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This is episode 72.

You did.

You competed.

Uh-huh.

You did your two rounds.

Oh, yeah.

Good.

As did I.

I was first.

Oh, you went first.

I went first.

Do you?

There was an icy stare across the table.

We're not allowed to know.

We're not allowed to know.

Okay.

Good morning, Gus.

First of all, so we're not allowed to know.

Andrew had this idea.

He wants to do this trivia competition in

face.

And it started.

And here's how it was posed to me when we started doing it.

Oh, we're going to do this trivia competition.

It's a tournament to find out who's the dumbest.

And also, and also who's the smartest.

And it's like, I think it's clearly not who's the smartest.

So the goal is don't be last.

Awesome.

So it's like a three-round thing where it's going to be me, Gavin, Gracie, Eric, and Nick competing.

Andrew is, I guess, the...

He's exempt from this?

Very interesting, don't you think?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And so he had each of us, the first round, he had each of us individually with him play two rounds of who wants to be a millionaire and then bank the money that you made from the two rounds.

So we're not allowed to know how everybody else did.

Gotcha.

And we're going to find out when we record, I think, Friday.

So is whoever has the least money the stupidest?

Whoever has the least amount of money is eliminated from the competition.

And then we go to the next round where we're not allowed to know what the competition is or what we're playing.

All we know is that one of us is going to be eliminated this week.

And whoever it is, it's the dumbest.

I don't want to know where you think you finished, except do you think that you are at the bottom?

No.

Me neither.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

The person at the bottom doesn't think they're at the bottom.

I mean, I was going to say that right now.

It's true.

I predicted in my recording, Andrew asked, who do you think is at the bottom?

And I said, I think it's Nick.

And it's not because of his smarts.

It's because he picked, he got two in his head.

He picked the the wrong category.

He got a weird question and he did good on one round.

And the third question, he's fucking out on the second.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I will say this.

That would be the most nick thing in the world.

I will say this.

I didn't play to win.

I played it safe.

Really?

I played to advance.

Interesting.

That's how you, that's how you fucking lose.

That's the pre-vent defense of who wants to be a millionaire.

Maybe.

You can't trust the pre-vent defense.

Maybe.

No, that's telling me it's entirely possible, Gus.

You're right.

It is entirely possible that I have shot myself in the foot.

Yep.

we'll find out

hey so we went to the uptown sports club uh last episode we went to radio east uh where it was cold it was warm that day it was it was cold no it was warm

it was it was really warm and then like we came back to the office and then i stepped outside to get standard my car like oh it's freezing and that's where it began the cold front happened on the drive back from that coffee shop yes yeah yep it was wild because we were like people i saw in the in the comments, people were bitching.

Like, it's really annoying to hear them complain about how hot they are in January when we're all freezing.

We were freezing by the end of the day.

Guess what?

I saw lots of comments in our guest book about it.

So you go to anarchymeanything.com, is that right?

And you can sign our guest book.

Gus has been updating our website via HTML.

It's under construction, dude.

The graphics clearly tell you that.

So it's constantly changing.

Every day I'm tinkering with something on there.

I love it.

Yeah, Yeah, lots changed with HTML.

I think I probably haven't written HTML in 10, 15 years, something like that.

Why would you have even written a 15 years ago?

Maybe like small fixes for little things on the website.

Update is live.

Nothing crazy.

Season two of Red vs.

Blue would probably be when I stopped.

I don't know what it looks like.

Oh, I guess that was longer than 15 years ago.

That was like 2004, bud.

Fuck.

That was like 20 years ago.

That was 20 years ago.

Maybe, maybe then.

Sorry, fellas.

I was like, font sizes deprecated CSS.

What?

It was, that was like,

man, it's it's been a journey.

Does the blink tag still work?

No, no, the blink tag hasn't worked.

I think the blink tag didn't even work back then.

I tried to put a MIDI embed to autoplay, but it doesn't work anymore.

And in fact, like with the MIDI embed, if you visited the website in Chrome,

it would automatically force the download into you.

No way.

It's like...

I was like, oh, people do think I'm giving them a virus.

Chrome is like, I don't know what to do with this.

You're trying to program in Latin.

It's like, this is a dead language.

I think somebody on the guest book, someone had suggested that, I forget what it was, like some Green Day song would have been a good, it would have been a good song.

But if you view the source on the website, you'll see it was Smash Mouse All-Stars that I was trying to put on there, which also released in 99.

Geez.

So I think we're fully embracing old internet,

what we're doing, because we don't have a YouTube channel for this podcast, which is, it's a thing where it's like, oh, you know, this is, it would be a good way to find this.

I think we're pretty happy with the podcast we're doing and what it is.

People are copying it, so it's fine.

And YouTube didn't exist when we told all these stories out there.

Yeah.

So what we're doing is we're creating a website where you can really relive a 1998 experience.

So if you want to listen to the newest episode, it's on there.

It's on there at the very bottom.

So hop over to anarchymeanything.com, sign our guest book, check out these gifts.

Oh, there's some surprises.

You might, you might watch a cool movie trailer we do.

I have some movie trailers like that.

You never know.

It is so funny to look at on a cell phone.

Yeah.

When I first started, it's funny you say that because I first started, what's this going to look like on a phone?

And I thought, I'm deliberately not going to look because

I don't want to spoil it.

I did resize one of the under construction just because I thought it's way too big.

I made it smaller.

Let me ask you a question.

This is a bit of an aside from what we were just talking about, but it just popped into my head when we were talking about looking at that on cell phones.

Let's say you do a life reset.

Like for whatever reason, you move to...

Middle of nowhere.

You move to middle of nowhere.

I don't want to fuck you here.

Virginia.

Okay.

Cool state.

It's for lovers.

It is for lovers.

You don't take anything with you.

I mean, take Esther and your dog and stuff.

You have your money and your wherewithal, but you don't take any technology with you.

And you have to rebuild your life in Virginia.

Probably you go out and buy a TV, I assume.

What's the first purchase?

Do you buy a phone, a laptop, a desktop in that order?

Do you get to desktop?

Like, I'm trying to wonder how important

those different formats are in 2023.

Definitely, phone, number one.

Right.

Phone is number one.

It's become easily the most important thing.

Number two is laptop.

And then, yeah, I don't need one.

Would you need a desktop?

No, I have one now, but that's just because I got it when we were, you know,

in the beginning of the pandemic, like all the work-from-home stuff.

Like, I needed one for that.

So I bought a desktop for that, but before that, I didn't have one.

Yeah.

I have desktops.

I have a Mac and a PC for work.

A similar situation.

I bought them at the beginning of the pandemic.

And And I record, I don't really, I guess I record gameplay with the Xbox, with the PC one,

and

so I'll write and f ⁇ k face with the Mac.

But if it weren't for that, I would have zero need for a desktop in my life.

Yeah, these days, it's like, I don't know.

I don't think I would buy one.

I'll join meetings from home

if I'm not in the office, but I can do that from my laptop.

And I'll record ad reads or audio every now and then.

But I mean, I could do that from my laptop too.

Like, there's really no need at this point for those desktops.

Yeah.

It's interesting, isn't it?

How much our lives have changed.

Yeah, a lot of our friendship our early friendship was sitting on the floor in the little office we shared in my old house putting together computers and building PCs I remember when I lived over at the Metropolis So this would have been like 99 or 2000 maybe yeah, I had like a computer I'd built myself with parts from A ⁇ R computer, which used to be over there on West 6th.

They're long gone.

Anyway, I had this computer and I decided that I wanted like it had Windows on it and then one day I decided like I need to learn Linux.

So like I erased Windows off my computer and I installed Linux on it was like Red Hat 5 or 5.2 or something way back then I don't remember but anyway

so it was all working everything was great but I couldn't get sound like my my sound card didn't work by default and I didn't know enough yet to figure out how to make it work so it's like I would I would toil with it every day trying to get it to work just never happened then one day I think you and I were hanging out drinking got real drunk woke up the next morning, went to log into my computer, and the sound was working.

I was like, what the fuck happened?

