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All right, Chris, we'll see you later. See you, Chris.
Bye-bye. So as we started this episode, we're dishing Chris.
Yeah, bye, Chris.

What a crazy story Chris just told us, though.

Keep Chrising.

It was like being on the Rooster Teeth podcast. It really was.
Good morning, Jeff. Good morning, Gus.
Man, that guy does a real service by being a Chris, so nobody else has to do the Chris stuff.

Where do you guys want to wander? A little spicy in the sun here. We're at Spinning Buns.
So it's actually the afternoon. We're at Spinning Buns.
Let's go over to that trash can. Yeah.
Burger Black.

The bag's not in. Here in Mueller.
It's a new place. They sell UFO burgers.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's a hamburger that that they press and seal. There's like a big ravioli.
It blew Chris's mind.

I think he asked five times if it was a sealed burger.

It's like, it looks like a sealed burger. Yeah.
Jeff is really pissed about it. Jeff doesn't like it, isn't happy that we did it.
Look, man, I care.

I get eight of these. Uh-huh.
I get eight of these fucking experiences with the two of you. Uh-huh.
I get a million experiences with you. Yeah.

I get eight of these with the combination of the three of us.

They've all been fucking bangers so far. Yeah.

And

there are so many delicious fucking hamburgers

we could sample in Austin. Yeah.

And I was willing to go along for the gimmick.

And

listen, I don't know. When do you want to get into how bad that fucking hamburger is?

Let's preface it a little bit. It is a local place.
I saw this place. I was driving by here the other day.

And they had signs up. And all the signage and everything made me think it looked like a chain or something.
So I went to their website, looked it up. I was like, oh, no,

it's just this location. It used to be like a caffrioti sandwich shop.
Yes. And I thought in the photo, the burger looked cool.
I was like, oh.

Yeah.

That seems like a novel idea. The bun looked cool.
The stamp on the top of it with the logo was neat. I'll give you all that.
But

once you take a bite, all that goes away. You don't care about that anymore because it was not great.

It was a fast food hamburger. No, I wouldn't even give it that.

Wow. And mine, I mean, yeah.
I got a spicy one. Me too.
And it wasn't spicy. No, no.
I didn't find any spice in it. I had jalapenos.
Yeah.

It's a very mustardy sauce. It was...

It's like what I picture if you run a restaurant. I guess we're going this way or this way? Yeah, no, it's just,

the Cisco delivery guy shows up and he's like, what patties do you want? And you're like, I want the cheapest ones you sell. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look, I feel like we're dumping on a local business.

I'm not trying to do that. I just, now I feel bad.
I just support them and give them a shot. If you have a kid, your kid's going to fucking love it.
It's too a leaf.

Wasn't my favorite.

It's very strange that it exists. You know what I mean?

It's like a Korean street food, right? Oh, is it? I believe so. Yeah.
I believe it's a Korean street food. And then it's just a spot in Mueller that's local, not a chain.

And they just went, we got to make these ravioli hamburgers. And really, I watched the process and everything before we went.

They make a hamburger and then they put it in a device and then they close the device and it just seals

you can buy like a grilled cheese sandwich.

It's a panini maker. Yes.
Yeah.

Yeah. I think ostensibly that's what you would call it.
Yeah.

It's a cool idea. Uh-huh.
And I appreciate people taking the swing. Uh-huh.
It's local. You want to support local businesses.
I think it's, I think kids are going to love it. Yeah.
I think it's a

fun hamburger for a 12-year-old. It is.

There's a fucking dumbass cybertruck. Yeah, we've eaten a few different burgers.
Yeah.

This is in the ranking of the burgers we've eaten. It is my least favorite of the ones we've eaten.
I can see that. I definitely can see that.
Do you guys want to go inside Best Play? Yeah, I kind of.

I hope you need something, man.

No, no, not anymore. Oh, I do.
You do need something. Don't get there.
No fucking shot they're going to have this cable. I will say they had curly fries.
They did. You were pissed about those.

Well, they were a little soggy.

But the curly fries were way better than the onion rings I thought. Oh, I could eat those onion rings.
I love onion rings. I don't care if it's a sweet onion.
I don't care what.

Just give me the onion rings. I just wish the onion rings had maybe been in the fryer 15, 30 more seconds.
They're a little mush. Yeah, little.
Little mush. Like, they weren't under.

But I just want them a little crispier, like a little more browning on it. I'm not a curly fry fan.
Really? What? Do you like a waffle fry? Yeah, I love waffle fries.

You just don't like a curly fries. Is it the seasoning? Maybe it's a seasoning app.
He does have like a little, does it remind you like a little pig stick? It's like a pigtail, yeah.

He's like just anti-pig. Yeah.
He's anti-swine.

I understand. Man, I've been in, it's been a couple weeks since we've done one of these.
Yeah, we've been. How long has it been?

A month or so?

About a month. So we've been in and out of the country, in and out of Austin,

just nothing lined up.

Eric and I have been on a race to see who can leave town the most during the year. It's so

even if you guys were here, there's no way I would have had the time to do one of these. Oh, is that right? We've been,

now it's all ancient history by the time people are listening to us, but we had, you know, this deal with critical role for our content, for Stinky Dragon content. Congratulations, Bob.

Oh, yeah, that's really cool. And as part of that,

so I don't know how nitty-gritty to get into this. Like, this is like podcast production stuff.
That's,

I think, people who are listening to this probably like this. We're so inside baseball right now.
You know how at Rooster Teeth, we would distribute

podcasts, and for a long time, there were no ad-free podcast feeds. Yes, correct.
So, every podcast, if you listen to it on

whatever platform, had ads, even if you're a first member or whatever. Yeah,

so a lot of our early episodes, there were no ad-free versions. Yeah, so as part of this delivery process, we had to deliver ad-free versions of the podcast, not only audio, but the video as well.

Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So we have to go back and also...

Almost all, well, yeah, pretty much almost all of our podcasts had at the beginning Christian saying, this is a roost chief production. That's right.
It's not here. It's not.

