Burnie: How's it going?
Gavin: Suiting up.
Burnie: Look at this.
Gavin: It's moments like this...
Gavin: Where I really hate the.. erm.. past version of myself
Gavin: 'cause I'm the idiot who suggested the suit of armour thing.
Gavin: Assuming we wouldn't be able to get one.
Burnie: Alright, well sometimes when you're working on an production, you end up in some really interesting places like
Burnie: a grocery store at five in the morning.
Burnie: and there's a little smoosh - a little smoosh right there. Get rid of that smoosh.
Burnie: and er.. we are shooting Million Dollars But
Burnie: in this local grocery store.
Burnie: We do end up in a lot of grocery stores for in- inperticular for Million Dollars But.
Burnie: It's like a place that everybody understands where you're in public.
Burnie: You're around a bunch of people you don't know.
Burnie: and an embarrassing situation can happen.
Burnie: This blog is actually going to be a shorter vlog than what I intended.
Burnie: Because this vlog we were going to be announcing something really cool
Burnie: that we're doing- Gavin and I are doing.
Burnie: But, kind of at the last minute, they said "don't announce it this week, wait until next week to do it"
Burnie: I'm half-way through a haircut right now and I came ba-
Gavin: You got half-way through your haircut?
Burnie: I got half-
Gavin: That looks cool.
Burnie: I got half-way through a haircut.
Burnie: err- we were hoping to announce it in the vlog this week.
Burnie: but we're gonna have to announce it on the vlog next week but hopefully-
Gavin: so we are announcing an announcement
Burnie: We're announcing an announcement. Actually I'm complaining about the fact I couldn't make an announcement.
Burnie: And err.. I already have something planned for next week's vlog
Burnie: so now I gotta figure out how in next week's vlog to do the announcement
Burnie: that we're gonna do
Burnie: and then do the thing I want'd to do.
Burnie: I dunno, we'll figure it out. Maybe we'll do two vlogs- I dunno. Something like that. But.
Burnie: the only reason I'm prefacing this whole thing is because we're gonna be doing a really cool thing for fundraising
Burnie: and I want everyone to be ready for it - it's a really, really cool thing.
Burnie: So as you know, I really like crowdfunding a lot because it makes things that are kind of just out of reach, possible.
Burnie: For us that is Lazer Team and then Million Dollars But: The Card Game.
Burnie: Well, we now have an opportunity to do something where we're gonna be able to do that but on the behalf of other people.
Burnie: Who are doing something really cool.
Burnie: So I just wanted everyone to be ready, you know, for when we announce it next week 'cos it will be moving pretty fast at that point.
Burnie: It's not gonna be like 30 day thing. It'll be really quick and really cool.
Burnie: Gavin and I are super excited about the opportunity.
Burnie: Sir Gavin is super excited about it.
Gavin: I very much am.
Burnie: I'm very excited about it.
Burnie: But, more on that next week.
Burnie: You know in the last week's vlog
Burnie: It was all about Austin and I talked about how coll Austin is but...
Burnie: there's kind of a down side to being part of something that's really cool and really popular because
Burnie: by definition something that's very popular is getting bigger and more people are getting interested in it and
Burnie: for a city, that means more people more there and things change and I had that point illustrated this week
Burnie: because one of my favourite restaurants in Austin, a place called Taco Express
Burnie: it's this little err.. kitchy little taco place run by this lady. There's cats everywhere
Burnie: there's this huge statue out front of her
Burnie: it's a really bizarre place but it's very Austin to me. It's very odd, it's very weird
Burnie: but they just recently announced that they're going to be closing soon because they can't afford the property tax on their building anymore
Burnie: which is just, you know, just a symptom of, you know, Austin becoming bigger and cooler and more people moving here.
Burnie: You know, and I can't help but think about that in terms of what we do at Rooster Teeth
Burnie: because ultimately the story of Rooster Teeth is one of longevity because we've been doing this for 14 years.
Burnie: And 14 years is a very long time in both entertainment and in anything that's online
Burnie: and the cross-section of those two- of what we do for online entertainment
Burnie: there's not many people who have been what we do for as long as we do.
didn't speaking engagements this week I
spoke at the university of texas at
austin and i have spoke at the Google
Fiber space
and what it is like to talk about in
speaking engagements is something that
I've learned both as a content creator
and someone who has enjoyed watching
content online for many many years and
that is that the internet demand
progress but the internet hates change
and i think we can all identify with the
catering change part of it because we
all have something in our lives that we
liked a lot and there was some kind of
drastic change that was made to it and
we no longer identified with the thing
that fell in love with and we didn't
recognize any more but on the flip side
of that is the progress I and that's the
part I don't think many people
understand which is if you keep doing
the same thing over and over again just
because people liking and you think you
can just keep repeating that over and
over again and that people keep coming
back
they won't they'll have seen what you're
doing they will have already experienced
that and then you're single become stale
and they will simply move on to
everything else and I had to keep that
in mind about this taco restaurant which
was I thought oh it's too bad the taco
restaurant is going out of business if I
love that restaurant but then I thought
about it and thought well how much have
I really gone to this place how many
tacos if i bought from them you know in
the last year and I really just wanting
this place to stick around service my
nostalgia but why does anyone have a
responsibility for that so i think that
in mind for myself and I think if you're
starting a business online or if your
content creator you should keep that in
mind as well is that you have to be able
to continue to grow your voice and not
just kind of existing some space where
people can fondly remember you who wants
to have a career that that and it was
chief I think we walk that line every
day you know I started a company that
will begin with really one person in the
spare bedroom then grew to five or six
people and then over the course of 14
years now almost 300 people have to take
a company photo with a drone at this
point when i started i started because i
wanted to make videos that made my
friends laughs I want to make Joel and
Matt and Jeff and guts and Jason I just
wanted them to all laugh what I was
doing you know I went over to my buddy
doesn't just house stuff camera
interface that hear you say this you say
that recorded some dialogue for even
bothering
but you never know i mean i could find
this video is pretty interesting and you
know it gets hot enough but you never
know we're making our behind-the-scenes
huh want to do this we're going to
contract I wasn't expecting with that
was applied for voice telling everybody
went home and animated and that turned
in do the first episode of red vs blue
hey ya ever wonder why we're out here
that's a good question i don't know
there's an easy answer for it and so
even though we have 45 different
productions across all of our different
department i try to approach everything
that I do in that way of just like I'm
gonna make a video that makes my buddy's
last you know and if you like if i do
that i keep that same spirit
well then the thing that made her shes
what it is will continue and yeah i'll
try some things that don't really make
our buddy's last but at the same time
you got to figure out what that is and
even after 14 years it is a perpetual
journey of discovery of figuring that
out and I love every single day and I
always look forward to what we're doing
next
even if I have to come to a grocery
store at five in the morning all right
that does it for me
Dave million dollars but i'm leaving the
set heading back to the office now
next week we'll have our vlog where we
announced the thing that we already
announced or that we're going to
announce it and then another thing I
think you're going to really enjoy
having a week everybody