Like, somehow in my drunken stupor, I'd figured out how to get my sound card to work, and I could never figure out what I did yet to make it work.

It was just like one day I was like, oh, shit, I did something last night, and it works now.

So I was really hesitant to ever format and reinstall that computer because I was like, man, I'm not going to get my sound to work again.

It was a Creative Lab sound blaster of some kind.

I was dragging it every day.

Hold on.

Please hold on.

Don't, don't go.

I still want to play StarCraft and hear it.

It's just wild.

I was thinking, you know, I've been, I just recently recorded an episode of So Alright, where I was talking about VHS and the lifespan of the VHS, which has just got me thinking about technologies in general that have existed in my lifetime.

Computers are not the one that I would have anticipated coming and going.

No.

But I remember, like, what was that?

Format change.

What was the computer?

computer company that Steve Jobs spun up.

Next.

Next.

Yeah.

So the next computer, I remember being in the mall and seeing a display and telling my mom I wanted.

That was the first computer I ever wanted.

Was the next one.

Those things were fucking expensive, dude.

Yeah, right.

My mom laughed her ass off.

She was like, yeah, whatever.

But I remember that was the first moment I think, like, I want one of these, you know?

And everybody wanted a computer after watching War Games, but not like any kind of real tangible way.

Yeah.

You just, you were like, oh, I want to destroy the world too with a fucking keyboard.

And now here we are.

I'm at a point in my life where if I were to move, I probably wouldn't buy a computer.

I mean, the phone is a good thing.

Yeah, that's the format changed.

Like, it's just all of that is on your, all of that and more is on the phone.

It's just so crazy.

Yeah.

You know, I just, it'd be interesting to see what homes look like 20 years from now.

You know, like, what does a home office look like?

Yeah, it's funny.

Like, you talk, you talk about that.

Like, we, in the late 90s, early 2000s, it was always like, we would always talk about like, in the future, you're going to have like wired Ethernet.

Like, you're going to have like an Ethernet drop in every room.

It will plug all your computers in and everything.

And, you know, have a a central hub in your home closet somewhere that connects it all.

Like, man, fuck all that.

It's all super fast Wi-Fi.

Now, like, I've got that at home, I guess, but

my home wired network is so janky.

It's like, it's a pain in the ass to deal with.

It's just easier to do wireless.

Yeah.

No, I'm totally, I'm all about ease of use.

I got, uh, I don't know if you use any of these.

Like

the office where my computer is, for

it's really complicated.

The previous owner fucked something up and only one Ethernet drop works in that room.

But I needed two computers, right?

One when we were streaming from home, like one, you know, for the gameplay, another one for the streaming and the capture and all of that.

So, and I didn't want to have a hub and have them both share like one gigabit drop.

I wanted them both to have an independent gigabit

drop.

So, I bought, I don't know if you've ever used these, I bought a Mocha adapter, which allows you to run two gigabit network cables over coaxial cable.

So, there was like a cable TV drop in there.

I was like, oh, so I can just plug a Mocha adapter into that, and I'm going to have two different gigabit lines connecting through that Mocha adapter that then goes up to two lines in my router.

Sure.

It's fucking game changer.

I'd never heard of one before that.

No, I've never heard of it.

So if you, if you ever heard a room that has a cable outlet, but no wired Ethernet, look into a Mocha adapter.

It's like, it's super easy.

I just plugged in.

I haven't thought about it since I set it up three years ago or whatever.

Interesting.

I'll look into that.

Yeah.

I have, because I have typical Wi-Fi issues where I have a house that's 100 years old and like fucking thick walls.

And so

for like uploading.

Yeah, I have extenders and stuff, but

I have a hardwired computer that's just for uploading and downloading.

Yeah, Mocha Adapter might help you out.

Yeah,

I remember really thinking that I wanted that home network.

And I feel like those speeds haven't changed.

We're still, I mean, I guess there's 10 gigabit now, but everything's pretty much still gigabit.

I'm at a point now, which is crazy to me, or would have been crazy to me even five years ago, but I don't travel with a laptop anymore.

I can't break that habit.

I still have to take mine.

Yeah, I took my laptop with me to Detroit and Alabama this Christmas just in case I needed to record anything, although I knew I wouldn't.

And I never took my computer out of my backpack the entire time.

And before that, I probably hadn't traveled with it in a year.

I normally don't either, but I still take it because I take, when I travel, I take the backpack anyway.

There's like toiletries or whatever.

Like I still use it to carry other things.

I bring my backpack at request of others because they say I look like a terrorist

if I don't have a bag with me in the fucking terminal.

Just get a rollerboard.

Why?

Like if I like Emily has started checking bags.

I hate checking bags, right?

But if Emily's gonna check a bag, there's no fucking point in me having to carry them.

Yeah, because

inevitably that bag's going to get sent to the wrong airport.

You're going to need like a day's worth of clothes or something.

I haven't had that issue.

This is good.

Market now.

But since I don't bring it to be an issue.

But since I don't bring a listen, I've had every, you and I both have had every flying, a potential flying issue possible in the last 20 20 years.

I'm not worried about that.

It'll be nothing, nothing I haven't dealt with before.

But it is just weird because I don't bring my laptop anymore.

I really don't need my backpack.

It was just a vessel to carry my laptop and some gum or whatever, you know?

And so now that I just have my little like

away bag, that's the one that everybody has, right?

I have a little away bag.

If Emily's going to check, I'll just throw mine in and check as well because I still got to go through this stupid line and I still have to fucking wait at the other end for the bags anyway.

But it's a wild feeling to walk through an airport with no bags.

I went to, we had a job up in Dallas once, and it was like a day-long thing.

And so I flew up to Dallas for the day.

Like I flew from Austin to Dallas first thing in the morning, you know, shot up there, filmed our thing, then flew back from Dallas to Austin that evening.

And that day I went with nothing.

Like no checkbag, no carry-on, nothing.

Like I showed up with the shit in my pockets, got on the plane, and then got off and walked.

to the rental car, went over to do the work and then went back.

That was the most freeing travel ever.

Like literally having nothing with you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Bernie and I did that one time where we flew to New York.

It was just an overnight trip and we flew to New York with no bags and then figured we would just spend the night at the airport and it just everything went wrong.

I don't remember exactly what that story is now.

It sounds like a terrible plan.

But it was like we tried to walk into the airport and you couldn't do it and it was before Uber and we had to hop a fence and then it was like, and then we were in the airport and there was like, you realize the air, like LaGuardia sucks at three in the morning and there was nowhere to sit or anything.

It was like, it was a fucking nightmare and I regretted it immediately.

But I think that's one of the only times I've ever flown without any kind of baggage whatsoever.

That's great.

Do you think there's got to be, right?

There's got to be people who do that all the time and they just like FedEx their bag to the hotel or whoever they're staying.

I think so.

There's got to be

business people.

That's got to be like a service you can get where it's like.

This company will take your stuff, hold it for you, send it where you need it.

And then when, you know, send it back, they'll wash your clothes or whatever.

And then just like, it's like a third-party closet.

Yeah.

Third-party closets.

If that doesn't exist, that's your retirement.

That's why that's my retirement career.

I guarantee there's people with money, more money than sense, right?

This has to make sense to a very niche group of people who I bet you can charge a lot to.

There's, dude, there are some people that fly so fucking much.

When I was at the worst at Roosteath, which is like 2017, 2018, I was flying

40 to 45 weeks out of the year.

Oh, my God.

Right.

And some some of those were two trips a week.

It was like we were,

we were constantly going up to New York and LA to pitch stuff.

And they were, we were always having to go like to a fucking, like an upfront.

And then they were like, we were always doing business in San Francisco.

And there was always a reason.

I was traveling every single week.

And that was back when the way it worked with.

executive platinum.

And Platinum was first come, first serve.

And as much as you fly, you kind of get priority.

And so I would get to the airport after, you know, I'd have like, it'd be like my 30th flight of the year in like 25 weeks.

And I would get to the airport and the flight to Dallas, I would be like 15th on the upgrade list.

Yeah.

