How have the seven or eight of us grown over the years... Well that's an obvious opening for a fat joke.
And... we're obviously all fatter.
What would I say to myself from 10 years ago?
You don't need to pay your friends so much, that's the first- [laughs] that's the first thing.
Where would I be now if I told Burnie to fuck off 10 years ago...
Well I have told Burnie to fuck off multiple times, but I'm still here...
Probably porn.
At the time I quit, the call center had about 200 employees.
Now they have something like... eleven hundred
So, I can't imagine... managing eleven hundred kids who're working purely for beer money
I would probably- I'd look like Obama at this point. I'd just be old and gray.
It's just been... crazy... to be involved with something that has grown this big
and has lasted this long. I mean, 10 years is a full decade.
Red vs. Blue was supposed to be six episodes.
And the fact that we're still making it 10 years later is...
Yeah, I don't know, it's kinda hard to fathom.
It covers a lot of time, I mean, even for the people who watch it.
It covers a major portion of their lives.
I mean, we're old guys, the people who watch it tend to be a lot younger than we are.
There's a lot of people who don't remember when RvB and Rooster Teeth weren't a part of their lives.
I mean, just the sheer amount of people who met because of the show,
or because of the community site...
and then fell in love, and got married, and then had kids
It is... hard to fathom the fact that there are people in the world that now exist because this show was made on the internet.
I've asked my lawyers. I'm pretty sure we can get about 10% of their income for life.
What's my favorite moment in the last 10 years?
...The part where I slept.
...For like 2 hours. [laughs] That's all I got!
That's a real tough question. There's been a lot of fun stuff.
If I really had to sort of break it down it would probably be during one of the RTXs...
Either the last RTX that we had or the one before that, where it was just fun fun fun the whole time,
But its so... sort of hard to...
find that one moment where it's like "This! Yes! This is the AP phenomenon of like, happiness!"
Going to Scotland with Joel and Burnie for a week,
and, uh, literally just sitting in bars and drinking wiskey
12 hours a day was really relaxing- and hot dogs!
If you ever get a chance, go to Edinburgh, they had the best hot dogs in the world.
I don't know why. The pizza's terrible.
Gus and I went to Chicago, and it was a great convention.
It was just a lot of fun people, but it happened to be right when the World Series was going to be airing in Chicago.
and I mentioned- briefly mentioned- to Gus how, you know, how going to a World Series is like a bucket list for me.
I would love to be able to go
and about two hours later
he comes up to me and he says,
"We're going to the World Series," and I'm like,
how did you do this?
It was absolutely... a surreal moment.
Yeah, I don't know, they all kind of blend in together.
There's been... I don't know, a hundred of them at this point, maybe.
I mean where you look back over ten years there's- there's...
High moments and there's always low moments too.
Um, but, I don't know if I'd call this a low moment or not in particular
Uh, but my mom died about... 6 months before I started Red vs. Blue.
Before I ever put up the first episode.
And so it's really interesting to me that my mother never got to see...
even the start of what essentially I consider to be the story of my life,
of like, starting Rooster Teeth and growing this thing and
being a part of the rise of video on the Internet
Um, you know I was a guy who had a good job
I had a, you know, good job- I worked for the tech support company
But it's like... It's just the timing of it is so interesting,
like she just... she just...
Like Red vs. Blue... It's hard to imagine my life without those words in it.
you know.
Or Rooster Teeth. It's just hard for me to imagine that
But I, I grew up and my mother raised me and then passed away before we even knew what those words meant.
So, to me that's really interesting
It's uh... It's a little bizarre.
When we had the first RTX,
We had a Friday night mixer
to start off the event
We didn't know what we were getting into,
we hadn't been to a community event like that
where we had that number of attendees
and fans and friends and...
family members and everybody, and when we walked into the ballroom...
where it was being held it was...
It was overpowering.
That was a good moment.
Do you have any general thoughts? About the last ten years?
No.
Ah, really, thank you to the fans.
You are... uh, what makes everything happen
and without you, none of this would exist
I am incredibly thankful, we are incredibly thankful. Thank you.
I've always felt like I'm the mother of the site.
And I think the most value that I've actually contributed is
The compassion and the interaction with the fans
And that beyond anything means the most to me.
I think about, sometimes, you know when you're a kid
and adults ask you, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" or
"What is it you wanna do?" and I think back to the thoughts and ideas I had as a kid
and if... Me today went back and talked to like 10-year-old me and was like,
Okay listen, there's going to be this thing called 'The Internet'
You're gonna... make videos using video games
and that's gonna be your job.
I would have been like... "What the hell are you talking about?"
It's really really bizarre and it's really been an awesome experience.
You know it's been a crazy ride and a really fun job
I couldn't think of too many other jobs where I
get to wake up every day and either
make a silly voice for a couple hours in a sound booth
or grab a camera and run around and photograph someone doing some stunt that will probably get them killed or
It's... a pretty good job.
It's been absolutely a joy
to have a job where you show up and it's almost guaranteed
That at some point during that day, you're gonna laugh your ass off.
I was fortunate to have a career before this one,
to where I know how special that is.
This has been a dream come true.
And the fact that I get to- wake up every day and go to a building
and work with... the coolest people on the planet
and that I'm lucky enough to be able to call friends
is an absolute joy.
I don't know how else to say it, I really don't want to get sappy, but um
I can't imagine a life that could be more beneficial
or rewarding
or fun than the one that I've been given.
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