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We've already been talking for 10 minutes about stuff that should have just been on this podcast.

We were going to roll yet and then we just were talking.

Yeah, but then we were just chatting and it was like, ah, this should probably just be in that.

Okay, so what's up with Las Vegas?

Oh, did she say, have you ever thought about the name?

I mean, yeah, I guess it's

the Vegas.

The Vegas.

Yeah, the Vegas, yeah.

It means the meadows.

I never knew that.

The meadows.

That seems like something I should have known.

I didn't know that.

Never even crossed my mind to think to translate it.

Is it a shortened version of a longer name?

Do you know?

Or is there a slightly different?

It was named the meadows in the 1850s because

it was a land of meadows and abundance of natural springs.

Is that real?

Yeah.

And so the Mormons built a fort there as like a halfway point between LA and

Salt Lake City, I guess.

And they had like a little fort there that they operated for like five or six years.

Eventually, they abandoned it.

And

then it was kind of nothing until people started to come west in droves for the gold rush.

And then in 1905, the guy Clark, the guy who was the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, which is why Vegas is called Clark County.

I don't know his first name.

It's a part of Clark County.

He recognized the potential of it being like a midway spot.

So between LA and other places.

And so I think LA and Santa Fe at the time.

And so he bought up all the land and all the water rights and and then auctioned it all off in 1905 and incorporated the town in 1905.

And so then the first casino was built in 1906.

Yeah.

And it is still

in operation in Vegas on Fremont Street.

It's called the Golden

something.

It's Golden Slipper, maybe, or something like that.

And it's been going the entire time.

It's the oldest casino, I guess, in America.

And it's the only one that's been around nearly that long what happened to the meadows because when i think of vegas i think of like a desert like nothing like you said it's like natural springs uh yeah yeah i guess development and ruined it yeah i don't know you don't see a lot of meadows there no it's interesting vegas has gone through a lot of different phases of reinvention if it wasn't for the uh for divorce and the dam it probably wouldn't be anything

Really?

The dam brought a ton of people to visit because they and it was a place to stay when they went to look at it because it was such a historical feat.

And then, also, so many workers went to work on the dam for a couple years, they just settled around there.

But then it became one of the only places in the country you could get a divorce quickly.

So, you could get a divorce in six weeks in Vegas, whereas in most states, you couldn't, or it would be a long, pro protracted thing.

And so, a lot of Hollywood elites and stars and starlets would go to Vegas to get divorces.

They would stick around for the six weeks because you had to be a resident.

So, you'd become like a temporary resident, live there for all it took was six weeks, just fucking party for six weeks, hang out at at the room and then yeah and then get divorced and it just endeared itself to those people huh uh and just started to grow now it's like really took off in the 30s it feels every time i go to vegas it feels like i'm at disneyland but everyone but it skews older and that's that's it because you can everything can happen if you have a hundred dollars

like if you have a hundred dollar bill you can kind of do whatever it is you're looking for in vegas yeah I'd say yeah it's pretty true yeah

it uh it's an interesting city because it's just reinvented itself through these eras over and over again and uh that was the thing that i took away from it when i was doing my research for so right is just like how impressive they've been able to just stay ahead of the curve and always figure out a way out of their mess but aren't you kind of seeing like a decline now of like i think they're in their new era i haven't been declared but they are in their sports era yeah yeah they are they have every major professional league now except for nba and they'll have that in two years probably yeah and so i think that this is their the next 20 years will be the era of sports i think we're yeah, this is going to go hand in hand with the shifting of

worldwide gambling, the worldwide gambling hub moving to like Macau and Asia,

like, which I think you've seen a lot of that, like the sports.

And also this.

Vegas is a ghost town because

of the phone sports gambling.

If you're 22 and you can, it used to be, let's go to Vegas has never seen anything like us, you and your fucking four dip shit friends or whatever,

and it costs you $700 that you don't have and you have to put in extra hours at the gym that you work at or whatever.

If you don't have to do that anymore, and you can jerk off and bet parlays on your phone, and it doesn't cost you the $700, that you're going to stay home.

Yeah.

Unless it's happening.

Unless you can see your favorite team play

stadium and then get hammered on this trip.

Yeah.

Yep.

Which is what they're banking on, I think.

But again, I think that's why it's Kew's older.

I think Vegas, I mean, the last couple of times I've been, has definitely been a much like an older crowd because I think of like sports gambling on your phone.

Yeah.

Did you ever, I'm sure you both have like seen Casino?

Oh yeah, of course.

You know, talking about the transformation makes me think of the end of that movie where it's just like essentially everything the mob built up gets blown up and the mega corporations come in.

It was Howard Hughes.

Right.

Howard Hughes came in.

Rebuilt it.

Like Bugsy Siegel and all these mob guys owned the fuck out of Vegas in the 30s, 40s, 50s.

Bugsy Siegel started the Flamingo on the strip, which is the oldest hotel on the strip.

It's been there since 1946.

It's the only hotel that's been there since before 1950.

And it was when they built it, it was one of the nicest hotels in the world.

And now it is like,

last time Emily and I we walked through it and Emily goes, oh, this is where COVID starts.

Yeah, they just blew up the Tropicana, what, like last month or two years ago?

Yeah, this new stadium they're getting built over there.

Yeah, the new A stadium.

But yeah, so

Howard Hughes goes on a vacation there in like 1962 and doesn't want to leave and just overstays and just keeps staying in hotel rooms and then just says, fuck this and just starts buying hotels.

Oh, my God.

And that's when corporate ownership happened happened, and that's when they crushed the mob.

Wow.

Yeah.

It was all because of Howard Hughes.

Huh.

And his jars of urine.

Get in the spring.

He would throw them at mob offices.

There's no way to recover from that.

The humiliation was just.

You get covered in piss.

You know what?

That smells like piss.

Oh, no.

Takes all the fight right out of you.

Anyway, here's our Vegas podcast.

We were talking about, what were we talking about right before that?

935.

Yeah.

Saying hello.

Yeah.

Oh, we were saying ahoy hoy and hello, and that was getting us uh

Simpsons adjacent, yeah, and then it turned to Vegas.

This haven't been in a while.

And if I go, like next time I go, I don't want to go to the strip.

I want to go to old, I want to go to like Fremont, like old Vegas.

We're going to go for my birthday for work.

Yeah, we're going to stay on Fremont.

We're going to stay in this hotel.

Okay.

The one that's been around since 1906.

It's $24 a night.

Already looking into it.

Rent it out, dude.

Get the whole thing.

A whole floor for $160.

I was going to say, what the fuck?

I haven't been a lot recently, but I went back in December of 2019, right before COVID really kicked off.

And I went with some family.

We were like, let's spend Christmas in Vegas, right?

Yeah.

Let's take a look.

And hotel rooms were super cheap.

I think I got

for Christmas?

Yeah.

On Christmas Day, I got the biggest, nicest room at the MGM Grand.

I want to say for like 80 bucks a night.

On Christmas?

Yeah, it was like the suite with like multiple bedrooms.

Really?

Yeah.

I can't believe that.

There was nobody there.

It was really weird you would think it would be a lot more crowded but it was a it was a really interesting time to to go to vegas i don't think i've ever been during christmas right no one thinks about it i would never think of it no as a

it was a sad it was an interesting it was an interesting experiment don't judge me

it is kind of sad wow

it's like did you meet a stripper with a heart of gold

you should absolutely bought a charlie batten tree and put it in your hotel room i'm telling you it's uh it was it was it was good good.

It was awesome.

Right, I appreciate it.

It is.

It's like the Santa Claus where they're eating at Denny's or whatever.

I think it's Preston.