So we have to go back and edit like 150 episodes. But it was more complicated than than that because it was it they were edited in a program none of you guys used right correct

logic yeah so that's so crazy how's it going we had to have micah re-export all of the logic pro stems like wave files that we could then take into adobe software what re-edit it

make the audio make the video re-export it and then

re-deliver it and it was like 150 episodes wow

so you've been doing nothing but that all day all right i did you're just a little render for him i did all of campaign two and like 19 episodes from campaign two.

And then Blaine did the rest, except for one or two that maybe Blaine did. I don't think Blaine or Chris did anything.

I think Blaine and Chris each did one, and I think they were wrong. It had to be redone.
Chris has been incredibly busy running around to different

Starbucks.

Let me see you right here.

Yeah, so he's been going everywhere. So what is it you need again? I need a, as weird as this sounds, I need a USB to micro USB or

CMI to micro USB.

CMI to micro HIV. I've been looking at cables all day today.
Why? What does that do? It is for our

camera for 100% E.

The only time I've ever seen a micro HDMI plug used is on camera. Yeah, yeah.

They used to be standard for

digital options. If it's not here, we may want to go look for the camera.

We'll just keep looking. I'm not going to rush.
But

they used to be standard for like, you know,

camera to transfer all your stuff like fire wire like that It's just what it used to be and it's not that anymore So you're kind of hard pressed but we bought an old camera and it was just like how can we do this on the cheap because we didn't know if it was anyone was gonna give a shit if we reviewed food so anyway on this show reviewing food hang on i want to check out the razor products okay can't get away huh yeah let me say i will say it's one of the interesting things i was thinking about the other day clicky i was thinking about this podcast the other day quiet and clicky how

i didn't anticipate, I didn't anticipate us taking such a breadth of time to film one season. Yeah.

I assumed it'd go pretty quick, like eight weeks, maybe six weeks or five, because we're doing two-first. Yeah.

But now we're going on probably three months into this season.

But is this number six or seven? This is like number seven, number six. Number six, but the seventh we've recorded because we lost the audio on one of them.
Yeah.

So we have two more to go after this, and God knows when they'll do.

It's going to be interesting because if you're listening to it from start to finish, we're going to be talking-like, it's like Rooster's about to shut down. A really interesting thing.

Oh, Skinky Dragon is about to launch. Oh, we just had our first merch launch at regulation.
Like, we're covering six or more months of our lives here.

Well, that's it's got at least it's got to be entertaining. Yeah, from day to day, it doesn't feel entertaining.
And I think the thing that

hopefully that the audience finds interesting. Uh, no, just uh, kind of just browsing.
Do you have

micro HDMI tables and kids?

I actually do think we do.

Um, I think they're all like adapters to like micro HMI for facing. That works.
Yeah. Cool.

Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
I really appreciate it. Cool.
Also,

I'm huge fans of you guys. Oh, thank you so much.

Thank you.

You've held to Eric's life out tremendously. Yeah, now I don't have to wait any longer.
This is great. These guys are big inspirations for me.
I'm looking into starting my own studios.

You should do it. It's a lot of work, but it's worth it.
Yeah, that's. And then you'll be looking for a micro HMI cable.
Yeah, suddenly.

Thank you so much. Thank you so much.
Oh, I could have come here.

Is it cheaper or is it the same price? No, it's twice the price. This is twice? Yeah.
Oh, all text. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Buy local. Thin micro HDMI cable.

It's just one of those ones where you go like, do you think it's going to work? Yeah. It should.
You can always return it if it doesn't work. I'm going to have baseball cards here.
Oh, let's look.

But you were. Tell me about Echoes of the Wisdom.
So Echoes of Wisdom Home recordings came out last week, last Friday, I think. And I've been playing it for a week now.

And I don't know, maybe, I have no idea how far I'm in that game. I'm playing it off and on.
but

for the first time ever like I'm sitting there playing the game and it's a fun game

but I realized it's a game for kids oh is it is it pretty I had that like moment of realization where I'm like oh there's like the boss files there's no real challenge it's very like hold your hand and then some of the characters are a little too over the top and like I don't want to listen to this one NPC play the saxophone while this other one plays the harp and they have to settle their argument so they can play music together in harmony.

Like, it's, I was like, that is, this is a fun game, but, and I get it, it's Nintendo, right? Like, I'm not the target, but it was just frustrating to buy that game and realize it has great reviews.

Yeah, yeah. None of the reviews have said, this is a kids' game.
Yeah, so I shouldn't play it.

I was thinking about it being my first Zelda game in 30 years. It is, it is very much.

I wouldn't play that as your first Zelda game. I play Breath of the Wild.
Yeah. Oh, that's going to be...
Whew.

They don't have the cards I'm looking for. I'm very precise on my card buying.
Yeah, Breath of the Wild and that sequel were just like...

Me and Michael were talking about Tears of the Kingdom with Jordan, who that's like his, Jordan fucking loves that game. I didn't love Tears of the Kingdom because I wanted something.

It felt like, here's the same map. We did some different stuff with it.
It's like, right, but I spent 150 hours. Is it really the same map?

Yeah. You can go, and then there's like the sky, there's like a sky level and like a subterranean thing.
So it's more,

but I spent so much time

already in that place that like I'm really hard pressed to find the joy that I already sunk that much time into. And there is, there are like a lot of differences.
Not enough for me to

what was the time gap between the two games that you played? Oh, I have no idea how long. Like I, yeah, I played Breath of the Wild at launch.

I probably put, I may have put 120 into it, but I didn't find that when I played Tears of the Kingdom. It was, the differences were different enough.

Like I didn't feel like I was, even though you're physically going back to the same place, I wasn't, I didn't feel like I was doing the same thing.

It's still, it had all of the things that I didn't like about Breath of the Wild in it, where it is a big, big open world thing that is empty for the most part. And

this did not feel more full just because there's a new top and a new bottom. Yeah, it does.

You are still,

okay, I got to go over there and call my horse. Yeah, but now I had one bit like, I'm going to make a plane.
Yeah. See,

like that kind of stuff. I hate that shit.

