[00:00.000 --> 00:00.820]  So many times?
[00:01.160 --> 00:04.500]  19, 18, 17... I got it, I got it.
[00:04.540 --> 00:05.680]  The final countdown!
[00:08.280 --> 00:11.100]  I'm going to do this to see how embarrassing this crowd is.
[00:15.060 --> 00:21.140]  Radio Statler, we set new records in Lowe's.
[00:22.140 --> 00:23.340]  F*ck it, we're live!
[00:23.740 --> 00:24.240]  All right!
[00:25.280 --> 00:27.780]  Welcome to F*ck It, We're Live, the Radio Statler story.
[00:27.780 --> 00:27.860]  Great.
[00:28.300 --> 00:36.280]  To start off, we'd like to say that this panel will contain information and content, which is not appropriate for children, those with sensible disabilities, and, well...
[00:36.280 --> 00:37.440]  Sensible disabilities!
[00:39.100 --> 00:42.760]  Like, you lost a finger, like, not an important one.
[00:43.120 --> 00:45.540]  If any of those things apply to you, get the f*ck out.
[00:47.300 --> 00:50.680]  So, Radio Statler, for those of you who don't know, is a streaming radio station at HOPE.
[00:51.140 --> 00:58.200]  Back in, before 2008, we were thinking, we wanted to do something to bring hope to people who couldn't make it.
[00:59.360 --> 01:03.000]  So, a couple of people came up with the idea of doing a radio station.
[01:03.200 --> 01:07.200]  Saying, hey, let's make some cool content, talk to some speakers, make it so people feel like they're here.
[01:08.300 --> 01:09.620]  And, Radio Statler was born.
[01:10.000 --> 01:12.580]  And, from the beginning, well, we'll get into that later.
[01:13.700 --> 01:15.380]  We're going to go around and just introduce ourselves right now.
[01:16.440 --> 01:16.840]  Go ahead.
[01:17.220 --> 01:17.320]  Yeah.
[01:17.820 --> 01:18.680]  I'm Nikgod.
[01:18.920 --> 01:19.580]  Hi, everybody.
[01:20.260 --> 01:21.620]  You might have heard me on the radio.
[01:21.620 --> 01:22.640]  I am the...
[01:22.640 --> 01:22.980]  We apologize.
[01:23.340 --> 01:23.500]  Yeah.
[01:23.720 --> 01:24.180]  Sorry about that.
[01:25.120 --> 01:26.560]  I am the chief engineer.
[01:26.800 --> 01:28.540]  So, all the gear's mine.
[01:28.620 --> 01:31.700]  I do all of the technical stuff, generally poorly.
[01:32.020 --> 01:33.160]  He's very humble, though.
[01:35.380 --> 01:36.700]  And, yeah, that's me.
[01:37.580 --> 01:38.080]  Hey, everybody.
[01:38.180 --> 01:38.700]  I'm TechDarko.
[01:39.320 --> 01:41.340]  I'm the station manager emeritus, kind of.
[01:42.180 --> 01:44.040]  I'm one of the station founders with Nick God.
[01:44.380 --> 01:49.900]  And, yeah, I kind of made things happen and then kind of just hang around now and have fun.
[01:51.180 --> 01:51.880]  I'm Bunny.
[01:52.640 --> 01:53.460]  I started...
[01:53.460 --> 01:54.300]  That's Bunny.
[01:54.620 --> 01:54.800]  Yeah.
[01:55.380 --> 01:56.980]  I thought he was Bunny.
[01:57.800 --> 01:59.220]  He's too pretty to be Bunny.
[01:59.720 --> 02:00.380]  He's too pretty.
[02:00.380 --> 02:02.660]  I started Radio Statler with these two dudes on the other side of me.
[02:03.100 --> 02:07.860]  I started off doing the first three years as the producer and program director, and now I just come around and get drunk.
[02:08.280 --> 02:08.940]  She does.
[02:09.100 --> 02:09.560]  I've seen it.
[02:11.100 --> 02:12.020]  And show you, surely.
[02:12.920 --> 02:16.980]  I'm Johnny Xmas, and this is one of the highlights of my life.
[02:17.440 --> 02:18.600]  I'm not even kidding.
[02:19.100 --> 02:20.860]  I've been coming to HOPE since H2K.
[02:21.780 --> 02:23.140]  Is that longer than anyone here?
[02:23.640 --> 02:24.000]  Yes.
[02:24.140 --> 02:24.980]  I'd just like to rub that in.
[02:25.020 --> 02:25.160]  Yeah.
[02:25.240 --> 02:25.920]  You beat me by one.
[02:26.280 --> 02:26.640]  Yeah.
[02:26.840 --> 02:27.800]  I've been coming since H2K.
[02:29.300 --> 02:30.440]  And about H...
[02:30.440 --> 02:31.540]  When was the first Radio Statler?
[02:31.640 --> 02:32.020]  HOPE Five?
[02:32.220 --> 02:32.440]  Seven.
[02:32.440 --> 02:33.220]  No, HOPE Seven.
[02:33.300 --> 02:34.000]  Oh, HOPE Seven.
[02:34.600 --> 02:38.240]  This radio station popped up, and they were doing some...
[02:38.760 --> 02:40.600]  They needed some content and things like that.
[02:40.660 --> 02:43.020]  And I was like, I can go talk on the radio about some things that I've been into.
[02:43.900 --> 02:47.880]  And that's how I met nearly everyone at this table.
[02:48.120 --> 02:51.120]  And I did a thing on the radio, and it ended up being awesome.
[02:51.140 --> 02:52.220]  And we had a blast.
[02:52.220 --> 02:53.740]  And I loved everybody involved.
[02:54.020 --> 03:01.600]  And every year since then, I've spent nearly the entirety of my time at HOPE hanging out around the Radio Statler booth.
[03:02.920 --> 03:04.100]  He's the content bitch.
[03:04.400 --> 03:04.800]  I'm the content bitch.
[03:04.800 --> 03:06.220]  If you don't know what to do, we go to him.
[03:06.420 --> 03:11.780]  Also, Johnny's perfect proof that, you know, you may come by and see what we're about, but we'll never let you leave.
[03:11.980 --> 03:12.280]  Yeah.
[03:12.560 --> 03:12.900]  Never.
[03:13.220 --> 03:14.940]  Like, just come check the booth out.
[03:15.040 --> 03:16.840]  There's always weird stuff going on there.
[03:16.880 --> 03:21.600]  And, like, if you have something cool to talk about, there's a decent chance we'll put you on the air and you can talk about it.
[03:22.240 --> 03:23.860]  Also, Bunny's making me plug my shirts.
[03:23.920 --> 03:26.680]  I'm giving away free Johnny Christmas shirts at the Radio Statler booth.
[03:27.780 --> 03:32.920]  They have my logo on the front, which you're probably not interested in, but on the back, it says, my TSA keys go to 11.
[03:34.680 --> 03:38.020]  I'm giving a talk tomorrow night in here at 11 on the TSA.
[03:38.120 --> 03:40.880]  Who's familiar with the TSA keys leak, the 3D printed TSA keys?
[03:41.160 --> 03:42.320]  Everybody here should be.
[03:42.740 --> 03:43.920]  I was one of those dudes.
[03:44.380 --> 03:49.500]  Three of us are doing a talk here on that tomorrow night, and we're going to be releasing the eighth and final key here tomorrow.
[03:50.160 --> 03:52.000]  So, if you give a shit, come check it out.
[03:52.240 --> 03:52.800]  It'll be fun.
[03:53.260 --> 03:54.140]  I'm Johnny Christmas.
[03:54.700 --> 03:55.340]  Moving on.
[03:55.940 --> 03:56.740]  I'm Stape.
[03:57.060 --> 04:01.580]  I was tricked into doing the website by Darko in 2010.
[04:01.760 --> 04:02.560]  I thought you were a party.
[04:03.480 --> 04:03.880]  Every year...
[04:03.880 --> 04:05.060]  We said here, have a beer.
[04:05.320 --> 04:06.200]  And he just came first.
[04:06.620 --> 04:10.840]  Every year, I promise that I'm going to do the website in advance and it's going to be awesome.
[04:10.860 --> 04:15.500]  And every year, I don't finish it until 4 in the morning the day of.
[04:15.640 --> 04:17.700]  What he doesn't tell you is he doesn't start it until 4 in the morning the day of.
[04:17.700 --> 04:18.820]  4 in the morning on Saturday.
[04:19.400 --> 04:20.360]  There's drinking to do.
[04:21.360 --> 04:22.820]  Granted, it still turns out awesome normally.
[04:23.060 --> 04:24.400]  Every now and then, I hop on the mic.
[04:24.400 --> 04:26.460]  I'm pretty good at interviewing our musical guests.
[04:26.860 --> 04:29.620]  And I drink too much.
[04:29.960 --> 04:30.100]  Yeah.
[04:30.420 --> 04:32.120]  That can is American as f*ck.
[04:32.340 --> 04:32.860]  That's how I roll.
[04:34.100 --> 04:36.440]  You're like, look, you are American as f*ck.
[04:36.780 --> 04:37.600]  Holy shit.
[04:40.280 --> 04:41.500]  So, I'm Beaches.
[04:41.500 --> 04:41.540]  Beaches.
[04:42.660 --> 04:43.420]  I've been...
[04:43.420 --> 04:46.960]  I got roped into this by Nick Godd at HOPE 9.
[04:47.340 --> 04:50.860]  He was like, hey, there's this thing in New York and you should come and do it.
[04:50.960 --> 04:54.200]  And then I spent three days attached to a computer archiving audio.
[04:54.720 --> 04:55.360]  You're like the mom.
[04:55.360 --> 04:58.360]  I remember when you first showed up and I was like, who's the new guy?
[04:58.440 --> 04:59.140]  And they're like, that's Beaches.
[04:59.200 --> 05:00.420]  And I'm like, this poor bastard.
[05:01.400 --> 05:01.780]  Yeah.
[05:01.780 --> 05:02.880]  You guys are assholes.
[05:05.220 --> 05:07.800]  So, I'm the current production director.
[05:08.120 --> 05:11.040]  I do try to get most of the content.
[05:12.060 --> 05:13.440]  Put together on the air.
[05:13.980 --> 05:15.060]  Kicked off and going.
[05:16.100 --> 05:20.220]  Which is fun and exciting and means I get to talk to actually some really pretty cool people.
[05:21.840 --> 05:23.500]  But I think that's a pretty good introduction.
[05:25.220 --> 05:26.640]  So, let's move it along.
[05:26.840 --> 05:28.680]  There was two announcements they asked us to make.
[05:29.020 --> 05:32.880]  One is that following this talk at midnight in here, there's a showing of deep web.
[05:33.020 --> 05:35.360]  That is the quietest announcement I've ever heard in my life.
[05:35.880 --> 05:36.320]  Attention.
[05:36.840 --> 05:38.060]  Midnight in Lamar.
[05:38.460 --> 05:40.340]  A showing of deep web.
[05:40.740 --> 05:41.180]  Better?
[05:41.780 --> 05:41.960]  Deep.
[05:42.600 --> 05:43.040]  Deep.
[05:43.180 --> 05:43.620]  Midnight.
[05:43.820 --> 05:44.240]  Midnight.
[05:45.320 --> 05:46.140]  Not throat.
[05:46.720 --> 05:47.160]  Not...
[05:47.160 --> 05:47.900]  No.
[05:48.100 --> 05:48.300]  Okay.
[05:48.300 --> 05:49.440]  We know where your mic goes.
[05:49.680 --> 05:50.360]  I'm busy then.
[05:50.540 --> 05:53.760]  And also at midnight in Noether is going to be an open mic night.
[05:55.080 --> 05:55.700]  Well, with that...
[05:55.700 --> 05:57.220]  Midnight or whenever we're done.
[05:57.580 --> 05:58.420]  Yeah, we may go a little long.
[06:00.600 --> 06:01.240]  All right.
[06:02.560 --> 06:02.960]  So...
[06:02.960 --> 06:04.040]  Who's going to moderate this?
[06:04.260 --> 06:05.140]  Who has booze?
[06:05.380 --> 06:06.520]  Raise your hand if you have booze.
[06:06.960 --> 06:07.460]  A little bit.
[06:07.740 --> 06:08.480]  We can't see you.
[06:08.480 --> 06:09.180]  And also yell.
[06:10.000 --> 06:11.160]  Yell if you have booze.
[06:11.520 --> 06:12.740]  There's a lot of booze in here.
[06:12.780 --> 06:12.800]  We can't see anything.
[06:13.020 --> 06:13.700]  Good work.
[06:13.860 --> 06:13.940]  Cheers.
[06:13.940 --> 06:15.220]  It's a high percentage of booze to people.
[06:15.300 --> 06:15.760]  I like this.
[06:15.760 --> 06:16.440]  All right.
[06:16.580 --> 06:17.100]  So here's the deal.
[06:17.300 --> 06:18.140]  We have a little game we're going to play.
[06:18.380 --> 06:18.540]  Yeah.
[06:19.320 --> 06:22.420]  Anytime any one of us says cooter, you have to drink.
[06:22.620 --> 06:23.880]  By the way, this is cooter.
[06:24.280 --> 06:24.640]  Consuming.
[06:25.920 --> 06:26.320]  Yep.
[06:26.940 --> 06:27.220]  Cooter.
[06:27.520 --> 06:27.660]  Drink.
[06:27.960 --> 06:28.140]  Everyone.
[06:30.200 --> 06:31.360]  You're bad at this.
[06:31.740 --> 06:32.060]  Drink.
[06:32.480 --> 06:32.920]  Seriously.
[06:33.080 --> 06:33.280]  Come on.
[06:34.000 --> 06:34.440]  Drink.
[06:35.140 --> 06:37.180]  Who brings booze in here and then won't drink?
[06:37.180 --> 06:37.280]  Drink.
[06:37.560 --> 06:37.660]  What?
[06:39.220 --> 06:39.780]  All right.
[06:40.300 --> 06:40.560]  There.
[06:40.560 --> 06:41.100]  There you go.
[06:43.160 --> 06:44.400]  You do a shot of beer like this.
[06:44.400 --> 06:46.120]  You might have had a little bit too much already.
[06:47.340 --> 06:49.580]  Does anybody need booze?
[06:49.700 --> 06:50.580]  Because we have liquor.
[06:50.980 --> 06:51.200]  Here.
[06:51.340 --> 06:51.680]  I'll...
[06:51.680 --> 06:52.460]  You can have some beer.
[06:52.700 --> 06:54.020]  If you want some beer, come on up.
[06:56.540 --> 06:56.940]  Two.
[06:56.940 --> 06:57.240]  Two.
[06:57.680 --> 06:57.760]  Three.
[06:59.360 --> 07:00.320]  What the hell?
[07:00.520 --> 07:02.680]  Don't you guys send me the memo before starting a show?
[07:02.680 --> 07:03.640]  Get the f*ck off this.
[07:03.680 --> 07:04.040]  Shit!
[07:04.620 --> 07:04.880]  All right.
[07:05.160 --> 07:05.720]  We're sorry.
[07:05.900 --> 07:06.140]  All right.
[07:06.300 --> 07:11.440]  So, as we were saying, teledildonics is an important...
[07:11.440 --> 07:11.880]  Okay.
[07:12.000 --> 07:13.160]  This is the only freak thing I'm gonna do.
[07:13.240 --> 07:13.760]  And also...