Charity Prestar.

So I got a little bit of a different coffee today.

That is a beautiful little coffee cup.

So we're at Hotel St.

Cecilia.

Hotel St.

Cecilia, which is a boutique hotel in Austin that was...

It was started by Liz Lambert, a local hotel magnate who I don't think has any involvement with it anymore because it's sold to Hilton.

Did we talk?

We talked about this briefly a couple episodes ago just.

Yeah, we did because we were across the street over there at Hotel San Jose and the

Austin Motel.

These are all her hotels or were all her

hotels.

And it's also

a place that has a private membership you can come and hang out at.

Huh.

Oh, wow.

They got ground.

I recommend people stay here if they can afford it and they come.

It's definitely a place to splurge on.

Yeah, we did, speaking of splurging, we did something a little different today.

Or I did something a little different coffee today.

They had a French press, so Eric and I decided to split it.

Me and Gus are sharing.

And since we're getting something a little different, I went ahead and put a sugar cube and a little bit of cream into my coffee.

Oh, did you make yourself a cup?

Yeah, I made myself a cup.

Pouring that coffee, it smells amazing and it looks the way it should.

Like lots of times, you get a coffee and just like that weak kind of see-through, anemic brown color.

Yeah.

This has that rich,

full, like dark, like you can't see-through like it's supposed to be.

Yeah, fantastic.

That's beautiful.

Awesome.

Just have plates and napkins and people have to be able to do it.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Any other food you want me to get started right now?

I think this is a good one.

Thank you.

I'm Chris.

I will check on you in just a little bit.

Appreciate it.

Thanks so much, Chris.

Pass it out.

You get one, Jeff?

Thank you, sir.

Anyway, I recommend people come and stay here if they want to splurge on a fancy hotel.

It is.

You can't just come here and go to the coffee shop.

I was lucky enough to get a hookup for us to come for the day, but I thought it'd be fun to try something a little bougier than usual.

This is nice.

Like, you asked me if I'd ever been here.

Like, you mentioned the place.

I was like, what?

No.

I have no idea where that is.

I had to look it up.

I'm like, oh, yeah, this place.

Yeah.

That's a very nice cup of coffee.

It looked like.

I haven't tried it yet.

It is.

That's a fine cup of coffee.

The cool thing about this place

is it is an oasis.

I'm never leaving.

You did not know you were on South Congress.

Well, we drove to get here or whatever, and you're like, it's one of these driveways.

And we're like, what the fuck?

There were fake out driveways before you got to the real one?

Yeah.

Yeah, it was pretty crazy.

But we made it.

Let's see.

Listen, we made it is definitely something I would think while sitting here looking at this pastry, eating, eating, eating this pastry, drinking this coffee.

Yeah.

I apologize to the audience, the portion of the audience that hates to listen to us eat.

I don't.

Sorry.

What's this?

It's the only way you're getting this podcast, unfortunately.

Is that butter?

Salted butter?

Yep.

Dude, I think it is.

Oh, yeah.

Come on.

This is is a

swanky little spot, Jeff.

Okay, Ramsey, you know how to live.

Yeah, hey, man.

Hey, man.

I picked up a few things in my 30 years here.

Very nice with the butter.

Yeah, that's excellent.

That big old flake salt.

I was asking about if

Vegas had a longer name, because I think about like how Los Angeles is actually just like a shortened version of the actual full name of the city.

What?

Yeah, Los Angeles actually has a really long name.

I looked it up while you were talking.

I never remember it.

The full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles.

What is that?

Which means...

Uh, the town of Our Lady, the queen of the angels.

Wow.

That's a beautiful name.

So that's why I was like, when you see, you started digging into Las Vegas name.

I was like, oh, is that another one of those where it's like there's a like a longer version of the name?

No, just Las Vegas.

It's funny how many

city names and state names and plus stuff like that is Spanish or another language, and you just never think about it.

It just like Americanizes into whatever.

Growing up with it, I never think about

San Diego, Los Angeles.

Like it's just

all Spanish, and you just never

occurs to me.

But then in between, you have Orange County, and that is the whitest.

Irvine.

Yeah, dude.

Oh, boy.

Did you know that's a company?

Do you know about this?

No, what?

You know how Irvine is always voted the safest city or whatever whatever in like the most family-friendly city in america it's always always it's voted that every year right

irvine the city is owned by the irvine company

so all of their policing everything that they do is through the irvine company so the city is very like

They're very strict about like what they build, how they build, what they do, what comes in and everything.

I've been pulled over in Irvine more in my life than I have anywhere else combined.

Wow.

There's a neighborhood also like that called Rosewood.

Don't say that.

Williamson County.

Take the difference.

Yeah.

It's,

I know the second season of True Detective was not very popular and not very good.

Uh-huh.

But

that's kind of like the underlying story of season two of True Detective is like this small town in the

Inland Empire in California that's really like a town on paper.

It's really just like a company and it's an excuse for for to have a place where you can do shady things and semi-illegal things.

It's like not really a town, but companies are there.

Was that a Vince Vaughan one?

Yeah, never saw that one.

It was not very good.

That sounds like something that would happen in the Inland Empire, though.

That's yeah, it was nothing else is there.

I think that season was just, I think they rushed it.

I think there was something good there that they didn't have fully enough time to flesh out in the writing side of things.

It's like, oh, there were some really good nuggets in here, but they just didn't come together.

Do you guys have places like that like inland empire isn't

technically like the name it's san bernardino county and it encompasses sort of like that whole area out to like the desert and we just call it i always just knew it as inland empire the ie that's just what we called it but again that's just san bernardino county did you guys have other places like that that had like here's like the colloquial name for this thing but it wasn't actually that i'm sure that exists here

even like growing up, did you have spots like that?

When I was in, growing up in Mobile, they call it LA there for lower Alabama.

Is that for real?

Yeah.

So you'd be like,

whenever you go home, do you wear like an iHeart LA shirt?

No, because I don't heart either LA.

Not a big fan of either one.

Oh, I'm from L.A.

Really?

You don't look like it.

Yeah, lower Alabama.

Oh, yeah, man.

I'm from L.A.

This is this is a nightmare to eat, this cinnamon roll.

Oh, I didn't realize I was a cinnamon roll.

I'm in trouble.

Oh, you blew it.

I blew it.

It's funny you ask that because I feel like that's always the thing lots of places have to try to like suss out locals versus people who are just visiting.

It's like, oh, you called it by the name.

So you're clearly not actually from here.

Yeah.

That's freeways here.

I don't, I can't, I can't call everything.

I can't call it, oh yeah, I got to take the 35 to the one.

It's 35 to 1.

I think that with, at least in Texas, it's like, it's maybe not secondary names, but just knowing pronunciation.

Oh, that's good.

Like, if you know how to pronounce Bear County, you're local, right?

If you pronounce it Bexar County, you're clearly a transplant.

I used to pronounce it Bexar County until I learned.

That's really fun.

There's a lot of places, like, I feel like there's a lot of popular videos on YouTube like that, like pronouncing Texas names.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We did it on the podcast once.

We did it.

And that was a, that was a fun game.

It was good.

That's how I learned about green.

i uh yeah i still to this day meet people who are like grew in like those are like oh yeah you you just moved here huh it's crazy but then

there's like

man shack or what like

yeah and it's and guad like

the whole guad thing

fucking nuts that's doesn't that make you insane

after a while i mean i don't know the whole the whole thing's nuts the thing that purtle told us was was like, because he's a radio guy, Mike Purdle.

He's like, when I first started, working in radio out here, they told us to pronounce it like the redneck way.

Pronounce it like

Guadalupe.