I hate. I loved it.
I hate building. I hate Minecrafting it.
I hate. Some of the ones where it's like, I'm going to build a bomber.
I'm going to.

And just drop shit off. on it.

Speaking of dropping, I dropped the terrible fart over there. Oh, yeah.

I want to run around and like fight in the dungeons, and they don't have that.

Speaking of time passing,

the final point I was going to make is

ultimate Alex G. Murphy.
It may take us six months to record this podcast, eight to eight,

but that is also the entirety of the time we spend together. Yeah.
Like that is, we are not only capturing this podcast, we're capturing the entirety of our

actions. Yeah.

Elvira.

With oops.

She'll touch Adam. What? Yeah.
You know, she's gay. She's married to a woman.

She came out a few years ago. I didn't know that.
Has been in a long-time relationship with some of the people. I'm surprised she's still alive.
Yeah, she's doing well. Yeah.
She's alive and healthy.

Just convincing her. Conventions, right? Yeah, I don't know how old she is, but I felt she's been around for a long time.
She is.

Man, I've been in, I don't want to derail us from what's at hand here, but I have been in homeowner hell. Oh, yeah, you're going to tell us about this.
Well, what happened?

Was it maybe two or three weeks ago on a Friday? It's always on a Friday, like at 5 p.m., right? Yeah, like my teeth. Yeah, Friday.

Oh, I have teeth. 5 p.m.

Esther comes to me. She's like,

there's like a weird stain on the ceiling of one of the bathrooms.

And I was like, no, no, I was like, no, no, you're imagining that. No.
So I went and I looked and I was like, no, yeah, you're right. You're not stupid.
I mean, very clearly a water stain up there.

Guts is over here going, please let Esther be stupid. Please.

It's never happened. It just doesn't happen.
So I'm like, okay, well, it's not very big. It's the first thing I say.
It's like, it's Friday. It's 5 p.m.

I don't want to call a plumber on like an emergency rate. Oh, of course not.
Let's.

Wow.

Let's wait and see how it looks over the weekend. Yeah.

And it didn't grow very much. So I called the plumber and I'm like, hey, can I just have some come out Monday morning to take a look at this? Like, yeah, no problem.

So the guy guy comes out Monday morning and he's like, yeah, you know, that looks like a water leak. He's like, we're going to have to cut into the drywall

to see where the leak is. I'm like, all right, fine.
He cuts into the drywall and there's pipes right there, right? There's like two or three pipes.

There's like two pipes that come together in a Y, another pipe, that smaller pipe in the area.

And he's like, he starts reaching up and touching all of them. He goes, all these pipes are dry.

And I'm like, what does that mean? He goes, that means the water's traveling from somewhere.

Wait, what do you wait? Hang on. Your pipes are dry right above it.
Right. So it's coming from somewhere.
Yeah. Who knows? What? And he's like, he starts reaching around.

He's like, yeah, see, it's wet in this direction on the dry wall. So you got to chase it.

Thank you very much. Yeah, have a good one.

And he's like,

nine times out of ten,

when I find a, you know, when I come out to take a look at a leak. Have a walk this way.

Yeah.

There's like a park or something. We can go to over there.

He's like, the water's coming from outside nine times out of ten. So we go walk around the outside of the house.
He's like, maybe, you know, on this side of the house, like there's some masonry work.

Maybe there's like a gap. And I said, Well, I did have one of those windows replaced a couple months ago.
He's like, Maybe they messed it up and it's not sealed right. Water's getting in there.

I was like, But it hasn't rained in like three weeks.

Driest summers we've ever had. Yeah.
And he's like, Yeah, he's like, I don't know. He's like, The pipes are dry.
He's like, I don't know what to tell you. I'm like, yeah,

okay.

So then I call like a masonry guy and he comes out and he looks at it and he's like, You had to call a masonry guy?

Luckily, I've worked with one before. So I called the same guy I've worked with.
Holy Morning. What? How to start that project?

Like, that's not. luckily I've worked with a masonry guy before he came out that same day

and he's like he's like yeah I mean I guess you could touch some of this mortar up he's like can we do a little base like I don't think he's like I don't think water's getting in there what and I'm like oh that's that sucks so I'm like all right well I'm gonna think about it and he gives me a quote it's like four grand or something

for work that you don't need right and I'm like some stuff I can do if you want

I can burn some of your money wake up the next morning go into that bathroom and there's water again what and I'm like, what the fuck? And now, you know, it's you say water again. Where is it now?

It's on like now, it's dripping onto the counter. Okay.

So you can see the drip. Yeah, and I'm like, well, I'm like, there's clearly water.
I look up at the pipes. The pipes are dry.
I get up there and I reach and I touch them all. They're all dry.

I don't. And I'm like, where is this water coming from? And like, I start reaching around like a plumber did.
Like, he's right. It's went in that direction, but it didn't rain last night.

There's no way there's still water in the wall

coming out here.

So I'm pissed off.

And

i'm just like skewing trying to think about what to do with it and i'm not you know i'm not gonna

pay the masonry guy to fix something that might not even be the issue so of course thinking about it and then like later that day i go in there look at it's not a bathroom we use often uh-huh i go in there again and i can see it's dripping i'm like oh shit it's active so i get a bowl set it up active it's active and i look and one of the pipes is dripping what i'm like Why the fuck is this pipe dripping?

And

like I, you know, I take pictures of it. I call a plumber.
He's like, yeah, I'm going to come out tomorrow morning. We'll take a look at it.
And he comes back out the next morning. Pipes are dry.

I don't understand. And he's like, are you sure this pipe was dripping? And I show him the video.
It's like where there's like a Y intersection with two big pipes.

He's like, yeah, yeah, it's coming out from there, isn't it? And you can see it like starting to drip out. He's like, he's like, let's test the different things.

He's trying to figure out what drain this is. Right.
He's like, let's turn on all these different drains and try to figure it out. We turn on all of this shit.
It never leaks.

It's all dry when he's there. He's like, I don't know what to tell you.
He's like,

there's no leak. Is it? What?

