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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 ditching 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 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. Uh-huh.
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 it like all the signage and everything Made me think it looked like a like a chain or something So like I went to their website looked up like oh no just this 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'll go in this way or the fireworks.
Yeah, that's what you just got through here.

And you like, 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 definitely...

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 and really i i watched like 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

panini maker yes yeah essentially yeah i think ostensibly that's what what you would call it yeah it's a cool idea uh-huh and i appreciate people taking a swing. Uh-huh.
It's local.

You want to support local businesses.

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 cyber track. 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 Buy? Yeah, I kind of.

I want to eat.

I hope you need something, don't you? No, no, not anymore. Oh, I do.
You do need something. Oh, I can get it.
Don't do it 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.
A little mush. Like, they weren't under.

But it's like, I just want them a little crispier, a little, 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 the seasoning.
He does have like a little, does it remind you like a little pig sale? It's like a pigtail, yeah.

He also looks 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? It's about a month. So we've been in and out of the country, in and out of Austin,

just nothing lined up. Me for Eric and I have been on a race to to see who can leave town the most.

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 listen to this, but we had, you know, this deal with critical role for our content for Stinky Dragon content. Congratulations, buddy.

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.

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 Roosteh production. That's not what we are.
It's not.

So we have to go back and edit like 150 episodes. But it is more complicated than that because they were edited in a program none of you guys used, right? Correct.
I know what that program called

Project Logic.

That's so crazy. How's it going?

We had to have Micah re-export all of the Logic Pro stems, like WAV files, that we could then take into adobe software what re-edit it make the audio make the video re-export it and then

redeliver it and it was like 150 episodes wow

so you've been doing nothing but that all day all day yeah i did you're just a little render farm i did all of campaign two and like 19 episodes from campaign and then blame did the rest except for one or two that maybe blain did i don't think blaine or chris did anything

i think blaine and chris each did one and i think they were wrong and had to be redone chris has been incredibly busy running around to different stars.

Oh, I 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 no,

micro HDB. I'm sorry.

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 op. 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 FireWire, like that shit. 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 going to give a shit if we reviewed food.

So anyway, on this show, reviewing food.

Hang hang on i want to check out the razor products okay can't get away huh yeah let me see 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 about 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, and we're this is 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.

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

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

hopefully that the audience finds interesting. No, just

browse them. Do you have

a micro HDMI tables?

I actually do think we do.

I think they're all like adapters to like micro HDMI basing. That works, yeah.

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

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

Thank you.

You've helped Eric's life out tremendously. Yeah, no, I don't have to wait any longer.
This is great. These guys are big inspirations for me.
I think 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 HDMI cable.
Yeah, suddenly.

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

Is it cheaper or is it the same price? No, it's twice the price. This is twice the price.
Yeah. Oh, all text.
Yeah, wow. 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 always return it doesn't work i'm gonna say baseball cards here oh let's look um

but you were tell me about echoes of the 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 oh 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 fights. 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.

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,

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 a kid's game i wouldn't play that as your first zelda play breath of the wild yeah oh that's gonna be

they don't they don't have the cards i'm looking for i'm very very precise on my card volume 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 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 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 did you, what was the time gap between the two games that you played? Oh, I have no idea how long. Like, yeah, I played Breath of the Wild at launch.

I probably put, I may have put 120 into 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,

you are still, okay, I got to go over there and call my horse. Yeah, but now I had one be like, I'm going to make a plane.
Yeah. See, yeah, that like that kind of stuff.
I hate that shit.

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

just drop shit on it.

Speaking of dropping, I dropped a terrible fart over there. Oh, it does.

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 J. 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, too.
Like, that is, we are not only capturing this podcast, we're capturing the entirety of our

actions. Yeah.

Elvira.

With... Oops.

She's 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 someone. I'm surprised she's still alive.
Yeah, she's doing well. Yeah, she goes alive and healthy.

I don't know. I don't know if she's conditions.
Suspensions, right? 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 were going to tell us about this.
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, look at my teeth. Yeah, Friday.
Uh-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, 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, there's very clearly a water stain up there. Guss 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 uh 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 someone come out Monday morning to take a look at this? And yeah, no problem.

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

I'm like, thanks, Really? 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 water. So you got to change it.
It's dry in this direction.

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

And he's like,

nine times out of ten, when I find, 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 a fur.
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 say, 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.