And you think like, how much do these fucking guys fly?

There are people who fly all the time.

How much do these people fly if I'm 15th on the upgrade list?

And I've already flown 150,000 miles and it's fucking May.

It's like, yeah, that's, I don't, I do not envy that life.

Yeah, I don't either.

I'm glad we don't do that.

But those people.

And because we had a taste of it, because I know you flew as much as I did, if not more,

you definitely develop

particularities

and

routines, and you definitely learn to

appreciate some of the perks that you get, and they become very important to you.

And I just, I can't imagine flying more than we did.

And it's like, that shit.

That's your life.

You're spending more of your time in a plane than you are in your hometown at that point.

That's like on the road salesperson, like every day.

I picture like the 50s.

It's like Billy's dad in Gremlins.

Yeah.

He's like, just getting on planes, humping,

what was it?

A smokeless ashtrays.

That's what he tried to trade Gizmo for?

Smokeless ashtrays.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I forgot about that.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, man.

I even just saw that movie a couple weeks ago.

We talked about it.

Hey, what's up, Chris?

I appreciate Chris's enthusiasm opening that door.

He walked in with a fucking smile.

I mean, he got

a code wrong one time, but then he nailed it.

Well, come on.

He literally walked in at 11, by the way, 11:16 a.m.

Good job being early.

He walked in like with his little backpack on with his baseball cap, like, I'm ready to go to work today, boss.

Just a big fucking smile.

I wish everybody liked their job as much as he does.

You don't have to worry about being quiet or anything.

It's fine.

Yeah, we're fine.

It's just, it's called background texture for this.

Audio texture.

Yeah.

Okay.

He did a surfing motion.

I went to the draft house over the weekend.

Oh, that's right.

Oh, as did I.

Yeah, we both have stories.

So they were doing, you know, like we mentioned last week, they're they're doing anniversary screenings.

And over the weekend, when was it?

Was it Saturday?

Sunday?

One of those days.

Sunday, I think.

I went and I saw the 25th anniversary screening for election.

And

big Matthew Browdock fan.

And

I was a little worried because normally I don't like going to the movie theater if it's going to be very crowded.

And I looked at the, you know, the tickets for this one, and it was fairly crowded.

Which draft house is this?

The one in Mueller.

Okay.

And,

you know, right before the screening, right before the showing started, you know, I pull up my phone and checked.

And yeah, sure enough, the seat next, I went with my wife.

You know, she was sitting on one side.

And then the seat next to me was taken.

I was like, crap, I'm going to have to sit next to someone.

Whatever.

But anyway, the movie starts, the lights go down, the trailers start, then the trailers go, and the movie starts.

And the seat next to me is still empty.

And I think, oh, okay, this person's not going to show up.

And, you know, it was like when things were really cold.

I was like, maybe whoever it was just decided not to leave their house because it was really cold or whatever.

So I take my water and I put it in the little cup holder between me and that seat.

Um, because I'm like, all right, no one's gonna be there.

I'll just keep my water here, it's fine.

Watching the movie, um,

the screening started at 11.

So, it was a brunch screening, not the brunch menu.

And, um,

election is only about

an hour and 40, hour and 45 minutes long.

Okay.

At 12:30, someone comes into the theater and sits down in the seat next to me.

And I think, oh, that's weird.

Uh, so I pick up, you know, my water and I put it on the table in front of me.

And then like immediately the waiter comes over and starts talking to her.

It's a woman.

It's like, hey, do you have your ticket?

And you know, yeah, she pulls out her phone and like shows it to him.

He goes, oh yeah, yeah, that's his screening.

Come with me.

And then he like leads her off to the side and they have a very quick discussion and then she walks out.

You can't be seated after the movie seat.

You can't be seated late, first of all.

Second of all, that movie's almost over.

I don't know how well you remember election.

It was the scene where like Tracy Flick's trying to see, like get advanced notice of who's won the election.

She's like peeking, like jumping up and down in the window.

The movie was over 15 minutes after that.

Like

this person showed up over an hour and a half late to the theater.

She had the right ticket.

She was in the right place and still tried to sit down and see the movie.

I already had my bill.

I'd already signed the like you'd already you'd already put your tip down.

Yeah, I'd already given the thumbs up like 20 minutes earlier.

Like I can't believe how late she was.

And then also, secondly, how quickly the waiter came out, checked her ticket, and we're like, all right, we got to go.

Wow.

Like they, they have a very, they're very strict about no late seating.

Yeah.

And I'd seen some late seating before.

Sometimes they'll be like, all right, you know, it just started.

It's fine.

There's some leeway there.

Right.

Yeah.

But an hour and a half.

90 minutes into a 100-minute movie.

Like I looked at my watch when the credits started rolling.

The credits were rolling like 15, between 15 and 20 minutes after that woman showed up.

Like, was she just going to show up and watch?

She's like, yeah, I don't want to see the lad.

And it's not like...

you know, it's not like it's a new release or anything.

I don't know.

It's just weird.

Like, she should know.

I guess not that that that has anything to do with it, but it's like the movie started at 11.

I just don't know how she got to a point where she's like, oh, the movie started at 11.

I should go down there.

And try, not only I should try to get a refund or a rain check.

Like, I'm going to go try to sit in my seat and watch the last 15 minutes of election.

Have you ever done this?

I did this two years ago, maybe.

Got tickets to a movie on a Saturday at Alamo.

It was the one down at Sethlemore, right?

It was me and Emily and Millie, I think.

Got tickets, went to the movie theater,

sat in the theater, ordered food, popcorn and sodas showed up.

Then people showed up and said we were in their seat.

And then we pulled out our ticket that I had already shown to the employee.

And the employee looks at it again and goes, oh my God, you are in the right seats, but your movie's tomorrow.

And I showed up a full 24

hours early and I didn't know what to do.

And so they took us outside with our popcorn and sodas.

And they're like, you can stay here and finish it.

And then they made me check out.

And then I just sat there and ate a little bit of popcorn and then we left.

It was so awkward.

And I was so embarrassed.

I once showed up 24 hours late.

Did you really?

I think it was for eighth grade.

Like I showed up to the theater.

My wife and I showed up to the theater.

It was at the village.

And I was like, huh, weird.

Our showing's at 2.50.

But none of the theaters say they have a 2.50 showing.

Let me double check the time on my ticket.

Yeah, it's 2.50.

Where should we go?

What's going on?

They're like, oh, our screening was yesterday.

But like, I just went up up to the front and I was like, hey, I showed up late.

My movie was yesterday.

Like, yeah, that's fine.

They just gave me new tickets for that date.

Oh, that's nice.

I'm glad I, we just, I just left in shame and ate the cost of those tickets.

I, uh,

or we went back the next day, I think.

But I, uh, yeah, that was super embarrassing.

It's, it helps to know that I'm not the only person that has done that.

So it was very embarrassing for me, too.

I felt like the biggest idiot in the world.

I went to the Alamo last week as well, and I had a funny thing happen.

Which I completely forgot to tell you guys.

It was at Alamo Village last Thursday.

Millie and I went.

Daddy Daughter date, last Wednesday.

She wanted to see Iron Claw, which I thought was a strange movie for a daddy daughter date, but I'm all about it.

I wanted to see it anyway.

She's a real big Jeremy Allen White.

Is that his name?

Yep.

Kid from the Bear and Shameless.

So she wanted to go see it.

So we went and saw it.

And phenomenal movie.

And Zach Efron deserves at least an Academy Award nomination.

But we go in there and we sit down.

Alamo Village, which is, by the way, the only movie theater I like to go to anymore.

If Village isn't showing it, I don't want to see a movie bad enough that I

can't just, like, if I go, if I want to see a movie and it's not a village, I go, I don't want to go.

You won't go to Mueller?

It's all the way across town.

It's right by the office.

I come here all the time.

I'm not at the office much.

Like, I would if it was something I really wanted to see, but Village has most of what I want to see.

Do you like the new seats?

In the village?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I hate them.

You don't like them?

Oh, I like them.

I like them a lot.

I like the little tablespoons.

