In the Carcass of Our Memories

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Okay, this is episode 79 of Anima?

Nope.

A little bit of a different one from how we've been doing it.

But last time we were at Mozart's, we talked about the future of Anima.

We talked about Lake Fail.

I'm still mad about that breakfast taco.

I mean, I understand.

We talked about a vegan shopping center.

We talked about Jeff's special parking lot.

We talked about a lot.

And the best Halo 2 mission in Mate.

And that was all last time, though.

This is this time.

He wants to say something.

My special parking lot?

Are you, did you raise your hand?

No, I was going to point at something.

Oh.

I was thinking about it.

My special parking lot?

Yeah, I think it was the one that was right across the street because it made you want to move to Austin or something.

Oh, I don't know.

Sure.

Good morning, Gus.

Really four minutes.

Jesus Christ.

Four o'clock.

Yeah.

We're going to point out.

Hello again, Gus.

Oh, Dallas nightclub.

Wasn't that the place where my first wife was going the night that she threw up on you?

She was at Common Interest.

Were they going to Dallas after that?

I think so.

Okay, yeah, so Common Interest is still there on Burnett.

Dallas was also on Burnett, but

it's a little further south.

Yeah.

It's like where Tumble 22 is now.

Yes.

Kind of right next to that.

I think the building it was in is probably gone because I think they're building

condos there now.

But yeah, that's where Dallas was.

We're at Sign Bar, which is like a collection of a bunch of old signs from businesses all over Austin, some of which are closed, some of which are still around.

Dallas Nightclub, obviously gone.

I never went to Dallas Nightclub.

Did you ever go there?

I've never been.

We used to have a friend that was a bartender there.

Did we?

Yeah, a guy we used to work with when he wasn't working with us at Telenotrick.

I don't remember that.

He was an old sysadmin.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah.

Is it the same guy who looked like George Lucas?

Yeah, and he also bartended at Houston's, which became Bartlett's.

Uh-huh.

He bartended at Dallas and Houston.

I think so.

Not the city, Houston.

No, I understand.

Yeah.

It's just that's weird, right?

He's the guy who bartended at El Paso.

He's the guy who showed me Google for the first time.

What?

Let that sink in.

You remember that?

Yeah, because it was like, I was like a big Yahoo person before that.

And he was like, yeah, let me show you this website.

It's just search.

It's nothing else.

It's so fast.

It's so great.

I still remember going to Google for the first time.

It was at the call center, and that guy showed me Google for the first time.

What a fucking weird thing to remember.

That's bizarre, dude.

But yeah,

it's weird looking around at, I feel like we, whatever.

It's weird looking around at all of these

old signs.

I have a lot of memories of a lot of these places, and some of these places I'm like, I don't, I never went there, or I don't remember that at all.

It's crazy because, dude, this would be the perfect place to end this show.

Who should have waited a couple more episodes?

This would have been the perfect place to have a last episode of this show, or the perfect place to have a first episode of a different show.

We've got to bring an Anima sign.

Being in this place almost makes me want to leave Austin because I'm just like, never have I

the totality of my time in a place summed up for me in one location, and it's all

almost all gone as kitsch and decoration, as kitsch and decoration.

But like Las Three Maria, I never ate there, but I know where I know the sign.

Zach's, we ate there a bunch.

District Barn Barn Grill, I've been there, Dan McCluskeys, I've been to Austin Java.

We hated, or at least I hated.

Vino Vino, I went to Oat Willie's, I never went to Zocalo Cafe, El Choledo, Anna's Toy Depot, Baby Greens, Genie Car Wash.

Like, I recognize fucking spider houses right there.

Italick.

I ate there once.

It was very expensive.

McDonald's.

Kitty Acres.

Millie.

Dude, Kitty Acres was this little place.

If you went up north on 183, it was out west somewhere before you would get to Cedar Park.

It was a place called Kitty Acres, and it was this, it was built in the 50s.

You probably never heard of it.

I've never, never heard of it.

And it was, I think it was built in the 50s, and it was just the smallest little like toddler amusement park.

It was tiny.

And they would have like, they had like a

Ferris wheel that went like five feet high and just like just really tiny little things.

And Millie went to a birthday party there when she was four and rode her first horse there.

And that horse's name was Copper.

I remember because I took a video of it and I found the video the other day of Millie riding the horse for the first time.

And I was like, and the horse's name is Copper.

That's so cute.

Yeah, and I hadn't thought of that.

That's Kitty Acres in a million years.

It's been gone for a while now.

Fuck, I never heard of do-write barbecue.

It's Texas Pit Barbecue, done right.

Done right.

North by Northwest, that place sucked.

Yeah, that was up kind of by my apartment, kind of by that mighty fine we ate at the other day, a couple episodes ago.

Crestview Pharmacy is where we did the episode at the Violet Crown coffee shop.

Oh, right.

Yep.

That was it.

That's where it used to be there.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Fuck, dude.

There's Gordo's, Gibson.

The Gibson's gone?

A bar across from where, on Lamar, across from where Alamo is?

I wouldn't know.

I assume so.

I think that building's gone.

Abel's on the lake.

I never at the Buffalo Billiards.

I fucking hate it.

We walked in past a Spartan pizza sign, and that was an old

food truck pizza place that was down by our old studio off of Rapal Blanedo down south.

It was a good pizza.

Yeah, we walked by Expose Gentleman's Club sign.

I think that's called Red Rose now, if I remember right.

He's getting it wrong on purpose.

And then they have the little nooks that we walked by.

Like the things that I find really interesting here are like seeing all the old signs.

It's very cool.

It's cool in a, what you're talking about, the totality of like your time here or whatever, but they they have like these like little nooks where when this bar really gets hopping, those are like very sought after.

Yeah,

I didn't want to record in there because it's just three of us.

I felt like we would be monopolizing it, but they're decorated as different places.

Like there's one that set up like the old Poodle Dog Lounge, which still around, it's called the Aristocrat now.

It was so cute to look in there, though.

Yeah, it felt like going, kind of like going back to the Poodle Dog.

I really did.

So speaking of things that have changed and

your memories of Austin, you know, hung up on the wall or his decoration or his kitchen.

Jeff and I took Jeff flying this morning, finally.

We did.

We had our first flight.

On the way back into the airport, we flew right over the Irwin Center.

Or I should say right over the remainder of the Irwin Center.

Oh, yeah.

So from Jeff's side, he could look straight down and see to the inside where they were just totally ripping it up and there was nothing left in there anymore.

Yeah, if you're not familiar with the Irwin Center, I don't know why you would be if you're not from Austin.

It was where the UT basketball team played, and it's where I took my kid to see Panic at the disco.

It was just like this really ugly round event space.

It looked like a flan.

I think we mentioned that before.

Yeah, that's what it looks like, Eric.

Isn't that crazy?

That's crazy from the room.

Like the roof is gone.

It's just pipes.

Yeah.

So anyway, you really glossed over that first part where you guys went flying.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was fun.

