ANMA - Q&A with Geoff 3

Episode Date: May 1, 2023

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Yeah, at this point. Gus is at home. Yeah, he's available. I talked to him yesterday. He's not out of town. Nope, he's not on vacation. Correct. He's not busy doing other RD stuff. Yeah, but at available. I talked to him yesterday. He's not out of town. Nope, he's not on vacation. Correct. He's not busy doing other R.D. stuff.

Yeah. But at least, we don't live that far apart either. And you're not that busy. You don't have anything coming up where it's gonna totally crunch your schedule and fuck you up or anything you find. Oh my God. Yeah, yeah.

No, this is just, but okay. So, but you know Gus better than anyone and there's no way he changes. No Because now it's now it's like it's too far when Gus draws an obstinate stubborn Fucking usually pointless line than saying pointless is right. Yeah, he he will he'll die before yeah You'll have to the only way he goes over that line is if you drag his corpse. Yeah, he will, he'll die before, you'll have to, the only way he goes over that line is if you drag his corpse.

Yeah. And I respect that about him, makes it very difficult to be his friend sometimes. But then it's also super easy to be his friend most of the time, so you gotta take the good of that. It's also the thing that I love about Gus. Yeah, it's what makes Gus Gus. Yeah, it's definitely like that when he told me,

don't give him an inch and it's like, man, you really like live that way all the time. In every facet of his life. In all things, all the time. Oh my God. It's pretty incredible. I don't know anyone else like that. Wherever you are at home, not doing anything.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, good morning, Gus. Yeah, good morning. He's, he was thrilled to hear that it was like, oh yeah, yeah, have fun. I invented a new game last night. Okay. This fact I invented it in the wee hours of this morning. Since this, I'm gonna bring this up because I feel like it's germane to Amma, the Anarchy

meet anything. PodCast. Correct, yeah. Which is equal measures about the shared history of Gus and Jeff, but also about the City of Austin. And this directly relates to the City of Austin. Invented a game, I just like to throw this out there. It's called, it's called do do clue.

All right. Okay. What you do is you go and you eat three meals throughout breakfast, lunch, and dinner out. Uh huh. And then get food poisoning. And then you try to figure out who killed you. is you go and you eat three meals throughout breakfast, lunch, and dinner out. And then get food poisoning. And then you try to figure out who killed you. Right.

Was it the megas at Joanne's? Was it the bagel for breakfast from Einstein's or was it the delicious dinner I had at Dip Dip? Right. Was it the brisket at Dip Dip? Who knows? What kind of bagel was it? It was a jalapeno cheddar bagel.

It's like the best one. It was really good. It's so good. What kind of cream cheese did you get? I don't like cream cheese. So I got like egg and bacon on it. What do you say? You just got, so you just got a bagel with,

it was dry and then... I think I butter on it probably. This is what my wife does. Yeah, her favorite thing is Einstein's bagel, the plain one, no cream cheese, just butter. Just butter. I can do that. Is it, is it, but it's toasted, right? I guess.

Yeah. But like, it's just bread. Just have bread at home. A bagel white bread. Here's the deal. A bagel tastes good, right? A toasted bagel is a better version of a bagel white bread. Here's the deal. A bagel tastes good, right? A toasted bagel is a better version of a bagel. Okay.

Butter tastes good. Butter on toasted, anything is a better version of butter. Right. So you put the better version of butter on the better version of bagel and you get a really pure, awesome flavor. You don't need to over complicate it with spreads and smears and locks and all that nonsense. Just enjoy the purity of those flavors. Right, no, that's wrong, but it's fine.

It's, I mean, like you're just going, yeah, it's, you start at like this base level and then you're moving up incrementally and then where you've moved is three tiny baby steps. You went to good enough. Then they, you go from plain to good enough. But it is, you put like a cream cheese on it or something, it elevates and you go to like the next thing.

I would rather die than eat cream cheese. Wow. Have you been to, well then, I guess this is a tough one because nervous Charlie's. I like it. I really like nervous Charlie's. They have a cream cheese, my mouth is watering, thinking about it. I love that experience. It'd be great if I could get it without the cream cheese. Yeah. No, that's the part that's hot.

