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Here we are

on Rainy Street.

Sort of.

Which apparently is entirely under construction.

Which way do we want to go here?

So So we're at Hotel Van Zantant.

There's not really a way to go back that way.

I think it dead ends.

So we want to go this way?

Okay.

So we're at Hotel Van Zant.

We got a cup of coffee.

And then now we're making the walk to Rainy, which we walked two blocks down after paying for parking.

Well, we pay $46.

God, $48.

$48?

So.

We're walking half a block from Vanzant over to Rainy, which is...

I don't know if any of the...

Alright, people can hear us now.

Yeah.

This is like a big entertainment area, a lot of nightlife, a lot of bars.

Some.

Jesus, it's loud.

There's a lot of construction, too.

So, Rainy Street, we've talked about before, used to be just a bunch of houses.

We knew someone who lived down here 25 years ago or something.

And I think we picked this for the final episode because I think

it is the perfect example of the growth of Austin, which isn't exactly what this podcast is about anymore.

But I don't think you can find a better example in a two-block radius of

changes.

It was all houses.

They got turned into bars.

Shitty houses, right?

Like run-down, dumpy houses.

This is not a nice area.

It got turned into...

Rainy Street's the name of the street Pank Hill lives on in King of the Hill, by the way.

Yes.

It got turned into a bunch of bars.

And now apparently it's being all torn down again and rebuilt as hotels.

Or they're adding on hotels and buildings on top of bars.

Asador Tacos?

Huh?

So I don't...

If you live in Austin and you're over 26, you probably don't go to Rainy Street.

No.

The last time I came here was like during an RTX with like before I lived here.

Yeah, I haven't.

I rode my bike through here the other day and I didn't recognize anything.

So I told you guys, hey, we should probably check it out.

I don't recognize, well, at least on the west side of the street, I don't recognize anything past Clive Bar.

Uh-uh.

Which, by the way, there's this place called Clive Bar right there.

It was in one of those little old houses.

I can't wrap my head around the fact that they built a building on top of Clive Bar.

Imagine the 1880s to 1920s, like little gingerbread craftsman home.

And then somebody took metal poles and then

a giant metal modern bar above the house, like freestanding.

I just, it's insane.

I would say, like, I don't have no connection to Rainy Street.

I don't care about this place or whatever, but parking and walking down here and seeing how everything is built is so gutting in a way where you just go, huh?

I think this just sucks.

You know what this is?

Wow.

This is International Drive for alcoholics, right?

like for drinkers this is i drive yeah this is exactly what this is i drive in orlando for the uh for the listeners

idle hands that's where they have the upside down house on i drive right yeah it is there's a cat that rippley thing that's where we would always go to vito's chop house

way back in the day eisenhauer's now okay so this bar has been around since the beginning uh-huh uh i think this this is the second bar to open up i'm in perfect memory here was luster pearl the first bar to open up the first as far as i know the first establishments to open up here were luster Pearl,

which is...

Which we went to a different location in a previous location.

We went to the original Luster Pearl.

They physically picked the house up and moved it.

Yes.

Yeah.

But this is the original location.

Yes.

But it's across the street from it.

Right.

But it's a rebuilt fake one?

Yes.

It's a...

Yeah.

Huh.

Literally across the street from it.

But anyway, the second bar to open up was Eisenhower's.

And they're still going strong, I guess.

Good for them.

And then also, there was a place here, kind of over where that Augustine place is now, I guess, or maybe even on the other side that was called Garage Mahal.

Oh, yeah.

And it was an Indian restaurant and it was in a trailer in somebody's backyard and they just had literally just had like folding tables set up and you would go order you would park in their yard and then go order from the trailer and eat back there.

Then it eventually got a brick and mortar.

You gotta say they're down there.

I don't know if it's still here now or not, but we used to come there all the time and you'd be the only people on Rainy Street.

There'd be some people drinking at Lustre Pearl and people eating at Garage Mahal and this was all just dark.

And people still live in here, actually.

It was just, it was just houses.

Yeah, there was a house like right here, maybe next to Eisenhower's, right over here, that had like keep out, no trespassing signs, and like we had like the parking in front of it blocked off because someone still lived right there.

I think it was, I think it was right here where this, like, whatever this facade is over here now.

This is like, uh, what is this?

Bangers?

What's this?

Bangers?

So Bangers is a

like a hot dog place, like a sausage place.

The last time I came to Rainy was here at Bangers, and it it was probably like 15 years ago for an RT thing.

Last time I came to Bangers,

the last time I came to Bangers Mess was probably the same.

And oh, somebody's phone.

And I think you probably just.

I'm gonna see if there's a license, and if not, we'll leave it.

There's a credit card, so I'm leaving it.

Yep.

So this building wasn't here.

Like, yeah, I don't know what this is.

Bangers expanded.

This is built.

This sucks.

So I'm going to describe what happened to the listeners.

I found a phone in a case with a credit card just on the ground.

Yep.

And it remains tucked away where he found it.

Yep.

No license, so it'll just live there.

Yep.

If we're in a business, I'd give it to the business, but we're on the street.

Bangers is a whole fucking compound now.

Yeah.

I will say, this place, I can't speak for it now.

This place used to be pretty good, and they have boiled peanuts here.

Oh, really?

Yeah, you can't the only place you can buy boiled peanuts.

I'll hold it against them.

Yeah, I mean, gross, but whatever.

They're great.

How many house-made sausages?

I'm shocked by maybe I shouldn't be shocked, but I still am by the number of people we are seeing walk by, uh, still in their Halloween costumes.

I guess we didn't make it home last night.

Yeah, uh, also, so this is the Betelgeuse bar thing that I saw people talk about.

Oh, is this it?

I guess so.

Lucille.

I think Emily and I may have come to this bar on like our first first or second date to have a trivia night.

Did you destroy her?

She stayed.

No, we were on teams.

We were together.

Y'all should have been on opposite teams.

I really, that's why I liked her early on.

I was like,

she's pretty smart.

I'm going to show you how much I know.

There's nothing.

Half of the street is construction and hotel.

Oh, and you know what else there is not on Rainy Street?

Is coffee.

Dude, dude.

Which is why we had to get coffee from Hotel Van Sant everyone.

How does that make cafe that's in there?

It doesn't.

You've got all of this shit here and not a single coffee.

There's plenty of people walking around.

What is this?

What is the Tex-Mex bar and grill?

This place is new.

They have Tex-Mex and Chill.

Oh, Tex-Mex and Chill.

They have the fake weed vending machine.

Oh.

You having a look?

That's so wild.

In 2020.

Huh.

So, yeah, like pre-rolled joints.

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Sure.

There's a bunch of

trailer restaurants.

I'll never eat at.

Yeah.

I mean, this is like

I hate, I genuinely like really despise what's happened with food trucks where now it's just,

well, what if you waited longer and it's more expensive and there's nowhere to eat it?

Stay foot.

You can't even use an app at a food truck.

Dude,

talk to Jeff.

