ANMA - One Sided Fighting with the Post Office

Episode Date: June 26, 2023

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This is our podcast now. This is episode 48 of our podcast, Gus. Yeah. We're coming up to RTX pretty soon. Oh, yeah. It's like in two or three weeks. Yeah, something like that. Because this comes out what next week? Yeah.

So then it's like a week after that or something. Oh, damn. Let's see. Hang on. Let me see. 20th July 7th tonight. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so it's like, you're like a week and a half out. Oh, damn. Let's see. Hang on, let me see. 20th. July 7th tonight. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so it's like, you were like a week and a half out and by the time this comes out.

So this is episode 48. On episode 47, we were at Terrible Love. We talked about the Pre-Summer Heat. We talked about the Kennedy School and Hyde Park. We shot who shot JR? Who did you JR? I don't know. Did anyone tell us?

No, we talked about the parlor. What the fuck? We talked about King of the Hill. I talked about Delaware and Thunderclad subs. We talked about the summer in 98. I ate a Thunderclad earlier today. Wow. What a world we're living in. But that was all episode 47.

This is episode 48. The guy who made my sub. You have to say good morning, Gus. He's looking up who shot J.R. No, I'm actually doing something way worse than that. I'm writing it down as a note to talk about on my podcast. Oh, my God. I'll look it up.

The guy who? Can you say good morning, Gus? Good morning, Gus. Christ. Christ. It wasn't the guy who made my sandwich, but another guy who was at Thunder Cloud when I went there earlier.

Not JR? No. He had a beard that was like 18 to 20 inches long. Like it was so long. And no like beard net or anything. It's like it's practically hanging down into the sandwich. And the whole time I was in line waiting to get up to the counter door,

I was like, please not that guy. Please not that guy. Because it just seemed like the bottom of his beard was brushing every sandwich he was making. I was like, I didn't get him luckily. I got another dude who was really surly in the Thunder Cloud tradition, so it was all good. I'd rather take surly than heroin.

And what did you get at Thunder Cloud? The Nata chicken? Nata chicken, you like that? Yeah, it's good. It's like a fake chicken patty. I usually get the Italian sub there, just playing with bog standard Italian. I don't really don't. I try not to eat meat there, just playing with bogs, standard Italian. I don't really don't.

I try not to eat meat during the week, so. No, of course. Until today. No. What do you mean? Oh, no, I don't bet you one. Oh, did you? Yeah.

Oh, awesome. Yeah, that's great. Kristen Shepard. I'm sorry. Who Shepard shot J.R. Oh, he brought it to this spot. Kristen was J.R. scheming sister-in-law and mistress. He was banging his sister-in-law.

Sister-in-law. All right. No Dallas people there, no. I'm a bit of anger. What is the name of this park? You ran away to go look at it. There's an unsung. Oh, I missed it.

It's right there. I'll be right back. He's leaving again for the second time. I think he yelled at me once when I left the podcast when we were down on Old Torf, because I ran to the treat. He's left it twice now. So Arteeck should be pretty good. Will we do it me and Jeff will be doing a break show,

but we'll be doing this as a live podcast, having some coffee, hanging out with everyone. That should be a lot of fun to come to RTX. RTX Austin.com. Apologies, I didn't see the sign before. Aillars Park. Oh, got it. I don't.

Aillars? Aillars. E-I-L-E-R-S. Yeah. That's an Austin name. Yeah. Come on, as you know, you've been here long enough. You should know. No, I call it bull burgers. Common Austin name.

I used to live really close to here down, we're on, you know, Aillers Park right off of Lake Austin Boulevard. I lived like a few blocks further west from here. He used to rent a house over there. This whole area has changed quite a bit. I think we mentioned before they built that HUB over here that used to be like, there used to be a Randles over there. I lived here, that was still a Randles. And it was always like, it was a great grocery store because it was always empty. Yeah. There was never anyone there.

You just described every Randles in Austin. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, it costs a little more, but it's empty. I don't have to deal with anyone. And it's right there. I'm not gonna out where I live with this, but we go to our Randles, we call sad Randals,

because it's just, it's empty and sad at all times, but you could go in the pandemic and they'd have everything. Nobody thinks to go there. I know what you're talking about, because I've been to that Randals. It's a, it's a, it's great in the pinch. Yeah, it's empty. Did we talk, I don't know if we talked about that,

this on this podcast, but I only recently discovered that Randals is like, basically an Austin thing. I had no idea. Yeah, like everywhere else it has a different name, but it's owned by Tom Thum, it was part of Tom Thum, which is based out of Houston, which is now owned by Safeway. So it's like, it's Safeway like three layers removed,

but I think the only remaining Randall's in operations are the ones here in Austin. And there might be one in Houston or two in Houston. Well, if it is local, they need to up their local food fair, then they don't carry most good brands. Safeway. And we just covered that. It's local. The only ones in Austin.

Yeah, it's just weird that they keep that same specific naming and branding, despite the fact, Randalls as an independent entity probably went away decades ago. I never liked Randalls because I hated having to use, I hated having to give them my phone number to get a card. I'm sure if you've been to Safeway, it's the same thing. You have to give them the phone number. It's like, you don't get the good deal unless you give them your phone number. I'm like, I don't want to give them my fucking phone number.

It's another excuse. Another way for people to get my phone number and call me. Do what I do. Put in your fiancee or wife's number. I just put in English. This is when I was younger. I'm talking about like, I just, I'll give you Emily's number today.

This is before you had a girlfriend. She doesn't even have an account. She's like, put a number in it. And it says acceptance. Yeah, that's true. This was a long time ago. And yet they like fill out the paper. Remember these, you can be like the registrar. Now they're gonna give a fuck. It's like, just give put a number in it. It says accepted. Yeah, that's true. This is a long time ago. We need to like fill out the paper Remember these like the registry now they're gonna fuck us. I'll give them a number

Are you against blockbuster for the same reason? Yes, I will say they do something sketchy at all the Randall's in Austin That I see it all the time now. You mean all the Randalls. Yeah. Oh, sorry all the Randalls Of the local Randall local Austin Randalls They if they had in the self-check outlines I local Austin Randalls. They, if they had in the self-checkout lines, I'd say about every other time I go through it, it asks me if I wanna take a survey, like answer these 10 questions,

and I always just ignore it, and there'll always be a guy or a lady behind me who works there, who goes, do you mind if I fill out that survey for you? No, I guess not, and then I leave, and they're like, boom, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, yeah. And they will always ask if they can fill out the survey. You're not gonna fill out the survey,

and I'm like, I wasn't planning on. They're like, I got you. Tententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententententent the dude in front of me ordered something, like he walked up to the counter, ordered something. You know, and they deals that thing where he's like, he has to put his credit card in the machine and then they flip the screen over so he can like fill out the tip and sign it or whatever. They flip the screen over, he just looked at it and walked away, like didn't put a tip,

didn't put no tip, didn't sign it, nothing. So like the employee watched him walk away, they flipped it back over to her side and put $2 tip. Oh yeah! Yay! And just continued and I was like, I'm not gonna falter for that. Don't out, don't out it on the podcast, but tell2 tip. Oh yeah. Yeah. And just continued and I was like, I'm not gonna falter for that.