[07:13.760 --> 07:14.320]  We have viewers.
[07:16.140 --> 07:16.960]  We have four.
[07:17.560 --> 07:18.280]  All four?
[07:18.880 --> 07:19.280]  All right.
[07:19.580 --> 07:22.580]  Guys, this has to last you through the entire drinking game, so don't go nuts on these.
[07:24.580 --> 07:25.580]  But anyway, go on.
[07:25.900 --> 07:26.420]  Don't mind me.
[07:26.480 --> 07:27.180]  I'm just bartending.
[07:27.400 --> 07:31.180]  I'm like the world's boringest bartender.
[07:32.140 --> 07:33.160]  Another beer, sir.
[07:34.140 --> 07:35.080]  Beer for you.
[07:35.480 --> 07:36.420]  Did you want a beer?
[07:36.840 --> 07:37.020]  All right.
[07:37.160 --> 07:38.000]  It's your 18th birthday.
[07:38.220 --> 07:38.760]  Wow, congrats.
[07:38.840 --> 07:39.900]  What's the drinking age in New York?
[07:40.760 --> 07:41.160]  42.
[07:41.200 --> 07:42.360]  I'm pretty sure it's 12.
[07:44.440 --> 07:45.240]  Country Rooms.
[07:45.260 --> 07:46.840]  While Johnny plays the bartender.
[07:47.800 --> 07:48.420]  Go on!
[07:48.760 --> 07:49.960]  Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
[07:50.260 --> 07:51.500]  We didn't see it yet.
[07:51.960 --> 07:53.540]  Actually, this is very bassy, isn't it?
[07:53.600 --> 07:54.200]  I got four more cups?
[07:54.800 --> 07:55.600]  Take me home.
[07:55.600 --> 07:56.540]  How much liquor do we have?
[07:57.120 --> 07:57.520]  Enough.
[07:58.040 --> 07:58.700]  Are you sure about that?
[07:58.700 --> 08:02.300]  All right, let's talk about things.
[08:02.340 --> 08:03.220]  We're gonna have to switch the liquor.
[08:03.620 --> 08:04.600]  All right, let's talk about some things.
[08:04.620 --> 08:05.020]  So I've done my intro.
[08:05.500 --> 08:06.020]  I think that's it.
[08:06.160 --> 08:06.500]  Oh, good.
[08:06.840 --> 08:09.500]  All right, so one of the things we wanted to talk about today is...
[08:09.500 --> 08:10.420]  I got no tips.
[08:12.000 --> 08:13.300]  You cheap bastards.
[08:15.460 --> 08:16.880]  Dude, you forgot to bill them.
[08:17.920 --> 08:18.800]  Demand money first.
[08:18.820 --> 08:19.960]  Listen, I just work here.
[08:23.000 --> 08:23.580]  Go on.
[08:23.580 --> 08:24.420]  So what have I missed?
[08:24.960 --> 08:25.940]  All right, so...
[08:25.940 --> 08:27.060]  Good doing Statler.
[08:27.200 --> 08:28.960]  We've kind of subscribed to the theory of...
[08:28.960 --> 08:29.660]  I got a CypherCon...
[08:31.680 --> 08:33.640]  A CypherCon challenge coin.
[08:34.460 --> 08:34.980]  Woo!
[08:35.520 --> 08:38.200]  CypherCon being my second favorite con after HOPE, now.
[08:40.760 --> 08:41.280]  CypherCon.
[08:41.400 --> 08:42.020]  Milwaukee, Illinois.
[08:42.520 --> 08:44.820]  It's a CryptoCon disguised as a HackerCon.
[08:45.000 --> 08:46.060]  HackerCon, come on down.
[08:48.760 --> 08:51.480]  I would give that advertisement every time you give me one of these.
[08:52.640 --> 08:53.140]  That's the thing.
[08:53.200 --> 08:54.760]  People paid in order to come to this show.
[08:55.000 --> 08:55.180]  Yeah.
[08:55.860 --> 08:56.460]  What schools?
[08:56.980 --> 08:59.580]  All right, I'm going to stop interrupting for almost a minute.
[08:59.820 --> 09:00.080]  Go.
[09:00.520 --> 09:01.560]  All right, we've got 60 seconds.
[09:01.720 --> 09:02.960]  All right, so...
[09:02.960 --> 09:05.400]  Radio Statler, we've kind of subscribed to the theory of...
[09:05.400 --> 09:06.280]  Fuck it, we'll do it live.
[09:06.800 --> 09:08.460]  That sometime has worked out awesomely.
[09:08.500 --> 09:10.020]  A lot of times it has worked out with...
[09:10.020 --> 09:12.160]  Well, let's just say we have some fun stories.
[09:12.700 --> 09:13.880]  And we're going to tell you some.
[09:14.220 --> 09:14.640]  We are.
[09:14.640 --> 09:15.780]  That's badass, right.
[09:16.100 --> 09:17.160]  Did we remember to bribe them first?
[09:17.240 --> 09:18.040]  Did you not get the...
[09:18.040 --> 09:18.740]  You weren't in the meeting.
[09:18.840 --> 09:19.540]  You need to get out of here.
[09:19.780 --> 09:20.600]  You're not part of this.
[09:20.700 --> 09:21.720]  Why do you mean I'm not part of this?
[09:22.420 --> 09:23.500]  You got me on the list, right?
[09:24.020 --> 09:27.680]  No, actually, we kind of had a meeting and we decided not to.
[09:27.920 --> 09:28.420]  I'm sorry.
[09:31.280 --> 09:31.720]  Speak up.
[09:32.020 --> 09:32.760]  Be excited.
[09:33.000 --> 09:34.000]  Can someone bring the hook?
[09:37.080 --> 09:37.680]  Oh, man.
[09:38.940 --> 09:41.300]  How many people here are watching the monthly podcast?
[09:43.540 --> 09:44.880]  You have to vocalize.
[09:45.060 --> 09:45.600]  Is there one?
[09:46.420 --> 09:46.820]  Yeah.
[09:47.380 --> 09:47.740]  Check it out.
[09:47.820 --> 09:48.340]  There's the two.
[09:48.780 --> 09:51.960]  There's all two of the viewers.
[09:52.220 --> 09:52.700]  Oh, my God.
[09:53.300 --> 09:54.860]  We do a monthly podcast.
[09:55.400 --> 09:57.560]  It's kind of terrible, but we have fun.
[09:57.680 --> 09:58.260]  I mean...
[09:58.260 --> 09:58.480]  That's cool.
[09:58.840 --> 10:01.600]  We mostly do it just to make sure that we know that everybody's alive.
[10:01.600 --> 10:03.680]  Yeah, it's this every month.
[10:04.120 --> 10:06.900]  It's either that or we have to put Bunny's face on the back of a milk carton.
[10:07.800 --> 10:08.840]  We don't see enough of you.
[10:09.600 --> 10:10.420]  Yes, we do.
[10:11.400 --> 10:11.760]  Everywhere.
[10:12.040 --> 10:13.620]  Bunny does the new boyfriend syndrome.
[10:15.800 --> 10:19.400]  Where she starts dating someone new and then just disappears for like three months.
[10:20.060 --> 10:21.520]  And then comes back on a month for like...
[10:21.520 --> 10:22.140]  I haven't even had a boyfriend in a year.
[10:22.320 --> 10:23.460]  That's not the point.
[10:23.640 --> 10:26.020]  And applications will be accepted at the conclusion of the talk.
[10:26.020 --> 10:27.180]  Please form a single file line.
[10:28.340 --> 10:29.020]  Double spaced.
[10:33.160 --> 10:33.600]  So...
[10:35.660 --> 10:37.340]  So we can say the word cooter a lot.
[10:37.440 --> 10:38.740]  Let's talk about Radio Statler.
[10:39.580 --> 10:39.940]  Oh, yeah.
[10:40.640 --> 10:43.780]  Yeah, we've had some fun times and some interesting ones.
[10:44.200 --> 10:45.160]  I think there's a lot of people...
[10:45.160 --> 10:45.720]  Y 'all didn't drink.
[10:46.600 --> 10:48.260]  Yeah, I said cooter, start drinking.
[10:48.620 --> 10:51.300]  Is everybody here familiar with what Radio Statler is?
[10:52.040 --> 10:52.480]  No.
[10:52.480 --> 10:55.080]  Is anyone here familiar with what Radio Statler was supposed to be?
[10:55.080 --> 10:56.100]  What are you doing in this room?
[10:57.440 --> 10:59.560]  It was supposed to not have you, but...
[10:59.560 --> 11:00.320]  Hang on, who said no?
[11:00.560 --> 11:01.480]  What was plan A?
[11:02.360 --> 11:03.600]  You implied that we had a plan.
[11:03.600 --> 11:04.340]  Make a million dollars.
[11:05.100 --> 11:05.520]  Hi, Bernie.
[11:06.100 --> 11:08.400]  Oh, yeah, we have a...
[11:08.400 --> 11:09.500]  How was it named?
[11:09.980 --> 11:10.820]  So, alright.
[11:11.200 --> 11:13.020]  That's a great question.
[11:13.320 --> 11:14.240]  That's an awesome question.
[11:14.320 --> 11:16.760]  Someone give this man a prize because we forgot to bring any.
[11:16.900 --> 11:17.100]  Every time someone says Statler.
[11:17.600 --> 11:20.720]  We didn't even have to use our planted question to ask that question.
[11:20.820 --> 11:21.200]  Is this on?
[11:21.380 --> 11:21.620]  Yeah.
[11:22.440 --> 11:23.500]  Can everyone hear me?
[11:23.500 --> 11:24.120]  That is not on.
[11:24.160 --> 11:24.940]  That is not on.
[11:24.960 --> 11:25.040]  That is not on.
[11:25.040 --> 11:26.420]  I can hear you and that's what matters.
[11:26.860 --> 11:27.020]  Okay.
[11:28.040 --> 11:34.280]  So, can you explain to us what Radio Statler is and why it was called that?
[11:34.400 --> 11:35.800]  And why was it formed like that?
[11:35.900 --> 11:40.860]  I want to let Bunny answer that because she's the one who first explained it to me and I went, Oh, shit.
[11:41.360 --> 11:42.920]  Do you know Mr. Statler's full name?
[11:43.040 --> 11:45.040]  There's a plaque in here with his full name on it.
[11:45.340 --> 11:45.740]  I don't...
[11:45.740 --> 11:46.660]  Maybe it wasn't Bunny.
[11:46.840 --> 11:47.400]  It wasn't me.
[11:48.040 --> 11:48.980]  We're going to make that a challenge.
[11:49.040 --> 11:50.420]  I might have told you what Radio Statler or what we do.
[11:50.480 --> 11:51.440]  It was some pretty lady.
[11:53.160 --> 11:54.160]  We don't have many of those.
[11:54.160 --> 11:55.180]  Alright, well, who can answer that?
[11:55.260 --> 11:55.960]  Do you want me to answer that?
[11:57.220 --> 11:58.780]  Do you like drugs going downstairs?
[11:59.200 --> 11:59.560]  No.
[12:00.100 --> 12:00.960]  No, no, so...
[12:01.540 --> 12:02.840]  There's still the Statler room though, right?
[12:02.840 --> 12:04.820]  Wait, who in here knows why it's called Radio Statler?
[12:05.160 --> 12:05.520]  Anybody?
[12:05.780 --> 12:06.980]  I want you to say it.
[12:07.700 --> 12:07.980]  No?
[12:11.040 --> 12:11.760]  Alright, so...
[12:11.760 --> 12:14.240]  Everybody knows the hotel we're in is the Hotel Pennsylvania, right?
[12:14.340 --> 12:15.980]  And everybody knows why it's the Hotel Pennsylvania?
[12:16.400 --> 12:17.000]  I hope?
[12:17.260 --> 12:17.560]  Really?
[12:17.660 --> 12:17.720]  Sure.
[12:18.620 --> 12:20.460]  Across the street is friggin' Pennsylvania Station.
[12:20.580 --> 12:21.040]  Come on, people.
[12:21.140 --> 12:21.480]  Get with it.
[12:22.020 --> 12:24.380]  Oh, I thought a bunch of Dutch people got lost.
[12:25.280 --> 12:26.700]  I needed somewhere to live.
[12:26.860 --> 12:28.320]  Are you trying to educate these people?
[12:28.500 --> 12:28.960]  A little.
[12:29.240 --> 12:29.800]  Oh, no.
[12:30.120 --> 12:38.100]  When they built the original Penn Station across the street, the train station, at the same time, the railroad company decided to say, we want to build a hotel here.
[12:38.200 --> 12:39.320]  We want people to be able to come to the city.
[12:39.400 --> 12:40.340]  We want them to have a place to stay.
[12:40.460 --> 12:42.440]  We want to drive tourism and business travelers.
[12:43.760 --> 12:44.840]  So, they built the city.
[12:44.940 --> 12:46.500]  It was built by the same architects, the same builders.
[12:47.460 --> 12:49.700]  The Penn Station across the street, that's not there anymore.
[12:49.800 --> 12:52.040]  They decided to tear it down and build the monstrosity that's there now.
[12:52.040 --> 12:55.940]  But this place has miraculously survived, even... Somehow.
[12:56.320 --> 12:56.860]  Yeah, I don't know.
[12:57.080 --> 12:58.100]  I think blood sacrifices.
[12:58.880 --> 13:05.220]  By the way, if one were to go down, I think, three levels below the hotel.
[13:05.340 --> 13:06.760]  Three or four levels below the hotel.
[13:06.900 --> 13:07.220]  Bernie!
[13:07.660 --> 13:08.160]  Bernie!
[13:09.380 --> 13:09.420]  Bernie!
[13:09.420 --> 13:10.200]  Bernie, go!
[13:10.340 --> 13:11.040]  Four levels down.
[13:11.240 --> 13:12.100]  Four levels down.
[13:12.300 --> 13:13.660]  There is a secret tunnel.
[13:13.780 --> 13:14.800]  This is common knowledge.
[13:14.900 --> 13:19.100]  There is a secret tunnel with beautiful inlaid mosaic tile work.
[13:19.100 --> 13:19.860]  It's about this wide.
[13:19.860 --> 13:25.360]  It says 2PRR, Pennsylvania, with an arrow pointing to the tunnel that goes under...
[13:25.360 --> 13:26.240]  P-E-N-N-A.
[13:26.600 --> 13:26.660]  Yeah.
[13:27.960 --> 13:28.880]  No, it says...
[13:28.880 --> 13:30.220]  Can we get back to our panel now?
[13:30.400 --> 13:30.540]  Yeah.
[13:30.960 --> 13:31.220]  Thank you.
[13:32.580 --> 13:33.760]  Somebody get Bernie a drink, please.
[13:33.980 --> 13:34.940]  Somebody get Bernie a drink.
[13:35.760 --> 13:37.880]  You can find the old tunnel that goes to the train station.
[13:38.100 --> 13:38.760]  Right under it.
[13:38.820 --> 13:39.600]  It is really cool.
[13:39.640 --> 13:41.200]  And that's part of the reason why these were built together.
[13:41.200 --> 13:42.120]  Bernie, come get a beverage.
[13:42.940 --> 13:44.020]  So, get a beer.
[13:44.140 --> 13:45.860]  The guy who manages...
[13:46.440 --> 13:47.260]  Bernie S, ladies and gentlemen.
