ANMA - **LEAKED** ANMA RTX Panel Live

Episode Date: July 11, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:57 It's the morning. It's not morning. Somewhere? I guess. So, I was asking Eric a little while ago about where this coffee came from. You got this coffee here, right, Eric? Yeah, I got it downstairs at a thing called fat back coffee. Fat back coffee. Yes. I don't know if you know this, but I don't know about fat back specifically.
Starting point is 00:01:22 What? Lots of times at convention centers, are there fat facts on there? There are fat facts on there. Can you give me a fat facts? Did you guys know that Austin is known to 1.5 million Mexican, what?
Starting point is 00:01:38 Retail fat. What's looking at me? What's looking at me? These are your facts, they're your people! Well, we're in Mexico. I know! Uh, on their nightly flights, these bats eat from 10,000 to 20,000 pounds of insects. So, each? Yeah, it's going to be a tiny ton of them.
Starting point is 00:01:57 So, it's slightly more than you. I only eat seven spiders a year, I'm trying to come back. I was commenting that lots of times, this isn't unique to the Austin Convention Center, lots of times at convention centers or event spaces when places need to make lots of coffee. It's fake coffee. Yeah, it's not actual coffee. And then the reason I found this out is normally that one makes me very nervous and recording it because whenever I drink coffee it makes me need to take poop This has been a while. It's out of the street. Yes So I was nervous and we have to stop recording and I have to go poop part way through Big coffee doesn't make me do that. You keep saying fake coffee. What is that? What does that mean? It's a syrup that they transport and they add hot water to and they just keep it heated and it tastes like coffee
Starting point is 00:02:42 And you think it's coffee, but it's not really that coffee in the sense you think of it heated and it tastes like coffee and you think it's coffee but it's not really that coffee in the sense you think of it. You know what it sounds like? It sounds like bobble. Is that why it like when I drink this coffee, I'm drinking this coffee before the show. It like conventions that are coffee that gives me a headache. Yeah, this is really it. Yeah. You just never realize that it's it's just some syrup or something Oh, no super taste like coffee. This is Coffee is a taste and it definitely tastes coffee yet. It's coffee. I didn't put anything in these ice coffees They're very sweet. Yeah, they are that and that's just sort of like that. He's like slow Yeah, it's it's it's not but I think I think I discovered that at
Starting point is 00:03:23 San Diego Comic-Con when you're talking about Comic-Con in kind of a step so it's not, it's not. But I think I discovered that at San Diego Comic Con, when you're talking about Comic Con and Comic Con episodes, and it's been so much time going to conventions, you learn all these weird little things and one of them is that lots of time, unless you see them actually grind the beans in front of you and brew it, it's probably some syrup that had hot water at a twit.
Starting point is 00:03:40 Sounds like bitches. The lion to us from 19 years ago. You guys said before we got started, when you went to the wrong room and then came to the right room, We were behind that door. When you went to the black box down panel in this room, that's the door I came in. I mean, it's not the right. It's fine. It's wrong. It doesn't matter. You guys said that you were sharing E3 stories? Is that what you were talking about? We were talking sharing E3 stories? Is that what you were talking about? We were talking about E3.
Starting point is 00:04:07 Oh, I don't even know why we were talking about E3. I remember, because I was like, I need to, I will at least say we're going to talk about stuff and then I immediately forget, so I tried to hold on to these. We were talking about some E3 stories. We talked about a post-production house in LA that used to go to a lot. Which is in a whole episode.
Starting point is 00:04:26 And then those one of the things that we were gonna cover. We were talking about the condos over here. We were gonna talk about the condos. I think this is what we were talking about. I wanted to talk about an RTX story. Oh, okay, you were gonna tell a crazy RTX story, I didn't know. I don't know, I don't know if we were approaching in any particular order.
Starting point is 00:04:41 Start with E3. So, thank you. You're producing. We were talking about E3 back. We started, I think the with E3. So, thank you. You're producing. We were talking about E3 back. We started, I think the first E3 we went to was 2001. If I remember correctly. Yeah. And we went to clean pre-resterities.
Starting point is 00:04:54 Yeah, we went to E3 for years, I mean, probably 10 years. We went to all of them. And back then, 2001, 2002, when we go to those E3s again, pre-resterities, they were the craziest spectacles of wasted money that we can imagine. One year, we were there. It might have been 2001. Of course, it was the first time we were able to play Halo, because they had it out at the Xbox. But this is the whole reason we wanted to go to E3. We saw a skateboarding demo that was being put on by a ten-year-old boy at Tony Hawk
Starting point is 00:05:28 Gus I think that ten-year-old kid was like Ryan Schackler Or it was the same. It's not even a being incredibly famous as a skater. Yeah, he was crying He can't fucking cry in his mom had been like comfort in the hug him on the And I thought that for him. He's like it's a ten-year-old kid He's trying to do these tricks and like trying to entertain all these people. And you don't always say it wasn't worth it, it was a lot of stress. And when Tony Hawk came out and did a 720 or something. They could try more.
Starting point is 00:05:56 Yeah. And then we were like, well, that was weird. And then we left that booth, walked like 50 feet down, across out to another booth, and then we're just like UFCFC fighters sitting there signing autographs Like I remember it was Frank Shamrock I wrote a little or tease Thedore T's and Frank Liddell
Starting point is 00:06:15 Frank's name? Chuck's up now And I wrote that because Frank Shamrock would not sign an autograph Bernie wanted him to sign an autograph to Dan Godwin that said Dear Dan, how does my foot taste? I'm actually I'm not refused to write it on the Elite analysis He was
Starting point is 00:06:34 And yeah, it was just like all these weird spectacles that Who knows I'm sure there was a fighting game. I'm sure it was skateboarding game. Who knows what they were promoting It's probably not a 20-clock game. Yeah, back then. Yeah, it was like an embarrassment of like, it was like, the Indian companies would try to see, see if they could outspend each other. At E3, this is what it was. Yeah, I guess. Or they'd try to drum up whatever dumb controversy like when EA hired those fake protesters to stand out across the street to protest Dante's in Ferto.
Starting point is 00:07:07 Oh, my God. Yeah, remember that, like, they had like all the signs about you're going to hell and it's like, you can just paint those people to stand out. They're gross signs. That's the word. Yeah, that's where we met. That's not where we met?
Starting point is 00:07:20 No, no, no, that's where we met our web developers for the first time, who made the received website back then. Yeah. We met up with them because they were based out of Southern California. I think they were from Costa Baza, I want to say. Woo! And they had driven up to meet with us and we found a coffee shop like three blocks away from thecrypto.com arena.
Starting point is 00:07:39 And we had a coffee with them and talked about the website or we wanted to make it. Have we talked about that on this show yet? No. Yeah, we saw the receipt community site actually predates, well, YouTube for sure, but I think it's launched right around the same time Facebook. I don't know if we predate Facebook, at least they have a spell like a year, but it's close. But yeah, so we have the idea to create a community site. We kind of stole it from Broken Blizzard.