Don't out, don't out it on the podcast, but tell me later. I don't know. I was like, it's kind of a dick thing not to fill it out. It was like, yeah, right. Yeah, whatever. It was like, all right, whatever.

I'm not gonna say, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna mention it to tens of thousands of people on a podcast. Paying the $2 asshole tax. So we are doing a dumb thing. It is two in the afternoon in Austin, Texas. It's about a hundred degrees outside. I think with the heat index, it feels like 109.

That's what it is. He said, and it feels in every way like 109. If you're planning to come to Austin during RTX, it'll be worse than this when you get here. Significantly worse, and this is pretty bad. Don't podcast outside while you're here. We're trained professionals. Yeah, yeah, we can't we can't recommend you do that Podcast indoors when you come to visit us in Austin. We are at ailers park Which is right next to deep-eddy pool, which is a public pool in Austin that is you know

Everybody in Austin you hear about the public pool system everybody goes to Barton Springs Barton Springs is like The big tourist location. I don't like, I mean, I kind of love Barton Springs because of what it is and how beautiful it is. And if you've never been here, there is a legit little spring in the middle of downtown Austin where people can sunbathe and swim, and it's pretty fucking big.

You pay like five bucks to go in and you can see the skyline from the water. It's really a unique experience. That's like right across the go in and you can see the skyline from the water. It's really a unique experience. It's like right across the street from where they have like ACL. Yeah, it is. It's the festival. Right on the water there.

About a mile away from there, two miles away from there is another public park that's also Spring Fed called Deep Eddie Pool, which is where we are. Which is where we are. We're sitting right outside of it. And it's just a swimming pool, but it is spring fed, so the water's the same temperature as Martin Springs. It's got the same vibe. It's just cleaner.

It's just cleaner. You're not gonna get toxic algae on you. You're not gonna end up with jockeye for six months if you're out here. This is where I've been going to swim all year. And there's a free suitcase over there. Oh yeah, an Ailer's Park has free suitcases, apparently. Right up on the other side of the park a lot,

is a place you can see from the street called Deep Eddie Cabaret. Yeah, I don't know if you've ever been in the Big Kid Cabaret. I only went once, I had no opinion apparently right up on the other side of the park a lot is a place you can see from the street called deep-eddy cabaret Yeah, I don't know if you've ever been there Betty cabaret. I only went once I had no opinion of it It's a dive bar. I think a lot of older people in Austin probably from this side of town Yeah, when I just only time I ever went there when I lived over here in the area I went there a couple times. I assume that the people who go to deep-eddy cabaret are the same people who go to Don's Depot Yeah, yeah, I just see an old train where old people go.

I've never been there either. But on the back end of Deep Eddie Cabaret is a tiny little nook of a place called Poolburger. Yeah. And it's like, I don't know, it's a little trailer and then an indoor outdoor eating area. And it's phenomenal. So this is part two of our burger.

Yeah, this is burger two, which is why we're doing the afternoon and not in the morning. Yeah, it's hot as hell this is part two of our burger. Yeah, this is your burger too. Which why we're doing the afternoon and not in the morning. Yeah, it's hot as hell. This was a terrible idea. But the burger was really good. I've never been a full burger before. I got the hippie burger in keeping with my no meat.

So yeah, I had two lunches today. Two everyone who's listening. I had Thunder cloud earlier and then I had a burger right now. Okay, I'm sorry. Should we? Are we getting into the food already? I don't know if you wanna get into the food. I was just trying to set the table.

Set the scene for where we are. We can set the table with some food. Let's talk about it. I think it's interesting. I think that we say that poor burger was an N.F. was an N.M.A. NFT? I don't remember. It is.

Oh, it is for sure. If we haven't named it before, this is definitely an N.M.A. NFT. It's definitely not, I mean, that's a place that's beloved by locals. It's been around for about five years. It's, I don't think it's hit the levels of tourism, like a tourist location, but it's fucking awesome.

They're always playing like Eric said, Yacht Rock. They have DJs on the weekend that's been actual records that play Yacht Rock. It's all beach-themed, but in a, kind of an adorable way, not like a goofy way. It's very well, uh, I don't know, it's just, it's designed well. They even self-unmarchained as you can buy like

beach hats and towels and sunglasses and shit. And the very portable air conditioners, because I could use one. It's like a hot. The hamburgers are... That was an excellent burger. Fantastic. The star for me though was the French fries.

Yeah. Those French fries have like crinkle cut French fries that have a real nice crisp on the outside. And they're like really, you got a great bite to them when you bite into them. I think I got the all American burger. Maybe loyal burger. Loyal burger.

You got the same thing. Loyal burger. It was pretty good. The only knock I would have would give it a 10, except my burger fell apart. Oh, the thing it totally falls apart. Like the bottom bun. Yeah, the bottom bun got too soggy and just fell apart.

That's what I'm trying to know, soggy right now. Okay. My top bun is pretty soggy and swampy. Anyway, it's a way to fell apart and that's kind of a bummer when your burger loses its structure. So I'm going to give it a nine. But maybe the best crinkle cut fries I've ever had. Yeah.

If I were to, again, I feel like it's not a compare, for me, it's not a fair comparison to Casino because I got a veggie burger here and I didn't add Casino. Sure. Totally different. As far as veggie burgers go, like that was amazing.

It was phenomenal. Like one of the best veggie burgers I've ever had. But if you're talking like burger at large, it's hard to say because it's not beef. If I was giving it like a veggie burger, I'd give it like probably like a 10 for a veggie burger, overall for an actual burger, I mean, eight maybe, but it's not fair. It's not fair. It's not beef. What I will say about this place is you should, you have, it's a little expensive. You have

to order your fries separately from the burger, it doesn't just come with it. These guys both got two drinks each. This one's hottest hell, I was hoping this would keep me cool. It's a pro move. It was, do you feel like a pro right now? I feel so professional. Well, the reason I do it is because I come here a lot and it's pretty usually pretty busy

and you drink a diet coke pretty fast and then you gotta go stand in line again. It's annoying when you know you're gonna get to. The reason I think the line takes a little bit long too is the, like the guy like the cashier is also the bartender. Yeah. Because they do a lot of teaky drinks at this place. So if you're looking for a place to get a teaky drink and a burger,

it is hard to beat. They have some strong drinks. I love this place. They also carry, if you're into like different sodas, they carry two flavors of Jamaican ting here. Oh really? I didn't see that. I didn't notice that. Yeah, the green and the pink. Ooh, pink. Hey, guess what? I'm gonna get a third drink. I'm gonna be back to the car. I'll be right there with you, dude. I love it.

