Open Wide, We’ll Take Care of the Rest - #535 | RT Podcast

[Music] hello welcome to the risky podcast this week brought to you by Robin Hood go and our TX Austin we got a couple of special guests with us but I'm Gus we got we got Bret you want me to introduce myself yeah I'm a buddy link it's a little early yeah my buddy burn it I'm like 500 good it's a lot of them there's always a debate of whether or not we introduce ourselves and you guys have done good mythical morning for really long time we don't introduce ourselves right at some point thinking you say the name of the show but on our podcast though you have tyrants with your name right in the lower third that's right yeah reporter we have name graphics we doesn't know we're kinder her Chiron before was that Chiron is my third child yeah if the planet were my father's from like a planet that Superman escapes I've been here for like 530 episodes we bring the Chiron's with us actually on our clothes look at that he humped away the car something on a Mike Eric is something you want to say you know Mike who is who he's patting on the Mike Mike oh I think so this is a pre-taped pre-taped episode of henry's watching we're not live so we're not monitoring chat normally we keep an eye on chat but we're not doing that today oh you're not there what are you guys in town for you down for something specific yes for you yo for just yeah we wanted to hang out with you guys and make some videos well you couldn't have picked a better week to travel to Austin than South by Southwest week when it's prohibitively expensive to travel to Austin and the airports are all clogged it's worse we're in a tent actually we were sleeping in your bus did you give you a chance to check out the bus yeah I've had all I got some roasted nuts no we haven't been nuts smoke coming out of the top of your bus I think your bus is on fire no I've got a little like a little wood burning stove in it it smells funny well I didn't go inside but the outside smells funny what kind of wood you burn you smoke me outside of my bus or the smoke smells funny my nose was right against the bus but awesome just smells like that in general classroom for some reason what's that smells like an art teachers classroom is that what you really it's on the inside maybe you laugh just try that's what I do I come out here and I try I was telling that before we started that what's my joke Tim watch you face our 10-year anniversary of doing weekly podcasts that's crazy is this a competition cuz that informs my answer I'm just curious because I'm not a competitive person older every day and I want people misery loves company yeah we've all been through it so yeah I think the wikipedia says active since 2000 but that we were just doing like live we were doing like live comedy at that point but the internet we started our website in oh three rattling calm and that we were probably doing something similar to you we were hosting our own videos on our own server and then people started downloading and putting them on YouTube when YouTube came about and so forth I think they started doing that no 500 606 we started yeah yeah and and then GMM was 2012 2012 yeah so pretty far into it you guys started your big property GMS yeah yeah as a side project definitely yeah we I had a really crazy realization the other day because we started 2003 as well and April first the company will have been around for 16 years which means at some point in the next few years we're gonna hire somebody that wasn't born when the company started right yeah we're we're in this surreal place where things like that are starting to happen I'm just very grateful that we're still we're still around we're somewhat viable but we are relevant hiring children child labor so we have lots of that we're not born we're six smaller hands it's more nimble they did a lot of that manual labor sunrise early they don't develop the carpal tunnel as fast so seriously young tendons like the opposite of improv everything I say just no good point it's like you guys work together I don't know if you guys actually hate each other as much as Gus tonight don't like each other but we knew each other before we work together so we were just really priming that pump right Oh before we work together here yeah but do we work together tech company can you tell us that origin story I okay we were playing Wii in our break room at the tent company we had a Sega during the what company tech company it was a call center did we did tech support and what was your do you guys have jobs before you were an entertainment engineers your engineers Oh your science that's what I graduated that I could tell when you were testing the jockstraps but yeah I have an industrial engineering degree Industrial Engineering civil engineering degree really I never knew that yes so you could be building bridges in industries well I probably couldn't actually I don't know how much I learned in that in those four and a half years but I can design a mean drainage ditch and I can fire somebody like that's an industrial engineer it's it's all about efficiency so once you create efficiency you fire the person who was doing the thing that you figured out another way to do interest have you met yeah hello Eric I have some notes for you the main one is I don't think you're needed I would just make a spreadsheet and it this people would be missing and cuz that was my job you know a part of it you mean you accidentally leave people off of a spreadsheet they would get fired no I would I would scientifically leave them off but then I wouldn't have to like tell Eric hey man just this is it your pack your things so like we hear about a sports team in the playoffs that's been mathematically eliminated you're the guy that mathematically eliminates people essentially yeah yeah definitely man if you love that it's great I'd love to go out mothered by multiplication sign no I'm glad I'm not doing it anymore cuz uh that weighed heavily on my conscience but I mean it can't be as bad as working at a call center did you answer phones we did well I did he was uh he wasn't my direct manner he were my managers manager but we had a oh he was your second line they call it in corporate speak yeah your boss is boss do you even know what my job was you were are you sat in an office and yelled at people when they took your chair that was the president of the company I don't know why he did this company didn't know I was the president of the company it was it was really crushing to always have to answer the phone so the call center decided to buy a Sega Dreamcast for the breakroom oh yeah it's like a way to let off steam you know during breaks that's back when it's my decision I just wanted to play it right and as the manager of the manager I think what game was it was dead or alive it was dead or alive Q how dare you and I was playing bernisa seems like an easy game like if it's just a choice you're right it would be it's this or that sounds like you just kind of click dead or alive and it's over but we sat down to play and Bernie beat me the first round and I guess he grew up playing video games so he felt bad about it clarify and say handily beat him I was very easy he said he told me that he was very good at video games which infuriated me I grew up well I will play video games with me and there was when I grew up playing video I came by the arcade Brera of the 80s then even one like when people had like Ataris or Coolio's or things like that so I don't straight get my friends to play but if I beat them they wouldn't play with me again you know because they didn't like losing so they'd want to do something else die one play video game so a lot of times I would like nerf a little bit and let him win and so I felt I just grew up with that kind of anxiety of being a gaming nerd I said when I beat Gus iced had to explain it I got I play a lot of you against I'm really good at video games I be you know and that's the exact wrong thing to say to me in that situation so I got so mad that I beat him the next round without taking a single hit and I think I looked at him and I said I'm also pretty good at video genesis' no pun intended exactly that was our Master System moment yeah I could give you the exact impression because I said I'm playing a lot of video games I've said to be self effacing but you would just beat him yeah and I said I said so I I play a lot of your games so that's my excuse of why one and he just goes flawless victory on me in the next round and he just goes like this that was the moment I met Gus and we both remember that very well for some it wasn't 21 years ago yeah yeah 21 years ago now and then I got we fired from the call center who got mathematically eliminated by an industrial engineer probably he came back and stole the Dreamcast yeah just came in and somebody didn't I don't think somebody turned off his keycard and he came back and stole our Dreamcast yeah yeah change the door code they say yeah that's why they do it right away I see it see every time honestly every time I go on one of these buildings we have a security system and when I present my ID for the security system and it gives me a red light or a green light I know I still work here yeah yesterday morning what happened I was going to do wrong across the parking lot to the other building and I find my card and it was red I was going in to get a cup of coffee I was like you know happened you ever liveth was like that's no good so then I had to message someone I was like I can't get into the building we turned in a spreadsheet fixed it but it was really annoying because I had been in this building I was right over here and I saw Krista Maris getting a cup of coffee that's right that's really good great idea I want to get a cup of coffee this one's taken I'm gonna get coffee across the parking lot and it was like thirty degrees at this point so I'll cross the parking lot can't get in some duck walk back across the parking lot coming here to get coffee and Chris is still standing there I'm like you this is your fault somehow I had to go outside and be cold because because you're getting coffee right now and did you get coffee ever coffee I need to know that you got it well it was the most wonderful coffee tasting water I've ever had the coffee machine is terrible we have one coffee machine that tries to tell you jokes as you wait for your coffees ice cream on it I can't be true yeah it's there you got the art teacher bit hopping together it'll like I don't even know it just it says the stupidest things I try not to look at the display because it makes me mad when I'm waiting for my coffee like it's trying to entertain it is a bad idea when people are getting coffee that means they don't have coffee bad idea to try to make jokes these be anyone's the coffee's completed right here's a joke at the bottom of the cup I think the same is true the Laffy Taffy you know you got that Laffy Taffy from your the last thing you want us to laugh because i mean it's really hard to laugh with taffy it's in your mouth it's like it's it's it's very obstructionist you know you're like a challenge right if you buy it on the taffy and then you're trying to laugh you could lose a molar Chile could pop right out a filling could pop right out that's exactly what I was getting that the country hasn't happened to me I don't have any fillings I haven't seen you'd ever eat Laffy Taffy except