I haven't been since they swapped the seats.

They have the button you push back and you can.

It's just, they're too big.

They're really big.

I like how the seats are very big.

I'm big bullshit.

That sounds terrible.

My small wife can't reach.

I can see how she'd need help.

Yeah, it's rough for her.

Gotcha.

So we sit down at this 7 p.m.

screening for Iron Claw, and the trailers start.

And the first trailer is like Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

Millie and I High Five.

We're very excited.

I haven't seen that trailer yet.

That is our...

Star Wars, everything that we've watched together, Planet of the Apes is our franchise.

Just the new ones or just the old ones as well?

Okay.

Just the new ones.

From like 2000s on.

Not like Charlton Heston.

Not the Charlton Heston ones.

And for no other reason, I love those movies.

I love them dearly.

I grew up with them.

But I can't imagine I could get Millie into them.

They're super old, right?

And the new ones are so fucking good.

And so

Millie and I were so excited and we were like high-fiving because we're going to go see Kingdom and the Planet of the Apes together because we just fell into that on a whim and we became huge.

Like it just, it was just a bonding thing for us, right?

So it's like our thing.

And then they show like a DreamWorks trailer and then a couple Disney trailers.

And then there's like a weird combo trailer for a bunch of Disney movies that came out during the pandemic, but didn't get theatrically released.

And they're releasing them back to back to back.

And they're like soul and dreams.

Yeah, yeah.

And there was another kid's trailer.

And there's this two dudes sitting to the left of me.

And one of the dudes leans over to me and goes, hey, man,

are you in here for Iron Claw?

And I go, yeah, why?

And he goes, I am too, but aren't these trailers?

This is a lot of weird trailers.

I was like, it is a little odd, isn't it?

And he's like, yeah.

And I go, I don't know, whatever.

And so there's like another trailer or two.

And then the movie starts.

And they play the Iron Giant.

What?

And for a second, I thought, oh, this is a bit.

Alamos being funny.

They were not.

They played like eight minutes of the Iron Giant before it went like

and stopped.

And then it was quiet for a while.

And then people ran out and then they flipped it.

It's probably all like a CMS for the projector.

You know how you saw Election?

Yeah.

Iron Giant is one of the other movies that they're showing as that limited engagement.

Anniversary thing.

So whoever double-clicked on the thing saw Iron Giant.

And so you're right.

It is that.

But it's because it's the limited engagement thing.

That's why it was there.

That's insane.

That's

crazy.

I thought, like, Millie and I were like, oh, this is a joke, right?

But it became very clear that it wasn't a joke.

Everybody was confused.

Employees were confused.

Did you have to watch new trailers again?

No, it just immediately cut into Iron Claw.

Oh, you didn't get it?

It changed

the fucking screen ratio changed, so they had to move the curtains.

That was it.

Did you get the pre-show for the Iron Claw?

No.

I don't think so.

No.

Yeah, like what was playing before the trailers?

Like, you know, you go into the draft house and there's like a pre-show for everything.

Was it all robot stuff?

It was Howdy Duty.

It was fucking Howdy Duty.

Thank you.

Because I was sad that I remember thinking, why the fuck are they showing Howdy Duty?

And I went to Millie and I go, that's what kids used to like in the 50s.

This would have, this was your Pokemon in the 50s.

And she was like, gross.

And I'm like, I know, right?

And then, like, we got there.

We got there there like two minutes before the trailer started.

I heard the Iron Claw takes place in the 80s.

Like, yeah.

The pre-show that they have for the Iron Claw fucking rocks.

It's so good.

And you missed all of it.

The pre-show they have for the Iron Giant is lackluster.

It's interesting because the pre-show for Election was all like music videos and commercials from 1999, which I thought was really cool.

That's interesting.

And there was like, I guess, the

commercial that the Dancing Baby originated from, which I'd never seen before.

It was like a Japanese commercial for a Toyota, a car called a Toyota Kami, and there were like five dancing babies in it.

And

it's more than a commercial.

It's like a four or five minute long thing.

Like you'd expect to be playing in a dealership or something.

Michelle Gandry directed it.

No, but they did show some of his music videos.

It's funny you say that.

Yeah, they did show some of his music videos.

Like, all right, yeah, I'm into this.

He had some good music videos.

So it's weird that they were playing Howdy Duty for Iron Giant.

I thought maybe for the other stuff, they would also do

content from that year.

Yeah, they might have before that, but like I said, like I said, we stopped, we sat in right as the pre-show was ending.

So we watched like two minutes of Howdy Duty, and I was like, what the fuck?

And then I'll always show up to try to get in as early as possible to a draft house screening because normally they'll open the theater like 30 minutes before the showtime.

Just because I like to, you know, one, I like to watch all the pre-show stuff.

Bye Chris.

Bye, Chris.

He's already going home.

It's 11.

It's 11.

It's 11.27.

He's done for the day.

Thanks for clocking in, buddy.

And I also like to order my food ahead of time.

That way I can ideally get it, eat.

That way I'm not distracted.

Sure.

There's nothing worse than trying to eat and not get dirty when it's dark.

They had the brunch screening at election.

Yeah.

And, you know, there were, I ordered some breakfast tacos that came with salsa.

I was like, fuck.

Then the lights went out before I was done eating.

I was like, I'm going to spill this sauce all over myself.

So it was like this dancing game.

Luckily, I'd seen the movie before.

It wasn't a big deal, but it was a a pain in the ass you and I are so similar and I typically do the exact same thing as you do and that's how I prefer to do it as well I just uh now I'm on a dog's timetable that's a million I had to like feed the dog so we weren't able so we were out the door a little late um and missed most of the pre-show unfortunately

there you go alamo draft house stories yeah so the draft house week i uh i saw beekeeper in it

where'd you see that it was playing at lakeline and it was playing at slaughter alamo lakeline so we had to go all the way to slaughter oh to go see it.

I've never been to that Alamo.

It is so nice to watch a movie with three of your friends and then three other people scattered in the biggest theater that they have.

So what you're saying is

Beekeeper didn't pack him in.

Don't think it made a ton of money.

I went down there just the other week.

I saw Godzilla Minus One there.

Oh, cool.

Oh, yeah.

Because again, it was playing like at Slaughter and Lakeland.

You recommend that, right?

Yeah.

I think the Truck Boys are going to go see it.

It's really good i think a lot of people are saying it's like the best godza ever i still think shin godzilla is better than godzilla minus one uh but that's not a knock-on minus one because i think shin godzilla is like the perfect modern interpretation of a gozilla movie shin godzilla is definitely a lot more throwback especially because it's like post-world war ii uh it's a great movie but

i am of the opinion that shin godzilla is better uh if you if you haven't seen it i highly recommend that is that in the theater or something no no that came out like five years ago yeah okay that's more like

how a modern government bureaucracy responds to a crisis.

Like, if Godzilla attacked today, you know, what would happen?

Well, half of the country would deny that he existed that it was happening at all.

I had the other day, I had.

Yeah, it depends.

What's he wearing?

A tan suit?

He's got a red hat.

He's got a red hat on.

Does he have a tan suit on or a red hat?

That's a big hat.

No, it's a little hat.

It's a normal hat, normal-sized hat on a big-sized Godzilla.

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I had

a crazy interaction the other day with a plumber.

I have,

I guess for a little bit of background, like I've got a tub that has a tub filler.

Well, it's got like a standalone tub filler that goes into the ground, like it's not in the wall.

And it's got that tub filler and attached to it is like a shower wand okay

and i had this issue recently where if you turned on the tub filler the shower wand would start dripping a little bit of water okay i was like fuck so you know i read up on it and it's like okay i'm i know really nothing about plumbing right so i'm like okay the the diverter needs to be replaced in this thing there's like a little mechanism inside of it so it's like you activate it and the water goes instead of the tub filler to the shower wander yeah and it's not quite working right so that's why some water's leaking out to the shower wand so i call a plumber over.

I call Mr.

Ruder.

I normally call them for a lot of my plumbing stuff.

They look at it and they're like, oh, yeah, well, hold, they're like, hold on.

