ANMA - Bear Brained & Swing Dance

Episode Date: July 3, 2023

Good morning, Gus! We're about to head into RTX and a two week non canon break but this week we're at Flitch Coffee behind Wyatt's barbershop. Gus and Geoff talk about When are we off?, persnickety, big money in calendars, Swingers, anti-establishment, changes in east Austin, blood at The Library, GameStop, and what happened to cool people. Sponsored by Shady Rays http://shadyrays.com and RTX www.RTXaustin.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How does that break up? 42 because we didn't have the right number on some of them. Yeah, it's okay. It's not a big deal. No, no, it's just it's confusing to me. 42, 43, 44. You're getting old. Most things are confusing.

Yeah, this is how it breaks up. 49. Like it only break up of the time of the 7. Three, four, four. Like before we came out to record, I texted Eric a few days ago to say, I know. Are we off this week?

One, 42, one, 43, two, 44, three, 45, four, 46, 47, 48, 49. It's eight episodes. I don't get it. All right. It should be 48. nine it's eight episodes I don't get it all right It should be 48

Regardless are we recording next week? I'm at a town next Monday. No, no, no, no Okay, but you and I need to do Suppleinals. Yeah, we need a couple of that's fun. I'm at town Friday the Monday though. Just you know Anyway, what I was saying is that J.R JR Ewing is a real son of the bitch. You get why people wanted to shoot him. So I didn't know that Larry Hagman was major Nelson and I dream of Jeannie. Yeah. I just never made that connection. The only reason I remember major Nelson's name is because of Xbox's major Nelson.

Do you think he regrets naming himself major Nelson? I have to. After all this time, it's like people probably think his name is actually like Nelson So we're a Dallas podcast. I thought we were in Austin We'll go to detail this sucks No, that was only like a two and a half hour drive anybody that plays Xbox has any memory Yeah, yeah, wow anybody has any memory of I dream of Jeie I do like that right I do but that reference I remember so lost on so many of the I agree even when he was like

Expossile as major Nelson and he was doing like the updates on the on the on the app and all that stuff Yep, I feel like most people had no fucking clues in major Nelson was so anyway on the last episode Well, we were at pool burger at Eilers Park It was the attack of the Wasp. It's the caterpillar park. Yeah. I'm a little worried about this tree we're under. Yep. We talked about the truck with no gas.

We talked about a wasp eating caterpillar. We talked about building demolition, getting chased off by the post office. Webster creation, technology jumps, many different things. But that was on the last episode. Now we're back being a coffee podcast. I saw a lot of people commenting. They've told that truck story before. Really?

Yeah, maybe not. I don't think we've ever told on Anma. But we're gonna retell stories. That's kind of the point of this thing. Have you ever talked to your grandpa? Do you ever notice how he tells you the same thing over and over again? Welcome to the podcast.

Welcome to Old Man podcast. Where we were at Flitch Coffee? Yeah, Flitch Coffee. Never been down here. This is a cool spot. It is. We're recording in the morning again. It's not the afternoon. It's not like the pool burger hell we were in. Yeah. It's still kind of warm, but we're in like a nice little shady spot, like tucked away in a corner behind the cot. It's like a little coffee trailer. Yeah, and next one is a little food trailer called Pueblo Viejo, I think. Yeah, I want to say you guys are the

easiest people that I record with because I feel like if there were people that were I'm gonna help, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, fucking great. And it's like, I love doing this podcast for that. We were looking at like maps, like there's a place nearby across Juwing Goat is, and we're a quarter under there. The people being persnickety with something like that are, would misunderstand the point of this podcast. I agree. Yeah. I think this is a great spot too,

because we're right by the road, so it goes to nice audio texture, you can hear the cicadas doing cicada stuff, cicada business up in the trees above us, trading on the cicada market. I know Austin's changed a lot, but I feel like it kind of fits with the spirit of business up in the trees above us. Trading on the Cache of Market. I know Austin's changed a lot, but I feel like it kind of fits with the spirit of the Austin that you and I moved to, guys,

which is like, you can have a good time pretty much anywhere in Austin if you want to. Yeah. Just find friendly people and place to sit down. I was over the weekend, I ran into someone I know, this guy named Chris, and we were chatting. Do I know, this guy named Chris, and we were chatting. Do I know him? No, okay.

And we were talking about how long we'd been in Austin, and I think he said he'd been here for 30 years now. He kind of came for college and just never left. And he said something, and the reason I bring this up is because he said something that was very adjacent to something you and I have said in the past. He said, you know, he's lived here for 30 years and inevitably anyone who's lived in Austin for a long time, you know, when you both, when you realize both of you have lived here for a long time, the inevitable evolution of the conversation is, Oh, so you've seen a lot of things change, like what, you know, what's changed while you've been here, right? Yeah. And he made a comment that was something along the lines of,

if you put a blindfold on me now and drove me around to a random part of Austin and dropped me off and took the blindfold off, I would have no idea where I am. It's like, I have, like, the city is just entirely unrecognizable. And when you and I were younger, we used to say the same thing, but if you took the blindfold off, we would know exactly where we are and exactly how to get home and where we were. You're right, we did used to say that. And it was true. Yeah, there was a long period of time where I felt like we knew every nook and cranny

of the city and now it's like, like driving down the street to come here, everything's so, there's so much change happening. It's like, this seems unrecognizable. Speaking of change, I did the thing, I'm sure you do it from time to time too, where you have like a sentimental moment. I was over Southeast one day for something. And so I drove down Burleson and went by the old call center and did that whole little run.

And then I had a couple of hours to kill. So I thought, I'm gonna just explore over here and see how it's changed. Down there? Yeah, there are neighborhoods that I never knew existed, dude. There are places over there very close to the Burleson office that just like Whole scenes that we just never interacted with or at least I didn't I never realized Anything down there changed. I thought there was some nice houses over there like in some of those areas

20 years ago, maybe not 20 like 15 years ago. Now somewhere on there. They rerouted burlison, right? Yeah, like they changed the way that that street intersected with Ben White, probably when they were building the freeway there. And I thought that was the last thing that ever changed over there. Everything over there seems like it is unchanged forever. You could just like take a ride off of Burleson

into some like little complex and then there's like a little industrial complex and they'll be a road off that. And the next thing you know, you're in a neighborhood that you never knew existed. You can calendar printing place down there. Like calendar club used to be back there. I think they're still there. Yeah.

We had a further work there. Oh, do we? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like that was what they did. They just did calendars.

Oh, yeah. Big, big do any back in the holidays. In my old job, one of the facilities that I would go to all the time was a calendar printing facility. It was just like a giant warehouse with a bunch of calendar printers and like, it would run non-stop for six months out of the year.