And so I'm like, fine. All right.
I was like, I'm going to keep, I'm going to say, I'm going to keep watching it. I'm going to keep looking at this thing.
Uh-huh.

And then later that afternoon, I'm like, I'm going to go check on it. It's dripping.

And Esther's there with me. And she's like, it's not that pipe that's dripping.
It's the one above it. And I'm like,

I'm like, what? And since she's a different height than me, she sees it at a different angle. Yeah.

She's like, it's that other pipe above it that's dripping down and making it look like this pipe is drippy. And I'm like, oh,

what the

so then I was like, plumber not paying that.

Well, then because he saw the video and it looks like it's coming out of the bigger pipe on the bottom. So then there's like eight different things that it could be, right? Oh my god, that's cool.

So then we're like, why is it not dripping in the morning when the plumber's here? Yeah. Oh, it's air conditioner.
It's the air conditioner.

As soon as you said it was like you were running everything and it wasn't going, I'm like, it's the AC. It has to be your drip line.
AC condensate line

was leaking and dripping down, making it look like that which why anytime i call a plumber you come out in the morning

never happened it was always in the afternoon when he wasn't there i had the same i had the same issue

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So then Plumber comes back out. He's like, yep, it's the AC line.
We're going to start cutting open your walls to find out where the hole is.

Then we're like, okay, you know, we go, this is on, you know, there's a floor above it, above where the leak is. So we go up there and we're like kind of measure it out.

He's like, yeah, it's right about here. We're going to start cutting open this wall.
He's like, you want to cut low on the wall first or do you want to cut high on the wall?

And he's like, Well, because if you cut low and you find it a leak, or you find water, you know the leak is higher.

If you cut high and there's no leak, you cut that hole unnecessarily, and you got to cut low. It's like, either way, we're cutting two holes.
So, we start high.

He finds the pipe, he's like, huh, no leak up here. Great, cut low, yep, water's down here.
It's

so like, just start cutting in the middle, cut my shit up, man. God damn, and he cuts in the middle.
He's like, Oh, yeah, here, this is where it is.

And I take a look in there, and I had renovated that house six years ago or so.

And as part of it,

so where we're cutting open the wall, on the other side of that wall, there's a bathroom.

And there had been a new mirror installed on the wall.

And there were screws that came through into the interior of the wall. It didn't puncture that pipe, but it was touching it.

And over time, just the vibration of the pipe. It was just enough to just a tiny little bit to where it had this little hole.
And now I've got fucking holes in my wall. And

dry wall if you don't mind me asking uh is it all repaired yet it is yesterday how long did it take to get

repaired all told from the time we discovered so we discovered that that wet spot two weeks ago uh-huh and it finally got painted yeah

no it took about a week and a half no it took two weeks two weeks yeah so we discovered it three weeks ago and it just got repaired yesterday so almost two weeks 13 days and how much money are you out if you don't mind me asking all told i i told it up because i was really mad yeah i thought it was gonna be way worse it It was about $2,200.

Yeah. $2,200 because of a 30-cent screw.
Yep. That over the course of six years slowly vibrated.
Just vibrating now.

This is

why I'm so happy not to own a house. Yeah, this is why he, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I totally get it. Jesus Christ.

And it's like, it's not even that you have to go through it. It's that there's never an easy answer.

It's that you have to be a fucking, you have to pay, you have to be fucking Sherlock Holmes of your own house to figure stuff out.

The people that you hire to help are going to put in, no offense to the people that you hire to help, the bare minimum of figuring out how to solve the problem 90% of the time.

So you have to do your extra due diligence and you're just taking years off your life in stress.

And at one point, you know, when we had the hole at the top and the hole at the bottom, the guy was like, you know, if we cut the hole here in the middle, And I forgot it was like a weird scenario where we're in a position where if we don't find water on this cut, then that means the leak is in between the floors, which means we have to start cutting the floor up.

And I was like, okay, at that point, can we just re-plumb it and move the drain to come to this sink? Because I said there was a bathroom.

They're like, just go out there and like, yeah, like, you know, try to figure out all these solutions. Then you cut it and look, he's like, oh, yeah, there's the, there's the water.

But Jesus, like you said, playing detective and engineer, trying to figure this shit out.

Days of trying to like writing down the time of day it starts to leak so you can figure out what's different about your house. That's just, that's just, that's the shitty part of homeownership.

I'm not.

I show you one of the photos. The fucking photos I took actually.
I would feel so much like I'm emotionally conflicted because so much joy that it's not my experience. But I'd so

I knew like that's where it is. Genuinely bummed for you guys every time something like this happens.
Just so annoying. Anyway, don't buy a house.
Yeah.

I mean, did we talk about it on this show where I told you guys about all like I had like the same a condensation line issue and everything. Yeah.
Where uh I think you didn't get into detail about it.

No, I had to get my uh AC looked at and repaired and the guy's like this condensation like you're like the coil and everything is

up you uh did you paint recently i'm like not recently recently he's like yeah this like there's paint that came in it's all in like this coil so now it's not like catching and releasing like the water yeah essentially and so i'm like fuck all right so replace that but because that happened now the amount of water that is coming down my drip line was more than what my pipes were used to handling.

Yeah. And they had essentially like they got lazy.
Yeah. And then when it started again, it was like, nope.
And so that sink started dripping.

So I had to have a plumber come out and plumb the whole thing because I didn't want to fucking snake it. I've already snaked it one time a long time ago.
I don't want to snake it again. So I did that.

And it was just like, dude, like, how is this fucking chain of shit just, it just rolls downhill? Yeah. Like, that's so cool.
Yeah. And then we were painting last night.

Like you said, one thing leads to another. Yeah.

We're like, yeah, you know, when we did this renovation, we said that the, you you know, this bathroom ceiling's going to have the satin finish paint or whatever it was. Yeah.

Buy the satin finish paint, start painting it, let it dry a bit. And we're like, those motherfuckers, they painted it with the flat paint.

