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This is Inma 75.

The last time we were at Violet Crown Cafe and we talked about Average President's Day, which is a thing we should definitely get into in this episode.

What is third wave coffee?

Can you say it now?

Yeah, I guess you can.

It's on your microphone.

You know what I'm going to get?

No, I think it's leaf.

Some leaf on your microphone.

I don't eat leaves.

I don't know about you, Joe.

Leaves is food.

So leaves is food for

bugs.

Bugs.

We came to a coffee shop, and as we were ordering.

Lamp post coffee.

Lamp post coffee, we were told that this is a third-wave coffee shop, and everyone just kind of went, oh, I nodded.

And I thought, oh, okay, maybe I'm just an idiot, and I don't know what that means.

But apparently, none of us know what that means.

I figured Eric knew what everything meant.

No, no, no, no, no.

And again, I'm pretty sure.

My friend roasts for this place, and I'm pretty sure he's told me what it is, and I just go, that's cool, man.

Does anyone want to?

So I looked up.

Please, please.

Everyone got mad at me because I was learning off coffee.

No, no, you learned off camera.

Do y'all want to guess before I tell you what third-wave means?

We've already guessed that members of Real Big Fish work here, like Skaw.

That's all I know.

The trumpet player from Methoscopheles is the roaster.

Third wave coffee is a movement in coffee marketing emphasizing high quality.

Beans are typically sourced from individual farms and are roasted more lightly to bring out the distinctive flavors.

Though the term was coined in 1999, the approach originates in the 1970s with roasters such as Coffee Connection.

So

it's just a good coffee shop.

Yes, yeah, yeah.

It's coffee for people who like drinking coffee.

Hummer's a complicated way of saying we make better coffee than Starbucks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I should have looked.

I don't pay it.

Normally, Eric's our money man.

I don't like that.

You know me.

So I didn't pay attention to how much the coffee was.

So I'm curious.

So this coffee, I got a large coffee for like $3.50.

I think yours was like $4.50 and yours was like $4 or $5.

I mean, a little expensive.

A little bit.

You know what the expensive things were?

Was it the cookies?

How much was the cookie?

It was more.

I think it was $4.

No, look, look.

They're just giant expensive cookies.

Well, here's the thing.

She's like, oh, you're only getting two, but there's three of you.

Someone's going going to be really sad that they didn't get a cookie.

And I'm like, there's no way these two men are going to finish these cookies.

Gus is almost done.

I was wrong.

Listen,

once the recording starts, the food stops for me.

I don't eat on camera anymore.

So these cookies that we got, this is not a cookie review podcast.

Big.

Big.

Lots of chocolate chips.

Sea salt?

Yeah, some salt on it, definitely some yummy sea salt.

They heated them up.

I could have used another 10 seconds.

Yeah, microwaves.

Oh, really?

Unevenly heated.

Dude, speaking of microwaves, I have had a major calamity in my family what does that mean my microwave stopped working well

oh no like the medium kind of works like if you tried to microwave a bag of popcorn yeah for five minutes it would microwave it would pop eight kernels what so it works a little bit do you use the popcorn button yeah the bag i mean like the bag tells you not to i know but anything i i discovered it reheating spaghetti and i'm like i reheated the spaghetti for like eight minutes minutes and it never got warm.

And I'm like, what the fuck?

You put spaghetti in for eight minutes?

I put it in for a minute, and then it didn't heat up.

So I put it in for another minute and a half.

The popcorn didn't pop in five minutes, eight minutes.

Well,

the popcorn was the test.

Because I was like, what is wrong with this fucking spaghetti?

It's non-heatable.

So then Emily was like, let's test popcorn.

And so we tested it with popcorn.

This is the control.

But it heats a little bit, just not enough to heat anything.

Isn't that weird?

Like, when you hear it all or nothing.

Can you hear it cycling on and off?

It sounds like normal.

Really?

Yeah, I don't know.

I'm not just going to chunk it and buy a new one.

But I did buy compressed air.

I am going to blow the back out so I don't have another Xbox.

Yeah, try rebooting it.

There also has to be a better way to say that.

By the way,

I blew out my Xbox.

Oh, God, stop talking.

There wasn't that much dust in there.

Oh, really?

Nothing like what Andrew described.

Yeah.

I don't think it was nearly enough to cause Power Roll to crash.

Great.

Gus, fucking.

Dude, that cookie is toast, bro.

It's in your face.

Oh, my God.

It's in your face.

It is, and it's in my tummy now.

I watched a video on YouTube a couple of weeks ago.

This guy bragging about watching videos.

I had some internet, and it was about the popcorn button on microwaves.

Okay.

It was just an entire video dedicated to why the popcorn button exists and why every bag of popcorn says not to use it.

Okay.

I was like, this is going to be stupid.

I spent, I've watched all the day.

It was like 10 minutes long.

I was like, ooh, now I know what fascinating is.

Fascinating?

Fascinating.

Main honestly,

give us the 30 second, like the 45 second synopsis.

The reason that popcorn bags tell you not to use a popcorn button is lots of lots of microwaves don't have, they just, when you hit the popcorn button, it's just a time, right?

It's just like a preset time.

Nicer microwaves have a humidity sensor in them, so they can actually sense the humidity changes over time and they know when the popcorn's more or less done.

If your microwave has a humidity sensor, it's fine to use a popcorn button.

If you have a cheap microwave that doesn't have a humidity sensor, don't use it because you'll scorch your popcorn.

So just to cover their bases, all popcorn manufacturers say don't use the popcorn button.

Makes sense.

And an easy way to tell if your microwave has a humidity sensor is if it has an option like sensor reheat on it.

It does.

Then it has a humidity sensor and it knows

what your food is doing and how the heat is affecting it.

It does, but it doesn't work anymore.

Oh, unfortunately.

There you go.

Because my microwave doesn't work.

So he knows about this, but he doesn't know about third wave coffee.

I use a microwave every day.

Well, I don't use a microwave.

I see a microwave every day.

I don't see third wave coffee every day.

I'll drink third wave coffee, but only because I'm a fourth wave coffee drinker.

Oh, wow.

You're a coffee.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm a fourth wave drinker.

I'm more of a U-Wave fan.

That's cool.

Yeah.

I don't like the hairstyles as much.

I don't like microwaves.

I don't know if I've ever told you that.

Yeah, I'm not crazy about microwaves either.

You put spaghetti in a microwave.

I just need to reheat some noodles.

I would never do that.

Okay.

I don't think I would reheat spaghetti.

Why?

Cold spaghetti.

Also, spaghetti is the worst one.

You just don't like spaghetti.

That's true, but like pasta in general, I'm not reheating.

Yeah.

Just throw it in for like 45 seconds, reheat it real fast.

It sounds like

it's good.

Well, I mean, I just kept going.

They're like, this is getting, like, this is comically ridiculous.

More.

More.

You should have kept going.

You would have been there an hour.

Well, it's the way it was.

Here was my line of thinking.

So, Emily and I, for Valentine's Day, we went to that little tiny grocery over on

where we went to coffee at First Light Coffee.

Yeah.

The tiny grocery right there.