We used to make calendars because, like, we used to eat calendars because our printing company amplifier, the guys that we used to work with back then, they had the, you know, they were the guys that created demotivators, I don't know if you remember that whole bit, and they're a whole business ran on calendars, demotivator calendars, and they were like calendars are where the money is. Candars were used to be big money.

Big money. When I worked at that place, our calendar printer was like somewhere up in Minnesota, and it would get hot in the summer, so you know, they would open up the bay doors, Money when I worked at that place our calendar printer was like somewhere up in Minnesota Mm-hmm, and it would get hot in the summer So you know they would open up the bay doors and one day a fucking bird flew in the open bay door and flew right into the calendar binder Like it's this long Well actually was the whole printer. It was the whole thing It was like one giant all-in-one machine that would do all the printing bind it

You know at the little spiral metal to the top, and then like spit out a finished counter at the end, a fucking sparrow flew in, and flew right into that thing, and it was like, okay, you got to shut down the binder for a few days because now we got to clean bird parts out, not me, someone else had to clean bird parts out of the entire thing. Now one of three things happened there, right?

The bird just got confused and flew in. The bird had bad news and committed suicide, and that was the fastest way out. Or the bird was like some sort of an anti-technology activist and was trying, was, Some Luddite bird. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Some Luddite bird, it was like a, you know,

essentially like a suicide birder. What do you think of the three, what do you think? It was probably confused. It probably confused. Probably a bird brain dumb fucking bird? Oh bird brain Hey now I understand Nobody says bear brain bears don't run in and just dive into that would be if you heard a

Nallen pretty shop and a bear don't throw it Oh The press I would tell that story every day. We should start that saying bear brain Does it mean smart smart? Yeah. We should start that saying bear brain. Bear brain. Does it mean smart? Yeah smart. Big brain energy. Oh man, it's a real bear brain move. Yeah, it's pretty cool. You're putting 40 chest like a bear.

Look at the bear brain on Gus. Wow, good job man. You nailed that. He figured it out. I did, I did grizzin. Did baby grunk get ripped out by grizzy? This is how drug sling starts. You go from bird brain to bear brain to grizz, and then all of a sudden you're like,

that is how you're saying, like, oh yeah man, like you pack a bowl, oh you pack, oh we pack mules, oh we mulein' like it's that and that's it, that's it. I heard a new drug sling the other day, from my kid. Yeah, they call weed in high school now? Loud? No, it's called, I'm a texture.

Okay, cool. This is the Gen Z portion of the podcast. I mean, what's gonna happen is she's going to reply, why? I'm trying to buy some. what's gonna happen is she's going to reply why? I'm trying to buy some. Yeah, all that slang stuff is so, what can I say here? If you're on the outside looking in,

I think it's intentionally made difficult to try to jump in too. Like, yeah. I just know it's just 10.30 in the summer. There's no way she's awake, but if she gets up between now and we're done, I'll let you know. Oh, that is she responded. Zaza. Oh, yeah. That's what they call that's what they call weed now. It's a

Zah or Zah. Yeah, yeah, you get suited on that Zah Zah, bro. We were talking about how stupid I don't like we were talking about how I hate When people say Zah for pizza. Yeah, I trust me. That's just like that pizza. That's what they call weed Zah. Everybody in school calls weed Zah. Yeah. And trust me, that's just like, no, pizza. That's what they call weed saw. Everybody in school calls weed saw. Yeah. There you go. No, they call it saw saw. Asker's hot or saw. See if she's getting zoos. She's not getting zoos. She better not be. No way. If you're listening to this, do not zoot. It'll be a zoot suit riot. We did that already in 98. I'm so glad that died fast. Yeah, it was probably earlier than night. Yeah, it was probably night. That was like 97. That's a little piece of Austin history. You remember Mo- you know Mohawk were Mohawk.

Yes. Before it was Mohawk Eric, it was another bar. The caucus club? The caucus club and it was a swing bar for a while. Yeah, yeah. It would go and they would have swing dancing and shit and you would go there and everybody would look like an asshole and they would play like cherry pop and daddy

and throw those bands and they would do a zoot-suit riot all night long. Wow. That lasted for like 18 months and then that that fad just died as quickly as it was born. Now when you say swing bar, it means something else. Yeah. And then you go to starting a ranch for that.

Jeff, I'm a that got him boy a ranch for that Jeff Oh my god boy. Oh, yeah Oh, that's very funny. Oh, that was because of swingers, right? Yeah, yeah, swingers because like became this like little cultural zeitgeist moment and And then yeah for whatever reason does anyone remember swingers think like we talk about like not knowing every second of that movie I but like younger people no, I don't, like it was a movie that I felt like was super influential culturally for like a second and then had no lasting impact. It's also, it would be, I don't think there would be any, well, I mean, I guess the lasting impact

would be Vince Vaughn and John Favre's career. Right, right. I mean, like the movie, the, Doug Lyman, did he do that? Yeah, Doug Lyman. We ate it that diner, didn't we? Yes. I think we did. I think you're right, we did. He's all grown up? Yeah, Doug Lyman. We ate it that diner, didn't we? Yes. I think we did. I think you're right, we did.

He's all grown up. Yeah, one of the first times we went to LA. I think maybe the first time. I think the thing that would be interesting, it would be to show that to somebody like a Gen Z or like, like, Millie, for instance, and see if they can relate to any of the problems. Like, most of it is like getting over a breakup

and then trying to figure out how to date again and none of that information is relevant. You're trying to figure out how many days to wait to call her and all that. And now with social media and dating apps, it's like, that's just a problem that just don't exist for this generation or they exist in a totally different context.

They still exist, they'll always exist, but in a totally different way. I bet it's all faster. I bet like when you think about, or not call her for like three days, or whatever, I bet it's like, well, give it a day. I bet it's just, I bet everything's just a little bit quicker. I bet that's not internet time.

Yeah, oh yeah baby, internet time. You feel like that's the thing for everything then? Like internet time? Like what? But everything's gotten faster? Yeah, everything's just fast fast. It seems like it, right? Like everything's a lot more instant gratification.

Um, and I think you just have more visibility going into stuff. Yeah, and I don't want to, like, I don't want to come across as old man yells at sky, or old man yells at cloud for this kind of thing, but it's, it's definitely true because like, everything is on demand instant, like, whether it's entertainment, you order stuff online,

you get it, you know, same day, a lot of times, next day. Like, I am definitely impatient if I order something that's like, it's not gonna be here tomorrow. Like, what is this hell? So I think everything in general is just a lot more fast pace. And I think there are negative aspects to that. I think people, I think it manifests itself when people drive around here.