[13:47.260 --> 13:49.500]  Give it up for Bernie S, by the way, if anyone is wondering.
[13:49.500 --> 13:50.480]  Who also does radio.
[13:50.940 --> 13:51.500]  Very regularly.
[13:51.520 --> 13:54.140]  Bernie S is one of the reasons any of us are even in this room.
[13:54.200 --> 13:57.460]  And you do realize that's the clearest we have ever heard him ever on a radio station, right?
[13:59.260 --> 14:00.520]  Yeah, but that's not what this panel is about.
[14:00.580 --> 14:03.660]  Bernie, you're one of my favorite memories of hope, like hands down, over all these years.
[14:04.240 --> 14:04.540]  Easily.
[14:04.720 --> 14:05.500]  Please don't share that.
[14:05.620 --> 14:06.420]  It's probably obscene.
[14:06.420 --> 14:06.760]  Yeah.
[14:07.180 --> 14:09.140]  This is horribly derailed.
[14:09.320 --> 14:11.320]  Can someone just say that there's a radio station?
[14:11.620 --> 14:11.720]  Okay.
[14:13.520 --> 14:15.240]  I want to take over as moderator.
[14:15.620 --> 14:16.240]  Excuse me.
[14:16.260 --> 14:16.860]  Excuse me.
[14:16.860 --> 14:16.880]  Excuse me.
[14:17.200 --> 14:21.440]  I was wondering why it's called Radio Statler.
[14:21.880 --> 14:26.420]  And can you tell us a little bit why and why you're doing it?
[14:26.520 --> 14:31.860]  So, it's called Radio Statler because the Hotel Pennsylvania was managed by a guy named Statler.
[14:32.860 --> 14:37.340]  When the Pennsylvania Railroad folded and sold it, it became the Hotel Statler.
[14:37.540 --> 14:38.920]  And it was run by the Statler Group.
[14:39.660 --> 14:41.160]  Then it became a whole bunch of other crap.
[14:41.340 --> 14:43.100]  And then it became Hotel Pennsylvania again.
[14:43.340 --> 14:44.200]  Long story short.
[14:44.300 --> 14:44.760]  Was he one of the Statler?
[14:44.760 --> 14:45.920]  Long story short.
[14:46.100 --> 14:46.580]  Thank you.
[14:47.240 --> 14:47.840]  Yes, he was.
[14:47.840 --> 14:48.600]  Before we get derailed again.
[14:48.920 --> 14:51.640]  So, Radio Statler, we stream live from the con.
[14:51.860 --> 14:53.860]  We talk to people who are here attending.
[14:53.980 --> 14:54.680]  We talk to speakers.
[14:54.920 --> 14:56.140]  We do original content.
[14:56.240 --> 14:57.020]  We have interesting music.
[14:57.160 --> 14:58.180]  We have people call in.
[14:58.260 --> 14:59.740]  We have people chatting via IRC.
[14:59.740 --> 15:04.540]  The idea is to connect the conference and the people with those who can't make it here.
[15:05.580 --> 15:06.140]  Sound good?
[15:06.600 --> 15:07.120]  Yeah, for sure.
[15:07.260 --> 15:07.600]  Sound good.
[15:08.000 --> 15:08.440]  Good answer.
[15:08.520 --> 15:08.720]  Yes.
[15:08.820 --> 15:09.620]  And it's archived.
[15:09.940 --> 15:14.020]  And now we have a monthly podcast, which is really just this for an hour.
[15:15.240 --> 15:16.140]  There's a few viewers.
[15:16.460 --> 15:24.740]  And I really want to emphasize, like my favorite part of it is that we have the IRC channel running and you can interact with whoever's on the air via IRC.
[15:25.340 --> 15:27.940]  And that gets really cool and weird.
[15:28.820 --> 15:33.360]  It's especially great because we have a lot of listeners who can't make it here.
[15:33.460 --> 15:34.220]  And that's why they listen.
[15:34.400 --> 15:36.700]  And they can't make it here often because they don't live in this country.
[15:37.140 --> 15:40.640]  And so I really like that we get a lot of like British and European.
[15:41.520 --> 15:42.680]  Is Britain European?
[15:43.600 --> 15:43.760]  Yeah.
[15:44.680 --> 15:47.020]  Like the UK is like the Mexico of Europe.
[15:50.000 --> 15:51.180]  That's not valid at all.
[15:51.180 --> 15:51.880]  Yeah, but at least...
[15:52.500 --> 15:53.120]  Yeah, but at least...
[15:53.120 --> 15:53.300]  I don't know.
[15:53.960 --> 15:55.220]  We're not blind people then.
[15:55.400 --> 15:56.120]  Right, we're not blind.
[15:56.680 --> 16:00.280]  And so like I really like that I can be on the air at 3 a.m.
[16:00.320 --> 16:02.240]  here talking about bullshit.
[16:02.760 --> 16:06.480]  And then some guy in England is like, hey, I have a question about that bullshit.
[16:07.180 --> 16:14.940]  And it turns into this legitimate conversation and it's just people who can't make it here but really want to and because we don't do...
[16:14.940 --> 16:16.820]  Do we do live streaming a video now for the talks?
[16:17.340 --> 16:17.600]  Uh, yeah.
[16:18.040 --> 16:18.200]  Yeah.
[16:18.380 --> 16:20.360]  This year we were live streaming all three talk rooms.
[16:20.500 --> 16:21.600]  That is fucking...
[16:21.600 --> 16:23.180]  It's like right now we are being cheap.
[16:23.420 --> 16:23.860]  Like right now we are being cheap.
[16:23.860 --> 16:24.040]  Oh shit.
[16:24.080 --> 16:25.180]  There could be people watching us.
[16:25.900 --> 16:27.140]  My people of America.
[16:28.860 --> 16:29.300]  America!
[16:29.640 --> 16:30.880]  I have a question.
[16:31.560 --> 16:31.740]  Whoa.
[16:32.040 --> 16:32.600]  Right here.
[16:32.880 --> 16:43.340]  Will Radio Statler be interviewing like so-called man or woman in the street type questions around the conference, either recording or with a wireless mic or something, actually not this year.
[16:43.340 --> 16:44.900]  Just talking to people, I think it's a great idea.
[16:45.240 --> 16:45.600]  We've done that.
[16:45.600 --> 16:47.720]  We've tried this and there's one problem.
[16:48.380 --> 16:49.700]  We're really fucking lazy.
[16:50.260 --> 16:57.280]  And so we'll go out and we'll like record shit and then we'll edit it and then it'll never get aired.
[16:57.600 --> 17:00.760]  I think you saying that it gets edited is a little...
[17:00.760 --> 17:01.720]  There's gotta be...
[17:02.160 --> 17:04.040]  For various definitions of edited.
[17:04.520 --> 17:04.700]  And that's it.
[17:04.920 --> 17:09.060]  We record it and then usually I'll listen to it and be like, that's really good and then we do fuck all with it.
[17:09.140 --> 17:12.420]  Why couldn't you just like get a wireless microphone and walk around and talk to people?
[17:12.420 --> 17:13.760]  It could be some really great content.
[17:13.960 --> 17:14.480]  Because that makes too much sense.
[17:14.920 --> 17:16.620]  Because we have a couple of reasons for it.
[17:16.680 --> 17:19.320]  Normally it's because we like to be able to edit it down to make the content a little better.
[17:19.460 --> 17:20.240]  But at least that was the goal.
[17:20.620 --> 17:22.100]  Send like a roving reporter out.
[17:22.440 --> 17:22.660]  Yes.
[17:22.980 --> 17:23.100]  Yes.
[17:23.200 --> 17:23.620]  Thank you, Bernie.
[17:24.320 --> 17:26.260]  I'm gonna step in and defend Bernie with this.
[17:26.380 --> 17:26.880]  Like he's right.
[17:27.020 --> 17:27.760]  That's a great idea.
[17:28.620 --> 17:32.020]  So we are volunteer run, so if somebody wants to do that...
[17:32.020 --> 17:32.460]  Hey, Bernie, you wanna go?
[17:32.460 --> 17:34.860]  It sounds like Bernie has a lot of free time on his hands.
[17:34.880 --> 17:36.640]  We could do it with a cell phone and an audio patch or something.
[17:36.660 --> 17:37.460]  We could do this.
[17:37.540 --> 17:38.340]  This could be really fun.
[17:38.360 --> 17:40.540]  You do it and we'll do it for you.
[17:40.760 --> 17:41.060]  Yeah.
[17:41.400 --> 17:41.660]  As I have.
[17:42.280 --> 17:42.940]  We'll work on that.
[17:42.940 --> 17:43.620]  We can do it.
[17:43.920 --> 17:45.320]  We have the technology.
[17:45.320 --> 17:45.900]  Yes.
[17:45.980 --> 17:47.360]  There's a misunderstanding here.
[17:47.680 --> 17:51.380]  Actually, Side Pocket, for every year that he's been part of Radio Staff.
[17:51.380 --> 17:53.520]  No, he's actually brought this idea to us.
[17:53.540 --> 17:55.500]  Has ran around interviewing people.
[17:55.700 --> 17:57.540]  He's not only brought the idea, he's literally done it.
[17:57.680 --> 17:58.480]  Literally done it.
[17:58.700 --> 18:00.060]  He does the man on the street.
[18:01.240 --> 18:05.980]  A lot of the just random interviews we have come from Side Pocket.
[18:06.320 --> 18:06.960]  Thank you, Side Pocket.
[18:07.160 --> 18:07.560]  I love that.
[18:07.740 --> 18:09.360]  If you ever want random, he's the man.
[18:09.580 --> 18:09.720]  Thank you.
[18:09.780 --> 18:14.480]  So we're about 20 minutes into the talk and we haven't actually gotten to start what we had planned to start talking on.
[18:14.480 --> 18:15.320]  I'm not done yet.
[18:16.800 --> 18:17.120]  Well...
[18:17.120 --> 18:17.660]  You're done now.
[18:17.660 --> 18:18.220]  We'll come back to you.
[18:18.360 --> 18:19.060]  Sorry for the distraction.
[18:19.260 --> 18:19.380]  Thanks.
[18:20.200 --> 18:23.820]  So, we wanted to start by telling you guys some of the kind of war stories we've had.
[18:24.000 --> 18:24.420]  So, I don't know.
[18:24.480 --> 18:24.940]  We want to start...
[18:24.940 --> 18:25.760]  You have one you want to start with?
[18:26.460 --> 18:27.100]  Oh, shit.
[18:27.140 --> 18:27.760]  We want Nick to start.
[18:28.680 --> 18:30.680]  Like, war stories or just funny stories?
[18:30.740 --> 18:31.580]  Nothing incriminating.
[18:31.640 --> 18:32.020]  Just great stories.
[18:32.160 --> 18:33.560]  I mean, let's start with the first year.
[18:34.640 --> 18:36.760]  The first year is where the three of us showed up and...
[18:36.760 --> 18:37.900]  Well, we were talking...
[18:37.900 --> 18:38.520]  It was more than the three of us.
[18:38.580 --> 18:40.020]  Well, we were talking about it online.
[18:40.460 --> 18:42.800]  And we were planning it with, like, Lex and everything else.
[18:42.800 --> 18:47.980]  And then it was pretty much, like, half the people who were planning it online didn't show up.
[18:48.060 --> 18:48.160]  Yeah.
[18:48.660 --> 18:48.960]  Pretty much.
[18:49.060 --> 18:49.740]  Almost nobody showed up.
[18:49.800 --> 18:50.540]  It was the three of us.
[18:51.480 --> 18:51.840]  Ethan.
[18:52.040 --> 18:53.700]  There was Ethan, who's never come back since.
[18:55.040 --> 18:56.180]  We scared him off good.
[18:56.320 --> 18:56.660]  And Al.
[18:56.660 --> 18:57.180]  And Arca.
[18:57.320 --> 18:57.980]  Arca was there.
[18:58.180 --> 18:58.440]  Al.
[18:58.500 --> 18:59.120]  Al Strowger.
[18:59.300 --> 18:59.480]  Yeah.
[18:59.680 --> 19:00.280]  And Lexicon.
[19:00.480 --> 19:01.180]  Al Strowger.
[19:02.460 --> 19:04.280]  I love Al Strowger.
[19:04.380 --> 19:08.020]  Al Strowger is one of my favorite parts of HOPE, and I have not seen him in six years.
[19:08.260 --> 19:08.380]  Yeah.
[19:08.920 --> 19:10.280]  That's pretty much kind of how it went down.
[19:10.280 --> 19:11.860]  And we were just like, all right, well, let's do this.
[19:11.860 --> 19:12.700]  We were going to win.
[19:12.840 --> 19:13.780]  Well, shit.
[19:14.620 --> 19:15.020]  Yeah.
[19:15.800 --> 19:19.280]  We had my gear plus his gear.
[19:19.700 --> 19:22.500]  So we hadn't coordinated anything ahead of the con.
[19:22.600 --> 19:24.700]  So they had two microphones and a tape recorder.
[19:25.020 --> 19:25.960]  And I brought a ton of music.
[19:25.960 --> 19:26.160]  More or less, yeah.
[19:26.420 --> 19:27.040]  Hey, hey, hey, hey.
[19:27.320 --> 19:28.980]  We had two tape recorders.
[19:29.060 --> 19:29.640]  Thank you very much.
[19:30.220 --> 19:30.400]  Yeah.
[19:30.600 --> 19:32.220]  There's fucking NBR up in here.
[19:32.300 --> 19:33.160]  One of them was an A-track.
[19:34.120 --> 19:34.920]  It's tape.
[19:34.920 --> 19:39.080]  And so we kind of, we hobbled it together.
[19:39.900 --> 19:43.840]  We got Bunny to go around and do content.
[19:44.000 --> 19:46.600]  That was the year that Adam Savage was the keynote speaker.
[19:46.780 --> 19:47.140]  Oh, that was good.
[19:47.140 --> 19:50.060]  And he came down and hung out and sat on our inflatable plastic couch.
[19:50.200 --> 19:50.480]  Yes.
[19:50.740 --> 19:50.940]  Yes.
[19:51.040 --> 19:52.700]  My favorite keynote speaker to date at HOPE.
[19:52.920 --> 19:53.160]  Yeah.
[19:53.360 --> 19:53.820]  That was great.
[19:54.400 --> 19:55.320]  He was amazing.
[19:55.540 --> 19:56.300]  He was so excited to be here.
[19:56.500 --> 19:59.760]  If you have not seen him speak, it's on my YouTube channel.
[20:00.260 --> 20:06.900]  We have a picture of us sitting on this god-awful green inflatable plastic couch.
[20:06.900 --> 20:07.960]  Clear neon green.
[20:08.900 --> 20:10.040]  With Adam Savage.
[20:10.340 --> 20:11.460]  It's the coolest thing ever.
[20:11.620 --> 20:17.220]  I remember when we were sitting here, we knew we wanted to get Adam.
[20:17.880 --> 20:22.420]  And we had a moment where, like, everybody was looking at everybody else going, you go up to him.
[20:22.880 --> 20:23.940]  No, you go up to him.
[20:24.160 --> 20:24.780]  I don't want to do it.
[20:24.840 --> 20:25.340]  You go up to him.
[20:25.400 --> 20:26.800]  So, finally, we got Bunny to go do it.
[20:27.160 --> 20:27.600]  And, like...
[20:27.600 --> 20:28.000]  And Bunny owned it.
[20:28.000 --> 20:28.540]  No, we got me.