It's like super fancy.

And we just bought a bunch of ingredients to make a like a romantic meal together.

And we made this pasta, and it was like a kind of pasta we'd never bought before.

And it was, of course, that place is like very fancy.

And solo is like expensive pasta from Italy.

And I was like, maybe it has like non-reheating like properties.

I don't know.

I've never cooked.

I just didn't know.

And I was like, this makes no sense.

But it also makes no sense that my microwave doesn't work when it worked yesterday.

My pasta has DRMs.

Like, can you eat it?

I can only eat it the first time.

And that's it.

I have to pay pay a licensing fee if I want to eat it a second time.

Did you pay a reheating fee?

Did you re-up your spaghetti subscription?

Oh, no.

You can only heat it once.

It's against the license agreement to heat it up a second time.

And once you start something, you can't stop.

It's funny.

Some places can be really, you know, we laugh about it, but some places, and we've been to places like this, can be really protective about their food.

That's true.

Like, you remember, for a long time, ramen tatsuya would not fill to-go orders.

Yeah, because they said that it wouldn't be good by the time you got it home.

So it's like you had to eat the food there.

Yeah, like if you tried to get food to go, they'd be like, no, we're not doing that.

Like, you're going to eat it here because it's just, it's not going to be good by the time you get it home.

There's a place downtown, I can't remember the name of it, I think it's on Fifth Street, that has really good soup dumplings,

but they won't, you can't order them together.

Really?

Like, you can order anything else on the mini-to-go, but they won't ship the soup dumplings.

They're like, that's not going to work.

Interesting.

Yeah.

I mean, so, I mean,

I get it, but like, pasta you just boil at home and stuff like that.

I know that's that's fine.

You're already ruining it.

We're all already ruining it ourselves.

That's true.

Yeah, whenever possible, I just try to avoid using my microwave.

I just use it to reheat stuff.

Like, I cook.

Right.

That's what a microwave is.

Yeah, but like, no, but like, like, if I have a frozen lasagna, it'll say cook it for 11 minutes in the microwave or 15 minutes in the oven.

I'll always cook it in the oven.

But, so I won't ever cook anything in the microwave other than, I guess, popcorn.

I'll just reheat things on occasion.

What's your go-to microwave popcorn brand?

You don't have one?

I don't have one.

Okay.

Yeah, I guess.

I was just trying to think of what's a mic.

I was trying to think of what's a mic.

Probably Orville Redenbacher.

Yeah, whatever's in front of me.

I got into popcorn for a while back in the day.

Remember, we talked about it.

We do the method to cook, and I was using the popcorn from the Amish people down there.

I was buying a special.

But it's just too much work.

It's easier just to microwave a bad.

Tony from the merch team let me borrow his Dune popcorn bucket holder.

I saw it in y'all's office this morning.

It's gross.

I don't like touching it.

Did you put your pee-pee in it yet?

I put my hand in it, and they just wouldn't touch it.

Nah, dude, it was gross.

It feels weird, and I don't like it.

Oh, you should make your popcorn and then put it in there.

He gave me a bag of popcorn.

Oh, yeah.

I don't really care about.

I'm not really, I don't really care about popcorn.

But you care about spaghetti.

I did in the moment.

You care about popcorn in the moment, too, otherwise you wouldn't buy it.

I was just using the popcorn to test the microwave.

I wasn't looking at it.

But you had the popcorn.

Oh, yeah.

I have popcorn in the...

I also have bacon bits in the fridge, but I'm not craving them all the time.

Bacon bits are not a snack.

It's not something you're like, I'm going to go pour them.

Have you ever eaten bacon bits as a snack before?

I'm just shaking them in my mouth like it's fish.

Oh, my God.

You never give yourself a handful of bacon bits?

This guy over here, he's putting bacon bits in the microwave and eating them with a spoon.

Well, yeah, but they're coming out cold.

Bacon bits, you eat cold.

Well, if I can shift gears a little bit from spaghetti arguments,

should we talk about a long time ago in Austin?

I was going to talk about the President's Day thing first,

and then we can talk about this area.

So we posited new President's Day should be

the average mean or whatever of all the president's birthdays.

And then so people started doing it.

We had found out that somebody had done it previous to, I think, Biden being elected.

Yeah.

And it was like July 4th.

It was July 4th.

That's what I saw on London.

Which is very cool.

Now, here's the problem.

If you go to our R slash Anima podcast, which is a subreddit we don't run, people have done this as well.

I love it.

And it has been post after post, and almost none of them agree on the date.

This is the best.

I don't.

I don't.

Here's a post from Cockbite Millionaire.

Great name.

The average president's day is July 7th or June 21st.

I love what controversy there is.

People are showing their work.

People are like reviewing it.

I do.

And then it's annual priority.

It says

they calculated the weights of each birthday, taking into account length of term, percent of term, number of term, created a Google sheet with all this stuff.

I do find it interesting that unweighted dates are trending toward July 4th.

What

trending toward July 4th?

Yeah, they're moving towards it.

In general.

Due to Biden's length in office, they are trending.

All of our forecasts predict a July 4th presence today.

I wonder if any president has ever been, if their birthday has been the 4th of July.

Oh, that's pretty cool.

Has there ever been a president with

born on the farm?

That wouldn't affect our president today.

Yeah, I like all the different methodologies that people had for this.

I'm not picking a favorite or anything.

Yeah.

I just appreciate that people are putting work into it and showing it.

I think somebody had said, well, there's too many arguments here.

I think we should just move it to the day after the Super Bowl.

Realistically,

yeah, yeah.

I am impressed with the and maniacs out there that

are going out of their way to do

math?

Yeah, but honestly, if you listen to this podcast, that's probably your hobby anyway.

You're probably a math guy.

My people.

Yeah.

Our people.

All right.

What did you find out?

I'm just looking at the most famous July 4th birthdays.

Uncle Sam.

Sam the Eagle.

A lot of people I don't know.

One number two.

Sort of a 1A1B situation.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Post-Malone.

Uh-huh.

More of a pre-Malone guy.

YouTube star McCreamy.

That's fake.

That's not real.

Anyone else?

No, no, no, no, I don't know.

Creamy.

That's an AI person.

A lot of people I've never heard of.

No.

Like McCreamy?

Like

Louis Calibre.

Not a lot of people born on the 4th of July, huh?

Or they just don't want to claim it.

Ah, Calvin Coolidge.

Really?

Yeah, there you go.

We had a president born on the 4th of July.

Oh, the situation.

Just like you, get.

Yeah, nice.

Oh, that's fine.

Mike Sorrentino.

Tom Cruise in that movie.

Yeah, Tom Cruise in that movie.

Yeah.

I don't remember what it is.

Days of all.

Jays of Thunder.

Man, it's amazing how many people are YouTube stars.

Well, it's a very loose term.

Yeah, I mean,

I don't want to burst your bubble here, bud.

I don't consider it.

I don't think it's.

Hey,

I don't think it's up to you.

You don't get to choose that.

Kid Trunks, the rapper.

If we got into a head-on collision on the way back to the office right now, the news tonight would say YouTube stars.

