2025.09.03: Skye Fault

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is morning somewhere for August 3rd, 2025.

My name is Bernie Birds.

Sitting right over there, he's got almost as hard to pronounce a name as the guy who did the shout this morning.

It's Jordan Tweryer.

So how Jordan, everybody.

You almost called me the other guy's name.

I almost did.

I almost did.

I got my names mixed up.

The shout today comes from Gabriel Branitzki.

I had you,

your Eastern European heritage, I had you help me figure out how to pronounce it.

My name is much easier compared to that name.

Can I just tell you?

I had way more unnecessary extra consonants in it.

I had a good time watching you like say your last name to Scottish people in Isle of Sky this week because we took a trip up to Isle of Skye Hey, it's Jordan, everybody.

Hello.

Thanks for having me.

You will remember Jordan.

Jordan is the guy who makes the art,

which is how I've introduced you for like 50 years.

You know, for a small part of that, that wasn't true.

And I feel like in your long con

of

roping me back in, you've made it true again.

And now I can't say, stop saying that.

Do you feel roped back in?

No, I don't feel rope back in.

Are you the one guy who like they say, are you coming back?

And you're like, I actually did make something for the new Rooster Teeth website.

Well, yeah, we always make the joke on 100% Eat where we're like, it's not coming back.

We're not all moving like back to the studio and stuff.

And then while we were making those jokes, I was like,

I'm actually making stuff.

I have a disclosure to my fellow owners of 100%.

So Jordan is joining us from Austin.

Came all the way over to Scotland.

He is the special guest I've been talking about.

Didn't know whether or not he was going to come on.

He's also one of the hosts of 100% Eat, formerly known as Face Jam.

That is correct.

Among other things.

Yeah, that's true.

We did do a lot of stuff back in the day.

And you do your F1 streams all the time now?

Yeah, yeah.

I've been doing those again.

Those have been popping back up.

Those are fun to do with people.

This kid who sent in the,

I say kid,

10, 15 years ago, he wrote this in the email.

He sent me a painting.

And he sent me a photo of a screenshot from a video that had Barb in it.

And he said, I was always proud of this because it was like a painting when I did when I was in like eighth grade or something.

I can read the actual email here.

And he said, and actually made it into one of the videos.

That painting has been hanging over my mantle in Austin or was hanging in that house for about 10 years.

And it's one of those.

Can I see the painting?

Yeah, yeah.

Let's see if I recognize it.

I've been in your house once.

Oh, that one.

Yeah, that one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He did that when he was in eighth grade.

It's like it's a blue painting of church and the director and like an analysis of the character.

And I'll read you what he wrote here.

He wrote, hey, Ashley and Bernie, I'm Gabriel.

Here's my warning somewhere.

Shout.

I painted Bernie in blue for, sorry, I said eighth grade.

It's 12th grade.

I didn't mean to disparage your art pal.

A grade 12 artist.

I think an eighth grader painted it.

I was honored to see that it made it onto the walls of the RT office.

Yeah, but that's, I, it's one of those, and I don't know if you've got anything like this, but it's one of those pieces of like art.

or a project that somebody handed me at a convention and then it kind of gets lost because they never think to sign it or whatever.

It gets lost as though I have it and I don't know who made it.

Yeah, you kind of forget where it even came from, and you just go, Oh, I've always had that.

What's is there something in particular you have like that?

Um, I have something, I have so much like stuff I've collected.

Some of it is like official merch from like Camp Camp and stuff.

One nice thing I have is it's actually one of the animators, like she dabbles in

like

porcelain, like little figure making.

It's like a porcelain version of the platypus from Camp Camp that she put in a jar and corked and put like a danger sign over it.

I've never taken it out of the thing.

So it's just a really cute little like knickknack.

My other thing is exactly that.

The piece of fan art that has lived with me the longest, you probably will recognize it as I start to talk about it.

It is all the freelancers in Russian doll form.