And I was like, but it hasn't rained in like three weeks. Exactly right.
Driest summers we've ever had. 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 call the same guy I've worked with before.
What? I don't know how to start that.

I am like, that's not luckily. I've worked with a masonry guy before.
He came out that same day. Dude.
And he's like, yeah, I mean, I guess you could touch some of this mortar up.

He's like, you need to do a little base. Like, he's like, I don't think water's getting in there.

And I'm like, oh, that sucks. So I'm like, all right, well, I'm going to 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. So 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, 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 wet in that direction but it didn't rain last night there's no way there's still water in the wall yeah sure coming around coming out here so i'm pissed off

and uh

i'm just like stewing 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. 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 it's 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 uh

like I you know I take pictures of it I call a plumber he's like yeah I can 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 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 uh, 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?

It's 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 dripping.

And I'm like, Oh,

what the

so then I was like, plumber not saying 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 it was like, why is it not dripping in the morning when the plumber's here? Yeah. Oh, it's the air conditioner.
It's the air conditioner.

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

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 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.

And 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 just 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 starting 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 uh i take a look in there and i had renovated that house six years ago or so uh-huh and as part of it on the 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.
Yep. And over time, just the vibration of the pipe.

It was 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 that dry wall. If you don't mind me asking,

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

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 want to ask me, all told, I totaled it up because I was really mad. Yeah, I thought it was going to be way worse.
It was about $2,200.

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

This is

why I'm so happy not to own a house. Yeah, this is why, 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.

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 up there.

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 can show you one of the photos. The fucking photos I took, actually.
I feel so much like

emotionally conflicted because so much joy that it's not my experience. But I'd so

you said it's like a pipe circle went up, 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 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 fucked 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, 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 know, this bathroom ceiling's going to have the satin finish painter, 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

this uh 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 back side of all like the

children's hospital. Yeah, children's hospital stuff.

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 this bill was here what didn't look like this it's been a few years yeah we talked about spinning buns and it used to be capriotti sandwich yeah and then you guys were talking about that shopping center and like other stuff there no like

about capital 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 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 had their one that

just weird decisions.

Evergreen Terrace out of

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 Cal Wartenhouse. 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.
It'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 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.
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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 today.
Oh, you leaning? Got a good lean going? Rock out of a shoe.

This shade is appreciated, though. Yeah, 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. People suck.
People are turds.

It's like when we got that fucking troll at

Peace Park.

Yeah, everyone's climbing on this shit. It's 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 wasps. What? Yeah.
That's not a worm. But what if I keep imagining it's a worm?

and i don't have to worry about a wasp then you're gonna be terrified the worm flies at you because i'm not fun they don't they don't sting though oh you don't have to worry about that okay they're one of the cool wasps

and 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

well is not the one of rooster teeth i guess

just uh

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

a race to get into I feel like it was everybody's first apartment in Austin yeah definitely let's it's been interesting like take a left want to see 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 uh moderating going down part of it 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 uh yeah it's definitely cooled down i forget what the term of it is but austin was it's like a swing city but it 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 fucking people try to talk about like Boise. Oh,

I hear that too. I think it's going to be like Milwaukee.
I think 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 uh a lot of like breweries do you think that has to be it like that it has it's a blue city i well i think i think it's a city that can easily go blue interesting it's it doesn't necessarily have to be because san diego's not san diego's red yeah yeah yeah san diego has its uh navy presence there's i don't have much military interest 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 ski-daddles and uh

the city's bigger but uh 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 i i think it's not gonna be nashville i think that nashville

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 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 yeah it was it was similar to vegas but the volume was like

you know vegas has other stuff yeah nashville only had that it could be vegas oh that'd be insane 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 golden days 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're going to be in Vegas. 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 gonna have a thing it wasn't a transfer like it wasn't it wasn't like the raiders

yeah on top of that too they have the selling point of like you want to see your your favorite sports team yes come on and go see the boston celtics why go to boston this come to vegas they'll have way more fun you can bet

yeah

you can drink you can do it all you can buy weed yeah 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 w nba yeah there was years ago um you know RT has been adjacent to a lot of businesses over its life.

You're across the street and you're walking in that shade here. Let's do that, cool.
And for a while, you know, we were talking to a lot of esports leagues.

I remember there were a couple that were like, yeah, we're going to do it. We're going to 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 wrong demographic. It wasn't 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 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 gonna 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

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When I was in South Korea, there were numerous esports arenas like that. 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 yeah 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 and like they're what was this for uh the overwatch Oh, I went to that, the one in Berkeley.