the one time now we know why bingo no is there a Katy that you will not eat I think I don't know the go-to of like they have a go to cater for me it's a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup oh you a peanut butter man I do I grew up people I said put a peanut butter in vanilla ice cream was my favorite thing yes I did that too got to be about that anymore a little bit every night I would I'm sure someone here can attest is this because it was like all the way through college to every night before I go to bed I would I would pour a glass of milk I'll put in some chocolate syrup and then I would take a spoonful of peanut butter put it down and stir up the really chocolate milk and then that would be my like going to bed we might happen it would be nightcap you would stir the peanut butter into the milk what stays on the spoon boom but I need to use the spoon accuser that gets milky chocolate to make a little bit of peanut butter flavor gets into the chocolate milk that's great peanut butter chocolate milk I did this up until like three years ago yeah I did like it was I mean you did yes well into adulthood yeah and I would I would get a lot of flack from my roommates because there would always be the glass I think yeah I think so you know link is going to sleep how much my link is going to sleep dink it's like yeah yeah but other people may have already been asleep I didn't care I had to do it yeah that's not that's not your problem is their problem I like I heard you guys were uh Jolly Ranchers by the way as my answer Oh circus peanuts you'll never eat they did so what you're saying they glue my teeth together it's just like it turns into like some kind of epoxy that just like a hard yeah like just you lose them all err you will it's like a different layer of teeth isn't an epoxy when you combine two things what's that yeah your teeth oh is that it okay it's saliva and Ranger for me it's circus peanuts I can't understand anybody circus peanuts and Twizzlers I don't understand either of those is just oh you're bad dude roll me red gooey by to upset men mash you don't like black licorice either oh I hate black licorice yep that's a sign of do you leave emotional problems really you like like licorice yeah most you're the one most very stable geniuses stable geniuses love don't feed into this yeah I know I do I love it I absolutely love it I mean there's not many things that I that I don't like circus peanuts though do you know that Lucky Charms was created by accident when a guy who worked at whatever company makes Lucky Charms put circus peanuts in to Cheerios really so that was the genesis of Lucky Charms weird and if you eat a circus peanut and then eat a Lucky Charms marshmallow you'll be like oh you know what you're right this is a very similar thing they've they've since like fine-tuned the marshmallow recipe right but that's what it was it seems like it would if they took a circus peanut and then just like compressed it down right like to put it a human humongous amount of pressure on it the kinetic one then made it a different color yeah marshmallow out that grid that's squeak but those marshmallows maybe there's something about that I can't I can't hang yeah I'm not a marshmallow man but on on GMM we did a tournament last Halloween to determine the worst Halloween candy ever but basically worst candy ever and Necco wafers Oh guess where we came down yeah kind of got a black licorice flavor to him a little bit though don't they know it's me a little bit no they don't do they well we're just very powdery and it's it's like chalk uh Nicole is like eating dog eating straight up sidewalk chalk but I as somebody who likes licorice I didn't know that good and plenties were black licorice yeah that was quite a discussion for me yep it's weird you're Adam no I'm just not sure I just white on the outside yeah I was like I don't I didn't do that but then I I was a revelation got turned around I'm with you though I think black licorice is a very important candy because it teaches children about disappointment at our very little like quarter machines that were in the front of grocery stores and I'd always ask my parents I get I want to go and get a gumball and you get 2 black gumballs like it's the worst day the black gumball was like grape or some no other ones I just got a licorice licorice yeah Wow what was that maybe just got a rotten gumball like a nightmare I wanted to seem a little bit younger than I am I was actually thinking about the penny gumball you know the ones where you slide it over please tell me that's where I would get the black gumballs I just wanted to like go to the Nintendo era where my frame of reference I understand now that concept that you were talking about oh I think you talked about this on the podcast the idea that you eat things that are a little bit of a punishment to you but that's why you like it it's like basically benign masochism yeah for your mouth yeah yeah and it's on stuffer like hot-hot yeah people do there's a psychological factor account eating that are things that are disagreeable to some degree and that's what I think people gravitate towards and I feel I'm dead I definitely like things with like strong pungent flavors like black licorice I think there's something about the fact that I hate it makes me love it yeah there's a cycle a brain mattes faction is knowing that something feels like you're in danger or being threatened yeah but you actually can override that and know that you're actually safe that's what people love rollercoasters right because it has all the the thrills of a near-death experience but you kind of know at least if you're not in Florida you're probably not going to die on this right probably not right yes your probability from the 8,000 people that were outed that day and the 50 other people that are riding you with you at that moment you're probably not you're probably in good hands you're not that special but I am thinking constantly especially when I'm along one of those roller coasters where you're suspended on the bottom because I'm a big guy and I'm always like this just companies come break on me he's gonna break on me it's gonna break up work well your legs are just gonna hang a little lower than the tolerance that they built it for or like something weird like that you know you're gonna lose below the ankles yeah we did it we had an opportunity that years ago they had a new roller coaster down in San Antonio and the Travel Channel had a roller coaster show and so they asked us to go do it and it was like but they needed a group people be like six people and I had a little bit more experience with production at that point in time than some of our younger employees so I said you know what you guys be on the show I'll just go and ride the roller coaster and so I won't have to be on camera and you guys can have this really cool opportunity because I knew and this exactly is what happened I got to ride the roller coaster twice now go well that's fun I'm going home they had to write it like 12 times to get the shots great it is funny when you get right back on to a roller coaster do it they couldn't stay well and I couldn't do it they have infant if no one's at the amusement park sometimes they'll I mean if you're in the seat and there's no one in line like can I just go again I think they're supposed to make you get out and walk around for that reason because yeah so the line is there for your safety exactly the line is just there that's why you owe me an during is just for the people who are there maybe I was just six flags and the might think about it I think that they'll let you do it maybe one more time but then they said we have a regulation we actually have to make you get off and then get back on so maybe they had signed a waiver but yeah once you ride something twice if you ride something three times in a row without getting off it is no longer fun at all there were breaks whoo that takes a while to set up they need to move the camera so remember there was a drone at the top of the first hill you know that that took a little while to set up but I was I can see everyone I had enough after two and then they were out there too like 3:00 in the afternoon film in this stuff then it's Texas so it got hot here I got to read this thing here from our sponsor okay when I wonder when this episode received podcast is brought to you by Robin Hood Robin Hood is an investing app that lets you buy 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respond sory this episode of the roosterteeth podcast so I heard when you guys were here just a little before we got started filming this morning that you all discovered collage cheese yeah really never had clutched I'd know and I've all the stuff we've eaten I'm still suspicious that this is a practical joke it was a great one not at all I love this type of practical joke I tasty fun well it's also subtle magical joke it's like let's serve them something and then we'll all act like we know what collages are and then when the three people who don't the two of us this TV show up and don't know what it is we'll be like you've never heard of collages before you got prank you ate a delicious man I love subtle pranks where you're not really sure what they know and we've never heard of them but we do know now they're like polish / German yeah it's not even like a Texas wide thing I think it's like a very Central Texas thing I think Central Texas has a had a high concentration of German immigrants in the 1800s who moved here got everything and so as though he's like so kolache took everything kolache itself is actually slavic and polish but you know Germans kind of brought it over with them it's it's a weird place because there's still a lot of german-speaking people like out in fredericksburg which is just west of here but the language has branched and they speak a dialect of German that is different than people in Germany speak no yes so it's like you can speak a specific type of German to people who who you know whose families emigrated here you're talking like a texas german dialect right there's a texas german dialect that's officially recognized as a branch of germany german are these we were like isolated and like like a Amish sense is that why they're still speaking no I think it's just a holdover from when communication was more difficult and you couldn't really you know talk pick up a phone and call someone and I think it's just a holdover from that I'm sure we're at a point in time now where this dialects gonna die off okay and it's probably not gonna be viable in the next generation as long as the Logies don't yeah the bright side is the kawatche ease we started disseminating those live i mean i love when people put things in just balls at bread weights it's kind of like it's like a bun from Golden Corral has those types hands like a stroll yeah it's a yeast roll and then it's gut I mean mine had scrambled eggs and sausage in it yours had like a strawberry goo in well my first one has sausage egg and cheese I started savory and it's sweet like I do all my meals smart energy yeah you're a principled man there's a descendent of the horror of yes like a black liquor scorcher you know what that's the interesting thing about black liquorice I'm gonna continue to be an advocate for it it's sweet and savory all at the same time I thought of it as a beignet you know that's the closest thing