Two YouTube stars and young attractive friends.

I would like it to say local businessmen.

Oh, yeah, okay.

Yeah, that sounds way better.

Three dip shits.

Local coffee fans.

So

that's our President's Day.

That is our weighted President's Day.

I think

July 7th is what it seems like, but it's trending towards July 4th.

Which is nice.

So get out and vote.

If you want President Day on a certain day, get out and vote.

Does that mean Calvin Coolidge is the most presidential president of all time?

Yeah, and if we do President's Day on July 4th, it's celebrating his birthday.

Yeah.

It just means he's the most average president.

That's true.

That's true.

Not the most.

Yeah, but isn't that what you want?

Like the most, like the mean?

After the past few years, yeah, I just want the average.

I want a president

I don't hear about and I don't think about every day.

Can we do that?

Can we go back to politics being so fucking boring?

I don't know when that was, but yeah, let's do it.

Oh, my God.

My first presidential election, I had to vote for John Kerry.

That really sort of threw a wrench in my...

Yeah.

That was me wanting to like, guys, I'm going to participate in the process.

Yeah, this is going to be great.

Our democracy.

All right.

John Kerry.

My first was Clinton.

Oh.

It's a long time ago.

It could have been a recent one, too.

I remember you, I think the first time.

Hey, there's an election going on right now.

Today's the first day of early voting

here in Austin, here in Towns County.

You got to go do that.

Got to go vote later.

Go vote.

We voted, Jeff and I voted together in the 2000 presidential election.

Did we?

We went over to the ACC campus on Grove over there off of Riverside.

I know that.

There was a long line, and you and I got in line for the 2000 presidential election.

I don't remember that.

I remember that.

Oh, that's lovely.

So, yeah, we met in 99 and voted together for the first time in 2000.

That's awesome.

I think

that might have also been the same election where the

bond proposal for light rail in Austin failed.

I think you're right.

And I think we voted on both of those issues

at that ACC campus on Grove.

That's awesome.

And then Bush won, and you guys were stoked?

I remember Bush won, and then we went to Australia, and everybody was like,

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Yeah.

Who's you?

Me?

No.

And we're like, we didn't vote for him.

And they're like, oh, what?

Yeah.

You're from Texas.

I remember

we went in

like somewhere, it was like August 2004.

So like the election hadn't happened yet.

It was like it was coming up soon.

Yeah.

And every person we met would keep asking like, so who do you think is going to win the American presidential election?

And you and I were like, yeah, Bush.

They're like, what?

Are you sure?

You think so?

I don't think so.

All the Australians are like, no, I don't think so.

Like, yeah, it's a lock.

There's no way it's going any other way.

They're like, no, no, it's not.

Like, all right, I don't know.

I don't know what version of the news you're getting down here, but I guarantee you it's a done deal.

deal.

Yeah.

Yeah, so I got to go vote.

Early election.

I vote all the time in every election here in Austin, and I think that it's a rare thing for someone to go, because there's a lot of really minor elections that people just skip.

So as a result of that, anytime there's an election, I get a crazy number of people knocking on my door

with political campaigning about candidates or about whatever bond initiative is on the ballot, just because I think that they probably keep track of who's voting and who's not.

It's like, I'll see them on my security camera come up the street, skip all my neighbors' houses and make a beeline straight from my house, knock on my door, be like, motherfucker.

Shit him!

It's always like me and my immediate next-door neighbor.

They'll always come to our two houses and then

you guys go vote together, right?

Yeah, we hold hands.

He's the new Jeff.

This motherfucker.

He doesn't ask me to vote anymore.

I thought about suggesting it for this episode today, but I thought that would end up being really boring and potentially illegal.

Uh, yeah, I don't think it would be legal, but what if we did it?

Could we do it next week?

Could we get a cup of coffee, go to a place to early vote, and then record?

I don't know.

I think the early voting, I'll have to look.

It might only be this week.

It's only a week of early voting?

Hey, you know, for a lot of shockingly, they don't make it easy.

Yeah, interesting.

Um,

anyway, we're uh up way off of 183, uh,

like almost to Cedar Park, like halfway to Cedar Park, I would say.

Yeah.

183 and Anderson Mill.

And I don't know,

whenever I'm up in this area, there's a couple of things I always think about.

I think about how the first Krispy Kreme that opened up in Austin is just kind of down the road from here.

And when that place fucking opened, there was always a line.

Like the line would come out from the parking lot down onto the access road.

And it was like that 24 fucking hours a day.

Moving to Austin was kind of surreal because shit that I seriously took for granted growing up, Krispy Kreme and Waffle House, where there was a fucking Waffle House at every interstate exit in Alabama.

And there's a Krispy Kreme, the Krispy Kremes are like fucking Dunkin' Donuts up in Boston.

They're everywhere in the South.

And when both of those things opened in Texas, it was like the president came to this.

It was fucking crazy.

The fans,

probably a year, Krispy Kreme had a line.

Yeah, it was

open.

Insane.

I think there's another location down south, like like out on Stasney.

But this was the only one for a long time.

And weirdly enough, I think maybe the only Dunkin Donuts in town is also right up here, like pretty close to the Krispy Kreme.

It's like Donut Alley, Chain Donut Alley up here.

But I always think of that Krispy Kreme because sometimes when we would get off work

late at night from the call center and people didn't want to go to sleep and we were young, we would come up here and wait in line for a fucking dumbass donut.

Till Stasney opened up, then it was way better.

Way better.

And then the other thing I think about coming all the way up here is not too far down from that Krispy Kreme.

It's not there anymore, but there used to be a Kirby lane over there.

And that was the first Kirby Lane I ate at.

Really?

Yeah.

You remember when there used to be one up here?

No.

I think it became a Mexican restaurant, and I think it's closed now.

I think it's just like an empty building, but there used to be a Kirby up here, and that was the first Kirby I ever ate at.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I think it's like people from the call center probably wanted to eat at one, and for some reason we came up here.

And I didn't know there were others that were way closer and way more convenient until after that.

I was like, I don't know why the fuck we came all the way out here.

I bet one of those assholes probably lived out here.

I made everyone drive

all the way fucking up here to go to Kirby Lane.

God, when I bought my first house, I was looking at two homes.

I was looking at the place that I lived at that was kind of close to the call center in South Austin, and then a house up in Cedar Park.

And the house up in Cedar Park was so much nicer, but I was like, it would literally be like an hour commute every day.

And

I just don't know.

I just don't know what it would do to my, this is what really killed me.

It was like, I just don't know what it would do to my friendships.

Like, I wouldn't be able to hang out with people i'd have like and so i ultimately didn't buy that house bought the south house i i wonder every once in a while like how differently my life would have been if i'd moved to cedar park in 1999 instead of south austin it's uh it definitely would have affected things like all the things i talk about like going to krispy cream or kirby or something we talk about going bowling like a lot of that stuff when you're young especially is like very yeah impromptu in the moment especially back then pre like real self widespread cell phone outup like we were

we were already good friends and stuff like we were already a little bit in love you and i but like would we have hung out as much?

And if we did we probably wouldn't have formed as strong of a bond.