Alright, let's go and do that. What did you think of like, you were saying it's kind of themed but in like an adorable way? What did you think about that food all being cooked in the like, air stream, like jet, fucking jet liner? What am I trying to say? Like, air stream? Yeah, the air stream trailer. I got something in my eye right as I was trying to think.

I didn't notice it. It was what was off to the side. I was right there. Oh, yeah, I got kind of side in my periphery. I didn't really see what's air conditioned for the whoever I hope to it's like any other food truck or food trailer It's really good. It's a cool boy. I give it time just cuz I love it It's like I don't even know if you can call it a food trailer because it's it's a permanent fixture right you know Yeah, and it's a part of the whole design of the place. It's it's I'm gonna do a quick sidebar here. It's so hot

here that I put you know I had my bottle of coke on the table and when I picked it up there's like a ring of condensation left. A caterpillar appeared out of nowhere. Made a b-line for the condensation. Drank it all. Yeah. Keep walking over here. I put my bottle in front of it so that I could drink more all the condensation off it. This thing is going to fucking town. There's like no condensation left on this side of the bottle over here. It has as drank every drop of water you are making that caterpillar's day? It must be so thirsty in a picture of it

It's like it's the plus also like the outside of the bottle's cool and this thing's this thing's gonna be talking about this for years to come So on the way here we took a little bit of a security route to get to that's a big word Thank you to get to put That's a big word. Thank you. To get to. For the big dog. But we drove by a bunch of places. We drove like a casino. We were on six. We saw a car driving down the wrong side of the street that almost hit us. All the time. We went by a bunch of places. And you guys talked about a few different things. A hotel where you had people staying

and there's a building that blew up. There was an old place where you used to work. There were a bunch of different things. I used to live right over there. And then also Jeff almost ran out of guess. That, yeah. I could have sworn we had told that story here on this podcast, but I guess we didn't because Jeff acted like he didn't know this story, which by the way, was it fucking infuriating to me. Years ago, this must have been back of four, because I was living with Jeff at the time. So this is like season, this is before RVB? No, season one.

Season two, season two. Okay, have we been to New York yet? Yes. Okay. That was January, 04. Yes. So this was later than that. I was living with you

I don't know where you guys went, but Jeff and Bernie had gone out of town somewhere and They were coming back to Austin and they wanted me to pick them up It was obviously before Uber or anything like that. Taxi's existed. I don't know why they weren't taking it I know why they weren't taking a taxi. We're fucking cheap And I was free. So they asked me to pick them up. I think I didn't have, something my truck wasn't working or I didn't have it, or it was in the shop like it always was.

And so I had to take Jeff's truck out there, his old like Sky Blue 65 or 663 I think. No, it was 63. No, it was 63. I was 64. I was 67. Yeah. She had these C10 pick up, step side.

So I took your, your, your step side pick up out there. What I didn't know at the time was that Jeff's gas gauge on his truck was broken. It would get down to a quarter tank and it would just stick there if we use you know. So I got in his truck started it up had a quarter tank of gas And you know those things used a lot of fuel, but Jeff didn't live too far from the airport. It was really close So I was like, yeah, I'm it's fine. I'll be able to make it there and back no problem. So I go driving down to the airport right as I'm pulling into the airport. You pull off of 71 and you like pull that goes drive down towards the airport. Truck started sputtering and it died. I'm like, great. So like I have to I coast. I pull off to the side

and like put the hazards on and I'm like, great. So like, I have to, I coast, I pull off to the side and like put the hazards on and I'm like, what happened? And I'm like, oh, I can tell very quickly that the truck's just out of gas. The gas gauge doesn't work. I think, by this point, you all had landed, I think, and I think I called you and you're like, oh, yeah, the gas gauge is broken. It's probably out of gas.

Like, fuck. So I'm like, halfway down between 71 and the airport. The truck was no gas, so I turn around, I just leave it to blinkers on and I start walking back towards 71, because there's a gas station back there. And I'm like, I don't have a gas can, I'll probably just go down to the gas station,

I'll buy a gas can, fill it up with like a gallon of gas, and figure this out. So as I'm walking away from the truck, I don't know if you know this, airports have a lot of security. They do. The cop show up. And this cop shows up.

He's like, what are you doing? I'm explaining like, hey, I was just driving here. I was supposed to pick up some friends. But truck ran out of gas. I'm walking back over to the gas station to get some gas. He's like, all right, let me see your license. I'll give you right out over there. Yeah, sure, fine, whatever.

I handed my license. Why would you get, why? I was stupid. I knew my license was suspended at the time. Why was your license suspended? I think I had unpaid parking tickets. I was more irresponsible in my youth than I am. How did your license ever been suspended?

No, never. That's same. So, he's taking me out there. We get to the gas station. I get down. I buy the thing of gas. I'm filling it up. And the cop comes up to me, he's like, do you know your license is suspended?

I'm like, oh yeah. About that. Forgot about that. You okay? Oh. I'm watching a wasp eat a caterpillar. Oh my. That's a caterpillar, I gave the water to.

No, it's not. It is. Your caterpillar's over here. Is it like that? There's your caterpillar. Okay. Don't look. Don't look.

The most impressive thing about this whole thing is Gus was telling that story while navigating the caterpillar around the table without, dude, that's horrible to see. Oh my god. It's great to not have to worry about something flying out of the sky needing me. Did you get a photo of it? Yeah. That's the saddest, most heartbreaking thing. Wait till you hear the rest of my story.

Yeah. Cause it's even sadder. Sorry, dude. Whoa. That's fucked up. I've never seen that before. Kill that thing before it stings us. I feel like it's gonna come after us. If you try to kill it, it's gonna sting. It's gonna be full after eating that. It's gonna be fine. I'm just like set my coke on top of it. I don't want to do anything to it. Well, it's gonna live. It wouldn't kill it. I would just trap it. I don't want to do anything to it. Okay.

