>> Jason Murphy, we freaking did it.
The beginning, the Modern Rogue World Headquarters.
>> I'm excited.
>> It doesn't look like much right now.
>> It's a fixer upper.
>> That's an understatement. Yeah, yeah.
It's going to take years to get this up to speed.
>> Might be haunted.
>> There is a murder shed. >> Bodies.
>> Exposed wiring.
Cesspool, there's a literal cesspool.
>> I wouldn't have it any other way.
[chilled music]
>> So real estate in Austin is insane
and finding seven acres, pretty much undeveloped
in West Austin is unheard of.
>> Well, it is all in one block,
the moment I saw it I was just like,
this is a blank canvas, blank canvas,
like over there we could put a croquet set,
we could learn cricket.
>> A fighting pit. >> A freaking movie screen.
>> We could do movie nights.
We could build a stage over here.
>> Paint ball course. >> Yes! [laughs]
There's the murder shed, you want to see the murder shed?
>> Murder shed. [laughs]
We're keeping that.
I wish I had a bathrobe, just step out in a bathrobe.
You're not going to knock?
You're supposed to knock three times.
[knocks]
>> Spirits that be, please don't murder us
in the murder shed.
It's definitely a murder shed.
There's saw blades up there and implements.
>> And lots of chemicals for us to huff because you know
we do that a lot.
Huff chemicals, not on purpose.
>> This area here, eventually, a beautiful green,
this tree bears fruit, I don't know
if these are crab apples or what.
>> Huh, you should eat one or cut it down.
>> Like all of this is a really nice green I think.
>> Usually when I hand you things
and say you should eat it, you eat it!
You should eat one. No, no.
All right, fine. >> It's dumb.
>> Is this staying? >> I hope so.
>> The previous owner might have sold it, I don't know.
But the story is, this genuinely used to be a train,
that was converted into a bus
and at some point the engine broke and the guy,
the only engine that he had laying around
was a race car engine.
So this is a train that's a bus
with a race car engine in it.
And the people who did all this to it,
apparently got in a fight, one of them killed the other.
And I guess the other one is in jail or some crap,
I don't know, but like genuine haunted property.
>> I'm going to kill somebody
if we don't get to keep this thing.
>> You got a cheque?
So a big part is the story, right?
I bought it from an acupuncturist,
who got it from a qi gong master,
which is basically the freaking force, right?
>> Sure.
>> Before that, it was, no lie, a nudist colony.
>> Yeah!
>> And I don't know what this was, I think this was,
I don't know, a soaking pool or something.
But it feels to me like a fighting pit.
Did you ever see the movie Dragnet?
With the pagans? >> Yes!
>> Of course.
>> We just like to dance in our goat skin pants
around this ancient ruin.
So imagine like we do an episode where we're, I don't know,
fighting in a pit.
>> Can we get enough blood to fill this up?
[vocalizing]
[laughs]
>> I was doing the double, the kirk double fist.
>> Come at me!
You're doing the Kirky?
>> Okay, so this is all the back seven acres here
and the thinking is, somewhere around here,
because there's actually a really good view.
>> Is this where the tower's going to go?
>> I don't know.
You can tell there's almost a view out there.
But number one, we just got to get above the tree line.
But it feels like this could be where the tower is.
Two or three story tower thing
that has a tiki bar on top that's where we shoot
Scam School with beautiful views and all that stuff.
Have a podcast studio warehouse 2.0.
>> Also in the tower?
>> Also, put a tower on a tower.
>> Multiple towers.
>> And lean it just for grins, just because we can.
>> It should look like Orthanc or something.
>> I don't even know what that is.
>> And shoot a giant flaming, the eye
of Sauron at the top of the tower.
>> Now you're talking my language,
now you're talking my language.
>> We can do that.
>> Yeah, yeah I'm in.
This is where it starts to get really good for me
because this back area is all in a valley
so all the traffic noise, it's dead silent.
And we're right in the shadow, you can see
the 5G LTE tower right over there.