Yeah, yeah, 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 will say, though, that was a fun experience being there and doing that thing alone. It was, it was really cool to see one time.
Yeah.

You know, 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. It's fucking gone now, right?

Overwatch League has been gone for a while, hasn't it? Yes. 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 no way I'm playing football 2024. Yeah.

Well, 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 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, right? Soccer doesn't change from year to year,

minor changes with penalties and stuff, but baseball is the same fucking sport year to year. And that's

a team. That's League of Legends.
That's

what's the fucking Dota? Yeah,

what's that shooter game? The fucking shooter game.

Dota's defensive game. 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, you know.

There has to be something like that where they can't. But then it doesn't.
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 how the graphics are better and like

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

they re 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'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.

The 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, dude, I think I want this in the base. I'm going to be honest.

In the past, when I was younger, I was a huge baseball fan. Strike a 94 kind of like

the changes to MLB have been so

transformative. Yeah.
That for the first time, I actually paid for MLB TV. Like, I've got the app, I watch it.
Oh, yeah. Like, I pick up, I've watched games.
Like, oh, there's a game on the

game. 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.

I get the alert on my Apple TV. It's like, this game's going in an extra inning.
Like, oh, yeah. I've watched every wild card game and every one has been awesome.
They're so good.

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

tomorrow for the first game for the NLDS and it is like so fucking pumped that's like a Pete Alonso 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 what a redemption

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

you see the image of they had all the they'd wheeled out all the fucking giant coolers of beer right outside their yep outside their dugout they had to uh 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

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 it used to be on?

Oh, Mr. Belvedere.
We could not remember. We both watched Mr.
Belvedere and like,

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

The one where Wesley Spin has AIDS. Yeah,

that was a real turn.

When it was like, oh, what's this? What the fuck? Imagine being the kid with AIDS. Oh, my God.

But Bob Euchre, I mean,

when I grew up, it was, I knew him from Major League, yeah. And then found out that I was like, oh, this is like a real guy.
Yeah. He'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 the beer commercials.
And I went to

I'm 10. I don't know what that is.
The best, if you've never seen it, guys, 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 got to look that up.

I won't spoil anything about it other than it'll make you love Bob Euchre 10 times more.

It's really great.

We're winding down on time. We are making our way back to the car.
Yeah. This was not a coffee episode.
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 it.
No, no, I was going to try to get to a point.

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.
Oh, we had a baked potato episode?

I don't know what number that was.

Three, two, or three? Yeah. That awakened something in me.

I know I've been very publicly in a hot dog era with our 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 pretty much.

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.

Your BYOP bring your hot channel? 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?

No,

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 recorded. 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 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 mind. I'm trying

the potato episode was just so good. The potatoes there are just so good.
I just, I didn't, like, I want you guys to know it left such an impact on me. We can hop in.
We're good.

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. Did you?

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,

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.

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.

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.
Yeah.

And I think that's why it's important to go to, hey, this, I got like a 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 off, 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 inventize 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 Kelsey on the stinky dragon. It might be what Chris contours.
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 straight up. The clock's ticking.

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

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? That's, 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. Why is it? What? Everybody wanted to watch it or you know, me, man.

I grew up in Moonlighting. Are you kidding? Well, that's why 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 already 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.

The one about the two, Simon and Simon, like those are all shows that I grew up with. I fucking love Deer Really.
There's only like a 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 professional show.
Yeah, yeah.

There's a dude I watched on TikTok who just goes, it's Wednesday night in 1995, and here's what you're watching on ABC. And then he just shows you pretty simple shows.
Oh, that's cool. So

I watched an episode of Magnum PI.

I'm sorry. I watched an episode of Magna 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.

Magna logged into a computer. Magnum did way more shit with the military than you remember.
Yeah, yeah. He's ex-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 Silver Shop. I love Moonlight.
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.

Yeah, for sure. More than it is a food that you want to eat.
That's okay. It's funny that it's a TikTok.
You subscribe as a TikTok food. It used to be like, it's an Instagram food.
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.

What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, but

you watched some Riptide stuff on TikTok.

I ain't on TikTok. I 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 foreign. 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.

They'll be going, bouncing, bowing, bow, damn, bounce. And then it's like, Dawn Draper, Peggy.

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