Based on the smallest one in the very bottom is Delta.

And it's basically all the people that Delta passed through

as they passed them off in order for the size of the Russian dolls.

Except

except

the

first RTX when people came and we did a tour of the office with everybody.

Somebody stole the Delta.

What the heck?

Yeah,

and I feel confident in saying that because

I went and looked at a video of the tour that somebody took, and they passed the windowsill where I had all that stuff set up.

And then it's gone.

And I can see the Delta was still in there during the tours.

And then the following Monday, I went in and my Delta was gone.

There's only like 300 people or so that it could have been.

Yeah.

You know how many there are?

There's 535.

It was the same number.

It was the same number?

It was the same number.

Was it the same error of like overselling that happened before?

Because I remember the first RTX was only supposed to be 200 people.

Correct.

And I remember.

Also buying a ticket and then Gus finding out and being like, you should have just told me.

You bought one of the tickets.

I bought a ticket.

You're right.

And Gus was like, you should have told me you wanted to come.

I would have just comped you a ticket.

And I was like, I didn't think, because I was like, just kind of, you know, I wasn't even making them like full-time, the RTAAs.

I was just, it was just, I was still like a community member doing stuff sometimes.

Can I give a brief history lesson about a couple things here?

Sure.

Catch up on the 535 as well.

So you tell me if I get anything wrong here.

Brief history lesson about Jordan.

Jordan was a fan who would listen primarily to RVB and the Rushi podcast,

had some really incorrect opinions about Conan O'Brien.

Immediately wrong.

We finally hashed this out.

We were stuck in a car for five hours going to Isle of Sky.

We finally hashed it out.

And Bernie admitted he was wrong.

I wouldn't say I admitted I was wrong.

I would say that a number of people have tried to accuse me of being wrong and I acknowledge their efforts to accuse me of being wrong.

But it was when Conan O'Brien was leaving TBS.

No, no, no.

He was

pushed out of the tonight show.

Push out of the tonight.

Sorry.

He was going to TBS, and I had my wild take that no one was going to care about Conan O'Brien.

Well, you were also blaming the fact that

Conan, his ratings were getting hammered because they reinserted Jay Leno as his lead-in.

Or maybe they were putting him, they wanted to put him ahead, but it was like the ratings were suffering, and you were like, oh, this is just all Conan's fault.

It was like, you don't understand.

the mechanics at play, Bernie.

Here's the general trend of my opinions

broadcasting on the internet is that when everyone tends to start moving in one direction, I have such a negative reaction to what I call mob mentality or hive mind.

It's been called a billion things over the last like 15 years.

I just immediately start moving in the opposite direction.

It's just my instinct to immediately start doing that.

And everyone was like bandwagoning on Conan O'Brien.

I'm like, nobody's watching the show on the tonight show.

I was.

Clearly, I was wrong.

Clearly, I mean, whoever talks about like shows, clips of the Jimmy Fallon, you know, tonight show, everyone is still so much more interested in Conan O'Brien.

But he was going to TBS, which was not a huge network.

Right.

And this kid named Jay or Dan wrote in.

And it's like,

Bruny doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.

Do you have the email?

Do you like email?

No, no.

Honestly, I didn't even listen to the whole part where you were railing on me.

Because

I was like, I can't listen to this anymore.

I'm going to get in five minutes to railing on Jay or Dan.

Well, yeah.

And then, you know,

some fans like

getting roasted.

I didn't really like it that much.

You also, I found out, too, that I was triggering something in you because you had gone through something similar at

Meltdown Comics.

Oh, no, this was after.

Oh, was it?

This was years after, yeah.

Like, you had Nathan Philly and Seth Green roasting you on stage.

They weren't roasting me, but I was kind of roasting myself in front of them.

Yeah, I feel like I got tricked into going up on stage at this, like,

this was at when Nerdist would do a bunch of shows in the back of Meltdown Meltdown Comics in LA, they had a Halo

show.