He's like, what's Guadalupe?

No, pronounce it, Guadalupe.

Jeez, man.

And I will say Purdle knows how to pronounce everything.

He always gets mad.

Well, when we worked at RT, he would always get mad because I'm very inconsistent with my pronunciation of Burnett.

Oh, yeah.

It's Burnett Durnet.

Yeah, he would always slack me.

He'd correct me every time we had an anime episode.

Sorry, Mike.

I try to be better about it now because of you.

He was always the best.

He would always tell us, listen to the episode.

Here's all the problems.

We'd be going into the break row.

He's break show.

He'd go, all right, I loved yesterday's episode.

Here's everything you got wrong.

Everything.

Which is essentially everything.

And

which was great because it was always welcome.

Like, oh, yeah.

From Fertile 2, it was like, tell me.

Absolutely.

Oh, man.

Easily

one of my favorite people that I worked with at Rooster Teeth.

He's doing a a lot, too.

He's like, he's still traveling, doing all like the radio stuff and everything.

He's like,

he's constantly like, all right, at this basketball game, oh, just flew down, did the Cowboys game down here, and now I'm up here doing baseball.

And it's like, what?

Geez, dude.

He knows his stuff.

Yeah.

That was always the thing.

It's like, if you had him on a project or you needed to get something done, he was on it.

Like, you know, it was settled.

Yep.

You know, it's taken care of.

Yep.

Whatever was going to pop up, whatever problems there were going to be, he was.

on top of it.

He'd already thought about it or he already had a solution.

Yeah, he was the best of the best for sure.

I talked to him not too long ago.

Oh, good.

Good to check in with him.

Good.

That's really cool.

He was sharing a playlist with me.

I was talking about on a, I think on a Saw Right about how, for some reason, music sounds better when it's raining outside.

He sent me his like rainy day playlist that he used to play before productions, specifically when it would rain outside of stage five.

So

as a corollary, is that also why it sounds better when you sing in the shower?

I would assume so, yeah.

Yeah, it's probably related.

Probably the same thing.

Do you listen to music when you take a shower?

I listen to sometimes I listen to something constantly if I'm in the house alone.

I'm, if Emily is around, the house is pretty quiet because

she works at a salon where he's describing my life.

Where they play music from the second she gets in to the second she leaves.

So it's just like a wall of noise all day long.

So she doesn't want to hear background noise.

But the second she's gone, podcast or music is on.

I listened to Howard Stern this morning when I was showering.

Yeah.

I turned the TV on.

I watch TV when I'm in the shower.

Well, I don't watch.

I'm in the shower when I listen to it.

What do you watch on TV?

Normally, God.

Okay.

Fucking YouTube, apparently.

Remember?

Don't hate me.

Well, what I normally watch or have on when I'm in the shower is like, I'll put CNBC on.

You know,

it's J-R-E.

You know, I gotta listen to whoever Rogan was talking to.

Yeah, well, it's just that he's like.

I just like his interviews.

That's how it starts, man.

That's how it fucking starts.

I love when people say that, like, as an excuse for why they listen.

It's like, just own up that you listen.

I don't give a shit.

Listen, when you're- I'm gonna judge you either way.

But in general, yeah, anyone who says that, it's like you've already been judged, regardless of whatever justification, like whatever justification you give yourself in the head.

It's not going to change how I feel about it.

Yeah, but here's my justification.

This should help.

I don't know.

It doesn't.

Maybe it helps you.

If it helps you, great.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I think very little of you either way.

So it's good.

It's not a big deal.

So it's either CNBC or if it's on the weekend, I put air disasters off.

Interesting.

I'm sick of watching the news.

Y'all got any car crash videos?

Plane crashes.

2025 has been great for you, huh?

It's been a busy year.

You guys got any work place accident videos you can find?

I saw a fucking

video yesterday on TikTok that made me laugh so fucking hard.

It was just a dude outside getting on a plane and he just goes, I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is jackass.

And he just turned to the plane.

That's awesome.

Have you, either of you been watching

Common Side Effects?

It's an animated show.

No, no, we mentioned about it.

Yeah, we haven't watched it yet.

There's a, I don't know why something one of you said me think about this.

There's a great joke in the first episode where it's like these two people are sitting in a coffee shop talking.

It's a very serious conversation about pharmaceuticals and this medicine that could change the world and everything.

And the Barista comes out or Barista's at their station at the counter and says, got a flat white for Gegory.

One of the two characters goes, surely the name's Gregory, right?

So it can't be named Gegory.

And then they continue the conversation.

And like three seconds later, dude walks up and goes, yeah, I'm Gegory.

So that was his name.

It's like, this is a deadpan delivery.

He's a Mike Judd show, yeah.

Yeah.

It's good.

It's really, it's really funny.

Yeah.

It's really, it's really an excellent show.

I think one of the co-creators was one of the co-creators of Scavenger's Reign, which was also an excellent animated show that...

got screwed over and it's not getting a second season well so far.

Not a lot of animation.

I mean, there is animation, but not a ton of it right now.

Just, I guess, expensive to make, so why make it?

Plus, Scavenger's Reign was also on Max, I think.

And they have a track record of doing very good.

And if you want to buy this podcast, let me know.

And I think they're saving Grace.

They're Hail Mary to try to get a second season, which they licensed it to Netflix.

I think even Netflix was like, yeah, we're not going to find it.

Dude, that just happened with,

what is it?

Den of Thieves or whatever?

Den of Thieves 2

Pantera is the movie.

It's Den of Thieves 2.

Oh, I've seen the poster for that.

I don't know what this is.

It is a Gerard Butler movie with Ice Cube's son from like 20.

The first one's from like 27.

O'Shea Jackson?

Yeah.

And it's like a very like LA movie.

I like it a lot for being like how LA it is, but it's like a pretty straightforward action movie.

They just made a sequel.

They came out like in January of this year.

I don't know why they made a sequel.

No one was asking for it.

They did it anyway.

I got to see it once it's streaming.

But it's like...

All right, cool.

The last one was like on Max, and that's like kind of how it got popularity and all this stuff.

It's like, great.

So this new one's coming to Netflix.

And it's like, what?

It already came out in theaters.

What is Max doing?

Well, I think we're seeing that transition in budget and leadership where they made stuff kind of under the old way of thinking.

And now the new way of thinking is, oh, we've already got this thing.

We'll license it.

We'll try to recoup our money on that end.

But like, there's so, I guess.

I guess my confusion with like a lot of this stuff is I just sort of want repositories or places where that will have like the old stuff that I want to watch.

Like

when HBO Max started or whatever, it was like, here's all the adult swim stuff.

Here's all the TCM stuff.

And it's like, great.

This is all I want forever.

And they're like, yeah, we're going to stop doing those things.

It's like, what?

But you own it.

Well, then, yeah, they either take it a write down or you like it somewhere else like they did to Netflix.

Crazy.

It's a complicated dance to figure all that stuff out.

And for legal purposes, this is not disparagement against Warner Brothers discussion.

Oh my God.

A good earnest discussion about the film industry.

And if they want to buy this podcast, please contact them.

You had it.

You can have it.

Don't let the name fool you.

You know what I've decided I want?

I was thinking about this the other day.

New season of the Traders is almost over, and then they're going to start the British version.

But I'm on all the Traders subreddits, and supposedly, like Denmark and all the other European markets are way better.

I wish I could buy a streaming service for a show that gives me all of the iterations of that show

across the world, right?

I would love to buy Survivor, the Survivor streaming service that allows me access to every country's back catalog of Survivor.

Yeah.

It's interesting.

I would go even more granular with it.