Like maybe we would have started Rooster Teeth.

Maybe we wouldn't have.

Yeah, we would have to have a bad thing.

Maybe I would have got sick of the drive and quit and got a job up there.

Who knows, you know?

You're talking about that, you know, hour-long commute.

Every now and then I see on Reddit, people will ask, like,

what's something that non-Americans think that Americans are good at?

Or what's something that non-Americans are amazed that Americans do?

And invariably, the number one answer is usually long-distance driving.

Yeah.

Oh, interesting.

And they talk about, like we're talking about there.

Like, people are always amazed.

Like, someone will say, like, yeah, I have an hour commute each way.

Not a big deal.

I mean, it's not too bad.

Yeah.

And it's like something I think that we have such an ingrained car culture here that we kind of take for granted.

Then some of the other things are always,

I'm always surprised by some of the other things that people say when

these topics come up.

Another one is the ability to make small talk.

I guess that's a very uniquely American thing.

Which is weird because

they think it's weird that we drive our own cars for an hour, but Europeans will sit on a train to go anywhere for an hour, which is where small talk originates.

When you're sitting next to a stranger in a public space for a long period of time, you don't want to bother and don't want to be bothered.

You bust out a book and go into your own world.

Yeah, I guess, but I don't know.

It just feels like that's how

small talk is cultivated.

Small talk, too.

Small talk.

Then two of the other ones that I always find fascinating are,

they're normally up there.

They're not like top of the list, is the ability to shuffle a deck of cards.

What?

I guess most other places they just like spread them all out and like mix them around on the table

instead of like chucking up.

Yeah.

What an insanely inefficient way to.

It's how they do it in Vegas, though.

Right, where there's money on the line.

That's just learning how to shuffle.

And dude, shuffling's fun.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I feel like everyone I know learned how to do it.

I felt like a dum-dum when I was young because I couldn't do it.

Like I had to practice it.

There are a few things you

you grew up knowing you need to learn.

You got to whistle.

You got to tie your shoes.

You got to be able to flip somebody off properly.

Yeah.

You got to be able to do cool whistles.

You got to shuffle a deck of cards.

You got to shuffle a deck of cards.

And

snap your fingers.

Some of the other things,

it was...

Know how to do one of those combination locks, like the rotate kind, like the not the no.

They don't do that?

No, I guess that's like an American thing.

Yes, invariably I see people who say like they have a European spouse and when they first encounter a lock like that, they just look at it befuddled, not knowing what to do with it.

I mean, I get it.

You had to learn it at some point, but I don't know why other places wouldn't have

they have like the cylinder kind where you just like put the number in as opposed to like right, left, right.

Yeah, but how are you going to feel like you're robbing a bank

when you're trying to get your gym clothes out of the out of the locker?

That's another thing, they don't rob banks over there.

Oh, it's tough.

It's all electronic.

I saw one of those threads recently, and it was similar.

It's like, what do they have in America that you don't have in Europe that you're surprised about?

And I was not expecting the number one response to be food poisoning.

They don't have food poisoning in Europe.

We have it here.

They're like, I got it the other day.

People are like,

I want to say something like,

they get it like 5% as much as we get it here.

Like an insanely different amount.

We're going to have a picture here.

Turn around and say cheese.

I used to watch you guys all the time.

Listen to Anma.

Yeah, so.

It's called ANMA, A-M-M-A.

A-M-M-A.

A-M-M-A.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Easy to remember.

Best name ever.

All right.

All right.

Sounds good.

See ya.

No problem.

We're making friends in the drive-thru.

Do the ANMA podcast.

Do the AMMA challenge.

Tell a random stranger to listen to Anma.

I'm sorry.

Sorry, no.

The last thing was throw a ball.

People can't throw balls?

I think

everyone's always amazed that any American can just pick up a baseball or a a football and throw it.

Yeah.

Because I guess maybe

we have a lot more emphasis on sports here.

Everyone grows up throwing balls.

No, they kick.

I couldn't kick a ball like that.

What are things that

you can do that you feel like everybody should be able to do that you're surprised people can't do?

Troubleshoot your computer.

Yeah.

Yeah,

that's really good.

That's really.

Yeah.

I was thinking physical.

That's a great one.

I was talking skateboarding.

Like, I always get surprised when people pick up, like, stand on a skateboard and don't know how to skate.

Like, just not do Ollies or fucking kickflips, but just skate for it.

I tried a few times when I was a kid, and I kept falling.

It was like the thing where it's like, I don't want to do this.

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And I'm sorry, I derailed your earlier point.

To go back to your point about food poisoning, I know when we go to Australia, like if you want to go to, tying back into something we talked about earlier, if you go to a restaurant and you want to get takeout food, a restaurant has to be specifically licensed

for takeout orders.

Yeah, like some restaurants do not have that license, so you cannot get to go or take away.

Like they have to have a specific license showing that they can ensure that the food is safe for you to take home.

So it's a lot more stuff like that.

They're a lot more careful about the food.

So I think that's why food poisoning isn't as prevalent on top of the stupid way we handle our food from beginning to end.

Yeah.

They definitely have this beat on that one.

That's weird.

It feels like America is such a regulated

country.

Nationalized healthcare.

Interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah, they want

that lots of times people are like, what is that?

It's nationalized healthcare.

That's the answer for lots of things.

It's fine.

Also, regulations are constantly being, I mean,

it depends on the whims of the political party in power, right?

That's true.

Like somebody will come in and deregulate an entire industry, and then we end up 18 to 36 months later with trains crashing and spilling poisonous chemicals everywhere.

You end up with fucking Tyson food factories, or maybe not Tyson, but you end up with chicken plants sending salmonella everywhere, and then the next political party will come in and re-regulate it, and shit gets fixed, and then people will complain about over-regulation, and then it just goes, it just flip-flops constantly.

My entire life, that's all it does.

It just flip-flops.

And the people that suffer are all the people that are using these products.

Yeah.

What are you looking at?

That are over or under-regulated.

Did you do something to my coffee?

No, no, no.

Let's look at the recorder.

The screen's not on.

Oh, it's on.

It's dark.

I thought you did something.

Gus started leaning over for 20 seconds.

Good morning, Gus.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I thought you did something to my coffee.

When we sat here, Jeff picked up a bug, a dead bug by its leg, and had to move it.

It was sitting here.

Huh?

The bug?

The bug.

It was dead.

Yeah.

Oh, it's gone.

Anderson Mill, like this area.

We're very, very far north for what we typically do.

It took us 20 minutes to get here from the office.

It's a ways away.

And 20 minutes in Austin's.

a far drive for a state where everyone drives three and a half hours on a whim.

Or you're crossing downtown.

Yes.

It's a far drive for coffee because there's coffee shops everywhere.

Yeah.

But this sort of like area, do you guys ever come up here now?

There's an H mark a little further up the road that I go to.

Aside from that, I don't know if you're...

Are you talking about Korean Fiesta?

Yes, I am.

Inside joke.

Aside from that, that, I don't know if I'm up here very often.

What about you?

You were naming off some stuff on the way up here.

I feel like I'm up here all the time.

Why is that?