[20:28.960 --> 20:29.900]  Because I was security.
[20:29.900 --> 20:30.860]  So, I used security.
[20:30.860 --> 20:32.900]  Bunny was like, Mr. Savage, I need you to come with me.
[20:33.620 --> 20:38.220]  And Bunny was the one who guided him downstairs and was like, why don't you stay a little while and talk with us?
[20:38.240 --> 20:47.300]  And everybody else is sitting, like, a respectable, like, 20, 25 feet away, like, hanging up against the escalators, like, trying not to listen.
[20:47.560 --> 20:47.940]  But...
[20:47.940 --> 20:49.460]  And then he was like, yeah, sure.
[20:49.700 --> 20:52.160]  And we all, like, ran up the escalators.
[20:52.820 --> 20:53.200]  Ran.
[20:53.520 --> 20:53.940]  Top speed.
[20:54.020 --> 20:54.560]  It was great.
[20:54.700 --> 20:57.440]  It was like that cartoon little smoke behind you and your butt off.
[20:58.840 --> 21:02.680]  And I was really upset that I was not invited to that.
[21:03.240 --> 21:04.500]  Well, you weren't involved yet.
[21:04.500 --> 21:05.220]  I'm still...
[21:05.220 --> 21:08.500]  I very much was that year, but I was kind of, like, shunned.
[21:08.620 --> 21:10.360]  I was being like, well, no, this is Mr. Savage.
[21:11.240 --> 21:11.700]  Sorry.
[21:12.300 --> 21:13.220]  Adam, we love you.
[21:13.280 --> 21:13.960]  You weren't cool enough then.
[21:14.280 --> 21:15.360]  We know you've graduated since.
[21:15.440 --> 21:18.140]  That was the year you called me the Infosec Paris Hilton.
[21:18.520 --> 21:19.560]  The Paris Hilton.
[21:20.360 --> 21:20.820]  Well...
[21:24.340 --> 21:26.000]  Oh, oh, sir.
[21:26.320 --> 21:27.740]  First round is beards.
[21:30.600 --> 21:35.800]  Don't forget, that was also the years with the blinders, if I remember correctly, someone brought in the...
[21:35.800 --> 21:37.500]  The blinders and the bacon party.
[21:37.740 --> 21:38.880]  No, no, no, bacon was...
[21:38.880 --> 21:40.100]  No, bacon was...
[21:40.100 --> 21:41.340]  The cheese hour was the next one.
[21:41.400 --> 21:43.280]  Which I was also not invited to.
[21:43.760 --> 21:45.100]  The blackout goggles they had that year?
[21:45.120 --> 21:45.880]  The welding hour.
[21:46.080 --> 21:46.200]  Yeah.
[21:46.620 --> 21:47.900]  The welding hour!
[21:48.160 --> 21:48.540]  The welding hour!
[21:48.640 --> 21:48.980]  Yes!
[21:50.000 --> 21:50.580]  Oh, my God.
[21:50.820 --> 21:53.320]  Nothing makes for good radio like welding.
[21:54.300 --> 21:55.100]  Yeah, that was odd.
[21:55.880 --> 21:57.580]  We did some really odd stuff.
[21:58.260 --> 22:00.180]  I mean, the next year...
[22:00.180 --> 22:01.200]  We had the bacon and cheese hour.
[22:01.320 --> 22:05.160]  Yeah, so the next year we had the bacon and cheese hour, which they brought in...
[22:05.160 --> 22:05.680]  The vegetarian.
[22:05.680 --> 22:08.980]  So vegetarian, I don't eat meat, by the way, and I was the one who was cooking all the bacon.
[22:10.040 --> 22:10.860]  So wait, wait.
[22:11.040 --> 22:15.140]  So we had this idea that we were going to do a cooking show on the radio.
[22:15.300 --> 22:15.800]  Yeah, hang on.
[22:15.880 --> 22:18.300]  Who remembers the bacon and cheese hour?
[22:18.440 --> 22:19.200]  Who remembers...
[22:19.620 --> 22:20.020]  Yes!
[22:20.360 --> 22:23.620]  Who remembers the smell of bacon wafting across the mezzanine?
[22:23.860 --> 22:24.060]  Yeah.
[22:24.780 --> 22:24.940]  Hang on.
[22:25.140 --> 22:32.300]  Who was drinking until 3am, came back to the mezzanine level, smelled bacon, and was the angriest person alive?
[22:34.320 --> 22:35.160]  Oh, yo.
[22:36.080 --> 22:38.180]  So the story that you didn't hear...
[22:38.180 --> 22:39.800]  Well, there's a lot of stories about that year.
[22:40.000 --> 22:42.920]  But the story that you didn't hear about the bacon hour...
[22:42.920 --> 22:45.240]  So that year, what we decided to do...
[22:45.240 --> 22:45.920]  We ran out of mics.
[22:45.920 --> 22:46.060]  We ran out of mics.
[22:46.060 --> 22:51.880]  I brought the mics the previous year, and the place I borrowed them from...
[22:51.880 --> 22:52.720]  This is racist.
[22:52.720 --> 22:53.240]  This is great.
[22:53.420 --> 22:58.240]  They were being sent out for repair, because there was some damage, so our spares were all actually in use.
[22:58.240 --> 23:01.060]  So I called him, and I'm like, um, shit.
[23:01.340 --> 23:01.980]  Can you get some?
[23:02.240 --> 23:02.980]  No, can you get some?
[23:03.140 --> 23:04.040]  So we decided...
[23:04.040 --> 23:06.240]  We were gonna go buy them from B&H...
[23:06.240 --> 23:06.840]  Like you do.
[23:06.860 --> 23:09.140]  Use them for three days, and then return them.
[23:09.280 --> 23:10.020]  Like you do.
[23:10.580 --> 23:10.980]  Now...
[23:10.980 --> 23:11.660]  This is not new.
[23:11.840 --> 23:12.900]  Now, keep in mind...
[23:12.900 --> 23:13.960]  We just call this renting.
[23:14.180 --> 23:14.960]  If you...
[23:15.520 --> 23:16.800]  There's a word for it.
[23:17.780 --> 23:24.000]  If you've never been to B&H, it's run by a very, very orthodox, Hasidic, Jewish...
[23:24.580 --> 23:25.640]  Watch how you say that.
[23:25.980 --> 23:28.220]  They're not that very, but they are orthodox.
[23:28.360 --> 23:29.460]  It's like the one...
[23:30.320 --> 23:30.760]  What?
[23:30.780 --> 23:35.260]  The one thing where, like, the slur is the same as the legitimate word for it.
[23:35.400 --> 23:35.840]  Jew.
[23:37.620 --> 23:38.500]  Anyway, so...
[23:38.500 --> 23:39.100]  Getting back on track.
[23:39.460 --> 23:39.720]  Whatever.
[23:40.460 --> 23:40.900]  So...
[23:40.900 --> 23:42.780]  You just can't put the stank on it.
[23:43.880 --> 23:46.100]  And so we're returning...
[23:46.100 --> 23:46.640]  Thank you, Johnny.
[23:47.180 --> 23:48.740]  And the code of conduct hotline is...
[23:50.320 --> 23:53.880]  Send all complaints to 212-639-9675.
[23:53.880 --> 23:54.080]  Come on.
[23:54.220 --> 23:55.820]  I said not to do it.
[23:56.120 --> 23:56.600]  So...
[23:56.600 --> 24:05.080]  So we're returning these microphones, after having held them up to the frying baking, that has bacon grease all over them.
[24:05.240 --> 24:05.720]  And Jesus.
[24:05.740 --> 24:07.320]  Say Hasidic Jew again.
[24:07.440 --> 24:08.080]  And they smell the bacon.
[24:08.360 --> 24:08.740]  When we...
[24:08.740 --> 24:11.620]  We're packing them in the boxes, and we're like, wow, we still smell bacon, we realize...
[24:11.620 --> 24:16.880]  And this is everybody eating bacon, and then sitting on the microphone like this, with bacon mouth.
[24:17.480 --> 24:20.720]  And they just bring these boxes back to these poor Hasidic Jews.
[24:23.620 --> 24:25.700]  I would like to make...
[24:25.700 --> 24:28.760]  I would like to extend my deepest condolences...
[24:28.760 --> 24:30.420]  It did not meet my expectations.
[24:31.020 --> 24:33.220]  I would like to make one comment, please.
[24:33.220 --> 24:34.320]  You are done.
[24:34.780 --> 24:35.780]  One comment, please.
[24:35.940 --> 24:36.260]  Stop.
[24:36.580 --> 24:39.140]  My comment is, my name is copyrighted now.
[24:39.600 --> 24:42.980]  Please don't say anything about me up there.
[24:43.280 --> 24:43.940]  Okay, fine.
[24:44.320 --> 24:44.400]  Okay.
[24:44.600 --> 24:44.860]  Sit down.
[24:44.860 --> 24:45.800]  Does anybody know who that was?
[24:46.340 --> 24:47.560]  We don't want to talk about last time.
[24:48.420 --> 24:48.740]  So...
[24:48.740 --> 24:49.060]  Stop.
[24:49.060 --> 24:50.060]  So that was that story.
[24:50.220 --> 24:51.240]  That was pretty good.
[24:51.680 --> 24:53.580]  Actually, that was also the year with the booth.
[24:54.060 --> 24:54.260]  Yeah.
[24:54.560 --> 24:55.280]  So this is...
[24:55.280 --> 24:58.480]  This is one of those stories that talks about...
[25:00.060 --> 25:00.540]  Well...
[25:00.540 --> 25:04.100]  Overly great plans gone very, very awry.
[25:05.660 --> 25:07.260]  This seems to be a theme with us.
[25:08.260 --> 25:12.380]  After every year, where we get these great ideas in our heads of...
[25:12.380 --> 25:12.960]  This is...
[25:12.960 --> 25:16.780]  We're going to do this, and it's going to be awesome, and like, it's going to be this grand thing.
[25:17.020 --> 25:17.480]  And then that kid died.
[25:17.480 --> 25:20.380]  Somehow we've never been able to do anything before, but this time it's going to work.
[25:20.500 --> 25:20.800]  Damn it.
[25:21.160 --> 25:21.700]  Uh-huh.
[25:21.900 --> 25:23.420]  So, our year...
[25:23.420 --> 25:25.460]  Our idea this year was...
[25:25.920 --> 25:26.780]  We were going to build...
[25:26.780 --> 25:27.500]  It's called a slow learning curve.
[25:27.580 --> 25:28.280]  We were going to...
[25:28.280 --> 25:28.460]  Yeah.
[25:29.020 --> 25:30.560]  We were going to build an isolation booth.
[25:30.740 --> 25:31.600]  Like a real booth.
[25:31.740 --> 25:32.100]  Yeah.
[25:32.440 --> 25:32.500]  With a roof.
[25:32.500 --> 25:34.320]  But if you've seen our booth now...
[25:34.320 --> 25:34.880]  Not a real booth.
[25:34.880 --> 25:36.100]  It's Styrofoam.
[25:36.940 --> 25:37.740]  It's not.
[25:37.740 --> 25:41.720]  Polystyrene with painter's tape and duct tape.
[25:42.020 --> 25:42.120]  Yeah.
[25:42.580 --> 25:43.540]  If you want to be technical about it.
[25:44.260 --> 25:45.360]  We build a pocket door.
[25:45.360 --> 25:46.120]  And it's amazing.
[25:46.480 --> 25:47.420]  It's pretty good.
[25:47.660 --> 26:01.820]  However, what we wanted to do here was actually build walls with insulation and two-by-fours and drywall and plywood, and we'll have a door, and we'll use pallets for the floor, and it'll be isolated, and no sound will escape.
[26:02.260 --> 26:03.180]  I will say...
[26:03.180 --> 26:06.820]  At certain points during the planning process, there were concerns raised.
[26:08.740 --> 26:09.260]  Fuck you.
[26:10.640 --> 26:12.520]  You were the one who raised some of the concerns.
[26:14.520 --> 26:15.780]  So, it was going to be great.
[26:15.940 --> 26:16.460]  We had this thing.
[26:16.620 --> 26:17.860]  I modeled it out in SketchUp.
[26:18.160 --> 26:21.080]  Mind you, I had never built anything in my entire life before.
[26:21.220 --> 26:22.540]  I was going to take on this project.
[26:22.760 --> 26:23.560]  Yes, that was the boa year.
[26:23.740 --> 26:25.980]  The walls were crooked.
[26:28.480 --> 26:29.920]  They weighed two and a half times.
[26:29.920 --> 26:30.700]  SketchUp represent.
[26:30.700 --> 26:33.620]  They weighed about 120 pounds a piece.
[26:33.840 --> 26:35.320]  They almost collapsed, as I recall.
[26:35.660 --> 26:35.800]  Yeah.
[26:36.320 --> 26:41.260]  We had this idea that we were going to use door hinges to put everything together, and you'll just put the pin in, and it'll be great.
[26:41.440 --> 26:43.460]  Yeah, nothing fit right.
[26:44.560 --> 26:45.660]  Who was there that year?
[26:45.700 --> 26:47.900]  Who remembers the fully enclosed Radio Statler booth?
[26:47.900 --> 26:50.160]  I remember having suffocation in there.
[26:50.380 --> 26:51.200]  Yeah, was anybody in it?
[26:51.240 --> 26:52.160]  Hey, we took the roof off.
[26:52.440 --> 26:54.760]  We eventually had to, but it fell.
[26:54.980 --> 26:56.480]  Who remembers when I was fat?
[26:56.780 --> 26:57.860]  It was before that.
[27:01.000 --> 27:01.600]  Oh, yeah.
[27:01.820 --> 27:02.080]  Oh, yeah.
[27:02.300 --> 27:02.500]  Yeah.
[27:02.680 --> 27:04.180]  The other part of...
[27:04.180 --> 27:05.360]  It was like the cone of silence on Get Started.
[27:05.360 --> 27:08.240]  At least until we had to take the roof off, because it hit like 110 degrees inside.
[27:08.480 --> 27:08.640]  Yeah.
[27:08.920 --> 27:09.640]  We never...
[27:09.640 --> 27:10.620]  We didn't consider that.
[27:11.040 --> 27:11.500]  Mm-hmm.
[27:12.300 --> 27:15.860]  Then the other problem was, how are we going to get this up here?
[27:16.060 --> 27:18.780]  The year before, we had taken an SUV, and we just loaded everything in there.
[27:18.900 --> 27:19.640]  This wasn't going to fit.
[27:19.860 --> 27:32.660]  So our brilliant idea was to rent a U-Haul, and then go park it in Jersey for the conference, and then come back and get it, and then get the stuff, and then go back.
[27:33.540 --> 27:35.040]  Here's what we missed.
[27:35.700 --> 27:38.820]  The plates on the U-Haul were expired.
[27:39.520 --> 27:43.080]  It had dead tags from 1995.
[27:45.820 --> 27:48.860]  So we go back to Jersey to pick up the truck.
[27:49.240 --> 27:50.240]  It's not there.
[27:50.460 --> 27:51.220]  No, the trailer.
[27:51.220 --> 27:53.500]  That was why it got towed was because it was a trailer.
[27:53.740 --> 27:53.980]  Oh, yeah.
[27:54.060 --> 27:54.500]  It was a trailer.
[27:56.960 --> 27:59.600]  So we were like, well, fuck.