It was so much fun.

Shut up.

How was it?

What happened?

It was good.

Also,

the Moody Center says Moody Center on the roof.

What?

Really?

Yeah.

Yeah, it does.

I don't know why they would bother with that.

Honestly, that's so lame.

That's so lame.

I was like, oh, the Moody Center says Moody Center on top.

That's so lame.

Like with Neon flashing notices.

Yeah, so it's, you know, I tried to take Jeff up once before, but, you know, there was a problem with the radio in the plane, so we ended up not flying.

So

we finally were able to sync up and do that again this morning.

And ironically, or not ironically, oddly enough,

coincidentally, one of the radios wasn't working again this morning.

But luckily, the backup radio was working fine, so we were able to fly anyway.

But yeah, we went up, just like circled downtown a couple times and flew out over Lake Travis.

I let Jeff at the controls for a bit.

Oh, wow.

I didn't like it.

It was funny because he was like turning it to the turning the plane to the right.

He's like, Yeah, here we go.

A little right turn.

Yeah, there it is.

I was like, we're still banking left.

I don't want to turn it back.

And then he's like, all right, we're going up a little bit.

Go forward.

And I'm like,

it's okay.

You do it.

He's like, yeah, solid right turn.

I was like, no, we're still, we're still going left.

I don't know.

Were you gripping the wheel as hard as you fucking could?

It is like, I was like white knuckling it when he had me do it.

I didn't like that part for sure.

When I first, I think that's everyone's inclination, right?

Like you're so nervous and scared at first, you death grip it.

One of the guy I did my discovery flight with, like, the first time I ever went up in a plane, he told me, like, your goal is you want to be what he calls fancy flying.

Just like your pinkies out, just like

your middle finger, your point, you know, pointer finger index finger, and your thumb holding it, just like real light pressure.

Ultimately, you get to a point where you're comfortable enough where that's what you do.

But initially, yeah, you definitely get that grip the entire time.

It's just like it's the first time you're driving a car, you're like, I don't know how I've seen it.

I don't know how to do this.

Yeah, like I don't know how to, you just grab this thing and you go, maybe like this, I guess.

And when I did it, we lost 500 feet.

So it was just like fucking scary.

We were, there was a lot of traffic.

It was a beautiful day.

So there was a lot of people flying out there.

So air traffic control was keeping us, you know, at a specific altitude.

So when Jeff took over, we were definitely losing altitude.

So I was like, so I just reached up and I was like, I'm just going to pull back a little bit.

We're going to get back up to the altitude he wants us at and just give it a little pullback to get us back up there.

How was it flying around seeing Austin like that?

It was so cool.

I've done a helicopter tour of Austin before, so it was kind of similar to that.

But it was so much neater because, first off, Gus is an

awesome guide because he's explaining everything he's, I mean, you've flown with him before, so you know, but he explains everything he's doing and why he's doing it.

So, because it's very overwhelming, even just like the radio and all the chatter and it's they're just throwing nomenclature and numbers and letters at you and he's trying to cut through the fog and explain what it all means and uh

and so that made it it demystified it quite a bit and then uh

it was just so cool like you're literally you don't think about it But you're literally on the same runway as like American Airlines flights.

And like we saw an Ember Air flight and we saw a Southwest flight and you're just like taxiing with fucking jets.

And then Make room for me.

Yeah.

And then you're like,

and then you're up in the air, just chugging along.

And then Gus was just awesome.

And the landing was fucking perfect.

And we got to go over Lake Austin and Lake Travis.

We saw Mansfield.

Damn.

Mozarts again.

We saw Mozarts again.

We saw so much of Austin from the sky.

You were able to see your house.

Saw my house.

Saw Mueller from the air was really cool.

Downtown, obviously, I saw it from the air from different angles, and I've never seen it before.

Really, really, I was telling Gus up there, man, it really

makes you appreciate how beautiful Austin is.

Especially today, like, the weather's so nice.

It's like that time of year where there's a couple of weeks of nice weather now, a couple of weeks of nice weather in the fall.

So it really is like, wow, this is so great.

And he's like, oh, it's

about to be summer for seven or eight months.

For those of us who are trying to convince themselves they want to leave Austin, flights like today didn't help.

But being in this, the fucking carcass of all my memories does actually.

Like, for instance, Chew McCall's, that sign right there I'm not 100% sure but I think it was the building kind of tropical is now oh really yeah it's either there or it was across the street but uh that's on east seventh on the right right when you pass the bridge yeah it's

yeah yeah it's fucking wild dude so um we we did some so you know we came here for to um to sign bar and they um you know obviously it's a bar they open up at four o'clock we got here just a little bit early a little bit before they opened they were kind of sizing us up but luckily that nobody has anything.

We're able to sit down and start recording.

Nobody wants to talk to dudes with microphones.

They look annoying.

Dude, Red Fez, do you remember?

You used to try to pick up chicks there.

I used to go to Red Fez a lot.

Back in the day, that was like a little bit of stuff.

Is that what one of the little huts is styled after?

Is there a Red Fez sign?

No, no, it's just a sign.

Just a sign.

I mean, if they have a

lot of things, it kind of is.

So I went to Red Fez, and then the place next door

had the blue sign.

Bike.

No, it has like Bulldog.

Bikes, but what was it?

It was the place next door.

Red Fez, that does look like Red Fez.

Now I think about it.

I'm thinking of that other place that had more of a blue.

Yeah, I remember.

I can see the place inside.

You always wanted to go there by yourself.

That was your spot.

I couldn't have you there.

Couldn't have you watching the fucking atrocity of me trying to talk to anyone.

Yeah,

it's just crazy to see all of this in one place.

So, anyway, like I was saying, we showed up here a little early, and it's kind of a weird time, right?

Like, it's not really a meal time, not really a coffee time.

And you and I, you know, Jeff and I really don't drink.

We're not above 35,000 feet, so I'm not going to partake in that right now.

So, um, even if we were above 35,000 feet, I can't partake.

Yeah, so I mean,

I'm an alcoholic at every time.

You know what I'm saying?

I'm an alcoholic at every altitude.

Oh, no, we got to try a couple more.

So, I suggested something a little wacky, a little off the wall for today's episode.

And we stopped at 7-Eleven on the way in and got coffee.

Because

it's funny because I see it's like a very popular trend.

I see like YouTube channels where people just like go to convenience stores like 7-Eleven overseas, like in Asia, and they show like all the cool stuff they have, like make your own ramen or all the different drinks you can get and the unusual foods and whatnot.

And I've always wanted to do the same thing for American convenience stores, like some that are really shitty and don't have anything.

But some like the 7-Eleven we went to right now, which was right by the studio, that was actually really nice.

It was very nice.

That was my first time.

Brand new.

That is a new, new, new, new, new 7-Eleven.

I walked to the back where the coffee was, and I was, honestly, I was a little shocked by the selection and the machines and all the different things you could get there.