So it was like, now you can clearly tell it's not matching up. It's like, now we got to paint the whole ceiling.
That sucks. What the fuck?

This park on the right, this little like kids' park, jungle gym kind of thing. Yeah.

This is.

the first one they built in Mueller when they very first built Mueller.

Back when there wasn't much here.

And so this is like 2007 2008 probably and this is the park i used to take millie to all the time because it was empty and so i just got super nostalgic because i spent a lot of millie's childhood we're on the

we're on the back side of all like the uh

children's hospital yeah children's hospital

yeah and so we're on the back side of all that just kind of walking through this park and everything uh because i got my cable from best by now uh but we were talking about they've redone the park since building was here it didn't look like this it's it's been a few years yeah we talked about spinning buns, and it used to be caprioti sandwich.

Yeah. And then you guys were talking about that shopping center and like other stuff there, no? Like

Capitol Plaza. That's okay.
Oh, so they were stabbing Capital Plaza.

Yeah. A lot of people get killed in Austin these days.
Yeah.

Still, relatively speaking, low compared to most cities. Yeah.
Yeah. I think it's just

more than Austin's used to. Yeah.
As we grow. For sure.

Growing pains. Growing pains.
Country's out of control.

Still undecided?

Still undecided.

Both sides are making a lot of good points here, man.

There was a metal music festival in Orlando. I saw

my God. I had their one that.

It's weird decisions. Weird green terrace.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Weird decisions.
Evergreen Terrace, a band I used to listen to. I've never heard of them before, but I assume is that a Simpsons reference? Yes.
It's got to be.

Yeah, it is, but it doesn't have anything to do with their music. It's like Fallout Boy.
Yeah, exactly. So it's just that.
Simpsons did it. But

they were just like, we're not going to this. Fuck this.
It's got Wittenhouse. He can fuck himself.
We're not doing this. And then they're like, don't worry.

We have a new headliner, a slipknot cover band. It's like, oh.

Okay.

That's awesome. What's that thing?

What? Oh, that's art. Do you want to look at the art? Let's look at art.
Yeah, it's been there. Let's go appreciate art.
It's been there for a long time. It looks like it makes me think of a geode.

I think it's like bee-related or hive-related or something, maybe. What's got hexagons? Yeah.
Yeah, I feel like. Yeah, I don't know.

Oh, dude, when we were in England, there were so many people taking pictures of squirrels. Really? Yeah.
There's like a lot of like tourists, I think, that don't have squirrels. Very weird.

I saw a girl be afraid of a squirrel. It was pretty cool.
That's insane. Yeah.

They're everywhere.

They're like cute rats. That's what I said.

Insects love art. Hunter Cross geode.
Oh, it is a geode. Yeah, you're at it.
It's cement, steel, glass, programming.

LED light 2014. A geode is a hollow stone with crystals lining the inside walls.

The crystals, which take thousands of years to form, are tangible reminder of the many imperceptible and gradual forces that shapes the Earth's surface.

With this large sculpture, the artist encourages the viewer to examine his or her relationship with nature and geological time, also bees.

And in all capitals, please do not climb on the artwork. Okay, yeah.
Look at this and tell me how that's not for sitting. Yeah, I know, right?

That's for sitting. I'm going to lean against it.
Oh, you leaning? You got a good lean going? Yeah, rock out of my shoe.

This shade is appreciated, though. Yeah, yeah.
Hard to believe this has been here for 10 years already.

I can't believe people break little pieces of this shit off. Yeah, people suck.
People are turds.

It's like when we got fucking troll at

Peace Park, and like, yeah, everyone's climbing on his chest. It's just like kids breaking pieces of it off and chasing each other with them.
Yeah. What kind of worm does that?

I think that's a mud dauber wasp. Yeah, those are what? Yeah.
Yeah. That's not a worm.
But what if I keep imagining it's a worm? I don't have to worry about a wasp.

Then you're going to be fucking terrified when a worm flies at you. It's a mouthful.
They don't sting, though. Oh, good.
You don't have to worry about that. Okay.

They're one of the cool wasps.

The worm starts flying at you.

Where'd this worm come from?

Yeah, I've got a couple of those around my house. Little fucking mud dauber wasps.
I wonder how many Rooster Teeth employees have lived in Mueller throughout the

run of Rooster Teeth, I guess, in Mueller. Just

a lot of people, I feel like, like these apartments went up, and then it was like

a race to get into it. I feel like it was everybody's first apartment in Austin.
Yeah, definitely.

It's been interesting. Like, take a left.
Yeah, start looping around back towards it.

It's been interesting reading some of the news stories, not even just Austin specific, but like national news talking about how Austin has been really trying to tackle this affordability crisis from a rental perspective by like building lots of units and trying to make more friendly code to make it more amenable to continue to build more units and how average rent prices have actually, we're past the peak.

They've actually started moderating, going down. Part of that, you know, I think might be city decision, city management.
I wonder also how much of it is city of Austin isn't as hip as it used to be.

Oh, it's definitely not as hot as it was.

The bubble bursting a little bit on the fucking... Yeah.
Yeah.

Third time in 20 years burst that bubble. Easy.
It's a yeah, it's a great cool down.

I forget what the term of it is, but Austin was, it's like a swing city, but it has like a 20 to 30 year popularity cycle. And it was like before us, it was Seattle.

And before Seattle, it was, I want to say, San Diego. Interesting.
And then like, and then I think Austin is due to come out of it. Yeah.

And then I don't know what's next, but there'll be some other city in America that everybody,

people try to talk about like Boise. Oh,

I hear that too. I think it's going to be like Milwaukee.

Interesting. I think it's going to be.
That's like a real throwback. Yeah.
I think it's going to be a smaller, sort of like,

it's going to be like a smaller blue collar town that could also be like voting blue pretty easy and a lot of like breweries. Do you think that has to be it? Like it has, it's a blue city?

Well, I think, I I think it's a city that can easily go blue. Interesting.

It doesn't necessarily have to be because San Diego's not. San Diego's red.
Really? Yeah, yeah. San Diego has its navy presence.
There's much military interest in it.