Man, that's a bummer. I like nervous charles a lot. I did too. I did too. I wish it was more of a sit down place. Yeah. I know. I know.

I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

I know. I know. I know. I's a bummer. I like nervous Charlie's a lot. I did too. I wish it was more of a sit-down place. Yeah, I wish that it wasn't, I mean, it's a great central location that I hate driving to and I hate parking at and I hate getting around in. Why are bagels not everywhere?

They are on the East Coast. They are on the East Coast. It's a regional thing. I think it's just we have, we are, Austin takes such pride, and I know a lot of places have them. I get it, but Austin takes such pride in the breakfast taco. Yeah, definitely. That it's like the main breakfast vessel. And then we also have the,

because we're in central Texas and we have those deep Germanic roots. We've got the Kalachi thing, which is like the kid sister of the taco in terms of popularity, but it's still really good. It's just hard to carve a niche in Austin and breakfast, I think. But even on the West Coast, I meanritos are what we ate all the time. Yeah, you won't see a breakfast burrito here.

No, breakfast burrito, back home, gigantic, size of your forearm. Yeah. Fucking insane way to start your day. Eat just the whole thing and then go, I guess, all right, let's get it going, love it. But for some reason, bagels just not, they're just like not everywhere and I don't know why because man, they're fucking good.

I agree. When I lived in Jersey, you know, I would eat a bagel every morning for work and you would do the thing where, you do the same thing as you do here with tacos, you do like taco roulette, you're like, what do I feel like today? Like there were like within five miles

of my house in New Jersey, there were, and by house, I mean shitty little apartment. I don't know, sounds like I'm living Jersey rich on the house. There were probably 15 bagel places that were phenomenal in their own way. It's like the bagels over there are so good. And the sub sandwiches, I still think all the time

about like, when I think I've talked, we've talked about this in a million podcasts throughout the years, but there's nothing better in New Jersey than going to a pharmacy and then walking to the back and getting a subsameter from a fucking pharmacy. That's so crazy. And then picking up some like robotussin on the way out or, you know, some John's Whart or whatever. I'm looking to get healthy and fucking stuffed.

Man, I don't know. Bagels love bagels, but then what you went to Joanne's, you got megas. Megas, if people don't know, is it's like if you take a bunch of tortilla chips and crush them up and then put them in egg and then you beat the egg and you like scramble it. I covered in cheese. Yeah. And salsa. Yeah. And it's, I make megas all the time.

I never had had it until I moved here. Dude, it's so good. And onions and jalapenos, and then you get warm tortillas and refried beans. Yeah, they make us the best. Yeah, I'll make megas and put them on a plate and then just warm tortillas and start ripping parts off and grab and don't even put it in a taco.

Just start grabbing and pulling and eating and going crazy. Let's turn into the breakfast episode. Yeah, but I like it because now I'm going through the rest of your meal and seeing what we're like really investigating here. Okay, okay. And then you went to, did you have anything else at Joanne's?

Uh, it was really good by the way. That's the thing that I, I, I, I used to take to bring this up because all three restaurants at Adet were fantastic. Oh yeah, no, I've been to all of them and they're great. You never, you know, usually when you get food poisoning, you know, you're like, I don't know, I crab taste the little like, that was a little like, tangy, that's weird or whatever.

I had none of that. At Joanne's, the only other thing I had was an ice coffee and I had Emily had a rainbow salad and I had a few pieces of radish. I don't think that did it. No. Although she probably didn't eat the radish because she doesn't like radish.

You only radish? Huh, okay. Too spicy. Okay, so then you did that. How about, okay, now dip dip dip, could be the culprit. That probably is. Did you, it's not like anything is...

I'll tell you my order. Yeah, because I've ordered the same thing every time I've been there, for the most part. I got the tone-caught soup broth. Okay. Well, that's the 50-hour bone broth, pork bone broth. Then I add in a spice bomb,

which you throw in to make it spicy. It's not super spicy, but it's still pretty good. Get it a lot of flavor. Sometimes I get the onion bomb. I didn't get an onion bomb this time. I forgot about it. And then I get keep Austin dipping, which is a little bowl of queso

that they stick into the broth to warm it up. And you get like a bowel bun with it. What the fuck? Yeah. And then you ordered pork meat balls. And I ordered two, uh, helpings of ribeye. And then what you do is take the ribeye,

and then you shabu, shabu, and then you take it out, dry it off, dunk it in the queso, and then stick that in the little bun, and then you make like a little Philly cheese stick. Wow, I did that. I did a lot of that. But you order that like every time.