You know, even further down this fucking rabbit hole of a la carte.

That sounds like a licensing nightmare.

It does, but

like, that's all I want.

If I had Survivor and the Traders and all of the 76 versions of the shows, I'd never need anything else.

I never thought about that, but I would do that for Amazing Race because I see people like in the subreddit talk about like Amazing Race Australia or Asia or Canada.

Like I've never seen any of those.

There's a dude on Deal or No Deal Island this season that nobody knows who he is because he's, but he is the most successful survivor player of all time.

Oh, wow.

He's an Australian survivor player who's won more survivors than any of the US, than Sandra or Tony or any of the U.S.

people.

And he's incredibly famous.

And I'd never seen him before either.

And I would love to watch his seasons of Australian Survivor.

I just speaking of Survivor and Amazing Race, it made me think about something I learned the other day.

I've never watched The White Lotus.

I know, I acknowledge it's a hugely popular show, but I read that one of the creators, Mike White,

was on Survivor, was on Survivor and The Amazing Race.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like multiple times.

He's famous on Survivor Race.

And I was like, oh, and I looked at a picture.

I'm like, yeah, I remember that guy from Amazing Race.

Survivor I haven't watched in years.

He was David Wright's School of Rock.

Yes.

Yeah, he did.

He's also in School of Rock.

He's like, oh, this dude went on a couple of reality shows, and now he's like, huh.

He's like, insanely successful.

He's like one of the hottest dudes in Hollywood.

Yeah.

Yep.

Season three is pretty decent.

It is, I will say this, as somebody who's watches every second of white lotus it is this he is brilliant because he created a format and he just replaces characters every season with different actors and actresses but the format stays the same it's just a different locale reality show base like like it's crazy he took what works about the reality show which is what you're watching for and then scripted it yeah and then he just I can't swaps those things in and out.

I can't imagine the format working in season four because it's getting pretty obvious in season three.

You know,

the same hotel chain,

episode one, you find out that there's a murder, then you spend the rest of the time trying to figure out which dysfunctional family committed the murder.

And it's just a takedown of wealthy Americans and how vapid they are and selfish.

And it's great.

And it's one of those shows where you don't like anybody, you know?

Or if you do, you like, it's like a plucky local who's just doing their best dealing with all these dipshit Americans and other ne'er-do-wells.

And

it's just this process and a marriage is breaking down and there's probably some infidelity at some point.

And then there's this one character who's weaved throughout it who's some sort of a criminal you're trying to figure out.

But it is literally the same show over and over.

I've never, again, I've never seen White Lotus, but the way you describe it, you talk about it being for your length there also makes me think of Knives Out and Glass Onion.

Oh, yeah.

It's kind of the same show.

It's like a very similar concept where it's like all these wealthy and or powerful people and how they really are a piece of shit and they're trying to backstab backstab each other, and just coming in from an outside perspective and trying to dissect whatever it is that's going on.

Yeah.

Is Alexandra Didario in one of those shows?

She was in season two.

Okay.

She's like a huge, like Eric the Actor fan.

She's a huge anti-she's an Eric the Actor fan.

Isn't that crazy?

She's a stat.

She's a Stern fan.

Has she ever been on Stern?

I don't, I don't know, but we found out about it like years ago that she was like, that she would make like Eric the Actor jokes.

And it was like,

what?

That is so funny because she she gets so much guff for being like one of the least interesting celebrities on like the celebrity talk shows i listen to podcasts i listen to i think she's great yeah but uh that's really funny i like her even more now that i know she that she's the actor yeah the greatest of all time the true goat true goat well

i'm a hank man but yeah he's up there he's up there it's just it's a mount rush more

just thinking werewolves are real and they live in new mexico is the vice it's hard to beat it's hard to beat the werewolves are real.

No, no, they're

he thinks they're real.

Oh, shit.

I love it.

That was so good.

What, so you're talking about having a streaming service for a show and all like its international versions?

Do you think survival, like, what do you think is like the most, like, you would get like the most episodes of?

Like, if it would probably be survivor,

survivor and traders.

Traders was in like 10 countries before it got to the U.S.

Could be be up there.

Amazing Race would be a big one as well.

I bet American Idol or British Idol or whatever the fuck it was called, that thing, that's probably up there.

Yeah, there's probably.

I don't think it's at the top, but the office is probably

up.

Every country feels like they just have their own

office.

Yeah.

There's a million love islands, but those are all licensed out.

You can watch those pretty much.

Oh, really?

Interesting.

But they're like all those new

Netflix shows, Hot or Not, those all have multiple countries.

But you can get all this through Netflix.

Yeah.

Too.

I think.

I just think it's a

very interesting idea of having a survivor streaming thing where it's like, here's all of it.

Here's all the different versions of Breaking Bad around the world.

Yeah.

Oh.

That's funny you say that.

That's the one I was thinking of, too.

Really?

Yeah.

Is there a lot of Breaking Bad?

I think there's like one in Brazil or Mexico.

I think there's a Mexican one and one in South America.

There's one in Mexico?

I wanted to say so.

I wanted to say so.

Do they come across the border north style and it's not orange anymore?

I can't say I've watched any of them.

Wow.

All right.

How weird.

I never thought about that being

a show that would be like that.

We had a crazy windstorm come through here yesterday.

Oh, shit.

And

there was so much West Texas dust that was kicked up.

The whole sky was like...

orange and brown all day.

And as I was driving around or doing stuff yesterday, I kept thinking, this is how when movies or TV shows are set in Mexico, this is like the filter they use to try to make it look like, oh, now you're in Mexico.

When the sun sun started setting and it was like that hazy orange-brown or whatever, it looked like some Blade Runner-ass.

Yeah, oh, yeah,

it definitely did.

It looked like in Blade Runner, what is it, 2049?

Yeah.

The new one is when he hits Vegas.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

See, because Vegas keeps rebuilding.

It's going to live forever.

Yeah.

Harrison Ford's out there.

I'm sorry, Deckard.

Gus was complaining in the car earlier about the Austin subreddit and all the idiots on it not understanding what was going on.

Yeah.

Like, oh, why is the sky so weird today?

Dude, what's going on?

Did you see how many power outages there were?

Yeah.

The wind was

yep it it was just people going like uh

yeah why why is the power out what happened and it's like did you argue it's like a 50 mile an hour wind it's it's so windy and when it gets even a little windy transformers blow all over this dumbass city that that has trees growing so

many tree limbs dropped in my backyard yesterday i spent like 30 minutes cleaning them up it's insane

it like

and then yeah and then people complain when they come through to clear those trees yep like oh they cut my tree branches.

And like, well, yeah, what do you want?

You want power?

No, well, no.

It's crazy.

I've never been in a city like Austin that has this, where it is just growth into

electrical lines unabated.

Yeah, back in 2015, there was a bad, like in May 2015, I would say, there was a bad storm that came through and

tree limbs fell and knocked out power.

And that was like in May or something and knocked out power to my home for like four days.

Oh my god you know because so many tree limbs had knocked out so many power lines in austin maybe it wasn't for maybe it was three days but something like it was a couple of days and it was like one of those things where you're like yeah well it'll come back when it comes back and then when they when they restored power like the next day the tree clearing company came through and just cleared everything in our neighborhood like everything was pristine after that you have to it's weird like i is covet the reason why they stopped like why it's slow

i think they

People complained and the city changed their stance on it.

They did.

They allowed more overgrowth around power lines because the people in the city complained that the power lines were unsightly.

It was a, it was a, we did this to ourselves.

Yeah, we really shot ourselves in the foot on that.

Yeah, we really did.

That's as a city.

That's crazy.

And then I think now it's been flipped.