Starting point is 00:08:10 Yeah. Like Broken Blizzard had this really cool, it was back like not telling my frustration. Troopers came out or super troopers. A lot of nice things start trips. Yeah, it's different. Super troopers. Or maybe Camp Dread.
Starting point is 00:08:21 Cloped Dread. You're really close to Camped red. What? What? It's finally having me around. And we saw this, it was this very clever website, and it was kind of everything that we had been kicking around our heads. So we just like hit the about and found out the names.
Starting point is 00:08:36 They're just growling in the bottom of the page. And contacted them. And that's how Rishi Kaya community said, Yeah, we're like, hey, we love that. Or can you do something similar for us? And they're like, yeah, we met up at a coffee shop and they were like 12 years old. Yeah, Facebook swooped in.
Starting point is 00:08:51 It's still a lot thinner. But yeah, we spent a lot of time in LA, not only for E3, but over the years working on commercials or doing various projects, working with video game companies out there. I, this is not something we talked about, talking about on this podcast, but I was out there once working on a commercial for the College of Duty World of War. And, like, it's what doesn't really work on these TV commercials for video games. You know, you'll shoot a bunch of stuff, you'll, you know, put together and
Starting point is 00:09:21 edit, you send it off to the client, and they send it to the game company. Like, you end up having to wait like a day for nodes to see what you need to refill or redo. So it's like a lot of work and then a lot of downtime. I remember they had assigned us one of the employees who was working on World of War. I think it was like the lead script or to work with us and working with us was his punishment because he had put in notice that he was leaving and using the work at a different video game company
Starting point is 00:09:45 So they're like, okay, cool. You're gonna spend two weeks with these guys making a TV commercial and We had sent off a cut to the client and we were just like sitting around and This dude tracks his name with Mike Mike. Try and see if he goes Hey, you want to play something cool? Oh, they have sure because we have this this feature We're not sure if it's gonna make it into the final version of the game But you know, you know, I want you to play and check it out and it was called the Zombies And it never been released like it was the this was the first game that had come out in and he was like Yeah, just like internally we were you know we're playing it. We think it's a lot of fun
Starting point is 00:10:16 We don't know if it's gonna make it in the final version of the game and then the rest of that trip was just me trying to finish the commercial work as fast as possible To play zombies with Mike Yeah, that's insane trying to finish the commercial work as fast as possible to play zombies with Mike. Is that real? Yeah, that's insane. So I was like one of the first non-developers on that game to have played the Call of Duty Zombies. That's final. Another addendum to that story is a few months later we got to do the...
Starting point is 00:10:39 Like a challenge is it achieve more than work or more commercial work in office and they shipped us hurly build to the game that had fully fleshed out zombies. And I remember like for like two weeks straight every Friday night, like me, you, Bernie, and I want to say Joel would stay late and just play zombies for like two, three hours. So much fun. And like just like feeling like the lucky people in the world because nobody knew this was a thing. And we were getting to play it early.
Starting point is 00:11:03 And I remember on that same trip, there was another one of those down times we were sitting there and again, I was like, I was working with this lead script or what did he do when I was just, by working with us. And I don't know why I was like, I was trying to go, do you ever make a level that's just like a green screen?
Starting point is 00:11:20 And he was like, what do you mean? Can you make a level that's just a green floor and green walls and we can spawn whatever weapons in we want? He was like, I don't know how anything like that, but sure, I don't see why not. And you made that and then we turned around to the ad agency, he was like, hey, you want you want pronounced them? We can isolate characters, we can isolate models, we can isolate weapons, and like for whatever prison you campaigned you're doing, we like doubled our contract with him. whatever Prismidio campaigns you're doing, we like doubled our contract with them.
Starting point is 00:11:43 So, I'm doing better. There was a period of a couple of years, it was a lot, you know, we didn't talk about it a lot at the time, but we were in this sweet spot where we were a fully fledged production facility that understood how to film video games when video games were becoming
Starting point is 00:12:02 the most important and successful entertainment medium in the world. And everyone wanted a piece of video games, advertising agencies, everyone, but nobody knew what the fuck to do with them. And so we got so much business just because we knew, we had already figured out with River's Blue and the stranger had had a film. Well, River's Blue. So we then all started. It was one day we were working down at the beauty office in the phone rang, and I answered it.
Starting point is 00:12:27 And I was like, you know, we're just taking this at Gus. And then voice on the other end of the phone said, Hey, are you the guys who get paid to play video games? And I said, yeah. And it was someone from Wyden Kennedy, which is like a huge ad agency of his Portland. They did Nike and Starbucks. And on Coke. Yeah, so they were calling us and they were like,
Starting point is 00:12:46 yeah, can you help us make video game commercials? What the fuck? They were like, yeah, cool, let's do it. It's like just a random phone call with me. And we did for years until we got fired by them. No. No. They were, they were, they were pressing the fire was.
Starting point is 00:13:01 Yeah, I would say we got fired. Oh, yeah, I don't think they wanted to fire us. Uh, they still didn't do it. Well, they, we, yeah. It was a good one. So we had, this isn't being recorded right? We had a great relationship. We worked a little constantly.
Starting point is 00:13:20 We had to make a commercial for Madden game. And I remember it was, I don't remember what you were, it might have been Madden 07. And it was the Reggie Bush year over that. Yes, and it was the first time they were going to have, the PS3 had just come out and Madden was the first Madden on the PS3. And they had this new feature where you could like gang attack someone. Like one person could start attacking, like another player could come and finish the tackle. And we made this commercial and in the commercial incident I didn't there was no script for who it happens to but it just so happened
Starting point is 00:13:50 We filmed this great angle of Dallas Clark gay tackle a gang tackle by a couple players and I made it to the time It made it to the final version so this commercial is playing on TV and then in an interview after a game one time Dallas Clark talks about how there's this commercial on TV that his mom called it and said, it looked like he was getting murdered on television. Oh my God. He's like, it's like somebody said, like, hey, have you seen that new mat and commercial? You're editing.
Starting point is 00:14:12 He goes, I haven't seen it, but my mom did. She called me and she said, I saw you die on TV. And I was like, what the hell is that? Why would you have to get fired for that? So we wanted to apologize to him. So we made a video that was like a highlight reel of Dallas Clark being the best player. There were like, it used quarterback throwing to himself. We created that commercial again.
Starting point is 00:14:39 But the person that tackled Dallas Clark, ended up being Dallas Clark. Because that was the only person that could tackle themselves. And so the whole thing just kept escalating and moving the scene where Dallas Clark was the every player on the team. I don't know if it was him that got mad or the NFL players association that got mad or if it was the NFL that got mad, I do know the answer. But do you mean that? One of their got mad and we have to get fired because of it.
Starting point is 00:15:01 We put that video out on them. I want to say it's like a one day. At like 10 in the morning, we thought, ah, this is funny. It takes like 45 minutes to make it. We threw it up. And I was gonna say that, let's say I went up at noon, at like two, we got a call from Sports Illustrated. It was that, hey, we want to interview you about this commercial. We're like, that's fucking awesome.