Speaking of coming up, they have,

I guess, an April Fool's Day promotion where you get like a donut, you don't know what it's filled with, which I think is a fucking funny idea.

This all sounds like a commercial for 7-Eleven.

It's not, I assure you.

You'll be able to tell, I'm sure, when we talk about the coffee that it is most definitely not a commercial for that place.

So I'm glad you all went along with that.

Just a slightly different take on this.

Jeff is fascinated by something off in the distance.

I don't know what.

What are you looking at, Jeff?

I'm just looking at all the different signs.

It's fucking.

There's Buffalo Billiards there.

We

did many events there at that Buffalo Billiards.

There's some side quest stuff there.

Dart Bull, Thunderbird, Coffee.

I guess they're gone.

Oh, they're gone, aren't they?

Yeah, I guess so.

There were a couple of those for a while.

Then Miss Johnson's.

They're still there, but they're under new ownership.

And that's the old sign.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think Mrs.

Johnson sold the business back in the late 90s to that other dude, and then he sold it again, I think, back in 2020 or 2020.

I don't know that they're open still.

I don't think so.

I drove by a couple times recently, and it didn't look good.

And when we went there once after they reopened, it was not good.

Yeah, I think they reopened briefly, and then they closed again.

I think it's the

guy who owns Tyson's Tacos, which is right across the street from there.

I think he also acquired it.

And Tyson's does so well, he's probably not in any hurry to open that up.

He just figured,

if I can handle tacos, I can handle donuts.

Different worlds.

Yeah.

Different worlds, Tyson.

I used to live over there, and we would go and eat there, and I got like some of the worst food poisoning of my life from that place.

Tyson's tacos?

Yeah.

I don't like it, but we have a friend that loves it.

I don't get why you would love it.

TBG always wanted to eat there.

What?

Weird.

It's like.

It's funny.

I went there to eat with him once.

That's the only time I've ever eaten there is with TBG.

It's so like...

The place is like okay.

It is just like the world's okayest spot.

I feel the same way about Paco's tacos.

Oh, I still, the whole time I've lived here, never been.

Just super like

okay.

When I first started working at Rooster Teeth, I'm like, oh, what's Paco's tacos?

Like asking people around there, and it was, it seemed like it was on the tail end of people going all the time because everyone was like over it.

And I was like, oh, interesting.

Okay.

So I've never been and I'll never go.

It's fine.

It's fine.

It's solid.

Just

nothing amazing.

Lots of other places.

Lots of other places with great tacos are immortalized here that are no longer open,

but not Mozart's.

Fuck that place.

Really puts into perspective how temporary this all is, doesn't it?

Yeah,

it's all constantly changing.

Yeah.

That sign, there's a sign over there.

You can kind of barely see it.

It says Michelada's Cafe and Cantina.

It's kind of high, like right under the roof right there.

That place was right across from the convention center.

Oh, that's where that's the real world house.

No, that wasn't that Vince Young's steakhouse.

No, I think it's Michelle Ada's.

Oh, is it?

Yeah.

I think

Bernie knew the owner of that place because during RTX they would put a sign out

on that business that said Bernie eats here.

Yeah, that's true.

What?

Yeah, that's true.

What?

They would do that.

What?

They would put a big sign out during RTX that says Bernie Eats Here.

I love business.

I mean, honestly.

Fucking genius.

Yeah.

That's so smart.

Which is ironic because

any place that sells cheese could hang that sign.

All right, that's it for this episode.

Yo, fucking get him.

Slam, slam, slam, slam, slam.

Oh, dude.

Oh, it's okay.

He knows I love him, and it's also 100% true.

That's so funny.

Oh, I just got a text from my wife.

There's a dead possum in the yard.

Oh, no.

Hang on.

Now, here's the thing.

Here's the thing.

Is it?

Is it?

Yep.

Yep.

I'm going to get there later.

It's not going to be there.

It's not going to be there.

Is there a weapon?

Cool.

Yeah.

Switchblades.

Two Switchblades on the ground next to it.

and it's bloody.

It's like the

bad music video all over again.

Or the Beat It music video all over again.

I read an interesting bit of trivia the other day that the

You know one of the gang members in the Beat It music video,

the Michael Jackson Beat It music video,

played the same comparable role in the Weird Al Eat It version of the video.

Yeah, I guess like Michael Jackson was really a big fan, and so he connected the choreographer, because it was also the choreographer.

Whoa, crazy.

connected with weird owl to be to play the same part in the weird owl uh eat it music video huh

so there you go it's weird it is weird you don't like awesome java

i think we've covered this a bunch in anva we don't remember why we don't remember why i just fucking hate it i was hoping it was gonna jog your memory that time no i was i was hoping it was jog your memory i remember the day i don't like it i just don't remember what happened that day out of all the signs you see here what's the business you miss most oh that's such a good question

so there's a lot of them.

Fuck.

It's going to take Jeff a second, despite the fact he's been looking at the signs.

Yeah, no kidding.

Well, while he looks, do you have one?

I don't know if I have one that jumps out right away.

I would say, based on what I can see here, my first knee-jerk reaction would probably be to say the old Mrs.

Johnson's bakery over there

before changing ownership and closing.

That's my knee-jerk reaction that I'm going to say I miss the most.

Jeff's still thinking.

Out of all the places here, I probably ate it El Choledo the most.

But I wouldn't say I miss it, you know?

I don't know, maybe Dart Bull.

I'm sad that it's not around anymore.

They have pretty good food.

I think El Choledo is also still around.

Yeah, they have a bunch of locations.

Yeah.

I think they still have one over on

Main Road.

Yeah,

they have the Black Salsa, right?

Yeah.

I was never a big fan of that.

The dude who owns El Choledo owns El Chile and El Alma and i like el alma a bunch of those places so like he

el alma's down he's got like four restaurants that's a place right across from um it's on barton springs road over there right like right across from

what's that place called the event center palmer event center

yeah god okay he uh he had a yeah yeah yeah that's no place to go yeah yeah he had a restaurant for a while called el gringo it was real good burger restaurant right there oh yeah yeah it was uh over there i know who you're talking about it was by where it's where el chile was for a while yeah yeah right by uh where where Vivo used to be, kind of across from there.

Across the street.

It's something else now.

But that place was great.

I think Dart Bowl is the thing that makes me saddest.

It just makes me think of

like

there are no, there are going to be no bowling alleys

anymore.

They just tear them down.

It's going to have to be like hybrid things.

Like I know when we used to go to Seattle all the time or the Seattle area, we would go to Bellevue.

And then like in Bellevue, there was that place that was like a bowling alley slash arcade slash bar.

It's just not a a dedicated big bowling alley.

It's just a place that has a couple of lanes and all these other things.

Like, they got to really get a bunch of your voice to get their revenue because just dedicating that space to a bowling alley is tough.

Like that Denver company that they have one in the domain.

What's it called?

It's like bowling.

Punch Punch Bowls.

Punchbowl social.