Dude, don't even start with apps.

I want to hear it.

I went to Whataburger the other day.

I was in and out in 90 seconds.

I went to

Taco Bell.

We used the app two days ago, went to the Taco Bell, went to pick it up.

They said, would you like to use the app to order?

And I said, we placed an online order through the app.

And they said, what's your code?

And we gave them the code.

And then they said,

oh, goodness.

And then we waited fucking ages.

Only people there.

What did you order?

A hamburger?

Oh, goodness.

I just ordered all the essentials.

I got some toilet paper.

I gave you all the headache medicine.

No, we just ordered fucking tacos and stuff.

And it still took them like 18 minutes.

And we felt weird because they said, oh, goodness.

That girl has coffee.

Where did she get coffee from?

I don't know.

Maybe the hotel.

There's a Royal Blue grocery down here.

Maybe that's it.

Maybe it's that.

So

I guess if I was.

Okay, okay.

You see this house in front of us here at the end of Rainy Street?

That's what Rainy Street was like.

Yeah, there you go.

That's it.

That's like where we used to party.

Yeah, that's where

the whole street was.

Pray for this guy

Might want to step back

this is the most audio-texture episode we've ever had who knew

What that

truck is pulling a lift on a huge bed and is going around a roundabout.

This is Insane.

He's gonna hit the middle.

You don't think he's going straight over to the Mexic Arts Museum?

Yeah, I want to cross here to get a little closer look at this house and I want to cross over to the Mexican Center if that's okay.

So yeah, this like little rundown house here, this is what every house on Rady Street was like before all the bars moved in.

It was a dark street with no lights.

And the first bars looked like that.

They didn't look much better.

If you think about like what the Luster Pearl over there, the original Luster Pearl looks like.

It looks like this.

Keeping it weird.

It's just weird because it's become this part of Austin that all tourists know.

They do, but that didn't exist and was only created really, it was kind of created overnight and kind of for tourists.

Yeah.

Like Austin Knights hung out here for like two years.

Yeah, I think it was to divert tourists from 6th Street.

Yeah, 6th Street made

a more unsavory turn.

Yeah.

Fucking this place right here,

Emmarin Rye is fantastic, though.

Have you guys ever, have you never eaten there?

You've never been there.

It's fucking great.

Oh, here's the Robloot grocery you're talking about.

They have a, they're real big into like their breads and their sourdoughs, and they have like a room that they can let you in.

You can see all their different

mothers.

Start, whatever they're called.

Yeah.

That sounds awesome.

Yeah, it is neat.

Free banana peel.

Dude, they're giving it all away.

Royal Blue groceries here.

This place is cool.

Yeah, there was a Royal Blue

on Congress.

I think they had to close it because of theft.

Yes.

Yes.

That we used to get stuff from every now and then when our office was downtown.

It's a small, overpriced

local bodega.

There's a salvation pizza down here.

Yeah.

There's one, the only one I knew of that I've been to before is over kind of like by campus, like off of Guadalupe and

33rd or so, 34th, 34th.

It's New Haven-style pizza.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

What's New Haven-style pizza?

I don't remember.

I don't either before.

I don't remember it being different than normal pizza.

I always hear about it being like the fucking thing.

It was fine.

It's in that old house, right?

Yeah.

Over by like Food Heads?

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, I'd recommend try it.

It's not in my regular rotation, but that's not a dig against them.

It's just there's so many good pizza places in town.

I've eaten there.

I ate there once so many years ago, I can't remember anything about it.

I got pizza there a few times, but I had no idea there was one here.

Whiskey Co.

Kraft-infused whiskey?

Yeah, quiet over here, at least.

It's so like a block, and it's just so different.

I know it's not time for it,

but I feel compelled to talk about this coffee.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, go for it.

Oh, Gus has had none of it.

This might be the worst cup of coffee I've had in the entire run of Adam.

Wow.

Really?

Yeah.

It is cold garbage.

The first sip I took of it, like, it took my breath away.

Oh, my God.

Wow.

Jeff.

Am I just way off base here?

It's pretty, it's like a seven iced coffee.

This is like

Bog Standard.

It's like, wow.

Your coffee's okay?

It's, I mean, mean, it's fine.

It's like,

I don't think I give it more than like a six, six and a half.

Like, it's not.

I wouldn't have, if Gus hadn't signed anything, I wouldn't have noticed.

I would have just said seven.

It's just like, it's there.

On the bright side, we stood around for a long time before we could order, too.

That is true.

Well, we're ordering coffee from a fucking hotel.

What do we?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Coffee?

Yeah.

But there's also no one else.

There's nowhere else to get coffee.

Yeah, that's just wild.

Where?

What happened?

Where are we?

We're at the end of Rainy Street, which is the hike and bike trail.

This is where the Rainy Street Murderer hangs out.

Yeah, this is where the go back to Golden State killer is.

Is that what you call them?

That's what they call him on Reddit.

I haven't seen that.

That's funny.

So there's, I think we've talked about it before.

There's like this.

The Brodiak killer?

Yeah.

This conspiracy theory that there's a serial killer that operates in Austin because people are found dead over here when most likely in reality, it's just people get drunk and fall in the river, right?

Drunk people walking down this way into the water and then being drunk in the water.

Right.

I saw some, I think, a couple suicides stone in there, there, too.

Yeah, maybe.

That's all it is.

We should walk down there.

Yeah.

And then get in the water.

Actually, this is cute.

You guys probably don't know this.

They just built this park right here, this little micro park.

This looks good.

Let's check it out.

And there's a little kids section over here that has like, it's like a little camp out.

It's really fucking adorable.

You can go, you can get to the water here.

I don't know if you remember this, Jeff.

I had a car that I hated years ago in the late 90s.

And I used to joke that when I was done with that car, I was going to take it down here and then just wheel it into the river and be done with it.

Which I never did.

You wouldn't have been the first.

Yeah, but uh, you could have done it, and then they find it, and then know you were the Brodiak killer.

Ooh, yeah, not if I filed off the Vinda, but

remove the license plate.

There was a restaurant I've eaten at over here, I think it changed recently.

Uh, uh, Bacalar?

I've never heard of it, uh, like the Bacalar,

like Bacchus,

it's um a town in Mexico, like a resort city.

Uh, I thought you were sounding like the Bacalar.

Oh, see, but yeah, they renamed it.

What is it now?

Tomato, tomato, tomalo, Tamalo.

Tomato, tomato.

Tomato, tomalo.

Take it.

So this is all brand new?

Yeah, this has all been made.

They just finished like a month ago.

Huh.

It's a nice little park.

Square.

It sounds like it's great.

There's a second phase that's going to go on the other side of a fence over there.

Cool.

I spend a lot of time over here.

That's why I ride my bike.

So

I'm going to hear every day.

Like, this is a spot where it's like, oh, damn, this is cool.

This is nice.

This is great.

This is soap.

This is why I love Austin.

You guys have to come here every day.

This is, so you talked about like being a tourist, being over there on Ramby, like, I'm never coming back.

