(downbeat music)
- It's been over four years since the original launch
of Grand Theft Auto V but that hasn't stopped the game
from appearing in top 10 sales charts pretty consistently
for the past 50 months.
- [Female] With Grand Theft Auto Online
Rockstar Games is looking to bring the heart
of the Grand Theft Auto experience
to a living online world with multiple players.
Just what you choose to do in that world is up to you.
- So what is it about this game
that keeps people coming back to Los Santos
each and every month?
To find out we went to talk to one
of the game's most infamous crews.
A bunch of folks who've been playing the game since day one.
A bunch of folks down south who like
to call themselves Hillbilly Agenda.
Hello folks and welcome to Knoxville, Tennessee.
What are we doing in Knoxville, Tennessee
outside this beautiful house with all
of these gorgeous looking cars?
We're here to talk to some people
about Grand Theft Auto Online.
Not just anyone, either, not the developers
like we usually do, not the marketing people.
No, we're here to talk to a bunch of players.
In fact perhaps the most hardcore players
of Grand Theft Auto Online you've ever heard of.
Hillbilly Agenda, known as HBAG
on Rockstar Social Club, are a group
of diehard GTA Online players
who take their crew affiliation to a whole new level.
Sure they play the game together a few times a week
but the connections they've made online
have transcended the game.
They're friends, a family of online misfits
who travel thousands of miles each and every year
to get together for a huge crew party
and that's why we're here.
And it's not just like a couple of people
who turn up here either.
It's like 40 people.
In fact we've tried to do this intro like five times
but cars keep pulling in.
What's the purpose of this trip?
To learn what it is about GTA Online
that keeps this crew together and to shine a light
on how online gaming communities
can be a source of connectivity
and not just a source of, well, you know, racist teenagers.
We're also gonna eat a lot of meat.
- Barbecue ribs.
- And drink some beer.
And apparently we're also going on some boats tomorrow.
So you may not ever see this footage
but we probably had a good time.
(upbeat music)
- [Male] You're going straight to the back.
- [Male Two] Yes I am.
- [Male] Good job.
(guns firing)
(shouting)
(chattering)
- [Male] And they like rush and there's like four
of them coming around.
Yeah, I turned right into them.
Sons of bitches.
- [Host] For the purpose of our little name bars
at the bottom what is your name
and what are we talking about here?
- Now are we going with my real name or my street name?
- [Host] That's up to you, what's your street name?
- I'm KnoxNerd.
- [Host] KnoxNerd, that's 'cause of where we are, right?
- Right, in Knoxville and I'm an IT consultant
in real life so I'm a nerd.
You can't just pick anybody off the street
and call 'em a nerd, they have to earn it.
It's a hard title to earn.
But in real life my name's Warren Scott.
- [Host] You're ex-navy as well, right?
- [Scott] Right, uh-huh, I did 10 years in the navy.
- [Host] Where were you stationed?
- [Scott] I was stationed in Connecticut
and that's where my son was born
and then I went down to Key West for three years.
Pretty rough shore duty down there
and then I went up to Hampton, Virginia
and Norfolk, Virginia and I did three carriers.
I did Eisenhower and John C. Stennis
was a new commission and the Enterprise
so I did three carriers.
(mumbling)
It was great.
- [Host] Over to the Mediterranean
every six months or whatever?
- Yeah, you'd go for six, come back for a year
so I can go back out.
It was a blast.
- [Host] Warren is a person who likes meeting new people.
He hasn't a bashful bone in his body
so when he returned to civilian life
he decided to combine his love of computers
and entertaining people.
- I partner with this guy and we put together
this 3000 square foot place called Cyber Sports
and this was like right when dial up was still,
64k was good so we put in like 32 computers,
we put like eight machines networked together,
the frag arena, and we had Quake, Doom,
Unreal Tournament, those games,
and we had eight machines all networked together
for black lights and fog machines
and we just made it where it's cyber sports.
You just come in and do that so we did that for a while
but then right around six months in
then high speed comes out then we're kind of
like the ma and pop video store.
Now everybody's getting DVD's.
- [Host] Warren liked to play video games mostly on his PC.
That was until his brother in Miami
told him about Red Dead Redemption online.