[28:00.300 --> 28:01.560]  Well, first we thought it was stolen.
[28:02.340 --> 28:02.520]  Yeah.
[28:04.260 --> 28:05.200]  Somebody stole our trailer.
[28:05.440 --> 28:06.580]  Then we realized we weren't that lucky.
[28:07.660 --> 28:12.440]  We called the impound lot, tried to get it back, but we're not the owners, so we can't get it back.
[28:12.920 --> 28:14.940]  We called U-Haul and was like, hey, we need another trailer.
[28:15.060 --> 28:16.280]  They were like, yeah, sorry.
[28:16.480 --> 28:17.180]  We don't have anything.
[28:18.400 --> 28:19.540]  So we were like, okay.
[28:20.680 --> 28:28.460]  What we'll do is we'll take the gear and put it in the truck that we were towing with and take that back down.
[28:28.620 --> 28:34.380]  And then we'll rent another U-Haul and come back up the next day and get the booth.
[28:36.240 --> 28:45.780]  And then we missed, we hit really bad traffic on 95, and we missed the window where the loading dock was open, and it was gone.
[28:46.280 --> 28:47.280]  They threw it out.
[28:48.520 --> 28:49.480]  It was for the best.
[28:49.480 --> 28:50.280]  Maybe that was the best thing of all.
[28:50.280 --> 28:51.720]  No, man, I told you you're cut off.
[28:51.740 --> 28:52.140]  No, you can't sit down.
[28:52.360 --> 28:53.920]  Can I ask a very serious question?
[28:54.020 --> 28:54.260]  No.
[28:54.760 --> 28:55.600]  Oh, shit, no.
[28:57.240 --> 28:58.040]  Serious questions.
[28:58.380 --> 28:58.780]  No.
[28:59.180 --> 29:00.320]  I don't know where you think you are.
[29:00.320 --> 29:02.160]  The RNC was yesterday.
[29:03.260 --> 29:04.240]  He said serious.
[29:04.620 --> 29:07.000]  We also have another interesting lesson about the great plans gone awry.
[29:07.460 --> 29:09.720]  We talked about how we should have a booth light.
[29:09.860 --> 29:14.200]  We should have an on-air light to tell us how, you know, everyone will know we're on air and everything else.
[29:14.320 --> 29:15.400]  So that was me.
[29:15.480 --> 29:23.260]  I wired up a bunch of light bulbs and stuff and a couple switches and tied it in and a relay, and it worked great, except for the fact that it was so fucking bright that it blinded everyone.
[29:23.820 --> 29:25.340]  And it was bright red.
[29:25.400 --> 29:26.620]  Hence the beginning of a tradition.
[29:26.620 --> 29:33.420]  Whoever is manning the booth from the outside could have controlled the light and would just start flickering it while we're in there.
[29:33.540 --> 29:35.220]  It's just strobe light and...
[29:35.220 --> 29:40.240]  I left 80 pounds and a $200 pair of headphones in that booth.
[29:41.320 --> 29:43.360]  I have not gotten either back.
[29:44.800 --> 29:46.660]  I'm very close to one of them.
[29:47.400 --> 29:48.600]  You can guess.
[29:50.140 --> 29:54.460]  And, of course, it did make it look kind of like hell in combination with the heat and the bright light.
[29:54.860 --> 29:58.360]  It's all red, 300 degrees, and there's pink feather boas everywhere.
[29:59.800 --> 30:02.820]  I had nothing to do with the pink feather boas, despite...
[30:02.820 --> 30:03.480]  He lies.
[30:04.340 --> 30:05.580]  How long was that thing?
[30:05.760 --> 30:06.600]  It was like 30 feet.
[30:06.780 --> 30:09.420]  I brought a 30-foot pink feather boa to HOPE.
[30:10.420 --> 30:11.720]  And I filled the...
[30:11.720 --> 30:12.380]  And I brought it for Bonnie.
[30:12.380 --> 30:14.860]  And you wonder why we call you the Paris Hilton of your post.
[30:17.920 --> 30:20.980]  It's because they had a very classy, slinky black dress.
[30:21.780 --> 30:27.680]  I brought Bonnie a pink feather boa with my best friend, Cobalt.
[30:28.700 --> 30:32.240]  And she was like, what the fuck am I supposed to do with this?
[30:32.360 --> 30:35.880]  And so I put it in the booth, and it filled like half the booth up.
[30:36.160 --> 30:39.220]  And so every, like, if you watched the video...
[30:39.220 --> 30:40.300]  Oh, there was no video that year, right?
[30:40.560 --> 30:41.020]  No, there wasn't.
[30:41.320 --> 30:47.700]  Yeah, so just every photograph of that booth has this just pink fucking ostrich feathers covering, like, ceiling to floor.
[30:47.920 --> 30:48.260]  Oh, and dick.
[30:48.700 --> 30:49.140]  Oh, yeah.
[30:49.680 --> 30:50.180]  And dick.
[30:50.320 --> 30:52.800]  That's when we started the tradition of drawing...
[30:54.080 --> 30:54.440]  Well...
[30:54.520 --> 30:55.320]  A drawing is a loose door.
[30:55.320 --> 30:58.560]  Okay, well, I'm just saying, like, if you put out a white surface and then markers...
[30:59.260 --> 30:59.440]  Yeah.
[30:59.600 --> 31:00.720]  There's gonna be dicks.
[31:00.980 --> 31:01.540]  I mean...
[31:01.540 --> 31:01.960]  Everybody was...
[31:01.960 --> 31:02.960]  I don't know where you're from.
[31:03.200 --> 31:04.400]  Everybody was given a Sharpie.
[31:04.540 --> 31:09.240]  You came in, you had a chat in Radio Stallion, you had a Sharpie, and you were welcome to draw whatever you want.
[31:09.320 --> 31:11.740]  You were supposed to sort of sign the fact that you were there.
[31:12.300 --> 31:13.020]  Which is dicks.
[31:13.020 --> 31:14.580]  You may not want to draw dicks.
[31:14.700 --> 31:15.280]  Raise your hand.
[31:16.460 --> 31:16.660]  Exactly.
[31:17.000 --> 31:17.540]  This is...
[31:17.540 --> 31:19.440]  This is the problem in our audience.
[31:19.460 --> 31:20.540]  There was a team in one person.
[31:21.240 --> 31:23.060]  Let me take a wild guess who with my eyes closed.
[31:23.060 --> 31:24.320]  You're all my best friends now.
[31:26.360 --> 31:28.260]  So, yeah, that was fun that year.
[31:28.520 --> 31:31.780]  And by fun, I mean we all kind of wanted to kill ourselves and never do it again.
[31:31.940 --> 31:33.040]  But you may want to kill ourselves.
[31:33.040 --> 31:35.020]  Well, that was why we had the green chairs.
[31:35.020 --> 31:35.880]  But again...
[31:37.280 --> 31:38.360]  And so we...
[31:38.360 --> 31:41.380]  The green inflatable chairs took up so much room that we couldn't have a table.
[31:41.680 --> 31:47.500]  So if you wanted to have a conversation with like more than two people, you sat in a chair and you had your microphone like on your leg.
[31:47.660 --> 31:48.880]  You were just like...
[31:48.880 --> 31:56.040]  But there was also people on your lap because there was no other room because that light bulb took up so much space you couldn't fit the base of the microphone.
[31:56.040 --> 31:58.140]  That's how my girls sit in my lap, Neo.
[31:58.420 --> 31:59.700]  Oh, you know what happened here in that booth?
[32:00.060 --> 32:00.940]  Aside from the chino?
[32:01.080 --> 32:01.180]  Oh, no.
[32:01.240 --> 32:03.340]  A few things that children should cover their ears for.
[32:03.340 --> 32:04.000]  No, no, no, no, no.
[32:04.060 --> 32:05.260]  This is actually...
[32:05.260 --> 32:09.200]  I bet Sleekwo back there probably doesn't actually realize this happened.
[32:09.440 --> 32:09.720]  Sleekwo represent...
[32:09.720 --> 32:11.180]  He broke my toe in that booth.
[32:12.000 --> 32:12.340]  Ooh.
[32:12.860 --> 32:13.200]  What?
[32:13.440 --> 32:13.600]  Wow.
[32:13.820 --> 32:15.100]  So Roe Clown...
[32:15.100 --> 32:18.980]  Roe Clown was doing a talk about females and hackers and yada yada.
[32:19.100 --> 32:22.180]  And I snuck in and he was sneaking like right after she'd already been talking.
[32:22.600 --> 32:25.020]  We had these, you know, folding chairs and we all get sat down.
[32:25.020 --> 32:31.400]  And when he goes to adjust his chair, it lands right on the dead center of my middle toe and he sits.
[32:32.060 --> 32:35.020]  And it's quiet and I'm trying to be respectful so I'm just like...
[32:36.180 --> 32:37.340]  With a broken toe?
[32:37.540 --> 32:40.360]  And finally, he moved and I thought it was all good.
[32:40.480 --> 32:44.080]  Until later it started like swelling and we had to tape it and yeah, it's all good now.
[32:44.560 --> 32:45.780]  But it hurt for like a year.
[32:47.960 --> 32:49.040]  And now she has a...
[32:49.040 --> 32:50.460]  It looks all normal now and you can't tell.
[32:51.620 --> 32:52.700]  We tell her that.
[32:54.920 --> 32:58.280]  So we tried to learn from our mistakes doing things like saying, Hey...
[32:58.280 --> 32:59.340]  What's this we shit?
[32:59.560 --> 33:00.840]  What is this mistake shit?
[33:01.280 --> 33:02.980]  You never learn from your mistakes, it's okay.
[33:04.000 --> 33:06.560]  But we sat there and went, alright, well...
[33:06.560 --> 33:11.280]  Twice in a row we tried to build everything on site and just, you know, put everything together and not worry about it.
[33:11.480 --> 33:13.220]  And it went really fucking badly.
[33:13.340 --> 33:14.100]  I mean, surprise, surprise.
[33:14.940 --> 33:16.440]  So we decided...
[33:16.440 --> 33:16.820]  We...
[33:16.820 --> 33:17.440]  Nick got decided, you know what?
[33:17.440 --> 33:18.260]  I've got some of the gear.
[33:18.360 --> 33:19.040]  I'll pick up some more.
[33:19.660 --> 33:20.380]  You know, I'll...
[33:20.380 --> 33:23.700]  Dan will bring a few more and then I'll pre-build most of it.
[33:23.780 --> 33:25.060]  I'll put it together in all different cases.
[33:25.160 --> 33:27.340]  All we have to do is come back and wire it together and we're good to go.
[33:28.780 --> 33:30.240]  Not exactly what happened though.
[33:30.620 --> 33:30.940]  Yeah.
[33:31.540 --> 33:34.260]  So I had this idea of two cases.
[33:34.260 --> 33:42.060]  One was the mixer and then the other was everything else.
[33:42.240 --> 33:42.640]  Toothpaste.
[33:43.300 --> 33:43.760]  Yes.
[33:43.980 --> 33:44.180]  Sure.
[33:44.320 --> 33:44.780]  Chewing gum.
[33:46.040 --> 33:48.900]  And there was going to be cables connecting the two of them.
[33:49.460 --> 33:50.560]  Those cables didn't work.
[33:51.180 --> 33:53.120]  The gear inside didn't work.
[33:54.580 --> 33:55.780]  Did anything work?
[33:56.020 --> 33:56.660]  No, not really.
[33:56.920 --> 33:59.880]  We kind of had to take everything apart and rebuild it at 3 in the morning.
[34:00.080 --> 34:00.200]  Yeah.
[34:00.340 --> 34:00.760]  That was fun.
[34:02.040 --> 34:02.800]  Yeah, sleep deprivation.
[34:02.800 --> 34:06.020]  The other thing that happened, we learned from that mistake too with the U-Haul.
[34:06.140 --> 34:12.140]  We said, okay, what we're going to do is we're going to get a U-Haul and it's going to be, we're going to do two one-way rentals.
[34:12.280 --> 34:15.160]  So we will take it up here and then we'll rent it again and come back.
[34:15.540 --> 34:21.040]  And that will totally solve our problem because U-Haul never, ever screws over its customers.
[34:21.300 --> 34:21.640]  Never.
[34:21.980 --> 34:22.320]  Never.
[34:22.620 --> 34:28.040]  I feel like me and U-Haul are even for screwing each other over.
[34:28.040 --> 34:32.820]  In addition to everything being fucked up, the streaming computer died because it got rained on.
[34:34.500 --> 34:34.940]  Oops.
[34:37.060 --> 34:38.180]  So we had to do that.
[34:38.260 --> 34:39.000]  We had to figure that out.
[34:39.160 --> 34:42.520]  We had to rebuild the mixer because the mixer died.
[34:42.840 --> 34:47.680]  And then in reassembling everything, we realized that we were trying to send stuff across multiple levels with the phone system.
[34:47.680 --> 34:48.180]  Yeah.
[34:48.300 --> 34:48.700]  Oh, yeah.
[34:48.820 --> 34:49.700]  Yeah, the phone system.
[34:50.100 --> 34:51.680]  Do you remember the year?
[34:51.900 --> 34:52.840]  I think it was that year.
[34:52.960 --> 34:56.060]  I think it was the first year we had the actual, like, analog phone system.
[34:56.360 --> 34:56.680]  Yes.
[34:57.020 --> 34:58.520]  Was that the first year or was that the second year?
[34:58.620 --> 35:01.160]  We were taking phone calls on the radio station.
[35:01.320 --> 35:01.820]  That was the second time.
[35:01.820 --> 35:02.140]  I think it was that year.
[35:02.300 --> 35:07.860]  I don't know if any of you are interested in starting your own radio station, but don't ever take phone calls from the public.
[35:08.300 --> 35:08.980]  God, no.
[35:09.320 --> 35:10.580]  Especially if you can't hear them.
[35:11.460 --> 35:11.820]  Yes.
[35:11.820 --> 35:12.860]  Or if you had to relay...
[35:12.860 --> 35:13.300]  That's right.
[35:13.380 --> 35:14.260]  We had to relay them.
[35:14.260 --> 35:19.440]  That was the lesson that we learned here was that if you hook it up wrong and you can't hear people...
[35:19.440 --> 35:21.460]  You never know what they're going to say.
[35:21.500 --> 35:23.720]  Also, the general public is schizophrenic.
[35:24.140 --> 35:24.260]  Yeah.
[35:24.600 --> 35:25.340]  I have a question.
[35:25.780 --> 35:26.120]  Yes.
[35:26.480 --> 35:26.700]  Oh.
[35:29.480 --> 35:30.600]  Because it was cheap.
[35:30.780 --> 35:31.660]  Have you ever parked here?
[35:32.520 --> 35:33.100]  I haven't.
[35:33.140 --> 35:33.560]  Have you ever parked in Manhattan?
[35:33.560 --> 35:34.500]  I don't have that kind of money.
[35:34.860 --> 35:35.580]  Well, here's the question.
[35:35.640 --> 35:36.440]  Have you ever parked in Manhattan?
[35:36.860 --> 35:37.980]  Did you ever decide to park again?
[35:37.980 --> 35:40.400]  When did you learn that you liked being anally raped?
[35:41.340 --> 35:45.500]  Last time I parked in Manhattan, I left this city minus two mirrors.
[35:46.160 --> 35:47.920]  That's not even an exaggeration.
[35:48.160 --> 35:49.900]  And one was from the inside.
