kind of, I mean, it'll be a temporary space, but it'll be different from what I mean, but it'll be the same. Don't worry about it. We'll see you next time.

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