Warren bought an Xbox 360 and the two boys
used the game as a way of keeping in touch.
Soon enough there third brother entered the fold.
So when a few years passed and Grand Theft Auto V came out
they were ready to make the transition.
- My brother in Miami, he said hey,
you need to go to Social Club, set up an account,
and then we need to make a crew
and I'm like what's a crew?
So I start going on Social Club and looking at it
and seeing what it is so I know
I've got a two week time period before it launches
because I wanna be live on day one.
September 30th I landed on Hillbilly Agenda
and October 1st, we've been rolling ever since.
Turned in to where it's a social platform
for me to play a game and hang out
with my brother that I never get to see
so we had a bunch of guys from England
and we had a guy in Norway and I think
we probably had 20 something but then the next gen came out
and they ended up staying with Xbox
and we went to PS4 so I think we had seven of us stay
and we all actually went and bought PS4's
just to play GTA.
Our motto is quality first not quantity.
We don't care how well you can manipulate the controller
of a game.
We want a good person.
If I don't wanna meet you in real life
you're not part of our crew
because we're not just about a game.
(chattering)
- I got the whole crew with me today.
- [Female] You got the whole crew.
- You gotta check, check the cake, check the cake.
- [Male] How are you?
- What's up Biggie?
- What's up brother?
(chattering)
- [Male] You see all that pork?
Look, this is off of that pork shoulder
from that hog he killed.
- [Male Two] Tell the hog story.
- Alright, so it was knock 'em dead.
He's the undercover narcotics officer
and he's got a buddy of his that has a big farm
and I guess he had a domestic hog
that got loose and so after it's been loose
for like a while but I guess they call it,
what's it called, feral, it goes feral?
They went feral so it kind of gets wild again
so the guy, he calls up Brad and says hey,
this thing's just chasing me around on my tractor
and all that.
He said if you can come up and kill it you can just have it.
He's like oh yeah, sure.
He goes how big is it?
He said it's about 200 pounds.
So he goes well heck, I've got my pistol with me.
I'll shoot it with my pistol.
So he goes out there and he says
this thing came running at him, he's like holy shit.
He gets his pistol and right when he runs by
he shoots him right between the eyes
and he goes, and the hog was like oh, it's on.
He said it was so pissed.
He had to shoot him seven times in the head
to take him down and where's that picture at?
We had a picture.
So sore, he's our smoker chef and so he,
Brad gave him the shoulder which was a 30 pound shoulder
he smoked and then he also smoked for us,
we went and got some ribs, smoked ribs,
and he smoked a whole bunch of sausages.
- [Host] As people file into the party,
I asked them about how they got involved in HBAG
and what surprised me is just how varied their stories were.
Some of them just came across Warren
and his brother online.
Others came across Warren in real life
or at his IT store where he fixes computers.
- The first time I met Ice he comes into my shop
and he sees my, I've got Grand Theft Auto stickers
everywhere and Rockstar emblems
and he's like you play Grand Theft Auto?
I'm like oh yeah, little bit.
So we start talking, he goes well I just got it.
I said we gotta play.
I kind of talked about the crew
and he's like I can tell we're gonna be really good friends
for a long time and once he comes on
and he works, he's a special investigations unit
and they basically hunt down the criminals.
If you have warrants on you and you're on their black list
they will find you.
So they hunt these guys down and he's got his guys.
He starts bringing his guys in
and they're all buying Playstation and Grand Theft Auto
and I think now we're probably up to about eight cops.
If you're speeding through Knoxville just let me know.
Don't worry about it.
We'll get it taken care of.
Yeah, they're all plain clothes, unmarked cars
but they go through a lot of cars
'cause they're the ones that like if you're running
from them they will ram you off the road.
They're gonna stop you.
- That's basically my (mumbling).
But everything of course that we go through.
There's nothing but (mumbling) time for me.
- For sure which is saying something
because it's not exactly the most relaxing game
in the world, right?
- Right.
(laughing)
- You could play Madden or like--
- No, no Madden.
- Oh wait, this is funny, this is funny.
So we get online one night and Ice
is like hey what are we gonna do?
