Fighting Raccoons in Underwear

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Okay, we're back.

This is episode 66 of Anma.

Nice.

A little, uh, we're getting there.

We're getting, you're getting every episode.

A little closer.

A little closer.

Uh,

we are back after a short break.

It's 57 degrees and I'm hot hot as fuck.

Well, we're sitting in the sun.

It's not your

hot.

The sun is so hot.

Oh my god, is it always like this?

I got a hot coffee thinking to be nice because it's cold outside.

Uh-uh, wrong.

The high is like 77 today.

What are you talking about?

The high is 68 today.

Is it

I looked at it on yesterday?

It was in the 70s.

Yesterday was in the 70s.

Today's not.

No, today's cold.

But also, sitting in the sun feels so good.

Too hot, too hot.

I was thinking about it earlier.

68.

That's close enough.

That's what I said.

That's literally what I said.

Good morning, Gus.

I was thinking about it earlier, and I like throwing on a pair of pants and a hoodie and coming to work and doing this stuff.

I don't want to wear shorts anymore.

I'm sick of, I don't want to do it anymore.

Yeah.

I just, we need to figure out something else.

Do you mean for the rest of your life?

Yeah, I just, I mean, I'm going to because I have to because you really don't, like, for, like,

I don't feel like you have a choice.

It was a thing that somebody told me when I first moved here was just, they just said, hey, just give into wearing shorts.

There's nothing you can do.

You're not going to be the one to beat it.

We're kilt.

From

March to November is shorts weather.

So I will say, it's hot in, what is this,

early December?

Great time to wear a short-sleeve Anma shirt.

I'm so happy I'm wearing my brown Anma brim-inspired shirt right now, available at store.risteeth.com.

I would love to receive this as a gift from anyone if I didn't have one already.

I think there's great deals going on right now at story.ristif.com.

It was really a toss-up between this one and the earliest than you late shirt.

Both, really, man, they're great for this time of year.

If I can add on to that.

Please.

It's always the right time of year to give Boston Celtics merchandise.

Christ.

He's head to toe today.

You just really into the play-in tournament or?

Yeah, dude.

Of course I'm into the play-in tournament.

Everything's right in the world.

Boston's in the play-in tournament.

Alabama's in the playoffs.

Everybody's happy about it.

All's right in the world.

Boston's in the play-in tournament.

Dude, we're excited about it.

It made basketball matter in November and December.

This is awesome.

It's never mattered before.

It still doesn't.

Oh, it really, really does.

It does.

Everybody's bought into this play-in tournament.

Yeah,

it's the talk of the town.

So, yeah,

what is this tournament?

I keep seeing ads.

I'm not a big basketball person, but I keep seeing ads, and they're like, in-season tournament.

It's the mid-season

person.

Well, it's the NBA's attempt at doing two things.

It's the attempt attempt at

being more Euro in general as the talent pool increases from outside of the U.S.

You know, if you look at like the top five players in the NBA, I think maybe one is from America.

Yeah.

Taking our jobs.

It's become a global league, and they want to, I think, more represent the way the leagues work across the world, like soccer works, you know?

Yeah.

And then also, we're in a situation now with load management where we have reduced the NBA season to

the playoffs.

Like the regular season, the 82 game regular season does not fucking matter.

Every sport's like that though.

But it shouldn't be that way anymore.

And so the NBA is trying to do things to combat it.

One of the ways they did is they created this in-season single elimination tournament.

Is everyone in it by default?

Every team plays in it.

The way it works is there's, I think, five groups, five or six groups, six groups, and there's like four or five teams in each group.

And their regular season play, like every Monday and Friday game for a month, were counted as in-season tournament games and regular season games.

So then the record at the end of the year.

They're not stopping the regular season players.

They're not stopping the regular season at parallel to the regular season.

The only difference is when you get to the single elimination part, which starts tonight, so the only two NBA games tonight are

these two games.

Then tomorrow all the other NBA teams will play.

Then Wednesday, it'll be two more in-season tournament games.

And it'll do that through Saturday, and then it's over.

So the teams that make it into the in-season tournament, the eight teams, they have to play extra games in the season, but that's it.

And the prize, which I think they need to work on, there's a couple of things they need to tweak.

The prize is $500,000 per player, which means nothing to players one through seven or one through eight on the team, right?

Jason Tatum's making $60 million per year.

But if you're player 10,

players like 8 through 15, it's huge.

I think it's more they just want to...

When you're a competitive athlete like that, you just want to beat everyone else.

You just want to win.

I saw.

You just want to beat.

You know, Eric's joking on it, and a lot of people are, but I did see like Tyrese Halliburton, who's one of the best point guards in the NBA.

We're going up against him tonight, plays for the Indiana Pacers.

Kings made a huge mistake getting rid of him, although it worked out well for both teams.

Love Tyrese Halliburton, right?

Pure point guards.

Really, there aren't a lot of them in the league anymore.

He said,

he said, I

he was asked in an interview, Does it matter?

And he goes, Does it matter?

Are you fucking kidding me?

I've never won anything in my life.

I never won a college championship.

I've never come close to winning an NBA championships.

This is an opportunity for me to win something.

Yeah, it matters.

We want to win.

For God's sakes, let me win.

So it matters.

Yeah, absolutely.

Luke Cornett gets a lot of money.

They asked Luke Cornette who's like player 13 on the Celtics.

Maybe he's player 9 on the Celtics, maybe.

They asked him what, like, what are you going to do with your winnings?

And he's like, I'm going to pay off my mortgage.

Yeah.

Can I be player 13?

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, that really is, it's a money thing, and I think that's fine.

And it's making the middle of the season matter to some people.

And I think that's fine.

I just want to point out that Gus is trying to hide from the sun.

You know that the desert levels in Super Mario Bros.

where the sun attacks you?

That's happening to me right now.

I just don't understand.

It's not, it feels good.

You're hot.

Like, you're getting a lot of stuff.

I'm so cozy in my hoodie right now.

I feel really good.

This part of it.

Yeah, me and Snoopy are inside.

We're feeling good, man.

This is good.

We're back, though.

Welcome to Anma.

Sorry about the NBA time.

NBA plan tournament.

I've been curious, and honestly, I keep seeing the commercials, and I've intentionally not looked into it because I wanted you to explain it to me, Jeff.

Okay, well, hopefully I explained it well.

I got it.