That kind of shit.

Yeah.

I changed my answer.

I forgot about Spider House.

Spider House is.

I probably spent more time at Spider House than all these places combined.

Spider House was like a close second.

I was debating whether to go with Mrs.

Johnson's or Spider-House.

And then I ended up saying

Mrs.

Johnson's.

When it was at its prime, it's gone through a lot of changes since I moved here, but there was a period of time when they closed at like three in the morning and opened up at six in the morning.

Jeez.

And they were only closed for three hours a day.

And so you could get there and have coffee.

And I had a newborn.

So when Millie was young, I was up early.

I would go to Spider House at like 7 a.m.

all the time and be the only people there.

Yeah, of course.

And it was like, it was great because I could be there outside with the kid and it didn't bother anybody.

And I could be out in public again.

So I spent a ton of time there.

And our friend Bat Dog, Burn Dog, was a bartender there.

Yeah.

And remembers bartending you.

Oh.

Said you were, I always thought you were a real junk.

Oh, okay, good.

Oh, thank God.

I hope he doesn't remember anything about it.

He remembers you as a drunk, a belligerent.

That might be inside.

I can't see it from here very well.

That might be the old Club de Ville sign there.

So it is.

So they have a bunch of signs.

They have a bunch of signs inside the bar also.

All over.

And it's really.

That might be a different Dallas sign inside as well over there.

Yes, it is.

Well, I think it's the same sign, but sideways.

Or is it a different one?

Yeah, yeah, I just made a stop this way.

There are uh, it's a very so.

This is a big spot.

Um, yeah, we drove in

like around the back, and there was a whole bunch of that's just I just parked back there because

like a mechanic shop to get here, yeah.

Like when I, when I, when I come here, going through the front is always a hassle, there's just always people, and there's food trucks in the front, and there's it's just too much.

I park in the back, and I cruise right in, and then pick a spot in the back, and then I'm good.

But when it's hopping here, that bar inside is so fucking small.

Like, it looks a little bit sizable from here.

It looks long, but there's no space between, like, the bar, the people sitting, and then, like, the wall behind it.

It's just, it's a tight squeeze.

Yeah.

And so that gets going.

But then in this back corner, see where it says Tuesday bar and everything.

They open that and they'll sell beer out of the back areas.

And it's a great.

It's a great summertime spot if you're not going to spend more than a couple hours out here because you'll fucking frog.

Yeah.

There's no shade.

And there's a, but there's a maze.

There is a maze.

I've gone through that maze with Chris Damaris and Jordan Sweers.

That sounds like a very Chris Damaris thing to do.

We filmed it for

Face Jam and we put it up on the Rooster Teeth site.

Pastor Pete.

Yeah.

Me and me and Pasta Pete and Jordan went through the maze.

It was fun.

They decorate it for like Christmas and then for like Halloween.

Christmas, the most magical time of year.

Absolutely.

Chris Damaris.

Yeah.

Chris Damaris.

Yeah.

I saw that guy earlier today.

What

What an interesting person.

Yeah.

So, you know, Jeff and I saw each other earlier.

It's funny because

I feel like I've been through cycles of living in Austin where I felt like when I first got here, when I first moved to Austin, obviously I didn't know anybody, never ran into anybody I knew.

Then, you know, worked at the call center, met tons of people, and I felt like there was a period where I constantly was out and running into people I knew all over town.

And then as the city grew and as I got older, like I would go out less.

So again, I'm like, I've I've retracted back into a phase of my life where I feel like I don't really ever see people that I know when I go out

but in the intermediate time between seeing Jeff this morning and seeing again seeing him again now I did run into someone I knew for the first time in

a long time I ran into Gavin Gavin and Meg earlier today I was getting oddly enough I was getting coffee

afternoon coffee before this one and I ran into them at a coffee shop

just really really bizarre I would I would love to run into Gavin at some point yeah wouldn't that be great I'd love to fucking see that guy

And then you hung out and had like a nice long conversation.

I was in a hurry.

I had to go and record

a different podcast.

Oh, you were very brusque with him.

I'm not a very social person to begin with.

It's very difficult for me to interact.

I'm right there with you, but can you imagine how cool it would be to, like, if Gavin were, if we spent time with him in person,

I would like socially.

Are you jealous?

I did for a whole like 25 seconds.

Dude, I'd pay for, I'd pay for 25 seconds.

Tough.

He says hi.

You know, he's no, he doesn't.

No, he does.

No, he did.

He did did not.

He's just always chasing that bag, man.

You know, he's working 24/7, so it's tough when you get to just do whatever you want all the time.

Better be working on that new face.

I'm still his boss technically for like another 50-something days.

Normally, write him up.

Yeah,

put him on probation.

Put him on probation.

Double secret academic probation.

Make sure he does his mandatory DEI training in the Warner Brothers app.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

Yes, yes, yes.

This is good.

Especially if you want to hear about the mandatory training.

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So since the last time we did this episode or we did this show or whatever, we announced, hey, you know, we're going to try to continue this thing and see what it does.

No new updates.

No news.

None.

So just letting you know that

we aren't being

cagey about it.

We don't have any new information.

No news.

Just from last week to this week?

Plus a day.

Next to nothing has happened.

Nope.

I mean, we're doing everything we can.

Yep.

but

you're dealing with a lot of external forces.

And so

companies the size of the companies we're dealing with tend to move at a glacial pace.

And

we have to move as a response to them.

They have no need to move quickly.

They're not in a hurry, and it does not matter to them.

And that's fine.

We're making so much lemonade right now that if ANMA doesn't work out, we might start a lemonade store.

Yeah.

Might start selling it.

Do Do you ever play Lemonade Tycoon?

Love that game.

I did.

I did play Lemonade Tycoon.

It is a good game.

And I'd like to try it IRL.

I don't think we're going to have a choice.

Are you really?

No.

I love that you thought it was possible.

I so believe that.

But we don't have any new news or anything, but I mean, we're still doing the show.

I mean, come hell or high water.

I'm still not.

There'll be an episode next week.

I'm still not fixing the number of the archive.

No, no, no, no.

So the archive is like one-off, just so you know.

Okay.

Yeah.

Gus just went, like, is this episode?

And I went, no, and he went, i'll change it it's fine yeah i think i just put a little disclaimer on it like yeah these numbers are probably off but don't forget to sign our guest book uh unless you're a robot which many of you are but that's fine um and uh what a shocking way to find out you're a robot that's tough we should start a support group yeah you know talk you know get on our subreddit and talk to the other robots and you guys can ones and zeros each other to death you'll figure it out pretty quickly yeah yeah yeah that's fine um but outside of that stuff we picked Signbar because this is a place we've wanted to come to for a long time and then we picked 7-Eleven because they don't have coffee or food.

They have food.

The food doesn't open until 5.

And then at that point, it's just like, well, we're not, you know, this is ridiculous.

Yeah.

It's not a dinner show.

No.

Let's talk about the coffee a little bit and we can kind of wind around and everything.

