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Good morning, Jeff. Good morning, Jack.

Yellow kills.

Bullshit. That's amazing.

That was fucked.

If there was a way you were, if you asked me, like, how's this new one going to start?

Not that way. It wouldn't have been like that.

That felt like it was locked and loaded from a spike place.

Yeah, was that? Have you been holding on to that since May? I just thought of it. It was Stolen in the moment thing.

Oh, man.

Not a lot going on. Not a lot happening lately.

I'm surprised we're doing this. There's really, I don't know what the hell we're going to talk about.
It's

the doldrums of summer. I don't even remember what our last episode of Animal.
We did. We were at Metropolitan.
Was that the last one at the movie theater? Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, wow.

How many times did you go back and see the 25th anniversary release of Phantom Menace? Because I didn't see you any of the times on the show. You know, I didn't make it.
Oh,

you only get one 25th anniversary ever and you missed it. I did not go.
I did not go. I did not go.

Well, the first thing we can talk about is I don't know what we're calling this. Are we going to call it Good Morning Gus? Yes, that's what we settled on.
You guys didn't want the other name.

Yeah, I don't know. We came up with a name that I thought was pretty funny.
We can talk about it. Say it.

I wanted to call it RTX, but RT, Big RT, Little EX, you know? Little E Big X. Little E Big X, yeah.
Because we're ex-RT employees. Initially,

we wanted to call it the Gus and Jeff Don't Work at Rooster Teeth podcast anymore podcasts. Terrible SEO.
It's so long.

I like RTX, but then that kind of locks us into talking about Rooster Teeth for the rest of our lives, and I don't think either of us want to commit to that.

I've had a good 21-year run of that. Yeah, no kidding, right? So then we decided on Good Morning Gus.
I had an idea this morning,

but it also no longer is accurate, but it would have been good for the old one. Could have just called it Keep Austin.
Oh, interesting. Isn't that an awesome idea? I had that in bed this morning.

Keep Austin. But now this podcast isn't necessarily focused about Austin either.
That's such a good name. I know.

I know.

I will eventually always have a good name. It just may come three years too late.
It just takes a while. Yeah.
Keep Austin.

The worst part about having the good name three years too late is that we start with the worst name possible at the front.

Fuckface,

Chief Man Hunter. Dude, I went from rooster teeth to regulation.
It's good. We've got that.
Regulation. Phenomenal.
Regulation podcast, regulation gateway, regulation brand of stuff.

It's so easy to tell my parents and grandparents this is. For the first time in my life.
Oh my God. For the first time in my life.

Ugh.

Yeah, it's called Fuck Asterisk. F asterisk asterisk K face.

Anyway, if you're not super familiar with Austin, there's a very marketable phrase here that's been beaten into the ground for about 30 years now called Keep Austin weird.

You don't see it anymore. You don't see it as much anymore.
Yeah. I can't remember the last time I saw any new Keep Austin Weird type stuff.

It feels like when people say it, it's derisive. Well, and it's also, well, it's derisive or it's like parodied, like Keep Austin Wired.

Keep Austin weed or like whatever, you know, whatever other W word there is. Whatever the entendre is.
Let us know in the comments. Yeah.
Keep Austin Whale.

There you go. That's the new one.
I just added that. Can you believe it? Keep Austin Whedon.
From the mind of Anma.

From the mind of you to dream too great

we're at uh figure eight uh coffee purveyors on chicong yeah yeah

it's uh it's it's close to a i feel like a lot of places that i really like but i've never been to this coffee place are you serious oh really yeah you've been here before i come here all the time Huh.

It's like proximity-wise. It's so close to like the original Eastside Pies over on Rosewood.
It's really close to Micklewaite, which is also just down the street.

It's like that's a cool stretch of like local places. I've just never been to this coffee shop.
It's close to a restaurant that I used to love that I will never go to again for the rest of my life.

I have a grudge against one restaurant, not even Austin Java, because I remember this grudge. Yeah, I don't know if I've ever talked about it on camera before.
Uh-huh.

It was a red

restaurant like just on the road called Hillside Pharmacy. Oh, yeah.
I used to fucking love. Oh, I know about that place.
I used to fucking love that restaurant.

They served me alcohol in a mocktail after I asked them not to.

And then when they served me the drink, I said, Are you sure there's no alcohol in this? And they go, Yeah, you're good. And then I smelled it and I went, I'm not sure about this.

And I, I just, I just, to the tiniest little taste, I went, I don't think this is right. I was with Lewis.
Lewis was like, let me see. He tasted it and he was like, yeah.

And then I took it back to him. I go, this is fucking alcohol.
I'm an alcoholic. And they're like, oh, yeah, sorry, no big deal.
We'll just add a big deal.

They didn't treat it with any kind of, and it's happened to me a couple times. I happened to be at a sushi restaurant recently too, where they served me alcohol in a mock tail.
And I caught it. But

they were heartbroken and horrified that they had done it and gave me a huge discount.

These people were like, Oh, yeah, sorry, anyway, we'll see you later. And I was like, No, you almost broke a sick at the time, five and a half year sobriety.
You know, it was fucking wild.

Anyways, I'll never go back. Unapologetically,

unapologetically.

I really like the sort of

treating it like, eh, no big deal. Yeah, whatever.
Did you die?

Ooh, okay, ooh, big man. Yeah, that's fucking crazy.
Yeah, I was really bummed. I've never,

I cried, actually.

Like, I had to go set my car in car.

I don't blame you. I never once considered...

There's such a sort of delineation between mock tail and cocktail. I never considered a mocktail ever even accidentally having alcohol.

I won't, to this day now, because I've had three or four bad experiences.

I won't order a mock tail if there's a cocktail version of it on a menu.

So I'll only order a mocktail if it is the only iteration of that drink. And even then, I usually usually just go for a Diet Coke.
Everybody makes fun of me for drinking Diet Coke.

It's because, for people like me, it's the safest thing in the world. I can't not fuck it up.
Usually it comes in a can, even. Diet Coke's already pre-fucked up from the factory.

Exactly, it's fucked up in a way.

It's not chemically able to accept. That's why I took it first in our non-alcoholic drinks draft guest.

Not to make it about that, but that's what I think of

in proximity as that fucking restaurant. That's unbelievable.

But speaking of

this place, you you found a secret hidden location. Yeah.

You're spoiling it. Why, actually, how the fuck does this exist? I actually did a little bit of a reading on this place while I was waiting for you guys.
So I've been coming here forever.

I don't come here very often anymore

just because life takes you in different directions.

I go to different coffee shops in different parts of town now. But I actually just came here last week with Jordan from Roosteath.
Oh, really? We were catching up. Yeah.
Not Jordan Switch, Jordan 11.