I don't even remember how it was advertised, but it ended up being hosted by Colton Dunn and someone else.

And this also predates the Laser Team connection.

Oh, yeah.

And I should have known something was up with this because

they start talking.

I was like, if you don't know what Halo is, it's this cool sci-fi game that takes place in the years in the future.

Nobody knows when.

And I'm like, I'm sitting there in the front row, having read all the books and played all the games and going, 2552.

That's when it takes place.

Completely the expert in the room.

Right.

I should have known then that maybe this wasn't like the lore-focused Halo show that I thought it was going to be.

Because then they asked for a volunteer to go up and do like a trivia thing.

in front of Seth Green and Nathan Phillian, who are also like guests on this.

And they

go,

all your questions questions are going to be about Halo multiplayer.

And I'm like, okay,

not my area of expertise.

What are questions about Halo multiplayer?

So they were like, what is the first rank you have in Halo multiplayer before, like, you know, you rent, you would rank up in like Halo 3?

I can't even answer that.

Right?

I don't think it was like recruit or something.

I was probably that rank for about four seconds.

Yeah.

It was all stuff like that.

They didn't even ask about like, how do you get a kill tacular?

I would know how to, right?

How to do that.

But yeah, I was just flailing up there.

It got pretty much every answer wrong.

And it was just, it wasn't even funny.

It was just kind of sad.

So has have you learned not to volunteer now?

Like opinions about

shut my mouth is the lesson.

I'm just going to listen.

I'm going to observe.

I'm going to be a good ally instead of volunteering.

But going back looping with Colton Dunn, back through to the 535 thing, Colton Dunn was part of the cast of Laser Team.

I had this brilliant idea because you weren't allowed to have lotteries as part of Kickstarters and crowdfunding campaigns.

That's why that came about

because I thought, okay, we can't have a lottery.

So what I'll do is at some point during the crowdfunding campaign, I'll put up a one-of-one,

you can appear in the movie for five bucks.

Basically, it was like a reverse engineering lottery.

Take it up, put it down.

That kind of thing, right?

Yes.

Well, just, or as soon as the one sells, it's sold out and that's it.

The problem was underestimated the audience at the time.

They were refreshing, knowing it was going to come sometime in the next two weeks.

All these people have been to the first RTX.

You should have known.

As soon as I put it up, boom, they broke the, what is it?

Not GoFundMe.

It was Indiegogo.

They broke the Indiegogo site

and we sold 535 appearances in the movie.

And at the last minute, I was going to include the travel as part of it.

And if I had done that, we would have had a really serious problem on our hands.

And you would have needed to raise more money for the movie.

No, the movie would have been done.

That would have been the movie.

It would have been a home video of people flying to go be in it.

And that's it.

But

it was, it was the number 535.

It became like this touchstone, and everyone was very cool about it and understood.

And they became a group, and they had their own forums and a Discord, I think, and they all became friends.

And it was really cool.

Then we learned.

Years later, after the fact, when we went back and looked at the history of RTX, we did the same thing where we tried to sell 200 tickets to RTX and we sold 535 because we broke the card system.

It was the exact same number.

So it's a weird number that keeps popping up.

I must be, we thought, is this like a thing where it's like a certain number of bits and we like fill it up and after that they can't sell anymore or something?

But it doesn't make any sense.

Why would both be 535?

Huh?

I mean, it's got to be something, you know?

So, but chances are unlikely that it would be the exact same number.

Also, you know what else chances are very unlikely that we would go to the farthest possible tip of a remote island and and then get a flat tire in the middle of nowhere when I have no goddamn spare in my car.

Yeah, I actually think the odds of that are pretty high.

Especially, I love the foreshadowing too of this because I know you've complained on this podcast about the low-profile tires.

I have.

I fucking hate them.

On that car.

I hate them.

And you were complaining about it on the trip as well.

And then we went to leave the hotel yesterday morning.

And think about how much preparation we did, too, because I was saying to them, we were going up to Isla Skye, which is very remote.