So there's like five bars of signal this whole time.
>> I can't wait to experience all this in the fall.
>> Oh my gosh, it's going to be great.
Or when it's really wet or rainy.
>> Yeah.
>> We should call it Rainy Street.
>> Good idea.
>> That night that we spent the night
and found the old trash, like I felt like we'd found
the Ark of the Covenant, it was so great,
like ancient, orange crush cans.
>> Yeah, all of them had the seventies pull tops.
>> The pull tops, yeah.
So this is the wet weather creek
that empties into the wet weather pond,
I'm told differing accounts, I don't want
to promise anything, but I was reading up on making ponds,
and apparently you can mix something
called bentonite with all of this, that makes it
just like a giant bowl and retains the water,
and there's like a whole pond crafting community,
like this could be and m-fing pond,
like our own little lake, right?
>> I can't wait to see this after a torrential downpour.
>> Dude, ducks, should we have Modern Rogue ducks?
>> Of course.
>> There's the tower, I love the idea of being like,
on a rubber duck, on a lake here.
Just with five bars LTE.
>> Every time he runs out there,
I think he's going to sink like right into the water,
or into the grass, just like, woomph.
>> What? >> No, it's fine.
>> So here's the back edge of everything.
>> Oh yeah.
>> This looks, like I don't even know what we do with this,
if this becomes like an archery range
or if we take wedding photos here,
or shoot a sequel to the Blair Witch Project.
>> Yeah. I'm going to have to get busy
hanging some doll parts around here.
>> Oh my god.
Oh dear, that's a spider web.
I just walked into.
I got to do the dance.
>> Ah, so did I.
>> Do the dance, you got to do the world's least sexy,
sexy dance, where you make sure there's not a bug on you.
Oh, oh, oh.
Did I tell you about all the fire ants
that ran down my face?
>> Tell me again.
Because I love hearing it.
>> I was sawing off, I was pruning a tree,
and the saw got wedged and the branch started shaking,
and suddenly everything was on fire,
that's where, I got bug bites all over,
look, we're country folk now, this is a real thing.
[laughter]
Oh yeah, poison ivy, all of this, poison ivy.
>> Oh yeah, that's right.
>> So, all right, this is the creek,
when it's wet, there's a creek here.
>> We're going to need a bridge.
>> Yeah, we do need a bridge.
>> And a troll to live under that bridge.
>> All right, so we need a bridge, and Danny Devito.
So here's the part where hopefully, if we don't get lost,
again, pretty sure it's this way.
>> Man, you still don't know?
>> Looks a lot creepier from this view.
Coming in over here, looks like the house has eyes.
>> Well that's one thing that needs to be installed
in the house, is those like Amityville windows.
>> Also like Arduino controlled eyes,
"who goes there?" >> Yes.
>> Fire-pit, I guess we could go camping,
do you ever, you probably don't like camping.
>> I don't, but we need to do it.
>> We got a world headquarters, and a sweet ass flower patch.
>> Just keeps getting better, right?
>> I don't know what to do with this pavilion, but like,
I don't know, picture it gets cleaned up, and there's like,
I don't know, those Christmas lights and stuff,
we hang out and smoke cigars.
>> Tables, barbecue grill.
>> Oh my god, this is where we learn to barbecue.
>> JASON: Yes.
>> BRIAN: Okay, yes yes yes.
>> Barbecue grill, picnic tables, pavilion, yes.
>> This is going to be a great spot.
>> And, small stage.
>> Is this where the stage goes?
We get Mike TV and friends of the show.
>> Possum Posse.
>> The Possum Posse, are you kidding me?
>> Got this little lagoon over here,
which is really just a mosquito breeding pit.
>> There's like a waterfall, underneath,
you hack all this away, and there's like a waterfall,
we just fix the pump on that
and there's water, running water.
>> That's amazing.
>> All right, so now we are back where we started,
man, this house is weird.
This house was originally built 50 something years ago.