I can compare well because it's a little heavier I've had I've had a beignet with like crawfish in it so it's like a savory beignet I've never noticed everybody kolache the working man's vernacular paintball yeah you're heard if I say the words a pig in a blanket does that oh yeah different the same though no because the pig pokes out of that blanket see I still don't know how they got all that stuff in that red ball you like the surprise I couldn't find the whole sausage in goo I look everywhere for the hole it was no hope for the first 10 minutes was just on my tongue all over the looking for the hole there's a place between when whenever a burner I Drive up to Dallas there's this place that we always stop at it's in a town called West Texas West , Texas not confusing it all okay and this place is called a check stop check like Czechoslovakia I think they have a huge selection of qalaat you think it's like right off the highway like a gas station yeah it's absolutely like a gas station convenience store kind of thing this town is known for two things the kolache bakery and the fertilizer plant the blue look like five years ago yeah okay I remember that one yeah it was it was a big explosion and it was funny because all the photos from it were people from the Czech stop taking photos of this big like plume of smoke yeah yeah I see the Czech stopping a lot of those photos and everyone had stopped there cuz everyone stops her head it's exactly halfway to Dallas but the name of the town is West Texas though they said there's so many towns in Texas you can literally find in a every name is probably a Tetris town there's a cut and shoot Texas Iran Texas mm-hmm Paris Texas okay one yeah that's all every every name weird they're all taken I think even Austin used to be called Waterloo right I think it used to be Waterloo Texas then after stephen f austin illegally brought all those people in Texaco they renamed the podcast and do you guys with that Colton shoot do you guys when you're when you're like driving somewhere in Texas cuz our experience with Texas is you like fly into a city you experience a little bit of it I mean Austin Dallas I guess that's the only never been to Houston never been in Houston we're all since right in the middle of the three of the top ten cities in the nation by population San Antonio Dallas and Houston and Austin's number I've never been in San Antonio that's crazy no way just like but we I mean we drove interstate 40 across when we move to LA right somewhere so from okay so we have that's our only driving experience of Texas but late so mmm you know it's it's the cliche of it just it never stops but there's nothing that's going Y your Boston there's nothing yeah when you drive in on i-10 if you're coming if you're driving west you come in like an orange Texas on the east eastern border of Texas here's a sign on i-10 that says welcome to Texas El Paso 1000 miles yeah that's my question is for you guys when you when you're driving around the state D I mean do you like prep like it do you have to prep like a post-apocalyptic I'm going to I'm going to another town I've got to make sure I can get there it's like so the rustle up my chuck wagon situation ahead that because in the the first time we ever went to comic-con was a 2006 where we had to run but yeah you know t-shirts were like was oh they were the big part of our business model cuz t-shirt for like the career it so we had a trailer and filled it up with t-shirts and other stuff and went out to comic-con with that and first of all it was it was Comic Cons in the summer so it was so hot in West Texas towing this thing behind my picture come out to Utah about the town West Texas no this is western Texas yeah anything west of little bit west of Austin there's a couple more towns like Fredericksburg where they just talked about blood of German population there but then west of that there's nothing until a pass out it's like 450 miles of nothing just like it looks like a roadrunner cartoon yeah not that way yeah and it was gusting the trailer no it yeah Gus was not where were you but it was so hot I could literally I watched it I can watch the fuel gauge go down and then it was like 200 miles between gas stations out there and they have signs to tell you it's gonna be a big long distance yeah but I thought if this car runs out of gas it's I'm gonna have to eat t-shirts a little loving prank on Bernie as he drove away I remember that trip we had just finished loading the trailer up and he was driving a pickup that we use for work-related purposes and that truck has seat heaters so like we finished loading up the trailer brings about it get in the truck so I put his seat heater on maximum yeah because there's the middle of summer side all right see you have a good trip how far out were you before you realize the fuel economy but it was even coming back like driving back from LA it's just such a long slog like the only thing between or coming out from San Diego I should say is between California Texas basically New Mexico and Arizona then you get to Texas and we're like oh great we're in Texas we were halfway home at that point and it's just it's just a lot of place nothing out there a lot of it yeah we hear about I mean we've been to Death Valley on a couple of trips so then you it's pretty great and it's one of Death and Valley ooh you hear about people going there they're like take the wrong oh I'll take this google map shortcut and then they just die out there oh you have friends who've died in Texas from like taking a wrong tree yeah I mean it seems like it can happen I don't think so you know no I wanted to be yeah there was a family I'm gonna tell the story I'm thinking about it there was a family in a minivan that somehow the dad was like let's go to Death Valley guys and he they went on some Road and got into a situation where the if the van was not equipped to continue because on Google Maps it can it so this is a road that's a real they're both roads and take this one and it of course it was like it was it wasn't quite the middle of summer but it still was good like one hundred and ten hundred fifteen degrees and they found him like a mile from the van in the family in the van yeah I wanted to bring her buddy spirits up yeah tell you that story job nailed it they don't enjoy black licorice but you should don't go to Death Valley in a minivan there was a guy who just got snowed in somewhere and he survived for four days on Taco Bell yeah this car yeah that's this gonna let me have an excuse now to leave the Taco Bell sauce in my car right now I don't really bring it out just in case my car gets you know how McDonald's has like a card they'll give some VIPs to get like free McDonald's for life I hope that guy gets like free Taco Bell for life let's deliver they'll have a truck show up and hook it up into his uh it's hot water it's probably the perfect thing from Taco Bell to you know it it lasts a long time it's both a liquid and a solid yes did you just say sauce is a liquid and a solid yeah a little bit it's more of a plasma oh I want to get you guys opinion on something so there is how many sticks of butter is a continent at the very southern region of the earth the South Pole in two arguments that nobody else cares about how do you pronounce that continent where the South Pole is all right I'm not gonna think about it I'm naturally Antarctica Bay again yeah well what I would say is I typically would just say Antarctica but in response to this question in which I know someone is looking for the technically correct pronunciation around words like correct you keep talking about technically I would say is Antarctica he still said aunt Arctic I'm not like you said Antarctica Antarctica that's like you're saying at article anyway norica Antarctica you say Antarctica yes that I do I just said it I know I say you just say yours and let him say his and let us decide Antarctica Antarctica well that sees too much I think I think you're pushing a little too oh you're definitely wrong I don't know with Bernie I was but the C I the C's there for a reason you know you can't take the C out of Antartica then it's no longer an island Oh thought I was like a pirate metaphor is therefore in Turkey have you ever met anybody what who's been to Antarctica the Seas therefore no but you guys know gaff Gavin from somewhere yeah we keep saying we're gonna touch all seven continents and I had I was on The Amazing Race when they did the digital media's yeah so I got to knock a couple different things out I haven't been to Africa and I haven't been to Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica thank you we've got a couple of friends who had been to blackberry continents and yes her in a van it's definitely uh they had been like three continents and a short amount of time and then they were like you want to try to go for all seven this year and it made all seven in in twelve months Wow who are you talking about Jana Caroline oh is that right yeah you you don't you don't I don't base my friends you don't listen to them as much as I do where people have traveled but the interesting thing that I learned is that so the trip you know the boat ride to Antarctica you mean through the heart through the southern ocean yeah like if you go on I like to watch those YouTube videos where it's just these big ships in the southern ocean and they're like the 100-foot wave yeah that's like the craziest ocean in the world down there and so you have to kind of you have to go through it of course cuz there's only a certain amount of time you can actually fly in and out and they were there on the ship and this woman who was kind of organizing thing she was like you need to make sure that you've always got something to hold on to as we go through this other notion because it gets so rough that we've never had a trip where someone hasn't broken a bone Wow and everybody's like okay and one of the dudes with him broke his leg really just getting tossed around yeah because he did listen so forever going through the Southern Ocean on your way to Antarctica close strap in see I act like that in my own home I'm always holding on to something because of the earthquake yeah there can happen yeah Oh like when when I bought my house they they made me sign this form that said I knew that I was on a fault line no kidding yeah and I was like well I had to bring out a geologist to like assess it and I'm like talking yeah like the whole neighborhood though right it's not like a thin little fault line right well it went it went beside they were able to pinpoint part of it yeah because you think they're huge and a lot of them are huge but there's like there's an offshoot and they get very detailed with like jamming out between me and my neighbor and I was like well what hat what would happen I'm like getting nervous if I should back out on on this purchase I'm like what would happen if you if it did quake here you know and she said well I just think your lot would gain elevation and I'm like great you'll get a view but I hold on to everything when I'm walking around always always keep an anchor we're never been in an earthquake I'm fat I'm super fascinated by them have y'all been in many actually there were two in one year that I felt been in LA nine years now but it was probably five years ago yeah like in a couple of weeks there were two that I thought and one I was like sitting