It's off the northwest coast of Scotland.

I was like, you want to be ready to deal with midges.

We got to make sure we have batteries in case we can't charge stuff.

We got to make sure we have cell phone reception on it.

I had my good boots and raincoat and was totally prepared for any

happenstance.

And then I, at the last minute, the day before, I pulled the, I have a pump in my car, like a little Makita air compressor with a battery on it.

But I took, took it out because I wanted the battery so that Finn could ride his ride-on John Deere tractor while you and I were, we had the pitching machine out.

We were playing pretend baseball, right?

We were taking uh swings in the front yard, and Finn goes around and picks him up in his trailer.

It's actually a perfect system, and it was really nice, actually.

He's great until you realize that you pull the battery out, and then you've got a flat and you can't re-inflate the tire

at the northern tip of the Isle of Sky.

I did have a thought, I was the one who noticed it because I dropped the key off at the main part of the hotel, which was a very nice hotel.

My wife, Holly, found this spot and

was like way more impressed than I was expecting it to be.

I just thought it was going to be like a little cabin or something.

Totally decked out cottage as part of this property.

Some people have hidden skills that you learn over time.

Holly has an ability to find the perfect place to stay and she has like a whole system that she works.

It was incredible.

Like I've gone out there several times, and I even said, it's like, now I know I'm always going to come here.

It's the Monkstadt Steadings.

If you want to look that up, you can see just how far north we were.

To put it in perspective, maybe besides my trip to Stockholm, that is the farthest north, literally, I have ever been in my life.

I went the farthest north I've ever been in a car and then got my tire flattened.

And it's just a modern thing where

because of the model of car we have, it's got seven seats in case we have guests and we got to haul them around.

There's no spare tire.

they just have this modern, like fix-a-flat kit in it.

And I was like, We are fucked.

I even asked you, when does your plane leave Scotland?

Because it might take us days to resolve this.

But this dude came out, he had like a

full tire shop in the back of his van.

Yeah, which was another like kind of thing I was very impressed with because being kind of remote, I don't want to say like sky is podunk or anything, but like we're remote and life moves a little slower out in the rural areas.

So I was half expecting a dude in a truck who threw some tires in the back to show up and go, ah, I don't got these ones.

I'll be right back.

And like, get back in his truck, go back to Port Tree where he came from, which is like 45 minutes away and come back with the right tire.

But no, he had a whole garage in his van.

45 minutes, by the way, is about 12 miles.

We

ran into that where we were like, how close are we?

Go, okay, well, it's about

20 miles.

We'll be there in an hour, right?

Yeah.

But it was, I would love to say Sky's one of my favorite places to go.

It's usually very beautiful, but the weather just did not cooperate with us.

It seemed like the island, about the time where the tire went flat, I was like, I think this island's trying to.

I think it's out to get us.

We did.

You called it.

There was a weird thing where every time we were in the car, it was fine.

Every time we stopped the car to go look at something, it immediately started raining.

Yes.

And not just like raining, but like sometimes it was really raining.

Yeah.

pouring like a squall would come in and it would only last five minutes but those were the five minutes we were outside i and i i have to say too we're very lucky in the part of scotland that we live in

that is the weather that people associate with scotland and the entire time i've looked here i said that is not the weather i experienced this is uh our second trip out here yeah and

the weather is always nice i don't think it's ever been like a rainy day and if it does rain it goes through pretty quick and it's mostly sunny and nice.

I got to say, too, if we're calling out trends here,

I'm not getting in that car with you guys ever again because I had an accident the last time you guys were here.

We weren't in that car when that happened.

You were not, but it's when you visit, I got to stay away.

I got to put that car in the garage and leave in the garage because it caused a problem.

Did you like anything about Sky?

What was your favorite part of Sky?

My favorite part was I, despite it being not what I expected on the pictures, I thought the fairy glen was the best part.