Coming here, it's like, oh no, this is cool.

This is like something I would go to another city, be like, wow, this city's awesome.

Yeah, this is great.

Let's go this way.

We can go see where all the

where they're building a new bridge and stuff.

But I wanted to get in the water.

Yeah, we can go get in the water.

Yeah, it's not a lot.

Just the under I-35 that way.

We can kayak.

Yo,

drink it up.

I guarantee you there's a couple of dudes bathing over there right now.

If you want to go catch that show,

I want the bats to come out.

I don't want to swim in the water.

I want the bats in my face.

That's right.

Rainy Street was like the sleepiest, darkest, quietest, little forgotten-about part of town.

Yeah, for sure.

And it is now the densest part of town.

It is.

It's all these high-rises.

Super high-rises.

And it's weird because there's not really,

you know, you always hear about like

the loss of third places or whatever.

And

yeah, there's just nothing.

all the third places there don't start till 6 p.m there's just nothing kind of up and down that street i'm i'm kind of i don't know surprised i guess that

there's really just nothing in between and then even you're like oh it's like a bunch of bars it's not it's like five bars well i think a lot of them are also i think it will be bars again once it's construction right it was a lot of bars right now it's gonna be

and it will be but it's not right now and there are people who are traveling here right now going dude i gotta check out rainy street and they come and they go what the fuck what is this about i wonder what it looks like at night though like fucking vegas probably yeah it's probably like wall to wall especially like friday saturday whatever it's probably like wall to wall people

hmm

nice pile of uh manure

it's just mulch that's where i live

there are i got to see getting into this this is nice there are

yeah this is great.

You should want to ride.

You've got an e-bike.

Yeah.

I'm going to start doing that.

Dude, come.

Why don't we ride bikes together?

That's a good question.

How do you get here?

Like,

from where you live?

Yeah.

Yeah, give the exact address.

Like, I guess I could come down one of those streets over there.

I can tell you off the mic.

Okay.

We'll figure it out.

There's a lot of safe ways for you to get here.

Okay.

Yeah, that's my big thing is like trying to avoid getting on I-35.

No, No, no, no, no.

I would never.

I would never.

A lot of people jogging.

I guess that's a popular thing.

Can you go down here?

Can you open this gate and go down?

Can't do that in a bike.

I want to go see.

I don't know if you can or not.

I guess there's no lock on it.

Jeff's almost locked down.

Yep.

Let's go look.

Let's go explore.

I've got this thing where I can't stand a closed door.

Oh, really?

I want to go through it.

Huh?

I think there's

like a little gate and concrete steps.

Yeah.

That lead right here to like the water.

See, this is my long game.

Now it's time to pull out the hike.

Jeff, he's talking about killing us.

There's a snake skin.

That's good, right?

Not for me.

Well, that means the snake is bigger now.

It's too cold for snakes to be out right now.

Well, it's snake skin.

Yeah, they're just just skins.

Too cold for them to be out right now.

Jeff Aids it.

So this is what happens.

People come out here, probably drunk, need to take a piss, stand on the edge of the water, start peeing, fall in, hit their head.

Or they come down here and they get drunk and they take a piss and 80 dudes are living in tents right over there and they piss off the wrong guy.

Yeah.

And the guy whacks him.

But I will say, I don't see any tents.

I don't see any tents right now because it's been cleared more recently of the F1 and

there's a serial killer.

ACL.

So

think about it.

What if one guy did it?

What if?

I got nothing going on, so I'm going to start really putting this together.

There's a lot of little spots like this on

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You know this thing?

The crazy thing about Town Lake, if you go back and look at the old photos, you remember they didn't have trees before?

It was just flat.

And then there was like a whole plan and they built the trees around.

Yeah.

This used to be so, it was probably the best thing the city of Austin ever did.

It was just flat land to water.

I guess F1 was just what, like two weeks ago.

So that makes sense.

Yeah.

Wow,

this run of eight episodes is going to really span a lot of stuff.

Yeah.

It's like the better part of a year.

Emily was asking me about that.

She was like, is anything you talked about like culturally relevant now?

And I was like, well,

we're not really talking about

top culture shit.

We're not, there's nothing that's culturally relevant.

More than anything, I think it'll just be an interesting time capsule of like a one-month wedge of

all of our progress at our new companies and life in a post-RT world as we figure it out.

I think it's definitely that.

How's that been going for you, Gus?

The stinky drive.

Good.

Keeping real busy.

Got

a lot of stuff going on.

I think I mentioned it once a few episodes ago, but it's weird to be able to curse on this one.

I'm so trained to not do that on camera or on mic anymore.

It's weird to, I feel weird every time I do it here.

Even right back there, saying you piss into the water.

Like,

that's a no-no.

Oh, I think we let piss fly, though.

So,

sorry,

I was thinking the other day, so we do a lot of stuff.

You know, obviously, you know, we launch a store, you guys launch a store,

do an old merch.

And I don't know why I was thinking about this the other day, but I was thinking, like, what if we had Anima merch?

What would, or Good Morning Gus merch?

What would that be like?

And we should make a shirt that just says, it's just like a

plain single color tea and just like printed on it, like that flocking letters and the Cooper font.

Yeah.

Kind of like the get-your-own podcast shirt.

It just says, this is my podcast shirt.

Gangbusters, I'm telling you.

That should be our only piece of merch.

This is my podcast shirt.

Okay.

Yes is a merchandise phenomenon.

All right.

I did it.

Yeah.

It's a, but it's going, it's going good.

What's up?

I mean, we're right here.

Oh, thank you so much.

Love you.

It's been uh

just so much so much work, but it's all really interesting.

Like at Rooster Teeth.

He's fucking at Rooster Teeth.

It was

crazy because you had so many different things going on that you were working on.

It was always like, work on this or work on that.

And it's the same thing with stinky dragon, but it's all stinky dragon related, right?

I'm sure you probably feel the same way with regulation or 100% eat, where it's like you are still doing a lot of things, but it's all focused.

It's a lot more focused on the smaller projects.

So you see

progress a lot more quickly.

Yeah.

On the downside, there's not a support team to delegate stuff to.

Nope.

So it's like, oh man, we have this really crappy thing I need to do.

There's not a bunch of hands I could put on it.

It's just going to be me.

The thing that's been weird for me, and I feel like I should point out real fast that we're passing by the Mexicart Museum, which is a very cool place and is currently doubling in size.

I think the renovation is going to make it twice as big.

Nice.

Is

you've done all this stuff for so long and you've done, you've worn so many hats over the last 22 years.

And then a lot of the hats you've worn, you forget about, right?

Yeah.

And almost as if they never happened.

And then you find yourself in a position to start a new company and you have to do all this over again.

And it's kind of shocking and scary all at once.

But then as you have to like put a foot here and take a step in this direction and do it, you go like, oh, I forgot I used to, I still have that hat.

I can put it back on.

And you're like, oh, this isn't hard.