Starting point is 00:15:18 No! That interview never happened, because by 2.30, we got a call from the ad agency who said, the NFL Players Association is up our ass. What did you do? And we said we made a funny video and then we just take it down. And that was it. It was the NFL Players Association. You can't take anything down from the internet.
Starting point is 00:15:39 You know what you put it up there and it sits out there. That's insane. But years of business will work. Yeah. All of those commercials, we're like you watch those sports commercials and That's insane. But years of business will lay. Yes. All of those commercials, it's weird, like you watch those sports commercials and it's such a pain in the ass to make those commercials because of like agreements between players and like the players association. I remember like we worked on this what hockey commercial and they were like you have to have at least three players on the screen at any time. You can't focus on any one and you have to have this one shot that has seven players on the screen at once. It's like all these weird bullet point rules that if you watch the commercial, you don't know, you don't care. But it's part of like this contract agreement and how all that stuff comes together.
Starting point is 00:16:18 It's such a pain to navigate all of that stuff. I do remember we were doing it was one of the last ones I worked on. I ended up not doing it anymore, so I almost got the fist fight with one of the guys at the end, I didn't see it, I don't know if you remember that. Over Stand-Band Gundy. Yeah. Uh, I'll tell you the story in a second.
Starting point is 00:16:38 I'll tell you now. So, so I'm gonna just end up doing this NBA commercial and in it, Stand Pangaddi was coaching and that guy was like, and it's just like, that's fucking spright on the side of, on the side of the court, right? They're just fucking moves back and forth like this and that's three expressions, you know? And, and we make this whole commercial and the guy keeps hammering me, he's like, I
Starting point is 00:17:01 just don't not feel any emotion in being that he's face. I'm like, I don't, I'm not either. You know what you have to do? It's a video game and he's like, can you film and he kept having me, we shoot it, we shoot it. And I'm like, I keep trying to tell him, I'll shoot at that any fucking angle at any FPS you want.
Starting point is 00:17:15 It's not gonna change the fact that the guy doesn't move. He's a fucking, you know, he's a robot. He has, there's no articulation. And he just kept getting on my fucking nerves. And finally, he's still like I don't like it already cuz he like he would carry a notebook around with it if you would create fonts Oh I forgot about that. I think it's just like disarranged fonts.
Starting point is 00:17:34 What the fuck? What the fuck? Oh I was saying it. Yeah, and I was like listen to your money I will shoot Stand in Gandhi for the next three fucking weeks if you want me to, but I will not get you a better shot than it is right now. And then like, he got a little heated, and I had to leave,
Starting point is 00:17:51 and then I'd stop doing the commercials after that. Not talking about that. But what I was gonna say is, after that shoot, we did an entire fucking commercial about Tony Parker. Yes. And then they came through and said, NBA players, those musicians said, you can't use Tony Parker, they changed it. they came through and said, NBA players, those decisions that you can't use Tony Parker, they change it. So just sub them out for another player.
Starting point is 00:18:09 That's like, that's not how it works. Yeah, because you're going to be in the entire thing. Like, these two things to work. Yeah. Down the toilet. We do it. And I think I left, and then I think Joel came and replaced me for like a week, and then I, he left, and then you were there the entire time. I was alone in Venice, California, for six fucking weeks. Shooting NBA commercials. It was, it sucked. It was like, all day. It was like 18 hour days for six weeks.
Starting point is 00:18:36 But on the bright side, I was shooting at Prologue, which is an amazing company. And everyone who worked at Pope Prologue was great. They do like every cool title sequence you've ever seen in a movie, Prologue made it. The cool Marvel Loans, and like, well, that's all them. Yeah, it's all Kyle Cooper, like a day of the day.
Starting point is 00:18:55 They're down the dead. I've been like, you're solid three intro, like any cool video game or movie intro that you've seen Prologue made it. So I was like, this sucks. I really hate my life, but I'm working at prologue, and that's really fucking cool. Do you also remember that we were on a crunch night and things were going really rough
Starting point is 00:19:13 and we were trying to get a bunch of stuff done and the two dudes that were the ad agency guys, there were only hazelands, were like, hey, we'll be right back. And then they left in once we had a galaxy game. Yeah. Right back, their idea of for that was six hours. Yeah, it was a Beckham had just started playing for the Galaxy.
Starting point is 00:19:31 Right, right, right. And he was like, they were like, oh, yeah, we have to go watch. David Beckham. We have to. I thought they were getting coffee. I thought they were going to be back in like 15 minutes. But they were just gone. And we didn't have questions.
Starting point is 00:19:41 We needed answers. Yeah, because they were the ad agency people. So it was like, they left. they're the ones giving the guides. It was us and Prologue. And, you know, we're just doing what they say. So, it's like, we're, you know, us and Prologue, they're like, do you know what to do? No, they're not here to tell us what to do.
Starting point is 00:19:56 But, like, we just try to start trying to make stuff and hope that it's what they want. But, that wasn't the only place where we were to work, but, you know, a bunch of different, you know, either game developers, you know, editing houses, different studios. It was always somewhere different. You have to go work. And there was one place.
Starting point is 00:20:12 If it's not prologue, not any place we've mentioned already. Why do I be really clear? It's not prologue. It's not that. This is a different place that we're not naming. A different place that was not naming. It was a very cool place. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:23 They had employees on staff. They have two employees on staff who sold job was to get people to drug it wasn't their sole job they're they also got sacks and stuff and they would make me there's the playlist like they was like a constant DJ thing going on work all the time and they're managing the playlist as well but yeah if you needed drugs they were the needed drugs, they would like you know, they're like any drugs you not like I'm good. I'm just you're hard. I just need to get this done but they also and they also if If you if you know they would have after hours they would have like mixers with like the clients and the people work
Starting point is 00:21:01 Like one in G's hour right and a thing and you know They couldn't drink unless the client asked them three times to drink. They had to say no twice, then the third time they could drink. So if you're like, are you gonna get something to drink? Now, are you sure? Yeah, I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:21:16 Ask me one more time. What? You're talking to yourself, you're talking to yourself, I'm just asking you one more time. Are you sure you don't wanna go so wide? Okay. And then they explained it there, like yeah,
Starting point is 00:21:24 we're not allowed to drink unless you ask us three times. And then we can recall that. These are the same set of rules for people who are required to get you drugs. And by the way, I would like to reiterate, Gus and I did not take them up on the drug portion. I mean, if you say so, that's fine. I mean, I can't speak for good.
Starting point is 00:21:43 I was big into the wine. I was big into the wine. I was big into the drinking. Not so much with the drugs. I just remember we played a lot of collodini there. I remember the big TV set up. Big TV set up. Yeah, well, crazy. But that's not Austin related.