The way to make it make more sense is that the winning team gets an extra draft pick.

That's how they should structure it in the future.

Money in a draft pick, so there's actual consequences, but I think they'll get there.

You explained it well.

It's a round-robin tournament, and then it goes single elimination, and then the winner gets everyone gets $500,000.

Hell yeah.

Which matters a lot to player 12.

And a cup.

I mean.

And a cup.

You also get a cup.

Like a

NBA cup.

Yeah, you get a Gerpler.

It's almost the size of a Gerpler.

A Gerpler max.

How have you guys been doing?

We had two weeks off.

Good, good.

It's always a.

This is a tough time of year from a production standpoint.

Yeah, it is.

Just because

you have to bank up so much stuff because of holidays.

And I feel like the last month of the year is

people are checked out.

And I'm not talking about just like internally where we work.

It's like if you try, if you're working with anyone at another company, it's like, oh yeah, they're off.

They're gone.

They're on vacation.

It's like everything slows down so much, and it's such a pain in the ass to deal with it, which is fine.

It's just a lot of work for me now.

It really starts in October, right?

Because you have to start getting ready for Black Friday, which is a big deal.

And that time of year.

And then, and, of course, Thanksgiving, and then going into Christmas.

So for like the last two months of the year, I feel like you do about six months worth of work.

Yeah.

It's been doubly fucking me over this year because I chose to get married and go on a honeymoon in the middle of it too.

So I had to ramp up production to get ready for those two weeks.

And then now as as soon as I get back, it's hit the ground running for Christmas.

Do you want to say where you went?

Where'd you go?

I went to Mexico.

Just went to Cancun.

Just to a little all-inclusive.

It was protected by Falcons.

It was good.

Cos was the name of the Falcon.

COS was the name of the Falcon.

Yeah.

COS?

Yeah, K-O-S-S.

Big Cosby fan?

No,

I think it's

Mayan or

for like Protector or Anger.

I think I told us, I don't remember.

Yeah.

That sounds cool.

Yeah.

I've been down there.

But there was was a point to it.

Okay.

Obviously.

What did you do in the last few weeks?

I've been fighting raccoons.

Running around your front yard.

Yeah, I was chasing them around in my underwear the other night.

My backyard out in my front yard.

Like, like running around, giggling.

I'm going to get you.

Let's tickle you.

One of them was throwing firecrackers.

It was really a really intense moment.

I don't know what was going on.

Yeah,

it's been a lot of that just for me, just dealing with raccoons.

When I was a kid, I hated doing yard work.

Like, I felt like it was such a waste of time.

And as I've gotten older, I really enjoy it.

And I've been getting into that the last couple of weeks.

Can I ask you a question?

Yeah.

You said when you were a kid, you hated yard work.

Was that because you were allergic to grass already?

Or was that something that happened later in life no no no i was definitely allergic to grass already but so it was uncomfortable for you yeah it was it was uncomfortable my parents bought me a fucking dust mask thanks mom and dad

it did nothing but now they're saying masks don't work so i really don't

understand um why'd you buy me the mask mom i always felt like it was a waste right like i'd rather be inside playing video games or something but that's what how you felt about college too that's true uh but now it's like the especially the last two weeks with you know with fall there's leaves everywhere i've really been enjoying like every other day going out and like you know, leaf blowing on, picking them up, putting them in a garbage bag and just like trying to keep my lawn clean while all these leaves and raccoons are fighting me on it.

I guess maybe that's part of it.

Like I've really been trying to take more pride in my yard and the raccoons are around fucking it up.

It might be.

They're fat.

They're fucking huge.

It might be the Alabama in me, but God, I love cutting the grass.

Really?

It's so much fun.

I really enjoy it.

There's something like really zen about it.

I'm right there with you, Gus.

Yeah, it's like early is the new late and yard work is the new video game.

Yard work is not the new video game.

Mower's the new Xbox.

Edger's the new switch.

But that's, I don't know.

Like,

I know I'm definitely old now.

Like the other day I was doing that.

I was like, man, if only for like 15-year-old Gus could see this, he'd be fucking shaking his head and sneezing up a storm.

Oh, man.

Those allergies have really diminished.

The grass allergy is not as bad as it used to be.

When I was a teenager, man, it was like death.

I was super allergic to grass, but now it's just now grass is just an inconvenience for me at this point.

But yeah, so that's what I've been doing.

Nothing too crazy.

What about you, Eric?

You've just been doing grass.

Not the way you seem.

I've been

trying to get in the holiday spirit because we're getting into Christmas time, but mostly it's just been

scheduling shows and recordings that we can get done before the end of the year.

Like Jeff's week this week is fucked.

It's not great.

Jam-fucking packed.

Not great.

We're doing, for the Fuckface podcast, we're doing another season of the Does It Do infomercial show,

which is one of my, and I know I say this a lot and it loses all meaning, but it's one of my favorite things I've ever done at Roosteith in terms of like being in the moment.

It's just really fun.

But up until the second you start recording, I want to do anything else on earth other than that.

And I have so much dread going into Wednesday and Thursday because I just so don't want to do it.

And I know this happens.

Five minutes in, I'm going to have so much fun and I'm going to be so thankful for it.

All that's going to happen is that it's going to be dragging heels until we hit record and then he'll start.

And then the minute we finish that episode, he's going to have ideas for next season.

It's, we're going to do the, we're going to shoot the whole season in like two days.

Yeah.

Uh, because they're not like long shoots and they're a lot of fun.

They like the, I think sort of like the wackiness sort of keeps ramping up and everything on these.

So the show does do.

The show does do, but in order for the show to do, you have to find out if the product does.

And sometimes it don't.

Yeah, sometimes it don't do.

Yeah.

So we'll have that.

That's easy.

That'll be out probably January, February, something like that.

We were supposed to get our assholes waxed tomorrow, but I think we're not doing that.

That got pushed.

I mean, I could talk about it at this point, but my wife is having a second surgery on the back of her first surgery earlier this year from her broken wrist, and And I'm the reason that it had to get pushed this time.

I hate being the reason when something gets rescheduled.

I know, I think we've, have we talked about that on this show?

Just be, you want to, you never want to be the reason that something has to happen.

Yeah.

By the way, I thought you did every, you made every attempt at accommodating us continuing with the schedule and you just not being there, but Gavin refuses to have his asshole waxed without Eric being in the room.