Yeah. Not you, Jordan, my Jordan.

Not my Jordan.

That's That's funny. You would probably find that funny.

And

I realized I hadn't been here in a couple of years, probably.

And so I was like, oh, I want to start coming back. And then it was kind of serendipitous that you mentioned that you wanted to come here.
That's very cool.

So I was sitting waiting for you guys, and I thought, well, it's going to be our best filming location. And so I started poking around.

I went around the back of the building, which just looks like an alley. Yeah, it's like a thin alley.
Yes. An open gate, I guess.
You can go behind the building all the way around to the left.

There's an entire other seating area that's super secluded. That's it's deserty over there.
It's like zeroscaped over here, and it's kind of like, well, honestly, it's a little mosquitoe over here.

On this side, it's the opposite.

But we couldn't be more secluded and more alone. You can't even see the street from where we are.
The wild thing is, it's not like it's a tiny space. There's six tables back here.
Yeah,

there's a ton of tables, a bunch of chairs, a ton of like little cactus that are like deliberately placed. Yeah, dude.
And then like some stand-up, like, this is where I would come back.

Sweet cigarette and drink a beer. 100%.
They have like little stand-up walls.

If you've been to bars where it's just a wall that's placed placed somewhere with like a little ledge to set your drink on while you smoke a cigarette. They even got an ashtray.
Yeah. And

the AC is not loud. Listen, listen.

If you can hear that, that means Gus didn't edit it out.

That was my unintentional way to get some room tone, because I'm going to forget later.

You give your four seconds of room fan.

Yeah, he killed the bit. He started talking way too quick.
Come on.

This is a cool little spot and everything, but I think I want to talk about

not doing this podcast for a while and then deciding to do it again. I think we should talk about that.
Real quick, let me give you, just real quick.

Just because I saw it. Do you know when this place opened? Do you have any idea?

1998. No, no, no.
This wouldn't have been 98. This would have, man, I'm going to sound like a real dick here.

I had to stumble to curse there. I'm used to not cursing.
I stinky drinking. I'm going to guess this place opened in 2008.
2014. Okay.

And the reason I I remember it, I had to look it up just to get the dates right because it was another coffee shop before called East Village Cafe that I used to come to every day.

It was my coffee shop and the guy lost the lease. These guys opened up and it's actually a much better coffee shop now.
But no offense to East Village Cafe in 2012 or whatever. But yeah, 2014.

So that's all. That's just my little piece of trivia.
They have a, they have like a lot of wine and it's...

It really feels like a classic coffee shop in there because

it's like really kind of like cluttered. Yeah, they got stuff.
A bunch of bags of beans on the ground.

Yeah, it's just everything is everywhere, and you get a cup of coffee, and then it's like, all right, go outside, or you can sit inside at the bar.

They just opened the second location, too, over on the airport. I saw, yeah.
Jeff got here a couple minutes before Eric and I did. Eric got here probably like a minute before I did.

And we walked in. I walked in.
Eric was finishing his order. I ordered right after him.
And then we both did that thing where we ordered and we stepped off to the side. to wait for our coffee.

So we're clearly not in front of the register. There's nobody at the register.
We're so clearly not in front of the register. So not in front of the register.

And then some dude comes over and gets in line behind us to order.

He's like looking at his phone. So he's only like half paying attention.
And he like does that thing where he sidles up to us and it's like, oh, he thinks we're waiting to order.

So we take a step back away from the register. And I don't know if you saw this.
Yeah. He walked with us.
Yeah, I turned to him. I said, hey, we're not in line.
And he just went,

oh.

There was nowhere to go. It's so small in there.
And it was like, I've never, what a terrible situation. That made me feel terrible.
I hated it. I hated every second of it.
Pay attention.

We're clearly not in line.

You can put your phone down for a second. Look, where's the line? Oh, there it is.
There's no line. He had just gotten done talking with one of the baristas, too.
Like, like, they know each other.

And then he just stood behind us, two guys not in line. One guy.
One of you had your cup already.

This is.

This is one of those coffee shops where you walk in and you feel like every single person in the coffee shop knows each other well and you're the outsider. Absolutely.

And I don't mean like that's a vibe they push on you. You just get that impression.
That's me everywhere. That's fine.
I'm used to it.

But I think when you go to enough coffee shops, that is water off a duck's back. So just like, yep, I don't come here.

You guys all do all the time.

I go to a lot of different coffee shops. You guys go to one coffee shop.
That's it.

I think we talked about this in one of our earlier episodes, but I got to go to different coffee shops just because I ended up going to one too long.

And then anytime I would walk in, they would make they would start making a drink because that's what I would normally order and then sometimes I wanted a different drink and it's like oh, but they already made my drink so I guess I gotta drink this it's like I can't I can't commit to one coffee shop anymore after that.

I'll tell you what's been fun for me is I'm not gonna dox myself here, but you know, I moved, sold my house and moved.

So I live in a totally different part of town with totally different coffee shops. And so I have completely flipped all of my coffee shop.

I don't go to any of the places I went to for the last five years at all. And it's all brand new places and it's been so much fun to explore new places.

And there's way more where I live now, too, which is crazy.

Yeah.

It must be really weird to pick yourself up and then move yourself to another part of a city. Because even I've lived in the same general area for 10 years now.
So it is.

And it's been an interesting... exercise because we've talked a lot about on the previous iteration of this podcast that I could potentially leave.

We both could potentially leave Austin someday, and I've been eyeing Michigan for quite some time.

We really haven't talked on this podcast about everything that happened since the Roost Teeth closure.

I've talked about it elsewhere, another podcast, but I sold my house in Austin to create flexibility so that if, because I didn't know what's going to happen on the landscape with our careers,

luckily, you have found a footing with Stinky Dragon and you guys are crushing it, and then we're doing similarly well with regulation. This guy's double dipping.
He's got 100%.

yeah triple dipper man yeah i'm doing this one here's triple dip that's a

bunny barn's 2.0 over here

and that and for that reason i'm out of here it's more of an eswer cooper stick to me

and so uh

anyway in that process i had to rent a place yeah right so i decided to rent in a different part of town that i haven't lived in or that i haven't lived well i haven't i really haven't lived over here where i'm living out and

And so I

did that, and it's almost like moving to Michigan. It's almost like moving to an entirely different city.
All of my grocery stores are different. My coffee shops are different.

My restaurants are different. I can walk to different places and more places.
Now, my convenience store is different.

