[soft music]
>> The beginning, the Modern Rogue World Headquarters
>> I'm excited.
>> It doesn't look like much right now.
>> It's a fixer upper. Let's be honest.
>> That's an understatement.
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> Its going to take years to get this up to speed.
>> So, one year ago, I bought seven and a half acres
of a former nudist colony and cult compound
in the hopes that we could tell bigger stories,
host and collaborate with your favorite YouTubers,
and most importantly,
make it an amazing place
where you can meet us.
We were thrilled.
Turns out the place
was a total, freaking disaster.
We legitimately thought it would be years
before things were fully functional.
Phase one, getting things functional,
looked like it was never going to happen.
But in just the last year,
you guys, through your support,
through your patronage,
through buying stuff on the online store,
even using promo codes,
you guys have done the impossible,
and we are now at 90% complete,
we might be able to move in
as soon as next week.
You guys want to see the difference?
It's a big difference.
Here, come on, come on.
All right now, it might not look like it,
but this might be the thing
I'm most excited about on the entire property.
Beneath here is a gigantic septic system
all the poop comes down from the main house
down to here,
it gets processed,
and then if you noticed,
we had to dig a giant trench
all the way over there
and up there is going to be where
all the cleaned water gets dispersed.
So that'll be a lush green field,
and we'll be able to make it a,
I don't know,
some kind of sports ball thing.
So if that's what I'm most excited about,
this is certainly the biggest
thing we improved,
all of this used to be trees,
we were able to get them all cleared out,
cleaned up all the garbage,
and then we were able to put this gigantic,
2,000 square foot warehouse barn in here,
that'll be our soundstage.
Here, come check it out, it's awesome.
I love this moment here,
come on in here.
Flip on these lights.
Boom. You're in a freaking airport hangar.
So eventually, it'd be great if we had
like a second floor for all that,
but imagine the scale of everything
we could do in here.
We should put up a stage,
have concerts,
we could set up a gigantic
Modern Rogue set all along the back,
something huge, industrial, ambitious,
looks straight out of a television show,
only more interactive
with better hosts who actually like each other,
I'm not talking about any one particular TV show.
Now one bummer is we had two major storms
and each one knocked down
a different one of the fences,
so that is a huge expense
that we're going to have to tackle.
This thing has to be totally replaced.
We want something with privacy,
these guys are in total disrepair still,
but I guess the good news
is now we have a boardwalk.
Here's the most important part,
is the inside, the original house,
remember how it had the torn up insulation
and the unusable studio space,
and exposed wiring?
It's all livable and safe.
We're this close, come here.
All right, just remember how awful
this room to the right looked
when we were talking about making
it into a meth lab?
And, what's this?
Oh, it's a rad, freaking green room,
and get this,
this closet that we were going to fill with IT stuff,
look what we did instead. Come here.
We got a place for all of our guests
and talent to look fabulous.
When you look into the mirror
you get those dreamy eyes,
like you're a beauty vlogger.
Oh. Oh.
Also, does anybody know any beauty vloggers
that would like to collaborate?
[laughs]
The Modern Rogue, we could finally do it.
So you remember how this was totally unusable
from all of the freaking echoes?
>> The reason we haven't shot in here yet,
is this.
>> Is the sound.
>> The sound. It's like as echoey as can be.
Come check this out, look, look.
We're midway through doing sound baffling,
it's a legit studio.
We're going to set up all of the switching computers
all along here ,
which are going to be as expensive as hell.
But this is where were going to be able to do
all of our live streaming on twitch,
and then all of this is modular,
so we can set it up for Modern Rogue shoots,
we'll be able to shoot "Night Attack",
and "Court Killers", and "Weird Things",
and all of the other podcasts in here.
It's going to be freaking great,
and you can already hear, [snaps]
how much better it is,
and there's still more to go.