That's the same thing I always get. Yeah, sometimes I get a little hot dog with it, but I didn't know this thing. Anything the day previous that could have been like, maybe do like a little late night snacking? Oh, I did have two, Emily did make brownies last night and I did have two giant brownies right before I went to bed. Maybe she poisoned me. I'm interesting.

So when you cook the brownies, they make you sick. Uh-huh. Okay. Well, I don't know that we're going to get to brownies, they make you sick. Uh-huh. Okay. Well, I don't know that we're gonna get to the bottom of what made you sick. You had McDonald's twice? On Saturday. You might, you might wife. Kind of.

Well, I had to take Millie to her mom's and she wanted to get lunch on the way. Yeah. And she asked, I was like, you ain't got to end it out. And she was like, no, I want to go to McDonald's and I was like, okay. So then I took Millie to McDonald's for lunch and then Emily came home from work at like 7 pm or whatever on Saturday and she was tired and I hadn't cooked or anything

and I was like, she was like, let's just get something and I was like, absolutely. And she asked what I had for lunch and I said, oh, I went to McDonald's with Millie and she was like, well, now I want McDonald's. So then we have to go back. What the fuck? What do you get to McDonald's?

Do you order the same thing with McDonald's every time? No. Okay. Usually. No, not always. I either get two cheeseburgers, that's it. Yeah.

Or I get a number one. Mm. Okay. Emily gets a number one with no pickles and extra onions. Hell yeah. Hey pickles. I love pickles. Yeah, okay.

Okay, I think maybe it's the McDonald's that you ate twice in one day. Maybe. Personally, I think that's what it was. It took a while. It was like a little, there's like a poop grenade. Throw it in weight. Yeah. 24 hours. Yeah. We should get to the bottom of this, I mean, not to, of this, but to the bottom of this Q&A. Yeah. Yeah.

We should, we should get some Q's aid. Mike Pertles asks, what is your favorite version of your facial hair? Oh, man. I was so excited. I like Pertles so much. I was so excited for that to be the first question. Oh, that rules. I was always the happiest with my really big like bushy Jack beard, you know,

yeah, but the problem is, uh, it's, it's hot when it's 150 fucking degrees for 70 days in a row. And also like not that I care too much one way or the other. I've given up trying to fit in or more appropriately. I've given up trying to fit out, which is what I did most of my life. But I look like, I mean, I also, I can't hide the tattoos. So I'm like a white dude in Austin with full sleeves and a giant beard. I look like 87% of every dude in Austin.

Yeah, for sure. You start to lose yourself in the crowd, you know? So, but I would say that probably. At least I would be the mustache. I knew it. I fucking hated that mustache. I knew it. I fucking hated it. It was so much work.

It was so annoying and I was so bad at it and I'm so lazy with that stuff. I couldn't believe that you had it. It's not like a thing that you wake up and you go, ah, ready to go. I don't even, I can't even, I don't know if you ever do this, but you ever take time to look back across your life and you go like, oh man, that time I was in college

or that time I was doing this period of my life when I was working at Target or whatever. That's like a totally different dude. Like I'm a different human being than that guy was. And I remember him, but I kind of remember him, like I remember a TV show I really liked. You know, like I can kind of connect with it, but it's more like I'm watching it. I feel that way about a lot of my life.

I have no fucking clue why I did that. I cannot connect with that guy. Like I can't, I just can't, I've tried a few times to like try to remember like what were you thinking or why? Yeah. What was the impetus and I just, I don't know. I don't remember him. That's so funny.

I don't connect with him. That's so crazy. It was just a thing that was like, that's like a lot of work. Yeah. It's like a lot of work. And you were on camera every day. Every day. of work. Yeah. It's like a lot of work. And you are on camera every day? Every day.

A lot. Yeah. Fucking crazy. It just seemed like, why wouldn't you just want to just shave the fucking, well, the chin part and be like, lemme, and then just be like, I'm done with this. Okay, that's my thing. Yeah.