Like, and when you, when all that stuff flips, your food, your orders, everything you do becomes different. And I feel like I'm living in a different city.
And I don't feel,

it's kind of why I came up with the idea of Keep Austin today because I really don't feel the impetus to move as much as I did. It's amazing how much an inner-city move

can change your perspective and your outlook. Inter-city? Inter-city.

Inter-city move. Yeah.
Right? Yeah. Yeah.

Can change

your perspective.

I still want to live in Michigan someday, but I'm much less inclined. Do you think your old haunts, your old food places are like, where's Jeff?

We haven't made whatever dish it is you order in weeks. I still go to Top Notch constantly.
I still make the drive out to Top Notch.

They have no idea.

But no, I haven't been to a bunch of those. And also you realize a lot of the places that you thought you liked were just convenient.
Yeah. You know? For sure.

Like, Emily and I have been over in that part of town doing business because I still have like banking and shit over there. And you have a lot of your life over in the part of town where you live.

Safety deposit boxes and stuff.

And so we're still over there quite a bit. And it's always like, do you want to go to the...
Nah, well, wait. You realize you're like, I guess we had this conversation the other day.

We're like, I guess we didn't like that Mexican restaurant at all. It was just very close to our house.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially when you're spoiled for choice now, too.

Yeah, like that's that's pretty good. That's been nice.
Um,

so

we met up a week ago at this point

and talked about doing the show again because it had been something that we talked about previously and like when do we want to do it and all this stuff.

And then we finally landed on, oh, yeah, let's meet up next week.

And then we finally found a day that we all decided we wanted to work. And

it's a Friday morning.

TGIF, baby. That's what I'm saying.

It's kind of you guys, because we know you love your early weekends. Yeah,

you love your weekends, dude. What's going on? What? You said that to us Friday.
Yeah, yeah.

We know that you love putting everything you can on Monday, just getting it done. You got your six-day weekend.
You got to get it done. You got your six-day weekend.

Oh, did you all talk about this on regular?

Okay.

We did did an AMA for Stinky Dragon a couple of days ago. And someone, one of the questions was, we did it on a Wednesday.
One of the questions was, Gus, why are you working on your weekend?

And I was like, what the hell is this question? This is so bizarre.

You said something that wasn't funny in the moment, but after we left our weekend, it started making me laugh. And so we turned it into a joke.
Okay.

I thought this person was deranged from our AMA. I was like, what is this like stalker? Let me explain it.

We were having a conversation about how to do this, like Eric was saying, and you were saying, I like to do all my stinky dragon work on Monday.

I like to front load all that stuff to the beginning of the week. And then when we were talking about maybe filming on Fridays, you said, I like to start my weekends early on Fridays.

I don't like to work on Fridays. And you said, but I don't consider what I do with you guys to be work.
And we were like, oh, that's sweet.

And then we all touched each other's dicks for a couple seconds. Nobody came, but it was still, it was nice.

And then I didn't think anything of it. But later in the car, I was like,

Doesn't his weekend start on Tuesday? Because he only has one job right now, which is Stinky Dragon. He's not doing any fucking thing else.
I think you misconstrued what I said.

I probably said something very similar.

I don't only work one day for Sneaky Dragon. There is a lot of work.

I frontload all my meetings onto Monday. You say so.
It was just.

We did a regulation podcast and we said, oh, yeah, we were hanging out with a friend. We won't name him, but he loves his six-day weekend.

Then we made it very clear what we do. I mean, so clear.
That's fucking funny. It was great.
Oh,

suddenly my life makes a lot more sense.

But I need to talk to you guys about an immediate problem I'm having with this show as we are

roughly,

what would you say, 15 minutes in? 15, 20 minutes?

Is it not funny anymore? I'm paying for... Well, I don't know that it's ever been, but I'm paying for my own coffee.

Don't like that.

I paid for my coffee. I just bought my coffee when I walked in.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of the situation that we have here. How does she get

for it anymore? Buy her coffee. There's still people working there.

There's still a skeleton crew, and I bet they have coffee. John Mace, buy me this cup of coffee now.

I don't like it. They're doing well.
They're not paying nearly as much salary as they used to.

I also, it's totally weird. John Mace still got a job.
He can afford it.

I also don't like

getting here separately.

I don't like Jeff being the first one here. That was weird.

Just not.

I don't. I don't like that.
Okay. These are things that we need to fix and we need to figure out.
Okay. Hear me out.
Okay. There is an old.

I don't know if I've ever talked about it on this show or if I've told you guys about it. There's an old YouTube series I like.
I have an idea here.

I think it's called like the hamburger game. You've talked about it on the show.
Have I? That's how I know about it. Okay.
Yeah. Well, if you ever watched the hamburger game, they do this thing.

It's like... The quick recap.
It's, I believe it's three YouTubers from Japan who come over, and the whole goal is to eat the most popular combo at every festival.

They eat every jack in the box, and they order most popular

combo. But the way they decide who,

there's three of them, there's three of us, the way they decide who has to get down and make the order is they put like a little, what would you say, like

a cardboard wheel, a cardboard cover over their tire so that they drive and when they get to the parking lot, they come out and they look at the tire and whoever's segment is touching the ground the most has to go in and order the most popular combo.

I say let's steal that idea. Okay.

Except instead of ordering the most popular combo, whoever is touching the ground needs to pay for the coffee but it's put a little twist on it okay isn't that the twist is there more of a twist

more of a twist continue twisting we're gonna yes and this oh no but no buts

instead of just having one tire we should do all four

and then vote and then whoever has the most out of all four because there's three only three of us inevitably at the very minimum someone's gonna have two so we should like come out and then like look at one be like uh oh it's Eric the next one uh-oh it's Eric he has a question.

Uh-huh. Don't tires spin at the same speed.

So wouldn't

wherever the gus like if it lands on gus, we're gonna know what two, three, and four are no, because when you make turns, they don't. Oh, well, specifically, this work this works.

This works best, I guess, for front

turtles. So I guess we should probably do the front two, because the back two won't be very.
Well, no, even the back two will change too.

Yeah, here's here's what I think we would do is segment the tire instead of having to

because they do it with like they put something like over the tire but I think if we just get chalk or something yeah it's your tire so however you want to do it right you think we're driving in my you think we're gonna drive in my two-door Hyundai accent that oh yeah I guess we'll have to driving spilled coffee all over the vaccino let's get in my two-door car

why are you guys looking at me

uh we have to figure out we know we're just not driving he's going terrible yeah i'm happy to drive but you'll be i'll just hear you guys bitch constantly you're just well that's the turn yep Cool.

We'll have to, like. I've gotten worse since Richard.
Oh, my God. Since we quit the company?

Or the company quit us?

I was going to say, oh, we quit the company. We're still doing the exact same thing.
I have something to say about that.