We went in and in the back wall, they've got like

what it looks like, Jeff used it, the cold brew machine, and then like two different coffee machine, hot coffee machines.

Well, I guess you get iced coffee from there too, but two different coffee machines that'll grind the beans and make you a drink that you want.

Yep.

Like the one I went up to, like there's a touchscreen, you get like a cappuccino, American, I got an Americano like I always do, a bunch of different stuff.

You get syrups in it.

I think they had hazelnut and pumpkin spice or some shit.

So I got a large Americano.

It's the kind of thing where it's like that bar we went to on South Congress that I hated, where the dude just like pushes some of those things.

Oh, yeah,

it gives us the exact same thing.

Yeah, and it makes the coffee.

Oddly enough, this was better than that coffee.

Yeah, I mean, but that's not saying what's happening.

Is that still around?

Yeah, I think so, yeah.

I mean, shockingly.

I mean, it's just by nature of where it's located.

This is maybe the, it looks like an Americano, but this might be the most watery, weakest Americano I've ever had.

Yeah.

It gave me the option on the touchscreen when I made it to add an extra shot, but I said no because I figured it was already going to be fine.

I wish I had done that.

Maybe it would have been a normal Americano at that point.

Jeff's cold brew machine looked like

you're pouring a beer.

Yeah.

It has like a big, instead of putting it there and like pressing a button, like all these other things, it has a big fucking tap.

Yeah.

I wouldn't trust people at 7-Eleven to pull that with like the right.

Someone's going to just snap it.

Well, Jeff didn't do it right either.

Did you see that giant mess he made?

He was trying to hide it.

Did you see the huge mess he made on the counter behind us?

He kept.

That's nothing to do with the tap.

I turned around to get a lid for my drink and he kept saying, don't look over here.

Don't look over here.

Don't look over here.

Please don't look over here.

And I was like, what's going on?

Some dummy stuff over here.

And it was just coffee.

I was filled up everywhere.

The instructions said,

add a bunch of ice to your cup and then pour your coffee.

Jeff did it the other way.

Backwards.

Did that work out for you?

No, it didn't.

Clearly.

He's not looking at us.

He's so embarrassed.

He's like looking at what's going on.

I cleaned up the mess.

There's no,

if there's not cameras in that 7-Eleven, there's no record of that mess.

He did clean it up.

He did a great job.

He spent a lot of time cleaning it up.

But did they just have like two different taps for the same coffee or was it different coffee?

Do you know?

One was cold brew and one was nitro cold brew.

And so I just went with the plain ass cold brew to be consistent.

And, well, I'll tell you what.

i got a uh i got a small cherry slushy yeah 10 out of 10.

cool and i got that small cherry slushy because i had a feeling this coffee was going to be about a four out of 10 and it is it's a four out of ten yeah my four is the exact number so i'm holding on to the memory of the cherry slushie while i drink the it's very cold because of the ice four out of 10.

yeah what did you get i just got a large black coff like so the machines that gus is talking about there were two of them and one of them was for like americano cappuccino macchiato like all that stuff and And then there was a machine that I was pressing and Gus went, oh, I think you're in a sub menu.

And I went, I don't think I am.

And it wasn't.

You tap on it and it goes, what cup size?

And I went, large.

And they said, what kind of beans do you want?

7-Eleven beans, medium beans, or dark beans.

And I went, medium beans.

And they said, great.

You want room for cream?

Yeah, great.

And then it just started fucking pouring coffee.

But there are four other things just to the right of us where that I could have just poured my own coffee.

Right.

They were like, it was the exact same thing right

why was it's like the legacy thing I guess that's like for people who don't want to interact with a touch screen I guess so yeah and don't get me wrong if I was like on a road trip driving and it was like

two in the morning and I wanted some coffee this is exactly what I would be looking for if I was like in the middle of nowhere like with those 300 miles to drive in front of me like this is fine like this is yeah this is what this is road trip coffee in my mind uh I think those craft things like really empty fast too like and then people have to go and brew and they have to fill this thing up.

And now here's a machine where they don't have to do that or whatever.

But then also you got little donuts.

Yeah, I've never said no to a powdered donut in my life.

And if I walk into a place, I'm not saying that's like my biggest weakness or anything because I don't think about them.

But if I walk into a place that has them, it's like I'm drawn to them magnetically.

And

I walked in and I could feel the pull and I thought, I'll just go, and there they were.

And they were phenomenal phenomenal Donells.

You housed them too, man.

We sat down here at the bar and you just went like...

Didn't even offer one.

They were his.

I think two years ago, I did a convention in Atlanta with Jeremy from Achievement Hunter.

After he'd quit, we met up and we did the convention together, signed doggress and shit.

And there was a green room there.

And in the green room, they'd put out all the snacks every day, and they would put out like 10 things of those Donells.

And I would just grab them all and just sit at the table and eat them in front of the other people in the green room.

As if like, I fucking seriously dare you to try to take these from me.

I couldn't stop myself.

It's all I ate while I was in Atlanta.

I never left the hotel.

I just had room service and those donuts for four days.

Sounds

I can't say no to them.

Did you shit weird?

Oh, dude, I've been shitting weird is like the that's the name of my autobiography.

Okay, did it make you shit normal?

No.

Too weird to make a normal.

If I'm shitting weird normal and I eat nothing but white powdered donuts, it's make normal shit?

It's like I could live the rest of my life and never think about them or miss them.

Uh-huh.

But as long as I don't go in a 7-Eleven or a convenience store or the bread aisle at a grocery store.

Interesting.

Where they might be.

I got two of the taquitos.

How were they?

Which ones did you get?

Oh, the jalapeno cream cheese all day.

My mouth is watering thinking about them.

I just ate two.

I fucking love those things.

In college, I lived by a 7-Eleven and a Del Taco.

That was it.

It was just me and my roommate going over to the Del Taco and then going over to the 7-Eleven.

And it would be like a half-pound bean and cheese burrito and then go to the 7-Eleven, see what Taquitos were ready, and get three Taquitos for two bucks or whatever.

Oh, oh, they're so, I, this is a trash I'll never escape from.

I love it.

I love it.

They're perfect.

I don't remember what project it was, but there was a period where we had to work.

It was probably for a commercial for Halo or something.

We had to like work at one one of the bungee studios once for a protracted period of time and i was staying at a

at a hotel near there near uh where the studio was at the time and there was a we were working so late that sometimes like the only thing that was open when i was done working was like there was this gas station by the hotel and i lived off of the bomb burrito for like two or three weeks of my life.

It's just like that frozen burrito that you put in the microwave in the gas station for like four minutes and then it comes out like

parts of it scorchingly hot and parts of it ice cold still.

I feel like, what was it, Burger Place we still was at Burger Master?

Burgermaster.

Yeah, I love that place.

Burgermaster?

You never been there?

It's out in Kirkland, just east of Seattle?

No.

Yeah, we do go all the time.

