Dice Tower Travel, a Chameleon, and Ice Cream!

[00:00:00]I am headed to the Dice Tower for our weekly video from the road. Zach's on vacation and he said I wouldn't make a weekly video and so I brought a camera that I mostly know how to use and we're going to shoot some content as we go play Altered at the Summer Spectacular at the Dice Tower. So if you've ever been curious what it looks like to go visit the Dice Tower studio, we're going to do it on this vlog.

[00:00:24]Does anyone else get stopped by the TSA every freaking time?

[00:00:30]And get patted down. Just a question.

[00:00:32]Definitely Definitely doesn't happen to me. Never.

[00:00:35]Never happens to me.

[00:00:38]Just landed in Florida and it is a lot warmer here.

[00:00:44]Big surprise. Going to go play some games with Chris Yee, maybe get some dinner cuz I skipped lunch and then we're going to be headed to the Dice Tower tomorrow morning. So not doing too much tonight other than trying to catch up on email. So very exciting vlog.

[00:00:57]Email.

[00:00:58]I got to my hotel and it's a little bit more awesome than expected.

[00:01:02]Zach and Sam, I promise this wasn't very expensive. I don't know why it's so cool. But yeah, Chris Yee's going to come pick me up. We're going to go play some games.

[00:01:12]Oh, no. We're going to go play some games, eat some dinner and then I'm going to be playing Altered with some Dice Tower folk. Do you know who's playing by the way?

[00:01:22]>> Camilla, myself, Michael Delisio.

[00:01:25]>> Michael Delisio. That's the first time I will have seen him in Florida. I don't think I've ever been in Florida at the same time as him. Maybe that's not true.

[00:01:34]Maybe the first time I came down.

[00:01:35]>> Wow.

[00:01:37]>> But yeah.

[00:01:37]>> Maybe yeah, it might be for a while.

[00:01:39]>> It's been a while. All right, cool.

[00:01:42]Let's go play some games.

[00:01:43]These are so nice. They invited me into their home to play a board game and then they immediately targeted all of my pieces and killed them. That's my piece.

[00:01:54]That's my piece.

[00:01:56]And that's my piece. I have three cars >> and they're all off the road.

[00:02:01]>> Yeah.

[00:02:02]>> I wonder how that happened.

[00:02:04]>> We found a chameleon.

[00:02:09]Which I feel like is not a normal thing to see for where I'm from.

[00:02:14]Apparently, Fort Myers, these things just grow on trees.

[00:02:17]>> Look at this Look at this hand grenade that Wendy's growing over here.

[00:02:20]>> Oh my goodness.

[00:02:22]>> Hand grenade >> Can of soup.

[00:02:24]>> Same thing.

[00:02:25]>> This is a nice garden. Look, there's flowers and stuff.

[00:02:29]>> What's over there in there?

[00:02:30]>> I really didn't expect to see a chameleon in the Yees' backyard. And yet, here we are.

[00:02:39]We don't have those type of lizards reptilians What is a chameleon, guys?

[00:02:49]>> Wendy >> Yes.

[00:02:50]>> Your garden is so nice.

[00:02:51]>> Aw, thank you.

[00:02:52]>> I feel like you're a little bit like a Disney princess cuz the animals are just coming to your garden, too.

[00:02:56]>> They are.

[00:02:57]>> Apparently, you have a rabbit in addition to an iguana?

[00:02:59]>> Yeah, my pumpkin patch.

[00:03:01]>> I feel like an iguana and a rabbit becoming friends is a Disney story. But untold Disney story.

[00:03:07]>> if I sang right now, they would just show up.

[00:03:10]>> Okay, let's [laughter] do it.

[00:03:13]>> [screaming] >> Cut to the iguana.

[00:03:15]>> I know, [laughter] right?

[00:03:19]>> Wow.

[00:03:21]All right, back at my hotel.

[00:03:23]Had a great dinner at the Yees', lost a bunch of games, which is great.

[00:03:27]And I decided to take a little walk, you know, just you know, digest. And uh I found some disturbing things.

[00:03:33]Little omens, you might even say, that make me scared to go to sleep tonight.