I want to hear the rest of you guys' story. So he's like, oh yeah, he's you're like suspended. Like, oh yeah, I forgot about that. He anything to it. Okay, I want to hear the rest of you guys's story. So he's like, oh yeah, he's your line suspended. Like, oh yeah, I forgot about that. He's like, you know, I could arrest you right now. Oh yeah. I'm like, yeah, you could, couldn't you. And he's like, lucky for you, I didn't see you actually driving the truck.

He's like, I'll give you a ride back to the truck. You can put the gas in it, but you cannot drive it away. You have to push it into the parking lot and call one of your friends to come drive it. I was like, yeah, sure, fine, whatever, whatever, you got no problem. So he takes me back to the truck, by the way, I get a call from, I think Bernie at this time,

he was like, hey, we got tired of waiting for you, we took a cab. So they fucking left me there to deal with this all by myself. The cop takes me back to Jeff's truck, I put the gallon of gas in, and he watches me push it into the parking lot. Jeff or Bernie never come back. Well, we were in a cab. How can we come back? Yeah, sure. And the cop doesn't help me. He watches me push it. I push it into the long-term parking lot, pull a ticket, push it into a parking spot, leave it there, have to walk to the terminal. They

don't come and get me, Eric. I have to walk to the terminal, get in a cab and then go back to Jeff's house to give him the keys until I'm worse, truck's parked. Here's, now here's, here's the thing about this story. Okay. Here's what I remember about this story. Nothing. I have no memory of this happening.

For all I know, Gus has just invented this in this moment. This totally happened. So when you gave me the keys, was I annoyed that you left my truck somewhere and I had to go get it? I feel like I would have been. I think you were a little annoyed, but I was annoyed that you all had left me there. So it was like, did we fight? No, but it was like double annoyances canceling each other out. Okay. There's like that kind of thing. Wow. Yeah, that was so fucking dumb. Well, it used to be these to set up speed traps at that airport when they first opened and for the first few years

Yeah, because you the speed limit from 71 going down to the terminal is like 45 miles an hour something. Maybe we'll just drive like 55, 60, whatever. So I remember you always have to go 45 on the dot because they would pull you over and give you a speeding ticket at the fucking airport. What's the lowest? All right, what's the lowest over the speed limit

you've ever been pulled over? Oh, I think I was pulled over on Riverside once for going like four over the speed limit. Oh, way. I was my same thing. When back when we used to live on Riverside together at that house, down by Pleasant Valley, I got pulled over once for going 46 in a 45.

Let me tell you something. That's not you can't. It's almost like when you live in certain parts of town, they're looking for an excuse to pull you over. Yeah. 40 fucking six. Middle of the day, it wasn't like it was one in the morning and I could have been drunk.

Same with me. It was like two in the afternoon. It was like a Saturday, two for me. It was like, guys, like what's the big hurry? And I was like, I don't think there is. And he's like, well, you were speeding and I was like, I don't think I was. And he's like, I clocked you at a smooth 46.

I'm like, what's the speed limit? 45? Okay. Yeah. What do you want for me? I gotta take it. He didn't get any warning. I got a ticket.

I got a ticket too. That was my first ticket ever. Actually, not a thing about it. That was my first ticket ever. Let me on a life of crime that ended with my license being suspended and me almost being arrested at the Austin Airport. My first ever ticket, I was 16.

I got a parking ticket and I had to go down to the court and pay it. This is in mobile. And when I went into the court to pay it, I, you know, by myself, I didn't know what to do. My mom was just like, I'm at work, you'll figure it out. Yeah. She kind of gave me the, like, the layout.

This is how you handle this. They want to take your money. Yeah. And so I went and I handled it and it was scary and I talked to grownups and it was like a whole thing, but I paid my $40 or whatever. And I came back out and I had parked illegally and I got to take it.

Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. So my first ticket, paying for my first ticket, gave me my second. Did you immediately turn around and pay for the second one? No, I didn't have the money. Yeah. Yeah. So my first ticket, paying for my first ticket, gave me my second. Did you immediately turn around and pay for the second one? No, I didn't have the money. I just fucking got in the car and went home.

That sucks. I think I wouldn't cut grass or something to give you. Yeah. That's terrible. Wow. Do you want to apologize to Gus for not giving him a ride? Dude, I'm sorry. I'm sorry you probably didn't clearly communicate

that you needed a ride. Otherwise, I would have been. This is like the definition of moving to hell Uh-huh, uh-huh I wonder I can't remember where you guys were Well, it might have been... I might have been New York again, but we used to get a New York a lot that first two years But by that point, why wouldn't I have gone with you? Because I was there You might have had something else going on

I don't know, this doesn't seem right It might have been an old call center thing? Oh No, I wouldn't have been. I wasn't working there anymore. Okay, by the point you weren't. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know then. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I was.

I'm not a quit that year. Yeah, it was, it was, it's probably right around that time. It might have been. Yeah, some bullshit work thing. Well, keeping on our drive to get here. You guys talked about a hotel that you used to put people up at. What was that? There was like an extended stay hotel out there on West to get here. You guys talked about a hotel that you used to put people up at? What was that? There was an extended stay hotel out there on West 6th Street,

kind of by like, sixth and Guadalupe. It's under construction. They tore it down. It's like they're building something there now. Who knows what the fuck it is. There was something built in between, too. Like, they tore that extended stay down years ago. Did they leave the corpse here?

Pieces of it. It looked like it ate most of it. Like, yeah. Yeah, so we would put people up at that motel because when our office was down like at seventh in Congress, it was walking distance and they could come by and whatever. So one time we put a bunch of people up there, we had like a bunch of voice actors in,

recording red versus blue lines, because we're working on new season. Probably doing season seven. If I had to guess, I would guess I was probably it. And that extended stay motel was right across the street from that old intel building we talked about before, that intel started constructing, and then they stopped, and we just like a skeleton

of a building for many years. We didn't realize, and we didn't warn anyone because we didn't realize it was that, I think a wasplata to your left, Eric. Oh, God. Should have put that coat can on it. I saw it coming. Anyway, that intel building was right across the street

from it, and we put everyone up there the weekend it was scheduled to be demolished. So at like that Saturday at like 6 a.m. they set off all the explosions to demolish the old Intel building. It was about, it was about 19 stories at that time I think, where they had stopped constructing. I remember. It was pretty big. Yeah, they imploded it and it woke everyone up at the I think extended same hotel. I'm sure they were all terrified. Oh my god. Yeah, they thought a bomb on off. It was, it was pretty big deal.