I said hey look, let's go over to Sandy Shores,
let's bust up some meth heads and take their bikes
'cause we were wanting to all get bikes
so we could all have the same bike.
He goes hey, we did that today.
(laughing)
- [Host] You've got like drug busting cops
in your crew but you've also got guys
with 420 in their name.
- Well yeah, they're the little feast,
they're not looking for the little feast.
Yeah, I mean I think in our whole crew
that I'm aware of, I think we've got
probably three weed smokers and all
because 420 in your name's a dead giveaway
and if you try to put I like weed
and put weed in between every other letter
in all caps and it's funny
'cause he'll be on with Crawfish.
He'll be like hey Craw, where you get your weed from?
(laughing)
We don't want you, we just want him.
Nah, he's a little guy.
You don't need to worry about him.
But we want the guy he knows.
- [Host] While Ice and his colleagues
may be the biggest subset in the crew,
most of the rest of Hillbilly Agenda
are folks who have been rounded up individually.
In fact for anyone who's joined the crew
in the past 12 months, this is the first time
they've met the people they've talked to
day in day out for months.
In fact, for one member of the crew
this entire trip was unthinkable
until a month ago because she only joined the crew
in the past few weeks.
- My name is Rachel Cline.
My gamertag is Roachy1216.
- [Host] How'd you get Roachy1216?
- Roach has been a nickname since high school
and it just kind of stuck with me.
My friends all call me Roach.
The whole Rachel Roach thing, it just kind of,
if you're drunk and stutter Rachel
it comes out Roach anyways so it works.
- [Host] Rachel is from a tiny town
called Champion in rural Pennsylvania.
The type of place where everyone knows your business.
Like many young people who grow up
in cloistered communities, from a young age
she fell in love with video games
and a vast variety of worlds they allowed her to explore.
- Atari, I mean that was, picked up a controller.
That was all she wrote.
I've been playing everything ever since.
I had my own Sega in my bedroom
when I was a little kid.
That was just the greatest thing.
Nintendo 64, I was all about it.
Mario, that's my stuff.
I actually still have my original NES
somewhere tucked away in the closet.
I need to bust that out one of these days
but yeah, I've always played games.
Absolute favorite hands down is Red Dead Redemption.
I played that, fell in love with it.
I have countless hours on that game.
I loved it, that was my absolute favorite game
and then GTA.
Back in the day on PS2, playing with my dad,
we would play GTA III.
We didn't have a memory card or anything
so we would just have like 18 hours
of playing this game straight just to unlock the whole map,
to kind of go around and explore and stuff
so I mean that's just, it's normal for me.
The long haul, I'm good at that.
- [Host] Like Warren, she too fell
for the gorgeous open world of Red Dead Redemption
and once she completed the campaign
spent countless hours in the virtual playground
that was its online mode.
So when GTA V came around it was an easy transition.
Roachy played pretty frequently
with an online friend in California.
That was until one night when her friend wasn't online
and she bumped into a couple of Knox's.
- A couple weeks ago, weeks ago,
I had my warehouse cargo built up.
Two million dollars worth of product ready to sell.
- [Host] A lot of product.
- But sometimes they give you three trucks
so you need more than one person
to make all the deliveries to get all your money
and so I went into this lobby and there
was only a few people in there
and there was two guys that just happened
to be Jester and Knox and I sent them a text
on the game and I'm like hey,
do you wanna help me sell this product?
Do you need money?
- Me and Jester are in a lobby
and we keep getting some annoying person
saying help me sell my stuff
and we're finally like okay, fine,
we'll help this person.
So we get into, we join their organization.
I think she was on a bike organization to sell
and I said hey Jester, let's go ahead
and bring her into our party so we can talk.
Or not her, we didn't know who it was at the time
so I said maybe it'll be a cool person.
Who knows, maybe it'll be a 12 year old.
You don't know.
So hope it's not a squeaker.
Hey guys.
- [Host] Is that what you call 12 year olds?
- Yeah, if you're a squeaker you're like hi guys.
Hey listen, we just wanna say hi really quick.
We're really busy right now
but we'll get right back with you.
Delete.
(laughing)
- It took a minute, I didn't hear a response
but I guess I found out later that was them
kind of debating is this gonna be a 12 year old,
is this gonna be a weird person?