It's been changed back.

Oh, has well, yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That's course has been reversed.

That's nuts.

I didn't know that it was a city complaint thing.

Yeah, it was a whole ordeal.

Thanks.

So, yeah, it was our fault.

Yeah, I don't want to look at these power lines.

Oh, my power's out.

Let's cover them with tree loads.

Well, okay, but as long as they're really heavy.

Yeah.

It never snows.

It never gets cold enough.

Thank you.

When it's windy, they're all stationary, right?

Right?

How are we all doing on the meeting now?

No, I think we're fine.

I think we're good.

Cool.

That was awesome.

Thank you so much.

That little pastry word is fucking awesome.

Yeah.

That was a good call by you guys.

It was, well, me and Gus are all about sharing.

We're like, we're friends.

We got French press.

We got bread.

Yeah.

We're literally breaking bread.

Dude.

It's biblical here.

They have a club sandwich here that'll fucking knock your dick off.

I love club sandwiches.

Really?

Yeah.

But I like my dick, too.

Well,

this is real.

bringing some creepy

power line situations

on the one hand club sandwich on the other hand

it's time for you to make a choice oh no nice

um

this made me think of a

some tv thing where a guy was getting put into like an mri

but somebody didn't know that he had like a like a dick implant that was metal and an mri just like rips fucking metal out of you i guess i don't know uh have you guys ever had an MRI yeah really do you have to like lay in the thing

how long does it take

I think it's like 35 minutes or something's a long time and you can't move at all I was actually a little worried because I have this bracelet yeah that Emily and I got together when we were first started dating and it's one of those ones that it's like forever lit off

like I got it from this place in Brooklyn and it won't come off and I was like is it okay to have this on and they were like I don't know and I was like well I can't take it off and they're like we'll just see and it was fine

they don't have like a test magnet they can't like here let's see they were just like it's probably okay if i go to the doctor and i ask them a question and they say i don't know that's the scariest thing i could hear they probably don't know what metal it's made of yeah they were just like it's probably fine wow we'll find out real fast yeah we'll see how much gold is in there

yeah

it was fine what's the worst that could happen i mean you could fight against that It's a small piece of metal.

For 35 minutes, it ripped off me so fast.

I mean, it's so tiny.

Emily's broke two years ago.

Mine just will not break.

Yeah.

You're powerful.

How was it being in the thing for like 35 minutes?

Is it just like

because you can't listen to anything?

You just have to go insane.

It is awesome.

What?

Awesome.

It's like a sensory deprivation tank or something.

Yeah, it's dark.

It's loud as fuck.

You don't move and you just lay down.

It's like the best thing possible.

Did you take a nap?

Somebody telling you, like, you just sit and be quiet for a little while.

Don't go anywhere.

Don't get up.

Don't do any chores.

Don't do any work.

Just lay there.

Just lay there with your thoughts.

My thoughts are awesome.

I love my thoughts.

I never get a chance to hang out with my thoughts.

I pay to hang out with my thoughts more.

Dude, my thoughts rock.

They're pretty good.

I'm a huge,

my mom doesn't like it.

She doesn't like being trapped in it, but I'm a huge fan of the MRIs.

Do they have to put, like, isn't there like a thing they like put over your face sometimes?

If it's like a.

I don't want you to get starved.

Yeah, that way you get distracted.

What?

This bird's flying around in the MRI.

Put the hat on him.

You ever see those photos or those videos of like commercial planes filled with falcons?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

You know, with the little hood on.

It's like, here's a Saudi Prince.

He rented this whole airline for his falcons.

And you go, what?

And then it's one guy in the front smiling and 30 falcons.

All the whole in first class.

I'll have the champagne and he'll have, do you have any dead mice?

Saudi Prince money is crazy because it is uh so twisted in one way or the other, or whatever.

But then, when it when it aligns with your interests and it's in something that you want, it's crazy because you're like rooting for it in a way I've never experienced before.

Until a guy went, Hey, I'm gonna buy SNK.

Remember, SNK?

He likes, hey, I'm gonna buy like King of Fighters franchise.

I'm gonna buy SNK, and then I'm gonna make a new.

Uh, I like this game from 1999,

make a new one, pay for a new one being made.

It, Gus, it has been 25 years and it comes out in a month.

And I'm like, I'm like a calendar on the wall.

I'm like marking.

I love King of Fighters.

I didn't know this was going on.

So he has a new, the Mark of the Wolves came out in like 99, and it was like a Dreamcast game, arcade, whatever.

And then since then, we've been waiting for a sequel and it's coming out.

And he's like, hey, making a new one.

Some new cast, some original cast.

Ronaldo, the soccer player, he's going to be in it.

Oh, my God.

All my personal friends.

It's that.

Huh?

And it's like, I've never in my life had Saudi money aligned with something that I also wanted desperately.

And it's like, huh.

You know, what am I rooting for?

It's so funny.

Saudi money used to be like the crazy mark of like, well, it's insane.

That's Saudi oil prints money, right?

Now it's Saudi oil money pales in comparison to tech oligarch money.

Yes.

Where it's just like, okay, now I'm just going to take over this entire government.

Yeah, like, oh, I own your nation.

I'm going to get you to cancel, to sell all of your government property, all of your government buildings, so that my friends can buy it and then you just lease it back to us and we fucking fleece the entire country.

Privatize it.

Yeah.

How are you feeling about the impending privatization of air traffic control?

Not good.

Not good, dude.

There are already

some towers, even before all of this stuff, there are already some air traffic control towers in the United States that are privatized and run by private business.

And there are quite a few in Europe as well that are run by private companies and they're not government agencies.

And in general, not good.

Really?

Yeah,

not the best.

Guess what?

That's the kind of thing that should not be run for profit.

That's the kind of thing that's run for safety.

That is a money loser because it keeps people.

Yep.

It keeps people alive.

You know what else shouldn't be run for profit?

A country.

Yeah.

Right.

Should be a fucking pass-through.

No, that's not what my dad said.

How come these guys don't run this more like a business?

Nope.

Anyway, that's not how it works.

Anyway, they're doing it now, and here we are.

So you're welcome.

Because 80% of businesses die in the first year.

No shit.

It was growing up.

It was always my dad being mad at like the government, like, ah, they're running it this way.

You should run it more like a business.

And every day him complaining, like, oh, these fucking people I work with, why do they run the company this way?

And it's like, oh, I think I get what this is.

It's the kind of thing I thought was a really good idea and was really smart when I was 14.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then you get.

A year older, 15, like, oh, wait, no, that doesn't work.

Oh, wait, that's not a good idea.

It's like when you're, it's like my version of that is being like a young, idealized 17-year-old anarcho-punk, you know?

Yeah.

And then about 25, you go, oh, anarchy, that's a dumb idea.

Why did I think that was so cool?

Why did I think that made sense?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Still like the music, though.

Nothing wrong with that.

To rewind a little bit, you were talking about King of Fighters.

Yeah.

It's funny.

A week or two ago, I was sitting in my living room and I thought, I'm an adult.

Why don't I have a Neo Geo?

Now we're talking.

And I was like, are you you're going to play some metal slugs?

Well, I was like, why?

What was the deal with Neo Geo?

Because it came out when I was probably like 13, 14, somewhere around there.

And I was like, I remember it was always like the really expensive thing.

So I started reading up on it.

Like, what was the whole history?

Why was it made?

Why was it so expensive?

And I was like, shit, I should just buy one.

I haven't bought one yet, but I've been looking on eBay.

Like, I should just buy a fucking Neo Geo and buy like every Neo Geo.

I'm an adult.

I've got money.

I could do this now.