My biggest main is that I can't grow facial hair for shit. Like, I just have a mustache, but man, I would change it every day. It would just be different every time you saw me. I think I've said this probably on this podcast even maybe, but definitely on face. I'm kind of stuck in a situation where I made the mistake of having this exact beard on my first date with Emily. And so now I will have this beard for the rest of my life.

She does. I've shaved a few times. Yeah, like, mm-hmm. Yeah, bring it back. Don't like it. Yeah. My wife is fine with my wife. She says I look like a little boy. Yeah, definitely. When you get all clean shaved and everything. Yeah. You have the beard for the wedding. I will have to. Yeah. Wow. But it'll be like manicure. It'll be like trim. Yeah. It'll be like nice. Yeah, I assume so. You're thinking about growing like a long beard, but then like doing it where it's like shorter on the sides

and you just grow it like, like not like super far down, but just like Santos. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like that. You ever think about that? Uh, no. Okay. Like duck dynasty kind of.

Yeah, kind of, kind of a little bit more manicured. It's a little to, it's two things intersecting that bug me. One, it's a little two Alabama for a person from Alabama who is trying to avoid that. And then two, it's like the facial hair scene in Austin became such a scene. And the more manicured it is, the more you look like

you're trying to be a part of the author. This is such dumb stuff like- No, I get it. But you live with like around everybody in the Austin facial hair society, and all that shit constantly. Yeah. It becomes such a personality in the city, and I just tend to want to avoid those things. Yep.

You know? It makes sense. Um, what would you do if you had the freedom to be anyone or to go anywhere without limitations? Start your journey and experience for yourself the feeling of total freedom when you game with Alienware. Alienware is your portal to new worlds where limits don't exist and the only rules are the ones you decide to make. The five boundaries and start gaming now at Alienware.com.

Next gen gaming is built with Intel Core i9 processors. This is a question from Viperium Prime. Is there an area of Austin you've never been to? Man, I'm, no, not an area of Austin I've never been to. I don't think so. I actually had a goal for a long time to ride my bike down every road in Austin, and I started collecting all my rides, and I was gonna try to figure out how to overlay it someday. I burned out on the idea, because it's a lot of effort. Right.

But no, but I will say I drive around or ride my bike around a lot, and I am constantly finding little neighborhoods or like a street I didn't know existed. The other day I was driving around the East Side where the old tech support job was, where a person I met, I'm a cousin Bernie and I met. And I somehow got turned around over there

and I ended up in a little area that I had never been to before that I was like, how the fuck I worked over here for like five and a half years, I didn't know this was here. It was like three blocks from where I worked. Oh, that's cool. So there's still little areas like that discover. Well pockets and things. But it's like, it's not like I've been like, I've never three blocks from where I worked. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, so there's still little areas like that discover. Well pockets and things. But it's like, it's not like I've been like,

oh, never been to Terry Town. Yeah. No. I'm just. I'm sorry. I never know. What's Zilker? Yeah.

Okay. Let's see. Oh, this is a question that I don't know that you necessarily need to rank these, but I'll do it. Okay. Could you rank? Could you rank which foods are best in Austin? Ready? Breakfast tacos, pizza, hamburgers. They said crepes, but crepes isn't really a thing here. Like, where would you put, instead of crepes, how about collaches? Like, what would you put one, two, three, four? Breakfast tacos, pizza, hamburgers, collaches. It's interesting they didn't include barbecue. I would say, he says et cetera, so we canurgers, collachies. It's interesting they didn't include barbecue. I would say, he says it's et cetera,

so we can add barbecue, but I don't think. No, no, no, no, no. I think we have fine examples in equal measure. A collachie can only be so good. I agree. So I would put it at the bottom. I love collachies. I had them two days ago, actually,

for breakfast the day I had McDonald's twice. Yeah. Great. I don't eat out that, actually, for breakfast the day I had McDonald's twice. Yeah. Great. I don't eat out that often. This is kind of an a-tip of a weekend. I mean, just so you know, that's not what you're telling me, but that's fine. No, I understand that, but I just realized I ate out