[35:50.460 --> 35:50.660]  Yeah.
[35:51.360 --> 35:55.980]  One was a mirror, the vanity mirror on the underside of the thing.
[35:56.260 --> 35:57.660]  They only took that.
[35:58.520 --> 36:00.100]  So we have the U-Haul, right?
[36:00.320 --> 36:00.840]  It's fucked up.
[36:00.840 --> 36:01.220]  It's going to be great.
[36:01.900 --> 36:10.100]  We go in, we drop it off, and then Sunday comes around and we're going to pick up our rental at seven o'clock at this place in Brooklyn.
[36:10.240 --> 36:10.980]  We get there.
[36:11.120 --> 36:12.600]  At seven o'clock, they're closed.
[36:14.420 --> 36:15.240]  We call them.
[36:15.420 --> 36:18.120]  We're like, we have a reservation.
[36:18.320 --> 36:20.820]  They're like, oh, well, the office is closed.
[36:21.020 --> 36:23.360]  And they're like, okay, well, we can't do anything about it.
[36:23.540 --> 36:24.880]  I'm like, what do you mean you can't do anything about it?
[36:25.100 --> 36:26.600]  I'm like, we can't do anything about it.
[36:26.680 --> 36:27.800]  There's no trailers.
[36:28.580 --> 36:29.240]  You can't get anything.
[36:29.740 --> 36:30.320]  We're like, okay.
[36:30.320 --> 36:49.200]  Okay, so then we went, we spent the better part of the night that night, we were supposed to leave Sunday night, we spent hours going around, we found a U-Haul place in the city that had a van that we could rent, but we'd have to return it to the city,
[36:49.240 --> 36:50.200]  and we were like, fuck that.
[36:50.700 --> 36:55.940]  And we couldn't get U-Haul to just make an exception for that, because they fucked us over twice now.
[36:56.060 --> 36:58.480]  Of course, the Boston U-Haul said, sure, come and get it.
[37:00.920 --> 37:12.400]  We tried, like, we drove out to the airport to try to rent a van, and none of them would rent to any of us, because we looked like a bunch of sketchy fucking hackers.
[37:12.740 --> 37:14.060]  Gee, I wonder why.
[37:14.300 --> 37:23.040]  So, the people who had credit scores who could rent, who were above the age to rent things, had all spent their money on running Radio Statler, and the people who had money were too young.
[37:23.040 --> 37:23.940]  And hookers.
[37:25.800 --> 37:28.200]  Okay, I guess it falls under running Radio Statler.
[37:28.420 --> 37:28.660]  Yeah.
[37:29.320 --> 37:30.140]  You didn't cover that.
[37:30.140 --> 37:31.980]  That coke hookers running Radio Statler.
[37:32.240 --> 37:40.540]  So, long story short, we get back to the hotel at, like, 2 o'clock in the morning, and we're like, well, we're not leaving until Monday.
[37:41.040 --> 37:47.720]  And then, uh, Beaches, who was supposed to ride back with us, goes, uh, guys, I have work in the morning.
[37:48.260 --> 37:53.320]  So he has to go, like, buy a train ticket at 4 o'clock in the morning to get back to D.C.
[37:53.320 --> 37:57.560]  at, like, 8 o'clock in the morning, and then go to work at 9 o'clock in the morning.
[37:57.660 --> 37:58.560]  Do you work at Walmart?
[37:58.900 --> 37:59.080]  After having not seen it.
[37:59.080 --> 38:01.400]  Like, what job would not be like, all right, I understand.
[38:02.480 --> 38:04.640]  So, okay, so here's the thing about this.
[38:04.640 --> 38:05.540]  You can just say Walmart.
[38:05.760 --> 38:06.300]  Like, it's okay.
[38:07.600 --> 38:21.980]  So, I had, so, I started this job, like, a month before, and so I went in, I went in during the interview, and I was like, I have these two weekends that I need to, like, I need time off here, and this is going in, I'm going to take them on pay, it'll be fine.
[38:22.420 --> 38:28.020]  So, you know, I'm new to this company, and I'm trying to not be a huge dick by being like, hey, sorry, I got a bail.
[38:29.600 --> 38:30.580]  I mean, I feel like...
[38:30.580 --> 38:30.920]  It was fucking stupid.
[38:30.980 --> 38:31.500]  It was the worst.
[38:31.580 --> 38:33.580]  I'm stranded in New York as a valid excuse.
[38:34.000 --> 38:34.320]  Yeah.
[38:35.060 --> 38:35.840]  I was young and stupid.
[38:35.840 --> 38:36.820]  This was literally the start of a good movie, but...
[38:36.820 --> 38:38.320]  This was literally my first job out of college.
[38:38.480 --> 38:38.640]  All right.
[38:39.100 --> 38:40.200]  What the fuck is college?
[38:40.600 --> 38:40.880]  All right.
[38:41.100 --> 38:42.000]  So, anyway...
[38:42.000 --> 38:42.620]  That explains him.
[38:42.720 --> 38:48.320]  After that, the next year, we learned from a few of our mistakes, not many, and then we decided, you know what would be great?
[38:49.000 --> 38:54.780]  If we could do a better job of getting the audio from the talk rooms onto the radio, so we can have people listen live and make it a lot easier.
[38:54.900 --> 38:55.920]  Hell, you know what we can do?
[38:56.060 --> 39:00.200]  We can stream every talk room's audio, so everybody can listen to it, and we'll have the radio statler stream.
[39:00.320 --> 39:01.320]  And there's one other added benefit.
[39:01.440 --> 39:02.840]  We don't have to come up with programming anymore.
[39:03.540 --> 39:04.860]  Holy cow, that was easy.
[39:04.860 --> 39:08.460]  And this is why he trolls us, because he's not terrible at it, but don't tell him I said that.
[39:10.600 --> 39:13.780]  So, we decide, hey, we'll just stick some computers in, and it'll be easy.
[39:13.840 --> 39:16.020]  We'll just stick them upstairs, we'll plug them in, and it'll be great.
[39:17.060 --> 39:17.380]  Yeah.
[39:17.500 --> 39:20.660]  How many of you have tried to work with networks?
[39:20.940 --> 39:21.860]  Now, please not, guys.
[39:21.980 --> 39:23.420]  This was before most of you were involved.
[39:23.600 --> 39:24.580]  Like social networks?
[39:25.020 --> 39:25.340]  No.
[39:25.360 --> 39:26.140]  No, before that.
[39:26.240 --> 39:27.040]  Professional networks?
[39:28.320 --> 39:28.680]  Dildonics?
[39:28.840 --> 39:31.140]  IP, Internet, you know, telephonic protocols?
[39:31.740 --> 39:32.460]  Porn networks?
[39:32.920 --> 39:33.060]  Porn networks?
[39:33.420 --> 39:35.980]  Things don't necessarily work the way you expect them to.
[39:36.720 --> 39:36.860]  Dildonics?
[39:36.960 --> 39:38.740]  Renderhead's talking about dildonics tomorrow.
[39:42.020 --> 39:45.540]  And so we get all these things hooked up, we're all ready to go like, hey, Greg, we'll turn these on.
[39:46.140 --> 39:46.500]  He's going to pretend he didn't hear me.
[39:46.500 --> 39:47.180]  Why are none of them working?
[39:49.280 --> 39:49.640]  Yep.
[39:49.640 --> 39:50.900]  That was my fault.
[39:52.220 --> 39:53.460]  He owns up to it at least, so.
[39:55.800 --> 39:59.200]  So, at that point we realized that like, it just wasn't going to fucking work.
[39:59.660 --> 40:05.900]  And this was Friday morning, we were getting ready to start, so we just had to come up with content.
[40:07.040 --> 40:12.420]  On the fly, which is kind of how some of the games and other things started at night, wasn't it?
[40:12.580 --> 40:12.940]  Yeah.
[40:12.940 --> 40:13.080]  Yeah.
[40:13.240 --> 40:14.680]  I mean, he just does some sort of...
[40:14.680 --> 40:18.140]  Well, yeah, that was always like, dead airtime at night, it was whatever he wanted to do.
[40:18.280 --> 40:20.320]  And we dragged people in for interviews, you know.
[40:20.580 --> 40:21.000]  Hi!
[40:21.280 --> 40:22.060]  A random person on the street!
[40:22.240 --> 40:23.140]  Where are you going?
[40:23.240 --> 40:23.580]  Not anymore!
[40:24.100 --> 40:25.280]  I loved when Bernie S.
[40:25.580 --> 40:27.120]  showed up at like, 4 a.m.
[40:27.720 --> 40:32.880]  after we had done like, a bunch of terrible prank phone calls to a bunch of terrible prank phone calls.
[40:32.880 --> 40:34.280]  To the New York City Taxi Commission.
[40:34.540 --> 40:34.900]  Shhh!
[40:36.400 --> 40:36.660]  Shhh!
[40:36.980 --> 40:37.340]  Shhh!
[40:37.620 --> 40:38.260]  Johnny's talking!
[40:38.780 --> 40:39.160]  Jesus, dude!
[40:39.720 --> 40:40.100]  Whoa!
[40:40.600 --> 40:41.620]  Don't you know that phrase?
[40:41.620 --> 40:43.000]  Yes, it's seven years.
[40:43.160 --> 40:43.780]  It's been like two.
[40:44.020 --> 40:45.240]  I mean, six.
[40:47.780 --> 40:52.960]  Yeah, and we were doing a bunch of like, social engineering calls to some...
[40:52.960 --> 40:53.420]  Taxis.
[40:53.980 --> 40:54.260]  Places.
[40:54.580 --> 40:55.020]  Locations.
[40:55.380 --> 40:55.580]  Person.
[40:55.600 --> 40:57.100]  Around the metropolitan New York area.
[40:57.300 --> 40:57.980]  Shut up!
[40:59.520 --> 41:01.560]  I mean, we do have it recorded in our archives.
[41:01.560 --> 41:02.840]  They were amazing, and they involved dildos.
[41:03.080 --> 41:04.120]  I mean...
[41:04.120 --> 41:04.760]  There's evidence on that.
[41:04.760 --> 41:05.660]  And then Bernie S.
[41:05.840 --> 41:09.280]  shows up, and he's just like, let me guys show you how to do a social engineering call.
[41:10.760 --> 41:14.720]  And he came in, and he did like one that was incredible, and he just left.
[41:15.960 --> 41:17.980]  He leaves, and everyone's there going, wow.
[41:18.160 --> 41:19.160]  He's like, what are you guys even doing?
[41:19.300 --> 41:20.580]  This is how you do it.
[41:20.660 --> 41:23.520]  And then he just like went all Schwarzenegger on like this call.
[41:23.800 --> 41:24.940]  And then he was like, peace.
[41:25.860 --> 41:28.580]  And nobody saw him again until just now.
[41:33.300 --> 41:34.300]  It was amazing.
[41:34.460 --> 41:36.160]  We never did calls on the air ever again.
[41:37.740 --> 41:45.100]  We also learned that year that it's not necessarily a good idea to take a drunk speaker and put him in a room with someone with cat ears.
[41:46.640 --> 41:47.880]  Was that that same year?
[41:48.320 --> 41:48.440]  Yeah.
[41:48.540 --> 41:49.220]  It was that same year.
[41:49.220 --> 41:49.480]  Yeah, that was that same year.
[41:49.620 --> 41:49.780]  Yes, it was.
[41:50.560 --> 41:50.960]  Yeah.
[41:50.960 --> 41:54.260]  All I have to say is that there was a speaker who decided we had a webcam.
[41:54.260 --> 41:55.140]  Not just a speaker.
[41:56.940 --> 42:00.100]  A, I guess, trying to get into political...
[42:00.700 --> 42:03.100]  And a respected private investigator.
[42:03.380 --> 42:03.700]  Yeah.
[42:03.980 --> 42:06.640]  A respected private investigator who was running for the U.S. Senate decided to...
[42:09.160 --> 42:09.920]  Terrified of this gentleman.
[42:10.380 --> 42:10.560]  Yeah.
[42:10.560 --> 42:11.680]  So they were like, hey...
[42:12.100 --> 42:14.220]  Terrified of an artificial appendage on his head.
[42:14.400 --> 42:14.500]  Yeah.
[42:14.800 --> 42:16.280]  So they're like, hey, this guy...
[42:16.280 --> 42:17.080]  We need to interview this guy.
[42:17.080 --> 42:18.600]  By the way, this was all archived.
[42:18.860 --> 42:19.220]  Yeah.
[42:19.340 --> 42:19.720]  On video.
[42:20.060 --> 42:21.580]  Hey, here's this.
[42:22.060 --> 42:24.120]  A respected private investigator is running for the U.S. Senate who would...
[42:25.260 --> 42:26.860]  We got the chance to interview.
[42:27.000 --> 42:27.980]  Can you do this for us?
[42:28.000 --> 42:28.940]  And I said, yeah, sure.
[42:29.000 --> 42:29.380]  Why not?
[42:29.560 --> 42:30.000]  He's drunk.
[42:30.060 --> 42:30.840]  We convinced him to get on.
[42:30.900 --> 42:31.180]  Let's go.
[42:31.340 --> 42:32.360]  And so it's like what?
[42:32.440 --> 42:33.100]  It's like midnight.
[42:33.320 --> 42:34.280]  He's drunk as fuck.
[42:34.520 --> 42:35.440]  I'm drunk as fuck.
[42:35.440 --> 42:36.120]  He sits down.
[42:36.220 --> 42:39.300]  We give him an entire solo cup just full of rum.
[42:39.300 --> 42:41.060]  Which was a requirement.
[42:41.380 --> 42:42.120]  He had...
[42:42.120 --> 42:43.080]  That was on his rider.
[42:43.280 --> 42:46.880]  He would not do the interview if we did not give him an entire solo cup full of rum.
[42:47.880 --> 42:49.360]  And so like he...
[42:49.360 --> 42:56.120]  Like I'm in there already looking sort of like this but in a blazer and more...
[42:56.120 --> 42:58.240]  Like more or less prominent cat ears.
[42:58.740 --> 42:59.820]  Fuzzier cat ears.
[43:00.380 --> 43:06.460]  And he walks in in his like three-piece suit and his cup of rum and drunk already.
[43:07.680 --> 43:09.960]  And he goes, what the fuck's with the cat ears?
[43:12.440 --> 43:15.600]  And I basically give him a don't worry about it.
[43:15.780 --> 43:16.540]  Like it's not...
[43:16.540 --> 43:17.240]  That's not...
[43:17.240 --> 43:19.200]  This is an important response.
[43:19.940 --> 43:22.580]  And then we start talking and I start interviewing.
[43:22.960 --> 43:26.020]  And like two questions in, he's like, man, I gotta ask what's up with these cat ears.
[43:27.020 --> 43:30.180]  And so I give him like a brief rundown of what's up with the cat ears.
[43:30.180 --> 43:32.320]  And then we start going back to like his shit.
[43:32.460 --> 43:35.920]  Which is important because he's, you know, pseudo-politician.
[43:36.800 --> 43:38.400]  Has done some invest...
[43:38.400 --> 43:40.400]  Some amazing IR cases.
[43:40.760 --> 43:41.640]  Like, cool shit.
[43:42.740 --> 43:48.140]  And maybe 20 minutes in, he grabs me by the back of the f*cking neck like this.
[43:48.140 --> 43:52.900]  And he goes, and he goes, man, I can't handle these f*cking cat ears.
