Sam walking around the house with his phone out presumably watching himself on the cameras going "Wow! There's
nowhere to hide!"
[*]Money Goblin AKA Chip working with Tax to set up the bedrooms.
[*]They used security screws for the cameras, which makes sense.
I'll start with what I find from B4 and kinda go from there.
[*]Chris walking Damiel through the house in a White Shark mask (surprise surprise...) He talks to Joeyy on the phone so it's not like there's any doubt.
It's very clear in bedroom-4-2023_04_17_21_04_29-00000.mkv, at about 36 minutes
[*]The wiggers talking about whoever this is "drifting in a BMW" and "doing a 360 like a frizbee"
[*]BMW Wigger suggests to Jet that they line the gumball machine with vinyl, so that the fish can't see that every single thing inside it is garbage, Jet agrees because if they could see what was inside they wouldn't use it.
[*]Jet explaining to Wes on the phone that the closet in Bedroom 4 is where all upstairs audio is routed.
[*]BMW suggests an early conception of the Frank Hassle meter - a threat meter that people can donate to which the fish can see, and which opens up more fishtoy options to the audience. At a certain point the ability to pull a fish out and waterboard them could be unlocked. Wes suggests a "bird noise" SFX and BMW says he should find the drilling sound of a woodpecker. Jet imagines a fish complaining about a "woodpecker infestation" and BMW says they will send in guys with insecticide backpacks to announce they're "spraying for woodpeckers."
[*]They notice that the camera shields are distorting the IR video (a problem they resolved later, during the show, by just removing all of the shields). They ask Wes for his opinion over the phone and he replies using TTS: "They're totally fucked. Can't see shit." BMW points out that the fish's opinion on how the cameras look doesn't matter and the audience will never know what the cameras look like. The door to bedroom 4's bathroom is broken before the show even starts. Once setup winds down Jet goes back to B4 to set the smart lights up, as well as to putter around nervously.
I was saving living room because I knew it would be dense
[*][*]Sam "when we get the porta potties installed, we should change the logo to ShitTank." Jet says there is nowhere for the staff to shit besides coming up into the house, so they need the Porta Potty. Sam says they could cordon one bathroom off for staff only. I guess they were REALLY FORTUNATE to have decided to rent a Porta Potty considering what happened to the plumbing later.
[*]Ben arrives, says he's freaked out that "he's here." Jet says "tomorrow," Ben says "I saw Damiel this morning." Jet goes "Oh. --- about that" and puts his finger over his lips and says they can talk about that on the porch. It kinda sounds like it might be audible from the downstairs hallway so I'll go find that later.
[*]While Jet has a technical conversation with Wes on the phone, Sam shadowboxes him until Jet starts chuckling. This is kind of a digression into analysis but I like how when Letty was shitfaced she started shadowboxing Vance. Sam and Letty look nothing alike but the fact they both do that kind of lends credence to the "literally me" thing, lol.
[*]Sam starts practicing a speech for the show, "America it's time to choose which fishtanker you want to succeed, and which fishtanker you want to see tortured. With these beetles. That I brought with me. Please pick the girl. ...You picked the fat girl. Funnily enough, so did I!" Sam tells Jet the boxcutters can't be left in the house because he doesn't want the fish to have them.
[*]Jet is annoyed with Chris because he can't reach him, tells Sam he's with "D-A-M...I" Sam: "Oh."
[*]Sam and Jet go live with their stream at exactly 4:20 and do a gay little high five. Sam says the area between the kitchen and the living room will be "Pothead central" where the fish can vibe and smoke weed. Jet pulls the NO WEED sign off the wall and Sam corrects himself - "And if I catch you, I get to torture your nuts with needles. And I've just demonetized the stream., so we're gonna restart this one, guys." Sam asks if it's okay to talk about "t-ing someone's n with n" and then says Hasan Piker has talked about worse on his Twitch stream. From here what they talk about is recorded on the stream for a while so I'll leave off from taking notes.
[*]Jet asks Sam if it's a great or terrible idea to give the contestants boxing equipment, Sam says it's a terrible idea.
[*]Sam is concerned that when he practices kicking a door frame it will leave "scuffs on the walls." I guess he meant that he didn't want it to be scuffed before the show starts, but in retrospect it sounds funny.
[*]Jet settled the cost of the contestant's flights in cash.
[*]This doesn't deserve to be a bullet point but it's funny to watch Ben take orders from Jet during setup because he's just kind of a lazy guy and Jet is ordering him around. At one point Ben sits on the couch and just watches TV for a bit looking bored which is just really weird somehow.