every meal over the weekend, but that's really rare. I don't do that that often. Anyway, get figured out why you're sick. I guess I'd go breakfast tacos, burgers, pizza. I guess I'd go in tacos, burgers, pizza. I guess I'd go in that order. Okay. I mean, we've got good-ass pizza in Austin, but it's not like we have better pizza

than I've had in Detroit or Jersey or New York or most other places. We had an idea, Jordan kinda threw it out there when we were talking, we have been Gus, Jordan swears, throughout an idea. And he's like, what if we did a thing with Face Jam that it was like, he's like, I'll call pizza club, then we go to every pizza place in Austin,

and not like one bite review, but like, eat it, talk about whatever, and then have that be kind of like the like reason to get together. It doesn't have to be Face Jam, could be different guests and stuff. And it like, it was like, man, such a good idea. Cause Austin is a pizza city.

It is. And I don't think anybody knows that. I know that people are like, oh man, home slice. There's so many pizza places. Dude, home slices at this point, the maybe the eighth or ninth best pizza place in Austin. Insane, isn't it? Yeah.

It's fucking crazy. And everyone has the preferences. Like when I tell Gus that I like pint house, like I put it like way up there, he's like, I mean, it's fine, it's good. It's fun that I like pint house, like I put it like way up there. He's like, eh, I mean it's fine, it's good. It's fine. I love pint house. You wanna like, you think about, when I think about pizza, when I'm like,

just like the idea of pizza pops into my head. I think about like, sitting at a pizza hut in the early 80s, under the red light, with like a fucking deep dish pizza that, it looks like a work of art. And those don't exist at pizza hut anymore. You don't get that pizza it looks like a work of art. And those don't exist at Pizza Hut anymore. You don't get that pizza anymore,

like that era's gone. That's what Pine House is. It's just like a standard American pizza. It's not thin crust, it's not got an angle, it's not Chicago style, it's just fucking pizza. Yeah, it's, I think when I think of going to get pizza, I think of going to Round Table, which I don't know if that's like a thing out here,

but Roundtable pizza is a thing back home, back out west that was all like medieval night feet. And so it was like you get like a king. You get like the king Arthur and like the Guinevere and all like the stuff, but that was just like the theming. We just ate there all the time. And it was like, it was exactly what you're describing.

It didn't have an angle, it just brought it out. And then it was like here's a pizza, it looks like a picture. Yeah. And then you eat it. And that to me is Pine House. I love Pine House. I do too. I'll go there with Jordan Swears.

And that like, if it's just me and him or whatever, like in his wife does, his wife is vegan. It's just me and him. He's like, oh, Cannonball. It's the all meat pizza, and it's the only time I get that, dude, he just goes, yeah, let's go fucking insane. Dude, when you guys are gonna go eat Cannonball away from your significant others, let me know. Okay, Cannonball.

Yeah, that'll be fun. See, this is the idea for pizza club where it's just like going and hitting this pizza this thing, and then, fuck, record eating it or whatever. I think it's such a good idea. You know what, you're fucking, this conversation's fucking with me now, because I put burgers ahead of pizza,

but you get me thinking about, do you ever eat a boofalina? No, I haven't been. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, I haven't been. Oh, mm-hmm. Oh, that might be the best piece of the Oscar.

I still haven't had pedrosos, which is it. I've had pedrosos once. It was fucking awesome. I just, I hear such good things about it. I was gonna go this weekend and I was so fucking lazy. I like would not leave my house. It was fantastic. That was a good question from Dan Berger.

That was. But we also have great progress. What we do, it's very good. I mean, I ran into you guys the other day, you guys were having a lunch over at Billies, which is talk about like a hole in the wall, not a lot of people know about, been around forever.

People didn't know, know kind of thing, but just like a phenomenal burger and it wouldn't be on the top of anybody's like visit Austin. But it's so good in that place, it's fucking cool. Awesome. Yeah. Update, okay, here we go.

From Frank, different Frank. Can we get a quick gems of war update? I'd love to give you a gems of war update. Uh huh. For the people that are listening to this podcast that don't know what I'm talking about, I have been playing a video game called Gems of War for about six years now, maybe longer, seven years.