there watching TV and it started some started shaking I thought I was having something it was happening in my mind not having any point of reference for it I was like oh I'm having a stroke as I oh no this is an earthquake but they're very localized and then a globe fell off the globe fell off the shelf oh yeah like the earth is splitting in half was there anything Wow like licorice super on the nose it was full of good and plenties fiend elevation yeah the only I the only earthquake that I felt was I was sleeping and it felt like someone pushed my bed against the headboard against the wall once it was just like BAM but it wasn't a shaking thing but in it I woke up and I looked at my wife I thought that she had like she made the bed or something that sounds more like a paranormal activity kind of the one kind of spirit just moves your bed yeah that was that earthquake oh no is that what it was guys that's what I had I was at e3 I think or something in LA and there was some party and I got out of it having a antisocial evening I was laying in my hotel bed doing nothing I just staring at the ceiling and all of a sudden I felt it like everything moved just a little bit just a little bit it was just enough to where I could feel it if I hadn't been laying down there but no way I would have felt it and it totally made it worth not going to that party because now I can say I've been in there Eska yeah yeah I'm jealous are you yeah your situation in want to feel one really yeah I'm not a big one like you did just another little bud take that box the earth moved done well I did get earthquake insurance wildfire insurance and most light insurance really the trifecta third is the California three I don't think you had to get my mudslide but I'm like apparently where we live is kind of at the bottom of the the foothills of the you know Angeles National Forest and like a hundred years ago there was this giant mudslide that came through the mountains and then covered what they call the Crescenta Valley which is like the valley north of the valley we're like 12 feet of mud and like hundreds of people died Wow and the Army Corps of Engineers went in and put all these dams in the mountain so if you go hiking in the mountains they'll just be this would never do dam there with nothing there's just it's just waiting for a mudslide there's no water cuz it's California there's no water yeah and there's one of those like basically right next to my house just this dam and I think about my house just moving into it thank you 1200 twelve feet of mud that's how you like yeah that's two storms awful yeah that's half way up on the second floor right yeah at that point and you got to have a lot of faith like those dams probably haven't really been tested like yeah I hope that would go time that they were built correctly yeah well and that's the thing they're talking about now is of course everybody talks about the big one the earthquake now the latest thing is the big rainstorm that's inevitable and in the like the Southern California area what's that which it's basically there like just you know given weather patterns is what's happening with climate change like in the extreme weather patterns there's going to be like a flood that like a 500 year flood in LA would be catastrophic and probably kill more people than the big one interesting yeah well I'm full of good news I feel like it's been raining a lot more in LA you guys are probably raining right now yeah you're not like the typical people from Los Angeles who grew up there you grew up in North Carolina worried actually right right right part of North Carolina let me guess yes I don't know this about your history you guys seem like Oh Asheville what's your pointer up you're like what are you pulling from with this with this guy my dad lived in North Carolina during his retirement years okay yeah and where did he live in Sylvania County when we were in eighth grade there's a hundred counties in North Carolina and we were required to memorize all 100 counties and then write them on a map you know what a nightmare what yes an actual nightmare was horrible but you never know you never know when we're gonna lose all historical knowledge and they're gonna be like we need a kid who can tell us what the County well heaven forbid they teach you something useful you gotta memorize the stupid County yeah we had to make a blank map and put them all in it's good if you if you're a like a local weatherman because you know they're always talking about the county right so I was kind of into that because I wanted to be a weatherman really yeah I got a buddy in college or the same way it was a engineer it was really in the meteorology and oh I didn't want to be a meteorologist to be a weatherman you could just be the personality and there was some guy in the back who knew what you were still made of white but Transylvania County 54 counties the most that's in the western part of the state Asheville yeah yeah which is my frame reference a Raleigh Rowley okay we don't have the middle of nowhere we have a complement rally in Louisville the Asheville guess is a compliment right yes absolutely we've got a Nashville mindset man you know you got to get the hillbilly thing mixing with the like hipster thing there's a lot of hipster Billy's Asheville a lot of trees well true a lot of trees everywhere I just I missed those yeah well we used to I used to I got two boys and I would take them every fall and it's always a gamble you gotta try to hit this like two-week window but I would take him there to try to see color you know because we don't have seasons and do we have the leaves actually there's this fall and you have really has a heart an autumn this year normally goes from green to brown this year there was actually it was actually kind of pretty and austere it was really with like there were there were news reports about it and their articles in the newspaper writing here why are the leaves colors no you didn't get like a fall here yeah no not really yeah y'all y'all missed our winter earlier this week we have a lot of live oaks here too which they're flipped like they do they lose love their foliage in the spring like right before they you know and you have to cut them in certain times of the year so that's a lot of it here but Austin's a weird town too because it's a very green town but rice it horrible for allergies if you have allergies it's tough and you guys have been doing this for a while I think you would probably agree I mean you just did this really cool thing with Smosh yeah but I think it's especially from people who've been doing it for a while it's a very it's a time of transition like there's a lot of different things going on now and a lot of different models that are you know being tested I think and I've been talking to a lot of people lately and was talking with Ian it's mascha one point about what he was going through and jocelyn from clever about their whole thing with defy and there's other people been talking about too and there's always this conversation because I guess because we're in Austin that they talk about like well what would be if we moved out of LA and moved to Austin and on the same a specifically said that but people I've talked to you I've said that and I always encourage people Austin is a great town and I'm really glad that we're here but it's totally different than when we started here it's it's oh yeah much bigger see like you said 11th largest and I always point people towards North Carolina Asheville and Chattanooga if looking at like what is the next I think cool place to be in yeah now because if you're doing stuff that's internet-based primarily and we talked about this for years like geography doesn't play as big of a deal into it I think you know sometimes it can help being in LA you know there's there's definitely easier to get people around you work with I'm curious about that could start 2003 you have the dot-com which is very similar to origin but we had the discussion at one point that he's talking about which is like hey we can kind of do this from anywhere like it would make sense to go to LA to do this but we could go to the middle of Kansas where the cost of living is way cheaper we talked about going to Detroit yeah we did at one point uh buying a block of houses in Detroit you sound house to good buy for like $7,000 right I did probably did a bulldozing had this brilliant idea to do that but we yeah I get it I mean for us I mean we we were we were each married with kids when we were really starting in earnest to see if we could make a go at being intern attainers sure right Rhett's father-in-law who owned a bunch of dentistry's and had this corporate office in like the the talent one town over in Lillington where like you know one town over from where we grew up he had this basement that he wasn't using we basically he basically let us move into the basement and make that our studio right basically for free I don't know what he did he'd charge us anything or did he like I think he made us had expectation he had like yeah there was there were yeah there might have been some strings yeah hey you're gonna make a commercial for my dentistry and we did make him look like that we made him a commercial did you really yeah that's that's fascinating to me I always I always loved those really beginning things that people might not know about that are necessary to kind of kind of like our wedding that we made one wedding video for Maria we never did that again and we made one commercial for his dentistry and we never did that again but the but the the concept of the commercial we would have we cast all these people who amongst our friends and family members to come in and like we set up this backdrop and like we tried to make it look real cool like we bought a a pro mist filter what for basically we put a filter on the front of the camera that literally made it look like you were shooting through a little bit of mist it seemed like they were in heaven and then yes they were in this heavenly my grandma was in the back with her dentures oh wow mom and now little lassies and one of the last thing she ever did so what we would do mile through a promess filter we we have them sit down and there's like kids adults old people on their deathbed like your grandma coming in and we would we just coached them to smile and open their mouths like open mouth smile mouth laughing really like what well yeah because ultimately you wanted that like well this because the so we had a montage of people smiling and kind of laughing with their mouths open the slogan was just open wide we'll take care of the rest about how that might be misconstrued and they loved but and they bought yeah and they bought airtime and they showed it loved just open wide we'll take care of the rest no words to live by yeah yeah good when you can make a commercial that then can be repurposed for something other than a dentistry like you can use this for two different purposes I don't know what the other purpose would be I'm gonna find out even right don't figure it out you're talking about filming that commercial with you know some old people makes me think of that a baked in a buttery flaky crust blooper reel and if you Oliver said that no it's this internet video for some like local restaurant I think want to see in like Ohio or was constant they're trying to film this this older couple and they