[00:03:38]So, uh what do you think's happening here?

[00:03:41]That's a nice scene.

[00:03:43]Very fun.

[00:03:45]Playing a new game.

[00:03:47]If this is a board game cover, would you play it?

[00:03:51]Entry number two, would you it?

[00:03:54]Oh, yeah. I'm playing that one for sure.

[00:03:56]How many cows can you get down the dock?

[00:03:59]Tomorrow morning, going to the Dice Tower, playing Alterra with Mike Delisio, Camilla, and Chris. It's going to be great.

[00:04:09]That's my hotel that I definitely didn't spend that much money on. I really promise I didn't. Morning of the play at the Summer Spectacular at the Dice Tower.

[00:04:20]I was hungry.

[00:04:21]Ordered some room service. Really, I I'm really not doing good of combating this narrative of this being expensive hotel.

[00:04:30]Bon appétit.

[00:04:31]Listen, it was only $17, okay?

[00:04:34]Going to be fun.

[00:04:35]Let's go.

[00:04:37]Headed to the Dice Tower to try to beat at least Chris. Camilla or Mike can win.

[00:04:42]I just want to beat Chris at Alterra.

[00:04:44]And uh Uber driver's a little late, you know. That happens. He's stuck in traffic. He sent me a message. We're just We're just going to look stupid for being late. It's fine. Everything's fine.

[00:04:53]As you can probably tell by all the dice behind me, I have arrived. And I'm only 10 minutes late, which in Austin time is like being 10 minutes early, honestly.

[00:05:01]So, this is going great. It's great.

[00:05:03]Everything's fine. Let's see if the door's open.

[00:05:07]It's not open. So.

[00:05:10]>> We're not interested.

[00:05:12]>> No, I need to come in there.

[00:05:14]Chris.

[00:05:16]Is it? This is where all the magic happens.

[00:05:20]And by magic, I mean adults playing games for fun.

[00:05:26]They probably do it for work. I'm doing it for fun. No, I'm actually doing it for work as well.

[00:05:30]So.

[00:05:32]Adults playing games.

[00:05:34]Setting up the game.

[00:05:37]It's going to be a great vlog, Chris.

[00:05:39]Me just narrating what I'm doing. That's how you make videos, right?

[00:05:43]I brought the I brought the dice trays.

[00:05:46]So fancy.

[00:05:48]And they lay flat. and then you just That's the uh technical term is blur blur blur.

[00:05:55]>> Uh-huh. Yeah, everything I learned I learned from Blue's Clues.

[00:06:00]>> Ta-da! All right. Got to remember how to play this game.

[00:06:04]>> You found it?

[00:06:04]>> I did.

[00:06:05]>> Good, good.

[00:06:06]>> How are you?

[00:06:07]>> Good. How are you?

[00:06:08]>> Good. I just I warn you, there is a camera recording, and I'm probably going to use zero of the footage.

[00:06:13]>> Okay. But, you [laughter] know, yeah.

[00:06:15]Got to prove you worked.

[00:06:16]>> Yeah, yeah. I I honestly do, because I stayed at the hotel I It was cheap. It was like 5 minutes from here, but it's like Luminary up the street. It's right next to the pizza place that we went to that one time.

[00:06:26]>> Luminary's nice.

[00:06:27]>> It's so nice.

[00:06:28]>> to the bar up top?

[00:06:29]>> I did go up to the bar up top.

[00:06:31]>> I was the entire time of the video I've been like, "Zack and Sam, I did not pay that much money to stay here. I don't know why it's so nice. It was just the closest hotel to the Dice Tower. I swear." Mike.

[00:06:42]>> Austin.

[00:06:43]>> You're in Florida.

[00:06:44]>> I am back in Florida at the Dice Tower studios. Yeah.

[00:06:47]>> I I love that you're here, because I I mean, obviously, you've been with the Dice Tower for a long time, but I only see you at cons.

[00:06:53]>> I know. And now it's going to be back >> You're back to >> to the Austin and Mike show. The people have been demanding it.