So on the tires, we would have to segment them with like chalk or something to get like equal thirds. And then I think we'd have to randomize where each name goes.

And then by the time we get there, everything is mixed up. Yeah.
Right. Like, I think that would be it.
And then we'd drive in a left circle for a little while and then drive in a right circle.

Hmm. I wonder if any of that picked up on my audio.

Oh, there goes mine, hopefully. Hopefully you got it.

Hang on. Did you just die? Maybe.
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Wait. Hang on.

You guys don't know how to screw good. No, apparently not.
There we go. Yeah, I don't know why it's doing though.
Okay, so we have some, we have these road mics and we're learning.

It's our first time using these mics. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. Okay, so I like your idea, though.
Yeah,

we'll figure it out. And then, yeah, they'll buy the coffee and then they'll be the jackass for that episode.
Yeah.

So you talked about rooster teeth quitting us, right?

I have never received more

physical mail from Warner Brothers Discovery in my life

than I have since we've been laid off. It's every week.
I get probably five pieces of mail from Warner Brothers Discovery a week. It's crazy.
It is non-fucking stopping.

It's like, dude, I think Eddie Rivas put it best. He's like, you dumped me.

Yeah.

Definitely.

It is just so much. I'm just going to hold mine now.
I saw that they're laid out to another thousand people. Did they? Yeah.
Yeah.

They're talking about splitting it in two.

Warner Brothers and Discovery? But that's not.

Yes.

Yes, but it did not, but they didn't talk about it as the pure delineation of like, that's how we're going to do it. Well, maybe it'll be Warner and then Brothers Discovery.

That could be. be that could that could go that way could very well be discovery brothers discovery is that the property brothers are changing they're changing their name to the discovery brothers

the new try guys for

yeah

do you the i was thinking about this the other day i saw like some ad with the property brothers they were shilling some rooms to go furniture or something and i did an event with them once i don't

i don't remember their names it's

what are their names property and brothers uh i don't fucking know Whatever. Whatever their name is.
Joel and... Joel and Josh.
Probably. Drake and Josh.
Drake and Josh. Drake and Josh.

That's a different thing. Stay away from that.

You got to stay away from that now.

At the end of the commercial, they slap their logo, like

so-and-so and so... Joel and Josh, you know, logo onto a piece of furniture.
And I thought, how do they determine whose name comes first? Because they're like... I think it's probably whoever's older.

But aren't they twins? Somebody's older.

There's no way that the younger one let that slide. Right, that's so.

There's no way the younger twin let that slide. Because he heard that his whole life and he's pissed.
I don't know.

Have you ever seen that commercial, that Safe Farm commercial with Brooks and Robin Lopez in it? And it's like a... Oh, yeah.
And they're fighting. Yep.
And over who gets to hold the basketball.

And he's like, I'm older. And he's like, by one minute, he's the best minute of my life.

It's such a great brother moment. Yeah.
That is. But I assume it's something like that.
Yeah.

I think twins hate it. I bet.
So we're using, like you mentioned, these road mics. Little road mics.

You know, we've got these

wired mics that plug into it, and Jeff and I are using, you have to unscrew yours because it's not working. It just wasn't working right.
I don't know.

And it's the first time using them, I guess, apparently. And they've got these little warning tags on them.
Yeah. And I don't know if you looked at them.

I just read them right now while we were talking. I'm going to read it to you, Jeff.
Okay.

This is on the wire, the wired part of the mic. Okay.
Warning, strangulation hazard. This cable contains Kevlar and has the potential risk of causing lacerations or strangulation.

Avoid looping the cable around the neck and keep out of reach of children. This is like a murder weapon.
Hell yeah. This is like a piece of piano wire.
It's good to know. Yeah.

It's disguised as audio recording equipment. No, officer, I'm going to go record some audio.

You can hunt this.

That's fucking cool. The Kevlar mic cable.
If this is MacGyvert, he could like, he would wrap it around his head, then you could shoot him in the head. It'd be like, oh, Kevlar.
Yeah.

That's pretty cool. Yeah.
He'd be like, in the absence of a helmet, just use Mike's speaker cable.

People don't know, but but it's got kevlar in it and then you get shot in the head and just like knocked to the ground it's like a concussion

um

how's stinky dragon been going it's good um we've been finishing up so man we got so close when rishi shut down we were almost done with campaign two

uh so we're close to finishing campaign two now we're releasing uh like another supplementary what we call tavern tales like a little mini series uh-huh Is that like the 1993 thing? Yeah, 91.

But yeah, that's pretty cool. It's like X-Men 91 kind of deal.

That's out right now. We're working on getting campaign three up.
It's been good. I'm sure you all have had similar situations, you know, starting up Patreons and trying to figure everything out.

Yeah.

YouTube AdSense problems today, actually. Yeah, it's like, it's, it's,

it's funny, transitioning from a big company like Rooster Teeth to being just like a couple of people gives you a lot of flexibility.

You don't have to have like meetings syncing people up or worrying about other departments and what's going on because everyone, it's easy to keep that communication going.

But the problem is there's so few people, and all the work needs to get done on Monday. It's just like you don't have a ton of time to get things done with all these six-day weekends.
Yeah.

Before you know, Tuesday rolls around and you're like, I'm fucked till next.

Monday.

I would say you got 24 hours to figure this out, but I'm really only working eight.

But no, it's going real good. I think,

like, the Patreon has reached a point where like it's grown well.

I don't think we're at a point where we can sustain

long term, you know, because we have seven people that we need to support with it. That's crazy.

Yeah, so we're not at that point where we can sustain all seven people yet, but if things keep growing, we'll get there.

It's like we just got to keep working for it. Isn't it crazy the difference in terms of people and money and resources between five and seven? Yeah, it's huge.

Because like five and seven is not a huge difference, but it is a huge difference in terms of organizational structure and a company and sharing revenue.

yeah and yeah we we decided to really approach it democratically uh-huh it's like nobody has any more of the company than anyone else everyone has an equal say yeah we have that too yeah regulation everybody's a 20 owner we have a majority rules company and it is already uh worked to interesting effect it works out for us sometimes

there are i'm sure you encounter it too where one person has an idea and really wants to dig their heels in on it and everyone else else is not interested in it. And then it's like, no, no, no.

There's no Chris in our group.

But I imagine it'll come up eventually. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. It, you know, these things happen.
It is what it is. But I'm the president of regulation.
Oh, right. Yeah.

Congratulations, Mr. President.
Thank you very much. But it's been mostly our votes have been held out of spite.
We have a lot of spite votes.