Well, first off, we're like an exit away from the card shop I go to, Card Traders of Austin, which is like a home away from home for me.

I love those dudes.

Further down.

Yeah, it's kind of over where the Big Lots is.

It's like the next one down.

So I go there all the time.

But I also live kind of like north.

north of where I used to live.

So I could go south or I could go north.

And south into like toward downtown is so crowded now that it's just easier to do all my shopping up here so I go to my targets my academies my Michaels and you know all that shit the bookstore I go to is up here so I just do most of my shopping up 183 just because it's less crowded it like I go to this Trader Joe's all I was just here yesterday at Trader Joe's yeah

this this area up here like I feel like this is where especially this used to be the case years ago more or so where you start to see

more of a typical suburban layout to happen.

Like, even the fact that we're in this shopping center next to that other shopping center, that like this could be anywhere.

Yeah.

It could be anywhere in America, right?

And you look at the businesses on the signs, you know, it's super generic.

Like, I'm looking at the sign over your shoulder here, Jeff.

Yeah.

And it's best tire center, someplace that just, their sign says donuts and kolachis.

Yeah.

Well, that'll narrow it down a little bit, but yeah.

Like gallery and nails, impact martial arts.

That bingo.

We can't see it because of the tree.

Maybe you can see it, Jeff, but that sushi place over there has like the most generic sign in front of the restaurant that says like sushi bar and grill.

It's like white background with like black font on top of it.

It's like going to the grocery store and finding fish that just says sushi.

We could be in Texas or Missouri right now, and there'd be no way you could tell.

Yeah.

The Kolachis might be a tell.

That's kind of how I feel about this part of town.

Like I don't come up here because it's charming.

You know, I come up here just because it's convenient and it's less crowded.

And it's still very fucking crowded up here.

I don't know.

It's fine.

We were driving up here, and as we kind of turned around, I was just looking it up.

There's a place over here called Moonies Burger House.

That looks good.

It's right over here.

Like the cult?

What?

The cult, Moonies.

The Moonies?

Yeah.

Is that a cult?

Yeah,

they still are.

They're still around.

Here?

Everywhere.

I don't know about the Moonies.

They were big.

I think...

They're still around.

I think the original founder died, and I think one of his sons worships a gold AK-47 now.

I could be wrong about that.

I think that's cool.

But this place looks decent.

This looks like a little burger.

Yeah.

This looks like a good little burger store.

I mean, they have the exact same restaurants as South Austin or Central Austin.

It really is

kind of the same.

Oh, except for they have a Mooney's up here and we don't.

There's also a place, Emily and I were driving around up northeast the other day, and we saw

a frozen custard standard.

Andy's?

Is it Andy's?

I saw that yesterday, too.

Dude, that looked awesome.

I know about Andy's, yeah.

I've never been.

I drive by it a lot.

Blaine goes there.

Really?

Yeah,

he's told me about it a couple of times.

There's a hamburger place over there that's really good, too, called

Sammy's, maybe?

Uh-huh.

It's right over where you pick up your dead dogs when you get them cremated.

Oh, my God.

It's right over there.

It's not too far from there.

I know, because that's all my dead dogs that we pick up there.

I was going to burger.

Buddies, buddies, yeah.

Oh, buddies.

Yeah, I've driven by there.

That's over by the way.

That place is good as shit, too.

That's where I do

pro wrestling.

Yeah, it's like right behind, like, but it's right behind buddies.

Well, what a bummer.

Don't think about a live dog.

The only time I've ever been to that part of town was to get two dead dogs, and since the only time I ever seen them.

I'm begging you.

I get an alive dog now.

It's fine.

He's super breathing and everything.

Yeah.

Some of us know the name.

The arboretum's all right.

Yeah.

I like the arboretum.

I think it's fine.

There's actually a park there, like a little nature trail and a little like man-made pond down there at the bottom.

That's actually kind of lovely.

Like back behind Amy's?

Yeah, like in the back behind Amy's.

You go down.

And I think a lot of people low-key don't know about.

But it's kind of like a little nature area that's really nice.

That used to be like kind of the fancy mall in Austin.

Yes, it did.

The Arcadium.

Yeah.

It was that.

The late 80s, early 90s?

Wow.

Yeah, it was like that was like the high-end, fancy place.

Because your options back then would have been Highland Mall, Lakeland Mall, which we're kind of close to.

Barton Creek Mall.

That was it.

Northcross Mall.

But yeah.

But North Cross Mall was always dog shit.

Yeah, it was not great.

Highland Mall was never great.

It was okay.

They had a Dillard's.

Lake Line and Barton Creek were good, but they were both far away.

Lake Lynne was so far away.

That was for Cedar Park people.

But yeah, the Arboretum was like that nice outdoor shopping area.

You like walk around and it's fancy.

I don't know.

There's really not much there anymore.

I mean,

it's still filled.

There's nothing for me, I guess, actually.

They had like a pottery barn when it was a big deal.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

That kind of narrows down the time, I think.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't, yeah, there's a Barnes and Noble.

The Barnes and Noble was huge there.

The Barnes and Noble there is fucking awesome.

Yeah.

It's like walking back in time.

We actually, if we haven't done it yet, we should get coffee there because they have a coffee shop.

The Barnes and Noble?

Yeah, that's where Barnes Noble has a coffee shop.

That's where I used to buy my coffees at $2,600 in cash.

And that Barnes and Noble right there.

What?

They would sell $2,600

at that Barnes ⁇ Noble.

I would go there and buy it.

We could do that.

We could do coffee there.

It's like a two-story Barnes and Noble that has like like a record store upstairs and it has like it's gory.

If you've never been there, it's beautiful.

It's a really like you'll go in there and you'll go like, holy shit.

I have been there.

You are right.

Yes.

I know exactly what you're talking about.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's a big-ass cheesecake factory.

There's a five-year guy.

The Cheesecake Factory used to be a theater.

There's the Boba shop where there's all these boba shops.

I like that.

It's right there.

Yeah, that used to be the

Regal Arbor.

Yeah.

And then the Regal Arbor moved across the street and then it closed down.

It was the Arbor so big.

It's so big.

That Cheesecake Factory is huge.

We had that for face jam and it was like

I saw Princess Mononoke at that cheesecake factory.

I saw Lost Highway at that Cheesecake Factory.

That Cheesecake Factory had an elevator.

Why is that Barnes and Noble so nice?

I think it's just always been nice.

It's like a flagship.

Well, I think it's a holdover from when that was the nice shopping area.

It's fucking gorgeous.

They just built it out and it's...

It's just maintained.

And it's got like every board game you could want to buy and like all kinds of tchotchkis.

Like it's a great place to go to buy gifts.

Like if you're like, oh fuck, I got to go to a birthday party and I didn't get anything.

That makes me think it's funny.

Nowadays, I think there was a period in time where

everyone was convinced Amazon was going to kill all bookstores and they wouldn't survive.

And Amazon has morphed into so much more.

I remember back.

Amazon does not give a fuck about books.

Yeah.