Oh, hey! [knocks] Look at this!
we had a window installed,
so it opens everything up
and people can sit here
and gawk while all the live switching is happening,
so when you're here hanging out,
you guys are having beers,
it says "live on air",
big red sign,
and then there's,
you're like "oh, there's the podcasts,
"they're happening".
All right here's another one of those
HGTV moments, just remember how awful this looked,
and then check it out now.
Da-da-duh!
This is a very rogue-ish environment,
so we wanted something that screamed very modern.
So we ended up, instead of a big screen,
we went with a white board
for all of our project stuff.
This could be just covered
with one big ass TV.
So, over here, this originally was a disaster
and had no door,
but instead since sometimes I bring my dog over,
I don't want him to be barking
and getting at anyone,
so we set up a dutch door,
so that the dog can hang out
and he can pop his head up
and he'll be all friendly,
and everyone be like,
"oh, hi fella."
And the bathroom is probably
the most dramatic change,
you remember it was nothing but fake blood
and a [video game noise] right here,
look at this.
Dig this.
Still in development,
I was worried that the shower
was going to feel too claustrophobic
so we built it way out,
and they were about to install
a big glass box around it
and it was like no, no, no, no, no.
Thank you to my friend, Justin,
for stopping them.
So instead, it's nice, wide, and open.
You can just take a nice shower,
look at that, it's awesome.
It's all happening.
We are all unbelievably excited
to start moving production
to the new place,
but, this is the hard part,
we are still only at 90%,
we have some big financial dragons
that we have to slay immediately.
We try really hard,
to never really ask for cash directly,
this is me asking for cash directly.
If you don't want to donate,
that's fine, just buy some stuff at scamstuff.com,
but if you do want to donate,
we've set up a whole bunch
of fun rewards for you.
If you donate 50 dollars,
you get a hand-selected,
individually numbered actual piece
of the Modern Rogue World Headquarters.
It's like getting a piece of the Berlin Wall,
each one is individually numbered,
and they go in the order
that they get picked up,
so if you want the lowest number,
if you want to be able
to hold a piece of history,
then you better move fast.
At 500 dollars, you get all of the previous stuff,
plus a second piece of memorabilia,
that's much more interesting.
This would be like,
having a piece of the Berlin Gate
that opened that started history.
Also, I'll personally put together
a grab bag of awesome stuff from ScamStuff,
a bunch of goodies that you're going to love.
Now, if you're truly insane,
for 5,000 dollars you can be
one of the very first guests
to hang out with us here
at the Modern Rogue World Headquarters.
Book your travel,
but don't worry about getting a hotel
cause you're going to be staying here with us!
We're going to hang out.
And I'll show you my favorite parts of Austin.
And this last one, oh my god,
someone out there has more money than sense.
You know that awesome warehouse,
the soundstage, the studio
that we're building out there?
If you have 25 grand,
we will name that building after you,
we'll put a big old name plate on it,
you will have a building named,
you're a philanthropist at that point.
Guys, over the last year,
you've done the impossible,
and that is made us mighty,
now let's go the final little step.
We got to slay one more dragon,
and then we're open for business,
and working out of our dream new space.
This is phase one, get it functional.
Phase two is going to be all about
making it awesome.
Phase three's going to be about
getting outrageous.
And then, finally,
phase four is the eclipse,
the five year anniversary.
Some of you know what I'm talking about.
Head on over to scamstuff.com,
donate whatever you can,
if you don't want to donate,
or if you don't have 50 bucks laying around,
that's cool, just consider buying some stuff.
Every little bit helps,
cause we are down to the wire,
we are out of time,
and we need you.
Help us rogue nation, you're our only hope.
So picture this,
you walk in, right over here,
imagine there's a golden play button,
and you look to your right,
and there's another golden play button,
and you come in
and there's silver play buttons.
Most of the back stuff is the same,
all though I will say
for all you people complaining about it,
yes, we finally did mow the lawn.
Thank you, patrons.
Patreon.com/modernrogue