[*]Jet shouts across the house to ask Sam what the PIN is on the card so they can buy GoPros and then immediately realizes he shouldn't say that on stream. Jet says there will be footage of the fish being driven to the house and that the questions they're going to ask in the car are going to be "gold." Later on Jet changes his mind because GoPros are $300 each, so he has Chris buy pop sockets to mount phones to the cars to record instead.
[*]The speakers were originally going to be running off of Bluetooth, but they would go to sleep if they didn't ping the speakers to make noise every 30 seconds, so that's how they ended up wired and why there were just random JBLs hanging around that weren't being used.
[*]Ben to Jet after hanging up "Chris bought Damiel-" Jet "Don't say his name" Ben "Ah, fuck." Jet says Chris can show Damiel the basement so Ben waits outside to stop Chris from bringing Damiel in through the front door. They stay in the basement while Ben watches TV but they leave the door open so you can hear Damiel bellowing at the top of his lungs from downstairs while Jet talks to him. Someone with more time on their hands could probably parse what Jet is telling him, this is at 4/17/23 at 21:00ish. I bet there's a nugget in there. Eventually Damiel asks for permission to go upstairs and Jet says it's okay as long as he wears the shark mask.
I'm gonna take a break at living-room-2023_04_17_21_04_29-00000.mkv but just because I think there's probably some good shit here as Jet and the wiggers return from dinner with Damiel to start setting up the network stuff, and I don't have the patience to listen to it right now.
[*]The key to the garage was originally going to be in among the last of the gumball machine items, BMW wanted the fish to unlock it "organically." I don't know how it was actually unlocked in the end, but Jet suggests it will be a challenge to unlock it.
[*]They resort to calling Damiel "David" as though that's going to aid in the mystery. When he comes upstairs with the white shark mask on he says "Shalom! Mazel tov." He asks Ben for the wifi password because his connection is bad. "I need to text my bitch- I mean-" Chris "Your wife." "I just want to let her know that I'll be coming home tonight to tuck the kids in."
[*]Damiel says his dad got stung by a
jellybean one time so he had to pee on his dad's foot. Yeah.
[*]Chris is put in charge of picking up the fish and getting the food for day 1. Also to buy pop sockets and egg timers for the EMP which was never implemented.
[*]Ben asks Jet if he's talked to the contestants at all today, he says he's talked to Simmons quite a bit, and "Nina." He says they "may all seem fried but they have balls for coming out here. I have mad respect for them."
[*]Jet tells Ben to "put anything that seems too fun in the basement."
[*]Jet says testers on TTS were asking "Jet, do you goon?" over and over until he said "this is why I work in comedy and you don't" which made them hit harder and made him feel like a clown.
[*]After a few hours of working Jet and BMW guy drink a beer in front of the TV and Jet, in the process of explaining how Youtube TV is for degenerates, explains what a "soyboy" is. "A neckbeardy, chubby cheek, high pitch voice guy." BMW pulls up a Chinese movie on YouTube and they wonder if it's propaganda. Jet says Chinese movies suck but Korean moves like Parasite are great, BMW recomments indian movies like "RRR," decides to show it to Jet and says "you're gonna shit when you see this," and shows him a few scenes. Jet does seem to love it.
[*]I'm coming to the belated realization that BMW Guy is Cowboy. I'm retarded. I guess the cowboy hat was a really good distraction. Jet tells him to find a handyman outfit and to come on Day 1 and pretend to fix the sink to make the showrunners look unprepared. Jet says that in order to not scare the fish too early, to look cordial this time but become increasingly frustrated over the course of the season.
[*]Jet says he will be the milkman and does a terrible milkman song and someone on the radio (presumably the guy who actually ends up as milkman) says he wants to do it. A TTS tester recommends they get a Yogurt Guy and stage a fight.
[*]Cowboy suggests throwing the spare bluetooth into the attic (I had no idea there was one and I don't know where the door is) and alludes to the fact they wouldn't want to retrieve the bluetooth from there. Jet says if they throw a speaker in there, they're cutting the cable and not pulling the speaker out. Cowboy compares the attic to the Upside-Down.
[*]Jet says he has to drive to Boston to pick up (with an affectation) Violetta~. He says the fish will be asking insane, incessant questions on the drive and he's excited for it.
[*]Jet says it's deliberately ambiguous whether going into the basement without permission will get you in trouble - it won't.
[*]Jet says they will get the fish "turnt" on night one, "mad food," to warm them up.
[*]Cowboy wishes they had a scavenger hunt and a maze like in westworld, and Jet says he bought a safe for a scavenger hunt and never got around to it.