I never drew a political correlation to what the it city is at the time. No, it's definitely it's definitely more left-leaning and progressive.
Things start happening faster. Everyone moves here.

And then it becomes sort of like a parody of itself. And then everyone sort of skeedaddles.
And

the city's bigger, but I would definitely say it's better for it. Like the growth is necessary.
I would say it could have been Nashville, but I think that ship sailed.

It's not going to be Nashville. I think that Nashville could have been.
It's already too corporate.

I think Nashville could have been it if it hadn't instantly become the number one destination for bachelorette parties. Yeah.
It is, it's too

tourist-based for that. You know what I mean? I've been there once, and that was insane.
It's crazy. I've never seen anything like it.

It was similar to Vegas, but the volume was like...

Vegas has other stuff. Nashville only had that.
It could be fucking Vegas. Oh, that'd be interesting.
It could be Vegas. I feel like Vegas already had its moment, like before 2008.

I think it like it's doing a thing with sports right now.

Basic is basically Saudi Arabia right now in America, where they're just acquiring pro teams and making a big deal out of it. The L and A's are in Sacramento now or something? No, not anymore.

They're about to be in Vegas. No, they're in Sacramento now.
They're in Sacramento for two years. They've got to be in Vegas.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think they're trying to get, look, it's a lot of tourists, obviously. That's what Vegas is.
It's you fly in for your friend's birthday and then let's get drunk and watch the Raiders play, whatever.

So you're always going to try to draw that.

But I can see them with baseball, especially trying to draw a local crowd and get a grassroots thing where it's like the Golden Knights, I feel like, were like the first thing where it's, hey, we're going to have a thing.

It wasn't a transfer. Like it wasn't like the Raiders.

On top of that, too, they have the selling point of like, you want to see your favorite sports team? Yes. Come here.
You want to go see the Boston Celtics?

why go to boston this come to vegas you'll have way more fun you can bet yeah

you can drink

you can do it all you can buy weed yeah granted there's no nba team in vegas but you know what i'm saying no but that's where they do the summer league stuff yeah and and w nba yeah there was years ago um you know rt has been adjacent to a lot of businesses over its life across the street and you walk in there let's do that cool and for a while you know we were talking with a lot of esports leagues i remember there were a couple that were like yeah we're gonna do it we're gonna base out of vegas Yeah.

Like, it's going to be the thing. And it's like, man,

I think they have the right idea, but I think

it's not right. It wasn't the right time.
Wasn't the right thing. It's the wrong demographic.
Yeah, it's the wrong product. It's like, man, yeah, we're doing this big event at the Cosmopolitan.

It's like, yeah, I don't see it.

Or that big esports arena in the Luxor. Yeah.

There's that esports arena that's out in Dallas, and it does really well. Like, it does really well.
They rent it out for other stuff. It's like, it's just like a small arena.

Yeah, they did like Overwatch League there.

Totally unintentional, but here we are walking by the Rooster Teeth Healing Garden. Are they going to rename it the Warner Brothers Discovery?

Healing Garden. Shout out to Jack and Katie and everybody involved in Extra Life.
Yeah.

Who raised a tremendous amount of money for this hospital. It is very cool.

This Ascension Hospital, unfortunately. Yeah.

That fired my daughter's entire care team. Oh, yeah, that's right.
Yeah. Which was 17 and a half years old.
Crazy. It's a real

great state.

When I was in South Korea, there were numerous esports arenas like that. Yeah.
It's like you'd be walking by, like, oh, look, there's one right there. Let's go check it out.

It's just like this huge arena just specifically built to house like esports events.

It's crazy. It's just, it's different in different countries, right? Like

in Korea and Japan and stuff like that. It's just more around.
But at the same time, I went to the Overwatch League when I worked at Razor.

I went to the Overwatch League, which was in Burbank

at the studios where they film like TV shows. They repurposed one of the studios.
So the audience is all up. It's a live studio audience.
It's a live studio audience.

And then they have like lasers and lights and smoke. And the guys come out in like their...
What was this for? The Overwatch audience. Oh, I went to that, the one in Burbank.
Yeah, yeah.

And it's like they come out in their moisture tech sweat wicking jerseys or whatever. And you go, well, this certainly shouldn't be what they're wearing.
This isn't, right?

Well, I could go for some of that right now oh man i i will say though that was a fun experience being there and doing that thing a lot it was it was really cool to see one time yeah you could you get there once and you're like oh there's something here there is but then there's no but i don't know what that thing is like i don't know what it is

gone now right overwatch league's been gone for a while yes uh they tried and then it petered out because it's so you have a really fickle fan base or a video game yeah it's so game dependent right yeah like traditional sports like football baseball minor changes throughout the year there's not a new engine there's not an upgrade there's not a new amount of playing football 2024 yeah well they that's what they try to do they try to have it like oh it's like the madden league and it's like the new game every year but like meanwhile

worlds is like the league of legends tournament thing yeah is massive yeah it's and it's the same game that you can download for free or whatever well it's because it's because the sport's not changing exactly soccer doesn't change from year to year

minor changes with penalties and stuff but but baseball's the same fucking sport year to year. And that's League of Legends? That's League of Legends.
That's

what's the fucking...

Dota? Yeah,

what's that shooter? The fucking shooter game.

Dota's definition. CSGO.
CSGO. Yeah, Counter-Strike is huge.
Counter-Strike is huge.

I wonder if we'll ever reach a point where, for like Olympic play or competitive play, where there's just like a standard video game. Yes, well, there has to be.

There has to be.

This is esports the game. Yes.
It's like, oh, we're going to play the FPS version. We'll play the RTL, whatever.

There has to be something like that where they can't.

But no one wants it to be their thing so they have the money and they control it. But then at the same time, you don't benefit from not releasing.

Madden could have been it if they stopped releasing new versions and just updated the players. You know what I mean? Like, oh, the graphics are better and like

the rosters are updated, but the physics, the game engine, all of like. you add new plays, maybe.
Yeah, but like you don't have to. It was almost an accident.