I remember there was a period of time back in the late 90s when we were still working at the call center.

and Amazon went public and there was always like the running joke like, if you want to throw your money away, invest in Amazon.

like they're not gonna make it they're not gonna last like the stock's always going down it's like man what

what I would give to go back to 1999 and eat those fucking words and put them in Amazon instead I know I know

man what a fucking what a fucking trajectory that company is and what a pivot from just being like the online bookstore I remember thinking it was stupid me like oh okay I kind of get it and then they sell more and now it's just like everything the internet it runs on Amazon it's the first place I think of when I want to buy something yeah no

Even if I buy it locally, I look at it up on Amazon first.

And I mean, even then, that's only part of their business on top of all the cloud infrastructure stuff they do.

Like, if you look at Microsoft and the reason that it's become so huge under Satcha Nadella, is like really for them, the pivot to Azure and cloud infrastructure stuff to really compete with Amazon.

It's AWS or Microsoft, number one and number two in that business, and Microsoft is fucking huge now.

One of the biggest companies in the world, all because of that, on top of all the other stuff that they do, it's just wild to me that that's like, that industry blew up to that extent.

And that's why nobody can fix their own computer anymore.

It's true.

It's true.

Including me.

It's all the cloud's computer.

Yeah.

I think about that when I'm updating the Anarchy Me Anything website, it's like, man, this would be so much easier if it was on AWS.

It's like, man, this is a real pain in the ass.

And you can go to that website, anarchymeanything.com, and you can sign the guest book.

I do want to point out, most people, not most, there are people who are like, like, whiter than rice.

I tried to sign the guest book, but the capture didn't work, and they, guest books, blocked my IP.

Guess what?

The captcha's working.

You're a robot.

Yeah.

I don't know if you know this.

This is how you find out.

You're a robot.

Yeah.

When you look at it and you go, well, I can't figure this out.

You're a robot.

Right.

It was designed to stop you.

It's been a handful of people who are like, I got blocked by this thing because I couldn't do this, whatever.

You're a robot.

You're the thing that you're going to be able to do.

Go back and remember your childhood and then think really hard.

Are they your memories?

Unplug at night and then roll your eyes back into your head, see the ones and zeros, and then realize your memories are not your own.

I will say the guest book, when I was migrating all of our old comments over to the new system, the guest book did block me a few times just because I was making like 50 or 60 comments and they would be like, all right, you're spamming.

And there was no way for me to unblock myself.

So I'd have to connect to a VPN to change my IP.

Oh, wait, I'm telling people how to hack.

Don't do that.

And then they would let me keep going again.

So I had to change my IP like three or four times to bring all of the old

comments over.

Oh, my God.

It's a Libra of Love.

Oh, my God.

If you can't beat the CAPTCHA,

next time you're home at Thanksgiving or Christmas visiting your parents, just casually, when you're in the kitchen with your mom, throw out, when was my last firmware update?

And see what she says and see if you can trip her up.

And be like 0110010101.

Yeah.

And if she goes, I think November.

What?

Honey?

You're a human.

Give me birthday?

That bug just flew away.

See, I told you it wasn't dead.

No, the one I picked up was definitely dead.

It was plain possum.

It thought it would give it a try.

Well, it wasn't getting far without the legs that came off when I picked it up.

Dude, I was just saying, Plain Possum.

Have you seen possums use their tails to pick up leaves?

No.

I never thought about a possum having a prehensile tail in the way that it would grab things other than a tree branch.

I'd be like cartoons.

You see him hanging from a tree or something?

Right, when he has his overalls on, but only half, and then he's hanging upside down from a tree, picking on a banjo.

No, this is a possum walking around.

I guess they pick up like leaves, and they try to like they move them around, they make little burrow things, whatever.

And it looked fucked up.

I didn't like it.

I didn't like it.

Sounds cool.

Yeah, it was gross.

I didn't like it.

I like possums, but that's.

You mentioned if you had a third hand.

I think about that a lot.

I think about if I had a prehensile tail, I would get so much more done in a day.

It would rock.

So that's what you would pick?

Because I asked this question on one of the other podcasts recently.

If you could have one extra appendage or one extra body part, what would you pick?

Everybody was like, wiener yeah i mean like an extra wiener but who wants two wiener

wow that's stupid is like so like third third hand is cool like third arm whatever make sure it's in practical it'll be a mess prehand style tail is the way to go because it can be up above your jeans and everything and then if it is by sort of the rules of nature it would be strong enough to hold me so i could just be hanging around the house yeah or i could be laying back in my special chair because I need to cut out.

And then I could hold my phone.

With your tail.

Uh-huh.

And then I could.

It's like your tail goes out the back of the chair, it comes around to the side, and it holds you know what the real pro move is?

Your prehensile tail can move your mouse on your computer.

That's you know what's going to happen with your hands from the keyboard.

When you're laying back in your lazy boy and you've got your tail holding your phone up to your face, and you fucking fall asleep, and your tail drops it, and you drop your phone right in your fucking forehead, and you break your nose.

And then you go, oh, oh, tail.

I think that's probably the move, I think, is having prehensile tail.

But here's the thing: if I don't get to choose what it looks like, that's tough.

I might get stuck with a possum tail.

That's nothing wrong with a possum tail.

Looks gross compared to a monkey tail.

It's the same thing.

Monkey tail just has fur on it.

But I'm an aesthetics guy, Gus.

And I need to put a tail suit.

Yeah, put a sock on it.

Yeah, put a tail sock on it.

Get a thigh-high sock and put it on your...

Make your tail look real nice and sexy.

fishnets

leave a little bit to the imagination do you think that your tail would be long enough that you can wear it like a scarf like it's your tail you're making it I'm just saying I don't know I think it would be pretty cool that's pretty cool uh oh we should talk about the coffee your tail could pick your nose for you it could yeah you could

eat with it yeah

oh but it'd be great for the ear because it's probably the tip is smaller than a finger

think about all the times you screw you have a fucking itch on your back yeah and there's nobody around and you're like oh fuck your tail could take care of that.

You know how constantly.

You know how I know I'm getting old?

Uh-huh.

My hands get really dry in winter now.

I don't know if you have this problem.

I have to put like lotion on my hands.

No, I don't know the problem.

I don't know if it's like less humidity.

That kind of problem.

And

washing my hands so much, it's like, man, my hands get dry.

I have to put lotion on them.

It's a real pain.

You gotta hate it.

You gotta start moisturizing, bud.

That's what I'm saying.

I'm doing it.

I'm doing like on your face and stuff, too.

It's not, it's time.

No, no, it's just my hands.

I've started making my bad.

We did a, I got free like face cream from an ad read I did.

I don't remember which one it was, but I've been using it.

I've been using it.

It worked like a motherfucker.

I've been using it every day.

They're not paying for this podcast.

That's true.

Yeah.

Say it on your other one.

Pay for this podcast.

Was it this podcast?

I don't know.

I think it was all right.

Oh, okay.

Anyway, I use it every day.

It's great.

I think I agreed to do those reads, and they haven't given me any.

Sorry.

Yeah, you should be moisturizing.

I don't know what to tell you.

Speaking of you should be moisturizing, there is, I don't remember what it's called, and I can't see it from here, but there's like a there's a place over here.