Starting point is 00:21:57 No. We had Austin's first wine to culture. How long have we been on for 20 minutes? In 20 minutes. Do we have, we'll do the Austin's first? Yeah, so we have place where we recondos and crazy hearts here. The condos are in the next story. Okay.
Starting point is 00:22:09 So there's, how many of you are from Austin? Yeah, they're all from Austin. Okay. How many of you are born and raised from Austin? Jack's not here. Okay. There's some condos, I don't know if you've seen them. It's like, if you come onto the fourth street side and just like cross Trinity over here, on the south side of
Starting point is 00:22:29 Crossman Hotel there's like some pink condos over here. And rail rail condos are something like that. They used to be pink, they used to be call railroad comments, I don't know, actually if they're pink or if that's what they call anymore. But years ago back in the late 90s, you looked at buying one of those. You thought it would be really cool to look downtown. And it was just way too expensive. They were asking way too much for it. It was a ridiculous amount of money that they wanted for one of the $6,000.
Starting point is 00:22:56 No, it was one of that. It was a... I bought my first house in Austin for $92,500. Right, we're from the East Side. You can't buy a driveway for that Austin. And I was between the house that I could afford and my pie in the sky dream, one bedroom, two bedroom condo actually, at there. But it was $130,000. And I thought, that's ridiculous. Yeah, I'm not a billionaire.
Starting point is 00:23:29 Now the idea of buying a condo in downtown Austin for $130,000 is like, I should have sold more blood. Or a car. I can retire off that condo. I'm going to have this for you. It's just ridiculous how much real estate prices have increased. I'm having trouble with my next step. It's not worth it. It's not worth it.
Starting point is 00:23:38 It's going to do that. Do you want to trade or? I'm talking trouble not my extended. It's not working. It's starting to do that. Do you want to trade or? I'm talking to a complain. Welcome to the podcast. I'll just keep it this way and keep talking. Yeah, by the time when I back home was in O4, I lived for a while. I lived in an apartment over off of Enfield just east of the... That was the grudge apart. That was the grudge apart.
Starting point is 00:24:16 It looked like the attic from Dew on the grudge. I was watching Cab and you go out of time. I had to go to daytime. It was so creepier. But when I, you mentioned, moved out of there in 07. Yeah, I was 07. It was a real small apartment complex. I think there were only like 10 or 15 units there.
Starting point is 00:24:36 It was a one bedroom apartment with a loft. And when I moved out, the owner was like, you just want to buy this unit, I'll sell it to you like a condo. I was like, how much? There's a $140,000. I was like, yeah, I can't swing that. I don't have that kind of money That's probably a billion dollars. It's probably It's like it's Tweet Terry Town in Clarksville Yeah, that is the correct reaction
Starting point is 00:25:02 Yeah, it's fucking it's the correct reaction. Yeah, it's fucking, it's nice to be nice over there. And that was a great apartment and it was really bold and dated on the inside, but still to own that place for $140,000 sort of been really nice. You probably don't want to tell these stories, but if you ever want to talk about all of your dating problems while you're staying in that place, I got tons of stuff. Sorry, I'm not going to point that for now. Maybe in a future episode. I'll break it down to work. Oh, no.
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Starting point is 00:25:58 We've been doing RTX for this is our 12th of one in Austin. We started in 2011, you know, as a field down in South Austin. I don't know if the answer field anymore. This is a building in there. Oh, are these shares? I think so. Because the reason we had it in that field back in 2011, off of slaughters, off of Rapoplinato, but Rapoplinato, the reason we had it in that field, under, if you remember,
Starting point is 00:26:19 is the person who owned the field was the person we bought that building from. Yes. So we knew his contact info. So we just asked him, hey, you know, we need to have an event. Can we do it in your field? And he was like, sure, we just had to like mo it. Because it was like really overgrown. It was like a whole process to get it ready to have a bunch of people there.
Starting point is 00:26:36 And that was a nightmare. Hold it real fast. Raise your hand if you were in that field. Because I know at least two people already. Yeah, the twins. Yeah. Thanks for sticking around. Thank you. It was a 2011 which has gone on records being one of the hottest summers ever in Austin. Because it was like it was in late May. Late May will be fine. It'll be like high 80s, maybe mid 80s. We'll just put water out. It was like a hundred degrees.
Starting point is 00:27:05 That was miserable. It was a lot of hot. The summer that we're having now is that starting to broach on what that summer was. Yeah, this June was hotter than June 2011. Okay. So yeah, this is gearing up to be the hottest summer. I think it's the hottest fastest ever.
Starting point is 00:27:21 Yeah, and this was like the nicest weekend. This was like the re-brain from like the heat. Where it was 104 every day. And then they're like, RTX, we can 98 degrees. Oh! Oh! But we moved to the convention center in 2012. And I remember when, you know, that's where I was,
Starting point is 00:27:39 one of the people organizing the event. And you know, the reason we had RTX July 4th was RTX July 4th was the only weekend when there wasn't an event at the convention center because it's so hot. And no different world peeled and water come to Austin in the summer because it was too hot. And I asked them at the time, I was like, what do you do? Do you keep the AC on all day? Do you turn it off? And I'm like, no, it's more energy efficient and more cost effective. We just leave the AC running 24 hours a day. Like I remember, you know, 72 degrees or something.
Starting point is 00:28:10 I was like, cool. Can you put that in the contract? And they're like, yeah. No, what are you talking about? We just do that. It's like, no, but I want to say, I negotiated with you to keep this convention center 72 degrees 24 hours a day.
Starting point is 00:28:21 No one people say it's too hot. I can say, no, no, no, look, I guarantee you it's not gonna be There's like I was manufacturing a talking point You know you were you were being magnanimous early when you said you were one of the people that helped schedule it but and you know there's been a lot of talent to people in Rischchen, who have shepherded our events department Obviously, we had Bethany for a long time. Yeah, and then she died and now Sheppard in our events department, obviously we had Bethany for a long time and then she died. And now we're gonna put this up. This is probably not doing an amazing job. But before all was your, this was one of my telepaths. We all have like, well,
Starting point is 00:29:08 I was just 30 years of that. And broadcast and a lot of other things get done over the years. But I just don't think enough credit is given to you for. I agree, not enough credit is given to me. I'm really glad you're here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:29:26 It was an enormous source of stress. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm like sleepless nights, like to the point where I would be so stressed I couldn't sleep when I find it sleep. I would like wake up at 4.30 the morning, like I got to write something down. Like I would have to keep pen and paper by my bed, be like things that I need to do when the sun comes up. But you know, I helped plan it for a few years and one of the most stressful events, I think it was back in 2015
Starting point is 00:29:57 when we had to evacuate the convention center in the middle of RTX. So this is the story he told me I didn't know. Yeah, and I think lots of people don't know the real story behind that. I think the official story we had told everyone was that someone pulled a fire alarm, which was bullshit. What really happened was, so I was on the show floor, since I was one of the players had a walkie-talkie, and I got summoned by a convention center securing sat down in a room and they were like, listen, we have this ongoing threat. Initially someone called earlier today, they said they hit in the
Starting point is 00:30:33 bomb in the convention center and they're gonna detonate it and they said if you look back on the news in 2015 there was a group of people who would extort events, they would call in fake bomb threats and then try to get the events to pay them like 30 or $40,000 to quote unquote disarm the bomb, but there was never anything, there was never any call. So, you know, they say, you know, we think this is all bullshit, we think it's this group, this is what they do,
Starting point is 00:30:56 they just call in fake threats and try to get money, but out of the abundance of caution, just to be safe, we're gonna go and you back read the convention center anyway, because we would hate to be wrong about this. So they're like, OK, and they said, we're going to evacuate the convention center in about two minutes. OK, great.