can't say that I have the older man at one lines baked in a buttery flaky crust and it's just take after take of him not saying that lie the wife getting exasperated finally they tell her okay you say the line and she can't do it oh my god it's like it's so frustrating the body cut together the all the fail all the bloopers and just put them all together but that would have been a brilliant ad yeah when they go man he had it right but they didn't do that you're saying I think they may have ended up putting it on their YouTube channel as well and you can also watch like the final product okay yeah that's smart yeah well yes so we we did our thing in Lillington for a while and then we actually started making the local commercials this is getting into why we moved to LA so we started making our local commercials that back in like Oh a oh nine like the Red House furniture the Cuban gynecologists and some of those purposely kitschy bad local commercials that had real real businesses and real business owners in them and yeah there we go there's one right there plank so a lot of those went really big and we would make like a he really was a gynecologist in Cuba but an auto salesman in America or duh like the O in the G or slightly over yeah there's a Cuban gynecologist and an American auto salesman join the club and so those ended up getting a lot of traction and you know that was the first that was the first time anyone outside of just the YouTube audience was interested like when we made the red house furniture commercial which is the slogan was where black people and white people buy furniture we it was a racial reconciliation commercial where the furniture was also being sold right and so we would get people to say things like I'm a white person I love the red house I'm a black person I love the red house and which I'm not sure you can make the commercial now probably different but in 2009 it was okay and we talked to CNN like CNN wanted like it was first time we were like national news were like oh there's something about this is really resonating and then long story short a bunch of production companies in LA want we're interested in developing into a television show we ended up getting a season on IFC and that was the initial move to LA gotta make sense and at that point we were like I think we were kind of of a mindset that you know we've been in North Carolina for a long time we had traveled to LA to work on stuff the idea of moving everybody out there I think more than anything was just exciting yeah oh this would be an awesome change of pace it wasn't so much this will be the next evolution of our business because what we thought was happening at that time we thought we were making the transition we thought we were okay we came upon YouTube and now we're going onto television you know and we weren't so naive to think that that was we understood that it wasn't that simple and there's a everything's kind of merging but I still think we had this idea that okay we're kind of transitioning into more of a traditional television situation and of course once we got out here we got out to LA we made the season of commercial kings we were sitting around waiting to find out if it was gonna be picked up for a second season and then we started GMM and sort of the interim because we were like we need to do something that even if this thing gets picked up again it's something easy that we can produce a bunch of very quickly that's a way to kind of maintain a connection with our fan base so that was the whole yeah my idea by diem and we felt like we had lost the connection with our audience because we took time off to make the IFC show and then the majority of people who watched us didn't have IFC so they couldn't see the jump so then we were trying to figure out how to maintain that connection because there was the only thing that we had complete control over and we knew a part of that was just a daily a daily show but or a daily video right how but then for us that was okay we were let's make it into a show we'll sit well sit down at the card table that we sat down behind in one of in some of our first videos back in that Lillington basement we literally had the same card table out in rets converted garage in his backyard and Sherman Oaks yep so that's what but I predict what's gonna take off right because at the same time we were also wrote a pilot they busy yeah we were right we wrote a pilot for a scripted half-hour comedy for us and like me going out meeting us playing music like uh-huh like we we thought we like wrote a scene and we're like we this connection to a connection to a connection to Jack Black and I bet we can write a scene where he's in that we're using the opening and so like we had we were working on that and then we were taking meetings and pitching it and you know so we were trying to make both of those things happen but you know the whole the the leg read said the LA of it was just we had an opportunity that we couldn't say no to which was the ifc show that then moved us out but then from our families perspective we were like well we're gonna move out for six months we're not we're not gonna do a permanent move we left we left our homes we left our homes furnished we told our families our extended families we're going out for six months we we rented furnished apartments because when you tell somebody in a relationship with let's just take a break and what you really mean is we're never done what was the attitude from your family was you guys are actually engineers and this is a phase no not at that point at that point they were I got it yeah I mean because we had been doing we've been doing it for the lack of papers had done a couple of art and CNN and everything at that point so the families were completely you know both you know our wives and kids were obviously they were they were in and then our parents an extended family at that point where like yeah this is what you guys are supposed to do that's great and then my mom was like I kind of knew that you would you weren't coming back you know when you moved I knew that you guys were gonna get out there and it was you were gonna love it we do I mean there's a lot of people who are like I can't stand LA and I get that but yeah we've both from a from a personal standpoint just the people we've met and I think the big thing about a town like LA is just like it can be very difficult to make meaningful connections with people and felt real friendships we've done that so that's it also helped moving out together you know so that we were kind of like this unit of nine people linked and his wife and three kids me a wife and two kids but then you know making some meaningful friendships but then the biggest thing for us was we've never really had anyone who had any experience in production at all with like we would always have one person sort of come in to help us in North Carolina and like literally one at one point it was there was just like dude who walked in off the street because the place that we had our studio was an old barbershop and a guy just would just walk in and start talking he thought he was coming to the barbershop I think the first time but then he just started talking to us and then like a couple weeks later he brought his like 15 year old son and then he just left and left his son there yeah and then his son started was our intern really dropped off his parents were they drove from Vancouver and they just dropped him off for the day to hang out with us we're now the babysitting service you know right the Gavin was the same way Gavin started slow mo guys in order to get a visa to come work at roosterteeth in the arrest yeah he started the show and I stumble guy's huge thing more subscribers and receive and everything else just weird story right now yeah we you don't know what's gonna take off really resonate we had another guy who showed up because again once it doesn't matter if you're interviewed on CNN or whatever but when you get an article on the in a local paper yeah that's a big that's when everybody around you starts to get the phone calls from from like your aunt and like your second cousin and stuff but we had this guy who then he showed up because he looking at the pictures he figured out where our studio was his name was Carl and Carl showed up and he was like guys I work at I'm not making fun of him this is just how he talks he's like guys I work at the tire plant but the hours they got me working I got like I'm on for like six days and then I'm off for like four I don't have anything to do I just want to come and help you guys out and then we're like okay turned out to be the nicest guy like super helpful yeah I mean even he didn't his point of reference was making tires right but he found a way to help us there's a lot of crossover and he showed up one day and he was like I want to give you all something and he like pulls out these scissors the biggest ass scissors you can ever imagine like literally it's like like Bush shears like they're for cutting pliers and he would they would cut rubber with him and he was like I thought you guys could use these and we we had them for a real set that's amazing no we cut we cut tires with it somebody put you off in traffic you follow them cut off their bell stems but you guys might have stuff run like you're set in your offices that I have this where it's I walked through and it's like a kitchen magnet or some man's like I remember that thing from 12 years ago how the hell did it get all the way through these different offices and get it here you're behind us like a lot of this stuff that we have behind me and behind you it's like old like holdover stuff that yeah you know kind of we've coiled onto and just it makes its way onto the say that's what that's the way the GMM set is there it's in at this point there's just so many weird it well we're the way we're creating a prop for just a one-time use for GMM now yeah there's just they're having to purge just storing a lot of stuff we've lost a lot of stuff I mean because when we moved out we put both of our family's stuff into like you had those pods and then they would deliver it across the country and we had let's see we had a bunch of stuff in a u-haul and when we towed my minivan so like r1 u-haul had like half of it was your family stuff half of it was my family stuff and we had all this stuff at our studio that we couldn't bring so we just publicized a yard sale no like we had fans and community members and just anyone who had read that article in the News and Observer I guess showed up and we had an auction really all of our props him Oliver yeah because I worth a lot now we had made um like one of the first videos that was taken off of our website and put on YouTube was a parody of pimp my ride called pimp my stroller where we literally physically pimped out a double stroller to make it look like kind of like the Batmobile if it were made out of black cardboard but it had ground effects and spinners on it nice before and after it had a chocolate milk delivery system to the to like my daughter and his son's mouth but anyway we can bring that we couldn't bring that across the country now but somebody bought it and from time to time it pops up yeah like pictures nothing somebody's garage somewhere there's like an argument happening between a husband and wife about getting rid of a pimped-out stroller yeah but I believe it still