Do we really wanna get involved with this person?
- So she's like hi, I've spent days
all by myself gathering these crates
so I can sell 'em.
So we go to her warehouse and it's two million dollars.
You're gonna sell 'em all at once?
She goes yeah, just us and one other person in lobby
and me and Jes are like we got this,
don't worry about it.
So we go do the mission.
She happens to get the tugboat mission.
- It was a tugboat which I can do that on my own
and me and Knox are on the boat and Jester's up
in his chopper just doing the badass blowing up shit.
- Jester's in his buzzard.
Oh man, I love the buzzard, it's great.
Blowing up the jet skis.
Next thing we know Jester destroyed the product
and she's like what?
- Something happened to where one
of the baddies on a sea shark came too close
to my tugboat and Jester blew it up.
Two million dollars worth of product destroyed.
- She's like oh my God, are you serious?
And the tugboat's going underwater and I'm swimming out
and she's like I think I'm gonna cry.
I'm like Jester.
He's like oh my God, I'm so sorry.
That's two million dollars.
- Two million dollars wiped out, completely gone, yeah.
And I was hurting for money at the time
so I was like devastated.
And then Knox is like oh man, I'm so sorry.
Like we're not noobs, this never happens.
We're a really legit crew
and then he started telling me
about like what they do and stuff
and I'm like mm-hmm.
Stick with us, we'll make up for it.
We do our crew sells all the time.
We all get together.
We'll make up the two million.
I'm like okay, we'll see what happens.
- He goes well I guess I know what I'm gonna be doing
for the next few days.
Helping you get crates and so I'm like welcome
to Hillbilly Agenda.
- I have like four million in the bank now
so they've more than made up for it so we're good.
- We meet Roachy and then we're all gearing up
for this crew weekend party that we're having.
- With it already being the beginning of July,
it was at the end of July
so there's heavy, heavy talk about this crew party
and I really didn't pay attention to it
'cause I'm like all the way in Pennsylvania
like off on my own by myself.
Didn't really think too much of it
and then Knox started throwing around the idea
of hey Roachy, why don't you drive down
and come to the crew party?
I'm like I am such an anxious nervous driver as it is.
I hate to even drive in Pittsburgh.
I could not imagine me making that journey
the whole way down here.
I'm like that's completely out of the question, no way.
- On our group meet app for the thing
she had put at the end of it,
she said she's not gonna be attending the party
'cause all the time we're all talking
about the party, who's gonna bring this
and when are you coming in
and we're all excited about it.
- [Host] And she's known you for like two weeks?
- No, at that point she's only known us
for nine days, nine days.
I talked to Wizard who is up in Connecticut
and this is his third trip down.
We tried to work out logistically
to get her, he could pick her up
on the way down 81 or I called her up
and said hey, can I buy you a bus ticket?
She said oh, that would be great
but I couldn't find anyway to make it work
without being like a--
- [Host] A bus to meet him on the way in.
- Right, because we were gonna have him meet
and pick her up but it'd be like a 13 hour bus ride
with like four connections.
- So I'm thinking this is all pretty new.
Do I really wanna be like nine hours
in the car with someone I've never met?
Like that was kind of sketchy
but I was actually thinking once I saw
the whole Hillbilly Agenda website
and like all the pictures from last year and stuff
I'm like this is amazing.
I would love to be a part of that.
- I call her back up and I say hey, listen,
I can't make the bus thing work.
Just not possible and she goes okay, I understand.
I go aren't you close to Pittsburgh
and she's like yeah, about 45 minutes.
I said okay, I'm flying you in.
She's like what?
I'm like are you okay with that?
And she's like I've never flown before in my life.
She goes nobody in my family's ever flown before.
- What?
I'm like I've never been on a plane in my life.
There's no way.
He's like well your ticket's already paid for.
Thanks Knox.
- [Host] And she explained to her family
that she's getting on a plane
to meet some internet GTA players.
- Right, right, so she goes, I said are you excited
about your trip?
She goes yeah but the hardest part
is convincing my family that I'm not joining a cult
or I'm gonna end up in a bathtub full of ice
with all my organs missing.
