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Matt accidentally bears witness to murder most foul

i thought it was an extremely engaging portion of the podcast. usually, i’d get a clip from the video version and sum it up as best as i can, but because it went on for a while, i needed to change how i format things this time around. what i’m going to do here is rewatch the discussion (since i watched it live first, and my memory isn’t too good) and put all the most interesting parts in a bullet point list with timestamps! everything within quotation marks is said verbatim, and everything else, especially in parentheses, is my personal take/quip or said in my own words :)

11:00- trevor: “without ahwu (rip 😔🙏), we don’t really have that vessel with which to speak to you all listening at home on what’s going on with achievement hunter, and like, the creative- and how we come up with the schedule and stuff, so i just wanted to take a little- be here on this show to talk about that, just so we can kinda forecast some of the maybe, changes that are coming up.”

11:24- trevor: “’cause right now, what we’ve done is: we’ve fallen very much into a strong, like, an old routine of like, every monday: this, every tuesday: that, every wednesday: that, and what that does, especially coming out of quarantine, we’re realizing, is that it really limits our creativity. there’s a lot of times where we’re like “oh, i really wanna do something, this thing, but like, oh, we have to do a gta, or we have to do…” like, there’s only so many slots in the schedule.”

11:47- trevor: “and so one thing i kinda wanna forecast to you guys in the audience, to break the fourth wall a little bit, is that we’re really trying to tear apart our schedule, and try to like, not remove consistency, but try to make more room for flexibility. when people have little passion projects that they wanna work on, opening up the doors to make that happen. i mean, that’s how red web, face jam, f**kface, you know, all those shows got off the ground in the first place, was just finding time to carve that out.”

12:15- trevor: “and so, you know, over these coming weeks, you might start to recognize that the schedule is going to feel a little different, and it’s going to be hard to kind of just say “here’s what the new schedule is” ‘cause we’re not going to be in a situation where every monday is this, every tuesday is that. you’re going to see some consistencies like gmod, still gonna fall on a similar day, challenge accepted is still gonna fall on a very similar day (woo!), but other than that, we’re trying to like, figure out series and takeover weeks, and like, series like raft that continue down certain columns of the schedule, and just like… i dunno! i just wanted to talk about that a little bit.”

after this, joe sums it up, saying that the schedule will be “just as consistent in regards to uploads, but that there will be more variables to it,” with trevor adding that it’ll be “more reflective of our passions and our creative efforts now, testing and trying more things, and putting more things out there, and to have more fun with what we’re doing, rather than feeling beholden to what we’ve always done, which can be a recipe for falling into a really high level of burnout. just doing the same thing over and over, there’s no room to iterate or change.”

trevor then adds that the reason he’s said all of this to both the audience and the other people at the table is because we’re eventually gonna recognize and see it, and the crew hopes that we’re along for the ride with them, and that we’ll see the benefits it provides to AH’s creativity and stuff like that.

after a non-serious, but passionate discussion about vanilla ice cream and condiments that i can’t even try to explain or summarize, around 17 minutes in, trevor brings up that one ready set show episode where he and jeremy dehydrate various foods, and then after that, trevor sees the live chat blow up with excitement after he mentioned ready set show (rip 😔🙏), and says that they’ll bring back those vibes in future content.

he doesn’t go into specifics, but ky brings up that she has a concept/idea for something involving her, BK, trevor, and jeremy, with BK having to decide if she teams up with ky (team friendly fire) or trevor (team b-treh, meant to be pronounced almost like the word “betray”). with that, joe was told by trevor via text that the two of them are team machete in reference to danny trejo (pronounced like treh-joe, with the J no longer being silent.) this was brought up in relation to them wanting to play some indie horror games while the rest of the crew was out filming sponsored content. if the game isn’t completed, “something happens.” what that something is seems undecided for now, but they’re considering bringing back the taze fist as a punishment (oh god). this part wasn’t as huge an announcement like the previous parts, but i thought it was funny enough to put in the post :P

here, they just trail off to other stuff unrelated to content creation and scheduling (i guess this is why it’s called “off topic”), but they then come back to it around 44 minutes in (wow!), with trevor saying that he likes the idea of AH getting out of their own way, and notes that the live chat joked that we would still get minecraft, gta v, and gmod weekly. trevor then points out gta in particular and says “we’re not closing the door on it” and that they’re planning “a big hurrah, last kind of big splash weekly gta idea,” and they’re seeing if they can “really pull it together before AH live happens (the first day of the tour is march 31st, by the way), because we want to make sure we put a lot effort into that.” after that, they’re planning on letting gta rest as a weekly series (again, not stopping gta altogether).

trevor states it’s because “honestly speaking, when it comes to gta, we’re just really exhausted. it’s the same game with very little added to it over the years, and there’s only so much we can do before we feel personally that we’ve tapped the limits of the game, and before you guys as the audience kinda get tapped with it as content to watch. and so, we’re trying to be more self-aware with that kind of stuff, and we’re going to try to broadcast more of any shifts we make, ‘cause like, i feel like that’s something that, during quarantine, we kinda got bad about, where we just kinda lock in and fall back on streaming and what we’re doing so we can stay alive, and we’re very grateful to be able to do that during quarantine.” now that they’ve gone back to the office, they’re currently waiting on BK to start moving from new york to texas within the next couple of weeks.

right after this, with how excited trevor says he is, he also reiterates that “we’re getting out of our own way, we’re trying new shit, we have a lot of ideas like, in development, and right now, it’s just like “how do you start developing new things when you got so many of the old things in the way?” and so… you have to start somewhere, right? you don’t wanna start to like, overwork yourself, so it’s a snowball effect.”

finally, he asks the audience to keep them (the AH crew) informed as we watch their content, and to tell them how we feel about it, and just engage with the content in general with supporting the videos we like. ky points out how happy she and BK are with the very positive responses on their team friendly fire videos, and she believes that’s what trevor’s point is: anytime her and BK are together, they’re “just vibing, just enjoying each other’s company, and it’s just fun,” bringing up the freddi fish video they recorded in particular.

joe, sharing his perspective as the newest AH member, says that he (and the group as a whole) have thrown around many ideas that couldn’t come to fruition because of their commitment to other existing series that AH has done for years, with matt agreeing, saying that it’s been like that for a long time, having ideas that they can’t do. trevor says the newer members have been challenging the old guard with, alongside contributing with new ideas, asking questions and revitalizing the group, and that “being in the office has exacerbated all of that excitement.” they’re planning on balancing what the audience is watching with what the group wants to do by trying new things as they go.

last thing: there’s a big gta idea ky mentioned that she, lindsay, and matt are working on; it’s going to be, in ky’s words, “a femme heist.” it was originally going to come out this march since it’s women’s history month, but they haven’t had the time to do it because of Ye Olde Schedule. this marks the return of heists in gta v! (woo!!!!!) ky also says this heist will bring back a lot of old faves from the fake ah crew, and stopped herself from giving out more information, but she says (and shows lol) how excited she is!

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As I mentioned in my updates post, due to the nature of this episode there’s a higher risk than usual that I missed something, so please be warned of the possibility and let me know if you notice anything that needs fixed. I’ll get on it as soon as I can.