lives on my moment like that is so much less wholesome than yours but I had do you ever want to bring this up one of those moments like what am i doing my life because we were going through stuff and I get rid of this get rid of that get rid of this and something goes do we do we need to keep that this and I said I said no no I go we have way better Nazi flags in that one I was like what do they just say out loud it's just like what does my life become we also had a I had a we had a new employee start several years ago a guy was probably like 6 or 7 years ago and I'd take him down to a storage unit to show him like where we had some computers and stuff and we're going through boxes like this you know explain this is this server this was this server this is this machine that's the box of porn there someone in our community who works in the porn industry and he'll say you go through the box if there's anything you want to go ahead and take it lags it's just like nonchalant like it wasn't even a weird thing to me at the time I was like that's a weird first day for you isn't it like I've shown you where the porn stash is help yourself to it and that employee made a lot of money from the lawsuit before we get too far away and they have to do an adroit driver but before we get too far away from the LA discussion one of things I would love to see more of you guys do and being in LA I think helps this with collaborations I loved you guys in dirty 30 in Grace and Hannah and May movie yes dude number one dude number two yeah I thought memory was that was a really great performance for her but you guys when you guys stole the show great oh you thought we stole I thought you guys were fantastic yeah I think I might have told you that maybe before like at VidCon or something but I've always remembered yells performance now it's on camera so it's official yeah it's official officially thank you for that yo well we we came there working on a the third one yeah no I'm 50 I guess that would mean she's go to just dirt yeah I say filthy 50 not a wig by the way that was my actual hair like seriously that it was my oh it's kind of hard to I mean I thought that was a wig but it's my hair it's you know here I'm gonna read this one a reminder when this episode of the received podcast is also brought to you by goat your shoes aren't just a statement they're also a big investment and you're buying sneakers online there's 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were working in an animated version of red versus blue like traditional Saturday morning animation yeah so we started working on this I don't get too much away because they probably the property is still somebody they probably want to still sell but it was a story about ninjas trying to get out of the world of ninjas and having difficulty doing that and animation takes a while to make yeah and so they would turn scripts and performances and then six months they'd be doing reviews like ah there were those kind of guys like we should want to make stuff yeah and so they said how would if we start doing like coming soon like promotional material I said that doesn't work on the internet people just want to click here and go watch it so we'll do all that once the show is ready to go and they were really wanted to us I said sure go you know go for it so they started doing this promotion for the cartoon where you could ask one of the ninjas a question what and the show ask a ninja became serious watch you run away head Wow that we did we never made the cartoon it was a conversation like you guys don't need our help to do this you know just do this it's not only did you lose a job you're also wrong about telling them not to make something right it goes even a layer deep because Kent and Doug are the guys that made it and Kent specifically was who we Nichols and gosh let's just say it's embarrassing I can look it up but yeah kent nichols and he was the guy who showed me youtube for the first time and so we went through we looked at it because you can host your videos here and you know and I said but you go to their website you don't go to your own website you can't just host the videos on your site because no no you have to go there yeah but they could search for you and everything and I looked at the site and I turned when I go nobody's gonna use this viewed YouTube as competition yeah oh yeah yes we did we said when people said why don't you have a youtube we said because we have a website yeah what would you need that to stir people in on a website but ask a ninja I remember we watched that show on iTunes right there is a video podcast because and we were trying to do the same thing early on we were like oh this this video podcast that's I mean this is the best interface clearly this is where the future of video well because you Apple legitimized it in our minds as a platform so I mean that's why when we when we first started making content specifically for the internet I mean this stuff before like to pimp my stroller and the sketches and the music videos that we had made those are things that we were just making that then oh by the way let's put it on the Internet mm-hmm you know when we started making things for the Internet the first thing we made was sitting down next to each other with mics making a video podcast we call it the rhett and Link cast and that was the first thing that we did and it was because Apple video podcast made sense to us right like asking ninja was a big part of that yeah so I mean we were saying what's our asking ninja mm-hmm I'm glad we didn't ask you what we should do terrible idea yeah wait a year cartoon that is that's that's him that's amazing though how how connected that was and I didn't realize the Association well we don't we uh think we were really talked about it more very briefly yeah and even so it's like you know especially once they were like taking off like I said they didn't need our help it's like we didn't yeah we didn't want to make it seem like we were trying to take credit for anything yeah you see I mean so you see how that became a rhettandlink s became a precursor for what is good mythical morning it was always in the back of our heads we were always kind of doing that let's sit shoulder-to-shoulder and have a conversation go back to that look but it's if you listen to my voice stevie is giving me such a hard time so much voice has changed that was a grown-ass man I had children and I my voice is like a totally different register and I would kind of wish southern John yeah yeah strange story it's funny to see maybe it's strange now maybe that's my norm we had a you know it took us so long to decide to really start doing a podcast you know we didn't we started with audio we didn't you know jump straight into video we did audio only for the first I think two years of the podcast and by the time we fired the podcast the company was already almost six years old you know we'd been we'd moved through a couple of offices and the audience that kept asking for it we online video in late - just about everything else yeah including YouTube they kept asking when we're gonna do a podcast and to us that just seemed at the time it seemed dumb it was like we didn't think anybody was interested to listen to whatever we had to say you know we in the early days was just like what are we working on what's going on yeah kind of cut behind the scenes look it's like do people really really care about that and you know it really took off from there and it first when we started so like you said we just put down mics on a table and just said all right you know we're gonna talk here's a few things maybe we'll talk about and now we argue at each other for an hour and a half every day right the things that I I regret over the years is that we were we isolated ourselves like we we really didn't communicate with other with other people like I mean the fact that we met so late is just I feel like a shame there's so much we could have learned from from from you guys from so many other people in the the YouTube community and yeah you know cause like we were not an active part of that community like you heard like DeFranco talked about how he came up you know as an example I mean that was that was not our experience at all we were studying it as like at arms-length as competition like well who are these barrettes and bereta guys yeah oh we can do that but it was never lets talk to these guys you know I think that's that's a big regret as far as not getting involved in a community aspect but it seems like for us we were we felt like we were between two worlds like it was this young media thing is it was called back then and then there was the old world and a lot of things that we did as a business we had to do early on because we had to host her own videos and if there was no YouTube there were no pre-roll ads those exist so you couldn't just hit a button and you turn on pre-roll ads so we had to do things like subscriptions and merchandise which became these super progressive business models after the Aged Golden Age of pre-roll ads came around but they were really to us they were the things that worked for an old media and they made sense for us to be sustainable yeah that's interesting because for us our minds went to we got to get sponsors so we were cold-calling sponsors yeah and saying oh we're gonna we've written this song about how your iPod dies and how it's a it's a conspiracy from Apple to put in a doom seed and I mean one of the few people that we didn't know was Justine iJustine we're like let's do a collaboration with a and then we like so we knew I got this Apple watch I'm sorry story she keeps sending me these these competitions 7-day competitions yoga like four times a day it's just I gotta say no to these competitions that she sends me oh really when today sending me competitions but she's 720 points god damn it we used um while I was going I don't want to say we used her in a video because she appeared in a video she collaborated with us but so we got a sponsor we just reached out to someone who repairs iPods mm-hm and so like subscription service or I wish we would have thought about that like I said I wish we would have been talking about it funny you say that cuz we called our our premium members our subscription members sponsors back at the point in time back it back in I think when we started like we figure we've viewed them as our sponsors sure kind of like the thing that yeah instead of one lump sum a lot of little ant little bit and what was the value proposition for them like what was the first thing you were selling no we I don't know if there was you inside basement oh no is inspired by them because we red vs. blue was a weekly production and it was about five minutes of animation a week that we would make and it was much for people for five people that worked on it so Monday I'd write it Tuesday I would also write it was supposed to be everyone was going to Tuesday and then Tuesday and Wednesday we would record and cut the audio because he'd make it like a radio play first and then we would act out the animation on Thursday to the actual cut audio okay then Friday it would come out so you work all week you guys know this you work on these things you're like oh how is the audience - you're gonna like this you know the you know the community are they gonna enjoy this and you put this video out and somebody'd be like 3 in the