[43:54.680 --> 43:55.780]  On the camera.
[43:56.240 --> 43:57.700]  Like this f*cking close.
[43:58.300 --> 44:00.860]  I can't handle these f*cking cat ears.
[44:01.360 --> 44:02.460]  What's going on?
[44:02.840 --> 44:04.860]  And then I, like then my time was up.
[44:07.000 --> 44:09.460]  I like, I had a bruise on the back of my neck.
[44:10.340 --> 44:11.580]  So that's in the archive.
[44:11.860 --> 44:13.080]  So you guys are welcome to find that.
[44:13.280 --> 44:15.960]  We just don't want to call anyone out up here because we actually do like him.
[44:16.840 --> 44:20.480]  I still love the grabbing you by the neck and shaking you in front of the webcam.
[44:20.700 --> 44:22.200]  Holding him in front of the webcam and shaking him.
[44:22.200 --> 44:22.220]  Yeah.
[44:22.220 --> 44:25.940]  No, and like he grabbed my neck and like pointed my face into the webcam.
[44:26.720 --> 44:27.160]  Why?
[44:27.160 --> 44:27.860]  He goes, what's with...
[44:27.860 --> 44:28.220]  Why?
[44:28.620 --> 44:29.340]  F*cking cat ears.
[44:29.340 --> 44:30.440]  F*cking cat ears.
[44:32.700 --> 44:33.720]  So they're working.
[44:35.580 --> 44:37.300]  Everything is going as planned.
[44:40.040 --> 44:42.180]  Johnny Christmas struck again that time.
[44:42.740 --> 44:44.140]  I did not win in that.
[44:45.320 --> 44:46.500]  I scared the shit out.
[44:46.500 --> 44:48.400]  I was like a little weird for like two hours.
[44:49.720 --> 44:50.240]  He was.
[44:50.340 --> 44:52.400]  It was one of the only times I've seen him looked a little shell shocked.
[44:53.580 --> 44:54.140]  A little.
[44:54.400 --> 44:54.460]  This is true.
[44:54.640 --> 44:56.680]  I did not know what he was going to do.
[44:57.300 --> 44:58.480]  He's larger than me.
[44:58.700 --> 45:00.520]  He had the back of my neck.
[45:01.380 --> 45:03.120]  And he was drunk and belligerent.
[45:03.280 --> 45:07.540]  You look like an albino kitten being grabbed by its mother and told you don't go there.
[45:07.840 --> 45:08.540]  Yeah, that's what happened.
[45:08.980 --> 45:10.680]  I was just, wherever he needed me to go, that's what was going to happen.
[45:10.680 --> 45:11.840]  It would be all poofy.
[45:12.240 --> 45:12.620]  I mean...
[45:12.620 --> 45:15.000]  Have you guys seen my Nicolas Cage t-shirt?
[45:21.500 --> 45:23.620]  I didn't expect that response.
[45:23.940 --> 45:25.240]  So let's go to hope number nine.
[45:25.240 --> 45:25.660]  What?
[45:27.160 --> 45:27.680]  What?
[45:27.680 --> 45:28.260]  That was a nine.
[45:28.920 --> 45:29.480]  That was nine?
[45:29.800 --> 45:32.800]  Actual like, journalistic questions and every answer was just...
[45:32.800 --> 45:33.180]  What's that?
[45:33.280 --> 45:33.880]  Say that again.
[45:34.120 --> 45:35.620]  He has a relevant statement.
[45:36.020 --> 45:36.060]  That you were like...
[45:36.060 --> 45:39.140]  Yeah, the saddest part about that whole thing was that...
[45:39.140 --> 45:44.380]  You were asking like actual like real journalistic questions to the guy.
[45:44.740 --> 45:44.800]  Yeah.
[45:44.800 --> 45:45.820]  And like he was just like...
[45:45.820 --> 45:49.180]  Yeah, I was trying to do a legitimate interview with this person.
[45:49.180 --> 45:53.480]  I had researched what he has done, I was asking him questions, and he goes...
[45:54.840 --> 45:56.400]  What's with the cat ears?
[45:56.440 --> 45:59.480]  I can't... I can't f*cking... It's amazing.
[46:00.180 --> 46:04.960]  So also with that one with HOPE 9 was these two decided to get something to commemorate the occasion.
[46:06.920 --> 46:07.860]  Matching tattoos.
[46:08.160 --> 46:09.320]  That's an ugly f*cking tattoo.
[46:11.100 --> 46:12.920]  Yeah, who was here for HOPE 9?
[46:13.720 --> 46:18.800]  For those who can't actually see this far, I mean obviously it says HOPE, and it's got my bunny ears.
[46:19.780 --> 46:21.960]  Yeah, so like, we got...
[46:22.440 --> 46:24.020]  My arm does not bend like this.
[46:25.900 --> 46:31.480]  We went to a Brando tattoo parlor, we got matching HOPE tattoos.
[46:31.520 --> 46:36.200]  So if you guys want a picture with a HOPE tattoo...
[46:36.200 --> 46:36.960]  Come find us later.
[46:37.100 --> 46:37.820]  Which is a thing, yeah.
[46:38.240 --> 46:39.060]  They're $5.
[46:39.640 --> 46:41.280]  Super, super affordable.
[46:42.360 --> 46:47.420]  So we just spent like 50 minutes saying how HOPE and Radio Statler have destroyed all our lives.
[46:47.420 --> 46:50.140]  Could we get like 10 minutes of like good, fond memories for everyone?
[46:50.500 --> 46:51.900]  I mean, I just... that was a fond memory.
[46:51.980 --> 46:52.440]  I was not...
[46:52.440 --> 46:52.860]  I have a tattoo.
[46:53.160 --> 46:53.880]  Yeah, we started with that.
[46:53.940 --> 46:54.480]  Let's keep going.
[46:54.840 --> 46:55.340]  Yeah, okay.
[46:55.340 --> 46:56.620]  We were thinking we were going to talk about some of the awesome things we learned from that.
[46:56.620 --> 46:58.400]  I opened with a fond memory.
[46:58.720 --> 47:01.580]  Well, so we spent 50 minutes and we have like an hour thing.
[47:01.840 --> 47:05.080]  And don't we have like an entire other half of a talk?
[47:05.240 --> 47:05.520]  Yeah.
[47:05.520 --> 47:06.860]  We were going to talk about what we learned and how it helped us grow.
[47:06.860 --> 47:07.340]  We're milking this room.
[47:07.540 --> 47:08.100]  No one's in here after us.
[47:08.100 --> 47:09.720]  Grow as mature, responsible adults.
[47:09.720 --> 47:10.540]  Have you guys done a little bedtime?
[47:10.660 --> 47:11.180]  They bought it.
[47:11.560 --> 47:11.860]  I forgot.
[47:12.240 --> 47:13.080]  We're not drunk enough.
[47:13.700 --> 47:14.080]  So...
[47:14.080 --> 47:14.980]  You're not drunk enough.
[47:15.320 --> 47:16.000]  I mean, Cooter?
[47:16.460 --> 47:16.860]  Cooter.
[47:17.520 --> 47:17.760]  Cooter.
[47:19.240 --> 47:19.640]  Cooter.
[47:19.840 --> 47:20.180]  Cooter.
[47:20.400 --> 47:20.740]  Cooter.
[47:20.980 --> 47:21.080]  Cooter.
[47:21.080 --> 47:21.200]  Cooter.
[47:21.380 --> 47:22.340]  A lot of people drink.
[47:22.340 --> 47:22.780]  They are drinking.
[47:22.900 --> 47:23.460]  Thank you.
[47:25.760 --> 47:26.680]  You didn't tip him.
[47:27.060 --> 47:27.360]  Here.
[47:27.460 --> 47:28.500]  This will take care of you.
[47:28.760 --> 47:30.780]  Can we get the laptop up on the projector?
[47:31.020 --> 47:31.240]  Johnny.
[47:35.560 --> 47:37.120]  What the f*ck is this?
[47:38.400 --> 47:40.440]  There's a computer in my face.
[47:42.220 --> 47:53.580]  So let's talk about the big lessons that we've learned over the years in case you're actually like not wanting to hear us bitch and moan about war stories and actually want to maybe do something like this on your own.
[47:53.820 --> 47:54.560]  We could actually...
[47:54.560 --> 48:00.640]  We can go back to Radio Statler in the booth and do more war stories after this.
[48:00.640 --> 48:01.080]  Absolutely.
[48:01.480 --> 48:01.620]  Oh, yeah.
[48:01.780 --> 48:03.260]  And we will bring all of our...
[48:03.260 --> 48:06.540]  All of our alcohol will be traveling down with us to the Radio Statler booth.
[48:06.660 --> 48:07.760]  Please feel free to accompany us.
[48:07.820 --> 48:08.640]  Leave no alcohol behind.
[48:09.540 --> 48:10.080]  There we go.
[48:10.400 --> 48:11.940]  So, lessons learned real quick.
[48:12.140 --> 48:14.040]  The first one is content is king.
[48:14.060 --> 48:14.540]  We may run a few over.
[48:14.780 --> 48:20.220]  When we first started, we wanted... we were really super focused on all the technical stuff.
[48:20.220 --> 48:25.340]  We wanted to figure out like how we're going to get audio from 18 down to the mezzanine.
[48:25.580 --> 48:28.420]  And how are we going to automate this and make it so the music comes up automatically?
[48:29.440 --> 48:29.800]  Oh, wait.
[48:30.100 --> 48:30.200]  Shit.
[48:30.380 --> 48:31.760]  Don't we need something to actually put on the air?
[48:31.880 --> 48:32.680]  This is boring.
[48:32.680 --> 48:37.160]  The truth is it really doesn't f*cking matter if you don't have really good content.
[48:37.160 --> 48:43.020]  So, you need to be getting great speakers, great content, and entertain people.
[48:43.260 --> 48:49.760]  It doesn't matter if you're sitting there, as we've said joke before, with a tape recorder and a microphone, or if you've got an expensive high-end system.
[48:49.760 --> 48:50.200]  High five.
[48:50.480 --> 48:52.200]  If you've got shit on the air, nobody's going to care.
[48:52.360 --> 49:00.120]  If you've got awesome original stuff from cool speakers, from cool people at the con, from interesting groups, they're not going to care what the quality is.
[49:00.200 --> 49:01.120]  They're not going to care how it's done.
[49:01.220 --> 49:01.980]  They're going to enjoy it.
[49:02.680 --> 49:02.820]  Yep.
[49:03.680 --> 49:05.220]  The other thing is plan on failure.
[49:05.520 --> 49:08.080]  As I think we've illustrated far enough...
[49:08.080 --> 49:10.220]  I don't know if plan on failure is the right...
[49:10.220 --> 49:11.380]  No, so...
[49:12.180 --> 49:13.600]  Plan for failure!
[49:14.920 --> 49:17.420]  You count on failure, you plan for failure.
[49:17.560 --> 49:22.440]  So, there's going to be stuff that goes wrong when you're doing this live.
[49:23.240 --> 49:25.160]  There's going to be equipment that fails.
[49:25.420 --> 49:29.300]  There's going to be guests, people that are supposed to do a show that just don't show up.
[49:30.040 --> 49:31.460]  More, but bigger than that...
[49:31.460 --> 49:32.720]  I told you I was drunk.
[49:33.480 --> 49:36.720]  There are going to be years where it sucks.
[49:37.200 --> 49:40.720]  Like, we've had years where none of us were really proud of what we put on there.
[49:42.000 --> 49:42.900]  Speak for yourself.
[49:43.120 --> 49:44.300]  I think we've always had...
[49:44.300 --> 49:45.480]  I've not had any of those.
[49:45.600 --> 49:49.740]  Since the person telling us the time was also the person who ate about 10 minutes of our time, I think...
[49:49.740 --> 49:51.120]  I'm sorry, he'll give me five more minutes.
[49:51.120 --> 49:51.420]  Thank you.
[49:51.760 --> 49:52.120]  All right.
[49:52.500 --> 49:53.600]  Bernie, do you need a drink?
[49:53.780 --> 49:56.280]  How much of this gets us five minutes?
[49:56.520 --> 49:57.480]  You still have the cider, right?
[49:58.100 --> 49:59.240]  I finished the cider.
[49:59.540 --> 49:59.900]  So...
[49:59.900 --> 50:01.440]  So we have Plan on Failure.
[50:01.460 --> 50:02.120]  He's still walking straight.
[50:02.480 --> 50:04.320]  One of the other things with Plan on Failure is...
[50:04.320 --> 50:05.780]  A full cup is 20 minutes.
[50:06.220 --> 50:06.580]  So...
[50:06.580 --> 50:06.780]  Hold on.
[50:06.820 --> 50:07.360]  No, no, no.
[50:07.400 --> 50:07.900]  I can't do that.
[50:08.220 --> 50:09.280]  One of the things...
[50:09.280 --> 50:13.140]  We have a director of the deep web who's ready to screen screen.
[50:13.160 --> 50:13.580]  Oh, shit.
[50:13.600 --> 50:15.120]  Yes, which is why we're trying to...
[50:15.120 --> 50:16.180]  Alex Winter is waiting.
[50:16.860 --> 50:17.200]  Oh.
[50:17.520 --> 50:18.100]  Thank you for another minute.
[50:18.320 --> 50:18.620]  Sorry, Alex.
[50:19.240 --> 50:19.860]  We love you.
[50:20.080 --> 50:23.240]  So one of the things with Plan on Failure, which I think was also important is...
[50:23.240 --> 50:24.460]  It's not just about, hey, this might fail.
[50:24.540 --> 50:25.600]  Let's think about a backup.
[50:25.860 --> 50:26.160]  It's...
[50:26.720 --> 50:33.680]  If you plan that something will go wrong, not necessarily that you know this thing might go wrong, but you plan that stuff will go wrong, you make backup plans.
[50:33.780 --> 50:36.340]  You say, not this piece of equipment will fail.
[50:36.420 --> 50:37.120]  What will we fail back to?
[50:37.180 --> 50:37.620]  You go...
[50:38.640 --> 50:39.880]  How can we work around this?
[50:39.880 --> 50:41.520]  How can we work around anything that goes wrong?
[50:41.640 --> 50:42.280]  How can we make backup plans?
[50:42.280 --> 50:42.320]  Right.
[50:42.320 --> 50:43.880]  You don't bank on equipment failure.
[50:44.100 --> 50:46.500]  You go process failure, situation failure.
[50:46.760 --> 50:47.500]  You say...
[50:47.500 --> 50:47.960]  This will fail.
[50:48.140 --> 50:49.100]  What do we do in that case?
[50:49.400 --> 50:52.120]  And that's the best thing you can do with something like this because you've got volunteers.
[50:52.340 --> 50:56.900]  You have people who aren't being paid, people who are doing this out of the goodness of the heart, people who are doing it to have fun.
[50:57.060 --> 50:58.080]  You look good on TV.
[50:59.840 --> 51:01.520]  Then we have simple...
[51:01.520 --> 51:01.920]  I'm very big.
[51:02.280 --> 51:02.580]  Hang on.
[51:03.540 --> 51:04.320]  Simplify your setup.
[51:05.800 --> 51:16.140]  The best thing that we ever did was we made the decision that we were going to do what we call a radio station in a box, which is we have a box and a bin full of stuff that doesn't fit in the box.
[51:16.140 --> 51:18.860]  And we roll that in, we plug it in, and it's pretty much ready to go.