They redo all of like the tweaks and everything year to year and people have to buy it and then it's not the same game it was four years ago. Yeah, it's really different.

It's like servicing the consumer market where you're trying to convince them to spend 60, 70 bucks every year versus. It has to be one or the other.
And right now everyone wants both.

And so it's so no one. It's not going to happen.
Because League of Legends is free. Look at the care and the effort that MLB put into making substantial changes to the game.
Yeah.

Substantive changes to the game. They tested it out in college sports for a handful of years.

They took a lot. I will say they took a lot of advice from a lot of different people.
They talked about it extensively. I feel like they were pretty smart with the way they released it.

And then when they did, it worked. Yeah.
Oh, they're still making changes.

When we went to that baseball game, if a call that the player at bat or the catcher doesn't like, they tap their hat twice and they review the pitch.

it's instant it's super fast and you're like oh i do i think i want this in the base i'm gonna be honest uh-huh i in the past when i was younger i was a huge baseball fan uh-huh strike a 94 kind of like

the changes to mlb have been so

they've been so so transformative yeah that for the first time i actually paid for mlb tv like i've got the app i watch oh yeah like i pick up i've watched games like oh there's a game on the app yeah i didn't know that yeah i get the alert on my apple tv

i switch whatever. Like, it's been so long, I'm not attached to any TV.
Like, grabbing it and put it on you, I get the alert on my Apple TV. Like, this game's going in an extra inning.

Like, oh, yeah, I've watched every wild card game and every one's been awesome. They're so good.
The pot, the Padres ones are so good.

The time of recording this, we have the Padres are about to play the Dodgers tomorrow

for the first game for the NLDS. And it is like, I'm so fucking pumped.
That's like a Petalonzo home run last night. Oh, my God.
And in the ninth,

after saying, after he didn't catch the ball in foul territory and what a redemption.

I was so pulling. I was so pulling for Milwaukee though.
Oh, I wanted Milwaukee all the way. Bob Euchre sounded so sad.
Yeah, that's such a bummer.

Do you see the image of they had all the they'd wheeled out all the fucking giant coolers of beer right outside their

outside their dugout? They had to, they were like wheeling it to Milwaukee, and then all of a sudden the Mets won and they went wheel it to the other side. Yeah, we uh it's funny, man.

Esther and I were just talking about Bob Euchre last night, uh-huh, like reminiscing.

And it's it's funny how, like, Bob Euchre was obviously huge when Jeff and I were young, maybe a little before your time, Eric.

But we, like, we were sitting there, being like, What sitcom did he used to be on? Oh, Mr. Belidere, right? I could not remember.
Yeah, we both watched Mr. Belvedere, and like,

what was it? I would look it up and I was like, oh, yeah, Mr. Belvedere.
I made them watch an episode of Mr. Belvedere for Fuckface.

The one where Wesley Sprint has AIDS. Yeah, that was a

real turn.

When it was like, oh, what's this?

what the imagine being the kid with eights oh my god uh but bob euchre i mean when i grew up when i grew up it was i knew him from major league club yeah yeah and then found out that i was like oh this is like a real guy yeah it's like a baseball player he's at this crazy career a crazy career and then my dad's like oh yeah he's off them beer commercials and i went dude i'm 10 i don't know what that is the best if you've never seen it Gosh, you got to look it up on YouTube after this.

The best Bob Euchre thing ever is Artie Lang's story about meeting Bob Euchre on Howard stern oh i gotta look that up anyways i don't want to spoil anything about it other than it'll make you love bob euchre 10 times more okay it's really great um

we're winding down on time we are making our way back to the car yeah this was not a coffee episode no no this was a hamburger episode which you know oh they can't all be hits it is what it is what's up I forgot to tell you guys.

Let me let you wrap up then I'll hit. No, no, I was going to try to get to a point.
I didn't have to go for it. I forgot to tell you guys,

at some point in the past, I can't remember what it was now, we went to Rudy's and we had a baked potato. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, we had a baked potato episode.

I don't know what number that was. That was like number three.
Three, two, or three?

That awakened something in me. Uh-huh.
I know I've been very publicly in a hot dog era with our other content,

but since that day, I have eaten a baked potato almost every day of my life. Almost every weekday of my life.
Really? That's change. That's change.
I had so much fun eating that baked potato.

I went out and I bought a bag of a five-pound bag, and then I just ate a baked potato every day, Monday to Friday. And then your BYOP bringer on?

Yeah, I ran through them all so I got a Costco membership I got a giant bag 10 pounds for five bucks do you just like throw in the microwave or what do you do?

I preheat the oven to 425

I

You know, I stick the shit out of it with a fork then I

cover it in olive oil and sea salt Then I bake it for about an hour and 10 minutes Then I open it up and you know I don't like sour cream, which is the main ingredient for most people so I fill it with butter and cheese and I cut up some chives and then bacon bits and I'm good.

And that's in my lunch.

I've had probably 20 of them since the last time I was.

You should look it up. I don't think you actually need to puncture the potato.
Really? I always thought you did. Me too.

And then I saw something not too long ago where people went like, that's a thing that like we were all told and you don't actually have to do this. Oh, well.
So check it out. I might be wrong, but

they're trying to get you to blow a potato in your face. I'm trying

the

potato episode was just so good. The potatoes there are just so good.

I want you guys to know it left such an impact on me. We can hop in.
We're good. I did, I was not expecting to have it alter the course of my lunch.
I love that it did.

I really, really love that it did. I think that's so good.
Today is the day I'm not eating a baked potato because I had a burger with y'all. Wow.
That was a good, uh, that was fun.

That was a good burger episode. I actually had a Rudy's baked potato day before yesterday.
It was good. Yeah, yeah.
Thanks, dude.

So.

We're in the car now. We're in the car.
We're back.

Not the best burger I've ever had. No, they tried.

They did. God bless them.
But, you know,

sometimes I think it's fine to give it a shot.

And I would say it's worth it for that, but also,

it is what it is. I think there is...