We need to call Kohler and see how much your replacement part is.

And they go and get on the phone.

Then they come back to me and they're like, yeah, it's going to be $900 to replace your diverter.

I was like, what?

They're like, yeah, it's $300 for the part and then $600 for the labor.

And I was like, no, no.

That's fine.

Thank you.

And they leave.

And I'm like, I'm going to figure out how to fix this.

So

I email Kohler and I'm like, hey, I have the model number.

Like, this is the tub filler I have.

This is the problem I'm having.

I don't know anything about plumbing.

I think the diverter needs to be replaced.

And they just reply, okay, we're sending you a new diverter now.

Are you serious?

Yeah.

And I'm like, okay, well, I was like, in my mind,

right.

I'm like, at the bare minimum, I've saved $300.

Even if I have to call Mr.

Rooter back out, it's $600 now instead of $300.

So I get the part.

And I'm like, where does this go?

So like, I start trying to disassemble the entire mechanism.

He doesn't know.

No, like this, there are other, there are tutorials for other versions or other models, but not this specific one.

Ain't that the fucking story of all of our lives?

The amount of YouTube videos I've watched of a similar product that's almost right.

Oh, my God.

So I can't figure it out.

I'm like disassembling it, taking it apart.

I'm like, man, I don't want to call Mr.

Ruder again.

So I do a search in the Austin subreddit for like a plumber.

And I find a thread from like four or five years ago that's like, hey, you know, who's a good plumber?

It's not going to rip me off.

And there are a couple of times throughout the thread, someone, multiple people mentioned this this place called Union Jack Plumbing.

And I know I've seen their van around town because I always laugh when I see it because it's got a little thing on it that says, the British are plumbing, the British are plumbing.

That's awesome.

That sounds like a Grand Theft Auto thing.

That's crazy.

And I'm like, oh, yeah.

I've seen this guy's van around town.

So I called the guy up.

Is he British?

Yeah.

Good.

And yeah.

Like Gavin just got mad and he doesn't know why.

And somewhere in Austin, angry.

I described the problem to him.

He's like, yeah, your diverter needs to be be replaced.

And he's like, you got to call Kohler.

I was like, I already called Kohler.

I've got the replacement diverter.

He's like, oh, great.

He's like, I can come over tomorrow and take a look at it.

Awesome.

And he's like, hey, I'm driving right now.

Can you just text me

like a picture of the tub filler and a picture of the diverter?

That way I know what I'm getting into.

I'm like, yeah, no problem.

So I text him.

And then like five minutes later, he calls me back.

He's like, hey, I pulled over.

You can actually do this yourself.

And I was like,

yeah, I was like, I don't know how to take the thing apart.

He's like, yeah, here's what you do.

You need this specific tool.

Put it right here at this thing that you don't think you can unscrew, but you actually can.

Do that, pop that out, pop the new one in, you're done.

He's like, it'll take you like five, ten minutes.

He's like, if you, if you can't figure it out and you still need my help, I'll come by tomorrow.

Not a big deal.

He's like, but give it a try.

See if you can do it.

So then I did it.

I followed his instructions.

Done.

Easy.

So the first official endorsement of ANMA of a local company is Union Jack Plumber.

You are using them.

That's awesome.

If you are in the Austin area and you have plumbing issues, use Union Jack Plumber.

One plumber wanted to charge me nine hundred dollars for this fix the other one texted

over and called me and told me how to do it this is the diverter on like the spout where like the water would come out for like a bath and you unscrew that pull it off and then use pliers to pull the piece out exactly basically yeah yeah yeah okay um this this one's a little more complicated yeah yeah uh but yeah that that was essentially it was like i just this this dude Rather than coming here and charging me 600 bucks or whatever the fuck he could charge, was just like, hey, I'll just, I'll just tell you how to do it.

that's awesome i was like i've never had that experience i will i'll be using them yeah that's cool that's why i wanted to make it a point to see their name and to to tell you about it on this podcast endorsement i have also used mr rooter in the past and i also use another plumbing company when i had like my when all my pipes disintegrated and i had to do that i used a different company uh and they were fine and they gave me a really good deal but i you know i there's no cool story behind it so i'm just gonna stick with

union jack plumbing from here on out highly recommend it if you're in austin the British will plumb you.

Man,

it's interesting because, you know, we've been through this cold snap.

It's been freezing for several days in a row and

no one down here is used to it.

And like the Austin subreddit has just been filled with people talking about frozen pipes and broken pipes and what to do.

And it's just like every other post, I feel like, is that.

I don't know what the deal is down here, but a lot of people, I guess, who have tankless water heaters keep them outside, like outside of their house.

And that's what a lot of these people have their problem because it's freezing outside.

Yeah.

The thing freezes up and it doesn't work anymore.

I think if you have it inside your house, you have to have certain ventilation because lots of times it's gas.

The one I have is inside.

Luckily, because I have the proper ventilation, I can do that.

But I saw a post the other day.

I read all of them because I'm always curious to know what's going on.

I saw one where someone was like, hey, I'm in my house and my cold water is running fine.

But when I turn my hot water on, it like barely trickles out.

And, you know, lots of comments like, yeah, it sounds like the supply line for your hot water heater is frozen over.

Your coal line's obviously fine.

You need to figure out where that is.

You know, it's either going into your water heater, in the water heater, somewhere, you know, something there has frozen over.

But one of the replies stood out to me.

One of the replies was, maybe you should check your pilot light.

And I couldn't help but wonder, like, how does this person think water works?

Maybe the pilot light in your water heater went out so you're so no water is coming out from your water heater anymore.

Maybe like your pilot light needs to be on so that the hot water flows.

I was like, man, this person is out there living their life.

This person thought, I'm going to contribute to the conversation.

I'm going to tell them to check their pilot light.

And maybe that's what is causing their water not to come out.

It's fine if you don't know.

You don't have to leave a comment.

But then shut up.

Right.

But then shut up.

You don't have to say anything.

Shut up.

That comment made me so mad.

I went back and looked at it over and over because it just kept making me mad.

Like I would be like cleaning my house, cleaning something, right?

And be like, man, that motherfucker's out there right now doing something.

It just, it just, I don't know why.

It really,

it really annoyed me that someone tried to pitch into that conversation with absolutely less than zero knowledge.

That was a real,

that was a real letter in space comment, which is an old, old private

joke from the four Rushton.

Oh, man, it just.

It was infuriating.

We worked with a guy at the Tech Sports Center who was so fucking dumb.

Such a fucking hillbilly, oaky, dumb dude.

It was very nice.

He didn't last long.

Eventually, we had to, it wasn't working out because it was a tech sport center and he was confused by anything electric.

But we were talking about satellites one day.

We were having a conversation about satellites.

And he just stopped us and he goes, with his finger, he pointed up and he goes, they're in space.

And so that's...

Yeah, he had to contribute.

Gus and I will be saying that to each other for the rest of our lives.

I think it very regularly.

As do I.

It comes up at least twice a week in my brain.

Yeah.

And that was in 2000,

maybe.

No, 2000.

99, 2000.

Yeah.

Wow.

That dude's out there.

That might have been him telling them to check the pilot life.

That dude's out there.

That dude's in Austin right now.

Yeah.

Fucking living his dumbest, best life.

We tried to.

So back then, that call center was growing so quickly, we had to really lower the barrier to entry.

This is the one that we drove by?

Yeah, well, it was at the different location.

Oh, yeah, yeah, we did go there.

After we left Radio East, we drove over to the old call center and saw what it was.

And then you guys told me some stories about some fucked up stuff.

Like, not, not crazy fucked up, just like, this thing fell on this guy.

Oh, yeah,

we told some stories that we won't tell on this spot.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Legal arms deals and shit.

We had to try to make it as easy as possible for anyone to come in and be able to provide tech support.

So, you know, in the early days when we first started, it was just like you would kind of know how to do it.

And then we had to like have write-ups.

Like, if someone's getting this error, these are the troubleshooting steps to go through.

It's called the knowledge base.

The knowledge base.

Right.

