Man, I'm gonna, I'm gonna break my monitor, I swear.

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Shut up.

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is morning somewhere.

For February 5th, 2020, 5th, 25.

I said 5th and 4th. My name is Bernie Birx sitting right over there. He ruined the intro for everyone else. It's Blaine Gibson, everybody. Blake Gibson. Hello, hello, hello. Thank you. All right, bring down the applause, guys. Come on. You're driving to work. Can I tell you something? I... No, this is a podcast. We don't discuss anything. I had to call Chris, like 30, 45 minutes ago because I was like, did you record with Bernie in person or is this remote? And he was like, no, he's in town. And I was like, oh, God. And so I drove here. Oh, shit. I didn't realize we were doing this in person. Great to see you. Great to see you as well. So when you, I don't ever do the remote thing because I can't. I just, I went back and listened recently to the last podcasts I did with Jeff and Gus and Gavin at Richie Teeth when we were all stuck at home during COVID. Oh, yeah. And that was the only time I had done a remote one. And it sounds okay. It sounds okay. But it always felt like too many pauses for my brain. Yeah, there's definitely an air because, you know, you have to make sure you're not cutting people off. And it's microseconds of latency, but that it builds. It adds up. And you can tell at the end when it's like, oh, these guys are not in the same room bouncing the same energies and stuff. We're in Stinky Dragon going through and listening to past episodes of Tales from Stinky Dragon our first campaign. And then we're making a reaction podcast called

Second Wind about those episodes where we're like, oh, you know, giving context for what we were

doing at the time of the recording and all that stuff. I'm going through and editing all those

right now and just the pauses and everything. Like, I think sometimes you need to leave them in

there for natural, like, rhythm of conversation, but also sometimes, like, I want to punch Chris through the screen because he, uh, has long, dramatic pauses and he kind of eats his words and stuff. Gus also has, like, really nasly breaths. I'm learning, like, all the quirks of my friends in their, in their audio recording. Who edits it? Does Micah edit all

the audio as well? He'll edit the main podcast with these like secondary things like me, Chris,

Gus, we're all editing those. My thing is, and this is even going back to before we did

podcast, we did commentaries, but the real thing was the most podcast-esque thing that we did

in the early days of Rooster Teeth was going to conventions and going on panels. And even like my

ex, Jordan, when she would come to conventions with us, she would cease doing the panels.

She goes, why don't you guys just do this i go why don't we just do

panels all day she goes well no you guys are doing like almost like a stand-up routine and everything so

it was the only thing we did that was like that and i learned doing that i hate any amount of

silence yeah like if you have an entertainment product and someone's talking if there there's like a two second pause afterwards, I've had to train myself to be okay with that. Because I go listen to other podcasts and I'm just like, oh my God, this feels so goddamn slow to me. Yeah. I got to retrain my brain. I'm in the process. It's like a 20 year process of retraining my brain to be okay with pauses. I had not considered that, yeah, you guys would have been doing panels before the RT podcast, and that must have been like people's only exposure to you guys' personalities before because you're doing red versus blue or you're doing like meet and greets at conventions for RVB. Yeah, the first eight years pretty much. Achievementer started about season seven of Red versus Blue, which does just call it year seven. Yeah. But it really wasn't a thing. Like, you know, it wasn't what it was, you know. There's all different opinions of when that started. But objectively, it did take a while to like get rolling, you know, when it was just Jack and Jeff. But up until that point,

the only person really before R.T. Shorts, who had appeared on camera was Gus because he was in

that Apple, uh, Mac versus, you know, it's funny, you guys made that and I made a video parodying

that parody of the Mac versus PC thing in high school. I didn't know that. Yeah, I totally forgotten about it, but we were doing, it was back when swine flu was a thing.

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