A lot of anger votes. Yeah, a lot of that.
Do you all have any like weekly, regularly scheduled meetings? We do. We have one.
Yeah, we have one on like Mondays. Monday morning.

Where we kind of go over. But it's Monday morning, which is almost afternoon, because we have a guy on the West Coast.
So for him, he was like, is there any way we can push it back?

Because it was like. It's like lunch for us.
Yeah,

it was like a 10 a.m. meeting, and he's like, can we move it? He can't do 10 a.m.
Eight for him. Eight for him.
Oh, gotcha.

Gotcha. Gotcha.
Exactly. Because that's where we're like, what the? Oh, right.
And because then we moved it, and it's like, okay, this is fine.

But it's one of those meetings where it's five people who all like each other who are on the same page. So it's not, it doesn't feel like a waste of time.
No.

It's useful and helpful and mostly a hangout. Yeah, it's been positive.
Yeah. It's been really good so far.

We're wrangling our meetings. So we have a similar thing, like a 10 a.m.
meeting

scheduled for an hour. And the first couple of weeks we had it, they ended up going two hours.

Just because there was so much to do. So we're like, we're finally clawing it back.
We're finally at a point where we can get it. I think this last week we did it in 45 minutes.

I was like, I'm so proud of everyone. We did it.

I think those early meetings were a lot longer and we had like a lot of that stuff, but they've turned into pretty succinct things where we know what we need to look at for like the next two weeks.

And it is like our most business time for stuff where it is like, okay, we have these things scheduled and we've promised these things. What is filling this slot? What do we need to do?

What are we doing? Thursday. Let's figure it out Monday.
So we know what we're doing Thursday. So that way Wednesday night, somebody doesn't text you.
Hey, what are we doing tomorrow? Yeah.

Also, we have a I mean, we always use the time before we record on Thursdays as a meeting. Yeah.
That was our old meeting time really, unofficially. And so we have that as well.
And then I don't know.

I'd say like you and I and Nick and I keep in contact constantly throughout the week. Absolutely.
Like I'm at my desk talking to you or Nick almost all day long.

And sometimes we'll just all get on Discord together and just work.

Everyone's pretty available

when we need them to be. And again, coordinating five is a lot easier than coordinating seven, and I could say there's even a big difference between four and five.

Yeah, like that extra person, when you go from four to five, that schedule,

that's so much to wrangle compared to like when I'm doing 100% E. It's me, Jordan, Michael, and Nick.
And I know what Nick is doing. Like,

I own two businesses with Nick. Like, I know what Nick is up to.
Um, but it's like Michael and Jordan and just coordinating their schedules, and they're so easygoing that it's like not an issue.

But then this one for the Tele Show is like, hey, I'm going to be out of town. All right.
Well, that's okay. All right.
Well, we got to fix this thing. Okay.

This other person's going to be out in like two weeks. And it's just a lot of that stuff.
We, have you, okay.

It's the difference between doing podcasts and doing podcasts with really successful people that have shit going on.

Yes.

100%.

Eat. Absolutely.

Okay.

This is not a planned thing. I just like something that popped into my head right now.
Okay. Oh, boy.
Have you all figured out what you're doing for health insurance?

Because we're all independently such small groups. Should we all like collaborate and get like a group health insurance that covers

all three of us?

I think we probably could. I think that would be really fantastic.
Like, I have severance through X date, and I need to figure that out probably sooner rather than later, just to have like a plan.

Yeah. And I wonder if these can different companies like that.
I don't know. Because

we started looking at it, and we're like kind of too small. A lot of people don't want to deal with us.
So are we and so are we, but if we combine

roughly, what, like 12 people, something like that?

I don't know if it's possible.

I'll say this. Emily had, you know, because she is a slung.
She had Obamacare until we got married, and then she switched over to my insurance, which now she immediately fucking is going to lose.

Yeah. But she loved it.
Yeah. And in some ways, I thought it was better than what I had in the world.

Okay. Well, something to think about.
Yeah, like, you know, I'm obviously, like you said, severance through

for a while. Yeah.
But it's something in the back of my mind that I wanted to make sure I was taking care of not only for me and for you guys, but for like the bigger group. Yeah.
Yeah.

You're getting up there, too. You're going to need them.
Yeah.

Trust me, I know. I'm the reason Rush Teeth got health assurance in the first place.
Oh, way to go, man. Yeah.
That's pretty cool. Why? Did you just say, hey, we need this? I was sick all the time.

I had bad, bad stomach problems. He had a whole, it was huge.
I couldn't eat. He was.

What do you mean? Like, I just couldn't eat. Like, my stomach was fucked up for a long time.
Why? What? Yeah. For like, between like 2003 and 2005, maybe.
I just, I just like, I couldn't eat a meal.

Like, I just snacked all the time, like, small little things because I had a fucked up stomach.

He'd always have to go back to his room after we went to a restaurant or something when we were traveling. That's what I thought, but I guess it was for.
Nah, it was just a huge.

Oh, Gus's stomach hurt. It was bad.
It was fucked up. Wow.
But I'm all good now. I had no idea.
Yeah. And it's all thanks to health insurance.
It's all thanks to health insurance.

It was probably a gluten allergy that he fought through before we knew what gluten was. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That makes sense. Yeah, they didn't discover it back then.
Nah, no, no, no, no.

We only just learned about lactose intolerance. So, like, really, you know,

gluten is a whole different beast. I got to look into the health insurance thing because this show isn't even its own company.
We're doing this under a regulation on brand.

Yeah, this will be under the regulation.

This is a non-regulation regulation podcast. Yeah.

Because we

also got to live somewhere. We also landed on something for this show, which is

we're going to do eight episode bursts of this show.

And we're going to do

sprints. I like that.
We're going to do eight episode sprints where we do eight episodes in a row

and then

we'll take a break and kind of figure out when we're going to do like the next run of them. But Jeff had a very interesting idea.

Yeah, I think this comes from the idea was born from a differ from trying to find a compromise and a difference in philosophies. Yes.
I think.

You, Gus, have been very

upfront and clear that you don't want to do a weekly podcast, which I respect and understand you did the RT podcast longer than anybody should have had to.

And so I get the reticence to want to do a weekly podcast. Unfortunately, that's the way I'm wired.
And I think Eric is as well.

And so we've been doing the eight on, two off, where Eric and I will cover the time. And I just, that's fine for Anma.
I don't feel like that's a way to build going forward. Yeah.

And I don't know what we're trying to build towards going forward either.

I mean, we're not trying to turn this into a company. We're not trying to turn this into a business.
I don't think either of us wants

to try to figure out how to run a Patreon. Yeah, not every podcast has to be a Patreon.
No, no, not every podcast.