If someone figures something out, they could, it was almost like an early wiki.

Like the agents could update stuff in there.

Then we had to get to the point where it's like, okay, we need to make it even easier.

So then Jeff and I made this system where we took screenshots of everything on the computer and they could walk through it.

So like an agent could be like, telling someone, click on my computer.

And then they would click on the image.

The agent would click on the image on their screen of my computer and it would would open it up.

Be like, this is what they're going to see.

You know, have them right-click on this.

And that way they would walk through themselves.

The agent is absolutely doing it.

Yeah.

It's doing the same thing.

Yeah.

And like a simulation

to be able to tell them what to do.

And even then, it's like that dude could not cut it with being able to see.

You know what?

We were pretty good at that job.

Yeah.

I forgot we did that.

That was a good system.

That was a lot of work.

It was a lot of work.

It really helped open the doors to allow a lot more people who might not be super strong at the tech stuff to be able to do it.

Because back then, it was all one, it was dial-up, so there was no way you could like see their screen or anything.

Even then, they might not be connected to the internet because they're calling you on their one phone line.

It was, it was like a whole ordeal.

So, then trying to get them to do this, to follow along, was really great.

And I think it really helped cut down callbacks.

It really helped solve issues.

Even for the tech support agents who were very tech-savvy and very well-versed in it, just being able to describe what you're seeing to the person on the other, like, it's, it, like, it could be really like, well, all right, well, what's on the, like, click on the monitor and they're like, well, what's on the monitor?

And you're like, it looks like a blue and black thing.

And they're like, okay, cool.

Now I see it.

You know, they, they really, it really helped.

That's cool.

That's great.

Because people weren't always the best at telling you what it was that they saw.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Of course.

Yeah.

Of course.

It's people who need tech support.

Well, I mean, to be fair to them, dial up and like Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.

It was complicated.

Well, it was a pain in the ass.

I thought I'd

teach some 68-year-old woman who just wants to read an email from her grandson how to get through Trump at Windsock.

Yeah,

there were times where,

like,

some of the callbacks we would get would be really brutal, where it's like, okay, nothing's working for this person.

There's obviously something wrong at a system level.

We need to re-extract several DLLs from their install files, from like either their Windows install CD or their Windows install diskettes.

Like we're going to re-extract RASAppy.dll

and re-install it on their, on their system.

It's like this,

I couldn't do that nowadays for myself, much less walking some

grandparent through it.

Those were rare, but they happened about once a week.

And it would be like,

do you have, this is going to take us about two hours.

Do you have two hours right now?

And they'd be like, no, I have to get my son from school.

And you'd be like, okay, well, call me back.

tomorrow when you have two hours and we'll go through it.

Or we'll schedule a time.

Or schedule a time.

And it was fucking, oof.

Those were rough ones.

The worst ones were when they had Windows installed diskettes.

You're like, do you have all your diskettes?

Do you have Windows 95 diskette 17?

Oh, because that's the one we're going to need.

The worst were when you're like, okay, we're going to need to edit your registry.

This is very important.

This is

going to have to get everything exactly right or we're going to ruin your computer.

And I will never be able to fix it.

Jesus Christ.

Man, that's a.

I hadn't thought about that in a long time.

We're getting on in time, but I want to talk about Uptown Sports Club.

Where we went today.

So,

a lot of history in that place.

Uptown Sports Club is on East 6th,

right across from Violet Crown, which is a bar that I go to quite a bit.

And

this place has opened in the last year.

So Uptown Sports Club was an old bar on East 6th, where you're describing it, that closed down before I ever moved to Austin.

So I would, I don't know when they closed down, but it was a long time ago.

At least, it's been closed at least since 94, probably.

And it was always, it had like a dude, an old painting of two dudes boxing on the front of it.

And it looked like an uptown sports club.

Like it looked like what it was described.

Very old and dilapidated.

If you look through the windows, the floor was dirt.

Like it had been gutted on the inside and it had sat empty.

And it was covered in graffiti.

Covered in graffiti and like flyers and, you know, wheat paste shit.

And it had been dilapidating and slowly falling apart for years forever and I knew tons of people even my ex-wife tried to buy it you know like really it was always for sale called the number and the family that owned it was very particular they

knew what a piece of gold they had there and they were really waiting for the right offer and so we looked into it for rooster teeth too yeah we did supposedly

yeah but go ahead so the guys who own it are a dude named Moody who's the guy who started Fun, Fun, Fun Fest and all that shit, and Aaron Franklin,

from Franklin BBQ.

It's a joint venture between the two.

Yeah, they've got a Franklin bumper sticker behind the counter nowadays.

And I think Franklin does the, they have some sort of a barbecue brisket sandwich or something, a roast pork sandwich that he, that is him.

Well, I think he did the whole menu.

But

anyway,

I don't know this.

God, I wish Emily was here.

Emily knows those dudes.

Like, she's friendly with that whole scene and she knows all those people.

And so she could tell the story better.

But I think Moody

had to work on that family for like a decade

to convince them to sell it to him.

And I think, I think, took a lot of their concerns to heart and wanted to make sure that they were happy with whatever was created and really genuinely cared because it's a piece of Austin history and that's kind of much beloved, and everybody's wanted to see developed.

And so, I think they were very particular about it.

And so, it was a long process of like maybe over a decade to get that place renovated, purchased, renovated, and turned into what it is now, which is a kind of New Orleans-themed garden restaurant/slash coffee shop kind of, but it's definitely more of a sit-down place.

And it is

only be a sit-down place.

Yes.

Fucking amazing.

Like what they did to that place is it's

beautiful.

It's so nice in there.

It's so gorgeous.

Before we moved into the Ralph Oblonedo studio, that was one of the locations we had looked at for potentially getting and moving Rooster Teeth into.

Oh, that's crazy.

But like Jeff's describing,

it was going to be a difficult process to get this, one, to get the sale to happen, and two, to get them to ride off on anything we wanted to do.

Yeah.

We would need to do for the space.

So it was just like, I think it was one of the places we looked at once.

We really loved it.

It was like, oh, no, this is going to get it.

And then it was just like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

A lot of people

did that.

So we went in.

There's no counter to order.

I was expecting a partly sit-down place, but also a cafe, order at the counter and then have a seat if you want to sit here.

It is not.

It is a full restaurant with a big bar with a ton of seats.

So we just pulled up seats at the bar and then we were going to get coffee and like, ah, maybe we'll get it to go.

And it was like, let's just stay here.

Let's just hang out.

So we had a cup of coffee there.

And then we ended up getting some breakfast saloon.

They had some little breakfast sandwiches.

They only have their breakfast menu 8 to 11, it looks like.

But they have like a full menu.

And Jeff's right, it's very like New Orleans-themed.

They have like a lot of oysters, cold tow boys, and that thing.

They have a burger, so maybe we should download that.

We should have a burger record.

That's interesting.

So we got coffee, and then I got the biscuit with jam, and you guys got the breakfast sandwiches.

That was

that biscuit was so fucking good.

That was fucked.

That was so good.

It was too good.

Good.

That was so...

That breakfast sandwich was served in the biscuit.

Dude.

And it was

like...

That might be one of the best things I've eaten in my life.

It is.

No joke.

Wow.

Best biscuit you've ever had in your life.

That might be that.

Dude, it's...

Do you remember Ranch 616?

They're gone now.

They're gone?

Yeah, I think so.

It's like another building now.

It got bulldozed and turned into a condo or something.

I think

down on West 6th?

Yeah.

Yeah, they're gone.

They're gone.

That entire building's gone.

I'm pretty sure.

Wow.

You look it up.

But they had the best biscuits, man.

But these biscuits are up.

I think I've ever had the biscuits.

Really, really good.

And the bacon was fucking crispy the way you want it.

We were right there.

There was a CRT TV way across from us at the other end of the bar that was showing Bob Ross.

And then the griddle was just an open-air griddle right there, like at the other end of the bar.

And we were just on the corner of the bar hanging out, having some coffee.

Those mugs are so cool.

I love those mugs.

The uptown sports club.