It's called like Tool Impact, a manly salon or something.

Oh, it's gear, fix-up, gear up, tune up, tune up, oh, yeah, a manly salon.

I thought it looks like an auto parts store, but it's for getting pedicures if you're a nude.

Man, how

you got a lot going on, if that's, yeah, I don't know what to tell you.

Uh, let's talk about lamppost.

We're getting on towards time.

Uh, there's also like sorry, sorry, he's

going for it.

Total men's care, like a doctor for men, finally, you know, it's like, what do you want?

doctor

I don't understand that whole marketing idea is everything for men always right I think every time we drive by one I point at it and I tell my wife finally

that's for me

it's about time dudes got some ideas

so ridiculous lamppost is the place we came to we're up north we're on the patio

I got the coffee Gus got the Americano Americano I'm pretty cold bro

what did you guys think of lamppost

You go first.

I always go first.

Seven and a half.

Yeah.

That's okay.

Yeah, free cold brew.

Yeah.

Americana?

I think I'll give it about a seven.

Yeah.

Right around there.

I'd say this is like an eight and a half.

I really like this cup of black coffee.

It

has a lot of nice flavor.

It does a really good job of being a big, tall cup of coffee.

Yeah.

And at no point am I going, oh, too bitter.

Oh, too sour.

I got a little bitterness on mine.

That's why I'm going with a seven.

Mine was a little bit better, too.

Interesting.

But it's like, I won't travel to go here, but I come up here twice a week, probably to go to the card shop.

So I'll stop by and pick up a coffee lamp on the camera.

If this was around me, I'd go.

Yeah, for sure.

What's great is they have a drive-thru.

So that's really convenient if you're up here.

Yeah, let me help.

If you're not going to hang out, because

I mean, we're sitting at the patio and I'm staring at 183.

It's not like the most, and we're in the parking lot of a shop channel.

It's not the most beautiful place to go, but

it's cute inside.

Yeah.

And they're real nice.

They're real friendly inside.

The drive-thru is a big plus, too, because most of the time when I go to Starbucks, it's only because there's a drive-through, you know?

It's just convenience.

Man, they're building a Starbucks over there by that hot pot place.

That's going to be a nightmare.

Over at airport?

Yeah.

By Supleaf?

Yeah.

Where?

You know where that Mexican restaurant used to be in the parking lot?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, no, wait, is it there?

Yeah, it's right over there.

That should be a Starbucks.

That parking lot's already a nightmare.

I can't imagine how much horse it's going to be.

It is impossible to park there.

You got to park behind the...

You got to park behind it.

I said that a couple weeks ago.

You're like, no, it's not that bad.

I always park easy.

It's still hard to park there, but you got you can do it fantastic i've been you were there eric you know that i'm being gaslighted i know i know i've been to super leaf since then and it was a fucking nightmare

it's terrible may have changed my opinion a little bit yeah it's uh it's it's tough to park over there um i would say lamppost if you're in this anderson mill area i think they have other locations that they have oh yeah i think i saw it on their website yeah yeah they have like a few other locations um Again, my friend roasts, Robbie roasts for this place for nearby coffee, and Lamppost has their coffee here.

I really recommend it.

We got one in Round Rock, Hodo, Georgetown, Fenmarcos.

Okay, there you go.

I was going to say, I figured there were other locations.

There are.

There are all other.

Because I feel like it's one of those t-shirts I see a lot of dudes with beards and tattoos wearing around town.

Yeah,

it's just more up north than anything.

So if you're around one, drop in.

I should have got the, I want to get the pour over, not today, because this is already my second cup of coffee.

I'm going to have a third.

So I'll like fly.

It's good.

I think it's a fine cup of coffee, especially if you're up here at Mooney's and then you need something right afterward.

Get a a cup of coffee.

Or if you're at the card shop.

Or if you're at the card shop.

Hey, how about an anarchy question?

Hang on.

Where'd it go?

Here we go.

If you are at the card shop, pick up some penny sleeves for me, by the way.

Some penny?

What's a penny?

Penny sleeve?

Put your pennies in it.

Yeah.

Just like the little sleeves you put cards in.

Little soft ones, plastic sleeves.

They're called penny sleeves.

Why are they called penny sleeves?

Because they cost a penny each.

Oh.

Oh.

I don't know.

Don't.

I'm glad I asked that question.

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This is from Paradox Psyhosis.

Don, it's a weird name.

I was re-listening to an old RT podcast episode where Gus talked about when he was young, he had some sort of psychic ability.

Oh, yeah.

He specifically mentioned a story where he's hanging out with friends and correctly predicted 15 players in a pack of baseball cards before opening the pack.

My question is, are there any other psychic stories?

Did we have Frank talk about that?

Frank was there when that happened.

If not,

we should have him back and talk about it.

He was there.

He saw me do that.

How did you do that?

We were out of town and we were at an academic competition or something.

Yeah.

And a friend of mine, like, we were staying at a hotel and there was a convenience store in the parking lot.

And a friend of mine wanted to agree to pay for him.

So he wanted to call his family and check in or something.

So we all walked in the parking lot over to the convenience store.

Yeah.

And it's back when I used to collect baseball cards.

You know, we've seen the cards that we do.

I bring to the breakshow sometimes.

So I walked in the convenience store with Frank and bought a pack of baseball cards and took it out while we were waiting for my friend on the phone.

And I just had like a feeling and I was like, hey, Frank, check this out.

And I said a name, opened up the pack, and it was like the first card.

Then I said like the next name, and then moved the card, and it was the next one, and went through the whole pack of cards.

And I said, every single player in that pack of cards as I was opening it.

There were

one time when I was really small, I was in third grade, I remember,

my other friend, Ruben,

we were like in the playground at school, and it was getting close to time to go back in, like the bell was going to ring soon.

And I remember I was like, David Zapata's going to push Ruben down.

I was like, I've seen it happen over there in the gravel.

And I told Ruben, hey, when the bell rings, you're going to want to run back to the school.

I said, don't run, because you're going to run over there.

And David, and I pointed out David, it was like, David's going to push you right there, and you're going to fall down and you scrape both your knees.

And the bell rang, Ruben didn't listen.

He started running.

And David Zapata ran up to him and pushed him down, and he scraped both knees, just like I said it would.

Like, it was always, it was always little weird things like that.

What the fuck?

What is this?

Yeah, it was super weird.

That's why

I'm always skeptical of people who claim to be psychics and whatever.

It's like, but man, I've had some really freaky things happen when I was young.

Like, I don't know.

I don't know.

There is something out there, but I can't,

I don't believe other people.

I don't know if I have any story quite like that, but I can tell you, I knew you were going to ask that question.

That's cool.

I just get deja vu sometimes, and I do everything in my power to not make it happen.

Yeah.

I just start going, ah, whatever.

It literally tells me that deja vu is good.

It means you're where you're supposed to be.

It's like an affirmation.

So I embrace deja vu.

I don't embrace deja vi.

I don't draw into it.

I fight against it.

It's a glitch in the metric.

It's a good thing.

Deja vu is a good thing.

I'm like Nicholas Cage in the movie Next.