We've already, already I like everything that we're doing on regulation is scary until I realize I already did this 10 fucking times and it's not hard and you realize you're so much more prepared for this transition than you ever could have imagined yeah the the wild thing to me the the

the wrinkle to it okay for me that I've realized is I'll give an example

A couple weeks ago, maybe two weeks ago, I was having problems with our domain, stinkydragonpod.com.

Yeah.

If people went to it in Chrome, it sometimes would normally when people go to stingydragonpod.com, it redirects to our Patreon.

But if people went to it in Chrome, sometimes it either wouldn't redirect or it would give them an error saying the security certificate was invalid.

I was like, huh.

So before it would be like, hey, Adam Baird, this weird thing is happening.

Can you take care of it?

But like way back in the day, pre-2011, that was me.

I was like, okay, great.

I need to figure this out.

So I started digging into it and I figured out like, okay, I'm just going to change our DNS provider, right?

I'm not going to use this one because obviously something's messed up with it.

I'm going to switch over to this other one.

In the old days, that would involve me opening terminal, editing a bind configuration and updating all of that.

Nowadays, it's like, oh, I can do this all in a web browser.

Yeah.

And it's all got this really nice interface, which makes it way easier, but I don't know it.

Yes.

Yeah.

Like everything's gotten so much more accessible, so much easier to do, but it's still new to me.

So like at a fundamental low level, I know what needs to get done and how to do it.

But at an execution level, it's unknown to me, even though it's friendlier now.

Yep, we have the same thing happen with 100% Eat, where we had a DNS issue and everything, and then we just went to our Discord and went, Hey, why is it doing this?

And then there are people going, Oh, I do web stuff, uh, do this, this, and this.

And then Jordan's like, I'm on it, and took care of it.

And it's like, that's really lucky that we have a community that like knows this stuff and like they're happy to help because, dude, that is, I know how to put stuff together.

I can do so much of this stuff or whatever, but man, I'm out of my depth and there's just no help.

And then, what do I, I just Google search.

Why come the internet doesn't want me to let me?

Yeah, and it's funny you say the community is great about it because that's how I notice a problem.

I don't normally use Chrome.

Like in our Discord, someone's like, hey, they're getting this weird message.

I use Safari.

Huh.

Me too.

I thought you warned me off of Safari years ago.

Yeah, that did happen.

I never left.

But over the last probably four or five years, I've switched back over to Safari.

Are you happy?

Super happy.

I love Safari.

Safari's improved quite a bit.

It still has some issues.

I'm trying to divest myself as much as possible from a Google ecosystem.

And just switching away from Chrome was one of those things I did like four or five years ago.

Honestly, you might want to move over.

The reason I think I was advocating for Chrome back then was it was so much faster than Safari.

Safari was really slow and awful.

And it worked with Safari for a while, too.

Now they've lost support for a lot of Safari.

It's really gotten a lot better, and it's super fast, if not faster than Chrome.

And it works for 95%,

somewhere around there of stuff.

Yeah.

And every now and then, I still have, if I need a browser that's not Safari for something, I have Firefox, which is just as good.

Yep.

Anyway, this is the tech podcast, the tech portion of Good Morning Gus.

I hope you're enjoying this.

Send us all your Bitcoins.

But that's all the stuff that you're having to deal with when you have to do this stuff on your own.

You just don't think about it.

Well, luckily,

you know, we have like a

community for keeping in contact with ex-risk few people.

Yeah.

And so, like, when I was having that issue, I did reach out to Adam Baird.

Yeah.

And I was like, hey, you know, I'm having this thing.

I'm thinking about doing this.

Do you think that's a good move?

He was like, yeah, that's, that's, you know, that's the best way to do it.

Like, okay, great.

It's not like totally lost.

Like, yep,

we all still have contact with each other.

So, is this waterline that they're building right here, this changing?

This is the reason they're changing the trail and everything.

This hotel or whatever.

I think it's going to be the tallest building in Austin when it's done.

Is that right?

I think you are correct.

It's got a long way to go.

I I mean, look at what it's next to.

Yeah.

Because this is all, like, you can't, I'm describing it to the honest, but this, like, there's the, town lake has a hike and bike trail that runs 10.5 miles around it.

This is what we're on.

Yeah.

That we picked up on off of Rainy Street.

And this area right here is just...

insanely under construction and it's like labyrinthian to try to walk through.

Is this right here?

This little waterways, this is like the termination of the Waller Creek project, right?

Yes.

This in itself was a huge project that spent many years and cost many hundreds of millions of dollars.

It was drainage improvement from here

all the way up Waller Creek through the city.

Oh, Waller Creek runs past Hyde Park.

Huh.

Yeah.

So, like, all along that to stop flooding and to help drainage in general.

Right.

It all terminates right there.

That was a huge project.

You don't think about it.

It's not something you see.

It's not like an exciting, oh, look at the new building.

Yeah.

But that was like such a huge quality of life improvement.

Huh.

And then we're right next to the

Austin Rowing Club.

Yeah.

Oh, you know what?

That's a coffee shop, too, I think.

The perch.

Oh, yeah.

Huh.

I forgot about it.

It's so, like, you would never

come here.

I came to a wedding here.

Because it would be.

Oh, yeah.

Nathan Zelder got married over here.

Yeah.

You would never come here, though, because you would never know how to park.

This is such a weirdly spaced place.

Hey, you said that name.

The Zelda brothers are killing awesome.

Which way are we going before we start parking?

Which way do you guys want to go?

This is the trail.

This will take us back to Caesar Shop.

Let's start going this this way

yeah we have time still yeah so so based on that time let's go this way so happy for them so excited for them they got like a huge project can't think of two people that deserve it or more than them yeah i mean they've been they've been killing it uh

i don't know david as well but i fucking like i love nathan zoner yeah just one of the best dudes and they're like i think uh what's that new movie called ask

the one that just got announced yeah i don't remember the name of it.

Yeah, at the time of this recording, they just announced like cast and everything for their new movie, and it's just like I think they're gonna start shooting it early 2025.

It's like here's like 10 stars, and it's produced by what's her face, the lady in it.

Um Tilla Swin?

No, no, but like her.

Kate Blanchett.

Yeah, Kate Blanchett.

I always get those two confuss.

Sam, Sam.

When you said no, like her, I knew exactly what you were talking about.

Yeah.

Is that Kate Blanchett and Steven Yoon are the ones I remember?

I don't know if you look at the headline, but it was tons of.

Probably Batista.

I think Batista's in that.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know, but probably Batista.

He does stuff where you go, oh, dude, I think I might be excited for this project.

Oh, Batista's in it.

Keeps happening.

It's wild that we met that dude.

Dude, he is, that's my friend Batista.

He told me he have a cool mustache.

No big deal.

He is

gigantic.

Yeah.

He's really slimmed down, though.

Yes.

Yeah.

So when we saw him, it was right before his last wrestling match ever

at WrestleMania.

And he had to put on muscle, like size.

So he was already big because it was right off Stoover.