He wants me to be there so bad and then like

and then was asking like if my wife needed the searcher.

Like,

what are you talking about?

Wow.

So, it's been, I mean, that's what I've been sort of in like the off weeks.

I don't think we've talked about not wanting to be the reason something gets rescheduled, but it's like to the point where on the drive here, I was in a call because I didn't want to hold up this meeting and have this meeting rescheduled or be longer.

It's like the only time they could make it work was 10 a.m.

I was like, fine, I'll take the car while I watch Jeff forget that 180, the I-35 183.

That just changed.

If I'm driving, we're driving my way

we did it that's the way we do it yeah and we had the quietest pleasantries ever because of your fucking phone call

so yeah it's uh like taking a call while driving to come here and do this show uh like just doubling up on stuff and trying to find a way to make it work yeah i gotta as soon as we're done here i gotta sit down and research and figure out this week's so all right which i have no fucking clue on i was thinking maybe maybe ford fairlain Do you remember that movie?

Oh, yeah,

I was doing a little bit of research.

Andrew Dice Clay.

Andrew Dice Clay, Ed O'Neill, fucking Priscilla Presley, Wayne Newton, Gilbert Godfrey.

It was a crazy cast.

I never saw it.

Yeah.

Crazy cast.

Huge soundtrack.

Soundtrack is way bigger than the movie.

Real

1990 Andrew Dice Clay kind of misogyny.

You know, I think that maybe that's why it didn't play.

Although that shit played really well in the 90s, so who knows?

But I found out it was based on a series of short stories written in the 1970s.

Yeah.

They were published in in a newspaper.

And so I bought the book, the collection of them.

I'm going to read them first, but I don't know if I'll get to them today.

Huh?

So, yeah, it's like we said, it's that great time of year.

And then, like you said, you screwed yourself over.

You got a ton extra to do.

Yeah, and then I got to run over to do the break shot after that.

Yeah.

Plenty, but me, I'll be on it today.

Okay.

Just for you.

Thanks, though.

I probably appreciate it.

Yeah, it's just, it's the type.

I think you probably, if you've been following this company at all over the last 20 years, you've heard us talk about this on any number of shows shows yeah where the holidays turn into like

this i will say this this this holiday season is great because this is the first time since 2008 that i'm not that i don't have to worry about rtp oh yeah yeah over the holiday break

uh and i don't have to do like six recordings in a week or or something insane uh which you remember what that's like you have to help oh i charge all that yeah but don't worry i have all these other shows now yeah

but instead of that show he has 11 other podcasts yeah pretty much it's just like i mean we have have to talk about when we're going to record these.

It's not super hard to get more of these in, but at the same time, it's just like, I don't want to be the one to add more shit to your guys' schedule.

It normally has to happen.

I have a block for this, so it's not terrible.

Speaking of RTP, did you see the, do you care at all about the Fallout trailer that came out the other day?

So

I have

very limited exposure to the Fallout show that's coming out.

I saw that a trailer came out, but I thought about it and I thought, I haven't read anything about it.

I just won't watch the trailer.

I'll just just watch the show when it comes out.

I do care about the show.

I care about Fallout.

I care about Bethesda.

I care about the property.

So we'll see.

I just want to watch the show Blind.

It's got Wally Goggins.

You know, I'm a big Goggin hit.

Oh, you got to love Uncle Baby Billy.

Oh, he's also.

I was watching.

Do you guys watch Invincible?

Yeah, yeah.

I didn't realize he's the government agent, dude, with the

mullet, the white hair with the mullet.

That's him?

That's fucking Wally Goggins.

He looks just like him.

What's his name?

I can't.

I just watched episode one of season two last night, and he's all over it.

I'm really annoyed at that show right now.

I've only seen episode one of season two.

I think they're breaking it up.

Yeah.

I think it was because of the strike, wasn't it?

Well, is that why?

Oh, I think so.

Yeah, like, I watched the fourth episode, and then this past week, I was like, hey.

I didn't watch the new episode.

I went to look for it.

It's like, oh, no, they're on break.

They're on break.

And I think it's like a lost situation.

I think the strike fucked it up.

Gotcha.

Speaking of fucking new shows, have you guys watched or been watching Squid Game The Challenge?

No, that seems like a terrible idea.

It's so good.

It is so fucking good.

I feel like

the people who came up with that missed the idea and the mark, like they lost the lead of the fucking show.

No, they do.

You're right, right?

Except they do a thing.

They figure out a way to make it make sense is all I'll say because

they tweak the challenge.

Some of them are straight from the show right yeah like walking across the the bridge like that kind of stuff is straight from the show but they make those people live together and they form alliances and then they force them through challenges to backstab each other and so while people aren't really dying the it somehow carries so much weight when people get voted out or they get because they also have like these between the big challenges they'll be like all right everybody come in the middle of the room now uh you vote for somebody and they're like vote for what they're gonna vote for somebody who gets to stay in the room and they're like like, okay, you vote for somebody.

And then they're like, you vote for somebody.

And they're like, okay, they did it like 10 times.

Like, all right, everybody else, you're just dead.

Oh, my God.

It's just like, it's brutal.

They just, and so they found a way to make the make the stakes make like really and it's four and a half million dollars the winner gets

4.65 million dollars they have the fucking pig and every time people get voted out they pop it in

they do what they do one thing that's kind of it's kind of hokey but you get into it is when you're out like say they're in the marbles game or whatever when the person loses they all wear squibs on it and it pops and then they have to pretend they're dead and fall over.

That's fine.

That's cool.

Yeah.

All right.

Jeff Ramsey, gives it a thumbs up.

Maybe.

From a reality standpoint,

from a double-crossing, dramatic, like all the things I love about the Temptation Island Survivor, people losing their minds, people like betraying each other and feeling like just ruining each other's friendships and relationships.

This show is full of that.

So it's funny you say that because

my big reality show right now, well, it's been my big reality show forever, is The Amazing Race.

So good this season.

So I was going to complain, it's too wholesome now.

You think so?

I feel like this season is a return to form from last season.

I thought last season was too wholesome.

They've been struggling a bit because of COVID, obviously.

That kind of fucked up the format of the show.

This is a lot more true to the way the show should be.

Yes.

But I feel like everyone in general is too nice.

I'm thinking about old teams from the early years where it was just so cutthroat.

Well, I mean, it's still, like, nobody wants to to help the brothers out, right?