Starting point is 00:31:12 So it's like, I need to call Barbara, because Barbara was co-directing at the time. So I walk out of the meeting with security, I pick up my phone, and I call Barbara. I'm like, hey, Barbara, don't panic. But we need to evacuate the convention center. And right as I said that all of the alarms started going off. And I said, it's okay, just get everyone out.
Starting point is 00:31:38 So that we hung up and then I had to like walk around and like get everyone out. And I remember like the convention, the show floor itself was pretty empty. But I saw these two dudes with weekend passes walking around walking towards the north from the south end of the commissioner's center, the north end on the show floor. I was like, what are you doing? Get out.
Starting point is 00:31:56 So I pointed the trinity ex, go out. Like, what are hotels in that way? Just jam the fuck. I don't write came up here. I came up actually through this room with security. We cleared everyone out. There's like a emergency exit back here. We made sure everyone was out through the exit back there
Starting point is 00:32:11 to clear around until the whole building was empty. And like had to just sit around knowing we couldn't do anything. And eventually like the FBI got involved. And all those people got arrested. They found them. They were overseer in another country but like the FBI coordinated with the other country. You are sure to them as an international
Starting point is 00:32:29 crisis or an international crime. That was probably a big bomb for us to events all around the country that summer and you all were part of history. At our text 2015, he's Christ. That's a heavy story. That's not the first time we've had people investigate it by the FBI. Do you remember we did a... I almost say it was the second San Diego Comic Con we did, so maybe 2004. Oh yeah. Somebody came up to us, you know, we're selling probably season one and season two DVDs at this point of that versus Bluens and T-shirts, and that's about it, right?
Starting point is 00:33:03 It's pretty early on in the company. And probably the first year we sat next to Mega64 actually, and people kept coming up to us with these references, DVDs that we didn't recognize. And we had at that point made every references, DVD. And I like, I miss you at the mat or something, I'm like, yeah, I don't know, it's weird. I don't know if maybe the distributor had like a different cover or something or, and he's like, no, no, that doesn't make any sense. And so the next one came through, I got a nose, I showed his mouth, and I'm like, yeah,
Starting point is 00:33:31 this is what I'm talking about, and we're like, signing, and he, he listed the kid, he's like, where did you get this? Where did you get this? He bought this DVD from, and he goes, oh, over like, five hours, five years, five years, that way. And that goes, this is a bootleg.
Starting point is 00:33:42 And the kid goes, really, I'm sorry, and that guy's like, hold on, first off, here's a real DVD. He's gonna have to give me the real one, and then can you show me where you just a bootleg. And it goes really, I'm sorry, Maca, I was like, hold on, first off, here's a real DVD. It's not a mad, it's not a real one. And then can you show me where you got this bootleg? And so the kid walked mad over, and I followed by like this. And now, what I have to these dudes, they just had a ton, I remember their name, I'm not gonna say it.
Starting point is 00:33:58 They had a, you can say it. I like trick-eye. They had a ton of DVDs, like bootleg DVDs, on the table in a 10x10 booth, and then they had a couple of other locations around counter fun. And then I went up to him and he grabbed there, reverses blue DVDs, and he's like,
Starting point is 00:34:13 where did you get these? And the guy's like, oh, I don't know what you're talking about. He's like, these are fucking bootleg. I make this show, these are not real. And the guy's like, I don't know what you're talking about. And that's like, okay, first off, you're not gonna sell these anymore. And the guy's like, I'll do whatever I want.
Starting point is 00:34:25 And that goes, you're not selling meat, and he took the members of Blue DVDs and he's like, these are fucking mine. You're not selling these anymore. And the guy goes, you can't do that. And that goes, I'll do that with the fuck I want to. You're selling my bootleg DVDs. And Matt and the guy got into it, and Matt took his fucking table and flipped it over. How good is that? table and flip the dough. No! No! Don't ever flip a sweetest guy in your family.
Starting point is 00:34:50 Don't piss off Matt home. He does not fuck around. Now literally flip this table. The evening he's with flying everywhere. And Matt goes, I'm paraphrasing because I don't remember specifically. But I'm pretty sure he told him if he made it, if he did it, he could have killed him. Or something like that. A legend.
Starting point is 00:35:05 Why don't we go to the security officer? So I have a, in this line, and I'm seeing it used to it, so it's making me slow. Okay. One over to a security officer, and I was like, pointed at them, I was like, these guys are selling boot like DVDs, and then they were gone from the convention, and then a week later, we found out the FBI ran it. Yeah. So I'm running the news now. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm read it in the name.
Starting point is 00:35:25 Yeah, so if you if you're Google the name of the company you'll see like when they got arrested back in 2004 I think. Yeah, it was a cool day. Do you? Cool, what do you want to do? I want to be in bad ass. Do you like your dizzling? So first of all good.
Starting point is 00:35:40 I thought you're not supposed to drink coffee. No, I just didn't coffee us. You see, this is a syrup. So first I'll get you're not supposed to drink coffee. No, I can't. He's not a coffee guy. You see, this is a syrup. We have to put the hot water. The only thing they told me to avoid was milk. They said like, no. And I was like, not a problem.
Starting point is 00:35:54 That doesn't have anything to do with the invisalign. It's just for you in general. Stop it. Stop it. In general, with invisalign, when you have it in, you're supposed to drink water. No, he told me soda, uses water. I'm telling you what the orthodontos told me.
Starting point is 00:36:07 That's not true at all, I'm telling you. That is 100% false. I'm gonna go with Dr. Decide. You're supposed to drink water, you have to be very careful. Like if you're showing up, you're supposed to take the visolite out, wait 10 minutes, then press your teeth.
Starting point is 00:36:23 You're not the... All right. When did you start? When did you start? Is this your first train? Three weeks ago. This is your second train at third train. Third train.
Starting point is 00:36:32 Every seven days. Seven days? Mm-hmm. Wow. You're gonna have a straight-up. You're gonna have a straight-up. You're gonna have a straight-up. That's fine. They're fine.
Starting point is 00:36:41 He told me he was okay. He told me, I asked him about coffee. I was like, mostly I drink coffee. He's like, coffee's great. What's me I asked him about coffee. I was like mostly I drink coffee. He's like coffee's great What's that he was saying coffee's fine to drink or he also enjoys Orange juice maybe the same way from two but he said like Milk is the real one and I was like I drink a lot of diet coke and a lot of coffee and you know, you're fine drink this. Oh, right.