I think you see people wanting to drive like assholes, just trying to get in front of one car, just trying to get a little further ahead, just trying not really just taking your time. What's the fucking rush? Like there's nothing, it happens, I feel like it happens all the fucking time where someone's riding my ass, they whip around getting in front of me and then we both stop at the same light, you know 200 feet down the road

It is it is totally your old man Showing I'm the same way. I'm the same way. It's that the world isn't speeding up even We're just slowing down. Is are we yeah? No, we are all right. We are I was driving down the I was driving down the I was going to Ikea the other day with. And I was just driving happy as could be, and then I looked at me and she was like, you're going like 58 miles an hour in the interstate. And I was like, oh my God, I am. I was just like old and slow.

I didn't even realize. There's an old Calvin and Hobbes comic, well they're old, I guess. There's a Calvin and Hobbes comic that I always remember, it always stuck with me. And I think the entire comic is just Calvin and Hobbes on a sled going down like a snowy hill. Yeah. And it's like dangerous. Like Hobbs is falling off the back and everything. And Calvin says something like, I'll never understand why old people move so slow. You

think that with the, they know they have a limited amount of time left in front of them that they would want to go as fast as possible to get as much done. And I always fucking remember that. But yeah, because the opposite is 100% true. Get out of the way, old man. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I am slowing down. God, that's depressing. I was thinking, I was sitting on the drive

in before we met up to do this podcast this morning. I was thinking about how, when we were younger, like starting Worcester teeth and before the start of Worcester teeth, how angry I was and how motivated by like spite and wanting to prove people wrong and like just general anti-establishment like my mentality was. I can't speak for Bernie or Matt at all, but my contributions to Ruestra Teeth exist because of spite and anger. Like really?

I think it's what drove Gen X. Yeah, for sure. And it's what's driving them insane now. I don't know, like to be unapologetic, unsympathetic assholes. I don't know when did that happen? Like Gen X was laid back, slacker, cool, and now they're just fucking dicks.

Like, maybe worse than boomers. I'm so embarrassed. I think what happens is slackers at some point, especially slackers that prize like being cool over being right or successful. I think at some point it turns into just kind of like nihilism. They just stop caring or believing. Yeah, I feel like that was always there though.

I think I think it ratchets up. Does it? I don't know. I feel like there's no empathy from Gen X. I don't disagree with you at all. From Gen X. I think I take why Gen X does that, has no empathy. They're fucking burned out.

They're taking care of the baby boomers and the next two generations at the same time. They're the fucking unwelcome, unappreciated glue that's holding shit together and bridging the gap between us two. I don't know, that's a kind of, that is your right. That is the kind of nihilism, Gen X mentality that, I don't like.

I think it's true though. I mean, at least from my perspective, what are you, you're a millennial, aren't you? Yeah. Yeah. Gonna say something that I had told my wife that we have these conversations, and I'm like, I don't think I can ever say this on Mike.

Oh, let's go the similarities Between boomers and Gen Z are too big to ignore Gen Z or Gen Z Okay, and it is crazy to me and it's not the entitlement thing. There is a Boomers were like the me generation, right? Like that's what they were called. The way that...

I don't think it's an entitlement thing that I keep running into because I'm not running into this personally with like Gen Z stuff. It's stuff you see online or whatever. Sure. But the same kind of like... Wife bad... Oh, I hate my wife. Like that kind of joke or whatever. Sure. But the same kind of like, wife, bad, oh, I hate my wife, like that kind of joke or whatever, Gen Z makes that same kind of shit, like it's all, it's like the same jokes, but from

the other side, and it's very much a same mentality, but from another side, and I'll get hung for this, and that's fine. I mean, that's okay. But I do think that as time goes, then as boomers sort of go away, I think Gen Z is going to be under the microscope, and that's going to be the thing that gets them, that that's gonna be the thing that people start attacking them for. You're gonna get hung for not making enough plastic cups

way before they hang you for this. But you jerk. It just, to me, it looks very similar. And I apologize for not having 80 examples ready for you at the moment. But I think it's something if you keep sort of in the back of your head and you see it, there's a lot of agronis that you see in boomers that

I think you'll see in Gen Z in a very similar way, but on the other side of the coin where I don't think they'll admit that they're the same, but I think that's why Gen Z goes after boomers because it's the everything you don't like in yourself is what you see in other people. It's the one finger pointing at you and four fingers pointing back like that kind of thing. That's what I see. That's what I see. That's what I see. But I don't maybe, maybe I'm wrong.

Eric put on his bear brain half the same hair. He's a hard gris and I'm gris. I need to sit with that for a while and think about it. And like I said, pay attention to it. I will say in defense of Gen X, we are in, in many ways, they've forgotten about generation. Even when we have the discussions

What are they talk about boomers millennials Gen Z Gen X gets cut out of the conversation I'm happy about which is fine by me because that's who we are it's our identity Yeah, and the reason the Gen Z Gen X are the way they are is because we were born from a self No, I'm not talking about my parents. I'm not talking about your parents. I don't want to upset my mom born from a self now i'm not talking about my parents i'm not talking about your parents i don't want to upset my mom i don't know it may be listened to this podcast present come present familial ties excluded uh...

but if if you think about it the me generation it was a it was a self-obsessed generation that was coddled by the great generation who wanted to take care of their kids who came home from war and they wanted to explode and they wanted good times and they they didn't want to focus on the negative anymore and the horrors of what they'd been through and they wanted to ride the prosperity train and it created a selfish me generation and then they had kids that they didn't give

so much of a fuck about and that was us. That's why Latchkey began and ended with our generation. Right, it's because parents took off, they wanted to go off and they had one to have their businesses. There's also a lot more to that. You know, one person couldn't support all of that. Right.

There's a lot of economics behind that as well. But what happened was there's a group of kids from maybe from 1967 to 1979 or 1980, that are just kind of left to their own to figure shit out. And they became disillusioned and more obsessed with being cool than anything else because we were watching TV. But that's what I was going to hit on. Is it like, what's the media angle?

What's the media play on it? Because it's like, media was not as accessible back then. It's like, you had a couple of channels on TV you could cycle through, so that's what you were raised on, right? Like no one after, and this is gonna sound like a weird brag, it's trust me, it's not. No one after us gave a fuck or watched the original monsters or Adam's family, and like I remember that being a kid,

it's like I'm gonna watch the monsters, I'm gonna watch Adam's family, I'm gonna watch Andy Griffith's show, it's like all these old shows, it wasn't media made for us, but this is what we have available, it's like I guess, all shows, it wasn't, it wasn't media made for us. But it's what we have available. It's like, I guess we'll watch Gilligan's Island because that's fun.