Yeah, because they're consistently.

And they'll be like, no.

Like, the bearded dude was like, I'd love to help you, but I feel like I can't right now.

You're right.

They're very friendly about it.

Yeah.

They're very friendly about it.

Like, I think about Jose Ian and Terry.

Remember that fucking old dude who had to drain his fuel line because they put the wrong fuel in?

Like, that dude would not help anyone.

He would spit on anybody who asked for help.

Or even like when Boston Rob and Amber had their villain run after Survivor and they did two seasons on Amazing Race, like it was so cutthroat back then.

Yeah.

And like, watching it now, it's like, it's still a great show.

It's just like, times have changed so much.

Everyone's just way more friendly about it.

I guess I'm enjoying it because I watched it.

I like it too.

I watched it with you way back in the day when you're talking about it, when it was cutthroat, right?

And then I didn't watch it for years and years and years.

I came back to it last season and it was rough.

And so this season feels like Amazing.

Like they're taking flights again.

Yeah, last season they were doing all the charter stuff.

And so it just feels like an improvement from last season.

It's weird because that show's been around for over 20 years now.

Like this is season, I think, 35.

I think it's been around for 22 or 23 years at this point.

And the world has changed so much while that show

has been on the air.

You know, you think about when that show first came out.

I remember episode one, season one, they're like, all right, you all, you know, they were in New York.

And they were like, I forgot where the first place they had to go was.

Like, you all have to fly to London or wherever it was.

Go.

And everyone immediately ran for a payphone

right there was no like i'm gonna stop someone and ask to use their smartphone yeah there was no this there was like everyone ran for a payphone to try to call a travel agent and then tried to get in a cab to go there like the the they still can't they're not supposed to use you know phones or whatever so but but the go-to is you you ask a passerby to use their phone and and try to figure out where you're going or what you're doing uh that way but it's like just the juxtaposition of the very beginning of the show and where they are now, the world is totally different.

Yet, somehow, you and I are still hanging out and doing the same shit.

Pretty cool.

It's great.

We watched episode one, season one together, and here we are talking about it 25 years later.

Yeah.

Great show.

Fucking phenomenal.

I also, well, yeah, great show.

I think

I'm like 99% sure I've seen every season and every episode.

Wow, I have missed a huge swath of it.

Especially during the pandemic when you couldn't travel like 2020,

2021.

I went back and I rewatched all of them you were traveling vicariously through them yeah it was like oh i just like went through and just like powered through because they were all on i forget i think they were all on prime video at the time uh maybe now they're all like on paramount plus or something but it's like i was like all right i'm just gonna watch every episode of the amazing race yeah it's like uh emily and i watched 25 seasons of survivor during the pandemic same same thing jesus it's funny because i haven't watched survivor in years right but It's the lead-in show to The Amazing Race.

Yes.

And to this day, when you know, I record The Amazing Race,

they always start with the very end of Survivor, like showing votes and whatnot.

I won't look at it because in my mind, I'm like, I might watch the season of Survivor, and I don't want to know who got voted out because I'll remember it.

So I'll try to hit play, then really quickly fast forward to The Amazing Race and not pay attention to what's going on in Survivor.

I got too excited about Amazing Race a couple weeks ago, and so we jumped and watched The Amazing Race before Survivor, and I got Survivor spoiled.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So there was an interesting wrinkle, I guess, that happened.

Sorry, this is an Amazing Race podcast now.

Yeah, you're welcome.

Well, listen,

this podcast is is about you and I talking about the nostalgia of our friendship in Austin.

And we watched season one of this show in Austin a long time ago.

Well, it makes sense.

We watched the first couple of seasons, because I know we watched Ian and Terry.

Ian and Terry were season three.

Yeah.

I know we watched them at your old house down south.

So we watched at least the first three seasons together.

Anyway, interesting bit of trivia I found out about The Amazing Race is this

current, so apparently this current season of The Amazing Race, what is it?

I said it's like 35, I think.

Something like that, yeah.

They already have another season in the can that they have not aired.

Whoa.

I guess back in January, earlier this year, CBS asked Survivor and The Amazing Race, hey, instead of hour-long shows, can you make hour and a half shows?

And The Amazing Race production was already mostly done with a season that they had already edited to be our shows.

So they're like, fuck, let's just film a new season.

for hour and a half length, put that one out, and then the season that they already filmed that's already in the can is going to be the next season that premieres in February.

Jeez.

It's like this really weird thing where it's like, oh, oh, they had to really shuffle.

They shot a whole new season just to put it out in this new format.

I think that for a little while there post-pandemic, Survivor was running overlaps recordings.

Like they were recording the next season before the current one ended.

And they were like, it's like, and now they, I think it's like a factory.

They're just like running, like, as soon as one ends, they start the news.

Do they have their own?

Yeah, well, in Fiji, they go.

They've been in Fiji for the last like nine seasons or the last 11 seasons in the same location.

They give up like traveling around the world.

They're just stuck in a place, which I think makes a lot more sense for them, probably.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

Yeah.

Who gives a shit if they're in Australia or Fiji?

Yeah, hey, the background is changed.

Well, it's funny because not to derail you, but I always wonder the same thing about Naked and Afraid, which is another show I watched.

It's like, we're in South Africa or we're in Bolivia.

All right, so you're either in a jungle or a desert, which is it?

There's two options.

Is it hot or cold?

It's like alone.

I don't know if you guys watch Alone.

I love Alone, but it's always like, we're in North Canada, still in North Canada, always North Canada.

They bounce around a little bit, but

it's uh

I never thought about them just being in one spot.

Yeah, I had no idea.

It makes a lot of sense.

And from a production standpoint, it's got to be so much easier.

So much easier.

And they shortened the seasons.

Like, it used to be 50 days, I think, or 54 days.

I can't remember.

Now it's like 27.

Oh, wow.

They did that post-pandemic.

So now they just turn and burn.

They eliminated dead days.

Because I think that every third day was just a day to yourself on the beach.

And they're like, we don't need that shit.

I think probably you controlling, like, you having all your production there, you controlling all that stuff and everything that probably helps yeah all that

all that stuff i think they're trying to streamline like this season the amazing race also did away with non-elimination legs which has been really really interesting yeah but i miss the non-elimination legs because there was always that question mark like this team i like is going to get eliminated unless the wild card is non-elimination but they kind of replace it they kind of do a bait switch where they're like guess what you're still racing and they give you the they give you the clue like oh So this episode doesn't end.