So you know I told her, said look
just take them to our website.
They can look and see that we're like normal people.
- [Host] Why go that extra mile?
That's an incredibly generous thing to do for somebody.
- Well because I don't know, to me
it's almost like I enjoy making people happy.
It makes me happy.
So in a way I'm kind of selfish
'cause I'm doing it for me to make me happy
and the end result other people benefit from it.
- [Host] Is that why this party happens every year?
- Yeah, well I don't know, to me
it's something that I can do that people really appreciate
and they just have so much fun.
I mean you guys can tell.
It's just incredible atmosphere and camaraderie
and just such a positive vibe that it just,
I can't explain it, I love it.
This has been made with love and passion by Ms. Ice.
Where is she?
- [Male] She's hiding.
- [Male Two] Dude, wow, that's impressive.
- That is impressive.
- [Warren] There we go, slide the box out.
Nice.
- It's got the crew emblem on it and everything.
- [Male] I can't wait to eat it.
- [Male Two] Good job, Amy.
(clapping)
- [Host] The crew party has been running for years.
It started out in far more humble surroundings
but for the past two years they've had access
to this beautiful home, the residence
of one of Warren's friends and customers Mark Lemoncelli.
Him and his father Jim are honorary members of the crew
and happy to let Warren use the house
affectionately known by the crew as Lemon Land
but most weeks the crew members are back
in their home states working jobs, raising families,
and finding time to play the game.
It's been four years since the launch
of GTA Online and Rockstar have been pretty consistent
about adding content to the game on a monthly basis.
There's a lot to do.
Players are able to just roam the world in free mode
and take in all the activities that that provides.
There's a co-op story mission mode
that uses characters from the game.
Then there are jobs, instanced multiplayer events
you can join including death matches,
races, horde modes, and sport activities.
The game also now has a content creator
that lets you create your own versions of these.
In fact the crew even has a team death match variant
made to mimic the crew party.
Rockstar have added free DLC packs to the world
including Smuggler's Run, Cunning Stunts,
and the incredibly popular Heist.
It's for this reason that there's always somebody
from the crew online at any time.
They run designated crew nights
to get people together and daily crew mornings
for the diehard a.m. players.
To help organize activities, the crew has ranks,
commissioners that solve disputes,
get groups together, and generally keep the peace
so it's no wonder that so many of these folks
not only fly and drive thousands of miles
to attend the party but bring their partners
and kids along for the ride too.
You're working at, you're a chef right?
- Yeah.
I work on the yacht.
- [Host] You work on the yacht, oh wow.
So are you like, you don't play on the yacht.
- No.
I just cook all the food.
- [Host] Yeah, do you work like funny hours?
- Oh yeah, all the day.
Pretty much, seven days a week.
- [Host] So when do you play with the guys?
- As soon as I get off, from eight til 12,
then go back to work.
That's our crew time because Tennessee
and Kentucky times are really close.
So the reason I got to play a bit.
I started on Playstation 3 and then
all the friends disappeared, I just ran into Knox
and Jester and they just, they were (mumbling)
been playing, you know?
Who'd thought it would have went this far.
You don't think a game would bring you friends
but it really did.
It's a cool story.
- [Host] What is about GTA Online
that like years later you can still enjoy it?
- They just keep updating it.
There's so many different things
that they do, like the gunrunning.
I haven't even started it.
I've been away from it a little while
but like the (mumbling) and the biker gang
and then they just keep updating it.
It's like buying a new game all the time.
- It's weird that like I feel like I was growing up
when my parents were telling me
don't meet people on the internet.
These folks are like, their parents all met on the internet.
- Exactly.
Like we were talking briefly last night about stuff.
It's kind of one of those scary instances
where you really don't know what's gonna happen.
I guess it's like dating on the internet
but you don't know what's gonna happen.
Then when you finally meet these people
they're good people.
- Come and get it.
There's plenty more.
- [Host] So what is it about Grand Theft Auto Online,
do you think, that your crew enjoys
because we've heard that some of the crew
had played other games like Ghost Recon Wildlands
or Rainbow Six Siege, what is it about Los Santos?
- I think Rockstar has just really have set
this standard where nobody has this open sandbox
where you can just go in and do whatever you want.