In addition to that, like WTBS in the summer, I don't know about you, but I would build my summer around their week so they, oh shit, it's Frankie and a net week and it was just a week of beach blanket being built. Did you just call it WTS? Yeah, that's what it was. That's what it was.

Yeah, I mean, that's, that was the thing I wanted to point out. People know TBS, I mean, I don't know that. Oh, I guess so. I don't know that, yeah. I don't know that, I don't know that kids what it was. That's what it was. Yeah, I mean, that's, that was the thing I wanted to point out. People know TBS. I mean, I don't know that. Oh, I guess so. I don't know that. It was double E TBS. I don't know that kids know it is, but TBS is the superstation. Yeah.

Don't have TBS is why I hate the Atlanta Braves. Oh, dude. Inescapable. Yeah, inescapable. And double E G N's why I hate the Cubs. That's what I'm a White Talks fan. There you go. No, no American League team on a superstation, huh?

Crazy. White Talks. They were on W super station, huh? Crazy. White socks. They were on WGN. Were they? Yeah, I never was a cup station. No, they were a cup station that also played White socks when there weren't Cubs games. That's so funny. How crazy.

I think the media angle is really interesting in this, though. And millennials always get hung out for, we're Buzzfeed articles in Harry Potter houses and fucking dorkshit Yeah naming your dog Ron Swanson like it's the spuck of the shit the world, but like The way that people consume media changes generationally and I think that it's something to be considered like I Don't know. I don't like being a millennial, but I don't think anybody likes really being their generation. I do. Oh, yeah I like being Jennings. Yeah, I'm fine with it. Just for the forgotten angle, even here,

like I don't know, we don't want to sit too close to anyone. We don't want to stay under the way. We found the furthest corner to hide in. I feel like it certainly fits with our person. Like we are a Jinx to the core. Do you think anyone named their kid Dexter or Griff? I hope not. Because of Red versus Blue.

Oh, I hope they did. Like you talked about naming the dog Ron Swanson. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a millennial move, naming it after a thing, naming your Daenerys Targaryen, I'm child or whatever. I will say, I did name my dog Benjamin Linus, but I never told anyone.

He was just always Benjamin. That's so funny. I did always get like, we named our dog Griff. I'm like, oh, thanks. They're like cuz he sucks Yeah, he's real lazy piece of shit, so we named him after you nobody likes him in the family This is a fucking dog. My mom says we got to keep him though. We can't trade him for a better dog Try them for a better dog Yeah, like a couple days ago A couple of days ago, I have relatively new neighbors,

they moved in not that long ago, and they've got a couple of dogs. The dogs have been getting adjusted to the neighborhood, the whole world's changed for them. A couple of days ago, I was walking by the front of my house and the dogs saw me, and they barked a little bit, but they get into that point where they're starting to recognize me. That guy's here all the time, it's okay. they barked a little bit, but they gave me that point where they're trying to recognize me. Like, oh, that guy's here all the time, it's okay. They were barking a little bit,

and the owner of those dogs opens up his door, like comes out and looks at his dogs and just goes, shut the fuck up. And in my mind, I'm like, man, it's your own dogs. Like, why are you talking that way? And then the other neighbor on the other side comes out of their house and was like, don't talk to your dogs out. Oh my god

Oh man, there's a dog drama going on in the neighborhood Like those dogs on them they bark it doesn't bother me. It's what dogs are supposed to do. Yeah Good boys So this area yeah right around seventh Good boys. So this area, yeah, right around seventh. This is actually right by kind of tropical and where my barber is. I think come over here and get a haircut.

Not too far from my lady's salon. There you go. And so you still get a lot of tattoos over here. That's what I was gonna ask. Is there anything in this kind of spot where you guys are like, oh, come over here. We were driving down, you were telling us about like an urban garden and then there was like

a covered bridge that we drove under. None of it looked like Austin. It was so cool. Yes The old garden got run off by Nimbis They was bringing too much traffic to the neighborhoods. So they ran them out of town It was a real shame because it was cool. This is like the to me. This is Well, this is the part of awesome. I spent most of my time like in the foot of my thirties Yeah, so it's like Well, this is the part of awesome I spent most of my time like in the 30s. So it's like probably got the sweet softest spot in the city for me. The east side. Yeah, it's rotten.

I don't live over here anymore. I lived over in this kind of area for a long time. I'd no longer do. I would like to again someday maybe, but who knows? I like it over here. You can live under that bridge over there. I just, it's such a big deal to move, to buy a new house and move. And I'm, you know, at some point you're just happy

where you are. But I do definitely miss, I miss the vibrancy and just the energy over here. There's always stuff going on. You could, like at two in the morning, there'd be shit going on right around us. You may not want to be a part of it. Yes, and you like that?

Right, right, right. Right, right. Now East Austin's Austin then. It's, it's definitely very East Austin. There's a, I feel East Austin's awesome, then. It's definitely very East Austin. I feel like you can definitely tell there's a divide where you see a lot more of this overgrown plants over here on the East Side versus on the West Side. It's definitely a lot more manicured.

This is what Austin felt like when I moved here. Oh, really? Just a lot of stuff in yards, in empty fields, everything was overgrown, a mishmash of furniture that people pulled out of like, I don't know, a state sales and dumpsters, and everybody just kind of like embracing it and loving it, you know, I really love that vibe.

I feel like I've outgrown that, like the overgrown stuff in the yards. I don't need it anymore, but I still appreciate it. It's definitely not what my life is like now. Yeah. I don't want to watch stuff slowly decay in my backyard that I'm just gonna have to pick up and throw away in here. And the reason I say that, the reason I bring it up

is to just be very clear. It's like it's not like things used to be better kind of thing. The city has changed, like I fully acknowledge that. Some of it's me, I've changed, my taste have changed. Some of some of this stuff still here. It's just it's not my thing anymore. Just moved a little east But not even much, you know, it's out there by the calendar club now That's a weird area man. You should have ever there's some time. There's all these neighborhoods. You've never seen before I drive by the the old Call center every now and then but I don't like deviate and like I Was just like I had the time to kill and I was like what's down there I've no I don't know I've ever I was like I worked out here for like five

years I don't know I ever took a right there so I took a right and then I'm like there's houses here what if I think it's just like I just kept going down this rabbit hole over there made me feel like I had a blind spot to a part of Austin that I'd spend a lot of time around yeah Yeah, but they probably didn't exist back then. Probably didn't. I mean, even Ben White wasn't a freeway down there back then. It was just like a road with lights and it fucking sucked for like 10 years

while they built that goddamn freeway. Yeah, that's true. That is fucking true. It was fucking, I remember driving through that, being stuck in traffic with you all the time being like, man, this sucks now, but in 10 years this is gonna be great. And it finally happened and now it seems

like that was so far in the past. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's weird. Like we suffer through that. That's when we were living down there and working down there. It's like we sat through that traffic all the time. And it's like, yeah, this sucks. In 10 years it's gonna be great. And now it seems like that was 100 years ago. I can't remember what it was like before the freeway. This is the old guys complaining about traffic from the past 5 times. Yeah, almost too, baby. Travis fine now, used to suck. Hey, everyone wanted to take a quick moment to remind you, RTX 2023 is happening this July 7th tonight. That's right around the corner. Join us this summer for a memorable weekend at our camp for indoor kids featuring more than

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for a long time down there working and living in that part of town. And we did a couple episodes down there. The coffee is not great. It's worse coffee we were head down there on a local. Oh, yeah. That was rough. We're thinking about this coffee.