This can just be a podcast. We'll dynamically insert some ads, and we don't have to deal with a bunch of stuff outside of this.

Ideally, if this podcast pays for the coffee that we make each other buy, that's great. Which is what I'm hoping.
That would be fantastic. So

going into it with those clear eyes, recognize the amount of effort we have to put into it and how much else we have going on in the world.

I wanted to give us an out

because I don't know that after eight episodes we'll be in a place to continue. Right.
You know, and so I thought

it was a device I read in a book a couple of years ago that I thought was really kind of sweet and poignant. It was a beautiful and heartbreaking moment in the book.

I hope it won't be heartbreaking for us. But it was about a relationship.
It wasn't even about this relationship. It was just a side story in a book I read.

But it was a couple that had been together for like 22 years. And every year on their birthday, or on their anniversary, they get together.
And then

the one guy says to the other dude, do you still want to be married to me? And he says, yes. And then the other guy says, back.
And then they recommit every year.

But they have the understanding from day one that someday, if one of them says, no, I'm sorry, that it's okay.

They're not going to fight. They're not going to have the acrimonious divorce or any of that.
They're just going to respect the bounds of that rule that they both agreed upon.

And then it happens in the book on like the 22nd or 23rd anniversary. And the guy who isn't supposed to say it, the guy who was thinking about saying it doesn't say it.

And the guy who you thought was all in says it. And it ends, and the relationship ends in that moment, and it's really sad, and it works the way it was intended.
But I thought,

what an interesting thing for us to do.

What if, at the end of the eight episodes, we look at where we are in our lives, where we are with regulation, where you are a stinky dragon, where we are physically, if we're still living in Austin or we're looking to move or whatever we've got going on, because the future is unwritten for all of us.

And we decide

without acrimony, without judgment,

we ask Gus, do you want to continue? If he says yes, we continue. If you want to continue, we continue.
If I want to continue, we continue.

If one of us says no, we shake hands and we walk away and we end that day a success. Never drinking coffee again.

I really like the idea of that at the end of eight episodes because it's going to build a weird suspense when we start getting to episode five. Yeah.

Where it's going to be like, ooh, we're getting on. Do I want to still do this? Is this the last? Yeah, uh-huh.
Uh-huh. Second to the last time I'll ever perform with Gus.
Yep.

It's like a reality show. Yeah.
You go ahead and go into the tribe vote. That's another thing.
There's some,

there's some,

there's a lot tied up into this, if you want there to be. Okay.
If you want to acknowledge it. You and I have been creative partners since

1999. 99? Yeah.
Yeah. We met in 98, but we've been.
Last century.

Two centuries of content. Two centuries of content together.
200 years of content we've done.

I'm sorry. But we started making, we started Ugly Internet together in 1999.
Yeah. I have been working on a project.

At times, the project was just rooster teeth, but I have been working on a project with you

every day since, I don't know, March of 1999. Quarter century.

If this podcast ends,

that partnership

ends or goes on hiatus. Right.
I guess.

We don't have anything behind it.

Yeah, that's weird. I didn't know about it that way.
It's the first time in either of our professional adult careers that we haven't been actively working together in a creative capacity.

I guess, yeah, we took a small break here between the shit done at Rooster Teeth. I guess that's true.
I guess that's true.

There was always the intention.

There was always the anticipation, the attention, and we're both still drawing a paycheck from Rooster Teeth. I mean, while we're on severance, we're still getting paid by the company we created.

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Yeah. Sure.
So does that put a lot of

weight when we get to episode 8? We're on episode one. We've got seven episodes to decide.
I'm not going to say we're like Cal Ripken.

I'm going to say we're better. What? Because this is 25 years.
What did he do? That's what I'm saying.

That's smart. I mean, that's good.
They even made him move positions.

I mean, who else has been making content together for 25 years on the internet? Nobody. That's who.

That's right.

Just something to think about if we end this podcast. It's ending a run.
It is. It's genuine.

Unless we have something in the hopper to immediately launch, which I'm going to be honest with you, we don't. No, no.
And I don't know that we ever will.

You know, you and I aren't young guys scrapping trying to figure it out. Speak for yourself.

Well, no, you've figured it out.

You've got Sneaky Dragon. You've got your path.
I've got regulation. I've got my path.
And hopefully they'll run in tandem, but they're not going to run together. Yeah.
You know?

Interesting. I like it.
Man, someone called Guinness Book of World Records. I think we need to be in there.
Yeah? That's all I'm saying. It's fucking crazy.
Yeah. It's a long time.

I really like the ideas that we have for

the show. I really like the ideas that we have for what we're going to do.
And we're really going to figure out these microphones, too, which I'm very excited about. Yeah.

And really crack the code on it and go, wow, this is so easy. We don't need to plug in all these things.
We can just hold these or put them on our shirts. And that'll be simple.

One other thing to add. I think one of you, Eric or one of you said it.
We hope to put some dynamic ads in the podcast, make enough money to buy coffee.

I hope we also have to make enough money to hire an editor. Oh, yes.
Because in the meantime, it's going to be me editing the audio, and I'm not super jazzed about it. I can do it.

How are you going to fit it into those six free days a week?

Dude, he's going to have to work two days.

That's a five-day weekend. What I'm going to do is I'm going to create a data.

I'm going to create a project, and I'm going to have to edit this at triple speed.

So there may be some flubs.

I'm not going to be listening to it in real time as i make my edits i may cut someone off mid-sentence because hey when you're doing triple speed playback that's a that's a risky tip i i totally understand

we completely get it also if you edit this so minimally i don't give a fuck leave it all in it does not matter we're having a couple what am i going to do get in trouble with rooster teeth

andrew's gonna hear what you said and you could be in so much trouble um

it's I'm excited to see what this can be and have other people on because now we have four microphones. Format's still the same, I guess.
We haven't discussed that.

We talked around it, but we'll go to a different coffee shop every week.

We talk about the coffee. We'll still review the coffee.
It's not about that necessarily as much as it is about us hanging out. Now, shockingly, I don't think it's ever been about that.

Yeah, and I don't know if people online understand it. Did they clue into that? I don't know.

Nine, by the way. This is excellent.
This is an excellent cup of coffee. I got a niced Americano today.
I feel like a real chump because this is like,

I've been making coffee at home for a long time.

This year, I finally made the transition to drinking iced coffee in the morning instead of hot coffee. Like, oh, this is worlds better.
Changed my life. Yeah, yeah.

I'm going to Lewis Medina for the rest of my life for forcing iced coffee down my throat. I'm not going out there.
He would not. No, I was not interested, and he would not let up.