When a bomb did go off. Okay, but again, it was a plan for the show box. But it scared these shit out of all those people. Yeah, for sure. Wow. How? Take on the sun with Gear Built to Last. Our friends at Shady Race have you covered

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because my old office was at sixth in Congress, close to where the RCT studio was. So we would always have out of town visitors staying over there and then walking back and forth. That accident as they was such a great little local secret, no local secret. It was a great little secret because you didn't think about it. It was all, you could always book rooms there. It was reasonable because it wasn't like super fancy or anything.

And it was so centrally located. Yeah. And it had a huge parking lot. That's what I remember about it. And you could park there whenever you wanted to on a Friday or Saturday. It was like a great space to come park when you want to go drink. Yeah. You got to worry about paying.

I missed that parking lot. Have they done anything with that post office that's right over there too? The building is still there. It's still, it's gonna be, well it's been going to be a building for many years but I'm pretty sure they're gonna build like maybe a taller building than we currently have there. That's one of the post offices we got chased off from in the early days. What do you mean? We didn't get chased off.

Well, we thought we were getting chased off. Okay. So that post office had one of those things, I'm lots of post offices have this where you can drive up and they have like the blue box outside where you can put mail in that you're sending if you don't have to go into the post office, right? Like a drive up mail drop thing. In the early days before we had a fulfillment house we would ship all of our DVDs and merch ourselves. We would get together Jeff's house and label everything up and stamp it.

Put them in the nil envelopes, write a joke, send it all out. So we would have truckloads of stuff to send. And we would have to, there were many problems you wouldn't think about that go along with this. But one of the problems was we had, we physically have a lot of mail we need to send out. So we went down, we discovered that mail box at that sixth and guad or fifth-in-guadalupe post office, that exterior blue box went underground, went underground. Like it wasn't just, you didn't just put stuff into it and you wouldn't fill the box, you'd be like, that's it, we got to move on

because we were having to do that. So here's what we found that out because I kind of want to put this in perspective. The first run of DVDs we sold that we ordered was 10,000. All right, we sold to those very quickly. We then ordered, we kept then we began ordering an increments of 10,000. We sold through those very quickly. We then ordered, we began ordering an increments of 10,000. These were in the early days. So we were pushing out 10,000 DVDs in order. Which was an exciting thing to do, 10,000 people wanted to buy DVDs, but we had never considered how big 10,000 DVDs are.

Yeah, you got like three or four people trying to physically mail 10,000 DVDs. And how to do it. So we would split them up in the cars and we would drive around and we would fill up every blue post office box in we did the same thing. Yeah, right? Like that was what that was what our brains came up with. Sean and Garrett had a route. Yeah, we did. Yeah, it's like we went to this one go to them. Just go till the. We couldn't fit a DVD in the mail slot and then we just go to another and we all had routes did you do it during the day Or in the dead of night both? I remember for the dead of night. Yeah, but so Gus is right when we found the one downtown and

We dropped the DVD and then we heard to go Like a cartoon and we go holy shit. There's a lot of room So that became our go-to. And we started jamming that motherfucker, because we were at home, we could only process maybe 500 a day. And we, so we were like, you get off of work, we're all working our day jobs.

So we would work from like, us, I would work 7 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. typically, or four to midnight, but usually we 7 to 4.30. We'd come home, we'd grab a bite to eat, and then we'd start stuff in DVDs until like nine o'clock at night, and then we'd go out and we'd mail them, exhaust it, right? And so that became place was a godsend to us. Because you'd have to drive around anymore.

So you could just go to one place. However, I'd say maybe the third time we went there, we're dumping DVDs and from down the hill, because it's like, it's on a hill, right? And it's one of those things where like if you walk into the post office on the left side You're on the main floor if you walk into it on the right side. It's under. It's like a level under Some guy came running up that hill screaming at us waving his arms yelling us We freak the fuck out. Yeah, but jumped in the car and peel that of there Got the fuck out of town. Oh shit. They're chasing us chasing us. And they're like, they're on to us.

We gotta lay low for a while. We gotta go back to the route. As if we thought we were in trouble for mail and stuff. Well, the problem is that unrelated to that, well, somewhat related to this, they made us feel like we were doing something wrong. Anytime we went to the post office and we were like, we need every stamp you have

or we need every 23 cent stamp you have. And they'd be like, we can't give you all, I need every single international shipping we need for stamp you have, or we need every 23 cent stamp you have, or, and they'll be like, we can't give you all, I need every single international shipping, we need a form you have. How many, I don't know what the domination is to you. 23 cents. 23 cents in a firmer. All right, we needed these Edna firber stamps.

I think, oh shit, I said 23, that might not be it. I mean, 27 or something. But anyway, it was this specific increment that we figured out that was perfect for what we needed. Like three Edna firbers and something else. But an Edna Furbers stamp, it wasn't a common stamp, so we'd have to, Bernie was, there was like Bernie's specialty. He would drive around to post offices

and buy all the Edna Furbers. Just 83 cents, Steve. Okay, wow. And so I watched this happen, walked into a post office and maybe viewed a one, or South Austin one day, and Bernie says, I need to buy all your Edna Furber stamps. And then I go, so I don't think you can afford it. And Bernie goes, how many Edna Furber stamps do you have here

right now? And then I go, let me look. And he goes, we got about 1300. And Bernie goes, great, we'll take him. And he goes, excuse me. We'll take him all right now. We need him. And he goes, I can't sell you that many stamps.

Why? What are you talking about? And Bernie goes, why? And then he goes, well, somebody else might come in and need him. And Bernie goes, that's't, I can't sell you that many stamps. Why? What are you talking about? And Bernie goes, why? And the guy goes, well, somebody else might come in and need him. And Bernie goes, that's me, I'm that guy, I need him. I need 1300 stamps. And he, they wouldn't, so we're like, what's the, they sold us 1,100.

Why? They retained two. What else do I need him? Somebody else will need it. Dude, this wasn't only the end of Furber. It was also like, you know, you have to fill out that little green international customs form and put it on the package.

I used to have to, I have the same fight with them at the post office pass kind of by the Y and Wilk Hill kind of, what is that over there off of like whatever that's, South-West Parkway. There's a post office out over there and that's where I used to always have the fight about give me every international customs form you have. Maybe like can't do it.

Can't do it. So that's why we felt like we were doing something wrong because they were constantly telling us we couldn't buy everything they were constantly admonishing us, telling us felt like we were doing something wrong. Because they were constantly telling us we couldn't buy everything. They were constantly admonishing us, telling us that what we were doing wasn't allowed. Right. So, we laid low on the downtown post office for a while. We eventually made our way back, started stuffing it at night. One day we needed to do it in the daytime.