Like, I could live my childhood dream of the thing I could never do.

Yeah, weren't they like $600 when they came out?

It was really expensive.

And the.

They did like 90s money.

Yeah.

And the carts were like, I think they were the same carts for the at-home as they were in like the in the arcade.

And the reason that, like,

King of Fighters and SNK in general took off in places like Mexico because you just had to buy the one machine and then you could get four games in it.

And you could pick, here's a soccer game, here's a fighting game, here's a beat-em-up game, whatever.

And so people would just, oh, cool, I'm going to play this.

Oh, cool.

I'm going to do that.

Like, it got really big.

There's a huge scene for King of Fighters in Mexico still, just because of that, because of how it sort of like parsed out in the 90s.

It's really crazy.

What are your favorite arcade games of all time?

Street Fighter 2.

Street Fighter 2.

Street Fighter 2 is up there.

King of Fighters 2000 and 2002.

Those are probably, those are probably like the best ones to me.

I really like Dynamite Cop.

I only ever played that one.

That was at the New York Pizza Slice place across the street from my house growing up.

And it was just a big, like, dreamcast-looking, you know, run over and beat guys up or whatever.

Those are really good.

Cruising USA

is like,

that is.

Yeah, those are like up there.

Those are really up there.

I liked Gauntlet a lot, too.

Yeah.

You like getting four people up?

Gauntlet and Golden Axe.

Yeah, those are good.

Golden Axe was great.

The

Simpsons Arcade game, I think, is like one of the best beat-em-ups.

It's so much fun.

For me, that game's so bad, it comes back around to good.

Exactly.

I think it's awesome.

I think it absolutely rocks.

I think it's so good.

The Ninja Turtles beat-em-up.

I don't love the X-Men arcade game,

but it was fun as shit.

Do you guys ever play Rygar or Rastan?

Yeah, I played both of them.

That was probably my two favorite arcade games.

I think I only played Rastan.

I think it was an NES port, maybe.

I've only ever played it.

I feel like I played it there.

We were talking about arcade games in Mexico.

I remember, I don't know if y'all were ever aware of this.

Like, you know, Street Fighter 2 came out.

Then later there was like Street Fighter 2 Turbo where you could both be the same character and some stuff was slightly different.

There's more characters that you could play like Bison and

all those people.

Anyway,

I think a lot of that...

I have to look in this.

I'm talking out of my ass, talking off the top of my head here.

I think a lot of that started from like modded arcade scene.

Yes.

Because I remember going to Mexico when I was a kid and there was like a modded Street Fighter 2 cabinet where Guil Sonic Boom didn't just go straight.

It went like up and down.

You could do like air fireballs with Ryu and like shoot like a bunch of fireballs.

Chung Lee could like fly across with her kick and everything.

And Chung Li also had a little fireball, which was in turbo.

Yeah.

The modded, the modded Street Fighter stuff was like a whole scene.

And then they went, oh shit, we have to let you play as the bosses.

Oh shit, this is really successful.

We have to come out with another version.

Here's four more characters.

Yeah.

They just kept making more and more.

And then the fighting scene blew up

in like the late 90s and it all just collapsed and then then came back later i think that was the first time i ever saw like a modded game or like something that was like different i was because i what street fighter 2 came out in what like 91 or so i remember playing it at my sixth grade graduation

i remember my sixth grade graduation was at a restaurant that was in the mall

but like I knew that the arcade was like right down the way and they had they had just gotten Street Fighter 2.

And so like I went to the bathroom and I just like left and went and played Street Fighter 2 as much as I could.

They came back partway through the graduation to like do that.

There was a Street Fighter Fighter 2 at the Walmart in my town that I could ride my bike to, but when I was like 12, but the bigger kids were always playing it, would never let me play.

But there was Ivan Stewart's off-road, I think we've talked about it before, was there as well, and nobody ever played that.

So I would always watch people play Street Fighter while I played off-road.

That's awesome.

Because I was too small

to fight.

to fight with the big kids.

After we did a FaceGM live thing a couple years ago in Chicago, I stayed an extra day and

I went to this arcade called Galloping Ghost.

You know about this?

No.

It's this, it's 10 bucks a game.

It's like a free play arcade.

It is, I don't know that it's the biggest arcade, but it is the most games I've ever seen in one place.

Really?

It is absolutely wall to wall in jam-packed row to row, like aisles.

Just games.

Every game that you could want to play or think to play is just

there.

It was,

it was awesome.

It's in Chicago or outside of Chicago, and it was like, man, it rocked.

I spent all day there.

It was like, I haven't done something like that in a long, long time.

Was there at any point when you were running through there where you're like, what about this game?

And you went to look for it and you couldn't find it?

No.

They have like everything.

No, because I remember thinking like, oh, I wonder if they have this.

this king of fighters that was like right at like this cusp of them becoming like this other thing or whatever and i went and i'm like ah maybe they they don't have it.

And then they just have a whole section that's just

fighting games.

And it was just

all of them.

That's crazy.

I mean, it was just, it was shitty games.

I've never even heard of it.

It's like a library of arcade games.

It was awesome.

And they were all in like good condition.

Everything worked.

It was really fucking cool.

That was always my dream as a kid.

The arcade we had at the mall where I played Street Fighter 2.

What was it called?

Goldmine.

I think it was a small chain.

But every year on the holidays around November, they would put price tags on all the arcade games.

Oh, wow.

You could buy their arcade cabinet if you wanted to.

And like, as a 12, 13 year old, I was like, man, that's my dream.

I want to be an adult.

I wish I had $4,000.

I could buy that game.

$4,000.

That's so much money.

How does anyone afford that?

But then you turn into Jack Batillo and you're like trying to give away your arcade cabinets because they're filling up your garage and you can't get rid of them and you don't know what to do with them.

Yeah, I never, so I've never done it for that reason.

I was like, oh, that takes a lot of space.

How much would I really use it?

Yeah.

That sucks.

Yeah, exactly.

Because when you're a kid, it's all the, it's the thing you want forever.

It's the best thing ever.

And then you can actually get it when you're an adult.

Don't which is why I was thinking about the Neo-Gio.

Yep.

Yeah.

Ring full circle.

Those cartridges are fucking huge.

Yeah.

But I mean, I had a Turbo Graphics.

So.

Did you really?

Yeah.

I only played Splatterhouse?

Yeah.

That was so fun.

I only ever played the demo like in

store in elementary school.

Kids called me Bonk.

Or Bonk's bad.

My head was so big.

We didn't know anyone who had a Turbo Graphics 16, but but everyone knew Bonk's Adventure, and I had a big head.

That's so good.

So I wasn't, I was bonked.

My cousin was dating a guy who was in the army and he was going, getting shipped off or whatever.

And he went, well, I can't take this with me.

And he just gave us this TurboGraphics.

And we went, like, what is this?

Like, had never seen it.

It was like the little cards.

It was the cards.

Yeah.

Crazy.

I had a friend who lived down the road from me.

His parents got divorced.

And so they got him a TurboGrafx 16.

Nice.

He was pretty happy about it.

Yeah.

Alien Crush Pinball is like the coolest pinball.

It's all HR Geiger-looking, gross alien monster things.

It's pinball and it's awesome.

It was great.

Really fun.

But I also had a Sega Saturn.

So I just

huge.

Kind of just kept

swinging and missing on consoles there, bud.

That's Sega Saturn sucked.

I don't think I ever played.

The only game I think I know over there was Knights.

Knights.

Yeah, that's.

I never had a Sega Saturn.

I had a Sega C D, though.

Oh, wow.

Was it like Sewer Shark?

Sewer Shark.

Sewer Shark game.