And, you know, the joke is he's a big guy.

But he was already big, but then he had to put on all like the show muscle.

So it was like he had to walk sideways into doors.

Like he was so, so big.

But he's also like not 6'4.

Yeah.

He is like, I think we're, do you think you were taller than you were probably taller than Batista?

I might have been.

I think you were like considerably taller than Batista.

He was not a huge guy.

He was just a gigantic sideways man.

He's big, wide.

Yes.

But now he said that like the biggest he was was like three.

Like he's like two,

280, three something.

Like he was huge.

And now he's like, I'm comfortable and I don't have to be this huge guy.

I can just be kind of big.

It's great.

Good for him.

And he's having a hell of a career.

He's a fucking good actor.

Yeah, he is.

He's a funny dude.

He's a dude that's got legitimate comedic timing.

Yeah.

It's,

you'd see a lot of people try to make that jump.

Oh, Oh, yeah.

And it's very different.

It's a very hard jump to make.

And I think he's done it well.

And I think some of his choices for roles have really played into that as well.

This is where, I don't know if it's still here, but this is where the chive headquarters are.

Oh, my God.

That's when they moved to Austin.

And I only know that because

Meg and I got into a thing one time where I lost a bet or a dare or something.

And I had to be in a photo shoot with her.

But to be in the photo shoot, I had to get Max tanned.

I had to go get spray cake.

Oh, I forgot about that.

And it was like to celebrate her getting like a million facebook followers and so i had to show up and dress like a criminal and try to steal a cake from her at the chive offices which were the grossest place and just like the most excess they had a slide they had like a whiskey everything yeah they had like these sideways tvs all over the walls that just had women dancing in bikinis like pretty wacky and they were not happy they were they were so happy to see meg and so unhappy to see jeff uh-huh they're still doing great these days right uh yeah i don't know you can we can go buy some challenge coins uh check them out uh you can get get a Bill Murray one.

I'll be genuinely honest.

I have no idea how they're doing or if they're even still a company.

No idea.

Was that over here?

We're at the four seasons.

We're back at the four seasons.

But it's like it's either on this side of there or that side.

Are we walking through?

Yeah, let's walk through.

Why not?

I don't know.

I've been in here a couple of times.

Remember that old company I used to work for downtown?

Yeah.

The wife of the CEO lived here for a little while.

Oh, yeah.

They were having rent work done on

their house.

Just had to do all their home home networking stuff.

Right, so I would come here to help fix stuff.

Oh, yeah?

And she would answer the door in like an eglige.

Hello, Gustavo.

I seemed to have two martinis.

I need you to fix my internet.

Ma'am, it's 11.30 at night.

Here it is.

Oh, for sure.

Oh, yeah, here we go.

That's a picture.

No entrance without appointment.

Yeah, anyway, I was saying it was right around here somewhere.

I'm taking a picture of that.

Do it.

I think they paid like $7 million for this building or something.

Oh, yeah.

I listened to a podcast called Guys, and they did an episode about Chive guys who are still on the Chive and still on the website and still keeping it going.

And it is just, oh, it's awesome.

Chive guys rock.

There's two sides to the four seasons.

I want to be clear about this.

There's the hotel side and there's the residence side.

Yes.

What?

Yeah, four seasons residences.

There's residences here, too.

Oh, I didn't.

So when I say I would come here, I would come to the residences.

I just assumed she lived at the hotel and you just had to run some

quirth.

You can tell the difference.

It's been so long.

I think this was the, I think this was a little bit of a

lived at a place in the Four Seasons Residences condo to buy years and years and years ago, and it was surprisingly old and outdated.

Yeah, and

it really is.

It was old.

It was also overpriced.

In the early 2000s as well.

Oh, this has just been here for a long time.

Yeah.

God, it's been so long.

I don't remember.

I think it was here.

Are we on like Sandjack?

Nah, it's Cedar Chavez.

Yeah, you're all turned around.

You have no...

Does that say Sanjay Chavez?

It's right there.

Yeah, Sandjack and Cesar Chavez, but this is Cesar Chavez.

No, dude, you're on Cesar Chavez.

Yeah, you're on Cedar Chavez.

If you walk.

If you walk that way, you'll be on Sandjack.

You guys suck.

Right now, you're on Cesar Chavez.

You guys suck.

This is asking Andrew a question?

No.

I mean, yes.

Dude, we did Sloppy Jez Bingo last night, Gus, and Halloween.

That might be some of the most fun I've had in my life.

It was the least sloppy, I think, of all the Sloppy Joes.

It was like not going crazy.

There was a guy that dressed up like Dan from Slow-Mo, guys.

It was...

That place is still around.

I thought the two hurricanes would have...

Key West is fine.

Oh, really?

Oh, it got skipped over.

Oh, yeah.

It was all north of Key West.

Oh, you must be watching a lot of CNN.

I just assumed it's in that area that it probably got hands-on.

Your privilege is showing there.

Loaf and Vine.

That's going to be be a hotel restaurant.

Very hot, yeah.

Yeah,

so here we are at Caesar Chavez in Santa Cincinnati.

We had during RTX, we had like exhibitors who would stay here at the four seasons because they had like corporate rates.

Yeah, it's uh so like Funhouse stayed there once and I was really in their hotel room, yeah.

Um, it was giving you an idea of what those guys were like staying at the four seasons.

It was Microsoft, Microsoft has like a corporate rate at the four seasons, so they would normally stay here.

One time when I was doing a commercial, like I've talked about it before, before doing that nba commercial out at prologue in uh iowa in venice the one that i left and you stayed for like a month yeah yeah uh they put me up at the ritz carlton because white and kennedy had the corporate rate the ritz carlton damn dude i went there to prologue with gus and filmed a commercial for nine days then i had to go back and do something else with millie or some other red vs blue some i don't know some roostie thing and so gus stayed for like another two and a half or three weeks the commercial that i made with gus starred like Tony Parker and,

I don't know, Tim Duncan or something.

Oh, my God.

And the commercial that came out was like Tracy McGrady and Yao Meen.

It was like

the same commercial, but they just made him completely reshoot it with different characters multiple times.

I think I reshot that commercial five times.

Why?

Client notes.

Yeah.

Yeah, we don't want to have this.

We changed our mind.

We didn't get permission for this person.

Manu Ginobly said no.

What the fuck?

That's crazy.

So that's why he was there so long.

That's going to redo it.

That's why that work sucked.

Wow.

Should we turn here?

Yeah, do we have to cross right here?

Can we turn right?

We can go right.

We can go right back to the trail.

Just pick up where we were.

By the way, that coffee got better as the ice melted.

Okay.

It was just way too intense at first.

Oh, interesting.

I think they were planning for...

the ice and the water to get it to the correct level.

Yeah.

By the time I was done, that was like a six and a half.

Okay.

That was way better.

That's good.

That's about where my coffee is.

is.

Yeah.

It was just like.

So what do you guys think about?

What is this?

Is this just parking?