Yeah. So we did it in the daytime. Guess it's dodging a wasp. A very full wasp, by the way. It might be a different one. Oh yeah, you heard there's a buffet over here. Yeah, so we did it in the daytime Gus is dodging a wasp a very full wasp by the way It might be a different one. Oh, yeah, you heard there's a buffet over here. No kidding Anyway, we're really outside. We're if is a dangerous podcast today So for a long time that eventually we we started going back in the daytime one day and guy came up again The same guy coming yelling at us and he goes he goes, don't leave, don't leave, don't leave, stop!

And we're like, we froze. And he came up and he goes, hey man, what are y'all doing? And we're like, we're so sorry, we're just, we're independent, we're trying to, we're trying to, we're just trying to figure this out. We don't want to break any, and he goes, no man, no, you're just stupid. There's a loading dock.

Just bring it to the loading dock, man, you're making so much work for us. And we go, what? And he goes, follow me. And we got in the car and we drove around to the back. And he goes, you just back up right here. And he'll be somebody waiting for you, we'll unload it for you.

Just stop what you're doing. You're killing us. You're trying this all crazy. The destination of all those things, of all those things we had stuffed in the mailbox. It was coming straight down. It was like a giant pile of laundry. It was like a laundry shoot in a high rise hotel.

And it was just thousands of DVDs and people having a sore stomach like, man, you guys have been killing us for months. Just give them to us, we'll take care of it. And that, and that was a big education that day. Yeah, after that, that was the best thing in the world. Yeah, going right up to the loading dock. The same thing happened with Mega 64,

and we learned that we could just pull right up, put them in like the little cart things and they go, all right, thank you and it makes everyone's job easier to do. Oh man, it's amazing. But we thought, we thought, oh boy, we're in trouble and they went, no just come do this. In Crack, I can't believe, I can't believe the same thing fucking happened. Exactly, exactly. Incredible. Incredible.

And that's one of those things where it's so logical and it makes so much sense and I feel so dumb for having never considered it the only thing that makes me feel a little bit better about it Is Gus is very smart. We can never figure it out. Bernie is very fucking smart He never failed the same conclusion After us we just we just all thought we were being persecuted But everything about starting an online business at that time was sketchy as fuck. Yeah. Like we were constantly afraid to get shut down.

We were constantly afraid we were doing the wrong thing. We were terrified of taxes, overcharging or undercharging. Like it was, it was stress man. In those early days figuring out how to run a business. It's, especially when nobody else was doing it. I say it's so much easier now. It's like companies that specialize and they probably sponsor this podcast sometimes

that specialize in helping you launch a business or maintain your inventory or ship shit and all of that. Yeah, it was, it was like a lot of years of fucking mess. We were talking about, maybe the last episode we were joking about how I made, oh this, I was actually in a sausage talk for the face podcast. We was talking about how I the last episode, we were joking about how I made, oh this, I was actually in a sausage talk for the face podcast. We was talking about how I made the first four web stores

at Richard's. Yeah. And the third one was fast or something. I said I made the first store, then we upgraded to the second one and the third one which didn't last very long because it was a piece of shit and then the fourth one. And then that was after the fourth one

when we switched over to Yahoo, which I didn't make. But our fulfillment partner made at that point. But you guys made me joke about it. But it was because the reason we were doing that is because there was no infrastructure in place for us to do what we were doing. And so we were trying to find the best solutions. And so the first web store we used was one of the first web stores, and it couldn't handle our traffic.

So we upgraded, and then that didn't work. And we were constantly outsizing the products available. Right. And so it was like, it was this, God, those were interesting days. It sucked. It really did. It sucked, but it was so exciting.

But it was so, but it was, it was every fucking day we had to solve some sort of a problem because there was nothing in place for us to do the thing we were trying to do. There was such a patchwork of technologies and systems put together. Like, I remember having, I can probably say the name, but like having to log into like cybersource and like someone's got a problem. This is the last four digits of their credit card or this is the transaction ID or the trace number.

Like, I'm going to go through and search for this database of every credit card transaction and try to find it and see where did it fail, what's going on, like what a fucking nightmare. Having to like receiving checks and stuff from people and having to dispose of them properly and learn. All of that too, like remember PCI compliance? Yes. It's like, oh, we need to make sure our store adheres

to data security standards and we're processing and getting removing customer information in the proper way. Like, we learned so much about all of that stuff. It's like, you don't have to worry about that anymore. Like, there's other people that specifically do that kind of stuff. This may sound ludicrous, okay? But I would love, and I don't think there's a way

we could figure that out. I would love to know how many online stores were operating when we launched our online store. Oh man. Because if you tell me it was a hundred, I'd believe you. If you tell me it was 5,000, I'd believe you. But it was so early and there was so. What year was that?

Oh, three thousand. Well, what were we showing you launched? 2003. That's so I was watching something yesterday that was talking about the season finale, or the series finale of Seinfeld. And the commercials that aired in the middle of the series finale of Seinfeld. That was 98. And that was 98.

And it was talking about one of the commercials was a bunch of kids running around doing stuff or whatever and it would be like jeans, $17, bought via internet. And it was for excite, which was an old search engine just for online shopping. They had an office on Congress, right? Yeah, yeah.

It's not Congress. Crazy. And it was like five years later, and you guys are launching this thing. So like to go from, here's a nationally televised commercial, trying to get people to understand that you can buy things online like pants,

to you guys launching a web store and running a business yourself. Being run by a guy who almost failed high school in Alabama. And that's, we were 48th in the nation at the time. And it's like that when you talk about the speed, what I'm doing is framing this. Because what you talk about the speed at which

you guys had to learn and do and now there's companies who can do it. Yep, and there are those companies who can do it for you. That time span was incredibly short and it happened so fast and you guys weren't just on like the bleeding edge. You weren't like trailblazing the whole that's insane. That's fucking terrifying. If we had Shopify as it exists today in 2003, we probably would have been three times as success. Because we would have had, we would have spent so much less physical and mental

effort trying to do things, trying to invent things, or working harder to make up for the fact that there was no smart way to do them. You know what I mean? There's a proof forcing everything, yeah. Fucking dumb. That's so crazy. And I think, got this sounds like Old Man talk, but.

Welcome to the podcast. Yeah, I think the real turning point or the real eye opening moment was like Smartphones as we know them now, right like iPhone and Android phones and watch watching everything converge Down into one device that was always connected you kept it with you in your pocket It's not like going home getting on a computer Be like I'm gonna log on to the internet like time to connect to the internet It's like oh no, you're just always there. You can buy the shit from something in your pocket.