So FY Ranch 616 is still there.

I think maybe you're thinking of Lonesome Dove.

No, I was thinking of Ranch 616, but they are still there.

Yeah.

And they're open?

Yeah.

They're open today.

They're open right now.

What's the address?

It is.

616.

616 Nueces.

Wow.

I really thought that place was gone.

Dude, let's go to Ranch 616 and get the the biscuits sometime.

They're so fucking good.

Have you ever been there?

No.

They have, I love their sign out front.

It's been a few years since I've eaten there, but they've got like a giant, it looks like a giant rattlesnake.

Yeah.

Like curved out in front.

But don't let that stop you from eating there.

The food's still really good.

Coralsnake?

Yeah, the food is really good there.

I don't know why.

I haven't been there in a while.

Maybe

since the pandemic.

Guess I haven't been there because I thought it was gone.

I read an article about how it was going to be bulldozed years ago, and then there are 30 new buildings in that area, and I thought it just got bulldozed.

Do they have coffee?

I've only ever been there for a dinner restaurant.

Is it?

Yeah.

I wouldn't think it would be an ANMA type place.

Well, let's just go then.

Yeah, we'll go for lunch.

They don't open until 11.

Oh, easy.

Let's just go anyway.

So we went.

I got the coffee, just regular black coffee.

Gus got the hot Americano.

You got the iced coffee, Jeff.

What did you guys think of the coffee?

Coffee was fine.

It wasn't like the best cup of coffee I've ever had, but it wasn't bad.

It was just like totally a good Americano.

Solid.

it's really good.

My coffee was like a solid nine.

It's up there in the upper echelon of iced coffee.

So it goes eight is fine,

and then like upper echelon is nine.

Yeah, I would say upper echelon is nine.

Jesus, I'm not gonna let this go.

I will.

This is great.

This is like the beginning of Face Jam.

This is fantastic.

Nine out of ten is an A.

It was an A coffee.

I would give the coffee a nine out of ten.

It was a fantastic cup of coffee.

It had

so much flavor and was just so,

oh, it was, it was like the perfect temperature where

it was not killing me on the first sip by burning my mouth.

And then just, oh man, it sang.

I loved it.

For me, it was very comparable to Radio East.

I'm going to give it the same rating.

It was like an eight.

It was, like I said, it's a good cup of coffee.

I think I was just throwing off, it's unfair to them that the breakfast sandwich was so good.

Yeah.

Because I was like, I don't give a fuck about my coffee now.

I just want to eat this sandwich for the rest of my life.

I would say that coffee is up up there with like, what was that Tiger place we went to?

L T Gray?

Yeah.

L T Gray, Algamix, Desnito.

It was like in the same vein.

It was in the same level as those.

This was a very, very good cup of coffee.

I really did enjoy it.

And I want to go back just for that.

If you're in town, you should go there for breakfast.

I don't know.

Obviously, I don't know anything.

I've never eaten any

other stuff, but.

They only have the breakfast sandwich we're talking about, biscuit and jam, and like

there was one other thing.

One banana.

It was banana nut bread.

Banana bread.

Banana bread.

So if that sounds like what you want for breakfast, cool.

If it doesn't, they got a full-ass menu for lunch and nuts.

Yeah, you better come back here around 11.

Yeah.

It was really good.

Highly recommend it.

And just gorgeous.

Like, very bright.

So cool.

Very green.

Tons of

foliage in there and just very meticulous.

Foilage, Lisa.

Foilage.

What season is that?

Oh, that's like

seven?

Six?

I don't remember.

Yeah, it's a long time ago.

Fuck.

I got to look it up.

Well, he's on like 34, so you know, it's tough to go back that far.

It is hard to look back that far.

but it's just like it's one of those places where you could walk in and you could be like, I am in New Orleans in 1945.

It's definitely

Austin in 2024.

It definitely has that like kind of throwback vibe.

Timeless vibe.

I really like the name.

I really like the look.

I really like the coffee.

That biscuit was phenomenal.

It's a place I'd definitely go back to.

They have like a cherry slushy that's really good, too.

I had that the first time I went.

Season eight, episode four.

Close.

Of course.

Well, that's Uptown Sports Club, which we really recommend, I think.

Yeah.

We should go back for the burger, though.

Kudos to those dudes, Moody and Franklin, for figuring out how to get that building and then how to make something so awesome out of it.

Like, they really did it justice.

If it's clear and yellow, you got juice there, fella.

Tangy and brown, you're in Cidertown.

In Cider Town?

That's the same episode.

I was not going to work that out.

I was like, wait, literally clear.

Does Homer's brain leave his body at that part?

And then he just, does he collapse?

collapse?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's so good.

Hey, let's get to an anarchy question.

You can ask us a question if you send it to

at Anma Podcast on Twitter and on Instagram.

R/slash Animopodcast is also the place on Reddit that we do not run, but you can leave a question weekly.

It's where we source this stuff.

This is actually from a friend of mine who did a voice in Stinky Dragon.

His name is Mikey Spandex.

He's a pro wrestler out of Florida.

He used to work for WWE.

He went back and he's wrestling on the Independence again, but he listens to Anma.

He said that this show got him and his wife started going around.

He lives like around Orlando, and they go to a different coffee shop like every few days or whatever.

That's cool.

I like it.

Let's try it out and then rate it like Anma to see.

like these places or whatever.

That's really cool.

So he was like very inspired.

I hope that shows.

I hope that more people are encouraged to go out and explore the coffee shops.

I think it's so cool.

There's so much there.

So much fun.

Like there are so many places we've been to in Austin that I never would have gone to or thought to check out if it wasn't for this show, yeah.

Uh, which again is a thinly veiled excuse to get together, hang out, and just have a free couple to do just that.

Yeah, um, his question is: Have you ever gone to a coffee shop that you just hate, but you keep going back because you either see the potential or keep getting free coffees?

I had like 10 free coffee coupons to this place that I hate so much.

After like eight tries, I finally found one that I like.

Oh, man.

I love that question.

That's so good.

I mean, I was pretty over the coffee nut about two weeks into

above it

when we were in Buda.

Yeah, there were really no other options there.

Man, yeah.

I definitely went to the hideout more than I would have just because it was downstairs and the people were really nice.

Yeah,

there's definitely been like a coffee shop.

I've lived close to.

That's like it's just proximity.

It's just convenient.

I don't particularly like it, but it's there

There's coffee shops that I live that live that live close to me that I live close to that I won't go to But I don't want to say what they are because then they all suggested going there many times to you and you're always like no yep that's a grandma coffee shop I think is what you said.

We actually did go to one of the ones I don't like in an episode of Anima.

Ooh.

I would go to a place.

I'll just name it.

It doesn't matter.

There's a place in San Diego that I wasn't a huge fan of.

It's good.

I like it now.

It's called Dark Horse.

And I used to live right by one when I lived in a spot called Golden Hill.

And I would go all the time because one of my friends was a roaster there.

And it was walking distance to my house.

And I'd go, but every time I went, it would be like, oh,

try this.

And it would be a dark roast coffee.

And I'd just go, oh,

awesome.

I know you love dark roast.

Hey, oh, it tastes like cigarette ash and dark chocolate.

And so you just end up keep going.

And then I would, there's like, there was like nothing else around it.

So if I looked in or whatever and I saw him, I'd just be like, no.

Hey, what's up, man?

Hey,

but it was the closest coffee shop to my house.

So that happens.

Sometimes it's just proximity.

Heartbreaker.

Yeah.

Heartbreaker.

I've got a coffee maker now.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Who, you have the coffee maker that has the timer and everything?

Yeah, it's great.

Still working out for you?

Absolutely.

Great stuff.

It's the best.

You don't need anything fancy.

Just that one with the timer.

Yeah.

Fantastic.

Just fucking

guys wake up.

Can smell the coffee brewing.

Set it up the night before.

Wake up in the morning.

Ah, now I want to get out of bed.

I smell that coffee.

I want to go drink that coffee.

Okay.

One more question.

This is on R slash Animal Podcast.