And at one point, it was a very difficult game to get all the achievements in, or thousand point, as we call it, in gaming. And I finally did. And when I did, I freaked out and I posted about it a bunch. And it was a huge accomplishment for me. And the developers who are very cheeky, they released an achievement after that called,

try this one, Jeff, named after me, which made the entire gyms and work community hate me. Even though they don't know how to handle, they just know there's some G-Jet out there that they can't fucking stand. And this achievement, I sat down and I, it's a grind. So I sat down and I did the math on it. I figured I could do it in about two or three years

if I did it, if I worked about 30 minutes every day. Okay. As of yesterday, not even Emily knows this, I am 90% through. No way. Yeah. Are you serious? I've done about 5% in the last like two weeks.

Holy shit. Yeah, I unlocked a character. I unlocked the, you're getting over a bow's answer. I unlocked this character named Zooloth. He is the hardest character in the game to achieve. Okay. I have been trying to, and the reason I wanted to unlock this character is that he makes me 30% faster at clearing maps that I need to clear to get these things to level.

Which is a huge bonus because I'm at the point now where I'm like, I'll work on something for a month and a half to get 1% faster. Like this guy, he's huge. I've been working on him nonstop for eight months. And I finally unlocked him. And when I unlocked him, everything changed. And so yeah.

And so I went from like 84 to like 80 to 90% like I felt like overnight Wow, I think if I wanted to be very irresponsible with my resources I could probably be 94% right now, but I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna do it the right way So I imagine I I'm thinking that I'll get I think I'll get my achievement this summer That's fucking crazy. Yeah, I was gonna bring it up on face. I had a whole thing But then I we just had other bit better stuff to talk about wow. Yeah, dude. That's fucking crazy. Yeah, I was gonna bring it up on face. I had a whole thing But then I we just had other we had better stuff to talk about wow. Yeah, dude. That's crazy. I'm very excited

What if we should stream that good streaming the getting the achievement and gems of war would be fucking huge watch it not pop and Great question though, thank you. Yeah. This is from Sam's Super Simp, great name. You can name yourself anything you want on this fucking website. That's what you went with. Hi, fellas. Everyone always talks about how Austin has been a positive

in restartite history, but has there ever been a moment where being in Austin was a negative or hindered the company? in a moment where being in Austin was a negative or hindered the company. Um, certainly I would assume. To me it's the velvet ditch thing. Yeah. You guys found this niche in this space at this time and it was like, we did it baby. Yeah.

If we like, you saw the growth of a lot of people, like, like, Harley and Epic Meal time, when they moved, like, when he moved from Canada to LA, and you saw like the explosion. I imagine if we, I mean, and I, eventually, I mean, we, but like, in the early days, I mean, mostly Matt and Bernie, they spent so much time in LA having to negotiate deals and go through the process, you know, like RV,

Reversus Blue, the original cartoon, like we had like TV deals so many times that fell through and they were constantly going back and forth and trying to figure it out. And a lot of that was us being a little bit ahead of the curve and, you know, the traditional media not catching up to our value or trying to understand us or seeing that we had, there was so much in the early days

of people seeing, like we don't know who you are or what you do, but everybody, but we hear about you constantly and we wanna be a part of it and we go, well here's what we do, here's how we can work together and they go, we don't understand that, we don't want that. And we're like, okay, well we'll just go back to doing our thing. So I think like in terms of those opportunities, we're probably lessened by being in Austin,

but I would also counter that being kind of out of the way makes it easier to hide and just kind of keep your head down and do your own thing. You know what I mean? And not be distracted. So even the stuff that I could view as a negative, I think is ultimately a positive. There's not the ditch thing is a big, is for sure an issue.

I mean, there were times when we lost the state, like we lost film incentives and stuff, like, for a few years here and there that made it harder to do productions or it made stuff more expensive, but, you know. I think it's like, speaks to like your longevity though, to be able to be in Austin for the amount of time that you have been and doing the stuff that you've been doing. Like, maybe 64 was out at the creator clash thing that YouTube boxing thing. Is that an LA?