[51:19.600 --> 51:22.360]  And that has saved our ass so many times.
[51:22.580 --> 51:24.060]  And simplify doesn't just mean equipment.
[51:24.280 --> 51:25.400]  It can also mean content.
[51:25.600 --> 51:31.920]  I mean, having a person come down and talking to them about, you know, not what they talked about at the con, but talking to them about their past.
[51:32.040 --> 51:32.900]  That's my favorite thing.
[51:33.020 --> 51:34.960]  How did you get into computers?
[51:35.800 --> 51:37.360]  What brought you to this kind of thing?
[51:38.180 --> 51:39.220]  These are simple questions.
[51:39.220 --> 51:40.900]  They don't require complex stuff.
[51:40.960 --> 51:42.080]  They don't require tons of guests.
[51:42.160 --> 51:43.640]  They don't require tons of interviewers.
[51:43.860 --> 51:45.960]  And you get some really awesome answers.
[51:45.960 --> 51:49.860]  You get some things which really let you better know these people.
[51:50.340 --> 51:55.800]  Yeah, because I'm not going to go up there and just ask them a bunch of questions about what they already talked about in their keynote speech or whatever.
[51:56.200 --> 52:01.300]  I'm going to ask them who they had a crush on in the second grade, which is an amazing question.
[52:02.180 --> 52:07.940]  I'm going to ask them, you know, I'm going to go look on their Wikipedia page and find the most obscure garbage and then ask them about that.
[52:08.480 --> 52:11.580]  Or you just ask them something that is outside of their field.
[52:12.200 --> 52:12.880]  Yeah, so 11 a.m.
[52:12.980 --> 52:16.840]  or 11.30 tomorrow if you guys want to listen to me like grilled Cory Doctor...
[52:16.840 --> 52:18.120]  Cory Doctorow.
[52:18.180 --> 52:19.140]  Cory Doctorow.
[52:19.140 --> 52:20.080]  Cory Doctorow.
[52:20.080 --> 52:21.180]  All right, come on.
[52:21.400 --> 52:26.360]  Cory Doctorow about his invention of open cola.
[52:26.520 --> 52:27.980]  Who knows what open cola is?
[52:28.700 --> 52:29.180]  So...
[52:29.180 --> 52:29.800]  One dude.
[52:29.800 --> 52:33.140]  So, like, I don't think Cory's expecting me to ask about that.
[52:33.220 --> 52:33.980]  I hope he's not watching.
[52:34.340 --> 52:34.840]  All right.
[52:35.000 --> 52:35.440]  Yeah.
[52:35.640 --> 52:37.360]  So then we have the next point.
[52:37.460 --> 52:38.180]  Always bring extra.
[52:39.180 --> 52:39.740]  Things break.
[52:40.000 --> 52:40.420]  Things break.
[52:40.920 --> 52:41.800]  People don't show up.
[52:42.440 --> 52:43.800]  Things take longer than expected.
[52:43.960 --> 52:44.600]  You need more people.
[52:44.740 --> 52:46.100]  Our panel is a perfect example.
[52:46.380 --> 52:51.080]  Always, always need extra time, money, people, all that good stuff.
[52:51.240 --> 52:51.520]  Booze.
[52:51.920 --> 52:52.000]  Booze.
[52:52.280 --> 52:52.740]  Hookers, coke.
[52:52.760 --> 52:53.660]  Always extra booze.
[52:56.020 --> 52:58.500]  Then, just remember, people really want to be on the radio.
[52:59.760 --> 53:01.300]  People like to be involved in things.
[53:01.640 --> 53:02.560]  I don't think we've...
[53:02.560 --> 53:06.960]  I don't think we've ever gone to somebody and asked them to be on the radio and they were like, no, I don't want to.
[53:07.240 --> 53:08.620]  No, I had that problem all the time.
[53:08.780 --> 53:10.640]  When you were having me do, like, man on the street stuff.
[53:11.020 --> 53:11.300]  Always.
[53:11.300 --> 53:15.260]  When I'd take the mic out and be like, hey, just find some people and talk to them and like, see if it's their first time at HOPE or whatever.
[53:15.960 --> 53:18.900]  Like, nearly everyone I talked to, they'd be like, I don't know what...
[53:18.900 --> 53:21.160]  They all thought we were feds for some strange reason.
[53:21.380 --> 53:21.500]  I don't know what to say.
[53:21.500 --> 53:22.560]  Like NSA spy tag or something.
[53:22.560 --> 53:24.960]  We'll also have a mic and I'm like, hey, is this your first time here?
[53:25.080 --> 53:25.800]  Tell me about it.
[53:28.780 --> 53:32.280]  But generally, people really get excited about this.
[53:32.460 --> 53:36.960]  And people that you wouldn't expect to be interested are always interested.
[53:37.200 --> 53:47.480]  One of my favorite highlights from last time was Daniel Ellsberg gave the keynote and he refused interviews for all the media outlets except for us.
[53:47.620 --> 53:49.200]  Because he was really excited.
[53:49.500 --> 53:50.800]  He was like, this is really awesome.
[53:51.220 --> 53:52.560]  And he was cool as shit.
[53:52.800 --> 53:53.020]  Yeah.
[53:53.260 --> 53:55.200]  He was awesome.
[53:55.800 --> 53:57.500]  And remember that...
[53:57.500 --> 54:00.120]  Do you remember when he did the quarter in the ear trick to the little kid?
[54:00.520 --> 54:00.840]  Yeah.
[54:01.720 --> 54:04.680]  He's like, right before he has to do an interview, we're like trying to get him in.
[54:04.760 --> 54:05.080]  Like, come on.
[54:05.140 --> 54:05.960]  Hey, we got to get in the air.
[54:06.100 --> 54:07.160]  Mr. You know, come on.
[54:08.900 --> 54:11.800]  And I'm in the booth and I'm like, where's this guy at?
[54:11.920 --> 54:13.120]  This is happening.
[54:13.280 --> 54:13.860]  This is legitimate.
[54:14.460 --> 54:20.120]  And Bunny opens the door and she goes, he's doing magic tricks for a little girl.
[54:20.120 --> 54:20.180]  Wow.
[54:20.360 --> 54:21.220]  It was adorable.
[54:21.380 --> 54:23.620]  And all of us were like...
[54:23.620 --> 54:23.940]  Okay.
[54:24.120 --> 54:31.440]  And then we looked out there and he was doing the f*cking quarter in the ear trick for this little kid whose mind was blown.
[54:31.820 --> 54:34.180]  And we were like, okay, we can wait.
[54:34.580 --> 54:35.980]  That's completely legitimate.
[54:36.280 --> 54:38.320]  That's the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life.
[54:39.100 --> 54:39.540]  Amazing.
[54:39.540 --> 54:44.740]  And this guy was like the guy who made whistleblowing famous.
[54:45.100 --> 54:45.260]  Yeah.
[54:45.440 --> 54:45.600]  Yeah.
[54:45.840 --> 54:45.960]  Yeah.
[54:46.100 --> 54:53.580]  For those of you who don't know, he was the person who released the Pentagon Papers and basically blew the lid off the Vietnam War and a lot of the shady things that were being done.
[54:53.780 --> 54:54.100]  Yeah.
[54:54.100 --> 54:56.340]  He was like the Bernie Sanders of the sixties.
[54:57.520 --> 55:01.660]  And he was here and we got to interview him.
[55:02.140 --> 55:08.360]  And A, he was totally open to that and really cool and laid back like a Bernie Sanders would be.
[55:08.840 --> 55:15.960]  But then like he was delayed because he was doing like quarter in the ear magic tricks for the six year old right in front of the radio Statler booth.
[55:16.140 --> 55:17.680]  And we were like...
[55:18.760 --> 55:26.180]  When you do things like this, when you give people an opportunity to show sides for themselves that they normally won't, you find out amazing things about people.
[55:26.280 --> 55:32.420]  You find out that people who are often really reserved in life may open up and show a whole new side of themselves on a radio.
[55:32.600 --> 55:43.600]  You may see that people who are overly gregarious and, you know, always talking over everyone else and just may sit there and only have very insightful things that they may stop and let everyone else talk and then go, well, here's my thought.
[55:43.800 --> 55:45.400]  They'll choke you because you're wearing cat ears.
[55:46.520 --> 55:46.880]  Yeah.
[55:47.000 --> 55:53.840]  And that's, that's like, that's what we've always striven to do on radio Statler, even though like we come across...
[55:53.840 --> 55:54.040]  Driven.
[55:54.280 --> 55:54.500]  Driven.
[55:54.720 --> 55:55.060]  Drink more.
[55:55.400 --> 55:55.660]  Drink.
[55:55.800 --> 55:56.060]  Driven.
[55:56.180 --> 55:56.540]  Do we drink?
[55:56.640 --> 55:56.980]  Gooter!
[55:58.360 --> 56:01.940]  Every Shakespearean verb that's invented by Johnny Christmas, you have to take a drink.
[56:02.800 --> 56:05.040]  We've always striven to, to, to do that.
[56:05.840 --> 56:08.500]  Because again, we're not going to make them repeat what they already did in their talk.
[56:08.640 --> 56:09.860]  We want to ask them about who they are.
[56:10.120 --> 56:15.740]  And like, that sounds like corny and cheesy upfront, but it's worked out incredibly well.
[56:16.040 --> 56:23.040]  I've gotten to talk to some incredible people and ask them questions about the dumbest crap that has had the best answers I've ever heard in my life.
[56:23.460 --> 56:29.720]  Um, and that's like, when I come to hope now, I look forward to working with radio Statler.
[56:29.900 --> 56:33.120]  Like this is what I spend most of my time on because I love doing this.
[56:33.640 --> 56:42.140]  Uh, and, and, and it's because of that, you know, we get to talk to Adam Savage and not be like, so tell me more about what it's like working on Mythbusters.
[56:42.600 --> 56:45.680]  Uh, but I can be like, what were your favorite books when you were eight?
[56:47.120 --> 56:48.480]  And it's, it's really incredible.
[56:48.620 --> 56:50.680]  I mean, it's not, it's not just about speakers either.
[56:50.680 --> 56:51.120]  It's about everyone.
[56:51.260 --> 56:56.060]  I mean, everyone's got unique skills and sometimes they don't have the abilities to express it on a normal basis.
[56:56.500 --> 57:01.080]  So you may be able to say, yeah, people who normally don't have the opportunity.
[57:02.420 --> 57:04.420]  Why do they keep putting the camera on him?
[57:04.660 --> 57:05.700]  Like we need more beaches.
[57:06.120 --> 57:06.220]  Yeah.
[57:06.400 --> 57:07.100]  We can use some beaches too.
[57:07.520 --> 57:08.540]  Let's look at beaches guys.
[57:08.680 --> 57:12.860]  Like you, you may have people who don't have the opportunity to express certain skill sets that are innate in them.
[57:12.940 --> 57:13.300]  Thank you.
[57:13.320 --> 57:13.860]  Are that they've cultivated.
[57:14.180 --> 57:14.720]  I know.
[57:15.680 --> 57:16.060]  Okay.
[57:16.100 --> 57:19.120]  So it's one of those things where it's may take effort.
[57:19.120 --> 57:21.220]  And especially if you want to start running something like that.
[57:22.720 --> 57:23.160]  Hey guys.
[57:23.220 --> 57:24.480]  Now's the time to show your tattoos.
[57:29.620 --> 57:30.660]  Now show the tattoos.
[57:31.100 --> 57:32.020]  Friendship is magic.
[57:32.700 --> 57:32.800]  So.
[57:33.900 --> 57:35.120]  Statler love, ladies and gentlemen.
[57:35.580 --> 57:45.380]  So one of the things you really want to keep in mind when you want to do something like run, whether it's a radio station or another kind of event, something where you're bringing people together, where you're bringing volunteers and people who don't do these things for a living.
[57:46.320 --> 57:47.460]  People have innate strengths.
[57:47.840 --> 57:49.120]  They may not know they have them.
[57:49.260 --> 57:55.880]  You may put someone in a situation where they're like, I've never managed people before and say, hey, I have these 20 people who need to get shit done.
[57:56.620 --> 57:57.540]  Go make it happen.
[57:57.660 --> 57:59.660]  And they can find out that, hey, I'm really good at this.
[58:00.320 --> 58:02.720]  So doing things like this, you may take risks.
[58:02.940 --> 58:07.140]  You may have to keep an eye on people and help them learn what they're good and bad at.
[58:07.260 --> 58:17.300]  But when you find people's strengths, I mean, beaches, how many times had you cultivated content for a radio station or for like on air stuff before you came to Statler?
[58:17.600 --> 58:18.780]  Before I came to Statler?
[58:18.960 --> 58:19.140]  Yeah.
[58:19.860 --> 58:21.520]  Absolutely zero goddamn times.
[58:21.640 --> 58:21.800]  Oh.
[58:21.980 --> 58:24.300]  And you learned that you were pretty friggin incredible at it.
[58:24.480 --> 58:27.100]  I mean, Johnny, well, you already were awesome beforehand.
[58:27.100 --> 58:28.080]  So you already kind of knew it.
[58:28.780 --> 58:29.800]  I just worked here.
[58:30.020 --> 58:31.000]  Also, I didn't work here.
[58:32.620 --> 58:34.220]  It'd be nice to say that we refined it.
[58:34.680 --> 58:34.740]  Yeah.
[58:34.840 --> 58:38.480]  So we're about to be kicked off because, you know, we had a lot of the early part of our talk eaten.
[58:39.900 --> 58:52.280]  So, I mean, there are some awesome things you can do, whether it's a radio station, whether it's a new kind of project, it's, you know, getting people involved at an event, getting people involved outside of events, doing things when events are ending,
[58:52.600 --> 58:56.400]  making people make something, getting people to bring ideas together.
[58:57.500 --> 58:58.520]  It's really rewarding.
[58:58.760 --> 59:00.100]  I mean, it's a f*ck ton of work.
[59:00.220 --> 59:05.320]  And I swear to God, I'm kind of glad it only happens every two years because in order to do this, it ages you.
[59:05.760 --> 59:05.840]  Yeah.
[59:06.180 --> 59:06.260]  Yeah.
[59:06.400 --> 59:10.820]  But it's really incredible to be able to help make these kinds of things happen.
[59:10.840 --> 59:13.760]  And it's really incredible to see what other people will bring to the table.
[59:14.500 --> 59:17.140]  And it's just shocking and alarming to see so many people in the audience.
[59:17.380 --> 59:17.640]  Yeah.
[59:17.960 --> 59:20.240]  Because, really, when we do the podcast...
[59:20.240 --> 59:21.000]  They're here for the movie.
[59:21.360 --> 59:21.480]  We...
[59:22.840 --> 59:24.000]  That's the secret.
[59:24.340 --> 59:25.120]  We're on it here.
[59:25.200 --> 59:25.620]  That's the secret.
[59:25.620 --> 59:25.960]  We love you too.
[59:26.160 --> 59:27.240]  We're Radio Statler.
[59:27.380 --> 59:28.460]  Come drink with us.
[59:28.700 --> 59:29.140]  Thank you.
[59:29.220 --> 59:30.060]  Good night, everybody.
[59:30.780 --> 59:31.060]  Peace.
[59:31.480 --> 59:33.240]  Come get some t-shirts and shit upstairs.
[59:34.180 --> 59:34.600]  Downstairs.