I fight against it.

Or I'm like Madam Webb.

Also, I saw Madam Webb.

That's why I keep telling my wife

this, oh, yeah, this is just like Madam West.

I don't know what it is.

I read that it's not going to be a franchise now because it did so bad.

I don't think that's any surprise.

It is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but in a way that's not

fun bad.

Yeah, that's disappointing.

That's bad, bad.

It's simply just like,

I remember we were probably

a fifth of the way into the movie, and I leaned over to Jordan Sweers, I think, and I went, I think it's really hard to make a movie.

and they proved that the main the villain all of his dialogue is ADR'd oh when he is on screen and you see his mouth move the dialogue is ADR'd when his back is turned his dialogue is ad yard I don't know why they changed the story it's no his mouth moves with it just wrong they changed the story really that's what I would guess they changed all this dialogue because the story changed

how maybe somebody got canceled maybe also they never turn into spider women like all like the stuff where it's like they're doing like they're in the costumes and stuff.

It doesn't happen.

Yeah, there's like

webs in the whole movie.

No one shoots any webs, not even one time.

There's no webs.

There's zero webs.

You should have called it Madam No Web.

You should have

a lot of people.

Madam Webless.

It makes me think of that scene in The Simpsons where the kids go to watch Naked Lunch and they walk out and they're like,

I can see two things wrong with that title.

I think Dakota Johnson got tricked into being into this movie.

And then also, I don't think Dakota Johnson should probably be in movies anymore.

I think maybe that experiment's over and it's time to move on.

When she's a director in five years, we can all go.

There you go.

That's a fan.

Yep.

That's the move.

Yep.

Yep.

Actually, you know what?

Let me ask this other one too.

This is from, sorry, this is from Ninja Yodler.

If you could freeze Austin culture in a particular point in time as the new standard, when would it be?

I don't know that I would want to.

I don't know that we've been around long enough to make that.

I love that answer.

Yeah, I like that.

I went to

probably somewhere in the 70s.

I hear it was amazing in 78.

It's always amazing before you got here.

Hey, you just missed it.

My wife had a flat tire the other day, and so I had to take her car to Discount Tire.

This Discount Tire right here?

Not this one, the one further down.

I had a flat tire yesterday.

Yeah.

Well, we can talk more about where it happened.

I guess.

I went to the discount tire yesterday, and I was sitting down, just like using my phone, waiting for them to finish fixing my flat.

And there was

an elderly woman sitting next to me, and then a dude older than me on the other side they didn't know each other but they just like started talking probably because they weren't buried in their their face in their phone like I was and like you know small chit chat you know they asked each other how long they've been in Austin woman who was probably in her late 70s if I had to guess was like oh I've lived here all my life I was like man that's crazy I thought to myself and then she asked the guy like how long have you been here and he's like oh you know I moved back here in 85 and I was like what and they were like they were like yeah it's so rare for you know us to encounter each other two people have been here that long I was like man these two people have me beat by a long shot

So I have no ownership over what the culture of Austin should be.

That is not my call to make at all.

I completely agree.

Because you still run into people like that.

It was really a reminder to me,

I'm still new here.

I think we've talked about it on the podcast, probably the early one, but Gus and I used to go get our hair cut at that place, and we would listen to the old guys talk about Austin in the 50s.

And we talked about how we wanted to be those old guys someday.

I realize we're not going to be those old guys.

Neither of us is going to make it long enough here, but

it just wasn't in the cards.

But I also don't know that this is the kind of place that is in the cards anymore.

Yeah.

It's kind of a transient city now.

Yeah.

Has been for a long time, but I don't think that's going to change.

Yeah, it's a transient city for all the tech companies that set up shop here, leave, then forget, then come back and set up shop again, then leave.

It's a circle of life.

That's pretty cool.

Like every 20 years.

It's not a plant root, huh?

It's not about Austin.

It's no longer a plant roots kind of place.

Yeah.

It really isn't.

Yeah.

Which is fine.

Yeah.

I think that's just how cities are.

Yeah.

Well, there you have it.

Anma in the books.

If you want to send us a question, you can at Anma Podcast on Instagram and on Twitter.

You can see pictures from this in every other episode.

Find the guest book at AnarchyMe Anything.com.

AnarchyMe Anything.com, where you can see, it's like, I don't know why you guys cultivated a link dump mentality among your fan base, but I hate it.

But if you can, I mean, you can go to that website and check it out.

It was somebody going like, hey, I want to listen to a f ⁇ ing face or try to get my friend into it.

Is there a link dump for the first 11 episodes?

And it took everything in my power to not write, just listen to the podcast.

Why does everything have to be more than it?

Just shut up.

Dump it into your brain.

Just listen to it and then move on with your day.

Where's the link dump?

They want to learn more.

No, they're curious.

They're druglled.

No, I don't.

No,

I don't agree with that.

I'm similarly befuddled by people that are like, I will watch every Let's Play they do for face, but you cannot, I will, there's, I will put my foot down.

I will never listen to their podcast.

Never.

And that's, it's the same thing.

What a weird line to draw.

Like, you have to see PAL World to hear us talk.

Like,

do you really have to see us playing Wee Bowling so that you can pay attention to our words?

Tell about the lore.

Oh, we should play Wee Bowling.

Oh,

speaking of the website, I forgot to mention this.

I want to get your opinion, both of you.

Go fast.

Sorry, I'm delaying.

No, it's just fine.

Someone in the guest book the other day posted ASCII art of a very realistic looking penis.

Awesome.

And I admired it, but I deleted the comment.

Yes, uh-huh.

And I was like, man,

should I be okay with that or should I delete it?

And I was leaning more towards I should delete comments like that.

What do you guys think about that?

Yeah, delete it.

Who cares?

Yeah.

You overthought it.

These people don't own it.

It's a guest book.

They're guests.

I forgot about ASCII art and I saw it on the screen.

Oh, yeah, it sounds like you saw it, you appreciated it for what it was, thought it was a striking image, and then you probably took a middle picture for later and took Took a picture on your phone.

That's fine.

Okay.

Cool call.

So make sure.

Yep.

So please don't do that anymore.

It's just more work for me.

And if you make work for me, I'll just turn the website off.

Get rid of it.

I'll just make it go away.

Yeah, pretty much.

Yeah, like if you think this is an opportunity to be funny and spam it with ASCII wieners, it is.

But he will just turn the website off and move on.

I paid for that website.

Yep.

That's money out of my heat.

And it's time.

I don't need to do that.

You can't play these jokes with Gus because he'll pick up his ball and he'll go home.

I will go home.

And then he'll move.

And he won't tell you where he moved.

We talked about it in the last round of episodes, but I think it's scheduled and I think it's in March.

I think that's when we're doing the lawyer bracket.

Oh, yeah.

I think I have a date penciled in.

I'll let you guys know, but you can follow at Anma Podcast, Twitter, and Instagram and r/slash Anima Podcast.

We'll have all the information there.

Thanks, guys.

Go check it out.

I think it'll be a lot of fun.

Any parting words for the folks?

Stay Anma.

Yeah.

Stay Anma.

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