It's like a part one.

There's a part two.

Yeah, but I do miss it.

It's kind of like how there was the Tim Gunn surprise back in the day where he could save somebody if he disagreed with him getting voted out of Project Runway.

Oh, I guess Christian does that too now.

Christian does that now.

I love the 90-minute format.

How do you feel about it?

No, it's good.

It's great for Survivor in Amazing Race.

I think some people complain that, in their opinion, it leads to padding of the episode.

I don't know about Survivor, I'm only speaking to Amazing Race.

But I feel like for the Amazing Race, you get to see a lot more, and there's more variety.

Sometimes it's like you get a detour roadblock, and then there's something else as well.

Like, there's just more going on and more activities to do, which is what I really like.

But there was a weird, wait,

I forget.

You said you've only seen episode one of Invincible.

So

have you watched this season of Amazing Race so far?

I've seen all of this season of Amazing Race.

Either Slovenia paid them some good money or someone got a fucking hard on for Slovenia.

Well, that was, I think they said the first time they'd ever been there.

Right, but they spent like

two or three episodes there, and everyone was like, oh, it's so beautiful here.

It's the best place.

And even I was like, man, I'm going to go to Slovenia now.

works.

Whoever paid for that, man, that's money well spent.

That's why I drink Pepsi because that Kindle Jenner commercial, that shit works.

It fucking works.

It works.

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We should we should do a little pivot here on topic, but going back to the fallout thing Gavin Cantrell who used to work here was in production He was a gaffer for that show.

Really?

Yeah, really.

Yeah, he did some lighting.

I want to say like the the New York I think like area really I think is where I think that's where they Does he live up there now?

Yeah.

And so I was talking to him.

This is back when they were doing like the shooter or whatever, and he was like, I'm doing this.

And I'm like, that's awesome.

And then I'm a big Fallout fan.

Yeah.

So,

Dog Day Coffee Shop.

I don't think we've mentioned where we are.

Nope.

Eric tried a few times, and we kept cutting him off.

You know, it's okay.

But sometimes

it's, you know, it's the background of what we're doing here.

What's great about this place is I've seen two or three different people try to go in and find the entrance, and they can't.

They see us drinking coffee, and they know it's here.

We don't know how to get it.

It is connected to Nosh and Bevy, which is the bar.

So, Burnett Road from Anderson to 183 is a dead zone to me.

I don't, for whatever reason, I don't ever come up here.

So, this, it's all new.

Gus pointed out, we do have a connection to this parking lot.

Maybe it'd be better if you told it.

Yeah, it's very good.

So, it's a story we told on Anima before.

Oh, happy.

So, yeah, I won't get into the whole thing.

Oh, okay.

But the time that

my first wife threw up on Gus.

Yeah, she threw up on me.

It was in this parking lot, Common Interest at karaoke bars, right over there.

And you see that island, it's not this one.

There's two islands here.

There's one with a light on it.

That other island past it that doesn't have a light on it.

We were right by there on the left side that we're more facing, closer to common interest, and that's where she puked on me.

You have a phenomenal memory.

But I

can absolutely see it into my mind.

I can absolutely see it.

We got in the car, and Jeff went, I don't know where I'm going.

And I went, oh, it's dog day coffee, like Nashum Bevy.

And common interest, where your wife threw up on me.

What?

Not Emily.

No, no, no, no.

Yeah, Jeff was like, how am I supposed to remember that?

I was like 1999.

I was like, how can you forget?

It was right there.

24 fucking years ago.

I think that's the only time I've been vomited on by an adult.

I kind of remember it.

It was very funny.

It was after that that Gus wrote the list of pros and cons to being my friend and decided he was going to

either break up with me or stay friends with me basically

pros one wow he said it was close

it was a it was a preview of uh bush gore in 2000

take it to the supreme court to figure it out so this this little strip what Jeff is saying is true for me also from Anderson to 183 on Burn It I drive it and every time I drive it, I go, ooh, something new.

And nothing's new on this strip.

It's all been here for a very long time, but I have no memory of this drag for some reason, but I really like this drag.

There's an oil change place over there on the other side of Burnett that used to be a Jiffy Lube.

And I always remember that place because I want to say it was in the early 2000s.

They got in a lot of trouble because the city found out they weren't disposing of their motor oil.

They were just tossing it out back.

Awesome.

So they got shut down.

So that's what I always associate this stretch of Burnett with.

Is the Jiffy Lube that got so lazy, they were just tossing the oil out.

Do something about it.

Dude, that's funny.

Not a Jiffy Lube anymore.

So the gas gas pipe used to be over here, too.

It was like a head shop, but I think all the gas pipe locations are gone.

It's disappearing rapidly.

As like,

if you're familiar with Burnett and if you haven't driven down here in a while, every other block is being bulldozed to turn into like a five-story condo with first-floor retail.

You can see there's one right over there.

Yeah, there's one right there.

There's one straight.

That's about to go up a couple of years.

Yeah, over here, that's going to go behind.

And there's actually a few in this little strip.

But

those aside, this is one of the only places that still feels like the Austin I move I think you and I used to say Burnett further south used to be that way it's not anymore but it's not it's it's like it's slowly pushing its way out of here and and and I don't know how to quantify it other than it's just like unassuming and a little run down

in a in a clean way in a charming way there's like probably a homeless dude wearing a t-rex shirt who's eating a kalachi

it's one-story businesses mixed in with strip malls, and the businesses are for things that you would never need in your day-to-day life, like leather shoe repair or vacuum cleaner.

Do you not need a kayak?

They're having a huge kayak sale at Waterloo.

Kayak sale.

That's a good way to put it, dude.

Right by Atomic Tattoo.

It's places that you would never, rock and roll rental.

It's places you'd never go day to day.

That fucking atomic tattoo I went into one time.

I actually have a story about that tattoo.

Oh, okay.

I was going to go with somebody and get a tattoo one night.

We were going to get like matching tattoos.

This is maybe a decade ago.

Drought drinking on a Friday night.

We're like, we should get a tattoo together right now.

Like, okay, let's fucking do it.

Went into that tattoo parlor because it was open.

This is like at 11 o'clock at night, and they were probably open until like one or two.

And we're like, yeah, we want to get some matching tattoos.