It sounds like you made that up for a shitty video game.

It sounds like something from The Last of Us that you have to explore and get into a fight inside of.

And looking at the place,

you would get that idea.

It looks like a video game level.

It's built like a Sonic court.

It's all like car hosts.

And you pull your car up and you order and they bring you the food and you can either eat in your car or take it with you to go.

Oh, that place is really good.

Burger Master's fucking good.

Do you remember the time we were eating in Kirkland?

I think it was in Kirkland.

And I think it was me, you, Bernie, and Matt.

It was actually the weekend of the crazy weather where the power went out in the hotel and Matt lost his glasses to the wind.

Oh, yeah, we talked about that.

That same night, we were eating at a restaurant.

I was going to see if you remember the restaurant.

It was a sit-down restaurant.

Almost like a, in my head, it's like a Sizzler or something, but I think it was a little nicer than that.

And that fucking giant tree fell down in the parking lot and fell over like 10 cars, and they were just dead.

Oh my god.

What was the name of that return?

The keg.

That's right.

Thank you.

God, that was killing that.

That was either in Kirkland or Bellevue.

I think that might have been Kirkland.

Wow.

We just heard this crash and looked out the window.

And one of those big-ass, like, fir trees just went fucking right over half the cars in the parking lot.

I think the keg was right by that convenience store.

I used to get the bomb from.

That's crazy.

I'm going to call my wife out in this right now uh-oh

all she's been eating she goes in like food kicks where she's like i like this thing i'm gonna eat that thing whatever fucking microwave burritos right now she just did a taste test of like three different ones and then she went this one's so good which one i don't remember can you tell can you can she tell me

i'm a big microwave burrito she just she just did a test and she's so fucking she was like telling me the results which ones that she was getting and then came home with like 10 of them and she's like they're only like 80 cents each And I went, yeah, they're not for you.

That's not what this is.

You could get these frozen bags at Chimichanga's at H-E-B that I've been fucking running through lately.

Until my microwave broke.

Now I don't need them anymore.

They're great.

If you have an air fryer, you throw one of those in there.

I should air fry them, too.

Dude, I do.

I have two air fryers.

What?

Yeah.

I've got an air fryer with two baskets.

I got a...

Well, he's got two air fryers.

You guys are kind of tied.

I got two different kinds of air fryers.

The good one and the nuts and one.

Well, I came into the relationship with my own and then my air fryer.

Oh, okay.

All right.

That makes sense.

That's fair.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Anything that you put in the air fryer that way,

it's so much better.

Man, you've never had reheated

pizza that tasted just like you fucking just got it.

Reheated pizza and air fryer is a game changer.

Tina's beef and bean green chili burrito.

Tina's.

That's what she said.

I don't think I've even seen that.

I don't.

Well, you know.

Beef and bean.

Green chili.

Yeah.

Okay.

And so I don't know.

Maybe you've been out of the microwave burrito game.

I got to get back into it.

I feel like Monterey is the brand that I've been eating a lot.

Yeah, that's the one that I've seen forever.

Like when I had to eat the chimichanga sack.

You know, when I had to eat those, I'd go to Food for Less, the knockoff grocery store where you would buy like cheese, cheese-adjacent cheese.

Like it's not cheese.

It's like C-H-E-E-Z.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But it's shredded and you go, it melts, and that's the best I can do.

And then you get these burritos and you just, we had a deep fryer in my college, like the house that I had in college.

It was, I had a weird house, and we would just deep fry this shit, and it was great.

My roommate would get stoned to play Call of Duty zombies.

It was the best.

Other than the bomb, like he was talking about the white donuts, and I'm eating these 7-Eleven Taquitos.

Do you have things that you can't refuse?

Do you have a thing like that?

I'm sure I do.

I think lots of times when I was...

So it's not as

grab and go or as easy, but ever since I was a little kid, if I see a chicken fried steak on a menu, I have to order it.

Interesting.

Yeah.

How do you not have that?

It's like if I see it, I got to try it.

I was visiting my mom a few weeks ago down at the town she lives in, and we went to like this small local restaurant, and I saw one on the menu, and I was like, Well, I gotta order it.

And I ordered it, I was getting ready to order it.

My mom was like, You know, that's not what this place is known for.

I've never had that.

I don't know if that's any good.

I was like, Yeah, but it's on the menu.

I got to try it.

Order it.

It was fucking great.

It was so good.

She tried to buy it.

She's like, Oh, that's really good.

It's one of the best chicken-fried steaks I've had.

You never know unless you try it.

You say on the menu, try it.

That's why I was always so disappointed in Thread Gills.

It was always so bland.

The chicken steak and the gravy.

Never got threadgills.

I'm so sorry.

There's no Threadgill sign here.

I'm so sorry.

I know it's like an affront to old Austin, and Jack Patillo is rolling over in his grave right now.

But also, get out of your grave.

You're not dead.

You're

fucking stupid.

Anyway, but that place was so mediocre.

Yeah.

And the place over on Maynard is way better.

Place on Maynard?

That's like Threadgills?

Hoover's.

Yeah, Hoover's.

Hoover's way better.

Same kind of food.

Same shit.

It's still going to make you want to die after you eat it.

Yeah, for sure.

Chicken fried.

What was the last great chicken fried steak that you had?

It was that one when I visited my mom with that small salt.

So that's your, you can't say no on a menu.

I can't say no.

If I see it, I got to get it.

Unless I've had it.

If I've had it and I know it's no good, I'm going to get something else.

If I hear somebody say hot dog, I got to eat a hot dog.

Like if I see it on a menu at a restaurant, I don't necessarily have to eat it.

It happened the other fucking day.

We went to the Spurs game.

We went to a basketball game, and Jeff went hot dog, hot dog, hot dog, hot dog.

Two minutes in.

Yeah, you got it.

He straight to the hot dog dock.

He was like screaming hot dog.

I'm kind of like that with pretzels, too.

Oh, dude.

Very very good at the door.

So, Coco's Bavarian is gone.

The one that was by Central Machine Works, but they have a location for some reason inside the Moody Center.

Okay.

Their pretzel,

oh, it is, it's so fucking good.

It's so fucking good.

Dude, man.

That's an Austin thing Eric and I did recently.

We went to the Moody Center last Friday and we saw the Spurs play the Denver Nuggets.

We watched the Denver Nuggets play Spur and Speaker.

But we got to see Wimby.

We got to see.

Dude,

we got to watch Jeremy Sohan.

We got to watch Zach Collin.

I got the coolest.

This is how fucking...

Look at this photo I got of Joker on the bench.

I caught him looking at me.

Looking straight at you.

Looking straight at me.

It was so neat.

I just want to point out

my seats, essentially.

Okay.

And then I'm sure I have.

I don't think Jeff got that photo from up there.

No, no.

If I zoomed in all the way on on my iPhone, then I got a great picture of

Jeff and Mm.

I was very fortunate to get essentially court side.

You all didn't go together.