If you're from Scotland, there are some people here who listen to this from Scotland specifically.

It's really weird.

Like the new audience we've picked up posterior teeth has been people who want to hear us talk about Scotland because they live in the area or at least on the north coast of Scotland.

They finally get their due after listening to us talk about Austin.

But we went out to the fairy glen,

what you were referencing, and it's this like circle, like fairy circles of stone.

It looks like if you've ever played Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom, it looks like a spot you would find a Korok

by adding a rock to the pattern or something.

It's all in this nice little, very scenic, picturesque little valley.

And these stone circles, I took a photo of it from and compared it, same angle from where it was three years ago.

I think tourists have just been taking the stones.

They're big stones though, and they're just gone.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know how they have moved.

I don't know who moved them for what purpose.

It definitely doesn't look as cool.

But just like the patterns and stuff and the whole area is like super nice to be on, but it would have been even cooler if those rocks were there.

It used to be harder to park there.

So I think it was more of an effort for people to get there, but now it's like they even have like roped off pass and everything as it became more popular.

It's literally one of my favorite spots on Earth.

And it was a shame for me to see that it has declined clearly because of human foot traffic.

That kind of sucks.

So I'll post the two pictures back to back, but you should still go visit.

Here's my advice.

If you go visit Fairy Glen north of Huig in the future, bring a stone and add a stone to it.

Yeah, I might be populate the stones.

I might be violating some historic rule by telling people to do that, but whatever.

Check your local ordinances before you add a stone to the fairy glen.

So, overall, Isle of Skye, how important do you think it is for people to visit Isle of Sky if they come to northern Scotland?

I think it's definitely a must to do.

Like,

it's actually pretty big, and there's a lot of stuff to see.

So, you might have to plan what you're going to, you got to be strategic about what you're going to go do, what you're going to see.

And if you catch it on a clear clear day there were some moments where it was clear and it was like super beautiful we unfortunately got like some misty clouds and some rain that was the other thing we were it had been raining all day we were eating uh our dinner kind of an early dinner at the hotel uig

and it was beautiful outside the clouds had cleared the sun was setting a little bit and uh i was like okay like because we were kind of like let's see what the weather does and then we'll go to fairy gland or not and it's like we got to go we got in the car and we were going there and it started raining started raining started raining again got you every single time yep one thing about when people come to visit up here is i love it gives me an opportunity to go to all these places it's like when someone comes to visit austin and then you go do all the stuff you never do because you live in austin because you've got someone visiting right and sometimes you'll do things that i still haven't done the bat thing yeah

the bridge and it'll probably be some guest that comes in that wants to do it and you'll go okay i'll go finally after 20 years do a goddamn bat thing the downside to it is is that i'm always

like once a month i feel like we've got people here which is fantastic but they're in full holiday mode yeah so i'm like oh you want to drink again okay we'll have another drink again tonight we'll go out to a restaurant again tonight so it's like you're kind of living constant vacation lives with people i got to get out of holiday mode man i'm just like it's just like i'm eating like at pub food all the time and everything how do you deal with it on 100 eat because you guys go eat the worst stuff yeah well luckily, you know, it's only

once a week, and you kind of train yourself to eat just enough to get an idea of how to rate it and stuff.

I can't do that.

Yeah, if food's in front of you, you got to eat all of it.

The food I eat is the food I have.

That's the amount of food I eat.

Yeah.

I will say to that point about like, you know, this is where you live and people are coming in to visit and stuff.

You've been very generous with your time despite having,

you know, a lot of stuff going on with work and your family.

And we really appreciate it.

We really appreciate Ashley, you know, letting you take us to Isle of Sky for basically two days.

Almost a week.

Two full days.

I, uh, I, it's two, whenever we go to a restaurant, too, I say, hey, Jordan, do you, do you want me to tell them that you're a food influencer?

Right.

I, I cringe.

I, I, I implode inward.

You don't ever try to flex that so you get free grub?

Absolutely not.