You can communicate, get it all done that way. Like that was crazy. I think we tried to bridge that gap internally. Us, tried to bridge that gap with the sidekick for a while. But like the technology wasn't there. It wasn't really until, you know, these smartphones as we know them now, really brought everything together

that it really worked well. Yeah. Remember, remember, we've talked about this on my sidekick, like I used to take care of our servers back then. On my sidekick, I had an SSH app so that I could connect into our servers from my sidekick. He got a little caterpillar on you. He's fine, he's happy. I'm fine with that, but it's going to be wasp food. Yeah, just put them on the table or something. I had an SSH app on my sidekick so I could connect to our servers.

So if anything went wrong, I could just connect remotely via the edge of network and try to do it because it was just text-based So it didn't have to load a bunch of graphics or anything so even if it was a slow network I could get stuff done and even on my Honeymoon like I took a little bit of time off I had my sidekick with me and I was constantly fixing shit because everything was always breaking back then because I was running it. So it's like, yeah, I'm on vacation. But every 15, 30 minutes, like, hold on,

I gotta fix this real fast. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, it's all good. It's all good. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, the server's down again. Let me just reboot this. Okay, yeah, yeah, it's fine, it's fine, it's good. I mean, jump in technology has made it so easy for us to do this podcast.

Like, having a dat recorder that is not the crazy expensive thing and having three mics the plug into it and going wherever and it, like this is not possible a few years ago at a level that we are doing it and like, it's really incredible. Even when, you know, we started doing Ruchitev podcast and I would have to produce episodes on the road,

like before we did live video podcasts, when we'd have to do audio ones, if we were traveling at a convention or something, like I'd have to bring a USB audio interface, there was no way to record on the device. Like I'd have to plug it into my laptop, my laptop would have to have enough space, I'd have to record it all on there.

Like it wasn't just bringing the mics and a recorder. It was bringing the mics to audio interface, the laptop, make sure you have enough storage for it. And all of that, like this makes it so much easier. You can put all this in your pockets. Yeah, so much better now. God, I fucking hated that. I hated doing that shit on the road.

And the funny thing too, like, is you look back on it now, just a mere 20 years later, 15 years later, at those early days. And it seems like we were like cavemen banging rocks together trying to make fire, you know? But at the time, we were like future dudes. I felt like I was in a science fiction movie

most of the time, the first few years of Rooster. It was just like, everything was happening so fast and it felt like the future. It felt like the matrix was happening in front of us. I'll tell you what the problem was and we kind of touched on this already. It's like the problem was you were encountering problems that had not been encountered yet.

So it's not like you could just go to Google and be like, how am I going to figure this out? How am I going to fix this? So I remember one time we were shooting a commercial for the PS3 version of Madden and it was before the PS3 had come out. And we had this PS3 DevKit, and we were out in LA shooting it at that studio out over there.

I think it was just me and Jason on that trip. And we hooked the PS3 up to the capture station there. Now, first we tried to hook it up to the TV there to make sure everything was working. And we couldn't get a signal out of the DevKit. Like shit. All right, let's hook it up to the capture station. We hooked it up to the capture station. No signal out of the dev kit. Like shit. All right, let's look it up to the capture station. We hooked it up to the capture station,

no signal out of the dev kit. It's like, is it broken? What's going on? It's like, and then, you know, like let's try a different cable, let's try this, let's try in every TV we could find, nothing's working. And eventually I'm like, I bet, I have a theory, I say.

I bet this PS3 is outputting a resolution that none of these displays can capture, right? Cause back then you would have, like a display wouldn't auto detect a resolution It's like we have to figure out what resolution it's outputting and then try to get it try to find a display set it up for that and then do that We ended up going to like other electronic store Because they had a place with a bunch of TVs Yeah, and be like we're gonna try every TV in this store and try to get this to work. And eventually we found it was like,

it was out putting like 480i or something. I was like, oh, okay, let's just change this to 1080p. Okay, 1080p. So we went to another TV that set up for 1080p. It's working, okay, let's take it back to the commercial studio. Okay, great, it's working. We can capture our footage.

It actually might have been 720. We might have been working 720 at the time, but whatever, it was like, this whole, there's no, how do I, and then years later, I was like, I wonder how we could have fixed that. I googled it, it's like, oh, there was a button combination. You could have held that startup to change the default resolution

to whatever output you want. That nobody knew about it. Right, nobody knew. Or maybe they didn't exist at that time. They got, they got patched in later when the problem was discovered. It's always dumb shit like that. Like there goes five hours of our day

trying to troubleshoot this stupid thing. And that was honestly why we got, I mean, I'd like to think that we got a lot of the commercial work we did because we were talented and professional and really good at deliverables. But I think probably for just as big of the reasons all that is people would call us and they go,

do you know how to capture video game footage? And we go, yeah, of course, and they go, we gotta hire you in do you know how to capture video game footage yeah and we go yeah of course they go we got to hire you at agency we need video and like we just became known as the guys who could work with video games and so we had a you know five six year period we talked about it a lot in the past working for different at agencies white and Kennedy Richard's group all kinds of people where we were just slammed with commercial work because there was nobody else that could do it. And it was a weird position because we were, you know, I don't Bernie specifically hated it because he only wanted to work on RIP, which I also understood and ultimately

I think we all agreed with, but they were throwing so much money at us, so desperately, that it was hard to say no, especially during some of the lean periods. Well, also, yeah, we didn't, I think we've talked about this before. We didn't want to be like single threaded. Yeah, we didn't want to be too single threaded. And we didn't get too single threaded. Yeah. But, and then ultimately we just, we worked so long, so hard on it.

We did so much of it. It just, we got burned out on it and we eventually stopped doing that side of the business. Yeah, it just became too much. I don't think anybody misses it. Sometimes I do. Do you really? Sometimes, yeah. What do you miss about it? I think it was just, I'm a big,

it's weird to say I'm a big fan of some of the people we worked with on that stuff. That's true. That's true. And it felt very, I'm gonna say, it felt like I was validated. Like it gets rid of your imposter syndrome to be like, I'm working with these people who do this other stuff.

Like I must be good too. When you go into a post house in LA, like in Venice, and you're taking notes and a guy who edited for all of her stone movies, like the guy who edited JFK is telling you, you gave him a good shot, or that that was a really clever thing to do, or that he really, like, it made us, like I said, it really helped with the imposter syndrome.

It was a real level of validation for a bunch of guys who were winging it. Yeah. And I've talked about working with them before, but for me, it was going to prologue. Like, I'd been such a fan of all of their work for years, even before Rooster Teeth. Like, I loved what they did. I was like, I'm here at prologue working with them on stuff. Not only were we at prologue working on stuff, that was the final commercial.