You just both happened to be on the other side.

No, I was still there.

So last, the first time they came and played, we did go together because tickets weren't the craziest things.

They weren't insane.

It's a lot of extra.

But then they drafted Wiminyama, and now everyone's going, ah, really, really, really, really, really, really.

And it's during South by Southwest.

And so they charged so much.

So much for these tickets.

So Tony from our merch team, our design department, was like, Hey, have two extra tickets.

So, me and Nick,

who edits this,

unless Kelly edits this.

Kelly might edit this.

Kelly, sorry you didn't get to go to the Spurs game, but Nick came to the Spurs game with me and Tony.

It was a fucking blast.

We had tall beers and this popcorn that came in like a paper cup, like it was 1976.

It was fucking great.

Nice.

I loved it.

The Moody Center says Moody Center on the roof.

I've heard.

I've honestly heard.

That photo you showed me of your view of that game

reminds me of when I saw the first play in the Alamo Dome against the Suns.

It was very complicated.

It's about what it is, yeah.

The price, the ticket difference, probably a little different.

You probably paid a little more.

Just a little.

If you can sit courtside, I recommend it, though.

It's really cool.

Thanks, man.

Right on.

You and Jack Nicholson fucking shooting the shit.

I got lucky.

I bought my shit on Ticketmaster.

I looked at tickets when they announced the games, and they were so much money.

I said, I'm not going.

And then just on a whim, Emily said, why don't you see if the tickets went down?

And they did.

They were so cheaper when I bought it.

Never happened.

But they they were really overestimating not just the demand, but the demand for those tickets at that price at that time.

It was definitely a thing of like, oh, and

we're going to be there all weekend.

And it's during South Buy.

And so it was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're going to be there all weekend.

And I'm here and it's fine.

And it was,

I think it fucked him a little bit.

But also, Jeff also recommends flying first class if you can

do it.

You know, look, I bought those tickets.

Buying a home.

I mean, if you can.

Those tickets were like $1,000 when I looked initially.

When I went back and bought them, they were like, I think I paid like $385 a ticket.

They weren't that expensive.

With fees, they got.

And that's where it is.

It's the fucking out of control fees they have.

But the tickets were only three something each, I think, which is a lot of money for tickets, don't get me wrong.

But

if your favorite thing on earth is basketball and the greatest player in the NBA is

playing the soon-to-be greatest player in the NBA in your town that doesn't have basketball?

It's a big deal.

Yeah.

You know, and so I spent a little, I spent $300 a ticket.

Watching these guys play,

it's really cool watching the Denver Nuggets play because they're like.

Oil oil machine.

I mean, they are like one of the best.

There was at one point there was one play that was six passes and one dribble for the craziest dunk.

And it was just like...

That was incredible.

Like, that's watching like basketball.

And then when the Spurs had the ball, it was just everyone going, please pass it to one binyana.

Please fucking pass it to him.

And they would not do it.

But then when he finally got the ball, you're just like, this is, I'm seeing something that is near inhuman.

He was getting rebounds without leaving his, like, he wouldn't have to jump.

He just reached and the ball would travel into his hand.

It was shocking.

He would go up for a dunk and like

just a little boop.

And then it would, I mean, I've never seen anything in all my years watching sports, I've never seen anything like it.

He's so fucking tall in person too he's so lanky it is crazy he's just like a limb yeah he's just like the slender man or something yeah like if a tree was a man like he's just a big tree man he's like an int style human and he's really it was fucking cool like look at how tall he is there in that shot next to jamal murray he's probably like six six next two

players yeah exactly yeah it's really

It's crazy even from like the nosebleeds where we were to see the difference in the height.

He barely had to reach up to high five views.

Yeah,

he pointed, and then we just touched fingers, and it was pretty cool.

He pointed to hit you in the eye.

Yeah.

I got whimbeat.

The halftime show was a dog catching a frisbee.

Nice.

Was it a tall dog?

No, regular dogs.

Regular dogs?

Three regular dogs.

Yeah, and then they jumped rope.

That was it.

Yeah, it was pretty.

It was pretty exciting.

So that's the Austin thing that we did.

Yeah, it was fun.

Yeah.

It was really, really neat.

The Austin thing you did was watch Dendro play San Antonio.

Yeah, absolutely.

In Austin.

In Austin.

They're in South by.

Yeah.

No big celebrities.

No, No, no.

Chris Bosch.

Chris Bosch was there.

Oh, I saw Mr.

Balin.

Merbalen, Mr.

Ballin.

I don't know how you say his fucking name.

He's always on those Amazon billboards

that are like for the spooky podcast or whatever.

I saw that, dude.

Like if you took Drew Saplin and stretched him out a little bit.

He looks like

a stretched Drew Saplin.

That's a great way to put him.

Yeah.

I felt like this year's South by Southwest didn't impact me as much as last year's.

Is it still going on or is it not?

I missed all of it, and that's just fine.

Yeah, I think I got into traffic once on 35.

I was like, what's going on?

Oh, South Buy's this weekend.

Maybe that's what's doing it, but

I don't know what it was.

I just felt like it didn't impact me nearly as much as you just stayed away from downtown.

Maybe.

Yeah.

But I feel like it spreads out so much lots of times and it impacts other places.

I guess that's true.

Like, no restaurant I went to was like super crowded more than normal or anything.

No, not at all.

I couldn't get into Mozart's that time.

My cousin and I tried to.

Oh, that's right.

That was the only time I was.

Don't worry, we went later and had that really good taco.

It really made up for it.

It was so good.

We posted the pictures, and it is people

going, what the fuck is this?

Is that taco?

I was so mad at you.

Why was it wet and soft and sticky to your fingers?

It was so gross.

Disgusting.

Oh, man.

It's just

trash.

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How did you guys decide who would be what color in red versus blue?

Is Griff orange and Simmons maroon for any specific reason?

You got the color right.

What do you mean?

Lots of times people think Griff is yellow.

It's an old, old, old, old, old dumb joke.

People would always get it wrong.

Lightish red.

I think in Halo, there was only so many colors to choose from.

Right.

And if I remember, I think Bernie just picked him an assignment to us?

I definitely didn't pick.

Yeah.

We had a, if anything, I suspect.

I should ask Bernie about this.

I've always suspected this.

There was a kid I used to manage at the call center.

I really liked the kid, smart kid.

But he was obsessed with the color orange.

Like, obsessed with the color orange.

He wore orange collars, orange shirt, orange socks.

He would bring in his personal computer.

He had an orange computer,

custom built, and he just was like obsessed with the color orange.

And I managed him and it used to annoy me.

And I always suspected Bernie made Griff orange to annoy me because of that.

Yeah, plus also, if you think about it, like there weren't that many colors, right?

So

we're talking red team, right?

So Sarge was the leader.

He had to be red.

Donut, you know, has the whole joke about the lightish red armor, so he had to be red.

The whole point of Donut was to create a pink character for that dress.

So then it was like, you look at what's left, what's in the red spectrum.