Sorry, I'm going to go a little catchy. No, please, please do.
There's this,

for lack of a better word, there's this problem I feel like nowadays where nobody wants to try something or nobody wants to form their own opinion about something until someone else tells them what it is.

I agree.

Like, you got to see a review, or you got to hear what someone else thinks before either one, you try it, or two, you state what your opinion about something is because, I guess, people don't want to be wrong in their opinion.

Yeah. And, you know, what we said for every coffee, for every burger, for everything is just our opinion.
Yeah. We're just a couple of dickheads.
We don't know.

We don't know shit about any of this stuff. Case in point, you all clearly like Twisters for some reason, and Eric and I didn't.
That's okay.

It's fine. We're allowed to have different opinions.
Yeah.

I get people messaging me, though, or whatever. It's like, oh, thanks for Des Nudo.
I never would have known about this place or whatever. And I think that's great.

I love that we can expand horizons, even if it's not with something that maybe you're super into.

And I think that's why it's important to go to, hey, this, I got like a weird hair to go try this burger thing that maybe isn't going to be very good, but I want to give it a shot. Same here.

And that's why I'm glad, like, I didn't. I've been wanting to go, but I've been kind of holding on, hoping we would do it in this format.
Yeah. And I'm glad I waited.
Yeah, me too.

If nothing else, it's sharing that experience. Yeah, well, it's fun to eventize a thing too, right? Yeah.
Make it something more than it would have been.

Yeah, and seeing Chris for a little while was very interesting. He primed us with that fucking story about getting lost in Chicago.
He's Jesus Christ. He's nuts.

Anyway, listen to Tales from the Stinky Dragon.

What the fuck?

Dude, you're crazy. Well, this is probably going to wrap up this episode.
It's episode six.

We only have two more until we actually release these at the end of the season. But that also means that it's two more before we have to make a decision.
That's true. Yeah, the clock's ticking.

The clock is ticking. Episode seven, we don't make the decision.
Episode end of episode eight, we have to decide if we're going to continue making this show or if we're just done.

If one of us says we're done, that's it. It takes one no, and that's it.
It's over. Yep.
There's no arguing. There's no convincing.
It's just a no, and that's the end of it.

It's a real moonlighting situation. Will they, won't they? Will they? And that's us.

Ask your parents. Yeah.

I started re-watching Moonlighting like a couple months ago. What? I'm halfway through season one.
Is it any good? It's so good. What is it?

Anyone wanted to watch it or you're not going to be able to do it? No, me, man.

I grew up with Moonlighting. Are you kidding? Well, that's what I was asking.
I love...

My favorite format of all time is mystery solving.

And so private investigators, like Rockford Files, Moonlighting, Remington Steel, Rockford, I said Rockford Files, Magnum P.I., Matt Houston, Heart Castle and McCormick, Scarecrow and Mrs.

King, Heart to Heart. He made up half of these.
No, they were artists for all of these.

The one about the two, Simon and Simon. Like, those are all shows that I grew up with.
I ever watched it. I love deer.
It was only a good season. Did you ever watch Riptide?

I've never seen Riptide, but I saw the trailer for it on TikTok, and I want to watch it.

I think it was only one season, maybe two. But I remember liking Riptide too, in the vein of Reflection shows.
Yeah, yeah.

There's a dude I watch on TikTok who just goes, it's Wednesday night in 1985, and here's what you're watching on ABC. And then he just shows you previews of the shows.
Oh, that's cool. So cool.

I watched an episode of 98 PI.

I'm sorry. I watched an episode of Magnum PI recently.
It was just on. I was like, what season? I don't know.

It was like Magnum PI was at a military base and they were trying to track a computer down. Like, who logged into a computer and did some shit? And I was like, man, this is terrible.

Magnum. He logged into a computer.
Magnum did way more shit with the military than you remember. Yeah, yeah.
He's X Navy.

Yeah. Anyway,

what a strange thing to watch. You guys are watching strange stuff.

Watch Moonlighting. It's good.

And you get to see Bruce Willis at the top of this game. Yeah.
And Civil Shepherd. I love fighting.
Stunning, by the way.

Thank you, Jeff, so much for buying us lunch.

Yeah, my pleasure. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Oh, you can expense it. I don't know how to do that.
Gone. Done.

And I'll never learn. So thank you so much for that.
Spinning burgers,

I think it's worth checking out if you got a throwaway meal where you're just like, we're going to try it. Let's try it.
The kid is going to love it. Yeah.

It's definitely just a thing to, it's a TikTok food.

yeah, it's definitely a TikTok food. Um, yeah, for sure.
More than it is a food that you want to eat. That's okay.
It's funny that it's a tick, like you describe it as a tick-tock food.

That used to be like it's an Instagram food, like it is. The platform changes, yes, it definitely does, and now it's TikTok.
Find this show on TikTok. I'm just kidding.
We're not putting it in.

We're old. We're talking about Riptide.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, but you watched a pre you watched some Riptide stuff on TikTok.
I remember TikTok.

It got like 18 episodes.

So I watched Mad Men, baby.

One clip at a time. Have you? So the old trend on TikTok for clips of Mad Men and stuff was Asian guy in the corner pointing up, and then they just, the clip just shows.

Did you ever see that? No, I don't use TikTok. Oh, there you go.

That was the format. So it used to be regular clips, and then it was Asian guy in the corner pointing up and going, watch this clip.
And then it was just the clip. That's it.

And then he just stays in the corner. The new format is plays all the way through.

And then the end is a cap-cut edit of everyone looking tough as fuck, of it going, bow down, bow down, bow down, bounce, and then it's like, Dawn Draper, Peggy.

It was so, it's a Roger. It's so fucking weird, and you're like, huh, I guess, I don't know why this is how it ends, but that's fun.

Cool.

I think that's it. Any final thoughts for the folks at home listening to the end of episode six?

Give a baked potato a spin if you haven't had one in a while. Oh, look up if you can put it in the oven without poking it.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Also, don't look it up.
Just try it. Coward.
Yeah. All right.
We'll see you guys later. Bye.