We're going to get hand tattoos.

I remember.

I don't remember what they were.

I don't even remember what they were.

We were going to get matched tattoos.

And the guy that was working there was like,

I could do it.

And the guy just looked.

It was like a layer of dirt on him you know and he had and i remember he put his hands down on the table and he had in like old english script completely blown out and i got a lot of blown out tattoos but like on his hands it just said sith lord and it was just lead and this old english script and i went uh

and he like went into the back to smoke a cigarette or something and he was like he'd given us a book to look through or something and uh and when he went back i was like let's just go and we left and i didn't get a tattoo that night Sorry, Atomic Tattoo.

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Sith Lord's not here anymore.

He probably owns it.

It's probably

a lovely dude.

I just was skeeved out by the whole environment.

But that's this whole area.

This whole area is like that from, again, from Anderson up to 183.

And you can take this all the way.

And it's the bowling alleys up here and everything.

A little further, which everything's going away.

By the way, I should say, because I was like 40, 38, 40, I said, no.

If I was 22, I would have got three tattoos from that.

I would have been like, rack him up, let's do it.

How lady he opened for her?

Totally.

I think I read the other day that there's speculation that Highland Lane is going to be closing next year.

It is.

I don't think it's speculation.

I think it's happening.

They're going to retire, right?

I think they sold it, and it's retiring.

And

Lebowski's is moving, I think, somewhere else.

Are they going to find another bowling alley?

Because the name's weird without a bowling alley.

It's really weird without it.

But I took my friend Jason there.

I mean, we talked about it in one of the supplementals.

I took my friend Jason there because it was just like a very Austin thing to do.

And then I got recognized by one of the people that worked at LeBowski's.

It was very nice.

Yeah.

She's like, oh, my God, are you Eric?

And I went, yeah.

And we took a picture.

It was great.

The hamburger was fantastic.

I loved that.

Yeah, we watched people bowl and we watched a play-in tournament game.

And my friend Jason was just going, what the fuck is going on?

We're just eating a hamburger going, this is crazy.

And I went, Austin, baby.

It's great.

You You know,

I was getting dinner the other night with my cousin and his husband.

Uh-huh.

And we were talking about burgers.

And I want to get back on the burger train.

Go to the burger talk?

Because there's a lot of new burger spots in town, but he was talking about Clark's as the best burger in town.

Clark's has a great burger.

And I keep hearing.

I don't know.

I'm not sure if that.

I don't know that I've ever had the burger there, but I really want to find out.

It got me thinking, like, I do want to know what the best burger in town is.

Yeah, right.

And I think they might not be open for lunch.

They are.

I think they are.

Are they?

Okay.

I think they are.

They've got great French fries.

Oh, that's what I want to hear.

Yeah, they got like almost like shoestring, really thin.

Super crisp and perfectly salted.

They've got a really good fry.

Well,

I'll look at the calendar and we'll book it.

We also need to do Hat Creek, which is right down the front.

1825 Burger Bar, whatever, the one we got broken into not too long ago up on Far West.

If we're talking burgers, we would be remiss not to mention the passing of Fran.

Oh, yeah.

Fran and Dan.

I didn't realize she was still alive.

So I sent that to you guys, and that was the first thing you said.

Oh, my God.

She was still alive.

She was 87, I think.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I read the article, the write-up in the Statesman, that you sent about it.

And apparently she was a waitress at El Gallo, which is that Mexican restaurant we talked about forever ago that was down off of South Congress, where it's like they don't.

do substitutions.

She might have been the lady who yelled at me and told me

I like sour cream.

And I'm like, I really don't.

It's just like weird, the intersection of local establishments like that.

But that's the changing landscape of Austin.

I never got to eat at France.

I've been to Dan's.

Been to a bunch of Dans.

I think what we said before is then you've eaten at Friends.

Yep.

I think even in the comments

on Reddit about it, someone was like, Yeah, the only difference was Franz used mustard on the number one.

Or it was like something inconsequential like that.

That's an awesome thing right there, baby.

Hell yeah.

But yeah, we'll get into some burger apps because we're going to have to batch record a couple of these anyway.

So we're going to have to do some afternoons, grab a couple of burgers.

That makes total sense.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, so speaking of Austin stuff I had an idea bear with me

I was the other day one of my favorite things is watching local lawyer commercials oh yeah yeah yeah okay and they're all terrible it's like I look at them and I would always I always wonder and I always joke like

Could you make a dream team of local lawyers?

Like, who would the dream team look like?

Like, if I was

an OJ defense team.

Right.

If I was hit by an 18-wheeler, who would I call?

Like that kind of stuff.

And I really annoy my wife because whenever a Ted Lorenz commercial comes on, I do all of his lines and I act it out.

I'm on top of it.

Come on.

That's not right.

Like I know all of his greatest hits.

She hates it.

But then I started wondering, like, so then

my thought process kept going and I thought.

If you had like a battle royale of all like the sleazy local TV lawyers, who would win?

And I want to put this out to the audience.

I don't want to have this discussion right now.

I want to prime the pump and put it out there so the audience can do their opinion.

Because we have our opinions of living in Austin for our entire adult lives.

I tried to pare it down

to eight.

Okay.

Wow.

And I made a list of eight.

I wonder if I'll recognize all eight.

Okay.

So right after the reason I had this idea was I was watching a Wayne Wright commercial.

So you got to have Wayne Wright on.

Is first.

After that, it's Thomas J.

Henry.

Oh, TJ H.

Ted Lorenz.

Ted.

He's on top of it.

Jeff Davis.

444, 444, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 10, right?

444.

Wayne Wright is called the 8s.

And Jeff Davis is just called 4.

David Comey, the attorney who rocks.

He doesn't look like a lawyer, so it helps him sneak up on him.

He hasn't run that commercial in probably 20 years.

He probably hasn't had hair in 20 years.

The shorelocks were from the 90s.

If you were talking about David Comey, you got to bring up Chris Morrow, who doesn't really do TV ads, and neither does David Comey anymore, but there's bad blood, apparently, between Chris Morrow and David Comey, so that's why I got to put them both up there.

Adam Lowy, who's a newcomer to TV, he has billboards everywhere, but I put him on the list because Brandon Farmahini loves arguing with him on Twitter.

Brandon, that's Brandon.

I don't know if you follow Brandon, that's his favorite pastime.

And then, of course, another blaster in the past, Betty Blackwell.

