Burnie: So this is what SXSW is actually like.
It's just huge crowds of people in the street...
in... Austin downtown.
We're going to our own... stupid party.
Which is donuts and tequila?
Ashley: I don't know, that sounds nice.
Burnie: We're just contributing to the problem at this point.
Look- who- it is! It's- Zach Anner!
Zach: I was so excited until I saw Jon Risinger. (Burnie laughs)
Burnie: Dude, you were so great in Eleven Little Roosters, man!
Zach: Aww, you were too, man.
Ashley: He- he- he was okay.
Burnie: If I was better, they would've let me live longer.
Zach: Ah, well I showed up for like, a day. And I was in three episodes!
(Burnie laughs) That's the type of stuff that I like!
Jon: Did you ever die in the show?
Zach: No! Jon: No, you lived.
Zach: We didn't get there! Jon: Yeah.
Ashley: You lived!
Zach: Are you filming now? Is this a daily vlog?
Jon: Yeah, that's all he does.
Burnie: Here, I'll do- Hey guys. What's up, look, it's Zach Anner!
Zach: Hey- Burnie: Star of the Oprah Winfrey show!
Ashley: Make sure you smash that like button!
(Burnie laughs)
Burnie: Don't forget to like and subscribe!
Zach: Yeah, constant working!
Telling people who already like you to like you more!
(Burnie laughs)
Burnie: So, it is now...
Monday morning. And I am in not so sunny Los Angeles.
We landed in the plane today and it was super foggy.
And that's really weird to me, for LA.
I'm not used to LA being foggy.
So, I got all my stuff here.
There's my backpack, there's my suitcase.
And I'm outside of Funhaus' offices cause I'm gonna spend the day with Funhaus
recording videos.
But they're nowhere to be found.
I'm probably just not knocking hard enough.
*Picks up backpack*
doh
*Picks up suitcase*
*Grabs coffee*
*This show brought to you by Burnie's feet*
So I'm Burnie from Rooster Teeth and I'm going over to see the Funhaus guys.
Just focus on the dog exclusively.
Alright Benson, pretend we feed you.
*...? Where's the food?*
*yay I'm good*
He's a good dog.
He's a very good dog.
Burnie: Hey Adam, how you feelin'?
Adam: I'm doing great.
Burnie: What are we about to do?
Adam: We're going to play Google Trends.
And you're going to be my James.
Since he's out in San Francisco...
Burnie: That's the dream.
Adam: Doing whoever he wants...
Elyse: James, I need $300.
(Burnie/Bruce laugh) Burnie: Is that the way it works?
So, we just finished playing Google Trends with Adam and-
What is that?
(Bruce laughs)
Burnie: Oh, I thought that was a dog!
(Everyone laughs)
-with Adam and Elyse and Bruce. And uh...
I can't give you the results of what happened, but I'm
elated and I'm absolutely furious at the same time.
It's a hard show to be on.
James couldn't be with us today.
He is off to San Francisco.
He is playing Halo Wars.
Like a big star.
Alright, bye Funhaus.
I'm going back to Austin.
*byes*
Not going to Austria.
Bruce: Thanks for comin'!
Uh, we contracted him for a couple of days.
What was your day rate on that?
$25, $30+?
Burnie: I will send you an in-voice.
At my earliest convenience.
Bruce: Aw, if we could afford that.
Alright. Bye guys! Adam: Byeo! Burnie: Bye Benson!
*wow the fog is real*
*drone view!!!*
So this is the lovely Venice Beach...
Boardwalk. Which is right now...
Covered in fog.
Everywhere. As far as the eye can see.
But, uhh... We did some fun stuff with Funhaus
I recorded... the... uh...
Dude Soup Podcast, which I love.
Got to play the Google Trends as well.
And then, a new show, that they've been trying out.
I think this is only the second iteration of it.
Uh, the Trailer Show, where we watch trailers
for video games and for movies.
And had fun with them.
And it was a fairly, I think, uneventful day.
Except for the fact that, we used my drone in kind of a
little thing we were shooting.
And we used it indoors.
And uh, Bruce of course rekt the drone.
And he felt really bad about that.
But y'know, we just had to replace the props on it.
It was no big deal, y'know.
Those props are meant to break. They break so that the
motor doesn't.
But, he felt pretty bad about it and uh...
Far be it from me to let him off the hook,
right away.
Love working with Funhaus.
I absolutely love being in LA.
I used to not like this city.
And I spent a lot of years kinda fighting it.
Y'know, which kept us in Austin, which is cool.
But at the same time it's- after spending some time here,
I don't understand why I ever had a negative opinion
of LA y'know.
I know I made a joke on the podcast, which upset a lot of
people, saying it's not a vacation destination.
Which, by the way, all my LA friends agree with.
But, uh, yeah. I really love this city.
It's got a really cool energy,
everyone here is y'know, here because I think they're
workin' on somethin' big.
Y'know, they have a big vision for who they wanna be,
what they wanna do, and...
They think LA is the place to get it done.
And special thanks to everybody who spread the word
about the cartoon tesla.
That was a lot of fun, it was one of those videos that just
got picked up, everywhere.
And, y'know, it's funny because
car stuff really appeals, I think, to a lot of people.
And, one of the biggest links we ever have had in the
history of Rooster Teeth,
in terms of an outside person, linking to our work,
was a Jalopnik article...
Long time- like, eight years ago.
Six years ago.
And it was, uh, Jalopnik the car blog,
they linked to our Immersion third-person car.
the very first episode of Immersion.
That single article probably drove...
More traffic than any other article we've ever had.
And y'know, we've done stuff on MTV, we've been on the
front page of the Wall Street Journal,
all of these things we thought were going to be absolutely huge for publicity...
and they didn't do anything. But that car blog link...
that we got had so many people that had never heard of
Rooster Teeth, show up, and watch our videos.
We've talked about it on the vlog before,
the problem of discovery is HUGE!
And that was something that really helped.
So it was really cool to see a Jalopnik link go up.
So thank you to everybody who contributed to that.
And who, posted a link to it. Or, sent it out somewhere.
Or, somebody made the car and put it in Forza.
That was pretty cool.
It was cool to see all that stuff go down in less than a
week's time.
*GavinoFree!*
Alright, it is now in the middle of the night.
We are somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean.
Gavin and I are on a plane going to Austria.
We're going to the special olympics, and we'll tell
you all about it next week.
Have a good week everybody! :)