Starting point is 00:37:06 What? Are you eating with him, huh? No. That'd be impossible. Oh, no, I'm not. No, I'm not. No, no, no. That's not what I mean at all.
Starting point is 00:37:14 That gusty fool. No, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, more power to Dr. Nick or whoever you're in. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no when we used to live together for a little while, and we used to watch a lot of TV, watch, you know, like Survivor, the Mole, the Simpsons, make it the band, make it the band. Oh my gosh. Like way back in the day, and I've been doing the Simpsons rewatch here recently and I've been rewatching it from the beginning on on season 7 right now.
Starting point is 00:37:50 How hard was it to get to seasons 1 and 2? It's fine. It's not the best but knowing that there's better episodes coming out this is fine. I rewatched an episode recently and I tweeted about it. It was a very niche tweet that was intended for me. I've been watching it with the subtitles on. And when you're watching what the subtitles are on, there's one scene where the subtitles don't match what's being said in the episode. Because the episode as it aired originally was different.
Starting point is 00:38:20 They've changed it in syndication. Then, now that it's available on streaming, they changed it back to the original version. So the audio in the episode is the original version, but the subtitles are the edited changed version. It's like one scene in season six or something, where it's like the subtitles don't match what's being said because they were the other version. What is it? Remember the episode where Bartley's and Aguiett taken away from Homer and Marge and they have to live in foster care with the Flanders. Early in that episode, the Barton Lisa get lights and the way they get lights is because Bart's hanging out with Mill House and Mill House found a monkey in a
Starting point is 00:38:55 basket that his parents built. And the way the episode aired originally was Mill House says, we found this monkey in a basket, my parents bought it, Pier 1. Pier 1 didn't like that. So in syndication, the line got changed too. We found this monkey in a basket by parents bought it, Trader Peats. But Pier 1 doesn't exist anymore. So now they can go back to that.
Starting point is 00:39:19 Now this thing we've heard says Pier 1, but the sub-title still say Trader Peats. Yeah, I take it to peer one. I was like, I'm tweeted a screenshot of that, and I was like, this is for me. Like I know there's like five people in the world who might appreciate this small gap in like 36 seasons of the census. I love that somebody had to make that conscious decision
Starting point is 00:39:42 to put the original audio back in. Like somebody remembered, it was like, finally fixing that wrong. Kirsty, you mean Dan? She did pick your one car for the time. Was it Kirsty's Valley? Yeah, yeah. Man, Pier 1 was the shit if you were a mom in the 80s.
Starting point is 00:39:57 Yeah. I was when you get all the best wicker, I remember that. So, Papa Son chairs that I had to put in so many cars when I worked at a bear one in more. Did you know, that's a great point. So, uh, and this ties in perfectly to Anna. So Anna, uh, is the podcast, you know what the podcast is?
Starting point is 00:40:15 We're gonna take a break every eight episodes. We're gonna wanna write that, we're gonna write that right now. Eric and I don't like that. Gus does like that. I do too many of you are talking to a combinator in Gus. You do, Julie. I guess. How many do you do? I'm on.
Starting point is 00:40:32 Most. He's not almost all of them. And so when we were in LA last week for VidCon, we were in... That's important to me. We were in the neighborhood of LA called Anaheim, but uh... Fluid LAX. Drill the... Why did you fly into the... Thank you! Thank you! These fucking... Can I fucking tell you why I didn't fly into the driveway? I'll tell you why I didn't fly into the driveway because Sophie, who was lovely, and was awesome
Starting point is 00:41:06 on her job, Sophie booked me a ticket to LAX and then I said, hey how am I going to get from LAX to Anaheim and she goes, you can just ride with everybody else. And I said, oh are we all on the same plane and she goes, actually no, I think we're all flying into John Wayne. I was just saying, but you booked me to LAX, but I mean, what you booked every single hour? That's like an hour to an hour and a half overrun. Yeah, and she was like, she was like, I don't know, I guess, because I don't like you.
Starting point is 00:41:30 You're gonna fly the town away, and it's like, you're right there already. Yes, you are. In theory. Anyway, so while we were there, it's a pretty name that airport, which, the answer one is a piece of shit.
Starting point is 00:41:40 Yeah, absolutely. So while we were there, I got to watch Eric experience the income for the first time, which I thought was phenomenal. He was horrified. But Eric and I filmed a supplement of love, so just Eric and I are right. It just came out today for a first member. Oh, did it really? Yeah, it's up to me. I don't even know if you knew that. No, I didn't. Into it, it's a deep dive into the history of Eric the door.
Starting point is 00:42:02 And I found out that he used to work at Pier 1 in Newport. Yeah, so that was my first job when I moved to... When I lived at Ann I got a job at... You mean LA? No, no, no. Orange County. Very different. North Orange County.
Starting point is 00:42:16 Very different. I used to work at Pier 1 and my job was... I was one of the only guys that worked there. So I just cared me. I'm caring everything. Every fucking thing I'm loaded into, like, cars and trucks. And it was like, I was not quick for that job at all. But man, that was, that was a job where I tried so little and just sat in the back and listened to baseball games on the radio. It was great.
Starting point is 00:42:41 It's something. Someone need to lift a chair. Yeah, exactly. And then they call me on the radio and I go, great thing. I like to think you're like in the bullpen. Yeah, I saw it. And the manager goes out and is like, I'm just great.
Starting point is 00:42:49 And Eric, you're a jox. That was good. That's something that all episodes, like a lot of fun. We're actually going to, I mean, guess we're going to get together right after this in the green room. We talked about and record something. I legit about your recording and someone else. What is that going to happen to me?
Starting point is 00:43:04 Are you guys going to record another supplement of the off-sun? Yeah,! It's me! Are you guys going to record another supplement off-sum? Yeah, we'll have to. You know, something has to come out next week. Let's run. We're just taking another week break and then release it. Now, you guys are doing black walks now. Yeah, this is one year. You guys are doing something like that.
Starting point is 00:43:18 So we don't have to record anything? I'm not the one who makes a schedule. You guys, listen. You guys, you live with all the way to California to Canada. No, you do without LA. To record, just to record, I want to give a shout out to Dennis, by the way, Dennis does our, at our audience for... Woo!
Starting point is 00:43:37 ...and I'm going to give a shout out to you, my name is producer for Black Box Downs Hall. Yeah, so, Dennis does a lot. Dennis is very, very good at what he does, but also he didn't know this was not being recorded. Sorry, man. Anyway, if you want to learn a lot about the history of Eric Bedouard, and how much he likes to get revenge on neighbors, listen to this episode, this special episode of Animal. It's like you know what I was born.
Starting point is 00:44:05 VidCon's fucked, dude. That place. That was so crazy. Is that the Animal Convention Center? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, which is not an LA. So it used to be YouTube's thing. And Rishu Teeth, whatever it was, and certain people would go and it would be whatever.