Lost My OG account asks, what are some of Gus and Jeff's most prominent influences, comedic or otherwise?

I figured just a little bit of a list or some things that popped to mind.

I think, I don't know know why this came up.

Oh, yeah.

We might have a lot of overlap in that.

I think when I was young, the first time I was aware of like stand-up and of like comedy, I think I saw Rodney Dangerfield on The Tonight Show.

Oh, wow.

And I think that that really influenced me, like that whole self-deprecating, like, I'm going to make myself the joke.

I know I'm a piece of shit and I'm going to lean into that.

I think that was hugely influential for me.

It's so funny you say that.

Yeah.

So

my references are clearly Howard Stern.

Yes.

Most influential person in my life.

David Lynch is a huge influence, but not in any comedic way whatsoever.

So I'll cut any non-comedic influences, but clearly Howard Stern, followed by three individuals, Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, and Don Rickles.

Those are the three comedians that most influenced me growing up.

And then later in life, Norm McDonald.

But early on, it was those three.

And that's like a solid tonight show crew.

That is a solid tonight.

And that's what I grew up watching, right?

And for the same thing rodney dangerfield was so self-effacing and so good at making fun of himself don rickles was so good at making fun of other people in a in a way that made you not feel bad for being made fun of but he was so sharp about it i know and then joan rivers was just so was always the quickest person in the room yeah she was always just the fastest to a joke and that just the brightest person in a room and i just i i

really admired those three things about those three people.

Those are all like outstanding, amazing examples of that.

And I feel lucky that they were influences to me because I feel like that it would be very hard for them to be in influences to people today.

Like enough time has passed and they're so far into the rear view mirror that, you know, there's contemporary versions of them probably that you would be into.

You'd say like maybe Daniel Tosh is similar to, I don't know, Joan Rivers.

But

yeah, I really, I'm really happy that I got to experience those people at a formative age.

That's cool.

I think

kind of reiterating what we both kind of alluded to there is like, I think the tonight show was such a an outlet and a way to access a lot of that you know pre-internet especially social media yeah like it was how you found out about celebrities right if you're living like in a small town you know there's if you're a kid it's like you stay up late and you watch a tonight show and see you know what the jokes are see who's funny and that was really like

one of the only ways you could experience it if you were in those kinds of situations.

Yeah, you would read People Magazine or you would see celebrities or athletes on, or political figures on The Tonight show or letterman and that's how you would find out about who they were and what they were like and uh

it was i remember like and i think this is gone i think this era is gone but i know gus it's the same for you how much of your life did you spend standing perfectly still in a hallway just outside of view of your parents and the tv just listening to johnny carson and ed mcmahon or david letterman talk to

terry gar or whoever it was right yeah carvey p carr yeah absolutely Man.

So I'm going to say also the tonight show.

That was, I think, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Huge, huge.

I mean, that was definitely my access to a lot of those people.

Yeah.

So, yeah.

Well, that's great.

How about you, Eric?

My influences comedically, though,

say Stern, definitely.

Just the like the gaggle of sort of people.

His ability to.

to corral and manage a circus.

I think that that is an influence for like podcasting.

Yeah.

For me.

Like I was never, I never really listened to a ton of Stern.

I was never like the biggest Stern fan, but when I would listen, I was always in admiration of how he could run that show and like corral it and have a focus and keep it.

Keep the train on the track.

Yeah.

Nobody else can do it like him.

There was a group in

the 2010s

that had a show on IFC and now they split off and they're doing other things called The Birthday Boys that Bob Odenkirk did stuff with and produced.

And

they are all writers on all these different TV shows.

They have a podcast called The Sloppy Boys.

There's a podcast another guy's on called Dough Boys.

And there's just all like the birthday boys are a huge influence on me.

And that's even a little bit later in life, but it just steered so much of what I enjoy comedically.

Honestly, a lot of my comedy influences from early 2000s Comedy Central reruns of

like Dr.

Katz

and

all of the premium blend.

Here's a gag.

We're just going to show you stand-up half hours that have three comedians in them.

Everyone's doing a killer eight minutes, eight minutes, eight minutes.

Eight minutes of Patrice O'Neal.

And then I think that that was a huge influence on my generation like as a whole.

I think this predate, this obviously predates that, but Jeff, did you ever watch Stand-Up Spotlight on VH1?

Probably.

In my mind, it was very similar to Premium Blane.

It was like Rosie O'Donnell hosted a comedy show where they would have just a bunch of different comics come out for 30 minutes and collect sets.

It was like another way to watch comedy when you're too young to go to a club.

It doesn't sound familiar, but I'm sure I probably caught it.

Yeah.

Kids in the Hall is the first one that I'll always point to and say, like, oh, that was the first thing that I thought was

it made me feel smart for getting

the joke because it was definitely way older than I was when I watched it in 1998 or whatever, like reruns on Comedy Central.

There's this sketch that to this day kills me if I think about it.

I mean, I also love Kids in the Hall grown up.

And by the way,

if you ever want to read a really depressing and sad story,

read about them.

Yep.

Read about Scott and all of them and everything that he went through being a gay man in comedy in the 80s and how they got ripped off, how they never saw a fucking dime off those reruns from Comedy Central.

They never made a cent off of it.

It's fucking criminal.

Same thing happened to the Three Stooges, by the way, way earlier.

But if you ever want to read just a heartbreaking tale of success, read about the Three Stooges or Kids in the Hall.

But there is a sketch that to this day, I'll think about it on my deathbed probably.

It's one of those ones that sticks with me, kind of like they're in space, where it's Dave Foley, and I don't remember, I think maybe Scott.

I don't remember who it was, the other person, but sitting at a like a cafe talking about, like, oh, what'd you watch last night?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You need a mortician.

Yeah.

Stabbing him in the chest, going, you need a mortician.

You need a mortician.

It's him and Kevin.

It's Dave and Kevin.

Yeah.

I think.

And that's a fucking great.

Oh.

He's like, Dave's like,

Kevin's trying to explain a movie he saw last night.

And he's like, oh, you saw Star Wars.

I think it's Citizen Kane.

Citizen Kane.

He's like, no, no, there was like a sled, Roseblood, the Rosebud.

And he's like, Citizen Kane.

And it's clearly, and he keeps saying, no, no, no.

And eventually Dave just loses and starts stabbing him to death.

And he's like, I need it.

I need it.

He's like, you need a mortition.

You need a mortician.

The thing I remember from that is that

Dave saying that the cute age poorly and then looking at him now and going like, oh yeah, that's

that's so funny.

Do you watch all the

new seasons that they've put out?

The only thing I didn't like about it is that it wasn't in front of an audience.

I thought all of the sketches were really good.

I don't think there was, I don't think they really had like a bad sketch there, but the energy wasn't there because it was a single camera camera filmed in somewhere.

Like if you film that in front of an audience and you do it on a stage, it has a way better

energy.

I also saw them live in like 2010, 2011.

How was it?

Fucking awesome.

I bet.

They were so cutting edge and like

they were fucking going for it.

They gave a shit and you could see and it was so much fun.

I loved it.

I love kids in the hall, so that's definitely like a number one for me.

Brain Candy is one of my favorite movies of all time.

I never saw it.

Are you serious?

Oh, stummies?

Oh, dude.

If you hear them talk about it now, they just go like, why did we make this?

It's such, it's fucking weird.

It's so fucking out there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bruce McCullough's dancing character is so fucking great.

Awesome.

So great.

He's still doing like a lot of comedy stuff in Canada.

I follow him on TikTok.

He's great.

Good dude.

All incredibly hilarious people.

They're awesome.

They're all great.

But that'll do it for Anma at Anima Podcast, Twitter, and Instagram.

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And then maybe there's a link to the store on the website.

Maybe, but there's definitely a link to watch a trailer for election if you want to see that.

I need to get our visitor counter working before I get on.

A link to the store going.

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We've got to get a web ring going.

But that'll do it.

Any

final thoughts, parting words for the folks at home?

Help me figure out my CGI bin.

There you go.

Help him figure out his CGI bin.

Bye.