Hell yeah.

Mentioned on the show.

I want to mention Betty Blackwell from her original commercials, not from her real commercial.

Nudo, Betty

Let me pose this to you.

We're priming the pump and people can start the debate

in the comments and on our slash anima podcast.

Let me pose this to you.

What if,

maybe towards the end of the season, we have our own play-in tournament.

Our own in-season tournament.

We have our own in-season tournament where we have an eight-player bracket and then we watch the commercial.

We do this as like a live stream.

What if we do this as like a live stream where, where, or a recorded thing, whatever, where we have the eight random draw, and then we'll watch the matchup and we watch the commercials and we have the debate and we pull the audience on who should win.

And so there's weight behind.

So now there's kind of a little bit of a weight on like the audience is saying this one, but you guys think this way.

Yeah.

And you kind of have to debate, compare and contrast.

And then as it gets deeper and deeper, just on this stream, we get deep into like, oh, fuck is David Commey going to make it to the next round?

I love this.

I love this.

This

You're elevating the idea.

I think doing a play-in,

a local lawyer play-in tournament is such a fucking funny idea.

I got to be honest with you guys.

I think there's a clear winner out the gate.

One of these people is like fucking Thanos compared to the rest of them.

I think so, too.

But you can't discount an underdog.

So no, you're right.

You're right.

You know, a number 16 doesn't beat a number one a lot, but

you play the game for a reason.

Well, unless you're college football.

Alabama's in the playoffs.

Yeah, exactly.

So you don't play.

We deserve to be in that playoffs.

I can't wait for Alabama to lose to Texas again and the championships.

He's the number one team in the country.

What do you want from us?

You lost to Texas.

That was the news.

Who lost to Oklahoma?

That was last month's news.

What have you done for me lately?

It's so, it was the college football playoff thing I knew was just going to be like a wacky thing, especially here in Austin.

I watched it live, this election stream, because I had to know.

And then Texas made it, and I went, hell yeah.

And then I'm like, I wonder who the other one's going to be.

And it wasn't Florida.

And it was like, what is going on?

Crazy.

Crazy.

Florida State.

Yep.

No losses.

Perfect season.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Play for us.

Well, they have one or whatever it is.

They have one loss, the ACC, because they're fucking leaving.

There's no way they're sticking around.

I'm in the shade now.

It's cold.

Oh, my God.

I'm going to get like half in the shade, half in the sun.

We got to turn so delicate.

Apparently.

We got to talk about dog day,

this coffee.

I don't think there's, again, the third time we're trying to get to.

I ate my coffee or drank my coffee at half an hour ago.

I don't know that there's a ton to say about it.

Maybe you guys feel differently, but Dog Day inside of Nosh and Bevy.

I've been here one other time, watched the U.S.

play, I think, the Netherlands in the World Cup, had a cup of coffee here after a couple of beers.

Seemed to watch that game.

If you come here, the entrance is around the corner from the front.

Yes, it's not on the front.

It looks like it's not.

It's not on the Burnett side.

No.

It's closer to common interest.

Yes, it is.

So you come check it out if you want to.

The bar doesn't open until later.

It's blocked off.

It is blocked off.

Dog Day.

And so Dog Day is within

the bar.

And you can sit here if you're a Nash and Bevy person and you go, it's just, it's in the middle of this bar, but the entrance is not the bar entrance.

It's very strange.

But what did you guys think?

Gus, you got the Americano, and Jeff, you got the iced coffee or the cold brew.

That was on nitro, by the way.

Yeah.

That you had to let settle.

Yeah.

This

is

not the best cup of coffee,

but not terrible.

This is very middle of the road.

Like, given the choice between my coffee at home and this, I'll drink my coffee at home

every time.

This is a little bitter,

a little maybe overextracted.

If I'm going to get real picky, I mean, this is probably like a 6.5.

Okay.

Creamy.

A little

flat on taste.

Yeah.

I'll give it like a 7.4.

Okay.

7.4.

4.

Oh.

This is maybe the worst coffee I've had since we started this show.

I've drank through about two-thirds of it.

The bottom is just sludge.

Oh, you're kidding.

Goodness, dude.

Look at the sediment in the cup.

The bottom is just sludge.

That's insane.

And I'm drinking it, you can taste it.

Yeah.

And it just keeps making me go, oh, it's like giving me a headache.

Yeah.

It tastes like old coffee because it is.

Yeah, I've only drank about half of mine.

Yeah,

I like this place as a bar, and I think if you're a few drinks in and you need to get a cup of coffee, what a fucking godsend.

It is right there and it is quick service.

I recommend this if you're at Nosh and Bevy getting a little slammed.

It's a so since it's like a shared space with a bar, it's like a cool dark place with like some real big

comfy looking chairs.

I wouldn't know we sat outside.

Yep.

So I'd say it does have that going for it.

There's a dude taking a work conference call in there.

Absolutely.

They seem to be pretty pro-veteran.

I'll say that.

Yes, they were.

Like they have a thing it looks like where you can pay it forward where if you can pay for a cup of coffee for a veteran they put a receipt on the wall and if you're a veteran you can pull it down and he didn't do that you didn't do it no

i don't

i have this something emily and i argue about a lot uh-huh i don't ever feel comfortable doing that i don't know why you earned it i mean now i here's where i do i'm gonna

park you may think i said it facetiously but you can no i know i will park in the veteran spot at lowe's i feel comfortable doing that to be fair so will i

but i i i don't know I don't know why.

I survived the Cold Wars.

I mean, I was for five years.

So I don't know why.

I always have like, I was having imposter syndrome my entire life.

So I don't know why I wouldn't have a gear.

I think most veterans who are like stand-up guys also probably wouldn't take that off the wall.

Yeah, it's like there's probably a veteran who needs a million.

He needs it, and that is, I think, like I can afford a cup of coffee.

I think that's most of the thinking that you would run into veterans.

I think they would be like, well, I don't need it.

I don't need to do that.

I think that would just be it.

It's great to have there and i think there are people who definitely need it i think it's really cool it's good i think i don't think we are nice enough in general to veterans no i think we have society i i wholeheartedly agree with that as a as a government yeah hey thanks for uh thanks for the here's your life anyway here's the va go fuck yourself yeah good luck yeah

good luck anyway we're cutting funding or it's like oh halloween for five years yeah you don't get va fuck off sorry only only if we maimed you in your five years do you have access to the vaccine you don't get access to the va No.