morning when we post it and you're waiting you're waiting you see like people downloading the video and it's got a five minute runtime so it's like five minutes it's like mi amor they go like this or they can hate it what is here comes the first comment and it's like did they like it and then the first comment is first it's like you're so annoyed by that but then we had a conversation of this is people telling us what they find valuable yeah is that in a world where you can watch anything you can't watch everything you can't watch every 400 hours of video that are uploaded every minute on YouTube you can't do that so you got to choose what you watch and being first is valuable to people especially if it's you know everyone has access to it so that was they even know about it but you me there was a certain point after Pete enough people knew about it that you decided to start charging yeah that was that was like a month in we were on the monty then we got our first bill was $13,000 for bandwidth for hosting this video no we're gonna go out of business immediately we were we were technically we were out of business in that yeah that was not gonna pay people find with it but first we email we hand it to each other and then what happened we did it's like it's it's a long-forgotten thing but when we first started you know we thought what are we gonna do we just put a PayPal button on the website it's like the videos are there if you like it you can send us a couple bucks I mean no obligation if you don't that's fine whatever and and people just voluntarily started sending money and and you you have a story about that were you were you asking how people find out about the subscription service or about the videos the videos no the video so but it wasn't a vent RvB was not an overnight success but it was really close to it and we worked on I was 29 when I started red vs. blue yeah we'd worked on tons of stuff all the way through our 20s you know trying to have this production to that production things that would take off before that we made a APPL switch ad parody with Gus in it mm-hmm which dates had backed like mm one of the first thing and we knew we had made a big let you talk about the local newspaper we were like we were like wow we've made it huge because a gaming magazine called us and they wanted to put the video on the CD that they glued to the front of the cover of the magazine that month and it's like that was distribution for digital video that's all right now we're like oh my god this is incredible but red vs. blue is April 1st two thousand three we put out the first episode we estimate about three thousand people watched it and then it got linked on this 2003 Gatling gun slash dot on FARC and Penny Arcade and it brought our servers down all on the same day was May 5th 2003 yep it brought everything down and then we had to then we had about 250,000 people show up to watch the second episode and by the end of the month we had a million people week coming so it was like like that so we had to figure out things really really quickly yeah yeah it's it's unbelievable yeah anybody not and so you were like okay just put a PayPal button up first and but then people responded to that yeah it was ten bucks for six months back then and you could see the episode on Friday versus it would come out publicly on Monday and then oh wait if you were a registered member of the site it would come out on the site for those members on Sunday yeah before it came out to everyone on the front page I'm really system yeah and it was like this benefit but also it was important to us because if we can space out when people are downloading it we didn't need as many servers in order to do that and also if you were a Premium Member instead of downloading the video at 320 by 240 resolution you get it at 640 by 480 was called high res it was cool yeah I'm fascinated by this because and thanks for going into even though I know a lot of listeners probably are like yeah oh I've you know that they appreciate and we're part of this but for us I'm fascinated because I mean we just launched our mythical society which is that you know a paid exclusive fan club I'll call it yeah I mean it is powered by patreon but we've always been we've been very reticent to to say the word patreon because we don't want people to think that they were enabling content that well just because we've been so from the very beginning because it was ad supported even before it was Adsense reported it was sponsor supported and we've always done that and so we had this hesitancy to say oh give us money to enable the content at this point with with the mythical society people are getting like a lot of different stuff that yeah it's being an by it but of course the patreon system kind of allows that happen seamlessly we're really trying to figure out I mean this subscription service and what how we can make it a valuable experience for for those people who are who are who are spending money every month right to get something that they could only they can get so it is totally separate content so there's not we don't have any windowing yeah windows some stuff to YouTube it would take a year to go to YouTube but at one point because we refused to like let go of the dot-com uh-huh but if I may yeah I feel like listening to you to talk it's a very common tone that I hear among digital creators specifically where there's almost like this feeling that a business model has to be justified like we're making this content and we're doing this yeah there's this new service and were charging I personally feel we went through that very early on with advertising like even putting advertising we didn't do it for years on our any of our videos but then YouTube came along and that's just the way everybody did it right and our friends who were a huge inspiration for us homestar runner yeah they've never done like any ads like they come from that era where they just could never make that step although they did local commercial stuff to you there's a pizza company that has a website that looks just like Home Star runners called mellow mushroom remember that yeah yeah they made it they made it like you guys with the car commercial yeah I just love that kind of kind of stuff but I have a philosophy there was a guy who taught us early on when we started the subscription service and you could pay 10 bucks or 20 bucks and 20 bucks you got a DVD at the end of the season sent to you and that's what Microsoft showed up talk with us but uh a guy sent us 250 dollars yeah and we came in we're like holy cow we're like this is you you've made a mistake this is too much and he was a little bit older than us and he goes no no he goes I've watched your videos for now the last six weeks that you've been putting them out and that that amount of money is whatever you guys want to use it for and do whatever for that is as much money as I would spend going out to a comedy club with my friends one night to be entertained and you guys have entertained me for six weeks so just there you go and like it just like open to my eyes to it it's like I have that personal philosophy we talked about this on a game-time question of the week yeah this game came out called apex legends it's a pre game but there's a paid tier for it and then the gamers are like oh did you pay for that skin or did you buy the coins or whatever did you know and my thing is yeah I did that and it's not because I want the skin or the you know the cool weapon or whatever I do because I like the game yeah and it's it's me it's like there's a premium level to stuff but there's so many people that watch you guys and watch GMM and it's like I think about the stuff that I watch sometimes I don't support things monetarily because of the premium layer it's because I I get so much out of the thing I buy YouTube red for instance not for the premium shows even though we have premium shows I mean but I buy it because I spend so much time on YouTube here right yeah it's like YouTube ten bucks a month for YouTube I spend so much time on there I will absolutely that service is worth looking yeah the benefits you get from it I remember when they launched I was like this doesn't make any sense but like he was like I use YouTube all the time I'll gladly you know chipping a little bit of money yet just for you know to to help the platform it can make sure it continues and I really is in a position to do that but I definitely think that I think I mean he's you too more than I use cable to me it's less about the thing that resonates to me is not ship any money to support but you're getting like paying for something that's worth paying for you know and it's just a it's a different model and but it is legitimate it's not something that you need to apologize for well but I think that the sort of the apologetic tone comes from the you know there's a different relationship that we have with our eyes right right then a traditional you know actor or whatever nobody nobody questions a traditional celebrities motivations for why their contract is 10 million bucks for a movie or whatever it might be but yet I feel like regardless of what kind of decisions that we make what anything time we're charging X amount of money for a shirt or introducing a new product it's like there's always that percentage of the audience this is like money grab oh sure you don't know it's like and I can't be too affected by that but I think that there's this like oh I mean why are you guys why are you guys at doing this now don't you have enough money it's like well that's not really that's not how this works but I think the word even though there's a reward called monetize and it's associated with like digital things it's a completely made-up word it's like anything Ford says how are we gonna monetize the f-150 implies that you're finding a way to make money off something you were gonna do anyway that's not that's not way to make a final word work yeah we didn't can put in your word that means going back to your your San Diego comic-con store when you drove out there remember we had a discussion about that because it cost us more obviously to get this truck and drive out there and go out to do this event we and we were saying no we're like we might have to charge like another one or two books for our shirts at this event is that something we're comfortable with like we we have that guilt at the time right yeah because it's costing us more to do this like we're gonna lose money right on charge just a little bit more and we had we'd like Oh what are we gonna do can we really do that like right said it's a more direct connection so I think about what I'm you know what we're asking for you know is I think about where are people getting this money you know I don't think Marvel probably sits around and wonders yeah where does the money come from the people are using to buy tickets yeah well I appreciate I do appreciate the accountability and I in one sense I think that you know I think the primary reason we run our business the way that we do is because we we kind of apply our efficiencies to it we want to be responsible we wanted the people who work for us to be paid well be respected and we're doing cool stuff like able to you know but ultimately is Maj Maj obviously a huge brand but you guys really helped them in a situation that was pretty dire yeah I mean like our philosophy has always been - okay