This used to be a garage, like a repair garage, if I remember right, for

I don't remember what it was for.

And it looks like it's parking here.

Isn't this like an assisted living facility kind of place?

Is it here?

I thought it was on the other side.

No, I think these apartments.

Can we go this way?

I don't know.

Let's find out.

I think we have to go back on the street.

We'll find out.

I see.

We have plenty of time right let's see oh i'm not i'm not rushing yeah you're the one trying to get us back on track i'm just walking that's the whole point of this podcast welcome to good morning gus good morning eric welcome to

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We don't even have to talk.

We can just make the decision at the end.

We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to.

I like that.

You know, it's up to you.

But we are walking into a dead end.

A big-time dead end.

That's okay, though, because we're explored.

I've never been here before.

Lived in Austin for like 26 years or something.

I've never been here.

Oh, yeah, we can't go there.

30.

30 years.

Yeah, this is totally a dead end.

Oh, no, we'll just go right through.

Can you?

All right.

Yeah.

To what?

Uh-huh.

We'll find out.

I think that car's been there a little while.

It's a Bulick Lacrosse.

Do you guys think GM's probably going to go away?

Really?

Is that right?

Yeah.

That holding company that owns all the car brands is in real fucking trouble and they currently only make one car for a GM right now.

Right.

I think it's the Pacific.

Or Chrysler.

Sorry, Chrysler.

I'm in Seattle.

Oh, I'll say Chrysler.

I'm in Seattle.

That makes a lot more sense.

The Pacifica, I think, is the only current Chrysler.

Yeah.

You pay?

Yeah, I'm just having a look at where we can go from here.

And I don't...

There's stuff.

I think that Waller Creek improvement is right down over here.

Right.

So we're just going...

Look, there's a detour right over there to the right.

We're just going back to where we were.

We're going.

Great.

Great.

You guys ever been to Four Seasons?

No, we'll go here and take a left and go back to the car.

Oh, go walk back the way we came.

I don't know what he's in, though.

I'm not going to answer that guy in the hard hat if he'll let us clip through on that bridge where he's walking around.

I couldn't ride on that bridge until like a week ago.

They rerouted it.

That was the hat.

Yeah, that's the uh, I've been riding my bike on that bridge a bunch.

Huh.

They just moved the fence then to keep us from getting over there.

Yeah, they knew we were coming.

They're afraid of the middle of the day.

They're getting a fence over there too, or a bridge over there, too.

Austin's gonna be like Portland.

It's gonna be city of bridges.

Yeah, great.

They're all gonna be just right here.

Keep Portland weird.

They're all gonna be in a two-block radius like Ray Street.

Joseph's just gonna abbreviate to keep weird.

Yep.

Yeah, yeah, man.

They totally just

dug up that sidewalk there.

That's why they closed it.

Weird.

Hey, you ever been to the Four Seasons?

Jesus Christ.

We kind of went in a roundabout circle here.

It's fine.

It's fine.

It's better than walking down Cedar Shadow.

It's ugly in the street.

I don't think I've ever paid attention to this assisted living building you're talking about.

I don't know if it's assisted living or like low-income or whatever, but I think it's a, yeah.

It's like a programmed place.

Interesting.

Right between the four seasons and the

70s?

Looks like it, but it's going to be, it is right between the four seasons and what is soon to be the tallest building in Texas.

Name on it right here.

What's he doing?

He's looking at the name.

We want to go back down here towards the rowing club?

Well, we're going to wait for him.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, you're going to lose range on our mic.

You got to stay close to him.

Oh, my God.

I just want to see the name of the place.

Lakeside Apartments.

What?

Lakeside Apartments.

Make sure we're still recording.

We're good.

It happened when you went in at the last place that we went to, when you went in to go get cheese balls or whatever.

It was like, oh, lost connection.

Really?

You bought Rozzi bites.

How are those?

I haven't eaten them yet.

Oh.

I haven't bought them yet.

All right.

They're in my freezer.

I just haven't had a chance.

I'm excited to, though.

How's that the pizza?

Dude, I fucking.

I microwave.

I microwaved.

I cooked a pizza in the oven last night.

Oh, you did.

I was so excited.

Like from scratch or like a frozen pizza?

No, Costco.

Costco pizza.

Like pepperoni pizza.

And Costco branded frozen pizza?

What are we talking about here?

Yeah, Costco-branded frozen pizza.

And I tried to take it out.

And

look at that.

That's a boo-boo.

Nothing harder to clean than melted hot cheese and bread on a glass fucking inside oven window that's 425 degrees.

I probably scrubbed for 20 minutes to get all that shit off.

Yeah, that sounds terrible.

Yeah, cleaning the inside of an oven

is like one of those things that you should do as an adult, but you put off until you have a mistake like that.

I want to point out how insane that is what those they were just leveling off giant stone with a backhoe, but just beating it down and back and forth.

yeah and then like a guy would come in with a level measure it and then step away and the backhoe would keep beating the rock they're gonna keep and then there's two dudes sitting down watching the whole process they're gonna do that all day yeah what do you think these guys are making they got support posts in the ground there

some sort of an observation deck maybe

Has there been another city in America that's undergone this much growth and change in the last 30 years?

I would say Vegas.

Yeah, that's a good call.

That's a good call.

the whole strip got rebuilt you're 100 right 100 right yeah they're still they're still doing it regardless it's crazy and it's crazy that it hasn't slowed down yeah i i keep expecting it to slow down

you definitely keep thinking well like we're not gonna see all these uh like high-rises keep going yeah maybe we'll get like six or ten yeah yeah and then it's just all of them and more and more and they're all empty yeah oh yeah oh they're they built all these offices for like facebook and stuff stuff and then moved into them for a year and then they went out we're laying out everyone off.

Don't worry about this.

Fucking indeed, man.

They were like, we don't want this building.

Yep.

I think we've talked about this year, a long time ago on this podcast.

Remember the CSC building?

CSC buildings.

Which we're not too far from actually.

Yeah.

There's like two big buildings they built at the height of the dot-com building.

There were going to be three.

Yeah, there were going to be three.

The dot-com bubble crashed, so they settled on two.

And

the company that had them or that wanted them went out of business.

So the two buildings were quote unquote finished and they were left with dirt floors.

Oh my god.

Like they just built the exterior of the buildings.

The buildings are still there.

Someone came in a bottom and finished them.

And they were supposed to be three buildings and they built the corner buildings first.

So the center lot was left empty.

Yeah.

So that's where the city of Austin built town hall.

So the city of Austin,

that's where that

CSC building was supposed to be.

The buildings to the west, the building to the west, and the building to the east, those were those buildings.

Yeah.

Huh.

That's why it's like, whoa, wait, those two buildings look the same as you see.

I don't know if CSC ever moved into the CSC.

No, they never did.

Ever.

Yeah.

What was CSC?

I think it was Computer Science Corporation, something like that.

Yeah.

You know, a very dot-com

business.

For a 2008 business.