Oh my God.

Taco Bell will send us coupons and stuff to our 100%

email and be like, hey, this is coming up.

We'll give you a gift card to go buy it.

And then we try to add the gift card and it doesn't work.

So we just pay for it.

You know, that's a $5 value.

It literally was last time.

It was $11.32.

Taco Bell of all things.

What should be your favorite thing that you've eaten at 100% Eat?

100% Eat on this iteration?

Oh.

The episode hasn't come out yet.

It's coming out.

Oh, no.

We pre-recorded a bunch

before I came out here.

So there are some episodes that aren't out yet.

You guys used to focus on limited time off.

Yeah, and it's still kind of our priority.

We prioritize those, but when we were

going independent, for lack of a better word, being forced to go independent.

Go ahead.

I'm listening.

We were like, how do we open this up a little bit?

What little tweaks do we make?

And it was like, well, we could just do restaurants in general and not just do limited to time fast food stuff.

Because that was the original idea of the show was just like the limited time stuff but now we could go to like any restaurant that you know was just always having something so that i like the marketing of going independent i think that sells a lot better than we drove the last thing into the ground

so it sells better

i always love face jam because i i 100 eat now 100 but when i was there it was face jam right right so it was i always loved the concept for the show and it had a very specific connection with with that as well because as you know i love food uh lindsay who is married to your co-host michael jones when lindsay was pregnant at the office i would just like basically corner her and go what'd you eat today michael used to go like what's your problem you're like there's the two of you sitting there in the break room talking about did you tell me what you ate for breakfast

is it like a specific cravings thing you want to know about or like living vicariously through someone who can eat more food it was one of those times where i had to get in shape for for some reason, so I wasn't allowed to eat, but Lindsay could eat whatever the hell she wanted because she was pregnant.

And I was like, tell me what you ate.

I used to do the same thing with

food was like my love language.

When people would bring their kids to the office, I would take them to the snack, like where we

because we would put out snacks, but if we put out all the snacks, people would just tear through them or they'd put them in their pockets and take them home.

So there was a closet that looked like a damn candy store or like the aisle in a convenience store.

Right.

And I would take the kids and I'd go, get whatever.

Yeah, you can do whatever you want.

And John Reischer goes, will you stop feeding the kids horrible food when they come here?

I go, okay, I'll stop.

Did you,

when we left, it was, it was Monday, and Finn got a coin, a pound coin to use at the snack tray or the snack trolley at his school.

At school.

And we came back

and this morning I asked, like, oh, I didn't,

I wasn't here.

Like, what did you get at the snack trolley?

Because he was very excited about it.

And he goes, nothing.

He pocketed the coin, didn't he?

Ashley said he lost the coin.

Oh, did he?

That might be Ashley's story to tell.

So

I think there's more to it, but he kept playing with the coin and lost it.

I should have shown you this at breakfast this morning, but we got this notice that must have come in when we were gone.

And it just shows how different things are here.

It's like we got a notice from the school that it's like

they have a program in place where they're giving the kids points if they walk to to school they're encouraging all the kids to walk oh to walk to walk to school this isn't a long walk no

yeah it's a tie-in

today's podcast brought to you by the long walk the walk to elementary school in northern scotland who can walk the longest but that's so i don't know that's the kind of thing that i love that's so cool like you're talking about the buses even all the way up in isle of sky you know what i mean yeah they have infrastructure and stuff to get you places everywhere.

Yeah, yeah.

And that would be like, we would be complaining in Austin about like not getting an Uber that far north.

That bus driver on the Isle of Sky gave you a lesson, though.

Well, Jordan, where can people find out about 100%?

Where can they go listen to you?

You can go to 100%eat.com or patreon.com slash 100%eat.

Takes you to the same place.

All right.

Well, please check out Jordan on 100%eat on his podcast, his F1 streams, and also you can check him out on the RoosterTeeth.com website where he is redirecting now the RTAs.

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Bye, nerds.