Yeah.

And there was a Jurassic Park game, I believe, that I played.

They gotta stop making Jurassic Park movies, I think.

Nah, keep making them.

They'll come back around.

They'll make a good one eventually.

Good Jurassic Park game.

They should make a good Jurassic Park movie and then have a good Jurassic Park game.

Have you seen the plot of the new Jurassic Park movie?

No.

It should be the plot of the new Jurassic Park game.

Isn't there like another island with the most dangerous dinosaurs on it?

We have to go to the island where we put the most dangerous dinosaurs.

There's we have to collect DNA samples from the sky one, the land one, one, and the water one.

Sounds like a video game.

Insane.

And how many fucking islands are populated with dinosaurs in this universe?

I don't.

Why?

Also, the premise is that this is where Jurassic Park falls apart completely for me.

The premise is these dinosaurs were all wiped out and they were all dead.

So we kept all these dinosaurs alive.

And the dangerous ones that we couldn't keep, we put them on their own island.

Yeah.

Just kill the dinosaurs and bring more back to life.

If this isn't

the technology already did it you did it you did it the hard way they've been gone for millions of years now they've just been gone for a week or two

bring them back oh these dinosaurs have been gone for weeks

oh yeah yeah

i don't think they're gonna make a good jurassic park game i also don't think they're gonna make a juric what do you think was the last good jurassic park movie

jurassic park yeah like three

it's been years since i've seen it it was good it was pretty solid i just jurassic i think my wife likes the second one

Everybody likes that one because of the Jeff Golden stuff.

Yeah, okay.

And it's uh, you watch it, and he's a completely different character.

He's like not doing the same performance at all.

Yeah, it's very strange.

It's very, very strange.

I like what how could he be bothered to re-watch the first movie before filming the second one?

It's like 100 minutes, dude.

I'm not watching that shit.

Uh, by the numbers, I'm not a fan of Jurassic Park or Terminator or Predator or Aliens.

I thought I was a fan of Terminator until I saw the last seven terminator movies jesus christ there have been two good terminator movies and about every six bad ones every new terminator movie is a reboot yep yep we're gonna get it right eventually four reboots there was a terminator anime on netflix that came out yes last year and i started trying to watch it and i think i got like three episodes in i was like nah this this sucks yep i stopped i think my problem with terminator and franchise stuff like that is that they go all right, this is like the seventh one, but the last one doesn't count.

And this one, this one's for the fans.

This one counts double.

You should have to make it count.

This is all in the, you made this.

Yeah.

I had to pay $13 or whatever to go see this shitty fucking movie.

You better, you better weave this in somehow.

You better make it make sense.

Yep, absolutely.

Let's say on the Predator front, Prey was really good.

And I think he's making, that director's making another Predator movie that comes out this year, I think.

What's it called?

What else can you call it?

I don't remember.

I haven't seen A Predator since Predator 2.

Prey was really good.

I didn't see Predators or...

I guess I saw Alien vs.

Predator, if that counts.

We saw that

at Sundance.

Yeah, we did.

Yeah, we did.

That's right.

I wasn't playing at Sundance.

We ran away.

We saw it.

You guys are ridiculous.

Dude, that was a hard thing to do, is run a movie there.

Remember that?

Yeah, we also saw King Kong at Sundance.

Not at the festival.

We went to the local theater in Volume 3.

You guys are ridiculous.

You know what else we saw?

Do you remember this?

We saw Alone in the Dark.

We walked out of the theater.

Oh, wow.

I I was sick that day.

I didn't go with you.

I had the flu or something, and I couldn't go.

We went in, we watched 15 minutes and left.

We couldn't, we couldn't hang.

Oh, what movies have you walked out of?

Hurly Burley, the Jazz Pole and Terry.

Oh, my God.

I walked out of that movie.

I could not fucking take it.

Wow.

It's been a long time.

I think normally I'm like in a sunk cost fallacy with movies.

Like once I'm there, I may as well finish.

I get it.

I don't know if I've really ever walked out.

Miami Vice?

The Colin Farrell Jamie Foxx Miami Vice movie.

I walked out of that.

One of my worst moments as a parent,

I still regret this to this day.

I took Millie to see Bolt, and it was the dog.

Yeah, it was fucking terrible.

And she wasn't really paying attention and was trying to run around.

She's like three or four.

She's trying, I think by three.

She's trying to run around the theater.

And at some point, she looked at me and she's like, We're about 45 minutes into the movie.

And she goes, I have to go to the bathroom.

And we went to the bathroom.

And when we came out of the bathroom, I was like, all right, let's go home.

And she was like, why?

And I was like, oh, the movie's over.

And she's like, how's it over?

And I'm like, it just ended.

And she was like, Really?

And we just left.

And I, to this day, I feel shitty about it.

That's funny.

I really do.

To this day, she thinks Bolt is a 40-minute movie.

That's hilarious.

But it was just a tough, it was a tough day, and she was being tough.

And the movie was bad.

And well, then all those days, you just don't have it, you know?

Oh, that's amazing.

That's amazing.

I love it.

Oh, dude.

That's awesome.

Do you think she, when's she going to discover that?

She'll be talking to a friend one day.

We've discussed it.

So

I've apologized to adult Millie.

I'm sorry for making you go home from Bolt early.

I knew it.

It's because Bolt dies at the end.

I've never seen that, but we have.

We should talk about the coffee and everything here and maybe get on towards wrapping up.

Can we do every episode in the future?

God.

Hotel St.

Cecilia.

Me and Gus

split a French press, and Jeff got the cool brew.

We also got the pastry board that had a cinnamon roll, like a non-iced cinnamon roll.

Oh, wait.

Oh, Jeff.

He has the official

roll.

I think it just says.

It's a pastry board.

Bon a sucre.

Okay.

Croissant.

Okay.

Seasonal pastry, homemade preserves.

So the croissant was the best croissant I've ever had in my entire life.

That was awesome.

And then when you had a little bit of the salted butter with it, it was, you taste it and you go, this is the worst thing for you.

This rocks.

It's so good.

It tasted so good.

Yeah.

It was incredible.

I live here now.

You got enough money.

You could.

Yeah.

That kind of money.

What do you think?

Coffee rating, anything?

What do you think?

I think it's pretty clear that my Cold Brew was a 10 out of 10.

Yeah.

This is a perfect cup of coffee.

This French press

may be the best single cup of coffee I've ever had in my life.

This is a very good.

I'm drinking the dregs of it.

I keep pouring it to get whatever's left.

I am so delighted that this worked out and that you guys were answering this.

I was afraid that this would be kind of a dud and you guys would be like, why did you drag this?

This is an 11 out of 10.

Yeah.

This is

the king of all of all coffee, as as far as I'm concerned.

When we were driving down this way, too, I was like, ah, we were just here for like a walk and everything.

I wonder how this is going to go.

And we found a place to kind of sit

and just go.

And this is, this is phenomenal.

Also, I did legs today with Blaine.

So I'm fucking exhausted.

Sitting down, I was so, we were talking this morning because he listened to all the episodes.

He's like, oh, you're doing one today?

And I'm like, yeah.

He's like, where are you guys going?

And I'm like, oh, this place.

And he's like, oh, that's cool.

You're going to walk around.

And I went, I don't know that I can, but I'm going to try.

It was just, he just kept doing, it was like, all right, do like these squats.

All right.

Now do like these leg curls.

Now do these other leg curls.

Now do like, it he just kept like adding like another one and another one and another one.

Let's put a little more weight on that.

And another one and another one.

I was like, okay.

We're walking up the stairs and I was like, like lifting my legs.