[00:06:59]>> demanding [laughter] >> Clamoring for it, and now it's time. I think uh this is going to be just the beginning of a regular regular correspondence between you and I on camera.

[00:07:10]>> Well, thanks so much for coming back. I know it was just for me that you moved back to Florida so you could see me more often when I come to the Dice Tower. So, I appreciate >> And I had been promising you, you know, I felt bad it took me so long, but I'm glad that I finally fulfilled all those many promises to you specifically and personally, Austin.

[00:07:26]>> Well, welcome back to the place I don't live.

[00:07:27]>> Thank you.

[00:07:28]>> Just finished up Altered Earth, had a blast playing with Mike, Camilla, and Chris.

[00:07:33]I'm not going to reveal who won, but you might be able to tell by my demeanor that it was not me. I mean, it could have been. Who knows? You'll have to watch it. Uh It was funny play through.

[00:07:40]Played in 90 minutes, so it plays in 90 minutes officially at four players and one of those players I never played before. So, that's great. Going to go back to the hotel now, get some uh different clothes on cuz I wore long pants, which I would not recommend, and then we're going to get some food. So, let's do it. Where we going?

[00:07:57]>> Uh I don't remember what it's called.

[00:07:58]It's a Mexican food place. Probably called La >> Hey, I think I gave you the wrong address.

[00:08:06]>> I think we're going to the wrong address, actually.

[00:08:08]>> Joey gave us the wrong address?

[00:08:10]Joey.

[00:08:10]>> Yeah.

[00:08:11]>> A little hallmark of our relationship is ice cream.

[00:08:13]>> Ice cream.

[00:08:14]>> Ice cream.

[00:08:15]>> I get judged by the ice cream I bring him to.

[00:08:17]>> Yeah. He Well, you've never led me astray yet, have >> No.

[00:08:19]>> [laughter] >> This is the best one yet.

[00:08:21]>> Yeah. Blue ribbon judges so far.

[00:08:23]>> Yeah.

[00:08:24]>> Michelin three. We just had Mexican Six people ate less than $100.

[00:08:30]>> Insane. And it was really good. So good.

[00:08:34]And the food was like massive.

[00:08:35]>> Yeah, it was really good. So, anyway, I just wanted to thank you for your recommendations.

[00:08:40]>> No.

[00:08:40]>> Yeah.

[00:08:41]What you got there, Joey?

[00:08:42]>> I want to show you what a sad ice cream looks like. That's this. Look at this.

[00:08:45]Look at this. That is sad.

[00:08:48]Look at that.

[00:08:49]>> I'm looking at it. That's pretty great.

[00:08:51]>> Uh-huh.

[00:08:51]>> Uh-huh.

[00:08:52]>> Someone knows their ice cream.

[00:08:55]>> We're going to go play a game.

[00:08:56]What game are we playing?

[00:08:57]>> Escape exit.

[00:08:59]Exit the escape.

[00:09:01]>> We just played an exit game, which I've never done before. And we did it.

[00:09:06]>> How How long did it take us? 64 minutes.

[00:09:08]We were so close to under an hour.

[00:09:10]>> minute off the mark, yeah.

[00:09:10]>> But we got nine stars, which I've heard is almost as good as 10 stars, which is the max. [music] >> It's pretty much impeccable.

[00:09:17]>> But the exit games, I mean, it's it was really fun. I really liked it.

[00:09:21]>> Oh, yeah. Good puzzles and I like that we were all working on stuff together and I also like you could split it up.

[00:09:26]>> Yeah, and it was a pretty great team.

[00:09:28]It was a great team.

[00:09:29]>> to see something for sure.

[00:09:30]>> Back in the airport, headed home.

[00:09:33]Had a great time at the Dice Tower.

[00:09:34]Loved playing Altiplano with them. Loved seeing friends, getting food. The ice cream was fantastic, the games were fantastic. Saw Chameleon and Zach, I did the update while you were away, so you're welcome. You didn't believe in me, but I believed in myself, but now I just have to believe in myself so hard that I go home on Thursday night and edit it and upload it on Friday. We'll see if that happens, so woo. Thanks for watching.