We were talking about the coffee. You know what? I was gonna wait a little bit, but we're about half an hour in. We can talk about the coffee. I know. Only half an hour has been a long half an hour. That's, it's so weird.

You guys are either like, it's never like, oh yeah, it's always like, wow, it's over already, or like, whoa man, this one. This one really, really good. This one's a dragon. So we're at Flitch. This is a little coffee trailer.

Yeah. Like everything else in Austin, it's a trailer that's semi permanent to wherever it is. No, there's four parking spots inside the little parking lot. One of them is a accessible. One of them is a handicap parking. Plenty of street parking.

But Gus said that you can tick it a handicap. Yes, you use download an app on your phone. You just take a couple photos. It's the most, I've never done it. I have the app, I've never done it. Okay, all right. No, no, I've never done it. I've never done it. No, I've never done it. I've never done it. You know what, when he doesn't want, that's it.

The seal's broken. Yeah, so the mother fucker's gonna drive around. He was specifically, he's the problem. He's gonna put Esther in the dog in the car and they're gonna drive to every HB. You know why I won't do it? I'm gonna look. You know why I won't.

Someone's gonna come out, someone who owns the car is gonna come out and see me doing ask what you're doing I'm saying to give you a ticket. I'm gonna get punched in the fucking mouth Well, why would you say I'm giving you a ticket? Why would you answer the way it's played out this the way it's played out in my head? I like your license plate. Yeah, that's a cool car. I needed this one for the license plate game And they look at it they go Texas I will say this area of flitch is pretty vibrant in terms of like there's a ton of people

There's a lot of space to sit down. It's like a happen in place. I keep looking off to my left And it's not because I'm not listening to you Jeff is just so many dogs keep coming in. No, I know That's why people are like oh, oh my god. This shit looks like Benjamin over there. We just talk about it He's everywhere. Yeah, so flitch is a Little coffee spot again. I've never been here. I'm in this area a lot. There's a few bars and some kind of hopping things right around here, whatever. I love kind of tropical.

What bar is coming from here? Can you go here right here? Kind of sounds great. If you go a little bit further, like a little up or whatever, you have like Luster Pearl Eats. You can have them for there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll practice coffee.

If you go back and you want to listen to that, there's just a few, Griseleldas is over there, right? Griseldas is good. There's just a few spots around there. And then I end up at kind of tropical and you eat the curly fries and you get the Paloma on draft. Fucking great. Just a cool spot.

Go to widespread barber shops where I get my haircut. Shouts out to Jeffrey. My barber. Jeff's your barber. No, different guy. Definitely the J probably. Nope. Jeffrey the G.

Oh, he's a G Jeff G L F F Jeff. Yep. my barber. Jeff's your barber? No, different guy. Definitely the J probably. Nope, Jeffrey the G. He's a G Jeff. G-E-L-F Jeff? Yep. How else would he be a Jeff with a G if a one? G-E-F. I don't know, people's bullshit weird.

Oh, I think we talked about this on face. But I said, if Jeff is J-E-F and G-E-O-F could you spell J-E-S-S and G-E-O-S-S? That's why you tweeted that this word. Because I thought about it again. I'm like, this is the same thing.E.S.S. in GEO? SS? You tweeted that this word. Because I thought about it again. I'm like, this is the same thing. It's great. Love this area.

Flicc coffee. Good stuff. I really like this. If you have a daughter and name her Jess, GEO, SS, let us know. Yeah, please. Marcelino Pani-Vino is a great breakfast spot right over there. I feel like there's a, there's like a little barbecue truck

that just opened not too long ago, like right across the street from a riots. That's pretty cool But no good. It used to be a bar on seven street called the office. I don't think it's there anymore It's called um Bosses office now. I think it's it's just on the other side right here office hours or bosses office or something like that It's you know, it's like well oh, I'm going to the boss's office, you know, it's supposed to be like that, but it's like right here. There was also the library on six.

That's the bar. We went to that I've seen the most blood in out of any bar on the street. Yeah, yeah, it was there with you. We walked in one time, and remember there was like the staircase that went upstairs and then it kind of came down and then to the first floor,

and then right there at the base of the first floor was just like a huge pool of blood Yeah, like somebody fell down the stairs or something maybe yeah, we're got stabbed and all of their blood came out like I stabbed down the stairs, man Yeah Anyway good time six street stuff. We're pretty far away from that You know, nobody's gonna stab you at Flitch coffee. No, it's right next to I don't know what it shares a lot with or whatever, but there's like a little warehouse that's connected sort of to it right here and there's a house on the backside. Great little spot.

Jeff and I got the cold brew. Gus got the iced American. It's been two brutally hot. I'm usually still an adamant, get a drip coffee. I've already had a cup of drip coffee this morning. So I decided to mix it up. There's a hundred and four yesterday, I can't wait. It was, and it's supposed to be like a hundred and one today.

But it feels like a hundred and eighteen. Did you know, on Wednesday, it's supposed to be hotter here than like 99% of the world? Cool. Do you know about that? Cool, cool. It's like here up into Oklahoma, the Persian Gulf, and one other place, and that's hotter than 99.9%

or whatever. Very cool. Happy we got to experience it. Can't wait. But what did you think about your coffees? I thought my iced americano was really excellent. This is a top tier americano based on what we've had. I would give this like eight and a half.

Wow. 9.1. 9.1 on the cold brew. From the iced coffee. And typically when you're getting a coffee, you're usually getting an iced coffee. Sometimes a cold brew if they don't have the iced coffee. I got the cold brew and typically when you're getting a coffee you're usually getting an ice coffee sometimes a cold Brew if they don't have the ice coffee. I got the cold brew as well. It's the most cold brew cold brew. It is it tastes like it was brewed cold four-time and

Then they pour it on ice. It is cold brew. It's a bear fuel. It is definitely for your bear brain It's given Nate five. I think it's I think it's good, but I don't think it's doing anything better or worse than you could do this at home. You could go to a place and you could have this exact same cup of coffee. It's great. I find that most of the places we go to don't have that cup of coffee this good.