>> It was in the fifties, right?
>> But there's a house built around the house, right,
so you have the tiny house, that's on the inside,
nothing makes sense, but there are parts that are beautiful,
and other parts that are broken.
>> Matter of time that we find a secret chamber.
>> Okay so we're going to start with the part
everybody who watched the livestream, Periscope, saw.
Was it a Periscope?
No, it was a Twitch.
>> It was a Twitch stream.
>> But this will, like you can hear how echoey it is.
This used to be the Kung Fu studio,
these are the inflatable cots where you and I
stayed overnight, to prove that it's not super haunted.
>> JASON: The jury's still out.
>> Only partially haunted.
>> Partially haunted.
>> So we got to soundproof all this,
but we can install grid lighting in there,
and we make it, I figure, different shows
can have different sets, like all
of this background is Modern Rogue background,
maybe there's a regular studio,
and everything's on castors and so we're able to spin,
you know, be able to set up pointing any direction,
and then over here is where Night Attack happens,
and Cordkillers and all that stuff.
>> Yeah, and you can get those backgrounds
just like stage props where it's like okay,
collapse this, roll it out of the way.
>> Right, exactly.
>> Nothing, the reason we haven't shot in here yet is this.
>> The sound.
>> The sound, it's as echoey as can be.
But it's all the space we need.
>> Oh here, does this light turn on?
>> BRIAN: No. >> No?
>> BRIAN: Not anymore.
That's worrying.
Oh, you know what?
I think this is the one circuit that's tripped.
>> This is going to be like the science kitchen, right?
>> Well, okay, the idea is this is meant to be
like a bathroom or a laundry room or something,
we don't need it for either, so the idea
is what if all of this was a lab,
like we made a set that was Walter White's
Chemistry lab over here, and then.
>> That's actually the bus out there.
>> Oh [bleeps] we should.
That'd be pretty good.
>> JASON: I mean, it's right there.
>> So this area in front also, again,
this light also doesn't turn on, which bums me out.
But in here, working space.
>> JASON: Was the couch always there?
>> BRIAN: Nope, it's new.
>> Okay. >> Did that freak you out?
>> I was like.
>> All right, this will forever be the place
that Macaulay Culkin solved a murder, with,
or I'm sorry, Jason Murphy,
only his name's not Jason Murphy.
>> His name's not Jason Murphy anymore.
>> So one of the things that made very happy
as you can see Cat6 cable running through everything,
we already have gigabit fiber,
so this'll be like fast production.
I guess this in the original house,
used to be the living room
because there's a fire place here,
I guess this was the window outside
but now it's got a delightful view of this ducting,
so if this is the kitchen, rather than do
any kind of traditional residential place,
what we should do, in fact everybody at home,
should see, if there's an auction,
because restaurants are closing all the time.
>> Oh, sure.
>> What if we had all the stainless steel,
like, commercial grade restaurant equipment in here?
>> Chuck e Cheese robotic band.
>> [laughs] Not exactly where I was going but that's fine,
I'm not opposed to it.
>> Agree to disagree.
[laughs]
>> I think this sunroom is supposed to be the laundry room
and there are three bedrooms, and what I figure is
we'll set it up so that they're combination
like production suites and also rooms,
so if somebody wants to stay, like a Murphy bed comes down,
a Jason Murphy bed, but also there's a workstation
so if somebody wants to come in and edit,
they just log in and work.
And then we could do like a, you know, bee boo boo bee boop
individual codes for all this.
>> Because I'm planning being here writing, like a lot.
>> Yeah.
>> And working on Modern Rogue, planning new episodes.
>> I hope nobody's here.
Hello?
>> What if there's someone squatting.
>> Like literally squatting? >> Oh god.
>> He's like "Hey it's me, squatting Joe."
[laughs]
>> "I don't know if you guys know,
"but this is the poop room." >> Yeah. [laughs]
>> "I'm squatting Joe."
Is this like some conjuring nonsense going on here, or?