You can just buy clothes and drive cars
and just talk to people and do things together
and where other games, they just focus
on one thing, you can go on Grand Theft Auto
and play just a round of golf or you know,
hey, let's go check out my new car.
I gotta take it for some laps on the Los Santos Speedway
and you get to just experience stuff
that you don't get to with any other game
and we'll have people like oh, I can't wait
for this new Star Wars game to come out
and we're like okay, we'll see you in about a week.
And the other thing too is
if you were playing Grand Theft Auto
and you weren't in a crew then the game,
you would play the single player and you'd complete it
in a few weeks or whatever and then you go online
and you're just gonna get repeatedly killed
over and over again and it wouldn't be any enjoyment
but when you actually go on to do stuff
with your crew, we have it where if somebody
hits rank 100, alright, we're gonna take a limo ride
down to the Vanilla Unicorn and do shots
so we're all celebrate, we go down
and have fun together and it's very difficult
to get all the way down there without getting the cops
on you but we really try to maintain our discipline.
- [Host] Knox is a fan of adventures
in the game and in reality.
In fact the crew has provided him with a new mission
to visit as many of the crew members
in their hometowns as possible and it all started
with his vanity plate.
- I had an idea one time.
You make your custom plate.
I was like I wanna make one for my car.
I go and make one for my car then I go in the game
and I find a car that's similar to mine
and I put it on there and I get like a side by side.
In real life and then the game one
and I sent it to Rockstar and they had the little article
on it and I was like I just need
to do that for all my crew members.
That way it's like once you've been in long enough
Knox is gonna pay you a visit
and I don't care where you live.
I'm gonna come to you.
I don't have to get hotel, I don't have
to get a rental car, I don't know their financial situation
so I'm assuming I'm gonna buy the food,
I'm gonna pay for the gas, I'm gonna cook
for them in their house.
- [Host] While on these trips, Knox
attempts to do the plate ceremony
in an iconic place.
In fact, at the party one such ceremony
went ahead with Mr. And Ms. Clips getting their plates
while jumping into the pool.
He's been upping the ante of the plate ceremonies
for the past couple of years
and they're getting increasingly ridiculous.
On a recent trip to Canada, Knox gave DJ his plate
on top of a glacier but as Knox learned
that's a difficult thing to explain
to an immigration officer.
- I get to the airport and I'm getting to customs, right?
So first you go through immigration.
So I get to immigration, business or pleasure?
I'm here for pleasure.
Okay, who are you here to see?
I go DJ.
They're like DJ?
I'm like oh, hold on.
Okay, hold on, alright, Darryl Orlando.
They go how long have you know him.
I said about a year.
They go where'd you meet him?
I go online.
Grilling me, okay, what are you here for,
who do you see, what do you do?
He's like okay, do you have anything
that you're bringing?
I'm like yeah, let's see.
I've got a license plate, some pens and pads,
oh yeah, some moonshine, some shot glasses.
He goes through and okay, come over here.
- [Host] Wait, are you telling me
you were flying internationally with moonshine?
(laughing)
- Yeah, you know, I'm from Tennessee, come on.
It's not natural everywhere.
DJ wanted some and my crew made.
I gotta bring 'em the moonshine.
I'm here to visit my good friend Daryl Orlando.
'Cause they even said where does Daryl Orlando live?
I'm like Canada.
They're like what part?
I'm like well I guess Calgary.
They're like do you have his address?
I'm like no.
He's picking me up.
I don't know, I said I guess I could have found him.
Maybe I could look in an email.
- [Host] It's a good thing it's like
they didn't ask what did you do last time
you hung out with Daryl and you were like oh,
we shot some--
- Oh yeah, we ran some drugs.
We did some gunrunning, it was great.
What I'll do, I'll make them their plate
and I'll bring it to them.
- [Host] You fly as well, right?
- Right, I'm flying.
Flying, if I'm gonna fly to a crewmate,
it really has to be the right conditions
with the weather.
But now I did deliver one to Jester.
He's in North Carolina and me and my son,
I rented a plane and he co-piloted.
That's really great bonding, father and son
in a plane by yourself having your son,
teaching him how to co-pilot.