Really? Well, that's why I just got a 9.1 for me. That's, well, I mean, I, a lot of, a lot of sevens and eights out there in the world. Are you gonna score them that way? I had to give the box. Here's scales like IGN dude. We're giving eight five when you don't like it. Sorry Zelda.

Is this a this is coffee and advertiser? Yeah, absolutely. This is kind of like the cane and linch of coffee. That's a very old. Yeah. I saw a thing on TikTok that was a guy saying, like, hey, did somebody say, like, hey, did you hear that GameStop is going to sell use games again? Like, they're bringing back to you. They stopped?

Yes. Well, they won't buy old retro games or whatever and they're starting to do it again. And immediately there was a hard cut on this stitch on TikTok and it was like I just on his phone going, hey, you guys have battle toads? And that's all I remember from being so young and the best prank call was calling GameStop

and hey, you guys have battle toads? Great, fantastic, way to go. 10 out of 10. Have you guys been to a game stop in the last few years? No. Yeah, I went. What was I trying to get not too long ago? Fuck, there was some game or something

I was going to pick up. And I went in, and it was fun copop the store. Yeah. Yeah. But like, that's what I was going with. You have to walk up to the counter and go, do you have, oh, I think I was trying to buy like a controller or something for my PSY?

OK, so I'm marine. Oh. I was trying to buy a Mad Cat's controller that I could operate a submarine with, and they said, we just sold the last one, and you're not gonna like it with a little bit. It is Funko Pop the store. Yeah, I was really surprised by that.

That hadn't been in one in many years, and I was actually just looking for baseball cards, and sometimes I've heard they sell, I thought I'd hop in. Yeah, they would hold on to all the on-the-enders and con-mongers. And it was like, yeah, it was like, it was more like going into a sun coast or even,

I don't know, one of those stores at the mall that sells like Hello Kitty and also anime. It was just, it wasn't good or bad or whatever, I was just surprised. Like video games are a part of what they do But they have a whole other like fandom section that really I imagine is where the money is You get some fun co-land out here is was that yeah, yeah, of course We had like one fun co-land in San Diego or whatever and it was right by my work and it was the best

The fun co-land sunset values the one we always go to it's a game right now. Yeah, it's still there But man, yeah, they would have the price sheet. They would come out. Yeah, yeah, with all the different stuff Yeah, I fucking love fun co-land. It was like the guy at the thing. There's a guy. It's still there. But man, they would have the price sheet that would come out with all the different stuff. Yeah, I fucking love fun, Colin. Like the guy, I think there's a guy named Jeff who worked there and we would go all the time. He's just a cool dude and he would be like, oh yeah, this game's coming out, but like, oh yeah, like this, I think the price is going to go higher on this thing. He was just like, when I was 16, he was like the coolest dude in the world who got a work

at a video game store that was rad and then it became a game stop We stopped going. What do you think? What do you think that Jeff's doing now? He probably works a game stop Waiting for the day the price sheet comes back. We all are yep. I never thought about that. What is he doing now? I try I try to do that now that I'm older If I think about like people that I thought were super cool when I was just a little bit younger than they were, like how they ended up. There was.

I can't draw the line to success from most people that I thought were cool when I was a kid. No, well, when I was probably 12, something like that, there was at the end of our street where I grew up, there was a little strip mall, really, really small, little Italian pizza shop kind of thing, and then a pawn shop, and then a place that's old, like, day old bread, and then one store

that always turned over, that was just, every time something was there, it closed down. It used to be a candy store, and then that closed down, then there was something else in it closed down, whatever. It became like a comics and stuff, toys, and all that, whatever. Run by three guys who when I was 12, were maybe 32 maybe,

but I thought they were the coolest older dudes, whatever, they had a killer instinct machine and they showed us like how to play killer instinct and all this stuff, cool as shit. If I had to guess how long it lasted, it felt like it was open for three years. It was probably open for six months, maybe. I couldn't tell if all three of those guys were dead, it would not be surprising to me.

Was there stuff like that where you're growing up, where you're like cool spot, can't ever imagine what these people are alive and doing? I mean, well, just, yeah, like my idea of cool, right? Like when I was 17 and I was about to go into the army, all of my money went to the comic book store where I had like 30 titles, 36 titles, remember, 36 titles on monthly polls. And so I was working just to pay for comic books.

And the guy that worked there was like maybe 35 and he owned a comic book store. And I remember thinking how fucking cool he was and like that guy had to figure it out. He was like, he was like where I wanted to go. Like what I wanted to be as a grownup. And then I think about like, he always had this broken down.

It was probably like a Corolla out front that was his beater that had like, had like tape for all the room, for all the lights, you know, like a red tape peeling off and windows that didn't roll down. And that part, I always thought like, huh, you think you'd have a better car, but I never thought about now.

I'm like, now I was in the, oh, you look back at me like, and that guy was just, every day of that guy's life was struggle. And every 17 year old kid who walked in thought he was like fucking, like a Superman, like holy shit this guy I mean while the guy's eating dinty more again for dinner out of a can you know I'll give you kind of a bagging somebody buys Guardians of the Galaxy tomorrow so you can pay his

rent a different version of that story okay so you know I grew up in a really small town out on the border and there weren't many stores or like there wasn't much to do there. But when I was a kid, you know, obviously when we were kids like Nintendo NES, like that really took off and became a big deal, there was a guy who would go to the flea market, there was a flea market every weekend. And he had like a little stall at the flea market, probably

five by 10 or something, right? Like a, like, and all he would do is it was like a fun co-land. He would sell used video games. And if you had video games, you could sell them to him and he would sell them back. This was not a dude who looked like he gave a shit about video games. I think it was just a guy who thought video games are popular. I'm gonna make this my business. It's on opportunity. Right.

And his style became so popular at the flea market that he opened a brick and mortar. Oh wow. And he called it like Nintendo World or something. And even as a kid, I remember thinking, I don't think he can do that because there was like a big painting of Mario and Sonic on his sign. I don't think he gave a shit about video games, but he was super successful at it. I think he found that market before like,

fun co-land and everything, like, no one was out there, he was such a small, un-under served, not only city, but part of the country that he would just trade, use video games and sell them. I think that guy did really well, because that store was open forever. I like, it was there when I was a little kid, I drove Jeff by there games and sell them. I think that guy did really, because that store was open forever. I was there when I was a little kid.

I drove Jeff by there, like decades later. Like early 20s. That dude discovered, like, I bet that guy never played a video game in his life. No, that's awesome. But he was like, he found his thing and he fucking made it. Yeah.