>> Yeah, get inside, I'm going to close it,
and you're going to disappear.
>> Oh it's Narnia, that's the more
widespread reference, Narnia.
[claps]
Man, I watched that the other night, that [bleeps] creepy.
It's such a good movie.
>> Uh, this'll eventually be a bathroom,
this'll eventually be, I don't know,
a data closet or something.
>> Okay, so point of interest.
I left this blood here, and there's less
than there was when I left it.
>> [laughs] Don't mind that.
Also, look at the different types of masonry,
like you've got this thin, this thin stone over here,
over here you have cinder blocks.
Outside you have traditional, regular acme bricks.
>> This is like the Winchester house,
only without any of the money. >> It is.
>> BRIAN: Phew, okay.
[laughs]
>> Oh good.
>> Oh yeah.
>> All the important stuff.
>> I did bring the megaphone.
>> It's.
>> No, it's dangling and there's no batteries.
I got a megaphone, and I got fireworks.
>> I have fond, hazy, very hazy memories.
>> Oh, of a satanic bonfire at the,
with the Roman candles?
>> Yes.
[laughs]
>> Shhh, this is where the drone sleeps.
>> JASON: Um, hey.
>> BRIAN: What?
>> JASON: Come here.
>> BRIAN: What?
Oh that, pencil sharpener, in the closet,
that's not weird, that's not haunted.
That's not super [bleep] haunted.
>> One of those old fashioned,
like pencil sharpeners, just in the closet.
>> This is the drone room, where the drone lives,
plotting my demise, again, I think these studio
spaces are going to be just the right size.
>> JASON: Yeah.
>> We're going to have to replace the ac though.
>> Yeah.
[Jason yells]
>> BRIAN: You son of a [bleep].
Here.
I don't know man, this might be a shoot-able area.
>> Like in here?
>> Well yeah, it's so long, imagine you know,
you've got some kitchen crap back here,
but standing here and look that way,
and you can kind of see a set of some sort.
>> Oh, like right there?
>> Yeah, or just break-room area or whatever.
>> Yeah, because we are going to need like some sort of.
>> This could just be covered with one big ass TV.
Okay, so next steps.
>> A lot, it's a long list.
First thing is fixing the sound in here, right?
>> Yes, and then number two, so to speak,
is to install the septic system.
>> We got to be able to poop.
>> But we have internet, we have electricity obviously,
but then it's going to be a good two or three months
of having contractors make everything safe.
We got to build out that kitchen,
then next step is we start designing the tower,
the steel building, the barn-dominium.
But, I suppose now's a good time
to mention that all of this
is based on you guys, the patrons.
>> Yes.
>> Patreon.com/ModernRogue that's how
you can support the show.
We spent a lot of time over the last few days,
talking about some really special ideas
to reward our $30 and up patrons.
>> Oh yeah.
>> Right now at the $30 level you get a free t-shirt,
every quarter we design a new t-shirt and send that out,
but like, we're starting to think of some next level stuff,
and it might even be a new tier, even higher than 30.
>> Sure, sure. >> I think it'll be worth it.
>> I think we're going to be really kind of juicing
all of the tiers, really, and just providing more content
in general, us being out here, enables us
to unlock so many cool things.
>> That's the other thing, is right now
to do anything, we all have to coordinate
like can we all show up at the same time in the same place,
we're all waiting on each other.
But once this becomes a living, breathing space,
and everybody's here all the time,
then all of a sudden it becomes super easy
to make more behind the scenes bonuses,
content and all that stuff, again,
we want to make the Patreon area the secret playground,
with twice as much content as is on the main channel.
>> Absolutely.
>> So here's the important question, what do you want
to have the Modern Rogue world headquarters have?
Skeet shooting?
>> Mud wrestling pit?
>> A gun range?
I'm only doing gun stuff.
>> A gundom?
>> An actual robot that converts into a plane?
>> We've got the space man.
>> You're right, you're right.
You tell us in the comments.
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