What were the buildings that they, after like the boom or whatever, that they just like demolished and like pushed into the water?

And what was that, like the Intel building?

Or was it a Dell building?

It was the Intel building over there on West 6th.

They imploded that one.

Crazy.

That thing was just a shell.

Uh-huh.

Like it, like a husk.

Yeah.

Right?

Like ribs and shit.

Support columns, yeah.

Support columns.

And then they just stopped and it sat there like that for, I don't know, seven years, maybe eight years.

A couple years.

Yeah.

God,

that's crazy.

That's what happens.

Yeah.

And I wonder what it means for, I mean, through rainy and everything.

I wonder what it means for

everything that's being built.

And what people go there and who lives there and what money keeps coming in.

I have no idea.

Yeah.

It's it's funny because, you know, we've seen in the time Jeff and I have been here, we've seen a couple of boom and bust cycles.

Like obviously in the late 90s, early 2000s, there was the dot-com boom and bust.

Then 2008, there was a great recession.

And then now I feel like,

of course, COVID and post-COVID, we've seen that.

Economy's been pretty strong for a couple of years now.

So that's kind of gone.

But we've been through it a few times, but even before we came here, I want to say in the mid to late 80s, when the savings and loan bust happened, that really hit Austin hard.

Austin got hit hard.

Well, it was one of the hardest hit places in the country, I think, in the savings and loan scandal.

Yeah.

That really set it.

It took them a long time to recover.

I think that's why there were no tall buildings here in the late 90s still when we moved here.

Yeah, Austin was a real short city when I came here.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's definitely not that way anymore.

And there's definitely more sprawl, right?

Like,

people aren't just living downtown.

There's so much

like outside of everything.

The only people living downtown are people that came to Austin with money.

No one from Austin lives here.

And I feel like

back then, Cedar Park and Round Rock were so far away, and now, like, they've all just kind of grown into each other.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Same thing, like, you hear about people moving out to Liberty Hill and Leander.

Oh, yeah.

You never think about that back then.

Yeah.

Or back in the day, it was like Elgin and Bass Strip, and now it's Taylor and Huddo.

You know, that just keeps going further out.

Oh, yeah.

I have a friend that moved out here,

like, not to Austin.

He's like, oh, I live out past like Bass Trop and then work in, like, was it Smithville or something?

Yeah.

And I'm like, dude, that's crazy.

What do you do in Smithville?

Yeah.

I practice landing.

There you go.

It's a great airport.

Does he went to the airport?

I don't think so.

But he's like, it was just a four, because we're all from, he's a guy that I went to high school with.

He's like, I couldn't afford San Diego.

He's like, I had two kids and I don't,

I couldn't afford to live there anymore.

And I'm like, oh, you can afford Bass Drop for sure.

Like, that's the future of Austin, by the way.

What, Bass Drop?

No, LA, New York, San Diego, a city that a lot of people absolutely love.

They just can't afford to live there.

Austin will never be an affordable city.

I think we've seen

a bit of correction.

We might get a bust.

Well, rent has, with the explosion of all this construction that we keep talking about, rent has really stabilized.

I think year over year, it's down 7%.

Absolutely.

You're right.

I think, you know, during COVID, we saw it spike up like crazy.

And I think now, like, the market was untenable at that point between 2020 and 2022.

And I think we're definitely seeing that correction now, which we've talked about.

I think in our first episodes of ANVA, we talked about the ridiculous interest rates and everything was going crazy and how it was temporary, would not last.

Now we're on the other side of that where

I don't think it's going to get any cheaper than it is now.

It's more realistic.

At least it's stopping.

It's stopped.

Things were.

And it's backed off a bit, but Austin will never be the velvet ditch.

No.

Yeah, no, no, no.

And it was for such a long time.

No one who lives here anymore remembers that.

Yeah, it's true.

That's all gone.

That's true.

That is true.

It is like old guys, old people hanging on to phrases that nobody knows anymore.

If we watched anybody, to describe a place that hasn't been that way in 30 years.

Yeah, if we asked anybody we passed today about that phrase, maybe one person would have remembered it.

I only learned it from you guys.

Yeah.

And like maybe like Brian Garr.

I think O.

Henry coined it.

I love Brian Garr.

It's just a lot different.

I mean, and that's fine.

That's fine.

Things change.

I'm not lamenting the change.

I think it's just fine.

It's just what it is.

This is cool.

The stuff we've seen.

Not rainy, but the other stuff we've seen today is cool.

Honestly, if Austin hadn't grown,

I probably would have outgrown Austin at some point in my life.

I would think so.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah.

It's been nice that the city and I have been able to kind of grow in tandem.

Yep.

That's a low bench.

Very low bench.

Are we cutting around here and taking this street?

Yeah, this is rainy.

Okay, cool.

Wow.

I mean, really full circles.

We'll hit the right side of the street.

Yeah.

And then listen to all the construction, getting back to the car.

Get ready for more

intense audio technique.

So we already kind of talked about the...

Whoa, that squirrel's going crazy.

That was cool.

The squirrel stored us a pink cocaine last night.

Oh, again, you guys know about that too?

Hell yeah.

Squirrels in my yard have discovered Albert and that they can fuck with him.

And they just like dress.

That's cool.

Crazy now.

That's great.

They throw shit at him from the trees.

That's awesome.

They sit on the fucking, they just like run back and forth and chirp at him on the fence, and he just fucking can't handle it.

So we talked about the coffee a little bit.

I mean, I've raised my score.

6.5.

I'm just going to be clear about that.

The coffee was like the hotel.

It's fine.

Yeah.

I mean, it's definitely if you get a nice coffee there, let it melt a bit.

Don't go straight into it.

It's just definitely, that's not why we came down here.

We didn't come down here for the coffee.

We came down here because we wanted to see what rainy was like 9 a.m.

Like, let's look around.

Let's have a walk, like that kind of thing to a place that i don't think any of us have hung out in dude for a long time for gus and i maybe 20 years no i mean for me it's probably 10.

it's a giant turf 15 years oh my god it's massive yeah the big old dump um

i don't know so

that's sort of it for the last or for like the last episode of this run the eight episodes that we're doing yeah for good morning gus that's one way to put it so here so here we face we find ourselves uh at a at a crossroads yeah so what we established at the beginning no susan travis

san jack is like

um

the thing we established at the beginning was uh on the last episode are you looking at the trump watson one yeah it didn't make any sense

There's a sticker that says like Trump Watson.

Like Kirk Watson?

Yeah.

I guess so.

Yeah.

It doesn't make any sense.

So we established on the first episode that on the eighth episode, we are going to have a vote.

Yes.

Yeah.

Of, are we going to continue the show?

Anybody has one equal vote.

Yes.

And if we all say yes, then we go.

It has to be unanimous.

Yes.

We all say yes, then we continue.

We'll do another eight.

If one person says no, then that's it.

And there's no

animosity, no hard feelings.

We shake hands or hug or however it is.

We touch each other and we part.

We part as friends.