Wow. Like in the middle of nowhere. What are you thinking about doing now? That dude was older. He's probably no they doing now? That dude was older. He's probably, he's probably no longer with us. That guy, that guy was older. Well, that was, I was kind of like, I was always surprised when we would go,

especially when we were doing ad agency work, right? And we would go to developers and we would end up like hooking up with a developer. They would give us a developer who could do some minor training for us on a dev build of a game or whatever. And you would invariably get to talking to that dude or lady and you would find out that nobody who works in the video games industry,

maybe it's different now, played video games or even liked video games. It was just a day job to most of those dudes and they'd be like, I was this or I could code the Sony Vegas software, like this is, I got this is the lot I drew in life. And like I was always surprised like, I would think like well

Especially when you grow up a video game fan you're like I'm gonna make video games something Yeah, they're living the dream and then you realize that nobody Nobody who's doing it for a living Is enjoying the medium were you with very few did you ever go to Orlando to work on a madden commercial at Tiburon. That was you and Joel. Okay. One time I was walking through the lobby of Tiburon out there working on a Madden commercial and like walking the other direction was an EA employee and I recognized her.

And I was like, hey, like we went to Math Camp together, like when we were in high school. Yes. And she was like, oh yeah. And then we talked for a bit and I was like, what are you doing here? She's like, oh yeah, I work on video games here. I said, what do you do?

She said, oh, I write lighting shaders. I used to work at Pixar. I made like Pixar movies and like I got poached to make lighting shaders for for Madden games. So like, it's like, like you're talking about. It's like not necessarily a gamer or anyone who gave a shit about it, or just someone who had a very specific technical knowledge

about the technology and the way that it worked, and was there to make lights. Yeah, the reference I made was a real one. I had a neighbor who, in Austin, who was, we were really good friends. We were like couple's friends, my ex-wife, and then they're, you know, my ex-wife and then there, uh, and those guys. And they ended up leaving town to chase a new job, but he worked in the video game industry.

He'd worked in it for 15 years when I met him. And I would invite him over to play games and he's like, at one point, he's like, I'd scout you out on a smoothie, man. I don't really play games. I don't really, I'm not really, I'm not really my thing. And then he left to go code Sony Vegas software. Like that's literally what he did. He went to another city and he was like,

yeah, I just gotta get out of games. I'm just a sick of it. And yeah, and most of the people I met through him and most of the people I've met through our career, it's changing now. And it has changed now with the rise of indie developers. But back in the old days, man. Yeah, they just had technical knowledge.

I was just kind of a funeral with you. It was just the best people at the job doing the job. It wasn't necessarily the biggest fans of the thing they were working on. But that's, that's jobs. That's jobs. That's how it works. It's, you just have this idealized idea in your head

as a kid, you know? Yeah, and it's definitely a thing. I think about it in terms of sports, where like when athletes get into a fight or people like don't get along on a team or whatever, and you go like wow, how could they function like this? And it's like, could you imagine getting along with every single person you work with every day?

No fucking way. I can barely do this once a week. That's what I'm saying. I think about it in terms of basketball because you hear this a lot, especially if you watch hours and hours and hours and hours of basketball content a day. You'll hear what guys like Jaylen Rose talk about this all the time, or like Kendrick Perkins

or a Scalabrine you're ever. And they're like, most NBA players don't really like basketball. Most big NBA players, like dude, 6, 10 and above, don't really, they just fit a mold. And it's easy to me, and they do it, but they have no passion for it and no heart for it. And apparently that's a lot more prevalent in professional sports than you would realize. Oh, I don't doubt it.

I assume, I would assume that's the case, because how much work does it take, and how many hours, and how many years, do you dedicate to that? And it can't be fun anymore. I mean, that's, when I talk to pro wrestlers, they don't want to talk about pro wrestling. They want to talk about the NBA.

They want to talk about, yeah, they want to talk about how the Lakers are looking and when be getting drafted and all like this other stuff and you go, okay, yeah, that's great. Yeah, we won't talk about wrestling. Guys, you see that Wimby did the most responsible thing in the world. He backed out of, I apologize if you're French

and this upsets you, but he backed out of playing on the French you're French in the substitute, but he backed out of playing on the French national team. Oh, wow, really? Because he to focus on his rookie season and getting healthy. That's huge. Yeah. That's bear brained.

Well, well, dude straight up bear. He's great, bro. Otherwise, you'll end up like a shit homegrown or a Denelo Galenari. You don't want to be a Denelo Galenari. No, not at all. He's a bird. He's a bird. Whip is a bear brain.

I hope Wimby's a bear brain. And I hope he gets traded to a decent team. You don't want to see the spurs rebuild around him? They are going to re-build and they're gonna play games in Austin and we're going on. The only thing I like about the spurs is Nick Schwartz. He likes the spurs and I like him. Not Andrew Roses. No. Ouch. I like Andrew Roses fine his Nick's warts. He likes the spurs and I like him. Not Andrew Roses.

No. Ouch, Ouch. I like Andrew Roses fine, but I don't put him in the same category as Nick Howard. It's so funny. Well, we're wrapping up here, but we need an Anima NFT. Is there anything that you guys jumps out to you? Marcelino Panivino.

Go get breakfast tacos there. Get the spicy potatoes. Uh huh. Kind of tropical, I would say that's kind of t-ish. Kind of tropical is what I would recommend. I don't know that we'll, maybe someday that we'll find a reason to do one, an episode there. I think they have a burger. They probably have coffee or a burger or something.

Well, they don't open until like 11, so. Yeah. They do like a lunchy thing. There's a bar on Weberville called the Cavalier. They, I think they don't open until three. It's across the street from Fleet where we went. That's a real good spot. Real good people own that.

Really nice people own it. But also that's where they have the famous French fries that Gus and I used to get from Shaggy's from the last day. The famous French fries. So if you're over here in the past 3 PM, go get some of those fries. How do you feel about those NFTs?

I think they're good. I'm trying to see if there's anything I can contribute to the list right now. I'll give you kind of an obscure NFT. Okay. This is a lot of the there's a there's a small Mexican restaurant on Burnett close to where Pacha used to be okay called casino de Consuelo It's excellent place. It's been there for years Sadly, Consuelo just passed away a couple of weeks ago. Oh,. But it's still like family run, her family's continuing to run it. That place never gets mentioned on any.

You've never heard of it. Right. This is true NFT. Yeah, this is, yeah. This is, that place is, it's really good. Okay, I think it's right, literally right next door door potchah used to be. Okay.

Like a bover by Hollywood feed and all that. Yeah, just south of there. Okay. All right. Really good. Good spots. Hell yeah. Those are good NF of there. Okay. All right. Really good. Good spots. Hell yeah. Those are good NFTs, see this is the point of the show.