And then he just over time wore me down. Him chasing blue bottles or coffee shops around the country.
And I am so fucking hooked.

And it's so much better than hot coffee. Yeah.
I understand. It's a different flavor profile.

I had a hot coffee this morning.

I had my drip this morning. But I so that kind of ties in something else I wanted to talk about.
Maybe a little more old school animal format here. Hell yeah.

This has been an amazing summer after last summer. Oh god, yeah.

It rained recently. It's been, there have been actually clouds some days.
It's been like two days over 100, I think. I think the total's actually at 14, but way less than.

I think there's been 14, 100 degree days, but they've been like 100, not like last year where it was 110. No, 100.
115. Oh, a break.
It's only 102 tomorrow.

Right, that's how it was being framed last year. Like, today's only going to be 102.
It's great.

And

this reminds me a lot more of, and correct me if I'm wrong here, Jeff. This is what I remember the summers being like back in the late 90s

here in Austin. And I was thinking about it this morning.
It's like, this is my 26th summer in Austin.

It's like the most summers I've spent from anywhere I've lived in my life. And this is what I remember, not like that horrible oven we were in last year.
And it makes me not hate this as much as I

did this last year. Yeah.
This is like this is bearable. This is the first summer since I moved here that I feel like comfortable

going outside. We've had other summers where it's been like more like this.

Unfortunately, I think 2020, nobody could go outside. Yeah, Yeah, 2020 was a good summer.
And that's the reason that I, this is like the first summer where I'm like,

I'm gonna drive across town. I'm just gonna go do this thing.
I'm just gonna, like, it's, I can get in my car and it's hot for a minute. And then when I get out of my car, I'm not immediately.

It doesn't hurt. No, no, it's hot.
Don't get me wrong. It's hot, but it is not 110.
You can still ride your bicycle in the daytime right now, which is how I know it's too hot.

If I can't, and I can ride my bike at two in the afternoon right now.

The thing that's blowing me away is that my lawn is still alive. Yeah.

I was talking to my neighbor.

We were just kind of talking shit in the driveway or whatever. And he's like, it's supposed to rain all next week.
I'm like, no shit. He's like, yeah.

So I guess we'll still have lawns. And I'm like,

mother, I never thought about that.

But it's absolutely alive. It's going to be August.

And I'm going to have grass. I've apparently left town this summer and don't really want to.
No, it's so bearable. Don't hold your breath waiting for that rain.
You know how it it goes

i didn't think it was going to rain yesterday at the time this morning it rained pork woke up

dark pouring and i went this is awesome yeah yeah and then i had to wait all day for a plumber to come and then my dog got stuff and it was a you know i've just i've been having a time just being alive hey did you know that owning a house fucking sucks

did you know that um i wouldn't wouldn't know anything about that uh-huh when when i moved here and you guys told me like i you're not going to remember this but it's something that we talked about really early in me moving here was i was renting a place and everything and you guys both kind of went like

yeah i mean like if you cannot own that's just fine too like it's totally fine to just rent and there's nothing wrong with that and it's actually less of a headache and i went i don't know

and what i should have done here's what i should have done I should have

got on the bridge at the river and then held a suitcase with $30,000 and then opened the suitcase and jumped off the bridge and then see if I can collect it on the way down because that's about what I'm doing owning a house you had your electricity go out at the same time your dog needs his teeth cleaned and the plumbing stops up and then the internet fries and it's all you just go you just sit in the dark and you go don't touch anything this is gonna be expensive

god it's so expensive

yeah it's funny how home home problems are uh contagious too yeah they affect like a home issue will affect other home issues and they just like you know chase them around the house that's exactly what happened with me yeah This, the internet was caused by an electricity issue.

The electricity issue fried my internet. Then they had to come out to look at the AC because it was dripping.
And then they fixed my AC because this cooling coil or whatever.

And then I got it replaced. And then it started dripping correctly, not into the wood in the middle of my house.
Great.

So it started dripping correctly down into my downstairs sink.

Guess what, buddy?

Sink backs up.

And

the plumber came out and he went, did something change recently? And I said, yes, let me give you a list.

I'm in hell. And then at the same time, drive the dog up to Round Rock to get some heart things scanned because he has to get his teeth cleaned and all this stuff.

But I had a Round Rock donut quietly in the car, so I was okay. You win.
You're up. You're up.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I'm playing with house money, baby. I'm just going to sit here in silence and eat my car donut.

And there are people listening to this going, like, oh, I wish they wouldn't complain about home ownership stuff. I don't know what to tell you, man.
That's happened in my life.

You've never been the guy to complain about homeownership stuff. Now it's just your turn of the money.
And now I'm telling you, just continue to rent if you can.

Until this all turns around and everyone can only own one house forever and whatever changes in the span of the United States, just rent and it's fine. It's fine.
It's probably fine.

I'm very happy renting a house, right?

You guys moving across town renting changed my perspective on

so much. Me changed my perspective on solars too.
Yeah.

Crazy. Fucking crazy well yeah it's uh and we i think it's funny i think

the arc uh that we even in this podcast that we've covered in talking about homeownership and interest rates i remember we had early on we had a conversation about how low rates were yes how high they used to be your rate you got when you first bought your house six six percent of it seven six percent thinking you had such a good deal on that yeah and now we're like

on the flip side again yeah where it's like that's how it used to be and i think

interest rates are what they were when i bought my first house in 1999 i think people have largely forgotten that between 2008 and 2022 or so, we lived in a very bizarre bubble

of very low interest rates. And I think people got spoiled on that.
Like, we're back to normal. We're back to reality.
People keep talking about, like, oh, the Fed's going to cut.

It's going to go, it's going to lower. It's going to drop.
100%. Yeah, it's not going to be a big deal.
It's not going back to how it was.

You're not going to see sub-5% interest rates in a long fucking fund.

Yeah, if you see that, it's going to probably be like another recession or another market crash or something where they need to artificially pump the numbers. I would think so.

I would think that's probably the only thing. This is just reality.
Yep.

And it's going to take people a long time to understand that because I think what you're seeing right now where the housing market is partially dying is because everybody's locked into a 3.5% interest rate and nobody wants to give it up.

And they want to hold, even if they need a bigger house or whatever, they're like, I'll just wait till the interest rates come down.

I've already got it.

I have one, so I know it's possible. That's why I'm just going to wait to get this again, and you're not.
Yep. You're just going to have to get used to the idea that you're not.

And I think it goes back to something you just said, Eric. Where it's like, I think when rates were low, people were getting greedy and buying multiple houses and doing all of that.

It's like, hey, that's gone.

That's going to go away. Good.
I think that there should be a law that you can only own one home. But that's how I feel.