We flew and met Jester and his family.
We've been like really close ever since.
- [Host] He's come down with the whole family.
- He's been down plenty of times
and I go up there and one time he called me,
oh no, we were online, he kept getting disconnected,
kept getting disconnected and he goes
'cause he's probably about five hour drive
from Knoxville and he kept getting disconnected
and I said are you on wi-fi?
He goes yeah, I go you need to run a wire.
He goes I don't think there's any way to run a wire.
I said I'll be there tomorrow.
So I just drove up there and ran a wire
and spent the night and came back.
And then he hasn't had a problem since.
- To show our appreciation for being the best crew member,
you always, you're so, so, so kind
and everybody in here, I've talked
to every single person.
They can't believe your loving spirit,
how you love to give, and what you give
to each one of us and we really appreciate you
and we put something together and Jester
with his master carpenter skills
has got something for you.
- Oh my God.
- A little HBAG.
- That is awesome, holy cow.
(chattering)
(clapping)
When did y'all sign it?
(laughing)
- And there's you a little something from all of us
and we appreciate everything you do.
- Thank you so much guys.
(laughing)
(clapping)
Thanks so much guys, I really appreciate it.
I think everybody just coming out
and especially the people traveling from all over,
that's a long drive just to come to a party
and this is Wizard's third trip.
By the time he gets home it's like 6,000 miles
for a crew trip.
You guys are honestly like family, you really are.
- I feel the same way man, I feel the same way.
- Awesome, thanks guys.
(clapping)
- [Host] As the evening settled in,
some stragglers stuck around to get a few games in
but most folks went home for an early night
to prepare for the next day's activities.
A boat trip atop of Tennessee's beautiful Norris Lake.
Knox has a small boat on the lake
but he refuses to call it his own.
It's the crew boat ordained with Hillbilly Agenda logos.
He allows any crew member to take it out for free
whenever they want.
The only condition is you fill it up with gas
when you're done and take a photograph
of you and your family having fun.
After a full day on the lake with the crew
we went back to his place for a rest.
It was Sunday night, the night
where he updates the crew's stat sheets.
Ever since they started, he's logged
ever crew member's stats from distance traveled
to how likely they are to evade police.
He actually created a formula which pulls data
from Rockstar Social Club and produces even more results
than they do.
More than just entertainment, Grand Theft Auto Online
has provided Knox and his crewmates
with genuine human interaction,
friends for life, family, and shared experiences
that they and their children will remember forever
but that's all co-op gaming is at the end
of the day really isn't it?
Shared experiences, spending time
with the people you love, going on adventures,
having stories to tell and while other games
can certainly scratch that itch,
the open sandbox nature of GTA Online
and the near constant updates
make it unparalleled in the eyes of Hillbilly Agenda.
In fact, when it comes to other video games,
there's only one game the crew wants to talk about.
- I get my Game Informer magazine
and like I'm always looking through every page
like I want some Red Dead info.
There's nothing ever in there so I just whatever,
just wait for it I guess but very,
very impatiently waiting for Red Dead two.
Yeah, I'm so excited, I will be there first day.
- The thing about it is is it's still a Rockstar product,
it's still a Social Club product
and when we play that game,
we're still Hillbilly Agenda.
We'll still have the Hillbilly Agenda tag.
We'll still have our stats
and we'll just be HBAG in the wild west.
That's pretty badass.
I don't know if we're gonna have
like neon lights on the horses
or how you're gonna be able to soup your horse up
or maybe a HBAG belt buckle or something
and we'll have to dedicate it,
certain nights we'll do Grand Theft Auto,
certain nights we'll do this
but we're still Hillbilly Agenda
and we'll have a modern version
and a western version so it'll be great.
It'll be really good.
I keep joking with people going I read
on the internet there's other games for PS4
besides Grand Theft Auto.
Is it true or is that like a rumor?
'Cause that's the only game I play.
- [Host] No Destiny for you?
- No, we've lost a couple players to Destiny
so that's kind of a sore spot.
(laughing)
(muffled microphone chatter)
- [Male] Yeah, they're just gonna wait on us.
(muffled microphone chatter)
You're in the construction site.
(muffled microphone chatter)
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