It was a Florida, I thought it was Florida. It was in Tampa. You can be anywhere, Tampa. So when they were out there, it was running into some people that had been around for like, you know, all there's smosh, like a couple of smoshers and stuff like that. Things like that, but like a lot of like newer, I say newer, like heavy quotes or whatever, people that didn't start in 2002. Like YouTubers and stuff going like, oh my god, I grew up

watching this. I can't believe you guys are still around like that kind of thing. And it's, I think when you don't get pressed in that churn and burn sort of like you're in LA, you're in New York, what's the next thing? What's the next thing? What's the next thing? What's the next thing? What's the next thing? The chart it had the, he has to keep moving up into the right. Up to the right. You go up into the right. When you don't have to do that thing, you can kind of like find that level and find the barometer and balance a little bit and be able to outlast a lot of stuff. Yeah, yeah, that's true for sure, I think. And that was an interesting thing to kind of watch

happen from the sidelines too. And it was pretty informative in a time like you're watching like hyper-talented people like Freddie Wong get bigger and better opportunities, but also just like, maybe take him further and further away from the thing that he started in the first place. And maybe that's the direction he wanted to go, or like people like Tobuskas who burned so bright, and then like everybody got their hands in. I don't really know the dude.

I know there's a lot of reason to like or dislike him. But just like you watch a lot of people try to like grab onto that star and then when and then six months later he's just like used up. Yeah. And where is he? Yeah, I always felt lucky at the time that we because we needed to fly under the radar for a lot of stuff. Yeah, for sure. And I also it was nice to wait it out. Like, I don't think it matters where you live today one bit. Like, I don't think Roosteeth would benefit from being in LA in any reason in 2023.

At this point, no. Yeah, I agree with you. I think you'd be in like Gary, Indiana, and be a streamer and doing this stuff and all of that. And I think that's totally fine. I think when you start leaving that niche of like, I'm not gonna just be a streamer, I'm gonna make these other videos and all that stuff.

I think that's when proximity and location become really important. But if you are sort of lack of a better term, sort of like living a better term, sort of like living within your means of like the type of content that you're making and what you want to do, then this guy's the limit for that style of content. Yeah, absolutely. And then it's about finding the people.

It's like, maybe 64 in San Diego or Austin or whatever. It's finding the people who are here and making a thing with them in your space, instead of going to where you think you'll find people to sell people on an idea to see if you can get people to buy in. You know who'd be interesting to talk to, the couchop kids, because they did. The couchop was very successful in Colorado,

and then they made the push in the move to move to LA, and that's, I would say probably where they had their most success, but then they also ended not too terribly long after it. I would love to go back and, I'm talking to them in years, but get their impressions on the benefits and the detractors of having actually made the jump. Yeah. LA just seems like such a hard place to, especially now, where are you gonna go? Like, good luck finding a place near

where you think you're going to be working, because you're not, and that's just how it is. It's tough. And it's not like driving in Austin where it's like, well, drive 30 minutes across town. It's like, it's not the same. It is definitely not the same. We did it this half an hour.

Okay, can you believe it? No, that went fast. Yeah. Q&A is maybe. Well, and then we also had the whole like diarrhea clue. Which is pretty good. Which is pretty good. That's pretty good.

It's good content. So what the people are tuning in for. Yeah. Next week, we'll have another supplemental piece. Okay. And then the week after, we'll have, I think, if we can make something happen, we'll have, I think, if we can, if we can make something happen, we'll have our first episode back with a very special guest. Very excited

about this one. Don't hold me to that. But we'll see fingers crossed if we can book them and make this happen. We will have a very special guest on the first episode of ANMA. And if we can and we do, without giving any information away, it was an idea that was presented to us by a community member. Interesting. Okay, well there you have it.

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It's the healthy one. Yeah. I got it to calm down my tummy. I hate the art on that can. Oh, it's the worst. It looks like a tribal tattoo. Like, it looks like getting a tattoo in the early 2000s. I so shouldn't judge, I so don't judge people.

How about that? Uh-huh. But I must admit, when I see the big green monster tattoo on a person, it makes me wonder. Yeah, it's really something, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty rough. So follow us there, tune in next week

for another supplemental episode. And then in two weeks, we will be back with a new stretch of episodes for the ANMA podcast with Gus. And I can let you in on something right now that Tony at the office has the mug. Ah! I cannot wait to see it. You haven't seen it yet. Oh my goodness, can't wait.

That's awesome. Yep, thanks for listening, Jeff, any parting words? I encourage you to go out and play Clue Diaria in your own town. It's fun. Vile. Vile. Vile.

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