It'll be interesting because it'll be the end of the, and it's got to happen at some point because one of us will die eventually.

But Gus, I mean,

it would mean at least the temporary end of the creative partnership between Gus and I that has existed for 30 years.

No, 25 years.

25 years.

I have a lot of power right now.

26 years.

Oh, you do?

Yeah.

I could easily say no.

And then that's the end of you.

I think we should save Eric.

Oh, watch out.

Watch poop.

We should save Eric for last thing.

You guys are crazy.

You're the one talking about your power.

I'm trying to give you a picture.

So

I feel like the eight episodes have been a lot of fun.

I feel like we sort of changed the format up.

It's been a lot more walk and talk.

The walkie's a lot better right now than it was earlier.

Yeah.

I've really enjoyed the walk and talk format of this show.

There's a lot of fun.

It's definitely going to find its way into regulation.

It's great.

Putting these like little

love mics on and then just cruise.

Yeah.

Dude, you should do a walk and talk version of D ⁇ D.

That's not going to happen.

You have like a little thing around your neck, like a little tray you can roll right there.

You're having an adventure.

You're going to be on.

You're on the long walk or whatever.

I'd be gonna be crossing.

So are we voting or what?

Yeah.

Who wants to vote first?

Jeff?

I vote yes.

I can do eight more episodes.

Okay.

I don't know how many more past that, but I definitely can do eight more.

That's all we're committing to.

Another eight.

Yeah.

Just another eight.

Another year.

You voted first.

Who do you want to vote next?

I'd like to hear Eric vote next.

I've given him all the power.

I have much power in the situation, but I enjoy doing this.

And I only had to pay for coffee like once, maybe twice.

So

we didn't even cover that.

Eric lost today.

I lost today, which is fine because I think I lost like on the second episode.

And then I lost like the last three weeks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jeff just keeps losing.

I'm going to say, yes, I want to keep doing, I want to do eight more episodes of this show because I think that there are enough places around here that we can go to.

It's gone.

There you go.

2009, 2021.

So here's the gravestones of the places that didn't survive.

Craft Pride,

Pabolina, Garage Mahal.

Damn.

No, that place, it customed Blackheart.

That place is gone now.

That was.

Anyway.

That's two yeses.

And now it comes down to Gus.

Jeff drove today.

I felt compelled to say that.

And Eric had to pay.

I think this run.

I may have only had to pay once, maybe twice.

Wow.

But one of them was a big potato episode.

Which was, yes.

Which I'm still salty about.

Uh-huh.

And I feel like in order order to break even and get my money back, I need to say yes and commit to another eight

just so someone else can keep buying me coffee.

It's it's a fiscal decision from Gus.

Okay.

Yes.

Okay.

And at some point before we finish the next eight, I need to finish editing these ingredients.

Yeah, but we're not in a rush for that.

And also, we can give it to someone will do.

I've done the first.

I did a great job.

I really thought he was going to say no.

Me too.

I would have said no if I thought he was going to say yes.

If I hadn't bought those baked potatoes, I would have said no.

Same.

it's a financial decision from Gus.

So I respect it.

It's purely about the dollars.

Yep.

Well.

I got him McMoney.

I was really throwing it to him so that he could be the gus of it all.

What'd you get?

Hoochie Daddy Hunter.

Hoochie Daddy Hunter.

There we go.

Well, that seems like it's three yeses.

So it seems like we'll have to do.

Yes.

Okay, cool.

So I think that means that we have to do another eight of this show.

Maybe it won't be the longest break in between who knows i think we were all busy set starting up our other companies

the ones that are going to sustain us and make yeah the ones so i i live streamed factorio for stinky dragons yesterday and i got a couple people asking about it uh-huh about anma when it's going to come out i was like listen we've had to work on the podcasts that are going to make us money yep so that we can survive andma's uh not a money not going to be a money maker and i would say that it's a passion project but i don't know if i'm necessarily passionate about it i just enjoy it.

Yeah.

All right.

We should probably cut before we get to the sleep blower.

Why?

I think people will like this audio texture.

It's a good thing.

Yeah, we'll go out.

We'll go out.

We're back on the north side of Rainy again.

We're by, what, the Augustine.

Here's Idle Hands.

Yep.

We're right next to Clive.

We're right next to Clive, and it has the thing on top.

There's this huge truck coming.

So come on down to parlor room.

Oh my God.

I think it's great.

Little brother, isn't that supposed to be a thing?

Yeah.

Yes, it is.

That's supposed to be cool, right?

Yes, it is.

Coffee.

What time do they open?

5 p.m.

on Friday.

Yeah.

Cool.

That's really helpful because I love having coffee at 5 p.m.

Yum Yum.

5 p.m.

coffee.

Well, we made it.

What do you think of the Clive, Jeff?

It blows my fucking mind.

You know, the interesting thing about the Clive Bar, I haven't been in there in many, many years, but...

A billion years ago, there was a craft cocktail bar on the east side called the Peacock.

It's now something else.

yeah uh it's been a bunch of bars since it was but that would be where you'd go in and they would have like uh they would they would make like legitimate uh worm wood what is that stuff called absence absent with the thing with the sugar and spoon and all that we do that every once in a while hung out with a ledger whip there once yeah you go what that place had these fucking leather these like leather lounge chairs with like peacocks embroidered on them that were so fucking like sexy and like nice and cool and when that place closed down clivebard got those chairs and so i used to go to Clivebard just because I liked them.

Oh, that's cool.

So I don't know if they're still there.

They're probably not 15 years later.

But if you go in there and you see a peacock on a chair, know that it came from the east side 10 years ago.

I didn't know that.

That's wild.

That's pretty cool.

Well, we're passing Luster Pearl, and that'll do it for Rainy Street.

Yeah, we're getting back to our $48 parked car.

Why did you star spot it, dude?

I should have blew it.

Well,

that'll do it for this season.

I guess we'll be back.

This is where the original...

Luster Pearl was.

Yeah, it was right here.

It was across the street?

It was this building right here.

Why did they...

Yeah.

Because they took the building and moved it to the east side.

Whatever.

Eric, it's business.

I don't like rainy streets.

I don't like it.

Nobody likes rainy streets.

Like it.

People go, Yeah, I want to go down there.

My cousin came and visited.

She's like, I want to go to rainy.

And I went, no, you don't.

If you've got a bachelor party or bachelorette party, you're visiting out of town.

That's where you go.

Absolutely.

Well, that'll do it for this season of Good Morning, Gus.

Sounds like there'll be another season.

It sounds like it.

You got Greenlit.

Stay to get Greenlit by us.

Guys, not making money on this.

If you like the season and

listen to the ads, because that's the only way we'll make money on this.

But I think that's all.

You guys have any

final thoughts, parting words for the folks listening at home who are going to wait for another eight episodes for I don't know how long?

I need to put ad breaks in these episodes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Probably.

Yeah, well, we'll give one right here.

We'll give Nick like 50 bucks and maybe he can do it.

All right, bye.

All right, bye.