let's create a great product let's be smart about the way we make money off of that product and that's to be smart with the money that we receive from it and the the kind of the vision we've had over the past couple years is like you know we're not getting any younger and we've been trying to you know we changed the name of the company from rhett and Link two mythical entertainment years ago and the the idea behind that was that what first of all the idea of like coming in and seeing rhett and Link Inc on a wall in our own that was just we are ego maniacs but like that was just too much so we wanted to first of all listen this isn't about us this is about something that we're a part of I'm not an egomaniac and throw me in that and lick Holland well you have to be somewhat narcissistic just to do this job at least a little bit it helps me so but the idea of making creating something where we can support other creators and like we started having conversations the last couple years it's like how can we take these lessons that we've learned you know we've done all this we've in the same way that you guys have it's like just by trial and error you've kind of learned how to run this business and how to create new lines of revenue so how do we help other people do this you know all this story of like youtubers burning out and people coming up and of course we were like similar like we were late 20s when we got started this whole thing so it was like we already had families and then already had a real job but you got a lot of kids coming up and they're kind of hitting there's really striking you know goal with our audience at like 17 it's like they're not all a reality yeah and then it's like they're trying to manage all these expectations really how can we help this situation and then right in the middle of while we were trying to figure out what that would look like in terms of a business model you know we see the article about defy shutting down yeah I mean we're like we just texted Ian you know we were like hey man just let us know if we could we at the point we weren't thinking we would buy we monitor we might think much we say a place to crash we've got a place if you want to make the video we're yeah we've got we've got facilities and it and then a couple like maybe a month and a half later there was though there might actually be a real opportunity here to you know keep this thing going and it helps to you know answers the need that they had which is you know to makes you know it if Ian didn't find someone he was unfortunately he was in a place where his like he was got to walk away from this brand that he created yeah and then so we were able to kind of keep Smosh going and kind of give them the autonomy that they want to continue building their brand and then from our perspective it was like this is something that we would have imagined building over a period of time with the way that we were thinking about it last year but to sort of get this turnkey product that is already what you would hook they got more subscribers than we do already so the idea of having something that's already built that already has momentum that already has relevancy and they have a creative vision that's very intact it was just like how we can't say no to this seems like a great opportunity yeah it just had he's got a jump on it yeah even if you're not quite ready not clean yeah yeah we were ready to start building something but I'm so glad that this happened instead because I mean it was a win-win it's like we we did it for Smosh we did it for us equal parts I mean it it was it was perfect timing and it was the perfect marriage of you know of two families serendipity so much of the stuff is about timing oh yeah yeah man I never predict that yeah I think we have such an appreciation for that because the way things have changed so quickly everything we've talked about you know you you tweaked the timing by a month or two mm-hmm you know and it it potentially falls apart yeah well and that's become our whole philosophy at this point is like we say yes to things a lot of times because we're like I don't know if this is a good idea but it's gonna lead to something like and this is all kind of goes back to you know like a year and a half ago YouTube came to us and said we want to do some some Avon stuff that we want to support we what is the like enhanced version of a good mythical morning yeah we want to give you guys like a TV budget to make half hour half hour content every single day and that ended up being this multi segmented GMM where we were doing like three or four videos every single day it was absolute hell to create because it was just so much worth alarm yeah but we we had just based on the idea that we we wanted we knew we were growing we rented out the studio next to us and then we just in time we had written this new space YouTube comes and says we want to make this show so we had to hire a bunch of people to make the new version of the show so we had a facility for them that was crazy we learned so much about production but we were like this is not sustainable there was a part of us it was like we hope they don't come back and ask for more they didn't come back and ask for more and then we were like okay now we've got this studio sure something will come up you know if you must pass and then the whole divine thing happens yeah so it's again it was like we had these and link was right there with a spreadsheet going gonna mathematically eliminate this studio yeah yes I mean I'd say that the vast majority of the things have worked for us never worked as they were originally at Aaron no all the time is just like learning and adapting this thing yeah figure out what works on the fly yeah it makes me think I mean my oldest kid my daughter she's she just turned 16 you know so it's like trying to figure out and your son's not far behind and like trying to figure out College and like they're being pushed so hard to figure out what they want to do with their lives oh yeah and you know I was out to dinner with my daughter and we were just talking about it and like she experiences so much anxiety and stress associated with this external pressure to declare declare of a future for herself right and it's and I just told her I was like listen you know my experience it's like I had no clue I could never have anticipated that I would be doing what I'm doing and be who I even be Who I am right now you know as a 40 year old as your 40 year old father mm-hmm you know so I just don't feel like it's it's fair for her for her to to have to have that much pressure on her you know I just try to take it off and say listen you gotta you gotta take things as they come and you know let's just see what happens yeah probably follow your heart follow your gut and a little spreadsheet doesn't hurt a little spread she doesn't hurt a lot of spreadsheet starts to hurt I also feel like social media has kind of warped that a little bit too cuz my kids I had the same discussions they're at the same age my oldest is about to turn 17 so he's right in the middle of all the college stuff right now is he freaking out it's just it's a lot of responsibility to put on people I'm actually trying to encourage him to take a gap year oh yeah yeah but it's just a tough thing that you know there's so much momentum to education at that point that you see but I went to school for pre-med at UT then the internet kind of came out of nowhere in the middle of the 90s and so I was like I'll do that so I suppose to computer science right you know and almost no I ended up taking organic chemistry as an elective on my transcript but I talk to young creators to it's the same kind of thing with social media it's amazing the conversations I'll have with people who are 19 20 21 and they think they're too late for anything you know I mean like oh I missed the boat on this or I didn't get a new tube early enough reading it on vine or whatever what's the next thing I got to look at and it it sounds like you guys have a similar story I try to explain it's like I was 29 I worked on stuff for imagine you're 19 now imagine you have the next 10 years to work on stuff before you're you know figure something out and there's people who you know found that even later in life you know it's like yeah but there's just constant feeling I think for a lot of people it's like I'm too late I missed out you know what I mean and it's not at all even business-wise you talked about that earlier we were early on internet video we were late on a lot of other things yeah I know this podcast wasn't the first podcast made Parkins have been around for years and we started and you know right it's it's huge we're doing for 10 years now yeah and don't get me wrong it's like when I look back at I mean every single day we were stressing and we were working our asses off to try to figure out what what was the what was the best thing to pour our energies into you know and trying to balance the work life thing and pulling the all-nighters but scheduling those and like sleeping on the couch and waking up and continuing to do it like it was very stressful and it wasn't like oh just I'm not telling Lily to just don't don't worry about it it'll come to you mm-hmm you know I I hope that's not the message she's getting well but have a plan but realize that it's likely to change yeah you got a lot of time yeah time is on your side you know yep and what I always tell them is like you know try stuff even if it doesn't work out you're still honing your craft or I think for a lot of people discovering what their passion is because the last thing I want to do who and it's its thing I've run into you before is when you're really good at something you're not passionate about you're just like that's a tough place to be in right and easy to stay on that path well I think they're more overwhelmed with options than we were like for me I you know my junior year in high school I told my dad I was like I think link and I I think we want to go to film school mmm and he was like okay well I'm not gonna pay for that yeah we were a couple years into this business and my dad was still asking me when I was gonna get a real job yeah definitely uh do you want to get a rake a real degree yeah I'll pay for it it was pre-med simply because it was the smart kids major right that's exactly I can I've never made any decision it was like I'm in the smart kid group in high school so I have to pick a major like yeah right all right well we got a we got a rap to some no higher fees but before you go I do have one more thing I need to read I just wanna remind you about our TX coming up this summer so don't forget our Tex Austin 2019 will be here sooner than you think will you be there we can passes are available right now at our TX Austin com can't wait to see all of your beautiful faces July 5th to 7th at the Austin Convention Center for the greatest animation gaming and comedy event in the world you know we're talking about some of our shared experiences we we wanted to start our TX years ago as a place for internet creators to come together and you know show what they're working on and you can still you can take part in this right now if you head over to our TX Austin calm right now pickup weekend passes for you and your 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Length: 96min 4sec (5764 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 13 2019