You know, I think even.

So I think it was like the process of elimination.

Yeah, we didn't have a lot of it was probably 50-50.

I could have been orange and you could have been maroon.

Yeah, but the important thing was that we had a red team and a blue team, and you know, and

it mattered what team the people were on, less so their color.

And yeah, and I'm sure, like, the Simmons was maroon because it's close to red, because the whole kiss-ass one is like Sarge.

So I'm sure it was, it was surprising.

But anyway, or retcon.

Yeah, we did.

Yeah.

There you go.

There you go.

Or if we did, I have zero memory of it, so I really don't think I had anything to do with that.

That is the very long answer to that question.

Right, but isn't that so interesting that it became like these characters are synonymous with these colors, like these looks or whatever, and it was just a thing where it's like, I don't know, I think Bernie picked it to annoy me, and it just became that's the thing that you're stuck with now for this long.

And there's all kinds of weird little things like that.

Like Griff's character, Dexter Griff, my original name was Dex

because Bernie liked to write a character named Dex in all of his shows.

And then

the, no, no, my character was just going to be Griff.

And then he was going to create the Tex character was going to be named Dex.

And then our friend Andrew was like, why don't you call it Tex?

Because we're in Texas.

And he was like, oh, that's a cool idea.

And so Tex became Tex, and then I became Dex Ster, I think, as an homage to Dex, the character that he would always write into his.

How weird.

Yeah.

Like there was the main character, the main character in the schedule of the movie they made.

I think his name was Dex.

Or the secondary character.

Yeah.

And so,

and then like the whole state thing happened.

Yeah.

Because I guess in some form of that at least gave Bernie the idea from that point on.

But yeah.

So Tex was originally Dex and I was originally just something else.

How weird.

Yeah.

Weird how that stuff just kind of comes together.

I guess.

I mean, yeah.

Yeah.

Interesting for somebody, probably.

For people listening to this, I assume.

This is a question from

Greyton.

Greeten.

We've had their name before and they said, this is how you pronounce my name.

I don't remember.

I'm very sorry.

This is Greyton.

Do you have any Gray Tatan?

Thank you.

Hey, so what is the difference between getting laid off when you are young versus when you are middle-aged?

Too soon.

Well, I don't know.

I never got laid off when I was Joe.

You did?

No, I didn't.

Well, no, you never got laid off from quit that job.

Yeah, I was trying to.

You were trying to laugh.

I was trying to get laid off, and they wouldn't fire me.

They fired everyone else in the company except for me.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

I remember hearing about this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I never got - this is the first time I've been laid off.

I mean, the severance is probably better.

Yeah.

I think,

you know, as you get older, you're maybe more established in life.

So

you roll with it maybe a little more.

Yeah.

It's still the feeling of

I had a solid paycheck for 21 years and now that's about to go away and I have zero paycheck.

How do I turn zero into paycheck?

We're also going through that right now.

Yeah, yeah.

I went from getting money to not, well, I'm going to be not getting money.

So I've got to figure out how to deal with that.

Anyway, we're setting up a Patreon.

Yeah, so

please, if you want to pay for Anma,

7-Eleven, talk to us.

We can update it.

I'll say whatever you want.

I'll say whatever you want for money.

Oh, thank heaven for 7-Eleven.

Is that still their money?

Is that still on there?

Oh, no, no.

It's OG to go.

All right, great.

It's sponsored by the Moody Center.

For all your sporting event needs,

you keep hearing that.

It's the speaker that isn't quite clicking.

Is that what it is?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They're trying to play music and it's just not going to be fun.

I thought maybe it was one of these signs.

No.

no, no.

No, the Dart Bowl is like the only one.

Oh, I guess the Dallas one's on.

But we did it.

We did the sign bar episode.

I've been waiting to come to you.

It was good.

I like this so much.

I knew this would be a spot that would be the right kind of novelty for the show.

The problem is there's no coffee here and there's no food here until later and it doesn't open until four.

Yeah.

So we would have

done it this morning, but we decided to squeeze a flight in.

That way we had something to talk about.

We could talk about that.

And so we pushed that to this evening.

I had to probably flew over this sign bar at some point.

We probably did.

Wow.

So interesting.

Well, it's crazy.

I pointed out to Jeff up there

how hard it is to see other planes sometimes.

Like we were out over Lake Travis.

Like, yeah, there's a plane right in front of us flying straight at us about four miles in front of us.

Oh, my God.

Do you see it?

No.

I never saw it.

I never did either.

They turned.

That's crazy.

That's really fucking crazy.

And then it was like, then it was like, yeah, there's one right on top of us, a thousand feet over us.

And we looked at how far something four miles away was, and it's super visible.

Yeah.

Wild.

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When we have news, we'll give it to you.

You don't have to parse any of the things that we're saying.

We keep seeing that on.

There's no hidden message.

No, no, no.

I keep seeing that on Facebook stuff where somebody was like, yeah, it's hard to kind of like parse what they're getting at when they're making these jokes.

And then it's just like, oh, you don't have to.

I think we're just joking.

I think you're okay.

I think when we have information, I can't wait.

I can't wait to give you the information because that means I have it and I can't wait to get on whatever's next.

I updated my LinkedIn to say open to work.

And someone commented, like, oh, at least Gus has a sense of humor about it.

Like,

I'm getting laid off.

I need a job.

Hey, man, check this out.

Waka Waka.

You know who doesn't have a sense of humor?

My mortgage contract.

Yeah, my financial advisor did not find this funny.

Yeah, he is really

the lighter side of it.

Bank of America has no sense of humor at all.

Guys, come on.

Well, that'll do it for this episode.

If you want to send us a question, you can do it at those places.

Follow us.

We'll give you the information where we have more information soon.

But we're still enjoying ourselves, so we'll just, we'll keep this one going.

I think we have two more, and then we'll be on our off-season.

And then who knows where we're enjoying myself despite this

cup of coffee.

And if you are out there, you like this podcast, and you are a billionaire.

Yeah.

Let us know.

Honestly, if you're a millionaire, I'll lower it.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you're a millionaire, let us know.

Yeah,

we'd love to do this podcast specifically for you.

Yeah, absolutely.

100%.

Absolutely.

I'll fly us there.

Yeah.

Wow.

There you go.

If you have that much money, we'll fly there to you all the time and just go.

Yeah, so

I hate Austin Java, but I don't know why.

So we'll sit there,

right?

I tell you what, if you're a billionaire or a multi-millionaire who funds this podcast, we'll make up a story about why we don't like Austin Java and we will stick to that.

Oh, absolutely.

Yeah.

Whatever you want.

We'll put you in it.

Yeah, I got no problem.

Yeah.

You're the hero or the villain.

Whatever you want.

For money, we'll do whatever you want.

It's fine.

That's how we got this far.

But thanks for listening.

You guys have any no idea how high we can jump.

There you go.

End it on that.

Well, that's a good one.

Bye, guys.