Starting point is 00:44:22 It's a TikTok thing now. And boys and obvious. Man, it was never that- Is there lots of dancing? Dude, it is so, you've never seen an upside. This is gonna be me, but like, you've never seen like crazy or haircuts and worse like lip filler. It's so, it's just like such a bummer,
Starting point is 00:44:40 getting into that hotel. Yeah. Dude, you had to have two wristbands in a badge to get into a hotel, because it was like a that hotel. Dude, you had to have two wristbands in a batch to get into a hotel because it was like the talent hotel. Now where I say. Uh, and it was, I mean, wall-to-wall people filming like themselves.
Starting point is 00:44:56 It was why, why you'll- It was just imagine a hotel that's just one step in repeat after another. It was just weird shit to take a picture of them. Yeah, they looked at me in the town hotel, I guess I did a panel. And it took me 40 minutes to check in because I couldn't get into the hotel without a wrist band, but I couldn't, but they only gave the wrist bands out in the hotel. And I had to argue with security about like the lunacy of that. And it was, it was very bookie nights.
Starting point is 00:45:30 It was like the magic is all the tapes. I can't give you the money until you give me the tapes. So that I can sell the tapes to make the money. You know, it was like, I can't get you the badge until you let me inside to get the badge. And then I can have the badge so I can go inside and like have an argument with the guy for 40 minutes And then inside it was it was me and I Don't know like 5,000 tiktokers who are all 14 to 17 man like VidCon was always young like it's all you like it Brinks like before it brought like YouTube people yeah, and they're pretty established you know going and all the stuff VidCon now is deaf. It's just like a lot younger. It is a lot more like
Starting point is 00:46:08 have to have your legal parent or guardian with you at all times. Kind of like age. Everyone's like 16. Not like, oh, you're like love it. No, like everyone was like 16. It was really crazy. It was really crazy. And in that giant convention center. Yeah, that was insane. I've still never been a bit con. Yeah, I've never been. There's nothing for you there. Oh, okay. I did feel a little jealous, but I guess not. I'm going to be now.
Starting point is 00:46:34 Well, and it's also, it's like, Vittcom is two different conventions of one, right? There's like the, I guess like the influencer side where you go to see your favorite, like YouTube musician, whatever, or I guess TikTok or now. When I went the last time in my 2017 it was just kids watching due to the acoustic guitars put on improv two shows in the park but I guess now it's
Starting point is 00:46:52 dancing with TikTok. But then there's like an industry side so I was on the industry side and so it was just like with the old people there was a whole talking about like five years old. The efficacy of the video podcasting. You know, it was totally different than that. I've only been there to work an event at that rank of a center once. And I think it was Anime Expo in oh six. I think I went there.
Starting point is 00:47:18 And the only, I don't remember anything about that event except for one day, you know, those are long days when you're working an event. One day at the end of the event, everything had closed down. I was leaving and I was walking down the street for the convention center back to my hotel, which was like a little down the street. And I was stopped at an intersection waiting across, as it was a, was a, don't, do not walk for me. And as I'm standing there waiting, it's a Ford Mustang, come speeding down the street, slows down in front of me. Something flies out of the window and then it speeds off and I look around and
Starting point is 00:47:47 they're like, oh they were throwing eggs at me. But I survived high school. Every single one of them missed. There were like four or five broken eggs on the sidewalk all around me. I was like, I want to stop. I'm glad they missed. Dude, you don't have to remind me of when we were at that, to take this back a little bit, when we were working at that post house in California
Starting point is 00:48:10 that we were just the drug one that we were discussing, I don't know if you remember, but there was a little restaurant that we would walk to for breakfast, and they would make croc misoers. Yeah, remember when we would eat those a lot? They were really good there. And on the way when they used to talk, I could hit my card and die. What is that? What? That story, the way you just told that was insane, man.
Starting point is 00:48:30 There's a lot of stuff I can just break this spot. There's a lot of stuff I can do. There are, on that street, I've seen two different people get hit by cars and die on that street. Within like, not at the same spot, within like four or five blocks of each other. Yeah. It's a, yeah, I don't know what it is about that street, but I remember that time, some like other people would have to try to help him
Starting point is 00:48:55 and call 911, but the second time I saw that happen, I called 911 and I was like, hey, I'm out here at this intersection, you know, someone just got hit by a car. They're like, where are you? Like, I'm at the intersection of, you know, whatever and whatever. I know where I am.
Starting point is 00:49:10 Like, where is that? I'm the intersection of this and that. In this city of LA, you know, this, like, particular neighborhood, can you be more specific? Where are you? I told you the exact intersection where I am. How do you not know where I'm calling from? In the end it didn't matter, the person was dead anyway.
Starting point is 00:49:29 Shit. I've never had a car in the store until evening. I remember getting excited about anything else. And I remember when we would come back, I'd be like, oh, I can go to that car to the store place. I had another trip to Illinois. But sometimes when we would do these commercials, be like, oh, I can go to that crackless real estate. I had another trip to Illinois. Sometimes when we would do these commercials, you know, we did them for many years,
Starting point is 00:49:49 we would sometimes we would go really smooth, like we talked about some of the battles here, like where it was like, like six weeks, you know, replacing 20 Parker in a commercial. But yeah. But sometimes they went really well. And I remember one time you and I had to work on a commercial for an arena football game,
Starting point is 00:50:04 which I didn't know they'd be in a arena football games. And we went up there and we banged it out in one day. We did that in Portland, actually. Yeah, we flew out to Portland. We landed like the first flight of the morning. We filmed it for like four hours and they're like, great, you got it. And then we got back on like the last flight out of Portland back to Austin that evening. Yeah, we didn't even have to spend the night there. But I remember sometimes on those trips, you know. I ate with the insurgers for the first time at that place. That's right.
Starting point is 00:50:32 Yeah, I fell along with it. Yeah, they would cater food in. You could eat that. It was an excellent food too. I remember sometimes we'd be going up on those trips and on the plane on the way there. If it was like me and Jeff, we'd sit down, we'd sit next to each other and play,
Starting point is 00:50:44 and we'd be like, who's gonna be good,, who's going to be bad, hop on this trip? Because inevitably it's like, you get there and they'll ask you to do something and one of your, it's one person's job to say, no, that's impossible. Yeah, we can't do it. What you want, we cannot do, it's impossible. And the other person's job would be like, well, maybe we can make it work. Like maybe if we can massage it, and try to get something close to what you're talking about. When it's Scotties, we'll start tracking it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:10 Who was typically the bad cop? We were trained. Because it was fun. Yeah. Yeah, no, I figured it was too bad cop. So I figured you would both be like, I fucking hated a lot of those people too. So it was pretty easy to be bad cop.