I think that would solve the problem. Why did you pick the one you have now? My house? Yeah, you stuck with that one for the rest of your life.
That's it.

I can get rid of this one and buy a different one.

You can only own one home at a time.

No, at a time.

I love my house and having a space that's mine and everything.

But also, if I rented and I didn't have to deal with these issues and I could call someone and they just did it instead of having to call a plumber, an electrician, the internet,

all this stuff, I'd be just fine with that too.

I think it's hard no matter where you are because everything's so expensive and it's not like the prices don't go down.

They find new highs and then they go, and this will be the new base. And that's where it is.
We're going up from there. Uh-huh.
And you're welcome. And so I think that's just where we're at.

It's like all those Amazon Prime deals everybody is so pissed off about.

It's, oh, yeah, raise the price and then, look, it's all on sale. Oh, I see.
I see.

It's not like they invented that, though. No, no, no.
They're doing it to great effect right now. Everybody's finally

finally catching on, I guess. What? Prime Day wasn't a deal.
It wasn't for consumers. That's crazy.

I think that'll probably do it for this episode.

Rating for your coffee, Guess, what do you think? This is like an eight, eight and a half. Really good.
And you said nine. I think I'd probably give this coffee probably like an eight, seven.

I really like it. I really like figure eight.
I like their hot coffee.

They let you know what their drip is. They don't just say, like, house drip.
They tell you what the bean is. They tell you where it's from and what flavor knows.
You got a little chalkboard.

And I really appreciate that. But that's, you know, that's me, a guy who does this.
I'm really into it. Does this say, this says figure eight? Yeah.
Can't you read? You read English?

Yeah, I can read that. F-I-G-U-E-8?

No, R-E.

The R is right there. Where? Right there.
Oh, it melted. Yeah.
It's hot. You got a hot coffee.
You got to see ours. Ours are ice.

Because it would say figure eight.

That would say figure eight pristine.

I will say the other location is also lovely. It's brand new.
You said it's on airport? It's on airport. Everybody like Grand.
Okay. You know, that

pool technology. Like airport and 45th? Yeah.
Yeah. Do you want to do that for the next episode?

Well, that one, it might be interesting because it's all indoors. Oh, interesting.
It's like it's in a strip mall. Well, we might have to find a place around

recording. Which we've done before.
So

I was going to say it's got a totally different vibe.

We went to Palomino once, right? Yes. Reminds me of that.
Yeah. Okay.
Same kind of feel. Okay.
We'll have to check it out.

Why did your coffee have way less condensation than mine? Like, my side of the table is so cold. He drank so much of his before you got here.
Gotcha. Yeah.
I only had a half a coffee when I said that.

Gotcha. Okay.

He was like ram jamming it.

I'm in a pool over here. Yeah.
Guys, this is the first episode. Hopefully, it worked.
You know, we can call this podcast Keep Austin.

He's trying to get out of the. I'm just saying.
We haven't committed. We haven't done anything with it.
It's true, and this won't come out for months, probably, so we can do whatever we want.

I guess that remains undecided then.

Untitled Property Brothers podcast. Now, here's the thing: there's three of us, and we are talking about a democratically working podcast operation the way we've done previously.

So, I think we would all get a vote.

So, you're asking me to pick between who's my favorite child. I came up with bug names.
Uh-huh. So,

who wants to call it Keep Austin?

I'll raise my hand. Okay.

I mean, I do want to call it Keep Austin, but and then who wants to call it Good Morning Gus? I mean, I do want to call it Good Morning Gus. Okay, there you go.

I love them both. Hey, hey, audience, I'm on your side.
I voted Keep Austin. Keep Austin podcasting.
The merchandise makes it sales.

Why did he just say, hey, audience, I'm on your side?

For the first time in his life. Also, what are you talking about? The audience has, they don't even know we're making this.
I'm the voice. Also, they love Good Morning Gus.

Sorry, guys, I tried. That'll do it for this episode of the podcast.
GMG. Yeah, right.

I'm so excited. This is great.

Well, hopefully the audio worked.

If it didn't, then this is a lost episode and we'll release it later how about um how about this idea uh-huh sorry to interrupt but uh back when i did that show relationship goals keep austin gus uh at roost teeth

uh brian beam had a band that they would play uh before like the intro band with like saxophone and stuff it was actually kind of funny and every episode i'd just give the band a different name and so every episode they were a different band what if we just give this podcast a different name every and we rename it in the rss feed so people have to let's not do let's name it good morning gus but if we want to call it the keep austin episode.

No, no, no. We're going to do this.
We're going to fucking re-engage.

This is like shit.

They've really seen a good morning Gus with Jeff. Question mark.
Good morning, Gus.

Thank you for listening. GMG.

If there's anything that you want to hear with this podcast, it should be in everything. Too bad.
By the time you actually hear this, we're probably recording episode six. Yeah.
I would think.

I hope. So check it out.
And if you're like, how can I, what's the best way to support this podcast? It is by listening to all the ads and not skipping forward on them.

Or it's downloading the episodes from wherever you get your podcasts. And then you can skip the ads because they already have the download accredited to this thing.

Just download it, delete it, re-download it. That's all I'm saying.

What we would like you to not do is please don't buy merchandise for this podcast because it doesn't exist. There's no merchandise.
So if you bought it, it wasn't us. That would be crazy.
Yeah. Yes.

So don't do that. Don't sign up for a Patreon because it doesn't exist.
It does not exist. It's just merely a podcast.
Yeah.

Sign up for the regulation Patreon, Patreon, the 100% Patreon, or the Stinky Dragon Patreon, or all three. Or all three.
That also does support us. Here's not in this show.
Don't.

Either way, just download the episodes. No, no, no.
Sign up. Yeah.
You can just listen to the podcast and let it be a podcast.

I will say there are going to be people who leave comments, and this is what we can close out with or whatever.

Oh, on the subreddit is the only place that we're going to be able to see them. Or they can go to anarchymeanthing.com and sign up to Facebook.
I'll give you an update that.

There are people who will go, why don't they just make one Patreon for all these things under an umbrella? And to that, I say, We did that, and the company closed. Yeah, so that's not happening.

You know what? First was a good deal.

We did that, and people said, Why don't I? I don't want to, I only want Funhouse, I don't want to pay for it.

That's stupid. Yeah, so if you think that we're making fun of you, we are.
So, thanks for listening, and uh, we will see you on the next episode of Good Morning Guests with Jeff. Question mark.

Um, any final thoughts for the folks at home?

No,

I'd love, take your bets now. Do we all say yes in eight ethicists?

All right, cool. Bye.