But the last point of the show is an anarchy me anything. And this was sent in by Banshee. Was there something you learned for rooster teeth that you were like, well, I'll never have to do this again versus was there something you learned that you were proud of or glad that you learned? But I guess just sort of break it into two. Was there anything that you did for Rister teeth and you're like,

well, one and done, never doing that shit again. Yeah, running a store, helping Gus run events, editing. I hope to like video editing, video editing. I think it's kind of cathartic. It's fine in very small doses. I've been doing some audio editing and I've been enjoying that. Editing my own stuff lately. But even that, it's like, you're like, oh yeah.

There's people that are so much better at this and so much faster at this than me. For me, it would be like, I already had like an IT background before we started, but like learning the nitty gritty of load balancers and writing package deployment scripts and Linux, if you put me in front of a Linux prompt, I'm lost again, I don't remember any of that stuff. But all of that shit I had to learn in the early days. I have another one.

Okay. Put it in the realm of things that I was good at that I hope I never have to do again. RFPs. Oh, dude. Those are requests for proposal where a company will say, hey, we have this thing,

this brand, this new product, an X amount of dollars. I'll give you a great example. The state farm game or hood thing that we do. That came in as an RFP. It went out to probably 50 different entities and then everybody submitted a pitch. And then the pitch that they like the best is the pitch that then gets made for us.

Rusevth won that pitch, I guess. And so we did that game or hood thing and we're doing a season two. That's that kind of thing. Yeah. But the reason you hate it, I'm sure, is you end up pitching a lot of things, having to develop a lot of ideas and they don't go anywhere. Yes. It's like, oh, yeah.

It's definitely a lot of ideas and they don't go anywhere. Yes. It's like, oh, yeah. It's definitely a lot of that. I would say for, I would say realistically, for like every 10 pitches I'm a part of half of one gets made. Yeah, that is, that's true. And I guess like one and every 20. And that's not, pulling back the curtain here, that's not a bad number. No. That's how these things operate.

Right. They put these things out to everyone. And if we have something that's strong, we throw it back and go, we could do this. And when you see that stuff, that means we had the, we had the pitch that was most in the alley of what they were going.

Right. When you hear like, oh, wow, they did 20 and they only got half a one. Yeah, man, that we could have gotten a hundred and gotten zero. Our badding average isn't bad. This is how RFPs work because Coca-Cola doesn't just approach rooster teeth.

Coca-Cola goes to everyone. There's stuff for Warner Brothers, our parent company that we've done that was like, we had post shows for like post post podcast. That we had RFPs for even though we're in the Warner family and we're like, here's what we can do, here's what we're capable of. Still got to win out. And you have, and they, they get submissions from everyone and they go,

oh yeah, we do want you to do the peace maker post show. Yeah, you do that. And it's like, oh great, yeah, we won that RFP. I don't think people understand how much work that process is. Like I'm thinking of, there was a period in time, maybe like 2016, 2017, where achievement, 100 made content for Ubisoft's. We made content for us and through for their channel and it was like a combined thing. I went to say and I'm like Gus and I are the guys that they drag out to tell the history of Rooster Teeth and to put a little

like pizzazz on a pitch and that kind of thing. We go out and we can tell a story. We can be affable. We're likable. You know, in those moments, in those rooms, I probably went to San Francisco and we become the very best friend of the sales. Yeah, you know, for that stuff. I probably went to San Francisco for that production we did six times before that started just to go to Ubisoft offices and glad hands, and glad hand and pitch, and to go up to dinner.

And like, I don't think people understand how much work goes in. Before you even get to a show like the Gamer Hood, the amount of effort and work and time and hours they go in, before you even get to the point where then you have to produce the God damn thing, which is its own set of nightmares. It's like, people just never see that. Yeah.

But I have my own ideas about around this company, and I'm working pay less shoes. It is, there's so much behind the scene stuff, and RFPs are a thing that, boy, you just never, you can give a million ideas, and you go, man, I really racked my brain for these, and you go, it four months, you go, we'll be here back from less than a, oh yeah, they passed.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's awesome. I'm excited about something. I wanna make this, no. The nice thing about it is though, I guess the glasses half full side of it is, is that those ideas don't die. No.

I had a lot of ideas that ended up becoming other rooster teeth content that I made, started in RFP for something else. And then you're like, well, the idea's too good, I'm gonna hold onto it. I'll figure out another way to put, I'll figure out another place to put that puzzle dish in. Face Shams Road Trip was a RFP that was working

with Voodoo, they were super into like, well, you know, what can we do? I would approach people, whatever. And we're like, let's drive a van. Let's drive a van and go, it's already a thing. Let's drive a van to Colorado, it will be a whole road trip and then great. And it's like, oh, that's cool. I did a show called Seven Wondering. Oh, yeah, it's right. Yeah. Literally, literally sales came to me and said, hey, Facebook wants to make like four

shows with us. What do you got? And I go, I got nothing. What's the budget? And they go, we can spend X amount of money. What can you do? And then you go, okay, give me 15 minutes and you go, and you come back in an hour. Yeah. Cause you big dick them on the extra 45 minutes. And it's bare-brained right there. And you come back and then you go, here's a show idea. And you give them like the basis of 7-1 rings and they go, okay. And then you go back and forth and then the next thing you know it's made.

Yep. And it's cool. It happens really slow until it happens really fast. Yeah, that's how the sausage gets made. And huh, welcome to Sausage Stock. And that is a glad we did. A different podcast. Yeah, we don't have to do a lot of RFP stuff right now,

especially for like this show. The best thing you can do is name your podcast something that sales doesn't want anything to do with. Yep, f**k face. And then you don't have to do any more RFPs. There you go. Fucking amas, what we should call this one. Fucking amas. Well, if you like this, thank you for listening.

You made it this far. I believe we're on a two week break. But if you don't want to wait that long for a new episode of this show, you can come to RTX this weekend, by the time this episode comes out. This coming weekend, July. September to comes out. Yeah, this coming weekend July 79th on the forget got it now

We'll be there Saturday. We'll be doing our live show. I saw that on the schedule. Yeah, so we'll be on schedule I saw part of a schedule with my name on it. I'd like to see a schedule Gus and I are gonna be in seeing the opening night first night. He's we're pretty excited about that He's pretty excited. He just found out my car the way. I will say I wish I was recording that because Gus's eyes started left and right and left. There were some emails that I never got for some reason until he starts for them and saw them in his inbox. So come through come to rtx austin.com. You can see this is a live show. Have some coffee with us. Hang out. Chitter chat. Have some fun. Well, we'll be doing a live show have some coffee with us hang out Chitter chat have some fun while we do a break show. Oh, yeah face jam live all of that's happening on Saturday

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