It was pretty late. Yeah. And that was the one of the ones where I left and you, I think you were there for like a month or so. I was in hell for a month or so. I was in hell for a month there. I remember that being a big issue because the NBA players association. Yeah. I don't know if I can say that. I don't know if I can say that. I don't know if I can say that. I don't know if I can say that. I don't know if I can say that.

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and being really pissed off. That's when you left. Yeah, that's when I left. I love to know. But to what got to speaking about is it was in Prologue. And we went in there, of course you immediately signed NDAs because all around you, they're working on every intro sequence for every major movie that's coming out

a year from that. Yeah, like everything you want to see like, oh, I want to see that next year. You're like, holy shit. Is that the intro to that movie that's just got announced? Wow. It's come and other video games too. Yeah. Like they had some, I probably still can't talk about some of that stuff because it was all, but there were some major video games there that they were doing work on.

And we were just like, like, oh, that's really fucking cool. Like the guy to the left and he's holy shit. Yeah. That's awesome. Wow. Those were left of me is holy shit. Yeah. That's awesome. Wow. Those were fun. Run our test.

Yeah, it was a metal roll piece, yeah. That's who ended up being the final version of the commercial. So if you go back and watch that commercial, that was originally. He was probably a laker at that point, but yeah. No, no, he was with Washington at that point. Was he still run our test? Yeah, it was like a Bayesius uniform. Was that an old Washington Wizard's uniform?

It was definitely not a laker's uniform. Was that an old Washington wizards uniform? It was definitely not a Lakers uniform. Anyway, whatever Pistons Maybe Uh Man, this is a good episode. Oh, yeah, he was he was the mouse of the palace right? So he was piston. Yeah, that was that he wasn't just in it He was it that was him man. He changed his name because of that. Yes, he did This is a good episode. It's too fucking hot still Um, this is a good episode. It's too fucking hot still. But it is.

It's done. I just had to. Yeah. Um, so we will say that our Anna NFT is pull burger. Yeah. And and also, you know, hey, deep Eddie pool. It's so cool. Why not?

You know, also, I wish I could jump in right now. Yeah. And you guys, uh, you guys ever played, uh, uh, uh, what is that? James or the space, the space. Horror. Mass effect. That's space. That's basically you guys ever played that space? Yeah. Yeah. Did you beat it? Yeah, doesn't that

Art sculpture by does look kind of like it's the All-wise. Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing that made everybody crazy. All right hang on get a picture. It's making me crazy Yeah, that's all I've been thinking about this whole time. That's pretty cool Okay, so We should the anman FT Pull burger deep Eddie pull but anarchy question. This is from, please respect hats on the Anima subreddit, R-slash, covered in bugs, R-slash and M-podcast, their personal flair on the subreddit is Frank's wrecked car. That's nice. They talked about the Kennedy

school in Portland for a while and... You can go to the tickle from... Do you get everywhere? That's all I worry about! I think I went into your shirt. I went into the collar to your upper back. This sucks. Are you safe? Did you get it? You want me to check? I think I got it All right, we can I'll take our shirts off and tell it there and you can make you feel better There he's there he's great over there. You see he's fantastic Anyway, here's the question for pleaser spectats. There's another one

Damn if you can bring any single business to Austin What would it be? Could be anything from a restaurant you lived in another city, specialty store, entertainment, venue, whatever. They said this is based on Jeff, me, and you talking about an NBA franchise coming to Austin. Well, I would say NBA franchise is too obvious an answer. I'm going to go a little less obvious. I would, as of now, as of today, I would, I would put a horse track

here. Oh, God. Or maybe a medieval times. Horse track or a medieval times. Neither one of those is a good answer. Yeah, I'm happy with that. They're both awesome. God, that's an interesting question. Like, we kind of touched before. One of the things I like about Austin is that for a long time, it's fought outside chains and outside things from coming in and moving in. So I wouldn't wanna give an answer that's like, like I don't, like some chain that we don't have. Like I don't, I wouldn't say like a crystal or a white castle or anything like that.

I definitely take a crystal or a white castle. I would too. So I'm trying to think of something more unique. It'd be cool if we had steam. It'd be, that would be unique. That would be cool if we could do part. It would be cool. It would be cool if we had like some one of those indoor skiing places so I could go get some snow, roll around and make a snowy right now.

I think you just want to be inside and cool. I don't want to be in the carnemen. I don't want to be doing this anymore. Faster you finish this question. A indoor snow place. Batting cages. We got batting cages. There aren't enough and they're not in like the city

proper. What are you burning? This is like an old burning compote. Oh, really? Oh, yeah, I didn't know that it was a batting cage. This is so like this way you didn't like me. Um, uh, batting cages are only like on the outskirts of Austin. And then there's like some gym that has batting cages. But like, give me straight up batting cages, put it like on MLK. And let me just go to has batting cages, but like, but like, give me straight up batting cages, put it like on MLK and let me just go to the batting cage. These should be celebration station down there,

about like 35 in Ben White, like in the Southeast corner, but that's long. Long, long, long. So, like, when you're more, you have to go up to like, Fluegerville or you have like, there's nothing close. And my wife loves batting cages would love to go. Does Maine event have batting cages? I don't think so.

No, that's good. No. So that's what I would pick. That's a good one. Yeah, batting cages. So there you go, horse tracks, batting cages? No, no, that's good. So that's what I would pick. That's a good one. Yeah, batting cages. There you go, horse tracks, batting cages, indoor snow mountain. Yeah, I think I'll, that was you seeing those? You got them? Snow-sitting man. Well, thanks for listening to this episode.

We watched a wasp eat a bug, bugs landed on us. We got afraid of wasps and we ate burgers. And I gave water to a caterpillar. That was crazy. And then the and I gave water to a caterpillar that was crazy and then the and the all the wasp gave death to that yeah the caterpillar went and told all his friends and they all swarmed well that's why they jumped on it because he was full of water hey come to rtx that'll be very very soon July 7th through 9th dude this is

insane July 7th through 9th come on out this is insane. July 7th through 9th, come on out, see us, we're doing a live show, we're gonna be drinking coffee, hanging out with you guys, but me and you. Staying inside. Are gonna be doing the face museum, but also, announced now, we're doing a break show live. Hell yeah, we're gonna be open packs of cards, chasing a zim, we're gonna be seeing what's happening.

It's gonna be great. And one thing we want, we actively want, we want you to bring your weird packs to, to RTX, if you have any, we'll open up on camera. You should be able to sing along a break stuff by Limp Biscuit. I don't think we're going to do that. Probably won't. Yeah, probably won't. It's break.

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