Not as you fucking retire from it or get disability.

Wow.

Yeah.

I figured it was like I can't go to a PX.

I can't go on base.

I tried to go to Fort Hood a couple years ago just to run the nest.

They wouldn't let me on base.

I figured if you'd served that you were at all, you were set for VA stuff.

Nope.

Like the VA and the way the government keeps getting stricter with that stuff and cutting funding is like, oh, okay, cool.

I mean, at least it's just lip service that we love soldiers.

It's like nurses during COVID.

Yeah.

Thumbs up.

Thank you for your service.

Two weeks.

We're going to support the shit out of you for two weeks.

Thank you, veterans, nurses, and I think fast food employees were supposed to take you during COVID.

So

I recommend, even though this cup of coffee isn't great, I recommend this place as a bar that has stuff to do and coffee for when you're drunk.

That is, to me, this is a terrible cup of coffee while I'm having a cup of coffee.

It is a great cup of coffee after two like black and tans.

Very situational.

Oh, absolutely.

And I love, this situation needs to be be happening.

There's way more

inside of bars.

I would love to have more coffee inside of bars.

No, this is awesome.

Yeah, I won't bemoan any place that is pro-military.

Definitely come check out Dog Day.

I think it's really cool.

I think come out and check out Nosh and Bevy and

then come on over and have a cup of coffee.

Do some karaoke over common interests.

Throw up on your

push.

Play some pool over at Slick Willie's.

Hey, we actually have

a letter?

We actually have something something that somebody sent into us to Anma, and they sent a little note.

So, this will be, there's not really a question here, but this will be our Anarchy Me Anything for this week.

Hey, Gus, Jeff, and Eric.

It's like they sloppily tore that off of a notepad.

Yes, they did.

They were in a rush.

I got to write something.

Love hearing all the old stories and what each building in Austin used to be.

Keep up the good work.

Used to be a Jiffy Lubretto in anarchy.

I've sent a bag of coffee from my favorite local roaster here in Toledo.

Oh.

Enjoy Mokamba from Flying Rhino, one of the only coffees I've ever tasted where I detected the note of what they say on the bag.

Blueberry.

Love Trent.

Thanks, Trent.

Yep.

So happy that the Great Lakes region is slowly winning over Jeff LOL.

Oh, my God.

I can't wait.

So they're the okay lakes.

I think that's really nice.

You don't have to send us any coffee.

I think that's so nice that that you did that.

Yeah, I really appreciate it, Trent.

We'll have to make it and see what, you know, we'll give it a nice little review and everything.

But that was, that's so nice.

We could make it during our lawyer extravaganza.

Oh, that's good.

That's a good idea.

Be sponsored by Trent.

Yeah, we got it.

And Flying Rhino.

Representing Toledo, Ohio.

Thank you very much, Trent.

I think that's so nice that you sent that in.

Do we know it's Toledo, Ohio?

What other Toledo is there?

I'm sure there's another one, right?

There is another Toledo, but I thought he said Great Lakes region.

That's true.

Yeah.

Because there could be a a toledo in the great lakes there could be two how many toledos are there in america toledo oh okay toledo spain well that's not toledo drive austin texas i don't think that's right

toledo washington toledo oregon and toledo

ia is iowa iowa is it iowa yeah or yeah then those are the other toledos i'm sure there are more um but we're going to see what toledo you're from what toledo are you from which cool what's your closest toledo let us know in the comments but

everyone, if you're listening to this, you have homework.

Yeah.

You have to look up the eight lawyers I mentioned, watch their commercials on YouTube.

Again, with Betty Blackwell, watch the old one.

Maybe somebody can compile it on Reddit and then y'all can just go to the Anma subreddit, which we don't run.

We don't run.

Eric likes to say it.

It's not that I like to say it.

It's that it needs to be known.

Yeah.

Because then you get people from the PV going, hey, this happened and the mod did this.

I don't have anything to do with that, man.

That's it.

I'm not saying that has happened on the Anma one.

I'm just letting you know.

It will inevitably.

Yeah.

My whole thing in life is that I just don't want to hear it, so don't bring it to me.

That's all.

I just don't want to hear it.

But I think we wrap up here on Anma.

This is exciting.

I'm very excited for our own play-in tournament.

I'm going to see when we can find time, maybe in early January after on the other side of the holidays.

We don't need to schedule stuff in the middle of December when we're already fucked.

Yeah, let's not schedule any additional work before January 1st.

That's what you think.

Our slash Anma podcast is the subreddit we don't run.

You follow us at Anma Podcast on Twitter and on Instagram where you see all the pictures from these episodes and all the other episodes of Anma.

A very nice day in early December.

As long as you're half in the sun.

Yeah, the sun feels very good.

Don't listen to Gus.

And I'm excited for this season.

We're getting closer and closer to 69.

What is that?

Week by week, we are getting worse.

And we're starting our own play-in tournament.

Yeah, well, I'm excited.

We got to see birds.

We're moving.

Yeah, we're doing it.

Anva's back, baby.

A lot happening in Anmaville.

That's right.

And you can go get our shirts, too.

Store.roosterteeth.com.

I designed a shirt.

It's great.

I love that.

You know, the nice thing about a shirt?

Uh-huh.

Everybody has to wear one.

Everyone has to wear it.

Unless you're chasing raccoons in your yard.

Yeah, unless you're chasing raccoons or you're living on the beach in Hawaii.

Yeah.

You got to wear a shirt.

So if there are seven and a half billion people on earth, and seven, let's say 7.3 billion people wear shirts on a regular basis, It's a pretty big market for our shirts.

That's a big market for shirts in general.

Yeah.

And so that's why we keep coming up with these designs.

If we could sell a billion,

that would be cool.

If we could sell a billion.

Help us get to a billion shirts sold.

One billion Anma shirts sold.

That's pretty, do like a McDonald's kind of thing.

Yeah, exactly.

It's pretty exciting.

Can you imagine if we sold a billion and then we're like, well, we got to sell two billion.

And then we do that.

And then we're like, we have to change it to billions and billions servers.

Wow.

Yeah.

Has anyone ever done that?

We'll be the second.

That'll do it for Anma for this week.

Thanks for listening, and any wise words for the folks listening to you guys at home.

Could have just said no.

All right, we'll see you next time.