That's why you, okay, you made a noise when you were over there and I wasn't sure why.

I saw the stairs that we had to walk up and I went, no.

I heard you.

I was like, what's he complaining about?

Okay, that makes sense.

Oh, that was so funny.

I can't move.

We've been doing Mario Party 9 a.m.

recordings

for Mario Party March this whole time or whatever.

I bring my laptop and a microphone and a headset to Blaine's garage.

I connect to his Wi-Fi and I record a nine-minute Mario Party video and then I get back to lifting lighters.

It's been good.

It's been a Mario Party March has been fun.

It's so much fun.

As a matter of fact, after we finished our game today or we stopped our recording today, I started playing i looked into how to unlock the other maps because there's like three or four more maps we can play that are supposedly way better you have to unlock them by getting in-game achievements yeah so i've started uh trying to go for the in-game achievements so if you do that so that i can unlock new maps for so that we can do this again someday yeah with different maps mixed march yeah

smarch um i had before we go yeah I had a really positive experience with a local business.

Oh, cool.

That I wanted to highlight.

Because I know I talked about Uni Jack plumbing before, about the guy who told me how to fix my problem over the phone and didn't charge me anything.

I had a chair, a wooden chair that was kind of fucked up.

Okay.

It was like a little broken and like the seat was like loose and I couldn't get the screws to go back in.

They were like, some of them were mismatched.

I realized it was like just a huge pain in my ass.

So I looked up like furniture repair in Austin.

And there's, first of all, there's not very many places that do that kind of work anymore.

Shockingly.

I found a place up in Cedar Park.

What's it called?

I think it was called like Furniture Medic?

Furniture Medic.

So I put the chair in my car, drove up to this place in Cedar Park.

It's off of Bell Street.

Like, walk in with it.

And it's like two dudes in a workshop.

Oh, hell yeah.

And I'm like, yeah, I've got this chair.

Like, the screws are kind of messed up.

I can't fix it.

I don't know what to do.

And like, one of them looks at it.

He's like, oh, yeah.

He's like, this is a great chair.

Like, you don't see them like this.

He like describes to me how it's all built, how it's all put together.

And he's like, yeah, I can fix it.

He's like, he looks at his watch.

He's like, I'll do it right now.

Hold on.

What?

And he like goes into the back, then comes out like 10 minutes later.

He's like, yeah, I put put all new screws in there.

I tightened it all up.

It's all good.

And I looked at it, like, it's like a brand new chair.

Like, oh, sweet.

How much do I owe you?

He goes, ah, just take it.

Just go.

You're done.

God damn.

And I was like, really?

I don't know.

He's like, no, no, no.

He's like, it was like, he's like, it was like 10 minutes.

Like, not a big deal at all.

So if you ever have wooden furniture you need to fix, go to furniture medica.

Wow.

I literally just threw away a dining room, a wooden dining room chair, table chair that splintered.

That I thought nobody fixes chairs anymore.

It's everything is disposable.

I'll just replace it with a new chair.

But God, I wish I would have known.

Damn.

Like, and they not only do they fix it, he said, they also do, like, they do custom manufacturing, like they build cabinets, or if you want, like a custom chair made or whatever, like, they'll do all of that.

Like, I guess where I went was kind of like the customer side storefront.

They're like right across, it's in like an office park.

They're like right across the little parking lot is like their workshop where they like build shit.

While we're talking about local, that was furniture metic?

Furniture metic.

While we're talking about local establishments that you've had, we've had good experiences with, I just had a tremendously positive experience with Eric and our wives for Vanessa's birthday.

We went to Game On,

which was actually started by some ex-Rooster Chief people.

Deb and a few other people.

Yeah.

I'd never been there.

I didn't know anything about it.

If you aren't familiar with it, because it's local to Austin, it is essentially like a,

I guess like a warehouse you go to and you pay a fee and then they

put you through game shows.

Like you play essentially Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud, Family Feud, Plinko, and Plinko.

And they have a host, live host, and it's in like a studio.

There's no audience, obviously, but there's a producer and they do like video packages for you and they have lights and sounds and it feels full and real.

And it's like, it's actually intimidating and scary to go up and have to play Family Feud.

And you say stuff like Froggy style because that's what Burndog says in your ear.

And you completely forget every sexual position ever made.

Name of sexual position, fuck, bro.

Froggy style.

What the fuck?

I was like, I die, I die,

and Burndog goes, Froggy style.

A froggy style?

And when he goes, what?

Anyway, you should have finally turned on her.

You don't know?

It was awesome.

And I was blown away.

And I don't know why there aren't two in every city in America.

I was really worried.

I'm like, Jeff is either going to love this or go,

okay.

And as soon as it started, like, you put on like a fake name tag.

He was Gavin.

I was, I was baby laser.

And you go through, you pick your name.

We did Boys Against Girls.

And it was just this big, loud thing.

And you, you give yourself, I don't like board games.

I don't like escape rooms.

I don't like activities.

You give yourself over to like this thing and you fall into it so easy and you hit the buzzer and you spin the wheel and you make a guess and like It is the most fun.

I've probably done it four or five times now.

It's a blast.

I cannot say enough good things about it.

They just opened one in Houston.

Oh.

And so they're expanding.

And the guy who edits this, Richard, is in some of and I think directed some of their commercials that they're making now.

And they do a cool thing where you pick your like

level of,

I guess, adult.

Yeah.

You can go PG, PG-13RX.

So the show is tailored to like what kind of content you want.

And so you can get a totally different show depending on how you, you know.

Yeah.

That's a great idea.

Great for, it's honestly the the thing that I think it's great for is people coming into Austin going like, what's a crazy Austin thing?

That is a crazy Austin thing.

I think it's also really good for if you're sick of, uh, if you're a manager and you're sick of taking people to

another happy hour as a team building thing, that's what that's for because that's a thing everyone will talk about for the next two weeks about like, why'd you answer it like that, man?

How come we didn't know that wall?

It's a much better version of the corporate

escape room.

Absolutely.

Team building thing.

It's a blast because it's just, it's games you already know.

It's Family Feud and Wheel of Fortune.

Like, they have two rooms with shit.

Yeah.

They have two.

Jeff got 150, and then I got one fit.

You drop them, and it's like, oh, I landed in zero, landed in zero, landed in 150.

So I started giving them shit.

I got 150.

And then I won up and it went 0, 0, 150.

And I went, what happened?

What happened?

What's my lunch?

It's a blast.

They have like a much bigger room for like bigger crowds.

And it's all byob so people just get you bring like a sixer or whatever and you get drunk and you scream it's a blast yeah it's a cool place yeah jeff uh blew it on an answer so hard that he like laid on the ground

he like laid like under the table it was awesome it was a blast uh game on yeah game on and furniture medic yeah two totally different experiences don't confuse them there are two recommendations for the week yep there you go well uh that's the episode if you can make hotel saint cecilia happen because you

have a bunch of money and you can splurge for a weekend,

hell yeah, make this happen.

This is...

Drink the French press all day long.

God damn.

This is all I would do is come here and I would get a large French press and I would, here we go.

If you

come stay in the main house,

there's pool bungalows you can stay in as well.

And then there's

stuff.

There's hotel rooms behind above the check-in, but over here on the left is the mansion that's split up into rooms, five rooms.

Just try to stay in there if you can.

Okay.

It's a much better experience.

There you go.

You ordered the large

French press, and I thought it was a mistake.

We're going to need the small.

No, I wish we'd gotten too large.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, absolutely.

The coffee was great.

I could drink another whole one of them.

Let's cut this and we'll get more.

Yeah.

All right.

We'll see you next time.

Bye.

Bye.

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