Starting point is 00:51:23 Yeah. But some of them were cool. It was cool. There was one guy we worked with, well, like one of the first, it was always a different producer, different people we worked with. And I remember we were up in Portland, building this one commercial,
Starting point is 00:51:33 and we had a little bit of downtime, and I made a joke about Freedom Rock. I was like, turn it up, it's Freedom Rock. And the producer we were working with, that he was like, oh, you remember that commercial? He's like, that was my first job in the ad business, was I produced the Freedom Rock commercial. We'd back, wait, I was like, yeah, I was like,
Starting point is 00:51:52 of course, that's like an iconic commercial. How would you not know that? Do you also remember that one of those trips at the Portland, they tried to hire Jason from us and from us? Yeah, I'm gonna be like like, first off, fuck you, but secondly, what's wrong with Gus and I? I'm gonna be in there, it wasn't Jason, Jason's good.
Starting point is 00:52:10 The world, we're like, we're fucking killing it here. Why would you want to hear him? I'm mean. I don't know what I'm gonna work here, but it's gonna be ass. Also, they had a rule whenever we would go to Portland. Like, what if we went to Portland, that meant we were working at the White and Kennedy office, like their and like, this is one of the biggest agencies in the world.
Starting point is 00:52:29 And like Jeff mentioned, they had Nike, Coke, like big big big big big friends, right? And we would go, with the first couple of times when there's no big deal, but then like the third or fourth time, we had to get pulled aside. And like, what are the people who worked there? It was like, listen, this isn't a requirement, but it's very strongly recommended that if you're going to be spending time in this building, you need to wear 90s. And then they were like, the guys are both like, well, we don't have 90s. And they're like, that's fine. But just stay off the third floor. I remember, yeah. We just didn't go left. There's like, there are places you cannot go
Starting point is 00:53:05 unless you have nighties. I bought a pair of nighties specifically for anytime I had to go to Portland, I would have to take my nighties. Like those were my commercial-making important things. So I would just, might be the most specific shoes you can have. And then one time we used to have like a corporate condo and a corporate apartment there, like across the street from White Kennedy, it was like on top of a whole food. And I remember one time, this back, oh, five, maybe.
Starting point is 00:53:30 I got, I remember what commercial we were working on, but I got into the condo. And it's like, it's kind of like Airbnb before Airbnb existed. And I get there and I've got a key for it and take the elevator up and walk into the condo. I think it was me and Jason actually, walking into into the condo and there was a ball of kombucha on the counter in the kitchen. I've heard of kombucha, but I never tried this, but I didn't know what it was. 17 years ago, keeping it right.
Starting point is 00:53:56 And I was like, oh, this must be the kombucha thing everyone's talking about. I was like, I've never tried this. Maybe I should give this a try. I was like, oh, this kombucha's really thick. And I opened up the cap and I smelled it. I was like, oh, kombucha smells bad. And I was like, I'm not gonna drink that.
Starting point is 00:54:13 And I put the cap back on and put it back in the kitchen counter. And I went into my bedroom and I was like, unpacking my stuff and my phone rang, my cell phone, and I answered it. And it was like the corporate department people. And I said, hey, just FYI, we had handyman in your unit earlier and he lived a bottle of paint on your couch. And they were like, he's going to be back up later tonight to pick it up. I guess he had just put his white paint for touch-ups on the cabinet in a bottle of kombucha and then put the cat back on.
Starting point is 00:54:43 And I had sniffed it and he was like maybe this is something else for me. So you were second-leven drinking, babe? I was like a off-white plate and I was like, oh, this is not that new drink. I went to find something really different. We would have had like a real different bus. Jesus Christ. We're getting down to the last couple of minutes.
Starting point is 00:55:17 So, as we wrap up, thank you guys for coming. I appreciate it. Thank you. We have the guesses for the name for coming. I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, me guesses for the name for Amber. Jeff had again before we go through guesses. If you save the name, I'm not a technology. Yes, that's right. If we say the name. So don't shout it out. I'm not asking you if you have the name. You can tweet at us. Maybe it's not acknowledging them. No, I'm just letting you know. Don't yell at just whippers to go, I got a guess. I don't want to know your guess And save it save the guess what Jeff to guess. Okay, uh
Starting point is 00:55:50 Okay, okay A nominal micro trends action. Oh That's all you got Okay I'm gonna stay in the trend of merchandising, uh... Aino? No. Masters.
Starting point is 00:56:15 Always? No. How about, uh... How about agricultural norms? agricultural norms mean all? No. I don't have any more guesses right now. Oh my god. Are we close?
Starting point is 00:56:37 Was I close? No! There's only one person online, somewhere on a podcast platform, who got close. Wow! I will say something to look forward to when we start season 2. Gus and I talked about it a little bit today and I should mention this to you as well.
Starting point is 00:56:53 I was at the industry party last night. Yeah. Brian Gar was telling me, did you make other comedy? Yeah, for sure. Brian Gar told a story about how his uncle bulled a 300 on 9-11 Yeah! Which is the funniest story I've ever heard in my entire life And how his uncle, like, is not 11 but his uncle was still holding on to that He wasn't all bad, I bulled a 300
Starting point is 00:57:15 But I can't believe that 9-11 happened and his uncle was like I just fell when he got the goal Well that was the big thing too, he's like, we can't let you do it But that happened at like 9 in the morning. You knew, and that he won. You still, like, were able to hold it together to pull. But anyway, and that's why I asked him, without talking to you guys, I asked him if it'd be on Amla.
Starting point is 00:57:34 Oh, yeah. And he was like all about it. So I think, just as a teaser, I think season two, we want to start adding guests to the world. I think having, so I think it'll be easy to kind of get guests in corporate event. I just don't think it'll be like every episode Yeah, I think it's a lot of fun. I think having people that you guys talked about and people that have been around for a long time And like no lost and all that stuff. I think that would be really fun
Starting point is 00:57:57 It's interesting because we've only you know We've been in like six or seven years ago now, but he's been in Austin the long time and we've been in similar circles before like even though we didn't know each other we never met but we have a lot of shared experience yeah yeah and I think we'll also definitely have I asked him as well that Jason Saldon yet I got my friends with me the other day yeah that's even like that was gonna happen yeah he's all done I think having some guests if you guys that are familiar with Brianne, he'll be on the podcast that he hears tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:58:28 So we did it yesterday. It was awesome. He talked about it. I thought, I'm talking to him. Watching was important. And I was passing it out. And he's like, well, there's a lot going on. He's here.
Starting point is 00:58:42 He's at the wrong. He's pretty excited. There's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on.
Starting point is 00:58:58 Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot RTX 2022. Yeah, absolutely. Gus was going to do that. Yeah. Well, obviously I want to say thank you to everyone for coming out for traveling. Obviously, there's very few Austin people here.
Starting point is 00:59:12 So thank you for coming forward, where you came from. We really appreciate it. We're going to be able to do this kind of thing if we didn't have your support. So thanks so much. Yeah. Let's do it.
Starting point is 00:59:20 Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah you. Thank you. Thank you guys so much for coming. We'll see you later. Look at your text. Look at your text.
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